“Cheeeik!” Little guy, why did you call me? Jiu Feng descended in front of Yan Mo.
Yan Mo looked up to Jiu Feng’s human face, pointing at the lake, “Please take that child to the stone house, but don’t hurt him.”
Jiu Feng tilted his head. What is the little guy saying?
Yan Mo now understood that his ability was one-way. Jiu Feng can’t understand what he’s saying.
“That kid, can you see him? That tiny little kid, the one about to drown in the lake! Bring him here, I want him!” Yan Mo used both hands and feet, trying hard to make Jiu Feng understand.
The little two-legs keep pointing at the lake, so Jiu Feng turned his head to the direction he’s pointing at.
“Keeh, keeh.” Do you want that little two-legs?
“Yes! Yes!” Yan Mo nodded in quick succession.
Jiu Feng understood this nodding movement. He had seen it multiple times before.
Weird. So two-legged monsters’ little two-legs aren’t hatched from an egg, but picked up from lakes? Alright, since his little two-legs wanted to raise an even smaller two-legs, he’ll pick it up, give it to little two-legs to play around with.
Jiu Feng reached the lake again in an instant.
The little kid was finally grabbed by Jiu Feng before he really drowned. Jiu Feng now knew how to grab the two-legged monsters without hurting them after Yan Mo corrected him multiple times.
When Jiu Feng arrived at the lakeside, the group of people prostrated in unison, no one made a sound.
They felt the wind blowing on them as the huge wings flew away, only then did they dare to look up.
They noticed that the kid was no longer in the lake. Their faces quickly become ecstatic. The old man excitedly waved his hand, and immediately some people charged to the lake with stone axes and broke off two big pieces of salt rocks in the shallow water and left.
Those people are unexpectedly not greedy… Or will they be punished by Jiu Feng if they take any more?
Yan Mo took the boy in Jiu Feng’s claws into his arms. Yan Mo flipped him and put pressure on his back first. The boy’s head faced down, but Yan Mo supported his forehead up and forced him to throw up the water he had swallowed. After a while he seemed to have puked it all out and started to groan. Yan Mo hugged him up again and felt his pulse, checked his pupils, then quickly headed to the stone house.
This kid fainted from the cold and fear, he didn’t actually swallow a lot of water. Too bad the snow around here had melted mostly, or Yan Mo can immediately use them on the boy to make him warmer and promote blood flow.
Yan Mo wanted to run faster, but he’s still a weak and sick teenager. Running while carrying a 7 years old kid, he felt fatigued just after a few minutes.
Without saying anything, Yuan Zhan snatched the kid from him and quickly ran towards the stone house.
Jiu Feng thought that these two-legged monsters are so fun to watch, he followed them running on the gourd from the sky, wanting to see what they’re going to do.
Yan Mo was at the back, panting hard trying to keep up. He understood the boy’s tribe’s actions, but he still looked down on them.
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Exchanging their own children for salt. What’s the difference between this and Yuanji tribe, who turn to eating their tribesmen during winter once they run out of food…?
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“Although this is Jiu Feng’s territory, he doesn’t hunt at night. The beasts around that usually hunt at night here are not as domineering as Jiu Feng. Naturally there are more beasts than humans in the grasslands and forests at night. Those people might be living at the border of Jiu Feng’s territory. It’s still safe to cross the land during the day, but at night……” Yuan Zhan humphed.
Yan Mo curled his lips. He had slipped up. He didn’t notice he had spoken out his inner complaints.
Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo reached the small stream, and Meng who was working with the skins saw them. When he noticed the small kid in Yuan Zhan’s arms, Meng was startled, threw away the skin he was cleaning and ran over while shouting, “Where’s the little cub from? Did you pick up another priest?”
“I’ll give it to you.” Yuan Zhan stuffed the kid into Meng’s hands.
Meng already held the boy up before he could react. “Ay? I only want priests, I don’t want not-priests.”
“You really have low standards!” Yan Mo can’t stand this idiot. He slapped Meng’s back and urged, “Hurry up! Take him into the house, if this one dies you owe me ten more.” This one was worth a hundred points!
