Surviving in the Beast World with a System

Chapter 441 - 365: Making More Contributions

’Being envied feels so damn good.’

Seeing the smug smile on their witch’s face, the two Half beastman Warriors who had taken care of her for years instantly had a good idea of what she was thinking.

When Teng Qian and Teng Kun heard they were going to build inns and shops, their eyes instantly lit up.

After discussing the matters that needed to be handled in the near future, everyone left for home.

The next day, the Clan Leader selected some more strong females to make unfired bricks and tiles.

However, these unfired bricks and tiles weren’t for them to build their own houses. Instead, after being fired, they were all transported to an empty plot of land some distance from the tribe’s center.

Males were already waiting there and began to construct simple, one-room houses.

Each house had only a single kang-style heated bed, a window, and a door, with nothing else inside.

Afterward, the females who didn’t need to go out to gather were given the task of weaving straw mats. For each mat they wove, they could exchange it for a piece of meat from a Beastman designated to collect them.

The Pure Human females all sprang into action.

Even some of the slaves would use their rest time to cut grass for weaving. After one trembling female slave successfully traded a mat for a piece of meat, the slaves’ rest breaks grew even shorter.

To Wu Yue’s surprise, the sturdy-looking Qinghua turned out to be a master craftswoman. She would collect the waste bricks and tiles discarded by the Beastmen, then grind them into all sorts of beautiful shapes.

Some looked like leaves, others like flowers; they were quite lovely.

Many females loved them upon seeing them and came to trade household items for them.

Qingcao even brought over a polished piece of pottery that looked very similar to her System. Although it was a bit abstract, it had the general shape down.

Wu Yue happily accepted it, but the chubby System was quite displeased. ’This weird thing with one eye bigger than the other... how does that look like me at all?’

The foundational construction of the Snow Tiger Tribe was gradually progressing, and one beautiful little courtyard after another began to spread throughout the tribe.

Everyone built their courtyards in the style of the Clan Leader’s and Wu Yue’s, but the interiors of each were different.

Tribe members who liked flowers picked many to place in their courtyards. They looked beautiful on the first day, but by the second, they had all drooped and withered.

Some tribe members went out of their way to the riverbank to select stones they liked and used them to pave their courtyards.

Although the layout of everyone’s courtyard was the same, each had its own unique character due to the different tastes of its owner.

But what made the tribe members most proud was the sacrificial altar in the center of the tribe, designed and built by Wu Yue and Yuan Lang.

The great altar in the center was as tall as three houses. A long, brick-paved staircase led straight to the very top—a place only the witch was permitted to ascend.

On each level below were many pillars as tall as a Beastman’s leg, with places on top to hold kindling. During ceremonies, the kindling inside would be lit, making the scene even more magnificent and awe-inspiring.

Directly opposite the altar was the tribe’s main gate.

Of course, there was nothing there for now.

Three days after the altar’s completion, another event occurred that shocked the entire tribe: the taro Wu Yue had planted was ripe.

In the morning, the slaves went to take their shift tending the taro field as usual, but one of them cried out in terror, "The... the ground is cracking open!"

Hearing this, the other slaves jolted. They quickly threw down the weeds in their hands and ran toward the one who had shouted.

They saw him standing there, his face pale, pointing at a large crack that had opened up in the ground ahead.

Chang Ye was alerted, but even he didn’t know what was causing it.

In the end, he had no choice but to go find Wu Yue.

’The taro field is cracking open?’

Wu Yue had never heard of such a thing, so she quickly followed Chang Ye and ran toward the field.

However, when she saw the familiar-looking things in the crack, Wu Yue’s heart filled with excitement.

"Chang Ye, quick, dig up the spot where it cracked."

Seeing that Wuyue didn’t blame them, the slaves instantly felt a wave of relief. There was no need for Chang Ye to do it himself; several slaves standing by rushed forward and quickly dug open the cracked earth.

As the earth was dug away, the taro underneath was revealed. The enormous taro were as long as a female’s arm.

"They’re huge!"

Wu Yue was stunned! The surrounding slaves were stunned too!

When these taro had been planted, the largest ones were only the size of a male’s palm, but the one they just dug up...

"This is a good thing! The taro are ripe. We can harvest them."

News that the taro was ripe spread through the entire tribe in an instant, and tribe members flocked to help with the digging.

Looking at the large taro in their hands, each as long as their own arm, the smiles never left the females’ faces. Wu Yue said the taro could be planted one more time, and this time, they wanted to plant them too.

With all this taro, would they still need to worry about going hungry in the winter?