LSLFBW: Chapter 122

The carts stopped at the door of the tribe’s new house. Several seriously injured people were carried into the room, while others with less serious injuries slowly climbed down and followed the other beastmen.

The tribe’s new two-bedroom, one living room house had been built. One of the rooms was currently occupied by the tribe’s children, while the remaining bedroom and living room had been converted into a temporary medical room to accommodate injured horned beastmen.

As soon as Qi Bai returned to the tribe, he took out several baskets of herbs from the warehouse.

Qi Bai had exchanged these herbs with the Giant Deer Tribe, who were proficient with medicine. Fortunately, Qi Bai had exchanged a lot of extras out of worry that the tribe members rescued from the cannibal tribe would be injured, Otherwise, facing so many wounded people at once, the herbs that Yang Luo had stored would definitely not be enough.

Hu Huo was just as hurried as Qi Bai. He held some wooden boards in his hands and had a few rolls of straw ropes hanging around his neck. Once he saw Qi Bai, he immediately ran over and asked, “Bao Bai, come and see if these wooden boards can be used to bind broken bones. They are the smoothest wooden boards available in the tribe.”

Due to his leg injury, Hu Huo rarely participated in the tribe’s hunting and instead concentrated on carpentry.

However, it was true that when God closed a door, he would open a window. The lame Hu Huo was very good at manual work.

No matter whether it was the cart or the neatly arranged wooden shelves in the warehouse, Qi Bai just had to provide him with ideas and Hu Huo could lead people to complete it. Now the wooden boards he brought were polished materials ready to make wooden tables and wooden benches. It happened to come in handy at this time.

Qi Bai pointed to the middle of the board. “These boards are very good but they are too wide. We can just split them in the middle and use them.”

Hu Huo nodded to show that he understood. Then he took off the ropes around his neck. “These are the ropes I have saved up. They are the strongest and I guarantee that they won’t be torn apart.”

Qi Bai took the straw ropes that Hu Huo handed to him and said with a smile, “Thank you for your hard work.”

Hu Huo waved his hands repeatedly. “This is nothing. I will go and finish the boards now.”

The two stoves in the patient’s room, as well as the stove in the children’s room, were already lit to boil hot water. Diao Lan and Niu Xi, Yang Luo’s assistants, took clean animal skins and cleaned the wounds of the wounded.

Seeing Qi Bai coming in with herbs, Yang Luo immediately started to drive people away. “Those who aren’t injured, hurry and get out. There are still so many prey at the foot of the mountain. Hurry and bring them back. Don’t get in the way here.”

Then he turned to QI Bai. “Bao Bai, quickly bring the herbs to stop bleeding.”

“Yes, I’m coming.”

Everyone worked until late at night. After all the wounded were properly settled, Qi Bai and Yang Luo wiped the sweat from their foreheads and walked out of the room.

Snowflakes were still floating in the sky. Lang Ze and Hou Yan were standing outside the house, looking ready to go in and help at any time.

Seeing Qi Bai coming out, Lang Ze took out a piece of animal skin from his animal skin coat. Before the skin was opened, Qi Bai could already smell the rich aroma of barbecue.

Growl. Qi Bai’s stomach made a sound at the right time.

He smiled sheepishly. “I didn’t realize it was so late. I am indeed a bit hungry.”

“Yes,” Lang Ze responded while opening the animal skin and putting it into Qi Bai’s hands. “Eat it quickly.”

The barbecue that had been placed next to him was still very warm. Qi Bai bit into it happily. However, after just two bites, he thought of something and hurriedly asked, “Where are the people of the Xishui Tribe and Xiaoniu Tribe?”

Lang Ze pointed to the two big trees in the middle of the tribe’s square.

The remaining members of the Xishui and Xiaoniu Tribes were huddled together as if waiting for the judgment of fate.

Yang Luo asked, “Do they have any problems?”

Lang Ze was silent for a moment before saying, “In today’s battle with the barbarian bulls, they could’ve chosen not to help us.”

