The Butterfly Beastmen of the Healer Clan - This is Lan's clan.
The butterfly beastmen of the Medicine Clan? Jiang Yunlan tilted her head back, looking at the butterfly beastmen in front of her with curiosity.
This was the first time she had encountered a clan of orcs with vastly different hair and eye colors; they were of the same race, yet their appearances were so different. Red hair, blue hair, black hair, silver hair… it was as if the world had poured all the colors onto them.
Cai Baihua, the red-haired, pink-eyed chieftain of the butterfly beastmen, scratched her head and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Are you also leaving the forest? Can you take us with you? We'll offer you herbs as payment."
They originally intended to fly to the other side of the great river, to the other side. But the great river at the end of the forest was a bit strange; no matter which way they flew, it was always water. They flew for a very long time, but couldn't find a place to land, so they had to fly back.
Honestly, finding our way is so annoying. If only there weren't any giant beasts, we wouldn't have to migrate. Rainbow Flower fumed, its two antennae on its forehead flailing wildly.
"Do you want to come with us? Sure, but we'll stay at the edge of the forest for a while longer," Jiang Yunlan said.
She would refine sea salt on the coast and stay there until 022 returned. There were no means of communication in this world, and she worried that if she and the beastmen strayed too far from the forest, 022 wouldn't be able to find them.
Without a second thought, Cai Baihua readily agreed: "Okay."
"...Little Hundred Flowers, didn't I tell you not to agree to things too quickly? You've only met them for the first time, so observe them carefully. What if they're evil beastmen?"
Upon hearing the ethereal and melodious voice, Jiang Yunlan subconsciously looked in the direction from which the voice came, towards Cai Baihua's left wrist.
A round, green wooden branch encircled her wrist, much like a jade bracelet.
It was the voice of an elf. Jiang Yunlan suddenly realized and looked up.
The butterfly beastmen opposite her did not react to her voice. Neither did the beastmen behind her; they showed no anger or suspicion, seemingly ignoring the elf's voice.
The elf didn't want the orcs to notice it.
Realizing this, Jiang Yunlan pretended not to notice its presence and naturally turned her gaze back to Cai Baihua's face.
"Huh? But that squirrel-beastman cub also carries Nature. A beastman recognized by Nature can't be a bad beastman. Don't worry, Alanya." Cai Baihua revealed a smile without a trace of gloom, looking down at the ice crystal in the cub's pocket.
Its aura was much weaker than Alanya's, making it almost unnoticeable. It probably had expended too much energy.
Jiang Yunlan showed a hint of surprise upon seeing the red-haired butterfly beastman recognize the Ice Crystal Elf. This butterfly beastman must be very sensitive to auras, as he was able to identify the Ice Crystal Elf at a glance.
Without using its power, the ice crystal looked like a beautiful crystal, and almost no orc would recognize it as an elf. Neither would she.
She could hear the voices of elves, but she was not sensitive to their breath.
The ability to distinguish the scents of different races is an innate talent of orcs, which she inherited after fulfilling all of Gray Bud's wishes. However, this latecomer to the inheritance seems to have inherited it incompletely, often confusing the scents of orcs with the smells of the surrounding environment.
"Can you recognize nature?" Jiang Yunlan asked.
Cai Baihua nodded. She didn't quite understand why the nature within the crystal hadn't formed a contract with the squirrel-beastman cub, but she could tell it wasn't unconsciously radiating power. It stayed safely beside the cub, letting itself sleep, clearly trusting the cub that had brought it by its side.
"Little Hundred Flowers. Not all beastmen recognized by nature are friendly beastmen."
As if remembering something, Alanya's ethereal voice was tinged with sadness, "Even nature, after experiencing certain things, can become something that frightens living beings."
Cai Baihua was stunned. She raised her right hand and touched the emerald green wooden branch, as if to comfort Alanya.
It stopped speaking and simply watched the beastmen at the edge of the forest in silence.
When the Maple Syrup and the other orcs heard Rainbow Hundred Flowers suddenly talking to thin air, they were puzzled for a second before realizing that she too was surrounded by nature, just like Lan. The orcs had grown accustomed to the presence of nature around Lan and no longer avoided it as they used to.
"Are you still coming with us?" Jiang Yunlan tilted her head, puzzled.
Cai Baihua hesitated for a few seconds, but didn't hear Alanya's voice to stop her. She decided to trust her instincts and follow the squirrel-beastman cub in front of her out of the forest.
“Together!” she said.
The butterfly beastmen walked to the right of the mixed-race clan, together with the beastmen pulling cartwheels, along the edge of the forest.
For the first two minutes after they began their journey together, the butterfly beastmen followed their chieftain, Cai Baihua, with graceful steps and movements as elegant and beautiful as fluttering butterflies.
Two minutes later, the butterfly beastmen, who were looking straight ahead, gradually approached the beastmen walking beside the wooden cart. The moment the beastmen looked at them, they smiled and started chattering.
"What are you pulling? Is it made of wood?"
Suddenly pulled aside to ask a question, Cotton spoke slowly: "This is a wooden cart. Lan taught us how to make it."
