Chapter 105
The lion tribe member who came to find them was called Shi Ning. His experience was very similar to that of the orcs who were imprisoned in the Red Eagle Tribe before. Bai Tu thought of the pregnant orcs who stayed there, and wondered how they were doing.
Time was tight, and the brothers Bai Tu and Hei Xiao arranged all the people and cubs of the Red Eagle tribe within one day. The rest time was very short. The pregnant orcs were not suitable for traveling, and they are still in the Red Eagle tribe. Bai Tu didn’t know what the witch had done to the orcs in order to make them give birth to small cubs until he got on the road.
Except that she was not forced to drink blood, Shi Ning’s other experiences were the same as those of the orcs imprisoned by Wu Lai, except that her experience was caused by her own people.
Two years ago, Shi Ning became a partner with Shi Ken from the Black Mane Tribe. The two grew up together and have a better relationship than most lion tribesmen. Shi Ken has no plans to find a second partner, and many people around him envy Shi Ning. Last year, when Shi Ning became pregnant, Shi Ken told her to stay in the cave, saying it was too dangerous to go out to work while she was about to give birth to cubs.
The Black Mane Tribe was large, and the lions were strong, so it was not uncommon for one partner to rest while the other hunted. Shi Ning really felt sorry for the unborn child, and Shi Ken really wanted to do it for the cub, so she agreed.
However, that was the beginning of the nightmare. Afterwards, Lion Ken’s control over her became more and more severe. At first, he would not let her go down the mountain. Later, he directly locked her in a cave and would not let her go out no matter what she said. When the cub was about to be born, Lion Ken suddenly took her to the cave where other orcs were imprisoned.
The entire cave was filled with pregnant orcs. Unlike the others, Shi Ken would bring her food every day, but Shi Ning couldn’t eat it at all.
After the cubs were born, someone took her newborn cubs away, and then Lion Ken came back to her and said that without the cubs, they would be the same as before.
Shi Ning wanted to find out where the cub had gone, so she pretended to obey him and followed him out. However, before she could find the cub, Shi Ken forced himself on her.
After Shi Ning became pregnant, Shi Ken repeated his old tricks and locked Shi Ning in the cave again, not allowing her to communicate with anyone else. With the experience from last time, Shi Ning certainly knew what would greet him if he didn’t find a way out.
For her own sake and for the sake of her unborn cub, Shi Ning looked for an opportunity to persuade Shi Ken to let her go.
Perhaps it was the friendship of their youth that came into play, as Shi Ken brought her out of the cave, and Shi Ning took the opportunity to escape from the tribe when the other party was not paying attention.
However, he had only been out a few times in the past two years, and Shi Ning didn’t know where to go after escaping. He vaguely remembered that this was the direction of the Rabbit Tribe, and wanted to ask the Rabbit Tribe to take him in.
According to Shi Ning, there were more than a dozen lions imprisoned in that cave. Every time someone took the cubs away after they were born, it wouldn’t take long for someone else to take the lions out, and they would come back pregnant again.
“Crazy people, they are all crazy!” Shi Ning trembled all over when talking about the scene in the cave.
Seeing her holding her stomach while talking, Bai Tu asked the rabbit tribe who brought her here to get some food.
In order to successfully persuade Shi Ken, Shi Ning had not eaten for a long time. When he saw that the person giving him food was a strange orc, he felt extremely sad for a moment.
Bai Tu advised: “Don’t be anxious, eat slowly, and we can continue talking after dinner if there is anything. ”
After eating, Shi Ning described everything he had heard in the cave in one breath.
Some of the orcs imprisoned in the cave were captured by the Blackmand Tribe from other tribes, and some were sent in by their partners. The cubs born in the last two times by the earliest few people were all taken away, while their partners’ status in the tribe became higher and higher.
Bai Tu took note of this incident. He intuitively felt that there must be a connection between the two things. When he thought about Shi Wu’s anxious and irritable reaction when he heard that they had brought the cubs back, Bai Tu couldn’t help rubbing his temples.
If I guessed correctly, Shi Wu was not worried about the cubs from the beginning to the end, but was worried about whether Wu Lai would be angry after they brought the cubs back.
