Going Hunting

After a few days, the snow finally stopped. The sun came out and it was warm.

Yu went to discuss with Grandma Cao and learned that this should be a rare good day during the snow season.

Yu notified the tribe and decided to take a team out hunting, and organize another team to patrol to prevent wild animals from attacking the tribe.

Cheng An had lived with Yu for several days, and he was not used to the sudden separation. The most important thing was that the mission was not completed yet! He stretched out his claws and grabbed Yu’s fur tightly.

Yu was a little helpless. Why is this kid so clingy?

It’s okay at ordinary times, but if he wanted to go out hunting now, he must not take Cheng An.

Children are generally weak. If they catch a cold when they are taken out, it will be a disaster. Not to mention that Cheng An is also the priest of their tribe. He has to raise him carefully.

 Yu carefully separated Cheng An’s claws from the fur he was wearing, “Grandma Cao, I’ll leave him in your hands.”

Grandma Cao hugged Cheng An, “Don’t worry, Yu, I’ll take good care of him.”

Cheng An cried in his heart, don’t leave! At least let him complete a hundred hours with the leader before leaving!

457! 457! Cheng An called out to his system in his heart. Is the one hundred hours marked on this task cumulative or must it be done all the time?

457: [Ding–reply to the host, this is a non-cumulative task. If you are separated from the target for more than one hour, you need to clear the task bar and start over. Please note that this is a time-limited task. If you cannot complete the task after two days, you will not get a reward.]

Cheng An’s heart was ringing with alarm bells, time limit! How can it reach a hundred hours in two days! No, now it’s only a few hours away from a hundred hours, he couldn’t give up no matter what!

 Cheng An cursed in his heart. After becoming a priest and starting this side quest, this side quest is really strange in its own way. What about spending a hundred hours with the leader, and what about blessing a hundred tribesmen cumulatively. Isn’t this obviously cheating? There are only more than sixty people in their tribe. Where can he bless the remaining forty people?

Seeing that the task of spending a hundred hours with the leader is about to be completed, Cheng An is really reluctant to give up!

Cheng An tried his best to reach Yu, “Awoo!” Don’t go!

Cheng An’s shout stunned Yu. Yu looked at Cheng An and asked, “What did you just say?”

Cheng An was also confused. He looked up at Yu and subconsciously repeated, “Awo.” Ah? Don’t go?

Yu hesitated and hugged Cheng An again, “You can speak?”

Grandma Cao was confused, “Who spoke just now?”

Grandma Cao was a sub-beastman, so naturally she didn’t understand what Cheng An was saying now.

 Although beastmen and sub-beastmen were both in beast form when they were young, sub-beastmen cannot understand what beastmen say in beast form.

It is like two beastmen communicating in beast form. They can communicate freely, but in the eyes of sub-beastmen, they are just yelling at each other. It is difficult for sub-beastmen and beastmen in beast form to communicate.

Although sub-beastmen are also in beast form when they are young, they often transform earlier and cannot transform into human form after transformation. Even if they knew some beast language before, they will slowly forget it when they grow up.

Cheng An is still a little cub now, but he has learned to speak. How can Yu not be surprised?

Yu held Cheng An in one hand and freed up one hand to greet Shitou. Shitou saw it and hurried over to ask: “What’s wrong?”

Yu touched Cheng An’s head and encouraged him: “Say it again.”

Cheng An looked at Shitou, then looked back at Yu and said again: “Awo.” Don’t go.

 “Did you hear that?” Yu looked back at Shitou. He saw Shitou’s eyes wide open and a confused look on his face. Yu felt a little relieved, “What did he just say?”

Shitou was surprised and stuttered a little. He pointed at Cheng An and said, “I-I, did I hear it right? He, he, he just spoke!”

Yu understood. It seemed that he did not hear it wrong, their little priest could really speak.

Cheng An also realized something, and kept calling in his mind, “457, 457! Did I just speak? They seemed to understand! But I feel that what I said was not human language? Explain it to me quickly!”

[Ding——What the host just said was indeed not human language, but animal language…] 457 tried his best to explain to Cheng An what animal language was.

Cheng An’s head was dizzy. Why did he feel that 457 seemed to be laughing at him for not being able to speak human language?  Regardless, Cheng An asked again: “Then if I just speak according to my own will, will the beastmen on the other side understand me?”

[Ding–Yes. ]

Cheng An was relieved now. He grabbed the fur that Yu was wearing tightly, and said loudly that he didn’t want to be separated from Yu.

Shitou’s eyes were about to pop out, “Clan… Clan leader! Is it really okay for such a young child to speak?!” Shitou grew up with Yu. He usually called Yu by his name, but when something happened and he was nervous, he would call Yu the clan leader.

Grandma Cao didn’t understand what Cheng An said, and was anxious. She asked Shitou to translate for her. “What did the cub say?”

Shitou swallowed his saliva in surprise, “He said he didn’t want to be separated from the chief.”

Grandma Cao pondered, “The priest must have a reason to say this. Then Yu, take him with you.”

Shitou shouted: “Grandma Cao! Now is not the time to talk about this! Is it really okay for such a small cub to speak?!”

