Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 81

Chapter 81

There is no marriage law in the Beast God Continent, and there is no unified regulation on the number of partners. Most of the time, it is a concept formed within the tribe that is tacitly accepted by all members. Orcs of the same race will have similar concepts. However, due to reasons such as distance and inconvenient transportation, there are some minor changes under the generally similar concepts. Therefore, even if they are orcs of the same species with the same animal form, their different tribes will have different ways of getting along with their partners.

The rabbit tribe will look for an orc they like to become their partner. If their partner dies or the two have a disagreement, they may look for a second partner, but generally no one looks for a second partner at the same time. Tu Cheng was very dissatisfied with this rule at the beginning.

The wolf tribe is similar to the rabbit tribe in that they only recognize one partner. The difference is that due to their personality, it is rare for a wolf to find a second partner after their partner dies. Some wolf tribe leaders died because they were defeated by orcs who were competing for the position of wolf king. The partner of the former wolf king would take the children to a place far away from the tribe to raise them.

There are two ways for lions to get along with their partners. Some are like rabbits and wolves, only looking for one partner. Most orcs who are leaders or sub-leaders like to find multiple partners like Shi Hong.

Many orcs do not bring their cubs to the public immediately after giving birth. This is the case with the Lion Tribe. After giving birth, the first step for an orc to bring the cubs back to the tribe is to get the recognition of his partner. Only in this way can the cubs get the protection and food of their father. If a male lion finds out that the child is not his own, some will drive away both his partner and the child, while others will simply bite them to death. Some vicious male lions will not only kill the cubs, but will also bite or even kill their partner.

In fact, the cubs were born in different environments and came into contact with different orcs, so the male lion’s identification was not completely correct. However, due to long-standing habits and the fact that such things only happened occasionally, with only one or two people involved and few in number, no one questioned whether this decision was correct.

However, in the past two years, nearly a quarter of the newborn cubs in the tribe were killed for this reason. Even if the lion tribe has many cubs, this number is terrifying enough. However, the decision-makers are Shi Hong and other small leaders. Most of the orcs who have lost their children are not as high-ranking as them. In addition, sometimes after killing the cubs, they will be “soft-hearted” and spare the lives of their partners. Only the orcs who have lost their cubs can understand how unfair it is.

Some mothers were killed along with their cubs, some chose to mate with other orcs, and some chose to quit the hunting team and join the team raising the cubs in the tribe. Some orcs go crazy after losing their cubs and crazily kill other young cubs.

After finding out the truth, Bai Tu locked up the orcs who had suffered the same fate and had not harmed the other cubs in a cave, asking them to consider whether to tell him or not.

Bai Tu knew very well how important a child was to a mother, and knew that this was the easiest place to make a breakthrough. As leaders or companions of sub-leaders, they knew more than the orcs of lower status. At the same time, they had conflicts of interest with Shi Hong and others, and would not side with them.

Bai Tu sympathized with the plight of these orcs, and while reminding them of the number of cubs that had died in the past two years, he also treated them better than the other lion tribes.

Recently, these orcs have revealed some information to a greater or lesser extent, but most of them are disheartened because their cubs were killed by their ex-partners, so they don’t pay much attention to the content. But it was not completely fruitless, as several orcs chose to ask their families.

Bai Tu also sorted out a clue. Among the orcs whose cubs died, most of their relatives did not have a good relationship with Shi Hong or Fox Bu, but because of their abilities, they had some prestige in the tribe.

The whole thing was much easier to sort out. The death of the cubs was closely related to Shi Hong and Fox Bu. These orcs originally hated Shi Hong for harming the tribe and causing the current situation. Of course, they tried their best to recall the questions asked by Bai Tu, such as the orcs who had close contact with Fox Bu, or the tribe that Fox Bu frequently contacted.

The lion who brought the news today is called Shi Zhen, the father of Shi Hong’s deceased partner. He had two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter became a partner with Shi Hong and died of a serious illness after giving birth to a child. The youngest daughter married another young chief in the tribe two years ago, and the cub she gave birth to last year was bitten to death by the young chief. In a fit of rage, Shi Zhen took his two sons to bite off the other person’s leg. Afterwards, the three were punished by Shi Hong.

