Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 06

Chapter 6

The moment he saw Tu Cheng being tied up, Bai Tu knew that his guess was correct.

The Snow Rabbit Tribe is a background board in the book whose name no one even notices. However, when you are in the tribe, you will know that the rabbits are a race that looks weak but is absolutely tenacious. It is unreasonable that the tribe, which had lived in peace for decades, was almost wiped out in the early stage of the cold winter. However, the information known is limited, and Bai Tu can only infer what happened in the meantime based on the limited information.

He had no clue at first, but Tu Cheng’s abnormality made him feel strange. He also found that the other party had been in contact with Fox Step. Combined with the complaints of the Grim Reaper, it can be basically concluded that the decline of the tribe is related to the Mad Lion Tribe.

The Snow Rabbit Tribe in the book is the Mad Lion Tribe that joined when heavy snow was approaching. In the Beast God Continent, from early summer to heavy snow, there are three most likely causes of death for orcs: fighting, injury, and hunger.

The first thing to be ruled out is fighting. The Rabbit Tribe is not good at fighting and will not easily go to war with other tribes. Even if they want to fight, the first opponent should be the Crazy Lion Tribe that has been trying to seize the territory of the Snow Rabbit Tribe. As for the remaining two points, they are what the tribe has been experiencing for a long time. Even if some members cannot survive due to food shortage, it will never reach the point of extinction. But it will be a different story if someone interferes.

The injury of one orc has little impact, but orcs are injured one after another, and the food stored this year is not enough. A large number of them will starve to death during the rainy season without waiting until winter.

Whether Bai Chen’s injury was a coincidence or premeditated is not the point for now, it is a fact that Tu Cheng almost injured Bai An today. And Tu Cheng’s attitude makes it easy for people to suspect that there are other tricks up his sleeve. The rabbit tribe is generally simple-minded. The orcs who have always respected the tribe leader suddenly changed their attitude. In all likelihood, someone is trying to sow discord behind the scenes.

He suspected that Tu Cheng and the Crazy Lion Tribe had reached some kind of agreement, but he couldn’t accuse them without any evidence. He could only bring up the matter if he had evidence that the other party had actually contacted the Crazy Lion Tribe. He could only have people keep an eye on the area near the tribe to see if Tu Cheng or the Crazy Lion Tribe would reveal any clues.

Bai Tu withdrew his thoughts and looked around. Most of the orcs who were suddenly called were very confused, and a few were angry. The latter obviously knew the inside story.

Except for the babies who were too young to leave the cave and the orcs who were taking care of the children, everyone gathered at the foot of the mountain.

Bai An looked at the tribesmen who surrounded the open space, then looked at Tu Cheng in the middle, took a deep breath, and said, “Tonight, Tu Cheng sneaked out to look for Fox Bu from the Crazy Lion Tribe, and was discovered by Zhou Heqi who was on guard, and some things were found on him.”

Normally, people from the same tribe would only call each other by their first names, and rarely call out their surnames. Only when orcs from different tribes meet each other would they address each other by their surnames. There are two possibilities for calling someone’s full name in the tribe: something important has happened, or you no longer recognize the other person as an orc from your tribe.

As soon as the words fell, everyone looked at Bai An and Tu Cheng in shock, and some anxious ones couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Why are you looking for Foxbu?” ”

Why are you going to the Mad Lion Tribe?”

“What did you find?”

The tribe and the Mad Lion Tribe have a long-standing grudge. The two tribes are adjacent to each other, and conflicts often occur in the area where their territories meet. It can be said that except for the ignorant children, everyone else knows to stay away from the Mad Lion Tribe. The tribesmen who have quarreled with them or been attacked by them before hate the Mad Lion Tribe very much. Tu Cheng secretly went to find Fox Bu in the middle of the night, which was considered an act of betrayal of the tribe by everyone.

Bai An did not answer everyone’s doubts, but handed Bai Tu two branches with yellow flowers: “Tu, do you know this?”

Seeing this plant that looked like honeysuckle, Bai Tu paused slightly. Bai An asked the right person, and he actually knew him.

