The morning light penetrated the clouds, and the cave was already very busy.
Led by Hu Xue and She Li, the beastmen collected rainwater and started cooking.
Today’s breakfast was still a combination of meat and vegetables, but the meat was the entrails of the rabbits and mice that had been cleaned yesterday. The fire under the stove hadn’t been extinguished, so breakfast was quickly prepared.
At this time, Lu Guo had led a team out to look for large stones and still hadn’t returned.
Everyone hurriedly finished breakfast and left rations for Lu Guo and the others.
Hou Yan had already led the horned beastmen to the Man-Eating River. They brought several rattan baskets that Lang Ze and the others had prepared last night.
The gathering teams still needed to go out to gather. So after Hu Huo and some half-grown children had collected the green vines, only Qi Bai was left in the cave to watch the fire.
Even Yang Luo went to the Man-Eating River.
The Man-Eating River was too dangerous. If any beastmen fell into the river, their flesh and blood would be eaten clean by the piranhas in a few breaths.
So even though Qi Bai explained their method in detail yesterday and Lang Ze could demonstrate it today, Yang Luo was still worried and ended up following them in person.
On the other hand, Qi Bai had to stay and teach the children who couldn’t hunt to weave rattan baskets with Hu Huo.
Qi Bai arranged for a 7 or 8 year old child to stay in the cave to watch the fire. Then he and everyone else started weaving rattan baskets at the entrance of the cave.
The little beastman left behind was very curious about what they were going to do, but at the same time, he knew that guarding the fire was more important. He could only scratch his head and look at the entrance of the cave.
This was originally a peaceful scene, but danger suddenly struck.
First, Hu Huo suddenly sniffed from where he was sitting at the door. Then his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted to everyone, “Hurry up and get into the cave!”
He had just finished speaking when—
Roar!
There was an earth-shattering roar like a thunderbolt hitting the ground.
The seven or eight children surrounding Qi Bai and Hu Huo had already honed their amazing reaction speed in the difficult survival.
At Hu Huo’s command, several people instantly threw down the vines in their hands, turned around, and ran into the cave.
There was a rustling sound of branches being stepped on and broken in the forest. The ground shook from time to time.
Suddenly, a huge creature pushed aside the dense bushes and the owner of the voice revealed its true appearance.
It turned out to be a black bear nearly three meters tall!
The black bear roared loudly at the entrance of the cave. Qi Bai even vaguely smelled the stench from the black bear’s mouth.
Qi Bai gasped. Then his side was shrouded by a shadow.
A huge red fox with a single horn on his head suddenly appeared.
He blocked the entrance of the cave with his whole body and roared threateningly at the black bear.
It was Hu Huo!
The black bear was frightened by his momentum and hesitated for a second. Soon, it continued to roar fiercely. After all, its size was much larger than Hu Huo in front of it.
But it didn’t attack rashly. It kept wandering around and testing. After a few times, the black bear discovered something was wrong.
The red fox just tried to scare it away and refused to leave the cave entrance because there were many children hiding behind the red fox.
This realization made the black bear even more excited. It had been trapped by the heavy rain for days and hadn’t eaten for a long time. Now seeing so much food, how could it not be excited?
During the testing, the black bear even discovered the disability of Hu Huo’s hind legs.
Roar!
The black bear stood up, pounded its chest violently, and roared at Hu Huo to attack.
Hu Huo naturally couldn’t retreat. There were many children in the cave behind him. The children were the hope of the tribe. No beastman would give up on the children.
His legs might be lame, but he was still an orc beastman. As long as he was still alive, the black bear could never hurt his children.
Hu Huo no longer insisted on defending. He ran out in the direction of the black bear’s attack without flinching.
The battle had started!
At this time, no one noticed that a small leopard quickly flew out along the edge of the cave and disappeared in the mountain and forest in the blink of an eye.
Unlike the brute force of the black bear, the attack of the fox required more skills.
It was difficult for Hu Huo’s teeth to bite through the thick fur of the black bear. Every time the black bear’s heavy claws hit Hu Huo, it might be fatal to Hu Huo.
Hu Huo’s hind legs ultimately restricted his movements. He had to admit that he could no longer fight as bravely as other beastmen warriors.
But Hu Huo wasn’t afraid.
Beastmen warriors were never afraid of death!
Even if he died in battle today, he would protect the children behind him. This was also his honor as a beastman warrior!
The tribe didn’t allow disabled beastmen warriors to participate in hunting. They believed that these disabled horned beastmen would bring misfortune to the hunting team.
Therefore, Hu Huo hadn’t fought so hard for a long time since he was injured. He knew he couldn’t defeat the black bear in front of him, but this didn’t mean he would admit defeat!
Hu Huo couldn’t help letting out a loud cry. This was his determination to die with the black bear!
The black bear was slightly forced back by Hu Huo’s sudden increase in attack.
At this moment, a snow-white figure flashed into the battle between the fox and the bear like a meteor.
The little snow leopard revealed the sharp claws on his pink pads, firmly piercing the fur of the black bear. His two hind legs pushed upwards vigorously, and the whole snow leopard tightly grasped the back of the black bear.
“Ahhh!” Hu Huo roared anxiously, hoping that Qi Bai would quickly get off the black bear.
However, Qi Bai didn’t retreat. After standing still, he quickly climbed up along the back of the black bear.
The black bear had already discovered Qi Bai on its back and was swinging its body, trying to throw him off.
Hu Huo saw this and raised his two front paws before pouncing at the black bear.
The black bear’s attention was distracted by Hu Huo again. Qi Bai took advantage of this gap to climb onto the black bear’s neck.
The next second, Qi Bai turned into human form with his two legs wrapped around the black bear’s neck. One hand grasped the black bear’s fur and the other hand grabbed the small bone knife that he had been biting.
