Stone Age Husband Raising Jornal

C19 - Saving Someone

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

The Big Bear Tribe was in a very good location.

In the past, their previous priest had led the Big Bear Tribe to wander for a long time before finding this valley to settle down in. The mountains around the valley could block attacks from large dinosaurs, and it was located near a river amidst dense vegetation. Food was plentiful, and it was a very suitable place to live.

There was no salt here, but this hadn’t been a big deal for the Big Bear Tribe back then. They never used to eat salt.

What’s more, the priest soon sent people out with food and other goods and told them to trade for salt by going in the direction he had pointed out.

Later on, they had found another tribe to trade for salt with, and after that, they would go and trade for salt every spring. Sometimes, when they didn’t have enough, they would go out and trade again in the autumn.

Hearing that the salt team had returned, everyone was very happy now.

“I wonder how much salt we’ve managed to obtain this time!”

“I also want to join the salt team and take a look outside!”

“I don’t want to go. I’ve heard that there are lots of dreadful dinosaurs out there.”

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The people in the hunting team were all chatting amongst themselves as they picked up the pace to meet up with the people from the salt team.

They were all in high spirits, but their expressions all turned ugly when they saw the salt team.

The salt team looked wretched.

The salt team had consisted of fifty men and women when they had set out, and among them had been the most powerful warriors from the tribe as well as some people who had very small animal forms–those who had small animal forms didn’t have much fighting power but were sometimes able to hide themselves away and survive.

For example, one of the members of the salt team had a mole animal form. Not only was his animal form small, he was also quite weak. It was very difficult for him to play a role during the collective hunts except to take on his animal form to lure his prey to advance before suddenly switching back to human form and scaring the prey. However, his animal form also had some advantages–Many dangerous carnivorous dinosaurs would ignore him in his animal form, and the snakes and lizards who could swallow up his animal form in one bite would avoid him when he was human.

He also consumed a minimal amount of energy when he took on his animal form.

This meant that he was sometimes able to survive for longer in the wild.

But now, only twenty or so people were left out of the carefully selected team of a full fifty people, and all of them were injured.

The people from the salt team were thrilled when they saw Xiong He and the others. Many of their eyes turned red, and their leader, a big sturdy man, choked and called out, “Chief…”

“You guys encountered danger?” Xiong He asked with worry.

The salt team nodded and was just about to say something more when one of them, who had been supported by the people around him, suddenly toppled headfirst onto the ground.

Xiong Ye had long noticed that there was something wrong with the salt team’s condition, and had paid special attention to that man’s pale face. He caught the man who had fallen without a second thought, then discovered that the man’s body was hot and feverish.