Chương 89: ch89-7
The weather had turned from warm to hot in just a few days.
The Red Moon Season was a long season second only to the White Moon Season. There was plenty of sunlight in this season, and the days were long and the nights were short. The plants grew healthily and started to bear fruit and mature.
It was undoubtedly the favorite season of the Beastmen, and also the most active time for the exotic beasts.
The Beastmen did not slack off because of the abundance of food. On the contrary, this was the busiest season of the year for them.
That was because the wisdom passed down from generation to generation made them understand the principle of being vigilant in times of peace. They could not waste a single day and started to prepare for the long White Moon Season.
Every year at this time, the adult male Beastmen in the tribe would split into two.
One group would go out to hunt, and would often stay for more than thirty days and nights before embarking on the return journey with a full load of exotic beast skins and meat, alternating with the other group of Beastmen stationed in the tribe. Other than protecting the tribe from the invasion of exotic beasts, the male Beastmen who were left behind also had to guard against other tribes taking the opportunity to snatch females, cubs, or food. Especially the cunning River Lake Tribe and the rude Bray Tribe. They were already notorious, and the Wal Tribe had fought with them several times because of this.
Of course, the most important thing was to protect the females of the gathering team.
The harvest of the Red Moon Season was not only a busy season for the male Beastmen!
However, before the females started to harvest the fruits of the harvest, they had to do a pregnancy test at the priest's place one by one.
Gou Liang yawned and listlessly rested his head on the window sill, looking at the slow-moving team.
He was very lonely when Meng Hao was not in the tribe.
It was the fourth day since Meng Hao had left the tribe to harvest the Red Salt Fruits.
There were no salt mines in this world, and the Beastmen had initially replenished their bodies with salt through the blood of exotic beasts. This situation had only improved after the discovery of the Red Salt Fruits. The Red Salt Fruit's shell could prevent the pulp inside from leaking out, and the pulp could also be used to preserve food for a long time. It was a great safeguard for surviving the winter.
Therefore, every time the Red Salt Fruits ripened during the Red Moon Season, the most important task for the females was to harvest the Red Salt Fruits.
Other than the portion for their own private use, every family had to hand over a hundred Red Salt Fruits for the tribe's red salt reserves. The Beastmen were independent after they reached adulthood. In other words, the brothers Meng Hao and Meng Hui had to hand over two hundred Red Salt Fruits.
Originally, the tribe wanted to exempt Meng Hui's portion of the tribe's food................ But...........
Lang Xiong's persuasion didn't work, and he couldn't risk the safety of the hunting team. He could only repeatedly remind him not to go to dangerous places before he led the hunting team out.
Therefore, Meng Hao, who had great responsibilities, was not arranged to stay in the tribe as usual. Instead, he chose to go hunting alone.
...............
Gou Liang watched as the big blind spot quickly moved through the red salt fruit forest. Wherever it went, only the red salt fruit trees were left. It looked like it would not stop until it destroyed the entire fruit forest. It looked like it would not be able to leave the red salt fruit forest in a short amount of time.
. Gou Liang regretted not being able to see the big white wolf's heroic figure for a moment. He looked at the long line of females again.
The Wall tribe occupied a vast area. As the number one tribe in the Great Wob Plains, the population of Wall had exceeded a hundred thousand. This was already a very considerable number in the Beastman World with a low fertility rate. Therefore, even if the fertility rate of females to males was as low as one in ten, there were still nearly ten thousand females who were suitable for pregnancy. The line for the test in batches was also very long.
At the front of the line, some of the females who had finished the test happily took a small bag from Sang Mi, while others were disappointed.
From the original owner's memory, Gou Liang understood that the pregnancy stone in the old priest's hand was a strange item.
If the pregnancy stone was placed on a female's pulse, if the test subject still had the ability to give birth, the pregnancy stone would make a sound similar to a heartbeat. The louder the sound, the higher the pregnancy rate.
Females who still had the ability to give birth would receive white cotyledons from Sang Mi. This was a kind of herb that grew during the White Moon Season. It was very dangerous to harvest, so it was very rare. It had a day and night contraceptive effect. At the same time, it did not harm the female. Instead, it had a nourishing effect.
