Xiong He took the warriors of the tribe to hunt early in the morning.
The prey they caught yesterday was very little, not enough to eat. With the addition of several injured people, food was even more scarce. They had to catch more prey today.
At the same time, the old and weak in the tribe also spontaneously went out to collect plants - last night even the warriors of the hunting team only got two or three pounds of meat, and they got even less. If they didn't find a way to get some food back, they would starve.
Xiongye ate the barbecue that Zhou Ji gave him, and fed the broth cooked by Zhou Ji to Niu Er.
This broth was made by Zhou Ji by chopping up the elephant bird meat and adding some vegetables. It was cooked for a long time and was easy to digest and nutritious.
Niu Er was in very bad condition and could not say much. He fell asleep after eating. Seeing this, Xiong Ye said hello to Zhou Ji and went fishing.
After Kumano left, Zhou Ji also left the cave.
A few days ago, the atmosphere in the tribe was quite good, but today the atmosphere in the tribe was obviously not very good. The people who stayed in the valley had no smiles on their faces, and several children were crying.
Among the twenty or so tribesmen who died, there were both men and women. Most of them already had children, and these crying children were their children.
Life in primitive society was much better than the end of the world, but it was still full of dangers. However, Zhou Ji had seen too many separations and deaths, so he didn't feel much.
"Wait a minute." Someone called Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji turned around and saw Xiong Qi, the captain of the salt exchange team.
Xiong Qi's animal form is a white bear.
Polar bears are very large, in fact, larger than many brown bears, but Kumano's animal form is the Kodiak Island brown bear, which can be larger than a polar bear when fully grown.
Of course, at this stage, the newly adult Kumano is not as big as Xiongqi, and his fighting power is definitely slightly weaker than Xiongqi.
Xiong Qi is more than ten years older than Xiong Ye, and his more than ten years of combat experience are not fake.
Zhou Ji stopped and looked at the other person.
Xiong Qi asked: "Who are you?"
"I am Zhou Ji, Zhou." Zhou Ji said.
"So you are Zhou, and this is what you look like." Xiong Qi looked at Zhou Ji curiously, and asked, "The priest said Niu Er has woken up. Is he okay?" After Xiong Ye brought Niu Er back yesterday, he saw Zhou Ji go to Xiong Ye's cave.
Zhou Ji said: "Not bad."
Xiong Qi had little contact with Zhou Ji, so he had nothing more to say here. He nodded at Zhou Ji, turned and left.
When Zhou Ji got outside, he didn't go to where the collection team was, but walked in another direction.
He wanted to collect some different plants, either for healing or seasoning, anything of the kind would do.
While Zhou Ji was collecting plants, Xiong Ye was catching fish.
As the weather got warmer, the fish in the river became active, and plump fish eggs began to appear in their stomachs... Kumano caught four fish in one breath, killed them by the river, scraped off the scales, threw away the intestines, washed them, and then took them back.
He used to eat grilled fish without scraping the scales, but the last time Zhou Ji made fish soup, he scraped the scales off... It really tasted much better without the troublesome scales.
Xiongye quickly returned to the tribe with the fish. He wanted to tell Zhou Ji that he had brought the fish back, but when he arrived at the cave, he found that Zhou Ji was not there. Only Niu Er was lying by the fire and sleeping, covered with several animal skins.
Kumano felt inexplicably lost.
He hung the fish in the cave and went down to the valley, where he saw the priest and his three little apprentices placing piles of firewood in the valley.
Many people died in the salt-changing team, and the priests needed to hold a ceremony for the deceased so that they could go to heaven and be with the Beast God.
After these warriors go to the Beast God, they will become the Beast God's guards, and they can also protect the tribe in the sky.
Kumano began to help silently. When he put the firewood in the pile, he did it quickly and well - in those days, he often helped the priests in order to exchange food from them.
"Kumano, do you really not want to be a priest?" the priest asked Kumano.
"Grandpa Priest, I want to become the most powerful warrior." Kumano said. Although being a priest is great, the tribe needs warriors.
