Chapter 4 Cannibals
No Life (Repair)
While waiting for the meat to be cooked, the collection team returned.
The gathering team is the largest team in the tribe. The elderly, children, and young people like Maocao are all in the gathering team, nearly forty people.
Each of them had his arms full of berries and wild vegetables.
However, what Tudong and those teenagers collected were different from others.
Their faces were covered by plants, which were very long, more than 1.7 meters long. The rhizomes were covered with green leaves, tied in bundles.
Those who are shorter can only carry it on their shoulders.
Maocao was very lively. He carried a long-rooted plant on his shoulder and ran towards Shen Nong waving from a distance, "Priest! We found mugwort!"
Is there really mugwort here?
The unique smell of wormwood swept over as the cat grass got closer and closer. This smell couldn't be fake!
Shen Nong looked at the mugwort that Mao Cao and his team had collected. They were very large, about 1.7 meters tall. "Where did you find it?"
Rabbit Winter said: "It's by the river, but this river is very close to the Ze tribe. We don't usually go there."
Shen Nong thought to himself that it was no wonder. He had walked past the small river near the Mu tribe, and there was no mugwort at all.
"Priest, is this the mugwort you're looking for?" Hu Xiao sniffed the strong aroma of mugwort in the air. "It smells so good. What are they used for?"
Shen Nong divided the mugwort into two parts, explained how to use it, and answered Hu Xiao, "Mugwort can repel mosquitoes. Cut one part into pieces and boil it with hot stones. Sprinkle the boiled water where you live, and there will be no mosquitoes when you sleep at night. You can also apply some mugwort water on your body. Hang the other part up to dry in the sun."
After learning that wormwood can repel mosquitoes, its status has risen sharply. Although they are often stung by mosquitoes, they have become accustomed to it.
But if you can drive away mosquitoes, who would want to be stung and have bumps all over the body and feel uncomfortable and itchy?
Tu Dong put the berries and wild vegetables of the collection team together and piled them into a small hill. Then he divided the collection team's needs according to the previous amount and gave the rest to Shen Nong.
The berries and wild vegetables taken away by the entire collecting team accounted for less than one-tenth of the total.
On average, each person got three berries and a handful of wild vegetables.
Moreover, there is no intention to take the meat.
Shen Nong pointed to the countless pieces of meat on the left and reminded them, "You haven't received your meat yet."
Everyone in the collection team stared with their eyes wide open, staring at the countless, bright red and fresh meat, which was more than ever before.
Regardless of gender, age or status, everyone couldn't help swallowing their saliva.
Want to eat.
They hadn't eaten a whole piece of meat for a long time. Except for the winter gathering team that could get some meat, they had no meat to eat at other times.
The only meaty taste was the remnants of meat on the bones.
Although it is obvious at a glance that the food hunted this time is enough for everyone to eat meat and be full.
But the orc warriors have a huge appetite, and if they are not full, they will not be able to transform.
This meat is only enough for the orc warriors to eat for two days and has nothing to do with the gathering team.
Tu Dong thought Shen Nong was not aware of the tribe’s plan for meat, so he explained, “Priest, the gathering team usually does not separate meat.”
Shen Nong glanced at the berries and wild vegetables in their hands and asked, "If you don't eat meat, can you be full just by eating these?"
Tu Dong smiled and said, "We don't need to transform, nor do we have to do any physical labor. We just go back to the tribe after collecting every day and don't go out."
Thinking of the food they normally eat, he added, "If we are really hungry, we will eat grass and insects, anything edible."
Shen Nong frowned. He hunted so hard just to ensure that everyone in the tribe had a full meal.
What if the collection team insists on going hungry, and the system goes back on its word and counts their mission as failed and deducts their infrastructure points?
Shen Nong thought of his character, so he calmly made a standard hand gesture of Avalokitesvara, "This is the food given to you by the priests. It is the order of the Beast God."
Soon Shen Nong got the answer he wanted. Not only the gathering team, but also the hunting team and the guard team folded their hands on their chests, closed their eyes, and expressed their gratitude devoutly.
Shen Nong laughed and insisted that he use his ultimate move.
It was the first time that everyone in the gathering team had solid meat to eat outside of winter, and Hu Xiao even sprinkled some salt on everyone's meat.
The old people held the soft and fresh meat in their palms, staring at it, unable to believe it was real.
They thought it was hallucination due to hunger. Many tribesmen who starved to death said before they died that the Beast God sent them food in their dreams.
They were so hungry that they accepted the gift from the Beast God.
Then they all went to see the Beast God in the end.
The old people were so frightened that they almost dared not take it, for they were afraid that it was a "gift from the Beast God."
The kind that you will see the Beast God immediately after answering it.
The group of teenagers and children in Maocao didn’t think too much about it. They started eating after receiving the meat.
He took a bite and his mouth was covered with blood.
But they ate it happily and it seemed delicious.
Watching the children devouring the food, accompanied by the rumbling of hungry stomachs, the elderly began to gnaw on the meat with great effort one after another.
When I tasted the fresh meat, I couldn't help but sigh that it was better to have priests.
