Wu Yue pointed at the pale yellow objects ahead. "Those things over there, the ones with eggshells around them."

Shui froze for a moment, then burst out laughing. "Yue, you don’t even recognize a Sharp Horned Beast Egg?"

Wu Yue’s mouth twitched. "This is an egg?"

Shui, trying to suppress his laughter, nodded seriously. "Yep, it’s a Sharp Horned Beast Egg. Didn’t you see the shells around them?"

Wu Yue felt her illusions shatter. ’Can something be called an egg just because it has a shell around it these days?’

’Isn’t that a bit careless!’

She had always assumed that, aside from their size, the flora and fauna of this world were no different from those of her previous one.

But reality was here to tell her: ’I was just too naive!’

The plants in this world might be normal, but the animals definitely weren’t!

Fierce Beasts were one thing, but now there were also wild animals that laid poop-shaped eggs.

Just as she was thinking this, Grandma Hua Shu’s voice came from ahead. "Today, we’re gathering the soft vegetables that grow around the Sharp Horned Beast Eggs!"

"Everyone, do your best! The Collection Team can’t lose this time either!"

The surrounding Collection Team members all let out excited cries, full of motivation.

With Shui’s help, Wu Yue learned that they were gathering a type of wild vegetable similar to "ground soft."

This "ground soft" mostly grew underneath the shells of the Sharp Horned Beast Eggs; you could find it just by lifting the shells.

But just like the "ground soft" from her previous life, gathering it always meant picking up a lot of twigs and dirt, which required a great deal of effort to clean back at the tribe.

That was why everyone only came to gather this "ground soft" when other wild vegetables were scarce.

After huffing and puffing her way through gathering the "ground soft" in a small patch, Wu Yue grimaced as she straightened up, about to stretch her stiff back.

But then she saw several slave children holding those poop-like Sharp Horned Beast Eggs and gnawing on them, looking as if they were thoroughly enjoying it.

She felt her whole being recoil. This feeling of watching someone else eat what looked like poop was truly awful. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

She sighed, walked over quickly, and took the poop-shaped eggs from their hands.

Then, she took out a few vegetable balls from her back-basket and handed them over. "If you’re hungry, eat these vegetable balls. You can’t eat that."

Just now, when Shui had been explaining the Sharp Horned Beast Eggs, he’d said that in the past, some tribe members, desperate with hunger, had gathered and eaten them.

But those who ate the Sharp Horned Beast Eggs would all get sick. Although no one had died, it was still very dangerous.

Therefore, as long as there were still wild vegetables to eat, no one would resort to gathering and eating these poop-shaped Sharp Horned Beast Eggs.

But the slaves were different. They had no food of their own. Before they started following Wu Yue, each person only got a single vegetable ball per day.

The elderly and children who didn’t work weren’t even qualified to be allocated a vegetable ball.

If they had family members who could work, it was better; everyone could share a little, and the whole family could eat. But those who were all alone could only starve.

In every tribe, countless slaves starved to death due to lack of food.

But at a time like this, when even ordinary Beastmen were short on food, no one cared whether the slaves lived or died.

Looking at the vegetable balls held out to them, the slave children’s eyes reddened one by one. Their little mouths were pursed as they tried to hold back tears, looking utterly pitiful.

Wu Yue sighed, took their grimy little hands, and placed the vegetable balls in them. "Hurry and eat. After you’re done, gather well. There’s a share of this food for you, too."

The little ones wiped away their tears. Their eyes sparkled as they looked at Wu Yue, and they all nodded their little heads vigorously.

Taking the Sharp Horned Beast Eggs from them, Wu Yue held them in her hands and examined them.

Sharp Horned Beasts would periodically lay eggs together in certain places, but miraculously, they reproduced through live birth.

This periodic egg-laying seemed more like they were expelling something from their bodies that they didn’t need.

One could only say that the world was full of strange and wonderful things.

Seeing them wolf down the food and start gathering again, Wu Yue finally returned to the spot she was at before.

She was just about to throw away the Sharp Horned Beast Egg in her hand when her fingers suddenly touched a soft lump.

She couldn’t help but look down, only to discover that the spot the little ones had gnawed on, perhaps because it was covered in saliva, was no longer as hard as before. Instead, it was very soft.

’Could this thing actually hatch?’

With this thought, she went straight to the riverbank and submerged the Sharp Horned Beast Egg in the water.

Sure enough, in just a moment, the Sharp Horned Beast Egg became very soft. The texture felt surprisingly familiar.