Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 26

Chapter 26

After all, he is an adult orc. Although Baoduo feels uncomfortable, he quickly adjusts his mood. After all, his father’s death is a thing of the past, and they must try their best to ensure the future of the tribe. The Leopard Tribe has already lost its old orcs, and the remaining orcs must survive. Leopard Duo thought that perhaps he could do this.

Bao Duo did not give himself too much time to grieve, as his tribesmen were still waiting for him to bring back salt. Last year, there was less food in the tribe, and the amount of salt they exchanged was also less. Recently, many people in the tribe have been eating food without salt, and many people have begun to feel unwell. Thinking of this, Bao Duo perked up and asked about the specific plan for planting corn, much more seriously than before.

Bai Tu found that the other party looked very serious. He repeated all the precautions he could remember. Then he remembered that the Leopard Tribe seemed to be short of food, so he asked about seeds: “Does your tribe still have the magic rice?”

“We still have half a basket.” Bao Duo said this almost gritting his teeth, “Last year, the witch doctor took back half of the magic rice from the tribe, and gave it to us before exchanging it for salt.” Because the magic rice is not as delicious as meat.

Bai Tu nodded and said, that’s good, half a backpack is enough. After all, there are only a few leopards and they have to participate in hunting besides being careful not to be discovered by the witch doctor. The amount they can harvest for the first time is limited.

“Tu,” Bao Duo thought for a long time and finally asked the question he had been thinking about since winter, “The sudden decrease in prey, is it really a punishment from the Beast God to everyone?”

“What?” Bai Tu frowned, “Did the witch doctor in your tribe say that?”

Bao Duo hesitated for a moment, and seeing that Bai Tu agreed with this statement, he continued: “Yes, the witch doctor said that it was because the food we offered was not enough, so the food of the Lord Beast God was insufficient…”

“Bullshit!” Even Bai Tu, who had a good temper, couldn’t help but swear, “Is it only your tribe that lacks food, or are all the tribes short of food?”

Bao Duo shook his head: “All tribes are short of food, including the tribe with the best witch doctor.”

Bai Tu: “If increasing the offerings can solve the problem, then why are all the tribes the same? The root cause is not the witch doctor, nor the Beast God, but the number of people in the tribe!”

Hearing Bai Tu’s words, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, even the usually timid Bao Fei.

Bai Tu told a few people what he had been thinking about just now: “There are many tribes over there, and each tribe has a large population. You catch too much prey each time, and the number of prey decreases. Fewer cubs are born, and the food will become less in the second year. However, the tribe still needs a lot of prey, so of course there will not be enough prey.”

The group of people in Bao Duo’s tribe is not as large as the Blood Wolf Tribe, but there are also seventy or eighty of them. Although it is a combination of several tribes, it is still astonishing enough. From what Bao Duo said, this is only the tribe that has an average relationship with the witch doctor. The tribes that have a good relationship with the witch doctor are a separate team. With so many tribes gathered together and a witch doctor sucking blood behind the scenes, it would be strange if there were enough prey to eat.

You should know that the territories of several tribes surrounding the Snow Rabbit Tribe are much larger than that of the Rabbit Tribe, and the surrounding vegetation is lush. In addition to the animals that live nearby, groups of animals pass by from time to time. Even so, they still have to worry about not having enough food. It is normal for the Leopard Tribe to have insufficient food.

“The tribes over there are too densely populated. Either you grow and raise your own food, or find an opportunity to move to other places. Otherwise, your population will become fewer and fewer.” When enough people starve to death and the animals around the territory have a chance to catch their breath, their population will slowly increase, and eventually move towards a more balanced supply relationship. This is the cruel and realistic ending. There are only two ways to change it: change the way you obtain food to planting and breeding, or move away, to an area with fewer people.

Bai Tu hopes that the other party can combine the two methods and start planting and breeding after moving away, because if they just move away from the territory without changing the production method, after a period of time, the number of people in the tribe will increase and the current situation will occur again. As long as the orcs have strong hunting ability and tenacious survival ability, food reduction is inevitable.

It sounds simple, but it is not easy to do in reality. The first thing is planting. No matter whether what the witch doctor does is excessive or not, as long as there are supporters of the other party in the tribe, Baoduo will not be able to do whatever he wants. Besides, other tribes are also a threat, so he can only try it quietly and wait for the right time to raise it again.

As for migration, the two most difficult points are convincing the tribesmen and finding a territory with abundant resources and surrounding areas that are not hostile to new tribes. The former is not easy, as orcs will not easily leave the place where they have lived for decades. The latter is more difficult. No matter which tribe, they all hope that their territory will be bigger and have more food. If we rashly go near other tribes, conflicts may arise as soon as we arrive.

Bai Tu sighed. He could only offer some ideas. How to proceed specifically depended on Bao Duo himself: “Give it a try when you go back. Ask if any tribesmen want to move away. Be a little more tactful. In any case, don’t conflict with the tribe that supports the witch doctor for the time being.” There are still too many supporters of the witch doctor now, and there are more than one tribe near the Leopard Tribe. It is not a wise choice to provoke a powerful opponent when they are still underdeveloped.

Bao Duo nodded and took Bai Tu’s reminder to heart. He planned to return to the tribe and discuss with the tribesmen he trusted. If everyone was unwilling to move away from the tribe, they would secretly plant the sacred rice, and when it was ripe, they would quietly expose the witch doctor’s lies and then inform other tribes. If anyone was unwilling, they would take the food and move to other places. The most difficult thing about moving is food. If they have enough food, they can slowly find a safe place. There is no place more dangerous than where they live.

