Chapter 132
Chapter 132 – Enthusiasm rises anew
Translated by Sunyancai
Many of the people raising the cubs almost lost all their patience in training. Every day, when they went to bed, they always considered cooking their cubs tomorrow.
But witnessing Caesar’s change aroused some people’s expectations, so they continued raising their cubs.
Said Shao Xuan the cubs must be trained frequently, so they spared some time to train them every day. If it was inconvenient to train their cubs in the tribe, they brought them to the training grounds.
In the woods, many cubs learned hunting skills while frolicking, such as searching, catching, throwing the prey, biting, and so on. And after being trained, some could give full play to their talents, overshadowing their companions, while others became more ordinary.
However, the cubs in the tribe were all talented.
When these people brought their cubs to the several hills around the training grounds, Chacha liked to cause trouble for them.
The enthusiasm of those who had gotten impatient aroused again. They even caught a few more cubs when hunting. They knocked them unconscious, tied them up, and brought them back to the tribe. Then they specifically taught them the hunting skills. Some people did not intend to raise cubs, but the volumes distributed by the Shaman generated their enthusiasm.
In a short time, the number of cubs that had plummeted, gradually grew again, but most of them still ended up in the pot.
One year later.
It seemed the earliest group of cubs brought back to the tribe had matured. They might not be adults, but most of the beasts at this age in the woods were involved in hunting, they went hunting alone or with their relatives. And at this time, some in the hunting group began to ask the group leaders for permission to bring their own beasts to go hunting.
In their view, their beasts had been so strong, that in the tribe they could often catch some stone rats, and they were very obedient. What’s more, they could make fierce attacks… These warriors thought their beasts were much better than Caesar.
Not just one or two warriors, but several of them had such an idea.
They had kept their beasts for nearly two years. It had cost them a lot to raise these cubs that had grown so strong now. It was time for them to go hunting.
The Shaman looked at the proposals handed in by the team leaders and did not reject them, but told them what should be paid attention to, which Shao Xuan had put forward.
After obtaining permission from the Shaman, the Chief and the team leaders, with great pride, several warriors strode across the Path of Glory with their beasts.
However, when the hunting team came back again, almost none of their beasts came with them.
Five beasts set out with them, but only one returned, which was Lei’s Meng.
Meng survived, but it received many wounds. Lei had witnessed Caesar’s injuries after going hunting, so he felt reassured. Anyway, as the only beast that could come back, Meng outperformed the other four.
Such a result worried some people a lot, and they began to question whether their beasts could come back safely in the future.
Two of the four beasts that did not come back lost control while hunting the prey. They did not obey the orders, and even launched an attack on the members of the hunting group. As a result, these beasts were killed on the spot.
As for the other two, one was kicked by the prey on the head, so it took it’s last breath soon after. The other ran away and could not be stopped.
This result made those who also intended to go hunting with their beasts hesitate to do so. They thought they had to strengthen the training of their beasts’ dependence and self-control, which Shao Xuan had reminded them to pay attention to.
In the following few hunting missions, besides Meng, who was kept by Lei, unexpectedly several other beasts returned safely. Which included Liao, Mo Er’s cave lion, Si Ya, Mao’s fur-less boar, and the beasts raised by Ah-Yang and Ah-Guang.
Ah-Yang and Ah-Guang had also caught two animals during the hunting. Ah-Yang brought back a cub which looked like a hyena, and he called it An.
The one brought back by Ah-Guang was a big bird egg at the beginning, which was stolen from a nest. She always wanted to keep a flying bird like Chacha, but when she hatched the egg following Shao Xuan’s instruction, she found that this bird could not fly. It was a wingless bird, similar to the phorusrhacos. But she kept raising it instead of cooking it, and named it Jing.
After a year, the two animals kept by Ah-Yang and Ah-Guang followed the hunting group out hunting, and both had good performance in general, which made Mai very happy.