"Is this red thing also for holding water? But the water-holding clan's water containers are all yellow. And water containers made of wood can't hold water, so why do you make so many wooden water containers?"
Yan Duoyu, standing beside the wooden cart, glanced at the ceramic bowl the butterfly beastman was pointing to, and gave him a blank look. "What do you mean, 'hold water'? Lan said it's a bowl. Besides holding water, bowls can also be used to hold food."
Lan taught them to use bowls, spoons, and chopsticks so that they could eat more food.
"I see. Then why are there so many animals in your vehicle, and why are you putting water, soil, and sprouts in bowls?"
Grey Honey chuckled and proudly explained, "Lan said this is called farming and raising animals. As long as we raise them well, our people will never have to go hungry again."
Having traveled through the forest for so long, they have already raised more than a dozen different crops and half a cartload of animals. If Lan hadn't been worried about the tribe's water supply, they could have raised even more crops and animals.
“Your chieftain is indeed a wise man,” the butterfly beastmen said, their eyes sparkling as if they were glowing.
They could certainly guess that the chieftain of the mixed-race clan was the squirrel-orc cub in front of them.
The butterfly beastmen were not surprised that their leader was a cub. Their leader, Cai Baihua, who was also a wise man, had succeeded to the position when he was only half an adult.
Jiang Yunlan, who was ahead, also encountered what her people were going through, and was pulled aside by the enthusiastic butterfly beastman Cai Baihua to talk.
"Your tribe has so many things I've never seen before. Let's make a trade!"
Jiang Yunlan agreed.
She wanted to learn a lot, and she learned almost everything Jiang Yunlan taught the tribespeople. At the same time, she also taught Jiang Yunlan most of the tribe's methods of healing wounds, making medicine, and producing poison.
"Can't we trade that thing called a bow and arrow?" Cai Baihua quickly built a fire and asked, puzzled.
As Jiang Yunlan organized the magical herbal recipes she had learned from her over the past few days, she said, "Yes, I won't trade it." Unless she makes better weapons and armor.
She felt a pang of regret for a few seconds, then put the matter out of her mind. Lan knew a lot of things, and she could even exchange them for other items she had never seen before.
On the first day of the new year, Cai Baihua followed Jiang Yunlan, looking at the shadows cast by the leaves on the ground, and asked, "After we leave this forest, where does Lan want to take the people?"
“There’s no particular place I want to go. If I find a suitable habitat during the migration, I will settle down,” Jiang Yunlan replied.
"We butterfly beastmen are born to live in the forest. When we leave this forest, we will go to other forests. We love nectar and want to stay in places with seas of flowers," said Rainbow Hundred Flowers.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yunlan immediately understood that the butterfly beastmen were very likely not going to settle in the same place as them.
She looked at the butterfly beastmen, who were taller than the squirrel beastmen but weaker, and said with a smile, "You will find a suitable habitat for yourself, just like the sea of flowers in your hometown."
Cai Baihua liked Lan's blessing and smiled happily. She then asked, "Don't you find it strange that your people are many different races of beastmen?"
She spent several days with them, but still found it hard to imagine how orcs of different races could live together.
Their animal forms are different, their diets are different, their ways of thinking are different, and even their habitual habitats are vastly different.
Sitting on the back of the golden leopard, Jiang Yunlan looked at her and said matter-of-factly, "It's not strange. They are all my people, how could it be strange? Even if they look different, speak different languages, and are different in everything, as long as they are intelligent beings, they are the same."
"Just like you and me now. As long as we can communicate and understand each other, we can live together."
Cai Baihua recalled the scenes of the beastmen bickering and making up quickly over the past few days, and she began to understand what Lan had said.
The intuitive woman remarked, "I always feel that Lan is different from us. Lan seems to know everything. I am also a wise person, but I don't know nearly as much as Lan."
Even setting aside the items Lan created, she had unique insights into the healing methods that the Butterfly Beastmen excelled at. They knew that bone setting and bloodletting were effective, but Lan could point out when these treatments should be used.
Lan also told them that if they came into contact with poisonous plants, washing their skin with water infused with salted fruit could reduce some of the toxicity of the plants.
"I know these things only because I learned them in my hometown," Jiang Yunlan said, shaking her head with a smile.
She simply stood on the shoulders of giants.
“Homeland,” Cai Baihua pronounced the two words in Chinese, then suddenly remembered that Lan had no homeland beastmen by her side. “Was Lan’s homeland also gone because of the appearance of the giant beasts?”
“My homeland was not attacked by the giant beast. It’s just that it’s in a very far place, and I can’t go back. But it doesn’t matter, I still have my people by my side,” Jiang Yunlan said.
"What was Nalan's original clan name?"
Jiang Yunlan looked towards the coastline not far away, that familiar blue, the color of the blue star. They had finally arrived at the seaside.
She smiled, her smile bright and cheerful: "It's called China. It's a country with 56 ethnic groups."
"Therefore, my clan is the same. In my clan, all intelligent beings are the same; they are all my people."
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