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While Yuan Bingsheng and the other orcs were arguing, Jiang Yunlan had already led her team to check into the Field Road Inn and clean up the items they had left behind.
Upon inspection, Jiang Yunlan discovered that many things were missing from the hotel.
The locked warehouse door was forcibly pried open by the orcs of Apocalypse, and all the items that Shui Luo and the others hadn't had time to take were stolen. The spinning and weaving machines in the textile shop were gone, as were the baskets that usually sat in the corner. The treatment room, which hadn't been left with any medicine, was also ransacked; not a single empty bottle or jar remained on the shelves.
What puzzled Jiang Yunlan was that the kitchen had also been emptied. It was one thing for them to steal the seasonings, but why did they also steal the pots, pans, and water tanks?
strangeness.
Looking again at the hotel, where even the small stools had been taken away, I felt even stranger.
"What's wrong with them? Why did they take all the curtains away?!" One orc's complaint was met with agreement from all the other orcs.
The other orc searched the inn but couldn't find an oil lamp. Veins popped out on his forehead. "They're a bunch of robbers! They not only robbed the Field Highway Inn, leaving only the beds and bulky tables and cabinets, but they also made this place filthy! How sad will Shui Luo and the others be when they come back and see this?"
The atrocities committed by the Apocalypse Orcs were condemned by all the Summer Orcs. While angrily criticizing the Orcs like Yuan Bingsheng, they quickly cleaned up the damaged parts of the inn, trying to make the Field Road Inn look less terrible.
Jiang Yunlan sighed and joined the beastmen in sweeping the floor.
She was starting to suspect that the environment in the Apocalypse Tribe was really bad, otherwise why would those Apocalypse Orcs steal everything they saw, as if such items didn't exist in the Apocalypse? She finally understood why they waited until she led the team to charge before jumping out of the window to escape—it was because they had just been looting.
At this moment, she forgot about the oil lamps, curtains, pots and pans, and transparent glass jars that she was already used to... Before she came into this world, the beastmen had never even seen them, let alone used them.
Even in the Apocalypse Tribe, only the highest-ranking orcs possessed a few sets of pottery, one or two fish oil lamps, and silk clothing woven by orcs. Among the orcs who entered the highway inn, apart from Yuan Bingsheng, Yan Wuyan, and a few others, none of the other orcs had used the good things that appeared in the inn.
They were overjoyed on their first day at the inn, immediately ordering two orcs to carry the spinning and weaving machines back to their tribe, where they then fought over the looms. That's how the damaged doors and walls in the inn came about.
After a flurry of activity, the beastmen couldn't help but curse a few more times when they saw the areas that needed repair, angrily saying, "They'd better stay far away, so I don't see them again!"
With old and new grudges piled up, they exuded a heavy aura of killing intent.
The wooden beast, chained to the animal shed, seemed to sense something. It looked up warily, its gaze locking onto the murderous-looking inn, and instinctively crouched down in an attack posture. It bared its teeth, only to see a black-and-grey-haired squirrel-like beastman emerge from its sight.
It saw the tiny squirrel-like beastman stick out its fluffy gray tail, and the entire beastman turned in the direction the tail was pointing, which was the direction it was warning.
“No enemies,” Jiang Yunlan said, not seeing any strange creatures in the empty passage. She turned back to the wooden beast. “Not even wild animals. You breathed on the inn; did Agni just come to tease you again?”
She stopped and looked up.
The wooden beast stopped baring its teeth and lay down on the ground, resting its head on its forelegs and opening its mouth at her. It had found the source of the murderous aura: the group of orcs who surrounded it every day.
"Looks like you already know it's mealtime, you've even learned to open your mouth in advance." Jiang Yunlan chuckled as she took out the cleaned energy stone and put the food into its open mouth, not worried that it might suddenly close its mouth and bite her hand.
After observing for several days, Jiang Yunlan could tell that the creature it was most tolerant of were the elves, followed by her with her five natural powers, then the other elven guardians, and least tolerant of ordinary orcs. Therefore, she became the only orc who could feed it.
Judging from the current situation, the wooden beast is already very familiar with her; it allows her to approach and touch it freely.
One noteworthy point is that ever since the Wood-Powered Apocalypse Orc attempted to escape his grassland habitat but was killed by the Wood Beast guarding his vicinity, the Wood Beast has become docile. It no longer runs away, nor does it cause destruction with plants, and it will not become enraged unless it sees Bai Su.
It stayed in its grassland habitat for a very quiet time, lying in the same spot every day watching Xia with its dark green round eyes.
Occasionally, when Jiang Yunlan fed it in Sveta's place, it felt like a creature that had suddenly awakened from chaos and was just beginning to understand the world. It would always look around curiously, and if it saw something it liked, it would stick close to it to look at it, just like every beastman who had just arrived in Xia.
Jiang Yunlan reached out and rubbed the wooden beast's not-so-soft face, saying with a troubled expression, "When will you be willing to talk to me? I know you're listening. You clearly possess wisdom and can understand my reactions, but you still don't want to speak?"
The wooden beast blinked, yawned, and lazily lay down watching her.
The person feeding the baby is babbling away again. Oh well, I'll listen for a bit since she's feeding the baby.
The wooden beast patiently watched as Jiang Yunlan pointed at certain items and spoke. It couldn't understand why the squirrel-like beastman had so much to say; she would sit in front of it day and night, chattering away, and it even remembered the names of the things she kept introducing.
Jiang Yunlan didn't understand the complaints the wooden beast was keeping to itself. After teaching the day's vocabulary, she got up and went back to the inn for dinner.
