Survival In the World of Beasts

There were no restless single males in Howling Valley, and they seemed a lot quieter for a while. Maybe this is the reason why Bai took them away?

Seeing Ahman jumping happily again, he knows that he has now joined the female team again. Without the single males who circled around him and fought in animal form in front of him, his little days have returned to happiness. .

The males are led by Li and Xiao to patrol twice a day. Probably because of the previous cleanup, the situation is okay, and it goes well, except for occasionally seeing Miss Brachiosaurus alone, they don’t have long eyes. Outside the attacking predator, everything was calm.

It's a pity that even Miss Brachiosaurus has been densely arranged with many traps, and the secret of Miss Brachiosaurus not stepping on the traps is...Always be loyal to her stomach and follow the sweet taste.╮(╯-╰) ╭All the predators who came to attack were defeated at the point that they did not eat sweets.

The females already had experience in caring for corn seedlings, and the marshland could not be planted for a while. Li Shizhao led the females to cultivate and level some more land on the hillside and fill it with fertilizer. of.

The more cultivated land on the hillside was planted with the wheat, vegetables and fruits that were later raised. These seeds are not many, and the land has surplus. The main food source in Howling Valley is still meat. The livestock they brought before and afterwards The hunted carnivores have filled the temporary shortage of food.

Occasionally when it is safer outside, the females also go to the forest outside to collect some fruit and vegetable roots to enrich their recipes. Li Shichun will also examine which plants with higher yields are suitable for transplanting into Howling Valley. Of course, Miss Brachiosaurus prefers sweetness. The females of plants such as sweet grass have already planted a large area, and all the vacant land in Howling Valley has been sprinkled with various sweet grass seeds. Although it cannot be supplied as a staple food, it is a snack for Miss Brachiosaurus. no problem.

This is probably the benefit of being a mascot. Even if Bai is the leader, the females in Howling Valley did not raise a valley pig to accommodate his appetite.

After seeing Li Shizhen’s crude iron knives, Mu’apa developed a deep interest in various ores. Now in addition to Guan Xiaohei’s house, he has also cultivated a hobby of picking stones, and even mobilized The male helped him to collect various stones. These stones can be exchanged for good weapons from him, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the males to collect stones. So blame the old man that there is no shortage of various ores. If there is nothing to do, let Li Shizheng go. He looked at the stones.

There are indeed a lot of red stones with extremely high iron content, but Li Shizhao finds it very strange that these stones are not only different in color, from red to grayish-black, but also in different growth environments. Some were directly found in hard rocks, and some were exposed in the wilderness.

Not only that, it seems that the composition of the stones collected by the males is also very different. Li Shixun has tried to extract red stone with charcoal before, but the very red ore in the Xuefeng Valley can be easily melted. Later, he collected it. The gray-black or even gray-white ore is not necessarily, it can be seen that the melting point of these ore is not exactly the same.

Without the corresponding equipment in his hands, Li Shizhao could not determine the specific composition of these stones one by one, but one thing is certain. Those iron ore that is not red may be some kind of alloy. Li Shizhao even thought that these stones should be celestial death stones, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the purity and high melting point. Unfortunately, the males did not find craters nearby, and these stones were not concentrated in a certain place. It was found in one place, but scattered everywhere, which is puzzling.

However, Li Shizhao didn't bother to investigate this problem of tracing its roots, and only allowed the males to collect these special colored ores for future refinement.

These experiments are all exploratory. Mu'apa was on the sidelines with gusto, asking some questions that Li Shizhen could hardly resist. More realistically, how to process these easy-to-refined ironware into various utensils, molds and so on is a problem. Therefore, we need to return to pottery.

However, Li Shixun previously thought that there should be coal mines under the swamp. He originally speculated that if this place is a lake with a long history, then the plant and animal carcasses deposited hundreds of millions of years ago should be produced by coal mines, but in In the course of leveling the swamp, he found nothing but a thin layer of peat.

Whether it is making pottery, refining ores, or even burning bricks for building houses in the future, a lot of fuel is needed. There is no coal mine, but wood can only be harvested. Many glorious civilizations in human history later proved to be destroyed by this civilization. Excessive logging in the process.

In the short term, they don't have to worry about this issue. After all, they are surrounded by dense forests, but in the long run, they still need a strategy.

