Chapter 11: The Beast-eared Girl Falls Ill, Lin Ye’s Solution
After collecting the charcoal.
Lin Ye placed the small stones and charcoal he collected by the river together.
Then, Lin Ye began to wander around, wanting to find a smooth stone to sharpen his bone knife.
Lin Ye wanted to cut down a giant bamboo to make a water purification device.
However, after using it for a few days, his bone knife had lost its edge.
As a result, before Lin Ye could find a stone, he saw a group of beast-eared girls standing together with drooping ears and distressed expressions.
“What’s wrong? What happened? Your ears are all down.”
Seeing this, Lin Ye walked over with some doubt and casually asked.
The beast-eared girls, seeing Lin Ye approach, looked even more dejected, gazing at Lin Ye pleadingly.
“Ye, many people in the tribe are sick, even two people from the hunting team have fallen ill.”
One of the rabbit-eared girls with white rabbit ears said to Lin Ye anxiously.
Lin Ye’s heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
Lin Ye then realized that he hadn’t seen Sakura for quite some time since she went to the cave to deliver water.
Thinking of this, Lin Ye quickly walked towards the cave.
Soon, Lin Ye arrived outside the cave.
He happened to encounter Sakura coming out of the cave.
Seeing Lin Ye, Sakura rushed over to him, her voice choked with tears.
“Ye, what should we do? So many people are sick. They were like this as soon as I got back.”
Lin Ye let out a long sigh of relief when he saw that Sakura was fine.
“Take me in to see first.”
Lin Ye patted Sakura’s head, comforted her, and then said.
“Okay.” Sakura nodded, and then walked into the cave with Lin Ye.
Inside the cave, Lin Ye saw Xing looking worriedly at two members of the hunting team lying on the ground, clutching their stomachs in pain.
Seeing Lin Ye enter, Xing’s gaze towards him was also somewhat helpless.
Because of the condition of the hunting team members, Xing could only watch helplessly, not knowing the cause or having any solution.
Although in these short two days, Lin Ye had given them a sense of mystery and reliability, in Xing’s opinion, this unknown situation of the members was difficult even for Lin Ye to resolve.
Lin Ye walked forward, stood beside Xing, and asked.
“What’s the situation? Do you know why?”
Xing shook her head and then said.
“When we returned with the water, they were already like this. Most of those who didn’t fetch water have fallen ill, only two people are not sick.”
Hearing Xing say this, Lin Ye nodded slightly.
Then Lin Ye walked over to where the wooden buckets were placed in the cave.
The wooden buckets were placed deep inside the cave, and if one wasn’t careful, one wouldn’t notice so many buckets were stored here.
No wonder Lin Ye didn’t notice the buckets there when he woke up in the cave.
Upon entering, Lin Ye discovered that in addition to the dozen buckets of water brought back from the river today.
There were nearly ten empty buckets on the ground.
And one bucket had half of its water already drunk.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ye roughly understood what was going on.
So Lin Ye walked to Sakura’s side and looked down at her, saying.
“Sakura, go and ask those two who are not sick if they haven’t drunk any water today.”
Hearing Lin Ye’s words, Sakura immediately nodded and ran out of the cave.
Then Lin Ye went to the two people lying on the ground.
One of the two beast-eared girls had two small deer antlers growing on her forehead.
The other had horns that curved from above her ears towards her forehead, like Xing’s.
The only difference was that Xing’s horns were white, while this horned girl’s were gray.
Lin Ye also noticed that this horned girl’s face bore some resemblance to Xing’s.
Her beautiful face was no less than Xing’s, but due to her illness, her pale face lacked some of Xing’s wildness and had a touch more frailty.
Lin Ye squatted down and gently stroked their foreheads.
Wiping away the cold sweat that appeared due to the pain, he asked.
“Did you start getting sick after drinking the water from the bucket today?”
“Yes.” The two beast-eared girls, enduring the abdominal pain, squeezed out a word from between their teeth.
After getting the answer, Lin Ye stood up and went to Xing’s side, saying.
“When people in your tribe got sick before, did it always happen after the collected water had been stored for several days?”
Xing tilted her head, thought for a moment, and then her eyes widened as she looked at Lin Ye.
“It’s true. We never noticed before. Why is that?”
Lin Ye lowered his head and pondered for two seconds, then said.
“Because the water you brought back from the river has been stored in the cave for many days, and many invisible small insects have appeared in it.”
Lin Ye went to the river today and observed that if they drank flowing river water.
With the digestive system of the beast-eared girls, honed since childhood, there shouldn’t be any problems.
The problem lay in the storage of these waters.
The dark and humid environment was a paradise for bacteria to breed.
It was no wonder they got sick after drinking this water.
However, perhaps due to the physique of the beast-eared girls.
It seemed no one had ever died from drinking unclean water.
At most, they would have a stomachache for a few days and then become lively again.
After all, they were people who had lived in the primitive world since childhood, and they also carried some animal bloodlines, so some bacteria and parasites could not kill them.
Xing was startled by Lin Ye’s words, and her eyes, filled with fear, looked towards the wooden buckets deep in the cave.
However, what Lin Ye said next eased her worries.
“Don’t worry, I’ve found a solution. The problem of getting sick from drinking water will be resolved soon.”
As Lin Ye said this, a strong sense of confidence emanated from him.
Xing was stunned by the aura that suddenly appeared around Lin Ye.
For a moment, she forgot to react.
She just stood there, staring blankly at Lin Ye.
Although Xing didn’t know what method Lin Ye was talking about.
At this moment, Sakura ran in from outside, shouting as she ran.
“Ye, Ye, just like you said, those two only ate berries today and didn’t drink water.”
The news Sakura brought back further confirmed Lin Ye’s words.
Sakura’s voice also woke Xing, who was in a daze.
Lin Ye was affectionately stroking Sakura’s hair and cat ears.
Then he heard Xing’s anxious voice from the side.
“What method? What method do you have to solve the problem of getting sick from drinking water?”
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