Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 83

Chapter 83

“Xiao?” Bai Tu called the other party in a low voice.

“I’m here.” Hei Xiao came back to his senses immediately and nodded, “Well, you go ahead.”

Bai Tu looked back at Lang Qi who had been staring at the two of them, and simply told him Fox Bu’s origins: “I suspect that the Red Eagle tribe’s previous departure from the territory has something to do with Fox Bu.” After all, the timeline of many events in the Red Eagle tribe can be linked to Fox Bu, and Bai Tu doesn’t believe that everything is a coincidence.

Hei Xiao’s expression turned into disappointment at a speed visible to the naked eye, but he quickly cheered up and recalled the situation: “About fifteen or sixteen years ago, the Red Eagle Tribe suddenly became fond of capturing nearby cubs. At first everyone thought that the cubs were naughty and left the nest early, but later they found out that the Red Eagle Tribe took the cubs away while their relatives were out hunting.”

The living habits of the Feather Tribe are different from those of the orcs. They like to build nests on cliffs or trees, and the eggs are incubated by the cub’s parents in turn. Only one person can hunt during the incubation period, and there is less food, so both parents will lose weight. After the cubs hatch, the parents usually go out hunting together to feed the cubs and replenish their own bodies, because the newborn cubs will not easily leave the nest.

This way of raising cubs was very common in the Feather Tribe, until that summer, when more cubs were lost than before. The tribes gradually realized something was wrong and pretended to go out hunting, but actually went out for a circle and returned to their nest from the back mountain, where they encountered a red eagle that tried to steal the cubs.

In order to conceal their baldness, the people of the Red Eagle tribe plucked out their feathers to cover their bald heads and sneaked into the tribe. They only knew that they could not tell the races of the hungry cubs by the sound of their cries, and they almost always caught them all since they had no ability to resist.

The total number of cubs captured from several tribes that year was over thirty. The tribe with the most had eight stolen, and the one with the least had four. The Red Eagle Tribe suddenly became the hated tribe of all the tribes, and several Feathered Tribes worked together to drive the Red Eagle Tribe out of their territory.

One difference between the Red Eagle Clan and most Feather Clan is that they do not have to eat fresh food. Most Orcs and Feather Clan will get sick if they eat rotten food, suffering from vomiting and diarrhea at the mildest, and even life-threatening at the worst. Fresh prey is not always available, which means that even some large and powerful tribes will have to starve when there is no prey to capture and the stored prey is gone. Some foods go bad due to improper storage and have to be thrown away. Only those who don’t care about their lives dare to pick them up and eat them.

The Red Eagle tribe is completely different. They can still eat rotten food and even like it very much. When food is consumed in the late rainy season and winter, they will look for food that was previously thrown away by other tribes. They can even eat the corpses of orcs and feathered people. In the entire Beast God Continent, there is almost nothing that the Red Eagle Tribe doesn’t eat. They eat fresh food when there is fresh food, and eat carrion when there is no fresh food. If there is no carrion, they eat dead orcs or feathered tribes. The chance of starving to death is very small. The number of people in the Red Eagle Tribe reached more than 2,000 at its peak, and it was once the largest tribe in the southern continent.

If the act of stealing cubs had not been too extreme, a few Eagle tribe members would not have been able to drive people away. Many Feather tribe members were injured in that war. Since then, the Red Eagle Tribe left the central area of ​​the southern continent and moved to the ownerless east, far away from other Eagle tribes. Other Feather tribes also heard less and less about the Red Eagle Tribe.

This time, Heiyan got the news through the Iron Elephant Tribe. Just as Bai Tu guessed, the first three orcs who recovered said that they had met people from the Red Eagle Tribe, and were stabbed by them, and then lost consciousness.

Because of the appearance of the fallen beasts, the Iron Elephant Tribe hardly communicated with the outside tribes, and even knives were rarely sold to the outside world. This was because a lot of the iron refined by the tribe was used to make iron cages. After all, the orcs of the elephant tribe were huge in size, and there was no way to lock people up without a sturdy cage. The first fallen orc injured many people when he went crazy.

