A guide to surviving in the world of beasts

"By the way, Hu Yi, I met Hu Qing and the others a few days ago. They asked me if I met you when hunting. Did you tell them that you left the tribe? Did something happen?" Lang Ji remembered that he had heard that the Tiger Tribe was looking for Hu Yi during that time. He didn't expect that he would meet someone here today.

"Nothing happened. I'm going back now." When Hu Yi left the tribe, he didn't expect that he could return alive. Now he still finds it incredible when he thinks about it.

Seeing Hu Yi say this, Lang Ji stopped asking questions.

Su Ling on the side was looking at the green vines on the ground in front of her and the heart-shaped leaves on the vines. She felt a little excited.

This vine, this color, this leaf shape, isn't this what sweet potato leaves look like? This thing is a high-yield crop, and it has a history of thousands of years of cultivation on Blue Star. Not only can it be made into a variety of delicacies, it also has high nutritional value.

Su Ling immediately started digging. After digging up the soil, she saw the familiar big sweet potatoes. Her mind was already thinking of the delicious food made from sweet potatoes, and she couldn't help but drool with emotion.

The more I thought about it, the harder I dug. I dug a lot unconsciously. When I stopped, I saw that I had dug quite a pile of sweet potatoes on the ground. Each one was big and red, and weighed at least one or two pounds.

Su Ling sat down to rest at this time, picked up one and took a bite. It was sweet and crispy. It turned out that the most important thing was to eat it when you were there.

"Su Ling."

"Hu Yi, come here quickly and see what I found." Hearing Hu Yi's voice, Su Ling stood up and waved to him.

Soon Hu Yi brought the Lang Ji brothers to Su Ling. When they saw what was dug out from the ground, the three of them looked confused.

Lang Zhan was the most impatient. He picked up a sweet potato and asked curiously, "Su Ling, what did you dig up? It grows in the soil. Can you eat it? Don't get an upset stomach."

The orcs would at most find some wild vegetables on the ground to eat, and they had never thought that things grown in the ground could be eaten, so it was no wonder that Wolf Zhan asked this question.

Su Ling didn't bother with her inexperienced little brother. "Of course it's edible, otherwise why would I dig it? It's called sweet potato. I used to eat it when I was wandering with my father. It can be eaten raw or cooked. You can roast it over a fire or boil it in water. The most important thing is that if you store it properly, it can be kept for several months. Wouldn't it solve part of the problem of food and clothing during the cold season?"

Su Ling also learned from Hu Yi that the Orc Wasteland would enter the cold season in more than a month. At that time, food would be more difficult to obtain than it is now, and the orcs would be hungry most of the time. So Su Ling was very excited when she saw sweet potatoes. As long as there were crops like sweet potatoes here, there must be crops like rice, potatoes, and corn as well. She would be able to find them sooner or later, and then everyone would not have to go hungry.

Following Su Ling's explanation, the way Hu Yi and the others looked at Hongshu changed from casual at first to passionate. No one understood the feeling of being hungry in the cold season better than them.

The main food of the orcs is meat, but they do not know how to store meat correctly, so it cannot be stored for too long. The orcs only start storing food needed for the cold season one month before the cold season.

It was already difficult to hunt and store food for everyone in the tribe for the three months of the cold season this month. In addition, due to the temperature, the meat had already deteriorated before the cold season began. Male orcs would suffer from diarrhea at most after eating it, and many weak females and cubs had died as a result.

In the cold season, there are no edible plants or vegetables, and even animals are rare. In order to eat less food, the orcs can only force themselves to sleep more.

After finally getting through the cold season, everyone was starving and emaciated. After the snow thawed, not only did the hungry orcs go out to look for food, but so did the wild beasts that had been hungry for the entire cold season.

Now that I hear there is food that can be stored throughout the entire winter season, it would be strange if I wasn’t excited.

"Su Ling, are you telling the truth? This thing called sweet potato can not only be eaten but also be stored for several months?" Hu Yi held Su Ling's shoulders, and a hint of excitement appeared on his usually indifferent face.

In recent years, the prey near the tribe has been gradually decreasing, and hunting has to be done further away. If this continues, the tribe may be forced to leave the land where they live in order to survive in the near future.

The other two also looked at Su Ling nervously. The decrease in prey was a problem that all the tribes living on this land were worried about.

Su Ling did not keep them in suspense, "I am telling the truth. Not only are sweet potatoes durable in storage, but I also heard about some other plants that are durable in storage when I was wandering. We will go and look for them when the time comes, maybe we can find them.

Su Ling didn't dare to say anything too sure about something she hadn't seen yet, so she could only reveal a little bit so that she could prepare to look for other plants later.

But she forgot that it was Hu Yi who discussed the excuse of wandering with her. She said it without thinking that it was contradictory that she knew all this when she didn't remember anything. Hu Yi didn't remember this now.

Hu Yi relaxed his expression, noticing that he had grabbed Su Ling's shoulder in excitement just now, and let go of his hand awkwardly, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?"

"It's okay." Su Ling shook her head and didn't care. She understood Hu Yi's feelings.

"Excuse me," the two turned to look at the Lang Ji who was speaking, "Su Ling, this thing was discovered by you. I don't know if our wolf tribe can dig it up. Don't worry, I will go back and discuss it with the tribe leader. Can we exchange the prey or what you want?"

The more Lang Ji looked at this thing called sweet potato, the more he thought of it. There was a piece of land in their tribe where there were a lot of them growing. They had even eaten sweet potato leaves before. It would be great if sweet potatoes could be stored so well.

These ownerless things growing on the ground belong to whoever dug them up, right? Why did he give her something? Su Ling looked at Hu Yi in confusion.

Hu Yi knew from her expression that she knew nothing, so he took over and said for her, "Okay, go back to the tribe and discuss it with your tribe leader. Su Ling just came to our tribe and has nothing. You can discuss the specific amount of supplies to be paid."

The tribes would exchange supplies. No one had eaten the sweet potatoes before, and no one knew about it, but the nearby tribes would surely know about it in the future. It would be better to exchange some supplies now. After returning to the tribe, he would also get enough supplies for Su Ling.

After getting what they wanted, it was getting late, so they divided the hyena meat and left most of the skin to Hu Yi. They took some sweet potatoes and went back to their respective tribes.

They wanted to tell the news about sweet potatoes to the tribe leader and gather the tribesmen together as soon as possible to find more sweet potatoes so that they would suffer less from hunger during this cold season.