When collecting, Tudong told them that the priest was summoned by them from the Beast God.
The priests around the Beast God might be able to lead the Wood Tribe back to the Beast City again.
Shen Nong had never seen the Mu tribe eat meat, so he was still a little uncomfortable. He estimated that his meat was almost cooked, so he took the stick and took the mud out of the fire.
He held a stone in one hand and knocked the hardened mud apart bit by bit. At first, the people in the Mu tribe were wondering why the priest suddenly started playing with mud.
When the unique aroma of Konoha wrapped in the smell of meat wafted out, they suddenly felt that they could not swallow the fragrant meat in their hands.
The meat of Shen Nong is already very tender, and after stewing and roasting, it becomes even more tender and juicy.
Salt soil is added to the mud, and the salty taste penetrates into the meat, which also has the fragrance of grass and trees, neutralizing the greasiness of the meat.
Tear open a piece of meat and put it in your mouth. Although it has only a light salty taste, the meat is tender and fresh, so it is edible.
To Shennong, this is just "edible" meat, but to the people of the Mu tribe, it is a rare delicacy in the world.
"Priest, it smells so good."
"Priest, please teach me how to play with mud."
The people of the Mu tribe were almost stunned by the smell of the meat in Shen Nong's hand. They had never seen such a way of eating it before. They didn't know that meat wrapped in mud would smell so good.
Shen Nong was afraid that they would drool, so he had to take another piece of meat to demonstrate.
For a moment, those who were pulling leaves were pulling leaves, and those who were digging the soil were digging the soil. They were so busy that their feet had no time to rest on the ground, and their minds were full of delicious meat.
They completely forgot that they had two other people in another tribe.
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Ze tribe.
"Priest, the "divine blood" has been sent back by the Wood Tribe."
In the dim cave, the old man sat cross-legged on the animal skin.
His exposed skin was as dry as dead tree bark. After hearing the report from the visitor, a terrifying light flashed in his cloudy eyes.
"I'm glad you're back."
He was ready to give up the "divine blood". Unexpectedly, the beast god favored him and the "divine blood" was sent back to him.
The old man asked somewhat worriedly, "Did the people from the Wood Tribe find anything?"
"No, they just thought they were members of the tribe who were abducted by cannibals."
The visitor paused for a moment, then said hesitantly, "But when the 'divine blood' was taken away, it whispered something in their ears. The voice was too soft, so we didn't hear it."
Before the old priest could finish his sentence, "I understand," a panicked cry came from outside, "Cannibals! The cannibals are coming again!"
"Come if you want, don't be afraid of what they will do!"
Last time, the cannibals took advantage of the chaos and hunted the "God's Blood" as prey. The old priest had already remembered the cannibals in his heart.
He didn't go looking for trouble with the cannibals, but they came to him on their own initiative.
"But the cannibal priests are here too!"
"What!"
"Hurry up and let the tribesmen hide." The old priest was so scared that he stood up from the animal skin in a flash, and he did not forget to hold the walking stick in his panic.
After thinking it over, he still felt a little worried. He was afraid that the secret of the "divine blood" would be exposed, so he had to cut the root of the problem.
The old priest ran and said, "Tie up both the "God's Blood" and the Wood Tribe in the hole!"
"The people from the Mu tribe haven't returned yet. What should we do if they come looking for us?"
The old priest cursed him as an idiot. "What if they look for him? Just say they were captured and eaten by cannibals. Tell them to go find the cannibals."
The old priest was sure that he would die without any evidence, and there was no way the people of the Wood Tribe would go to the cannibals to ask about the matter.
The reason why cannibals are scary is not because they eat people.
What’s scary is that the priests of their tribe have the power to suppress the blood of orcs.
The current priest of the cannibal tribe, Wuming, has terrifying abilities and can absolutely suppress orc warriors below level six.
As long as he is here, no orc warriors below level six can transform.
This is also why when the most important things of the Ze tribe were hunted by cannibals, they could only worry and even be prepared to give up.
In the Ze tribe, there is not a single orc warrior above level six.
If they confront the cannibals head-on, the final outcome will only be the destruction of the Ze tribe.
The old priest was a little furious when he was hiding. "Why are these cannibals so angry with our Ze tribe? Their priests are here. Has our tribe ever offended them?"
Even when hunting, you can't always dig out the same rabbit hole.
Even the priest didn't know the reason, let alone the other people in the Ze tribe.
They didn't dare to say anything and just ran away with the priest.
On the other side of the cannibal tribe, Wuming looked at the Ze tribe members running around to escape, and asked the tribe members around him, "Are you sure the two lone people from the Wood tribe are here?"
The tribesman nodded, "Sure, we followed them all the way, and they brought back the prey for the Ze tribe."
"Priest, there they are!"
Yang Lei and Yang Dian also knew that the cannibal priests came to the Ze tribe to hunt. They were just sending one person back, but they didn't expect to encounter such an unexpected disaster.
Since they couldn't win the fight, they could only follow the people of the Ze tribe and hide in the so-called cave.