Grandma Cao wiped the pestle in her hand with an unfathomable look, and said with a reverent expression: “This is the priest of our tribe. Such a small cub can speak must be the guidance of the Beast God! It’s a pity that I’m not a beastman, and I can’t hear the will of the Beast God in person.”

Yu bowed his head and said to Cheng An: “Be obedient. We are going out hunting, it’s very dangerous.”

Cheng An’s eyes lit up, grasping the key point of what Grandma Cao just said. The Beast God! In the beastman Continent, no matter what unreasonable things are, once they are pushed to the Beast God, it is reasonable!

 Cheng An said quickly: “Yes! It is the will of the Beast God! The Beast God said that I can’t be separated from you recently, otherwise the tribe will be in danger!”

As soon as Cheng An said this, Shitou’s surprised expression faded, and turned into a fascinated expression.

If it is the Beast God, what is there to be surprised about? The Beast God is omnipotent! Not to mention letting the cub speak, even turning beastmen into sub-beastmen is just a matter of moving a finger!

Shitou acted as a translator, translating Cheng An’s words to Grandma Cao, and sighed. When it would be his turn to convey the will of the Beast God.

Beast God?

Although Yu didn’t believe in the Beast God, he couldn’t help but look at it with some scrutiny when the cub spoke and such a bizarre thing was related to the Beast God. Moreover, if the consequences were related to the entire tribe, he had to be more cautious.

Cheng An peeked at everyone’s expressions and wagged his tail happily. It seemed that the 100-hour task was expected to be completed!

 Yu finally compromised, “Okay. But you have to be in your scarf, otherwise you might get sick. It would be a disaster for a cub like you if you got sick.”

Yu changed back to his animal form. He asked Grandma Cao to tie the scarf around his neck, and then put Cheng An in.

After the scarf was tied, Yu stood up and strode in the cave, making sure that Cheng An would not fall out and the scarf would not fall apart. Then he went out and asked the hunting team to get ready and set off.

Cheng An was tied around Yu’s neck, close to his vocal part. When Yu spoke, Cheng An could feel that his body seemed to resonate with Yu’s voice.

What’s even more amazing is that Cheng An found that he could understand what the beast form said!

“457! Do you think I’m a beastman? I can understand what the beast say!”

457: “…” Seeing Cheng An’s happy look, 457 rarely spoke directly to break his fantasy.

After their system is bound to the host, it will scan the host’s body and generate data to feed back to the head office. Unfortunately, Cheng An is destined not to be a beastman.

But the system will not lie, 457 still decided to remind Cheng An: [Ding-this is the side effect of the language pack. ]

Cheng An didn’t hear 457’s implication, and praised happily: “Your system’s things are pretty useful! Not only does it have no side effects, but it also comes with some good things.”

457: “…” Should it look for a smart host for its next task? However, the hosts are all assigned by the main system, so they don’t have room for choice.

System: crying.

 Cheng An huddled in his scarf, feeling that Yu was running very fast. He did not pop his head out to see.

When Cheng An felt that Yu had stopped, he poked his head out.

It had been snowing for the past few days, and the white snow covered everything, and no other colors could be seen. Therefore, the beastmen in the snow were particularly conspicuous.

Cheng An took a rough look, and the beastmen who were shoveling snow included snow leopards, which Cheng An recognized, and seemed to be stone-shaped beasts, as well as bears, tigers, lions, and some beasts that Cheng An could not name.

They looked very fierce, and the beastmen who were not fierce were not brought with them on this operation.

Because he took Cheng An out with him, Yu did not join them in shoveling snow, but stood on the hillside to direct them.

 Cheng An followed and looked. Suddenly, he felt that the terrain looked familiar. He asked tentatively, “Is this the place where you saved me from the deer herd that day?”

Cheng An vaguely remembered that it was a valley. This place was filled with snow, but the surrounding mountains were really familiar.

Yu was a little surprised that Cheng An still remembered what happened that day. When he thought that this little wolf cub was not only the priest of their tribe, but also could speak, Yu was relieved. He nodded and said, “Yes, it’s here.”

As if he knew what Cheng An was going to ask, Yu took the initiative to explain, “The food in the tribe was not enough to survive this winter, and the giant deer herd that day was an opportunity. But the giant deer herd has always been difficult to track, and it is not easy to find them. Many giant deer fell in the chaos. They may not have escaped the avalanche and were buried underneath, so now that the snow has stopped, let’s take a look.”

Cheng An did not have a deep understanding of the beastman world, even though he had been in this world for many days. He had been nursing at his mother’s side for the past few days, and later lived in a cave with Yu to eat meat broth and porridge. Occasionally he could get some food from the system. He was not aware of Yu’s worries at all.

He asked carefully: “Is there not enough food?”

Yu chuckled a few times after hearing Cheng An’s question. Even though he could speak, he was just a cub and didn’t understand how rare and precious food was in the snowy season.

“Yes, there is not enough food.” Yu admitted frankly, but he made a guarantee the next second, “But I am the leader of the tribe, I will try my best to make sure everyone in the tribe has enough food. This winter, no one in our tribe will starve to death.”