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Chapter 4

After leaving the tribe, Zhao Xuan grabbed his lover’s loincloth and pulled him onto his back to take a leisurely walk through the dense forest.

He was strong enough to destroy this planet, while here, he didn’t need to fear any danger, and naturally he didn’t need to ingratiate himself to a powerful backer.

Zhou Yun Sheng grabbed onto the lion’s outstanding long mane and muttered: “We landed in the wrong time period. We need the right time coordinates in order for the military to pick us up. The black hole explosion must have caused a huge disaster on this planet. This is an important clue.”

Zhao Xuan couldn’t give out any constructive opinions, except for some grunts. In fact, even if he could speak, he still wouldn’t be all that enthusiastic to help his lover investigate. He liked staying together. If they could wander the forest forever, no one else, only the two of them living together, that would be the ideal life.

Zhou Yun Sheng obviously noticed this too. He sneered and angrily tugged on the lion’s thick mane: “As long as I find a crater with traces of explosions, I can calculate the approximate time period according to the age of the layers. As for the specific date, I still need to ask the natives. If they’ve already invented written language, we can consult the history documents. But it’s my educated guess that they haven’t reached this degree of civilization yet, so we can only rely on asking an elder. That old shaman should know something, but he was quite hostile to us, so he probably won’t help. Walk around, let’s hope there’s another tribe in the vicinity.”

Zhao Xuan pretended that he heard nothing. He found a cave nearby and roared to drive away the beast inside, intending to settle down.

“You’re so stubborn, don’t you want to go back?” Zhou Yun Sheng crossed his arms and scowled at the big lion.

Zhao Xuan shook his thick mane and snorted, his eyes pleading. Zhou Yun Sheng’s heart softened at the sight of his emotional eyes. He pinched his ear and sighed: “Fine, have it your way, we’ll stay here until we get bored, then leave.”

Zhao Xuan’s dropping ears immediately perked up. Sitting on hind legs, he lifted his two front paws onto his lover shoulders, sticking out his tongue to lick his handsome face. His cheerful emotions were expressed without words, his big tail sweeping back and forth, leaving deep grooves in the stone walls, pebbles forming a wave.

“Okay okay, stop fooling around, let’s tidy up our cave and go hunting.” Zhou Yun Sheng covered his mouth and nose, his expression disgusted, but his eyes were clearly smiling.

“Grrr!” Zhao Xuan growled and swept the dirt out of the cave.

In order to avoid attracting outsiders, he didn’t dare use spiritual power to cut out furniture beyond the native’s history, such as stone tables, stone beds, stone pots, etc. This was a violation of interstellar law. So, they could only cut a block of rock in the deepest part of the cave, and cover the flat surface with soft, silky weeds to be a mattress.

Zhou Yun Sheng swept out the cobwebs on the cave walls and picked out a special flower that could drive away snakes, rats, and other vermin, planting it by the cave entrance. The fresh and elegant floral fragrance immediately replaced the rancid smell that permeated the air.

“Okay, time to hunt.” He patted the dust off his loincloth and walked out.

Zhao Xuan also followed behind, his mouth opened wide, huffing and puffing, helping blow away the dust that stuck to his lover’s rump. At the end, he sneakily licked his lover’s inner thigh.

“Behave.” Zhou Yun Sheng stomped on the big lion’s paw.

Zhao Xuan still didn’t give up, he lowered his snout, wanting to drill between his lover’s thighs, when Zhou Yun Sheng grabbed his neck and stopped him in his tracks.

After punishing the big lion, Zhou Yun Sheng finally felt refreshed and stepped out into the dusky primordial forest.

Zhao Xuan moved to keep up, but then took a few steps before turning back, picking up his hind leg and sprinkling a circle of urine along the cave. The transformation pill had some advantages. Not only was his shape exactly the same as the natives, even their instincts were completely copied. This act of territory claiming was the inheritance of all male lions.

