Little Female, Did You Hunt This?
Feng Rumeng knew her father's daughter. She was Liu Ruyuan, from the class across the hall.
She looked somewhat like Feng Rumeng. A classmate had once joked, "Could you two be sisters who were separated years ago?"
Later, during an activity class, Liu Ruyuan had approached her and said she knew who she was, then flaunted how loving her parents were and how much her father loved her. Feng Rumeng ignored her. Talking to someone like that would lower her IQ.
When Liu Ruyuan saw Feng Rumeng ignoring her, she made even more of a scene.
Feng Rumeng smiled. "What does a homewrecker's daughter have to be proud of? Does it run in the family?"
Liu Ruyuan grew angry and threatened to ruin Feng Rumeng's reputation and find someone to finish her off.
Someone who couldn't stand Liu Ruyuan deliberately escalated the matter until it reached the dean.
Liu Ruyuan's mother stormed into the office in limited-edition high heels, her indignant voice loud enough for the whole building to hear.
Feng Rumeng's advisor had been her mother's college classmate, and the two had always been close. A homewrecker had wrecked her advisor's marriage, too.
Liu Ruyuan's mother stayed in the office for half an hour and got a thorough soaking in the advisor's erudition. She left looking thoroughly bedraggled.
Feng Rumeng smiled in disdain. The man who was her father in name had come to snatch her spot like a robber, all for a homewrecker's daughter who was two days older than she was!
Did she have any relationship with him? He hadn't raised her for a single day or given her a single cent. He'd only come to manipulate her for the homewrecker's child.
Of course she refused to give it up. Her father pulled out a cigarette and held it between his lips, remaining silent for quite a while. Furious, he said before leaving that he would consider it as though he'd never had a daughter like her.
She sneered, as if she wanted to acknowledge him as her father.
That man had also had a hand in her fall from the cliff. She had just arrived at the meeting point designated by the Supernatural Academy when her father and Liu Ruyuan showed up with a crowd of people.
Feng Rumeng hadn't expected the man to be worse than a beast. She knew martial arts, but those dozen or so men were clearly trained fighters too, and they all carried clubs.
Her mother's divorce from that man really was the best decision she had ever made in her life.
After a few minutes of fighting, a huge bird with a three-meter wingspan suddenly swooped at her and knocked her off the cliff with its wings.
The moment she fell, she saw a man sitting on the giant bird.
That man was Wang Feng, the heir to the Wang Group. He had once bet several other rich young masters that he could make her crawl into his bed of her own accord for a million.
Feng Rumeng ignored him, and Wang Feng felt he had lost face, so he often made things difficult for her.
She had wondered how her father and Liu Ruyuan had dared to attack her openly on Supernatural Academy grounds. It turned out Wang Feng was backing them.
"Rumeng, are you in your cave?" By the time Jianyue's voice reached Feng Rumeng's ears, it was already evening.
Feng Rumeng woke with a start, her chest heaving. She wiped the sweat from her forehead. She had just relived the terror of falling off the cliff in her dream.
"I'm here, Jianyue."
"Wait a moment, I'll put on my animal hide." Feng Rumeng changed out of her soaked clothes and made her way to the entrance with a hand against the cave wall. When she opened the door, she saw Jianyue holding steaming roast meat.
"Jianyue, you're here."
Jianyue looked at her pale face. "What's wrong, Rumeng? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I had a nightmare. It scared me, but I've recovered now." Feng Rumeng stepped aside to let Jianyue in.
Jianyue didn't go inside. She handed the meat to Feng Rumeng. "It's brushed with insect honey. It's very sweet. Try it."
Feng Rumeng took a bite. "Wow, it has a sweet, floral fragrance."
Jianyue smiled. "If you like it, I'll have Hu Feng roast some more tomorrow."
Feng Rumeng took another bite. "Then sorry for the trouble, Jianyue."
"No need to be so polite with me." Jianyue patted her shoulder. "I'm going. Call me if you need anything."
"Mm." After Jianyue left, Feng Rumeng shut the door, ate the roast meat, drank some water, and went back to sleep.
The next day, she got up early, washed, and ate. She wanted to see whether the trap had caught anything, but when she reached it, she didn't go down right away.
Feng Rumeng stood in a tree, looking at the beasts struggling in the trap below.
She had tidied up her space thoroughly and freed up quite a bit of room. Beneath the shelves, there was enough space for four animals the size of cows.
There were two animals in the trap that she didn't recognize. They looked like both sheep and pigs, but judging by their teeth, they were probably herbivores. They were a little bigger than the rabbits beside them and had presumably fallen in by accident.
She listened to her surroundings for a while and, hearing nothing suspicious, climbed down.
Feng Rumeng took out the black panther's claw, cut off a tree trunk, and tied the claw to it with vines. Then she stabbed it toward the neck of one of the beasts.
The beast in the trap struggled violently from the pain. She held it down with all her strength, while the other beasts, seeing what had happened, tried to jump out in terror.
Feng Rumeng waited until the beast stopped breathing, then repeated the process and quickly dealt with the others.
After putting the prey into her space, she used soil from the side to cover the blood, placed half a sausage inside, and covered the top of the trap with dead leaves again.
At the stream, she prepared the prey as usual, caught a few fish, tied them together with vines, and took them to the venomous snake.
As she stood up, she noticed a particularly thin, small, square piece of stone. She picked it up, washed it clean, and stored it in her space to use for roasting meat later.
When she reached the venomous snake, he was still there.
Seeing Feng Rumeng had come again, Ling's vertical pupils softened considerably this time, though he said nothing.
In his world, no female other than his mother had ever given him food, including Lan. Lan only ever asked him for things.
He had nothing a female could want from him. If she gave him food, he would eat it.
After feeding the venomous snake, Feng Rumeng headed toward the tribe. On the way back, she began gathering dead branches. She collected a great many, bundled them with vines, and carried them back to the tribe on her back.
When people in the tribe saw her, no beastman came forward to help. Those with females wouldn't help, mated males were even less likely to, and those without females were even less willing, because once they helped, other females would look down on them, making it hard to find a mate.
Feng Rumeng, of all people, was ugly, skinny, weak, and unable to bear offspring, so even fewer were willing to help. Some even found a single glance at her enough to put them off their food.
Some even jeered and mocked her, saying she deserved it.
Feng Rumeng paid no attention to any of the looks or cruel words and carried the dead branches back to her cave.
In the cave, she put the branches away, rested for a while, and took out the stone slab. She fried a few slices of fish on it, and after eating, evenly smeared soot from the bottom of the pot onto the animal hide. Then she slept for a while before going outside the tribe to gather more dead branches.
She made many trips back and forth with loads on her back. Once dead branches filled half the cave, she looked at the firewood with a radiant smile. "This should be enough to keep a fire burning every day through the depths of winter, right?"
She chose a time when the tribe's beastmen were making dinner and carried the unfamiliar prey to the witch doctor's cave.
"Witch Doctor Aima, I'd like to trade for some more antidote pills." Feng Rumeng put the prey down.
Aima stared at the Kaka Beast, her eyes widening. "Little female, did you hunt this?"