However, Howling Valley was not always calm, and Li Shizun did not expect that the first thing that happened would be so tricky.

When Xiao Mantou found him profusely, he was arguing with Muappa about the possibility of using the refined ore to make bows and arrows.

"A-Zhao, come with me... cloth, cloth he is not good..."

Li Zhixun was immediately taken aback, knowing that most young orcs are very healthy, with few diseases and disasters. This is why Muappa is so relieved to hand over Howling Herbs to Li Zhixun, who has little experience.

"Don't worry, talk as you walk, what's going on?"

Xiao almost ran and said, "Today we were the leader of the patrol, and Bu suddenly collapsed in limbs. My brothers and I lifted him and came back first."

"No other symptoms? What did you eat when you set off? How was he at that time?"

Xiao recalled carefully and said: "We all ate in the valley and set off. It should be the meat, nothing else. When we set off in the morning, he didn't have any other reactions, just as usual."

Seeing that Xiao couldn't find any useful information here, Li Shizhao still had to check the situation first.

The males arranged Bu in his and Ran's small tree house, and Ran was also notified that he had arrived, and accompanied Bu with a pale face.

When Li Zhizhen came over, he hurriedly got up to give in and almost stumbled on the ground. Li Zhizhen supported him and handed it to Ache, who exhorted him: "Watch Burning well, don't let him think about it."

Then he lowered his head to check the state of the cloth. It was obvious that he was in a coma now, and had no response to outside sounds. Li Shizhao was about to reach out and lift his eyelids to look, but found that it was hot!

The nose is also very dry, and there are no very special symptoms in other places. These conditions are so familiar. Li Shizhao turned around and asked Ran: "What did he eat this morning and what was unusual?"

Burning his mind was panic, some incoherent words: "No...#￥％#..."

Hearing that he even spoke the language of the Leopard tribe, Li Shizhao quickly turned around to calm down and said, "It's just a fever, it’s not a big problem. Burn, you calm down first. Your answer is very important to heal the cloth. Recall it carefully. , Or was there anything unusual about the cloth yesterday? What did you eat? What did you drink?"

Ran finally managed to calm down, stumbled and stated. Li Shizhao frowned when he heard it, Bu did not seem to eat anything special, that is, the same grilled meat as usual, and the other males also ate the same food, but he was in a coma with a high fever.

Ran intermittently said: "He...this morning...is uncomfortable...I, he accompany Yun, he is going to patrol..." Yun is the little leopard's name, so it seems that it is not a sudden symptom.

Li Shizhu asked, "Is there nothing special yesterday?"

Ran recalled carefully, and shook his head anxiously and distressedly.

Li Shizhao pondered for a moment, and said, "This is very similar to Bai's situation at the time. I'm not sure, maybe it's about to become a human form."

Ran opened his eyes wide, just anxiously gestured: "He, will he be okay?" Ran didn't care whether he was a human or a leopard, as long as he was okay.

Li Shizhen was also not quite sure. Bai's situation at the time was hovering between life and death, but he still had to ignite his confidence and stabilize his emotions first: "Bai succeeded at the time, you see that he is not doing well right now. Yeah." But Li Zhizheng still needs to confess the things carefully. "This fever will last a long time, so pay attention to cooling down and supplementing nutrition."

Then he carefully told Ran how to apply cold water to his forehead. If his body temperature is higher, he should even cool down under the armpits. As for nutrition, at the time when the fever was the most severe, he could not swallow food and could only feed fluids. food. Li Shizhao thinks about it now that the dangers at the time left him with lingering fears.

The situation of the cloth now is much better than they were at the riverside. After all, there is no shortage of water in the Howling Valley, and there is even clean groundwater seeping from the mountains behind. There is no shortage of food or anything. Boil more soup if possible. Males catch some fish by the way, and appropriately supplement vitamins, salt and protein.

After Li Shizhu finished the explanation, he felt that it was not a special case that Bai Hebu was able to change his body so late. Only Bai could be said to be accidental, but now it is also like this, which is really puzzling.

This situation is very rare among the Tiger and Wolf tribes in the Xuefeng Valley, and even the later bear tribe. The description of the Leopard tribe and the observation of Li Zhixun at the time are the same as those of Bai. Case.