After spraying the urine, Zhao Xuan showed a satisfied expression. But when he caught sight of his lover standing a few feet away, his mouth twitching, he immediately froze. To think that he would do such an embarrassing act, the image of an extraordinary super soldier had been destroyed in an instant. He was mortified.

Can time flow in reverse? His head hanging low, he gloomily walked forward without a sound. After walking a few meters away, he heard his lover break out into hearty laughter. Turning around, he saw that his eyebrows were raised, his eyes bright, and his cheeks were pinked with an attractive flush. Extremely beautiful.

Zhao Xuan loved this appearance the most. As long as he looked this happy every day, what was a little humiliation worth? The previous embarrassment immediately disappeared. Zhao Xuan happily trotted back to his lover’s side and circled him a few times. Then he grabbed his loincloth and pulled him onto his back. Letting out a roar, he ran forward. The wind pushed back mane and hair, but it couldn’t drown out the love plainly expressed in their eyes.

“Ah, there’s a large beast coming, everyone hide!” Not far away, a group of females who’d ventured out to pick wild fruits heard the lion’s roar and immediately climbed up a tree, clenching their spears and preparing for attack. The male beastkin who were guarding them concealed themselves in the bushes, staring in the direction of the footsteps.

The “crack” of branches snapping drew closer, but a clear laughter accompanied it, causing one in the group to relax.

“Not a beast, it should be the female and his partner who just left.” Someone said timidly.

“Xiao Anchun, how do you know?” a female hiding in the same tree asked quietly.

The person called Xiao Anchun was the female who had previously pleaded for the Zhou couple. Because his build was too small, everyone had forgotten his original name, and he was only known by this nickname “Xiao Anchun”.

Xiao Anchun looked at the other man with resentful eyes and said, “I remember his voice.”

That voice that could make people’s ears pregnant, you mortals couldn’t understand.

The group’s anxious expressions relaxed slightly. After waiting for a little while, a golden lion leapt through the air and ran towards the depths of the forest. Even though it noticed the group hiding here, it didn’t even glance in their direction. His long, thick tail swung in the air, breaking apart the giant two-meter-thick tree. The giant tree trembled and collapsed with a terrifying noise. The females hiding in the foliage screamed and jumped down, then they quickly fled in the opposite direction of the collapse, only seeking to preserve their lives.

Xiao Anchun stared at the broken tree stump. After a long time, he spit out two words full of meaning: “WTF, awesome!”

There was the roar of wild beasts in the depths of the forest, accompanied by the sound of more trees collapsing. If you got closer, you would find a golden lion fighting with a giant bear. Although the lion was two meters high and huge, his opponent was even bigger. When it stood up, it was easily four or five meters tall. It was covered with bulging muscles and thick fur.

The two beasts wrestled together, bumping into the surrounding trees and smashing them into pieces. Each collapsed one by one, making deafening sounds. Countless birds flew into the sky, and the beasts nearby also fled. Only a female beastkin sat cross-legged on top a huge rock nearby, resting his chin on his hands and looking at the fight in boredom.

The fight had already lasted for nearly an hour, even though it was obvious that he could kill the prey in one bite. But Zhao Xuan insisted on patiently playing with the opponent, who knew what he was thinking. Zhou Yun Sheng squinted, vowing in his heart to give this stupid lion five more minutes. If he didn’t kill it in five minutes, he would do it himself.

What was Zhao Xuan thinking? Of course, it was courtship.

Showing off heroic hunting abilities in front of females was undoubtedly the most well-known means of attracting a mate in the animal world. He couldn’t kill the bear instantly in one hit, he had to show off his strength to his lover, so he could love him a bit more every day.

Eventually, Zhou Yun Sheng also noticed the stupid lion’s intentions, and his bored expression turned into a faint smile. He saw the lion leap onto the back of the giant bear, clearly able to bite into its neck, but the lion performed a flashy 360-degree flip instead, swiping off a strip of flesh from the bear, and using his thick tail to sweep its legs. The giant bear stumbled a few meters and slammed into a huge cedar tree that would need ten people to encircle.

