Early in the morning, the heavy snow that had fallen all night stopped.

Song Xu piled up hardwood roots that were resistant to burning in the campfire, sat beside the campfire, and tied his hands and legs with small pieces of fur that he had cut off. He hung small items on the homemade belt around his waist, and finally put on a small bear skin coat, pushed open the wooden door and walked out of the cave.

This forest is Ebony's territory. He occasionally wanders around the edge. Song Xu followed him and almost figured out the scope of his territory.

After the fall, Sheshe almost never left the vicinity of the cave, and of course he hadn't been to the edge of the territory for a long time. When

Song Xu went out today, he was going to take a look at the edge of the territory.

Sheshe's worry about her was like a parent's excessive concern for his child. This thought was worthy of touching, but it was not necessary to just listen to him.

Song Xu always remembered what Wu Mu said, that the beastmen of the beast tribe would pass by here and hunt primitive beasts nearby.

This place is not only Wu Mu's territory, but also her home now. Since she knew that many strangers would come to her home, she could not just ignore everything and hide in the cave and wait for people to leave.

She must know how many people came here, when these people came, and where they would hunt. Only when she knows it in her mind can she feel at ease.

Sheshe basically does not wake up in winter, and her fighting power is greatly reduced. The situation is actually very dangerous. Sheshe thinks that the beastmen of the beast tribe will not hurt him. Song Xu thought of the supervisor who came to inquire about the news before, but she dare not believe it.

She wanted to go and take a look. Since she lived here, she had her own way of exploring and judging this world.

Of course, there was also an element of wanting to see the excitement. People have always loved to see the excitement since ancient times.

After Song Xu put on a thick bear skin, she walked in the forest like a bear, attracting some small animals to flee far away.

After walking for a while, Song Xu would stop to play in the snow. There was really no way. The snow in the forest was too beautiful. There was a thick blanket of snow everywhere, and there was no trace on it. The snow was so white and so smooth. Wasn't it just waiting for her to step on and play?

Song Xu, who slowed down time greatly, was out for three consecutive days before she patrolled the edge of the territory, but she couldn't find any traces of orcs passing by.

She went to the waterside where she had been twice before, but didn't see any primitive beasts. Everything was very quiet. She would go back shivering with cold every time, and would have to stay by the fire for half a day to recover.

The bearskin coat hanging on the side was dripping with water from the heat.

Song Xu rubbed her hands and couldn't help wondering if Wumu had fooled her, and was scaring her just to stop her from running around in the winter.

But looking at Wumu's innocent and simple appearance, Song Xu felt that he was not the same person as herself, and it seemed that he had not yet learned such a high-end operation as deceiving people.

Rubbing her red hands and face, Song Xu had no choice but to accept her fate and go out to take a look every once in a while.

She kept going out and resting for a few days. During the rest days, Song Xu would not go far, and would play in the snow near the cave.

She made a big snake out of snow, with the snake's body surrounding the entire cave, the snake's head facing the cave entrance, and the tail attached. The snake's body is one meter high, and Song Xu has painted scales on it in great detail. If the snow covers the scales, she will have to paint it again.

It's a pity that Wu Mu can't see her stunning work.

More than two months have passed without any incident. Song Xu is no longer as diligent as she was when winter just started, and she stays by the fire every day to roast nuts.

While she was roasting nuts, a group of dozens of fully armed beast tribe members at the foot of the Swamp Mountain left the tribe and headed towards the dark forest.

Two months into winter, it is the migration period for a group of primitive beasts. In the past few years, the resting place of this group of primitive beasts during migration was Xiangyuan Forest, which was closer to the tribe. But after a forest fire broke out in Xiangyuan Forest one year, the group of primitive beasts changed their resting place during migration to the riverside of the dark forest.

The beast tribe relies on hunting primitive beasts every year to become strong, so they can only chase the footprints of primitive beasts.

The leader of this hunting team is Weishan, whose beast form is a tiger, and he is the largest male tiger in the tribe. He is not young anymore, and his personality is calm. The twenty or so beast warriors walking behind him are all his companions who have cooperated well with him. But at the end of the team, there are more than a dozen young people who have only grown up for one or two years.

Although these young beastmen are also called warriors and are usually brave in hunting, they have never participated in hunting primitive beasts. Weishan always thinks that these little guys are too immature. Only if they survive this primitive beast hunting operation can they grow into real warriors.

"Primordial beasts are not scary. This time I want to hunt a primitive beast alone." Shiyou walked behind the team and said to his companions with a smile, with a lion-like mane-like hair and majestic appearance.

"Lion, you are such a boaster. Even the captain can't hunt a primitive beast alone, how can you do it?"

Lion, who was questioned by his companions, was full of anger and roared at him: "Just wait and see!"

