◎A group of oversized fur balls◎

Taking the pottery jar from Warren with both hands, the Bamboo Bear Chief turned it over and over again, brushing his fingertips across the smooth surface of the jar, and opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "This pottery jar is better than the one used by the Beast King!"

"The Beast King can make pottery?" Sur asked in surprise, "Then why don't you have pottery? I just saw you using wooden barrels to collect water, and half of the barrels were leaking."

The chief of the Bamboo Bear tribe sighed, "The relationship between the Bamboo Bear tribe and the Beast King is tense, so the Beast King certainly won't give us precious pottery. We once traded our prey for a pottery jar with the Raccoon tribe, but when the Beast King drove us out of the Beast City, the pottery jar was broken by the orc guards."

Sur shook his head sympathetically: "So the Beast King clearly has the technology to make pottery, but is unwilling to share it with his people? This Beast King is really incompetent."

Behind the bamboo bear chief, a chubby bamboo bear snorted unhappily.

This bamboo bear did not change back into human form, but remained in animal form, holding a bamboo leaf in its mouth. It looked quite unruly. Even when glared at by its family leader, it still stiffened its neck, with all the hair on its body stretched up and its two round ears trembling, obviously very dissatisfied.

"Can all the demons in your Demon Realm afford to use clay pots?" He said unconvincedly, "Only the Demon King's trusted followers like you can use them."

Sur blinked his eyes and said, "Indeed, all demons in our Demon Realm can afford clay pots."

The bamboo bear stopped talking. He held his two paws against his chest angrily and pouted his lips so hard that even the bamboo leaf he was biting drooped down, expressing his distrust of these words with his whole body and soul.

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"Huabai just turned ten this year, and he's still young and ignorant," the chief of the bamboo bear tribe quickly pushed the bamboo bear back, fearing that the two demons would suddenly attack and massacre the bamboo bear tribe. "If you just need some sweet bamboo seedlings, we'll get them for you now. There's no need to exchange them for such a precious pottery jar."

Sur opened her mouth and was about to speak, but Warren patted her on the head, signaling her to calm down.

A demon as clever as Sur deliberately touched upon the pain points of the Bamboo Bear Clan and the Beast King, and spoke of the advantages of the Demon Realm in a proud tone. Naturally, he was not trying to show off.

During her brief exchanges with the Bamboo Bear Clan leader, she had already seen the tribe's current confusion and predicament, and wanted to use threats and coercion to trick the bamboo bears into going to the Demon Realm to work.

In fact, considering that Warren can now string all these bamboo bears on bamboo poles with just a wave of his hand, it would be a good idea to tie them up directly to the Demon Realm, but Warren does not want to do that.

"The beastmen are known for their infighting, and they use all kinds of sinister and cunning tricks to fight for power and profit," he sent a message to Sur, "We can't just accept the beastmen and make the Demon Realm into such a mess."

Remembering the Lion King movie he had seen before, Sur became alert instantly.

Yes, we must never let a black sheep like Mufasa sneak into the Demon Realm!

She looked at Chief Takekuma with a cautious look and a gentle tone, "When we do business with the demon tribe, we always emphasize mutual benefit and win-win results. We will not use force to coerce you, nor will we let you suffer any loss."

The Bamboo Bear chief had a stunned expression on his face, holding the pottery jar, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

He still couldn't quite believe that the two people in front of him were actually demons - could they be natural elves in disguise?

After thinking for a while, Chief Bamboo Bear took two steps back, with a naive smile on his face: "Please come in. Although our village has not been completed yet, we have built a wooden house. Let's go in and talk."

Being able to lead the Bamboo Bear Tribe to live safely in the Beast Capital for so long, and even having good relations with most tribes despite the hostility of the Beast King, he is certainly not a reckless fool. After realizing that the demon tribe was not the same as he had heard, he immediately changed his strategy, brought Warren and Sur to the wooden house, and ordered the tribesmen to pull up a few bamboo seedlings.

"Just transplant the bamboo seedlings here," Suer took out two ceramic flower pots and handed them to the bamboo bear who was about to dig bamboo seedlings. He asked worriedly, "How long is the root system of the bamboo? Is the depth of this flower pot enough? Also, you just planted it. If you transplant it again, will the bamboo seedlings survive?"

The bamboo bears, who were originally wary of the demons and only worked reluctantly under the orders of the tribe leader, tilted their heads and realized that Sur actually knew about planting instead of taking this opportunity to curse them. Their attitude immediately improved a lot.

"Don't worry, sweet bamboo is easy to grow," Bamboo Bear said excitedly, "Just remember to water it more when you transplant it to the Demon Realm. Make the soil soft and moist, and the bamboo will grow well."

Suer thought about it awkwardly and said, "That's probably not possible. There is no water in the Demon Realm. If we want to drink soup or tea, we have to cook magma slime."

"There is no water in the Demon Realm?" Bamboo Bear rubbed his face in surprise, "Then how do you live? And what is tea?"

