Chapter 74.2 - Giant Pig
Ch74.2 – Giant Pig
When Xiong Ye returned to the tribe, Zhou Ji was busy flipping over and examining the chili peppers he had set out to dry in the sun on the platform outside their cave.
He had cut up and set out these chili peppers to dry a few days ago. They had already become sun-dried chili peppers by now, and he could fry them with oil later to make chili oil.
He rather missed the taste of chili oil.
It was then that he noticed Xiong Ye running back with a naked man on his back.
Zhou Ji: “……”
Zhou Ji very readily noticed that Xiong Ye was carrying a man on his back, but the people of the tribe didn’t discover this fact. They only saw that Xiong Ye was running over from afar while carrying something on his back and asked one after the other, “Xiong Ye, what did you bring back?”
“Is it for Zhou Ji?”
“There’s no more noise from that Barosaurus. Did you guys catch it?”
……
Someone else commented, “That Barosaurus really can’t be compared to that giant beast from before! We didn’t feel much of anything while it was thrashing and rolling around! I looked, and the dinosaurs in our territory didn’t even run away.”
At first, they had been worried that when the Barosaurus was poisoned, the resulting disturbance would be too big and drive away the dinosaurs that they had finally attracted back to their tribe with much difficulty.
Fortunately, although the Barosaurus had kicked up a fuss, the dinosaurs hadn’t run away at all.
Zhou Ji felt a little helpless when he heard these words.
Back then, when he had been in a frenzy, not only had he created a disturbance, he had also sent out a lot of energy and killed countless dinosaurs… How could the dinosaurs in the area not flee? This Barosaurus was much milder in comparison… It hadn’t even destroyed that many trees.
“Xiong Ye, who is that person on your back?” Zhou Ji asked.
“It’s a stranger. He’s poisoned!” Xiong Ye spoke while he set the man down on the ground in the valley.
They didn’t know where this man had come from. He wasn’t about to bring him back to his own home!
Hearing this, Zhou Ji came out and went down to the valley to check on the man’s condition.
This man had indeed been poisoned, but the poisoning wasn’t too severe. Of course, if he didn’t save him, he would definitely suffer quite a bit. At the same time, he also had other injuries on his body. For example, Zhou Ji didn’t know how this man’s leg had ended up so crooked.
Zhou Ji said, “Cover him with a piece of animal hide.”
This man was naked, and Xiong Ye also felt that it was a bit inappropriate. Now, when he heard Zhou Ji’s words, he immediately found a piece of animal hide and covered him up.
Zhou Ji then said, “Give him some water.”
Xiong Ye brought out some water and fed it to the man.
Zhou Ji simultaneously stimulated the man's stomach and intestines with his spiritual powers.
"Pah..." The man immediately threw up.
Zhou Ji continued, “Xiong Ye, go to my room and bring out some healing herbs... You guys go and clean him up." This person was now a little dirty. He didn't want Xiong Ye to go and clean him up, so he called others to help out.
Fortunately, the people of the tribe didn’t mind that fact at all. They soon cleaned up the man who was still lying there, and even thoughtfully helped him wipe his skin clean.
Xiong Ye had already come back with the herbs. Zhou Ji had him feed them to the man, then straightened the man’s bones through the animal hide.
While they were doing this, Xiong Ye had already briefly told them about their encounter with the man.
According to the situation when they met, this person shouldn’t be a member of the Giant Tiger Tribe and was probably a wandering beastman. Otherwise, the injury on his leg wouldn’t have been left unattended for such a long time.
His crystal core was darker than Xiong Ye’s, making him a orange-level wandering beastman… If they could make him stay, the Big Bear Tribe would have another powerful fighter.
Zhou Ji used his energy to help the man heal his leg, then had Xiong Ye feed him some herbs that would sap his strength and weaken him.
“He’s alright now. Take him to the collective cave to rest.” Zhou Ji instructed, then asked Xiong Ye, “That Barosaurus…”
“The Barosaurus is dead! Everyone, come with me to help carry back the Barosaurus!” Xiong Ye hollered, then led the people of the tribe out towards the mountain at a run.
There was so much meat! They had to hurry up and bring it back!
Zhou Ji finished speaking and went back to their cave. He was thinking about making hot pot for Xiong Ye that night.
He could use oil to stir fry the dried chili peppers to make them more fragrant, add water to make a hot pot soup, then boil dinosaur meat in the soup. It would definitely be delicious!
Zhou Ji was looking for vegetables to cook with the hotpot when the priest suddenly climbed up to the entrance of his cave, “Zhou Ji!”
“What’s wrong?” Zhou Ji asked.
“That man’s leg was crooked when he first arrived, but it’s now straight again!” The priest exclaimed.
The priest had been down in the valley the entire time. He had seen the man’s condition when Xiong Ye had set him down––his calf had been bent, and it had been bent very badly… This was the mark of a blasphemer.
