Chapter 12 - Invitation (1/2)

Ch12 - Invitation

The tribe’s collective hunts took place every other day, so there was no group hunt today. As the tribal chief, Xiong He began to take this opportunity to deal with some administrative matters within the tribe.

For example, reassigning caves.

Some people had decided to live together, so the extra caves could be given to others to live in, and there were some people who had reached adulthood and needed to be assigned new caves.

Over the years, the population of the Big Bear Tribe had been growing constantly. Although they dug out new caves every year, there still wasn’t enough for them all to live in individually. Because of this, those who couldn’t participate in the hunts were never given a cave of their own.

And when they talked about those who couldn’t participate in hunts, they really meant Zhou Ji.

After Zhou’s mother died, Xiong He had never taken back the cave that had been allocated to his mother out of sympathy. However, it had already been two months.

People like Zhou Ji who couldn’t take part in the hunts should live in the collective cave.

The people of the Big Bear Tribe went to bed early and woke up early, so Xiong He came to find Zhou Ji just after daybreak to tell him about this matter.

Zhou Ji: “……” He hadn’t known that the tribe had a rule like this…

“Zhou Ji, can you understand what I’m saying?” Xiong He was a little concerned as he asked Zhou Ji this. Zhou Ji had been a fool from childhood, and he was worried that Zhou Ji hadn’t understood his words.

Zhou Ji nodded. Although he hadn’t fully learned the language of this tribe because he rarely associated with other people, he was still able to understand what Xiong He was saying.

After working so hard for so many years in a post-apocalyptic world, he hadn’t really wanted to do much after arriving in this world, so his performance had always been very passive.

As for killing dinosaurs…Dinosaurs were so cute, why did he have to kill them?! Okay, fine. Dinosaurs weren’t actually cute. He was simply sick of cutting apart zombies, and not only did he not want to take action, he was also unable to do so.

However, he hadn’t expected that he would lose his own cave because of this.

“You’ll be moving to the cave below, and someone will take care of you.” Xiong He continued. The cave where the tribe’s elderly, weak, sick, and disabled lived was just under Zhou Ji’s cave.

In his opinion, it wasn’t a bad thing for Zhou Ji to go and live there. After all, Zhou Ji looked like he needed to be taken care of.

Zhou Ji’s brow furrowed slightly. It wasn’t possible for him to live with others. During the end of the world, he had slaughtered zombies constantly, remaining alert at all times, and couldn’t sleep at all if there was anyone near him. Also… the cave where the people of the tribe lived together was too dirty.

He had been dirty for so many years after the apocalypse that he really wanted to stay clean now!

“Zhou Ji, can you move out today?” Xiong He asked again.

Zhou Ji replied, “Yes.” Although he didn’t want to live with other people, he also felt bad about staying here and occupying a cave by himself. Really, he could sleep in the place the tribe used to store firewood, or if that didn’t work, he could build himself a shed to sleep in.

Seeing that Zhou Ji had agreed, Xiong He asked the idle children around the tribe to help Zhou Ji move his things.

There were many things in Zhou Ji’s cave, and they were all things that Zhou Ji’s mother had left for him. These things were brought out from the cave one by one and placed on the floor of the valley.

“These things all belong to Zhou Ji, you guys shouldn’t mess around!” Xiong He called out to restrain one of the children who was going through Zhou Ji’s things and felt a bit worried-Zhou Ji had quite a lot of things, and he was also a little silly. Would these things get snatched away by others after he moved into the collective cave?

Although robbery was forbidden in the tribe, it was impossible that a rule would keep everyone in check.

Even as Xiong He was worrying, other people from the tribe were full of envy, “There are so many animal hides!”

“There are weapons and salt too!”

“There’s so many stone bowls!”

“Zhou Ji’s mother left behind a lot of good things for him…”

……

The ordinary people in the tribe were full of envy when they saw Zhou Ji’s belongings. Needless to say, it was the same for Yang Ying and Yang Su.

When Yang Ying came to the tribe, she didn’t have any possessions. Although she had saved up some things in recent years, there was still very little. At the very least, she only had a few animal hides that could be used-the majority of her supplies was dinosaur leather, which couldn’t be used at all.

At this moment, Yang Ying’s eyes were red with greed, and Yang Su’s expression was also very ugly.

And it was also at this time that Xiong Ye got out of bed.

Xiong Ye habitually woke up early, but he had slept in today.

The meat that Zhou Ji had given him yesterday had been extremely delicious; it was particularly fragrant and tasted a little sweet. He had never eaten something so good, so even though he had clearly already eaten ten kilograms of meat last night, he still managed to finish all of Zhou Ji’s meat.

Then, presumably because he was very full, he slept especially well and only woke up after the sky turned bright.

He came out of his cave and saw Zhou Ji standing in the middle of a pile of belongings at a glance.

The animal skins on Zhou Ji’s body were wrapped up severely as usual, his hair had been cut short, and his face and hands were particularly clean. He didn’t have any stubble on his face at all and looked very tender…

Xiong Ye hadn’t paid much attention to Zhou Ji before, but now that he was looking closely at him in the morning light, he finally discovered that Zhou Ji was very attractive, even more so than Shi Li-Shi Li wasn’t as pale as Zhou Ji!

He was also very tall and in good shape… This wasn’t surprising. Zhou Ji’s mother had been so good to him and had never let him starve, so he would naturally grow to be tall.

However, although Zhou Ji was good looking, Xiong Ye’s attention was soon drawn away from Zhou Ji’s body-He had noticed Shi Li.

Shi Li and Lang Yin were standing together, and Lang Yin’s scent was on his body.

The two of them had really spent the night together yesterday.