Chapter 46
The tribal races in the Beast God Continent are generally referred to as such. For example, the Snow Rabbit Tribe, although named with Snow Rabbit in its name, actually has different types of long-haired, short-haired, snow-white, and silver-white races in the tribe. The Blood Wolf Tribe has black, gray, white, and yellow races. The brothers Lang Qi and Lang Ze are different from other black wolves, and there are even differences between the two brothers. The Black Eagle Tribe has black-feathered eagles and gray-feathered eagles. Most tribes are in this state.
Bai Tu felt a moment of discomfort when he suddenly switched from a group of tribes collectively to a uniform state. However, this discomfort did not affect Bai Tu’s shock, because these were a group of black-footed cats.
The black-footed cat gets its name from the black pads on the soles of its feet. The color of its fur is not completely uniform. The group in front of us is divided into several types, with base colors including brown, light yellow, tan and white, but they all have black spots on their bodies. Bai Tu can confirm that these are all of the same breed based on their body shape.
As expected, it is the smallest cat. In the Beast God Continent where animals generally grow in size, the black-footed cat still maintains the size he remembers. The big one weighs only about two kilograms, which can be considered very petite.
Being small doesn’t mean having a good personality. Seeing so many people outside, almost all of the dozen or so black-footed cats stood up and became defensive.
Bai Tu was aware of the black-footed cat’s fighting power. He waved his hand and asked everyone to step back to avoid disturbing the other party. He turned sideways and looked at Bai An. It would be more appropriate for Bai An, as the tribe leader, to come out and negotiate at this time.
However, Bai An hesitated when he saw the cat tribe appear: “This…”
Mao Kang on the side also became nervous.
Bai Tu was puzzled. Seeing that Bai An was obviously thinking about something, he turned around and questioned Lang Qi with his eyes. He didn’t know enough about the Beast God Continent, so it was better for him to keep silent for the time being.
Lang Qi glanced at the cat tribe, then leaned over and whispered in Bai Tu’s ear, “There is a saying that orcs who cannot grow larger are a race abandoned by the Beast God.”
Bai Tu was stunned, not only because of the absurdity of this statement, but also because if many orcs believed this statement, he himself would be in danger.
Obviously noticing that Bai Tu’s mood had changed from joy to shock, Lang Qi added: “Don’t believe this, it’s just an excuse for invasion.”
There are always some orcs who are not satisfied with the territory of their own tribe and like to invade other tribes, but occupying other tribes without reason will cause panic among the surrounding tribes. At this time, finding an excuse can solve half of the trouble, and some tribes can even get praise from other tribes because of this.
Lang Qi didn’t believe this, but he knew why Bai An hesitated. Whether they admitted it or not, the Rabbit Tribe accepted the joining of the Cat Tribe. Other tribes would only regard the two tribes as a whole and could use the excuse of being abandoned by the Beast God to attack the Rabbit Tribe.
Lang Qi lowered his head and saw that Bai Tu was still thinking, and whispered: “You can take him back.” The wolf tribe has a fast support capability. With Langze guarding the rabbit tribe, there is no need to be afraid even if several tribes around make trouble. The wolf tribe is Bai Tu’s confidence.
Bai Tu looked up and noticed the comfort in the other person’s eyes. To be honest, having such an ally around did make him feel at ease.
“Chief, let’s talk to the cat tribe first?” Bai Tu reminded Bai An that it was not a good idea to keep standing still like this. The dozen or so black-footed cats in front were already more nervous than before, and if things dragged on any longer, they would probably start fighting.
Bai An came back to his senses, a little undecided: “Tu, are you sure you want to take them in?”
Lang Qi spoke for Bai Tu: “Well, take them back.”
Since Lang Qi said so, Bai An no longer hesitated. After thinking for a while, he started to negotiate with the cat tribe opposite: “Who is the chief of your tribe?” After saying that, he sighed. How can he negotiate like this? There are a group of beast-shaped orcs opposite, and the only human-shaped one is Mao Kang, who was caught by the wolf tribe yesterday.
