All The Furry Creatures In The Beast World Are Farming With Me – CH46

Chapter 46

No matter the race, beastmen cherished the cubs of their own tribes deeply. Within the limits of their ability, beastmen would provide cubs with the best possible life, ensuring that the cubs could grow up smoothly.

The birth rate of beastman cubs was lower than that of primitive beasts, but their chance of dying young was not much lower. Therefore, beastmen of all ages in a tribe took on the responsibility of protecting cubs. Even the usually unreliable sub-adults would be more careful than usual when looking after cubs.

Yesterday, almost every member of the Black Wolf Tribe had mobilized, thinking of ways to search for the cubs. In the morning, after hearing the good news, they began preparing supplies to send to the Snow Wolf Tribe.

The prey had to be the freshest. Several hunting parties went out specifically to catch a few curved-horned beasts. The gathering team selected the most complete foods in the tribe and packed them into back baskets.

Everyone had thought that if things went smoothly this time, they could bring the cubs back. Even if it did not go smoothly, they would at least be able to see the cubs.

In the end, as soon as they arrived, before they even saw the cubs, they first heard the cubs’ terrified cries.

Whether or not they were the cubs’ parents, everyone’s hearts clenched painfully at that moment.

After learning the reason the cubs were afraid, the group of black wolves wished they could immediately skin Hu Yun alive and swallow him whole.

They left behind sub-beastmen and female beastmen who were comparatively familiar to the cubs and did not seem very threatening, while the other members followed Lang Yan back to the place in Snow Wolf territory where the cubs had been found and began searching for Hu Yun again.

Unlike last time, which had been filled with worry, this time, everyone was holding back a fire inside.

Last night, after Lang Yong smelled food, they had been anxious to find the Snow Wolf Tribe members and ask about the cubs’ whereabouts. No one had cared where Hu Yun had hidden.

This time was different. The cubs had been wronged, and the adult black wolves had nowhere to vent their rage. They had to find Hu Yun.

His scent was covered? No problem. One team in each direction. At worst, they would turn the entire territory over. Hu Yun had not carried many supplies, and almost no food. It was impossible for him to have gone far all at once. Right now, he was probably hiding somewhere trying to find a way to get supplies. They would definitely find him.

Just as several teams were about to split up and search, a few familiar figures appeared in Lang Yan’s field of vision.

The sub-adults led by Lang Yong also saw them and ran to them in one breath, panting as they said, “Chief, we found… found him.”

“Found what?”

“Hu… Hu Yun.” Lang Yong panted several times in a row. Only after calming his breathing did he continue, “The Gray Wolf Tribe brought him over.”

“The Gray Wolf Tribe?” Lang Yan did not think the Gray Wolf Tribe would be so kind. That fellow Hui Xing was the type who loved watching chaos and would never complain that things were too lively. Helping send over a fleeing priest did not seem like their style no matter how one looked at it.

Lang Yong nodded. “The Gray Wolf Tribe’s chief brought him over. It’s Hui Xing.”

Lang Yan nodded to show he understood, then told the sub-adults to rest here for a while while they returned to the tribe first.

Hearing this, Lang Yong and the sub-adults behind him instantly had shining eyes.

Rest for a while. Did that mean they could…

The sub-adults’ gazes uncontrollably drifted toward the Snow Wolf Tribe’s residence.

“Where are you thinking of going?” Lang Yan’s voice woke the group of sub-adults.

Lang Yong immediately answered with a serious expression, “We’re going to look at the cubs.”

Lang Yan said, “No need to look. The cubs are resting. I’ll wait for you in the tribe.”

The sub-adults: “???”

There was no need to wait for them! Really!

However, Lang Yan paid no attention to them at all and left with the team.

The sub-adults looked at one another.

In truth, only two or three people were needed to deliver the message, but all of them had come because they wanted to see if they could take this chance to stay a while longer. In the end, the chief actually wanted to wait for them to return.

Even if the chief did not say it, they could guess that if they did not go back this time, tomorrow they would be beaten even harder than last time.

