Chapter – 66
The Little Beastman’s Origins
Holen snapped back to reality, no longer thinking about that matter.
At least, the changes in the female master were good, harmless to him.
He shook his head.
“Then let’s go scout the tribe first. You take the female master back to rest.”
Lu Liufeng nodded.
This time, he didn’t fully transform into his eagle form. He only spread his wings, cradled the female master horizontally in his arms, and soared into the sky.
Mu Ling stared longingly in the direction the female master had disappeared, not wanting to scout the tribe—he wanted to go back.
Holen said, “Let’s go. Stop looking, you won’t see anything.”
The snowstorm was so strong that once they flew up into the sky, they completely disappeared from view.
Mu Ling stretched out two fingers, pointed them at his eyes, and gestured toward the sky.
“My eyes can see everything, no matter how far!!”
Holen: “……”
He didn’t bother arguing and simply turned to leave.
But as he exited the small courtyard, he glanced at his injured arm.
Then, his jade-green lion eyes narrowed slightly, a sharp glint flashing across them.
That thing… was gone.
In the Cursed Land, there were few things capable of harming him.
Yet just now, when he had collided with the ruins, he had been slashed across the arm by something sharp.
At that time, with enemies ahead, he hadn’t had the chance to investigate and had to first deal with three deranged beastmen.
Now that it was over and he had time to think, he wanted to check, only to find that thing… gone?
Holen scanned the ruins and the courtyard. Besides a few remaining beastmen who were envious and hadn’t left, the only other figure was the lynx little beastman crouched among the ruins.
He had vaguely heard something about this little beastman but hadn’t paid much attention.
He approached the lynx little beastman, lowered his head, and released the golden lion clan’s pressure.
“Su, did you see the thing that slashed me just now?”
Though not a beastman, it was of the same near-related origin. The golden lion clan’s pressure still had an effect on him.
Su seemed frightened by the pressure, his upper body bowing slightly. Shaking his head, he stammered,
“N-no, I didn’t see anything.”
Mu Ling, seeing Holen intimidating the little beastman with his pressure, suddenly flashed over and tapped him.
“What are you doing!”
Holen retracted his pressure and glanced at him.
“Nothing. Let’s go.”
As he stepped out of the courtyard, he glanced back at the lynx little beastman once more.
The little beastman didn’t lift his head, still crouching as if genuinely intimidated by his pressure.
Yet Holen furrowed his brow.
Something about this felt… off.
However, he dismissed the thought—after all, it was just a little beastman who hadn’t yet fully transformed.
After all the beastmen left the ruins,
Su slowly lifted his head. In his pale yellow eyes, there was only coldness, no fear.
He looked up at the falling snow and thought to himself, How wonderful.
Since the curse has come, he wouldn’t need to take action personally.
When Jiang Xi returned home, she couldn’t wait to ask Lu Liufeng about the lynx little beastman.
“Why were the other beastmen so cruel to the little beastman?”
By logic, little beastmen were treasures of the tribe, weren’t they?
Quike cherished Xiao Di like this—so why were the beastmen in this tribe so bad to the lynx little beastman?
Before Lu Liufeng could answer, Yi Yuexi spoke up.
As someone adored by all the females of the tribe, he knew all about gossip tinged with romance.
“Apparently, over ten years ago, there were two half-sisters in the tribe, both of whom liked a lynx clan beastman.”
“Eventually, this beastman married the younger sister and soon had a little beastman, Su.”
“The elder sister married another beastman and lived next to the younger sister.”
“Eight or nine years ago, some beastmen in the tribe were cursed. During an outbreak, they accidentally killed the younger sister, and her beast husbands also died due to their bond. Only the little beastman Su survived.”
“So, the elder sister adopted the little beastman Su…”
Jiang Xi listened to the story, frowning slightly.
The story seemed fine.
Perhaps the female’s beast husbands couldn’t tolerate the little beastman freeloading, which explained their bad attitude toward him?
Yi Yuexi changed his tone.
Jiang Xi’s eyes widened as she looked at him eagerly.
Yi Yuexi stroked his chin, grinning, “Do you want to know more, female master?”
Jiang Xi nodded eagerly.
Yi Yuexi smiled mischievously, “Then, female master…”
Lu Liufeng sighed, a bit helpless, and explained instead.
“Su is about to transform. Chen Ya wants to marry him, but her beast husbands don’t agree.”
“Because over the years, Chen Ya would rather let her two children and beast husbands go hungry than let Su starve. Su often bullied the other two little beastmen, and Chen Ya ignored it. So her beast husbands dislike Su and refuse to let him marry into the family.”
Yi Yuexi went on at length, but Lu Liufeng summed it up in a few words.
Jiang Xi was still stunned.
“What about Su’s opinion? Does he want to marry?”
From these two stories, it seemed no one had asked him.
Moreover, although beastmen live long and the female master could share the life of the strongest beast husband,
a child raised from youth…
Jiang Xi felt a bit… ethically uncomfortable.
Also, technically, Su was still Chen Ya’s nephew, right?
An aunt marrying her nephew? Just thinking about it made her skin crawl.
Jiang Xi rubbed her arm and, catching sight of the roof of the firehouse, now blown off a large piece, she snapped her attention back.
Yi Yuexi and Lu Liufeng hadn’t even had time to respond when the female master said,
“Let’s fix the firehouse roof!”
Yi Yuexi: “Huh?”
Lu Liufeng was stunned for two seconds.
The topic had shifted… from little beastman Su to fixing a roof?
But he still smiled and nodded, “Alright.”
Meanwhile, at the unattended courtyard gate, a small figure with a tuft of fur and pointed ears disappeared into the wind.
Today, the tribe was too chaotic. Lu Liufeng and Yi Yuexi didn’t notice the small figure at the gate earlier.
Fixing the firehouse roof in the snow.
Jiang Xi increasingly understood why beastmen weren’t allowed to move around in their beast forms within the tribe!
Even the small firehouse, blown off a bit, was still manageable—but seeing other houses like this made her realize, the houses were too fragile.
If houses were stronger and roads wider, then beast forms could indeed move around the tribe.
It would also make transporting heavy loads easier!
For example, carrying food from the tribe gate—while in human form, a beastman could carry only two sacks at a time, but in beast form, four or five sacks would be easy!
Still, even if they wanted to improve the housing, it could only wait until after winter.
In such cold weather, trying to improve the houses would just freeze them into popsicles.
Jiang Xi rubbed her hands and blew warm air into them.
So cold…
She looked up and gave Lu Liufeng a thumbs-up from below, cheering him on as he worked on the roof.
“Lu Liufeng, you can do it!”
Lu Liufeng turned back and smiled warmly at the female master.
At that moment, Yi Yuexi’s voice, mixed with the wind, came faintly from the roof:
“I’m such a big Yi Yuexi, up here on the roof, and the female master can’t even see me…”
