From a Slave to a Overlord, My Experience with the Beast World

Chapter 42: Deep in the Mountain of No Return 2

He put the dry fine-wool grass he had picked up into the hole in the wood drill, and Li Mingsheng turned it vigorously and quickly. After the fire started, he added the firewood he had picked up, and then went down the stairs and hurriedly carried back a few huge dead trees from the corner of the mountain next to the cave below. Li Mingsheng did not dare to walk too long, about five minutes, and he needed to use his peripheral vision to see the situation in the cave, so that he could feel at ease.

After the fire became stronger, Li Mingsheng built a simple stove with stones, filled the stone pot with water, and put it on the stove to boil. After the water boiled, Li Mingsheng took out the bamboo tube he had just chopped and poured the boiling water into it to cool.

Just now when he was dealing with the long-tusked beast by the river, there happened to be a small bamboo forest nearby. He went in and cut a few bamboos and brought them back, and also pulled out a few bamboo shoots that were not so old. It was late summer and the bamboo shoots were already old, and these few tender ones were all he could find. He planned to cook them together with the long-tusked beast meat later.

After pouring out the boiling water, Li Mingsheng continued to add water, and then took out a piece of ginger from his only property, the animal skin bag. He carefully sliced ​​it with a bone knife, and then put it into the pot, and then put the large bones of the long-tusked beast in to boil together.

The bones of the tusk were cooking in the pot. Li Mingsheng sorted out the few things they had left. There was still a large bag of salt left. He poured the salt into bamboo tubes, filling up about five bamboo tubes. He also had a handful of dried jingling grass, four or five pieces of ginger, some mung beans and hemp seeds, and two sets of hemp clothes.

Li Mingsheng smiled bitterly. It was like returning to the time before liberation overnight. All the food he and Yanli had prepared, as well as the cart, were gone. He took the bamboo tube filled with salt into the cave and put it away. The salt was their lifeblood, so precious that they could not lose it easily.

Because Yanli was seriously injured, they had to abandon the animal skin bag on his back during their escape. Otherwise, Li Mingsheng and his men would have more salt in their hands, not just five large bamboo tubes. Li Mingsheng conservatively estimated that this amount of salt should be enough to get them through this year's snow season.

They packed up briefly, but there was actually nothing much to pack. The only animal skin they brought out was lying under Yanli. Fortunately, it was still summer. If it was the snowy season, the two of them might not have been killed by other tribes or strange beasts, but died in the severe cold, perhaps frozen to death.

After putting the salt in place, Li Mingsheng returned to the platform at the entrance of the cave and added some firewood. The water for cooking the bones had just boiled, so he used a bamboo stick to skim off the foam. Fortunately, there was not much foam on the bones of the tusked beast, so he skimmed it off in one or two times.

He put the dried pure spiritual grass in and cooked them together, then used a bone knife to cut some bamboo shoots and put them in. On the way back, Li Mingsheng tasted the bamboo shoots and found that they were sweet, so he did not blanch them.

While the soup was cooking in the pot, Li Mingsheng simply took a wooden board as a chopping board and started cutting the meat of the long-tusked beast. He specifically picked out the lean meat, the front leg meat and the hind leg meat, a total of four legs, and Li Mingsheng cut them all into slices.

He was cutting while watching the fire. When he was done, the soup was almost cooked. Li Mingsheng scooped some of the milky white soup with a bamboo tube and tasted it. It was very delicious. His stomach, which had not eaten for a day, was stimulated and started to growl. But he couldn't start eating yet because he had to take care of the injured first.

He scooped a large bamboo tube of soup and let it cool. After five or six minutes, the soup became warm. Li Mingsheng took it into the cave and looked at the small beast-like figure lying on the ground.

Because he was fixing the severed hand by shrinking his beast form, Li Mingsheng couldn't let Yanli's beast form grow bigger, lest the other party suffer secondary damage.

Li Mingsheng half-knelt beside Yanli and fed him the soup bit by bit. Because the whole cave was made of stones, after Yanli finished drinking, when Li Mingsheng stood up, his feet were numb because the ground was too hard.

Although Yanli was in a coma, it seemed to be his body's instinct. When Li Mingsheng carefully fed him the soup with a bamboo tube, it was not too difficult for him and he could swallow it by himself.

After serving Yanli, Li Mingsheng returned to the stove on the platform and put the meat of the tusked beast into the stove to blanch it. When the meat slices turned from bright red to white, he used two branches he had broken off as chopsticks and began to devour the food.

Li Mingsheng, who had not eaten for a day, was very hungry. He ate his meal in the evening with great satisfaction. In the end, he ate the meat of four whole legs of the long-tusked beast by himself and drank all the soup. Only then did he feel about 80% full.

After eating, he simply cleaned up and washed himself. Then, he cut a piece of the linen cloth that he had used to tie the splint on Yanli, wet it, and began to wipe Yanli's body carefully. He avoided the other's wounds and wiped it three or four times before he completely cleaned the other's fur.

Li Mingsheng pinched Yanli's two furry black ears and felt very satisfied. He had wanted to do this for a long time, but it was difficult to have such an opportunity on weekdays. While Yanli was unconscious, Li Mingsheng satisfied his desire to do it.

"How can it be so cute!" Li Mingsheng sighed as he looked at Yanli's closed eyes. Sure enough, in his previous life, he was a national treasure. Even the toughest man would become soft in front of such a cute thing. After Li Mingsheng wiped it and admired it for a while, he moved the stone at the entrance of the cave and blocked it. Then he moved Yanli, left a place for him, and lay on the animal skin on the ground. Then he covered Yanli's body with his animal skin bag and slowly closed his eyes. In less than a few minutes, two long breaths came from the cave.

One is bigger, the other is weaker!

Li Mingsheng went to sleep after finishing his work, but the atmosphere in the Snow Mountain Tribe far outside the Wugui Mountain was much worse. They only went to capture two slaves, but their tribe lost Yue, who could be the next witch. Even the most powerful orc in the tribe, Huya, was blinded in one eye and had a limp. In this operation, their tribe was a big defeat. Although they picked up some linen and food, the old witch was not happy.

He believed that this was a curse from the Beast God and that he must hold a sacrifice as soon as possible, otherwise the Beast God's anger would become more and more serious. As for where the Snow Mountain Tribe would find the orcs for the living sacrifice, it was unknown.

For Li Mingsheng, his biggest wish at the moment is that Yanli can wake up as soon as possible.

He had been unconscious for two consecutive days. Limingsheng had changed from being open-minded to anxious. Seeing Yanli motionless, although he was breathing, Limingsheng was still afraid that he would turn into a plant beastman. After all, there had been precedents in the Wanyuan Continent.

It was another sunny day. Li Mingsheng carefully placed Yanli in a bamboo backpack, padded the bottom with animal skin, and then carried him on his back. Li Mingsheng made this bamboo backpack on the second day of his temporary stay here. He had made it before, so he was much more skilled. After cutting the bamboo into strips, it took him two hours to make it successfully.

In the following time, Li Mingsheng would carry Yanli with him whether he went out hunting and gathering, fetching water and firewood, or tanning animal skins.