LSLFBW: Chapter 4 Part 2

Qi Bai had eaten a lot of good food before he got sick, but now he felt that no food in the world was better than the broth in his hand.

Qi Bai took a sip of the hot soup and instantly understood the meaning of food. He even felt a bit tearful.

You know, he followed the large group and had to run hundreds of kilometers every day on an empty stomach. It was like a lifetime ago that he felt such a warm feeling in his stomach. At this moment, he seemed to really feel like he was alive again.

The wild rabbit meat was very chewy. The rabbit meat that was only slightly cooked in the stone pot was very hard and bland, but Qi Bai used his pointed leopard teeth to tear off the meat strips and chewed it slowly. He actually tasted a hint of sweetness.

The meal took a long time. Everyone got a few bowls, and Qi Bai was no exception.

A piece of meat and some vegetables wasn’t enough for ordinary people, let alone beastmen who had a large appetite. Nevertheless, everyone only looked satisfied, and no one complained.

It was late at night. The rain that had been sticking to his body was finally dried by the fire.

It was just that Qi Bai couldn’t sit still at this moment.

He saw Hu Huo next to him rubbing grass ropes together with peeled grass stems.

He suddenly thought of the piranhas he saw during the day. An idea appeared in his mind and couldn’t be shaken off.

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Hu Huo was the horned beastman warrior chosen by Yang Luo today. It was due to his carefulness that he could find traces of the two wild mice.

In fact, due to the injury of his hind legs, Hu Huo hadn’t participated in hunting in his original tribe for a long time. Fortunately, he was dexterous. Sometimes, he could use the straw ropes and vines he twisted to exchange for food with other people in the tribe.

Of course, most beastmen had mastered these methods. Even though the straw ropes twisted by Hu Huo were uniform and strong, there weren’t many people who wanted to exchange with him. In addition, his disability caused the people in the tribe to think he was despised by the Beast God, and few people took the initiative to talk to him.

Hu Huo seemed a bit restrained when he saw Qi Bai approaching.

But when he saw that Qi Bai seemed to be interested in the straw rope in his hand, he slowed down his movements a bit so that Qi Bai could see more clearly.

Hu Huo used his right thumb and index finger to pinch the grass stem in his hand and gently rubbed it. The juice in the grass stem was squeezed out, and only the strong and tough plant fiber was left.

Then he twisted this section of fiber together with the already formed straw rope in his left hand. As his hand continued to move, the straw rope gradually lengthened.

Qi Bai watched with great interest but found that the grass stem used by Hu Huo wasn’t suitable for weaving baskets.

That’s right, Qi Bai wanted to weave a basket.

Qi Bai had been thinking about how to fish after seeing the piranhas in the river. After seeing Hu Huo’s movements, a simpler method appeared in his mind. But to realize this method, he needed to weave a large rattan basket with vines first.

Hu Huo listened to Qi Bai’s intentions and quickly helped him think of a solution.

“The straw rope I’m making now is used to dry rabbit skin.” Hu Huo’s hands kept moving. “Rabbit skins aren’t big, so the straw rope needs to be tough, but more importantly, thin. Otherwise, a good piece of skin will be ruined.”

Qi Bai listened carefully and nodded uncontrollably.

Hu Huo thought for a moment. “I haven’t seen the basket you mentioned, but you can try using green vines to achieve the effect you want.”

“Follow this direction.” Hu Huo pointed to the place where the hunting team had passed during the day. “During the day, I saw a large patch of green vines growing in that direction. You can cut some and try.”

Qi Bai was very happy to hear this. He took note of the appearance of the green vines, thanked the other person in a low voice, and walked out of the cave impatiently.

Qi Bai looked at the clouds in the sky. They seemed much thinner than the previous few days. The gray-blue sky could be faintly seen.

He silently prayed in his heart for the rain to stop as soon as possible.

The beastmen weren’t afraid of rain, but Qi Bai disliked the wet feeling more than before. Perhaps it was due to the nature of small animals.

Following the direction indicated by Hu Huo, Qi Bai didn’t walk far before he heard someone talking.

“Mother, I miss Father so much. Can we see Father again?” A small voice asked.

