Chapter 306 - Drought Crisis (2/2)

The water level’s already subsided this much? If the waterfall stops flowing, the river in the City of Beastmen will definitely dry up. The light rainy season ended early this year, and we’ve only entered the hot season for a month. There are still two months to go. Will we be able to pull through?

For a very long period of time, Curtis loved to swim in this lake. However, he didn’t have the slightest bit of interest in doing that today. He climbed up the rocks beside the waterfall, thinking that he would go further upstream to take a look.

Curtis returned home exhausted three days later.

Parker had made many stone tools over the past few days. Most of them were relatively deeper stone buckets. Since there was still enough water in the river, they were used to make grape wine. Every time he went hunting, he paid special attention to grapes, or what was known as bubble fruits in this world. In three days, he had made four buckets of wine, one bucket of which was made from green bubble fruits.

When Curtis returned home, Bai Qingqing was using large bamboo chopsticks to stir the grape mush. She turned around in happiness when she heard a familiar hissing sound.

“You’re back!”

Bai Qingqing was then pulled into a tight hug.

Curtis’s body felt as cold as always. However, his skin felt dry, and she could seemingly feel his rough snake scales.

“I missed you so much,” Curtis said in a hoa.r.s.e voice from above. Bai Qingqing rubbed her face against his chest and said, “You must be tired. I’ll go with you to the lake to rest for a bit.”

“Okay.”

With Curtis looking after the house, Parker went to the fields to harvest rice. He returned home while carrying golden yellow crops in less than an hour. There was only a large handful of them, and they would only add up to about five and a half pounds of rice after stripping them of the grains.

Curtis and the little snakes soaked in the river in their backyard. When Bai Qingqing heard movements in the house, she ran to the door and shouted, “Parker? Quickly come to the back. We’ll peel the rice together.”

“Coming!”

Parker put down the grains by the river and sat down. He then picked up an ear of wheat and began to peel off the rice grains one by one.