Bear River went hunting with the warriors of the tribe early in the morning.
Yesterday they caught very little prey, not enough to eat at all, and there were a few more injured people. Today, they must catch more prey.
At the same time, the old and weak in the tribe also spontaneously went out - last night even the soldiers of the hunting team only got two or three catties of meat, and they got even less. They had to find a way to get some food back. .
Kumano fed Niu Er and ate some meat cooked by Zhou Ji, and then went out to catch fish.
Niu Er's condition was still very poor. He fell asleep after eating. Zhou Ji looked at his condition and left the cave.
A few days ago, the atmosphere in the tribe was very good, but today the atmosphere in the tribe is obviously not very good. There is no smile on the faces left in the col, and there are several children crying.
The twenty or so clansmen who died were men and women, and most of them already had children, and these children were their children.
Life in primitive society is much better than in the end times, but it is still full of dangers.
"Wait." Someone called Zhou Ji, Zhou Ji turned her head, and saw that it was Xiong Qi, the captain of the salt change team, who stopped him.
Xiong Qi's animal shape is a white bear.
The polar bear is very big, actually bigger than many brown bears, but the animal shape of Kumano is the Kodiak Island brown bear, which can be bigger than the polar bear when it is an adult.
But at this stage, Kumano is not as big as Xiong Qi, and his combat effectiveness is definitely a little worse than Xiong Qi.
Xiong Qi is more than ten years older than Kumano, and his more than ten years of combat experience is not fake.
Zhou Ji stopped and looked at each other.
Xiong Qi asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Zhou Ji, Zhou." Zhou Ji said.
"So you are Zhou, so you look like this." Xiong Qi asked again: "The sacrifice said Niu Er woke up, is he okay?"
Zhou Ji said: "It's okay."
Xiong Qi had no contact with Zhou Ji, and when he said this, he had nothing to say. He waved to Zhou Ji and left.
Zhou Ji went outside and did not go to the place where the collection team was staying, but went in another direction.
He's going to collect a little different plants.
While Zhou Ji was collecting plants, Kumano was catching fish.
After the weather warmed up, the fish in the river became active, and the fish began to have plump roes in their stomachs... Kumano caught four fish in one go, killed them by the river, hung up the scales and washed them, and then brought them with him. go back.
He used to eat grilled fish by himself without scraping the scales, but last time Zhou Ji scraped the scales when he made fish soup... It really tastes a lot better.
Xiong Ye took the fish back to the tribe and climbed to his cave. He wanted to tell Zhou Ji that he brought the fish back, but when he got to the cave, he found that Zhou Ji was not there, only Niu Er was sleeping beside the fire, with a cover on his body. a hide.
Kumano was inexplicably lost.
He hung the fish in the cave, and went under the mountain col, and then saw that the priest was bringing his three little apprentices, placing firewood piles one by one in the mountain col.
Many people died in the salt changing team, and the priests needed to read sacrificial texts to them, so that they could go to the sky and go to the arms of the beast gods.
And the warriors in the tribe, after dying in battle, will become the guards of the beast gods, and they can also guard the tribe in the sky.
Kumano silently began to help.
"Kumano, do you really want to be a priest?" the priest asked Kumano.
"Sacrificing grandpa, I want to be the most powerful warrior." Kumano said. While it's nice to be a priest, the tribe needs warriors.
"The Beast God will bless you." The priest said.
The hunting team came back very late that day, and the harvest was not much, but it was okay.
After returning, Bear River did not immediately start dividing the prey - the funeral was about to begin.
If the bodies of those warriors could be brought back, after reading the ritual, the people in the tribe would bury them next to the tribe and let them guard the tribe, but this time they didn't come back, so this one is omitted.
Before Zhou Ji returned from the funeral, he returned to the tribe and saw with his own eyes what was going on at the funeral. It seemed... a bit like a dancer.
The elderly priest danced a dance beside the fire, threw some plant powder into the fire, and when the fire was booming, he began to chant...
It is said that this can communicate with the gods, and it is said that the beast gods can hear it, but when Zhou Ji felt it with his spiritual power, he did not find any difference.
After the funeral, Xiong He distributed the meat that the hunting team caught today and the salt that the salt exchange team brought back to the tribe.
Today, there is still not much meat and salt, but after the funeral, the atmosphere is better.
The things that the salt exchange team used to exchange salt were the things that the tribe had saved the previous year, including animal skins, horns of horned dragons, food collected near the tribe, stone knives made by people in the tribe, and It was the prey they caught on the road when the salt change team passed by.
After the salt is exchanged, it belongs to the entire tribe, and then Xionghe will divide it according to the situation of everyone in the tribe.
Generally speaking, the soldiers will be a little more, and the old and the weak will get very little.
In addition, some people in the tribe will also come up with some personal things, and ask people from the Salt Exchange Team to help them exchange salt.
The Salt Changer team set off more than a month ago. Zhou Ji was still in a state of not understanding the language of the world at that time. Naturally, he did not ask the Salt Changer team to help him change the salt, but Kumano took out a lot of things to let him. The people from the salt change team helped to change the salt.
At that time, he had already established a relationship with Shi Li, and he was afraid that the salt was not enough. Although he and Shi Li could share a lot of salt, Yang Ying and Yang Su couldn't share much salt!