Although the people of their tribe didn’t care about this, now that this person’s leg had become like this, his life would definitely be difficult in the future.
Yet in the end, he didn’t know how Zhou Ji had done it, but the man’s leg was now fine. It wasn’t crooked anymore!
“Oh… I helped him straighten out his bones.” Zhou Ji said.
“Bones can be straightened?” The priest was dumbfounded.
“Of course they can.” Zhou Ji replied. Based on the medical skills of this era, it was very possible that after someone’s leg was broken, they might end up with legs of uneven lengths or other problems even if their legs healed straight.
However, he had his spiritual strength and energy. If he used the two, he could make it so that people could recover properly from broken bones.
Of course, if this person became problematic, he could just break their leg again… He wouldn’t harm others, but he could have Xiong Ye break their leg if things came to that.
“This… this…” The priest started, “Isn’t he a blasphemer?”
“A blasphemer?” Zhou Ji asked.
“The reason why people’s legs are crooked is that they offended the Beast God!” The priest said.
Zhou Ji: The Beast God really doesn’t exist! Why do you all like to bring up the Beast God at every possible opportunity?
The priest became excited again, “Zhou Ji, you really deserve to be the Beast God’s messenger. You even know how to cure blasphemers!”
Zhou Ji: “……”
The priest then asked, “There is a blasphemer in our tribe too. Can you heal him?”
Now that the priest said so, Zhou Ji recalled that there was a lame person in the tribe.
This man usually worked with the gathering team. Although one of his legs wasn’t usable, he was still able to continue living on. Zhou Ji hadn’t interacted with him before, so he hadn’t thought about healing him.
One had to remember that he had still been trying to hide all his abilities a while ago!
Zhou Ji said, “It can be cured, but his leg has to be broken again and left to heal again.”
“That’s great, that’s really great!” The priest suddenly burst into tears, “Can you help cure him?”
His teacher had always thought of himself as a blasphemer and had always been very depressed. If it could be cured…
The priest was already so old. Now that he suddenly burst out in tears… Zhou Ji said, “Yes.”
Zhou Ji was soon invited back to the priest’s cave by the priest. A while later, the priest brought back that man with the lame leg.
The lame man didn’t know about blasphemers and only knew that his lame leg could be healed. He was instantly extremely grateful, “Zhou Ji, thank you! Thank you so much!”
“No need.” Zhou Ji said.
Then he heard this man say, “Right, right. I should thank the Beast God. It must be that the great Beast God heard my prayers and made it so that I could be cured!” He had prayed that his leg could be cured during the Beast God Sacrifice.
Zhou Ji: “……” The Beast God again!
Zhou Ji told the man to break his own leg.
There was no other way. Everyone in the tribe had gone out to bring back meat. Only him and some of the weak and elderly hadn’t gone. The priest was old and frail and was even weaker than the man…
After the man broke his own leg, he fell to the ground in pain. And because he hadn’t done it skillfully enough, the bone hadn’t been pushed back into place…
Zhou Ji could only use more of his spiritual powers and energy to help him straighten out the bone. He then had the priest bring out a few sticks to tie to his leg, straightening it and keeping it in place.
With this done, Zhou Ji said, “Take care during your recovery. It should be better after half a month, and one month later, it’ll be the same as it was before.” These beastmen’s physical recovery ability was really, really good!
“Thank you, thank you!” This person was crying as he spoke.
The priest was also crying at the same time, tears rolling incessantly down his wrinkled face.
Zhou Ji called the priest outside and found a place where nobody else was around, “What exactly is a blasphemer?”
The priest immediately explained the beliefs about blasphemers.
Zhou Ji suddenly interjected, “So… that person just now might be a blasphemer in exile?”
That man’s leg had been injured less than a month ago. When an injury like that happened amongst the tribes here, people would at least try to recover––even if it healed crooked, it was still better than losing a leg, right?
That man was different. He seemed not to want his own leg to recover.
If it was someone from outside, then it made sense…
Zhou Ji was very curious about the outside world. He rather wished that the man would wake up earlier.
At this time, Xiong He and the others had just cut the Barosaurus into eight pieces when they saw a group of animals run out of the forest.
The leader of these people had an animal form similar to the person who had run out to bite the Barosaurus’s neck, but his animal form was much smaller.
When these people saw Xiong He and the others, they immediately shifted back into their human forms, set down the things they were holding in their mouths, and put back on their clothes.
The clothing that these people were wearing was similar to the ones made by Zhou Ji! Who were these people?
Xiong He was on guard as he watched these people.
The person who led the group smiled and asked, “Have you guys seen anyone with the same animal form as me?”
Xiong He thought about it, “We saw him! He ran over here and fought with this Barosaurus. Then, he fainted for some reason… I asked someone to bring him back to the tribe so that the priest could treat him.” He felt that… he wouldn’t be able to beat the people in front of him in a fight.
He definitely couldn’t let them know that that person had been poisoned!