The three people present understood the meaning of Lang Ze’s words.

So many people from the Xishui Tribe and Xiaoniu Tribe came at once. No matter their original purpose, they could choose to stand by and wait until the Black Mountain Tribe and wild bulls were both defeated. Then they could take the opportunity to occupy the Black Mountain Tribe.

The people of the Xishui and Xiaoniu Tribes must’ve realized such a simple truth.

However, they didn’t do so. Instead, they followed their promise to the Black Mountain Tribe about being friends and forever remaining loyal to the Black Mountain Tribe.

Therefore, when friends encountered danger, many of them were already injured but they didn’t retreat. Instead, they chose to face it together with the Black Mountain Tribe.

Based on this point alone, the Black Mountain Tribe wouldn’t ignore the members of these two tribes.

Hou Yan nodded. “If that is the case, we can give them a lot of salt this time.”

Qi Bai looked at the worn-out animal skin bags piled up under the big trees, chuckled and shook his head. “Grandpa Chief, they might not want salt.”

Inside the cave.

Hou Yan looked at the four people in front of him with a strange look in his eyes. “Do you want to join the Black Mountain Tribe?”

A beastman in front of him lowered his head and said, “We can hand over all our supplies to the Black Mountain Tribe. We just hope that our people won’t become slaves.”

Qi Bai wasn’t surprised by the Xishui Tribe’s request. He just hadn’t expected the person to make this request to them would be Ma Song.

Yang Luo also had the same question. “Where is Ma Sheng, the chief of the Xishui Tribe?”

Ma Song clenched his fists. “My father died in the earth tremor.”

Perhaps bad luck enveloped this land. The Xishui Tribe managed to escape from the impact of the great flood, but they failed to escape the earthquake and suffered heavy losses.

A ground fissure occurred in the territory of the Xishui Tribe, and most of the food they had stored for the winter was lost. More importantly, dozens of tribe members died in the earthquake, including Ma Sheng, the chief of the Xishui Tribe.

As the son of the previous tribe leader and the strongest beastman in the tribe, Ma Song became the next tribe leader of the Xishui Tribe after the earthquake.

However, before they could recover from the shock of the earthquake, the big river that had nurtured the Xishui Tribe for generations started to flow back through the cracks in the ground and winter suddenly came again.

Ma Song’s lips trembled a bit. “It must be that the Beast God has punished the Xishui Tribe.”

If it wasn’t for the punishment of the Beast God, how could the Xishui River, on which they depended for survival, disappear without a trace in just one day, as if it had never appeared before?

All the Xishui members fell into deep fear. Only Ma Song, who had been to the Black Mountain tribe twice and witnessed the powerful beastmen there, still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Ma Song said excitedly, “Master Priest, please save my people.”

Yang Luo calmly exchanged looks with Lang Ze and the others. Then he shifted his gaze to Niu Shuo and Niu Xu from the Xiaoniu Tribe. “What do you want to do when coming to the Black Mountain Tribe?”

Niu Shuo looked at Qi Bai and Lang Ze. Not long ago, Niu Shuo had led the trading team of the Xiaoniu Tribe and separated from the Black Mountain Tribe at the edge of the river. What he hadn’t said at that time was finally expressed now.

“We aren’t going back to our territory to reunite with our tribe members.” Niu Shuo held Niu Xu’s hand and no longer concealed the truth from everyone. “We are the only ones left in the Xiaoniu Tribe.”

Ma Tian, who had been following behind Ma Song, exclaimed, “How is this possible? The Xiaoniu Tribe is much more numerous than our Xishui Tribe. How is it possible that such a powerful tribe like yours only has so many people left?”

Niu Shuo’s eyes were deep, seemingly calm yet filled with hatred. “On our way to the Northern Wilderness, we were plundered by other tribes.”

The original team of 500 people from the Xiaoniu Tribe was reduced to only 40, many of whom were snatched back by the Amo Tribe.