This explains why Shi Wu couldn’t wait to attack the Snow Rabbit Tribe, because he was anxious to find a witch to take credit. However, Shi Wu’s plan was doomed to fail. Not to mention that the Black Haired Tribe lost, even if the Black Haired Tribe defeated them, they would not be able to contact Wu Lai.
Wu Lai was already dead, and thinking that Tu Cheng was still trying to persuade Bao Duo to contact the Black Bind Tribe to attack them together, Bai Tu first comforted Shi Ning, and asked someone to send Shi Ning to Shi Jia to rest, and then directly sent a message to Bai Qi, asking the few people working outside the tribe to pay attention and not let anyone go again.
With Tu Cheng’s escape, other areas also became more prepared and guarded more carefully than before. In the first place, those orcs had little chance of escaping. After hearing the news from Bai Tu, security in several areas was tightened.
Tu Ben originally wanted to find an opportunity to confirm the truth of the news of Fox Step’s death, but before he found a chance to ask someone he trusted, he discovered that he seemed to be targeted by others.
Tu Cheng was not wrong, he was indeed being targeted, and the reason was very simple. Although everyone came here because they had made mistakes, it was still a day-to-day job, and the orcs who were in charge of them only looked at the finished product, as long as they were satisfied with the final results of their labor.
However, due to the recent incident of Tu Cheng’s escape, the caretakers who used to chat with him now don’t even talk to him. They just stare at the orcs who are working and can clearly see who is slacking off.
The group of people did not dare to cause trouble to the guards, after all, these people were specifically keeping an eye on them, but they could not tolerate it any longer. The intolerable orcs pointed their spearheads at Tu Cheng.
If the other party had not run away, they would still be the same as before, being lazy from time to time. How could they be like this now, wishing someone would follow them even when they go to take care of their personal hygiene?
Fighting is prohibited in the work area, but the orcs can always teach Rabbit a lesson without disturbing the guards.
For example, she “accidentally” knocked down Tu Cheng’s food when he was eating, or secretly took revenge when everyone was resting, or was picky about the coal he dug.
Tu Cheng’s behavior of escaping and trying to overthrow the Snow Rabbit Tribe angered everyone, but the orcs who taught him a lesson were obviously not because of the fact that he escaped, but because of all the consequences of his failed escape. The orcs who were guarding them punished all the participants with a meal.
Orcs have thick skin and flesh, so if they are hit lightly, it won’t hurt, but if they are hit hard, it will easily delay their work, so the best way is to increase the working time or deduct a meal of food like now. The former increases output, and the latter saves food. Moreover, after working overtime or deducting food, these people will not have the energy to do anything.
Rabbit originally thought that he would be bullied all the time, but he found that the guards were on his side. He was stunned for a moment. After all, they were still of the same tribe, and their relationship was much closer than that with the lions.
He had no idea that the guards were punishing those people only for the safety of the work area. From the next day on, Tu Cheng looked at other people differently. He felt that he was different from these people. After all, he was an orc from the rabbit tribe, different from these lion tribes.
After having this idea, Tu Cheng no longer paid attention to the lions who had bullied him or had a good relationship with him before, and treated Tu Lei as one of his own.
However, if Tu Lei had been a little more reliable, he would not have been punished to come here. When Tu Cheng realized that Tu Lei was more deceitful than he thought and planned to find other people for help, he found that no one from the Lion Clan or the Vulture Clan paid any attention to him. Some even reported his every move to the guards, as if they could find something wrong with just a look from him.
Tu Cheng clearly felt that his life was more difficult than before. Someone was watching him all the time. If he said something wrong, he might be reported to the guards. Forget about escaping. Even if he was a step slower while working, he could not be allowed to do anything.
Tu Cheng could only look in the direction of the Black Haired Tribe, hoping that the powerful Lion Tribe would find an opportunity to attack the Snow Rabbit Tribe again.
Tu Cheng did not wait until the Snow Rabbit Tribe was defeated by others. He only waited until a group of strange orcs appeared in the work area.
Bai Tu started investigating after listening to Shi Ning’s words. No matter how pitiful Shi Ning was, he would not rush to rescue people just because of the other party’s one-sided words. Regardless of whether what Shi Ning said was true or false, they would not enter the territory of other tribes at will.
