Chapter 688: Encountering Fellow Townsmen

“You got hurt to this extent?” Liang Chen was shocked when she saw Yan Huan’s badly mangled back, “You’re a woman, why would you do this so callously?”

“Why can’t I?” Yan Huan lied down on her stomach and let the doctor deal with her wounds. “The one person who would love and care for me no longer exists anymore, so why does it matter anymore how I’d become?”

She was mocking and spurning herself. Acting was the only thing she could do at the moment, even with her life. She would rather be wounded with scars all over her body, so that she would forget another kind of pain while she dealt with this physical pain.

Liang Chen finally learnt how to climb a tree, and Yan Huan had finished filming a long scene too. She starred as a calm soldier in the series, like she was in the army, so it was kind of like her showing her true self in the series

She had gone through countless critical moments in life, putting her life at risk, but things had never really gone wrong. However, the young doctor by her side had been making some minor yet cute mistakes.

They were finally captured by a group of savages after going through several life-threatening situations.

“Hohoho...”

The savages were thumping their chests like a gorilla. They were naked on top, and their lower bodies were covered with animal pelts.

This is a tribe. Shi Jia thought about it and realized that these were all uncivilized ethnicities who had no idea what to do with her and Yao Xiaoyu. Everything was foreign to them, and they started to get nervous under such circumstances, in which both of them couldn’t handle.

Those people were speaking to each other in their own rough-sounding language. Shi Jia and Yao Xiaoyu could not even guess what they were saying, even if they spoke word by word.

“Do you think they are going to treat us like food? Rip us open and...”

She really could not utter the word ‘eat’. She used to love eating meat so much, but she never thought that she would become someone else’s meat on the dining table.

I hope that won’t happen!

“Maybe.” Shi Jia did not know what these people are up to, but Neanderthals were uncivilized, so they might treat both of them as food. Nevertheless, she had heard that a good number of primitive societies were matrilineal, in which women had higher social status than men. So, what she feared was not to be treated as food, but to be regarded as a tool to carry on the ancestral line and that she would have to give birth to babies one after another.

She quickly unleashed herself on the wrist, wondering if she had a chance to escape. It might not be hard for them to survive here, since they had been living here for more than a month. She only needed to find a good place where she could cultivate funguses, hunt and plant edible crops.

But the prerequisite would be that they could survive and get out of here.

At night, these people danced joyfully around a bonfire barefooted.

By that time, Shi Jia had already untied the rope around her wrist.

“You...” Yao Xiaoyu was just about to talk, and Shi Jia put her finger by her mouth to shush her. Yao Xiaoyu wittily shut her mouth and did not dare to speak anymore.

Shi Jia cut off the rope on Yao Xiaoyu with a little knife that she brought along with her. When they were just about to escape, they heard a loud noise.

A savage ran towards them hurriedly, shouting and pointing outside, but they could not understand what he was trying to say.

Shi Jia sensed that something was wrong, so she pulled Yao Xiaoyu aside with her and hid between the crevices of the rocks. There was just enough room for both of them to hide.

She covered Yao Xiaoyu’s mouth tightly to keep her silent.

After a short while, they heard the savages’ shouts, cries and collisions of objects that sounded like sharp weapons from the outside.

Was this a mere skirmish, or an all-out battle to win ownership of territories? The chaos lasted for nearly the whole night. The fire around the tribe was extinguished, but they could still smell blood in the air when daylight came.

“Someone is bleeding?” Yao Xiaoyu asked in a whisper.

“I know, and it’s probably more than one person.” Shi Jia pushed Yao Xiaoyu backwards and said, “You stay here, and I will go out and take a look.”

Yao Xiaoyu pointed at herself and shrunk herself into the crevices obediently.

“Erm, get back as fast as you can, I’m scared,” her lips was trembling and she almost fainted.

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Shi Jia remained silent. The only thing she did was taking out her knife and walked out.

There was indeed a fierce battle that had occurred out there, as they expected. There were dead bodies and injured people all around. The food and women were all gone, and only grown up men were left. The savage who brought them back here was dead too.

She kicked the motionless form of the savage who captured them. He was utterly dead.

“Hmm, let’s see. There are still two women here, where were you earlier?”

This voice? Shi Jia’s pupils contracted. She turned around and saw a man wearing an animal leather pelt walk in. The man was tall and dark, but was slightly fairer than the savages here, and certainly more civilized. At the very least, he looked clean, and his hair was tidied. Despite that, he still looked weird because he was not barefooted. Instead, he was wearing a pair of strange-looking shoes that did not look refined at all, but you could still call it a pair of shoes.

The man was examining Shi Jia too, and Shi Jia was staring back at him with the same gaze.

The man’s gaze shifted from Shi Jia’s face to her feet, and noticed her high heels without the heels.

“Where are you from?”

Shi Jia pursed up her red lips and said, “The 21st century.”

All of a sudden, the man smiled, tears welling in his eyes.

“Oh, my fellow townsmen!” He extended his arms, trying to hug her as he uttered.

Yan Huan blocked his arms and hollered for Yao Xiaoyu to come out. Yao Xiaoyu climbed out from the crevice and ran behind Shi Jia, only sticking her head out from behind.

“Another fellow townsmen,” the man said as he smiled happily. He wiped his tears and said, “Excuse me, I am just too excited. I have been here for five years, until I meet both of you today. If you never came, I might even forget how to talk anymore.”

They arrived at a new tribe after a while.

Shi Jia noticed that this place was much better than the normal ones out there, and she supposed that all of this was their new fellow townsman’s effort. The inside of the tribe was built with massive rocks, and they had also cultivated some unused land. Everything in here showed some signs of modern management. The inside of the caves were smooth and flat, with some stone stoves, tables, chairs, etc... in it, looking so much better than the bear men’s tribe.