The young orcs challenged not to be outdone: "Then we'll be waiting!" If you

want to join the primitive beast hunting team, you must prove yourself. Lion and other dozen young orcs each defeated several opponents before being selected. Because of this, the young orcs were in high spirits and no one would submit to anyone else. They would start quarreling with just a few words.

The elder beastmen in front heard the youngsters' noise and bragging, and smiled expectantly. They were looking forward to these ignorant youngsters getting a big loss from the primitive beasts.

Some elder beastmen couldn't help but think of their own youth, and sighed, "I also thought about hunting primitive beasts alone, but it's too difficult. I remember the last person who could do it was Heisen."

Speaking of Heisen, the elder beastmen were familiar with her. She was the most powerful female beastman in their tribe. She was a tiger. At that time, countless young men wanted to pursue her, but they all had their teeth broken by her. The fierce and brutal warrior was worshipped and respected by all the tribesmen.

Unfortunately, she suddenly left the tribe a few years ago and never came back.

Speaking of Heisen, the beastmen think of Heisen's only child, Wumu, who lives in the Dark Forest. Wumu may have inherited the bloodline of his father's side, and when he grows up, he will be stronger than his mother, but unfortunately he is a half-beast. The

half-beast who is destined to lose his mind will not bring help to the tribe, but only threats.

In the past few years, every year when they pass through the Dark Forest, they will deliberately stay away from Wumu's residence. If the snake beastman feels threatened and wakes up during hibernation, he will be very aggressive. If he is really awakened, it will not be a good thing for both parties.

On the way, a group of orcs hurriedly caught a few hungry beasts that ran out to look for food and ate them raw. They believed that drinking the hot blood of beasts would make them more courageous in the upcoming battle.

Two days later, a group of orcs entered the Dark Forest.

Song Xu, who came to the edge for patrol as usual, saw the messy footprints on the snow. Her spirits perked up, and she hurried to the traces to take a closer look, carefully sniffing the residual smell of beastmen in the air.

It was a very messy smell, and there was not much left. They might have passed by here last night.

Song Xu took off her shoes and gloves and hung them around her waist. She moved her hands and feet, climbed up the tree nimbly, looked in the direction they left for a while, and soon followed the traces.

She stopped after chasing for a while to feel, to ensure that she was at a safe distance from them, so as not to get too close and be discovered. In short, she just wanted to observe secretly.

As a weak beastman, she also has advantages that beasts don't have. Her scent is not as obvious as that of beastmen, and she is too harmless to attract attention.

When approaching the group of beastmen, Song Xu took off his bear skin coat, turned into a squirrel and climbed up a high branch to observe.

Silently counting the number of beastmen in the group, there were as many as seventy-three of them, and a small or medium-sized tribe would only have so many people. That beast tribe sent so many people out for hunting at one time, it seems that the total population is quite large.

Song Xu observed each beastman curiously, and unexpectedly found that one of them looked familiar. The one with hair and beard like a lion's mane, wasn't he the lion beastman who chased her for her life when she first came?

After seeing them, Song Xu quietly left again without attracting anyone's attention.

She found that their route was to the north of the forest, which she seldom went to, and they bypassed the stone cave of Wumu for a long time. This made Song Xu feel relieved, but she couldn't help but pay attention to their movements in the next two days.

She was bored anyway, so she spent a long time observing this group of beastmen. The more times she did so, the more sensitive the beastmen would inevitably discover her.

Weishan, the leader of this group of beastmen, discovered her, and several older beastmen with rich hunting experience also noticed it, but none of them made it public.

When Song Xu saw them getting farther and farther away from the cave and leaving along the river where she swam in the summer, she was finally completely relieved and stopped following them secretly. An older beastman couldn't help but say to Weishan: "The female beastman didn't come to stare at us today."

Weishan smiled on his rough face, and his laughter was rough: "I guess we walked too far and were too lazy to follow."

"Is that really the partner of Wumu?"

"I guess so, it smells like Wumu."

"I didn't expect that child to have a partner." An older beastman sighed. He still remembered that when Wumu was a child, other little beastmen gathered together to play and fight all day long, but he didn't even like to talk. He clung to the doorpost of Heisen's house, and anyone who tried to tease him would be bitten.

Weishan didn't expect it either. Xuanjiao came back last time and said that Wumu had found a partner, and he thought she was lying.

He quietly approached the squirrel beastman to observe her these two days and saw that she had Wumu's snake tied around her waist.

Weishan was somewhat relieved. Since Wumu found a partner, it showed that he had not completely lost his mind. Maybe his current situation was better than he thought. The

reason why he was so relieved was that he and Heisen were siblings, tiger cubs who came from the same nest and grew up together.