Shi Zhen recalled some things he had seen before, that Shi Hong and Fox Step often contacted the Bald Tribe.

The real name of the Bald Tribe is the Red Eagle Tribe. Their feathers are not red, but the faces and necks of the people of the Red Eagle Tribe will turn particularly red when they fight for food, so they are called this. As for the name of the Bald Tribe, it was given by other orcs. The people of the Red Eagle Tribe, whether in beast or human form, have no hair, and their heads are completely bald, so they are called bald.

Bai Tu: “Did the bald guy land in the Southern Continent?” The Feather Tribe generally lived in the Southern Continent. In the past, he could just ask Lang Qi about this kind of thing. Sometimes Lang Qi would tell him on his own initiative even without him asking. Bai Tu sighed slightly. After all, it was still not as convenient as before.

“Their territory is where the South Continent meets the East Continent.”

Bai Tu was about to nod when he realized that this was not Shi Zhen’s answer. He was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Lang Qi beside him, somewhat unbelieving: “You remembered it?” This is a big deal, more exciting than all the news.

Lang Qi shook his head. He didn’t remember anything else, but he thought of the answer as soon as Bai Tu asked.

And he thought of more than just this sentence. Lang Qi said the rest: “The Bald Tribe used to be adjacent to the Black Hawk Tribe. Because of conflicts, they were driven away by the Black Hawk Tribe and several surrounding Eagle tribes, and finally moved to between the two continents in the southeast.”

Seeing him shaking his head, Bai Tu’s surprise instantly fell back, thinking that the current situation was much better than the beginning, and comforted himself in his heart that now he had found more and more content, and he would always be able to find the answer. Thinking of this, Bai Tu calmed down.

Shi Zhen looked at him with admiration: “The Wolf King is right. The Red Eagle Tribe was driven out by other Eagle tribes, but no one knows the specific reason.” After all, the distance is too far. The market is usually just an exchange between orcs from the same continent. Few people cross such a long distance to another continent. Not to mention how dangerous it is, just the food that needs to be prepared in the middle is not something that ordinary tribes can afford.

It is also for this reason that the lag in information transmission between different continents is very serious. Sometimes other continents only know about things that happened two or three years ago. For example, the Iron Elephant Tribe has not exchanged iron knives for a long time, and the East Continent has not received any news yet.

Bai Tu nodded. It was not difficult to find out the reason for the conflict. Hei Xiao came over immediately. He had a hunch that there was definitely a connection between the Red Eagle Tribe being collectively excluded by other Eagle tribes and Fox Bu’s connection with the Red Eagle Tribe.

However, Shi Zhen only knew that Fox Bu had connections with the Bald Tribe, and he didn’t know more. After the death of his eldest daughter, Shi Hong accused his daughter of failing to raise the cubs well and blamed him. Later, he had a conflict with another small chief, and Shi Hong became even more wary of him.

Just when he was regretting not observing it more carefully, Shi Zhen suddenly remembered something: “Once I heard someone from the Bald Head Tribe saying something to Fox Bu.”

Bai Tu perked up: “What did he say?”

Shi Zhen glanced at Lang Qi and said: “That person said to Fox Bu: Lord Wu Lai misses you very much. Fox Bu’s face turned ugly when he heard it.” Shi Zhen had no good impression of Fox Bu. After all, the other party replaced his daughter’s position. He even suspected that his daughter’s death was related to Fox Bu. You know, his daughter was one of the strongest members of the hunting team. How could it be such a coincidence that she died not long after Fox Bu arrived at the tribe. Therefore, when Shi Zhen saw Fox Bu’s expression, he just felt relieved.

Bai Tu frowned: “Wu Lai?” He had some psychological trauma towards people with the word “Wu” in their names. Although he couldn’t generalize all witch doctors, it was not a good thing to mention it several times.

