chapter 16

Chapter 16: Speculation

The three of them were a little far from the tribe, and the area was quite dangerous, so they didn’t dare to linger there any longer. After Xiong Ye finished slathering his wound with mud, he did the same for the elephant bird to prevent the bloody smell from spreading before transforming back into his animal form and running back to the tribe with the elephant bird on his back.

At four to five hundred kilograms, this elephant bird weighed as much as Xiong Ye. Xiong Ye was completely exhausted from running with it on his back, but they had really gone a bit far, so he only arrived in the vicinity of the tribe two hours later.

“It’s safe here. Let’s wash up by the river and split up the elephant bird before continuing on.” Hu Yue suggested.

Xiong Ye nodded in approval–He was really having a hard time carrying the whole bird any further.

The three came to the edge of the stream and divided the elephant bird among them.

The skin, along with the fur on the outside, was given to Hu Yue who wanted to make a warm nest. As for the meat inside, Xiong Ye took four tenths of it, including a large bird leg, while Hu Yue and Xiong Bai took three tenths each.

Xiong Ye had contributed the most when they were hunting the elephant bird earlier, and he was the one who had carried it all the way back, so the internal organs also went to him.

After the three of them had split everything up, Xiong Ye carried the large bird leg with him and headed towards the valley.

His share of the elephant bird, including the internal organs, added up to about one hundred kilograms of pure meat and was enough for him to eat for twenty days.

However, he didn’t have enough salt on hand. It wouldn’t be easy to preserve that much meat... And they didn’t know when the salt team would return.

The three of them attracted a crowd of onlookers as soon as they entered the valley, and each and every member of the crowd was decidedly envious.

“Xiong Ye is so fierce. He took down some prey again!”

“So much meat!”

“Xiong Ye is hunting with Hu Yue now. He really broke up with Shi Li?”

“Speaking of Shi Li, he basically didn’t do anything at all when we went out hunting these past few days. He doesn’t seem to be as strong as everyone said...”

“Shi Li knows a lot. He’s taught us quite a bit.”

“What’s the use of just talking?”

“You should stop criticizing Shi Li. You haven’t contributed as much as he has!”

Although Shi Li had attended the recent hunts, he hadn’t contributed much, which led to complaints from some people in the tribe.

However, others didn’t think much of it–Shi Li had taught them a lot of things, and in fact, Shi Li was still very powerful.

Towards the end, everyone switched to envying Zhou Ji, “Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye are living together. Even if he’s unable to get meat to eat, there’s still the bones! His luck is really good!”

Zhou Ji heard these words as soon as he came back.

He very much agreed with them; his luck was pretty good. Xiong Ye was a good person to get along with.

However, were these people saying these things because Xiong Ye had taken down another large prey again?

Zhou Ji was carrying some plant branches on his back and some vegetables in his hands as he leisurely climbed up to Xiong Ye’s cave.

“You’re back!” Xiong Ye’s voice rang out, and then he helped take the things Zhou Ji was carrying out of his hands. “Where have you been?”

“I picked some wild vegetables nearby.” Zhou Ji replied as he climbed onto the platform in front of the cave.

And then, he was startled–He noticed an oversized chicken leg!

Even the mutated chickens during the apocalypse didn’t have such big legs. This leg really looked quite tasty...

“What is this?”Zhou Ji asked.

“This is the elephant bird that I took down. Do you want to try it?” Xiong Ye said, “This bird’s meat tastes better than dinosaur meat.”

Zhou Ji was left slightly stunned by Xiong Ye’s words. He finally said, “Thank you.” After thanking him, Zhou Ji frowned and looked closely at Xiong Ye, “You’re hurt?”

“It’s nothing. Just a small wound.” Xiong Ye said.

Xiong Ye had been in his animal form when the elephant bird scratched him with its claws, so the wound wasn’t deep. His stomach currently had a relatively long and deep cut and two slightly shallower ones beside it.

Those two shallow cuts were really nothing, but the deeper wound looked pretty dreadful. The meat inside the cut was visible, and because Xiong Ye had washed up in the river earlier, the edges of the wound were white.

