Chapter 447 - 148: [Revenge] (7200)
Chapter 148 [Vengeance] (7200)
Chen Yan "interrogated" the Wooden Bowl.
To say it was an interrogation isn’t quite accurate, because Chen Yan wasn’t particularly inclined to be harsh on this female monster who had once let him off the hook.
Moreover, the Wooden Bowl didn’t really require interrogation... She wasn’t very smart, quite silly and naive. Basically, whatever Chen Yan asked, she answered.
The Wooden Bowl told Chen Yan the reason she was in the forest was simple: she had been exiled from the village.
This was a severe punishment.
Because of Chen Yan’s escape—more accurately, because Chen Yan and Du Li escaped together—and most critically, because Du Li used a Flying Sword during the escape!
This changed its nature completely.
From a simple instance of slave escape to an enemy infiltration event.
A slave entering the village with a Flying Sword isn’t a slave, but an enemy scout, a recon...
And since Chen Yan escaped with Du Li, he too was certainly considered as one.
—This is the monsters’ logic.
Then, being Chen Yan’s "Slave Master," the Wooden Bowl needed to take responsibility.
The punishment she received was: all her private property was confiscated, and she was banished from the village!
Chen Yan nodded upon hearing this. No wonder when he was reconnoitering last time, lurking outside the village for two days, he didn’t see the Wooden Bowl.
This female monster had been driven out of the village.
It’s quite laughable to say.
In the Fierce Beast Race, the loyal and honorable family of the Wooden Bowl was stripped of all assets and exiled for mistakenly accepting a slave of unknown origin.
Of course, they still left her a way to survive.
During the Wooden Bowl’s exile, she was allowed to take food from her home and a weapon, namely, an axe.
The exile period was one year!
If, after one year, the Wooden Bowl could survive in the forest without dying,
wasn’t eaten by wild beasts, wasn’t frozen by the cold, didn’t starve to death...
Then after one year, it would be considered that she had completed her punishment and could return to the tribe.
This is a traditional rule of the tribe.
Chen Yan asked the Wooden Bowl a question: "Has anyone else endured this exile punishment before? How many people managed to survive the year and return to the tribe?"
"......"
The Wooden Bowl shook her head, blinking dumbly and blankly at Chen Yan.
But she then expressed to Chen Yan that she was confident she could endure the year and return to the tribe.
Alright then...
Chen Yan felt he should have no expectations regarding the intellect of his Slave Master.
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The poor Wooden Bowl had been in the woods for many days...
After all, she was only ten years old.
The Fierce Beast Race had strong constitutions, but their lifespan wasn’t much different from humans.
A ten-year-old girl, though belonging to the Fierce Beast Race known for savagery and slaughter, in her young age, faced with fear and confusion after being exiled, didn’t dare to venture far, thus she had been wandering near the tribe for these past few days.
She had tried to chop wood, but the tribe wouldn’t accept her timber—as an exiled monster, she couldn’t obtain any supplies from the village, not even through trade.
She had attempted to hunt, but in this freezing season, there were hardly any beasts to find.
Moreover, the ten-year-old Wooden Bowl clearly lacked hunting skills.
However, the Wooden Bowl, using her innate abilities from the Fierce Beast Race, found a hibernating beast’s den, killed the beast, and took over its den—the beast’s body became the Wooden Bowl’s food.
This reward allowed her to eat well for five days, hiding in the den to keep warm, spent five days in there.
The last time Chen Yan came to survey the terrain, the Wooden Bowl happened to be hiding in the beast’s den; otherwise, he might have encountered her when he was surveying outside the village.
But after the food ran out, the Wooden Bowl had no choice but to go out hunting again.
She had been wandering the woods for several days and, in search of food, had to venture further and further, eventually leaving her previous lair behind.
Before tonight, the Wooden Bowl got lost in the dense fog, she was cold and hungry, and then remembered there was a cave nearby, where her previously escaped slave had once hidden.
So the Wooden Bowl planned to sneak into this cave to keep out of the cold.
If she hadn’t met Chen Yan, the Wooden Bowl would probably have died... she hadn’t eaten for two days already.
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After clearing everything up, Chen Yan took out two bags of compressed biscuits and a stick of dried beef.
He didn’t untie the Wooden Bowl’s hands and feet but instead fed her the food, mouthful by mouthful.
"You’re lucky, and I am kind. You fed me those black balls back then, now I’m feeding you biscuits and beef. This is called repaying kindness with kindness."
When Chen Yan said these words, the Wooden Bowl couldn’t focus on understanding them, only staring intently at the food in Chen Yan’s hands, devouring it desperately bite by bite.
This bit of food was nowhere near enough to fill the Wooden Bowl, who was even taller and sturdier than Chen Yan.
But Chen Yan wouldn’t give her more—this place couldn’t open storage equipment, and all of Chen Yan’s supplies were carried in his backpack, so the capacity was limited.
After finishing the food, the Wooden Bowl finally regained some of her intellect—it seemed her brain had been frozen solid, making her modest intelligence even worse.
"Why are you still here? You didn’t run away?"
The Wooden Bowl looked at Chen Yan, then suddenly her expression changed: "You’re wearing clothes, and your belongings... you escaped, and then came back?"