Chapter 93.1 - Giant Salamander (1/2)

Ch93.1 - Giant Salamander

Ma Xiao listened to these people’s curses, and his smile had already frozen on his face.

Their Giant Tiger Tribe was so powerful, but they were still being cursed like this by these people…

He would definitely kill all these people!

However, he only thought that in his heart. On the surface, he still needed to keep a conversation flowing with these people.

Xiong Ye was lying on the hay, finding this scene a little hilarious as he watched it.

He didn’t interrupt, and most of the people of the tribe didn’t interrupt either. In order to avoid being exposed, some of the people present didn’t even know that Ma Xiao was from the Giant Tiger Tribe-the priest had only told them that they couldn’t let anyone else know that the Big Bear Tribe was doing well.

They also didn’t want other people to know that the Big Bear Tribe had become rich in resources.

The cold winter with its shortage of food was coming soon. Many tribes had a very difficult time making it through the winter; if these people learned that the Big Bear Tribe had an abundance of resources, they might run over to join the Big Bear Tribe and try to get their share of food!

They didn’t want to have to share their food!

So, these people remained silent as they listened to the priest and the others curse the Giant Tiger Tribe.

After a period of cursing, it was time for dinner. Xiong He began to distribute food for the meal.

He had specifically had someone pull out all the smallest earth eggs, and what was distributed was precisely that. Additionally, they also distributed some of the plants they had gathered.

“Our tribe goes hunting every other day. Today wasn’t a hunting day, so…” Xiong He gave Ma Xiao an embarrassed look, then gave him some earth eggs that had already gone bad from being left for too long along with a piece of rotting salted meat.

This salted meat came from his stores.

Before, when the tribe was short on salt, he had tried to cure meat with less salt. That meat had gone bad, but he had originally planned to eat it anyway even if it had spoiled. However, Zhou Ji had then come up with the method to make smoked meat, and then tribe had picked up a lot of meat and were no longer short on meat…

He had placed that piece of bad meat in the sun to dry it out, then hung it in the firewood shed, intending to save it for food in the future-the smell of this salted meat was really unappealing, and he couldn’t stand smelling it at home.

Once he set it aside, he had completely forgotten about it and only remembered it now.

The corner of Ma Xiao’s lips twitched violently when he received this piece of rotting cured meat. He hadn’t eaten such stuff in many years!

However, he was now acting as a helpless, unfortunate person who had come out to trade for salt and had had his goods stolen… Ma Xiao could only grit his teeth and choke it down.

For a moment, he even wondered if the Big Bear Tribe had seen him coming and was deliberately playing around with him, but he soon dispelled his doubts.

This was because he saw that Zhou Ji had brought over a big basket of grass for Xiong Ye to eat.

Xiong Ye was said to be the most powerful warrior of the tribe, but he could only eat grass…

Some of this grass were things he had never seen, but there were other types that he recognized and had even eaten before… In any case, they all tasted bad and didn’t look appetizing, either.

From Xiong Ye’s expression, it was clear that he certainly didn’t like to eat these things, but ate them anyway…

The Big Bear Tribe must be a very poor tribe.

Of course, in general, the poorer the tribe, the more they liked to store food for winter. However based on the Big Bear Tribe’s current situation… The food that they had stored up couldn’t consist entirely of rotting cured meat, right?

Ma Xiao felt a little disgusted.

He was thinking that just as Xiong Ye looked over and smiled at him.

Ma Xiao returned his smile and watched as Xiong Ye went back to eating grass again.

Xiong Ye felt quite depressed as he ate. After all, the taste of this grass was really bad, but it contained energy that could make him stronger… He ate it seriously, and as he ate, he suddenly thought of something, “Zhou Ji, do you want to eat some?” As he spoke, he took out a relatively better tasting plant and pushed it toward Zhou Ji’s mouth.

“It’s pointless for me to eat it.” Zhou Ji took out some other plants-these were much tastier than the ones Xiong Ye was eating.

Xiong Ye didn’t realize that they tasted different. Seeing that Zhou Ji was leaving the energy abundant grass for him, he was a little moved-Zhou Ji was too good to him!

Yet, how did Zhou Ji know that these grasses held energy? Did the Beast God tell him?

Xiong Ye puzzled over this for a while, but then he let it go.

He had discovered that Zhou Ji was fond of all kinds of plants and was very good at distinguishing between them. It should be a skill given to him by the Beast God.

Xiong Ye slowly went through his basket of grass as he ruminated over this, earning him admiring gazes from Xiong He and the priest.

The priest and Xiong He: Xiong Ye was really trying so hard！He was even eating grass so that the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe would think they were weak! And he was eating it all raw!

It hadn’t been early when Ma Xiao came to the Big Bear Tribe, and so after everyone had eaten, it was already dark.

Ma Xiao’s group of three was arranged to live in the cave that Zhu Zhan and his men had lived in before. As for Zhu Zhan and the others… They weren’t allowed to return to the tribe today because they looked too healthy and strong, and had instead been temporarily sent to live in the place where pottery was fired.

The priest had also given them the task of going out on patrol at night. They had to make sure that the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe didn’t discover the place where they were raising dinosaurs and farming crops.