"Beast Tide?"
"Stop arguing for now, Ling Yun. Let's talk about the duel later. Let's go and take a look!"
The situation was critical, and all the males transformed into beasts and ran out of the tribe.
"Song Mu, go back and look after Xiao Qiu first!" Ling Yun said to Song Mu who was running beside him.
Song Mu thought for two seconds and immediately ran home.
"Song Mu, why hasn't Ling Yun come back? What on earth did he go out for?" Lin Qiu saw Song Mu coming back alone, looked behind him, and found that Ling Yun was not following him.
"Xiaoqiu, the tribe guards just told us there were noises outside our village today. It sounded like a beast tide shaking the earth. This house is too dangerous. I'm going to take you to the cave for shelter. Don't be afraid. Our cave is at least relatively well-hidden. Even if the beasts rush into the valley, they won't come here."
Song Mu's speech speed was unusually fast, and Lin Qiu seemed to have not yet understood the message in his words.
"Beast Tide?"
"Xiaoqiu, put on as many clothes as possible."
Song Mu has already started to pick up all the animal skins on the kang. No matter how strong this house is, it will not be as strong as a mountain. As long as he guards the entrance to the cave, everything will be fine.
Lin Qiu suppressed the fear in his chest and muttered, "It's okay. We've almost deployed our defenses. This time our tribe is different from before."
"Yeah. You don't have to worry." Song Mu's expression stiffened, showing his nervousness.
"Has Ling Yun gone there?"
Song Mu nodded.
Lin Qiu paused for a moment, clenched the clothes in his hands, but said nothing.
Song Mu brought Lin Qiu into the cave, then went back and moved the loom and cocoon silk they had collected with great difficulty into the cave. Everything else was unimportant.
"Are you cold, Xiaoqiu?" Song Mu wrapped Lin Qiu in a thick layer of animal skin.
"I'm not cold. Why is there no movement outside? Go and take a look."
"No, I will stay here to protect you." Song Mu held Lin Qiu's hand and sat beside her.
Lin Qiu held Song Mu's hand tightly in return: "At least go and give the bow to Ling Yun."
A warning tiger roar was heard outside, and Song Mu's expression darkened. "I must stay by your side."
Lin Qiu knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only wait anxiously in the cave.
Hopefully the catapults and traps will work.
It’s really scary. Is the tragedy of ten years ago going to happen again?
Fortunately, everyone chose to start construction during the winter season instead of waiting for the weather to warm up, otherwise it would be too late!
Mei Yan heard another tiger roar in the collective courtyard, but the previous one Pu Su had only said lightly that a male in the tribe was initiating a duel, but this one made everyone in the room look like "something bad is going to happen."
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Mei Yan looked at their nervous faces and they all put down their work and stood up.
Sang Gu said, "It's a beast tide! It's coming! We need to quickly move the females to the cave. This house can't withstand the onslaught of wild beasts!"
Mei Yan's face turned pale.
What bad luck! How could this happen!
He transformed into a beast, and the moment he flew up, he felt severe pain in his left wing, but he endured it and broke through the cold air at high altitude, flying towards the entrance of the tribe.
He hovered over the tribe and saw a dark layer in the distance moving towards the Tiger Tribe, shaking off the snow on the trees in the forest.
The tiger orcs did not have his vision, but they were naturally sensitive to the environment and had excellent hearing. They were able to make judgments in advance to give the tribe some breathing space to prepare.
Ling Yun recognized Mei Yan hovering in the sky. He looked up and said, "Can you see him? Is he heading towards our tribe?"
Mei Yan said to the crowd below, "If they don't change direction, they'll reach the tribe in two minutes at most! Didn't you say you had a line of defense? Are you ready?"
Ling Yun looked at Mei Yan and said, "Please stay up there and help us observe their movements."
"That's no problem." Mei Yan was now struggling to fly. He found a spot on the cliff face to land, adjusted his posture, and soared back into the sky. "I hope your defense works."
At this moment, Mei Yan felt that it was a good thing for the tiger tribe's beastmen to be more ruthless when researching feather arrows. It would be best if they could really kill these beasts with one blow.
Ling Yun said, "Push all the catapults out. Ren Ge, do as we said before! Two people in a group, one to load and ignite, the other to hold the lever. We absolutely cannot let those beasts get past our trap line!"
"No problem! I'll go light a fire!"
"Tan Yuan, take three people and bring over all the feather arrows that Pu Su and the others have made! Each family should send a male to bring all the feathers from their home and attach them to the arrows!"
"Everyone else, quickly sharpen the wood and insert it into the trap. The more the better, but not too densely packed. Hurry!"
Their trap was only halfway deep, but fortunately it was long enough to completely encircle the front of the tribe.
This trap may not be of much use.
Ling Yun was directing everyone, while Wu Chuan was digging the snow on the ground with his tiger claws beside him, because he did not participate in the arrangement of these defense lines, and as the clan leader, he could not arrange anything at the moment.
Mei Yan urged them: "The direction of the beast tide has not changed, you must hurry!"
Ling Yun looked up at Mei Yan and said, "Mei Yan, we don't have enough feathers in our tribe. Maybe we need your help."
The feathers of the tiger tribe are all ornaments exchanged from outside. A female can get about ten to twenty feathers, which adds up to only about a hundred.
There were at least thousands of wild beasts in the beast tide, but their feather arrows were all semi-finished products without feather tails.
Ling Yun tried it before, and found that arrows without feather tails were only lethal at short ranges. For them, that distance was no different from close combat.
"Where shall I find your feathers first?"
Ling Yun stared at Mei Yan without saying a word.
"You want to use my feathers?!" Mei Yan let out a sharp eagle cry: "Don't go too far!"
"Please, all the feathers in the tribe combined can only last for a while."
The situation was urgent, and Ling Yun could only look at Mei Yan firmly.
"Alright! I'm really impressed by you. Your tribe is also..."
Mei Yan wanted to say that they were unlucky, but now that they had encountered such a great disaster, he couldn't say it.
The female he likes is also in the tribe, and Mei Yan is willing to give everything to protect the tribe.
He gritted his teeth, supported his injured wings and monitored the movements of the beast tide.
Mei Yan hoped that the beast tide would turn halfway, but the group of crazy beasts still rushed forward desperately.
"We brought all the feather arrows here!"
Sang Gu and the other males moved the feather arrows outside the tribe. "These feather arrows may be enough, but they are all half-finished. We have to wait until the beast gets close before we have a chance of hitting it."
Sang Gu said to Wu Chuan with a grim expression.
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