Ale had eaten delicious food for several consecutive days and his face was full of reluctance as he was about to leave. Ali amusedly stuffed a large hide backpack with fried meat patties, which contained various fillings, at him, and Ale happily took it and moved to carry it on his front.

For his trip back, in addition to bringing enough food to eat along the way, he returned with a large bag of things. Azhang worried that it would affect his speed and did not dare to let him carry too much. Now that the hyena-drakes had arrived in the plains, it was too unsafe for Ale, who was traveling alone.

After seeing Ale off, the days calmed down again. There were still several fishes in the house, so Chen Qi stopped needing to go fishing. The few of them were idle and had nothing to do but fiddle with the food stuff and remade several bows. Additionally, they replaced the arrowheads with bones shaved to shape. The destructive power of these arrows were much higher than those from simply sharpened wood.

Lately, Azhang and Aze would take turns standing guard on the wall every once in a while. Considering that the wall was very tall, the wind up higher was naturally stronger than that lower to the ground. Chen Qi had them build a watchtower, which extended about one meter above the wall. The tower was made with gaps around it that would be used to look out of. To see the situation beyond the wall, they just needed to open the animal skin covering over a gap and the scenery can be clearly seen, while being blocked from the wind and snow.

After Ake was carefully fed by Ka Luo for a few days, his originally lean face was a little more rounded. Now he was already in good health and could get out of bed and walk around, but everyone did not allow him to work. His daily tasks were just to feed the little female with milk fruit and to coax the little female to sleep. His three meals each day were either made by Ka Luo or Chen Qi. Every day, Chen Qi fiddled with making all kinds of food for Ake and insisted on doing so for 30 days, euphemistically considering it the confinement meals.

Ake was under the constant watch of two males every day to ensure he recuperated properly. He felt like all the bones in his body were aching, so he could only turn his eyes to the other females for help. Aze ignored Ake’s call for help and handed Chen Qi the polished bones. Chen Qi used a solution of gum fruit mixed with plant ash and applied it onto the arrows, then fixed the root threads on them. All the arrows with bone arrowheads they’d previously made had been given to Ale. So now they could only make more

Chen Qi put aside the prepared arrow. “By the way, the little female hasn’t got a name yet? Have you thought of a name for him?”

Ake gave a glare to the unreliable childhood friend of his, and shook his head when he heard Chen Qi’s question. “We haven’t thought of one yet.”

Ka Luo put down the bone he was working on, his face wearing a tangled expression and asked with a frown, “Does he have to be named now? I haven’t even thought about it. He can’t speak. Can’t we wait until he can speak to give him a name?”

Chen Qi looked at them, speechless. Is this a person who is a parent?

“How about you give him a name?” Ake thought for a moment, then suggested with a smile.

“That is a good idea. Chen Qi, you know so much. The name you choose will definitely be better than ours.” No longer needing to come up with a name himself, Ka Luo practically raised both his hands in favor of the idea.

Chen Qi was stunned. He looked back at Aze. Aze patted him on the back of his hand. “Since they’ve asked you to name him, you might as well go ahead and choose one.”

Looking down at Ake’s little female in his arms, Chen Qi was lost in thought.

The females here only had one character for their names, and only the males’ names had two characters, so it was not so easy to choose a nice-sounding name. This was the first time Chen Qi had been asked to help with picking a name.

Seeing Chen Qi’s tight frown and expression of deep thoughts, Ake’s heart warmed. “This matter does not need to be hurried. You can think about it slowly.”

Chen Qi nodded and solemnly promised, “I will definitely give him a nice name.”

Ake smiled, “Great. Then we’ll leave it to you.”

In the following days, in order to pick out a good name, Chen Qi wrote down all the words he could think of on gum tree leaves. Every word was very good, yet every word was not very satisfactory.

After a long absence, there was another snowstorm. It was also on this day that Azhang found signs of approaching hyena-drakes. Because it was snowing and the hyena-drakes were covered in hard silvery scales, he could not see them too clearly. However, Azhang, who had dealt with the hyena-drakes several times, could be sure that it must be hyena-drakes.

Blocked by the snowstorm, Azhang did not know how many hyena-drakes were coming near. He took down the bow and arrows hanging in the watchtower and went out. He shot an arrow out in the direction of the hyena-drakes, however, despite Azhang’s strength, the arrow still missed its target due to the snowstorm blowing against it, and plunged into the snow some distance away from the hyena-drakes.