Chapter 93.1 - Giant Salamander (2/2)

If they appeared very rich, the Giant Tiger Tribe might attack them due to greed, but they might also choose not to attack them out of fear.

However, if they appeared very weak, the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe would definitely come, and they wouldn’t even take them seriously!

Therefore, Zhu Zhan had to take people with him and keep watch throughout the night.

Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji didn’t need to do anything else. After eating ‘grass’, they returned to their own home. Knowing that Xiong Ye definitely hadn’t had enough to eat, Zhou Ji dug up a large piece of smoked meat and cooked it for him to eat.

Xiong Ye was injured, and his body was recovering. It wasn’t good for him to eat too little.

After that one night, Xiong Ye felt that his body was much improved. Even the energy in his body was fully restored.

Sleeping was really the best way to recover!

Only… He had clearly had enough to eat last night, but he was hungry again today. In fact, he was very, very hungry…

“Time to eat.” Zhou Ji said.

When Xiong Ye came outside, he saw that Zhou Ji had made fried wheat pancakes.

This time when Zhou Ji had made fried wheat pancakes, other than putting some chopped vegetables inside, he had also added some diced smoked meat. Because there were more ingredients, the pancakes were a little messy. Even so, it was very delicious.

Xiong Ye once again felt that this was the tastiest thing he had ever eaten.

It only took Xiong Ye two or three bites to finish one of the fried wheat pancakes that Zhou Ji had given him. He then thought of something, “Are we running short on meat?”

He had been occupied with the building of the house a few days ago and had also gone to fight against Zhu Zhan and his group. He hadn’t had enough time to spare and hadn’t done much hunting outside of the collective hunts. He had only used peppers and some other things to trade with others for some fish for Zhou Ji to eat.

As a result, they hadn’t saved up any food.

Now that they had moved in and settled down, it was time to prepare a little more food for winter-that empty room they had was just the place they could use for food storage.

“It’s not that we don’t have enough, it’s that we don’t have anything.” Zhou Ji said. They still had quite a lot of barley and earth eggs, but all of the meat had already been eaten up.

They had first moved recently, and then Xiong Ye had had to eat more because he had been injured, so they had ended up finishing everything.

“I’ll go out hunting today!” Xiong Ye said.

Zhou Ji: “……” You’re injured, what kind of hunting do you want to do?

Zhou Ji didn’t want Xiong Ye to hunt, but Xiong Ye was very insistent, “The priest and Xiong He are both in the tribe, and they don’t need me there. This injury of mine isn’t very serious…”

“I’ll go with you.” Zhou Ji said.

It was alright for Xiong Ye to go outside in his current state, but if it came to hunting… He could probably only catch small prey if it showed up right in front of him.

But he might encounter danger.

In that case, Zhou Ji might as well follow. If something happened, he could pick up Xiong Ye and run away.

“I’m hurt and might not be able to protect you.” Xiong Ye was anxious.

“Then call over a few more people.” Zhou Ji suggested.

Zhou Ji’s gaze was firm. It was obvious he was unwilling to change his mind, so Xiong Ye could only agree, “Alright…”

Xiong Ye planned to ask Zhu Zhan, but Zhou Ji suddenly asked him on the way there, “Isn’t it good if it’s just the two of us? Do you have to call over someone else?”

Xiong Ye privately also wanted to go out alone with Zhou Ji. Hearing Zhou Ji say so, he immediately gave up the idea of inviting anyone else and brought Zhou Ji with him to the river near the tribe.

If there were only him and Zhou Ji, they certainly couldn’t go and fight dinosaurs. It was a better idea to try and catch some fish and shrimp to bring back and eat. It was quite safe over here…

People often came to the riverside, and their lingering scents were quite strong. No dinosaurs would come here to drink water, but there were still some fish and shrimp swimming around in the river.

Fish and shrimp weren’t smart. Regardless of how much they caught, there would always be more that swam over. Additionally, the people of the Big Bear Tribe generally avoided eating fish and shrimp when there was sufficient food.

Xiong Ye planned to go into the water to catch fish but was stopped by Zhou Ji, “It takes a lot of energy to catch fish. Even eating all the fish that you manage to catch won’t make up for it.”

That was true… The people in the tribe liked to lay there unmoving during winter because even if they went out to hunt in the bitter weather, the prey that they caught might not necessarily make up for the amount of strength they used up during the hunt. Since that was the case, what was the point in even going out to hunt?

As for the current Xiong Ye, the fish he could work hard to catch wouldn’t even be enough to fill the gaps between his teeth. What was the point in catching them?

Zhou Ji suggested, “Shall we move on?”

Xiong Ye nodded and walked on with Zhou Ji.

While walking, Zhou Ji used his spiritual powers to keep an eye on their surroundings and check if there was any danger or food.

With this scanning, he actually managed to find something to eat.

A big salamander lurked up ahead at the bottom of the river.