diskusbooks Chapter 226
Chapter 226
Chapter 226
"Yes, there is. What does Luo want to do?"
Looking at the baby fish in front of him, Little Fish King Biao suddenly realized that it seemed to have grown quite a bit since they first met.
Although it can be said that she is young and growing fast, the prerequisite for growing fast is that her body can keep up with the nutrition it needs. In other words, during this period, Jiang Luoluo's food was at least not lacking.
Although Go is young and not yet a fully grown child, his strength and talent cannot be denied, which allowed him to join dangerous hunting activities at an early age, grow up, and obtain enough food.
Of course, Jiang Luoluo's own contribution was also indispensable.
Putting aside how many items Jiang Luoluo acquired by tinkering with those things, the main reason is that she is not a real child at heart. Unlike those children who forget to eat and sleep when they are having fun and only stay to eat when their parents come to take them home.
Given the level of food in the tribe, children generally won't eat unless they are hungry and give a clear signal that they need to eat.
Jiang Luoluo, with the mindset of an adult, considers three meals a day essential and timely. Her body may not feel hungry, but habit will always tell her that it's time to eat.
Eating is a very important thing, and Jiang Luoluo will not easily delay it. Even if she is really busy, she will make some snacks to fill her stomach so that she will not go hungry.
Another reason is that Jiang Luoluo is a very good cook and can always make all kinds of food into something even more delicious. In addition to filling her stomach, she also has a craving and instinct for delicious food.
In addition, Jiang Luoluo doesn't stay at home for long periods of time; she's basically running around every day, which consumes her energy quickly and absorbs nutrients quickly, so her body naturally grows faster.
Looking at the cub in front of him, who was four or five years younger than him but was quickly catching up to him in size, Little Fish King felt a strange sense of anxiety rising in his heart.
Children born in Fish Cave have always been short, and Little Fish King Biao knew this, and also knew that although size was important, it was not the only criterion for judging strength.
I won't grow as tall as a cub—yes, tall.
Judging from the cub's current physical condition, one can already imagine how tall it will grow up to be.
But that's for the future. Right now, Little Fish King Fat doesn't want to be surpassed in size by the cubs, not out of jealousy or anything, but simply because he feels that way.
His small stature made it difficult for the cubs to feel safe... He hoped he could protect the cubs after they had done so much for the Fish Cave.
Little Fish King suddenly lost in thought. He needed more food, not just soft-shelled turtle meat, which would only make him thinner. He needed more meat, real meat.
The thoughts in his mind were only fleeting. Before Jiang Luoluo could notice, Little Fish King Biao quickly came to his senses and looked at the cub in front of him.
"You need those things, right? I'll take you there."
Jiang Luolu tilted her head, unaware of Little Fish King Biao's change in mind, "Okay!"
Little Fish King Biao led Jiang Luoluo in a direction that Jiang Luoluo had never been before.
After all, Yinfeng Mountain is so big that Jiang Luoluo couldn't possibly have been to every place. There were just too many unfamiliar places for her.
Before she even got close, Jiang Lele could smell a very strong fishy smell, even with a hint of rottenness, mixed with a faint fragrance, a complex smell that made her stop in her tracks immediately.
However, before Little Fish King Biao turned around, Jiang Luoluo wrinkled her nose and followed him, after all, it was she who wanted to come.
Despite the lingering, unpleasant smell, I walked over and was greeted by a massive pit filled with countless white bones.
If those bones hadn't been clearly shaped like fish bones, Jiang Luoluo might have been terrified.
Even though she recognized them as fish bones, Jiang Luoluo was still a little unaccustomed to them... there were just too many of them.
There were so many that Jiang Luoluo could only see the white bones at a glance, and had no time to distinguish what kind of bones they were.
"Over the years, the fish bones we couldn't finish eating would be brought here and dumped," Little Fish King Biao explained to Jiang Luoluo.
Although the tribespeople were much stronger than Jiang Luoluo's body in her previous life, they were still no match for those wild beasts. Some objects that were too hard could not be chewed, swallowed, or digested.
"At first, we just threw them directly into the river. But just throwing so many in attracted a lot of fish to the river."
Jiang Luoluo subconsciously asked, "Huh? Isn't that good?"
Before Little Fish King Biao could answer, Jiang Luoluo realized that before she accidentally produced the fishing line, the children of Fish Cave fished by catching fish in the river.
If they happen to encounter one or two lone fish, these children have a good chance of catching them by working alone or in teams.
However, if you're facing multiple soft-boiled fish, you'll eventually become their bait.
Therefore, the children in Fish Cave have never had a high chance of catching a soft-shelled fish. Once they sense danger underwater, they must immediately return to the shore and wait a long time before they can go back into the water.
