The next day, Su Yuan brought Shouyan and Shishi to the Tear Lake settlement early in the morning. The grassland was still a bit chilly in the early morning, but beast girls were already moving around the settlement one after another.
"Welcome, distinguished guest."
Early in the morning, Qinglei waited for Su Yuan outside the settlement. She was too busy with yesterday's events to get away, and when she finally finished, she found that Su Yuan and the others had already left.
Fortunately, she had arranged to attend some kind of auction hosted by the Tear Fox leader today, which made her feel a little better, and the salty stone powder she received didn't feel so heavy.
"Have you had breakfast? Would you like some?"
Su Yuan had a steamed bun in his mouth, and several steaming meat buns wrapped in sturdy paper in his arms.
These were bought early this morning by Xue Rou's apprentice, a small raccoon shop located near the city gate. Compared to Xue Rou, who makes all kinds of dishes, the small raccoon only focuses on the few dishes that she learned from Xue Rou.
Meat buns, vegetable buns, fruit buns, all kinds of buns, and steamed buns.
I heard they're planning to sell noodles soon, but the little raccoon's steamed buns are so popular that visiting beast girls always buy a few before setting up their stalls in the market.
So she didn't have time to make noodles at all. This morning, Su Yuan even gave her a suggestion: to hire some skillful beast girls to help out, just like the chefs and waitresses in Xue Rou's shop.
"No need, I've already eaten..."
Just as Qing Lei was about to refuse, Shou Yan picked up a bun and took a bite. The meat filling inside the bun was dark brown, and fragrant soup was flowing out of it.
The aroma and heat turned into a white mist, which Qing Lei inhaled into her nasal cavity. For a moment, she couldn't bring herself to say, "I've already eaten."
"Try it, this is food made by our tribe, it tastes pretty good."
"Um... thank you."
Qing Lei finally couldn't hold back, and even the two beast girls stationed behind couldn't help but swallow their saliva, glancing over from time to time.
The group headed towards the settlement. Hunting Flame had only been to the snowfield once before, and then hurriedly returned to the Netherworld.
This time, she stayed in Su Yuan's tribe after arriving in the snowfield, so she had not seen other environments in the surface world. Seeing such scenery for the first time, she couldn't help but look around.
"You left in such a hurry that we didn't even know you had your tribe's name."
“Star Tribe, but my name is Su Yuan, and this is Lion, Hunting Flame.”
Qinglei was not surprised by this. She knew that the chieftains of some other tribes from distant places did not have the exact same names as the tribes.
Some tribes name their tribes after their own beliefs, while others use the name of the chief who founded the tribe as the tribe's name and keep it unchanged.
In this vast world, she has witnessed the customs and cultures of countless different places.
Beside her, Shishi nodded to Qinglei in greeting, while Shouyan was much more enthusiastic, pulling Qinglei into a big hug and laughing, "This bun tastes good, right? Let me tell you, I was surprised the first time I ate it..."
Hunting Flame's enthusiasm was a bit overwhelming for Qing Lei, but fortunately, the Tear Fox Tribe wasn't far away. The group walked to a spot near the lake, where some people were already slowly walking in through the gate.
Some of them were using ropes woven from plants to bind several short orcs, whose wounded and weak bodies were being dragged around like trash.
It's probably being kept alive by something, otherwise it would have died long ago.
"What are those?" Su Yuan asked, voicing his doubts.
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