Chapter 7 Cats and Bugs

The girl slept for a long time, and when she woke up she was full of energy. She had a twisted branch on her waist and was tearing the fawn's stiff body with her hands. The bumpy ground in the cave was covered with purple-blue meat residue.

"Oh, how can we eat this? The meat is too hard to penetrate the wood. We don't have a pot, so if we put it directly on the fire, it will burn. What a waste."

[System: Host, we still have the points from the last mission. Although there are only 22 points, it is enough to exchange for a big clay pot.]

Ah Yao interrupted the system in a bad mood: "No, I only have more than 20 points now, and I want to save up 100 points to buy a Simmons mattress. I can't sleep outdoors every day. Rest is more important than eating."

The girl scratched her head. She had never slept on such a good bed in her previous life. Now that she had the chance, she couldn’t miss it.

[System: Sister Yao, be careful, other beastmen are coming.]

A Yao suddenly crawled on the ground, with his white hands clenched into a trumpet shape and pressed against the ground. There was indeed a faint rustling sound of stepping on the snow.

It should be the cat or dog's paw pads pressing on the ground that made such a small sound. If the system hadn't reminded her, she really wouldn't have noticed it.

A skinny snow leopard with beautiful fur found this place by instinct. Its belly was sunken and its firefly-colored eyes looked extremely miserable under the firelight. The murderous intent that should have been aimed at its prey had disappeared.

The Snow Leopard and A Yao were far away from her and had not approached her. They just lowered their front half of their bodies and looked at her from afar. They stretched out their pink tongues with knife-like stings and licked the corners of their mouths.

The teeth are still extremely sharp!
A Yao also made a gesture of preparing to attack, holding the universal branch in his right hand, but secretly chatting with the system.

"Silly Tongzi, why has it been staring at me for so long but hasn't come over? Is there something fishy going on?"

[System: There should be nothing fishy going on. Look at it, it's so skinny that it's almost jerky. It must have an animalistic mind when it sees food.]

A Yao was a little tired of following the "I won't move unless my enemy moves" attitude. Just as he was about to relax quietly, he heard a pleading female voice coming from the snow leopard's mouth: "Female, I was driven out of the tribe and have been wandering for two months in the winter. I'm sorry to disturb you by passing by your territory, but I was so hungry that I followed you unconsciously when I smelled the meat."

The girl looked at the female snow leopard with her dark eyes for a few more seconds, and replied coldly: "Then I won't kill you. Since you have no ill will towards me, I will let you go. But this frozen deer is the food I brought back myself. Please leave, or I will take action."

The snow leopard took a few steps back, and actually there was a little snow leopard with clean fur hidden under its body. It was dangling under its mother's body. It was so cute, but also very skinny and hungry.

Ah Yao liked the smaller one a little bit, but couldn't help saying, "But I can trade with you, half a frozen deer for the little snow leopard."

She thought the furry little thing looked like a cat, and couldn't help being touched. A Yao always liked cute little animals, oh, except for that little tool snake.

The snow leopard shrank back and protected her child even tighter. She was originally a proud female in the tribe, but she had not given birth to a child for many years, so she was expelled from the tribe. The little snow leopard was born by her outside, and people in the tribe did not acknowledge that the child was the bloodline of the tribe, so she could only wander outside.

The snow leopard took a look at A Yao in the cave and saw that although she was wearing strange clothes, she had a lot of flesh on her body.

"Can you take good care of my child? He can only eat a few mouthfuls of milk with me, but if he follows you, can you use the food you hunt to feed him?"

A Yao knew that the snow leopard had been tempted, so without thinking, he broke half of the frozen deer on the ground and threw it over. The hard venison made a crisp sound when it hit the ground and rolled out of the cave.

The girl shouted to the snow leopard outside the cave: "I allow you to come back to see your baby in the spring of next year, and I promise you that I will raise it to be plump and white." When the snow leopard saw the venison, it picked it up and ran away. Due to its animal nature, it felt that it was more important to survive. The little snow leopard was left rolling in the snow, whimpering and calling for its mother.

When A Yao saw the mother snow leopard running away, he hurried out, picked up the skinny little snow leopard in his hands, and brought it back to the cave.

The girl put away her frozen meat, and the little snow leopard was thrown miserably on the ground. It must have been able to smell the meat, because it licked the meat residue on the ground with its pink tongue and stopped barking.

I've been hungry for so long, it's more important to eat.

[System: Host, my dear sister Yao, why did you raise another little beastman? They are always hungry and can't work! ]

A Yao glanced at the half fox skin left in the cave, stood up, took it and threw it to the little snow leopard.

She explained to the system: "Silly Tongzi, I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious. You have to understand that humans have no resistance to this kind of cute fur."

[System: Sister Yao, don’t worry. This leopard cub will be very cute when he grows up.]

A Yao was not angry at the system for arguing with her. The hungry snow leopard finished the food she gave it and ran over obediently to rub against her trouser leg. A Yao stretched out a hand and touched it a few times. It was soft and smooth, so cute!

"Ahhh, silly Tongzi, help me check if I'm going to have a nosebleed, this is too damn soft!"

[System: Ahhh host, the rattlesnake in your grass nest hasn't woken up yet! You are such a spendthrift that you raised another leopard cub! ]

A Yao didn't think so. He thought that having a furry little thing to touch a few times would create some spiritual value and was much more useful than that half frozen deer.

The girl now not only has to feed her own mouth, but also has to feed the leopard cub's greedy belly. She has to go out to find food every three to five days. The system is frightened by her recent torment.

There is a food shortage in the Orc Continent in winter. A Yao only has a territory of ten miles in radius. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot find much food.

Next to the pine tree

The girl climbed up the tree trunk in no time with her nimble body, and banged hard on a crack in the tree with her frozen red hands. She had no meat to eat these few days, so she could only find some reserve food in the places where the squirrels hid.

After a while, a handful of pine nuts slipped out from the gap. A Yao hurriedly used the prepared snakeskin bag to catch them. The rustling sound entered the bag. Only when the sound stopped did she jump off the pine tree with satisfaction. A little snow leopard with white fur came to her feet, snoring.

Ah Yao tied the snakeskin bag around his waist, lifted up one of the little snow leopard's ears and said, "You greedy cat and worm, you don't eat anything except meat! You make me eat pine nuts like a squirrel every day and climb trees!"

She had originally been eating frugally during the winter, so the food reserves in the cave were enough. But now there was a cat-worm that only ate meat. A Yao could only give the meat to the cat-worm and use pine nuts to replenish her energy.

It’s no different from the Earth I lived on in my previous life. Cats and bugs always make humans tighten their belts and buy countless snacks to pamper them.

　Start raising cats
　　
　
(End of this chapter)