Chapter 53 - Joining the Salt Team (1/2)

Chapter 53 - Joining the Salt Team

Translator: xiinEditors: apricot & juurensha

Zhou Ji was very calm as he pointed to the earth eggs, “You guys have so much to say. If you have so much time, why don’t you dig them out and check for yourselves?”

“I already said that I saw them this morning. The earth eggs are still very small.” The gathering team head used a long stone shovel to dig up a piece of dirt while she spoke.

She accidentally cut an earth egg the size of an adult’s fist in half as she dug.

The head of the gathering team, who had just had a cold expression on her face, immediately became excited, “What a big earth egg! It’s so big!”

The people of the tribe were very fond of eating earth eggs. This kind of plant tasted good and filled the stomach, so there were people who liked them even more than meat.

For children, these earth eggs were a necessity. Children less than a year old were unable to eat too much dinosaur meat, so their mothers would generally feed them earth eggs in addition to breastfeeding.

When they were over a year old and had more teeth, children would begin to eat dinosaur meat but would still prefer to eat earth eggs.

Usually, about one third of each year’s earth egg harvest would be set aside for the tribe’s children. Another third would be used to trade for salt, and only the remaining third would be given to the adults to eat.

Earth eggs matured twice a year, and each cycle usually required about 60 days. Only the first cycle of earth eggs could be harvested, and they were typically about the size of a child’s fist.

But the earth egg they had dug up now was bigger than any earth egg they had ever managed to harvest before.

The head of the gathering team was so delighted she was about to go crazy.

Others in the tribe were equally excited, and some of the people who were very devout towards the Beast God even knelt down on the spot, “Thanks to the great Beast God!”

Even the priest was shocked at this moment. He grabbed an earth egg plant and pulled hard…

That string of earth eggs broke, but several earth eggs of varying sizes could be seen in the dirt, the largest of which was even larger than the one the head of the gathering team had just split apart.

The priest’s hand trembled as he directly knelt down where he stood. “Thanks to the great Beast God!”

When the priest knelt down, other than Zhou Ji, everyone else in the tribe also knelt down. The priest looked towards Zhou Ji, “Kneel quickly.”

Zhou Ji: “……”

Zhou Ji said, “The Beast God also told me something else.”

Zhou Ji had always been helping to increase the harvest of the plants around the tribe.

He lived in this tribe, and although he wouldn’t take the initiative to make more work for himself, he would help out where he could. Only, he had been afraid that the people of the tribe would find out that something was wrong, so he didn’t dare to do too much.

However, recently he had even managed to perform a ‘miracle from the Beast God’ right in front of the priest, so it seemed that it would be alright to do some other things as well.

Of course, there was a reason why he had chosen to do this today.

The priest was now convinced that Zhou Ji’s words were the truth. He felt that Zhou Ji was indeed beloved by the Beast God. “What else did the Beast God say?”

“The Beast God told me to go out with the salt team and find some types of edible plants.” Zhou Ji said.

Thanks to his previous frenzy, the majority of the dinosaurs that had lived near the tribe had already run away.

Recently, the people of the tribe had brought a lot of meat back. Not only had they not noticed this matter, there was also no shortage of food for the time being. However, Zhou Ji knew that this would become a problem sooner or later.

However, he hadn’t minded too much.

On Earth, although human beings had originally survived by hunting, they had mostly relied on farming in order to thrive. They had also grazed herds and so on.

After all, the uncertainty involved in hunting was too high. Although farming and raising herds were also somewhat dependent on luck and weather, they were both already much more reliable than hunting.

And he didn’t mind improving the tribe’s agricultural abilities so that the people of the tribe would have enough to eat.

However, Xiong Ye suddenly wanted to go and trade for salt.

So many people in the salt team had died last time. What about this time? Would something happen to Xiong Ye?

Although he couldn’t fight, when it came down to it, he still had his spiritual powers. If he was there, the salt team would definitely be a bit safer.

Since Xiong Ye insisted on going, he needed to go too.

Zhou Ji continued, “The Beast God showed me a few types of plants. He said that as long as I went out with the salt team, I would be able to find those plants and make it so that the people of the tribe wouldn’t have to go hungry anymore.”

Zhou Ji’s face was expressionless when he spoke. It was precisely because of this that he gave off a sense of mystery to others.

Those present believed his words almost immediately. It was the same even for the priest.

If Zhou Ji had said these words to the priest right off the bat, the priest would have thought that he had made things up in order to join the salt team. Now, however… so many earth eggs in the ground had matured!

This was definitely the will of the Beast God!

As for why the Beast God would choose Zhou Ji to convey his will… How unique was Zhou Ji? In their tribe, Zhou Ji was the only one without an animal form.

“Thank the Beast God!” The priest said again, bowing his head and kowtowing in worship.

The people of the gathering team followed suit one after another.

Zhou Ji: “……” Did this mean he could join the salt team?

Of course Zhou Ji could join the salt team.

After the priest finished kneeling, he immediately told the gathering team to dig out the earth eggs. He then said to Zhou Ji, “It will be tough on you. You actually need to go out with the salt team…”

How could life outside be better than it was inside the tribe? Not only would Zhou Ji encounter danger when he went out with the salt trade team, life definitely wouldn’t be easy.

“This is the will of the Beast God.” Zhou Ji said.

“Yes, this is the will of the Beast God!” The priest agreed, his face full of excitement. “With the Beast God watching over you, you will be alright!” He had originally been worried that something might happen to the salt team, but now that the Beast God was even appearing in Zhou Ji’s dreams, the salt team would definitely be safe, right?

The priest felt full of confidence about the next salt exchange trip, and the gathering team head had also come over to talk to Zhou Ji, “Zhou Ji, I blamed you wrongly before. I’m sorry.”

Zhou Ji was beloved by the Beast God, which left the head of the gathering team in a bit of a panic as she started to think back and recall whether or not she had ever offended Zhou Ji.

She really had…

“It’s alright.” Zhou Ji replied. He could understand this person’s approach and didn’t care about it at all.

He didn’t care about the vast majority of things pertaining to this world.