There were twenty-seven kids living in the cave, including Shao Xuan. All of them were ferocious. How could Shao Xuan take care of them with his small arms and legs?
Many kids in the cave wanted to take over Ku's position. In order to get more food, Shao Xuan, who was obviously much smaller than Ku, would be dissatisfied by the other kids, and the dissatisfaction would inevitably lead to fights.
One word — troublesome.
The middle-aged man who was responsible for delivering food to the cave was called "Ge". He was not as strong as Mai, and he had lost an arm in a hunting mission. Now he could not go out hunting, so he retired from the hunting team and was responsible for delivering food every day.
Shao Xuan went to ask him why, but he did not get any information.
After the food was distributed, Ge left with an empty stone vat in one hand. Even though he had lost an arm, he was still strong enough to carry the stone vat with one hand.
After Ge left, Ku went into the cave to announce the new decision and the person who would take over his job.
"From tomorrow onwards, Xuan will be in charge of distributing food!"
After the meal, the atmosphere in the orphan cave had calmed down. But because of Ku's words, the atmosphere became tense again. The kids in the orphan cave didn't know how to complain. They didn't know how to reason, but they didn't look good.
Ku did not stay any longer, nor did he explain. He quickly packed his things and left. He was old, and if there were no accidents, he would awaken his totemic power after this winter. That was to say, if he left now, he might not come back to the cave again.
Ku left in a relaxed mood, but Shao Xuan's heart was heavy.
He looked at the sky, and compared it to the time in his previous life, it was about three o 'clock in the afternoon. There was still some time before the sun went down.
Shao Xuan held Caesar's hand and went to the gravel field again. He sat on the ground, thinking about what to do next.
He had planned to live a peaceful life, and wait for two or three years until his totemic power was awakened. Even if he was not talented enough and awakened late, he would awaken his totemic power naturally at Ku's age. At that time, he would go out and build his own house, join a hunting team, and go hunting. Now, it seemed that this peaceful life was no longer possible. When he left the cave, several children stared at him and Caesar with ill intentions.
"Do you think they'll wake up in the middle of the night and eat you?" Shao Xuan asked as he watched Caesar pacing back and forth on the gravel.
In the past, the Ku was around, so those little bastards didn't really do anything. But once the Ku was gone, the situation was hard to predict. The kids in the orphan cave were more ruthless than the other kids in the tribe. They didn't think too much. If they were really hungry, they wouldn't care about the patterned plate given by the Shaman. What if they joined forces and roasted the Caesar? Shao Xuan alone was no match for the twenty or so people in the cave.
Caesar didn't realize the predicament he was in. He couldn't find any stone worms on the gravel, so he started to think about going to the black swamp.
There were two forbidden areas near the mountain where the tribe was located. One was a large black swamp, where it was easy to get trapped. Basically, once you got trapped, you would die. The other one was a big river in front of the mountain. You couldn't see the other side of the river. There were many river beasts in the river. It was said that in the early days, several powerful warriors in the tribe went into the river to fish, but they never came back. There were too many unknown dangers, so in the end, the leaders of the tribe decided not to let people go into the water.
Therefore, except for the women in the tribe who occasionally went to the shallow beach to wash their animal skins, no one dared to touch the river. There was a small stream flowing down from the top of the mountain, where the tribe used to drink water. Naturally, no one wanted to touch the river, which was full of unknown dangers.
No matter if it was the black swamp or the river bank, there were warriors on duty to prevent people in the tribe from entering the two dangerous areas. They were also on guard against unpredictable dangers.
Without fishing, domestication, and planting, the tribe could only rely on hunting. This was also the main reason why food was always in short supply in the tribe.
Food was the most important thing in everything. Caesar was such a big piece of meat walking around in front of the hungry children every night, which made the little ones in the cave drool.
"What should I do?" Shao Xuan sighed again. He couldn't help but complain about the old faker who gave him the plate but didn't show up again.
