CHAPTER 519: CHAPTER 510: THE GREAT CHIEF 28

"At that time, the cave was bustling with people coming and going. There were many small caves above it, and they were all inhabited. I really hope that one day, the population of our Power Tribe will grow so large that we can fill this cave from top to bottom with people once again!" With his hands behind his back, Yu looked at Yan Shuangshuang with a hopeful expression.

Yan Shuangshuang immediately replied with a smile, "Our Power Tribe will surely have a prosperous time again. By then, there will be so many people in the tribe that you’ll find the noise gives you a headache. At that time, it will probably be difficult for you to find a quiet place because people will be everywhere, and there won’t be any quiet places at all."

Amused by Yan Shuangshuang’s decisive answer, Yu couldn’t help but burst into laughter, causing a tumultuous stir in her chest. What a wildly attractive woman, truly breaking the mold of a Witch, more like a female warrior. Yan Shuangshuang was lost in thought, watching the waves rippling across the Witch’s chest.

After laughing, Yu patted Yan Shuangshuang’s head, "Alright, I’ll remember what you said, and I’ll wait for you to bring about that prosperous scene for the Power Tribe." Though speaking these words, Yu didn’t really take them to heart.

Yu knew well that even at the Power Tribe’s most bustling times, it never reached that extent. While she didn’t doubt that Yan Shuangshuang, as the Divine Favored, could bring the tribe back to prosperity, she didn’t think Yan Shuangshuang could achieve what she had said.

Yan Shuangshuang didn’t argue with Yu either. She thought that when one day she became strong enough, she would establish a community of tribes. By then, would there still be a lack of people?

Looking up at the not-small entrance of the upper cave, Yan Shuangshuang became a bit curious. She took a stone plate, piled it with Bright Light Seeds, and with eager eyes looked at Yu, saying, "Witch, can I go up and take a look?"

Yu smiled and nodded, "Of course you can. No one has lived up there for a long time, you can go up and have a look."

With Yu’s permission, Yan Shuangshuang directly climbed up along the stone steps. The steps weren’t very long; she climbed up quickly. Since the weather outside had turned cooler, the temperature inside the cave was a bit warmer, and this upper cave was slightly warmer than the one below.

Back on Earth two lifetimes ago, Yan Shuangshuang had visited two karst caves. Although they were somewhat damp inside, they stayed warm in winter and cool in summer. Living there wouldn’t be too hot in summer or too cold in winter.

When she first came to this world and found herself living in a cave, Yan Shuangshuang thought that this cave must also be warm in winter and cool in summer.

Who knew that after living there for a long time, she found that the cave was hot in summer and cold in winter, and except for being spacious, it wasn’t suitable for living. It wasn’t very safe either, as the cave in the past life was broken into by starving wild beasts.

Previously, while Yu longed to fill this cave with people, Yan Shuangshuang most wanted to one day find a dry and spacious cave that was warm in winter and cool in summer, and move there with the people of the Power Tribe.

It’s not that Yan Shuangshuang wasn’t thinking of more comfortable methods, such as building houses to live in. It’s just that the animals in this world are too powerful, and the defensive capability of houses isn’t even enough for them to withstand a claw swipe. Building something like city walls would indeed be sturdy, but in this primitive world, she couldn’t afford to spend that much manpower and resources. So thinking about it, living in caves was still more convenient, economical, and safer.

However, Yan Shuangshuang was neither a geologist nor someone who specifically studied caves. She really didn’t know what kind of cave would be both dry and comfortably temperate in all seasons. Besides, she hadn’t become strong yet, so for now, this matter was just something to think about.

Holding a stone plate full of Bright Light Seeds, Yan Shuangshuang stood in the upper cave that hadn’t been inhabited for a long time, starting to survey her surroundings.

This upper cave wasn’t as dark. When she was at the lake, she didn’t think the Bright Light Seeds were very bright. But coming to this upper cave, Yan Shuangshuang discovered that the brightness of these Bright Light Seeds was truly high, and they illuminated far.

For example, the Bright Light Seeds on the stone plate Yan Shuangshuang was holding at that moment illuminated half of the stone cave.

Like the cave below, the stone walls of this upper cave were also polished very smoothly. Moreover, there were unknown materials used to create paint, depicting a series of murals.

Though the painting style was somewhat abstract, after Yan Shuangshuang’s careful examination, she could still discern that these paintings recorded scenes of tribal hunts, meticulously illustrating the warriors hunting various prey.

The most astonishing to Yan Shuangshuang was on a massive mural, depicting hundreds of primitives hunting a gigantic creature comparable to the Earth King Beast, though it was definitely not the Earth King Beast because this creature’s mouth was full of sharp fangs, unlike the herbivorous teeth of the Earth King Beast.

These people placed the gigantic creature on an open ground and then started cutting its meat for a bonfire festival right in front of the beast.

From the records in the tribal book, Yan Shuangshuang knew that the bonfire festival wasn’t held lightly. Only when the tribe hunted an extraordinarily remarkable prey would they hold such a festival to celebrate a successful hunt.

The bonfire festival wasn’t just for eating and drinking merrily; more importantly, it symbolized a celebration of victory. Because a beast this large could guarantee meat for thousands in the tribe for a year, it naturally deserved a celebration.

This huge mural was the only colored painting in the stone cave, and although the colors were mottled, it was well-preserved.

Despite the mottled colors, the patterns were still discernible, indicating just how deeply impressed and proud the people of the Power Tribe were of that particular hunt.

Yan Shuangshuang studied the painting depicting the tribe’s hunting of the creature. The creature seemed to be a thing of the sky because it had a pair of very large wings, but its limbs were very short. Although its claws were exceedingly sharp, they were hooked, evidently indicating this wasn’t a creature adapted to life on land.

Also, this creature seemed to be covered in blue feathers from head to tail. Though the mural’s colors had faded, Yan Shuangshuang still recognized that the paint used was blue.

Aside from this, the creature’s fan-shaped tail appeared very large, and the head was not bird-like but rather had sharp fangs akin to a wolf’s head, though its mouth was longer and its teeth were sharper than a wolf’s.

Most peculiarly, though the head appeared wolf-like, the covering on this creature’s head wasn’t fur but the same blue feathers. A wolf’s head with feathers—how bizarre it looked, and just by appearances, this creature seemed anything but benign.