He inserted the bone knife fiercely into the black bear’s left eye.
Roar roar roar!
The black bear screamed in pain as blood spurted out.
QI Bai didn’t hesitate in his actions. The moment he hit the black bear, he immediately pulled out the bone knife. As the black bear was screaming in pain, he stabbed the black bear’s other eye.
At this time, the black bear started to struggle violently like it had gone crazy. Its two claws slapped upwards randomly.
Qi Bai had nowhere to escape from the black bear. His hands could no longer hold onto the black bear’s fur. He was thrown out like a cannonball.
At this speed, he would be disabled, if not dead, if he hit the ground directly in his human form.
Qi Bai quickly changed his body in the air and turned into a white fur ball.
Qi Bai’s thoughts raced. It was said that snow leopards were national first-class cliff jumpers. He hoped that his beast form lived up to this reputation.
However, the expected pain didn’t come.
Qi Bai fell onto a warm place.
He looked up and saw Lang Ze’s red eyes.
Lang Ze was back!
The other members of the hunting team followed closely behind Lang Ze. It turned out that Bao Xing saw the black bear and went to the Man-Eating River early to report the news.
The giant wolf gently put down the snow leopard in his arms to the ground. His eyes were full of murderous intent as he looked at the black bear.
A group of huge beasts with sharp horns on their heads turned the tide of the battle in an instant.
Lang Zes’ sharp fangs finally pierced the black bear’s throat deeply.
The black bear was at the end of its strength and completely forgot its fear. It burst out with its last strength to shake off the beastmen beside it.
The black bear, who had lost its eyes, remembered the smell that made him feel pain and rushed straight towards Qi Bai.
“Awoo!” Lang Ze issued a rapid warning.
Qi Bai looked at the black bear rushing towards him, dug the ground with his four paws, and quickly jumped onto the high platform on the stone wall.
The black bear was looking for the smell and almost charged into the stone wall. The black stone wall was instantly stained with blood.
Boom.
The huge figure of the black bear slowly slid down in front of the stone wall.
The deathly silence was followed by deafening cheers!
People gathered around Hu Huo, who had been fighting to the end.
Qi Bai, who was on the stone wall, only felt frightened at this time. His limbs lost strength, and he couldn’t stand up for a while.
He lay quietly on the high platform, watching the people cheering under the stone wall. His heart was also very excited.
There was a slight noise beside him.
It was the giant wolf Lang Ze. He jumped lightly with his slender limbs and was already standing on the high platform.
Lang Ze’s beast form was still tall but thin. His gray fur was gently blown in the breeze.
The warm touch of his fur seemed to still linger around Qi Bai’s side.
Qi Bai was a bit eager to move. This feeling should be smooth to touch.
Of course, he was just thinking about it. Lang Ze had a cold personality and Qi Bai wouldn’t easily offend him.
The giant wolf took a few steps forward and turned into a human form.
He said nothing and just sat next to the snow leopard.
After a long time, he seemed to remember something and put the bone knife in his hand in front of the snow leopard. It was the bone knife stuck in the black bear’s eyes that Qi Bai didn’t have time to pull out.
Lang Ze’s slightly hoarse voice sounded. “Legend has it that the bone knife made of the spine of the black bird is the strongest blade in the world. Only the most powerful beastmen can own it.”
Lang Ze turned to look at Qi Bai with deep eyes. “You have lived up to this bone knife.”
The atmosphere of the entire tribe was high due to the hunting of the black bear.
The panic brought by the black bear had been swept away. This was the daily life in the beastmen world. Every day was facing unknown challenges. Challenges would never defeat the strong hearts of the beastmen.
The beastmen returned to the Man-Eating River and carried the captured piranhas back in rattan baskets. In just half a morning, three baskets were filled with piranhas.
Apart from the collection team led by Tu Ya, who had to pick more red fruits, the few people led by Lu Guo needed to continue polishing the stone pots.
Most of the remaining people participated in the processing of black bears and piranhas. Everyone was busy.
At this time, under the platform of the stone wall, Hou Yan led the horned beastmen to start processing the black bear on the spot.
The black bear was too big, so it was best to deal with it on the spot. Their most important task now was to keep the bear skin as intact as possible.
Hou Yan pointed at the black bear’s teeth. “This black bear’s teeth haven’t fully grown yet. It is a bear that has just grown up. In a few years, their bodies will become bigger. Black bears aren’t the target of our hunting team. Just stay away from them when you see them in the future. As long as you don’t take the initiative to provoke them, you don’t need to be afraid even if you meet them in the wild. They are slower than most beastmen.”
Qi Bai couldn’t help being a bit surprised. A black bear that was nearly three meters tall had just become an adult. You know, if it was Earth, it would have the potential to be the ‘Black Bear King.’
Still, it wasn’t surprising when considering the size of the beastmen. The beast form of the sub-beastmen had nothing to do with the body, and the animal form of the adult sub-beastmen was mostly around half a meter.
Compared with the beast form of the sub-beastmen, the most important thing about horned beastmen was that their size would gradually increase as their strength grew, in addition to having an extra horn on their heads.
For example, the just grown-up Lang Ze was already nearly 2.5 meters tall in his beast form.
Of course, the huge beast shape didn’t mean everything. On the contrary, the sub-beastmen with fertility could always be respected in the tribe.
Hu Meng said happily beside him, “It isn’t us who wanted to provoke it, but it delivered the meat to us.”
Qi Bai choked when he heard this. Hu Meng was a bit stupid. How could this be considered as the black bear taking the initiative to provoke them? Wasn’t this situation obvious enough?
These outsiders not only occupied the cave of others but now wanted to eat the bear’s meat.
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