Book Through the World of Beasts: Rough Guy Dotes on Me to the Bone

Chapter 8 Making fire by drilling wood

Under the systematic teaching, Tu Mengmeng quickly mastered the transformation of animal shapes and partial animal shape changes.

One hand turned into a claw, and the sharp nails cut into Mu Yunsha as easily as cutting a melon.

She also cut the remaining Muyun yarn into pieces of clothing material and made two pairs of loose pants. She originally wanted to make a T-shirt, but in order to save fabric, she made two suspenders.

Unexpectedly, there was still some left after finishing the work, so Tu Mengmeng simply made a pair of trousers for Snake Yingya.

As a thank you for giving him the fabric.

After everything was done, Tu Mengmeng lit the fire and roasted the raw meat sent by Qingque, then took her clothes and went to the Qinghe River to take a bath.

The weather is hot, and the cute rabbit in the water is swimming happily like a small fish.

The thick dirt on her body was also washed away by the flowing water. Seeing her fair skin, Tu Mengmeng felt that she was at least two pounds lighter.

There are not only plump fishes in the water, but also huge river shrimps.

All the plants and animals in the beast world that have been touched so far are three to five times larger than those grown by flower growers.

Tu Mengmeng inexplicably remembered the roundworm she saw yesterday and couldn't help but shudder.

Afraid that I might be infected by something unclean, I quickly swam towards the shore.

On the moss-covered river bottom, a pair of lantern-sized eyes stared at the little feet on the water until they disappeared.

"Cute."

It seemed to be Snake Ying's voice. Tu Mengmeng turned her head and saw Snake Ying's face was red and staring at her intently.

"Ah——" Tu Mengmeng was so frightened that she quickly covered her key parts.

Snake Ying blushed to the base of his ears and stood there at a loss, until an animal skin skirt was thrown at him, "You still look at it?"

After realizing it, he quickly turned around and hesitated when he spoke, "I, I."

When Snake returned from hunting, he saw that Tu Mengmeng was not at home. He thought she was being bullied by others again, so he went to the river to look for her.

Who would have thought that they would see such a blushing scene.

She had never been looked at by a man before in her life. Tu Mengmeng blushed with embarrassment and quickly put on her clothes. She was so angry that she glared at Snake Ying, "If you dare to tell me about this, I will strangle you to death."

Snake Ying touched the bridge of his nose, and when Tu Mengmeng ran away in anger, he quickly caught up with him. He was not stupid, so he would not tell others about his partner's nakedness.

Back in the cave, Tu Mengmeng had hung up the animal skin skirt to dry and was handling the prey he brought back.

Only then did Snake Ying realize that Tu Mengmeng today was completely different from what he had been in the past. Most of the orcs in the tribe had yellow skin, and few had such fair skin. Even the new fox spirits who came to the tribe were a bit inferior.

I don’t know why her black hair is tied up, but her palm-sized face is clearly visible, and her thin lips move when she speaks.

The more Snake Ying looked at it, the more impulses he could no longer suppress in his mind, and he couldn't help but doubt himself.

Are snake beasts really born cold-blooded?

"Are these all mine?" Tu Mengmeng asked, looking at the wild boar weighing more than 500 kilograms.

Snake Ying hummed naturally, "Except when the hunting team is working together, the prey that is usually hunted belongs to the individual."

Tu Mengmeng understood that the prey belonged to the snake, but she had already touched the prey alone.

"I'm sorry, I thought it was given to me by the tribe." Looking at the cut pig legs, Tu Mengmeng quickly asked, "How about I help you recover?"

"This is yours. I will hunt more in the future and I will never let you live the same life as before." Snake Ying said sincerely.

Tu Mengmeng's heart was filled with demons, "System, is this a normal reaction?"

"Yes, host, you don't know something. Orcs are willing to give their lives to those who have helped them in order to thank them, so host, please accept it with ease.

Otherwise, Snake Ying may feel that you still look down on him, and maybe we will be wiped out by him before winter comes." A system that cannot tell the truth is unscrupulous deception.

Tu Mengmeng accepted it with confidence and boldness, "We can't finish all this much, so let's make the rest into air-dried bacon."

"good."

The snake should follow Tu Mengmeng's instructions, peel the wild boar, and then take out the best-tasting parts of the body to roast and eat.

The rest were cut into small pieces, strung together with small vines, and made into a row of simple drying racks for drying.

With such good weather, it can basically be dried in three to five days, and then stored for winter consumption.

When Tu Mengmeng saw the live version of drilling wood to make fire, everyone was stunned.

"Isn't there flint in the tribe? Why do you have to go to so much trouble?"

Snake Ying raised his eyes and wondered, "What is flint?"

Suddenly he remembered that when he was hunting, he saw the stone that the fox spirit used to make fire. Could it be what it was?

"Only the fox spirit and the clan leader have it."

In the past, if the family wanted to bake something, they had to go to the patriarch's house to get firewood. To prevent the fire from extinguishing, they had to keep adding firewood.

It wasn't until the fox spirit came to the tribe that he taught everyone how to drill wood to make fire. The method of drilling wood to make fire must be done very quickly, which is not difficult for the orcs.

Fire has become popular among tribes.

The fire was lit, and the cleaned pork legs were put on for roasting. In order to cook them faster, Tu Mengmeng changed the meat into flower knives, and threaded the thicker meat directly into skewers.

After a while, the smell of barbecue almost brought out the gluttons in my stomach.

When the snake is almost cooked, take it out and sprinkle it with salt.

In Tu Mengmeng's memory, salt is the most precious thing in the entire tribe. The females of the tribe are weak and delicate. Unlike the males, they can eat raw meat and drink animal blood to replenish salt.

Females must eat cooked food and salt, otherwise they will get sick. In the world of beasts with underdeveloped medical skills, the chance of getting sick and dying is as high as 70%.

Every tribe has a tribal doctor, but the medical skills of the tribal doctors are mediocre. Most diseases cannot be cured and they can only wait to die.

This is the outcome of a sick female in a small tribe. It is different in a large tribe. Where there are priests, the priests have super healing abilities. As long as they are not completely dead, they can be revived.

The small tribe without priests could only rely on salt-cooked food to prevent the females from getting sick.

Salt can only be found in coastal tribes. The Qinghe tribe is very far away from the coastal tribes. It takes at least half a year to travel back and forth. Even if nothing happens, the salt brought back can only feed the tribe for one year.

Every year, a lot of manpower and material resources are spent on the transportation of salt. Sometimes, it is targeted by wandering orcs, and a year's worth of salt is lost, and even lives are lost.

Some small tribes found a way to send their tribesmen to station in coastal tribes, and exchange for some salt every year to escort them halfway, and the tribe would send people to get it back.

This greatly saves time and increases the amount of salt brought back. Tu Mengmeng's parents and brother are orcs sent by the tribe to station in the coastal tribes.

Looking at the pitiful amount of salt in Snake Ying's hand, Tu Mengmeng couldn't help but ask, "Are these the portions for the two of us?"

(End of chapter)