Lang Qi, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, suddenly said, “There is an area to the south of the Blood Wolf Tribe where there are no tribes. If you have nowhere to go, you can go there, but there are few prey there.” The wolf tribe has a very large area, which is even larger than the territories of several tribes combined. However, that area has a fatal flaw: there are few prey. For orcs, it is basically not suitable for living with few prey. After all, it is impossible to run for two days to catch a prey and then spend several days moving it back to the tribe. I am afraid that it will not be enough to eat on the way.

Because of the scarcity of prey, there is still no tribe living in that area, and the surrounding tribes will not go there. Lang Qi had not intended to raise this point, but Bai Tu’s words made him feel a sense of crisis.

There is plenty of food, the number of orcs in the tribe is increasing, and the food is gradually decreasing. This description is exactly the same as that of the Blood Wolf Tribe, except that the Blood Wolf Tribe has a larger hunting range and there is no large-scale starvation situation for the time being. Just because there is no food now does not mean there will be no food in the future. Instead of trying to find a solution when you can’t find food, it is better to see how other tribes solve the problem now. The Leopard Tribe is obviously a good subject for observation.

The others naturally didn’t know Lang Qi’s real plan. When they heard him take the initiative to talk about the vacant land near the tribe, Bao Duo was very grateful. With this sentence, he didn’t have to worry about having nowhere to go after leaving the tribe. Even a territory with less prey was better than now.

Bao Duo did not leave until late at night. After listening for a whole night, Bai Qi was still in a daze: “Tu, the witch doctor of their tribe is so bad.” Bai Qi always thought that witch doctors were very sacred. The witch doctor that Bao Duo talked about today overturned his understanding of witch doctors. He knew that there was not enough food in the Leopard Tribe but still took away half of it by force.

“Yes.” Bai Tu sighed, “I hope this is an exception.” Otherwise, there would probably be many orcs living in dire straits.

Lang Qi sighed in self-mockery and sarcasm: “How is it possible?”

Bai Tu thought of the witch doctor whose legs were broken by Lang Qi, and was silent for a moment. To make someone so angry that he broke his legs, it was probably not just bullying the cubs.

Lang Qi noticed his gaze and asked, “Do you want to listen?”

Bai Tu hesitated for a moment and finally nodded. Bai Qi told him a lot of things, at least about the wolf tribe, and even less about the wolf tribe driving away the witch doctor.

“That year, my father and I were attacked by several wolves who betrayed the tribe. My father died and I fell into a coma. The witch doctor living in our tribe told my eldest brother that he would save me if he gave him two ten-year-old girls. The witch doctors of Wu Jiulun’s lineage believed that children’s blood could give them the power of the beast god, and Wu Jiulun liked young girls the most. In addition to taking blood, he could also…” Lang Qi paused.

Bai Tu was stunned when he understood what the other party meant. At first he thought he was being drugged or tortured, but he never expected it to be like this.

“I heard the conversation, woke up and beat him, then he ran away in the chaos.”

Lang Qi said it simply, but Bai Tu had already imagined what happened in between. Lang Qi, who was already injured, broke the witch doctor’s leg and fell into a coma again. One day, the wolf tribe lost its wolf king, the wolf king’s son was injured, the witch doctor revealed his true face, the wolves were leaderless, and with the wolf pack that had previously attacked the two men, one can imagine the degree of chaos.

No wonder the wolf tribe always hated the witch doctor, and Foxbu even wanted to use this to make the wolf tribe attack him. Bai Tu drew a new circle next to the three circles on the ground. He was very confused. What was the identity of the original owner, or what did he do that made Foxbu want to kill him so much?

Yes, it was to kill him. Bai Tu had already noticed it. From the wound on his head when Tu Bing found him, to what Lang Ze said that day, it was proved that Hu Bu was full of malice towards him and wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible. Unfortunately, after waking up, he had no memory of his previous experiences, and Bai Tu couldn’t figure it out.

Some people’s train of thought is just hard to understand. For example, the witch doctor from the Wu Jiu lineage mentioned by Lang Qi. Whether the Beast God exists or not is another matter, but what does the Beast God’s power have to do with the child? A bunch of people with mental problems deserve to die.

However, he did not expect that witch doctors would be divided into factions. Bai Tu frowned and asked, “Is it only like this for Wu Jiu’s lineage?”

Lang Qi: “Most of the witch doctors here are Wu Jiu’s disciples or his apprentices’ disciples. Most of the other witch doctors who come here will be driven away by them, and very few can stay.”

Bai Tu seemed to be thinking about something. Bai Qi said that when Hu Bu left the Red Fox Tribe, he learned some medical skills from a witch doctor. It’s likely that he was with the descendants of Wu Jiu.

In a flash, Bai Tu remembered something.

Noticing his stiffness, Lang Qi asked worriedly, “Are you scared?” Are you scared by those things? Lang Qi regretted what he had just said.

“No.” Bai Tu shook his head. He was not so timid. It was just that what he just thought of was too shocking.

Bai Tu took a few deep breaths and said, “How does the witch doctor extract blood?”

Lang Qi said, “Use a knife to cut the cub’s arm.”

Bai Tu took a step forward with his palm facing up. Under the light of the fire, a few tiny scars were already barely noticeable.