Chapter 37 - Awakening (1/2)
Ch37 - Awakening
Zhou Ji didn’t believe in the Beast God, and after the Beast God Sacrifice this time, he was even less likely to believe in such a thing.
However, the tribespeople believed, as did Xiong Ye.
Xiong Ye believed in the Beast God and thought that the Beast God was real, yet he still said that he was willing to give up half of his life for him during the Beast God Sacrifice…
Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye and smiled.
When the apocalypse had just hit during his previous life, he had still been a university student. He was good at learning and had begun his education from a young age, so his heart had been full of all kinds of grand, brilliant ideas.
At the time, he had felt that everyone would unite and fight together against such natural disasters.
Then, reality had fiercely slapped him across his face.
His plant abilities had awakened very early on. At that time, the environmental pollution hadn’t been very serious, and all the plants that he had produced were edible. He had also tried his best and put all his efforts into producing plants for everyone to eat, exhausting his energy every day.
And then, not only was he caught and sold, he was also locked up and forced to grow plants every day.
The one who betrayed him was his fellow female classmate from elementary school who had ‘liked’ him together with his good friends.
In fact, there were many touching events that took place during the end of the world. There were many people who had given up their own lives in order to ensure that others could live on, but he hadn’t encountered any of that.
Nor did he have any such thoughts.
What he saw more of was humanity’s base nature at the critical moment between life and death.
After all, the apocalypse was the genuine end of the world, and human beings had almost gone extinct by the very end.
He had never thought back then that he would still have a chance to live leisurely and even get married until he transmigrated into this world.
During the first month and a half after he transmigrated, he hadn’t been the least bit interested in integrating into this tribe at all. Yet, on a certain day, Xiong Ye had suddenly given him a piece of Lesothosaurus meat, Shi Li suddenly broke off his engagement, and Xiong Ye’s original life trajectory turned a corner, causing his own life’s trajectory to also shift and change.
He liked this kind of unexpected occurrence.
Xiong Ye was still thanking the Beast God, and his words were extraordinarily simple, “Beast God, thank you! I’ll definitely find you the best offerings in the future!”
Zhou Ji: “……” The Beast God doesn’t even exist. If he was going to put in the work, Xiong Yemight as well find him something to eat instead…
Although Zhou Ji had those thoughts, he didn’t say them out loud. Instead, he prayed piously just like the people around them.
He previously had always felt that Xiong Ye had chosen him in order to make Shi Li angry. Now, it seemed that it hadn’t been like that. Since that was the case, he would treat Xiong Ye even better in the future.
He wouldn’t make the same mistakes as Shi Li.
Since there was someone who treated him with a sincere heart, he would never hurt the other party no matter what. He would only try his best to protect this heart and this person.
He wanted Xiong Ye to treat him like this for the rest of their lives.
The people of the tribe prayed for a long time, but eventually, everyone had trouble kneeling any longer. At this point, the priest, who was still dressed in a robe that was made up of pieces of dinosaur leather in various different colors, spoke up, “The Beast God Sacrifice is over. In the new year, the Beast God will bless our tribe and ensure that we will live better and better!”
“Better and better! Better and better!” The people in the tribe stood up and looked excited.
Everyone believed this. It was particularly true for the elderly in the tribe.
After all, the people of the Big Bear Tribe really hadn’t lived that well before.
It had been the previous priest who led them to worship the Beast God and taught them a lot of knowledge so that their lives could finally improve and become better. They now had four hundred people in their tribe!
It was four hundred right? When the priest had taught them to count back then, they hadn’t understood very well… Either way, they had a lot of people!
Not only did they have more people, there were now fewer accidental deaths. Although many people from the salt team had been killed not long ago, this number wasn’t as much compared to the past. Those members of the tribe had merely met with unexpected misfortune.
Life would definitely get better and better in the future.
The Beast God would bless them.
“After participating in the Beast God Sacrifice, my wound has stopped hurting!”
“Me too!”
“My injured leg used to be very sore and uncomfortable, but it doesn’t feel too bad now.”
“I feel particularly energetic!”
……
Each and every person in the tribe felt happy.
In fact, they had also felt the same way in past years, but that had been mainly due to psychological effects. However, this year…
Zhou Ji knew that those energies were indeed good for them.
Therefore, their bodies feeling better was real, and wasn’t an imaginary feeling at all.
With that in mind, Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye, “Do you feel any different?”
Xiong Ye replied, “I’m hungry.” He hadn’t eaten anything ever since Zhou Ji had suddenly fallen ill. He was really hungry!
Zhou Ji: “……”
Zhou Ji reached out and touched Xiong Ye’s head. Xiong Ye had been right beside him earlier and should have received the greatest benefit, but if Xiong Ye hadn’t felt anything, that was fine too.
Xiong Ye felt his head being touched and frowned.
He didn’t like being touched on the head as though he was a child…
However… Seeing that Zhou Ji was looking at him with such a gentle gaze, Xiong Ye then felt that it wasn’t a big deal to be petted like this.
His mate had just been seriously ill. He should spoil him a little.
Xiong Ye was happy again when he thought of this, “Zhou Ji, there will be good food later. Let’s go eat!” The prey that they caught yesterday would be taken out and shared with everyone today. Everyone would be able to eat their fill!
“Alright.” Zhou Ji nodded. There was still a portion of energy within his body that he hadn’t finished absorbing, and he wasn’t hungry at all, but he wouldn’t mind watching Xiong Ye eat.
While the people in the tribe were happy, Shi Li was watching the entire scene with cold eyes.
The forest they lived in now was considered the wild forest. Many tribes in the wild forest didn’t even have priests.
Although their tribe had a priest, he had never trained at the Beast God Temple and obtained the recognition of the Beast God. Rather, he was a priest who had learned everything on his own haphazardly from the previous priest.
A stretch of forest like this wasn’t favored by the Beast God at all.
A tribe like this was even less likely to be present in the Beast God’s eyes.
Therefore, the tribe wouldn’t have a smooth road ahead in the upcoming year. Instead, they would encounter many crises.
Of course, it would be different for him. He was someone who was favored by the Beast God, and he couldn’t be considered the same as everyone else.
When Shi Li thought like this, he secretly had a feeling of standing high up above the masses.
Just now, when he had participated in the Beast God Sacrifice, the amount of energy he had in his body had grown by a lot. He had originally thought that he would have to cultivate for at least a year before he could become a low level Beast Warrior, but now it seemed that it wouldn’t take that long!
With that in mind, Shi Li looked at the people in the tribe with disdain once again.
The people of this tribe would simply never know how vast the world outside was.
Outside of this wild forest, each tribe had priests, and the people in those tribes knew how to grow plants and how to make exquisite utensils. They would also divide beastmen according to strength, or rather, they would divide them based on the color of the crystal core in their bodies.
Ordinary beastmen were those who had colorless crystal cores. Their strength was usually divided based on the shapes their animal forms took, and they were considered to be the lowest level.