Yesterday, they had caught very little prey. It was not enough to eat at all, and there were even some injured people. Today, they had to catch more prey.
At the same time, the old and the weak in the tribe also went out. Last night, even the warriors of the hunting team only got two or three pounds of meat. They got even less, so they had to find a way to get some food back.
Xiong Ye fed Niu Er some meat cooked by Zhou Ji and went out to catch fish.
Niu Er was still in a bad state. He fell asleep after eating. Zhou Ji checked his condition and 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 so good. There were no smiles on the faces of those left in the valley, and some children were crying.
There were men and women among the dead, and most of them already had children. These children were their children.
Life in the primitive society was much better than at the end of the world, but it was still full of danger.
"Wait." Someone stopped Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji turned his head and saw that it was the captain of the salt exchange team, Xiong Qi.
Xiong Qi's beast form was a white bear.
The white bear was very big, actually bigger than many brown bears. However, Xiong Ye's beast form was a Kodiak Island brown bear. When he grew up, he could be even bigger than a white bear.
But at this stage, Xiong Ye was not as big as Xiong Qi, and his combat strength was definitely weaker than Xiong Qi.
Xiong Qi was more than ten years older than Xiong Ye, and his ten years of combat experience was not fake.
Zhou Ji stood still and looked at him.
Xiong Qi asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Zhou Ji, Zhou." Zhou Ji said.
"So you are Zhou. So this is what you look like." Xiong Qi asked again, "The priest said that Niu Er woke up. Is he okay?"
Zhou Ji said, "He's fine."
Xiong Qi did not have much contact with Zhou Ji. At this point, he had nothing else to say. He waved at Zhou Ji and left.
Zhou Ji went outside, but he did not go to the gathering team. Instead, he went in another direction.
He wanted to collect some different plants.
While Zhou Ji was collecting plants, Xiong Ye was catching fish.
After the weather warmed up, the fish in the river became active, and the fish began to have fat roe in their stomachs … Xiong Ye caught four fish in one go, killed them by the river, removed the scales, and washed them clean before bringing them back.
In the past, when he ate grilled fish, he didn't scale it. But last time, when Zhou Ji made fish soup, he did scale it … It was indeed much more delicious.
Xiong Ye took the fish back to the tribe and climbed to his cave. He wanted to tell Zhou Ji that he had brought the fish back, but when he got to the cave, he found that Zhou Ji was not there. Only Niu Er was sleeping by the fire, covered with an animal skin.
Xiong Ye felt a little disappointed.
He hung the fish in the cave and went to the bottom of the col. There, he saw the priest and his three disciples setting up piles of firewood in the col.
Many people from the salt exchange team had died, so the priest had to recite the funeral rites for them so that they could go to heaven, to the embrace of the Beast Deity.
As for the warriors of the tribe, after they died in battle, they would become the guards of the Beast Deity. They could also protect the tribe from the sky.
Xiong Ye silently began to help.
"Xiong Ye, do you really not want to be a priest?" the priest asked Xiong Ye.
"Grandpa Priest, I want to be the strongest warrior," Xiong Ye said. Although it was good to be a priest, the tribe needed warriors.
"The Beast Deity will protect you," the priest said.
That day, the hunting team came back very late. They didn't get much, but it was still okay.
After returning, Xiong He didn't immediately start dividing the prey — the funeral was about to begin.
If the bodies of the warriors could be brought back, after the funeral rites were read, the people of the tribe would bury them next to the tribe and let them guard the tribe. But this time, they didn't come back, so there was no need for that.
Before the funeral, Zhou Ji returned to the tribe and saw what the funeral was all about. It looked … a bit like dancing.
The old shaman danced beside the bonfire and threw some plant powder into the fire. When the fire burned brightly, he began to mumble some incantations …
It was said that this could communicate with the gods. It was said that the Beast Deity could hear it, but when Zhou Ji used his spiritual power to feel it, he didn't find anything strange.
After the funeral, Xiong He distributed the meat that the hunting team had hunted and the salt that the salt-trading team had brought back to the tribe.
Today, everyone still didn't get much meat and salt, but after the funeral, the atmosphere was a little better.
The things that the salt trading team used to trade for salt were the things that the tribe had saved up for the previous year. There were animal hides, horns of horned dragons, food gathered near the tribe, and stone knives made by the people in the tribe. There were also the game that the salt trading team had caught along the way.
After the salt was traded, it belonged to the whole tribe. Then, Xiong He would distribute it according to the situation of each person in the tribe.
Generally speaking, the warriors would get more, and the old and the weak would get less.
In addition, some people in the tribe would also take out some of their personal belongings and ask the salt-trading team to help them exchange salt.
The salt-trading team set off more than a month ago. At that time, Zhou Ji still couldn't understand the language of this world, so he naturally didn't ask the salt-trading team to help him exchange salt. However, Xiong Ye took out a lot of things and asked the salt-trading team to help him exchange salt.
At that time, he had already established a relationship with Lion Li, so he was afraid that there wouldn't be enough salt — although he and Lion Li could get a lot of salt, Yang Ying and Yang Su couldn't get much!
