Chapter 2 Coming of Age Ceremony
Su Yan looked at the raw meat in his hand and felt nauseous again. "Stay away from me."
The young man noticed that she disliked raw meat, so he threw the raw meat to a half-grown boy. Then he looked at her beautiful face and liked her more and more. "Aurora owes me two crystal coins, so why not use you to pay it off?"
"He owes you money, go ask him for it, why should I pay it back?" Without that bloody piece of raw meat, Su Yan could look at him a little more. He looked pretty good, with a pair of long peach-like eyes, a cool and handsome guy, and a tall and strong body.
"You have quite a temper." The young man smacked his sexy lips, "Although females are precious, a skinny female like you would have trouble even giving birth. If someone can raise you, then you should thank the Beast God."
"Whether you can get pregnant and have a baby has nothing to do with your body shape." Besides, she has a baby-making system that will urge you to have one even if you don't want to.
Su Yan was too lazy to pay attention to him and continued walking towards the tribe.
The young man followed again.
It was her bright eyes, like the stars in the night, with an unusually calm and determined look, that attracted him more the more he looked at them.
"What are you doing?" Su Yan asked vigilantly.
"Go collect the debt from Oro."
"..." It was obvious that he still wanted her to pay off the debt.
"Lin Lang." A middle-aged man with a heroic appearance and a calm demeanor walked towards them. "It's just two crystal coins. I'll return it to you now."
After saying that, he threw two light green crystals to the young man.
The young man took it and looked at Su Yan again, "Oro, you name a number, I want her."
Oro then looked at Su Yan's face and remembered that he once kept a female white mouse in the female cave, but she suddenly disappeared later.
Could it be that she was pregnant and gave birth to this daughter? Although the fertility of females in the vagina is very low, it is not impossible for them to get pregnant. There are precedents to follow.
"The coming-of-age ceremony will be held in two days. The witch will rate the fertility of each female in the tribe. We'll talk about it then."
"No one wants her skinny girl. By then, let alone two crystal coins, she might not even be worth two red coins."
"It hasn't been tested yet, why are you in such a hurry?" Oro said to Su Yan, "Come back with me."
Su Yan glanced at Lin Lang and followed Oro.
Lin Lang kept looking at her back, his eyes full of determination.
Oro brought Su Yan to a cave. There was an open space at the entrance of the cave. A handsome young man who looked 50% like Oro was drying meat.
Seeing Oro coming back with his men, he shouted, "Dad, are there guests?"
"Xiao Luo, this is your sister." Oro replied, "Put her in the empty room next to you. I have to go to the witch."
"Sister?!" Xiao Luo was stunned.
Oro picked up a piece of dried meat from the drying rack and hurried away.
Su Yan noticed that there were still some fruits on the drying rack, so she immediately walked over, picked up a fist-sized one, and started to bite into it.
But he vomited again after just two bites.
The stomach does not accept the fruit.
Xiao Luo asked hurriedly: "How long have you been hungry?"
"I don't know." Su Yan touched her belly and looked at the raw meat that was 70% to 80% dried.
Suddenly, I felt hungry. I couldn't eat bloody meat, but this looked like beef jerky, so it wasn't disgusting.
Xiao Luo entered the house and quickly brought out a bowl of white milk. "This is goat's milk. Only dad can drink it. You look very weak. Drink a bowl."
"Thank you." Su Yan took it and drank it up.
Although the smell was very strong, I finally didn't vomit.
"What is the coming-of-age ceremony? What is a tribal shaman?" Su Yan asked Xiao Luo.
Xiao Luo is a gentle and kind boy who knows everything about Su Yan's problems.
The coming-of-age ceremony is a day for unmarried adult females in the entire rat tribe to test their fertility and choose beast husbands. It happens about three to four times a year, depending on the adult status of the females in the tribe.
In the animal world, females are naturally weak and are only responsible for reproduction, while hunting and raising children are entirely up to males.
It can be said that females completely depend on males to survive. In terms of numbers, the ratio of males to females is almost 20 to 1, so only very strong males can have a female alone.
Most females live with multiple beastmen. So one female with multiple males is a very common thing in the beastman world, and it is also a necessity for survival.
But even if there is one female and many males, it is still inevitable that some males will remain single.
Thus, the female hole came into being.
Those orcs who don't have wives can go there to vent their physical needs, as long as they pay a small amount of supplies.
The fertility of females is determined by the female stone.
The female drips blood on the female stone. The stronger the fertility, the more obvious the reaction of the female stone. Otherwise, there will be no reaction.
Females judged to be of low fertility are considered abandoned and will be sent to the female cave.
It may take as long as two years or as short as a few months. Females who are naturally weak will die because they cannot withstand the waves of males.
Oro came back and learned that Su Yan drank goat milk. He didn't say anything, but said: "I have registered with the tribe witch. Baozhu Miruto, this is your name. Perform well in the coming-of-age ceremony in two days, otherwise I can only send you to the female cave."
"Don't you have Lin Lang as a backup?" Su Yan glanced at Lin Lang before leaving, just to confirm what he thought of her.
That look was full of aggression, as if she was already in his pocket.
And judging from his physique and the fact that he was wearing clothes made of coarse linen instead of animal skins or leaves, he should be one of the young and promising elites in the tribe.
Oro was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that she actually noticed this.
Most females are stupid and have no brains. They can't do anything except give birth to pups. It's rare to see a smart one. She's worthy of being his bloodline. "That's right, I'll give you two crystal coins as a minimum."
Su Yan had something unclear in her mind, and couldn't help asking, "Wait a minute, why didn't you suspect that I might not be your child?"
Oro replied: "I can smell my blood on you. This is the instinct of males to distinguish their own children. Otherwise, if multiple beastmen share one female wife, how can they tell which one is their own?"
"I see. Also, I don't want to be called Baozhu, my name is Su Yan."
"Can."
"I want to rest."
"Xiao Luo, take your sister back to the cave to rest. Give her whatever she wants to eat."
Two days later, the coming-of-age ceremony arrived.
Oro gave her a set of linen clothes that his wife had once worn.
It was only after Su Yan asked Xiao Luo that she found out that Oro's wife had only average fertility and had a very difficult time getting pregnant. After finally giving birth to him, she died soon after.
Oro was also seriously injured during a hunting trip, and his strength was greatly reduced after he recovered. He could only hunt some pheasants or rabbits, and it would be difficult to hunt large beasts. In addition, Xiao Luo was already grown up, and he needed to save supplies to find a female, so he did not marry again, but occasionally went to the female cave to find a female to relieve his desire.
Su Yan understood that the biological mother of her body, Ban Yue, was most likely a female from the Yin Cave.
Wearing ill-fitting coarse linen clothes, Su Yan, accompanied by Xiao Luo, went to the most sacred Beast Temple of the Rat Tribe.
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