The Beastman's pregnancy cycle was three hundred days and nights. It was fifty days longer than the Red Moon Season and twenty days shorter than the White Moon Season.
Therefore, once pregnant during the Red Moon Season, it meant that the Beastman baby would be born during the White Moon Season.
The existence of the white cotyledons was to prevent this from happening.
Gou Liang looked on in boredom until he saw a female crying on the ground. He said, "Who is that person? She looks very young. Why can't she give birth? "
Ghar, who had finished the test early and rushed over to Gou Liang's side, looked over and pitied her.
"That's someone from the Moon Fox tribe. You haven't seen him before. He and his Beastman don't have children yet … Sigh, I heard that he was injured in the earthquake that happened to the Moon Fox tribe. The pregnancy stone reaction in the past two years was already very weak. I didn't expect it to be completely … Xi 'er, stop looking. Come, drink this bowl of Grey Moon Vine Milk. "
Gou Liang took it bitterly. Beside him, the black wolf pricked up its ears and looked at Gou Liang with sympathy.
— — As expected of the legendary Tears of the Beast God. It was bitter and sour. It tasted so bad that he wanted to cry!
However, it had to be said that the effect was very good.
It had only been six days since Gou Liang had been injured, and with the Red Moon Flower's medicine for external application to treat his external injuries, as well as the Grey Moon Vine, his body had almost recovered. Meng Hui was the same. Under the nourishment of the Grey Moon Vine Milk, his hair was glossy. He could now stand up and walk a few steps. He had no problem taking care of himself.
Seeing that he had finished drinking, Ghar was happy. He patted his head and said, "Xi 'er, be good. Drink it two more times and you'll be healthy again."
The black wolf howled to show its agreement.
Although Gou Liang did not avoid his touch, he looked a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, Ghar did not stay for long. As the tribe leader's female, he also had a lot of things to prepare and arrange before the harvest season began.
After he left, Gou Liang was in a daze for a while. He asked for the nth time today, "Meng Hui, when will Meng Hao come back?"
As he spoke, he yawned again.
He had not slept well for several days. There were dark circles under his eyes, which made people very worried.
However, the calming medicine that Priest Da Ren had cooked for him did not have much effect. The diagnosis could not find anything wrong with him. He could only take the blame of "head injury unknown", which made Ghar and the others very worried.
But just as you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, you can't make a person who is ruthless enough to give himself a sobering medicine to sleep.
In order to be able to sleep with his big tail every day, Gou Liang was going all out.
"Awoo."
Gou Liang obviously did not have the ability to communicate with animals. Meng Hui simply turned back into his human form and slowly walked to his side.
"Last night, the moonlight turned completely red. The red salt fruit is ripe. If everything goes well, brother will be back in two days. "After a pause, Meng Hui asked," Xi, do you miss brother? "
He was not jealous or suspicious. On the contrary, he had long been accustomed to Gou Liang liking Meng Hao more than himself.
— — When the brothers and the original owner were still young, the original owner liked to stick to the older Meng Hao, who was very good at taking care of people. When he alienated Meng Hao, he often ordered Meng Hui around. He enjoyed his efforts but never gave a clear response. He completely treated him as a spare tire. Except for a period of time after the engagement, when he said a few soft words to him, he rarely got close to him.
Meng Hui was just a little surprised. Gou Liang had lost his memory, but he still liked to rely on Meng Hao more than others.
Gou Liang pinched his earlobe and stuttered a little, "No, no! I just don't want to eat the food that High Priest Da-Ren made! "
Although he said this, he still blushed.
Meng Hui was a little confused. He foolishly asked, "Xi, why is your face so red? Is it too hot?"
Gou Liang stared, "Who's blushing!"
He got up and walked out. Meng Hui did not dare to stop him and anxiously stood in place.
Gou Liang saw his clumsy appearance through the system monitor and could not help but secretly shake his head. He had thought that this guy was either a masochist or liked the original owner so much that he had no bottom line. But after interacting with him, he found that this little brother Meng Hui had no emotional intelligence at all.
His feelings for the original owner were not the impulsive but passionate love of a young man. It was more of a responsibility.