If there is any accident such as bleeding from a wound, you must wait until the wound has healed before going into the water to ensure that you do not attract dangerous fish.
Therefore, only those children who can consistently catch soft-shelled fish, or catch more soft-shelled fish, can become the Little Fish King.
In order to prevent attracting too many dangerous fish to the water's edge, the tribe specifically designated this area to store the fish bones.
Naturally, this place is also cleaned regularly.
However, the cleaning is not frequent; it takes about ten years or more to clean the pit after it has been completely filled.
What Jiang Luoluo is seeing now are fish bones that have accumulated over the past ten years. Judging from the fact that these fish bones are almost filling these pits, a cleanup will be needed around next year or the year after.
The thing that Little Fish King Biao brought Jiang Luoluo to look for was right among these fish bones.
Before Jiang Luoluo could react, she saw Little Fish King Biao jump down into the pit and land on the fish bones.
Jiang Luoluo knew how sharp those fish bones were and was worried that Little Fish King Biao might get hurt by accident, but seeing how familiar Little Fish King Biao was with the way, she felt relieved.
After all, the pit is so big that it's impossible to throw fish bones out from the outside every time. For future convenience, we will definitely throw them out from the inside, spreading them out in one layer before starting from the inside.
Therefore, the route that Little Fish King took to get in was one that had been explored countless times before.
Watching Little Fish King Biao walk in, Jiang Luoluo finally took a closer look at the entire fishbone pit. Besides the fishy smell, an unpleasant stench of decay came from the bottom of the pit.
Jiang Luoluo thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out why there was such a rotten smell. After all, the fish bones thrown here were extremely hard, and it had only been more than ten years. There was no way they could have rotted.
It wasn't until she followed the figure of the little fish king and saw several fish bones that had probably been thrown over that morning, with murky liquid dripping from them, that Jiang Luoluo understood the reason.
It turns out that each fish bone thrown over would bring with it some fish soup or other liquids, which would accumulate at the bottom of the fish bone pit to form a foul-smelling, spoiled liquid.
Having figured all this out, Little Fish King Biao returned from the pile of fish bones, dragging a giant turtle shell that was taller than a person in his hand.
Jiang Luoluo opened her mouth wide in surprise. She hadn't expected that there were actually turtles in the river; she had thought they were all fish.
When Little Fish King returned, dragging its nearly two-meter-long giant turtle shell, Jiang Luoluo noticed a large crack in the middle of the shell.
It seems a bit of a pity.
Seeing Jiang Luoluo's gaze fall on the crack in the turtle shell, Little Fish King Biao explained, "After we caught it and ate it, everyone felt it was a waste to throw away such a big shell, so we used it as a stone pot. However, it cracked after only two days of burning."
"Huh?" Jiang Luoluo looked up in shock at the large and heavy tortoise shell, unable to believe that it was so fragile that it couldn't even withstand the fire two days ago.
Wait a minute, shouldn't the animals in this world be stronger and more powerful?
Jiang Luoluo scratched her head. Even turtle shells in her world wouldn't burn to pieces after just two days when used as a pot.
“It’s the power of the fire seed,” Little Fish King Biao said, interrupting the cub’s wild thoughts.
"The fire will protect us from harm and burn away any danger that dares to approach."
Jiang Luoluo took a moment to process what Xiaoyu Wangbiao meant.
The fire contains the power of our ancestors, and whether it is active or passive, it is particularly dangerous to wild beasts and the like.
This resulted in the tortoise shell, which could have lasted a long time, cracking after only two days of burning, even without the fire being actively applied.
After all, if the fire had a strong reaction from the start, no one would have put such a large tortoise shell on it and burned it for two days.
"Oh... but where did this come from?" Jiang Luoluo asked curiously.
Meeting Jiang Luoluo's gaze, Little Fish King Biao pursed his lips and after a long while answered, "I caught it..."
Jiang Luoluo looked up in surprise, her expression one of utter shock.
Little Fish King Biao looked a little embarrassed, probably because he had never "showed off" to anyone like this before.
"I caught it, and then I became the King of Fishes."
Jiang Luoluo was even more shocked, her eyes constantly shifting between the turtle shell and the little fish king's body, unable to imagine how the little fish king had caught this giant turtle.
At the same time, Jiang Luoluo finally understood why Little Fish King could become "Little Fish King" despite being so small.
Most of the little fish kings in Fish Cave are older kids, around fourteen or fifteen years old. Some of the younger, more capable kids might become little fish kings as young as thirteen.
Little Fish King Biao is the only child who became Little Fish King at the age of twelve—he is now thirteen.