In the early years, when the relationship between the lion tribes was not as tense as it is now, orcs from different tribes formed partnerships. When the lion tribe investigated each other’s background, they relied on these people. Although the tribe also knew that someone had leaked the news, the personnel were distributed too widely and there was no trace to be found.
Now, it is not only the members of the Mad Lion Tribe who can help the tribe. After hearing the news, the White Lion Tribe and the Yellow Lion Tribe also agreed to help find out the news.
I don’t know if they are too confident in their tribe’s abilities, but the Black Mane Tribe’s act of imprisoning orcs was not very secretive. It’s just that their statement to the outside world was completely different from Shi Ning’s.
“The male lions just love their mates too much and want their mates to only look at them, so they abandon their cubs.”
No one with a clear mind would take this statement seriously. Before Bai Tu and Bai An could discuss whether to help, the Yellow Lion Tribe had already taken action. Not only did they rescue all the imprisoned orcs, they also captured many members of the Black Mane Tribe, including the partners of several of the imprisoned orcs.
The reason why the Yellow Lion Tribe acted so suddenly was because Shi Su’s sister was also locked up. Shi Wu overestimated his own tribe and underestimated other tribes. Even though he knew that the other party’s brother was the leader of the Yellow Lion tribe, he still didn’t care. He felt that the connection between the two tribes was getting less and less, and Shi Su would not be able to discover it for a while.
They never expected that the Yellow Lion Tribe would send people to secretly investigate because of the news received from the Snow Rabbit Tribe. Even though Shi Su’s sister had left the tribe, the orcs’ instinct to protect their own people was still there. Without saying a word, they took advantage of the Black Haired Tribe’s relaxed vigilance and attacked.
When Bai Tu heard the news, Shi Su had already sent people to the Snow Rabbit Tribe. He knew that Bai Tu had a lot of work to do now and wanted to exchange these orcs for some food.
Many of the rescued orcs were thinner than Shi Ning, but the remaining food in the Yellow Lion tribe was barely enough for their own tribe to eat. It would be a bit difficult to feed a dozen more orcs, especially pregnant ones. Not to mention that some of these orcs are about to give birth to cubs, and will need more food then.
Not everyone is as confident as Bai Tu, who can support a few hundred more people. The Yellow Lion tribe has no work to do in winter, and the orcs they captured have to wait until the end of winter to work. It would be a loss to feed these people for free during this period. But he felt that letting the people go directly was too easy for them. Just then someone reminded him that there seemed to be a lot of work for the Snow Rabbit Tribe and the Blood Wolf Tribe, so Shi Su simply brought the people over.
Because they came directly from the Black Haired Tribe, the pregnant orc also followed them. When Bai Tu saw the skinny orcs with lifeless eyes, he couldn’t help but think of another person. However, after so long, he could only recall a few fragments, and they were still in a dream state.
“Let’s eat some food first.” Bai Tu said. Actually, there were already enough people working in the tribe. There were loyal supporters of Shi Honghubu and the Vulture Tribe in several mining areas. The Snow Rabbit Tribe, Blood Wolf Tribe and the Leopard Tribe were fully capable of doing other work. But when he thought that Shi Su used Shi Ken and other orcs to exchange for food because of these pregnant orcs, he couldn’t say no.
Bai Tu and Bai An discussed it and finally replied to Shi Su: “We can give you some food, but not all meat. It includes some corn.”
Even though they have been eating corn for several months, many orcs are still not used to it. They can accept a bowl of corn porridge or one or two roasted corns in a meal, but they can’t eat more than that.
Relatively speaking, wheat is consumed much faster than corn, but because it is eaten so quickly, the wheat is almost gone. Of course, it is impossible to give it to the Yellow Lion Tribe. However, corn, which is the largest in the tribe, can be distributed more.
“Okay.” Shi Su agreed without hesitation. He had been to the Snow Rabbit Tribe several times and had eaten corn. He knew that corn did not taste as good as meat. But it didn’t matter. He could divide the corn equally among all the people in the tribe and then give the saved meat to the pregnant orcs.