“It’s me.” A pleasant voice came from behind the tree, and then a girl about twenty years old appeared in front of everyone, “My name is Mao Lin, and I’m the leader of the Black Cat Tribe.”
“Mao Kang said that you are willing to join the Snow Rabbit Tribe, so we came to pick you up.” After confirming to accept the cat tribe, Bai An’s attitude became more friendly. From now on, they will all be orcs from the same tribe.
Mao Lin stared vigilantly at Lang Qi beside Bai Tu and the wolves behind him, and shouted: “We don’t live with the wolf tribe!” They didn’t inquire clearly when they came here, and the relationship between the wolf tribe and the rabbit tribe had become so good. Mao Lin quietly stretched out his hand to remind the injured tribesmen to retreat first.
“We are the rabbit tribe, and the wolf tribe is just staying here temporarily.” Bai An explained, “The wolf tribe will not hurt you.”
Even so, Mao Lin was still on guard against them. His eyes swept over several people and finally fell on Bai Tu: “Who are you?”
“He is another leader of our tribe.” Bai An said. Bai Tu did not admit that he was a witch doctor, and the black cat tribe might join the tribe, so the identity of the leader was just right to explain it.
Some tribes will have small leaders. Mao Lin had no doubt about it and looked at Bai Tu again. After a moment, he said to Bai An, “We are willing to join the Snow Rabbit Tribe, but he is in charge.”
Bai Tu didn’t expect that the other party would say this after staring at him for a long time. He was very shocked and wanted to say to her, girl, you are suspected of sowing discord. If they replaced their leader with a small mind, the rabbit tribe would be in chaos.
Fortunately, Bai An is not an intolerant leader like Shi Hong. After hearing Mao Lin’s words, he felt relieved: “Okay, you will listen to Tu’s arrangements from now on.” They need to hunt, and Bai Tu will stay in the tribe longer, so it would be best to hand over the cat tribe to Bai Tu.
After hearing what Mao Lin said, Lang Qi’s gaze stayed on the other person for a while, and he called Lang Ze aside. He did not appear again until everyone was ready to return to the tribe, bringing the injured tribesmen with him. The cats turned into beasts to make it easier to escape. After negotiating with Bai An, the other cats no longer hid, but retreated to a hidden place and transformed into orcs.
Due to their body size, as well as being hungry and frightened for so many days, the cats were all very thin. A cat handed the cubs to Mao Lin. Bai Tu took a look and saw that there were five in total. The black-footed cat cubs are about the same size as the rabbit cubs, but much more agile. They have inherited the black-footed cat’s vigilance, and when they see so many orcs outside, they hide quickly and move nimbly.
They can’t be raised together for the time being, Bai Tu thought to himself. Rabbit cubs are as harmless as rabbits themselves and have almost no attack power. If they are suddenly put together, they might suffer. After they are familiar with each other, they can slowly try to let the cubs get along with each other. Having cat cubs playing together is just the right way to train their hunting abilities in advance.
In just a few breaths, Bai Tu had completed the course arrangements for the cubs, and Bai An took the initiative to introduce their tribe to the cats.
There is not much contact between the tribes, and all information about each other is obtained by inquiring. The two tribes do not have a comprehensive understanding of each other. Bai An mainly explained one thing: the Rabbit Tribe had no intention of attacking the Cat Tribe, and at the same time, their tribe did lack orcs.
Mao Lin planned to ask Bai Tu to discuss these things, but was interrupted by Lang Ze just as she brought it up.
“You are entering the Snow Rabbit Tribe, not the Rabbit Clan adding your tribe. It’s already too much to let Tu be busy. Why do you let Tu tell you everything?!” Langze retorted dissatisfiedly. They didn’t dare to tire Bai Tu. Bai Tu was fragile and must be well protected. While they were on the road, they also had to be busy introducing things. Such things can be left to Bai An. Bai Tu only needs to be responsible for walking. Langze even wanted to turn into a beast and carry Bai Tu back directly. Unfortunately, no one agreed to this proposal, especially his brother, who was about to hit someone.
