Chapter 41 - Investigating (2/2)

Of course, it was also likely that he felt this way because he hadn’t eaten anything good for a while…

Zhou Ji divided the pot of fish soup into two bowls. He saved half of it for himself, then gave half of it to Xiong Ye.

He was used to picking out all the fish bones when eating fish. Xiong Ye was the opposite; other than the large bones, he chewed and ate everything else directly.

After the fish was divided up between them, Zhou Ji slowly began to eat.

Xiong Ye was worried that Zhou Ji wouldn’t have enough to eat and didn’t rush to start eating after Zhou Ji gave him his share. Instead, he watched Zhou Ji, and seeing how Zhou Ji was picking out even the small bones before taking a bite, he felt a stab of concern in his heart.

Zhou Ji was too weak!

Xiong Ye picked out all the boneless belly meat from his bowl and gave it to Zhou Ji. He also gave Zhou Ji the boneless snake meat. “You should eat more.”

Zhou Ji raised his head to look up at Xiong Ye, laughed, and finished all the meat that Xiong Ye had given him.

There was such a small amount of soup; it certainly wasn’t enough for Xiong Ye to eat his fill. After finishing off the delicious fish soup, he ate a piece of roasted meat.

For so long, Xiong Ye had felt that meat was the most delicious thing in the world, and he wouldn’t get tired of eating it no matter what. Now, however, when eating meat after drinking the fish soup, he felt that the taste of meat wasn’t so great…

Xiong Ye felt that it was a little wrong for him to feel this way. Making fish soup or things like this every day really took a lot of effort and used a lot of firewood.

But looking at Zhou Ji, he then felt that making Zhou Ji’s life a little better was something he should do.

Zhou Ji was his mate. He should take good care of him!

Zhou Ji had no idea what kind of image Xiong Ye had of him. After dinner, he said to Xiong Ye, “Let’s go to sleep.”

The cave that Xiong Ye lived in had gotten quite dirty after Zhou Ji had fallen ill a few days ago, but the cave where Zhou Ji usually slept was very clean.

It had originally been their wedding night last night, and they should have slept in this cave, but Xiong Ye had turned into his animal form and fallen asleep outside, and Zhou Ji also didn’t get any sleep that night…

Zhou Ji lifted up the animal hide curtain and laid down on the leather mat inside. He then beckoned to Xiong Ye, “Come quickly.”

Xiong Ye immediately went over and embraced Zhou Ji, “Zhou Ji, I want it.” As he spoke, he held Zhou Ji’s hand and brought it towards his lower abdomen.

Zhou Ji: “……” You came just this morning and now you want it again? You’re so healthy! And you really live up to your reputation as a primitive man, you’re extremely direct!

Xiong Ye was really full of energy! Zhou Ji helped him again for a while and was hugged and kissed a few times while doing so. After it was over, Xiong Ye even asked, “Do you want help?”

Zhou Ji wanted to say ‘no’, but a little devil acted up inside him, and he inexplicably ended up saying ‘yes’ in the end.

Xiong Ye didn’t act ambiguously either and directly helped him out.

……

Xiong Ye’s skills were really kind of bad. The strength of his hand was either too light, or too heavy!

Zhou Ji felt that he should give him a few more learning opportunities.

Two people being together like this was really quite nice.

After Xiong Ye fell asleep, Zhou Ji gave him some energy as usual. He also got up one step earlier than Xiong Ye as was their habit, and went to make breakfast.

He discovered that after eating that fruit, he no longer needed to sleep… That fruit had been very powerful.

Zhou Ji went to find the priest after Xiong Ye had left to go hunting.

The priest was very committed to teaching Zhou Ji, and did the best he could. He was equally dedicated and enthusiastic about extracting more knowledge from Zhou Ji.

He took Zhou Ji with him around the tribe every day, identifying all kinds of herbs and edible plants. He was unwilling to waste even a moment of free time.

Zhou Ji was tied up with the priest every day just like this and didn’t even have time to go out on his own.

After he had eaten that fruit, he wanted to go back and take a look at the pool, but the priest pestered him and stuck to him so closely that he had no time to go anywhere.

Well, it wasn’t that he had no time at all, since he could go out after Xiong Ye fell asleep every night.

However, he was too lazy to go out at night.

Zhou Ji finally refused to spend time with the priest a few days later. “I’m going to sleep today.”

“Isn’t it a waste of time to sleep on such a nice day?” The priest said, “You should come with me and learn a little more.”

Zhou Ji: “I’ve already finished learning what you know.”

The priest: “……” But I haven’t finished learning your knowledge!

Alas! Why would the Beast God give such a precious gift to someone who only wanted to eat and sleep all day?

“If you let me rest properly, perhaps I might even recall more knowledge.” Zhou Ji suggested.

“Sleep as much as you like and see if you can think of anything else.” The priest agreed immediately and went back to his own cave to sleep.

In fact, he was very tired from walking around everywhere with Zhou Ji these past few days. His old arms and legs couldn’t hold up… He might as well go back to sleep too, and then go find Zhou Ji tomorrow when he had regained his energy.

After the priest left, Zhou Ji left the tribe and immediately ran towards the forest where the mass of millipedes lived.

The forest was still the same, but one thing was different-he was now much stronger, and it was extremely easy for him to discover the millipedes hidden beneath the ground. At the same time, the journey that had originally taken several hours before was now completed in under an hour.

It had taken so long only because he had been learning how to make use of his new energy as he traveled.

The pool that Zhou Ji had discovered last time still looked the same, but a lot of flowers and plants that had been trampled during the last battle hadn’t yet grown back.

At the same time, the energy that had originally been here had thoroughly dissipated. There seemed to be even less energy here than elsewhere…

As for the millipedes… That huge millipede still lived in the stone crevice, but Zhou Ji hadn’t seen any trace of the others.

Zhou Ji had come here this time with the intention of investigating why that plant would grow here. In the end though, he hadn’t even started looking around when that huge millipede rushed out of the stone crevice and charged aggressively towards him.

Zhou Ji didn’t even think twice before turning into his animal form. He planned to send this millipede flying with one kick.

Wait a minute… Why had his animal form suddenly become so large?!