After she finishes dinner, the Apocalypse Orcs she captured today should reveal the purpose of their gathering.
outside the house.
"I came here to escape the snow season. But the orc who destroyed your houses wasn't me, it was my companion!" The bound prisoner rattled off a string of names, revealing all the bad things they had done here, but making no mention of what he had done, fully demonstrating his point in one sentence.
Better to die for your fellow Daoists than for yourself; your companions are meant to be betrayed.
The vengeful Xia beastman mentally noted it down, then asked them with a smile what they had done. No beastman admitted to their misdeeds. They remained silent, their eyes darting around.
Jiang Yunlan took out the steaming hot food and looked at the Tianqi orcs who had been tied up outside and suffering from hunger and cold for several hours with a smile. She tempted them, saying, "Whoever identifies what their companion has done can eat this bowl of food."
The captured Apocalypse Beastmen were tempted, and one of them answered before the others could. He turned sideways to his companion, cupped the steaming hot broth in his hands, and took a few savoring breaths before drinking it down. The other Apocalypse Beastmen, seeing this, could not tolerate it and immediately exposed his crimes, even recounting his past misdeeds.
Jiang Yunlan waited for them to finish speaking, then picked up the other bowl of meat soup that Feng Hong had brought over. Looking at the expectant Tianqi beastmen, she said in their language, "Every bowl of food has its conditions. You can only eat this bowl of meat soup if you tell us what you plan to do to Xia."
They looked at each other, their minds flashing back to the punishments they had suffered, and dared not utter a sound.
The orc, who had just eaten meat soup and was only half full, suddenly felt even hungrier when he smelled the enticing aroma. He remembered the taste of the meat soup he had just eaten and couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He decided to throw caution to the wind and said, "We are plotting how to steal your tribe's nature."
Since he had already offended all his companions, he might not be able to survive against the Xia beastmen anyway, so he might as well eat this delicious meat soup first.
He happily ate the food he received, deliberately making delicious noises, which made his companions' eyes widen with envy.
Jiang Yunlan smiled and gestured for Feng Hong and the others to display a row of delicious-looking dishes. She slowly said, "Whoever can tell us your plan can choose a bowl from these dishes."
Another Apocalypse Orc was completely swayed, lured by the pungent aroma and revealing information. He then repeatedly leaked news about the tribe.
Seeing that his two companions were able to enter the inn to rest, the remaining Apocalypse Beastmen gradually gave up resisting and obediently answered Jiang Yunlan's questions.
Unable to extract any further information, Jiang Yunlan waved her hand, ordering Xia's orcs to take them to the t-room and imprison them.
The orcs captured this time were all ordinary orcs, and not much useful information could be extracted from them. The advantage of capturing them was probably that they didn't need guardians or elves to keep them under guard. However, she also learned about the habitats of several Apocalypse tribes, which was good news.
Judging from the dozen or so known territories of the Apocalypse Tribe, the enemies are mainly scattered on the other side of the continent, that is, the left side of the grassland. The Apocalypse Tribe territories are more numerous in the lower left of the grassland than in the upper right, indicating that the Apocalypse Tribe's main habitat is in the lower left corner of the grassland.
Jiang Yunlan unfolded the map, looking at the coastal grassland that Xia had visited, as well as the area above and to the upper left of the grassland. She began to understand why Xia had not yet encountered the territory of Tianqi.
The places where Xia developed were exactly the opposite of Tianqi.
She stared at the blank areas of the map, unconsciously pursing her lips, and silently pulled out another map. It was the map given to her by Shui Liujing, the patriarch of the Wise Clan. This was a map that their clan had gradually completed after they began exploring the continent, from the lower part of the continent to the Land of Rising Sun (the sea on the right side of the grassland) to the uppermost part of the continent, as well as the western edge.
It can be said that this map of the continent will be complete if it is missing only the left and lower left corners of the continent occupied by the Apocalypse Tribe.
“When the Sage Clan lost the ancient tower, it was in the upper left corner of the continent,” Jiang Yunlan said thoughtfully, tapping the clan's settlement where Shui Liujing and the others had left. “The Apocalypse Tribe likely also had an ancient map of the Sage Clan, so they must have known the four ends of the continent and its general outline.”
She exhaled, watching the white mist dissipate, then rolled up the two maps and put them into her handbag.
The situation appears to be very unfavorable for Xia. Tianqi knows the terrain of Xia's habitat, but Xia is unaware of the surrounding area. They seem to have deliberately avoided developing among the wise clans.
"Does she not want to be discovered by Shui Liujing and the others because she is afraid that her actions will be stopped?" Jiang Yunlan remembered that Xiong Guang had said that the Tianqi Beastmen rarely came to the grasslands after giving the Xiong Beastman clan the power of nature, and it seemed that they had only appeared three or four times.
Shui Liujing knew that the Tianqi Tribe's reaction had surfaced in her mind, and she said coldly, "Then they really guessed right."
Many orcs of the Wise Clan lived up to their name, having deciphered the enchanted weapons of the Apocalypse Tribe. Many of the new weapons, armor, medicines, and magical tools currently used by the Xia Tribe were also developed by them.
It seems that because their language originated in this world, their writing system is better able to guide the forces of nature to form magic circles.
Therefore, the Xia tribe also referred to the script of the wise clan as "magic script".
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Author's Note: *This is the Beast World Information Station
The pots used by the Summer Orcs are not iron pots, but pots made from a unique material found only in the Orc world. Because this material often appears alongside iron ore, it is used in many everyday items. Iron ore, on the other hand, becomes a resource for war, specifically used to craft enchanted weapons and armor.
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