"Heh... let's continue!"
Listening to the faint sound of children bawling outside and He Yin's flustered scolding, Chiba shook his head and chuckled softly before turning his gaze back to the sheet of paper he was writing on.
These children had helped ease a great burden for them. Over the past five days, while food had been fairly sufficient, they were still living from one meal to the next. Especially these past two days, they had basically only caught two animals a day—wild rabbits, squirrels, or pheasants. For ten mouths, especially Zong Mi and Yu Ze, whose appetites had recently grown considerably, this amount of food was honestly only enough to make them mostly full. And it could only last until noon the next day. Even if it did last until noon, there was hardly any food left, just enough to stave off hunger.
Things had been going smoothly, but there was no guarantee that they would eat their fill. At most, they would not go hungry enough for it to affect their training.
But now, aside from whatever was caught in the traps, the children could also catch things themselves. Whether in the immediate sense or the long-term sense, that was highly significant.
After all, getting two prey animals from the traps every day was already considered smooth—exceptionally smooth, even.
But since they had caught too many animals around the abandoned town, the animals would gradually wise up. Based on the situation over the past few days, Chiba had already concluded that animals had begun occupying that abandoned town. After the humans who had once lived there disappeared, and after several rounds of testing, the animals had determined that the place was safe. That was why animals had been appearing there so frequently.
And if too many animals died