CHAPTER 495: CHAPTER 486: THE GREAT LEADER - EXTRA REWARDS FOR 4 THOUSAND OAKS

Tie doesn’t really have any artistic streaks, nor can he find many words to express his excitement, so he just keeps laughing and telling everyone that his Shuangshuang has become Divine Favored. Fortunately, the people around him are just as excited as Tie, so no one dislikes him for it.

Moreover, everyone is quite uneducated. Though they have a lot of excitement in their hearts and many things to say, when they speak it out, everyone is saying the same repetitive words. Of course, everyone also shares the same sentiment as Witch Doctor Yu had previously: God’s favor toward Yan Shuangshuang is favor toward the Power Tribe.

After the excitement settled, Yu mentioned Yan Shuangshuang’s previous idea of joining the Hunting Team. Additionally, Yu proposed having the most powerful Leader Ben train Yan Shuangshuang to become a warrior. No one opposed this, including Yan Shuangshuang’s mother, Cao, and father, Tie.

Parents in primitive society love their children differently than those in peaceful times. For parents in this dangerous era, loving their children means filling their bellies and having them undergo lots of training during their protected childhood, ideally becoming as mighty as warriors.

This is how parents in primitive society express their love for their children: through relentless training, even when utterly exhausted, they continue training to become stronger.

It’s not that parents are heartless; rather, in this dangerous era, parents hold the mindset of preferring their children to suffer, rather than lose their lives. This is the unique love parents show during that time—brutal, yet profoundly deep.

Previously, when Yan Shuangshuang was weak, Tie and Cao were even testing whether they could train her—not to become extremely powerful, but because primitive people of this time already learned through life and death struggles that life thrives through activity.

Regrettably, in her past life, Yan Shuangshuang’s body was too weak. If she ran a few steps today, her fragile body would stay lazily in bed for several days unable to rise. Eventually, one training session scared her father Tie and mother Cao half to death, and they dared not mention training ever again.

Now that Yan Shuangshuang has become Divine Favored, and her physical fitness seems improved, training her to become a warrior is nothing unusual. Tie and Cao didn’t even consider whether training Yan Shuangshuang might be bitter or tiring.

Though they previously pampered Yan Shuangshuang to the extent that she wouldn’t even walk a step, that was because her body wasn’t up to it. Now that Yan Shuangshuang’s body is fit, were it not for Yu having Leader Ben to instruct her, Tie and Cao were planning to personally step forward to train Yan Shuangshuang into a qualified warrior.

Naturally, Yan Shuangshuang is exceedingly happy. Though she’s a modern person, living in this world for over a decade has aligned some of her beliefs with those of this world’s people—for instance, enduring hardship is better than losing one’s life, and enduring hardship is better than witnessing her parents die right in front of her.

Because Yan Shuangshuang has become Divine Favored, and since today the Hunting Team also brought back prey, Witch Yu and Leader Ben decided together to have a barbecue feast to celebrate.

At this feast, everyone can receive a large piece of barbecue, while the Hunting Team would get two large pieces. Yan Shuangshuang, despite her petite frame, still couldn’t consume half a pound of meat even if filled.

After a day of festivity, the very next morning, Yan Shuangshuang planned to head out with the Hunting Team to broaden food resources.

This period of the year is divided into twenty-four seasons, each lasting about thirty days, identified by the twelve suns in the sky.

Starting with twelve suns, each season sees one sun disappear, and with each disappearance, the temperature gets colder.

When all twelve suns appear, the weather resembles the peak summer heat on Earth: very long days, very short nights, and many places devoid of water, making it a hard period.

When the sun count decreases to three, the weather starts cooling down, akin to Earth’s winter.

If just one sun remains, Yan Shuangshuang estimates the climate can’t be described as harsh winter anymore but rather akin to Earth’s Little Ice Age during the Ming Dynasty!

The days become extremely short, nights extremely long, with air so cold there are no effective means for the primitive people to keep warm enough to go hunting. People can only rely on the animals buried in the snow hunted when the weather was just turning cold, and previously collected storable plants to survive through the harsh winter.

Once the sun count drops to one, it begins to increase season by season up to twelve suns again, with temperatures slowly transitioning from extreme cold to extreme heat as the suns increase, then back to extreme cold as the suns decrease again—a full cycle constituting a year.

The seasons of twelve suns and one sun persist for two seasons, meaning the harshest extreme cold and extreme heat periods last twice as long as the other seasons, leading to starvation, dehydration, and freezing deaths among countless people and animals.

Currently, the sky holds twelve suns, marking the hardest heat season apart from the extreme cold winter; even though this season has just begun, the Hunting Team did catch several animals beforehand, but it was after days of ambushing.

With over thirty people eating together, the consumption is enormous. Added to that, the Hunting Team members all possess superpower strength, each eating substantial amounts to ensure their strength isn’t weakened, maintaining their ability to hunt and protect the tribe—their food can’t be skimped on.

Following this, the prey previously caught by the Hunting Team proves insufficient, which is why Yan Shuangshuang urgently leads the group to search for food. With the heat season just starting, they must seize the time to store food and water; later, when water sources dry up and animals hide away to escape the heat, it becomes even harder to endure.

The moment Yan Shuangshuang truly left the cave and set foot into the thick jungle ahead, even though it’s relatively safe terrain repeatedly cleared by the Hunting Team, Yan Shuangshuang couldn’t help but feel a surge of unstoppable excitement!

After over ten years, she finally sees the scenery outside the cave, looking at the various trees, plants, and flowers, she feels an overwhelming excitement.

Although upon close inspection, the world’s plants aren’t recognizable without the mental gift package to aid her, at first glance, the continuous green wilderness and diverse flowers swaying elegantly have little different from those on Earth; the trees seem taller, and the flora more lush, with an exceptional greenness.

Several small animals and birds flit about, though the Hunting Team doesn’t bother with them since these small creatures are mostly bone, hardly any meat, and cumbersome to prepare. Instead, they’d rather hunt a large prey for a rewarding meal.

Yan Shuangshuang followed beside Father Tie and Leader Ben, observing as she walked. She didn’t forget that her purpose in going out is to search for food, not sightseeing, so after the initial wave of excitement, she began looking around for any edible, yet undiscovered plants.

If she could find edible plants in this relatively safe area that has been cleared, it would be more convenient and reassuring for picking and transporting.

Believe it or not, as Yan Shuangshuang scanned around without much hope, she unexpectedly caught sight of an area with edible plants!