translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Previously, Zhou Ji had mostly boiled food in water to cook it, and he hadn't bothered to put in much seasoning. Although it tasted better than the food Xiong Ye made before, it couldn't be considered phenomenal.

As for the honey roasted meat and the like, other people in the tribe had done similar things before.

But this time… No one in their tribe had ever fried a dinosaur egg!

Dinosaur eggs could be eaten two ways. One was to place the entire egg into water and boil it, and the other was to wrap the entire egg with large leaves and place it into the fire to bake it.

But now… Dinosaur eggs could be fried and eaten!

"Xiong Ye, what are you guys eating?" The smell of the scrambled dinosaur eggs even drew in the person who was living in the cave below Xiong Ye. This tribal warrior, who had a pretty good relations.h.i.+p with Xiong Ye, climbed up to Xiong Ye's platform and looked eagerly at him.

"Dinosaur eggs." Xiong Ye said. He was actually very willing to share, but at this moment, he didn't want to give any scrambled eggs to anyone else.

This egg was really tasty, and he should let Zhou Ji eat more of it. "Zhou Ji, have more."

The dinosaur egg was quite big and was around three kilograms. There was a big pot of it after it had been scrambled, but if Xiong Ye really wanted to eat it all, it would basically just fill in the gaps between his teeth… He couldn't bear to eat it and wanted Zhou Ji to eat first.

Zhou Ji laughed a little, then divided the dinosaur egg into two parts and gave Xiong Ye one part, "Go ahead and eat."

"You should eat more. I don't need that much." Xiong Ye said.

“I've had enough, too.” Zhou Ji insisted.

Xiong Ye thought for a moment, then used his chopsticks to pluck a piece of the egg from his bowl into Zhou Ji's. After that, while their neighbor at the entrance to the cave looked on, he completely demolished his own scrambled dinosaur eggs.

After eating the dinosaur egg, Zhou Ji took out the leftover roasted meat from the day before and cut it into small pieces, then placed it into the pot which still had some leftover oil from frying the eggs--the pot wasn't smooth, and he had put in a little too much oil in order to scramble the eggs well.

Xiong Ye asked as he ate his fried meat, "When will we set out? Where are we going?"

Zhou Ji said, "I found a beehive. We'll go get honey." Xiong Ye really liked honey, but based on Zhou Ji's apparent abilities it wouldn't be possible for him to obtain any. Since that was the case, he would let Xiong Ye get it.

"Alright." Xiong Ye immediately agreed, "When the time comes, you need to stay far away so that you don't get stung by the bees." His animal form's fur was very thick, and he wasn't scared of bees, but Zhou Ji would need to be careful.

"Alright." Zhou Ji also agreed.

The two of them were ready to set out after having eaten enough, but they ran into the priest just as they arrived at the valley. The priest smiled broadly and walked towards them, "Xiong Ye, I heard that you found a new way to cook dinosaur eggs? I haven't eaten my dinosaur egg from yesterday, haha."

Even a priest would store food. Dinosaur eggs, which could be stored for days, would certainly not be eaten right away.

This had undoubtedly been the right choice. Earlier this morning, he had heard that Zhou Ji had used a new method to cook his dinosaur egg, and it was said to have been particularly fragrant.

Could it be that they had coated the dinosaur egg with honey after boiling it?

The priest smacked his lips as he reminisced about the sweet taste of the honey Xiong Ye had given him yesterday.

When Xiong Ye heard the priest's words, he immediately looked towards Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji explained, "Grandpa Priest, you can put dinosaur fat into the pot and cook it without adding anything else in order to get oil. After that, you can pour in the liquid egg from the dinosaur egg and cook it."

His scrambled eggs had been made with vegetable oil that he had refined himself. It wasn't convenient for him to bring it out, so he had the priest eat animal oil instead.

The priest was probably used to the taste of dinosaur meat, anyway.

The priest nodded and was itching to give it a try. He asked, "How much fat is required?"

"More is better, but don't use too much." Zhou Ji used his hands to measure out an approximate amount.

"That's already a lot. Other than me, there's probably n.o.body else who can spare that much fat." The priest replied, then slowly wobbled his way back, intending to test out this new method of eating dinosaur eggs.

Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye left the valley together.

As they walked out, Zhou Ji felt something and looked back to meet Yang Su's vicious gaze. Yang Su's face was swollen, but he still spat in Zhou Ji's direction.

This child was particularly fond of spitting at others. It was really rather unpleasant!

Zhou Ji ignored him and left the tribe with Xiong Ye.

The place where the beehive was was quite far away from the tribe--If it had been close by, the beehive would've been brought back by the people of the tribe long ago.

