Ch73 – Hunting the Barosaurus
After making sauerkraut fish, Zhou Ji decided to cure the rest of the fish.
The fish wouldn’t stay fresh after being left out for a long time and would no longer taste good after that. It was better to cure and preserve it.
As a result, over the next few days, Xiong Ye would bring back some fish every day. Even if he went out hunting during the day, he would still use his fishing net to catch some fish at night.
Zhou Ji had no objection to eating fish, but he was unable to finish all that fish.
Since it couldn’t be finished, he could only preserve it… But he also found the smell of salted fish in the cave a bit difficult to tolerate.
This was making him want to become a salted fish himself.
Finally, Zhou Ji donated all of the salted fish to the tribe, and it was stored together with the tribe’s smoked meat.
After five or six days of this, no more fish could be caught in the river. There was also enough fish in the pond for the tribe to raise, so Xiong Ye stopped trying to catch fish and began to think about how to catch the Barosaurus––those two dinosaurs ate too much, too quickly. Xiong Ye felt that he couldn’t let them continue eating in such an uncontrolled way.
Their tribe would be done for if the plants around their tribe were all eaten up!
He started discussing ways to deal with the Barosauruses with the tribe.
There was a swamp near their tribe, but the swamp wasn’t necessarily useful against the Barosaurus. The Barosaurus wasn’t something they could lure toward the swamp so easily.
“Of the two Barosauruses, one of them went up to the mountain where the giant beast raged before. The trees there are very tall, so what if we climb up the tree and throw the poison into its mouth? After throwing it, we can run into the forest, and let the trees act as a barrier. Even if the Barosaurus goes mad, it might not necessarily be able to hurt us.” Xiong Ye suggested.
“Will the poison you’re talking about work?” Xiong He asked.
The tribe used to avoid these kinds of toxic things. Nobody in their tribe had thought of using poison before. They didn’t know how or where Zhou Ji had gotten the poison he had given to Xiong Ye…
“It works!” Xiong Ye said. He had tried it when they had gone out hunting over the past few days and felt that it was very effective.
“In that case, we’ll try it!” Xiong He slapped the table in confirmation. “Our tribe will be really impressive if we’re able to catch such a big dinosaur! When that happens, we can have the priest draw and chisel out the story of us catching the dinosaur on the cave walls!”
“Great!” Xiong Ye was also excited.
If they were really able to take down such a large dinosaur, this story could be passed down to future generations as an example and a lesson!
His figure would also be added to the wall of the cave and passed down forever!
Xiong Ye became more and more excited as he thought about it, and led the people of the tribe to begin busying themselves with the preparations.
On this day, the weather was clear, the sky blue with a few scattered clouds. Everything looked beautiful.
“After we climb up into the trees, we’ll wait until the Barosaurus comes over and throw the poison into its mouth!”
“One pack might not be enough… In that case, throw a few more.”
Xiong Ye gave orders to the people he had brought with him.
Seeing this, Xiong He was pleased as he patted Xiong Ye shoulder. “Boy, you’re now able to stand up on your own!”
If they had more people like Xiong Ye in their tribe, wouldn’t their tribe be able to thrive and grow?
Xiong He’s mood was instantly lifted. He added, “This matter isn’t difficult. We can definitely accomplish it properly. After that, we’ll be able to eat Barosaurus meat!”
“Barosaurus meat! Barosaurus meat!” The people of the tribe were all excited and moved by that idea.
In that moment, Xiong Ye’s ambitions also soared up. That huge Barosaurus seemed to become a meal that had already been seized in their hands.
At that moment, however, the Barosaurus seemed to have noticed them and found them a little annoying. It suddenly stomped a foot and waved its tail…
The entire mountain shook for a while. Xiong He, Xiong Ye, and the others from the tribe all stumbled and rolled as they scattered and fled.
After reaching a safe place, Xiong Ye finally said, “We have various scents on our bodies… Let’s smear some tree sap on our bodies before going back.”
Although they were small, and the Barosaurus didn’t take them seriously, if they agitated the Barosaurus, it certainly wouldn’t mind trampling them or biting them to death.
Even if the Barosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur, it could easily chew up branches with its teeth. They couldn’t hold up under that kind of strength.
While the people of the Big Bear Tribe were preparing to hunt the Barosaurus, the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe had already arrived near the Big Bear Tribe after traveling for many days.
A total of ten people from the Giant Tiger Tribe had traveled over this time. Amongst them was a powerful person who Hu Tian regarded highly within the Giant Tiger Tribe, called Mao Huo.
His animal form was a cat, but he wasn’t an ordinary cat. Instead, he was a leopard cat that was extremely lethal. Of course, there were other reasons behind why he had been able to become a powerful warrior within the Giant Tiger Tribe.
Within this team, two of the members were Mao Huo’s direct subordinates. Out of the remaining seven, five were people from the Giant Tiger Tribe who had small animal forms and could scout for information, and the other two were survivors of the Green Hill Tribe.
“This is the Big Bear Tribe?” Mao Huo looked at the vast territory in the distance and said, “This Big Bear Tribe has occupied a very good location!”
“Yes, my lord. This is the Big Bear Tribe’s territory.” The elder of the two people from the Green Hill Tribe replied.
The people of the Giant Tiger Tribe had said before that as long as any one of the people from the Green Hills Tribe resisted, they would kill everyone who was left…
They really hated the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe, but they had no choice but to obey in order to keep their own people alive.
Now that they were selling out the Big Bear Tribe, they were very unhappy and uncomfortable, but it had to be said that… They hoped the Big Bear Tribe was a bit more powerful. It would be best if they could destroy the Giant Tiger Tribe.
