Chapter 242: Feeding Tigers
Broken Ling continued to eat bird meat without heart and lungs.
Telling the story of the death of his parents didn't seem to make him sad or lose his appetite. He devoured Archaeopteryx meat like a little tiger that had been hungry for three days and three nights.
The Archaeopteryx was so large that one of its legs was enough to feed a child. But after Broken Ling finished a whole bird's leg, he held his bulging stomach and wanted to pull another bird's wing to eat.
Ye Xi stopped him, eating it so hard will cause the stomach wall to rupture: "Take the rest back for you and keep it for the evening to eat." ”
He knew why the child ate so hard, it was just that he felt that he would not be able to eat so much in the future.
Duan Ling was stunned, looked at Ye Xi, and said suspiciously: "Why are you so good to me?"
The child was quite vigilant, Ye Xi smiled: "Because I don't want to see children starving, in my tribe, no child as young as you will go hungry." ”
In the past, Tushan might have starved children, giving priority to food for warriors who went out hunting. But now Tushan is not bad for this stuttering, and the tribe also has goat's milk specially supplied to the children to ensure that they thrive.
Broken Ling lowered her head and said in silence, "...... I'm not young, I'm ten years old. ”
Ye Xi was stunned, he looked at Duan Ling's figure and thought that he was only six or seven years old. Is it because of malnutrition?
Seeing that Ye Xi didn't speak, Duan Ling said in a low voice: "I'm not a child, you, you can eat it yourself." ”
Ye Xi stood up and cleaned up the fire, and wrapped the remaining roast bird meat in leaves and handed it to him: "Why is it not a child at the age of ten, take it." ”
Broken Ling gritted her teeth, and finally accepted the bird's meat.
"Thank you, my lord!" the child bowed to Ye Xi from the bottom of his heart.
Ye Xi smiled and shook his head: "No thanks, since you have filled your stomach, you can go back to the tribe quickly, where is your tribe, I will send you back." ”
Broken Ling hugged the bird meat, and a wariness suddenly appeared in his eyes, and said, "You don't have to send me, I'll go back by myself." ”
Ye Xi frowned slightly, not understanding what the child was wary of, he said in a deep voice: "Although there are no too dangerous creatures in this area, there are still many beasts that are a threat to you. ”
Duan Ling refused without hesitation: "I really don't need to, I can go back safely!" Thank you for the bird meat, my lord, I'm leaving!"
After that, as if he was afraid that Ye Xi would persuade him again, he held the bird meat and drilled into the fern leaf forest, his body was extremely agile, like a vigorous little leopard.
Ye Xi raised his eyebrows, not understanding why the child was so vigilant.
After thinking about it, afraid that the child would be in danger, Ye Xi still decided to quietly follow him and wait for Duan Ling to arrive safely in the tribe before leaving.
The child was very clever, going around in the jungle, and looking back vigilantly from time to time, and finally seemed to feel that Ye Xi really didn't follow, so he slowed down a little, and ran towards a low mountain.
When Ye Xi's leather boots behind him stepped on the ground, they were so light that they seemed to drop a piece of cotton wool, and he looked at the little cub's dripping gaze when he looked back, and he didn't feel funny in his heart.
It seems that the mountain in front of him may be the location of Xiao Duanling's tribe, and there should be no dangerous creatures near the tribe here, so Ye Xi wanted to leave. But just then, he heard a dull tiger roar from the low mountain.
Ye Xi's eyebrows furrowed, this roar ...... It should have been sent by a barbarian beast.
After coming here for so long, Ye Xi can already distinguish his own emotions contained in the animal's cry, and this tiger roar clearly contains a sense of anger, not like the war pets raised by the tribe itself.
After thinking about it, Ye Xi still decided to follow.
Broken Ling, who was running, obviously heard the tiger's roar, he stopped his steps, clenched his fists, and all kinds of complex emotions such as pain, resentment, and powerlessness appeared on his immature little face, and finally slowly walked towards the low mountain.
The brisk footsteps have become much heavier.
Ye Xi followed him, and when he saw that the child was about to walk to the low mountain, he dug a pit on the spot, buried the bird meat wrapped in leaves in his arms into the pit, and then walked in again.
Through the dense woods, the view of the low mountains gradually became clear.
Ye Xi, who was standing on the tree, looked at the scene in front of him, and his eyes suddenly became cold.
I saw only in front of a narrow cave.
A black-scaled tiger as large as a mammoth hovered there, covered in black scales, each with a metallic sheen, scarlet eyes larger than fists, and a terrifying aura that showed it to be a brutal beast.
Next to it was a pile of bloody broken bones with flesh foam, and the black-scaled tiger was lazily lying on the ground, half-squinting and chewing something, and blood spilled from the corners of its mouth.
Not far in front of it knelt a large group of primitive people in leaf skirts, unkempt and dirty.
They knelt on the ground facing the black-scaled tiger, trembling on their prostrates, burying their heads deep in the mud, not daring to lift them at all.
At the head of the crowd knelt an old man with gray hair wrapped in filthy animal skins, and he kowtowed to the black-scaled tiger again and again, his forehead stained with dirt.
"Honorable Lord, I beg your permission for us to continue to live here. Dear Lord, I beg your permission to continue our survival here......"
He kowtowed and humbly prayed to the black-scaled tiger.
At this time, everyone found Broken Ling walking over, and the primitive man who had buried his head in the ground immediately turned his face a little and glared at Broken Ling, including the old man who kept praying.
The black-scaled tiger, who had been chewing something, looked at Broken Ling lazily.
Broken Ling immediately knelt down with a puff, hanging his head, and his thin body crawled towards his people like dogs step by step. His filthy hair hung unkemptly, and no one could tell what his expression was.
The black-scaled tiger looked away and looked fixedly at the old man in the animal skin, a roar rolling through his throat.
The old man trembled, bowed his head and said, "Yes, my lord, I know." ”
Then he turned his head and waved at the clansmen behind him: "Lord Black Tiger hasn't eaten enough, three more people!"
Immediately three people, two men and one woman, looked to be in their twenties and thirties, the best age.
They crawled from the crowd to the black-scaled tiger, and then lay down on their backs in front of it, ripping off the leaves around their bodies to expose their bellies.
The old man humbly said to the black-scaled tiger, "Lord Black Tiger, these are the two men with the strongest body and the most flesh left in our tribe, and the woman with the most delicate skin, please enjoy it as you like." ”
The black-scaled tiger suddenly spat out a bloody bone.
Ye Xi, who was standing on the tree, took a closer look, and saw that this was a piece of human foot bones!
The three people lying under the mouth of the black-scaled tiger, the two men were a little better, but they gritted their teeth and trembled slightly. The woman, on the other hand, was biting her lip with her eyes closed, and her whole body was trembling violently like a sieve, and she could see that she was very frightened.
The black-scaled tiger opened its mouth, revealing its sharp teeth mixed with bloody flesh, and lowered its head to bite the woman.
Ye Xi's heart was full of anger, he couldn't help it anymore, he jumped down from the tree and killed it with a black dagger in his hand!