As expected, Qi Bai was chased away by the cloaked beastman.
He wasn’t annoyed and didn’t go to the stall again after that.
However, he asked Hu Qiao to deliver food to the beastman on time every day, such as braised pork, meatballs, grilled ribs, and even a small piece of brown sugar.
The beastman was dismissive when Hu Qiao put the things down, but the aroma of food soon attracted the attention of others around him. Once other people came forward to ask, he didn’t care about his face anymore. He quickly dragged the stone bowl under his cloak and hid it.
It wasn’t until that evening that Lu Teng and Lu Ming arrived at the stall of the Black Mountain Tribe.
The herbs in the hands of the two men were still covered with fresh soil. It looked like they had just been collected. Lu Teng was very attentive to the injuries of the Black Mountain Tribe.
Qi Bai wrapped the dried wood flowers in clean animal skin. This time, after Lu Teng changed the medicinal paste for everyone, Qi Bai directly covered the wound with wood flower fluff and tied it with animal skin rope.
Lu Ming touched his chin and said, “This is wood flower, right? Can wood flower still be used like this?”
“These wood flowers are more breathable than animal skins…” Qi Bai felt that the breathability was still difficult to understand, so he changed his explanation. “They are softer and lighter than animal skins. The weather is too hot now. If we use animal skins to wrap them, their wounds will keep sweating. It happened that I collected these wood flowers yesterday, so I thought about giving it a try.”
Compared to Lu Ming, who was just curious, Lu Teng was more shocked.
A single leaf could block the view. When many things were right in front of people’s eyes, it was difficult for people to discover their effects. But once someone pointed them out, they could see a completely different world.
The Giant Deer Tribe had always been proud of their healing skills. However, at this moment, looking at the wood flower fluff applied to the wounds, Lu Teng truly understood that there was a lot of knowledge they didn’t know outside the Northern Wilderness.
More importantly, in order to keep these slaves alive, Qi Bai openly displayed this knowledge to the two outsiders.
Lu Teng looked at Qi Bai, and there was a bit of respect in his eyes.
After walking around the tents of the seriously injured, Lu Teng pointed at the four people who were still unconscious. He shook his head and said, “They will soon return to the Beast God.”
Even though he didn’t want to believe it, Qi Bai knew that Lu Teng had tried his best. It wasn’t easy to achieve this level under such poor medical conditions. Everything that followed could only be left to fate.
Unfortunately, the miracle didn’t happen.
On the morning of the fifth day when the wounded received treatment, except for a young beastman who regained consciousness after his fever subsided, the other three stopped breathing on this ordinary morning.
Qi Bai originally thought that the members of the Silver Moon Tribe wouldn’t be able to accept such an outcome and that it might cause some trouble. But in fact, everyone accepted the death of their companions very calmly.
This might be the law of survival on the Beastman Continent. Survival was far more terrible than death.
Lang Ze wrapped the bodies of the three people with hay and said calmly, “It is time for us to leave.”
At this time in normal years, the Xushan trading day had just begun. However, this year, it was coming to an end.
Some tribes who hadn’t received the news arrived late, and saw that everyone was packing up to leave. They could only hold their own supplies and look around for people to exchange with. The streets were visibly more chaotic than in the previous few days.
Quan Nan finally understood how Qi Bai was going to get the many animal skins they had obtained from the War Bear Tribe out of the wooden fence.
Qi Bai put the animal skins they had collected sporadically over the past few days on the outermost layer, wrapped the animal skins obtained from the War Bear Tribe, and mixed them with the animal skin bags wrapped in salted meat.
The Black Mountain Tribe had been constantly collecting food. Seeing the Black Mountain Tribe’s packed packages full of animal skins, outsiders would naturally assume that they contained animal meat. Of course, even if someone had doubts, they wouldn’t open them for others to check.
Except for those who were too badly injured to move, all the other beastmen changed into animal forms. The sub-beastmen lifted the tightly tied animal skin packages onto their backs.
The heavy animal skin packages were placed on top of these skinny beast figures, making it extremely difficult for the horned beastmen to take every step.
Such scenes weren’t new on the trading day. No matter how skinny the slaves, they were required to do the heaviest work.
Everyone was queuing up to move goods, except for Qi Bai, who seemed a bit absent-minded. He would look toward the end of the street every once in a while.
