Chapter 19- That is Where The Beast God Lives
Lu Zhan is a person who can’t sit still, or maybe it was because the world has not yet developed an entertainment method that allows people to stay in the house so even if he is injured, Lu Zhan still wants to go out from time to time.
Luo Zhen’s requirements for Lu Zhan have been reduced from lying in bed in order to recuperate to prohibiting him from going out hunting.
The food remaining at home was only the catfish that Lu Zhan brought back yesterday, a few cassava, and a large basket of wild fruits. Jiao Zhu gave Luo Zhen meat once in the morning, and he said that it was the portion of what they ate from the night before.
Luo Zhen estimated his and Luo Zhen’s appetite, and he knew that these things were barely enough for Lu Zhan’s appetite for a day.
Luo Zhen sighed. It seems that Lu Zhan can only stay at home for one day at most. If he is not allowed to go hunting tomorrow then the two of them would have nothing and they would go hungry. Luo Zhen appetite didn’t matter, he could barely cope with some weeds nearby, but obviously Lu Zhan would not want to.
He replaced the other party’s bandages with new herbs and found that the wound healed faster than he thought. The big wound was not even sutured but at this moment, there were already signs of scab formation. “There is still enough food at home for one day. The wound on you healed very quickly, so you can go out hunting tomorrow.”
Luo Zhen said loosely, “If you really can’t help it, why don’t you polish the bone knife for me?”
“Did you get those two bones for that yesterday?” Lu Zhan felt a little awkward about Luo Zhen’s concern, but he did not insist on rejecting the other’s kindness.
“Well, I have already drawn the shape, you just need to follow those marks to make it.” Luo Zhen took the two bones and showed him the lines he had drawn with charcoal. Except for the tip, there is no other need to chip them in other places, as long as the edges are smoothened and sharp.
“Will this bone knife be better than a stone knife?” Lu Zhan sat up carefully. As long as he didn’t let him lie on a stone bed all day, he wouldn’t mind helping Luo Zhen get this bone knife done.
It was also the first time for Luo Zhen to make something like a bone knife. He only understood theoretical knowledge and had not practiced it. Now he can only guide Lu Zhan on how to do it.
The two broken bones had been cleaned up, and Luo Zhen could not find a better substitute for the tools other than stones. This is a very laborious task, the bones of the fierce beasts are too hard so they can only be polished bit by bit.
“It’s best not to let others see what I hunt.”
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Luo Zhen raised his head suspiciously, Lu Zhan had already started to polish slowly along the marks with a stone knife. “Hei Ya doesn’t know that I can hunt large beasts. If I bring back the prey in the future, you can hide it.”
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“I have nowhere else to go besides here now.” Luo Zhen answered him vaguely.
Lu Zhan suddenly moved his head over and whispered to Luo Zhen in his ear, “I want to leave the tribe.”
“Once you cross the Nanlu Plain and Changfeng Mountain, you will walk straight ahead and encounter the Tiger Lion tribe. I heard that there is a Black Forest several times larger than the Nanlu Plain, and the other side of the Black Forest is the sea.”
“The sea?”
“Yes, sea.” Lu Zhan thought that Luo Zhen didn’t know what the sea was. “It has a wider water area than the big lake where your previous tribe lived. Legend has it that it is the end of the continent, and there are many things there. As long as one goes to the sea, they won’t have to worry about going hungry again.”
“Are there no beasts in the sea?” If the beasts on land are dangerous, how could there be no beasts in the ocean? He still remembered the mosasaur-like creatures that lived in that big lake, and he was afraid that he would go to the beach, then it would not be that they could get a lot of food but they would become food.
“I don’t know.” Lu Zhan sat up straight, rubbing the rocks and bones in his hands and producing a clicking sound.
“Thank you for trusting me so much.”
Lu Zhan’s hand moved for a while, and Luo Zhen smiled, “You didn’t tell anyone else about leaving the tribe, right?”
“Yes. The leader will not agree to let beastmen leave the tribe.”
“Then we should get along well before you leave.” Luo Zhen patted the other’s unwounded shoulder. “If you want to leave, leave. I won’t tell other people or stop you from leaving.”
Lu Zhan pursed his lips and looked at him for a long time, then suddenly asked, “Are you really from the tribe by the big lake?”
Luo Zhen felt a little bit of surprise in his heart, but it didn’t show up on his face, “Didn’t you see me being thrown into the lake by my own clansman with your own eyes?”
“Well, yes.”
Picking up another bone, Luo Zhen also began to polish according to the traces he had drawn. He was about to break the topic and chat with Lu Zhan about other things when suddenly two tall figures appeared at the door of the tent, one was Jiao Zhu while the other was unfamiliar, they both came in.
