28: Chapter 28 I can take care of you.

Tang Ruan looked at the one-eyed beastman's eyes, and she was stunned on the spot.

How could he appear here?

Had she mistaken him for someone else?

If it really was him, how dared he appear here? Was he not afraid of Lang Lie?

The one-eyed wolf beast pressed his shriveled lips, looking very hungry.

"Please use my bowl!"

A Marmot Beastman shoved his own bowl into his hands.

He thought Tang Ruan didn't know what to do because the old beast didn't bring a bowl.

Lang Lie walked around in front of Tang Ruan, blocking her view.

"You can ignore him; he is not our tribesman."

This old beast had frightened his Mistress!

"It's fine, one more won't hurt."

Tang Ruan walked out from behind Lang Lie.

She wanted to know if she had mistaken him for someone else.

While serving the food, Tang Ruan asked, "I heard you aren't from this Tribe. How did you end up here?"

The old beast's eyes lit up, staring at the food in the bowl; he was about to drool.

"I don't know where my tribesmen went? When I woke up, I didn't remember anything. They gave me a bite to eat, and that's how I survived. Later, I just followed them—thank you, thank you!"

The old beast took the bowl with both hands and bowed to her several times before retreating respectfully and humbly.

Anyone who saw him would feel pity.

Tang Ruan: So he had lost his memory... That meant she couldn't ask if he was the one-eyed beastman she had met.

Tang Ruan thought to herself and turned her head.

She saw Lang Lie looking at the old beast's back with displeasure.

He noticed Tang Ruan looking at him.

He immediately put on a gentle smile, "I will have someone drive him out of the Tribe immediately; you won't see him again."

He absolutely could not let such a terrifying beastman who had eaten his own kind appear near his Mistress!

"Lang Lie," Tang Ruan asked suddenly and seriously, "If someone wanted to hurt me, what would you do?"

Lang Lie's expression changed immediately.

"Who?"

Tang Ruan grabbed his hand.

"I mean... if... but I'm not hurt."

"Kill him!"

He didn't even hesitate.

With these words, the pressure he released made several beastmen who were eating look up.

"Got it." Tang Ruan smiled awkwardly.

To be honest, she couldn't remember clearly either.

Perhaps the one she met was another one-eyed wolf beast.

If she told Lang Lie her guess now, he would definitely kill the old beast.

If she killed the wrong person, she would feel guilty for the rest of her life.

It was better to let Lang Lie drive him to a place where he couldn't reach her!

Anyway, looking at his condition, he wouldn't live many more years.

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Tang Ruan decided to re-explore the forest.

Since she could find tooth ball fruit, there might be other delicious things.

Finding a sunny day, Tang Ruan took Lang Lie into the forest.

Behind them, several playful cubs followed.

Mimicking Tang Ruan, whatever she looked at, they looked at.

Whatever she picked up, they would treasure it and stuff it into Lang Lie's arms.

Lang Lie squatted down and touched the cub's head.

"You are amazing!"

The little guy hopped away.

"You really like children."

Tang Ruan blurted out.

Lang Lie turned his head, sunlight filtering through the gaps in the leaves, landing on his eyelashes.

"Not really, it's just that when I was little, I hoped someone would praise me like that..."

Tang Ruan stared blankly at Lang Lie.

Thinking of his background, it was no better than hers.

At least she had a mother who favored boys over girls, who occasionally gave her a little bit of excess maternal love.

But Lang Lie was picked up by Lang Chi's father.

His parents were mostly gone.

He probably lacked familial affection even more than she did.

"Then from now on, I will praise you." Tang Ruan said.

Lang Lie blinked.

Tang Ruan realized that something seemed wrong with that statement.

"I mean... we are a family! As a family, we should encourage each other."

"A family..."

Lang Lie chewed on these words, his heart softening as if it were melting.

He was also a person with a Mistress, a person with a home.

This feeling was really good.

Lang Lie walked over.

He lifted Tang Ruan's chin.

He kissed her gently...

The sunlight fell on their eyelashes, which were almost touching.

Warmly, it illuminated two hearts...

"Over here! Come quickly! Ah! He bit me!"

Not far away, a cub's scream came.

Lang Lie opened his eyes abruptly.

He turned and transformed into a giant wolf, flashing to the source of the sound.

Tang Ruan followed closely behind.

A cub was crying loudly while holding up his hand.

In his hand, he clutched a fat "big mouse," and the mouse was biting his lip.

The beastman and the mouse refused to yield to each other.

It was a rhythm of dying together...

"Wah..."

The bitten cub cried heart-rendingly.