Then the lion stopped attacking and walked over with a graceful, cat-like gait. He circled around the giant bear that was struggling to get up, wanting to continue the fight after it rolled up. This situation had already happened dozens of times. This pitiful giant bear was obviously so afraid that even its teeth trembled, but its pleading growls were being ignored by the other side. If it could speak, then it would be kowtowing in front of Zhao Xuan, begging for mercy.

If you want to kill, why not do it right away, do you have to be so sadistic? Don’t play around at its expense, beasts also have feelings.

Zhao Xuan was very annoyed, he opened his ferocious looking mouth and roared at the cowering giant bear.

The beasts here were too weak, not worthy of being his opponents. He had to show off his majesty while hunting, but also restrain his strength to avoid killing the prey, this was also hard work, okay?

The giant bear buried its head in its front paws and groaned for mercy. All its bones were already broken, it really couldn’t fight any more. Seeking a quick death!

Zhao Xuan’s roar was getting louder and louder, apparently, he had completely lost his patience. Forget about the giant bear in front of him that was scared to the point of incontinence, even the beasts a hundred miles away were all intimidated by the roars of the beast king and were frantically fleeing to distant corners.

This place was originally the territory of the giant bear, but now it seems a new owner easily took over.

Zhou Yun Sheng saw that the stupid lion kept urging the giant bear to quickly stand up and fight again. He walked over a few steps, looking very irritated. He finally couldn’t help but laugh: “Okay, let this big guy go. Let’s look for other prey.”

This planet had throwback beasts. When they were born, they would immediately be abandoned by their communities and forced to wander the forest alone. But they retained their consciousness, they knew how to long for their tribe members, and also knew how to resent their tribe’s cold-bloodedness. Some grew old in solitude, and some went mad with loathing. But regardless of if they went berserk and became real beasts, they were all once creatures with thoughts and feelings.

Zhou Yun Sheng didn’t want to treat this creature as food, that would ruin his appetite.

This giant bear had some intelligence, he didn’t know whether it was a throwback beast, or a descendant of a throwback beast and a wild beast.

The giant bear seemed to understand his words. The pleading groans paused for a moment then became even more pitiful and animated. It spread its front paws and showed off its tearful, friendly eyes.

Zhou Yun Sheng smiled, and waved to the stupid lion: “Let’s go.”

Zhao Xuan swatted the head of the giant bear, then reluctantly followed his lover, also letting out a pitiful sound. “Grrr”, he used his big head to bump into his lover’s rump.

Zhou Yun Sheng pinched his ear and smiled: “My love, you were too fearsome. The bear was not your opponent.”

Seeing the stupid lion immediately raise his head and puff his chest in pride, he continued:  “It knows how to play dead, knows how to beg for mercy, and even knows how to act cute. It was very intelligent. I suspect that it’s either a throwback beast, or a descendant of a throwback beast. I don’t want to eat it, it’s no different than eating people. Let’s look again to see if there’s any real beasts we can hunt.”

Zhao Xuan shook his head and growled, expressing that it was difficult to distinguish throwback beasts from real beasts.

Zhou Yun Sheng hopped onto his back and settled down. His tone was very carefree: “If there’s no way to tell, then we just won’t eat beasts, we’ll only eat fish. There was a lake in the northeast, let’s go catch some fish.”

Zhao Xuan turned his head and licked his lover’s slender ankle hanging off the side of his body, then ran towards the northeast. As long as he could be with his lover, even if he had to chew grass every day, he had no complaints.

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T/N:

Xiao Anchun- means small quail

stupid lion- starting here, every time the lion is mentioned from ZYS’ perspective, it has the word stupid in front of it. I edited out some of the stupids when it ruined the mood.