LSLFBW: Chapter 101 Part 1

Diao Lan wasn’t curious either. She just said calmly, “The food is ready.”

Qi Bai nodded. “We’ll be there soon.”

Once Diao Lan left, Qi Bai asked in a low voice, “Why did your ears suddenly show? Be careful not to be discovered by others.”

Lang Ze replied in a low voice, “It has been taken back.”

Qi Bai wiped his face. “Hey, I forgot to check it just now. After you transformed into wolf ears, did you still have human ears?”

This was the thing that Qi Bai was most curious about when watching sci-fi movies on Earth. When the beastmen were in human form, they had animal ears. So did their original ears disappear or did they have four ears?

Whether it was the loss or the addition of two ears, it seemed a bit strange.

However, among the beastmen Qi Bai had seen so far, only Lang Ze had the ability to transform part of his body into a beast. Including Qi Bai, everyone else could only directly transform between human form and beast form.

Lang Ze thought of the touch on his waist just now, and his ears felt hot again. He turned around and said, “Let’s go.”

Qi Bai followed behind Lang Ze and continued to ask without giving up, “You haven’t told me yet.”

There was only a large tent behind the tribe’s stall. Diao Lan and Hu Xue were roasting a fawn at the entrance of the tribe while the other tribe members were waiting in the tent.

Qi Bai and Lang Ze entered the tent and quickly counted the number of people. They made sure that everyone had returned safely before explaining to everyone what they had just seen.

Qi Bai concluded, “So starting from tomorrow, no one is allowed to act alone.”

Everyone looked to the left side of the tent. There was a layer of animal skin between them, but they seemed to see the appearance of the cannibals. Many people showed disgust in their eyes.

Hu Meng asked, “Can we still go to the trading day to exchange?”

This time when they went out, everyone carried the collective supplies of the tribe as well as their own personal property. Some members of the tribe who couldn’t go out this time also entrusted their belongings to everyone, asking them to help exchange for some interesting things at the trading day.

Qi Bai nodded. “Of course. However, you must have a companion every time you go out. Another thing is that at least six people must stay at our stall to look after it. You can use the rest of the time as you like.”

Hu Meng bumped Niu Yong’s shoulder excitedly.

They were the youngest two. After entering the trading day market and seeing the various stalls outside, they had long forgotten the hardships and worries along the way. At this moment, they just wanted to go out for a good stroll.

As for the cannibals, the two horned beastmen who were ordinary beastmen didn’t take it seriously at all. Moreover, after a year of training, both of them felt they were very strong, and they now needed someone to train against.

Diao Lan and Hu Xue brought the barbecue into the tent. The moment Hu Xue handed the barbecue to Qi Bai, Qi Bai subconsciously took a step back and waved his hand.

He found his animal skin bag in the corner of the tent and took out two sweet potatoes that he had baked last night.

Even though he no longer had the nausea he just felt, Qi Bai really didn’t want to eat any barbecue for the time being.

After a day’s journey, everyone was very tired but no one could rest. Qi Bai told everyone about the deal with the War Bear Tribe. “I will bring salt to exchange with them later. Before that, we need to build another tent to store supplies.”

Everyone nodded. After wolfing down their dinner, they picked up the stone knives they had just made and the newly cut branches. Then they set up a slightly smaller tent behind the main tent.

The night was dark. Between the stalls of the Black Mountain Tribe and the War Bear Tribe, several lines of figures exchanged goods silently.

Both parties were very satisfied with the transaction.

Fifteen cans of salt made Han of the War Bear Tribe grin from ear to ear, while the people of the Black Mountain Tribe felt a bit dizzy when they saw the animal skins filling up an entire tent.

These beastmen usually made a living by hunting and knew for the first time what it meant to get something for nothing. They could exchange so many animal skins for just a basket of salt. It must be known that there were several baskets of salt in their tents.

Days like this were unimaginable before, but now everything was so easy.

Quan Nan gulped. “There are so many animal skins. How are we going to carry them out?”

Qi Bai smiled. “I have naturally thought of a solution.”

Early the next morning, Qi Bai opened his eyes and saw Lang Ze standing motionlessly beside him.

