Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 229 Snow Rat (Updates resumed)

Xing was used to Jiang Luoluo suddenly running out and bringing something back. Even though this time she brought back several children, she calmly watched them play nearby.

Ping just wanted to see her sister, and didn't actually have much to say, so Xing told Ping a lot about her recent situation.

Actually, there was nothing special going on; I was just talking about what I do every day to put Ping at ease.

The children on Little Stone Mountain found many different kinds of fun from Jiang Luoluo. Some children who were closer to Jiang Luoluo no longer gathered on Little Stone Mountain, but instead came to Jiang Luoluo's house every day to play with Jiang Luoluo and the magical little toys she made.

Let's see what other new and interesting things Jiang Luoluo has to offer.

Jiang Luoluo isn't some kind of tentacle monster capable of creating so many new toys in such a short time, but just one bubble solution is enough to keep these kids entertained for a while.

Most of the children who come to Jiang Luoluo are there to get more bubble solution.

They didn't take things for free; they would bring some pretty little stones, or junk that they didn't need at home but were very useful to the children.

The area in front of Jiang Luoluo's house became more and more lively every day.

Then, one morning when Jiang Luoluo woke up, she was surprised to find that it was snowing outside.

The snow fell silently, piling up on the ground in a layer as thick as a foot. I don't know when it started falling last night or how long it lasted.

Jiang Luoluo felt a sense of novelty and a touch of nostalgia.

Her hometown is actually a place where it snows in winter.

When I was a child, when the snow was thick, a group of children would lie in the snow and roll around, drawing pictures and leaving one mark after another.

However, after Jiang Luoluo grew up, the place where she started working was not in her hometown.

The weather here isn't as cold as back home. Even when it snows in winter, it's only a thin layer, and sometimes it melts away silently before the next day.

Jiang Luoluo hadn't seen such thick snow in a long time.

The look of surprise and joy on her face didn't last long before Jiang Luoluo saw Xing behind her, her face showing some worry.

Jiang Luoluo then realized that this was not her peaceful and safe world, where she could play outside without restraint in winter and not worry about food or warmth.

In this world, snow is not a good thing. For tribes, it means cold, insufficient food sources, and the ability to survive by relying on stored and accumulated food.

During the snowy season, the tribe's ability to cope with risks is extremely low.

Therefore, Jiang Luoluo felt that the snow she missed was not something that made the tribe happy.

"Luo, it's snowing. The hunting team should be back soon." Xing composed herself and showed a hopeful expression.

Her mother was in the hunting party.

Sure enough, the hunting party returned to the tribe two days later.

The sudden snowfall only lasted for a little over a day before stopping.

It accumulated to a height roughly above the ankle.

They looked peaceful and harmless, not at all like the terrifying and dangerous people who were tense and anxious about the tribe.

Jiang Luoluo thought the snow season would be like the rainy season, with continuous snowfall.

Upon hearing Jiang Luoluo's words, Xing smiled and shook her head, "No, Luo, the snow season hasn't officially started yet."

Jiang Luoluo was puzzled. What did it mean that it hadn't officially started yet? Hadn't it already started snowing?

Xing looked at the thin layer of snow outside and shook her head. "Luo, this is just a signal, a signal that the snow season is coming soon. The snow in the real snow season is not like this."

Jiang Luoluo still didn't quite understand. In her hometown, which was already a place with relatively cold winters, the lowest temperature could sometimes reach minus forty degrees Celsius. She found it hard to imagine even colder scenes.

Even in places like Antarctica and the Arctic, which are cold all year round, people from various scientific expeditions can live normally. How could the tribesmen, with their exaggeratedly strong physiques, not withstand even colder weather and temperatures?

There was no answer, but Ge went home, and Xing was also excited to go home to welcome her mother.

Jiang Luoluo excitedly stepped forward and hugged Ge, eager to tell him about what she had done during this time.

Although Jiang Luoluo has already told many people about it, and has shown most people what she has made.

But Ge is different from others, probably because of the difference of being "family". There is a sense of security that he has with others that he doesn't have.

Ge listened attentively to Jiang Luoluo's story until it got dark, and Jiang Luoluo, still somewhat unsatisfied, began preparing dinner.

Ge Cai took out a large piece of animal hide that he had kept in his backpack for a long time.

“Luo, the snow season is coming soon. Use this fur to make a new outfit. The clothes you’ve been wearing before are too thin and not warm enough. It will be very cold during the snow season.”

Jiang Luoluo curiously leaned closer to take a look and found that the texture of the hide was very different from that of ordinary animal hide.

Normally, Ge should have finished making the clothes himself and given them directly to Jiang Luoluo.

However, Ge knew that Jiang Luoluo liked to make her own clothes, and that the clothes she made were quite different from most of the styles in the tribe. He was worried that if the clothes he made were not good-looking, Jiang Luoluo would not like them.

So Ge simply handed the animal hide to Jiang Luoluo, letting her process it herself and make clothes in her own style.

“It’s snow rat pelt,” Ge explained to Jiang Luoluo.

The snow rat is a wild animal that only comes out in large numbers around the snow season.

Although they are called rats, most of them are actually about 1.5 to 1.6 meters tall, and some larger ones can even reach more than 2 meters tall.

To make clothes for adults, it usually takes two or three snow squirrel pelts pieced together.

However, for children under ten years old in the tribe, the pelt of a whole snow rat is enough.

The skin of the snow rat is unlike the fur of those giant beasts. It is thick and warm, but it is also very heavy, making it very bulky to wear and difficult to move around normally.

For children of this age who are usually active and energetic, it's nothing short of torture.

The biggest advantage of the snow squirrel's fur is that it is lightweight and has sufficient warmth, allowing it to move freely during the snowy season. You can imagine how strong the insulation effect of its fur is.

However, snow rats are difficult to catch. They have the ability to control small snowstorms, and their agility on the snow makes it easy for enemies chasing them to get lost.

In the past, only the chief and the most powerful orc warriors in the tribe could catch one or two snow rats to make clothes for their children.

This was also Go's good luck. He was assigned to patrol duty when it snowed a couple of days ago and ran into a snow rat that had come out early.

In addition, the snow on the ground was only a thin layer, which did not have much of an impact on Ge, which allowed him to catch his opponent.

—The snow rat's ability to control snow is related to the amount of snow in its surroundings; the more and thicker the snow, the stronger its ability.