Jiao Zhu first greeted the two of them, and then introduced the man around him, “This is Luka, from the Golden Lion tribe.”
Luka pounded on his heart with his left hand, “This beastman is in your debt, thank you for reaching out to me in times of crisis, please allow me to express my gratitude.” As he said so, the other side moved a little bit to let something inside. The two of them saw the object next to the door, it was a bison, whose tall body almost covered the door of their tent.
“I didn’t expect you to be a half-beastman. If I knew in advance, I would definitely not have run away first. I apologize to you for my behavior. I’m sorry.” Luka’s tone was sincere and with a little regret. “Before you recover, please allow me to hunt food for you.”
Lu Zhan blinked, “Are you going to hunt food for me?”
“Yes.”
“That’s too much trouble for you.” Lu Zhan coughed lightly, and his tone of voice became a little weak. He was not as aggressive as when he was alone with Luo Zhen just now. He even reached out and touched his wounds tied with medicinal leaves.
Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows. In his opinion, Lu Zhan’s acting skills were a bit clumsy, but he was more than able to deal with these primitive people. Although he knew that the other party was pretending, he did not want to expose Lu Zhan but just sat quietly. Watching how the other party will deal with it.
Sure enough, Lu Zhan’s tone changed and he said helplessly, “Perhaps you have also heard that I should have gone to find some food with my partner today, but because of injury, this matter can only be postponed. My partner is an ordinary person, unlike us. He prefers to eat wild fruits and wild vegetables. Unfortunately, I can’t even find those for my partner even with his low requirements.”
Luka looked even more aggrieved when he heard the words. As a warrior, he certainly understood Lu Zhan’s feelings. No warrior would be willing to starve their partner even when they were injured, so Luka treated Lu Zhan with even more respect after listening. Even if the other party was just a half-beastman, he still has the heart of a warrior.
Originally, he should have come to visit when he first learned that Lu Zhan was injured, but he regretted his act of running away after he knew the truth. In addition, he had escaped from such a far place in his beast form so once he relaxed, he fell asleep for a whole day. It was only now that he could find a bison to hunt and bring back.
“Please allow me to hunt food for your partner.” Luka also nodded to Luo Zhen next to him, and said, “I have been a lone beastman for three years, and I have seen a lot of edible wild fruits along the way. Since your partner likes it then I can pick different wild fruits back for him.”
Luo Zhen’s eyes lit up, this was a free laborer. But he was a little confused about Luka’s words, “Three years? Did it take you three years to come here?”
“Yes, but not entirely.” Luka nodded. “I originally planned to cross the Black Forest, but I only stayed there for a few weeks. Finally, I circled the edge of the Black Forest and walked towards Changfeng Mountain and encountered a human-faced bird.”
Luka paused when he said that, he looked at Lu Zhan with a certain look in his eyes, “I didn’t expect that you, as a half-beastman, could hold on under the claws of a human-faced bird for so long.”
“Since we can settle here, naturally we have some experience in dealing with human-faced birds.” Lu Zhan answered back lightheartedly.
“Indeed.” Luka didn’t like to stand and talk. He sat cross-legged on the ground and when Jiao Zhu saw it, he also sat next to him. Luo Zhen put some boiled hot water in a shell and handed it to the two of them. This was the first time he was entertained like this so Luka looked a little bit stunned, but when he took it, he drank from it.
“I didn’t expect that there would be tribes living near the human-faced birds. Even the warriors of our tribe would suffer a big loss if they were to deal with it. Fortunately, I encountered a female bird this time. If it were a male bird, maybe I wouldn’t have lasted long enough to ask for help.”
“Are there no human-faced birds near your tribe?” Jiao Zhu asked.
Luka shook his head, “No, we live under the Beast God Mountain and are sheltered by the Beast God. Human-faced birds like this are ones that are rejected by the Beast God so they will not appear there.”
“Beast God Mountain?” Lu Zhan said with a sullen expression, “Do you live near the Tiger Lion tribe?”
“No.” Luka laughed twice as if he had heard a joke. He had become accustomed to explaining the Beast God Mountain to the people he met along the way, and there was a bit of pride in his tone.
“The Beast God Mountain is very big, bigger than the Black Forest. The Tiger Lion tribe lives in between there, and our Golden Lion tribe is just a small tribe with no more people than you. It has always lived in a remote place not far from the Black Forest. It’s about a month away from the Tiger Lion tribe you have been to.”
“The Beast God Mountain is so big?”
“Of course.” Luka nodded, “That’s where the Beast God lives.”
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