Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 01

Chapter 1

Snow Rabbit Tribe of the Beast God Continent.

In the evening, the setting sun shone on the open space at the foot of the tribal mountain. A group of two or three-year-old children were running around naked. Next to them was an elderly man using a fish bone to poke holes in a piece of dark gray animal skin. Children around ten years old were carrying branches back and forth, preparing for dinner when the hunting party returned.

Further away, the picking team in the tribe, led by the captain, looks for edible wild fruits, while the hunting team needs to go even further away.

Every member of the tribe has his own task, except Baitu.

Bai Tu walked out of the cave where he had stayed for a day, stopped at the cave entrance, and wrapped himself in animal skins. Without any fitting underwear, he had the illusion of running naked even wrapped in animal skins.

Bai Tu, who was accustomed to modern life, could not just wrap himself up and go out like other people. The price of wrapping himself up tightly was heat, so in the past few days he could only come out to get some fresh air in the morning and evening.

Today is the third day since he encountered the accident and came to this strange place. He has basically figured out the situation. This is a place called Beast God Continent. The Snow Rabbit Tribe he belongs to is a small tribe consisting of more than 80 people. The appearance of this body was 90% similar to the one before his death, except that his hair had turned white and he looked like he had just reached adulthood.

According to other people’s descriptions, he knew that he was a “fool” who was picked up by the tribal chief a month ago. He was always slower than others in everything he did. He only remembered his own name and was assigned to the picking team. Five days ago, he had a conflict with an orc from a neighboring tribe. During the scuffle, he fell and hit a rock. He was unconscious for two days before waking up.

When he woke up, he found that the wound on his head was still bleeding, but there was no one in the tribe who knew medicine. Bai Tu relied on his memories to find several kinds of herbs for himself to eat. He had been interested in plants since he was a child and knew quite a few herbs, so it was not a problem for him to cure a minor injury.

At first I thought it would be good enough to find one or two hemostatic herbs based on my fragmentary knowledge. I didn’t expect that I am now more familiar with plants than before. When I see many plants, I can remember their uses, as if I had just learned them not long ago. I even know a thing or two about some plants that I had never seen before.

The wound had not healed yet, so Bai Tu did not go too far and only collected a few kinds of medicinal herbs. However, the medicinal effects of the herbs here are outstanding, and the body has a strong self-healing ability. In just two or three days, the wound has begun to scab over. He only feels dizzy occasionally and other symptoms. He judged that he had a concussion and could only try to reduce activities. After all, there are no conditions for examination here.

Not to mention inspection, in this primitive society where there is nothing, being able to fill one’s stomach is a luxury. Most members of the tribe are very thin, and some of the older ones are just skin and bones. Even though it is summer and supplies are relatively abundant, the tribe still cannot catch much prey.

What surprised Bai Tu was that the people here had both human and animal forms, including himself. Most members of the Snow Rabbit Tribe are in the form of rabbits. God knows how shocked he was when he saw a two or three-year-old child fall down and turn into a rabbit. After the immature rabbits turned into beasts, they were only the size of a palm, with snow-white fur. Unfortunately, the beastmen who were guarding the minors would not let them touch the cubs.

There are many tribes around, and the animals include fierce professional hunters such as tigers, lions, and wolves, as well as gentle animals such as antelopes, cattle, and horses, and even birds such as eagles and vultures and reptiles such as pythons.

The rabbit tribe does not have an advantage in size, does not have sharp claws and fangs, and finds it difficult to subdue prey, making them a relatively weak tribe.

Bai Tu looked at the cubs playing in the open space and rubbed his temples depressedly. He always felt that the background was inexplicably familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he had heard it. Accidentally falling into a coma and waking up in a strange continent, it sounds like a time travel caused by an accident, but something is weird about it.

While he was thinking, a child who was moving branches not far away saw him finally come out, put down the branches and ran over.

The leading one asked curiously: “Tu, is your head okay?”

The child next to him interrupted: “Can you speak now?”

No one answered. The last child sighed: “Oh no, he’s still mute.”

The child who spoke first worriedly: “He was stupid to begin with, and now he’s mute. Will his partner dislike him in the future?”

A child about eight years old behind the two looked up and shook his head: “Tu is so handsome, there must be someone willing to support him!”

Bai Tu: “…” There are too many things to complain about, and I don’t know where to start.

It wasn’t that he was really mute, but when he woke up he found that the people in the tribe spoke with an accent. He didn’t dare to say too much for a while, fearing that he would be exposed. Apart from answering a few words from the chief, he didn’t speak again.

No one saw him talking to the clan leader, and he had hardly communicated with anyone else in the past few days. He just listened from the side. As a result, the word spread that he went from being a fool to being a mute.

