Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Before anyone else could make a move, Langze flew up and lay on top of Langqi.

Lang Qi: “…” I still can’t keep this younger brother.

Bai Tu: “???” What’s going on?

Lang Qi: “Don’t pay attention to them, just go about your business.” After saying that, he stood up and dragged Lang Ze to the back.

Before Bai Tu could say anything, the two brothers had already walked away. He watched them turn to the corner where there was backlight, then turned back and continued to talk to Bao Duo: “How big is the wound? Where are you resting? Is it far from here?”

Bao Duo had not come back to his senses yet, and it took him a long time to find his voice: “Bai Tu, do you have medicine?”

“Yes, if it’s not far from here, you can come over. I can see it more easily and apply medicine.” After all, now we only know that he fell, and it is not clear whether it is a scratch or a fracture. A scratch is okay, but if it is a fracture, you have to be careful. After all, orcs often rely on speed to hunt, and poor recovery of fractures will affect hunting, which is a matter of survival.

The young orc next to Baoduo stood up immediately and said, “Not far, not far. I’ll bring him over!” Then he changed into beast form and ran out.

Bao Duo hurriedly said: “This is Fei and Tong, who were injured to protect him.”

The medicines were prepared in advance, including painkillers, hemostatics and anti-inflammatory drugs. When Bao Fei brought Bao Tong back, Bai Tu checked the wound first. The situation was not bad, and the bones were not injured, but the elbow was broken, which looked a bit scary.

After rinsing, he applied the ointment and Bai Tu gave the whole packet to the other party: “Change the ointment every other day and don’t let it touch water in between.”

When Bai Tu helped apply the ointment, the expressions of the entire wolf clan were very interesting. At first they were worried that Lang Qi would suddenly attack. Stopping the wolf king was definitely the most difficult thing in a wolf’s life!

Later, when they found out that Lang Qi had no intention of taking action and was just going to teach Lang Ze a lesson, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Langze: “???”

Bai Tu didn’t know the psychological process of the wolf tribe. Seeing what Bao Tong and the other two wanted to say, he interrupted them: “I have something to ask you. Consider it as medical expenses.” Not to mention the look and embarrassment on Bao Duo’s face when he mentioned his gratitude in the afternoon, from the fact that they had heard the middle-aged orc from the brown monkey tribe say that he was so excited when he exchanged salt, it can be seen that the food in the Leopard Tribe and the surrounding tribes was really not enough. Bai Tu did not lack gratitude, he just wanted to ask something.

“You ask.” Bao Duo sat down seriously and decided to answer any question Bai Tu asked.

“The magical rice you delivered this afternoon, was it grown by you guys or did you find it outside and pick it?” He felt that the Leopard Tribe probably hadn’t started planting yet. If they were, the quantity shouldn’t be so small. After all, the yield of corn is amazing, and a little planting would yield more than one or two points. Shenmi is the name given to corn by the Leopard Tribe. Bai Tu is not used to calling it that, but he can only call it that when talking to people from the Leopard Tribe.

Bao Duo: “They are all from the mountain behind the tribe. They grow in summer and bear large fruits before winter. The ones in the middle are not delicious, so we only eat the small ones.”

Bai Tu nodded. Now most orcs have no concept of planting and large-scale breeding. They basically rely on picking and capturing food in the wild. This is also the reason why most tribes worry about food all year round. Most of them rely on the weather for their livelihood.

Apparently relying on nature was not safe enough, so Bai Tu repeated to the three what he had taught the Langqi brothers: “You can try to plant it when you return to the tribe. These are seeds, and they must be full and undamaged. Remember to plant them in places that will not be flooded, and they will grow into fruit-bearing plants. A seed will become a fruit when it matures, and you won’t have to worry about not having enough food in the winter.” Even though for orcs, corn can only be eaten with other foods, it will be easier for them to get through the winter.

Bao Fei whispered, “But the witch doctor said that the sacred rice was a gift from the Beast God, so it is not available in other places. If we grow it ourselves, will the Beast God be angry?”

Bai Tu disagreed with this statement: “How is that possible? If the Beast God really exists, he must want food to grow everywhere so that his people can have enough to eat every day. How could he be angry?” It is not certain whether there is a Beast God or not. I’m afraid you were just fooled. But in order to take care of everyone’s beliefs, Bai Tu did not say these two sentences.

Leopard was thoughtful when he heard someone say this for the first time. So, if they grow the divine rice, the Lord Beast God will not be angry?

Bao Fei was still worried: “Will the witch doctor agree?” Although Bai Tu helped them and healed Bao Fei’s wounds, and he was also a witch doctor, the long-standing prestige of the tribe’s witch doctor made people dare not act rashly.

Their witch doctor not only belongs to their tribe, but is worshipped by several tribes. His status is higher than that of several tribal leaders. If any tribe is disrespectful to the witch doctor, then this tribe will be ostracized by other tribes.

In their tribes, the witch doctors are completely above everyone else. No one will question the witch doctors’ words. The witch doctors say that the sacred rice is only available on their mountain, so other tribes can only envy it and at most exchange it for other foods. A few people believed in Bai Tu’s ability and believed that the method Bai Tu said might succeed, but others were not sure. Even their tribesmen would not risk offending the witch doctor and agree to let them go to other places to grow the sacred rice.

Thinking of this, Bao Fei suddenly calmed down. They believed in Bai Tu because Bai Tu helped them, but violating the witch doctor’s rules was not a trivial matter. They might not even be able to plant if they were captured.