Zhou Ji would already have considered a wound like this to be very serious even before the apocalypse, and after the apocalypse, it was even more critical–Zombies’ bodies were full of viruses, and a wound this big was most likely fatal!

“You think such a big wound is small?” Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye discontentedly, “I brought back some healing herbs. You can use them.”

Zhou Ji rummaged through the vegetables he had brought back as he spoke, and taking advantage of a moment when Xiong Ye wasn’t paying attention, sprouted a plant that had healing properties.

As a plant ability user, he would naturally know what kind of effect plants would have when he came into contact with them.

Of course, this herb was something he recognized only because he had seen pictures of it back on Earth.

“It’s sanqi. How did you know that it can stop bleeding? Did your mother tell you that?” Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji curiously, then added, “Give it to me, then.”

Zhou Ji gave the sanqi plant to Xiong Ye, then watched as he chewed up the plant and applied the chewed up pulp to his wound.

This process should be very painful, but from beginning to end, Xiong Ye’s expression didn’t change at all.

Xiong Ye’s hair color was similar to the fur of his animal form, a slightly darker shade of brown, and his eyes were black, his eyebrows thick.

Thick eyebrows, large eyes, wheat-colored skin. Overall, Xiong Ye was very good looking.

To the people in the tribe, his shoulders weren’t broad enough, and his body wasn’t thick enough since he had reached adulthood not long ago, but it had to be said that his figure was very much in line with Zhou Ji’s modern man aesthetic.

This was a very handsome eighteen-year-old boy.

Xiong Ye was beside him, so it wasn’t convenient for Zhou Ji to use his spiritual powers to control the vines to do chores for him, so he picked up a knife and prepared to cut up the meat.

Yet it turned out that Xiong Ye spoke up even before he could start, “I’ll cut it! How do you want it cut?” Zhou Ji’s hands didn’t have a single callus on them. He felt awkward making Zhou Ji work!

Zhou Ji saw that Xiong Ye was still able to jump around despite being injured and handed him the knife. He asked him to cut the elephant bird meat up into pieces; a portion of it was cut into large pieces, and the remainder was cut into small pieces.

The small pieces of meat were dumped into the water and boiled, while the larger pieces were sprinkled with salt. He then chopped up some of the ‘grass’ that he’d brought back and mixed it into the marinade.

Some of this ‘grass’ added flavor, while others were good for Xiong Ye. For example, there were calming herbs and plants filled with energy.

The stone pot cooked very slowly. It took a very long time before the water boiled, and then... There was a layer of foam in the pot.

Zhou Ji took out a wooden spatula and removed the foam, then let it continue to boil as he prepared to roast the meat.

While the meat was roasting, he also gave Xiong Ye the stems from several of the plants he had brought back, “You can try chewing on these.”

“Why chew?” Xiong Ye pinched the hard plant stems that Zhou Ji had given him and asked in a puzzled tone.

“It’s sweet.” Zhou Ji said. This thing was a little similar to sugarcane, but it wasn’t as thick. The juice that came out when it was chewed was very sweet.

Sweet was a flavor that the people of the Big Bear Tribe really enjoyed, but they weren’t able to taste it often–Although some fruits were sweet, those kinds of fruit were often already eaten by dinosaurs or birds before they were able to pick them.

Xiong Ye really liked sweet things, so when he heard Zhou Ji say that it was sweet, he picked one up and immediately began to chew.

It really was sweet! Xiong Ye chewed repeatedly, then swallowed the chewed up fiber pulp into his stomach.

“Spit out the pulp after you’re finished chewing.” Zhou Ji reminded him.

“Oh...” Xiong Ye replied. When he ate another one, he remembered to spit out the chewed up fibers. “This thing is so good. Where does it grow?”

“I find it occasionally, it’s relatively rare.” Zhou Ji replied.

Xiong Ye thought that it was a bit of a pity when he heard this, then continued, “Zhou Ji, you really know a lot.”

“My mother taught me.” Zhou Ji was spouting nonsense. He didn’t have any memories from the original owner of this body, but he had heard from other people’s conversations that he had had a very loving mother.

Xiong Ye didn’t doubt him. Zhou Ji’s mother had been very strong and had always spent a lot of time outside. She had even spent two years wandering around in her youth, so it was quite normal for her to recognize a lot of plants.