In order to prevent the rumors from spreading further, and more importantly, the accent has been imitated almost perfectly, Bai Tu spoke out to refute the rumors: “The wound has stopped bleeding and will heal in a few days. He is not mute, he can speak. He just didn’t speak before because he was feeling uncomfortable.”

“Ah! Tu is not mute anymore!” the children cheered, surrounding Bai An, asking questions one by one.

“Are you really feeling better?”

“Tu, do you still recognize me?”

Bai Tu answered one by one, explaining that he was almost recovered from his illness, but he had a head injury and could not remember what happened before.

Over the past few days he discovered that although this tribe was small, the relationships among the tribesmen were very good. Perhaps because the small animals needed to cooperate in hunting, the tribesmen were more united.

Hearing that Bai Tu didn’t remember them, the children introduced their names one by one.

The leading child is called Bai Dong, and the other two are called Tu Shi and Tu You. Some people in the tribe have the surname Bai, and some have the surname Tu. It is said that it is a merger of two tribes. One of the reasons why the chief is willing to bring him back is that Bai is the surname of the tribe, and they are from the Rabbit tribe, so even if they don’t know each other, it can prove that there is some relationship.

After introducing the names, Bai Dong instructed like a little adult: “Tu, don’t fight with the people from the Crazy Lion Tribe in the future.”

The little follower Tu Shi nodded heavily and said: “That’s right, Shi Hong from the Crazy Lion Tribe is too powerful, he will beat you.”

Bai Tu, who was listening to them patiently, suddenly stopped: “Who?”

Bai Dong said seriously: “Shi Hong, Fox Bu’s mate Shi Hong. They said that if you quarrel with Fox Bu again, Shi Hong will beat you.”

Tu Shi echoed again: “You can’t beat them.”

Tu You was dejected: “I can’t beat him either.” After saying that, he was afraid that everyone would despise him for being weak, so he added, “Shi Hong is too fierce. Only Lang Qi from the Blood Wolf Tribe has defeated him. No one in our tribe can beat him.”

The last sentence was a critical hit. The young hearts of the half-grown children who found themselves very weak were seriously hurt. Their tone gradually became depressed, and they continued to go together to pick up branches, pretending nothing had happened.

Bai Tu had no time to care about their feelings. The Crazy Lion Tribe, the Rabbit Tribe, the Lion Tribe, the Fox Tribe, the Lion Hong Foxbu, he thought of this background and felt familiar!

That novel!

A few months ago, at a class reunion, two classmates were discussing an article on infrastructure that they had just read. Since they were not far away from each other, Bai Tu heard a few words of the content.

There is a supporting male character in the story, who is a good-for-nothing except his good looks. He joins the Crazy Lion Tribe due to the decline of his tribe. In order to get close to the leader of the Crazy Lion Tribe, who is also the protagonist, he does everything he can.

First, they spread rumors that the protagonist had cheated on him in order to sow discord between the two. Later, she gave the protagonist a drug that she had exchanged from a large tribe, which was said to make people obey her orders. Then she framed the protagonist, saying that she was pregnant with the protagonist’s child.

The final result is predictable. The protagonist finds his tribe members to testify that the male supporting role and the protagonist did not have sex that day, exposing the fact that the male supporting role was faking pregnancy. The protagonist sees through the true face of the male supporting role and kills him by burning him with fire.

Because of the interference of the male supporting role, the top and bottom realized each other’s feelings, their relationship warmed up, and then they started to become cannon fodder.

It was nothing, it was just a coincidence that the supporting actor had the same name as Bai Tu. His classmates joked that he should recite the whole text, saying that the main characters were like the gods of death. Except for the main characters, everyone else in the book was either frozen to death, starved to death, or attacked by prey. Even the most powerful villain disappeared inexplicably in the later period. Anyway, no one had a good ending. Other tribes were so miserable, you could tell without reading the ending that the Mad Lion Tribe must have successfully become the most powerful tribe in the Beast God Continent.

Bai Tu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this. A group of people were so stupid that they just let the male supporting actor talk nonsense and believed him when he said she was pregnant without even checking the gender of the woman. After the party, I didn’t take the matter to heart. There are many people with the same name and surname, and they all have their own lives. What’s more, it was just a novel, and apart from the coincidence of having the same name, it had nothing to do with him.

But now, Bai Tu wished he could go back to the day of the party and memorize the book from beginning to end without missing a word. Thinking of the ending of being roasted to death alive in the book, Bai Tu shuddered and broke out in a cold sweat in the hot weather.

Bai Tu was immersed in his memories when suddenly a cheer came from afar.

