Lan wants to learn the language of the mixed races in the forest.
The slightly sweet, juicy stems filled half a basket of vines.
Looking at their numbers, Feng Hong felt much more at ease. If she collected them one or two more times, she wouldn't have to worry about water shortages during the snowy season.
The current Maple Reds haven't fully realized the benefits of pottery, completely forgetting that with pottery and fire, they can always have hot water to drink in winter and don't need to worry about insufficient tuber storage.
They no longer have to eat cold snow.
The gathering party of orcs had a bountiful harvest today. As they hurried back to their clan, Rock Forest discovered another type of wild vegetable. It was a grayish-green vegetable, each clump bearing tiny white fruits, looking as inconspicuous as a weed.
The orcs picked the dusty wild vegetables and returned to their clan in high spirits.
Maple Syrup had just taken out a kiln full of newly fired pottery when she heard them return. Her sister's infectiously lively voice called out to her, and she immediately knew that the foraging team had harvested a lot of food that day.
"Sister—"
Hearing her sister's joyful voice, she turned her head to look. The beastmen, carrying vine baskets full of goods, were either smiling or grinning, their faces showing the happiness of a bountiful harvest.
Jiang Yunlan, who had been picked up, landed back on the ground and smiled as she told the beastmen to put down the vine baskets on their backs.
There were new wooden buckets in the cave, made by Qiu Guo. Jiang Yunlan picked up the new bucket, cleaned it, and placed it on the semi-circular platform, allowing the beastmen to put the processed wild vegetables inside.
She knew that Yan Shi was familiar with these wild vegetables, so she felt comfortable entrusting them to Yan Shi and his team to handle.
The orcs, seeing Lan's gestures, obediently nodded and quickly approached the vine basket. At that moment, Maple Syrup, leaning on her cane, walked up to Cotton and blocked his way, seemingly engaged in conversation with him.
Seeing this, 022 immediately floated over and recorded their conversation. Rock and the other orcs ignored the two orcs talking and went to the vine basket to scoop out the wild vegetables inside.
Jiang Yunlan glanced at them and followed them to the pile of vine baskets. She took out the wild chive seeds from the baskets and placed them in the seed storage area inside the cave.
She discovered that a few wild chive flowers had already produced black seeds, so she wrapped the seeds in leaves and brought them back.
These seeds can be stored after being dried for a few days and kept for planting in the spring.
The wild chive seedlings that should have been stored in the vine basket are no longer there; Jiang Yunlan planted them at the foot of the mountain where the clan is located.
"Lan!" Feng Hong shouted Lan's name as she grabbed the badger by the scruff of its neck.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yunlan put down the seeds in her hand, turned around and walked closer to her, asking, "What's wrong, Feng Hong?"
She pointed to the badger in her hand, then to the small gray beast and the large bird beside her, making "ooh-ooh-ooh" noises. Her meaning was easy to understand; she was asking Lan if she wanted to keep the badger.
The beastmen all know that Lan likes to keep these animals.
Jiang Yunlan understood and nodded with a smile. Soon she saw Feng Hong tie the badger to a place a little away from the big bird.
The badger's wound had stopped bleeding, with blood clots sticking to its grayish-white fur. It had injured its foot and been carried all the way, its energy for struggling long gone. Now it lay silently on the ground to rest, radiating an aura of utter despair, like a fellow sufferer of the gray little beast.
The large bird, which valued its life, gradually got used to being caged. Seeing the birds looking half-dead, it cawed a few times, the shrill sound sounding like a gloating mockery.
It laughed at them, but then caught a glimpse of a tiny squirrel-beastman cub approaching it. It immediately fell silent and huddled weakly into a ball.
Jiang Yunlan lifted the trembling bird, looked down at the empty ground, and said with slight disappointment, "No eggs today."
She had assumed it would lay eggs every day, like a hen on Earth. Sure enough, different species lay eggs at different frequencies. She sighed, put down the large bird she was holding, and walked away coldly.
The timid bird became arrogant again, but dared not squawk loudly, for fear of attracting the squirrel-beastman cubs once more.
Jiang Yunlan was completely unaware that she had become the bird's shadow while feeding it mushrooms. After checking on the three small animals, she turned and asked Feng Hong to take out the birds that she had retrieved from the bird trap that day from the vine basket.
