Chapter 36: The Beastman’s Learning Ability
The werewolf who returned from combat tightly hugged Su Ran, letting out a long series of extremely dissatisfied howls toward the surrounding beastmen.
That manner was as if saying: “You guys, how could you take advantage of my absence to abduct my female!”
However, the surrounding beastmen did not retreat because of the werewolf’s anger.
Some beastmen even grinned at the werewolf, then let out a long string of “ao wu wu wu” beast language toward the werewolf.
Su Ran couldn’t understand what the beastmen were saying, but it was obviously just a joke.
Because after the werewolf heard what the beastman said, it merely let out an extremely human-like “Hmph!” toward that beastman, then turned its head and ignored it.
But at this moment, Su Ran finally quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, she secretly warned herself in her heart to always keep her distance from other male beastmen.
As the werewolf returned to the riverbank, the atmosphere at the river beach became increasingly lively.
First, the white boxer briefs on the werewolf caught the beastmen’s attention.
They hadn’t had time to ask earlier, but now that they had caught the werewolf, they naturally surrounded it and chattered nonstop.
What made Su Ran unable to look directly was that one male lion beastman curiously squatted down, leaned close to the werewolf’s lower body, and kept observing the boxer briefs on the werewolf.
That sleazy appearance made Su Ran involuntarily cover her eyes; the scene was too beautiful for her to look at…
The werewolf had just come out of the water. The water on its body hadn’t dried yet, and the white boxer briefs, soaked with water, clung even more tightly to the werewolf’s waist, making the shapes very obvious.
Su Ran’s ears reddened as she averted her gaze, but she couldn’t stop her ears from listening to the beastmen’s reactions.
So she heard behind her, the werewolf’s voice carrying pride, repeatedly saying: “Ao wu ao wu Ran Ran, pants! Wu~ Ran Ran, gray… come over! Gray!”
Su Ran’s lip corner twitched uncontrollably; it really didn’t want to hold back at all and wanted to show off what it had learned!
So after the werewolf’s bout of propaganda, the surrounding beastmen’s gazes toward her became even more fervent.
After their curiosity about the boxer briefs faded, the beastmen turned their attention back to their still empty bellies.
However, this time, Su Ran didn’t need to do much anymore.
She saw the beastmen gathered one by one around the werewolf saying something, and soon after, the werewolf walked in front of Su Ran, pointing at it and Su Ran’s own small campfire, saying to Su Ran: “Ran Ran, fire, wu~ fire…”
The werewolf pondered for a long time but couldn’t accurately express its meaning due to too few human language vocabulary it had learned.
Just as Su Ran was about to help it say the latter part, it seemed to finally sort out its thoughts, pointed at the nearby beastmen, and said: “Fire, eat meat!”
Su Ran was stunned for a moment, then reacted, looked at the werewolf, and nodded: “Mm, eat meat.”
Then she saw the werewolf grin foolishly, but as the werewolf turned to run off, Su Ran suddenly pulled it back: “Gray, fire, eat meat needs extinguishing.”
She added a rising-toned “wu?” at the end in the werewolf’s style.
Only after seeing the werewolf’s expression change from thinking to sudden realization, resolutely saying to her: “Fire, eat meat, extinguish fire!”, did she relax and let go, allowing the werewolf to run off to say something to the beastmen.
Soon after, the beastmen who heard the werewolf’s words all placed their prey on the ground and ran into the woods.
Su Ran was no longer surprised by the beastmen’s learning ability and comprehension; she stopped looking at the beastmen and turned back to sit on the river beach to continue cleaning the animal hide.
The dwarf deer didn’t look big, but once the animal hide was peeled off and spread out, the area wasn’t small.
Especially since Su Ran had no experience, she feared accidentally poking a hole in the fairly intact animal hide with the knife tip, so her cleaning progress was very slow.
While half of her animal hide wasn’t cleaned yet, the beastmen had already run back from the woods, returning just like that night, each either dragging a withered tree or carrying fruit and sweet leaf vein tree leaves.
On the wide river beach, more than a dozen campfires of various sizes soon rose up.
It was clear that the beastmen didn’t choose for everyone to make their own fire. Instead, they spontaneously formed groups with other beastmen, some handling prey, some erecting roast meat racks, and some adding fuel to the campfires.
On that night when they first ate roast meat, they had already observed Su Ran’s entire process from making fire and roasting meat to extinguishing fire.
So at this moment, although there was still some unfamiliarity in their first actual operation, they didn’t miss any key steps.
Su Ran processed the animal hide while occasionally observing the beastmen’s actions.
Most importantly, she had to watch that they didn’t let the fire burn beyond the campfire’s range.
Otherwise, here without help from the heavens, once a fire started, they could only watch the flames spread.
And it wasn’t even certain if there were heavens here.
After watching for a while, she stood up, took an empty basket, walked to the riverside, and picked some palm-sized stones.
She deliberately faced her body toward the river beach while bending over to pick stones, wanting the beastmen to see her action.
And facts proved that her every move now attracted the beastmen’s attention.
Seeing her picking stones here immediately drew most of the beastmen’s attention.
After finding dozens of stones, Su Ran stood up and shouted toward the werewolf who was diligently turning the roast beef on the branch: “Gray!”
When the werewolf looked over, she beckoned to it.
After the werewolf came over, she gestured for it to pick up the basket full of stones and walked with it to the campfire side.
A circle of small stones already surrounded their campfire, but the stones were too close and small around the campfire, and after several scorchings, they had become blackened.
Su Ran took out the large stones from the basket, directly encircled another ring of stones outside the small ones, then used a thinner-edged stone as a shovel to clean all the weeds around the campfire, and finally laid the remaining stones outside the newly encircled ring.
This way, as long as they didn’t foolishly take the flames out of the campfire, the fire inside the campfire shouldn’t be able to burn beyond the stones’ range no matter what!
After doing all this, Su Ran looked up at the surrounding beastmen, then hooked up the corner of her lip.
Sure enough, without her saying anything, the beastmen had already started to imitate her and go find stones.
While searching, they occasionally glanced at the basket by her and the werewolf’s side; clearly, this group had taken an interest in her basket.