Yes, it was a responsibility, and nothing else.
When he was a child, he had vowed countless times that when he became the bravest warrior of the tribe, he would do his best to take care of and protect his brother and the original owner for a lifetime.
Little Lang Xi was ignorant and forgot after hearing it, but Meng Hui had always remembered it in his heart.
Meng Hui, who had no parents, regarded the original owner as the same existence as his brother and The Old Priest. He had a natural sense of responsibility for him.
So when the original owner was surrounded by many excellent beastmen, he was not anxious or jealous. He just dutifully fulfilled his promise to take care of him. The way Meng Hui treated the original owner was to give him the best things – at first, Meng Hao was doing the same thing, but then gradually stopped.
When the original owner was isolated, he did not hesitate to stand beside him. In his opinion, although the original owner did something wrong, he also had an obligation to protect the other person from being bullied.
Gou Liang was glad that he was not in love, but he also had a headache because he was as stubborn as Meng Hao.
Most of the male beastmen in this world were very pure, and after the original owner accepted his proposal, Meng Hui's position for the original owner changed from a fragile and delicate female brother to a partner.
Once the relationship of two-way loyalty was established, the meaning was completely different.
Even if Meng Hui had no love for the original owner, it was inevitable that he would be hurt if he took the initiative to give up his partner, or accept his partner for someone else. And with the degree of stubbornness of Meng Hui, if he did not meet someone who made him open his love, he was afraid that he would be alone for the rest of his life.
What's more, the "other person" that Gou Liang was going to vote for was Meng Hao, his favorite brother.
Meng Hui may accept and bless them out of his feelings for the two, but no matter what, Meng Hao would not allow this to happen.
It's really a headache, well, if only I can catch that guy NO. 00102 and beat him up …
Gou Liang thought.
*
Meng Hao came back a day later than Meng Hui expected, but the harvest was satisfying.
Not only did he bring back more than a thousand Red Salt Fruits, he also brought back a few herbs that surprised the old priest, and a complete Black-Haired Single Horned Bull exotic beast.
Beasts like the Single Horned Bull were born with dark skin and hair. They were very strong, and their skin was very thick. The brown-haired beasts were very difficult to deal with, not to mention the black-skinned and black-haired King-tier Single Horned Bull exotic beast. Meng Hao was actually able to cut off the Black-Haired Single Horned Bull's limbs and bite off its neck by himself, leaving the Single Horned Bull's fur and horn intact. This was simply a miracle!
However, the most shocking thing was not that Meng Hao, a white beastman, killed the Black-Haired Single Horned Bull, but that he brought back three fresh Red Moon Flowers that were purplish-black in color!
As everyone knew, the roots, stems, and leaves of the Red Moon Flowers were all red, and the different colors of the flowers represented its grade.
The Purple Flower Red Moon was one of the sacred products.
Putting aside how rare the Purple Flower Red Moon was, one of the necessary conditions for its growth was that it had to be nourished with the saliva of the Scarlet and Black Krait. This kind of exotic snake lived in groups and was highly poisonous. Although their skin color was inferior, even the most ferocious Black Armored Dragon exotic beast did not dare to step into their territory easily. Moreover, consuming the Purple Flower Red Moon Flowers was the decisive factor for them to transform into Black Krait Snakes. How could it be easy to snatch them away?
For Meng Hao to be able to obtain these three plants, there was absolutely no element of luck or fluke involved.
Furthermore, the Red Moon Flowers had a fatal flaw. After leaving the soil, they would immediately dry up once the sun set, and their effects would be halved.
All the places where the Red Moon Flowers grew were more than a day's journey away from the tribe. In other words, Meng Hao had to defeat the Scarlet and Black Krait Snakes in a day's time and return to the tribe …
Even the chief, Lang Xiong, could not achieve such combat strength and flying speed!
Everyone looked at Meng Hao in shock.
Was he really a white beastman …?
Yue Jing saw their expressions. He was proud, nervous, and glad.
He was proud that Meng Hao had been so outstanding from the beginning to the end.
