LSLFBW: Chapter 81

“Awoo~”

The pair of big ears on the white wolf’s head flapped a few times, and he stretched out his big claws towards the winnowing basket beside him. The winnowing basket, which wasn’t big to begin with, looked even smaller due to Lang Ze’s beast form.

Even so, Lang Ze insisted on stretching out a claw and pushing it forward.

Seeing the large wet paw prints on the stone platform, Qi Bai immediately understood what he meant.

This was to wash himself clean in advance and be ready for Qi Bai to comb his hair.

This made Qi Bai, who was confused, grasp the last bit of rationality in his mind. He ran back to his cave and put the date berries away.

These were meant to be saved for peeling the seeds, but he almost fed them directly to the wolf.

After finding the small comb in the stone cabinet, Qi Bai hurried out.

Lang Ze rested his chin on his front paws, curled up his body, and used his tail to circle the person beside him.

Sure enough, the beast form was more useful.

During the past few days when the Xishui Tribe left, Qi Bai looked no different from usual, but in fact, Lang Ze hadn’t seen him so relaxed for a long time.

Qi Bai plunged into Lang Ze’s fur. The fur of Lang Ze’s body was the same as his personality.

Just gently peel off the hard surface, and he could feel the softest and warmest fluff in the world.

Qi Bai was indeed feeling depressed these days.

Every time he thought about Lang Ze facing such a strong enemy, he always wanted to do something.

However, the reality was that he didn’t know much about the Beastman Continent. He didn’t have a golden finger capable of destroying the world after transmigrating.

It seemed that he couldn’t do anything other than give Lang Ze a little doll, hoping that the little doll could accompany Lang Ze.

This thought made Qi Bai a bit depressed, but he didn’t expect for this emotion to be discovered by Lang Ze again.

Qi Bai tried hard to calm his mind and rolled a few times in the white wolf’s fur. He was full of energy when he got up again.

Qi Bai held the small comb tightly in one hand and slowly smoothed the fur in his hand with the other.

It was obvious that Lang Ze was the one who was under greater pressure, but now he had to comfort himself. This wasn’t okay. Qi Bai silently clenched his fists. He couldn’t hold Lang Ze back.

The sun was shining brightly on a spring afternoon. A breeze blew across the stone platform, causing the giant wolf’s fur to sway gently in the wind.

Qi Bai patted the giant wolf’s neck. “Okay!’ He turned around and covered the fur in the winnowing basket.

The giant wolf stood up and shook his body vigorously. Then he turned into human form. “Didn’t you say that you have too little fur? You can use my fur from now on.”

Lang Ze was no longer the same as before, where a handful of fur scattered like dandelions if he wasn’t careful, but his body size was still there after all. Even if he just combed it, he would lose more fur than Qi Bai.

Qi Bai was like a happy old farmer. He nodded and happily counted the fruits of his harvest. Of course, he would secretly glance at Lang Ze’s well-proportioned and beautiful muscles from time to time.

The two of them sat casually on the stone platform, and Lang Ze said, “Starting tomorrow, the hunting team will go hunting in a farther place.”

Qi Bai’s ears pricked up. “Why so sudden?”

“It isn’t too sudden. We need to store enough prey for the tribe.”

Qi Bai understood a little bit. “Is the tribe going to organize people to go to the seaside to get salt?”

Lang Ze nodded. “In addition to the salt we consume ourselves, we need to store more and exchange it on the trading day.”

Qi Bai was a bit excited when talking about this.

His family wasn’t bad in his previous life, but it definitely wasn’t enough to afford a lavish life.

However, now it was different. Mao Bai had never been to the trading day, but he still knew the most basic things.

For example, there might be no clear concept of currency on the Beastman Continent, but salt was hard currency no matter what.

Therefore, the Black Mountain Tribe, with its back to the sea, seemed to be carrying a huge treasury.

Qi Bai’s eyes shone, and he tentatively stretched out his paws, wanting to splurge. “I need to prepare more. I must buy a lot of things when we get to the trading day!”

“Buy?”

“It is exchanging salt. Oh, I have never been to a trading day. Lang Ze, have you been there? Are there a lot of fun things there?”

Lang Ze laughed. To him, even during the biggest trading day on the grassland, the things that could be exchanged were far less rare than what Qi Bai had made.

Just seeing how curious he was, Lang Ze became more excited about this trading day.

“But autumn is still a long way off. Do we need to prepare so early?”

Qi Bai was a bit confused. According to the Xishui Tribe, the trading day in Xushan wouldn’t start until autumn. Wasn’t it necessary to wait for the autumn hunt before setting off?

“It takes 30 days from the Xishui Tribe to the location of the trading day. We are even farther away, and last year’s winter came earlier than usual,” Lang Ze explained. “In order to avoid being trapped on the road by the wind and snow, we need to leave early and return early.”

“Don’t worry. There will be tribes exchanging food on the trading day. If we don’t have enough food stored in advance to survive the winter, we can exchange some on the trading day.”

Sure enough, in the next few days, the hunting team returned to the tribe later and later.

Similarly, the amount of prey brought back was increasing.

Today, the hunting team brought back a big one again.

The gate of the tribe opened, and the first ones walking in front were Xiang Yu and Xi Zhou. A vine as thick as a wrist was tied to the body of each of them, and the other end of the vine was tied to a huge bull.

The best form of Xi Zhou had become much larger, but it still seemed not enough when facing even larger beasts.

Compared to Xiang Yu’s ease, Xi Zhou was obviously holding back his unwillingness to admit defeat. As soon as he entered through the tribe’s gate, he changed into human form and sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

In addition to the wild bull that the two of them dragged back, Lang Ze and his companions were also holding smaller prey in their mouths. After traveling for half a day, everyone looked a bit disheveled.