"The Beast God will bless you." The priest said helplessly, and then kept asking Kumano to do things and ordered Kumano around.
Xiong Ye: “…”
That day the hunting team went hunting in a rather far place and came back very late. The harvest wasn't much, but it was still okay.
After returning, Xiong He did not start dividing the prey immediately - the funeral was about to begin.
If the bodies of those warriors could be brought back, after the funeral ceremony, the people in the tribe would bury them next to the tribe and let them guard the tribe, but this time their bodies were not brought back, so this item was omitted.
Before the funeral, Zhou Ji returned to the tribe and saw with his own eyes what happened. It looked... a bit like a shaman dance.
The old priest danced beside the fire, threw some plant powder into the fire, and when the fire was burning, he began to chant...
It is said that this can communicate with gods and can be heard by the beast god, but when Zhou Ji used his mental power to feel it, he did not find anything unusual.
Most of the time, beast gods do not exist, but both the priests and the people in the tribe are very pious.
After the funeral, Xiong He distributed all the meat hunted by the hunting team and the salt brought back by the salt-exchanging team to the tribesmen.
Today everyone still didn't get much meat or salt, but after the funeral, people distributed things again, so the atmosphere was a little better.
What the salt-exchanging team took to exchange for salt were many items that the tribe had saved up the previous year, including animal skins, horns of ceratosaurus, food collected under the guidance of the priests, stone knives made by people in the tribe, and prey caught on the road by the salt-exchanging team.
After the salt is exchanged, it belongs to the entire tribe, and Xionghe will distribute it according to the situation of each person in the tribe.
Generally speaking, there will be more soldiers, and the elderly and the weak will get very little.
In addition, some people in the tribe will take out some personal belongings and ask the salt exchanging team to help them exchange salt. In this way, the salt they exchanged will belong to them personally.
The salt-exchanging team set out more than a month ago. At that time, Zhou Ji was still unable to understand the language of this world, so he naturally did not ask the salt-exchanging team to help him exchange salt. However, Kumano took out a lot of things and asked the salt-exchanging team to help him exchange salt.
He had already established a relationship with Shi Li at that time, and was afraid that there would not be enough salt, so he wanted to exchange more - although he and Shi Li could get a lot of salt, Yang Ying and Yang Su could not get much salt!
Now, the amount of salt exchanged by the salt exchange team is very little, and the amount of salt that Kumano asks the salt exchange team to help exchange is also less. However, when combined with the share from the tribe, it is enough for Kumano to use.
But others not so much.
"In a few months, we will go to exchange salt again. The Qingshan tribe will no longer exist, and we will have to find a new tribe that is willing to exchange salt with us..." Xiong He talked about his plan.
Everyone in the tribe listened very carefully, even Zhou Ji was no exception. Only Shi Li was a little impatient.
No matter what Xiong He said now, it would be meaningless. In more than a month, Zhou Ji's father would come to the tribe and take Zhou Ji away. Then after a few days, Xiong He would die in the attack of carnivorous dinosaurs.
No, Xionghe will not necessarily die...
Shi Li looked at the weak Niu Er beside Xiong Ye - something had changed, Niu Er was not dead!
While Shi Li was paying attention to Xiong Ye, someone was also paying attention to Shi Li.
The person who was paying attention to Shi Li was the captain of the Salt Changing Team, Xiong Qi.
Xiong Qi is already in his thirties and has a child, but this does not affect his love for Lang Yin. Before leaving the tribe, Xiong Qi had been pursuing Lang Yin and gave Lang Yin a lot of things.
As a result, when he left the tribe and came back, Langyin was actually with someone else!
When Xiong Qi came back yesterday, he was injured. There were a lot of people and things to do at that time, so he had no time to pay attention to Lang Yin, but now... he smelled the fierce scent of Lang Yin.
Xiong Qi was in a very bad mood and disliked Shi Li very much. When he found out that Shi Li was with Lang Yin and kept looking at Xiong Ye, he became even angrier.
If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Xiong Qi would have wanted to fight with Shi Li.
