Chapter 25- Is This Your Second Beast Form?
“It’s gonna rain?”
There was no cloud in the sky, and the heat during the later afternoon was no longer as strong as it was before. The breeze slowly blows across the wild grass next to it, making a rustle, and there is no sign of rain.
Luka shrugged his nose, “Well, there is water vapor around so it should be heavy rain.”
“Luo Zhen, I’m going home first.” A-Xue was convinced of what Luka said. Hearing that, she didn’t even clean up the dirt on her hands as she hurriedly got up and left home. Before leaving, she didn’t forget to say, “Remember to move the firewood outside to the tent, otherwise you won’t be able to light the fire these days.”
“Okay, do you want to take some wild lettuce leaves with you?”
“No need.” A-Xue waved her hand and stuck her tongue out at Luo Zhen, “I don’t like the smell of those leaves.”
Luo Zhen smiled.
The tent is not big, there is no way to move all the firewood back into the tent. Luo Zhen can only pile most of the firewood under the cedar tree, cover it with thick leaves, and then spread a piece of dilapidated animal skins that can no longer be used so that even if it rains, all the wood will not be wetted by water.
The male cuckoo bird seemed to be very dissatisfied with Luo Zhen arbitrarily occupying their territory. He jumped onto the woodpile and screamed at Luo Zhen condescendingly. However, he couldn’t attract the attention of the others at all so it could only yell a few times, when it saw Luo Zhen turning to leave, it could only shut up angrily.
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“It’s going to rain, don’t go out these days.” Jiao Zhu said.
The fact that three people in a row said it was going to rain made Luo Zhen a little puzzled, but in order not to arouse other people’s suspicion, he did not ask the reason why but waited for everyone to leave before he mentioned his doubts himself to Lu Zhan.
Lu Zhan is polishing the wooden bowl with a rough-surfaced stone, intending to make the inside of the wooden bowl as smooth as possible. With this kind of boring work, Luo Zhen thought that the other party would have no patience to persevere. After all, even when the other party is badly injured, he does not want to lie on the bed. What Luo Zhen discovered unexpectedly was that when he was taking other people outside to plant and process the prey, Lu Zhan held a stone and polished it without changing his movements for most of the day.
“It’s gonna rain?” Lu Zhan blew off the sawdust and looked at Luo Zhen with a smile.
Luo Zhen rubbed his nose and coughed slightly.
Lu Zhan didn’t tease the other party anymore, and explained, “It will become a bit cold when it rains.”
“It’s gonna get cooler?” This is normal. Is it necessary for so many people to act so cautiously because of the rain?
“Also, there will be a lot of water.”
Luo Zhen: “…”
Lu Zhan didn’t say anything more? When it got dark, the pitter-patter of rain began to fall.
The animal skins at the entrance of the tent were not put down. Luo Zhen lit a fire where the rain could not reach, and taking advantage of the darkness, Lu Zhan went out to carry a prey back. The fur on the prey was still stained and not cleaned, it looked like it had been buried for a while now.
“I buried it so it was not discovered by other predators.” Seeing the doubt in Luo Zhen’s eyes, Lu Zhan explained this.
Since it was raining, there was no need to worry about running out of water. Luo Zhen took a natural bath outside comfortably and began preparing food for Lu Zhan. After these two days of observation, Luo Zhen found something very hard to accept. Jiao Zhu or even Luka, or any of the warriors who can transform into beasts, eat at most about twice as much as Luo Zhen does. However, it is still not as exaggerated as Lu Zhan’s consumption wherein he could eat an entire adult hog deer alone.
After looking at the other party’s belly which was only slightly bulging, Luo Zhen finally couldn’t help but ask why.
Lu Zhan was crushing the last few bones one by one with sharp teeth, licking the bone marrow greedily, and finally licking his oily fingers, hearing Luo Zhen’s question, he was a little puzzled. “Why do I seem to eat more?”
“Do you feel unwell in your body?”
Lu Zhan shook his head and thought for a while and said, “I only started to increase my appetite when I was an adult. Da Wu had previously asked if I behaved differently from others so of course, my real appetite was not told to others. If I had this appetite when I was young, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have survived until now.”
Lu Zhan licked the corners of his lips, “Of course, you are the first to know of this.”
“Do you think Da Wu will be against you?” Luo Zhen asked guessing.
“No, Da Wu will not be against me now.”
“Then why are you so wary of him?” Luo Zhen wondered. Lu Zhan not only guarded against Da Wu himself, but he also told Luo Zhen not to believe in Da Wu.
“Instinct.” Lu Zhan threw the eaten bones into the fire, and there was a crackling sound. “It seems that something in my mind is saying that I can’t trust Da Wu.”
After asking about it, Lu Zhan couldn’t tell why so the topic of the two quickly moved to another place.
Lu Zhan now likes to chat with Luo Zhen very much. Many of the insights the other party said were not the same as many people in the Black Panther tribe, which made him find it very interesting, and after the chat, things that he didn’t understand before were also a bit clearer.
Luo Zhen can also learn a lot of knowledge about survival in the wild from Lu Zhan and because there is no need to conceal his strength in front of Luo Zhen, he occasionally talks about the past when he wrestled with wild beasts. When he heard that the other party was six or seven years old when he was able to defeat a wolf alone, Luo Zhen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Even as an adult, he couldn’t guarantee that he would survive unscathed in the wolf’s mouth.
“I almost broke my arm because of the wolf that time.” Lu Zhan said lightly, but what he said was shocking. “It was at that time that I found out that I could turn into a beast. Although I was only a half-beastman, at least it was still I could fight. Then I fell into the water, as you already know, our human forms can’t move freely in the water, and I couldn’t be completely animalized. That time I thought I was going to drown.”
Luo Zhen became nervous when he heard it, and Lu Zhan continued, “I didn’t dare to breathe in the water, but my body kept sinking until I felt that my body was about to explode because of holding my breath. I finally couldn’t help taking a breath and then realized that I could breathe in the water.”
“Is this your second beast form?”
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