Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 60

Chapter 60

This time even Bai Tu wanted to beat people up, not to mention Lang Qi. The little wolves all scattered, fearing that they would be punished if they ran too slowly.

Lang Qi had two cubs in his arms, so of course he couldn’t do anything. If eyes could hit people, these wolves would definitely be beaten black and blue.

The little wolves were fearless as they had been taught a lesson by their leader more than once or twice. When they saw that Lang Qi did not chase them, they ran back after a while to have a look. Only then did they discover that Lang Qi had brought his cubs with him, and they were no longer afraid.

Bai Tu was afraid that these little wolves would do something shocking again one day, so he simply used lime and ink to write the numbers next to the caves one by one. He could use paw prints, but they could not be stone tablets.

Although the stone pillars he made were taken away, his number was left outside the cave. The little wolves cheered and immediately forgot their previous fear. Wolf Zuo ran to Wolf Qi and asked him if he wanted it, showing the typical way of remembering food but not beatings.

Bai Tu: “…”

After solving the problem for the little wolves, Bai Tu didn’t stay long. In this weather, it was much hotter outside than in the cave. The adult orcs were fine, but the cubs would feel uncomfortable if they stayed outside for too long. The two little wolves had already started to whimper.

The cub is so small that even when it is angry, it only makes a whimpering sound that makes people want to hold it in their arms and comfort it immediately.

Bai Tu took the two cubs from Lang Qi. The gray cub clung to Bai Tu aggrievedly, twitching. Bai Tu felt so distressed that he went back to the cave and kissed them for a long time before they could calm down.

Lang Qi’s gaze changed from confusion to surprise and then shock, and finally he fell silent as if he was thinking about something.

Bai Tu didn’t notice the changes in Lang Qi behind him. He was thinking about what to cook for the cubs. The tribe had harvested a lot of food recently. Even if part of it had to be used as reserve food, the rest would be enough for everyone to eat.

The cubs had eaten the walnuts sent by the horse tribe several times. Bai Tu didn’t want to keep cooking the same kind of food, lest the cubs get tired of it. No matter how delicious the food was, they would have no appetite if they ate it every day. Fresh corn had also been cooked several times. Bai Tu sighed. There were too few types of food now, and he couldn’t cook many of the foods the cubs could eat.

Thinking that he hadn’t eaten fish for several days, Bai Tu took the two cubs to the fish pond to pick fish, and brought Lang Qi with him. He was unable to catch the fish while holding the cubs, so he asked Lang Qi for help. Lang Qi nodded and followed him.

When he arrived at the cave, Bai Tu first heard a bleating sound. When he walked in, he saw two lambs that had just been born and a ewe eating grass next to them.

“Did you run up here by yourself?” Lang Qi looked around. There were only these three sheep here. All the other animals had moved down.

As the breeding time went on, the smell of prey became stronger and stronger. Building a breeding area was a huge project and it was impossible to complete it in a day or two. The two caves could not accommodate all the animal cubs. Bai Tu simply asked everyone to drive the prey cubs down the mountain, build a circle with bricks, and keep them in the temporary circle until the new breeding area was built.

Because of this decision, the cave became empty. Since so many fish were caught, the fish pond was expanded. There had been no prey in this cave for almost ten days, and suddenly a few prey appeared. Lang Qi suspected that he had come up.

“No.” Bai Tu shook his head and looked at the size of the lamb. “It is probably sent here to give birth to lambs

.” As the two were talking, Bai Dong ran in with a pile of grass. After greeting the two, he went to feed the ewe. Without waiting for Bai Tu to ask, he began to share his joy like pouring beans: “Tu, this sheep gave birth to two lambs yesterday. It had been bullied down there and had no grass to eat, so I brought it up. I will clean it up and feed it here for only two days.”

Bai Tu nodded: “Just put it here and send it down when the lambs are bigger.”

Recently, the tribe not only keeps the prey cubs, but even the adult prey, as long as they can be caught, they will be brought back. Raw meat can be stored for too short a time. Even if there is a storage cave, it will go bad after a long time. The storage cave only delays the spoilage time and cannot keep the food fresh all the time.

After being made into dried meat, it is suitable to be eaten as a snack. Using it as a staple food consumes a lot of manpower. There are not so many idle people in the tribe now. It is okay to deal with dead prey in this way, but it would be a pity to kill the prey immediately if it can be caught alive. It is better to capture all the prey alive as long as it will not hurt people.

The captured prey resisted, so Bai Tu gave the hunting team some anesthetics and fed them a little after they caught the prey. After a while, the prey would fall into coma. Everyone took the opportunity to send the prey to the tribe, tied them up, and fed and watered them at regular intervals. At the beginning, some prey would go on a hunger strike or struggle to leave. But when they found that there was no danger and they could eat and drink freely, they would no longer resist. After a few days of eating, they would gradually get used to this kind of life. When the prey was no longer aggressive, Bai Tu would let them go. Most of the prey could be raised in this way, but some that did not cooperate and kept attacking the orcs could not be raised.

Due to their nature, the chances of capturing adult prey alive are relatively small. The ones that can be caught are basically slightly smaller ones, such as the ewe in front of us. It was caught because its belly was too big and it didn’t run away. It was also bullied in the temporary breeding pen. In order to let the ewe eat more, Bai Dong brought her up alone and gave her a special meal.

Bai Dong’s careful care was not in vain, as the ewe successfully gave birth to two lambs.

