CHAPTER 600: CHAPTER 573: CHIEF LEADER 91

Yan Shuangshuang didn’t know that Chacha was heartbroken over the meat she was feeding him. She sliced the meat in her hand, skewered it with bamboo sticks, and layered the marinade on it: salt, honey, Flaming Grass powder, and chili bean powder. Of course, Chacha’s portion didn’t have chili bean powder.

Chacha watched curiously as Yan Shuangshuang spread layer after layer of marinade on the meat, feeling quite confused. In their tribe, people just roasted the meat directly. They had never seen the step of applying marinade and naturally couldn’t understand Yan Shuangshuang’s method.

However, it wasn’t long after Yan Shuangshuang started grilling before the aroma wafted out. Chacha then realized why Yan Shuangshuang applied so many things on the meat because they made the meat delicious.

Smelling the incredibly inviting and unique fragrance he had never encountered before, Chacha was practically drooling! This was just too fragrant! Although he knew the taste of meat was good, he didn’t expect it could be this fragrant!

Chacha’s eyes sparkled as he watched the roasted meat in Yan Shuangshuang’s hand. He couldn’t help but swallow, his expectant little gaze almost glued to the roasted meat, his eyes following the movements of the skewer in Yan Shuangshuang’s hand, looking so adorable that Yan Shuangshuang couldn’t help but want to laugh.

Finally, when the meat was grilled to perfection, Yan Shuangshuang handed the roasted meat to Chacha. With a cheerful smile, Chacha took a bite of the roasted meat in his arms, and his beautiful big eyes squinted with delight. He then began to eat in big mouthfuls.

Watching Chacha eat so happily, Yan Shuangshuang inexplicably felt a sense of accomplishment. She shook her head with a slight laugh at herself, and although she wasn’t too hungry, she picked up the roasted meat to have another meal. It was grilled so deliciously that she craved it too.

But before Yan Shuangshuang could get the meat into her mouth, she felt something furry wrap around her foot, accompanied by a meowing sound in her ear.

Looking down, Yan Shuangshuang saw a small yellow-and-white kitten about the size of a palm, holding her ankle and meowing at her.

To be honest, this kitten wasn’t cute at all. Its fur was messy without any luster, its eyes were half covered with eye discharge, and its body was so skinny that you could see the shape of its bones.

No matter how you looked at it, this wasn’t an adorable little creature, but this little thing was looking up at Yan Shuangshuang, begging for her affection, rubbing its tiny head against her foot.

Such a not-at-all-cute little creature hit Yan Shuangshuang’s heart instantly!

This little thing was so scruffy, obviously without a mother’s care. Any kind of cub under a mother’s care wouldn’t be so scruffy. If Yan Shuangshuang ignored it, this little thing might not survive the day.

Unable to resist, Yan Shuangshuang carefully held the little thing in her palm. This little guy was so small, clearly newly born, and probably still nursing.

However, Yan Shuangshuang had no place to find milk to feed it. There were no animals around that seemed to be nursing, so they couldn’t be captured as wet nurses for it.

In the end, Yan Shuangshuang reluctantly decided that since these things are cat cubs, they should be able to drink fish soup. She went to the river, caught a fish, removed the scales and guts, and used a shell she carried to boil a pot of milky white fish soup.

Once cooled to a lukewarm temperature, Yan Shuangshuang picked up the little kitten, who was already eagerly meowing for food, and fed it the soup.

Fortunately, the little thing loved the fish soup and drank until its little stomach was round. It then rolled over to reveal its rounded belly, lay in Yan Shuangshuang’s palm, and purred contentedly, a look of happiness on its face.

Yan Shuangshuang looked at the little kitten in her palm with its belly exposed, then looked at Chacha, who had eaten and drunk his fill, clutching her neck and beginning to doze in her arms. Suddenly, she felt a sense of having a family to care for.

Since both little ones were sleepy, Yan Shuangshuang had to abandon her plan of eating roasted meat and then quickly taking Chacha to find the Crocodile Tribe. She took out the Beast Skin she carried and spread it on the grass beside her, then cuddled the two little ones and lay down on the Beast Skin.

With the reliable Earth King Beast guarding nearby, Yan Shuangshuang wasn’t worried about any wild beasts that didn’t know better coming over to make trouble. She felt at ease sleeping a little nap with the two little ones.

When Yan Shuangshuang woke up, Chacha was still asleep, and the skinny little kitten was curled up in a little ball, sleeping soundly on her abdomen.

Judging by the time of day, it was getting late, and Yan Shuangshuang started to ponder what to do for the night with these two little ones in tow.

Previously, with just Yan Shuangshuang and the Earth King Beast, both being extremely high in Combat Power, they had no fear of the wilderness’s dangers, and they didn’t mind living roughly. During that time, it wasn’t uncommon for the two of them to rest outdoors at night.

The Earth King Beast could sleep anywhere with the sky as its blanket and the ground as its bed, while Yan Shuangshuang would casually use a few branches to set up a shelter or even sleep in the trees overnight as a normal routine. But now, with a child in tow, she couldn’t be as carefree.

Yan Shuangshuang, thinking things over, slowly sat up, holding the still-sleeping Chacha, with the sleepy little kitten in her palm. She rolled up the Beast Skin and had the Earth King Beast carry it for her, then set off along the riverbank with her family in tow.

As Yan Shuangshuang moved, she looked around, hoping to meet someone from the Crocodile Tribe or find a place to live. Carrying a child, she figured she had to find a place that could shield them from the wind and rain, perhaps make a bed with dry grass, so they could at least live comfortably.

Although they were heading upstream along the river, Yan Shuangshuang wasn’t too hopeful about finding the Crocodile Tribe. First, the Crocodile Tribe didn’t know that Chacha had later escaped into the river. Even if they searched, they wouldn’t trace along the river but rather seek the Cave-dwelling Tribe that captured Chacha.

But based on the Cannibal Tribe’s usual lifestyle, their tribe would certainly be very hidden. As Chacha said, the Crocodile Tribe has been harassed by the Cannibal Cave-dwelling Tribe for years and would not know the Cave-dwelling Tribe’s lair.

Indeed, Yan Shuangshuang walked along the river for quite a while without seeing any sign of people, but she was lucky to find a dead giant tree.

This tree required more than a dozen people to embrace its girth. Despite its large roots and deep foundation, it remained standing even when withered and dead. The tree hollow was empty, and because the tree was large enough, the spacious hollow in the middle made it easy for Yan Shuangshuang and Chacha to fit in.

Having been carried along for a while, Chacha woke up as well. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, and sleepily looked around without showing any signs of recognition, obviously not knowing the place.

Yan Shuangshuang carried Chacha up to the top of the largest tree, causing Chacha to exclaim and laugh non-stop. After amusing Chacha for a while, Yan Shuangshuang asked him to look from the treetop to see if he recognized any familiar directions, ideally identifying the Crocodile Tribe’s location.