Encountering a new orc clan: Orcs are the children of Xia, oh...
"Lan".
Jiang Yunlan heard Albero call her name, turned around to look at the golden-red behemoth walking into the Forest Lake Street, suppressed the surprise in her eyes and smiled, saying, "It's rare to see you come to see me, you must have something you want to talk to me about. Come on, I'll take you to a suitable place to talk."
It did not object, and obediently followed Lan with small, quick steps, refusing Xia's beastman's several requests to stroke its fur.
"Albero, remember this place. If you need to talk to me about something in the future, just come here," Jiang Yunlan said, standing on the balcony on the second floor of the council building, looking at the wooden beast outside the window.
At that moment, she couldn't help but feel fortunate that there was an open space outside the council building, just the right place for Albero to sit down.
“Lan, do you remember the group of Apocalypse Beastmen I told you about a few days ago, the ones who came here? They suddenly started moving downwards,” Albero said.
Their direction of advance was likely towards the location of the Second Forest Lake Expedition Team. Jiang Yunlan took a deep breath to calm herself. She had heard from Albero that this Apocalypse Orc team gave him a very unpleasant feeling; several of the orcs had the aura of different elves rather than the aura of a single elf.
Calmly, she retrieved a map from the council chamber, opened it in front of Albero, and asked, "Where do you see them stopping?"
Albero sensed the map and pointed to a spot. Lan had taught it how to read a map, so it knew directions.
The location it indicated on the map wasn't good. Jiang Yunlan couldn't confirm whether they had sensed the presence of the Forest Lake pioneer team or the elves Agni had mentioned. Albero couldn't remotely assess the strength of the orcs who had plundered the elves, making it difficult to say whether the first and second Forest Lake pioneer teams could defeat them.
Regardless of who they're after, this is not good news.
Jiang Yunlan decisively decided to lead the Guardian team, originally scheduled to head to the grasslands, to immediately set off in search of the Apocalypse Beastmen. At the same time, she dispatched messenger birds and messengers to notify the grassland habitat to send additional support teams.
Lian Qiyu and the other Apocalypse Beastmen who had fled were still being hunted down by the Xia Beastmen. At this time, there were no more enemies lurking in the shadows around the Xia tribe, so the messenger birds became the fastest way to deliver messages, and the messengers became the Beastmen who ensured that the messages reached other habitats intact.
The messenger bird carries the message and flies into the grassland.
Yan Dahe from the breeding area knocked on the door of Maple Syrup, and a powerful team emerged from the grassland habitat. Yan Duoyu and his teammates, who had transformed into beast forms, set off lightly equipped, abandoning the convoy that would slow them down, and rushed towards their destination with only a few packs on their backs.
The shadows of the trees swept past them as Lian Qiyu led her few remaining companions into the newly encountered hills. Plants were sparse and survival resources were scarce, but the terrain was winding, making it ideal for shaking off enemies.
Lian Qiyu thought he could shake off the Xia beastmen who were chasing them by relying on his familiarity with the place, but he did not expect that the first pioneer team of Senhu was stationed here, and he did not expect that they would be attacked from both sides by Xia's beastmen.
far away.
Jiang Yunlan and her group left the Forest Lake habitat and followed the wooden beast Albero to find the Apocalypse team that had come to the Xia tribe.
It was another night. Albero stopped his journey, lay down on the ground, and patiently waited for Jiang Yunlan to get off his back. Then he opened his mouth wide, begging for food.
Jiang Yunlan skillfully directed the plants to feed it, filling her own stomach with the food in her hands. With it in the group, wild animals would automatically avoid the places it passed through, so Jiang Yunlan and her group didn't have to worry about encountering danger while traveling at night, and they only stopped traveling during meal and sleep times.
The orcs in the group quickly finished their dinner, tidied themselves up, and set off into the night.
Jiang Yunlan lay on top of Albero's head, no longer trying to observe the ground, which was obscured by the darkness. With her eyes closed, she sensed her surroundings through the plants and asked, "How far are we from our target, Albero?"
“It’s very close, we’ll see each other in a few days,” Albero said.
The day after it finished speaking, several low hills appeared before Jiang Yunlan and her group.
They walked into the hills before them without hesitation.
The Apocalypse Beastmen near this area include not only the Apocalypse Beastmen they are looking for, but also Beastmen like Lian Qiyu who have escaped to this area.
Jiang Yunlan guessed that the Tianqi team, which originally planned to go to Xia, had changed their itinerary midway because of Lian Qiyu and his group. Jiang Yunlan was prepared to intercept them here, and began searching for Lian Qiyu's team as soon as she entered the hills.
A hilltop orc clan, out gathering fruit-season supplies, happened to bump into Jiang Yunlan and her group, startling them so much that they dropped what they were holding.
"It's a giant beast! Run!!!" The first rabbit-man to react shouted and turned to run.
The group of lop-eared rabbit-like beastmen fled desperately, when one of them accidentally twisted his ankle and fell to the ground, unable to get up for a moment.
Xia, an orc, helped her up as usual, and checked her sprained ankle. Finding that her injury wasn't serious and she only needed a few days of rest, he subconsciously gave her a few words of advice. During his time out with Albero and his group, Xia's orcs often encountered similar situations and were very familiar with how to deal with orcs who were stuck in place.
The lop-eared rabbit-like beastman, upon hearing the strange beastman speak Xia's language, looked in shock at the beastmen surrounding the giant beast. She looked up and saw another beastman and a strange, round, transparent creature perched atop the giant beast's head, her expression blank.
"Xia?" the lop-eared rabbit-beastman asked hesitantly.
She found it hard to believe that the orcs walking alongside the giant beasts were actually of the same race as Bai Shui and his companions.
“That’s right, we are orcs from Xia!” the orc from Xia replied cheerfully, then asked curiously, “You know us?”
