Chapter 183: Escape from the World of Beasts and Farming (11)
Chapter 183: Escape from the World of Beasts and Farming (11)
She Chen spit out his snake tongue, "Do you want me to chase them away again?"
"No." Lin Qinghe shook her head. "No need to chase them away. Just make sure they don't get too close to the tribe."
Soon after the short rainy season begins, the long winter is about to arrive.
Along with winter comes the invasion of large numbers of wild beasts.
There is a reason why Lixing and Kos want to settle down close to the tribe. During the cold winter, they must want to seek help from the Fox Tribe. Even if the tribe doesn't help them, it would be safer to settle down around the tribe, right?
The rain outside was getting heavier, and endless dripping sounds were heard on the ground, far and near, creating ripples.
The rainy season had only begun for a few days when heavy rains came down and most of the orcs in the tribe stayed at home.
After all, it was raining heavily outside. The heavy rain blurred the orcs' vision and the sound of rain confused their hearing. If they went out hunting, not only might they return empty-handed, but they might also get injured.
Anyway, ever since the orcs in the tribe learned how to make salt, each family has made enough pickled meat to eat for a week, and then they can go out hunting when the rain stops.
She Chen was less affected by the heavy rain. He went out hunting frequently in the past few days, and every time he came back, there was always a faint smell of blood lingering on his body.
"Are you going to hibernate?" Lin Qinghe's nostrils twitched. Not only did She Chen bring a lot of prey these days, he also ate a lot outside.
"Well, I will hibernate after early winter." She Chen's eyelids drooped tiredly. He shrank his body and coiled into several circles, taking a nap there.
After the beginning of winter? It seems that She Chen must have noticed something. The wild beasts invaded the fox tribe in the beginning of winter.
Lin Qinghe raised his eyebrows. According to the habits of snakes, Snake Chen should hibernate at the end of the rainy season. He didn't expect that he actually wanted to hold on until early winter.
Hu Xi looked at the several huge bulls in the courtyard with a troubled expression, "Qinghe, this prey is too big, and we don't have enough salt at home to salt it."
This was true. She Chen went hunting without a care in the world during these few days. He went out early and came back late every day. The prey he brought back were all different. The only similarity was that the prey were all very large in size.
"We two can't finish eating them all, so let's send these two cows to the leader." Lin Qinghe only left one cow and a few deer in the yard.
By handing it over to the chief, we can use the help of everyone in the tribe to pickle the prey, so that we can have more stored supplies.
Moreover, because of the heavy rain in the past two days, not many orcs in the tribe went out hunting, so the prey could be distributed to the orcs who don't have much food stored at home.
"Okay." Hu Xi agreed and dragged the prey away.
Lin Qinghe took out a knife from the space, dragged a sika deer to the wooden board under the eaves, and began to skin and bone it with the knife.
Many bean-sized raindrops came flying in the wind. Lin Qinghe shook her wet hair and used the internal energy to dry her wet fur coat.
The rain in this animal world rainy season is a bit too heavy...
"Let me do it." She Chen, who was originally a little tired, recovered after resting for a while. He turned into a human form and walked behind Lin Qinghe.
Lin Qinghe had just cut the deer into eight pieces with her knife. She paused with the knife when she felt someone coming from behind.
"Okay, come here and put the pieces of meat in this wooden basin." Lin Qinghe pointed to the wooden basin used to hold the meat.
After listening to her, She Chen nodded, and a smile appeared on his handsome face, "Okay."
Thinking of She Chen's outrageous eyesight, Lin Qinghe silently placed the wooden basin closer to him.
Yes, the snakes in this world not only have the habit of hibernation like the snakes on Earth, but also have a fatal similarity.
Lin Qinghe estimated that She Chen's myopia was about one thousand degrees, and he could only see things vaguely.
If you really want to see it clearly, you have to be very close.
Seeing She Chen showing his sharp nails, Lin Qinghe put all the props into his own space.
The male orcs in this world not only have thick skin and flesh, but also have extremely sharp nails. Lin Qinghe needs to use a knife to cut the prey into pieces. These orcs are different.
With a flick of She Chen's hand, the skin of the deer was completely peeled off, and the meat was divided into pieces and placed in a wooden basin.
"Shechen, the piece of meat is too big, cut it into smaller pieces." Lin Qinghe instructed before entering the house.
"Yeah." She Chen responded lightly and obediently cut the meat into smaller pieces.
After taking off the animal skin clothes soaked by rain in the wooden house and changing into another set of clean and tidy clothes, Lin Qinghe sighed comfortably.
It has rained too much today, so it would be best to take a hot bath in the evening.
After Hu Xi came back, he and She Chen worked outside to prepare and marinate the prey, while Lin Qinghe made a fire and boiled water.
The sound of raindrops outside the house never stopped until five nights later, when the sound of rain became a little quieter.
The weather has been getting colder recently. Because it is the rainy season, Lin Qinghe can feel the dampness and coldness from morning to night. Now she is so cold all day that she has to put her hands on Fox Xi's furry belly to keep warm.
Hu Xi was sewing two gloves that could cover Lin Qinghe's hands like an old nanny, using the peeled and nitrated deerskin and rabbit skins.
Under the crackling firelight, he murmured, "Why does it feel like winter is coming soon..."
He was right, because this rainy season was really short. After only a month, winter came quietly.
When the rain stopped, the sky gradually cleared up, and a few white clouds floated across the clear sky.
Hu Xi rushed out of the house and just opened his mouth happily to howl, but a gust of cold wind blew and filled his mouth with wind.
Hu Xi, who drank a mouthful of cold wind, took a step back and went back to the house. He was still a little cold. "What the leader said is true. Winter has really arrived early!"
Seeing his shocked expression, Lin Qinghe echoed, "It seems that the Beast God's warning is true."
Shechen was still coiled in a small circle, listening quietly to the two people talking.
As the season quickly enters winter, there have been signs of wild beasts appearing around the fox tribe recently.
Even the tribes surrounding the Fox Tribe were attacked by the wild beasts to varying degrees.
This made the leader more vigilant, and he assigned the orcs of the tribe to take turns on duty to observe the situation outside the tribe.
Hu Xi naturally also received this task, and he and She Chen took turns to be on duty.
Maybe it was because of the seventh-level pressure lingering around She Chen, except for the low-level beasts that always harassed the fox tribe, no high-level beasts had appeared.
But as more and more low-level beasts appeared, Hu Xi became more and more uneasy.
What’s going on? Why are there so many more wild beasts this year than in previous years?
Moreover, these beasts are very organized and disciplined.
Worried about what would happen if the tribe couldn't resist, Hu Xi finally said to Lin Qinghe, "Little sister, let's go to the cave to take shelter!"
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