Si Yan looked up slightly at the man whose face was somewhat frightening, yet whose domineering masculinity was hidden beneath the terrifying scars.

The original work doesn't describe Mingyan in much detail, but the two crisscrossing scars on his face are clearly described.

The origin of the scars was not explained.

However, in the original work, Mingyan, who was more than ten years later, had undergone some unknown events. His strength was immeasurable, but his face was ferocious and his behavior was crazy and terrifying.

The female protagonist of the original work, who worshipped power and didn't even spare the ugly centipede beastmen, never dared to make a move on Mingyan.

In the original story, Mingyan is a terrifying black tiger beastman who has no interest in females and is only interested in killing and drinking.

Based on the understanding of Mingyan in the original work, even when Mingyan suddenly approached her, hugged her, and leaped up, making such close contact, Si Yan felt nothing but anger at being bullied, and didn't consider the possibility of any feelings whatsoever.

Mingyan gazed at the distant battle, feeling excited but also pondering deeper matters.

Orcs are accustomed to direct combat, but it turns out that besides that kind of fighting, there are all sorts of other ways to fight.

For example, as she mentioned—the food chain.

"How did you come up with this method?" Mingyan asked Siyan, looking down at her.

The male's sudden turn of his head startled Si Yan slightly. Then she gazed into the distance and said, "This is the same principle as the five elements' mutual generation and restraint. To deal with an enemy, it's best to find its nemesis first."

"What are the Five Elements?" Mingyan asked again.

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth".

How do they interact in a mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining way?

"Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal. Metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal."

Mingyan stared at the face of the female disguised as a male in front of him.

Does she know how terrible the things she just said are?

The birds won their first battle, but they soon became full. The number of locusts was enormous, and the satiated birds began to look for places to digest their food.

Gradually, the locusts began to rise up.

Mingyan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The large number of birds has weakened the locusts' strength, greatly reducing their destructive power when they pass through Black Tiger City. Based on experience, it is believed that as long as they return to the cave and hide, they can escape this calamity.

But why does something feel off?

"Mingyan, be careful, something's not right." The little female Siyan beside her also focused her attention.

Having fought against zombie hordes before, Si Yan was very sensitive to the current situation.

“When locusts pass by, although they swarm in large numbers, they shouldn’t be this disciplined,” Si Yan said.

Mingyan nodded: "They are too disciplined."

Si Yan said, "There might be a leader of locusts here."

Suddenly, Mingyan grabbed Siyan and pulled her into a cave, where he shoved her inside.

"Hide," Mingyan said coldly.

Si Yan stepped forward nervously: "The situation ahead is still unclear, what do you plan to do?"

Mingyan coldly glanced at the swarming locusts. "Whatever they are, I'll kill them."

Then, Si Yan saw Ming Yan bring over a huge stone.

"Mingyan, what are you doing?"

"Hide." Mingyan solemnly repeated, staring at her. Without giving her a chance to say anything more, Mingyan sealed the cave entrance with the massive rock.

"..." Is this a problem with hiding? She's hiding alone in this cave, and Mingyan has placed such a huge rock outside. If Mingyan dies, she doesn't even know if she can call for someone to move the rock, then she'll be dead, won't she?

Si Yan rushed over immediately: "Ming Yan, let me out! I don't want to be alone in the cave! Let me out!!!"

Si Yan's calls went unanswered. She frantically searched for gaps in the edges of the large rock to peek outside, but she couldn't see anything clearly.

Before long, the locust army finally arrived at Black Tiger City, and she began to see locusts crawling into the cracks in the corners of her stones.

Si Yan was startled and took two steps back. She looked at the huge locust, which was the size of a fist and was extremely ugly.

So big! As big as a fist! Locusts can be this big!

Si Yan, who had disliked insects since childhood, felt nauseous.

She quickly found some small stones nearby and filled the gaps at the edges of the large stone, then took a few steps back.

She began to hear violent impacts outside the cave. As the impacts increased, she slowly retreated until she was inside the cave, where she sat down against the cave wall.

Outside the cave, a ferocious and terrifying giant black tiger, with a bright, pale purple beast crystal on its forehead, stared fiercely at the sky.

Amidst countless locusts in the air, a giant locust, two meters long, slowly emerged, with a red, round bead on its neck—truly an insect bead.

"It's been a long time since I've seen a Zerg creature cultivate an Insect Pearl," Black Tiger said excitedly.

"Gah, da da da".

Some of the Black Tiger Orcs emerged from their shelters to protect the females, cubs, and supplies.

"City Lord!!"

The locusts began to vibrate and buzz.

The giant locusts flapped their wings and swooped down on the ferocious black tiger—

Inside the cave, Si Yan searched for something useful within the spatial dimension.

Fortunately, she wasn't corrupt in her previous life, so she didn't keep many luxuries in her storage space. Most of the odds and ends were very practical weapons and tools, especially survival gear.

"Found it!" Si Yan excitedly found a bottle of specially made strong dichlorvos in her spatial storage.

In the wild, insects are a constant nuisance. In a post-apocalyptic world, these insects may carry viruses, making insect prevention essential.

Science was already quite advanced in that era. Scientists provided these warriors with the latest powerful pesticide, dichlorvos, and Si Yan also placed several bottles in her spatial storage.

This is exactly what I need now!

But……

Si Yan looked at the huge rock in front of her.

But she can't get out.

I wonder if her three cubs are alright. Black Tiger City has concentrated so much power to protect the female and her cubs; Dong Chi and the others should be fine, right?

At this very moment, Dong Chi, Xi Qing, and Bei Ji were also hiding in a corner of the cave.

As outsiders, they were very cautious and tried not to attract attention.

However, the problem was that the female, who was close to their age, kept bothering them.

Jie Ling leaned closer to Bei Ji and asked, "Bei Ji, can you tell me what kind of beastman your eldest brother, Si Yan, is?"

Bei Ji turned his back. His mother had told him not to play with the white fox beastman, so he wouldn't answer. Besides, the question the female was asking was one he couldn't answer anyway.

Xi Qing stepped forward to help Bei Ji out of the predicament, saying, "Can you go play with the other little beastmen?"

Jie Ling looked at Xi Qing as if he were a monster, her eyes filled with disdain: "Ugly monster."

Then he looked at Bei Ji and said with a smile, "Bei Ji..."

However, the word "ugly monster" didn't provoke Xi Qing, but it severely provoked Bei Ji. The usually mild-mannered Bei Ji seemed to have been stepped on a sore spot, and he suddenly stood up and angrily shouted, "Can't you see we all dislike you? If you don't like us, why are you still coming at us! Trash!!"