“Go. Let’s go and take a look.” Mao Huo ordered.
“My lord, the Big Bear Tribe is very powerful, and they have a priest…” The people from the Green Hill Tribe hesitated.
“Any priest in this kind of place definitely isn’t a proper priest!” Mao Huo didn’t think this was a big deal, but he was still a bit more careful. He pointed to two of the people from his own tribe who had smaller animal forms and told them to go and investigate the Big Bear Tribe. After thinking about it, he ordered one of the two people from the Green Hill Tribe to go with them.
Of the two people from the Giant Tiger Tribe who had been sent to investigate, one was a weasel, and the other was a mouse. As for the person from the Green Hill Tribe, his animal form was a rather rare one. He was a lemur.
Lemurs were the smallest variety of monkey. The largest of the species only reached about half a kilogram, while the smallest was only ten centimeters long and weighed approximately thirty grams.
This member of the Green Hill Tribe just happened to be the smallest kind of lemur.
When the Giant Tiger Tribe attacked the Green Hill Tribe, he had changed into his animal form and hidden. The people of the Giant Tiger Tribe hadn’t discovered him at all, but he was still very young, only twelve years old, and his animal form was very weak. Although he had managed to hide and avoid notice, he had ultimately gone back to look for his parents and had then been caught by the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe.
Of the two people that the Giant Tiger Tribe had brought with them, one was him, and the other was his father.
“You’d better be obedient. Otherwise, I’ll kill your father.” Mao Huo threatened the lemur coldly before they set out.
The little lemur nodded, and then he was fiercely gripped in the weasel’s mouth as they headed towards the Big Bear Tribe.
Recently, due to the raising of fish and other such endeavors, a large area near the Big Bear Tribe had been cleared out, leaving more places for the children of the tribe to safely play in. The priest had also arranged some work for them to do, such as planting fruit trees near the tribe and other such things.
These children used to lie in the collective area and do nothing in order to conserve energy due to lack of food, but it was different now. They had enough to eat and ran around everywhere in the tribe as they played.
Those who hadn’t yet awakened an animal form played as humans, while those who had awakened an animal form would occasionally turn into animals to play.
Mao Jin had turned into her animal form.
She had felt very uncomfortable after killing a person a few days ago, but her mentality changed after Bao Yu praised her, and she felt that she was now incredibly fierce.
She had always felt that since her animal form was so small, she definitely wouldn’t be able to become a warrior. Unexpectedly, that wasn’t the case!
Mao Jin was now learning how to hunt!
While she was catching frogs for fun, Mao Jin suddenly scented… prey!
She immediately ran out and then discovered a… mouse?
This mouse didn’t belong to their tribe!
If it was a friendly person who was coming to their tribe, they would at least turn into their human forms to greet the children when they saw them. How come this person seemed to be sneaking along the side…
Mao Jin suddenly recalled what the people of the tribe had said about the Giant Tiger Tribe… She pounced over and bit the mouse.
The mouse ‘squeaked’ and turned back into his human form, but there were already several big bloody wounds on his stomach. Meanwhile, another weasel beside it turned around and fled.
However, there was still another little fellow that hadn’t run. Mao Jin was just planning to catch that one when she saw that that unknown little animal suddenly turned back into human form. He began to kowtow at her while pleading, “Don’t eat me, don’t eat me wuwuwu…”
Mao Jin: “……” You’ve already turned back so big, do you really think I can eat you? Besides, I don’t eat people!
Mao Jin didn’t hesitate before turning back into human form herself and shouting, “There are enemies!”
Although the mouse who had turned back into human form had been wounded from Mao Jin’s bite, Mao Jin had known that it was a human when she had pounced and therefore hadn’t used much force. She hadn’t bitten him to death, so at this moment he was covering the wounds on his stomach with his hands as he tried to run. The people from the gathering team, who were nearby and watching over the children as they worked, ran over and threw a net at him when they came close.
This net had been used before to catch fish. It still carried the stench of fish as it covered his head, preventing his escape.
“There was a weasel who ran away!” Mao Jin exclaimed.
“I’ll have someone go to the tribe and let them know!” Someone from the gathering team spoke up. They didn’t know what to do when encountering this kind of situation––Xiong He and Xiong Ye weren’t here!
However, one thing was clear. They couldn’t let that weasel enter their tribe!
The weasel hadn’t run to the Big Bear Tribe. It had already run away and had swiftly fled back to Mao Huo’s side. He had always been timid from a young age and seeing that Mao Jin had bitten through his companion’s stomach, he had been practically scared to death.
Even though, his animal form was actually the same size as Mao Jin’s.
“Did you find anything?” Mao Huo asked.
“No… No…” That weasel shifted back into human form and subconsciously tried to shirk responsibility, “The Big Bear Tribe is too powerful. The two that went with me have probably lost their lives.”
“You’re kidding me, right?” Mao Huo sneered. “How powerful can a mere Big Bear Tribe be? Did you guys accidentally reveal yourselves?”
“The Big Bear Tribe is really powerful. I heard the people of the Big Bear Tribe say that they were going to go catch a Barosaurus.” The weasel insisted. Before, when those children had been playing, he had heard them talking about wanting to eat Barosaurus meat.
“With their ability, they want to catch a Barosaurus?” Mao Huo sneered again. He was just about to send someone to go and investigate again when the earth suddenly trembled.
Mao Huo was shocked and immediately climbed up a tree. He then saw a huge Barosaurus topple over and fall to the ground, rolling and twitching as it convulsed.
This… Had they really gone to catch a Barosaurus?
Exactly how terrifying was this Big Bear Tribe?!