Li Shizhao was puzzled, always felt that there was a clue he had not grasped. However, at present, it is still necessary to pay close attention to Bu's physical condition. Although he is relieved to say that Bai is fine now, the danger of Bai's transformation is still vivid and cannot be neglected. After all, their grown-up bodies undergoing such drastic changes are far more painful than experiencing such changes in their childhood, and their bodies react more strongly.

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Here, Bai, Yong, and a group of single males trek eastward. Although Bai has not been to the east a few times, Yong has never been there time after time. The road is fairly familiar.

The things that Li Zhitong gave them for trading were prepared according to the white instructions, and nothing special, they were all animal skins, animal bones, and herbs that were not used in Howling Valley. Even the quantity of these items is not large. Yong felt that these items could not be exchanged for much salt based on previous years' experience, but Bai seemed confident and courageous to obey his orders, but he never questioned it publicly.

In previous years, they used a lot of things to exchange salt. The middle way was to take a raft down a relatively gentle river, and then back along the land with the salt. According to the experience of the tigers in previous years, in this season, the water flow is abundant, and the predators in the water have enough food. Generally, they will not easily attack large rafts. There will be some minor troubles on the land, but the waterway is still peaceful.

This time, Bai does not intend to change the itinerary, even if there are few things, the one who should go by water is still by water.

Most of the males on the raft waded down for the first time, very nervous, patronizing the raft firmly and not being thrown off, there was no accident, there were huge black shadows on the water surface from time to time on the raft. The next moment it passed away, but it retreated silently because of the size of the raft. There will never be fewer animals to drink from the river. If it were not for the dry season, these predators would rarely challenge prey larger than themselves. For predators in nature, if they can take one point less risk, they will never take another point.

When they finally docked, the raft only drifted for a day and a night.

When they arrived at the docking point, the other males were busy removing things from the boat, but Yong finally did not hold back, and quietly asked, "Bai, do you know how to change the salt?"

Bai looked very surprised: "You haven't changed it yourself?"

Yong was stunned: "No."

White:……

Yong explained: "In previous years, Yu Emu led the females to change. We and Qing Apa were right there waiting for them to discuss, and we should move the salt."

Bai was quite surprised: "You really don't know how to change it?"

Yong shook his head: "I really don't know." He had watched, but he himself had never participated.

Bai pondered: "In any case, go and see first." He hasn't even been here before, and of course he doesn't know. Before he communicated with Yong, he even thought he was going directly to Bay City to change the salt, but he didn't know that Apaam and the others were actually just a small salt changing spot.

They followed the direction that Yong took the lead for only a day or two, and the beasts became rarer and rarer, and gradually they found traces of the activities of the orcs.

However, Bai Heyong's footsteps suddenly stopped this day, and the two looked at each other, their expressions became very solemn at the same time, and even the orc males who followed suddenly became restless. Because all the males smelled a smell-blood.

There are traces of orc activities all around here, there are no beasts at all, so there is such a strong, fresh smell of blood.

Bai stopped the team with a wave of his hand, and made a few gestures. The well-trained males immediately dispersed, each looking for a place to hide and smearing the fruit to eliminate the smell.

Bai himself wiped the fruit, and the cat moved quickly towards the place where the smell came from, under the shelter of the surrounding bushes and big trees. But when he arrived at the place with the heaviest **** smell, seeing this scene in front of him, even Bai, who had been accustomed to the **** slaughter, couldn't help but frown slightly.

Obviously, this was a massacre. The slaughtered party was a group of orcs. The corpses on the ground were all males. Those wounds were caused by arrows passing through the vital points. There was no living mouth at the scene. Some of these males were in human form, and some were in animal form. The farthest one evaded under a large tree far away but failed to escape the fate of being killed, and was nailed through the throat by a long arrow.

Bai picked up a gray feather on the ground, his expression thoughtful.

At this time, the sky was already quiet, and the corpses on the ground seemed to be warm.

These should not be the residents living nearby. Seeing the posture of these orcs staying, they are preparing to cook here. The bonfire has just been set up. The things they bring are very complete. The cooking utensils and sheds are very complete. They should be a long-distance trek. Then, Bai even saw a thick pile of messy animal skins, and sun-dried fruits that were turned in a mess.

These people...the same purpose as them, they are here to exchange salt.

Moreover, Bai bowed his head and found a lot of fruits in the basket on the side. Males usually don't eat this kind of thing. So, kill the male and take the female away?

