Chapter 35: Why Did You Give Me Food?
Lu Zhan went out for one night. Although the other party had told Luo Zhen before he left to digest, Luo Zhen still couldn’t help but worry. This was the first time Lu Zhan was not by his side since he came to this world. There were warriors around him taking turns defending, and Luo Zhen still didn’t sleep well enough.
If it weren’t for considering that there might be a long distance to go tomorrow and having to rest, Luo Zhen would just wait until Lu Zhan came back before he went to sleep.
When the weather got hot, the sun always climbed out of the horizon early. Many people surrounded the cedar tree early in the morning so the two cuckoo birds were startled and fluttered their wings and jumped up and down. Although they are used to them due to Luo Zhen feeding them every day, for other people, the two cuckoo birds were already well-adjusted without being frightened directly. It’s a pity that their feet are tied tightly by ropes made of animal skins. No matter how hard they flop, they cannot fly out of the ropes. They can only groan quietly.
“You…did you go jumping around for the whole night?” Luo Zhen looked at Lu Zhan with a complicated expression and with dark circles under his eyes because he hadn’t slept well.
Lu Zhan’s breath is still a bit unstable. His bangs were wet with sweat and sticky on his face. Probably because of vigorous exercise, his face is a little red, but his beautiful eyes seem to glow scaryly bright.
Lu Zhan’s back has several red marks left by wild animals, but it did not bleed. The animal skins used to cover the wounds were missing, showing off strong muscles. If it weren’t for that face that hadn’t changed, Luo Zhen was afraid that just by looking at this figure, he wouldn’t tell that the other party was actually Lu Zhan, who always looked sick and had a pale face.
“A-Zhan, are these all animals you hunted back?” After a night of rest, Hei Fu’s body has recovered. At the moment, he is circling around the two prey that fell under the cedar tree. He dare not ask this question confidently.
Luo Zhen has seen one of the two prey, a catfish that looks like the catfish from his world before but its head is several times larger than the one Luo Zhen has seen before. There is not a trace of complete fur on its body, and its body has been scratched and had many wounds large and small. The wounds made its flesh visible and just by looking at it, one would know how fierce the battle was. Luo Zhen even wondered if the catfish finally died because of the bleeding.
The other creature looks like a bison but has a horse head. Its fur should be harder than that of the catfish. The scratches left on the fur did not tear the fur to pieces, just the neck. A big hole was bitten on its neck almost removing the entire horse’s head.
Luo Zhen looked at Lu Zhan’s mouth with a complicated expression. How much bite fbeastmane is needed to make such a wound?
“Yeah.” Lu Zhan wiped the sweat on his face and nodded indifferently. He found that Luo Zhen was looking at him- he grinned, exposing his big white teeth. He also snapped his teeth up and down, making a crisp crash.
Luo Zhen: “…”
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Hei Fu’s strength was previously the strongest among the remaining warriors, and he was also a few years older than Jiao Zhu and the others. He was faintly the leader of these remaining people, but after yesterday’s giant anaconda attack, Hei Fu was already sure that Lu Zhan had hidden his strength before he even saw the two prey that Lu Zhan had hunted.
Hei Fu didn’t have a deep impression of Lu Zhan. He only knew that the other party was a child left by a beast warrior who had left the tribe. His father was a foreigner. Hei Fu had a bit of an impression of his father, but it was a long time ago and Lu Zhan has always been very low-key. Even in the tribe, few people can talk to him. Over time, Hei Fu even forgot that there was such a person as Lu Zhan.
However, from today onwards, Hei Fu will not ignore Lu Zhan anymore. Although he does not understand why a half-beastman has such strong strength, but here, in this dangerous world, a strong person is worth all the warrior’s respect.
Hei Fu stood in front of Lu Zhan, slapped his heart a few times, and then quickly arranged for someone to take the things and prepare to set off.
Lu Zhan was stunned by Hei Fu’s actions. This action was only done to warriors whom he respected. He took one more look at Hei Fu and quickly moved to Luo Zhen’s side to eat. In one night, the giant anaconda’s heart was almost digested by him last night, and now his stomach was a bit hungry.
Yesterday’s grilled giant anaconda meat was mostly left, and it was a waste of time to start a fire so everyone ate the cold food with wild fruits, and then packed up and set off.
Because the surface of the two prey that Lu Zhan hunted back was severely damaged, he had to wipe the surfaces of both prey with silt to cover up the blood radiating from them, so in addition to what they brought back from the high slope, with two more prey, at least these three days’ journey, even if they don’t go hunting, they don’t have to worry about getting hungry.
Soon, Luo Zhen knew what Lu Zhan had done yesterday, and the other party actually spent the whole night solving the dangers of most of the way they were going to the destination.
