Hearing Xuan say this, Po smiled and said, "Fortunately you didn't spread the news, otherwise we would have known that you invited us, but we couldn't go. I'm afraid we would have felt bad all winter."
Cheng came over and said, "He's very afraid of the cold, but I'm not that afraid. I can go. Have the people from Bird Island fly me directly to your place, and then just prepare a large water tank for me where I live. I can go without changing into a beast."
Po ignored Cheng and just glanced at another orc behind him. The orc immediately understood what Po meant. He stepped forward, clamped his hands around Cheng's neck and dragged him away, saying, "The land orcs are going to hunt in the autumn, and you, an orc from the sea, can't help them. So you go into their tribe and just open your mouth to eat?"
Seeing Cheng being dragged away, Xuan smiled and said, "It will be fine once Haicheng is built. It's more convenient here. I heard from the people on Bird Island that the winter here is not as cold as ours."
Po nodded and said, "Yes, we can still come here in winter."
Just as Meng Yuqing was organizing literacy training for the people brought by the Blue Water Tribe, supplies from Qingshan City were gradually delivered by Jia and the hamster orc transport team.
"Did you have a smooth journey?" Xuan called Jia aside and asked.
"It's okay. We surveyed the route when we came here and marked the way along the way. That's why we came a little slowly. Once the road is repaired, we'll be able to go faster." Jia was chewing on a piece of barbecue.
In addition to delivering supplies, their mission was to survey the terrain and select the most suitable route for road construction.
"Well, has anything happened in Qingshan City recently?" With Xia Heyang in charge of Qingshan City, it was basically impossible for anything to happen. Xuan was just asking casually as part of official business.
Unexpectedly, Jia showed a hesitant expression.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Xuan asked nervously as soon as he saw Jia's expression.
Jia sat on the ground a little irritably, looking at Xuan, hesitating whether to say it.
"Since the father beast asked you to lead the team to deliver the things, it must mean that you can tell me. Otherwise, he could have asked someone else to lead the team." Xuan sat opposite Jia and looked at him seriously.
Ever since Ji said that he asked the Hamster Tribe to bring half a stone slab to the south, he knew that the Hamster Tribe must have a close relationship with that tribe, otherwise Ji would not have chosen to give such an important thing to them.
However, Jia Cong never mentioned these things since he came to Qingshan City. Even when he recognized Xuan, he only used his actions to show goodwill to Qingshan City. He silently supported all the actions of Qingshan City, and diligently mined various minerals for Qingshan City and transported them back.
Xuan and Meng Yuqing never took the initiative to ask Jia about those things.
Jia pursed her lips, looking very conflicted, and Xuan just waited quietly.
After a long while, Jiacai spoke up and said, "Tong took a dozen orcs to the northwest. A few days after they left, another group of people from the northwest came over."
His fingers moved restlessly. "There are quite a few injured orcs in there."
"It's not an old injury." He paused and added.
"Are you worried about Ji?" Xuan asked.
"Not really." Jia scratched his head and continued, "If Ji really can't hold on any longer, he will definitely run south. But I'm worried that the people of the Thorn Tribe will kill those who are captured because of Ji's appearance."
"Are there still... many people left? In the hands of the Thorn Tribe." Xuan asked softly.
"I don't know how many people are left." Jia lowered his head, hiding the sadness in his eyes. "They are just ordinary people from the tribe... They won't necessarily kill them all."
He took a deep breath and continued, "Besides them, there should be some people who escaped and are scattered everywhere. If Ji finds them, then in addition to those in the northwest, there should be many more people coming to the south one after another."
"The old subordinates will look forward to your appearance, but they are also unruly, unlike tribes like mine that have little fighting power." He raised his head and looked directly at Xuan, "If they are recognized, they will become the sharpest knives in your hands."
Xuan clenched his fists instantly, his nails piercing his palms and smelling a hint of blood. He looked at Jia and said, "Come on then."
Hearing Xuan's words, Jia smiled, stuffed all the barbecue in his hand into his mouth, and ran away happily.
But Xuan still sat there for a long time. He fell back on the beach and looked at the stars in the sky, recalling the shadow of the black panther he saw when he was resting in the north.
He lay on the huge tree with lush branches and leaves in the most leisurely posture, just like he would lie on the tree for a nap in the summer, but the black panther did not close its eyes. Instead, it tilted its head and stared at him straight. He knew who the black panther was without anyone telling him.
He heard footsteps and sat up and turned around to look. The evening class in the distance had already ended, and all the people who had attended the class were squatting on the beach, drawing something on the ground with small wooden sticks.
Meng Yuqing walked over to him and sat down, then asked, "Why are you pretending to be so profound here?"
Xuan didn't reply, but just moved closer and buried his head in Meng Yuqing's chest.
Meng Yuqing held Xuan in her arms and gently stroked his hair, trying to comfort him like she was stroking the fur of a restless big cat.
The next morning, Jia took his men away. If nothing unexpected happened, the next transport team would come in half a month.
By that time, construction of Haicheng and Haicheng Market should have already begun.
Among the people brought by Po, there were a few who were quite smart. After teaching them for a week, Meng Yuqing picked these people out and formed them into study groups, with Po as the leader of all the group leaders.
With Po and his team leaders supervising him, Meng Yuqing saved himself a lot of trouble. However, since the team was formed, he found that he could watch several fights between sea monsters in a day.
It was better than any special effects in a movie, and he finally got to see the fish tail as he had wished.
An orc with pink and white hair, after being driven crazy by the stupidity of his team members, ignored the fact that his own beast form was not suitable for going ashore, and conjured a long, pink and white fish tail on the beach that reflected dazzling light in the sun.
With one blow of his tail, he whipped the tribesman in front of him away.
The tribesman who was slapped by the tail was caught off guard and was directly whipped three or four meters high and then fell heavily on the beach, making a big hole in the shape of a letter "X".
Even so, he was still not satisfied. He supported himself on the beach with both hands, flicked his tail, and quickly crawled towards the human-shaped pit.
The tribesman who was blown away had just pulled himself out of the pit when another tail hit him and knocked him back.
Meng Yuqing took a look and saw that the fighting power on the shore was quite strong.
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