Gelsemium elegans, highly poisonous. It also has a well-known name, Gelsemium elegans. Because it is similar to the commonly used honeysuckle, it has been specially popularized in the past. Even if it is used as medicine, the dosage of Gelsemium elegans should be paid attention to. A little more will not save people but harm them.

The orcs in the tribe didn’t recognize these things, so one could imagine how dangerous something like this could cause poisoning if eaten a little bit. Bai Tu frowned, “Gentlemen grass, if eaten too much, will cause constant abdominal pain, difficulty breathing, and death from poisoning.” Afraid that everyone would underestimate this poison and accidentally ingest it, Bai Tu continued, “You can catch a vole and try it.”

Usually, everyone treasured the animals raised in the cave, but now it was obvious that they couldn’t take care of them. Bai An said in a deep voice, “Qi, go catch one.”

Bai Qi glanced at Tu Cheng angrily, then turned around and went to the cave to catch a vole.

When the others came back, Bai Tu took a step back inconspicuously and said, “Chief, break off a few young sprouts and feed them to it.”

Bai An did as he was told. The field mouse, which had been hungry for a long time, had no attack power and swallowed the food without any resistance.

Everyone stared at the vole without blinking, and didn’t notice any changes.

Just when someone was getting impatient, the vole on the ground suddenly struggled and vomited continuously, seeming to be in great pain. The beastmen who witnessed the poisoning of the field mouse immediately started talking and looked at the heartbreak grass in Bai An’s hand with fear.

The twitching field mouse screamed once more, then stretched out its legs and died completely. The orcs who were paying attention to the field mice shuddered.

Someone asked: “Chief, was the poisonous grass really found on Tu Cheng?”

Bai An nodded: “Yes, Tu Cheng betrayed the tribe. Qi heard that Tu Cheng and Hu Bu discussed to put the poisonous grass into Tu’s herbs, so that Tu would poison Chen, and then let everyone burn Tu to death, and then find a chance to stab me. When I am injured, Tu Cheng can become the chief and lead everyone to join the Crazy Lion Tribe.”

“I am doing this for the tribe!” Tu Cheng, who had been silent just now, suddenly shouted loudly, “A truly powerful tribe should be ruled by the strong, not by a group of old and weak trash!” After saying that, he glanced at Bai Tu, feeling resentful in his heart. If Bai Tu hadn’t saved Bai Chen, he would have become the chief. How could he be tied here and criticized by a group of trash who were far less strong than himself! The Crazy Lion Tribe is what he imagined a big tribe should be like.

There was an uproar in the crowd.

This was the first time that most orcs had heard of such a thing. Whether it was poisoning or intentionally harming their fellow orcs, it was an unforgivable crime. What’s more, Tu Cheng also planned to take them to the Crazy Lion Tribe. Only orcs who have no territory of their own would join other tribes. The status of orcs who join others is extremely low. They need to do the most work, but get the least food. Only young orcs like Tu Cheng who have never been far away would think it is good to join a big tribe.

Not to mention that they already had conflicts with the Crazy Lion Tribe. Thinking of the treatment they would receive if they defected to the Tribe, a group of people looked at Tu Cheng with dissatisfaction.

“Too vicious! We don’t have such people in our tribe!”

“The Crazy Lion Tribe is a group of bandits. Fox Bu wants to kill Chen and Tu. Tu Cheng once said that Fox Bu is kind. Bah! Hypocritical orc.”

“Chief, drive Tu Cheng out. We don’t want to go to other tribes.”

“We can’t drive him away. Orcs who betray the tribe must be burned to death!”

Bai An asked Bai Tu: “Tu, how do we punish Tu Cheng?” In a tribe without a witch doctor, the chief will be responsible for all matters. In a tribe with a witch doctor, the witch doctor will make decisions on many major matters. Although Bai Tu has always refused to admit that he is a witch doctor, everyone still takes his opinion first. Regardless of whether it is true or not, Bai Tu saved Bai Chen and now his status in everyone’s hearts is the same as that of a witch doctor.