He was nervous because he had never heard of such a thing happening in his previous life. Yue Jing did not expect that he had saved Gou Liang out of kindness and made the other party pray that Meng Hui, who was supposed to be paralyzed, could stand up again. It also changed Meng Hao's way of doing things, causing him to show off his abilities and attract the attention of too many females.
Fortunately, Meng Hao did not expose his identity as the son of the Beast God in advance. Otherwise, the chief and priestess of Wall would definitely not allow him, who was once the priestess of the Moon Fox Tribe, to marry him. Also, these superficial females, no matter how much they admired Meng Hao now, would shrink back because of his identity as a white beastman …
Meng Hao did not pay attention to the females' probing gazes. He raced against time to feed his brother the herbs before sunset.
The effect of the Violet Flower Red Moon was very good. After eating two stalks, Meng Hui, who was originally walking with uneven steps, could run short distances. Although he was panting after running a few steps, it was already a very optimistic sign.
Meng Hao gave the remaining stalk to Gou Liang.
Seeing Gou Liang staring at him in a daze, Meng Hao frowned and said, "Why are you in a daze? The sun is going to set soon."
Ghar also hurriedly urged, "Xi 'er, eat quickly. When the sun disappears, the Red Moon Flower will wither."
"Are you seriously injured?"
Gou Liang looked at Meng Hao with concern.
Meng Hao said, "It's gone —"
Gou Liang tore off a petal, then unexpectedly plucked the entire flower and quickly stuffed it into Meng Hao's mouth, covering his mouth to prevent him from spitting it out.
He put the petal into his mouth and looked at Meng Hao with a smile. "Oh, it's quite sweet."
Meng Hao hurriedly pulled his hand away, but the Red Moon Flower melted in his mouth. It was too late for him to spit it out.
Seeing that Gou Liang did not know that he had ruined the Violet Flower Red Moon Flower and was looking at him with a smile, Meng Hao could not help but feel angry. "I don't need it. You are wasting it!"
If he had not eaten the Violet Flower Red Moon Flower, Meng Hao, who was seriously injured after the battle with the two-colored snake, would not have been able to fly for such a long distance.
And this Violet Flower Red Moon Flower was not easy to obtain. How could he not be angry when it was wasted just like that?
Gou Liang seriously gnawed on the leaves of the Red Moon Flower, his mouth kept moving, and his innocent eyes showed that he could not speak.
The Old Priest looked at the livid Meng Hao and the disappointed Ghar and said with a smile, "Well, Meng Hao. Little Xi's injury is not a big problem, but you must have been seriously injured this time. You really need the Violet Flower Red Moon more than Little Xi. "
Isn't it?
Gou Liang, who was woken up by the system at sunrise, witnessed the big blind spot being besieged by the snakes. The ground was soaked with his blood, and the purple flower was stained with his blood. He was distressed to death.
This kind of good thing, which costs 999 yuan in the system, of course, should be left to his beloved little target to nourish his body.
Meng Hao wanted to say that Gou Liang did not need it. It was better to leave it to his younger brother, but since he had already eaten it, it was useless to say anything. He could only swallow his words back to his stomach.
He was really angry this time. After that, no matter how Gou Liang tried to find a topic with him, he did not respond.
Meng Hui looked at Gou Liang's anxious appearance and wiped a sweat for him. When he returned to the back room, he carefully looked at his brother's face and wondered how to plead for Gou Liang. After a long while, he squeezed out a sentence, "In fact, Little Xi's body is not good. Recently, he can't sleep, and he is not very energetic … He is too worried about his brother."
Meng Hao's movements paused and he said indifferently, "Since he has done it, what kind of consequences he has to bear is his own business."
Not giving Meng Hui a chance to speak for Gou Liang, Meng Hao continued, "Hui, I will find a way to find you some Violet Flower Red Moon. You will get better and become the first warrior in the tribe again."
At the beginning, Meng Hui's legs were crippled and there was no possibility of recovery. He did not think about it.
But later, Meng Hui had the hope of recovery. Meng Hao was secretly determined to restore him to his best fighting state.
Meng Hui scratched his head. "Brother, don't make fun of me."
His brother was worthy of being the first warrior of the tribe!
