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Chapter 252: Chapter 253: Can’t Be Raised
Gaiyin comforted, "Don’t worry, it will be caught soon."
Su Tang remained silent, feeling anxious and frightened for a good half a day. 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝔲𝔟.𝔠𝖔𝖒
Fortunately, Rini quickly came back with the small Sabertooth Beast that had been captured. One of them was dead, but the other three were alive.
Coming to Su Tang, Rini shook the live Sabertooth Beast in his hand and asked, "How do you want to deal with this?"
Before Su Tang could speak, the Sabertooth Beast in Rini’s hand began to struggle violently, its four hooves flailing wildly.
Su Tang took a step back in fright, but also saw that the tuft of hair on top of the Sabertooth Beast’s head pierced Rini’s hand.
Although it wasn’t a big wound, it made Su Tang realize that this Sabertooth Beast was indeed, as Gaiyin said, unfit to be kept!
So she quickly motioned her hands, "No, no need! You guys deal with it however you want..."
Rini nodded and casually tossed the Sabertooth Beast to a beastman standing nearby for disposal.
While more than a hundred Sabertooth Beasts seemed like a lot, the Winged Tiger Tribe had nearly seven hundred members. Some beastmen practiced the Body Forging Technique and had increased appetites, each eating enough food for three.
So indeed, in just one night, nearly half of the hundred and dozen Sabertooth Beasts were consumed. And this was under a setting where many female cubs were vegetarian. If they all ate meat, at least half would be consumed.
Su Tang realized once again how difficult it was to survive on the Beastman Continent.
The cold season lasts six months, during which there are no sources of food. They needed to store six months’ worth of food for seven hundred people before the cold season arrives, as well as enough firewood to provide them with six months’ worth of heat.
Su Tang thought about all this and suddenly felt that the roast meat in her hand was not tempting anymore. She couldn’t help but shiver.
Gaiyin noticed and wrapped his arm around Su Tang, whispering, "What’s wrong? Are you cold?"
Su Tang shook her head, gazing depressedly at her roast meat, "Not cold, just a bit scared...Ayin, do you think we can gather enough food and firewood before the cold season comes?"
Gaiyin paused before answering, "If we start collecting now, we might have enough food. But firewood is more likely to be insufficient."
Su Tang sighed. Although they could prepare smoked meat and store easy-to-preserve chestnuts as a backup for food, they wouldn’t be able to solve the problem of firewood.
No matter how many trees they have, they will be chopped down one day. Whether for future housebuilding or central heating, they cannot do without the support of wood.
Wood burns easily but it burns out quickly. Constantly needing to add wood to the fire...if only they had coal.
Su Tang was suddenly so worried that she couldn’t even finish her roast meat.
Watching Su Tang’s growing concern made Gaiyin feel distressed. His female partner was already slim and couldn’t eat much. Now, she wasn’t even able to eat a piece of roast meat the size of her fist.
Knowing what was troubling Su Tang, Gaiyin offered words of reassurance.
"Su, don’t worry. I won’t let you go hungry or cold in the winter. If you don’t believe me, I can swear an oath to the Beastman...mmf!"
Before he could finish, Su Tang quickly covered Gaiyin’s mouth.
She anxiously looked at him for a while. After seeing no white light emanating from him, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don’t say things recklessly! You promised me not to make oaths casually!"
