He sat in front of the fire all night.
When it gets light, he will go to find mugwort.
Otherwise, he won't be able to sleep.
Seeing Shen Nong's haggard appearance, Hu Xiao immediately stopped grinning. He knew that not eating meat would be a problem; the priest's eyes were practically black from hunger.
Tiger Roar placed the piece of meat he had been carrying with him in front of Shen Nong again, with a tone of earnest persuasion, "Priestess, please eat some."
Despite her fragile nerves, Shen Nong refused without hesitation, saying, "I don't like eating meat."
Don't like eating meat?
Hu Xiao looked at Shen Nong in surprise. There was actually someone in this world who didn't like to eat meat!
"Priest, do you have any favorite herbs or berries?"
Tiger Roar pulled over the only woman among the three.
"This is Rabbit Winter from the gathering team. She's in charge of the entire team. You can tell her what the grasses and berries she likes to eat look like. Rabbit Winter is very smart and can remember them all."
Shen Nong immediately perked up; he wanted to finish the first task and see what the infrastructure site was good for.
I'm thinking of going out to find mugwort to repel mosquitoes so I can get a good night's sleep.
He was hungry, and the mosquitoes bothered him.
Now that someone can help him find mugwort, that would be wonderful.
Shen Nong drew on the ground with a twig for a while, and the shape of mugwort appeared.
From the moment Shen Nong started drawing with the twig, Hu Xiao and the other two had been exclaiming in amazement.
"I know the priest is taking notes!"
Tiger Roar stared at the artemisia drawing on the ground with shining eyes, excitedly saying, "Every time we went to the Salt Department to exchange salt, their priest would take a black strip and record it on a wooden board. He would draw it like that, with little figures and salt stones."
Rabbit Wind is a member of the guard team. When the hunting team is short-handed during the salt exchange, the guard team has to go along.
He recalled hearing other tribes discuss this and realized just how impressive Shen Nong's casual drawings were. "The Salt Tribe priest learned how to record things from the Beast City's high priest."
Tu Feng dared not look at Shen Nong. He bowed respectfully, his voice trembling as he asked a question he dared not even think about, "Priest, are you from Beast City?"
Beast City is the place that orc warriors yearn for most.
Both of these words carry a sacred connotation.
Shen Nong glanced at the three of them and found that they either looked longingly at each other or extremely respectful.
What exactly is this Beast City?
“That’s too narrow-minded.” Shen Nong thought of the superstitious nature of the Wood Tribe before and decided to go big, which would also help him establish a deeper foothold in the tribe. “I come from the side of the Beast God.”
!!
The three of them had no doubts about this, because they had never heard of any priest possessing so many divine artifacts, or even being able to start a fire.
More importantly, the priests were summoned by them through forbidden blood sacrifices.
This is an ancient forbidden technique of the Wood Tribe, which can grant the wish of the person making the wish.
If successful, there will be no harm to those who participate in the blood sacrifice. If it fails, all those who participate in the blood sacrifice will die.
Blood sacrifice has never been successful.
The Wood Tribe had already failed twice before, and if they failed again this time, the Wood Tribe would be left with only the elderly and children.
They took a desperate gamble, risking their lives, and surprisingly managed to summon the priest.
They initially thought the summoned priests were from another tribe, but they turned out to be priests from the Beast God's side!
Shen Nong propped her head up, watching the three people's expressions change with a leisurely air.
From shock to even greater awe.
He secretly affirmed that by taking the path of superstition, superstition would have nowhere to go.
He needs to maintain his eccentric persona from now on.
"By the way, what brings you here?"
Shen Nong then realized that he didn't know why the three of them had come.
Hu Xiao repeated what the elders of the tribe had told him to Shen Nong. Shen Nong understood; he was there to assign her tasks.
Since that's the case, then he won't hold back.
Those stone pots and bowls were too much trouble to use, so Shen Nong wanted to make some pottery. He said to Tu Feng, "The guards should dig some soil from the nearby stream and take it to the fire."
"In addition to their usual collection, the gathering team should pay extra attention to mugwort this time."
Tu Dong nodded, tracing the pattern of mugwort on the ground in her mind, trying to memorize its appearance. Recalling that she hadn't seen it within the previous collection area, she decided to venture further this time.
"I went hunting with a hunting party."
Shen Nong got up, patted the dust off her clothes, and felt a little dizzy.
I'm starving.
He insisted on eating fresh meat today.
...
On the hunting route, Shen Nong followed at the back of the group, admiring the pristine scenery with great interest.
Tiger Roar, who was leading the way, suddenly turned around and shouted, "Priest! There are people ahead!"
The hunting party was located very close to the altar that the Wood Tribe had previously built. The people in front not only found an unconscious boy, but also some carcasses of prey nearby.
These were all left behind by the cannibals when they tried to escape quickly.
