CHAPTER 102: CHAPTER 94: IS IT TRUE LIKING, OR FAKE LIKING?_1

He was a little shorter than the average Beastman, his face crossed with several fierce scars, making him look somewhat ugly.

Song Ji asked, "Yin Hong, Yin Qiu, what are you doing here?"

Yin Qiu, akin to a princess of the Silver Wolf Tribe, was actually scared of Song Ji.

"Uncle Song. We’re just... talking, resting."

Song Ji said coldly, "As Beastmen, in this Beast World, besides thinking about how to survive, the most important thing is reproduction. You two are both at the best age for reproduction, so the most important thing now is to find suitable partners."

Song Ji was cold and strict, which was really quite intimidating.

Yin Qiu hid behind Yin Hong, not daring to speak, while Yin Hong protected his sister and said with an apologetic smile, "Uncle Song is right. We’ll strive to find partners."

Song Ji walked away impatiently.

Yin Qiu watched Song Ji’s retreating figure and stuck out her tongue. "So fierce. It serves him right to not have a female for his entire life."

"Don’t talk nonsense." Yin Hong stopped his sister. "Uncle Song must have had a female before. Look at the scars on his face; they must be the backlash from breaking a mate’s contract."

"Are you saying his contract with a female partner is gone?" Yin Qiu looked curiously and puzzledly in Song Ji’s direction. "Was he abandoned by the female, or did his female die?"

"I don’t know. Let’s not discuss this anymore."

"Alright."

「...」

In her past life, Si Yan had read many novels and seen how the female mothers in the stories would coax their cubs. But Si Yan really wasn’t good at this. When the cub cried, she was all flustered. She didn’t know how to be overly sentimental or to endure being treated coldly after showing affection.

Having finally soothed Nan Mo to sleep, Si Yan carefully placed him on the furs in the cave and went out to trade with the Silver Wolf Tribe.

She was like a little hamster, scurrying out of the cave, busy hoarding supplies.

She got quite a lot of the Silver Wolf Tribe’s dried fruits and vegetables and then stashed them in her space.

By the river, Si Yan took out her wooden bucket, carved another one, filled them both with water, and sneakily placed them in a corner of her space.

After doing all this, Si Yan checked her space. It was 3.2 cubic meters, over half used, with still some room left.

Once it’s fully packed, it should help me and the cubs survive the Day of Blazing Flames.

Thinking of this, Si Yan suddenly missed the Great Demon King who had abruptly gone out for a walk.

He could at least hold my hand; maybe my Special Ability could grow a bit more.

Si Yan paced back and forth, tallying the supplies she needed to hoard, when she suddenly saw a young male nearby collapse from working under the intense heat. Heatstroke.

The surrounding Beastmen quickly gathered around, dragging him into the shade of a tree and dousing his face with a basin of water.

Si Yan hurriedly said, "Pinch his philtrum."

A nearby male asked urgently, "Where is the philtrum?"

Seeing they didn’t understand, Si Yan simply stepped in and pinched the male’s philtrum herself.

"Spread out a bit, he needs air! Pat him with water to cool him down. There are cattail leaves over there; grab a leaf to fan him!"

A male rushed over with a small piece of ice, exclaiming, "Ice! There’s ice! The ice block is here!"

The nearby males kept fanning and patting with water. After the rescue efforts, the young male was finally revived.

Si Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

She stood up and looked at the remnants of the melted ice block. Shocked, she asked, "You guys have ice?"

"No, no," the males quickly waved their hands in denial.

Si Yan looked at them with a "do you think I’m an idiot?" expression.

The Silver Wolf Beastmen, seeing they couldn’t hide it any longer, had one of their males finally answer her, "Indeed, our Silver Wolf Tribe has a small ice cellar deep in the mountains, but it’s started to melt recently."

"You have a small ice cellar?" Si Yan was extremely excited. Thinking that it was, after all, the Silver Wolf Tribe’s possession, she asked, "How can I get this ice?"

The Silver Wolf Beastman replied, "In our tribe, you can get a small piece of ice for doing enough work."

Another Silver Wolf Beastman said with a smile, "This is our little treat."

Looking at the melting ice, ideas began to form in Si Yan’s mind.

Her space now had water and dried fruit. However, even though time passed slower in her space than outside, it still passed, and meat couldn’t be preserved for too long.