Their plan to go to the Snow Wolf Tribe’s residence fell through. The sub-adults, who had made the trip for nothing, sighed, lowered their heads dejectedly, turned around, and walked back toward the tribe.

Lang Yan and the others moved very quickly. While the sub-adults were still conflicted, they had already reached the tribe and saw Hui Xing and the others waiting there, along with Hu Yun, who could not understand why Hui Xing had suddenly stopped being fooled.

Hui Xing had originally been sitting calmly on a stone at the foot of the mountain. Seeing Lang Yan, he immediately stood up, looked left and right, and finally moved a few steps beside Hui Shan, putting some distance between himself and Lang Yan.

Hui Shan’s brain did not work very well, but he was obedient, especially when it came to protecting his own chief. He directly stood in front of Hui Xing.

Hui Xing nodded, feeling much more at ease.

Lang Yan ignored these little movements and looked at Hu Yun.

From the moment Hu Yun was escorted all the way into the Black Wolf Tribe’s territory, he had felt something was wrong. When they reached the foot of the Black Wolf Tribe’s mountain and he saw that the members remaining in the tribe showed none of the worry or tension of losing cubs, only hatred toward him, he knew something had gone wrong.

But he did not understand. Yesterday, Hui Xing had clearly trusted him very much and followed along with his words. How had he suddenly changed his mind today?

When he saw Lang Yan and the hunting party members return without a single wound on them, Hu Yun found it even more unbelievable.

“Impossible, absolutely impossible…” Hu Yun shook his head in terror. How could it be like this? How had the two tribes not started fighting?

The cubs had died in the other party’s territory, yet the Black Wolf Tribe had not acted?

Hu Yun could not understand.

Meeting Lang Yan’s cold gaze, Hu Yun shivered. Only belatedly did he realize what the things he had done meant to the wolf race, and he could not help retreating a few steps. Suddenly, his foot went soft, as if he had stepped on something.

“Hiss—” Hui Xing, who had been hiding beside Hui Shan, had his foot stepped on by Hu Yun. He had only made a small sound when he realized Lang Yan was looking at him. He quickly swallowed the rest of his words and reached out to shove Hu Yun forward.

“Yesterday, he ran to our tribe and said you would fight with the Snow Wolf Tribe, telling us to take advantage of your injuries to occupy your territory. I brought him over. I never thought of stealing your territory.” While speaking, Hui Xing observed Lang Yan’s expression. After saying it all in one breath, he saw Lang Yan did not move, so he hurriedly grabbed Hui Shan, ready to run at any moment.

“Many thanks.” Lang Yan knew Hui Xing was not that kind-hearted, and there was probably another hidden story in the middle. But none of that was important. Hui Xing bringing Hu Yun over had saved him a lot of trouble.

Hui Xing looked carefully and confirmed that Lang Yan was seriously saying this, not mocking him. He secretly let out a breath of relief.

“Then there’s nothing else. We’re leaving.” Hui Xing quickly dragged Hui Shan and left with the remaining gray wolf members.

Lang Yan did not stop them.

“Chief Hui Xing!” Hu Yun tried to persuade Hui Xing to change his mind.

In the end, Hui Xing ran even faster.

Hui Xing ran in one breath until they were outside the Black Wolf Tribe’s territory before stopping. Seeing no one chasing after them, he secretly let out a breath of relief.

Good, good. The Black Wolf Tribe’s members had not followed.

Once they reached their own tribe’s territory, Hui Xing instantly changed from his timid manner just now. “Go, go, go. Back to the tribe.” That had scared him to death.

Black Wolf Tribe.

Lang Qi stretched his hands and feet, his gaze fixed on Hu Yun as he asked Lang Yan, “Boss, can we act now?”

Behind him, a group of wolves cracked their knuckles.

Lang Yan glanced at Hu Yun, then shifted his gaze away. “Don’t beat him to death.”

Hearing this, Hu Yun suddenly began struggling. “No, you can’t hit me! I’m a priest! I’m the priest of the Black Wolf Tribe. If you hit me, you’ll be punished by the Beast God! Your entire tribe will be condemned by the Beast God!”

