Perhaps it was because good fortune follows great calamity, but when the bucket in Si Yan's space ran out of water, they discovered a small lake that had not yet dried up.

The three thirsty cubs rolled around in the lake, and Si Yan filled her bucket again. Then she found some wood and whittled a few more small buckets to put in her space.

After that, Dong Chi blushed slightly and said to Si Yan with obvious shyness, "Bad female... I want this."

He pointed to Xi Qing and Bei Ji's animal skin skirts.

Si Yan suppressed a laugh and said, "Alright, you wait for your mother to go hunt a long-eared beast."

Dong Chi then pointed to the side, where two long-eared beasts lay at the foot of a large tree, already prepared. "There they are, all done."

The fur of the two long-eared beasts wasn't perfectly intact, but it would be fine for making two fur skirts for the cubs.

Si Yan held the long-eared beast hide that Dong Chi had secretly tanned, and secretly glanced at Dong Chi, only to see that the boy's ears were already red.

Si Yan couldn't help but smile slightly, then hid her expression so that Dong Chi wouldn't see it.

She used Dong Chi's long hair to make two sets of animal skin skirts, and used two animal teeth as buttons, one with the character "Dong" carved on it and the other with the character "Nan".

Dong Chi eagerly rummaged through the two animal skin skirts and asked, "Which one is mine?"

Si Yan smiled and said, "Call me Mother and I'll tell you."

"Bad females, ugly females, smelly females..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Si Yan said immediately. "This one, this one, I'm impressed."

Dong Chi immediately put on his own animal skin skirt, and Si Yan patiently turned over the animal tooth buckle and said to him, "This character is the character Dong."

Dong Chi stared at the beast tooth buckle, his eyes brightening slightly, and a slight smile playing on his lips.

Si Yan put the set she had given to Nan Mo into her spatial storage.

The two long-eared beasts that Dong Chi hunted were eaten whole by them in a joyful manner, while Si Yan processed the other one and put it into her spatial storage.

Si Yan lit a bonfire, which dispelled the gloom.

This is the first pleasant night I've had since leaving Yanxiang Village.

"Mommy, can I lean against you to sleep?" Little Beiji asked, her big, adorable eyes wide open.

Si Yan couldn't withstand his advances and gave in without hesitation.

"come over."

After washing himself clean, Bei Ji immediately snuggled up to Si Yan and lay down on the makeshift straw mat.

As Bei Ji successfully lay down, the other two children quietly approached and lay down next to Si Yan without making a sound.

Si Yan held her cub in her arms, looked at the stars in the sky, and felt a moment of peace in the dangerous beast world.

“I didn’t expect that Wolf Xin would also have a Crimson Crystal Beastman by his side,” Si Yan said.

Dong Chi said, "It's just red crystal, nothing special."

Si Yan pinched Dong Chi's cheek: "You certainly have a big mouth."

Dong Chi immediately struggled to break free from her grasp: "You bad female, I'm warning you, don't you dare touch me!"

Xi Qing said, "Actually, most red crystal beastmen don't form mates. When Lang You was a green crystal, he became Lang Xin's mate, and only after becoming mates did he advance in rank. Now he's probably regretting it."

"Why?" Si Yan asked curiously.

Xi Qing said, "Because when males and females mate, all they gain is the potential right to reproduce. But the price they pay for this potential right to reproduce is far too high."

Bei Ji also sat up and looked at Si Yan, saying, "Mother, Bei Ji will not marry in the future."

Xi Qing: "Me too."

Dong Chi gave a soft hum and didn't say anything.

"What do you mean? I don't understand," Si Yan said.

Xi Qing explained: "Low-level beastmen, like males with green crystal, gray crystal, or no crystal, must rely on their families, that is, females, to survive in the beast world. So their only choice is to form mates, become male slaves of females, gain protection by banding together, and obtain a tiny bit of opportunity to reproduce."

"But high-level orcs, like those above the Red Crystal level, yearn for greater strength and a wider world, and are often unwilling to be bound by females. So they won't take the initiative to show affection to females. But these kinds of males are the targets that females fight over."

Si Yan asked curiously, "Fighted over by the females?"

Bei Ji nodded and said seriously, "Yes, females will try every means to mate with them, after all, females rely on obtaining males to gain power."

Although Si Yan did not accept these female practices, she still found them particularly interesting.

"So, for example, if a powerful amethyst male, does he have to hide to prevent his virginity from being taken?" Si Yan imagined many possibilities.

"That's about right."

Dong Chi said, "If you accidentally become a mate, you will be controlled by the female."

However, even if a powerful male becomes one of the female's mates, he won't fare too badly, since other males can't beat him.

Therefore, the most powerful male often becomes the dominant male of the female, possessing the most mating and reproductive rights.

"Zhengxiong???" Si Yan's mind raced for a while before she roughly understood; it meant "Masafu".

Bei Ji said firmly, "I'm not going to have a partner anyway. There's no point in having one. I want to become strong so I can protect my mother in the future!"

"Don't talk nonsense. Xiao Beiji is as beautiful as an angel. You will meet a female who will be devoted to you in the future."

Bei Ji's face scrunched up: "That's impossible. Relying on females is worse than relying on myself. I still want to cultivate hard and become a Purple Crystal Beastman and a Golden Crystal Beastman."

"Mother, Bei Ji doesn't want any children. Give Bei Ji a few more brothers, and Bei Ji can support them. But with brothers, Bei Ji won't be the youngest anymore!"

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