“No need, you all sleep. I'll do the night watch.” Xiao Jinyue said.
These words made the four males look over in astonishment.
A female doing the night watch? There had never been such a rule!
No matter whose family it was, it was always the Beast Husbands who took turns on night watch, while the females only needed to rest well.
This was because the females' physiques were not as good as the males', they were more delicate and needed sufficient sleep.
Moreover, it was too inefficient for them to do the night watch. If they really encountered an attack, they couldn't attack immediately and had to wake up the Beast Husbands.
Of course, there were also females with higher status, so they didn't need to do these things.
“You? No, no, let us do it. You don't need to do these things.” Shan Chong frowned.
“That's right, why should you do the night watch? We are here, you just need to sleep well.” Bing Yan also said anxiously.
Lin Ye also looked disapproving.
“It's not that I don't want you to do it, but I don't sleep at night anyway.” Xiao Jinyue said, “I need to meditate at night, which can strengthen my body, and I can just do the night watch at the same time.”
She had also thought about whether to hide this from them and not cultivate tonight, but sleep well first.
But after thinking about it, there was no need.
Cultivation wasn't something shameful, and besides, if she hid it this time, what if something happened again in the middle of the night next time, wouldn't she have to give up cultivation again?
She was too weak now, cultivation was the most important thing for her, she needed to seize all the time to catch up.
Otherwise, in this Beast World where Filth Beasts ran rampant and Wild Beasts were everywhere, she didn't know when she would die.
However, the word cultivation was too unfamiliar to them, Xiao Jinyue didn't want to bother explaining too much, so she used the excuse of strengthening her body to gloss it over.
The four of them were puzzled after hearing this, and wanted to persuade her again, but Xiao Jinyue was very persistent.
Seeing that they really didn't dare to feel at ease letting her do the night watch, she simply left a sentence: “Then do as you please, you watch your watch, I'll meditate mine.”
After saying that, she sat cross-legged and cultivated on her own.
Not sleeping well, but sitting cross-legged? Is she going to sit like this all night?
Won't her legs go numb?
Shan Chong and the other two first stared at Xiao Jinyue, then looked at each other, feeling it was strange.
“You two sleep too.” Huo Yu said.
“Okay, then you watch the first half of the night, I'll watch the second half.” Lin Ye said.
The only one who could fight among the four was Shan Chong, he needed to conserve his strength for battle at any time, so he was not suitable for night watch.
Bing Yan, although weak, was still half a combatant, if he wasn't even allowed to sleep, it was estimated that he wouldn't even have half a combatant.
So, generally, the night watch was done by Huo Yu and Lin Ye, it was just a matter of who was on the first half of the night and who was on the second half.
Shan Chong and the others soon fell asleep, and their not-so-loud snoring sounded in the Cave.
Huo Yu sat near the Cave Entrance, with a stone hammer by his side, so that if someone broke in, he could throw it out first to hit them.
The night was very quiet, but after a while, there were mixed breathing sounds from all directions, the ambiguous sounds were straightforward, and there was no need to distinguish what was going on.
Huo Yu leaned against the stone wall, but seemed to be unaware of those sounds.
He only focused on the sounds in the Cave, able to distinguish where each person was.
The one who turned over was Shan Chong, he was the most burly, so the movement was big.
Occasionally, he mumbled a few words in his sleep, but it was Lin Ye who couldn't hear clearly.
As for Bing Yan, this unlucky child always accidentally bumped into the stone wall when changing sleeping positions, and then made a “hiss” sound.
In addition to these familiar sounds, there was also a sound that was extremely unfamiliar to Huo Yu.
She was very quiet, didn't change positions, didn't move around, didn't have heavy breathing sounds…
She really hadn't been sleeping, always maintaining one posture.
And her breathing sound was light and long, which was different from the sound of any male Beastman sleeping that Huo Yu knew.
With the moonlight entering from the Cave Entrance, lengthening the light and reflecting into the Cave, Huo Yu sat under the moonlight, letting the cold white night light outline half of his face, like a carefully crafted sculpture, handsome and deep.
His eyes looked towards Xiao Jinyue's direction with extreme precision, even if he couldn't see, he was also thinking of her appearance in his heart.
Xiao Jinyue was meditating, not disturbed by the sounds of the other four males in the Cave, no matter if they were snoring or talking in their sleep, it couldn't affect her cultivation.
She suddenly opened her eyes in a roar of a Wild Beast.
“What happened?” Bing Yan sat up with a jolt, his voice still carrying a little sleepiness, but his eyes were guarded and clear.
The other two also stood up one after another.
“It's alright, it should be that the Filth Beast was dealt with, the sound came from a nearby Tribe.” Huo Yu comforted them.
He had captured many Prey, and knew that that kind of sound would generally only be made by Wild Beasts when they were dying, so the Filth Beast was either already dead, or it was also severely injured and could no longer pose a threat to them.
“Really? That's great.” Bing Yan breathed a long sigh of relief.
Sure enough, after a while, a horn sounded in the tribe, compared to the slightly heavy sound before, this time the horn sound was obviously joyful and cheerful.
This meant that the danger had been removed, and everyone could relax.
“Then are we leaving now, or…” Lin Ye said, looking at Xiao Jinyue.
“I'm fine, it depends on your convenience.” Xiao Jinyue said, “If you don't mind it being uncomfortable here, then continue to sleep.”
These people didn't have Beast Hides to sleep on, they just lay on the ground like this, naturally not as comfortable as their own Cave.
“For safety's sake, let's leave after dawn.” Shan Chong said.
They were thick-skinned, and a few Beast Hides didn't make much difference.
Xiao Jinyue hummed, and was about to meditate, when she suddenly thought of something.
“Shan Chong, Bing Yan, are you going hunting today?”
The Small Hunt was done by the males in the tribe taking turns in groups, and these two seemed to be today.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the males of each family would try to be assigned to different groups, so that if they encountered danger one day, not the whole family would be wiped out.
But the situation of Xiao Jinyue's four Beast Husbands was a bit special, Bing Yan was too weak, he could only do some logistics and the like, if he really encountered danger, he was very likely to be buried in the Beast's mouth.
So Shan Chong simply let him be in the same group as himself, so that he could try his best to protect him, which was better than letting him go out with others.
“That's right, what's wrong?”
“Are there any seasonings like mountain pepper and green nai here? If there are, can you bring some back for me?”
In the original owner's memory, the Xiao Family had these seasonings, you just needed to pick them, dry them, and grind them into powder, and then you could add them to the meat to enhance the flavor.