Quan Nan stepped forward to help Hu Qiao deal with the fawn he was holding. Hu Qiao changed into human form, approached Quan Nan, and said with a smile, “We encountered a whole herd of wild bulls today. I was the first to bite the hind leg of this wild bull, making it leave the group!”

Xi Zhou ignored Hu Qiao’s flamboyant appearance and said with regret, “It is such a pity to let them run away when they have so much meat.”

Suddenly, Xi Zhou’s eyes lit up. “Bao Bai, can we drive the wild bulls back and raise them? That wild bull is much larger than the four-eared sheep in the sheepfold.”

He patted the bull’s hind legs and said, “Look, this is all meat!”

Lang Ye looked up. “Yes, they are quite fleshy, but these wild bulls can uproot large trees growing in the soil. What are you going to use to trap them?”

Xi Zhou was speechless for a moment. Then he lowered his head in a dejected manner.

Lang Ze kicked Xi Zhou’s butt and said to Qi Bai, who was in a trance, “Don’t worry about Xi Zhou. The herd of wild bulls isn’t something that can be easily provoked.”

What the hunting team needed to consider now was not how to keep the bulls in captivity, but how to drive the herd of wild bulls at least half a day out of the tribe’s range.

Otherwise, with their huge bodies and violent tempers, it would only take a moment for them to destroy the tribe that everyone had worked so hard to build.

Qi Bai shook his head. “I’m thinking of another question.”

Lang Ze looked at Qi Bai.

Qi Bai didn’t continue the question, but changed the subject and asked, “How long does it usually take for a hunting team to reach the hunting location?”

Lang Ze thought for a while before saying, “The sun is still in the east.”

Lang Ze didn’t have the concept of 24 hours. Of course, Qi Bai couldn’t be sure that a day in the Beast World was 24 hours.

But after living with Qi Bai for a long time, Lang Ze had roughly figured out Qi Bai’s definition of time. It wasn’t simply day or not, but he divided each day into more detailed parts according to the direction of the sun and the moon.

Therefore, even though he couldn’t accurately describe the time to every minute or second, he was able to describe it in the way the two of them were accustomed to.

Sure enough, Qi Bai immediately understood Lang Ze’s meaning. He estimated that it would take around three or four hours.

Then he asked, “So when will the hunting team return?”

Lang Ze said another time.

Qi Bai did some calculations in his mind and was shocked to realize that it took the hunting team almost twice as long to return to the tribe due to dragging back the prey.

In addition, dragging such large prey would require more than two or three times the physical strength.

Qi Bai thought carefully about the several times he went hunting with Lang Ze.

Every time they hunted large prey, it was also very difficult for them to bring the prey back to the tribe.

But at that time, he was always thinking about getting more food and completely ignored this matter.

Qi Bai raised his head and looked at Lang Ze seriously. “You said before that we can exchange for food on the trading day, but it is such a long way. Even if we exchange a lot of food, have you thought about how we are going to bring it back?”

Lang Ze was stunned.

He had never thought about this. It should be said that in the Beastman Continent, probably no beastman would encounter such ‘trouble.’

Qi Bai clenched his right fist and pounded his left palm, muttering to himself, “Yes, this is a big problem. Our current transportation capacity is far behind our productivity. This must be solved!”

Compared to Qi Bai’s worries, the attention of the horned beasts in the hunting team was quickly attracted away.

It was because they were told by the tribe members staying in the tribe that the lime mortar applied on the outer layer had dried up, and the tribe’s toilet was ready to use.

Now it was great. All the fatigue from a whole day of running was gone. Even Xi Zhou, who had been sitting on the ground, felt full of energy. He jumped up and followed the group to the northeast corner of the square.

The other tribe members looked at them happily. They were very familiar with this scene. After all, it had happened all day.

In front of the square house, there were two entrances symmetrical to each other. In the middle of it was a dreamy wall.

They saw a large circle on the outside of the wall. The edge of the circle was an uneven relief made by Qi Bai using mortar.

Of course, what surprised everyone the most was that all the leaves originally attached to the wall had been picked off, leaving traces of leaf veins of varying sizes on the wall.

Combined with the two 3D flower beds made by Qi Bai with mortar, this simply dazzled everyone’s eyes.

“Spring was left in the Black Mountain Tribe forever…”

It wasn’t known who murmured this. Then everyone started cheering.

“Spring!”

“So beautiful!”

At this time, Ma Ling pushed through the crowd and said, “Please move aside. I’m going to the toilet. Those of you who don’t want to go to the toilet should go to the back and wait.” Then he strode in.

Everyone looked at Ma Ling’s back. Then he remembered with annoyance the rule that Qi Bai had said that only one beastman could enter a compartment at a time. Then they started urging Ma Ling.

Ma Ling didn’t care about them and was looking around curiously inside.

On the other hand, the situation in the female beastmen’s compartment was much more harmonious.

There were only two female horned beastmen in the tribe. One was the big sister, Bao Yue, who had been playing crazily during the day. The other was He Yan, who had just returned to the tribe.

He Yan, who could occupy a room all to herself, became the envy of everyone.

This was also the reason why Qi Bai built the toilet beautifully. After all, the beastmen were used to freedom, and forcibly restraining them wasn’t a good idea. What Qi Bai wanted to see was everyone taking the initiative to adapt to the changes in the tribe.

However, not everyone could always enjoy the tribe’s newly built public facilities.

By hunting such a big bull, the tribe had a guaranteed source of food for the next few days.

It was time for a larger salt-hunting team to assemble and set off.

However, this time, Qi Bai took the initiative to stay. After all, there were more important things to do that could only be completed by him.