Chapter 34: Discussions
Although Hei Fu had been strangled by the giant anaconda and fainted, he didn’t have any major problems in his body. He woke up soon after being rescued.
Other people in the tribe also knew that the giant anaconda attack had occurred. For safety, they gathered at the edge of the cedar tree at this time, and several warriors maintained their animalized forms and scattered around the crowd being vigilant.
“The giant anaconda was buried in the mud, and I wasn’t able to escape even when I immediately turned into a beast when I found something was wrong.” Hei Fu said with lingering fear in his partner’s arms.
“Will there be giant anacondas nearby?”
“That giant anaconda was washed over by the flood, right? The flood won’t return to the big lake. If there are giant anacondas, wouldn’t they be left behind?” This was spoken by a relatively young regular person who is probably less courageous. When speaking, his voice trembled a little, and Luo Zhen was really afraid that the other party would cry in the next moment.
“At least it’s safe here for the time being.” Luo Zhen comforted the other party. He and Lu Zhan had gone around here just now, and there was no danger. If there were giant anacondas hidden in the mud, they would’ve jumped out and attacked them.
“Is your wound okay?” Hei Ya cared about Lu Zhan. When everyone was discussing matters regarding the giant anaconda, he didn’t forget to ask about Lu Zhan’s physical condition.
Lu Zhan was stunned. He stretched out his hand and rubbed A-Shui, who looked at him eagerly and simply took off the animal skins he had wrapped around him, letting him see that he had healed a long time ago, leaving only a little faint trace of his wounds.
“It’s okay.” Hei Ya breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t ask Lu Zhan why he was pretending that he was still injured on purpose.
Lu Zhan’s actions naturally attracted the attention of others. The warriors had seen Lu Zhan’s strength. Although it was strange that Lu Zhan, a half-beastman, had such a strong power, it was a happy events that there was one more powerful one among them. A powerful warrior means that the survival rate of those who stayed behind them has increased a lot.
“This place is no longer suitable for us to live in.” The person who was speaking was a gray-haired veteran warrior who had experienced the last migration of the tribe and followed the more powerful warriors to find a suitable place to live. The experience he has is more than that of those present.
“But where can we go?” Hei Fu sighed. He glanced at his partner and the ignorant child sitting next to him. He didn’t know whether the choice to not leave was right or not. As they got farther along, he couldn’t even find a suitable place for them.
Hei Fu’s emotions infected many people present, and ordinary people with less courage were even wiping away tears secretly.
“What are you afraid of? We have been here for decades, even if the tribe can no longer live here but everyone can work together to find a new place, right?” A-Xue took a few steps forward. She finally broke away from her father and none of the clansmen who didn’t like their half-beastman status stayed. Just now she felt the taste of freedom, and A-Xue didn’t want to die like this.
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These people who stayed were the same as the others, more or less because of some physical problems, they had to be left behind. Regardless of whether these people are forced to be helpless or willing to work, as long as they stay, they will become people on their side. In this dangerous world, people who are not strong enough cannot live alone, but as long as everyone can get together, even if it’s a little harder, it shouldn’t be difficult to survive.
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“The fighting power of the giant bear is not low, and it has thick fur, it is not easy to hunt. If someone is injured because of this, it will not be worth the loss.” They don’t have Da Wu to help them heal if they are injured- if they are fortunate, they can still wait for the wound to heal slowly. But if they are lacking lack and get severely injured then the person would have to have to endure endless pain.
“I know that there is a forest where the trees are very tall and dense, and there are few wild animals. If we can live on the trees, we don’t have to worry too much about the beasts that come in.”
“I know that place too. I have also picked wild fruits over there. Although it is safer to live on the trees, the forest is too close to the Nanlu Plains. In winter, I have seen human face birds resting in the forest.”
The warriors described the places they thought they could live in when they went out hunting and picking, but those places always had problems of this kind and were not suitable for long-term living.
The reason is that their number is too small, and there are fewer warriors. Even with Lu Zhan, there are only seven people. Apart from going out hunting, leaving a soldier to protect the old, weak, sick, and disabled in the tribe is already barely enough which is why they can’t stay in a slightly threatening place for a long time.
But a completely safe place? Even the previous Black Panther tribe hadn’t found one, how could they know where it was?
After a round of discussion, everyone’s mood fell again.
“Do you know where there is a place suitable for us to live?” Luo Zhen has been listening carefully to everyone’s discussion. When A-Xue started to encourage everyone, he found that Lu Zhan next to him had been looking at everyone’s expressions with interest. People who are not familiar with Lu Zhan can’t tell, but Luo Zhen can guess that the other party must have some ideas.
“I know ONE.” Lu Zhan nodded.
The people who were still discussing stopped the topic together, and all of their eyes fell on Lu Zhan’s body. Lu Zhan didn’t seem to see anything at all. He just simply answered Luo Zhen’s question, without any intention to elaborate.
Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows, and he seemed to be able to see the calmness on Lu Zhan’s face.
“Don’t you usually only move around the tribe?” Jiao Zhu next to it asked suspiciously.
“No, every time he takes advantage of the hunting team leaving to go to a far place to pick fruits, the wild fruits he picked back are not near the tribe.” A timid ordinary man said weakly.