Although there was no shortage of people in the tribe, these extra lions were not without work. Bai Tu made drastic moves and arranged all of them to the mining area.
The current output of several minerals has fully met the needs of the tribe, but materials like coal can be dug out more now so that there will be no shortage of minerals when these people arrange other work in the spring.
After arranging things, Bai Tu rubbed his wrist and muttered that he would definitely ask Shi Su for some hard work pay after winter was over.
Having said this, Bai Tu took out a scroll of bamboo slips and began to write down the food that would be sent to the Yellow Lion Tribe next month.
In order to prevent the Yellow Lion Tribe from eating and drinking recklessly after seeing the large amount of food, the food exchanged with the orcs of the Black Mane Tribe was not given to Shi Su all at once, but was divided into three times.
The one Shi Su brought back was the first batch. The second batch will be given next month, and the last batch will be given the month after next, when winter is about to end. When spring begins, the Yellow Lion Tribe will be able to hunt on their own and will not need support from here.
Bai Tu tried his best to increase the variety of food. When Shi Su brought his men over, he counted the number of people. Including Shi Ning, there were a total of seventeen orcs.
After writing down the list of food to be given for next month and putting it aside, Bai Tu went to the bedroom to check on the two cubs.
He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that the cub had grown faster in recent times than before. There was no big change in size, but the weight had obviously increased a lot. It looked like a furry ball before, but in fact it was almost weightless when he picked it up, but now he could feel a chubby little ball of meat nestled in his hand.
“Do you think there’s something wrong with Shiken’s brain?” Bai Tu suddenly asked while teasing the two cubs.
Shi Ken was different from other captured orcs from the Black Mane Tribe. He was captured voluntarily because he knew that Shi Ning was in the Snow Rabbit Tribe.
The reason why Bai Tu said this was because the other party’s behavior was too weird.
The first thing Shi Ken did after being captured was to inquire about Shi Ning’s situation. The moment he saw Shi Ning, he exploded, broke free from the two orcs who captured him, and ran towards Shi Ning, his eyes full of love for Shi Ning.
If they didn’t know what the other party had done before, and if they didn’t know the situation when Shi Ning ran to the Snow Rabbit Tribe, everyone would probably think that they had broken up a pair of lovers.
In fact, Shi Ning was so scared of Shi Ken that he began to tremble at the sight of him. When he saw Shi Ken, the little bit of color on Shi Ning’s face that he had worked so hard to cultivate in the Snow Rabbit Tribe suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Fortunately, there were many people around and they quickly subdued Shi Ken again. A trace of color returned to Shi Ning’s face. He only said one sentence to the other party from beginning to end, asking about the whereabouts of the cub.
However, Shi Ken never said anything, but just looked at Shi Ning with a paranoid and complicated look, as if he only cared about her wholeheartedly.
Later, when everyone asked the rescued beastmen, they found out that Shi Ning was a little different from the others. The partners of the others treated them as tools to improve their own status, but Shi Ken sent Shi Ning into the cave with the purpose of abandoning his child.
Shi Ken loves Shi Ning to the point of madness. He doesn’t want anyone, including the cubs, to occupy Shi Ning’s sight. Since they became partners, he has been trying to find ways to keep Shi Ning locked up at all times.
Shi Ning was younger and had no idea that he had such crazy thoughts in his heart. It was not until she became pregnant that she realized that Shi Ken’s desire for control was getting worse day by day. In the end, in order to successfully get rid of the cubs, he sent her into the cave. Once the cubs in the cave were born, they would be taken away by people arranged by Shi Wu, and at the same time the status of the cub’s father in the tribe would be improved.
Shi Ken did not intend to let Shi Ning stay in the cave forever. In addition, Shi Ning’s surrender made Shi Ken feel that their relationship had returned to the time when they first became partners. He was surprised and brought Shi Ning out.
Shi Wu was originally worried that the people who had entered the cave would talk nonsense after coming out, but Shi Ken promised that he would not let Shi Ning contact others, so Shi Wu agreed to let people go out.
Shi Ning left the cave originally to look for his cubs. He did not listen to Shi Ken and wait for him quietly in the cave. Instead, he looked for every opportunity to leave the cave and inquire about the whereabouts of his cubs.