"We don't need to drink water, we can survive as long as we eat enough food," Sur explained, "Lava Slime Bubble Tea is the most popular tea in our Demon Realm. It tastes smooth. If you add sweet fruit juice to it, it will be even sweeter. A sip will fill your mouth with the taste of sugar."

Zhu Xiong couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "It sounds delicious."

"You can't drink it. There is dark energy in it. Once you drink it, it will conflict with your own power and you will die. Even if a powerful demon helps you sort out the energy and save you from death, you will become a demon."

Soul reminded him, thought about it, and clapped his hands enthusiastically.

"But I can teach you how to make soup with your own ingredients! Although I'm not a chef nor a member of the farming team, I've seen how our familiar chef cooks, so I'm sure I can make soup!"

It would be a good opportunity to examine the Bamboo Bear Clan's hands-on ability. Sul thought happily, if the Bamboo Bear Clan were all great chefs, then there would be a reason to lure them to the Demon Realm!

On the other side, Warren, who was listening to the bamboo bear chief telling the history of the Beast King's ascension to the throne, glanced over with squinted eyes. Seeing that Sur and the bamboo bears were having a good chat, he nodded with satisfaction.

In the entire Demon King's Palace, the only demons who could naturally blend into the opposing group like this, apart from Sur, were Barro and Tono. If one also added the fact that they had sufficient self-protection capabilities, then it would naturally be Sur.

The chief of the bamboo bear tribe also relaxed. He heard Sur's reminder that "you can't eat food from the Demon Realm", and he completely believed that they had no ill will towards the bamboo bear tribe. He waved his paw at the bamboo bears behind him, indicating that they could bring the cubs that they had just urgently hidden back to the ground.

"My name is Huasong," Bamboo Bear quickly accepted this demon friend after chatting happily with Sur, and stretched out a paw to her, "Do you want to go dig bamboo with me?"

"Just call me Sur," Sur wagged his tail, turned to look at his own king, and after getting the king's nod of approval, he happily pulled the bamboo bear Huasong out of the wooden house, "Let's go, let's go dig bamboo!"

Dozens of bamboo bears followed Sur in a frenzy.

Although the bamboo bears are quite powerful and are considered the best among the bear tribes in the beast world, they rarely come into conflict with other tribes. Even when they were first expelled here by the Beast King and were mistaken by the Serval tribe as orc guards who were coming to collect tribute violently, they explained to them gently and even exchanged sweet bamboo for dried fish to eat.

At first, they were frightened by the bad reputation of the demons, so they had to behave more fiercely to avoid being slaughtered and exterminated by the evil and bloodthirsty demons in the legend.

However, Warren and Sur were both polite and courteous. They took out precious pottery jars to trade with them and even enthusiastically told them how to make soup. They realized the absurdity of the rumors and naturally were no longer as fierce as before. They even felt guilty for their previous misunderstanding of the demons and became more friendly to Sur.

"When growing sweet bamboo, you must prune dead branches in time. Sweet bamboo grows very fast. If you don't prune it in time, the upper part will not be tasty," the bamboo bears told Sur. "There will also be a kind of white and tender insects growing inside the sweet bamboo. Don't worry, these insects are delicious when roasted."

Suer took it seriously and asked a few questions from time to time.

"Do the demons usually farm?" Takekuma Hanamatsu asked curiously, "What do you usually farm?"

The questions raised by Sur, such as how tall the sweet bamboo should be before it can be cut down, or how wide the spacing between each sweet bamboo should be, are difficult to consider without rich planting experience, which makes the bamboo bears curious.

When they were cubs, they all heard the stories told by the elders. The righteous tribes united to defeat the evil demons and drove them to the barren Savia Demon Realm. Now the facts have proved that the demons are not that evil. Could it be that the Savia Demon Realm is also a beautiful place?

"I am a member of the trade team, responsible for managing the demon clan's accounts and external exchanges," Sur shook his head. "Speaking of farming, the goblin Barro from our Demon Realm is the real expert! He led the farming team to research many methods of growing crops, such as potatoes."

When Barro and other demons were researching potato planting, Suer was still in the Nightmare Demon Tribe Land and had never witnessed it with her own eyes. But she heard many demons talk about it, and after her own understanding and artistic processing, she told the bamboo bears about it, and they could also hear it vividly and with twists and turns.

"…They failed 9981 times and were about to give up when, while digging potatoes in the wild, they accidentally dug a few meters deeper and discovered a natural underground lava river!"

The bamboo bears sat in a row on the ground, all transformed back into their animal form, listening attentively to Sur's story, like a group of big furry balls.

"So, the members of the potato research team returned to the Demon King's Palace, dug a hollow tunnel underground, moved magma from the magma river, poured it into the tunnel bucket by bucket, and then planted potatoes on it." Sur cleared his throat and his voice suddenly became louder. "Thanks to their unremitting efforts, our Demon King's Palace finally succeeded in cultivating potatoes. The demons no longer have to worry about not having enough food--"

Before she finished her words, Warren's voice suddenly came to her ears.

"Silvis crushed the crystal stone with the warning magic," Warren said hurriedly, "You stay here and don't act rashly. I'll go over and take a look at the situation."

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