It's time for the food test.
Today, Jiang Yunlan fed the birds red and orange mushrooms. After they ate the mushrooms, she placed them next to Qiu Guo. Qiu Guo watched over them, her hands weaving a vine basket without stopping.
Today's prey included badgers, birds, and two dead animals.
"Feng Hong, remember to leave some bones," Jiang Yunlan said patiently, pointing to the dead prey.
The orcs would keep the bones of medium to large animals, sharpening them into bone knives. The bones of small animals would be discarded as trash. But she wanted the bones of the small animals; she could use them to make weapons by combining them with wood.
She was still a cub, and the weapons she made from the bones of small animals fit her perfectly. She kept the bones of the small animals, and she kept the fish bones too. In her eyes, these things were all usable resources.
Feng Hong nodded in agreement with Lan and carried her prey to the edge of the platform.
Seeing that she understood, Jiang Yunlan turned around to look at the injured leopard beastman Yan Lin. The herbs he was applying had been replaced, there were no signs of infection or inflammation in his wounds, and his body temperature was gradually returning to normal. He would probably wake up soon.
"The wound is healing well; he should survive," Jiang Yunlan muttered to herself, somewhat relieved.
This clan can add another orc.
As night fell, Jiang Yunlan led Feng Hong and several other orcs back from the foot of the mountain, carrying back a large number of raw stones.
It's time to make stone spear weapons.
Jiang Yunlan carried the stone back to the cave and looked up to see Yan Lin, who had just woken up, squatting on the ground. His hands were on his knees, and his golden eyes were fixed on the maple syrup and cotton balls being shaped into pottery on the semi-circular platform.
His face was expressionless, his fluffy tail was wrapped around his feet, and his ears twitched as he curiously watched the red clay gradually taking shape in Maple Syrup's hand, much like a big cat observing something.
Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Yan Shi's usually expressionless face revealed a hint of happiness. He put down the raw stone in his hand and walked towards Yan Lin, letting out a visibly relieved sigh.
"Yanlin, can you run now?" He stood in front of Yanlin and asked worriedly.
Leopard beastmen's health is always measured by their running speed. If they can run and jump, their wounds are not serious; if they cannot run, they have suffered particularly severe injuries.
Yanlin's view was blocked by rocks, making it impossible to see the semi-circular platform.
He frowned instinctively, glancing at the rocks with displeasure. His weak voice couldn't hide his unhappiness. "You're blocking my way. Move aside. I'm not dead. Of course I can run and jump. What are you worried about? Do you think this little injury will kill me?"
After he finished speaking, he tilted his head back and stared straight at the rock.
Rock habitually filtered out his defiant tone, shifted his body to the side, and nodded honestly: "You and I almost died, it's so good that we didn't actually die."
He was speechless for a moment, then silently shifted his gaze to observe the unfamiliar beastmen who had just returned. He noticed that the beastmen here were very obedient to the squirrel-beastman cubs.
This clan is really strange; the clan leader is a cub, completely different from his clan.
He observed the cubs and saw the squirrel-man cub approach the deer-man holding the red clay, uttering a language he had never heard before.
"What is this?" Jiang Yunlan asked curiously, looking at the pottery in Maple Syrup's hand.
It was a ceramic jar even bigger than a traditional earthenware pot. She was somewhat surprised and gestured as she asked Maple Syrup why she had thought of making this.
“Bowl, fish, rice,” Maple Syrup said, pretending to hold a long wooden stick and turn it in circles inside the “earthenware jar” as if she were cooking fish.
When Lan cooks fish, she cuts the fish meat into small pieces and puts it into a bamboo tube, turning it around with a twig from time to time. She doesn't understand why Lan does this, but she cooks it the same way.
What she didn't know was that the fish they cooked was almost like fish paste, and they had to stir it constantly during the cooking process to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Jiang Yunlan understood this pantomime. She finally realized that the pottery Maple Syrup wanted to make was actually a clay pot, not a clay jar, and she laughed happily.
"Maple syrup, it's wonderful!" she exclaimed, flashing a bright smile to let the maple syrup know how happy she was.
As expected of the original leader of this clan, while all the orcs were still making pottery bowls and pots according to her teachings, Maple Syrup had already learned to use her wisdom to create the items she needed.