“The hunting team is back!”

In an instant, everyone, whether they were chatting or crawling on the ground, ran towards the sound. Some of the very young children might think that running like this was too slow, and simply turned into little rabbits, using facts to demonstrate that two legs cannot outrun four legs. However, they failed before they could run a few steps. The orcs who were taking care of the cubs picked them up one by one and put them into a bag made of animal skins.

Bai Tu: “…” No matter how many times I see this scene, I will still be surprised. Besides being surprised, I also want to touch them. Each one is small and cute, and it must feel great to touch.

He even wondered what he would look like after turning into a rabbit, but he didn’t dare to think too much about it. The brain has not fully recovered yet. The rabbit’s brain capacity is much smaller than that of a human. What if it is squeezed during the transformation and becomes stupid again? Apart from anything else, Baitu is serious about cherishing his life.

Bai Tu, who didn’t intend to squeeze into the crowd, waited there. About a minute later, the hunting team appeared in his sight.

The return of the hunting team is the most exciting news for the tribe, especially when they have prey in their hands, which means they don’t have to go hungry tonight, and if they are lucky, there will be some left.

Today we caught a wild boar, three pheasants and a dozen eggs, enough for everyone to have a large piece. The children were as happy as if it were New Year’s Day. There was not enough food some time ago, and the tribe had been eating only fruits for several days in a row.

But Bai Tu found something wrong. Because of the long distance, the hunting team usually came back when it was almost dark, and now, the picking team that was closer had not returned yet.

The atmosphere in the hunting team was also a bit heavy. It was not like the joy of catching the prey. Until he saw the rabbit being held in someone’s arms, Bai Tu guessed the reason: someone was injured.

Rabbits are also included in the rabbit tribe’s diet, but the beastmen’s beast forms and the animals they eat, even if their names are the same, have many differences in terms of fur color and texture. Most beastmen can distinguish the two directly. Bai Tu’s vision was blocked and he couldn’t see the specific characteristics of the rabbit, but he could tell from the attitudes of other people. Like this one, the young man holding the rabbit is so cautious, it is obvious that this is a treatment only available to members of the tribe.

The animal skin wrapped around the outside of the rabbit had been dyed dark black, and Bai Tu’s heart sank. With so much blood flowing, the wound must be quite serious.

“Chen is injured.” Patriarch Bai An said in a deep voice.

The others came to their senses instantly. There were nearly a hundred members in the tribe, but only those who were strong enough could join the hunting team, so there were not many members in the hunting team. Every injury to a member was heartbreaking news.

Bai Chen is Bai An’s eldest son and one of the strongest warriors in the tribe. In the future, he will most likely succeed Bai An as the patriarch and lead the tribe to continue to grow.

Being placed with high hopes by everyone, Bai Chen plays an extremely important but also dangerous position in the hunting process. His injury means that the hunting team will have less food for a period of time in the future, and they may even fail to catch large prey.

What was even more worrying was that Bai Chen’s hind leg was cut by the wild boar’s tusks, leaving a deep cut that could be seen to the bone. This injury was too serious for them, especially in summer.

Years of life experience tell us that wounds of orcs injured in the summer are more difficult to heal.

The surprise brought by the prey was gone, and all the elders and children who were old enough to understand were worried about the future of their people and the tribe. The younger children did not understand what it meant to be hurt, but were infected by the heavy atmosphere and ran to find their loved ones anxiously.

In the sadness, no one noticed that the boy at the entrance of the cave came back with a bunch of plants in his hands.

Until the young man’s clear and calm voice sounded.

“Chief, how about we stop Chen’s bleeding first?”

The strange atmosphere that seemed like some kind of mysterious ritual was suddenly interrupted. Bai An was the first to react. He shook his head bitterly and said, “He has been tied up, but it’s useless. The wound is too deep and keeps bleeding.”

Bai An is one of the oldest people in the tribe. He has led everyone hunting for more than ten years. Because of his rich experience, he knows that a wound that keeps bleeding will definitely lead to death.

In the entire Beast God Continent, only the witch doctors worshipped by large tribes know how to practice medicine and save lives. If members of a small tribe like theirs are injured, they can survive if they are lucky and the wound is small and the bleeding is little or no. If they are unlucky like Bai Chen and the bleeding does not stop, they can only wait to die.

Bai Tu quickly realized that the tribe did not know how to use medicine.

He strode forward and looked at Bai An firmly: “I can save him, but I need someone to cooperate with me and help me make a fire and boil the medicine.”

Hearing this, all the tribesmen looked at Bai Tu in unison.

Bai An was shocked: “Are you a witch doctor?!”