He used to doubt and worry about his brother's ability to survive in the wild like others. Once, he secretly followed Meng Hao with the intention of secretly protecting his brother, but he accidentally stepped on the eggs buried in the ground by the black-skinned crocodile.
The two brothers were chased all the way, but his brother fought desperately and killed the furious black-skinned crocodile. They survived.
At that time, he knew that Meng Hao, who was always left in the tribe in the red rose season and did not even have the qualifications to protect the female gathering team, had grown to a terrifying level. The high-level meat he used to eat was not secretly left for them by the old priest, but by his brother. He was afraid that he would be worried, so he did not tell the truth.
Meng Hao patted him on the shoulder and said calmly, "Hui, I will never be able to fight side by side with the warriors of the tribe. They need your strength more. "
Meng Hui was stunned for a moment before he nodded his head heavily.
*
At night, Meng Hao, who carried out the silent violence with his actions, once again appeared in Gou Liang's house.
As Meng Hui said, Gou Liang slept very restlessly. Even if he took medicine, he was still sweating all over, as if he was haunted by nightmares. This time, even if he hugged Meng Hao's tail, he could not completely relax.
Meng Hao quietly looked at Gou Liang for a while, and a complicated look flashed in his ice-blue eyes. Then, he used his tail to curl Gou Liang to his abdomen, lay down, and used his tail to gently pat Gou Liang's back.
— — This was the posture he secretly learned from the beastman father to comfort the little beast. There were many times when he comforted his brother and little female to sleep like this.
After a while, Gou Liang fell into a deep sleep.
Meng Hao looked sideways at Gou Liang. His baby face, which still had some baby fat, had indeed lost a lot of weight, and the dark circles under his eyes looked very pitiful.
He let out a few low cries and hesitated for a long time, but in the end, he did not get up and leave.
After Gou Liang obtained two days of high-quality sleep, Meng Hao went out to hunt in the red rose season for the first time.
This time, no one doubted his ability to protect himself in the wild. Those who had mocked him when they found out that he stubbornly accepted the 500 stones of exotic beast meat each from him and Meng Hui also fell silent.
Meng Hao was worried about Meng Hui's current situation, and because of the limited carrying capacity, on the tenth day, Meng Hao embarked on the return journey.
Gou Liang: … Dear, if you don't come back, I will be hollowed out.
The System watched him inject 20 shots of Sobriety Potion into the host's body as if he did not care about points, and then silently gnawed on Soul Return Grass to support his overworked body. At first, it was gloating, but later, it was filled with righteous indignation. That idiot No. 00102, just beat him to death!
Therefore, when Meng Hao came back, he saw the thin Gou Liang and the worried The Old Priest, Meng Hui, and Sang Mi.
The Old Priest, who had figured out the reason for Gou Liang's insomnia and confirmed it after Meng Hao came back, asked, "Meng Hao, if you take Lang Xi in the wild, are you sure you can protect him?"
Meng Hao was surprised: "It's too risky!"
How could The Old Priest not know?
"You have seen Little Xi's situation."
"Because of amnesia, he can't fully trust the surrounding environment and even his closest people, so he can't relax and fall asleep. We haven't had this experience, and we can't understand the fear of a person's life suddenly becoming blank. But I think Little Xi must be very uneasy, and it's hard to endure. Fortunately, his body still maintains its initial recognition of you. "
"Do you remember, when he was young, he was sick and couldn't sleep. Ghar coaxed him, but it was useless. Only you could calm him down. Probably, he can only feel safe when he's by your side. "
"If we let him continue to be so stubborn, I'm worried that even the herbs bestowed by the Beast Deity won't be able to save this poor child … …"
Meng Hao was silent for a long time before saying, "Uncle Ghar won't agree."
But to Meng Hao's surprise, Ghar nodded and agreed without hesitation.
Although he was worried, his poor son was like a red moon flower that had left the soil and was about to wither at sunset. Rather than watching him become haggard without being able to do anything, he might as well take a risk.
Therefore, Gou Liang, who had regained three days of deep sleep, was pleasantly surprised before Meng Hao set off to hunt again — —
He could finally spend some time with his big target!
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