CH 9

Early in the next morning, the hunting team still left first, followed by the picking team to retrieve the sweet potatoes hidden in the mountain yesterday. The picking area was closer to the tribe where the hunting team often patrols so no large wild beasts there. The route they took yesterday was the route often taken by the picking team. Qin Fei saw mostly small herbivorous beasts similar to mice but larger than house cats, as well as some other small animals, but they were not too big and were all herbivorous creatures. Those small herbivorous creatures were very slippery, very difficult to hunt and had thick skin and less meat, so no one would waste time and energy to hunt them. 

The leader was still the male with long and narrow animal teeth on his chest, Qin Fei already knew his name, Torreja . He was a year younger than Sa Lei, did not look as handsome as Sa Lei but he was also a big handsome guy. A bronze-colored body of toned muscles, full of cheerful tension. But as the leader, he always stiffened his face to restrain everyone, rarely there was an expression on his face. Qin Fei always felt that he had some kind of disease that caused his partial facial nerve paralysis. His hand was so itchy, super unbearable as he wanted to grab over his hand to take his pulse, to see whether he was sick or required to practice asceticism.

Today, the road that everyone walked on was closer than the route where the collecting team came back yesterday but also more difficult. Most of the time Qin Fei had to climb using both of his hands and feets to be able to climb on the steep mountain path. If he was carrying an animal skin backpack full of sweet potatoes, perhap it would be impossible for him to travel between such mountain ranges. Qin Fei secretly said, ‘No wonder, yesterday when everyone was fully loaded, they didn’t take this way back to camp.’ 

After walking for a while, Torreja waved his hand to let everyone rest in place. The next road was said to be somewhat dangerous, listening to several males, this road would pass through a section of bleating beasts gathering place. The bleating beast was a more dangerous herbivore animal. They have very sharp horns on the top of their heads. If it was angered, they would use them to open up the chest of their opponents.

Alone, the bleating beast was not a big threat to males who were good at hunting.

But the meat of the goat beast had an unpleasant and strange smell that makes people want to vomit before they could eat it. If there was no extreme lack of food or famine, males would never hunt the goat beast. But if you encounter a herd of baa beasts, then you have to be very careful. If you were unfortunate enough to anger them, you would be attacked by those guys with their sharp horns and you would basically die.

On the following road in front of them, the collecting team entered into the highest alert. Because of their cautious look, Qin Fei was also very nervous. They took every step very carefully. Suddenly, one of the males walking in front of them made a gesture that told them to slow down.

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Not far from the group in the thick clump of grass, there were several thick white fluffy creatures with sharp double horns on their heads and large milk sacks hanging below. Qin Fei was angry yet at the same time also found it funny. This creature that caused him to follow after them to be nervous, wasn’t this (TMD) a sheep ~? Why was it called a baa (bleating) beast? Think carefully, the sheep’s sound was kind of ‘baa’ ‘baa’ right? To call it ‘bleating beast’ was also correct. Although the sheep here was a lot bigger than the original sheep he previously ever saw. However, the look was still very similar.

Looking at everyone’s nervous look, Qin Fei wanted to laugh but it was not good to show it, so he coughed a few times. However, he drew the attention and got the eye’s warning as sharp as a knife from the team leader, Torreja instead.

Qin Fei thought for a moment and explained in a soft voice, “In our tribe we call this kind of creature sheep, if you do not provoke it too much, the sheep will not take the initiative to attack, so everyone doesn’t need to be so nervous.”

After listening to Qin Fei’s explanation, everyone was half-believing and also half-doubting. Qin Fei walked to the male leader of the team and led the way forward. Everyone also bravely followed him slowly forward, until those goats could not be seen, only then everyone was relieved.

Torreja looked at the back of the weak little male in front of him, his performance in the past few days was actually impressive.

Qin Fei saw that they had already walked past the area with goats so he slowly returned to the group. Everyone as before set out and headed forward for their goal.

Gina walked up to Qin Fei and gave him a strong pat on the shoulder, “Qin Fei, you are truly brave, although you look so thin and weak but your heart is really strong.”

Not only Qin Fei felt pain in his heart but also on his skin (by her pat). Moreover, after listening to her words, the corner of his mouth could not help but twitch. He said in his heart: “Big Sis, it will be so much better if you only say the first sentence. What do you mean by ‘you look so thin and weak but your heart is really strong?’ It’s too hurtful, you know?!” However, in his mouth, he said, “That kind of bleating beast we call it sheep. A lot of rural tribes raise it.”

Gina was surprised, “Why do you want to raise the bleating beasts? That thing tasted very bad.”

Qin Fei rolled his eyes, “That’s because you guys don’t know how to cook it. We roast the whole sheep over there and it’s very tasty. Moreover, there’s goat milk too. You know goat milk, right? It’s the two swaying bags of meat hanging down below the bleating beasts, inside are full of milk, very nutritious.”

Gina’s face suddenly flew on a blush, subconsciously looked down at her chest and quickly looked away. She said, “You are talking about…the kind of milk that every female beast which gives birth to young beasts will have, right?”

However, Qin Fei did not feel anything. He nodded his head, “Goat milk is very nutritious. The children who grew up drinking goat milk are very healthy and strong. Oh that’s right, I have to talk to Sa Lei about this when I get back and tell him to catch a few sheep to raise.This way the children of the tribe, the elders including also the adults’ physique can be improved.”

Gina didn’t really understand what Qin Fei had said, but she just barely understood that he said the milk of the bleating beasts was good.

The two were having a chat (conversing for the sake of conversing chat) when suddenly there was a female screaming sound. Qin Fei’s eyes quickly turned to the direction of the scream, only to see a bowl-thick snake wrapped around a female’s arm. The snake’s greenish-black body had red markings and a red bump on the top of its triangular head, so you don’t have to guess to know it must be poisonous.

Qin Fei heard the sound of air being drawn out beside him, Gina said in horror, “Oh my God! It’s the red-headed poison king.”

At this moment, the red-headed poison king was spitting the blood red colour snake’s tongue at the female whose face turned pale. The female was trembling and struggling in fear but the viper’s aggressive nature was even more triggered by it. In ‘a matter of life or death’ time, Qin Fei and the male closest to the female struck at the same time. Qin Fei’s action was very quick as he charged forward and drew his knife to cut the snake. The male, on the other hand, in his haste, used his hand to directly block the red-headed poison king. Although Qin Fei’s movement was very fast, the red-headed King of Poison still bit the male’s arm. The good thing was that its poisonous teeth did not enter deeply. The snake was split in half by Qin Fei’s knife.

Qin Fei did not stop moving, he grabbed that male who was bitten by the snake where there were two small holes in his arm, he used the tip of the knife to cut the wound, therefore the black and purple blood splashed out. Qin Fei quickly took an animal skin rope from his own leather pouch and tightly wrapped the male’s arm to stop the spread of the poison on his blood. He did not dare rashly use his mouth to take out the poisonous blood, although he could bring out part of the poison with this but the risk was too great. First, he could not guarantee that his mouth did not have a wound. Second, without a lot of clean water to rinse his mouth, rashly using mouth to suck the blood out would only get you killed. What could be done now was to slow down the blood flow and find a herbal medicine to cure the poison as soon as possible.