CHAPTER 509: CHAPTER 500: THE BIG BOSS 18

Wild boars on Earth are among the top beasts that even tigers dare not provoke, but in this world, predators more ferocious than wild boars are everywhere. Although wild boars are quite formidable, they are not top hunters and naturally are no match for the Hunting Team.

Yan Shuangshuang and Tie were not worried about Ben handling the wild boar. Tie, along with the members of the Hunting Team, confidently helped Yan Shuangshuang start picking leaves, although Tie and the Hunting Team Members were completely baffled about how to eat the leaves that Yan Shuangshuang claimed were edible.

However, everyone believed that the Divine Favored possessed knowledge and abilities beyond their understanding, so no one doubted that the leaves were edible. They merely speculated curiously about how on earth to eat them, perhaps wrapping them with meat like wild vegetables?

A Hunting Team member quickly picked a leaf, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed it. The people of this world have little demand for flavor; being able to fill their stomachs is enough. So this member felt the leaf wasn’t bitter and could be swallowed, so wrapped with meat should be fine.

After confirming it was edible, this Hunting Team member enthusiastically used both hands to pick leaves quickly. With such a gigantic tree, if all the leaves were edible, they wouldn’t need to worry about not having vegetarian options when unable to dig out wild vegetables!

When the backpack was half full of leaves, Yan Shuangshuang finally recalled where she had tasted something similar to these leaves before.

It was during her previous life on Earth when she traveled to the south and tasted a local specialty dish called Immortal Tofu—a flavor identical to these leaves, made from the Immortal Leaf.

The finished Immortal Tofu carried a faint leafy fragrance, sprinkled with ice shaving, seasoned with savory or sweet flavors. Especially in summer, a mouthful would be ice-cold and appetizing.

Yan Shuangshuang fell in love with the taste of Immortal Tofu and searched online for its recipe. It turned out to be very simple, so whenever time allowed, she would make some Immortal Tofu at home.

The finished tofu was green, like a visually pleasing jelly. It could be mixed with ice cream syrup as a dessert or prepared savory like cold noodles, always refreshing.

Knowing how to eat these leaves, Yan Shuangshuang privately named the giant tree the Immortal Tree. Thinking of the taste of Immortal Tofu made her mouth water, and she immediately sped up her leaf-picking.

Once everyone had filled their backpacks with Immortal Leaves, Ben returned after slaying the giant wild boar.

The group, laden with a heavy load, headed back. Along the way, Yan Shuangshuang picked a few giant leaves big enough to use as blankets.

Back in the cave, Yan Shuangshuang initially planned to make Immortal Tofu, but only then realized that it requires a lot of water—a luxury during this dry hot season.

What’s more, the tribe wouldn’t allow Yan Shuangshuang to use precious life-saving water for a meal, even if she was the Divine Favored, there was no room for compromise.

But Yan Shuangshuang wasn’t interested in the little water from the tribe; she had another plan for the water issue. For now, the priority was processing the giant wild boar Ben had brought back, as it was her main food source for the coming days.

The women in the cave came forward to process the wild boar. Since it was primarily for Yan Shuangshuang to eat, the women sliced the meat into strips as she required, salted them, and hung them up.

Yan Shuangshuang also personally made four hams from the boar’s legs. Whether it’s better to make ham from the front legs or the rear legs, she couldn’t remember, but since the legs were big enough, she made all four.

However, she used quite a lot of salt while preparing them, making the tribal members wince. Although the Power Tribe now had plenty of salt, the lack of salt from childhood left a deep mark, so they were always stingy with salt in cooking.

In any case, salt is no good without it, and too much isn’t good either, so Yan Shuangshuang didn’t bother with their stinginess. As for herself, she was definitely not going to be stingy; knowing that the salt fruit grew abundantly, new fruits would sprout before the old ones were finished, there would never be a shortage of salt in the tribe, not to the point of being so stingy.

After dealing with the wild boar, Yan Shuangshuang went to the water source she had previously discovered, planning to dig a well to solve the tribe’s water problem.

This water source was not far from the cave. After digging a well, fetching water would be convenient for everyone, much more so than trekking several hundred meters to the small river.

Yan Shuangshuang lay on the ground, pressing her ear to the earth to listen carefully to the position of the underground water source. It wasn’t that she could miraculously hear the aquifer, but the powerful package in her mind amplified the sound of the underground water to her ears.

Yan Shuangshuang mainly listened to the water source’s sound, determining where it was loudest, indicating that the water source was relatively close to the surface, making it easier to dig out.

After crawling around on the ground for a while, she drew a large circle with a rock, then stood up, dusted herself off, and returned to the cave to find people to help dig the well. As for why she didn’t bring people earlier, it was because she didn’t want anyone to see her crawling around on all fours.

Hearing that Yan Shuangshuang could solve the water problem and asked everyone to dig a pit, although still unclear of her purpose, the Power Tribe members dutifully found some stone slabs, tied them to sticks to use as shovels, and began digging where Yan Shuangshuang indicated.

Although the tools weren’t great, the Power Tribe members had great strength and stamina, continuously taking turns digging without rest. They soon hit water! The first to break through to the water was a Hunting Team Member named Da Shi.

Initially, only a trickle appeared at the well’s bottom, but it grew stronger. By the time everyone climbed out of the deep well, the water was already gushing, reaching less than half a meter from the well’s mouth.

Yan Shuangshuang’s face lit up with excitement. The high water level here indicated a plentiful source below; finally, she could use water freely. Even though the newly dug water was a muddy mixture and yellow, everyone hugged, laughed and shouted in excitement.

In past hot seasons, everyone suffered thirst and hunger, with cases of death due to dehydration! These dehydration-related illnesses were beyond even Witch Doctor Yu’s ability. Now with water, they no longer needed to fear anyone falling ill and dying from lack of water!