Langze curled his lips. Isn’t it just changing into beast form to go out hunting? They are not the only ones who do this. Why do they dislike his beast form so much? It is obvious that their beast forms are the same, only the body sizes are different.
Bai Tu patted Lang Ze who stood up for him. Although his tone was not good, for his sake, Bai Tu decided to prepare some delicious food for Lang Ze tonight. The feeding for so long was not in vain, which could be seen from his attitude. However, Bai Tu had no intention of making things too awkward between the cat tribe and himself, so he interrupted Lang Ze and explained, “I’m not as clear about these as the tribe leader, so it’s better if he tells you.”
After all, he joined in halfway, and had no memory except what happened after he fell into a coma. He was not clear about how to treat other tribes after accepting them. These Bai Ans were more suitable, and he was only responsible for arranging their accommodation and follow-up work.
After hearing what the two said, Mao Lin no longer mentioned asking Bai Tu to explain, but her impression of the wolf tribe became even worse. She glared at Langze with a stern face. As expected, the wolf tribe was the most annoying race. When he saw Bai Tu’s soothing gaze, he suppressed his rising anger and did not jump up and hit anyone.
Lang Qi seemed to have sensed Mao Lin’s thoughts. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked her up and down.
Mao Lin abruptly withdrew her gaze. No matter in terms of numbers or individual combat power, there was a huge gap between the cat tribe and the wolf tribe. The cat tribe could quickly kill a small wolf, but they had almost no ability to fight back against a large wolf. Lang Ze just had a bad tone and it was just a fight, but with Lang Qi’s attitude, Mao Lin felt for a moment that the other party really wanted to fight. Mao Lin didn’t want to experience how powerful an adult wolf, especially the wolf king, was.
After comforting Maolin, Bai Tu began to think about the body shape issue again. It seemed that he had to be more careful in the future. Fortunately, except for that time when he secretly changed into a beast form, he never changed again. Although sometimes when he saw the cubs playing together happily, he had the idea of joining in, in the end he did not do it because he was worried about being seen.
Bai Tu heaved a sigh of relief and decided to go back and replace the scaled-down version of the tumbler with the cubs. He thought it was interesting when he was carving it, so he made it smaller than the cubs and almost the same size as its original shape. Although no one would care about the size of a tumbler normally, it would still be a dangerous bomb that could explode at any time if left there.
Lang Qi found that Bai Tu was very silent today. He had been unhappy since he saw the cat tribe. He was a little puzzled that he was still like this after returning to the rabbit tribe. He glanced at Lang Ze.
Langze, who was originally planning to take a look at the rabbit tribe, was so frightened by this sight that he almost jumped up: “Brother?” Why are you so fierce?
“It’s okay.” Lang Qi shook his head, remembering that the rabbit tribe had not rested for two days, and reminded, “You should rest.” Like the rabbit tribe, the wolf tribe had not rested much in the past two days, except for hunting and eating. Now they have followed again, and they have been basically busy in the meantime. For energetic orcs, not sleeping for two days will not be affected much, but for weak orcs, they will feel uncomfortable after two days.
“I want to wait for dinner–” Langze didn’t finish his sentence when he noticed that Langqi’s eyes were changing again. His intuition told him that it would be better not to say anything else, so he immediately nodded and agreed, “I’ll go to rest, I’ll be there soon.” Forget it, let’s not think about dinner, but you can go and see the room prepared by the Rabbit Tribe.
This is the first time that Langze has lived in other tribes since he was born. Before, he could only go out when changing salt, and stayed in the Blood Wolf Tribe all the time. He even had requirements on when he could go down the mountain and when he could roar. Suddenly, he joined the Rabbit Tribe and could live here permanently. Langze was so excited that he turned into his original form and rolled on the ground.
Led by Bai An, the cat tribe walked towards the cave prepared for them. Passing by the wolf tribe’s residence, Mao Lin saw the crazy Langze rolling around in the cave for the first time. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. The wolf tribe was still that unpleasant race.
Noticing the gazes at the cave entrance, Langze ignored them, rolled twice in the clean cave, stood up, shook off the non-existent dust on his body, and walked into the cave with his head held high.