Now, the salt-trading team got very little salt, so Xiong Ye asked the salt-trading team to exchange salt for less salt. But with the tribe's share, it was enough for Xiong Ye.
But it wasn't enough for the others.
"After a few months, we'll go exchange salt again …" Xiong He told them his plan.
Everyone in the tribe listened very seriously, even Zhou Ji. Only Lion Li was a little impatient.
No matter what Xiong He said now, it was meaningless. In a little more than a month, Zhou Ji's father would come to the tribe and take Zhou Ji away. Then, a few days later, Xiong He would die in the attack of the carnivorous dinosaurs.
No, that might not be the case …
Lion Li looked at the weak Niu Er beside Xiong Ye — something had changed, Niu Er was not dead!
While Lion Li was paying attention to Xiong Ye, someone was also paying attention to Lion Li.
The person who was paying attention to Lion Li was the captain of the salt-trading team, Xiong Qi.
Xiong Qi was already in his thirties and had children, but this didn't affect his love for Wolf Sound. Before leaving the tribe, Xiong Qi had been pursuing Wolf Sound and had given her a lot of things.
In the end, when he came back from the tribe, Wolf Sound was actually with someone else!
When he came back yesterday, Xiong Qi was injured. At that time, there were a lot of people, so he didn't have time to care about it. But now … he smelled Lion Li's scent on Wolf Sound.
Xiong Qi was in a very bad mood and didn't like Lion Li at all. When he found out that Lion Li was with Wolf Sound and still kept looking at Xiong Ye, he became even angrier.
If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, Xiong Qi would have fought with Lion Li.
After the tribal gathering ended, some people stayed in the col to barbecue, while others returned to their caves.
Xiong Ye carried Niu Er back to the cave and gave the fish to Zhou Ji. "This is the fish I caught. Cook it and eat it."
"Thank you." Zhou Ji didn't refuse. He cooked the fish soup in the stone pot and added some mushrooms he had picked today.
He didn't finish it and only ate about a third of it, leaving the rest for Xiong Ye and Niu Er.
"How is it enough for you to eat so little?" Xiong Ye was a little worried.
"I don't need to hunt, so I don't consume much energy," Zhou Ji said.
Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji and was relieved to make sure that Zhou Ji was fine.
For the next few days, the people in the tribe lived as usual.
Niu Er recovered very quickly. After a few days, he recovered, which made Xiong Ye very happy. He began to participate in 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 Xiong Ye.
On this day, Zhou Ji cooked another big pot of vegetable soup and gave a bowl to Xiong Ye.
"We don't lack meat …" Xiong Ye held the big bowl of vegetables and felt a little conflicted.
The vegetable soup that Zhou Ji cooked tasted good, so he could eat it, but he really didn't like vegetables. He didn't like the taste of grass.
"It's good for your health to eat a little," Zhou Ji said. The Orcs in this world would turn into all kinds of beasts. Some of these beasts ate meat and some ate grass, but he had studied them and found that they were omnivores like humans.
Their digestive system was very good, so they could eat meat all the time. But if they wanted to be healthy, it was best to eat some vegetables.
What's more, the vegetables he gave Xiong Ye were not ordinary vegetables. They were all selected by him and contained a lot of energy. This kind of vegetables would only be good for Xiong Ye.
Xiong Ye wanted to refuse, but when he thought that Zhou Ji had also drunk the vegetable soup and didn't eat meat, he was embarrassed to refuse.
Zhou Ji didn't like to take advantage of others, so he was not willing to accept the things he gave him. But if he ate the things Zhou Ji gave him …
Xiong Ye finished the vegetable soup and gave Zhou Ji a few frogs that he had caught.
Compared to dinosaur meat, Zhou Ji seemed to like them more. Most importantly, after eating a lot of them … he also felt that they were delicious.
After drinking the vegetable soup with meat added for the sick, Niu Er thought to himself, Xiong Ye is so good to me! He's actually eating vegetables and giving me meat!
Zhou Ji really liked eating small things like fish and prawns. After all, they were fresh and delicious. The frogs that Xiong Ye gave him were freshly killed, so he threw them into the pot to cook.
While they were cooking, the roars of a bear and a lion suddenly came from below.
Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye looked at each other in surprise and looked down together.
Then, Zhou Ji saw a lion and a … polar bear fighting.
He knew that Xiong Qi's beast form was a white bear. So the so-called white bear was a polar bear …
The largest land carnivore on Earth was the bear, and the largest among the bears were the brown bear and polar bear on Kodiak Island. An adult polar bear could weigh up to 800 kilograms before winter. Not only that, it was also very agile. Whether it was on land or in the water, its combat power was very strong.
Seeing that the fight had started below, Zhou Ji's first reaction was that Lion Li was going to get beaten up.
Although Xiong Qi's injuries had not healed, he felt that Lion Li would not be able to defeat Xiong Qi.
He had a very bad impression of Lion Li and was looking forward to Lion Li getting beaten up.
However, the development of things was different from what Zhou Ji had imagined.
When he looked at the two people below, he habitually released his mental power and then realized that … Lion Li was actually using the energy in the air.
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