Crossing To The Primitive With A Game Panel

Lu Yu casually lifted his eyelids to glance at him. He realized that the people here really liked to assign divine identities to others, just like the people in the Valley did before, calling him the Mother of the Earth…

Yin He’s exaggerated and dramatically changing attitude drew curiosity from the surrounding onlookers.

Is it really that delicious?

Although it looked decent, this white meat, with little oil, how tasty could it be?

They were skeptical.

Lu Yu didn’t care whether they believed it or not. He had no intention of stealing the limelight or trying to impress everyone with his culinary skills. He just wanted to make something delicious for his own people to eat.

Lu Yu distributed the crabs to the Matais and taught them how to eat them. Since the Matais couldn’t mimic Lu Yu’s skill in extracting crab meat, they just cracked them open and ate them.

The Matais loved meat and preferred to eat it in large bites, boneless if possible. When Lu Yu produced the crab meat, although they didn’t doubt Lu Yu’s skill, they thought there was too little meat to satisfy them. They believed grilled meat would be better. However, after they tasted the first bite of crab meat, all their doubts vanished, and they all buried their heads in cracking and eating the meat.

Yin He, watching beside them, was drooling.

Lu Yu handed him a small crab leg…

“Um, Lu Yu… I…”

Lu Yu snapped open a crab leg, and the plump white meat bounced in the air.

Yin He’s mouth kept watering, “I’ll trade you with fur…”

The unique aroma of the crabs permeated the air, arousing the appetite of the spectators, perhaps also due to seeing the Matais enjoy it so much. Finally unable to resist their curiosity about the taste, the onlookers began to echo Yin He.

“We want to trade too…”

“It looks quite delicious…”

“Sorry, no trades.” Lu Yu’s expression remained unchanged, his hands still busy. It had been a long time since he had tasted seafood, especially seafood produced in the pure and unpolluted seawater. Besides this reason, he didn’t feel obligated to indulge others.

However, there was one innocent and adorable child, biting his finger and silently watching them drool. The child’s demeanor reminded Lu Yu of Xiao Shui when he first arrived in Matai. Lu Yu handed him a few peeled crab legs and patted his head.

The people around, seeing that Lu Yu wouldn’t budge even after Yin He’s offer to trade with fur, someone snorted and said, “Isn’t it just steamed big bugs? If he won’t trade with us, we can make it ourselves.” This remark immediately reminded everyone of that possibility.

Yeah, they can go catch them themselves. These big bugs are everywhere by the seaside, and they’re not even aggressive. Why don’t they just do it themselves?

The crowd quickly dispersed to catch crabs. After catching them, they eagerly threw them into the stone pot to cook.

They didn’t add any seasoning, nor did they use desensitizing herbs like Lu Yu did, and they didn’t even bother to wash them properly. While everyone was busy cooking crabs, one person stood in front of Lu Yu.

Surprisingly, it was the person who came from the Three Great Tribes earlier. He was accompanied by two others, both of whom had a scar on their waist just like the first person, but they were even more robust, with muscles bulging like they had eggs stuffed in them, and veins popping out, looking somewhat terrifying.

Lu Yu’s eyes flashed with a hint of doubt.

Were the warriors of the Three Great Tribes too physically fit? What was with these guys looking like bodybuilders? Did the Three Great Tribes have some special training techniques?

“Can I exchange some of your food?” the initial person asked.

His demeanor was calm and devoid of any arrogance or the previous confrontation with Tai Lie. Lu Yu momentarily thought he had mistaken him for someone else; maybe he was a twin or something.

But everything, from his voice to his physical features, including his messy black hair, confirmed that he was indeed the same person as earlier.

Despite his small stature and a few acne on his face, he looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenager, and now, with this attitude, Lu Yu felt extremely awkward.

Lu Yu furrowed his brows, “The food we have is only enough for ourselves, so we won’t exchange.”

The muscular teenager remained expressionless, “We’ll give you not only fur but also meat.”

The person beside him unloaded the large grass basket he was carrying on his back and placed it in front of Lu Yu for him to see.

Inside were three pieces of fresh pig thighs, looking very fresh and with no strange smell. Even the fur on top had been removed, and the meat had been cleaned.

Lu Yu glanced at the strong man carrying the basket, whose face was similarly expressionless, but not as stiff as the teenager’s, just calm.

Lu Yu pondered for a moment, “How many do you want to exchange?”

The teenager replied, “Just ten.”

This was definitely a very profitable deal.

To be honest, the crabs he made only required a bit of seasoning, basically no cost at all. Getting so much meat and fur for free is like getting something for nothing.

Lu Yu’s expression relaxed a bit, and he asked quite considerately, “Just ten? These crabs may look big, but there’s not much meat on them. Ten won’t be enough for the three of you.”

He wanted to coax them a bit.

But the person in front of him didn’t seem to take the bait.

The teenager repeated, in a tone devoid of emotion, “Just ten.”

