Chapter 55 - Setting Out (1/2)
Chapter 55 - Setting Out
Translator: xiinEditors: apricot & juurensha
Zhou Ji wasn’t making rope. In fact, he was making clothes.
Clothing made from dinosaur leather didn’t feel comfortable to him, and he had now given himself the status as the Beast God’s spokesperson, so he naturally needed to wear better clothes. In any case, he didn’t want to wear anything like the animal hide robe the priest wore.
He had been inspired by the clothing Xiang Tian had worn, so he decided to make himself a similar set of coarse linen clothing.
However, he had been unable to find hemp around the tribe, so he had to pick a substitute––the vines he had previously used to sew together his clothing with.
After the skin of this vine was peeled off, white fiber strips would remain.
These fibers were about the length of toothpicks. They weren’t very soft, but they were durable and could be used like wool to make clothing. It was just a little troublesome…
Zhou Ji lay there on a spread of large leaves, drowsily… weaving a shirt.
He had never learned how to make a shirt before, but it wasn’t that difficult. He held the vine, used his spiritual powers to give it a try, and soon figured out a weaving method. He then slowly began to ponder on how to create clothing.
He was a spiritual ability powerhouse. It couldn’t be that hard for him to figure out how to weave clothing.
After he learned how… Zhou Ji considered trying to weave the wool and making sweaters out of animal fur.
Of course, Xiong Ye’s fur was probably only suitable for blankets… The vast majority of his fur was too stiff.
While Zhou Ji was still concentrating on how to weave clothing, Xiong Ye had left the tribe and gone out to hunt.
Their tribe had picked up a lot of meat a few days ago, and everyone had eaten a lot, but Zhou Ji didn’t eat meat.
Although they had also recently acquired earth eggs to eat, Xiong Ye felt that people should still eat some meat in order to build up their strength.
Also.. He couldn’t tell Zhou Ji about what had happened the previous night. Xiong Ye felt a little guilty and wanted to treat him a little better.
Everyone in the tribe had things to do, so he had gone out alone since he didn’t plan to go far and wouldn’t encounter any danger.
But when he went out, he could feel that something was wrong.
It was too quiet around the tribe…
Before, when he left the tribe, even if he was unable to immediately find prey, he could still smell the dinosaurs in the area. Today, however, he couldn’t scent anything.
It seemed that there weren’t any dinosaurs in the area…
Xiong Ye’s expression changed when he became aware of this point.
The various tribes in this forest lived very far apart because there might not be enough prey for them to eat if they were too close together.
The number of people in the tribe had slowly grown more and more. In fact, they had already had problems finding enough prey before,and had gone out further and further to hunt… Now, there weren’t any dinosaurs left around their tribe!
Xiong Ye frowned as he walked on. He finally found two dinosaur nests that contained around seven or eight dinosaur eggs, but the mother dinosaur wasn’t there. It was unknown if it had been killed by the mystery man or had run away––it was said that when the mystery man had uprooted the trees on the mountain, all the dinosaurs, birds, snakes, and other animals near the tribe had all fled as fast as they could.
Could all the dinosaurs around the tribe have completely run away?
Xiong Ye wrapped the seven or eight dinosaur eggs in leaves and bundled them together with vines to bring them back to the tribe.
When he returned, he first went back to their cave and put away most of the eggs before bringing one to give to the priest.
Zhou Ji was overseeing the planting outside while the priest remained in the tribe. When Xiong Ye came by, he was busy counting how much smoked meat and earth eggs the tribe had.
“This matter…” The priest began, “Xiong He already spoke to me about it. I was originally worried about it, but I’m not worried anymore.”
“Grandpa Priest?”
“Although the dinosaurs have now fled, as long as there are enough plants here, they will return later on. Moreover, we now have smoked meat and earth eggs, and the tribe isn’t short on food!” The priest said, “Thank the Beast God for giving us so many earth eggs! The tribe will definitely be alright this time!”
Dinosaurs could run away, but they would come back. The priest was optimistic about this. What’s more, the Beast God knew that their tribe would encounter a crisis and had therefore given them so many earth eggs, so he certainly wouldn’t let them encounter a disaster!
Xiong Ye looked at the food in the warehouse and also felt that he didn’t need to worry too much about it.
There was so much food to eat. It should be able to last for a long time, right?
Xiong He put aside his worries and went to find Xiong He.
Xiong He had already packed up many things that could be traded for salt. The best items for trade would have been the animal hides and insect shells that couldn’t be eaten, but unfortunately, not only had many of the hides been damaged, but the arthropleura shells had also been broken.
“That powerful Lord’s destructive power is too shocking!” Xiong He said.
“He’s really impressive!” Xiong Ye said.
Others from the tribe heard his words and spoke up too. “Indeed, that person too powerful.”
“I wonder where he went.”
“Why didn’t he come to our tribe? Our tribe is so good…”
……
These people only managed to say a few things before they were stopped by Xiong He, “Don’t talk about that Lord. If he becomes unhappy, you’ll all lose your lives!”
The tribespeople no longer dared to say anything anymore.
Xiong Ye spoke up, “That Lord probably doesn’t have the time to care about such things.”
Xiong Ye still found it a little incredible even now. He found it difficult to believe that that powerhouse would actually looked upon him favorably.
That man hadn’t told him anything last night, and he hadn’t dared to ask, so his mind still whirled with confusion. He still didn’t understand why that person would be willing to teach him.
However, even if that was the case, he was very certain about one thing, which was that he must firmly grasp this opportunity!
“Xiong Ye, you don’t even know that Lord.” Xiong He said to Xiong Ye.
Xiong Ye rubbed his nose and no longer spoke.
That evening, the entire tribe gathered together to eat smoked meat and boiled earth eggs.
Xiong He also didn’t divide up any raw meat for the tribe. Instead, he split the cooked meal amongst everyone.
Zhou Ji never took his share of food from the tribe before, and the tribespeople had been happy that he didn’t, but he was now someone who was beloved by the Beast God and his situation had changed.. Xiong He gave him a big portion of food in a bowl that was larger than the modern frying pan.
Zhou Ji gave it all to Xiong Ye. He felt that this smoked meat and boiled earth eggs weren’t as tasty as simple roasted earth eggs.