The Iron Elephant Tribe captured several people from the Red Eagle Tribe, but they obtained very little information from interrogation. Those people all obeyed the orders of the witch. The witch gave them medicine, smeared it on the knife, and stabbed other people with it, and then quickly ran away. They didn’t know anything else.

Bai Tu pondered these words over and over again. The Red Eagle Tribe had stolen cubs before, and combined with the actions of Wu Jiu’s lineage, it was basically certain that it was Wu Lai who did it. The cubs were probably a tool used by Wu Lai to surrender to Wu Jiu. The orcs of the Iron Elephant Tribe were injured in the same way as Langqi, and they also turned into fallen beasts after being injured. If it takes six or seven months for Langqi to recover, it will be around next summer. If you want to speed up, you have to find the culprit.

But the cubs… Bai Tu suddenly asked, “Were all the Eagle cubs captured alive?”

Hei Xiao’s expression instantly became complicated. He touched Bai Tu’s head lightly, and quickly retracted his touch when Bai Tu looked up, “Not only the Eagle tribe, but also other races. The Red Eagle tribe has captured more than a dozen kinds of cubs, and all of them were taken away alive.” This is also something that puzzles many tribes. If there is a grudge between tribes, they may try to take revenge on each other’s cubs. Some competing tribes, such as the neighboring Lion and Leopard tribes, would basically not leave each other’s cubs alive. The Red Eagle tribe was not seeking revenge or killing for food, but specifically captured the cubs of other tribes.

The other party’s movements were very light. Bai Tu thought there was something on his head and didn’t pay attention to it. Thinking of the dead lion cubs, he immediately stood up and said, “I know what’s wrong.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone else in the tribe looked at him, from Hei Xiao to Lang Qi, Lang Ze and Hei Yan, all of them had puzzled expressions, and the two people who were secretly kicking each other stopped.

Bai Tu didn’t explain anything. He went straight to Wolf Right and asked the orcs who lost their cubs: “Did you see the cubs being killed with your own eyes?”

Shi Zhen’s little daughter Shi Jia thought of the scene that day and shook her head at Bai Tu: “No, Shi Ming said the cub was not his child, so he took the cub away.”

The orcs next to Shi Jia nodded. Only the two partners of Shi Hong were in a different situation: “After Shi Hong took the cub away, Fox Bu sent the dead cub back.”

The orcs who saw the cubs die wanted to attack Fox Bu like crazy, but were blocked by the orcs who were protecting Fox Bu. Many orcs can quickly get out of the pain after losing their cubs, because it is a very difficult thing to raise a cub successfully, but they can’t. If the cub died due to lack of food or illness, they can accept it, but now the cub can obviously survive healthily, but it has lost its life just because of a doubt from its partner. How can the mother not feel heartbroken.

No matter how loving she and Shi Ming were before, Shi Jia quickly got rid of his entanglement. When she heard that Shi Ming died in the cave a few days ago, she didn’t feel as sad as before. Shi Ming deserved it. Shi Jia even felt that Shi Ming had suffered too little before his death!

Bai Tu compiled a list. Those in front of him were orcs who bore grudges against their partners, a total of thirty-one people. There were also several mothers who had to silently endure the injustice of their partners due to their identities and other reasons. A total of forty-one cubs were taken away from the orcs in front of him. In fact, the three partners of Shi Hong saw the bodies of the cubs, a total of five cubs, and the remaining thirty-six cubs were nowhere to be found, either alive or dead.

The cubs were also taken away, but there were about ten people who were not here. According to the fact that lions have about a one-third chance of giving birth to twins, there were about thirteen cubs taken away, and no one saw the bodies of the cubs either.

There were nearly fifty cubs. Bai Tu wrote down the data, called out to Shi Zhen, and asked him about the exact time when he saw the man from the Red Eagle tribe.

Shi Zhen couldn’t remember the exact date, but he remembered that it was spring, which was the time when the hunting success rate was the highest.

