Chapter 6

Matai took the wolf corpses without any hesitation and threw them far away.

They didn’t lack meat, and it wouldn’t last long anyway, with the smell of blood still heavy. Wolf skins, on the other hand, were good things, with thick and dense fur, but they weren’t needed in this weather, and Matai weren’t afraid of the cold. They could just find a piece of beast skin to wrap themselves in during winter.

Lu Yu watched them come and go, lost in thought.

Whether it was hunting or recuperating, they could get injured, and his medicine reserves were almost depleted now. He needed to figure out a way to get more.

Although rabbits and the gray giant wolf they encountered tonight could drop red medicine, the cost-effectiveness of specifically hunting them was very low. Rabbits had few in number and little meat, not worth it. Hunting gray giant wolves would definitely result in injuries, using up the just-dropped red medicine. It was a waste.

How could he obtain a large amount of red medicine at once? Lu Yu wondered.

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The night passed.

It was another clear morning.

Lu Yu followed Matai to a small lake nearby to freshen up.

Since there was still a lot of meat left from the elephant yesterday, they didn’t need to rush to find food today.

Matai planned to find the salt rock pepper that Lu Yu mentioned, gather a little more, and let everyone enjoy delicious grilled meat.

Lu Yu agreed and went with them to the jungle not far behind the cave.

Their formation was with Lu Yu standing in the middle, with people in front, behind, left, and right. Tai Li was on the left, and Xia Cao, who followed, was on the right.

When they came out, Lu Yu said to let Xia Cao stand in the middle. He felt that Xia Cao, after all, was a female and should be given a little more protection.

But Xia Cao smiled, her face gentle but her tone firm, “It’s okay, Witch. If there’s danger, I’ll avoid it.”

Lu Yu nodded helplessly. He thought that since the jungle behind the cave had been patrolled by Matai, there shouldn’t be as many wild beasts as there were last night.

Whether it was Lu Yu being too pessimistic or Murphy’s Law at work, just a short while after the group set off, Tai Li called a halt.

Lu Yu was a little nervous. “What’s wrong?”

Tai Li said lightly, “There’s a wild beast.”

Lu Yu was startled. “What kind of wild beast? How many? Should we run?”

Xia Cao smiled, “Don’t worry, it’s just a brown fox.”

Lu Yu: ?

Xia Cao reached out her hand. “Witch, look, over there—”

Lu Yu followed her fingertips and looked over.

… I might be blind.

He didn’t see anything at all.

After staring hard for a long time, he seemed to see the grass shaking a hundred meters away.

A brown fur long-tailed fox suddenly jumped out and bolted like lightning.

Lu Yu exclaimed, “It’s running! So fast!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a long and slender wooden stick flew out from his right ear like lightning, flying straight toward the brown fox, piercing through its body and ruthlessly pinning it in place.

Lu Yu: ?!?

Bullseye?

“Shan Pu, go pick it up,” Xia Cao shouted ahead and then turned to Lu Yu with a gentle smile. “Witch, I’ll skin this fox for you to use in winter.”

Lu Yu looked at her empty right hand, which had just held the wooden stick. “Okay.”

What was wrong with him just now? He felt that Matai females needed more protection than him.

In their eyes, he was probably just a weak little…