It never occurred to them that the cannibal priest came just for the two of them.
There were two black stripes on Wuming's face, which extended from the sides of his forehead, through his eyes, and all the way down. They spread out to both sides of his chest, along the inside of his arms, and stopped at his palms.
The black stripes were trembling slightly, and Yang Lei and Yang Dian felt that the blood in their bodies seemed to be solidifying.
So this is blood suppression.
Yang Lei and Yang Dian knew they couldn't escape this disaster, but they didn't lie down and wait for death. After looking at each other, the two launched an attack.
Even if they die, they can only die in battle.
The people of the Ze tribe, who were originally going to lock Yang Lei and Yang Dian in a cave, saw this scene and no longer cared about the priest's orders and ran away.
I was almost scared to death.
For Yang Lei and Yang Dian, it was a battle in which they fought with all their might, but for the cannibals, it was a one-sided beating.
The stone grass passes through the skin and flesh and stirs it, making a "sizzling" sound.
Yang Lei covered his legs and screamed, but the cannibal did not let him go. Shi Mao went deeper again and stopped just after touching the bone.
A sharp stone was shot into Yang Dian's arm, and he was pinned to the ground, unable to move. The stone was pushed in forcefully.
The two were covered in wounds and were barely hanging on to their last breath.
Wuming then stopped suppressing them and looked down at the two of them. "Your priest injured an arm of my tribesman, so I can only ask you to pay it back double. I will spare your life, and go back and tell your priest that cannibals are not something he can mess with."
Yang Lei and Yang Dian fainted completely, and Wu Ming recalled the other cannibals and prepared to return to the tribe.
"Priest, why don't we just attack the Mu tribe? Why do we come to trouble these two lone men?"
Wuming did not answer, but opened his palm and looked at the thing taken out from the injured tribesman's shoulder.
His blood suppression had a very strong premonition. The first time he saw this thing, he knew it was very dangerous.
The priest who suddenly appeared from the Mu tribe was an unfathomable man.
He couldn't risk going to the Wood Tribe.
But they are cannibals, and no one dares to mess with them here except the Salt Department.
He was actually harmed by a tribe so weak that he didn't even bother to eat them.
If Wuming doesn't return it, he is not Wuming.
The footsteps above gradually faded away. The boy in the cave broke free from the vines that bound his hands and feet and slowly crawled out of the cave.
A strong smell of blood came from the cave entrance. He stuck his head out and looked at Yang Lei and Yang Dian lying on the ground expressionlessly.
At this time, everyone in the Ze tribe was still hiding, so he could just escape and never come back.
But where could he escape to? The boy fell into deep thought.
"priest.."
Yang Lei's vague mumbling seemed to have awakened the boy. He touched his forehead and felt a warm touch there.
Mu tribe, the priest of the Mu tribe.
The young man carried Yang Lei and Yang Dian on his thin shoulders and strode towards the Mu tribe.
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After a hearty meal at the Mu tribe side, Shen Nong decided on the three skills required for the second task, one of which was teaching how to fire pottery, and the other was teaching how to make fire by drilling wood.
He was going to use pottery, but he had only tried to make fire by rubbing two sticks together himself, as the people of the Wood Tribe didn't know how to do it at all.
Shen Nong took advantage of the loophole and planned to make the system suffer a loss.
Before going hunting, Shen Nong had people dig the soil for use, although some of it was used when eating meat.
But compared to the total amount, those are just a drop in the bucket.
The soil dug from the riverside is more humid than ordinary soil, so Shen Nong picked out the soil with a lower sand content and kept it.
Then he asked someone to dig a hole and cover it with large leaves that were half a person's height.
Shen Nong used soft branches to weave a large basket, filled it with soil, and began to wash the soil.
The fire pit is not far from the water, so it is convenient to get water.
Mud and water flowed into the pit continuously and settled.
After some of the water in the mud evaporates, the mud becomes heavier and more sticky.
Shen Nong dug out the processed clay and began to knead and shape it.
Because there is no filter, the soil feels relatively rough and has a distinct granular feel.
However, it is still possible to fire pottery pots and bowls, but their lifespan is not long and the texture is not good.
And because of the fire, the damage rate of the pottery jars may be relatively high.
However, conditions are limited now, so let’s burn a batch first for emergency use.
We will wait until the kiln is built to burn higher quality ones.
Shen Nong first demonstrated how to pinch the jar, and then asked everyone in the Mu tribe who could do it to try it.
Finally, three people were selected, all of whom were veterans of the collection team. They could make it well after watching it once, and Shen Nong was already a master after teaching it twice.
This is not difficult and easy to get started. If it is a bottle, it is not so easy to succeed.
There was no problem with shaping the clay, so Shen Nong began to teach the Mu tribe how to drill wood to make fire.
Hu Xiao was the first to try, but although he was strong, he could not get the hang of it.
I could smell the fireworks, but I couldn't see any fire.
Just as Hu Xiao was "fighting" with the wood-drilling tool, Tu Feng from the guard team ran over in a hurry, "Priest, something bad has happened! Yang Lei and Yang Dian are injured!"