On the side, Niu Xu closed his eyes silently as if he didn’t want to recall the dark past.

However, even with the hatred of genocide, Niu Shuo knew that it was impossible to fight against the powerful enemies relying solely on the remaining members of the tribe. Therefore, Niu Shuo wanted to take his partner Niu Xu and the remaining members of the tribe back to their former territory to start a new life.

Then a major earthquake destroyed everyone’s expectations for their future life.

It wasn’t until they met the Xishui people, who were heading toward the Black Mountain with their entire tribe, that Niu Shuo was forced to compromise.

Niu Shuo had never been to the Black Mountain Tribe, but he had fought together with members of that tribe. He knew that the Black Mountain Tribe was willing to travel through mountains and rivers to rescue their members, just like the Xiaoniu Tribe.

Perhaps joining the Black Mountain Tribe was their only way out now.

It was also due to this that Niu Shuo made up his mind to bring the remaining members of the Xiaoniu Tribe and follow the Xishui Tribe to the Black Mountain.

Qi Bai had a rough guess in his mind about the culprit that caused the extermination of the Xiaoniu Tribe. He asked, “Is it the Rough Wood Tribe?”

Niu Shuo nodded.

“The Rough Wood Tribe also migrated from the east. How dare they rob the Xiaoniu Tribe, who are more familiar with the Northern Wilderness?” Qi Bai frowned. “In addition, the Rough Wood Tribe even set their sights on the Giant Deer Tribe, one of the eight large tribes in the Northern Wilderness. This is too unusual. Aren’t they afraid of the revenge of other tribes?”

Niu Shuo said, “If the Rough Wood Tribe was just one tribe, they might’ve restrained themselves. However, it is a new tribe formed by the three major tribes of the east.”

Hearing this, Yang Luo stood up and asked, “The three major tribes of the east that you mentioned are Dayan, Sangmeng and Liangshi?”

Niu Shuo hadn’t expected the priest of the remote Black Mountain Tribe to actually know so much about the tribes in the east. He replied with an even more respectful attitude than before. “Yes, those are the three tribes.”

Niu Shuo had no idea that most of the members of the Black Mountain TRibe had migrated to the Black Mountain due to a great flood. Yang Luo was a wandering priest who had been wandering in the east for over 30 years and had been looking for a tribe. This meant he knew the general situation of each eastern tribe very well.

Previously when Dayan, Sangmeng and Liangshi were still in the east, they were the ones that no tribe dared to easily provoke. This was especially the case for Dayan, known for being warlike and brutal.

Qi Bai had just returned from the trading day and had conducted a detailed analysis of the power structure of the Northern Wilderness with Yang Luo. Therefore, Yang Luo had always known about the existence of the Rough Wood Tribe. What he didn’t expect was that the Rough Wood Tribe was actually a large tribe composed of these three tribes.

It must be known that unlike the eight major tribes in the Northern Wilderness who were willing to peacefully establish a trading day, the three major tribes of the east had never been on good terms.

It was precisely because they were wary of each other that the other tribes in the east could survive in the cracks.

Unexpectedly, after many twists and turns, they actually became one tribe and still followed their brutal style of doing things.

The only thing to be thankful for now was that the Black Mountain Tribe was located close to the habitat of the Beast God and was very remote. Ordinary tribes wouldn’t easily set foot on this land. The Rough Wood Tribe shouldn’t be interested in a remote place like theirs.

Otherwise, it was just a distance of a few dozen days. This was really frightening just thinking about it.

Seeing that Yang Luo looked unhappy, Hou Yan quietly patted Yang Luo on the back. Yang Luo’s attention returned to the four people in front of him.

Yang Luo took a deep breath and made a decision in his heart. He believed that Qi Bai and the other two must have the same idea as him.

Yang Luo said in a deep voice, “Think carefully. Once you join the Black Mountain Tribe, there will no longer be tribes called Xishui and Xiaoniu on the Beastman Continent.”