Hu Yun’s heart-rending roar made several members pause.

On the Beast God Continent, priests had a special status because legend said they could communicate with deities.

The Black Wolf Tribe had been willing to tolerate Hu Yun not only because he knew medicine, but also because they were wary of this layer of identity.

Lang Yan looked at Hu Yun, who was still trying to threaten people even with death at hand, and said, “If the Beast God were to condemn anyone, the first person he would kill would be you.”

The members who had hesitated just now reacted. Even if the Beast God punished beastmen, the first to be punished would be Hu Yun, who had deliberately abandoned cubs. If Hu Yun truly could communicate with the Beast God, then he could not possibly have acted against cubs.

Realizing that Hu Yun had just been frightening them, the group of black wolf members, who had already been suppressing their anger, immediately had no more misgivings.

Lang Yan did not take part in this one-sided beating. He went to the cave storing food and selected half a horned beast, asked two members to divide the meat into small pieces and pack them into back baskets, then picked up one of the back baskets and said to the black wolf members who were still attacking, “Enough. Go to Beast Mountain.”

Hearing this, the group of black wolves stopped moving.

Hu Yun, who had been beaten half to death, heard the words Beast Mountain and even forgot to struggle. Beast Mountain, Beast Mountain—those two words kept cycling in his mind.

Among the Black Wolf Tribe members over twelve years old, no one did not know of Beast Mountain’s existence.

The Black Wolf Tribe’s territory was large, and there were many mountain ranges. One row of mountains was rather special. From the outside, it looked no different from ordinary mountains and could be climbed. But once one crossed the mountain, it became a cliff. From below the cliff, there was no way to climb back up, completely separating the area below the cliff from the tribe’s other territory. Everyone called it Beast Mountain.

Inside were beastmen who had lost their reason because of severe beastification and could no longer transform into human form. In other words, fallen beasts.

After suffering excessive stimulation, beastmen could undergo a beastification reaction, uncontrollably turning into beast form. Beastmen with severe beastification were called fallen beasts. They could not change back into human form and were no different from primitive beasts, only obeying their own instincts. Each tribe handled fallen beasts differently. Some tribes killed them directly. Some tribes drove them out of the territory. The Black Wolf Tribe’s method was to send them to Beast Mountain.

There were quite a few prey animals on Beast Mountain. Prey often stepped wrong and fell down. Those prey that fell to their deaths, along with the prey at the bottom of the cliff, were food for the fallen beasts.

Hu Yun had seen the scene below the cliff. Black wolf beastmen already liked fighting to begin with, and those fallen beasts, aside from eating, only knew how to fight. It was more terrifying than any other place.

Hu Yun had thought Lang Yan would beat him and drive him out of the tribe. He had not expected Lang Yan to actually plan to throw him under Beast Mountain.

Looking at the raw meat chunks Lang Yan carried, Hu Yun’s pupils trembled. Fallen beasts had sharper noses than ordinary beastmen. These foods with a bloody smell would attract fallen beasts. One did not need to think to know the scene he would face next.

“No, I won’t go. I won’t go to Beast Mountain—” Hu Yun struggled to crawl up, wanting to avoid the black wolf members grabbing him.

However, at this moment, it was no longer up to him. Hu Yun was dragged to Beast Mountain.

“Throw him down,” Lang Yan said.

The black wolf members dragging Hu Yun pushed the weak-legged Hu Yun off the cliff.

The height of the cliff was about the same as three or four beastmen added together. Beastmen and fallen beasts would not die from falling down, but they could be injured. Because of this, the Black Wolf Tribe threw dry grass down there every year, forming a thick layer, enough for people to be alive when they went down.

After falling down the cliff, Hu Yun instinctively screamed.

Not far away, a black fallen beast that had been dozing opened its eyes. Seeing an unfamiliar beastman appear, it began calling its companions.

Lang Yan poured the raw meat in the back basket down.

The bloody smell of food attracted even more fallen beasts closer.

After pouring down all the food, Lang Yan watched more and more fallen beasts gather together and withdrew his gaze in satisfaction. “Let’s go.”