Didn’t Grandpa Priest recognize a lot of plants? According to Grandpa Priest, what he knew couldn’t be considered a lot–The previous priest hadn’t had time to teach everything he knew to Grandpa Priest.

However, Xiong Ye felt that Zhou Ji’s current actions weren’t very good. "You should interact with people more and give these things to people from the gathering team. They’ll definitely be willing to look out for you after that.” Zhou Ji was too unsociable, and people like that weren’t very well-liked in the tribe.

“I’m only giving it to you.” Zhou Ji said. In fact, he didn’t feel much towards this tribe and even felt that he was out of place.

The people in the tribe had taken care of him somewhat, but he had already returned the favor by sprouting up more plants in the area in thanks.

Additionally, he didn’t want to be too involved with the people in this tribe, nor did he want to destroy their way of life.

He just wanted to live quietly by himself.

Only Xiong Ye was an exception–Xiong Ye had saved him, and he should repay him for his kindness.

Zhou Ji hadn’t thought too much about it when he said these words, but Xiong Ye froze for a moment and suddenly thought of something.

In the tribe, giving food was generally done to express interest. People would give food to the people they were attracted to.

He had been very happy to give Shi Li food because he liked Shi Li.

Zhou Ji gave him things, and Zhou Ji didn’t eat the meat that he had given him, giving it back to him to eat instead. Could it be that he... liked him?

When he thought of this, he felt that Zhou Ji’s previous comment about not wanting to eat dinosaur meat because it wasn’t delicious might not be true... Back then, Zhou Ji’s mother had brought home all kinds of dinosaur meat, saying that her son’s appetite was especially good. It was impossible for her to have been lying!

And while Zhou Ji’s mother had still been alive, although Zhou Ji didn’t leave the cave often, he would still go out to sit on the stone platform near the entrance. Xiong Ye had clearly seen Zhou Ji eating meat there before.

Xiong Ye glanced at Zhou Ji and felt a little complicated. He was concerned that he might have mistaken Zhou Ji’s meaning, and he was also worried that Zhou Ji might have misunderstood him.

He had given Zhou Ji meat out of sympathy and invited Zhou Ji to live with him... He hadn’t thought about it much before, but when he considered it now, it did make it seem like he was interested in Zhou Ji.

While Xiong Ye was still caught up in his thoughts, Zhou Ji said, “There’s no more water.”

“I’ll go get water.” Xiong Ye took a stone bowl with him to get water and began to think about other matters.

He hadn’t cooked in his cave before, so he hadn’t needed to keep water inside his cave. Filling up a stone bowl with water had already been enough, but if he was going to keep cooking in the future, this stone bowl wasn’t going to be sufficient.

Should he hollow out a piece of wood and make a bucket?

But a wooden bucket would quickly become mouldy after being filled with water again and again, and the black mould looked very unpleasant...

Xiong Ye thought about it, and soon brought back some water for Zhou Ji to use.

Zhou Ji spent a lot of time boiling and roasting the meat. He was especially careful when it came to roasting the meat, coating the pieces with grease and honey repeatedly while slowly roasting them. It was quite time-consuming.

However, the meat that had been roasted like this was exceptionally delicious.

Zhou Ji had to admit that this elephant bird was the best tasting meat he’d eaten since he came to this world. It was a little tougher than chicken but was tenderer than dinosaur meat and didn’t have any strange lingering aftertaste. There was also Xiong Ye gorging himself in front of him... He ended up eating too much in a moment of carelessness.

Xiong Ye saw that Zhou Ji had eaten over five kilograms of meat in one go and was rather startled–Zhou Ji’s appetite turned out to be this big?!

Did that mean that he had always gone hungry before this?