“I remember one time when the people from the Bald Tribe came over, my cub had just been taken away!” One of the orcs suddenly spoke up, “I went to look for the cub but couldn’t find it. I only saw the people from the Bald Tribe. Later they said the cub had been killed.”

The orcs speculated with an expression of disbelief: “They gave the cubs to the people of the Bald Tribe to eat???” Their own cubs became someone else’s food, which was even more difficult to accept than knowing that the cubs were dead. After the death of the orcs in the Beast God Continent, they would be buried at the foot of a mountain not far from the tribe, which was equivalent to returning to the arms of the Beast God. So their children didn’t even have the chance to return to the Beast God?

A group of mothers who thought that losing their cubs was enough to make them despair collapsed instantly. This speculation plunged everyone into the abyss of despair.

“No, it is possible that the cubs were alive when they were taken away.” Bai Tu said. He suspected that the cubs were not dead. Wu Jiu liked to use the blood of the cubs to summon the power of the Beast God, and so did Wu Lai. Living cubs were more useful to them than dead cubs. Moreover, time was so tight that the people from the Red Eagle tribe arrived just as the cubs were taken away. I’m afraid that the cubs taken away by Shi Hong and the little leaders have all gone to Wu Lai.

Hearing that the cub might be alive, a group of people immediately looked at Bai Tu: “Baitu, can you help us find the cub?”

“Please help me bring the cub back…”

“Tu…”

Lang Qi protected Bai Tu: “Find your own cub.” Bai Tu was soft-hearted, but it was very dangerous to enter the Red Eagle Tribe. Lang Qi did not intend to let Bai Tu take risks, not to mention that the cubs they were saving were from the Lion Clan.

Bai Tu did not agree to their request, and reminded them that it was only a possibility: “I’m not sure whether the cub is alive. If you want to know where the cub is, it depends on whether Foxbu is willing to tell the truth.” Judging from the current situation, the whereabouts of the cub are only known by Foxbu and the people he trusts, but the people trusted by Foxbu often worship Foxbu to the point of madness. At least now there are still a dozen lions who are working and looking for opportunities to help Foxbu implement the so-called “swallow the rabbit and kill the wolf” plan.

After hearing this, everyone started talking.

“I will answer whatever you ask.”

“I know who Foxbu has been in contact with.”

The group of mothers seemed to be energized. Before, everyone’s mentality was to muddle through, and many of them had found new partners. Now that they knew the cubs might be alive, no one could give up. The number of cubs in each litter of the lion clan has been decreasing. Decades ago, there would be three or four or even more cubs in a litter. Now, there are fewer cubs than two, and more are just one. Many orcs can only raise two or three or even fewer cubs in their lifetime. How can they not be excited to know that the cubs might still be alive.

“If you cooperate, I will do my best. But how many cubs survive in the end is not up to me.” Bai Tu promised, but at the same time he told everyone a fact. He could only say that the cubs were alive when they were taken away, but he was not sure what the cubs had experienced afterwards or whether they are still alive now. Bai Tu didn’t want to let them be happy for nothing, so he told them all the possibilities now.

Shijia raised her head and replied on behalf of everyone: “We will help you whether the cub is alive or not.” Even if the cub is gone, for them, Bai Tu’s willingness to help find it is something they should be grateful for.

Bai Tu nodded and decided to find out as much as possible about the current situation of the cubs: “You should recall the details that you missed before. Not only Foxbu, but also think about whether others have contacted other tribes. I will go to find Foxbu first.”

The cave where Foxbu was imprisoned was downstairs. When Bai Tu arrived, two wolf boys were bringing water to Foxbu. One held Foxbu’s hand, and the other opened Foxbu’s bite stopper. The moment the bite stopper was released, the two ran away.

Foxbu stretched out his hand to catch the two wolves, but failed. He saw Bai Tu at the entrance of the cave. Just as he was about to curse and mock him, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Hei Xiao beside Bai Tu. His face turned pale in an instant, and his eyes were full of fear: “How is it possible…” How could Hei Xiao find Bai Tu so early? It was obvious that there were still many years before the two of them recognized each other.

The terrifying state of these two people together was a nightmare that he had feared for the rest of his life.