Lang Ze rubbed Qi Bai’s wilted hair and asked, “Are you still waiting for that beastman?”
Qi Bai said sullenly, “He really didn’t come. I gave him so many things and promised him such good conditions, but he isn’t interested at all.”
Qi Bai really felt that the salary he offered was very high. Not only would he not interfere with the beastman’s development and research, he would give a commission as long as the beastman could make a weapon. He also provided food, accommodation, and additional technical support.
Even so, the beastman remained completely indifferent.
Lang Ze comforted him. “Don’t be sad. They are just some novel weapons. I can make them as long as I spend more time on it.”
“Hmph.” A voice came from behind the two of them. “This is something I have been researching for decades. How could you possibly make this?”
Qi Bai smiled at Lang Ze and said silently, ‘Here he comes.’
Then he tried his best to control the expression on his face and turned to face the beastman behind him.
In front of them was the middle-aged beastman wearing a cloak and carrying a hide bag on his back that was almost as tall as him. The top layer of the bag had irregular protrusions in every direction and was filled with many strangely shaped materials.
Qi Bai asked, “Hou Su, what are you doing here?”
Hou Su had been really anxious and angry these days.
Qi Bai was right. This method wasn’t invented by him first. He had earlier seen a tool made by a sub-beastman and had the idea of improving it into a weapon.
After nearly 20 years of dedicated research, the weapons he had now were no longer the same as those he made at the beginning. In addition, he learned from his experience and made many interesting little mechanisms.
It was a pity that researchers like him weren’t respected, but ridiculed on the Beastman Continent, which advocated the use of strong force.
In a fit of anger, Hou Su left the place where he originally lived and wandered around the continent. He vowed to find the most suitable materials to make the weapons of his imagination.
It was precisely due to this that even though he was tempted by the materials that Qi Bai mentioned could be used to make bowstrings, he never made up his mind to join the Black Mountain Tribe.
However, on the day when the Black Mountain Tribe left, Qi Bai didn’t send any more food to Hou Su. Hou Su, who had been hungry all morning, held the last bit of brown sugar in his mouth and suddenly felt enlightened.
Hou Su moved at the fastest speed in his life, pulling all the items on the stall into his animal skin bag. Without any hesitation, he found the stall of the Black Mountain Tribe. Fortunately, they hadn’t left yet.
However, even though Hou Su had decided to agree to Qi Bai, he still felt very awkward.
He turned his face to the side and muttered softly, “You are the ones bothering me every day. I can’t stand your troubles, so I came here.”
“Oh,” Qi Bai said. “We are leaving now. No one will bother you any longer.”
Hou Su was stunned for a moment before saying anxiously, “Don’t you see that I have so many bags on my back?”
Qi Bai laughed and called out to Ma Ling and Hu Qiao. “Don’t you see that Hou Su has so many bags on him? Hurry and take them down so that the old man can have a good rest.”
Ma Ling and Hu Qiao walked up to Hou Su. They took off the animal skin bag on Hou Su without saying a word, carried it far away, and threw it onto the beast form of a horned beastman.
Hou Su looked at their rough movements, his eyebrows twitching under his cloak. Then he quickly chased after them. “I am also a horned beastman. I can carry my own bag.”
Unlike their initial arrival when there were only 15 people, the team of more than 80 people finally looked a bit like a large tribe.
Qi Bai looked at the empty place of the War Bear Tribe. Perhaps due to Xiong Nuan looking similar to his brother, he actually missed the time they spent together.
The interactions between beastmen were always like this. It wasn’t known if they would meet again in the future.
Wa and Zhuang stood at the gate of the wooden fence. They watched the long line of the Black Mountain Tribe and always felt that something wasn’t wrong.
Their feelings weren’t wrong. This wasn’t the first time that the Black Mountain Tribe had sent supplies out.
Tun Quan and Huan Ping ran out of the cave and met the large group.
Since there were groups of teams leaving every day, Lang Ze took out a small team of beastmen early in the morning and made several deliveries of supplies, all of which were hidden in a secret cave.
Tun Quan and Huan Ping ran out of the cave and met the large group.
It was also due to this that when the main group left, there were only around a hundred animal skin packages left in the camp.
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