5: Chapter 5 She's Seducing You

"Hongshu!"

Accompanied by Potato's scream, a dull thud sounded from not far away.

A giant wolf, a full two meters tall, turned its head, revealing forest-white teeth.

It growled low and walked slowly into the midst of the beastmen.

All the Marmot Beastmen were stunned.

They had never seen such a sight.

Many of the beastmen here had never left Dongdong Valley since birth.

Even the wild beasts in Yougu Forest were just legends passed down by word of mouth; few people had ever seen them.

A few seconds later.

The beastmen let out marmot-like shrieks and fled in panic.

Tang Ruan was knocked down by someone behind her.

Several more giant shadows streaked past overhead.

More giant wolves rushed into the valley.

Tang Ruan was just about to crawl back up.

A massive wolf paw landed on her stomach.

"Don't move, little Female Beastman."

The massive wolf head approached her, a cold smile floating in its ice-blue eyes.

"Though you are filthy, a starving wolf will eat anything."

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Outside the Marmot Tribe's gathering place, there was a Creek.

On the other side of the Creek was a bottomless forest.

The water in the Creek was very warm; at noon, it could reach around fifty degrees.

Tang Ruan had used it a few times to boil hot spring eggs.

Such a high water temperature was disliked by both beastmen and wild beasts.

Thus, it became a defensive line protecting the Marmot Tribe from attacks by forest beasts.

At this moment, all the Marmot Beastmen had been thrown into this Creek.

Tang Ruan was the last one to be thrown in.

The crystal-clear lake water was immediately stained by a pool of black grime.

By the time Tang Ruan laboriously emerged halfway from the water, her whole person had become much cleaner.

The alpha wolf with ice-blue eyes frowned involuntarily upon seeing this scene.

"Tang Ruan... Tang Ruan, are you injured?"

Potato edged toward her side cautiously, holding Hongshu in his Beast Form.

"I'm fine. How is Hongshu?"

Hearing Tang Ruan say she was fine, Potato breathed a sigh of relief.

That's good, everyone is fine.

She had just seen Tang Ruan stepped on by the alpha wolf, and her marmot heart had nearly burst from fear.

"Hongshu just suffered excessive shock and fainted."

"Where is your Second Father?" Tang Ruan asked.

There were fewer than forty people in the Marmot Tribe in total; with one glance, she knew who was missing.

Moreover, Second Father was the one who had picked Tang Ruan up and brought her back.

"They took him away; they want Second Father to take them to the granary."

Potato lowered her voice.

"Their goal is food. Mother said that the beastmen outside don't have enough to eat, especially the large-sized beastmen."

They're here for the food?

Tang Ruan's eyes darted around.

No wonder they didn't just bite them to death; at least their lives were temporarily safe.

"You dare lie to me? I'll kill you!" an angry roar came from a distant cave.

Tang Ruan's heart skipped a beat.

Ten seconds later, a brown wolf ran back in a rage, a limp marmot dangling from its mouth.

It viciously threw the marmot into the air...

But the direction it threw him was not toward the Creek.

"Ah!"

"Second Father!"

Potato and Tang Ruan cried out in alarm together.

The next second.

A figure suddenly leapt out of the water.

At the critical moment before the marmot hit the ground, she caught him.

Thud!

Potato's Mother's plump body hit the ground.

There were many mud pits by the Creek to begin with, and mud splashed onto the brown wolf from before.

The muscles near the brown wolf's mouth twitched. "I'll bite you to death!"

As it spoke, it moved to bite toward Potato's Mother's neck.

"Grrr..."

Suddenly, a low growl came.

The teeth that had already landed on Potato's Mother's neck slowly retracted.

The brown wolf looked cautiously at the alpha wolf.

Lowering its posture, it let out a whimper.

It ran to the alpha's ear and whispered a few words.

Tang Ruan suddenly remembered that in the Beast World's rules, beastmen do not eat other beastmen.

She heard that killing one's own kind would lead to the Beast God's Curse.