Yan Mo turned around and instructed the other guy who’s about to slip away, “Ah Zhan, please go to the woods or under the shadows of the mountain. Look for snow that hasn’t melted, if there are, bring them back in the pot. Quickly!”
Yuan Zhan’s legs stopped its track and turned back to get the stone pot. He was planning to tail those people and check where their tribe was.
Jiu Feng saw them running towards the stone house and angrily screeched. That stone cave was too small, he couldn’t go in, the two-legged monsters also liked to play with fire in the cave. He really hates that stone cave!
He decided, he’ll smash down that stone cave!
You can’t put people who have been frozen stiff into hot water, you also can’t put them near a hot fire. The best way to treat them is to put them in warm, slightly cold water. Adjust the temperature according to the surrounding and the patient’s body temperature. The water can’t be hotter than 40.5º.
However, Yan Mo had no way of achieving that here. First, he can’t accurately check the water temperature. Secondly, it takes too much time to boil the water while there’s nothing like a blanket here that can slowly warm up the kid’s body. Those half-tanned animal skins can block out the wind, but don’t count on them to keep body warmth in.
Yan Mo can only make do with the situation. He told Meng to put the boy on the animal skin they used as the bed. He then wiped the water on the boy’s body and checked if there’s any wound. Not finding any open wounds, Yan Mo thought, he would massage the kid’s body, rub it slowly to help it warm up. Another way is to hold the kid tightly, so his body temperature can warm up his body.
At this moment, Yuan Zhan came back with a pot full of still-frozen snow he was asked to collect.
Yan Mo immediately changed his plan. He’s going to use the snow and slowly rub the boy’s hands and feet. Using snow when massaging not only can damage the skin, it might also make the skin blister. But Yan Mo had experience and was not afraid that he would hurt the boy.
There are people arguing that rubbing snow on a frozen patient is not a good treatment. From Yan Mo’s experience in north Hua, he knew that this method was commonly used by old laymen to rescue people who had fallen into an ice hole or gotten drunk in winter. It’s not backed by science, but it can be useful sometimes.
Yuan Zhan and Meng were amazed at the use of snow on the boy. Won’t that be even colder?
Yan Mo then told them about first aid for people who have frozen and things to keep in mind, and told them clearly that rubbing with snow was the very last, last resort. He told them to not use snow unless they really have no other way.
Meng stared at the teen with sparkling starry eyes.
While Yuan Zhan licked his lips and grabbed a fistful of snow from the stone pot. He took the teen’s feet and stuck the snow there, then started to rub too.
Yan Mo angrily kicked the annoying teen who started messing around, pushing him out of the way with his foot. “Go boil water! Er Meng, if you don’t have anything to do, go get mud and block all the cracks between the stones!”
“Okay, little priest-daren.” Yuan Zhan and Meng grabbed snow from the stone pot. Yuan Zhan put the snow Meng and Meng did the same to Yuan Zhan, they alternated rubbing each other. They actually started playing, no one did the work they said yes to.
Yan Mo: “……” Where’s the honest, hardworking primitive people? Now that they have enough food and good enough shelter, they stopped putting in any effort ah!!!!
The boy’s skin was now red from the massage. He whimpered, crying from pain, making Yan Mo pause his hands.
“Don’t cry anymore, this is just a normal reaction when your body is warming up, it’ll be okay after a while.” Yan Mo tired himself out when massaging. He sweated all over his body but still he didn’t ask the two shitheads on the other side to help out. He wanted to get more points deducted from this kid, and he was worried that those two didn’t know the technique to manage and would do it roughly. That would instead add injuries to the kid.
The kid cried out, “Lawa, uala.”
Yan Mo turned his head to those two overgrown boys who had made a mess of the snow in the pot, asking expressionlessly, “Can any of you understand what he’s saying?”
Yuan Zhan and Meng shook their heads.
Yuan Zhan stretched himself then crouched to sit next to Yan Mo. He easily grabbed the younger teen’s shoulder and put his icy hands on Yan Mo’s face.
“We don’t have the same language with the tribes around us. I heard priest-daren said that the language we’re using now was taught by the three cities’ messenger, but even then each tribe has their own language or have it mixed with their own language. During trade day, we often have to guess for a long time to understand what the other party is saying.” He explained.
