It was early spring and the snow on the mountain had already melted, forming a small stream that flowed down from the top of the mountain. The moist soil was sticky and a footprint was left behind when one stepped on it.
Many dinosaurs could lower their body temperature and hide during winter, but now they came out again, gnawing on the twigs to increase their weight.
After Xiong Ye saw those skinny dinosaurs, he felt that he had lived too comfortably during the previous winter — not only did he not lose weight, he gained weight instead!
This was something that had never happened before.
And the reason for this had a lot to do with Zhou Ji — if Zhou Ji had not taught them how to grow barley and potatoes, even if they got a lot of meat, it would not be enough for them to eat.
They did not want to waste too much time on the road, so they hurried the whole day and only stopped to set up camp and prepare food in the evening.
On the first night, they stopped not far from the tribe.
Xiong Qi, who had gone to exchange salt with Xiong Ye before, went to Zhou Ji when the team stopped. "Zhou Ji, is there anything I can help you with?"
Xiong Qi volunteered to help, and Zhou Ji did not reject him. He let him wash the food and fetch water.
Then, the people who had gone to exchange salt with Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji previously eagerly brought firewood to Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji accepted all of them and even asked them to help him build a shelter and start a fire.
During the day, Zhou Ji did not do anything and just sat on Xiong Ye's back. Now he was like this … He was indeed the messenger of the Beast Deity, he was so different!
Zhou Ji knew that his various actions would make people jealous. Just as he was wondering if he should restrain himself, he realized that everyone in the team was looking at him with admiration. He even used his spiritual power to listen in on their conversation. "The messenger of the Beast Deity is indeed different from us."
"That lord looks so noble!"
"I heard that he is someone who can communicate with the Beast Deity. I want to serve him too."
"If I can touch him, will I also receive the blessing of the Beast Deity?"
…
Zhou Ji: "…" In this era, it was really easy to be a charlatan.
Zhou Ji was thinking if he should just pretend to be a god.
That beach tribe had a Sea God. He could use plants to pretend to be the Earth God or something?
Zhou Ji thought about it and quickly gave up.
This was quite troublesome. Forget it.
Everything that Zhou Ji needed to cook was quickly prepared. Then, Zhou Ji began to cook.
During the previous winter, he and Xiong Ye ate a lot of food every day. In fact, all the food and seasonings stored at home had been consumed.
But when Xiong Ye wasn't paying attention, he secretly hastened the growth of the spices, so he still had a lot of spices on hand.
It was quite cold to travel in such weather. Zhou Ji pondered for a moment and decided to make a hot pot. He even made two at once.
One was for him and Zhou Ji, and the other was for the others … It was not enough for a hundred people to eat one hot pot, but if they divided it up, everyone should be able to eat a piece of meat and taste a mouthful of soup.
That was what Zhou Ji thought, but he didn't know that after those people tasted it, they felt even more unbearable.
Previously, when there was only barbecued meat, they didn't feel that the barbecued meat was unpalatable. However, after eating the meat cooked with chili, they felt that the barbecued meat was a little difficult to swallow.
Those who joined the Qingshan tribe in the end all had tears in their eyes.
They had long heard of hotpot, but because of the lack of chili in the tribe, they had never tried it until now.
It was really too delicious!
How could there be such a delicious thing in this world!
They finally understood why Xiong Qi and the others were so attentive. With such delicious food, they also wanted to help!
Didn't they see that Xiong Qi and the others who helped also received a fist-sized piece of meat that had been cooked in Xiong Ye's hot pot?
When they were outside, everyone had a special desire for delicious food. As a result, when Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji were full, the leftover soup from their hot pot was immediately divided among the others.
When night came, Zhou Ji entered the tent early to sleep. However, Xiong Ye busied himself for a long time. After arranging for everyone to keep watch at night, he quietly entered Zhou Ji's tent and was hugged by Zhou Ji.
The two of them snuggled up to each other in the narrow space, and it was quite warm.
Everyone moved forward quickly, but they still walked for more than ten days before they arrived at the place that originally belonged to the Qingshan tribe.
A winter had passed, and there was no change here. It was still a mess.
Everyone rested here for a night, and then continued to move forward.
They had to walk for at least another half a month before they could reach their destination.
The previous ten days were quite easy for them, but it wasn't easy for them to walk in this half a month, and the reason was because of the rain.
It was drizzling, but it didn't stop and brought them a lot of trouble. Xiong Ye was afraid that Zhou Ji would fall sick, so he turned into his original form and found a relatively dry place to hug Zhou Ji and sleep with a few pieces of animal skin.