Because they wanted a very large bowl to cook fish and rice, they had cotton molded into a ceramic pot with an enlarged spout, turning the pot into a ceramic pot so that it would be convenient to put food in for cooking.
Jiang Yunlan suddenly remembered that the prototype of the wooden barrel was also born from maple syrup.
Without a doubt, Maple Syrup is the most intelligent orc in this clan and is very suitable to be the clan leader.
In another year, no, just a few months, Maple Syrup will surely have learned what she taught. Then she should bid farewell to this clan.
She hadn't forgotten that her second life was given to her by the original owner of this body. She wanted to find the original owner's people and find out what the original owner's wishes were.
But hidden in this forest is a crisis she is unaware of, a crisis that the beastmen cannot cope with.
She should have left the dangerous forest with the orcs, but she wouldn't. Because her original race might still be in the forest, she would stay and search for their traces, but she wouldn't let the orcs remain there, nor would she let them accompany her in her search.
She will ensure the orcs stay away from this place and danger next spring. The search for her original race is her own business, and has nothing to do with this clan of orcs.
"We need to learn the language of the beastmen during the winter," Jiang Yunlan muttered to herself, which puzzled 022.
It silently memorized what she said, unaware that she was thinking that she needed to learn the orc language to communicate with her original race in the future.
Thinking about what she needed to do in the future, Jiang Yunlan walked over to examine the raw stones that the beastmen had brought back. She picked out stones suitable for making stone spears and pondered what she should teach the beastmen.
She learned to make fire by friction, to collect plant seeds for planting, and to make stone spears and wooden armor... She thought that with these things, the clan would surely become stronger and stronger.
Jiang Yunlan, who took over as clan leader, still hasn't integrated into the clan and continues to see herself as an outsider. Everything she does for the clan is to repay the beastmen for saving her life and for their kindness.
She knew very well that she was just a passerby. The beastmen might be a little sad when they parted ways with her, but they would soon forget that they had only known her for less than a year.
She was always human, both on Earth and in the Beast World.
Jiang Yunlan was thinking about parting, but her expression showed no sadness. She was looking at the raw stone with great focus.
She wouldn't have many concerns, nor would she think about what would happen if she died in a crisis while in the body of an infant. Because she chose to stay, chose to find the original owner's people, even if death awaited her, she would resolutely move forward on the path filled with death.
This is her choice, and she will not give up no matter what happens.
A note from the author:
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The seven bottles of nutrient solution watered by the little angel "Quantum Cat" have been given to the wild leek seedlings, and the seedlings are thriving.
The two bottles of nutrient solution that the little angel "vv" fed to the gray beast have been forcibly given to it, and the melancholy gray beast is gradually becoming cheerful.
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*This is the Beast World adult news site.
New information has been unlocked: the height range of the group and the adult beastmen.
022: 20cm
Jiang Yunlan: 90cm
Lemming Orc, Mo Rong 105cm
Lemming Orc, Black Soil 112cm
Lop-eared rabbit-like beastman, Abai: 168cm
Rock Goat Orc, Cotton: 175cm
Cheetah Orc, Rock: 190cm
Sika Deer Beastman, Maple Red: 190cm
Sika Deer Beastman: Qiu Guo: 192cm
Sika deer-like beastman, maple syrup: 197cm
Cheetah Orc, Rock Forest: 200cm
Body length refers to the length of an orc in its beast form.
Lemmings are 10cm-18cm long.
Adult lemming orcs are 138cm-150cm tall.
Rock squirrels are about 21cm long.
Adult rock squirrel beastmen are 140cm-155cm tall.
*Small rabbits are 15cm-30cm in length.
Adult rabbit-like beastmen are 150cm-164cm tall.
Medium-sized rabbits are 30cm-40cm in length.
Adult rabbit-human beastmen are 160cm-174cm tall.
Large rabbits are 40cm-50cm long.
Adult rabbit-human beastmen are 170cm-184cm tall.
The ear is approximately 6cm-8cm long.
*The blue sheep is 120cm-140cm in length.
The height of the ibex-beastman is 185cm-200cm
*The sika deer's body length is 125cm-145cm
Sika deer-like beastmen are 190cm-205cm tall.
*Cheetahs are 100cm-150cm in length.
Cheetah Orcs are 185cm-210cm tall.
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