“…Basically, the tribes that that three cities messenger had never been to, we might not be able to understand what they’re saying at all?” Yan Mo didn’t think that he’d someday feel a bit grateful to the messenger, but he still had some complaints. He was thankful that he actually went around many tribes and unified their languages, but he complained again that they stopped halfway. Since they’re going to teach the language anyway, why didn’t they teach it to every tribe in the continent?
“Where did you get that kid, really?” Seeing that the kid woke up, Meng ran over and poked the little guy’s cheek.
The little boy stared at Meng who had tattoos on his face and carried a thick smell of blood and started crying from fear.
“Er Meng!” Yan Mo had a headache, the kid’s crying was too noisy.
Meng turned to him, and asked a question unsuited to the situation, “Why are you calling me Er Meng and calling Zhan ‘Ah Zhan’.”
Because your brain is secondhand! Yan Mo smiled thinly. “Because you’re the second child. Your big brother is Da Lie, and you’re Er Meng. If you have other younger siblings, they will be called San-something-something.”
Meng clapped his hands, “That’s a good method! You immediately know who is the big brother and little brother. Then I’ll be Er Meng in the future.”
Yuan Zhan felt that the little slave’s slight smile had other meaning to it.
Yan Mo didn’t know at this moment that this thoughtless small smile today would make the future chief-daren have a subtle aversion towards anything related to the number “two”. To the point that this Jiuyuan chieftain will do some movements that puzzled everyone around him.
He got into the habit of giving his enemies two fingers when declaring wars, hurling two rocks at them, or two stalks of hay, using these gestures as a taunt.
But that’s all in the future, let’s talk about the present.
Yan Mo roasted a piece of meat to soothe the kid.
That kid started drooling when he saw the meat.
Yan Mo handed him the meat and the kid suddenly pounced over, nearly biting into Yan Mo’s hand as well.
Yan Mo’s head turned to Yuan Zhan, “Didn’t you say there are many beasts at night? Why is he starved like this?”
Yuan Zhan was conscientiously preparing the equipment to boil himself. “They have to be able to hunt them first to be able to eat them. From what I saw, no one in that group was trained as a warrior. There’re only fighters who trained themselves, naturally, like you said. The strongest man among them is only level two.”
Yuan Zhan took the herbs Yan Mo had set aside according to the dose, putting it one by one into the water. Some of these were put in before the water boiled, others were only put in after it boiled, Yuan Zhan remembered it all.
“What if there are people with blood ability in their group?”
“No way.” Yuan Zhan replied with certainty, the conversation shifted, “Even if those fighters have blood abilities, it’s the really weak type. Otherwise, their people will not be that thin. Winter had just started, they can’t be this hungry if they normally had enough food.”
“Seems like this is a very weak tribe?” Yan Mo eyes narrowed with calculations.
No matter the strength of the other party, he needed to communicate if they’re going to have any exchanges. In communication, not having the same language was a big barrier.
If only he could understand the kid’s words.
“Y-you three, who?”
Ei? Yan Mo blinked. Just now, did he hear something?
He turned around, and saw the kid who was gobbling on the meat a few moments ago was now cautiously looking at them.
“Are you slaves given to mountain god Jiu Feng too?”
Yan Mo’s mouth hung open. He can understand the kid’s words now?
Is his ability not limited to only Jiu Feng’s bird talk, he can also cross the language barrier with all other races and species?
Emotions surged through Yan Mo.
If this was real, then this ability was not as trashy as he thought!
This ability was really too good… But, will that old god be so nice to him?
Edited by Silversun
It really is too bad that the ability doesn’t work both ways. But who knows? Maybe he’ll get that upgrade in the future as his level progresses.
Thanks for the chapter! ❤
Jiu Feng is being cute again aack wanting to destroy the stone cave pfft..lmfao
Er Meng is also a meng I just noticed that Yuan Zhan isn’t being harsh now. It seems like he became a little soft and playful lmao I wonder if this kid would be something IDK.Thaaaaaank yoooou soooooo muuuuuch for this chapter!!! (^▽^)
Why’s there no space? TOT
There will be very long sessions of confusion in the future. 🌠🌌🌠Thanks for the chapter!🌌🌠🌌