It really wasn't difficult for anyone who had awakened as a bear to obtain some honey!

Therefore, Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye walked for over half an hour and still hadn't reached their destination yet.

"Would you like me to carry you?" Xiong Ye asked. It was very tiring to walk out in the wild, and some of the leaves could cut skin. Although Zhou Ji had been very careful and walked with animal leather wrapped around his feet, the gra.s.s and leaves on their path might still scratch his calves.

Xiong Ye had this thought in mind as he looked worriedly at Zhou Ji's legs, but he then discovered that there were no wounds on Zhou Ji's legs at all.

Zhou Ji's luck was really good. Oh, he had been lucky too and hadn't encountered any of the annoying p.r.i.c.kly gra.s.s.

Zhou Ji glanced at Xiong Ye, then smiled, "Sure."

They would be able to run faster if Xiong Ye was willing to carry him on his back, so it wasn't a bad thing.

He could also save a lot of effort.

Having experienced many years of hard work after the apocalypse had hit, Zhou Ji was very willing to be lazy.

Xiong Ye put Zhou Ji on his back and was quite happy even if he couldn't quite pinpoint the reason for his delight.

Xiong Ye was used to running in the forest barefoot and could run very quickly. He carried Zhou Ji on his back and ran for an hour while following Zhou Ji's directions before coming across the beehive.

Right now was a time when the flowers were in full bloom, and countless bees were busily moving amongst the flowers as they brought nectar back to their huge nest.

There had to be a lot of honey inside! Xiong Ye stared at the beehive and swallowed his saliva, then explored the surrounding area and placed Zhou Ji down under a tree, "Wait for me here!"

He left after he'd set Zhou Ji down, turning into his animal form as he picked up the beehive and ran in the opposite direction from Zhou Ji.

There was a stream over there. He could hide there!

Xiong Ye ran like he was flying, and the swarm of bees behind him was just as fast.

However, those poor bees really had no way to deal with this huge brown bear.

The fur on that brown bear was ten centimeters long!

Zhou Ji watched as Xiong Ye ran away, then helped disperse most of the bees that were chasing him before returning back to the place Xiong Ye had set him down to sit and wait. He also took this chance to eat while Xiong Ye wasn't around.

He now had an extremely large appet.i.te and he could easily eat over ten kilograms of plants similar to sweet potatoes every day.

He also wasn't quite sure why he could eat so much.

Zhou Ji ate for two hours and finished off over ten kilograms of various plants before Xiong Ye finally returned.

Xiong Ye was soaked all over when he came back. He held a beehive in one hand and an alligator as long as an adult's thigh in the other. "Zhou Ji, I caught an alligator. We can have roasted alligator meat later!"

Zhou Ji, "……" He didn't really want to eat alligators.

Xiong Ye was obviously very satisfied with today's harvest. "This beehive is so big that there must be a lot of honey inside, and there's also the delicious honeycomb… Zhou Ji, let's give some of it to Grandpa Priest. Two days from now, it'll be the day of the Beast G.o.d Sacrifice. We'll need his help with the mating ceremony then."

Xiong Ye scrutinized Zhou Ji very carefully as he spoke about the mating ceremony.

They hadn't discussed this matter at all after they had returned to their cave last night, and he was suddenly a bit worried that Zhou Ji might regret it.

Zhou Ji replied, "We should give some of it to the priest." He wasn't short on honey. If Xiong Ye liked it, they could even try and raise some bees.

"Good." Xiong Ye was very happy.

Zhou Ji continued, "We still don't have enough houseware at home. We should get some wood and bring it back. I think we can bring that tree back and use it to make buckets, bowls, and chopsticks."

The tree Zhou Ji was pointing to was a very thick tree.

Buckets and other things made out of low quality wood would turn moldy, but things made from this tree definitely wouldn't rot.

It could conveniently also be used to make bowls and chopsticks.

Before, although Zhou Ji had stayed in the Big Bear Tribe, he hadn't felt a sense of belonging and was very indifferent to his living environment. Now, however, he had developed some requirements.

The wood that Zhou Ji had chosen was indeed very good; Xiong Ye immediately began to cut down the tree.

Cutting trees with stone axes was actually quite difficult, but this time, the chopping process was especially short… It was just that the tree was rather heavy and hard to handle.

Xiong Ye hung the beehive and alligator up on the tree, then said to Zhou Ji, "You'll have to walk by yourself on the way back."

“No problem." Zhou Ji replied, then watched as Xiong Ye took on his animal form and picked up the fallen tree.

He smiled and drew on the energy around them, letting it enter Xiong Ye's body so that he would have an easier time of it.

xiin: i had.. scrambled eggs twice today.

Juurensha: Hahaha, get some honey too xiin!