Most cave entrances have no cover, and even if there is, it is not completely blocked, so the orcs will consider privacy issues when digging the caves. The largest piece of land in the cave is not at the entrance, but the piece that turns left or right after entering. Some orcs even like to leave a large stone right in front of the entrance without digging, to block the interior of the cave.
This is the part that Langze is looking at now. Although the wolf tribe said that they would bring all the supplies and could transform the caves themselves, the rabbit tribe also tried their best to express their attitude in order to welcome these dozens of friendly allies.
The cave was cleaned thoroughly, and every corner had never been so clean since it was dug. Those places that could not be cleaned were left to their original shape and dug again. The weather was hot, so Bai Tu equipped each cave with herbal bags to repel mosquitoes and insects.
When I first saw it, I was excited about moving, but now I like this cave even more. As the little leader, Langze lives in a room alone, and there is a big stone in the middle, so he can transform into his original form and run in the cave.
Very satisfied with his cave, Langze howled and went out to find his brother: “Brother, the cave prepared by Bai Tu is so good!” The rabbit tribe is so good, he likes it!
“Hmm?” Lang Qi seemed to have heard it, but also seemed not to have. He just said “hmm” casually, and his eyes stopped on Bai Tu who was talking to Mao Lin not far away. It was unknown what he was thinking.
As soon as Langze saw him like this, he knew that he was distracted again. Although he didn’t understand why he was distracted more and more often recently, for the sake of his own life, Langze chose not to ask. His brother’s beatings might not necessarily kill people, but it would hurt a lot, and one beating would make people remember it for more than ten years.
Bai Tu had just finished checking the wounds of the cat tribe. There were a total of 32 orcs in the cat tribe, and nearly half of them were injured. Seven of them had minor wounds that did not affect hunting, while four were almost unable to move. In addition, because they were injured in the rainy season, the wounds were infected due to water. One of them had been in a coma, and Bai Tu discovered that the unconscious orc’s leg bones were slightly dislocated.
“I’ll try my best to help, but I may not be able to fully recover to the state before the injury.” Bone injuries are what Bai Tu is most worried about. There are all kinds of instruments in modern times, but this kind of injury still needs to be treated by a professional doctor. He only knows some pharmacology and has some knowledge of medical skills, but not much. External injuries are easy to occur. As long as the wound is controlled to stop bleeding and inflammation and infection are prevented, half of the success is basically achieved. If there is enough food, the orcs can complete the other half by themselves. When faced with a serious problem like a bone injury, there is only so much he can do. He can only use a splint to fix it and keep the bones from being dislocated, but the subsequent recovery cannot be guaranteed.
“It’s good that you can apply medicine.” When it comes to the injured tribesmen, Mao Lin’s attitude is much more relaxed than before. The injured orcs have not had a good rest in the past few days, and everyone is hiding everywhere, so their injuries are still getting worse. It is a pleasant surprise for them that Bai Tu knows medical skills. As for the extent of recovery, they have no dissatisfaction. It is good enough to be alive after being in a coma for a few days.
Only the cats with bone injuries were in trouble. The others had external injuries, which were infected due to the rain and activities. Even though orcs have strong recovery abilities, this orcish is more frightening than when they were injured. Bai Tu helped clean the wounds, heated up the knife to scrape off the rotten flesh and applied medicine, and then asked Bai Qi to help boil the medicine.
After finishing everything, Bai Tu moved his arms and neck. He tended to get tired when concentrating, not to mention he hadn’t had a rest for the past two days. He rubbed his wrists twice and found something crawling up his body along the animal skin.
Bai Tu lowered his head and saw a black-footed cat cub with black spots on a white background, scratching the animal skin very boldly, with curiosity in its eyes.
“Mimi?” Bai Tu picked up the kitten by the scruff of its neck. “Where did you run from?” After asking, he carried the kitten out to find the orc who was taking care of the kitten.
Lang Qi saw how happy he was when he found the cubs and was thoughtful.
Lang Qi: Take a small notebook and write it down.