But it would be different with ice.

If the meat could be frozen in her space, keeping it for a few months would be no problem at all.

She needed to figure out a way to exchange some ice with the Silver Wolf Beastmen.

「...」

After Wang sensed he was about to enter his shedding period, he had scouted this area in advance. He had looked around but hadn’t found a suitable place for shedding.

The male Beastman felt somewhat irritable. He had hunted many prey along the way, and upon returning, he found that Si Yan and Nan Mo were gone.

As his irritation gradually subsided, he sniffed the air and followed their scent to the Silver Wolf Tribe.

Few tribes in the Beast World welcomed snake Beastmen, so Wang didn’t just brazenly appear in the Silver Wolf Tribe’s territory.

When he found Si Yan, she was chatting and laughing with members of the Silver Wolf Tribe.

This female... it seems she’s able to get along quite well in the Silver Wolf Tribe too.

Under the high temperature, the scenery itself seemed to twist. In this scorching weather of forty to fifty degrees Celsius, even adult males were struggling to cope.

It’s already so hot. Hasn’t the Day of Blazing Flames arrived yet?

Si Yan raised her hand to shield her eyes and looked up at the sky, only to feel that the sun had grown bigger.

Why has the sun gotten bigger? It couldn’t be getting closer, could it?

This Beast World is, after all, different from my previous world. It’s possible that the sun’s orbit is different here.

An imposing Silver Wolf female, Lang Dan, talked to Si Yan with excitement and curiosity.

"I’ve heard about you. Your name is Si Yan, and you have a snake husband."

Si Yan sat in the shade of a tree, thinking about what else to store in her remaining space, and replied, "Yes, that’s right."

"You’re really special. None of the females in our tribe like snake Beastmen." Lang Dan looked at her curiously as she said, "They all say that snake Beastmen are sneaky and cunning, and all of them are bad."

Si Yan said with a smile, "I don’t know about other snake Beastmen, but I only have this one Beast Husband. Although he is a cold-blooded snake Beastman, he is good-looking. Not only is he good-looking, but he is also particularly strong. He’s just a bit proud and acts standoffish; he won’t even let me hold his hand when I try."

Wang heard Si Yan say this and looked at his own hand.

Does she really want to hold my hand?

Lang Dan asked, "Do you like him?"

Si Yan answered casually, "Yes, I do."

Wang, watching her from a distance, was quite astonished.

She seemed to say it so matter-of-factly. She spoke of liking him so naturally.

Is it true affection, or is she just pretending?

At that moment, a few Wolf Beastmen spotted him.

"Snake Beastman!! A snake Beastman has come to steal our females!!"

In the blink of an eye, Wang was surrounded by more than a dozen male Silver Wolves.

In the eastern part of the Silver Wolf Tribe, over a dozen Silver Wolves watched the cold-blooded snake Beastman with predatory intent.

The dark purple cold-blooded snake Beastman no longer had a Beast Crystal on his head.

A hint of fierceness glinted in his eyes as he sinisterly sized up the weaker Beastmen before him.

A bunch of trash.

"You’re the one who took Lang Xue, right!" a Silver Wolf said viciously, staying on guard against the cold-blooded snake Beastman. "It was you who took Lang Xue!"

Lang Xue was the missing female of the Silver Wolf Tribe.

Wang scoffed. "Heh."

"Not a single cold-blooded snake Beastman is good."

"It’s him, it must be him! If we interrogate him, we can find Lang Xue!"

"They found the cold-blooded snake Beastman who took your female?" Si Yan heard the commotion and quickly ran over, only to unexpectedly see Wang at the edge of the crowd.

Wang, of course, noticed Si Yan. The male, who typically couldn’t be bothered to explain, now pursed his lips. Unusually for him, he even responded to them, "I don’t know what you’re talking about."

A Silver Wolf male squinted as he looked at the defiant cold-blooded snake Beastman. "Our tribe has lost a female. A cold-blooded wandering snake Beastman kidnapped her. Now you’ve appeared in our tribe, and you’re also a sinister cold-blooded snake Beastman. It seems you’re the one responsible."

The Silver Wolf males clamored in agreement, "Exactly, it’s him! He doesn’t have a totem on his body; he must be the wandering Beastman who took Lang Xue!"