“Don’t you need to hide your strength?” Luo Zhen took a few steps before catching up with Lu Zhan and asked in a low voice in the other’s ears suspiciously.
Lu Zhan glanced sideways at him strangely, “We are all leaving here, why hide?”
Not only did he not hide, he even brought out all his true strength. They walked along the way, the huge trees that were broken, the messy footprints and claws on the ground, all of them confirmed the battle that took place here, where there were these marks. They were very safe all the way. They didn’t even see half of another animal’s shadow. They didn’t know whether it was because of the flood that they escaped and hadn’t come back, or they were scared away by Lu Zhan who went crazy yesterday.
After passing through the small forest, they saw a normal environment again. There was no sticky and greasy mud on the ground. The occasional stream was clear and there were also some small animals moving in the grass but now that there is no shortage of food, they couldn’t waste time catching them.
With Lu Zhan leading the way, the rugged mountains seem to have become a lot easier to walk. Luo Zhen originally wanted to take advantage of the road to see if there were any new plants he knew, but unfortunately, he was tired from just walking all the way. An ordinary person’s body is really too bad. When he sat down in a resting place, he had no energy left to move so naturally, he had no energy to find various plants that may be used as food along the way.
“Why don’t I walk with you on my back?” Lu Zhan poured a bowl of water and handed it to Luo Zhen. This primitive mountain with no set pathway to walk in is completely different from the developed places Luo Zhen has visited before. The grass and trees higher than people can see and the vines blocking the road are all natural roadblocks blocking their progress. They can be said to be walking while opening the way along the way.
Luo Zhen fell several times because the grass under his feet was too thick for him to see the holes dug by an animal. In addition, there were no shoes or clothes to protect him, and his body was already marked out. There were small scars, and a lot of blood blisters appeared on his feet because of the rough skin covering it for too long.
Luo Zhen took a sip of the cold stream water. At this moment, he had no strength to check the water in these mountains if there were parasites. He usually had to boil it before drinking it.
Luo Zhen shook his head after his body got a bit of water in it. As of that moment, Lu Zhan not only had put on the big backpacks of the two of them, but he also resolutely took the giant anaconda skin on Luo Zhen’s back. He also has to take the lead to clear the way for them and the group. Luo Zhen hasn’t been carrying anything now, so he basically was carrying nothing like the others. If that wasn’t the case then he would have let Lu Zhan carry him on his back, but now, even if Lu Zhan thinks it doesn’t matter, Luo Zhen can’t accept being a drag for the other party.
He wants to live in this world so he has to adapt to the lifestyle of this world.
“Just rest for a while, I’m fine.” Luo Zhen took out a thistle after drinking the water, stuffed it directly into his mouth and chewed it and applied it to his feet. The cold touch of the herbs made his feet feel better and the bitter taste in his mouth refreshed his tired spirit.
Lu Zhan didn’t say much when he heard the words. He took out a small piece of golden object from his backpack. Before Luo Zhen could see what it was, he was stuffed into his mouth by the other party.
“Eat it.”
The thing melted into his mouth, it had a sweet and hot smell, and it burned to the stomach like a small flame along the esophagus.
Luo Zhen had to dry cough for a long time before he could talk, “You… next time… when you feed me something, can you… say hello to me first?” Luo Zhen asked intermittently, squeezing air into his mouth every time, and it was considered good luck that he had not been choked.
“Oh.” Lu Zhan saw that Luo Zhen was really uncomfortable. After reflecting on it for two seconds, he couldn’t help but stretch out his hand to give the other party a path on his back.
“What are you giving me?”
“The larva of the flame ant.”
Luo Zhen: “…”
He shouldn’t have to ask too much, thinking and knowing that there is nothing normal in this primitive society.
Luo Zhen doesn’t know if the reason was the larva that Lu Zhan fed him but Luo Zhen felt that he was not as tired as before, and it could even be said to be spiritual.
Only when they started to set off that Lu Zhan deliberately slow down, and some of the vegetation and vines that blocked the way were cleaned up before letting them pass. If he encounters a cliff that needs to be climbed, he would rather take someone to walk a little farther. The road didn’t force them to turn over.
Lu Zhan made a way out of the densely planted mountains.
The three-day journey as Lu Zhan estimated was a bit short, under such rushing conditions, the journey finally ended as they reached the destination by sunset on the fourth day.
Except for the warriors and the half-beastmans, other ordinary people were as exhausted as Luo Zhen, and their bodies were more or less scarred.
They stood at the foot of the mountain and looked at the deserted place in front of them. Is this the place where they will live in the future?
thanks ^^ i can’t wait for more chapters
I really love this world building…