The tribe didn't allow people to enter the black swamp or go into the river, especially the children who hadn't awakened their totemic power. However, they didn't say that wolves were not allowed to get close to the black swamp. Therefore, when he came here occasionally, Caesar would go to the edge of the black swamp to find something to grind his teeth, such as some weird beetles that lived in the black swamp. After a few times, the warriors in charge of guarding the border turned a blind eye.
Animals were very sensitive to danger. Of course, Caesar also knew that the black swamp was very dangerous, so he only wandered around the border.
No one knew what Caesar had found, but he ran over with something in his mouth. He loosened his mouth and threw a black lump in front of Shao Xuan.
The thing that Caesar brought over was a bug that Shao Xuan had never seen before. Different from the beetles last time, this one was softer. It was as big as Shao Xuan's palm, flat and oval in shape. It had many slender legs, and its whole body was as black as the black swamp.
When Caesar held it in his mouth, it even used its legs to prick Caesar's nose.
Caesar also brought back bugs several times before, probably for fun. After all, there weren't many creatures in the tribe that could interest Caesar, let alone catching rabbits. As a wolf, it was quite pitiful to have to deal with bugs all the time.
When Caesar tried to bring back the escaping bug, Shao Xuan found that the bug spat out a lot of black bubbles from its mouth and wrapped it up. Caesar didn't like these black bubbles very much, so he loosened his mouth and threw the bug away.
The black bubbles gathered together and finally became as big as a football, wrapping the bug in the middle. Caesar circled around the ball made of black bubbles, but didn't bite it. Obviously, he hated the black bubbles, probably because they tasted bad.
About a quarter of an hour later, Caesar gave up on the bug hiding in the black ball and turned back to the gravel field to continue looking for stone bugs.
Shao Xuan, on the other hand, was interested in the insect. He took out his stone knife and poked at the ball. He found that the originally soft black bubble had now become hard and brittle. Under Shao Xuan's forceful poke, the black "football" split into two halves, and the insect hiding inside ran out in panic, fleeing in the direction of the black swamp. The whole insect seemed to have shrunk by more than half compared to before, and it was shriveled.
Shao Xuan didn't chase after the bug. He squatted down and carefully looked at the "ball" that had split in half.
Using his stone knife, Shao Xuan found that the two black balls were very light and didn't feel much weight. He had to use a little strength to crush them.
Shao Xuan studied one ball and crushed it, then looked at the other black ball. After thinking for a while, he called Caesar back and took the black ball to the river.
Even if the people in the tribe came to the river, they would only move cautiously in the shallows, where it was considered safe.
Shao Xuan naturally wouldn't go into the water to court death. Who knew what strange creatures were in the water? He just wanted to see if the ball was really as he thought.
Shao Xuan untied the straw rope tied around his waist, tied one end to the black ball, and held the other end by himself. Then he threw the black ball into the water.
Sure enough, just as Shao Xuan thought, the black ball floated on the water surface.
This thing … could be used to fish.
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This was more like Number 2, and Number 3 was more.
It had been five days since the book was released. He didn't expect so many people to reward him. There was even a protector (blue for melancholy) and a leader (Cat Eyes Boy). He saw many familiar names, votes, and comments. When the cat returned, it would list out all the readers who had tipped the book. Later on, many people complained that they would always hear those names when they listened to the book on audio. They couldn't even remember the names after listening to the book. In the end, it stopped listing out the names. Now, he didn't need to list them one by one. The author's platform also had a record of all the rewards. Chen Ci would like to say, thank you for your support!
It had been more than four months since the release of the book. Many factors caused the delay in releasing the book. During this time, many people asked about the new book, and there were always people voting for it. I'm very grateful for everyone's support and support for Chen Ci.
Although it's a little late, I still want to say, "I, Chen Ci, am back!"
This book will take some time to get popular. If you're interested, you can keep it for now. Chen Ci will try his best to write this novel.
PS: By the way, I'll tell you a piece of news. Traditional Chinese may be coming out soon. Traditional Chinese readers can look forward to it.
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