The four of them pounded their chests with their right fists. “Never betray.”

Yang Luo nodded and pointed his left hand forward. “Okay, from today on, forget your former tribe and accept the test of the Black Mountain Tribe. As long as you pass the test, you can become a member of the Black Mountain Tribe.”

The decision had been made to take in the Xishui and Xiaoniu Tribes, but everything needed to be re-planned now that there were so many new people in the tribe all of a sudden.

The most important point was that there was no place for everyone to settle in the tribe now.

The two caves that had been temporarily dug before, plus the children’s cave that had been vacated a few days ago, were now full of people. It seemed inappropriate to ask them to move into the private caves of other beastmen.

The beastmen of the Xishuo and Xiaoniu Tribes said it was nothing. “Can we use the old animal skins we brought to build a tent?”

Lang Ze nodded. “Yes, you can keep those animal skins. All the other food must be handed over to Priest Yang Luo tomorrow morning.”

It wasn’t that the Black Mountain Tribe wanted to withhold their food, but the tribe now worked and ate collectively. It was only by taking away their food that they could ensure everyone was at the same starting point.

Niu Shuo and Ma Song agreed very readily. After all, this was the condition they had proposed in the first place.

Moreover, they saw that the food of the Black Mountain Tribe was much better than what they had brought.

After making sure that the tribe members were able to settle themselves, Qi Bai and Lang Ze walked along the stone steps towards the cave.

Qi Bai looked at the rattan basket that Lang Ze had been carrying. He tilted his head and asked, “What are you holding?”

Lang Ze handed the rattan basket to Qi Bai with a hint of expectation in his eyes. “Take a look.”

Qi Bai blinked, unable to figure out what this thing was that made Lang Ze act so mysteriously.

He opened the rattan basket and saw the yellow beans inside. Qi Bai’s eyes widened. This…

There were many soybeans in the rattan basket.

“You want these beans, don’t you? Fortunately, this rattan basket wasn’t overturned like salt…”

Seeing Qi Bai suddenly stop and stare at the beans in the basket with silence, Lang Ze’s voice gradually became smaller. For some reason, he suddenly felt a bit guilty.

Qi Bai said in a muffled voice, “IS it because of these beans that you came back so late?”

Qi Bai hadn’t stopped for a moment since he returned to the tribe. Combine this with the changes in his body in recent days, and he had long forgotten the field of soybeans growing in the hilly area.

Unexpectedly, Lang Ze actually remembered it and even brought the soybeans back on his way to the beach.

However, at this time, the beans reminded Qi Bai that the place where they grew was one day’s distance from the sea. In other words, Lang Ze delayed his return to the tribe in order to help him pick these soybeans.

Lang Ze straightened up. “Of course not. Picking these beans was part of our plan, but…”

Qi Bai raised his head and said, “It was due to these beans that you encountered the earthquake?”

It was just as Qi Bai said. On the way back from the hill where they picked the beans, the salt-seeking team encountered a ground fissure and had to take a long detour.

“It is all my fault.” Qi Bai lowered his head and slowly moved forward while holding the rattan basket. “If I didn’t want these beans, you wouldn’t be in such danger.”

Since coming to the Beastman Continent, Qi Bai had encountered many dangers, but they were able to escape the danger every time. Perhaps he subconsciously ignored the many uncertainties that existed in this world.

“That isn’t the case.”

Lang Ze was a bit flustered. No matter whether facing wild beasts or enemies, Lang Ze had never been so at a loss as he was now.

He caught a glimpse of the wild bulls that were like a small mountain in the square. He said quickly, “If we hadn’t taken this detour, we wouldn’t have discovered these wild bulls in advance and our entire tribe would’ve been in greater danger.”

Lang Ze held Qi Bai’s shoulders with both hands, took a deep breath and said, “I know you know many things, and there are many things I might never understand.”

“But I want to help you accomplish this. I want to give you whatever you want.”