The scene of Shi Ning questioning another orc was seen by Shi Ken, who forcibly took Shi Ning back regardless of her wishes. It was also during that time that she became pregnant.
Shi Ken’s repeated madness has consumed Shi Ning’s feelings for him. Fearing that the unborn cub will continue the fate of the previous cub, he is left with only fear of Shi Ken. He has reached the point where he is afraid of seeing him, and Shi Ken is still thinking about restoring their relationship.
Bai Tu thought about it and felt that Shi Ken’s way of thinking was different from everyone else. Because he loved someone so much, he would throw away the child that the other person had conceived and given birth to with great effort? Because of deep love, you lock someone in a cave for a year and then make them pregnant? In another era, he would be imprisoned for life.
It was the first time that Bai Tu had seen such a shocking thing. Taking into consideration the fact that the child was carrying a cub, he did not curse at anyone, but his tone and expression clearly expressed his opinion.
After thinking it over, he still felt unsatisfied, so Bai Tu couldn’t help but cursed in a low voice: “Pervert, sick, lunatic…”
The cub didn’t know what Bai Tu was saying, but he could hear that his tone seemed a little angry. The little black wolf climbed up Bai Tu’s arm to his shoulder and rubbed his ears, as if to comfort him. The little gray wolf crawled into Bai Tu’s arms, leaving only its head exposed, and called out twice quickly and angrily in a tone similar to Bai Tu’s. The voice was different from his usual coquettish tone, and it sounded like he was scolding something.
Lang Qi didn’t say a word. He looked at him, then at the gray wolf cub in his arms, and changed the subject as if nothing had happened: “Are you hungry?”
Although it had been several hours since lunch, they had been eating snacks in the meantime. But when Bai Tu heard this question, he felt a little hungry and nodded: “A little.”
“I’ll go cook.” Lang Qi unexpectedly did not take the cub from Bai Tu’s arms. He walked to the stove and started cooking.
The ingredients for cubs and adults are prepared separately. Bai Tu has recently fallen in love with pancakes, a thin piece of pancake wrapped with fried shredded pork, which is fragrant and spicy and can be eaten in just a few bites.
However, canteens generally do not make pancakes, which are difficult to make but quick to eat. Bai Tu has made it twice, and Lang Qi wrote down the steps.
From the beginning of preparing the ingredients, Lang Qi looked into the house every once in a while, listening carefully to whether Bai Tu was talking. He would breathe a sigh of relief when he heard him coaxing the two cubs, and his hands would move faster when he heard him scolding Shi Ken.
Bai Tu covered the ears of the two cubs and scolded them several times before he felt better. He then took the cubs to wash their paws and prepare for dinner.
Hearing that Bai Tu stopped scolding Shi Ken, Lang Qi breathed a sigh of relief and served the last dish.
Bai Tu came out after washing his hands and holding the two cubs. He was a little surprised to see the food on the table: “What day is today? There are so many dishes?”
After the ingredients were brought up, they were not frozen immediately. Some of them would be processed, boiled or blanched to save cooking time. However, there were only two of them, and usually there were only two dishes for a meal. But today, there were a total of six or seven kinds of food on the table, including the food for their cubs. It was hard for Lang Qi to cook so many dishes in a short time.
No, Bai Tu looked at one of the plates of barbecue, picked up a piece with chopsticks and tasted it: “From the cafeteria?”
“Yeah.” Lang Qi responded, but for some reason, there was a hint of guilt in his tone.
Bai Tu didn’t notice his change and tasted the dishes in several plates one by one: “The barbecue and fried fish are from the cafeteria, right?” No wonder he didn’t smell the aroma of fried fish. Every time he fried fish, he could smell the scent across the two caves, but this time he smelled it when he walked over here.
But even if we remove these two dishes, there are still five dishes made by Lang Qi. I was only a little hungry at first, but after seeing such a big table, I felt like my stomach was growling.
“Eat quickly, eat quickly.” Bai Tu said. After scolding Shi Ken for a long time, he decided to eat something to replenish his energy.
Seeing that Bai Tu did not associate Shi Ken with other things, Lang Qi breathed a sigh of relief.