Chapter 1406: Chapter 1245: Primeval Beast World 11
Shuangshuang spent seven days repeatedly experimenting and finally made the hemostatic powder with miraculous effects.
Due to the shortage of herbs, Shuangshuang had to go out and gather herbs twice during the process. This was only enough to equip each member of the Hunting Team led by Shi Li with hemostatic powder, facing the most dangerous situations.
Rubbing her shoulders, Shuangshuang sat on the tree stump at the cave entrance, watching a group of naked children and rolling Little Silver Tigers playing and chasing each other, and thinking about setting up a medicinal field.
Hemostatic potion requires a large amount of herbs, and it’s not easy to gather them just by going out. Moreover, relying on one person to gather them isn’t feasible; only large-scale planting can provide the supply.
Moreover, after the hemostatic agent, there are various other medicines to make, requiring countless types of herbs. Going out to find them bit by bit not only wastes time but also can’t guarantee sufficient quantities.
Shuangshuang is now contemplating one thing: first, to improve the tribe’s culture, and then impart knowledge of medicine, methods to enhance cultivation, and ideas of planting and breeding.
Shuangshuang is confident that given time, she can change this entire world, because this world already has a fully developed writing and language system, possessing the foundation for rapid progress.
Perhaps because of their belief in God, the beastmen call their writing Divine Text and their language Divine Language, meaning the letters and language bestowed by God.
Strangely enough, since writing and language were taught by the Great Witch, whose knowledge supposedly comes from divine gifts, all the tribes in this world have unified writing and language!
Although they worship different gods, this situation is indeed miraculous—something even modern society cannot achieve.
It can be said that the culture of this world has actually surpassed the level of the Primitive World, being quite complete, such that it can easily propel the beastmen to move beyond this primitive society.
The pity is that only the Great Witch possesses such complete knowledge, and even the Clan Leaders may not know much. It can be said that the monopoly of knowledge is quite thorough.
In Shuangshuang’s view, the Super Tribes in this world are just so-so. Clearly, rapid development should accompany culture, yet they are stagnating in primitive society with no progress.
The main reason for this outcome is the consensus selfishness of the Great Witches, monopolizing all knowledge, preferring to struggle on the brink of life and death for a satisfying meal rather than spreading life-saving knowledge.
If she wants to break this situation, it would mean going against the Great Witches who hold the top power and authority in this world, representing tribes, or even Super Tribes.
Rubbing her aching forehead, Shuangshuang couldn’t help but sigh deeply. Achieving this is truly a long-term mission, one she currently lacks the power to undertake, requiring gradual advancement.
Nevertheless, the beginning is always the hardest. Start with the first task: gather the tribe’s manpower to train people who can help her gather herbs. This is the most urgent matter, affecting the Hunting Team’s fatality rate.
Shuangshuang walked with her hands behind her back to find Clan Leader Dou Yan. Although she is now the Great Witch, her young age makes it inconvenient to handle everything, besides which she doesn’t plan to manage everything.
To let a tribe grow strong, there cannot be only one voice; widespread involvement and collaborative efforts are necessary.
So, Shuangshuang doesn’t intend to meddle with the Clan Leader’s authority, nor does she plan to relentlessly diminish the Clan Leader’s dignity like other tribes’ Great Witches.
The Beastman World is fraught with dangers; to ensure safety, beastmen select caves as their dwelling places. As long as the cave entrance is guarded, it’s easier to ensure safety when facing dangerous beasts or Horror Beasts.
To ensure escape from unbeatable enemies, beastman dwellings always have two exits: one main entrance and a concealed small entrance for fleeing.
If there is no suitable cave for dwelling, the tribe’s Great Witch will choose a suitable mountain and create a cave for habitation, similar in principle to earth kilns.
The place Silver Tiger Clan resides includes both caves and earth kilns. The caves are located halfway up the mountain, inhabited by physically strong beastmen.
The earth kilns are located at the foot of the mountain, where older beastmen with poor health and injured members of the hunting team reside.
Dou Yan, as the Clan Leader, always lives at the foot of the mountain for ease of managing various issues that may arise in the tribe, while Shuangshuang’s home is in the highest cave halfway up the mountain.
When Shuangshuang came down, she was in human form; however, the mountain path was narrow and winding, with branches crisscrossing, making it difficult to walk.
Impatient with branches and leaves tangling her, Shuangshuang transformed into Silver Tiger form halfway down, speeding up significantly by bounding downhill.
When Shuangshuang found Dou Yan, she happened to encounter the Hunting Team returning with their prey. He was busy counting the prey brought back by the hunting team.
They butchered the prey and distributed the meat among the tribe members. The Hunting Team, exerting the most effort and ensuring their combat power, received the largest share of meat.
Next came the gathering team, since gathering also requires physical effort, they received a substantial amount of meat. Then there were the children, the future combat power and hope of the tribe.
To ensure the children grow well and become strong warriors who bring back more prey in the future, they also received a substantial meat portion, enough to be full with vegetables.
Ironically, those who received the least were the elderly beastmen who had worked hard for the tribe their entire lives but now were weak. They only received enough meat to be half-full, just enough not to starve.
It’s not that beastmen don’t understand respecting elders but are forced by circumstances. If they truly disregard the elderly beastmen, they would expel them from the tribe when they grow old, as some cruel tribes do.
Shuangshuang watched those elderly beastmen, hunched over, holding their meager portions of meat and shuffling away, feeling disheartened.
For these beastmen to survive to this age in this world should be fortunate; however, after a lifetime of toil for the tribe, they face the worst treatment when they deserve to be cared for, a truly heartrending situation.
Dou Yan finished distributing the meat and then separated a portion from his own to give to a hunched-over elderly man.
That elder had taken care of Dou Yan often when he was young, teaching him hunting techniques, thus Dou Yan frequently looked after him, giving some of his meat to make the old man’s days less difficult.
Besides Dou Yan, Shuangshuang saw several other beastmen also sharing their meat with familiar elders, this touching scene instantly lightened her mood.