Episodes
1 chapter 1
2 chapter 2
3 chapter 3
4 chapter 4
5 chapter 5
6 chapter 6
7 chapter 7
8 chapter 8
9 chapter 9
10 chapter 10
11 chapter 11
12 chapter 12
13 chapter 13
14 chapter 14
15 chapter 15
16 chapter 16
17 chapter 17
18 chapter 18
19 chapter 19
20 chapter 20
21 chapter 21
22 chapter 22
23 chapter 23
24 chapter 24
25 chapter 25
26 chapter 26
27 chapter 27
28 chapter 28
29 chapter 29
30 chapter 30
31 chapter 31
32 chapter 32
33 chapter 33
34 chapter 34
35 chapter 35
36 chapter 36
37 chapter 37
38 chapter 38
39 chapter 39
40 chapter 40
41 chapter 41
42 chapter 42
43 chapter 43
44 chapter 44
45 chapter 45
46 chapter 46
47 chapter 47
48 chapter 48
49 chapter 49
50 chapter 50
51 chapter 51
52 chapter 52
53 chapter 53
54 chapter 54
55 chapter 55
56 chapter 56
57 chapter 57
58 chapter 58
59 chapter 59
60 chapter 60
61 chapter 61
62 chapter 62
63 chapter 63
64 chapter 64
65 chapter 65
66 chapter 66
67 chapter 67
68 chapter 68
69 chapter 69
70 chapter 70
71 chapter 71
72 chapter 72.1
73 chapter 72.2
74 chapter 73
75 chapter 74.1
76 chapter 74.2
77 chapter 75
78 chapter 76.1
79 chapter 76.2
80 chapter 77
81 chapter 78
82 chapter 79
83 chapter 80
84 chapter 81
85 chapter 82
86 chapter 83
87 chapter 84
88 chapter 85
89 chapter 86
90 chapter 87.1
91 chapter 87.2
92 chapter 88
93 chapter 89.1
94 chapter 89.2
95 chapter 90
96 chapter 91.1
97 chapter 91.2
98 chapter 92
99 chapter 93.1
100 chapter 93.2
101 chapter 94
102 Chapter 95
103 chapter 96
104 chapter 97
105 chapter 98
106 chapter 99
107 chapter 100
108 chapter 101
109 chapter 102
110 chapter 103
111 chapter 104
112 chapter 105
113 chapter 106
114 chapter 107
115 chapter 108
116 chapter 109
117 chapter 110
118 chapter 111
119 chapter 112
120 chapter 113
121 chapter 114
122 chapter 115
123 chapter 116
124 chapter 117
125 chapter 118
126 chapter 119
127 chapter 120
128 chapter 121
129 chapter 122
130 chapter 123
131 chapter 124
132 chapter 125
133 chapter 126
134 chapter 127
135 chapter 128
136 chapter 129
137 chapter 130
138 ANNOUNCEMENT
139 chapter 131
140 chapter 132
141 chapter 133
142 chapter 134
143 chapter 135
144 chapter 136
145 chapter 137
146 chapter 138
147 chapter 139
148 chapter 140
149 chapter 141
150 chapter 142
151 chapter 143
152 chapter 144
153 chapter 145
154 chapter 146
155 chapter 147
156 chapter 148
157 chapter 149
158 chapter 150
159 chapter 151
160 chapter 152
161 chapter 153
162 chapter 154
163 chapter 155
164 chapter 156
165 chapter 157
166 chapter 158
167 chapter 159
168 chapter 160
169 chapter 161.1
170 chapter 161.2
171 chapter 162
172 chapter 163
173 chapter 164.1
174 chapter 164.2
175 chapter 165.1
176 chapter 165.2
177 chapter 166.1
178 chapter 166.2
179 chapter 167.1
180 chapter 167.2
181 chapter 168.1
182 chapter 168.2
183 chapter 169
184 chapter 170
185 chapter 171.1
186 chapter 171.2
187 chapter 172.1
188 chapter 172.2
189 chapter 173.1
190 chapter 173.2
191 chapter 174
192 chapter 175
193 chapter 176
194 chapter 177
195 chapter 178
196 chapter 179
197 chapter 180.1
198 chapter 180.2
199 chapter 181.1
200 chapter 181.2
201 Chapter 181.3 – Parallel World (End)
Episodes

