LSLFBW: Chapter 9

Finding salt was the most important thing for the tribe. Now that there was a clue, they had to go and try it.

Moreover, according to Ma Ling, the sea was only four or five days away from the tribe at most.

Don’t think that a journey of four or five days was long. In the past, the tribe had to go to the neighboring big tribe to exchange salt. In the beastmen world, the distance between tribes was very far. Take Mao Bai’s previous tribe as an example. Their previous salt exchange team usually took more than a month to exchange salt back. There was no need to talk about the hardships.

However, even Yang Luo didn’t know about the method Qi Bai mentioned. Everyone was full of doubts about whether salt could be found in the sea.

The most important thing was that according to Ma Shu and Ma Ling, the location of the sea they saw was before everyone arrived at the Black Mountain. They had been chased to the Black Mountain by the flood, so no one knew how dangerous it was to go back.

But even if there were dangers, the beastmen would never give up easily as long as there was a goal.

It was just that now was a time when the tribe was short of people in various places. Yang Luo couldn’t let Qi Bai take away too many people at once. They also needed to try their best to find other ways to get salt around here.

Finally, a five member salt seeking team was formally established.

The leader was naturally Qi Bai, but Qi Bai could only play a role after finding the sea. Before that, a guide was needed.

Ma Shu and Ma Ling were undoubtedly the first members to be selected. Lang Ze, who was most familiar with Qi Bai in the tribe, was naturally in the team.

The remaining beastman was recommended by Yang Luo.

He was an old horned beastman named Xiang (elephant) Yu.

Perhaps due to the influence of their beast forms but Xiang Yu, who was an elephant, and Ma Shu and Ma Ling, who were horses, were very good at recognizing the road. After Ma Shu and Ma Ling carefully described the place where they met with the group, Xiang Yu quickly remembered the place and promised that he would be able to lead everyone there.

In addition, the most important point was that Lang Ze, Ma Shu and Ma Ling were all horned beastmen who just became adults while Qi Bai was a sub-beastman teenager. They lacked experience in surviving alone in the wild. They must be led by an older horned beastman before Yang Luo could let them travel with confidence.

For this small tribe, every member was precious.

Yang Luo provided some food for the salt seeking team.

Thanks to the appearance of the black bear, the tribe now had a lot of bear meat left. Yang Luo gave the five of them enough bear meat for around three days. Each person received four or five catties.

As for the wild vegetables and wild fruits that could be taken at any time, Yang Luo didn’t give them any.

It was the first time that Qi Bai got so much meat. He went outside the cave to find some clean leaves and prepared to wrap the meat well.

However, as soon as he returned to his resting place, he saw that Lang Ze had lit a small fire, cut the bear meat into stripes, and skewered it on branches to roast.

Qi Bai asked, “Lang Ze, what are you doing?”

Lang Ze saw Qi Bai’s actions and knew that he didn’t intend to roast the bear meat. It was no wonder. As a sub-beastman, Qi Bai rarely had the opportunity to travel far. Thus, Lang Ze reminded him, “Fresh meat will soon rot and can’t be eaten. We need to roast the meat into jerky. This will ensure that it won’t rot, but most importantly, the cooked jerky can be taken out and eaten at any time if we can’t make a fire on the road.”

Qi Bai hit his head. He really hadn’t expected this. In fact, he knew how to roast jerky, or the original Mao Bai knew how to roast jerky. In the early days of his escape, the small animal skin bag on his chest was filled with the jerky that Mao Bai had accumulated. However, it was already gone when Qi Bai came through, so he didn’t have a deep impression of it.

Thanks to Lang Ze’s reminder, Qi Bai also quickly roasted the meat he was given. Then Qi Bai discovered another advantage of roasting meat. It was that compared with fresh meat, jerky was much lighter and more suitable for traveling.

No words were spoken that night.

The next morning, Qi Bai felt an unprecedented warmth as the first ray of sunlight fell on his face.

Qi Bai walked out of the cave. The rain that hadn’t dissipated yet sparkled under the sunlight. The whole world seemed to be rejuvenated all of a sudden.

The rain had stopped.

It was as if to congratulate the newly established tribe or to cheer out the team that was about to go out for an expedition. The gloomy weather that had lasted for almost a month finally cleared up, and the continuous rain stopped.

Qi Bai and his group embarked on their journey under the eager eyes of all the tribe members.

Unlike the urgency of their escape, Qi Bai finally had the opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of this world.

Towering trees could be seen everywhere, and the grass and trees that were wilted by the rain stood up again in just a few days.

The movement tracks of small animals could be seen between the mountains and the forests. They didn’t find any large wild animals in the area, which was good news for the few people on the road.

