Falling into the Cretaceous

Chapter 86 Food Shortage

"Brother Ye, Cui Zhengxi took that dinosaur out. He said he was going to take it outside to cut some shrubs," Sergei said.

"Who did you go out with?"

Shen Ye frowned and asked, "It's only seven o'clock, why did he go out so early, and I didn't give that order?"

"It's Vivian," Sergei said.

Shen Ye was even more puzzled. Vivian had never participated in his reconnaissance and exploration team's affairs, and how could it be Vivian's turn to go out and cut bushes?

Even if Vivian really has to participate, she doesn't need to go out alone. Wouldn't it be safer to bring other people along?

This truly baffled Shen Ye.

At this moment, Cui Zhengxi and Vivian, riding on their tendon dragons, had arrived at the deep pit they had explored last time.

The tendon dragon in the deep pit was rotten and smelly, with swarms of flies flying around it. Its skin was covered with clusters of white fly eggs. There was no water in the pit. The mud and sand around the sphere had been washed to a deeper place by the rain, leaving only the pebbles on top.

"See that? That's it."

Cui Zhengxi said to Vivian.

As a physicist's assistant, Vivian is also a scientist herself, and she is full of enthusiasm and curiosity for this ultra-advanced technological product.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been tricked into coming out by Cui Zhengxi.

Cui Zhengxi said he was out harvesting shrubs and would also like to check out the sphere, which tricked Vivian into coming out.

"Why would this thing be in a pit like this? It's obvious you can't get in through the entrance," Cui Zhengxi said.

"This thing was transported here, probably because it compressed the space here. It will be very difficult for us to get it out. Even if we widen the pit, we still won't be able to put the rope down to tie it up."

Vivian shook her head and said.

"Is it possible that this thing is hollow?" Cui Zhengxi asked.

"That's hard to say. Their technology has exceeded the limits of what we can imagine. You mean you want to use buoyancy to push it down?" Vivian asked.

"Yes, if it's hollow, and if we can fill the space underneath with water, then when the river floods and comes here next time, we might be able to lift it up."

Cui Zhengxi nodded.

"That's a very clever method. You have to pick it up to study it; you can't see anything just by looking at it."

Vivian said.

"Is it possible that it requires some method or sound wave to activate, and the password is hidden in the words above?"

Cui Zhengxi asked.

"That string of coordinates is most likely the password, but the method to enter the password is hidden within those characters. We need to crack the characters above to find out how to enter the password."

Vivian said.

Cui Zhengxi nodded. He knew that he would have to find a way to get it out in the future.

Otherwise, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

As for waiting for the next wormhole to appear, he felt that the black sphere in front of him was more practical.

"Forget it, we can't figure anything out for now. I'll go harvest some bushes and take them back. You can keep watch on the surroundings for me on Dragon Ridge," Cui Zhengxi said to Vivian.

Vivian nodded.

Cui Zhengxi led the tendon dragon to the nearby bushes, took out a large, sharpened engine fan blade, which was essentially a large machete.

The survivors have been using it for the past few days.

Cui Zhengxi moved quickly, cutting down tender branches with each stroke of his knife. However, he was also careful to be safe, and would first use his spear to probe the areas where he needed to cut, in case any West Claw Dragons were hiding inside and suddenly jumped out to grab his face.

Although that thing isn't particularly dangerous, if you bend over and it grabs you while you're cutting something down, it could potentially tear your eyes out.

Besides some shrub shoots, ferns and needles were also plants that these dinosaurs liked to eat.

An adult Maiasaura can eat 90 kilograms of plants a day. A Tentacostomus, which is much smaller than a Maiasaura, can still eat 50 kilograms of plants.

The three dinosaurs together consumed a staggering 190 kilograms of plants a day, which is truly astonishing.

If you rely solely on manual labor, you can't harvest that many in a day.

Cui Zhengxi didn't plan to harvest that much at once; she only planned to harvest 90 kilograms and then go back, leaving the rest to others.

The most important thing about my trip was to let Vivian see this, and also to get to know her better, because it might come in handy in the future.

Two hours later.

Choi Jung-seok and Vivian finally returned from outside.

Tendon Dragon had two large bundles of shrubs and ferns tied to his back; he had walked back, while Vivian sat on his back.

Choi Jung-seok's gentlemanly behavior made Vivian feel even more favorably toward him.

At that moment, Shen Ye and Zhou Jian walked over.

Zhou Jian was the first to step forward.

"Old Cui, what are you doing? We agreed to go out and release the dragon together, but you went out to cut grass all by yourself. That's so disloyal!" Zhou Jian said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Miss Vivian just wanted to see the black ball, so I took her there. You weren't up yet, and I figured I'd be back soon anyway, so I didn't wake you."

Cui Zhengxi touched his nose and smiled.

