The place where Kumano and the other two were staying was a little far from the tribe and quite dangerous, so they didn't dare to stay there. After Kumano used mud to cover his own wounds, he took some mud and covered the wounds of the elephant bird to prevent the smell of blood from spreading. Then he turned into his original form and ran back to his tribe with the elephant bird on his back.
The elephant bird weighed four or five hundred kilograms, almost the same weight as Kumano. Kumano ran with it on his back until he was exhausted. Unfortunately, they had walked a little far, so they ran for two hours and only just reached the tribe.
"It's safe here now. Let's go to the river to wash and divide the elephant bird before we leave." Hu Yue suggested.
Kumano nodded in agreement—he was a little tired of carrying it.
The three men came to the stream and separated the entire elephant bird.
The skin, along with the fur on the outside, was given to Hu Yue, who intended to make a warm nest. As for the meat inside, Kumano took four-tenths, including a large bird leg, while Hu Yue and Xiongbai each took three-tenths.
When hunting elephant birds before, Kumano did the most work and he was the one who carried the animals on the road, so the internal organs were also given to him.
After the three of them divided the items, Kumano carried the big bird leg and walked towards the valley.
The meat he was given, including the internal organs, weighed more than 200 kilograms of pure meat, enough for him to eat for about 20 days.
But he didn't have enough salt, and it was not easy to preserve so much meat... and he didn't know when the salt-changing team would come back.
As soon as the three Kumano men entered the valley, they attracted onlookers, and everyone in the tribe was extremely envious.
"Kumano is awesome, he caught prey again!"
“So much meat!”
"Xiong Ye is now going hunting with Hu Yue. Has he really broken up with Shi Li?"
…
"Speaking of Shi Li, during these few hunting trips, Shi Li didn't do anything at all. He doesn't seem to be as powerful as others say..."
"Shi Li knows a lot and taught us a lot."
"What's the point of just talking?"
"Don't even mention Shi Li. You haven't done as much as Shi Li!"
…
Although Shi Li went to the recent hunting trips, he did not contribute much, which made some people in the tribe dissatisfied with him.
But some people think that this is nothing - Shi Li told them a lot of things, and in fact, Shi Li is still very powerful.
By the end, everyone started to envy Zhou Ji: "Zhou Ji lives with Xiong Ye. Even if he can't get meat to eat, he still has bones. He's so lucky!"
When Zhou Ji came back, he heard these words.
He agreed very much. He was lucky that Kumano was an easy person to get along with.
But are these people saying this because Kumano has caught another big prey?
Zhou Ji carried some plant branches and some vegetables on his back and slowly climbed towards the Kumano cave.
"You're back!" Xiong Ye's voice sounded, and then he took the things in Zhou Ji's hand: "Where have you been?"
"I picked some wild vegetables near the tribe." Zhou Ji said as he climbed onto the platform at the entrance of the cave.
Then he was surprised - he saw an oversized chicken drumstick!
The mutated chickens in the apocalypse don't have legs this big. These legs look pretty delicious...
"What is this?" Zhou Ji asked.
"This is the elephant bird I shot. Would you like to try it?" Xiong Ye said, "The meat of this bird tastes better than that of a dinosaur."
Zhou Ji was slightly stunned when he heard Xiong Ye say that, and finally said: "Thank you." After saying thank you, Zhou Ji frowned and looked at Xiong Ye: "Are you injured?"
"It's nothing, just a minor injury." Kumano said.
When the elephant bird used its claws to grab Kumano, Kumano was in animal form, so the wound was not deep. Now there is a deeper and longer blood mark on his stomach, and two shallower blood marks.
The two shallower bloodstains were really nothing, but the deeper one looked a bit hideous, and you could even see the flesh inside. Kumano must have washed it in water before, and the wound was soaked in water, so the surrounding area was a bit white.
If such a wound happened before the apocalypse, Zhou Ji would consider it very serious. But it is even more serious in the apocalypse - zombies all have viruses on their bodies, and if there is such a big wound on the body in the apocalypse, the person will most likely die!
"Such a big wound, or a minor one?" Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye dissatisfiedly: "I brought back some healing herbs for you."
As Zhou Ji spoke, he rummaged through the vegetables he had brought back, and while Kumano wasn't paying attention, he stimulated the growth of a plant with healing effects.
As a plant-based mutant, when he comes into contact with plants, he can naturally know some of the functions of these plants.
Of course, he knew this grass because he had seen pictures of it when he was on Earth.
"It's Panax notoginseng. How do you know it can stop bleeding? Did your mother tell you?" Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji curiously and said, "Give it to me."
Zhou Ji gave the Panax notoginseng to Kumano, and then saw Kumano chew the Panax notoginseng, and finally applied the crushed herb on his wound.
This should have been very painful, but Kumano remained calm from beginning to end.
Kumano's hair is similar in color to his beast form's hair, slightly darker, dark brown, his eyes are black, and his eyebrows are very thick.
With thick eyebrows, big eyes and wheat-colored skin, overall, Kumano is very good-looking.
To the people in the tribe, he had just reached adulthood, so his shoulders were not broad enough and his body was not strong enough. But it had to be said that his figure was very much in line with the aesthetic taste of a modern man like Zhou Ji.
This is a very handsome eighteen-year-old boy.
Kumano was right next to them, and Zhou Ji couldn't use his mental power to control the vines, so he took a stone knife and prepared to cut the meat.