Of course, what surprised Qi Bai the most was that after the rain stopped, mushrooms grew everywhere. Many could be picked on the side of the road.

The natural freshness and fragrance of mushrooms made a great dish even without any seasoning.

In addition, Lang Ze and the others occasionally caught some rabbits, who hid in the ground and could easily be spotted on the unflooded terrain.

They hurriedly sat out on the road every day at dawn and didn’t stop until it was completely dark.

But for Qi Bai, he had roasted rabbits and mushrooms to eat every day. It was like an outing compared to the days when he was fleeing.

It wasn’t until the evening of the fifth day that Qi Bai stood on the cliff and looked down. Then his heart started to stir again.

It was the sea!

Qi Bai grabbed the rattan basket on his body and barely managed to hold back from jumping up. He pointed at the blue color that was connected to the sky and said, “We found the sea! We have salt!”

Ma Shu and Ma Ling were still a bit scared when they saw the sea. After all, they had seen the beasts in it ‘eating’ many animals and beastmen. But after hearing Qi Bai saying that they would have salt soon, joy overcame fear. “There is only water here, no salt. Where can we find salt?”

Qi Bai grinned. “Don’t worry. Let’s find a place to settle down first. We can get salt tonight.”

The beach had a wide view and wasn’t suitable for building a shelter. Xiang Yu explored the surrounding area and finally chose a big tree with its back to a big rock.

Regarding building a temporary shelter, their group had cooperated quite well over the past few days.

Once Qi Bai cleared all the vines and weeds on the ground and leveled the ground with branches with leaves, Lang Ze and the others returned to the camp with some branches, leaves, and hay.

Normally, they wouldn’t lay out hay because the sun had just sunk, and it wasn’t easy to find hay. More importantly, they would only sleep there for one night, and there was no need to bother.

Today was different. Qi Bai had already told everyone his plan to stay at the beach for two or three days.

According to the usual years, it was still early autumn now. They still had plenty of time to prepare for winter.

The abnormal thing was that the temperature was close to the temperature where autumn was about to end in the past.

Qi Bai was afraid they wouldn’t have time to come here again. After all, it would take seven or eight days to go back and forth. This was why he decided that they should extract as much coarse salt as possible.

Then their temporary camp needed to be built with a bit more care.

The three horned beastmen were very quick. In a short time, they had built a simple frame, added some hay and branches to the frame, and spread a layer of hay on the ground.

Qi Bai took a few steps back and checked it. There was a big stone behind them to block the wind and prevent being attacked by wild beasts from behind. In front of them was a simple straw shed. Of course, this straw shed was very simple, and there should be no problem in blocking the same. It would just be hard if it rained again.

However, Qi Bai looked at the clear autumn nights these days and felt it wouldn’t rain again for a while.

Xiang Yu started a fire while everyone was busy.

Except for Xiang Yu, who was guarding the fire at the camp, the other four were divided into two teams.

Since Ma Shu and Ma Ling were really afraid of the sea, they went into the forest behind them to hunt today.

Qi Bai felt that the scene they described was probably a tide caused by the storm, or the rainstorm a few days ago was due to a typhoon at sea. Therefore, when they approached the seashore, huge waves swept beastmen in. The beastmen had no knowledge of sea rescue and would find it hard to stand up again once swept down by the huge waves. If there was another big wave after that, it would be hard to escape.

Now the sea was calm. There was generally no danger as long as they didn’t go to the beach at high tide.

The above judgments were all based on the judgment of the sea on Earth. In view of the endless huge creatures on the Beastmen Continent, Qi Bai was still very careful.

This time when going out, Yang Luo generously let everyone carry a rattan basket. There was a handy beastman like Hu Huo in the tribe, so Yang Luo wouldn’t lack rattan baskets.

It just saved Qi Bai a lot of effort now.

Qi Bai’s footsteps were brisk. The seafood feast he had been thinking about the entire way was finally here.

Qi Bai was born in a city by the sea. When he was young, he often followed adults to the beach to catch seafood. If the tide was low, he just had to stand on the beach. After a wave, there would be clams blowing bubbles under his feet. Qi Bai already felt it was a lot at that time.

But the old people at home told Qi Bai that when they were young, there was so much seafood on the beach that they couldn’t pick it up on time. Many seafood washed up by the waves caused the beach to stink.

At that time, the fish and shrimp near their small fishing village were half given away and half sold. No one wanted them. It wasn’t like now when they cost dozens of yuan per catty on the beach.

Qi Bai had never seen such grand occasions because with the increase in marine pollution and the number of tourists, there were already more people on the beach than seafood. Therefore, Qi Bai had always been skeptical about the old man’s statement.

Until today, he finally knew what it meant to stink up the beach if he couldn’t finish eating the seafood.