Chapter 3 Salt Soil

Beast World

The Mu tribe was still in disbelief that they had a priest.

Priests are the wisest beings on this continent and are the closest beings to gods.

If an old priest of a tribe leaves without training new priests, then the tribe will no longer have priests.

Entire tribes would be swallowed up or eaten by wild beasts while fleeing.

Until the elders of the tribe reminded them that when their old priest was still around, the leaders of each team in the tribe had to see the priest every day when the sun rose and follow the priest's orders to arrange the day's tasks.

They have a little bit of reality.

The Mu tribe was not annexed or eaten by wild beasts. Miraculously, they once again had new priests!

Although there are few people in the Mu tribe, they have an orderly division of labor. They have hunting teams, gathering teams, and guard teams.

The leader of the hunting team is Hu Xiao, the leader of the gathering team is Tu Dong, and the leader of the guard team is Tu Feng.

The three men came to the priest's cave with smiles on their faces, and saw their chief priest sitting beside the extinguished fire, looking haggard.

Shen Nong weakly raised his eyes and looked at the people who came, without even bothering to ask them why they came.

Last night he pulled a fire stick from the fire to light up the cave.

The cave is quite large, so it seems very empty.

Shen Nong saw that there was an area at the innermost part where something was laid out and thought it should be the place to sleep.

When I got closer, I saw a piece of "alopecia areata" animal skin on the ground.

Although the animal skin was not rotten, the whole piece of skin was hard and gave off an unpleasant smell.

Shen Nong lifted up the animal skin and used it as a wooden board.

However, he also knew that he could not choose such an environment, so he had to endure the discomfort in his heart and force himself to sleep.

Not long after I fell asleep, I heard a buzzing sound in my ears.

The sound was extremely annoying, as if it was constantly buzzing in his head. Then Shen Nong felt something biting him all over his body.

itch.

Shen Nong scratched subconsciously, and the more he scratched, the more it itched he became. There were a few places where he felt slight pain, and he couldn't see in the dark, but he could feel that he had scratched.

Mosquitoes have become extinct in the interstellar city. They can only be seen in the dense forests. However, the mosquito repellent water developed by them can kill mosquitoes within a radius of ten meters with just one drop.

Except for the time when Shen Nong was bitten by mosquitoes in the dense forest before being picked up by his master, he has never experienced this feeling again.

There seemed to be a huge family of mosquitoes in the cave, and they looked like they were going to suck Shen Nong dry.

Shen Nong was caught off guard and stood up in anger.

There's no way to continue sleeping in here.

Fortunately, the fire outside was not extinguished to prevent wild animals from catching any. Shen Nong sat in front of the fire, looking at the dark pink bumps on his naked skin, and then checked the places where he had scratched himself.

He was so itchy that he scratched his head, but in order to avoid making the condition worse, he had to restrain himself from scratching.

He sat in front of the fire all night.

When it gets light, he will go look for mugwort.

Otherwise he won't be able to sleep.

Seeing Shen Nong's haggard appearance, Hu Xiao immediately stopped smiling. He knew that he couldn't live without meat, and the priest's eyes were dark from hunger.

Hu Xiao brought the piece of meat he had been carrying with him to Shen Nong again, and said earnestly, "Priest, please eat some."

Shen Nong held on to his fragile nerves and refused without hesitation, "I don't like eating meat."

Don’t like meat?

Hu Xiao looked at Shen Nong in surprise. There are people in this world who don’t like to eat meat!

"Then, priest, do you have any grass or berries that you like to eat?"

Hu Xiao pulled over the only female among the three.

"This is Rabbit Dong from the gathering team. She is in charge of the entire gathering team. You can tell her what the grass and berries you like to eat look like. Rabbit Dong is very smart and can remember everything."

Shen Nong suddenly became energetic. He wanted to hurry to complete the first task and see the use of the infrastructure point.

I also want to go out and find some mugwort to repel mosquitoes so that I can sleep well.

He is hungry and annoyed by mosquitoes.

It would be great if someone could help him find mugwort now.

Shen Nong took a branch and drew on the ground for a while, and the shape of mugwort appeared.

Hu Xiao and the other two never stopped exclaiming since Shen Nong picked up the branch and started painting.

"I know the priest is recording!"

Hu Xiao stared at the wormwood drawing on the ground with shining eyes, and said excitedly: "Every time I go to the Salt Department to exchange salt, their priest will take a black stripe and record it on the wooden board. He draws it like this, with little people and salt stones."

