novelraw Chapter 257: The Disgust is Real
Chapter 257: The Disgust is Real
Watching the way they were sizing each other up, Wu Yue felt strongly that this moment needed some background music.
As for what it should be...
’Just because I glanced at you in the crowd, your nose hair instantly caught my eye. I pray we never meet again, so from now on my meat will taste sweeter~’
Silently, they pulled the protruding blue tufts of fur from their nostrils. After looking at each other, they all ran over to the Salt Crystal Beasts whose fur had been plucked. Under the creatures’ terrified gazes, they pressed the nostril-stuffed fur right back onto them.
’Anyway, as long as it looks like it’s on their bodies, it should be fine.’
But then, a heart-wrenching scene for the Snow Tiger Beastmen unfolded. The Salt Crystal Beasts, which had looked utterly terrified just a moment ago, suddenly started shaking violently, looking for all the world like they were at a senior citizens’ disco.
Only after shaking off the blue fur the Beastmen had just pressed onto them did the Salt Crystal Beasts seem to heave a sigh of relief, sitting back down on the ground to continue gnawing on their ore.
Furthermore, they made sure to eat at quite a distance from the discarded tufts of fur.
’Hahahaha!’ Wu Yue inwardly howled with laughter.
’They’ve totally been rejected! Sticking fur that’s been up your nostrils back onto someone else—how is that polite?’
The Beastmen rubbed their noses awkwardly, giving Wu Yue sheepish grins.
Their silly expressions left her speechless. "You don’t need to worry. Meat cured with salt will be very salty, but it won’t have the taste of rot."
The Beastmen nodded, their beastly faces stern, but their eyes held a hint of sympathy as they looked at Wu Yue.
’Her previous tribe must have been too small to have any extra meat to store for winter. That’s probably why she doesn’t know what meat stored too long tastes like.’
Of course, Wu Yue didn’t notice the conflicted looks in the Beastmen’s eyes. She was a little nervous herself. ’I wonder if the cured meat was a success... What if it’s gone bad...’
Her eyes brightened. ’How could it possibly be rotten?’
’If it were really rotten, these Beastman Warriors with their keen sense of smell would have picked up the scent long ago.’
The Beastmen followed Wu Yue toward the corner where the cured meat was stored. The closer they got, the more astonished their faces became.
When the row of neatly hung cured meat came into view, the Beastman Warriors acted like people from a tiny tribe seeing a hoard of meat for the first time, and they swarmed forward.
One after another, they craned their necks, getting close to the cured meat and sniffing it incessantly.
"It really doesn’t smell!"
"Beast God! This meat has been stored for so long, yet it hasn’t spoiled in the slightest! There’s not even a hint of a bad smell!"
The commotion finally attracted the attention of the other Beastman Warriors.
They stomped over menacingly, intending to teach a lesson to the disobedient, howling warriors.
But when they saw the row of cured meat, which they had long since forgotten existed, their eyes widened in shock.
"This is the meat we cured before?"
With that, just like the warriors before them, they leaned in and took a deep sniff.
The next moment, a familiar scene played out. The chorus of howls and the eye-searing celebratory dance made the corners of Wu Yue’s mouth twitch violently.
’Is curing some meat really worth celebrating with an eye-searing dance and howls loud enough to pierce my eardrums?’
It wasn’t until a while later, when Yuan Lang returned from his patrol and gave each of them a swift kick, that the Beastmen finally quieted down. They squatted on the ground, covering their mouths and letting out suppressed chuckles.
Not wanting to bother with the Beastman Warriors, who had circled the meat and sniffed it at least a hundred times, Wu Yue and Yuan Lang simply picked up a meatier piece of cured meat and went elsewhere.