Bai Tu looked at the ewe and suddenly said, “You can feed it some goat’s milk!” How could he forget this? The cubs in the tribe all eat directly, and since they had never caught live prey that was producing milk, they had simply ignored the issue of feeding the cubs. Now it seems that they can feed it some goat’s milk, as there is some ready-made.

Bai Tu heated the goat milk, but was worried that the cubs would not like to drink it because the taste was too strong, so he added some fruit juice to remove the smell.

Facts proved that Bai Tu’s worries were unnecessary. During the process of cooking goat milk, the aroma of the heated milk spread far away. The cubs, who were originally coaxed to sleep by Bai Tu, smelled the aroma and started smacking their lips. When the goat milk was brought to them, they wanted to bury their heads in the plate to drink it.

In order to make it easier for the two cubs to drink, Bai Tu directly used a shallow ceramic plate. Unexpectedly, he almost gave them a bath as soon as he brought it over. Fortunately, Lang Qi was watching them the whole time, lifting the back of their necks with one hand each, and let them drink in this position.

It was the first time that Bai Tu saw the cubs so excited about a food. The cubs also liked the food I made before, but they were not as excited as they were now. They wanted to dig all four paws into the pottery plate, their tails were raised and swayed from side to side, and their whole bodies were filled with love.

There was not much goat milk, after all, they had to leave some for the lambs, so the two little wolves drank up all of it, and after drinking it they licked each other’s faces. Bai Tu waited for the cubs to finish eating, then wiped their faces with a clean towel.

Lang Qi watched his movements from the side and said after a while: “Come back later tomorrow.”

“Something happened?” Bai Tu was puzzled. The wolf tribe’s hunting habit was to hunt at night and rest during the day. Recently, Lang Qi would leave the rabbit tribe after dinner in the evening and meet with the hunting team in the wolf tribe’s territory. After catching the prey, he would go directly back to the wolf tribe and come here again at dawn in the morning. When he suddenly heard this, Bai Tu’s first reaction was that something happened in the wolf tribe.

“Catch more prey.”

“Then be careful.” It is normal to catch more prey. When the food storage in the tribe is not enough, everyone will catch more to supplement it. Some tribes will even catch all the prey that passes through their tribe regardless of whether they can finish eating it or not. The two tribes do not have this bad habit of harming others and not benefiting themselves. Since the wolf tribe wants to catch more prey, there must be a demand.

It was just two casual remarks and Bai Tu didn’t take it to heart. The impact of Lang Qiwan’s return on him was that he had to bring the cubs with him when he went out in the morning, and he had long been accustomed to it.

It was not until noon the next day when Lang Qi came back with two ewes with cubs that Bai Tu realized that he had caught more prey to find food for the cubs.

With these two sheep, plus the previous one from the tribe, the two wolf cubs can drink fresh goat milk every day, and the other cubs in the tribe can also drink it every now and then.

After handing the cub over to Lang Qi, Bai Tu went to check the construction progress of the iron smelting furnace. Iron smelting required high temperature and more complicated process. Bai Tu could only cross the river by feeling the stones and try slowly, starting with a small iron smelting furnace, and then scaling it up proportionally after making sure it would be successful in the end.

For the sake of convenience, the testing phase was conducted directly near the tribe. There was no mass production anyway. Not to mention that the correct process had not yet been developed, the amount of iron ore was not enough. Bai Tu calculated the time and the Eagle Tribe should be arriving in the next few days. It would be best to make the correct iron smelting furnace before the other party came to deliver the second batch of iron ore. In this way, he could exchange more and Bai An and others would not worry.

Ever since the pottery making began, Bai Tu has been the key protected person in the tribe. As for the pottery kiln and brick kiln, he only needs to talk, and at most he takes action during the construction. During the subsequent firing, other orcs will always be the first to separate him, unless they are not sure about the temperature, then they will let him check. The kiln was too hot during the firing process. Even the orcs with strong heat resistance kept wiping their sweat. Everyone was afraid that Bai Tu would faint from the heat, so they tried not to let him get close when he was not needed.

It took exactly three days to complete the iron smelting furnace under the guidance of Bai Tu. As before, people were only allowed to watch during the firing process and were not allowed to touch the furnace, but they could give instructions.

Iron has a high melting point and has to go through a series of reduction reactions, so the finished product will not be produced in a short time. Bai Tu was very patient. He started burning in the morning and kept asking the orcs responsible for adding coal to continue adding coal until dark.

After the iron-smelting furnace cooled down overnight, Bai Tu led everyone to take out the materials in the iron-smelting furnace the next day. In addition to the slag scattered everywhere, there was some sponge iron left, which was exactly what Bai Tu needed.

Sponge iron can be further processed and repeatedly heated and forged to make knives and various iron tools. Many steps are required in between, but the final product is definitely worth the effort. Iron products are better than stone and bone products in terms of sharpness and usage. Iron is needed for everything from containers to knives to needles and nails. With iron, textile tools can also be further upgraded. Currently, they break easily and require repairs too frequently.

When Bai Tu collected the sponge iron and prepared for the next step, Hei Yan was arguing with Hei Xiao in mid-air not far from the Snow Rabbit Tribe.

Hei Xiao sighed and explained for the third time: “This is the Snow Rabbit Tribe, just land from here.” He got lost and walked around in circles last time, but he didn’t get lost this time. However, after walking around a few times, he felt a little dizzy. Hei Xiao once again suspected whether he had fed him something bad when he raised him, otherwise how could he become like this.

Heiyan once again firmly denied: “Impossible, the Snow Rabbit Tribe is not that dark!” Don’t think you can fool him just because he is not good at finding his way!

Hei Xiao: “…”