They should still be wary of that.

Tang Ruan was just thinking this.

Looking up, the five giant wolves in front of her had already transformed into human forms.

She stared at the man before her with silver-gray hair, ice-blue eyes, and a robust physique.

Unconsciously taking a step forward, she said, "You—"

The man shot a glance her way, his gaze icy.

It was completely different from her memory.

Tang Ruan hurriedly retreated again.

It must not be him; he was so affectionate in the dream, and there are probably many wolves of this color.

Besides, she was "quite busy" that day and didn't see very clearly.

The man's icy eyes swept over everyone.

He spoke flatly: "I am Lang Lie, the leader of the Wolf Tribe.

My Tribe's hunting grounds were struck by heavenly fire; the prey was consumed by the fire, and countless wolf beastmen were killed or injured.

We have come here only to obtain food.

I hope you will cooperate.

Otherwise..."

His gaze fell, inadvertently landing on Tang Ruan's face.

This little Female Beastman seemed to have been staring at him.

"Dead beasts are not protected by the Beast God!" he announced loudly.

Dead beasts are not protected by the Beast God—it was similar to a proverb.

It was the opposite of "beastmen killing each other will bring a Curse."

It meant—the Beast God won't care about a beastman who is already dead.

When hungry to a certain point, who cares about all that.

Tang Ruan and Lang Lie's eyes met.

She wanted to try and see if he would remember her.

Since the Beast World existed, then everything that happened in the dream should be real.

But he seemed not to recognize her at all.

"Brave warriors." Potato's Mother stepped forward after settling her Beast Husband, "My Beast Husband has already taken you to get food; is there something you are dissatisfied with?"

"You call this food?"

The youth transformed from the brown wolf pulled a Hongshu from his waist and took a bite.

"I want to eat meat! Meat!"

Tang Ruan noticed he had a deep scar on his chest.

Potato's Mother said unhurriedly, "My Tribe's food consists mainly of fruits and roots; we rarely eat meat, so..."

The brown wolf youth interrupted her, "Lie to me again! I really won't be able to stop myself from eating people!"

As he spoke, he changed back into his Beast Form.

"Lang Chi!"

Lang Lie shouted softly, and Lang Chi became well-behaved again.

He was quick to admit his mistakes but still had to say a couple of things, "But clearly someone has eaten meat here..."

"Take someone to search again."

Receiving Lang Lie's order, Lang Chi and another black wolf ran toward the depths of the Tribe.

Tang Ruan suddenly thought of her missing chickens.

It must have been them!

Tang Ruan raised seven chickens in total, and these chickens were very bold.

During the day, they liked to fly across the Creek and wander into the forest.

At night, they came back here to sleep.

Tang Ruan hoped her chickens didn't suddenly decide to take a nap today.

Because they were not enough to even fill the gaps between these wolf beastmen's teeth...

She turned her gaze to Lang Lie again.

He didn't look like a completely unreasonable beastman.

Or rather, as a leader, he must have a high level of faith to have repeatedly stopped his clansmen from eating beastmen.

As long as they couldn't find "meat."

Perhaps they would leave.

Tang Ruan was just thinking this.

Suddenly, a commotion broke out.

An elder in the Marmot Tribe fainted.

Immediately after, a three-year-old little beastman also fainted.

Tang Ruan clenched her fists, barely standing.

As noon approached, the water temperature was rising.

Her snow-white skin was heated to a pinkish-snow color, making her particularly conspicuous among the wheat-skinned beastmen.

Her hair was dampened by the dense mist, and she stared at Lang Lie while looking like she was about to collapse.

She looked pitiable and lovely.

"Boss, that little Female Beastman is seducing you."

A shorter wolf beastman suddenly said.

Tang Ruan, who was about to faint, instantly snapped awake.

She subconsciously tugged at the animal hide clinging to her body.

Lang Lie did not speak.

Almost simultaneously, both of them looked to the side.

"I know where meat can be found!"