Qi Baid didn’t disturb the tribe members sleeping beside him and looked at Lang Ze in a puzzled manner.

Lang Ze asked quietly, “Are we going back to the tribe now?”

Qi Bai quickly covered his mouth and shook his head. “No no, why go back to the tribe? We finally made it to the trading day. How can we go back so easily?”

The impact brought by the Cannibal Tribe was only temporary. Qi Bai found it difficult to accept cannibalism, but he had to accept this cruel world. No matter what, there was no reason to retreat.

Thinking of their next task, Qi Bai rubbed his eyes. He climbed up from the big bunk, took out a leather bag full of salt, handed it to Lang Ze, and said with a smile, “Please be my slave for a day.”

Lang Ze smiled and put the animal skin bag on his back.

Outside the tent, Diao Lan, Hu Xue, and the others were already busy. Qi Bai greeted them before walking toward the street with Lang Ze.

The sun hadn’t fully risen yet, but most of the stalls at the trading day had already opened.

Just as Jin from the Linen Tribe said, the entire outer circle of the trading area was populated by tribes with larger stalls.

These tribes were similar to the Giant Deer and War Bear Tribes. They all placed huge logs as wooden tables in front of their stalls.

Moreover, the larger the tribe’s stalls, the fewer things there were on the wooden tables. Most of them were specialties unique to these large tribes.

It was a bit like the night markets of China, with some large shops on the periphery and some small vendors in the middle, who were ready to spread out cloth on the ground at any time.

Qi Bai and Lang Ze walked along the main street outside. Soon, they saw the Linen Tribe that Jin pointed out yesterday.

Two young beastmen were sitting behind the stall of the Linen Tribe. They were chatting casually and didn’t even look at the people passing by.

Qi Bai was secretly amused in his heart. It seemed that no matter the era, these salesmen in the luxury goods industry would never worry about their performance. They just waited for the suckers to come to them.

The ‘sucker’ Qi Bai walked to the stall of the Linen Tribe and asked, “How do I exchange the linen?”

A young beastman behind the stall pointed to a stone bowl nearby and said, “Fill this bowl, and you can exchange it for a piece of linen.”

Qi Bai was secretly shocked in his heart. The price of such a stone bowl of salt was almost the same as the price of a piece of animal skin from the War Bear Tribe. However, the size of the animal skin from the War Bear Tribe was five or six times that of this piece of linen.

Qi Bai said, “Then change two pieces.”

After hearing Qi Bai’s words, one of the young beastmen finally looked up. “Add another bowl of salt, and you can get a linen robe. Do you want to change it?”

Qi Bai took a look at the short robe. There wasn’t much extra fabric on it. It was just linen sewn together with linen thread.

It seemed that the Linen Tribe also sold ready-made clothes, and the extra price was the design fee.

Qi Bai thought that these people were quite advanced, but he calmly shook his head. “I just want linen.”

The two people behind the stall had a nonchalant attitude before the transaction, but they became serious when they started filling the salt. Every time, the stone bowl had to be filled tightly before it was considered passed.

Qi Bai held the linen in his hand. He carefully rubbed the edge of the linen thread, and studied the warp and weft of the linen carefully.

They were both called hemp, but the piece of cloth in Qi Bai’s hand was much rougher than the carefully processed linen of Earth. However, the essence of production should be similar. It was to twist some long plant fibers together and finally weave them into thread.

Qi Bai could basically conclude that the people of the Linen Tribe didn’t know how to make thread with short fibers. This could probably explain why there were wood flowers, a material suitable for making thread, on the edge of Xushan but no one had discovered the use.

Still, Qi Bai wasn’t very interested in the plants that were made into linen.

First, the Linen Tribe would definitely hide this plant very well. Second, the Black Mountain Tribe wasn’t short of materials for making cloth. Not only did the tribe have stored wool, but now there were also the wood flowers that Qi Bai was looking forward to.

The reason why Qi Bai spent so much salt to exchange for linen was mainly that he wanted to see how they made thread into cloth.

After just one look, Qi Bai came to the conclusion that rather than saying it was cloth, it was more accurate to say that the Linen Tribe had created a knotting technique to weave linen threads together in a way similar to knitting sweaters.