Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“That little demon!”
Fu Rui cursed under his breath and swung his axe even harder.
He chopped off the roots of the weeds and bushes before piling them up on the ground.
Meanwhile, Yuan kept blinking her big bright eyes. “Is Rui going to sleep at Li’s house tonight?”
Fu Rui shook his head. “No, I’ll stay with you.”
“Meow~!”
A rare expression of shyness appeared on Yuan Yuan’s face. “Does Rui not like Li?”
She raised the question again.
Fu Rui paused.
Who didn’t like fox ears? It was just that…
Seeing Fu Rui’s hesitation, Yuan flashed a comforting smile. “Rui, you should go to Li’s place to rest today. Doesn’t the Village Chief want to understand everyone’s difficulties? You can’t always sleep with Yuan. Otherwise, how can you build the village?”
Fu Rui almost cried as Yuan was too “obedient”. She was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to improve his relationship with other beast-eared girls, and she actually took the initiative to find a perfect reason for him.
“So… Can I go to sleep at her place tonight?”
“Okay, meow~”
Fu Rui patted Yuan’s perky butt in relief. However, Yuan’s tail immediately stood upright, and even her body was trembling slightly.
Fu Rui was puzzled. “What’s wrong?”
“Meow…”
The kitten’s cry was crisp and soft. It made one feel as if it had been scratched by a claw and made one’s heart itch.
Fu Rui raised his hand and rubbed his fingers against each other.
It seemed a little wet and sticky. He didn’t know if it was the sweat on Yuan’s buttocks or something else.
Wait… Could it be another liquid?
No way…
Fu Rui froze.
He didn’t even know when Yuan had slipped away without a word.
“Ah, this is really…”
Fu Rui broke into laughter.
Was it satisfying?
It was indeed quite satisfying!
It was a blessing to be able to tease a cute cat-eared girl every day.
It was just that it was a little difficult for his “rod”.
Shaking his head, he continued with his work.
This piece of wasteland was not big, so it only took a few minutes to deal with all the weeds.
All that was left was to wait until these things were dried by the sun.
However, Fu Rui did not allow himself to be idle. After all, the beast-eared females in the village had already eaten most of the porcupine meat in the past two days. Furthermore, they were asked to dig a canal for the whole day yesterday, so they had no time to go out and hunt.
Now that there was a shortage of food in the village, everyone only drank water for breakfast and did not eat anything.
Thus, he could only do it himself today.
The water-drawing device that he had spent a lot of effort to make made life in the village much more convenient.
Thus, they did not have to travel far to obtain water.
If he wanted to drink water, he could directly fetch water from the water-drawing spots and drink as much as he wanted.
Next, he had to solve the problem of food.
There was a river not far from the village. Although he could guarantee that the water there was absolutely clean, there was no problem in fishing for fish, prawns, crabs and other seafood dishes there.
He could now make more of the vine traps he had previously caught fish with. With so many beast-eared girls watching over the fishing vines, he was not afraid that the fish would bite the bait and escape.
Other than that, they could also make some one-way cages, put some bait inside, and throw the cages into the river to try their luck.
Some traps could also be set up in the forest. As a result, the knowledge he had obtained from the system would not be wasted.
Fu Rui called the beast-eared girls in the village over to help. He also personally taught them how to collect the vine traps at the right timing.
Unfortunately, they had never experienced fishing before and had too little experience. Thus, they only managed to catch 20 fishes by noon.
For the many people in the beast-eared tribe, this amount of food could only satisfy the needs of only some people in the tribe.
Fortunately, the traps in the forest had caught a moose, so there was still a lot left after lunch.
By this time, the plants in the wasteland had dried up.
Under everyone’s gaze, Fu Rui walked over and set them on fire.
Thick black smoke rose into the air, accompanied by heat waves.
This action puzzled many of the beast-eared females.
“Li, what is Village Chief Rui doing?” The cow-eared female felt that the most knowledgeable Li would definitely know the reason.
Unexpectedly, after a moment of silence, Li shook her head. “I don’t understand either.”
As a new Village Chief had been appointed, she was no longer known as Village Chief Li by the others.
There was less respect, but also less reliance on her.
However, Li wasn’t dissatisfied at all. Instead, she felt that Fu Rui was very mysterious. He was able to do many things that even the witches had never mentioned before. It was indeed the right choice to entrust the tribe to him.
In just a short span of two days, the two biggest crises in the tribe had been easily resolved by him.
They were now guaranteed a source of food and water.
Now, seeing Fu Rui’s strange actions, although Li was puzzled, she had no intention of questioning his actions.
Li turned his head to look at Yuan, who was munching on a fish, and asked her, “Yuan, you have the closest relationship with Village Chief Rui. Do you know what he wants to do?”
Yuan seemed to think about it seriously. After a few seconds, she quickly shook her head and started eating again.
The kitten didn’t have time to think about anything else while eating.
Li was a bit helpless. It seemed that she could only wait for Fu Rui to personally explain things to them.
The village of the beast-eared tribe was built in the forest, so a large fire could easily spread and cause a forest fire.
However, they had sufficient water sources to suppress the fire.
Meanwhile, Fu Rui had been controlling the area where the fire was burning. He only heaved a sigh of relief when the last flame was extinguished.
The wood ashes had finally been formed.
However, he could not sow the seeds yet. They had to wait until the heat dissipated.
After he returned to the bonfire, Li asked Fu Rui the question she had been wanting to ask for a long time.
“Village Chief Rui, what were you doing just now?”
Fu Rui chuckled and didn’t answer her directly. Instead, he asked Li, “Do you know the difference between crops and plants?”
“Crops… What are those?” Li asked, embarrassed.
The beast-eared females looked at him like curious baies as well.
“You can understand crops as plants that are specially cultivated for us. To put it more simply, the difference between crops and plants is that crops are born for us, while plants are born for nature.”
Everyone was stunned.
Fu Rui knew that this was slightly indirect and they wouldn’t be able to figure it out, so he analyzed this piece of knowledge bit by bit.
The beast-eared females listened to him attentively and asked questions if there was anything they didn’t understand.
Fu Rui answered them one by one.
It took them almost two hours to get the idea of “planting” into their heads.
“In other words, as long as we have seeds in the future, we can obtain a large amount of food after engaging in a behaviour called sowing. This food can turn into even more seeds. This cycle will allow us to sow even more food, right?” As the former village chief, Li was the most knowledgeable and had the deepest understanding.
“You could say that.”
Fu Rui nodded.
The beast-eared females were enlightened. They all felt that this matter was very magical and started discussing it.
At that moment, a system prompt appeared in his mind.
“Ding, successfully increased the civilization level of the village. You imparted knowledge on farming and have obtained 15 Civilization Points.”
When he added the Civilization Points he had obtained previously, he now had 23 Civilization Points!
Fu Rui was a little surprised as he did not expect that imparting knowledge could grant him Civilization Points.
He immediately opened the Mall interface to see what he could exchange these points for.
A few items immediately appeared before his eyes. Clearly, they were all items that he could exchange for right now.