Updated 201 Episodes

1
chapter 1
2
chapter 2
3
chapter 3
4
chapter 4
5
chapter 5
6
chapter 6
7
chapter 7
8
chapter 8
9
chapter 9
10
chapter 10
11
chapter 11
12
chapter 12
13
chapter 13
14
chapter 14
15
chapter 15
16
chapter 16
17
chapter 17
18
chapter 18
19
chapter 19
20
chapter 20
21
chapter 21
22
chapter 22
23
chapter 23
24
chapter 24
25
chapter 25
26
chapter 26
27
chapter 27
28
chapter 28
29
chapter 29
30
chapter 30
31
chapter 31
32
chapter 32
33
chapter 33
34
chapter 34
35
chapter 35
36
chapter 36
37
chapter 37
38
chapter 38
39
chapter 39
40
chapter 40
41
chapter 41
42
chapter 42
43
chapter 43
44
chapter 44
45
chapter 45
46
chapter 46
47
chapter 47
48
chapter 48
49
chapter 49
50
chapter 50
51
chapter 51
52
chapter 52
53
chapter 53
54
chapter 54
55
chapter 55
56
chapter 56
57
chapter 57
58
chapter 58
59
chapter 59
60
chapter 60
61
chapter 61
62
chapter 62
63
chapter 63
64
chapter 64
65
chapter 65
66
chapter 66
67
chapter 67
68
chapter 68
69
chapter 69
70
chapter 70
71
chapter 71
72
chapter 72.1
73
chapter 72.2
74
chapter 73
75
chapter 74.1
76
chapter 74.2
77
chapter 75
78
chapter 76.1
79
chapter 76.2
80
chapter 77
81
chapter 78
82
chapter 79
83
chapter 80
84
chapter 81
85
chapter 82
86
chapter 83
87
chapter 84
88
chapter 85
89
chapter 86
90
chapter 87.1
91
chapter 87.2
92
chapter 88
93
chapter 89.1
94
chapter 89.2
95
chapter 90
96
chapter 91.1
97
chapter 91.2
98
chapter 92
99
chapter 93.1
100
chapter 93.2
101
chapter 94
102
Chapter 95
103
chapter 96
104
chapter 97
105
chapter 98
106
chapter 99
107
chapter 100
108
chapter 101
109
chapter 102
110
chapter 103
111
chapter 104
112
chapter 105
113
chapter 106
114
chapter 107
115
chapter 108
116
chapter 109
117
chapter 110
118
chapter 111
119
chapter 112
120
chapter 113
121
chapter 114
122
chapter 115
123
chapter 116
124
chapter 117
125
chapter 118
126
chapter 119
127
chapter 120
128
chapter 121
129
chapter 122
130
chapter 123
131
chapter 124
132
chapter 125
133
chapter 126
134
chapter 127
135
chapter 128
136
chapter 129
137
chapter 130
138
ANNOUNCEMENT
139
chapter 131
140
chapter 132
141
chapter 133
142
chapter 134
143
chapter 135
144
chapter 136
145
chapter 137
146
chapter 138
147
chapter 139
148
chapter 140
149
chapter 141
150
chapter 142
151
chapter 143
152
chapter 144
153
chapter 145
154
chapter 146
155
chapter 147
156
chapter 148
157
chapter 149
158
chapter 150
159
chapter 151
160
chapter 152
161
chapter 153
162
chapter 154
163
chapter 155
164
chapter 156
165
chapter 157
166
chapter 158
167
chapter 159
168
chapter 160
169
chapter 161.1
170
chapter 161.2
171
chapter 162
172
chapter 163
173
chapter 164.1
174
chapter 164.2
175
chapter 165.1
176
chapter 165.2
177
chapter 166.1
178
chapter 166.2
179
chapter 167.1
180
chapter 167.2
181
chapter 168.1
182
chapter 168.2
183
chapter 169
184
chapter 170
185
chapter 171.1
186
chapter 171.2
187
chapter 172.1
188
chapter 172.2
189
chapter 173.1
190
chapter 173.2
191
chapter 174
192
chapter 175
193
chapter 176
194
chapter 177
195
chapter 178
196
chapter 179
197
chapter 180.1
198
chapter 180.2
199
chapter 181.1
200
chapter 181.2
201
Chapter 181.3 – Parallel World (End)

Download

Like this story? Download the app to keep your reading history.
Download

Bonus

New users downloading the APP can read 10 episodes for free

Receive
NovelToon
Step Into A Different WORLD!
Download MangaToon APP on App Store and Google Play