The post office has become part of the Xia tribe's summer, and will welcome even more...
When the orcs finally reach the first destination after overcoming numerous difficulties—crossing fences, leaping over pits, bypassing fruit peels, defeating orcs blocking their way, or successfully avoiding them—they are ready to deliver the letter.
"Your package is incomplete. Orcs who have lost supplies cannot continue to participate in the subsequent assessments," the examiner said to the eliminated orc after checking the number of packages.
The orcs who failed the test stood there, dazed, staring longingly at those who could continue the test, their eyes filled with envy. They lowered their heads, about to turn and leave, when they heard the examiner's voice again.
“But you can become a new obstacle orc and continue the assessment as an examiner.” The examiners smiled.
The defeated orc was shocked, but his expression gradually aligned with that of the examiners. "Now that you say that, I'm not so upset anymore."
The orc who had successfully delivered the letter overheard this conversation and immediately lost his smile. The journey here was already difficult enough; the return trip would be even more challenging!
The orcs under the assessment sensed a sense of urgency and opened the letter they were going to read to the examiners with their fastest hands.
The envelope contained two letters. One was the letter itself, and the other began with "Previous Events Recap." The recap explained the matter of entrusting the orcs with the task, telling them the story behind the letter they needed to deliver.
Yunxing Yuque looked at the recap he had received, then at the examiner in front of him, his expression blank.
What's with this "previous episode"? Why is one of his tasks in the assessment to bring the client's kin back to their habitat? Does it mean he has to take the examiner back with him?
Yunxing Yuque recalled the difficulties she would encounter on her return journey, took a deep breath, quickly read the contents of the letter, and then said in the language of the grasslands, "...Please come with me to the grasslands. Your elder sister is waiting for you in the Xia tribe."
The backstory included a location inhabited by the commissioning orcs, and he specifically used a language that they could understand there. He didn't encounter any situations where the commissioning orcs themselves "couldn't understand," yet he was still rejected by one of their kind. He looked at the examiner, who was playing the role of one of their "kin," and exclaimed in confusion.
Wait, why would the examiner refuse? How can he pass the test?
The orcs who were still undergoing the assessment encountered all sorts of difficulties. For a time, none of them received a reply, and none of the orcs who accepted the escort mission successfully persuaded the "commissioning orc kin".
The final destination is the starting point of the assessment.
After a few seconds of hesitation, Shanmu, having not seen any returning orcs, said, "If no orcs have returned by now, they must all be stuck at the mail delivery point."
Hearing this, Jiang Yunlan looked up from the pile of documents and gazed at the empty road. She recalled the various letters rewritten based on the real experiences and thoughts of the working beastmen, and said softly, "Let it be slow. Experiencing these things early is a good thing for them. They will definitely encounter many more stories in the future."
“The story of the letters is essentially a story of commissioning orcs; they would naturally come into contact with the orcs on both ends of the letter during their delivery,” she said.
"It feels incredible. I never imagined I could see what the person who wrote the letter looked like through a letter," Sveta exclaimed. It had been watching Lan sort through the letters and could almost imagine the expression on the orc's face when he wrote them.
The orc's longing, joy, and yearning for the future seemed to overflow from the paper and flow into the recipient's heart.
Jiang Yunlan chuckled, turned her gaze away, picked up her pen, and wrote a single word: "That's the charm of a letter."
The messenger assessment, which included individual and team competitions, lasted for two full days before concluding. Jiang Yunlan announced the list of orcs who had passed the assessment by evening.
"Summer's first messengers were the following beastmen: ... Green Branch Feathered Crow and Cloud-Walking Feathered Sparrow."
Upon hearing his name called, Yunxing Yuque was so overjoyed he almost sprouted wings and flew around in the sky. He knew the test Lan set would be difficult, but he hadn't expected it to be this hard. Heaven knows how much effort he had spent persuading the stubborn "comrade beastman who had entrusted the task," but thankfully he had succeeded.
Now it's time to deliver the letter.
No, actually, it's time to write letters. The day after the mail carrier assessment ended, all the beastmen passing by the bulletin board learned that a newly opened building in the Mountain Habitat was a place specifically for sending letters and supplies.
Here, you can send the items you want to send to anywhere Xia can reach.
Graywinter, an adult rock squirrel orc, is an orc warrior. Since the tribe established a new habitat in the mountains, she came from the grasslands to the mountains and has been stationed there as a long-term guardian, never returning to the grasslands even once.
"Write a letter, tell the orcs you miss what you want to say." Graywinter stood in front of the bulletin board, reading the words aloud, quite moved.
She knew that the mountains needed more protection than the grasslands. Before growing up in the mountain habitat, she had never applied to return to the grassland habitat, making it difficult for her to contact her kind outside of Grey Creek, let alone see her long-time grassland resident, Grey Honey.
She wanted to go to the post office. Unfortunately, it was almost time for her shift, so she had to memorize the post office's location and go to her post first.
This shift seemed to last longer than usual, and Graywinter had been waiting for a long time before the orc who would relieve her arrived.
The orc who was changing shifts was her friend. Seeing her reaction, he laughed and asked, "I see you're about to dash out. Is there something new in the tribe that's attracting you?"
"It's the post office, I want to go there to write a letter." After saying that, Gray Winter waved her left hand and happily ran towards the post office.
Graywinter arrived at the post office, stepped inside, and peered out. Most of the orcs who had come here were those who hadn't returned to their clans during the snow season.
Not all orc clans were good clans; they hadn't encountered a chieftain worthy of their loyalty. Their original clans weren't entirely without merit, but after arriving in the Xia tribe, they were unwilling to return.
They lived well in the Xia tribe and occasionally thought of their mother, their young children, and their very close brothers and sisters.
“If my kinsman doesn’t want to come, please try to persuade him. The Xia tribe is so much better than the clans, he definitely won’t regret coming here.” A working orc grabbed the messenger’s hand, his eyes shining so brightly that the messenger couldn’t help but tilt his head back.
As Graywinter watched the messenger repeatedly agree to work for the orcs, a voice suddenly reached his ears.
"Hello, guest. Do you need mail delivery service? You can have a postman write your letters here, that is, me. Of course, you can also write your own letters; we will provide you with stationery and pens." A postman who was free approached Gray Winter and asked her with a smile.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw the letter writer raise his hand to the map placed by the door.
The letter scribe said, "The locations marked on the map are the areas we can currently deliver to. The price is determined by the distance and the weight of the item being sent. The farther the place and the heavier the item, the more copper coins are required."
Upon hearing this, Gray Winter approached the map. Looking at it, she noticed the two most prominent habitats marked with five-pointed stars. The grassland habitat was marked with a single blade of grass and a five-pointed star, while the mountain habitat was marked with a series of mountains and a five-pointed star.
The five-pointed star is a symbol of summer. Lan said, "That's called the national flag."
Summer is a shining star, Lan once told the beastmen. Therefore, when Graywinter saw the pentagram, she knew it was where she came from.
"Hello, I need to send a letter to the T grassland." She looked at the five-pointed star on the grassland and smiled, her eyes crinkling.
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