Lu Zhan glanced at the man unexpectedly. The man caught Lu Zhan’s gaze, shrank his neck, and moved behind Hei Fu- as if he was trying to block Lu Zhan using the people around him. Lu Zhan searched in his mind. He had a vague impression of this person. Was he called A-Guo?
“Do you go picking every time the hunting team is out?” Hei Ya watched Lu Zhan complainingly. He always had to take care of A-Shui so he didn’t have time to supervise Lu Zhan when Jiao Zhu went out with the hunting team, even if he came to check occasionally when he found that the other party was not there, he only thought that he was looking for food nearby. How could I think that the other party might leave for several days?!
Lu Zhan didn’t want to hear Hei Ya preaching to himself so he quickly changed the subject and said, “From here to the direction of the small forest, about three days away, there is a place suitable for us to live in.”
“There are a lot of mountains in that place, and there are a lot of beasts on the mountains. If we encounter them, I’m afraid we will not be able to protect others.” Hei Fu said.
Lu Zhan shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, “I only know it’s safe there. As for whether you want to go, please do as you like.”
Hei Fu didn’t expect the other party to say that, and he choked.
Everyone fell silent. Lu Zhan’s short words were not enough to make them risk leaving there.
Luo Zhen couldn’t stand it, and gently pulled Lu Zhan’s arm, then asked, “How do you know it’s safe there?”
“Most of the beasts there act alone, and I can deal with them alone.” Lu Zhan seemed to be dissatisfied with Luo Zhen pulling himself, stretched out his hand and patted the back of the other’s hand, glared at the other party, and added a word reluctantly. “The salty fruit I told you before is only available in that place.”
This heavy rain and flood caused many people to lose a lot of rock salt. People in the Black Panther tribe know that salty fruit can be used instead when rock salt is lacking, but the salty fruit that can be found near the tribe is not many. It’s okay to eat two pieces occasionally but it can’t satisfy the tribe’s long-term use. That’s why people have to travel thousands of miles across Changfeng Mountain to exchange with other tribes.
Now that they heard that there were salty fruits in the safe place in Lu Zhan’s mouth. People who were hesitant or even in disbelief that Lu Zhan could find a safe place started to move.
After rounds of discussions, apart from Lu Zhan, no one else can say which place is safe. In the end, everyone can only choose to believe in Lu Zhan, at least to see if that place is suitable for them to live in.
After fighting the giant anaconda for more than a long time, Hei Fu hadn’t fully recovered so everyone decided to stay in place for one night, and then go to the place Lu Zhan said early the next morning.
The giant anaconda is more than 20 meters long, so naturally everyone will not waste it. As for the greasy layer of snake skin, the beasts don’t want it. The thing is hard and slippery, difficult to break open, and difficult to tie to the waist to make an animal skin skirt so they usually discard the skins of such large snakes.
Luo Zhen saw it but felt it was very wasteful. The snake skin was cold and hard enough, wasn’t it the best material for making armor? He was worried that he was too weak and easily injured, and now he was picking up such a large piece of snake skin for nothing.
So while waiting for Lu Zhan to deal with such a big giant anaconda, Luo Zhen ran to roll up the snakeskin roll and put it away.
Lu Zhan saw that the other party was struggling, and he followed him to help. Luo Zhen said in a very good mood, “I will use this snakeskin to make a piece of armor for you in the future.”
Just because he was hungry, Lu Zhan, who wanted to get Luo Zhen to cook him food, nodded calmly, “Okay.”
At this time, Lu Zhan still didn’t know what the armor was.
Luo Zhen doesn’t know how to deal with the giant anaconda. He has never eaten snake meat before, but he has heard of snake soup, the problem was that there is only a few amount of stone salt that could be used as a seasoning, even if someone listed the production steps of snake soup in detail. Luo Zhen couldn’t do it without salt.
Finally, he cooked dinner the usual way the people of the tribe did, by grilling it on fire.
Everyone who had just eaten a delicious deep-fried earthworm yesterday saw the grilled giant snake meat, and they all showed disappointment. Of course, when they were hungry, they had eaten even the most unpalatable food. Naturally, it is impossible to truly dislike it.
“Why did you eat so little this time?” Luo Zhen stopped his hands when he saw Lu Zhan only ate a few pieces. He was a little surprised. This person’s stomach can swallow a cow. How could he be full with just such a bit? “There is still a lot of meat here. You can eat more so that you won’t be hungry.”
Lu Zhan shook his head and pushed the barbecue back, “I just ate the giant anaconda’s heart, and now, my stomach needs time to digest it” More than just needing time, he even felt that his stomach was a little uncomfortable.
“The heart?” Luo Zhen remembered that Lu Zhan had taken out the heart of the giant anaconda before. “A heart as big as a palm needs to be digested for so long?” At the time, he wondered why such a huge giant anaconda had a heart that was only the size of a palm.
“It has too much energy.” Lu Zhan rubbed his stomach with his hands, and he could feel a little bulging even through the skin.
Lu Zhan frowned, and even felt restlessness coming out of his body, “I’ll go out to digest it, you don’t need to find me.” After he finished talking, Lu Zhan hurried outside, the speed was naturally something Luo Zhen couldn’t track with his eyes.
“What’s wrong with A-Zhan?” Hei Ya asked worriedly as everyone else saw Lu Zhan’s abnormality.
“He said that after eating, he needs to go out to digest.”
Hei Ya: “…”
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