Zhou Ji wasn't used to not being able to hug Xiong Ye in his arms … but sleeping with Big Bear was also quite comfortable.
Unfortunately, there were too many people in the team. The two of them could hug each other, but they couldn't do anything.
Zhou Ji realized that ever since he came to this world, he had started to lose his moral integrity …
But Zhu Zhan was a little depressed.
The atmosphere between Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji was too good. He saw the two of them whispering to each other every day, and he really missed his woman.
He didn't know how his woman was doing …
Zhu Zhan had always wanted to return to the Beastmen Continent, but he couldn't build the ship that Zhou Ji mentioned. He couldn't go back, and he wasn't strong enough …
Thinking of this, Zhu Zhan looked at Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji again. Seeing the two of them hugging each other and sleeping, he couldn't help but feel lonely.
Also, he used to think that Zhou Ji didn't treat Xiong Ye well … he really thought too much.
If Zhou Ji didn't like Xiong Ye, he wouldn't be so close to him, right?
The drizzling rain continued for three days, and on the fourth day, it finally stopped. The long-awaited sun hung in the sky again, shining down on the ground.
Taking advantage of the good weather, Xiong Ye stopped by a small river early in the morning and prepared to set up camp early so that everyone could relax and eat something good — it had been raining previously, so they ate carelessly.
Zhou Ji was also very supportive of this. When everyone settled down, he immediately boiled a large pot of herbs and let everyone in the team drink a bowl.
Everyone in the salt exchange team: "…" They didn't expect Zhou Ji to be able to make such a thing other than delicious food!
What was this thing? Could it be eaten when it smelled so bad?
"This is an herb, something that can prevent you from getting sick." Xiong Ye took a bowl of herbs and drank it in one gulp. "Everyone has to eat it, hurry up!"
Hearing this, Xiong Ye took the lead to eat it again. Everyone didn't reject eating this herb anymore, and they all waited to eat it with bitter expressions.
Then, at a place where no one could see, Xiong Ye looked pitifully at Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji secretly stuffed a candy into his mouth.
Xiong Ye instantly became happy and took a net to the riverside. "Zhou Ji, I'll go catch some fish for you."
Xiong Ye quickly ran off, and Zhou Ji followed. Then, he saw Xiong Ye standing by the riverside and catching fish.
Previously in the winter, Xiong Ye had caught fish for him to improve his diet, but because it wasn't easy, he didn't catch it often. Now, Zhou Ji really missed the taste of fish.
As Xiong Ye was catching fish, Zhou Ji suddenly felt something and looked in a direction, but he quickly retracted his gaze and focused on Xiong Ye again.
Not long after, someone suddenly came out from the forest on the other side of the river.
It was a team of seventeen people. The leader of this team was a woman with only one eye. As soon as she arrived at the riverside, she saw Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye. Then, her eyes fell on the two of them with perverted eyes.
"I didn't expect there to be such a good-looking man in the Desolate Forest, and he also likes to be clean …" The woman's gaze fell on Xiong Ye's animal skin skirt. "Looks like he's not bad."
Zhou Ji's expression instantly darkened — Xiong Ye was really too likable …
Just as he thought this, the woman looked at him again. "You look even more likable than him, with soft skin and tender flesh."
Zhou Ji was about to say something, but Xiong Ye had already blocked in front of Zhou Ji and glared at the woman. "What are you looking at?"
The woman said, "I'm looking at men! The two of you are not bad … Are you willing to follow me? "
"I'm not willing! Please leave! "Xiong Ye immediately said.
The woman sneered, and her remaining eye showed disdain. She released her aura and said, "If the two of you follow me, I can let your team go. Otherwise … you will have to leave the things you have with you!"
Was this a robbery? Zhou Ji found it a little funny — the woman in front of him was about the same level of strength as Xiong Ye. If she wanted to rob them, she was really not qualified.
Xiong Ye thought so too.
This person actually wanted to rob them, and even said such words …
Xiong Ye directly transformed into his beast form and pounced on the other side of the river — he liked to talk with his fists!
When Xiong Ye's beast form appeared, the woman opposite him turned pale with fright.
In the Desolate Forest, mid-level Beast Warriors could basically do whatever they wanted. She thought that it would be very easy to deal with such a team, but unexpectedly …
The person she had taken a liking to was actually also a mid-level Beast Warrior. That was fine, but this person's beast form was actually so big!
Not to mention that there were many people not far away!
The one-eyed woman was flexible and immediately wanted to escape.
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