Tufeng is from the guard team. When changing salt, the hunting team is short of manpower, so the guard team has to go along.

He thought of what he had heard from other tribes before, and realized how powerful Shen Nong's casual drawings were. "The Salt Tribe priest learned from the High Priest of the Beast City, and only then did he know how to record."

Tu Feng didn't dare look at Shen Nong. He bowed his head respectfully, his voice trembling as he asked the question he dared not think of, "Priest, are you from the Beast City?"

Beast City is the place that orc warriors most yearn for.

Both words carry sacred meanings.

Shen Nong glanced at the three people and found that they either looked fascinated or extremely respectful.

What is this beast city?

"It's too small." Shen Nong thought of the superstitious appearance of the Mu tribe before, and decided to play a big game, which would also help him gain a deeper foothold in the tribe. "I came from the Beast God."

! !

The three of them had no doubts about this, because they had never heard of a priest having so many sacred artifacts and even knowing how to make a fire.

More importantly, the priests were summoned by them through forbidden blood sacrifice.

This is an ancient forbidden technique of the Mu tribe, which can fulfill one wish of the wisher.

If successful, there will be no harm to those who participated in the blood sacrifice. If it fails, all those who participated in the blood sacrifice will die.

And the blood sacrifice has never been successful.

The Mu tribe had failed twice before. If it failed again this time, only the elderly and children would be left in the Mu tribe.

They risked their lives and succeeded in summoning the priest.

I originally thought that the people summoned were the successor priests from some other tribe, but unexpectedly, they were the priests around the Beast God!

Shen Nong supported his head and watched the changes in the expressions of the three people calmly.

From shock to even greater awe.

He secretly affirmed that by following the path of superstition, superstition would have no place to go.

From now on, he has to establish his mysterious personality.

"By the way, what are you guys here for?"

Shen Nong then remembered that he didn't know why the three people came.

Hu Xiao repeated to Shen Nong what the old man in the tribe had said to him. Shen Nong understood that he was here to assign tasks.

In that case, he won't be polite.

The stone pots and bowls were difficult to use, so Shen Nong wanted to make some pottery. He said to Tu Feng, "The guards should dig some soil from the nearby stream and send it to the fire."

"In addition to the daily collection, the collection team should pay more attention to mugwort this time."

Tu Dong nodded, staring at the wormwood pattern on the ground and tracing it in her mind, remembering what it looked like. Thinking back to the time when she had never seen it in her previous collection range, she decided to go a little further this time.

"I go hunting with the hunting team."

Shen Nong stood up, brushed the dust off his clothes, and felt a little dizzy.

I feel weak from hunger.

He insisted on eating fresh meat today.

..

On the hunting trail, Shen Nong watched the primitive scenery with great interest behind the team.

Hu Xiao, who was exploring the way ahead, suddenly turned back and shouted, "Priest! There are people ahead!"

The hunting team was located very close to the altar that the Mu tribe had built earlier. The people in front not only found an unconscious teenager, but also found some dead prey around.

They were all left behind by the previous cannibals when they were trying to escape quickly.

Shen Nong went forward to check the boy's breath. The boy was covered in blood, especially his entire face was covered with blood.

Following the traces, Shen Nong found that the boy only had signs of being attacked by a blunt object on his head.

The wounds that can make you bleed all over your body are enough to be fatal.

But the strange thing is that the injury doesn't seem to be serious, the skin is not broken, and this level of injury can only cause dizziness.

"Isn't this someone from the Ze tribe?" The more Hu Xiao looked at him, the more familiar he felt. If it weren't for the blood on his face, he would have recognized him earlier.

"Ze Tribe?" Shen Nong asked doubtfully, "Is this tribe close to us?"

Since Hu Xiao knew that the priest came from the Beast God, he became a little reserved. But he subconsciously stood straight, wanting to show his strength and let the priest look at him more.

But what he didn't realize was that the "power and might" that he thought would impress the priest was just a skinny bamboo pole supporting a chicken coop and a scarecrow in Shen Nong's eyes.

"Starting from the tribe, walk around Cangshan Mountain towards the rising sun. It will take you about the same time as roasting two sheep to reach the Ze tribe."

After Hu Xiao finished speaking, he looked at the unconscious boy and suggested, "Priest, it is inconvenient to take him with you when hunting. I will ask someone to send him back to the Ze Tribe. It only takes the time of a roasted sheep and a half to get there from here."