Not far away.
Jiang Yunlan heard the two orcs talking, turned her gaze to them, and pricked up her ears to listen to their conversation.
The two orcs communicated with difficulty, using gestures and broken language. Jiang Yunlan also received new information: the first pioneering team of Senhu had settled in the wolf-orc clan in the hills.
Three days ago, strange orcs appeared in the hills, and the first squad of Senhu launched a collective attack to hunt them down. The Lop-eared Rabbit Orc Clan and other orc clans in the hills also sent members to help search for the strange orcs. Even now, Bai Shui is still leading his companions in the hunt for the strange orcs.
The first pioneering team of Senhu was in hot pursuit of Lian Qiyu's squad. They dared not show themselves, and almost no orc clans in the hills had ever seen them.
Jiang Yunlan understood. She left a few of her tribesmen to escort the Lop-eared Rabbit Beastmen back to their habitat, and then followed Albero straight to Lian Qiyu's team.
"Damn Xia beastmen!" Lian Qiyu treated her wounds, her expression turning ferocious. "Why are there Xia beastmen everywhere! Did they predict we would come here, so they robbed the beastman clans that our tribe hadn't completely subdued yet?"
The other Apocalypse Orcs nodded in deep agreement upon hearing his words, spoken through gritted teeth. They had never been so utterly defeated, except when facing the horde of giant beasts.
"Once the Sunset Squad arrives to reinforce us, we'll capture all those Summer Beastmen who are chasing us and bring them back to the tribe for punishment!" an Apocalypse Beastman said bitterly.
Upon hearing this, Lian Qiyu couldn't help but imagine the future fate of the Xia beastman, and her mood instantly improved.
He wrapped his bandages around himself, and when he spoke again, his voice was much more resentful, "Yan Wuyan, who was in charge of sending Yuan Bingsheng and the others back, is really lucky. He doesn't have to run around with us. Hmph, I guess it's no wonder he's a beastman who has sided with Jianying. He's bound to get some favor from Yuan Bingsheng."
"When is my stupid boss going to usurp the throne? We have plenty of allies in our camp. Even if we kill the current leader, we can still maintain the status quo of the tribe." He complained bluntly, without any intention of hiding anything from his subordinates.
Anyway, the orcs from other factions aren't here, so he can say whatever he wants.
Even the orcs in Lingcaiyuque's camp couldn't stand being secretly ostracized by the orcs in the leader's camp, and they sighed along with them.
Seeing his predicament after choosing to stay with the Xia tribe instead of returning to face punishment, Lian Qiyu became even angrier. Once he reunited with Xi Hui, he planned to instigate Xi Hui to persuade Ling Cai to usurp the throne.
"Captain!"
He held his breath and looked at the orc who had called him. Just as he was about to look up, he heard the orc say again, "A giant beast has appeared! Run—"
Lian Qiyu staggered to his feet and saw the giant beast charging towards them.
The first thing he noticed when he saw the behemoth was the squirrel-like beastman atop its head. He hesitated for a second before turning around, his mind filled with confusion and bewilderment. He couldn't understand why this behemoth, which was even more irrational than wild beasts, had been subdued by Xia's leader.
Damn the Xia tribe! Damn the Xia tribe!
Lian Qiyu sat on the ground covered in dust and dirt, and before she could even resist, Jiang Yunlan grabbed her with a series of moves.
"Why did you know we were here?" he demanded through the unsealing magic circle, questioning Jiang Yunlan beside the giant beast. "Why does the giant beast obey your commands?!"
Jiang Yunlan looked puzzled upon hearing his question. She found it strange that the Sand Fox Beastman, now a prisoner, could still ask her questions so confidently, as if she were obligated to answer his questions. She naturally ignored Lian Qiyu's questioning and calmly focused on activating the magic circle.
She didn't care about Lian Qiyu's howling like a stray dog, but Xia's orcs were very dissatisfied with his attitude, looking at him with eyes several times colder than they looked at other Apocalypse orcs. Xia didn't have a habit of mistreating prisoners, but he wouldn't have an easy time during interrogations.
Xia's orc secretly took out a bottle of itching powder, abandoning his usual method of scratching with feathers.
The itching powder had made Lian Qiyu writhe on the ground, and he instinctively tried to use his ice power to attack the Xia beastman, but he couldn't use any skills. He belatedly realized that he had completely lost his power and had become an ordinary beastman. He suddenly came to his senses and realized that if he wanted to survive, he had to hold out until Xi Hui and the others arrived.
He gritted his teeth, refraining from uttering any more arrogant words that might provoke the Xia beastman, but he also refused to reveal any information. He knew all too well what would become of useless beastmen, and even for his own sake, he couldn't so easily give in and leak information about Xi Hui and the others.
However, he managed to hold on, but the Apocalypse Orc who was taken elsewhere for interrogation could not.
When the Xia beastman interrogating them said that some beastmen had already given them information they knew, they deflated and obediently answered the Xia beastman's questions. Their companions had given them information to save their lives; they had no choice but to. The Apocalypse beastman, answering obediently, justified himself inwardly.
"Is the Apocalypse team that came here the same team that chased down Cai Baihua and the others, the Twilight Feather Sparrow team?" Jiang Yunlan asked in surprise.
She had assumed that the main responsibility of the Evening Glow Sparrow was to guard the treehouse, but she hadn't expected to face them so soon. It seemed that the Apocalypse Tribe wasn't just going to make small moves, but was preparing for a formal attack; otherwise, why would they have sent their main fighting force?
"Albero, how far away are they from us?" Jiang Yunlan turned to look at the wooden beast gazing into the distance.
Albero snapped out of his reverie and said thoughtfully, "If we set off now, we can find them the day after tomorrow."
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