Bai Tu frowned. Corn is such a good thing, it would be a waste not to grow it for food. Moreover, in his opinion, the witch doctor of the Leopard Tribe was a complete liar. He was afraid that he had reached his current position by cheating and deceiving others. However, people in the Beast God Continent generally highly respect the witch doctors’ theories about the Beast God, and there is no way to change this concept in a short period of time.

Lang Qi passed by Bai Tu and happened to hear the conversation between the two. He sneered at Bao Fei’s statement: “If he doesn’t believe you, can’t you plant it secretly?”

Bao Duo and the other two, who were originally worrying about what to do if the witch doctor was angry, suddenly realized that they could plant it secretly without letting other people and the witch doctor know! This way the tribal witch doctor won’t be angry, and it can also confirm whether Bai Tu’s words are true!

After realizing this, the three of them looked relieved, especially Bao Duo.

The lives of many old orcs in several tribes near them ended in the last snow season. The food this year is no more than last year, or even less. The rainy season is slightly better. Although the success rate of going out to hunt in the rain is not high, there is at least a chance. Waiting for winter will be a disaster among disasters.

The temperature in the Beast God Continent is extremely low in winter, and the whole sky and land are covered with ice and snow. In that situation, walking is a problem, let alone going out hunting. It can be said that the situation of the Leopard Tribe is worse than that of some small tribes, because the former tribe has more orcs, and more people means more food is needed. When there is a lack of prey in the territory, the probability of hunger is greater. The same prey can be eaten for several days by a small tribe if it is saved, but it will be gone in one day for a large tribe.

Several tribes neighboring the Leopard Tribe are facing the same problem. There used to be a lot of prey in that area, so it attracted many orcs. Now the prey has dropped sharply, and the affected area is naturally large. The witch doctor is very dissatisfied with the fact that the food offered by the tribes is getting less and less, but every tribe is struggling to survive.

Bao Duo actually didn’t trust the witch doctor of their tribe that much, but he was also very wary of the other party’s status in several tribes. His father was almost forced to death by the witch doctor because of food.

Last year, the Leopard Tribe did not have enough stored food, but the witch doctor brought the leaders of the other two tribes to urge them to leave the territory if they could not provide enough food.

Leaving the tribe during a heavy snowfall would mean certain death. In order not to be driven away, Baoduo’s father took out half of the remaining food in the tribe, thus avoiding the fate of being expelled. However, the reduction in food caused the entire tribe to starve. The elders in Baoduo’s father’s tribe moved to another cave with some food and told Baoduo and others not to disturb them, stay in the cave, save food, and go find them if they were really hungry.

When winter was about to pass, Baoduo and his companions were so hungry that they could not bear it any longer and wanted to ask their fathers what to do. When they opened the cave, they found that they had not eaten the food they took away! The so-called living separately was just to keep the food for a longer period of time, because the hungry orcs had no way to hold on to the food. The fathers risked their lives to help the young people in the tribe keep the food until the late snow season, and it was the food that kept the young people alive.

The orcs who had a good relationship with the witch doctor lived a very comfortable life throughout the winter because they had food offered by other tribes. Thinking of this, Bao Duo became more determined to grow the magical rice. If he grew it, there would at least be a chance of survival.

When Baoduo fell into deep thought, Bai Tu praised Langqi in a low voice: “You still have a way.” He was only thinking about how to change everyone’s ideas, and forgot that there was this trick of pretending to obey while secretly disobeying. As long as he was not discovered by the witch doctor, when Baoduo and a few others came out, the orcs in the same tribe would naturally understand that the witch doctor’s words were false.

Lang Qi snorted, “They have been fooled by that group of stupid and evil witch doctors.” After saying that, he was stunned for a moment and added, “I’m not talking about you.”

“Understand.” It’s not the first day that Bai Tu has known Lang Qi. Of course he understands what the other party means. Moreover, from another perspective, he thinks the other party is right.

Bai Tu took a branch and randomly drew three circles on the ground. He felt more than once that some witch doctors in the Beast God Continent were very strange. This feeling was particularly obvious after hearing Bao Fei’s words.

It was okay to play tricks in the treatment before, after all, although some parts were not very rigorous, it was a good thing to save people in the end. But brainwashing the orcs that food cannot be grown in other places, isn’t that harming people?

It takes time for orcs to change their way of obtaining food from picking and hunting to planting and breeding. The turning point is the issue of whether there is enough food. At the beginning, the number of orcs is small, and the food obtained from picking and hunting is enough, so of course everyone will not choose planting and breeding.

As the orcs reproduce and their population increases, the previous plants and prey are not enough for everyone to eat, so they will slowly figure out ways to grow crops and raise animals. Just like some tribes raise living animals, this is already a change. In time, everyone will discover the advantages of breeding. Even if it cannot replace hunting in the short term, it will increase the food source.

The same goes for planting. When picking becomes increasingly difficult and the quantity is not enough for the tribe to eat, it is only a matter of time before planting is researched. Even now some orcs have discovered this, but due to climate and other issues, the experience of planting failures far outweighs the successes. The fact that Baoduo and others are not averse to planting corn also shows that everyone understands the benefits of planting.

The words of the witch doctor of the Leopard Tribe directly stopped many actions. At least the orcs nearby would not plant it casually. Even if they had thought of the benefits of planting, their awe of the witch doctor would make them swallow this idea.