After the tribal gathering, some people stayed in the valley to barbecue, while others returned to their caves.
Xiong Ye carried the weak Niu Er back to the cave and gave the fish to Zhou Ji: "This is the fish I caught. Cook it and eat it quickly."
"Thank you." Zhou Ji did not refuse. He cooked fish soup in a stone pot and put some mushrooms he picked today into it.
He didn't finish it, only about one third, and left the rest to Kumano and Ushiji.
"How can you be satisfied if you eat so little?" Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji worriedly.
"I don't need to hunt, it consumes less energy." Zhou Ji said.
Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji and was relieved when he was sure that there was nothing wrong with Zhou Ji's body. At the same time, he was thinking about how to get more food that Zhou Ji would like to eat.
Over the next few days, people in the tribe continued to live their lives as usual.
Niu Er's health improved quickly, and within a few days he had recovered. This made Kumano very happy, and he began to participate in hunting as usual so that he could get more meat.
As for Zhou Ji...he brought a lot of vegetables home and cooked them for Xiong Ye.
That night, Zhou Ji cooked another big pot of vegetable soup and gave a bowl to Xiong Ye who had just returned from hunting.
"We don't lack meat, so we don't need to eat vegetables..." Xiong Ye was a little conflicted as he held the big bowl of vegetables.
The vegetable soup cooked by Zhou Ji tasted good, so he could eat it, but he really didn’t like eating vegetables, and he didn’t like the smell of grass.
"Eating a little is good for your health." Zhou Ji said. The orcs in this world will turn into various kinds of beasts. Some of these beasts eat meat and some eat grass, but after his research, he found that these orcs are omnivorous like humans.
They have a good digestive system and can eat meat all the time without any problem, but if they want to be healthy, it is better to eat some vegetables.
What's more, the dishes he gave to Kumano were not ordinary dishes. They were all dishes that he had selected and contained a lot of energy. Eating these dishes would only benefit Kumano and not cause any harm.
Xiong Ye wanted to refuse, but when he thought about how Zhou Ji had also drunk it, and even only drank the vegetable soup without eating the meat, he felt embarrassed to refuse.
Zhou Ji was a person who didn't like to take advantage of others, so he was not willing to accept the things he gave him. However, if he ate the things Zhou Ji gave him...
After drinking the soup, Xiong Ye gave Zhou Ji a few frogs he had caught.
Compared to dinosaur meat, Zhou Ji seemed to like these more. The most important thing was that after eating too much... he also felt that these inconspicuous little things were delicious.
It was just too little, not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth. He usually just tasted a bite and gave the rest to Zhou Ji.
Niu Er, who drank the vegetable soup with meat specially prepared for patients, said: Kumano is so nice to him! I actually eat vegetables while he gives me meat!
Zhou Ji really liked eating small things like fish and shrimp. After all, they were fresh and delicious. Xiong Ye was very considerate and gave him a killed frog, which he threw directly into the pot to cook.
As the food was cooking, roars of bears and lions suddenly came from the valley below.
Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye looked at each other in surprise and looked down together.
Then, Zhou Ji saw a lion fighting with a... polar bear.
He had heard that Xiong Qi's animal form was a white bear. It turned out that the so-called white bear was actually a polar bear...
The largest land carnivores on Earth are bears, and the largest among bears are the Kodiak brown bear and the polar bear. Before wintering, an adult polar bear can weigh up to 800 kilograms. Not only that, it is also very agile and has very strong combat effectiveness whether on land or in water.
When Zhou Ji saw the fight breaking out below, his first reaction was that Shi Li was going to be beaten.
Although Xiong Qi's wounds have not healed yet, Shi Li should not be able to defeat Xiong Qi.
Zhou Ji had a very bad impression of Shi Li and was looking forward to seeing Shi Li being beaten.
But things developed differently from what he expected, and Shi Li actually gained the upper hand.
When he saw the two people fighting below, he habitually released his mental power, and then he found out... Shi Li used the energy in the air.
Shi Li can actually use the energy in the air?
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