Bai Tu shook his head when he heard this: “Chief, you decide.” He didn’t know many of the orcs’ tacit rules, so it would be better to let Bai An make the decision. Today’s events shocked him a little. He had thought that Tu Cheng was only aiming for the position of clan leader, but he didn’t expect that he had set the goal of joining the Crazy Lion Tribe from the very beginning.

After hearing Bai Tu’s reply, Bai An and several other older orcs discussed for a while, and finally decided to expel Tu Cheng from the tribe.

The rabbit tribe is very friendly to their own kind, but betraying the tribe is intolerable no matter where they are. The Beast God Continent has two punishment measures for orcs who betray the tribe: burning to death or driving out of the tribe, the latter is also called exile. For the gentle rabbit tribe, it is hard to bring themselves to kill their own kind. Driving the person away and letting him fend for himself is the best option.

Orcs who are driven out of the tribe usually do not have a good end. All orcs in the Beast God Continent know that they will only be exiled if they have done something unforgivable to the tribe. The exiled orcs posed too many potential dangers for anyone to take the risk of accepting them. After all, if he can betray one tribe, who knows if he will betray the next one.

The exiled orcs, if lucky enough, can survive the winter and travel across mountains and rivers to distant places, where they will be taken in by a tribe that is unaware of their past experiences. And most of them will remain permanently in the dangerous jungle. Without the help of other tribesmen in hunting, the chances of the rabbit tribe surviving through the jungle were almost zero.

No one sympathized with Tu Cheng because everyone knew that if they hadn’t been discovered today, their fate would have been worse than Tu Cheng’s. Many small leaders in the Crazy Lion Tribe are so cruel that they can even kill their own children. How can the Rabbit Tribe, which is different from their original form, have a good ending?

Bai Qi stepped forward to loosen the vines, then kicked Tu Cheng: “Get out.”

Seeing Tu Cheng stand up, Bai An looked around at the remaining tribesmen, focusing on the few who had a good relationship with Tu Cheng: “Whoever wants to go with him, go now.”

Orcs in the same tribe are generally very united, but they also have different relationships, so there will be situations where different people are supported to succeed the position of tribe leader. Orcs who have a close relationship with Bai An will not disobey Bai An’s orders for Tu Cheng. Similarly, orcs who have a good relationship with Tu Cheng are more distant from Bai An.

The more people there are in the tribe, the safer it is. However, some people who remain in the tribe are more threatening. Instead of waiting for these people to cause other troubles in the future, it is better to let them make the decision now.

Several young orcs in the crowd looked at their companions. For the orcs who had lived in the tribe for the past twenty years, the tribe was everything to them. Their dependence on the tribe had become a habit since childhood. There were too many dangers outside.

If they just stayed and had a close relationship with Tu Cheng, they would definitely not be liked by the tribe members. And what Tu Cheng said before was not in vain. Thinking of those remarks that they could eat as much meat as they wanted and find any partner after helping him become the tribe leader, several young orcs with weak willpower hesitated.

Tu Cheng naturally knew what his companions were hesitating about, and promised: “Don’t worry, join me in the Crazy Lion Tribe, I can lead you to live a better life than you have now!”

Bai Qi disliked Tu Cheng’s appearance the most. Having grown up listening to stories from the outside world, Bai Qi naturally knew what would happen if he joined the Lion Tribe, and retorted: “Dream on, the Lion Tribe is not that kind.”

“Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean I can’t do it!” Tu Cheng firmly believed in the treatment he would enjoy in the future.

In the end, three of the five hesitant orcs stood up, and one of the remaining two looked at Bai An and decided to stay, while the other was stopped by his brother.

Tu Cheng sneered at the orcs around him who were on guard against him, and said to his companions who followed him: “Come on! I will take you to live the life that a hunting team should live!”

When he heard that someone suggested burning him to death, Tu Cheng was indeed scared. But when he heard that the final decision was to expel him from the tribe, he was completely relieved. Others were afraid of being expelled, but he was not afraid at all because he had a big backer. The Snow Rabbit Tribe, which had so many weak people, was not a good place to stay. A tribe like the Crazy Lion Tribe, which relied on force to speak, was where he should go.

