Luo Zexuan reluctantly got up and walked over, but the beastmen were all busy pouring out food and licking their plates, and had no time to pay attention to him at all.
He didn't say anything, but turned around and walked to the cashier, where he found a bundle of plastic bags.
Then, back in the restaurant, he unfolded one of the bags and said to the beastmen, "If you need to pack up your food, this is a more convenient and cleaner way to do it."
His words finally stopped the orcs from packing their food.
One of the tiger-beastmen, who was once tall but was now emaciated, scratched his head and gave a silly grin.
"Respected divine messenger, thank you so much for the food. We would like to take it back to our cave for the females and cubs at home, may we do that?"
He had barely finished speaking when a goat-beastman beside him hurriedly added, "The food in the beast den has long been gone, leaving only a few withered branches. My beast parents are about to collapse..."
Lin Qianqian sighed deeply. She was born in a peaceful era and had never gone hungry since childhood.
The hardest time was during the period in the Immortal Abyss Realm when I was hiding and running away with Yunze.
But those days were mostly dangerous, so I didn't go hungry much.
"You can eat here without worry. I'll bring you more food to take back later. By the way, how many of your beasts are starving right now? I mean, are there many tribes nearby that lack meat and grass?"
The beastmen looked at each other, and finally, Wolf Mountain, the chieftain of the Cui Cui tribe, stepped forward.
“My Lord, there are eleven tribes in our vicinity, with a total of more than ten thousand beasts. The cold season is only halfway over, but the stored food has long been used up, and everyone is now suffering from hunger and cold.”
"More than ten thousand beasts! How many of them eat meat? How many eat vegetables, that is, how many herbivores?"
"My lord, we beasts like tigers, wolves, and lions are mostly carnivorous, but we can also eat some grass, leaves, and fruits. Most herbivores eat grass, but they also need to eat some meat."
"It seems to have a similar diet to that of animals on Earth," Lin Qianqian thought, stroking her chin.
"Mingyue, how many lunchboxes did we bring?"
Wen Mingyue thought for a moment and replied, "Around a thousand portions."
"Only a thousand portions? How much vegetables, fruits, rice, and meat did you bring? Based on human consumption, how many people could that feed for a long time?"
Wen Mingyue took out her tablet and checked something. Instead of answering the question directly, she said, "I know what you're trying to do, but I'm telling you that's not realistic!"
"But didn't you all suggest saving the orcs' lives first? Besides, we can have them exchange Orthodox Stones for food. Trading food for Orthodox Stones isn't a bad deal!"
"Hey!" Wen Mingyue scrolled through her tablet, then turned to discuss the matter with Luo Zexuan and Chu Zhou.
After a while, she looked up and asked the orc, "Do you know how to cook porridge?"
The orcs looked at each other, puzzled. "Sir, what is porridge?"
"It's just cooking vegetables, meat, and rice together."
The beasts were still completely bewildered: "What is rice? What does 'cooking' mean?"
This time it was Wen Mingyue's turn to be confused. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "How do you eat your food? Do you eat it raw or cooked?"
Langshan replied, "In the wild, we eat it raw; in the tribe, we roast it."
"Is there no other way to eat it?"
"No." Langshan shook his head.
Wen Mingyue was discouraged and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she turned to Lin Qianqian and whispered to her.
A moment later, Lin Qianqian said to the orcs, "The weather is really too cold these days. I'll cook a few pots of porridge at the entrance of the mall and call the orcs from the Cui Cui tribe to come and get some to fill their stomachs. Porridge is perfect for the cold winter; it warms the stomach and soothes the body. Other tribes can send a few clever orcs over to learn how to cook porridge, and then they can take some rice and meat back to cook for themselves. Let's get through this cold season first."
The reason we made porridge instead of cooking rice for them was that porridge uses less grain than rice!
Orcs are all supposed to be big eaters, and who knows how many are starving right now.
If rice, meat, and vegetables are provided in abundance, then no matter how much food the mall brings, it won't be enough.
There's nothing we can do; these orcs have said that beasts are freezing and starving to death every day.
We can only follow the example of distributing porridge at the city gates during times of famine in ancient times, and do this good deed at a loss first, just to save the lives of these orcs.
However, after thinking about it, I added: "This is the only time we'll be giving out porridge. For the next batch, you'll have to exchange it for something else."
The beasts were initially quite pleased to hear this, but then...
They were even a little worried about exchanging something for it.
They looked at each other, and the old deer-beastman, Deergrass, blushed and stammered as he spoke.
“My lord, it is the cold season now and we cannot hunt. Could you please grant us some food first? Once the windy season arrives, we will immediately hunt more game to offer.”
After saying this, he immediately lowered his head. The messenger of the god not only refused to make offerings, but also asked for food.
He knew it was unreasonable to make such a request, but they really had no other choice!
Lin Qianqian took out the few Mystic Stones and said, "We don't want prey, you can trade them for Mystic Stones. We can also trade other plants we can find, as well as some special items."
The orcs looked at the Ogre Stone in Lin Qianqian's hand with disbelief. Could they really exchange Ogre Stone for food?
He looked at Ao Shi, then looked up at Lin Qianqian, confirming again.
"Can you really exchange Orichalcum for food?"
"Really!" Lin Qianqian's eyes were certain.
The orcs took off running, as fast as the wind. In just a few seconds, all the orcs in front of them had disappeared.
Even the deer-beastman who had to pant after every two steps was running at top speed with his packed food, heading towards a cave not far away.
Lin Qianqian didn't care where they were going; she had promised to distribute porridge, so she quickly got to work.
They summoned a robot, which set up several large tents on both sides of the gate, brought out a dozen large iron pots and stoves, as well as bags of rice, pork, vegetables, salt, and so on, and started cooking pork and vegetable porridge.
The pot on the left contains a meat porridge with more meat than vegetables, intended for carnivorous orcs.
The one on the right is a vegetable porridge with a little bit of minced meat and rice, meant for herbivorous beastmen.
"Mingyue, are you sure orcs can eat porridge?"
"Qianqian, they're all starving. What can't they eat?"
"Too."
The robots were busy making noise, while other mall employees shuttled back and forth giving instructions.
Lin Qianqian and Yun Ze stood at the door, looking at the world covered in snow, everything as far as the eye could see was white.
From time to time, some animal heads peeked out from the caves in the distance, and a glimmer of hope appeared in their eyes, which had been numb and desperate.
Looking into those beastly eyes, Lin Qianqian felt increasingly pressured...
While the employees and robots were busy, a large black bull, more than two meters tall, was seen on the slope a few hundred meters away.
It carried a large bag on its back and walked through snow more than a meter deep, with Wolf Mountain supporting the old priest, Lucao, as they slowly followed behind.
The road wasn't far, and we arrived at it in no time.
As the three orcs approached, they smelled the aroma wafting from the large tents on either side of the mall entrance, and their mouths watered uncontrollably.
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