Bai's footsteps are very light, and he is even very careful. He does not step on the grass or the blood to leave footprints. When necessary, he jumps on the trees to change his perspective. After observing all the conditions, he quietly retreated back in the same way, without disturbing all the plants.

The order that Bai gave after returning was very simple. All of them continued to conceal and stopped moving forward temporarily. He even cautiously kept the four outposts to monitor the situation in four directions.

However, everything was calm, as if the vague blood floating at the tip of the nose was just an illusion.

As the sky darkened, Bai ordered everyone to start making auspicious clothes. Of course, this production process was also required to keep as quiet as possible and not disturb everything around, especially possible targets in the sky. After the sky darkened, the orcs' eyesight did not need torches at all. They can see things without hindering their production process.

The males in the auspicious suits simply ate some dried meat, and after concealing all the goods under Bai's order, they proceeded lightly.

He simply talked to Yong and Mo about the origin of the **** smell on the road. Yong couldn't help frowning and whispered, "This salt... can it be changed?"

Mo also hesitated very much: "That group of orcs' goods are still there. Isn't it because of this reason, is it just grabbing females?" But in his uncertain tone, it was obvious that he didn't believe in slaughtering all males in such a frenzied manner to grab females.

Bai shook his head: "It's not that simple, let's change the salt spot first."

A dozen males quietly reached the destination while it was dark. Except for a few torches, the place was silent, but there was no particularly strong smell of blood. The orcs were relieved, at least not dead. People here should It's okay.

Bai waved silently, the males withdrew to the high woods, and each concealed on the tree according to the order.

The sky was getting brighter the next day, and the appearance of the salt change looked much clearer than in the night. This should be a small village with more than a dozen wooden houses, and even the surrounding area is planted with some plants like Howling Valley, but it is by no means as organized as Howling Valley’s plan. The ground seems very messy. It seems that it just throws seeds at random. Take care of it again.

There are many people living in the village. The males can see their activities from a distance from a high place, but the males are only hidden like this all day long. They eat dry food such as dried meat. White commanded Still no change.

The males don’t know why Bai didn’t order to approach the village, just let them squat in the tree, but for a long time, whether it was hunting, training or patrol, they at least developed a discipline to follow. Everyone will discuss Bai’s order in private. , But the implementation will never be compromised. At least countless times have proved that Bai’s decision is definitely not made in a vacuum.

And this time, there are no exceptions.

A day later, a group of people greeted the village. From a distance, there were females and males. All the people in the village came out to greet them. They seemed to have a very humble attitude, bowing, cuddling and opening the way.

That night, the clouds were overcast, there was no moon, and the stars were very dim. Several black shadows flashed across the height of the village, and the male on duty quietly informed Bai that the black shadows moving in the sky did not know. From a distance, dozens of eyes quietly watched their every move.

Soon, there was a raging fire in the village, and amidst the chaos and crying, more shadows appeared in the sky above the village. It is hard to tell whether it was a war or a massacre. Looking at the arrows flying up and down at the same time, at least the village is not. There is no resistance at all. The males of Howling Valley did not rush into it, and it is undoubtedly a stupid choice to get involved in right and wrong for no reason.

Both sides of the war do not know who is right and who is wrong, and only relying on subjective assumptions, Bai will never be able to use his life as a bargaining chip to bet on the correctness of his inference.

Bai asked Yong a question: "Which direction is the closest to the river here?"

Yong quickly thought for a while and pointed a direction.

Bai Yi waved his hand, and the males of Howling Valley silently withdrew to the direction of the river bank in the light of fire and the sound of flying arrows.

The vertical distance between the river bank and this village is not too far. They trudged in the middle of the night and arrived before dawn. A group of white-collar workers went upstream, and Yong followed Bai's order to lead another group to search downstream.

Bai didn't gain anything in the upper reaches, because they found a shoal not far away. This shoal probably also explained why Qingappa would choose the stop point so far, which is really helpless. However, the appearance of this terrain did not conform to Bai's inference, and the group quickly turned back, and as expected, they heard two long and one short crisp bird songs far away.

The males looked at the thing by the river in a little amazement. It was certain that this thing could move forward in the water. It had the same function as a raft, but it looked much more complicated and advanced than a raft.

Whether it was Yong and the others waiting in place, or those who followed Bai, everyone looked at Bai with a little admiration and amazement in their eyes.