The person being asked replied, “Xiao Xia, have you forgotten what I said? You can’t call me Mother any longer.”

It was Lu Guo’s voice.

Lu Xia’s tone was tearful. “Mother, you said not to call you that in front of others, but now there is no one else.”

Lu Guo gently stroked Lu Xia’s hair. “You keep calling me like this, what if you forget one day?”

Lu Xia shook her head stubbornly. “Xiao Xia won’t forget.”

Lu Guo looked at the falling rain from the sky. “Is the meat delicious today?”

“Delicious! I wish we could eat a piece of meat every day!” Her voice suddenly lowered again. “Father could eat a piece of meat if he was still alive. Mother, do you think Father has meat to eat now?”

Lu Guo was silent for a moment. She didn’t answer the question and instead said softly, “As long as you don’t call me Mother, you can eat meat more often in the future.”

Little Lu Xia might be only 3 years old, but she already understood a lot of things. “Mother, will you leave me?”

Lu Guo smiled. “I won’t leave you. I will always be with you. But you have to remember, from now on, I am no longer your mother. I am just your slave. Can you promise me?”

Lu Xia’s tears came out again. She buried herself in Lu Guo’s body and nodded slightly.

Qi Bai tried to leave the mother and daughter as quietly as possible.

Lu Guo was a very smart sub-beastman. Unfortunately, she was a slave.

Mao Bai’s small tribe didn’t have slaves, but he was still familiar with the existence of slaves. After all, on the Beastman Continent, no one could guarantee that they wouldn’t become the next slave.

The beastmen world was short of resources, and tribes often fought with each other. The victorious party could not only obtain all the materials of the defeated party, but also own the defeated party’s beastmen.

The victorious party would often kill most of the adult horned beastmen who had the ability to resist. The remaining sub-beastmen and children would be branded as slaves.

These slaves might be left in the victorious tribe. The ordinary beastmen in the tribe would use a very small amount of food to make them do heavy work until they died of starvation, exhaustion or illness. They might also be treated as good and taken out to exchange with other tribes. There were even bloody and cruel cannibal tribes that especially exchanged for two-legged sheep as food reserves.

In most tribes, there was almost no difference between slaves and prey. The children born from slaves would naturally be branded as slaves.

Once they had this mark, they were no longer the same type in the eyes of ordinary beastmen, but objects that could be controlled at will.

Lu Xia was still young. She hadn’t reached the age to be branded when she encountered such a disaster and lost her previous tribe.

This disaster was a catastrophe for many beastmen, but for Lu Xia who hadn’t been branded as a slave, it might be a turning point.

Qi Bai walked forward with a heavy heart. She didn’t even notice that someone had followed him.

It wasn’t until the other party deliberately made a noise that Qi Bai was startled.

Lang Ze walked out from the shadows. He wanted to remind Qi Bai that it was really dangerous to have such low alertness in the wild, but the words didn’t come out of his mouth.

Fortunately, due to the continuous heavy rain recently, many animals had fled. Large wild beasts had run out of food and left the area.

So even though it was more difficult for them to hunt now, it was also relatively safer.

Qi Bai immediately swept away the haze in his heart when he saw Lang Ze.

Modern thinking told him that people were equal. He didn’t want to be a slave to others, nor did he want to be someone who enslaved others.

But now he was just a person, a person who was very confused about how to survive in this dangerous beast world, a person who needed to hide to prevent being discovered by others that his soul had changed. He currently had no power to change the rules of the entire world.

In this case, there was really no need to pass on his distress to others. After all, Lang Ze was a slave, and it must be very sad to hear such a thing.

Qi Bai sorted out his expression and said with a smile, “Lang Ze, where are you going so late?”

This sentence was actually what Lang Ze wanted to ask Qi Bai. He saw that Qi Bai had been outside for a long time and didn’t return to the cave, so he came out to find Qi Bai.

However, the smile of the little sub-beastman in front of him made Lang Ze stunned for a moment. The number of smiles that the other person had shown him in the past few days was more than what he had seen in the past ten years.

Lang Ze turned his head slightly and whispered, “Just take a walk.”