Lang Qi automatically continued, “Wu Jiu’s eldest disciple was a nobody before, but he was suddenly valued by Wu Jiu more than ten years ago. His status kept rising and he became the eldest disciple three years ago.” He added, “Wu Jiu’s disciples are ranked according to their abilities. The higher the ability, the higher the ranking.” Now that he can become the eldest disciple, his status is only below Wu Jiu, which is much higher than that of the idiot who named himself Wu Jiulun in order to please Wu Jiu.

“Three years…” Bai Tu pondered over this time. It was three years ago that Foxbu returned to the Red Fox Tribe.

Bai Tu pondered, and suddenly asked about another time: “When exactly did the Red Eagle Tribe move to the new territory?”

Lang Qi: “Fifteen years ago.”

“How old is Fox Bu now?”

This question stumped Lang Qi. He didn’t like either the Red Fox Tribe or the Crazy Lion Tribe, and he didn’t know anything about Fox Bu’s age.

Watching the two asking and answering each other, Shi Zhen finally found the words he could answer: “Twenty-three, he was twenty-one when he and Shi Hong became a partner.” At that time, the eldest daughter was still alive, so of course Shi Zhen had to find out the identity and age of Shi Hong’s new partner.

Bai Tu nodded and connected the timeline. Sixteen years ago, the seven-year-old Fox Bu left the tribe and went far away. Fifteen years ago, the Red Eagle tribe offended the surrounding tribes and moved away from their original territory. Then, the inconspicuous Wu Lai became Wu Jiu’s most valued disciple step by step. Three years ago, Wu Lai became Wu Jiu’s eldest apprentice. At the same time, Fox Bu returned to the Red Fox Tribe and claimed that he had learned medical skills from the big tribe.

The relationship between Hu Bu and Wu Lai is obvious, and the rest depends on what happened in the first place.

Bai Tu’s anticipation for Hei Xiao’s arrival increased even more.

Because Shi Zhen and his daughter cooperated well, and their family did not hurt the wolf clan, Bai Tu found Lang You and let them choose their jobs first.

There are too many people in the Lion Tribe, and they cannot all be locked up and idle. Some people who are confirmed to have no intention of causing trouble are eligible to work. These people do not have points for working now, but they have enough food, which is enough for the Lion Tribe, which was originally severely oppressed by the Crazy Lion Tribe, to choose to obey. After all, it’s the same work, but here I don’t get beaten and I can still eat enough, which is much better than my previous life. It is especially exciting to hear that if you perform well you can become an official member of the tribe.

There are also some orcs who are like Shi Zhen. If they cooperate with the inquiries, the treatment will be better. They have a chance to choose the work project. Different jobs have different treatments. They can choose according to their needs. It is more humane.

As for those small leaders of the Lion Clan who still want to annex the Rabbit Clan, they will not be so lucky. What awaits them will be the hardest and most tiring work, which will be forced upon them. If they do not work, they will be beaten and starved. No tribe will support idle people.

After arranging this, Bai Tu took Lang Qi back together and asked a lot of questions along the way. He discovered a pattern. Lang Qi indeed had not recovered yet, but he seemed to have a knowledge reserve in his mind. Only after saying the conjunctions could he give an answer.

Bai Xiang started asking questions as if he had a voice assistant, which was very interesting.

Bai Tu: “Who is Langze?”

Lang Qi thought for a moment: “A kid who deserves a beating.”

Bai Tu: “Who is Bai Tu?”

Lang Qi glanced at him and said nothing.

Bai Tu wanted to ask the cub again, but then he remembered that cubs cannot be named before the age of three, and he couldn’t help but sigh.

As the two were asking and answering each other, Langze ran over with a panicked look on his face: “Brother! Tu! Help!”

Bai Tu was startled: “What’s wrong?”

“That Foxbu is crazy!”

“Huh?” Bai Tu frowned. He still wanted to keep him to get some information, but he was so fragile.

Langze nodded desperately, with a look of horror on his face: “He he he…he touched me randomly!”