Zhou Jian glanced at Vivian and noticed that the science student seemed a little shy, which immediately made him think of something else.

"I didn't realize you'd taken a liking to that girl so quickly! Impressive!" Zhou Jian patted Cui Zhengxi on the shoulder.

Cui Zhengxi realized that she had been misunderstood.

However, no explanation was given.

Upon hearing this, Shen Ye also looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

"Don't do that again next time. It would be such a waste if you lost your life!"

Shen Ye said.

Faced with Shen Ye and Zhou Jian's concern, Cui Zhengxi felt a pang of guilt, thinking about her selfish thoughts.

However, no matter how guilty he felt, he couldn't joke about his daughter's future. He couldn't let his daughter live in such an environment for the rest of her life.

"Okay, I understand."

Cui Zhengxi nodded.

Shen Ye ordered his men to remove the plants from the tendon dragon's body.

Most of these plants were ferns, so even when they were bundled together, they still looked like a large clump. Sergei and a few of his companions dragged the bundles of plants to the dinosaur enclosure and dismantled them.

Soon, the entire floor of the shed was covered with a green blanket.

Because his right hand and right foot were shackled together, the savage could not move at all. He could only move his buttocks inside and move his body to the very edge to avoid being accidentally crushed by the dinosaur.

Shen Ye went inside and personally unlocked the savage's handcuffs.

Then, by the rope on his collar, they led him out of the dinosaur enclosure.

The savage walked with his back bent. Yesterday, when he walked like this, his hands were still cuffed, but now Shen Ye had given him appropriate freedom.

It was also an attempt to test the extent of his submission.

Those around Shen Ye were worried for him, knowing that the wild man's hands had claws, and loosening his grip like that was extremely dangerous.

However, what everyone feared did not happen.

Everyone couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

Only Shen Ye knew that every step he took was a psychological preparation for the savage, a step-by-step process of enslaving him, and not a reckless act.

"Ah K, Boo-ku!"

Shen Ye said to the savage.

The savage immediately obeyed the order and took off the only animal skin he was wearing.

Some of the women around turned away in embarrassment.

But some bold women stared at her with curiosity.

Shen Ye wasn't doing this to satisfy the women's curiosity; instead, he grabbed a pair of black casual pants and threw them over.

"A-K! U-Ku!"

Shen Ye made a gesture of bringing his hands together towards the center of his body.

The savage then understood what it meant.

He picked up the black pants on the ground and looked at them again and again. Shen Ye brought him a pair of the same pants and taught him how to wear them.

Soon, the savage put on trousers.

This is to give the other person a stronger sense of recognition of their movements, not to make them look good.

The same clothing style can strengthen organizational identity and eliminate cognitive load and class anxiety. Of course, some differentiation must be maintained, which means not letting him wear a shirt, so that he constantly remembers that he is a slave.

The same method was also used on slaves during the Roman period.

After completing this step, Shen Ye gave the savage a piece of meat and a small cup of water to drink.

Shen Ye doesn't plan to handcuff the savage today.

He needed to start getting the other party to obey his orders and do simple things, such as gathering firewood and cleaning up the camp.

After you finish doing something, you get a small piece of meat.

Like training a dog.

However, unlike dog training, this involves some psychological techniques.

Shen Ye's actions today truly shocked the survivors to the point of utter astonishment. For those of them who didn't understand psychology, Shen Ye's current behavior was undoubtedly like having a cheat code.

In particular, Shen Ye was able to communicate with the wild man.

You can command him to do things using the language of savages.

It was as if he himself understood the language of the savages; all of this was as magical as magic to the survivors.

In fact, this is all due to the power of knowledge.

Shen Ye has now recorded more than three hundred words of the wild man's language in his notebook.

That's not enough. Shen Ye also needs to learn how to communicate with the savages through traps. So he has to do some trap simulations to gradually let the savages understand his meaning and constantly explore new vocabulary.

This is quite an interesting thing for a paleontology enthusiast.

Therefore, Shen Ye enjoyed it immensely.

Clothes washed by the rain were drying in the camp, and now they were all dry. Men and women took in their own clothes to prevent others from taking them, since there were no more clothes to add now.

Each piece of clothing is extremely precious.

Many people write their names or make marks on their clothes.

After lunch, Lin Ruochu found Shen Ye.

Shen Ye was smoking a cigar at the moment, and he had already handcuffed Wildman K back to the C-shaped cabin.

"Mr. Shen, the tree pith is almost used up. At the latest, we can only eat it until noon tomorrow."

17

Lin Ruochu said to Shen Ye with some shame.

After all, she knew that the food issue was not only Shen Ye's responsibility, but also the responsibility of her food collection team. It was irresponsible to ask him for food when there wasn't any, but she really couldn't solve the food problem for so many people.

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