Now, the salt exchanged by the salt exchange team is very small, and the salt exchanged by Kumano's people who ask the salt exchange team to help is also less, but with the tribal division, it is enough for Kumano.
But others are not enough.
"We'll change the salt again in a few months..." Xiong He said about his plan.
Everyone in the tribe listened carefully, even Zhou Ji was no exception, only Shi Li was a little impatient.
No matter what Xiong He says now, it is meaningless. In more than a month, Zhou Ji's father will come to the tribe to take Zhou Ji away, and then in a few days, Xiong He will die in the carnivorous dinosaurs. in the attack.
No, that doesn't have to be...
Shi Li looked at Niu Er, who was weak beside Kumano - something had changed, Niu Er was not dead!
When Shi Li pays attention to Kumano, some people pay attention to Shi Li.
The person who pays attention to Shi Li is Xiong Qi, the captain of the Salt Exchange team.
Xiong Qi is in his thirties and has had children, but this does not affect his love for Lang Yin. Before leaving the tribe, Xiong Qi has been pursuing Lang Yin and gave him a lot of things.
As a result, he left the tribe and came back, and Lang Yin was actually with someone else!
When he came back yesterday, Xiong Qi was injured. There were so many people at the time that he didn't care about it, but now... He smelled the lion's sternness on Lang Yin's body.
Xiong Qi was in a very bad mood, seeing Shi Li was not pleasing to the eye, and when he found out that Shi Li and Lang Yin were together, he was still looking at Xiong Ye, and he was even more angry.
If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Xiong Qi would have wanted to fight Shi Li.
When the tribal gathering was over, some people stayed in the col to barbecue and eat, while others went back to their caves.
Xiongye carried Niu Er back to the cave, and gave the fish to Zhou Ji: "This is the fish I caught, you can cook it soon."
"Thank you." Zhou Ji did not refuse, boiled the fish soup in a stone pot, and put some mushrooms in it.
He didn't finish the meal, only about a third of it, and left the rest to Kumano Wagyu.
"How can you eat so little?" Kumano was a little worried.
"I don't need to hunt and consume less." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano looked at Zhou Ji and was sure that there was nothing wrong with Zhou Ji, so he felt relieved.
For the next few days, the people in the tribe lived their lives as usual.
Niu Er's health improved very quickly, and within a few days, he recovered, which made Kumano very happy, and he began to go hunting as usual so that he could get a little more meat.
As for Zhou Ji... He brought a lot of vegetables home and cooked them for Kumano.
On this day, Zhou Ji cooked another pot of vegetable soup and gave it to Kumano.
"We don't lack meat..." Kumano was a little tangled with the big bowl of vegetables.
The vegetable soup cooked by Zhou Ji tastes good, and he can't eat it, but he really doesn't like eating vegetables, and he doesn't like the grassy smell.
"Eating a little is good for the body." Zhou Ji said. The orcs in this world will become all kinds of beasts, some of which eat meat and some grass, but he has studied and found that these orcs, like humans, are omnivorous.
They have a good digestive system, and they have no problem eating meat all the time, but if you want to be healthy, it's better to eat a la carte.
What's more, the dishes he gave Kumano were not ordinary dishes, they were all dishes that he had chosen and contained a lot of energy. This kind of dishes Kumano had only had advantages and no disadvantages.
Kumano wanted to refuse, but he was embarrassed to refuse when he thought that Zhou Ji drank it himself, even only drinking vegetable soup and not eating meat.
Zhou Ji is someone who doesn't like to take advantage of others, and is reluctant to accept what he gives, but if he eats what Zhou Ji gives...
After Kumano drank the vegetable soup, he gave Zhou Ji a few frogs he caught.
Compared with dinosaur meat, Zhou Ji seems to like these more. The most important thing is that after eating too much... He also thinks these are delicious.
Niuji, who drank the vegetable soup with meat for the sick: Kumano was really kind to him! He even eats vegetables and feeds him meat!
Zhou Ji really likes eating small things like fish and shrimp. After all, it's fresh and delicious. The frog that Kumano gave him was killed, so he threw it into the pot and boiled it.
As it was cooking, the roars of bears and lions suddenly came from below the col.
Zhou Ji and Kumano looked at each other in surprise and looked down together.
Then, Zhou Ji saw a lion fighting a... polar bear.
He knew that Xiong Qi's animal shape was a white bear, and the so-called white bear was a polar bear...
The largest terrestrial carnivore on earth is the bear, and the largest of the bears are the Kodiak Island brown bear and polar bear. An adult polar bear can weigh up to 800 kilograms before wintering. Not only that, it is also very agile. , whether on land or in water, the combat effectiveness is very strong.
Seeing the fight below, Zhou Ji's first reaction was that Shi Li was going to be beaten.
Although Xiong Qi's injury was not healed, he felt that Shi Li should not be able to beat Xiong Qi.
He had a very bad impression of Shi Li, and was looking forward to Shi Li being beaten.
But the development of things was different from what Zhou Ji thought.
When he looked at the two people below, he habitually released his mental power, and then found that... Shi Li actually used the energy in the air.
Shi Li can actually use the energy in the air