Fallen beasts were very close to primitive beasts, while also carrying a little of the personality traits from when they were cubs. Fighting and playing were common. Toward living things that did not pose much threat to them, fallen beasts would not bite them to death at once. Instead, they would pounce and bite them like toys until the other party could no longer endure it.

The cubs’ unease and fear—Hu Yun could slowly experience them.

…

Snow Wolf Tribe.

Cubs’ emotions would affect one another. Lang Shuo was afraid the two groups of cubs would become more and more anxious, so he separated them. The snow wolf cubs were placed on the inner side, the black wolf cubs on the outer side, with him blocking between them to make sure the cubs could not see each other. Then he held one basket in each hand and gently rocked them.

The dim cave increased their sense of safety. Coupled with Lang Shuo’s soothing, the cubs soon closed their eyes to sleep. Only occasionally would they suddenly twitch, as if frightened.

Only after the cubs fell asleep did Lang Shuo carefully set the baskets down. Last night, he had not noticed, but now, looking carefully, he found that many of the black wolf cubs did not sleep very peacefully. They had probably dreamed of what happened yesterday.

Lang Shuo reached out and rubbed the cubs’ heads.

Feeling the familiar scent, the cubs’ expressions slowly relaxed.

Not long after, the sleeping cubs suddenly changed expressions. Their lips moved, and two of them drooled.

Lang Shuo was worried the drool would wake the cubs being used as pillows by these two, so he took a piece of soft animal hide and helped them wipe the corners of their mouths clean. Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, he heard one of them murmuring something in a low voice.

Lang Shuo stopped moving, slowly withdrew his hand, leaned closer to the cub, and carefully listened to the cub’s voice.

After a long while, the cub let out a low awoo.

The sound was not loud, but Lang Shuo was right beside it, so he heard clearly. This time, what the cub said was not the encrypted language unique to cubs, but the kind used by beastmen when they were in beast form.

The cub smacked its mouth. “Awoo~” Delicious.

Lang Shuo: “…”

He did not know what delicious thing the cub had dreamed of, but it was better than having a nightmare. Lang Shuo gently patted the cubs who had not yet fallen deeply asleep and almost lulled himself to sleep with the rhythm.

After finally coaxing the remaining cubs to sleep, Lang Shuo yawned and was hesitating whether to go out and take a look or stay with the cubs and nap for a while when Lang Yun’s voice came from the cave entrance.

“Shuo?” Afraid of waking the cubs, Lang Yun lowered her voice as she called.

Lang Shuo waved to her, checked the cubs on both sides, and after confirming that none were pretending to sleep, got up and went to find Lang Yun. “What’s wrong?”

Lang Yun pointed at the Black Wolf Tribe members outside. “Shuo, what plants should we teach them to pick?”

Lang Yun had originally wanted to arrange for these black wolf beastmen to rest first. After all, it was already night. In the end, they refused and wanted to memorize the plants the Snow Wolf Tribe needed tonight so they could pick them in their tribe tomorrow.

Lang Shuo had not expected the Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team to plan on working continuously like this. It was too harmful to the body. After thinking for a moment, he went to the side of the cave and took down several dried plants of each type to use as samples, then handed them to them. “For now, collect these first. If you encounter plants with strange smells, please help bring some back too. Remember not to wipe them out completely. Leave plenty of each plant.”

The Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team agreed, properly put away the plants Lang Shuo gave them, and finally looked toward the cave.

Lang Shuo knew these were the cubs’ relatives and asked softly, “Do you want to go in and look?”

The group of black wolf members’ eyes lit up. “Can we look?”

Only tonight did they learn that when the chief brought people over in the morning, they had not even been able to hold the cubs. Just now, the cubs had practically wanted to drive them away.

The events from just now were still vivid in their minds. They wanted to look at the cubs, but were also afraid that after looking, the cubs would be frightened again.

Lang Shuo said, “Follow behind me. Go in quietly. Don’t speak loudly. Just looking is fine.”