The Snow Rabbit Tribe can only have one partner at most. Even though he is the strongest orc in the tribe, he still cannot choose multiple partners. Tu Cheng has been dissatisfied for a long time. None of the orcs in the tribe is worthy of him. His partner should be a strong, intelligent and beautiful orc like Fox Step.

Originally, for the sake of his fellow tribesmen, he was willing to lead the tribe to become stronger and bigger. Not only were these people not satisfied, they also blamed him for contacting Foxbu. What’s so sad about an orc lying in the cave who hasn’t woken up yet and a fool who can’t heal his wounds and can only waste food to look good? Besides, before he even took any action, a group of people actually listened to Bai An and drove him away for two such people.

Although he did not become the chief and was expelled from the tribe, his ultimate goal was similar, to join the Mad Lion Tribe anyway. Tu Cheng led the three young men out of the Snow Rabbit Tribe and walked towards the east. Fox Step said that the strong should enjoy the treatment of the strong, instead of obeying a chief who is far inferior to himself in the hunting team and hunting to feed a group of weaklings who have no effect on the tribe.

Tu Cheng looked at the fluorescent moon in the sky and felt very happy. Fox Bu was that bright moon. He could only look at it from the ground before, but now that he has joined the Crazy Lion Tribe, he can finally protect the moon like the stars.

Looking at Tu Cheng’s smug back, the older man in the tribe sighed: “He thinks too simply.”

The Rabbit Tribe is just relatively simple, but not fools. The older orcs have more experience and have seen the rise and fall of different tribes. They understand that what Tu Cheng said is like clouds in the sky, visible but not touchable. It is not easy to join another tribe. The orcs who betrayed their own tribe will only find out after joining the new tribe that their future life is completely different from what they imagined.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn’t help but sigh.

Bai Tu was not like the others who had lived with Tu Cheng for so many days. His only impression of Tu Cheng was that he refused his treatment of Bai Chen and disliked that he did not put enough medicine. There was nothing good to remember. As soon as the others left, he went to Bai An to ask for the few branches of heartbreak grass.

“Tu, what do you want the poisonous weed for?” The heartbreak weed had just killed a field mouse, and everyone was terrified of this thing. Bai An didn’t know how to deal with it. When he heard that Bai Tu wanted it, he breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately became worried. After all, it was poisonous and eating a little would kill you.

“It’s both poison and medicine. Many plants are like this. They can be made into medicine to treat diseases, but eating them casually will cause poisoning.” Bai Tu explained. This is why he didn’t dare to let others do the herbal medicine collection. There are still many modern people who don’t listen to the doctor’s advice and take medicine casually. Moreover, in this primitive era without instruction manuals and writing, many medicinal materials are poisonous. This work can only be done by himself.

As for asking for the heartbreak grass, in addition to being able to use it as medicine, he had another way to use it: “Feeding chickens with a small amount of heartbreak grass can increase their appetite and make them grow faster. But it can only be used by me, and others should not feed it randomly.”

It was the first time that Bai An heard of such a magical thing. He handed the heartbreak grass to him and asked, “Do other grasses have this effect?”

Bai Tu shook his head: “The effect of each plant is different, and you can’t eat it casually. Bring it to me to have a look before you eat wild vegetables in the future.” Especially when there were so many poisonous weeds nearby, he would rather be a little more troublesome for safety.

Wrap up the heartbreak grass and put it away separately to ensure that it will not be misused. Bai Tu went to see his precious seedlings. These are the future source of food, so he must treasure them. As expected of plants from the Beast God Continent, their vitality is as tenacious as ever. A few plants that were wilting yesterday afternoon are now full of energy after irrigation and a night of pruning.

Seeing that it was dawn, Bai Tu called out to the picking team: “Picking team, come here and get to know the new plants!” He should have taught everyone yesterday, but was delayed. However, it is not too late now. It is just right to learn it before setting off so that they will remember it clearly.

Hearing the sound, a group of people gathered over. The morning sun slowly rose behind them, and the warm light shone on everyone’s shoulders, dispelling the haze in their hearts.