Turning enemies into friends has become the goal of the Xia tribe, and they will soon face...

The orcs of the Xia tribe emerged from the forest, searching for the habitats of the Deer Orc clan and the Hedgehog Orc clan based on information provided by the Deer Orcs. The two clans' habitats were adjacent, their caves less than ten meters apart—they were truly neighbors.

Jiang Yunlan did not intend to take the unfamiliar weasel beastmen to the habitat of the two clans. She pointed to a cave she encountered along the way and told the weasel beastmen to wait for her inside.

The weasel beastmen, seeing the cave clearly intended for their rest, stared at her suspiciously. They had followed the Xia tribe's beastmen here to find out the truth, and couldn't give up now, so they reluctantly agreed to wait.

"How long will it take you to bring the dragon you speak of?" their clan leader, Bai Youfengtuan, asked calmly.

He had already made up his mind. There were traces of a beast called "dragon" in the vicinity, and the dragon's dwelling must be in this area. Regardless of whether the Xia tribe wanted to delay, if the Xia beastmen did not return within three days, they would set off to find the dragon.

"Before the sun goes down tomorrow," Jiang Yunlan said thoughtfully.

After hearing Lang An's account, the group of weasel orcs understood that the Xia tribe's orcs had no intention of delaying and running away with the dragon.

After seeing Xia off, the weasel-like beastmen packed their belongings, preparing to spend the night in their cave. Little did they know that as evening approached, they would witness a red dragon descending from the sky.

Bai Youyouge and other orc warriors instinctively raised their weapons and stood in front of their people.

Only when they saw Jiang Yunlan and Lang An being put down by the red dragon did Bai Youyouge and the other beastmen dare to exhale. They all sheathed their weapons, and some began to believe that the dragon was a beastman.

The giant beasts they had seen did not carry orcs around like dragons.

"Dragon really is an orc. How could the orc encyclopedia that Apocalypse gave us record an orc race?!" Bai Youfeng was greatly shocked as he watched the humanoid Ilov, dressed in clothes, walk out of the cave.

He watched with his own eyes as the beast-like Ilov entered the cave where there were no orcs, and he knew perfectly well that the red-haired, red-eyed orc in front of him could only be the red dragon Ilov.

"Why did they deceive us?" He looked incredulous, pacing back and forth in agitation, wishing he could find the orc who gave them the encyclopedia and demand an explanation.

Before arriving, Ilovian had heard Jiang Yunlan's speculation that she disliked the Apocalypse Tribe, which harmed both nature spirits and her own kind. She listened to the weasel beastmen's angry words, nodding in agreement. Fortunately, with Lang An's translation, she was finally able to understand the weasel beastmen's language.

The humanoid Ilovian was very tall, almost as tall as the wolf-beastman. Standing behind Jiang Yunlan, she looked down at the ground and asked the weasel-beastman, "Do you still have contact with the Apocalypse Tribe?"

After she finished speaking, she secretly glanced at the weasel beastmen's reactions. She had followed Lan here on her own initiative, hoping to find traces of the Apocalypse Tribe. Even though she didn't really want to communicate with the unfamiliar weasel beastmen, she was determined to ask them the questions she needed to ask.

Bai Youfeng shook his head, his expression showing no sign of dejection. His clan indeed lacked a way to contact the Apocalypse Tribe, but they had received a location before leaving.

"Before they left, they gave us a place to stay, telling us that they would be living there from now on," Bai Youfeng said.

Jiang Yunlan looked at him thoughtfully and said with certainty, "You want to take your clan to find the orcs of the Apocalypse Tribe."

He nodded, suppressing his anger, and said, "It was the behemoths that hurt us, and our target for revenge should be the behemoths, not the orcs. We must find out the truth about the dragons."

“I don’t recommend you do that,” Jiang Yunlan said, stopping him and calmly advising the enraged weasel orc chieftain. “The Tianqi Clan is much stronger than you think. If you go and question them like this, they’ll treat you as an enemy.”

"Then let's fight! We trusted them so much, and we even promised them that we would deal with the giant beast that destroyed their tribe!" Bai Youfeng was angry and somewhat sad.

When their tribe passed through the western end, the Apocalypse Tribe, who lived there, warmly invited them to stay, saying they were very happy that they had come to the western end. The orc clans in the western end were xenophobic, so they settled far away in the territory of the Apocalypse Tribe and a group of other orc clans, and did not go to live in the place that the Apocalypse Tribe had offered them, but they always remembered the kindness of the Apocalypse Tribe.

However, their good fortune was short-lived. They only stayed in the western region for two snow seasons before a herd of giant beasts appeared there.

“They clearly said that the illustrations in the encyclopedia only depict giant beasts.” Bai Youfeng’s eyes reddened, and his words were filled with disappointment.

He remembered the scene of all the orcs fleeing the western horizon together, the sacrifices of other orc clans, and the feeling of warm blood covering his hands. He could hear them saying it even with his eyes closed…

"One day, I will kill those behemoths and avenge my comrades!"

He could not forget the expressions on the faces of the orcs of the Apocalypse Tribe when they talked about the giant beasts that had killed their kin. Even though he had never seen a dragon among the giant beasts that were chasing them, he had never doubted the illustrations they had given him.

Bai Youfeng couldn't understand. Why did the Apocalypse Tribe include orcs in their encyclopedia? Why... were they deceiving us?

The air fell silent; the weasel beastmen fell silent.

Seeing their reactions, Jiang Yunlan suddenly realized that their relationship with the Tianqi Tribe was unusual. How could an ordinary relationship make them show such expressions?

She silently grew vigilant, still trying to persuade Bai Youfeng. She still wanted to get the location of the Apocalypse Tribe from Bai Youfeng so she could launch a surprise attack; she couldn't let the weasel beastmen rush to the Apocalypse Tribe and expose Ilovian and Xia's affair.

Seeing that Bai Youfeng had calmed down, Jiang Yunlan raised her hand and gently touched the forest sprite in her pocket, then turned her head and nodded to Lang An.

Sveta understood that she was about to tell the weasel beastmen the truth about everything.

"Lan, speak," it said eagerly. It was prepared. If the weasel beastmen sided with the Apocalypse Tribe or wanted to leave this place, it would immediately tie them up.

With it keeping an eye on things, Jiang Yunlan wasn't worried about missing any orcs. She pulled Bai Youfeng to a corner and slowly explained. Lang An followed beside her, translating.

Bai Youfeng initially didn't believe that the organization she mentioned was the Apocalypse Tribe, until she wrote down the script used by the Apocalypse Tribe.

"You've seen these characters before." Jiang Yunlan looked at the silent weasel-like beastman, her voice calm, her face expressionless. She had long suspected that the organization was the Apocalypse Tribe, but only now had she obtained definitive evidence.

Bai Youfeng's face was very ugly. He gestured as he spoke, "I've seen them write this on thin animal hides and tie the hides to the feet of birds and beasts."

She nodded knowingly, her gaze falling on Bai Youfengtuan's slightly trembling hands, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you?"

"I... I just can't understand how my friend could have turned out like that?" Bai Youfeng said, his voice light and unsteady.

The Apocalypse Tribe, his former friends. They too had lost their habitat, lost the orcs they valued, and understood that heart-wrenching pain. How could they have done such things?

“You’re wrong. They didn’t turn into that form. They were always like that. You just happened not to see their cold-blooded side and mistakenly thought they were orcs like you,” Jiang Yunlan said.