Shen Nong calculated the time and it was quite close.

They wanted to hunt, and it was too dangerous to bring someone who couldn't move with them.

After carefully checking the other party's injuries and making sure there was no problem, Shen Nong asked Hu Xiao to select someone to send the boy back to Ze tribe.

While Tiger Roar was picking people off, Shen Nong rubbed the blood off his hands with his fingertips, and after rubbing a large area of ​​his skin red, he finally wiped it clean.

Not long after I washed the blood off my body in the river, my hands were stained with blood again.

He thought to himself that if he had the conditions in the future, he would at least prepare a handkerchief for himself and carry it with him.

When the system saw Shen Nong's series of actions, it flipped through the other party's information and kept reading it. Then it transformed into a little man, rolling on the ground and laughing wildly.

It’s so interesting, a mysophobia person traveled back to the primitive times.

That’s so miserable, hahaha.

Shen Nong listened to the system's laughter and guessed what was going on. Of course he was miserable.

But the worst thing is that it is not enough to travel back to the primitive age, and you encounter a group of people who want to skin you alive.

——

The hunting team finally arrived at the place where the Mu tribe used to hunt. Shen Nong took out his wooden warehouse and checked its condition.

His wooden magazine has two modes. One mode is loaded with bullets and has lower damage than the other mode.

The other mode is the laser mode. This is a new model from StarCraft, with silver carvings all over it, very delicate and powerful.

When this wooden warehouse was pre-sold, it was more popular with females than males in the galaxy because of its extremely high appearance.

However, Shen Nong was born to like beautiful things, and because this wooden storage box was very convenient to carry when conducting research outside, he placed an order as soon as it came out.

There are still thirty bullets in bullet mode, and forty percent of the energy is left in laser mode.

Although the system can be used to buy bullets and recharge energy, the system is very stingy. Shen Nong doesn't know how many infrastructure points he will have to spend to buy them.

He could only save some of them, but he had to complete the first mission today and feed the entire tribe, so at least half of the bullets had to be used.

After Shen Nong confirmed Mu Cang's status and looked up, he saw that everyone in the hunting team had one fist clenched on their heart, lowered their heads and faced him, saying the same sentence at different speeds, "Please give us strength, Beast God."

Before Shen Nong could react to what they said, he watched the magic trick for more than thirty seconds.

Some people turned into sheep, some turned into tigers, some turned into cats, and some turned into rabbits, cows...

Although they are different species, their sizes are several times larger than normal animals.

There are also green totems on the forehead, with winding outlines. From a distance, they look like blooming flowers, which are very beautiful.

Shen Nong once again refreshed his knowledge of this continent, so he not only traveled to an extremely backward primitive era, but also to the primitive era of orcs that had never been recorded.

The cry of a wild boar was heard not far away, and the hunting team transformed into animals and ran out at an astonishing speed.

Prey doesn't wait for anyone, and Shen Nong doesn't have time to think about what kind of world this is.

He ran in the direction of his prey, then quickly climbed up a tree and began looking for the right moment to replenish his wood storage.

From time to time, a "bang" sound could be heard in the forest. Every time a bang was heard, the Wood Tribe would harvest a medium-sized prey.

Because Shen Nong was there, the Mu tribe had a rich harvest this time, hunting seven medium-sized prey the size of cows and ten small prey the size of chickens and ducks.

This was the first time that the hunting team hunted so much food in such a short time.

Sometimes they were so hungry that it was difficult for them to even transform, but this time they were finally able to eat their fill.

According to the system calculation, the amount of food is enough for the Mu tribe to have a full meal, so they began to settle the task for Shen Nong.

Shen Nong took the infrastructure point and followed behind the team. He had nothing to do, so he opened the system mall and found that only one was lit.

It was a bag of white sugar. The original price was marked as 1428, with a line drawn through the price, followed by a discounted price of 999.6.

If Shen Nong bought it, the remaining 0.4 infrastructure points could be rounded off to zero.

He said that this system task is not simple, it tricks people into boarding the ship and then kills them. It is indeed a first-hand plug-in, but this plug-in can only be used for viewing.

The system is so cunning that it blocks the infrastructure points and only lets you buy what it tells you to buy.

As soon as I finished complaining in my mind, a new task popped up over there.