Lu Yu kindly reminded, “These things are easy to make, no need to exchange with me. Just go catch a few and steam them in a pot.”

“Is that so?” The teenager turned his head and looked around.

When he made this motion, his body remained motionless, and his head turned a full ninety degrees, like a stiff puppet.

Lu Yu’s palms sweated a bit.

By now, the crabs they had caught and cooked themselves were also out of the pot. But with their rough steaming method, one can imagine what they would turn out to be like.

Those crabs didn’t have the delicious aroma of the ones Lu Yu steamed, but instead gave off an indescribable fishy smell.

Lu Yu had spent a lot of seasoning and desensitizing herbs to remove this smell.

Those people were incredulous, thinking maybe it just smelled bad but tasted good. They broke off the crab legs, peeled out the meat inside, and eagerly stuffed it into their mouths.

They nearly broke their teeth on the sand!

Although the meat was tender and delicate, it had no flavor at all, like stuffing a bunch of rotten grass in their mouths.

What was this?!

The crowd was seriously doubting life.

The teenager slowly turned his head back, “I want ten.”

Lu Yu’s gaze swept around his face, not sure what he was thinking. Eventually, he nodded, “Okay.”

The teenager and the other person beside him also unloaded their baskets. The person placed his basket in front of Lu Yu. Inside were neatly stacked fur.

The teenager’s basket was empty, lined with clean large leaves.

Lu Yu said, “Take it yourself.”

The teenager took exactly ten crabs, without any picking, just from the top, and then placed them one by one into the basket.

After taking them, he nodded to the two people beside him, said nothing, and walked away without looking back, the two following closely behind him.

Xia Cao walked up to Lu Yu and whispered, “Should we…”

Lu Yu shook his head.

The Matais were too conspicuous, their physique, their colorful facial markings, all eye-catching. With so many pairs of eyes around, no matter how careful one was, they would still be noticed if they followed them.

Did the people from these three major tribes really just want his crabs because they were hungry? And that teenager had such a huge contrast before and after…

In the afternoon, Lu Yu and the others went to other lands again, seeing many strange things, but none of them were what Lu Yu needed. Because they only strolled on the beach for a while, without entering their cities; there were only a few people setting up stalls on the beach. But even so, it took up a whole afternoon.

As dusk fell, Lu Yu and the others didn’t plan to spend the night on the beach, so they headed back.

The Matais who stayed behind chattered, asking about their experiences during the day.

Lu Yu saw Tai Lie handling the Sakura wood they had exchanged today, and quietly sneaked into the wooden hut like a guilty thief.

He didn’t know what was going on with Tai Lie. Whether in the past or now, he had explained to him many times that he saw Cha Zhe as a homeless and pitiful child. But for some reason, Tai Lie seemed to be jealous of a child…

Lu Yu felt both amused and exasperated. Of course, Tai Lie was more important in his heart, but he couldn’t just ignore Cha Zhe. If only Cha Zhe could find his family here…

As Lu Yu thought about this, he walked to Cha Zhe’s grass bed.

The child was sleeping heavily, perhaps having a nightmare, with furrowed brows and sweat on his forehead, murmuring softly.

Seeing that he seemed very uncomfortable, Lu Yu quickly used the back of his hand to test his forehead temperature, fortunately, it was normal, with no fever.

Lu Yu took out a soft leaf from his ring, soaked it in some water, and wiped his face for him.

After just a few wipes, Cha Zhe suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils as silent as the depths of a dark forest, somewhat chilling.

Lu Yu was startled, and the leaf fell on his face, covering his gaze.

“Sorry, sorry.” Lu Yu picked up the leaf.

Cha Zhe’s eyes were moist, with some redness in the corners, looking pitiful. “Lu Yu, you’re back.”

Lu Yu paused for a moment.

But then he thought, this child’s tribe had experienced such things before, and he must have suppressed a lot of things in his heart. It was normal to have such eyes, maybe now, this was his way of pretending.

Lu Yu sighed in his heart and smiled, “I’m back. How are you? Hungry?”

Cha Zhe replied, “Hungry.”

“Don’t worry, I brought you something delicious.” Lu Yu took out a carefully wrapped leather package from his ring. Opening it revealed a layer of leaves, and inside was tender crab meat, peeled and dipped in sauce.

Under his tight protection, the crab meat was still warm.

Lu Yu handed it to him. “Eat.”

Cha Zhe glanced at him and lowered his head to eat.

Seeing him eat eagerly, like a starving squirrel, Lu Yu couldn’t help but nag, “Eat slowly, don’t rush. If you want to eat anything else, I’ll make it for you. Oh right, there’s also grilled meat outside. It’s time for you to grow taller, so eat more meat. Of course, you should also eat more greens, don’t learn from Shan Pu and the others…”

Cha Zhe didn’t speak, his eyes changed once again.

Filled with deep-seated longing.

I need to act faster, he thought.