Lang Shuo knew how anxious the beastmen who had lost cubs had been these past two days. Letting them look at the cubs was not a troublesome matter, and he was willing to help.

The black wolf members hurriedly nodded. They would not speak. After going in, they would definitely be quiet and guarantee not to make the slightest sound.

Lang Shuo gave a few more instructions before leading them into the cave. The gathering team members approached the sleeping cubs softly and carefully. Although they had already known in the morning that the cubs were safe, only at this moment did they truly feel completely relieved.

Lang Shuo watched from the side. In truth, carrying the cubs outside would be easier, but Lang Shuo was worried that moving the baskets would wake the cubs. It had not been easy to coax them to sleep. Several of them had even insisted on having the baskets rocked; otherwise, they would not sleep.

Mm? Rocked to sleep?

Lang Shuo looked at the flat-bottomed baskets and became thoughtful.

Only after the Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team left in satisfaction was Lang Shuo still thinking about baskets.

The method of coaxing cubs was similar to coaxing children. Generally speaking, if they were rocked a few times, the cubs would mostly fall asleep.

It was just that after rocking the white ones, he had to rock the black ones. It was a little tiring.

What Lang Shuo was thinking of was making a frame, placing the basket inside the frame, and leaving a certain amount of space between the frame and basket. With only a slight push, the cradle could swing on its own.

After recalling the method of making it, Lang Shuo decided to call people tomorrow to try it with branches.

The next morning, after feeding the cubs breakfast, Lang Shuo called the sub-adults over to help. They found some suitable raw materials and began trying.

The container holding the cubs was on the ground, and when the cubs raised their heads, they could see him. Therefore, they did not make trouble and obediently sat in the basket, looking up. After a while, when their necks became sore, they placed their heads on other cubs.

While Lang Shuo tied the frame, he did not forget the cubs and glanced at their condition from time to time.

Perhaps because Snow Wolf Tribe members were quieter than Black Wolf Tribe members, when Lang Yan and the others did not come, the black wolf cubs looked basically the same as normal cubs. The biggest difference was that they were more clingy toward Lang Shuo. As for Lang Yu, who had brought them back, because he had wanted to separate the cubs from Lang Shuo the day before, the cubs had unilaterally blacklisted him. Every time Lang Yu approached, they moved positions and pointed their butts at him.

Lang Yu told himself not to argue with cubs while putting the account on Lang Yan’s head.

Afraid that branches could not support so many cubs, Lang Shuo first made a small frame and tied a carrying basket in the middle, then fished out several braver black wolf cubs and placed them inside.

As soon as the cubs went in, the unevenly loaded basket swayed several times.

The cubs: “Wa-ao~”

There was not even the slightest fear, only excitement.

Lang Shuo let out a breath of relief. On one hand, the cradle was successful. The main reason was that the happier the cubs were, the more it proved the previous influence was slowly fading.

Lang Shuo swapped different cubs in to try it several times. For safety, he added a structure similar to a pedal at the bottom, with several ropes tied on top and connected to the cradle. This way, the cradle’s maximum range of movement was fixed. No matter how hard they moved, the cubs would not fall out.

After the test succeeded, Lang Shuo began making a large cradle frame. The method was similar, except the wood was sturdier and had better load-bearing capacity.

Branches with suitable forks that were also sturdy were not easy to find. Lang Nuo and the other sub-adults responsible for going out to find materials searched for a long time before they gathered enough forked branches for two sets of frames.

After busying themselves for half the day, it was only at noon that they finally finished two cradle frames and hung the cubs up.

The cubs, who had never seen the outside from this perspective before, were extremely amazed. They moved around inside the cradle, and the cradle swayed with them.

The cubs seemed to have discovered a new world and ran back and forth inside.

Lang Shuo: “…”

All right. Now even the effort of rocking them by hand was saved. They could entertain themselves for half a day.

Lang Shuo placed several toys inside for the cubs to play with, stretched lazily, and prepared to rest a little. Then he saw Lang Nuo constantly scratching the back of his hand.

“Nuo? What’s wrong with your hand?”

Lang Nuo stretched out his hand for him to see and said carelessly, “Got bitten by bugs a couple times.”