Shen Nong stepped forward to check the boy's condition. The boy was covered in blood, especially his face, which was completely covered in blood.
Following the marks, Shen Nong discovered that the boy only had marks on his head from being attacked with a blunt object.
A wound that can leave you covered in blood is potentially fatal.
Strangely, the injury didn't seem serious; the skin wasn't broken. At most, it would only cause dizziness.
"Isn't this someone from the Ze tribe?" The more Hu Xiao looked at the person, the more familiar he felt. If it weren't for the blood all over his face, he would have recognized him much sooner.
"The Ze tribe?" Shen Nong asked doubtfully, "Is this tribe close to us?"
Ever since Hu Xiao learned that the priest came from the Beast God's side, he had become somewhat reserved. But he also subconsciously stood up straight, wanting to show off his power and hopefully get the priest to take a second look at him.
What he didn't realize was that what he thought would make the priest look at him differently was, in Shen Nong's eyes, just a skinny bamboo pole supporting a chicken coop, a scarecrow.
"Starting from the tribe, walk around Cangshan Mountain towards the rising sun, and you can reach Ze tribe in the time it takes to roast two sheep."
After Hu Xiao finished speaking, he looked at the unconscious boy and suggested, "Priest, it's inconvenient to take him hunting. I'll have someone send him back to the Ze tribe. It only takes one and a half roasted sheep to get there from here."
Shen Nong calculated the time; it was quite close.
They needed to hunt, and it was too dangerous to bring someone who couldn't move along.
After carefully examining the other party's injuries and confirming that there were no problems, Shen Nong instructed Hu Xiao to select someone to escort the boy back to the Ze tribe.
While Hu Xiao was choosing people, Shen Nong rubbed the blood on her hands with her fingertips, and after rubbing a large red patch of skin, she finally cleaned it.
He had just washed the blood off his body in the river when his hands got stained with blood again.
He thought to himself that if he could afford it in the future, he would definitely prepare a handkerchief for himself and carry it with him at all times.
Seeing Shen Nong's series of actions, the system flipped through her information and kept looking at it. Then it transformed into a little person who was rolling around on the ground laughing wildly.
This is so interesting! A germaphobe has traveled back to the primitive era.
That's so tragic, hahaha.
Shen Nong guessed what was going on from the system's laughter; of course, he was in a terrible situation.
But the worst part is that not only did he travel to the primitive era, but he also encountered a skinner.
——
The hunting party finally arrived at the place where the Wood Tribe used to hunt. Shen Nong took out his gun and checked its condition.
His gun has two modes; one mode is loaded with bullets, and its damage is lower compared to the other mode.
Another mode is the laser mode. This is a new model from Interstellar, with an exquisitely crafted, silver, and powerful design.
When this wooden gun was pre-sold, its stunning appearance made it more appealing to women than men in the interstellar space.
However, Shen Nong has a natural fondness for beautiful things, and because this wooden gun is convenient to carry when he goes out for research, he immediately placed an order as soon as it came out.
There are 30 bullets left in bullet mode, and 40% energy remaining in laser mode.
Although the system can buy bullets and charge them, it doesn't give out a single penny, and Shen Nong doesn't know how many base points she would have to spend to buy them.
He could only use them sparingly, but today he had to complete his first task: to feed the entire tribe. That meant he had to use at least half of his bullets.
After Shen Nong checked Mu Cannon's status and looked up, he saw the members of the hunting team clench their fists and place them over their hearts, bowing their heads to him and saying the same thing at different speeds, "Please grant me power, Beast God."
Before Shen Nong could react to what they meant, she watched the transformation for a full thirty seconds.
Some people turned into sheep, some into tigers, some into cats, and some even into rabbits and cows...
Although they are different species, they are all several times larger than normal animals.
Moreover, they all have green totems on their foreheads, with winding and twisting outlines that look like blooming flowers from a distance, which is very beautiful.
Shen Nong refreshed his knowledge of this continent once again, so he not only traveled to an extremely backward primitive era, but also to the primitive era of beastmen that had never been recorded before.
The sound of wild boars could be heard not far away. The members of the hunting party, who had transformed into animals, ran out in a flash, their speed astonishing.
The prey waits for no one, and Shen Nong had no time to think about what kind of world this was.
He ran toward the prey, then quickly climbed a tree and began to wait for the right moment to replenish his gun.
Every now and then, a "bang" could be heard in the forest. With each bang, the Wood Tribe would harvest a medium-sized prey.
Because Shen Nong was there, the Mu tribe had a very good harvest this time, hunting seven medium-sized prey that were the size of cows and ten small prey the size of chickens and ducks.
This was the first time the hunting party had hunted so much food in such a short time.
Sometimes they were so hungry that they had difficulty even transforming into human form, but this time they were finally able to eat their fill.
According to the system's calculations, the amount of food was enough for the Mu tribe to have a full meal, and the task settlement for Shen Nong began.