Lang Lie transformed into human form and took the mouse from his hand.

A "snap" sound came.

Tang Ruan: ...

The mouse's neck was snapped by Lang Lie.

The cub's mouth was also rescued.

Tang Ruan subconsciously touched her own neck.

Sometimes, his gentleness made her forget that he was actually a fierce beastman...

"Are you okay?"

Tang Ruan walked over to help the cub check the wound.

Two small tooth marks, bleeding, but the wound was not deep.

Beastmen probably didn't need vaccines!

She looked at the round, gray-furred mouse that Lang Lie was holding.

It wasn't the kind of mouse commonly seen in cities.

Where had she seen it?

She couldn't remember for a moment.

"What do you catch this for?" she asked curiously.

"Witch Doctor, this is delicious!"

"It's even better roasted!" a cub said as if presenting a treasure.

Another cub, seeing Tang Ruan was interested, also excitedly crowded up.

"We'll roast it and invite you to eat later!"

Tang Ruan grabbed Lang Lie's hand and extended a finger.

Her fingertip trembled...

The innate human aversion to mice hard-controlled her for three seconds.

Finally, she mustered the courage to poke it.

[Grass Bamboo Rat, rich in nutritional value...]

"Bamboo Rat!" Tang Ruan exclaimed.

She remembered!

This thing looked exactly like the bamboo rat from her original world!

The text in her mind continued...

[Herbivorous, single diet, strong reproductive ability, matures in two months, maximum weight can reach 2kg, gestation period 45 days, 8-12 per litter...]

Tang Ruan opened her eyes wide with excitement.

Not long ago, she was still worried about not having enough protein.

Wasn't this it?

With such strong reproductive ability, as long as they were raised well, they could multiply ten times! A hundred times! A thousand times...

"Are there any more nearby?"

Tang Ruan's eyes shone.

Lang Lie tilted his head to look at her, confusion appearing in his eyes.

Did his Mistress like to eat mice?

What exactly was her Beast Form? A fox? Or a cat?

"There are many! It's just that they like to hide in holes... Witch Doctor, I'll take you!"

Several cubs dragged Tang Ruan into the forest.

Lang Lie followed closely behind.

Lang Lie also came to help, and in a short while, they caught seven or eight.

However, Tang Ruan had requirements.

They couldn't be injured, and definitely couldn't be killed.

Lang Lie's Supernatural Ability had not yet recovered; in his Beast Form, one swipe of his paw and the Grass Bamboo Rat would turn into a "rat pancake."

In the end, only two survived, and both were scared into having PTSD.

"This won't do! This Grass Bamboo Rat is sick, it can only be eaten."

Tang Ruan put a foaming Grass Bamboo Rat together with the dead ones.

One couldn't tell at all about her fear and disgust from just a moment ago.

Lang Lie found tribesmen to come and help.

Hearing that Tang Ruan asked them to catch them, the beastmen were very excited.

They now understood a truth, which was—following Tang Ruan would definitely result in delicious food!

"Since she came. The wolf Tribe switched to eating vegetables yesterday, and today they switched to eating mice. If the Beast God knew, he would laugh to death."

Lang Yue kicked away a snowdrift and walked to one side, bored.

Lang Mo put a Grass Bamboo Rat into his bag.

"It's a special period now. As long as we can eat our fill, that's fine! And this thing, we ate it when we were little, I remember you quite liked eating—"

"Who likes to eat mouse meat!" Lang Yue suddenly said sharply.

Scared, Lang Mo immediately silenced himself.

"Only incompetent Male Beastmen would bring mice back. Male Beastmen who bring mice back don't even have the qualification to return to the cave!"

As she spoke, her gaze fell on Lang Lie in the distance.

Lang Mo followed her gaze.

It was indeed like that before. But now...

"Isn't the Patriarch also catching mice for his Mistress?"

"He is like that because he temporarily lost his Supernatural Ability; a male beast without a Supernatural Ability is not worthy of having a Mistress..."

Lang Mo lowered his head and stopped speaking.

He knew Lang Yue didn't like him; he was only with her so she could use him and have him serve her.

But it didn't matter, as long as he could stay by her side, it was enough.

Lang Yue stared greedily at Lang Lie's figure.

Her Beast Husband had always been the most outstanding in the Tribe.

He was before, and always would be...

And Lang Lie, standing in the distance, captured this sentence with his excellent hearing.

He looked cautiously at Tang Ruan beside him: "If I didn't have my Supernatural Ability, would you think I'm useless?"

Tang Ruan was busy counting the Grass Bamboo Rats in the bag.

Without raising her head, she said: "No! I can take care of you!"