After breeding season, if one had to say what was most annoying, it was all kinds of bugs. During snow season, these bugs either hid or froze to death. After the weather warmed, all kinds of hidden bugs and newly hatched larvae came out.

Lang Nuo had long gotten used to being bitten by various bugs. It was not only him. All the members were used to it. Being bitten a few times did not hurt, it was just a little itchy. Scratching for a few days would fix it.

Lang Shuo saw the back of Lang Nuo’s hand, which was almost scratched raw, and called over the other sub-adults. Sure enough, every sub-adult who had gone out to cut branches had them on their hands. Lang Shuo carefully identified them and asked what the bugs looked like.

Lang Nuo described them. “They fly, always buzzing. When they land on you, they suck blood.”

After hearing the description, Lang Shuo understood. They were probably mosquitoes. It was just that the mosquitoes here were enlarged versions too.

Among the plants picked by the gathering team was mint. Lang Shuo took out some and crushed them with a stone mortar, scooped out a spoonful, and had the sub-adults apply it to the backs of their hands.

Seeing the green lump, Lang Nuo remembered some unpleasant memories and could not help taking a step back. “Shuo, I’m really fine.” The other sub-adults nodded along. The itch would pass if they endured it. It was better not to use these strange medicines. They were a little scary.

Lang Shuo guessed that he had thought of the old priest’s chaotic vegetable and fruit stew and asked, “Two choices. Apply it to the backs of your hands, or eat it into your stomach?”

In truth, eating it would be useless. Lang Shuo was deliberately scaring them.

Lang Nuo: “…Then apply it to the backs of our hands.”

Although he did not want to accept either option, applying it to the back of his hand at least did not have a strange taste.

Lang Shuo signaled for him to stretch out his hand. Seeing several sub-adults all looking reluctant, he told them a piece of good news. “You only need to apply it to one hand.”

Lang Nuo raised both hands and struggled to choose. In the end, he chose his right hand. He used his hands more, so it was easy to rub off. If it got rubbed off because of work, Lang Shuo definitely would not blame him, Lang Nuo secretly thought to himself.

Lang Shuo saw through his little thought but did not expose it. In any case, Lang Nuo would know the effect of this thing soon.

Seeing Lang Nuo compromise, the other sub-adults obediently stretched out one hand each. Soon, several sub-adults were holding up one green hand, turning it over and over to look. It hurt a little, but it could be endured. It was also a little cool. What a strange plant.

After studying it for a while, Lang Nuo, who had applied it first, suddenly exclaimed in surprise, “Shuo, it doesn’t itch anymore. This hand doesn’t itch at all.”

What a magical plant!

Lang Shuo asked, “What about the other hand?”

Lang Nuo stretched out his other hand. Seeing the red bumps of varying sizes on it, he could not help scratching a few times. “It’s still itchy.”

Lang Shuo asked, “Then do you want to apply some to this hand too?”

Lang Nuo hurriedly nodded. “Apply it. Apply more!”

Just now, both hands had itched, so the feeling had not been very obvious. Now that there was another hand for comparison, the itching was extremely clear.

Lang Shuo scooped out all the crushed mint in the stone mortar and had them apply it to one another, then got up to take the remaining mint leaves.

Seeing this, Lang Nuo thought Lang Shuo was preparing it for him and was deeply moved. At the same time, he began despising himself. He had actually not believed Lang Shuo. He hurriedly snatched the mint over. “I’ll do it, I’ll do it. Shuo, you rest. We’ll go crush it.”

They had great strength, so they could crush it even finer!

The other sub-adults nodded. Right, just leave this kind of thing to them.

Lang Shuo looked at the sub-adults who had suddenly become diligent, thought for a moment, and did not have the heart to tell them the truth. He had just used the sub-adults as a control group to see how effective mint was at solving mosquito bites, so he could make mint cooling balm for the cubs tomorrow.

Cubs had tender skin, and being bitten once would hurt for a long time. They were not like thick-skinned sub-adults, who did not care even with their hands covered in bumps.

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