Author: flying de lazy cat

At that moment, Zhou Xu felt a life being born in his hands, and a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.

But after realizing some of the troubles that would follow, he quickly became gloomy again.

For example, how are they going to feed this newly born cub at the age of suckling?

At the same time, according to the urine of the hyena man, he suddenly began to find the reason for this beast's bad luck, and it was undoubtedly clear at this moment.

Most likely it's because the beast has become weak due to pregnancy.

And while Zhou Xu was thinking about this, the four little claws of the cub had already begun to claw at him.

Good guy, even though this little guy only weighs five or six kilograms, it’s really painful when his claws are pulled on the skin.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu simply took off the piece of animal skin that he was wearing as a top, and then wrapped the cub up.

This weather makes people want to shed a layer of skin, and they don't feel cold at all even if they are shirtless.

On the other hand, the cub, wrapped in the animal skin, could not stretch its four legs at will, and it suddenly became more mature.

During this period, amidst the sound of "whining", the cub's eyes slowly opened and looked at Zhou Xu who was holding him in his arms. On the contrary, it stopped barking. It had a pair of big blue-gray round eyes, just like that.

He looked straight at Zhou Xu, not knowing what he was looking at.

After staring at each other for a while, Zhou Xu looked away and looked in the direction they were walking from.

Only a few members of the transportation team appeared in his field of vision, pushing wooden carts.

Although he was not sure whether he could find this beast, he still called the members of the transport team to follow him in order to be prepared.

And now, it will undoubtedly come in handy.

Let Zhou Chongshan and Ye Jinghong go up to help. They will definitely take the body of this beast back directly.

After all, judging from the previous behavior of the hyena people, this corpse may have some skills.

Otherwise, when the beast fell into their trap, the other party could just leave. There was no need to stay here and fight with them.

The purpose of the fight was most likely for this corpse.

As for what is so special about this corpse...

This can only be studied slowly after it is transported back to the camp.

This beast was so huge that it was difficult to push it with a cart. By the time they returned to the camp, the sun was almost setting. After the trip, everyone was sweating profusely from exhaustion, even Zhou Xu was no exception.

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The cub that he had wrapped in animal skin was tied in front of him and slept soundly, which made Zhou Xu couldn't help but smile.

[I really want to slap it awake.]

Of course, he just thought about it casually. Even if he was so tired that he was out of breath, he wouldn't really have trouble with such a little guy.

At the camp, Zhou Xu had roughly laid out the tasks before leaving, and with Li Ce in charge, some post-war work was now done in an orderly manner.

And when they returned carrying the beast's carcass, they undoubtedly attracted the attention of everyone in the tribe.

Since the hyena men came after this beast before, most of the tribe members in the grassland camp had seen this beast.

But the distance was still far before, unlike now.

Although the beast had turned into a corpse, its huge size still gave the tribe members a powerful shock.

"Chief, what should we do with the body of this giant beast?"

After returning to the camp, Li Ce, as the person responsible for manning the camp and arranging manpower, quickly stepped forward to inquire.

Zhou Xu naturally understood what Li Ce meant.

It is midsummer now, and the climate is hot. A corpse like this will soon rot and stink as long as it is not handled for a period of time.

"Find a few good hands in the camp, speed up the action, and handle it. Pay attention when handling it. There may be something special about the corpse of this beast..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Xu's voice paused.

"Forget it, I'll just watch from the side."

Although he had just delivered this cub from the belly of this beast before, this did not mean that he would be merciful to this beast.

If nothing unexpected happens, this beast will most likely become food in their mouths.

Zhou Xu had no psychological burden on this. After all, this was the way it was in this era. Such a huge pile of meat and a large area of ​​leather could not be wasted.

As for the cubs that are still in their infancy...

To be honest, he had not figured out how to raise this little beast all this way. At this juncture, where could he find milk for this little guy?

Zhou Xu was thinking at this moment whether he could break up the fish or other food into a paste and see if the little guy would eat it.

If this little guy doesn't eat, or accidentally dies of it, then he can only add another dish to himself.

Before the time travel, he might have had some sympathy when seeing the cute cubs, but now, he almost didn't.

After all, reality is like this, and sometimes people have to learn to accept reality instead of living with it.

While Zhou Xu was thinking, he looked at the expert in charge of handling the body and asked the transport team to help move the body to the open space aside.

During this period, Li Ce was not idle either. He stood nearby and quickly reported to Zhou Xu the casualties here...

"Basically all the fifteen soldiers who came with us were injured, but none of them died. Four of them were seriously injured and are currently undergoing treatment."

"Of the thirty people here in the prairie camp, eight died, six were seriously injured, and the rest were also injured."

Li Ce said this with a heavy tone. In this era, serious injury is basically equivalent to death, especially at the grassland camp, which lost nearly half of it. This wave, their losses are not unserious!

After listening to the report, Zhou Xu took a deep breath.

At this moment, whether from an emotional perspective or from the perspective of the loss of their tribe, this report was enough to make him feel heavy.

In previous battles between tribes, due to the limitations of weapon strength, situations like this basically did not occur.

This also made it the first time for Zhou Xu to suffer casualties like this.

Slowly exhaling, Zhou Xu calmly adjusted his emotions and spoke in a deep voice...

"Pile all the bodies of the brothers who died in the battle outside the tribe."

Having said this, Zhou Xu turned his head and glanced at the coronagraph installed in the camp, and then spoke again.

"Two quarters of an hour later, everyone will gather there, excluding those who are incapacitated, to cremate these bodies."

"Chief, what is the cremation plan?"

"That is to burn the body. Once the body rots, it is easy to produce germs. Burning it is the best way to bury it."

Although Li Ce and others didn't know what 'cremation' was, since their tribe had already established a medical department and also proposed the concept of 'disease', they still knew something about 'germs'.

Under this premise, they don't seem to have much objection to burning the corpse.

After understanding what 'cremation' was, Li Ce nodded and ran to make arrangements.
Chapter completed!