[Task 2: If you have a skill, you won’t have to worry about having no food to eat. Let your tribe have at least three different skills! ]

【Reward: 9,000 infrastructure points. 】

Shen Nong looked at the infrastructure points which were nine times more than before, and once again silently chose to accept the task.

This time the system gave me a lot...

The guards who stayed in the tribe saw from afar that the hunting team came back so early and thought that they didn't get anything this time.

As a result, when they got closer, they found that the members of the hunting team had smiles on their faces, and everyone, except the priest, was holding prey in their hands.

The guards helped to process the food, leaving some for tomorrow's meal, and then they quickly skinned and processed all the remaining prey.

Hu Xiao used a bone knife to cut off the tenderest meat and handed it directly to Shen Nong.

"Priest, Rabbit Winter hasn't come back yet, so there's no grass to eat. Eat a piece of meat first to fill your stomach."

Shen Nong looked at the piece of meat dripping with blood and didn't think it was much better than the meat that was moldy and green.

His stomach ached with hunger, but Shen Nong couldn't say no to the food. "Put it down first. I'll cook it and eat it later."

After thinking for a while about the meaning of "cook it", Hu Xiao tried to persuade their priest who had a strange taste, "Priest, if you cook meat with fire, it will turn black. You can't bite it, and it will be bitter in your mouth."

Shen Nong then realized that there was no oil here, and it was indeed not very good to grill meat. However, he had no cooking utensils, and after staring at the meat for a while, he remembered that he had asked the guards to dig the mud when he left.

"Tufeng, is the mud you dug over there by the fire pit?"

Being questioned suddenly, Tu Feng put down the meat in his hand, stood up straight and nodded, "It's all there."

Shen Nong took the meat from Hu Xiao's hand and asked Hu Xiao to find a few large leaves that were used to wrap the dried meat for him.

Shen Nong had never seen this leaf before, it must be unique to this world. After drying, it was quite tough, and it was quite good for wrapping things.

When they got to the fire pit, he remembered that Hu Xiao had said that he went to the salt department to exchange salt, so he asked Hu Xiao, "Do you have salt?"

Hu Xiao reacted for a while and then said yes.

While Hu Xiao got the salt, Shen Nong washed the meat.

"Priest, salt!"

Shen Nong's eyes lit up and he looked at the salt that Hu Xiao brought with joy.

Although salt alone won’t taste much better, it’s better than nothing.

Then he saw Hu Xiao open the salt...soil that was tightly wrapped in unknown large leaves.

It's more like salty soil than salt.

The meat is covered with dirt, and the taste is so strong that I can't even eat it.

Shen Nong asked unwillingly, "Apart from saline soil, are there other salts?"

The salt here doesn't refer to saline soil, right?

Hu Xiao scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "The Salt Department has salt stones, but because our tribe cannot produce enough animal skins or other good things to exchange for salt every time, the Salt Department will not exchange salt stones for us."

It turns out there is salt stone. Fortunately, Shen Nong breathed a sigh of relief.

He almost thought that unless he discovered a salt mine, or saved up enough infrastructure points to exchange salt for the mall, he would have to look for salt in the soil if he wanted to eat it.

Shen Nong didn't want to eat soil, but since he had taken it anyway, he took some salt soil and mixed it into the mud he was going to use later.

Seeing this, Hu Xiao thought that the priest would not eat salt soil, so he explained to Shen Nong.

"Priest, salt must be sprinkled on the meat to make it taste good."

Although the salt soil tastes bad, it gives him strength after eating it, and he likes the feeling of having strength.

Shen Nong was tired, and he was too lazy to explain, "Oh, I'll pay attention next time. You guys eat first."

Hu Xiao felt a little sad about the salt soil that was put into the mud, but he was a priest, so it would not matter even if the priest scattered the salt soil.

As usual, he sprinkled more salt on the meat for the hunting team, and a little more salt on the meat for the guard team.

If you hold it a little higher, it will be blown away by the wind.

Shen Nong wrapped the meat with leaves, smeared wet mud with salt on it, and wrapped the whole piece of meat.

Then a small fire was brought out from the fire pit and the wrapped meat was thrown into the fire to roast.

Hu Xiao looked at Shen Nong's smooth operation and it would be a lie to say he was not surprised.

It’s bad enough that the priest doesn’t like to eat meat, but why does he like to wrap meat in mud and play with it?

The children in the tribe don't play with mud.

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