As a result, before he even started, Xiong Ye said, "Let me cut it! How do you cut it?" Zhou Ji didn't even have a callus on his hands, and he was embarrassed to let Zhou Ji do the work!
Seeing that he was injured but still alive and kicking, Zhou Ji gave him a knife and asked him to cut the elephant bird meat into pieces, cutting some into large pieces and the other into small pieces.
Zhou Ji threw the small pieces of meat into the water to cook, and added some salt to the large pieces. He also chopped up some "grass" he brought back and put them in, then mixed them well and marinated them.
Some of these "grasses" can enhance flavor, while others are beneficial to Kumano, such as calming the nerves and containing energy.
The stone pot cooks things very slowly. It takes a while for the water to boil, and then... there is foam in the pot.
Zhou Ji took a wooden spatula to skim off the foam, continued cooking, and started preparing the barbecue.
While grilling, he also gave Xiong Ye some plant stems that he had brought back: "You can try chewing these."
"Why do you have to chew it?" Kumano pinched the hard plants given by Zhou Ji and asked in confusion.
"It's sweet." Zhou Ji said. This thing is a bit like sugarcane, but it's not as thick as sugarcane. You can chew it to get sweet juice.
For the people in the giant bear tribe, sweetness is a taste that makes them feel happy, but they can't eat it very often - although some fruits are sweet, such fruits are often eaten by dinosaurs or birds before they get a chance to pick them.
Xiong Ye likes sweet taste very much. When he heard Zhou Ji say that this one was sweet, he picked up one and started chewing it.
This is sweet indeed! Kumano chewed it repeatedly and finally swallowed the residue.
"Spit out the residue after chewing." Zhou Ji reminded.
"Oh..." Xiong Ye responded, and when he ate again, he spit out the chewed residue: "This thing is really delicious, where does it grow?"
"I discovered it occasionally. It's quite rare." Zhou Ji said.
Xiong Ye felt a little sorry when he heard this, and then said: "Zhou Ji, you really know a lot."
"My mother taught me." Zhou Ji lied. He did not get the original owner's memory, but he learned from other people's conversations that the original owner had a mother who loved him very much.
Kumano had no doubts. Zhou Ji's mother is very strong and always goes out. She even wandered outside for two years in her early years. It is normal for her to know a lot of plants.
Wouldn’t it be helpful to know many plants when offering sacrifices to grandfather? According to the grand priest, he didn't know much - the previous priest didn't have time to teach all the knowledge to the grand priest.
However, Xiong Ye felt that Zhou Ji's current behavior was not very good: "You should interact with more people. If you give these things to the gathering team, they will definitely be willing to take care of you." Zhou Ji was too unsociable. In the tribe, such people were not liked.
"I'm only giving it to you." Zhou Ji said. He actually had no feelings for this tribe and even felt out of place.
The people in the tribe took care of him, but he actually repaid them by giving birth to the surrounding plants.
Apart from that, he didn't want to get too involved with the people in this tribe, nor did he want to disrupt their lives.
He just wants to live his life alone in peace.
Only Kumano was an accident - Kumano saved him, and he should repay the favor.
Zhou Ji didn't have much thought when he said this, but Xiong Ye was stunned and suddenly remembered something.
In the tribe, sending food usually means expressing affection. Whoever you send food to is expressing your affection to that person.
He was willing to send food to Shi Li before because he liked Shi Li.
Zhou Ji sent him something, but Zhou Ji refused to eat the meat he gave him, so could it be that... he likes him?
Thinking about it this way, maybe what Zhou Ji said before about not wanting to eat dinosaur meat because it didn’t taste good was also false... At the beginning, Zhou Ji’s mother brought all kinds of dinosaur meat home and always said that her son had a particularly good appetite. It couldn’t be a lie!
Moreover, when Zhou Ji's mother was still alive, although Zhou Ji rarely left the cave, he would sit on the stone platform at the door from time to time. At that time, he clearly saw Zhou Ji eating meat.
Xiong Ye glanced at Zhou Ji, feeling a little conflicted. He was worried that he had misunderstood Zhou Ji's meaning, and also worried that Zhou Ji had misunderstood his meaning.
He sent meat to Zhou Ji out of sympathy and invited Zhou Ji to live with him... He didn't think much about it before, but now thinking about it, it seemed like he and Zhou Ji had a crush on each other.
While Xiong Ye was struggling, Zhou Ji said, "There is no water."
"I'll go get some water." Kumano went to get some water with a stone bowl in his hand and started thinking about other things.
He didn't cook in his cave before, so he didn't need to put water in his cave. A stone bowl was enough. But if he wanted to cook in the future, the stone bowl would not be enough.
How about hollowing out a log and making a barrel?
But after the wooden barrel is filled with water, it will soon become moldy and black, which is not pleasing to the eye...
Thinking this, Kumano quickly brought up some water for Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji spent a lot of time cooking and grilling meat, especially grilling meat. He was very particular about grilling meat. He applied oil and honey on the outside of the meat and grilled it slowly, which was quite time-consuming.
But the meat roasted in this way is also particularly delicious.
Zhou Ji had to admit that this elephant bird meat was the most delicious meat he had ever eaten since he came to this world. It tasted a little older than chicken, but much more tender than dinosaur meat, and it didn’t have any weird smell. In addition, there was a bear eating heartily in front of him... He ate too much without realizing it.
When Xiong Ye saw Zhou Ji eat more than ten kilograms of meat in one breath, he was shocked - Zhou Ji's appetite was so big?
So he had been hungry before?
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