si-mexico Chapter 138 The Overly Enthusiastic Vulture Tribe
Chapter 138 The Overly Enthusiastic Vulture Tribe
The leading level eight vulture orc greeted the group with a loud laugh: "Hello, lovely and beautiful little female! Welcome to the vulture tribe! We've been waiting for you for a long time! Hahaha!"
The gazes of the twenty-odd male orcs opposite them were too enthusiastic, so Linni nudged Yao, signaling him to answer. Yao smiled and gave Bai a look. In the orc world, when communicating with outsiders, it's usually the strongest member of the group or the central female who speaks. When Feng was around, Feng usually spoke first; now that Bai is the strongest, it should be Bai who speaks.
Bai could only step forward and say, "Hello! Chief of the Vulture Beast Tribe, we apologize for disturbing you today! However, your hospitality makes us feel quite uncomfortable!"
The leading level eight vulture orc laughed, "Haha, what's there to be uncomfortable about! I am Kang, the chieftain of the Vulture Beast Tribe. I heard that Feng, the genius of the Tiger Beast Tribe, will be with us to clear the cursed land of the Ten Thousand Ren Cliff. That's wonderful! Are you Feng?"
His words made Lin Ni and the others look a little sad. Bai smiled and said, "Feng isn't here, so I'm Bai. This is Yao, Lin, Ye, and Yan."
Kang's face showed a strange expression. He didn't know if "Feng is not here" meant that he had temporarily left, returned to the Tiger Beast Tribe, or -- was already dead? The tribesmen who had been investigating said that the same few people had been traveling with him for the past few days.
As Kang paused, the beastmen who had come with him enthusiastically greeted him: "Beautiful Lin, hello! I am Sheng!" "Hello! Lin, I am Mu!" "I am Qiang!"...
This enthusiastic greeting made it feel like a bustling market. Lin Ni forced a smile: "Oh my goodness, are you all so welcoming?"
Kang opened his hand and pulled the orcs who were trying to push forward back: "Alright, there will be plenty of time for you to get to know each other!"
The crowd quieted down a bit, but some still laughed and joked at Linni or made self-promotional gestures. Some of the orcs watched her and whispered among themselves, seemingly unsure of what to say.
Lin Ni shrank further behind Yao, hiding half of her body behind him.
Everyone seemed used to her acting this way, and their smiles became even brighter.
Kang glanced at Xuan and Ling standing behind Yao and Lin Ni. At level eight, he couldn't discern their levels, so they were clearly top-tier level nine beastmen. He asked, "And who are these two?"
Xuan glanced at Bai, and seeing that he didn't intend to introduce himself, he smiled and said, "Hello, I am Xuan, and this is Ling."
Kang smiled warmly and said, "Hello, hello! It's wonderful that three level nine experts have come to our Vulture Beast Tribe! Please follow me!"
Kang led them toward the tribe, explaining their Vulture Tribe to Linni as they walked: the Vulture Tribe was a large tribe with over seven hundred orcs (he called it large, but in the orc continent, tribes with fewer than three hundred people were considered small, those between three and eight hundred were medium-sized, and only those with over eight hundred were considered large). Kang led them to the foot of the stone mountain on the right and asked if they wanted to live in a cave, a tree hollow, or on the mountain itself.
They definitely couldn't live on the mountain; none of them could fly, and it would be too inconvenient to go up and down. Linni chose a tree hollow, with two levels, which would provide some privacy.
Bai also mentioned that they would only stay in the Vulture Beast Tribe for a day or two before heading to the Eagle Beast Tribe.
Kang laughed heartily: "Of course! For something as important as clearing the Cursed Land, you and Da Jin, those level nine experts, should discuss it together. These troublesome matters still depend on you. We'll just follow behind and cheer you on!"
Kang was very enthusiastic, but Bai was clearly not as good at this kind of diplomacy as Feng, so Kang's enthusiasm became a bit awkward. He then invited them to the evening bonfire party and left. Bai also handed over the two large game animals they had hunted to Kang to take with them.
Kang left, but the beastmen who had been with him didn't. They enthusiastically surrounded Linni, offering to help her tidy up the tree hollow and her luggage, and chattering incessantly.
Lin Ni hid fearfully behind Yao. These people were terrifyingly enthusiastic, and their gleaming eyes were even more frightening. She thought of some terrifying legends about her third brother's hometown in the modern world, such as female mosquitoes getting pregnant when they came. It was too scary!
Night tried to drive these people away several times with a cold face, but to no avail. Finally, Yao summoned a shield to shield himself and Lin Ni. Then Night and Bai transformed into beast forms and roared as they threw all the beastmen out of the tree hole.
Just as the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, Xuan and Ling, who hadn't even approached the cave entrance during this time, finally found their chance to shine. Ling transformed into a long green snake, coiled around the cave entrance, raising its head and flicking its black tongue at the vulture-men. Those vulture-men who had been thrown out and tried to approach immediately took several steps back: "We just wanted to talk to Lin!" "Our courtship is perfectly reasonable." "What you're doing is a bit excessive!"
Ling didn't speak. He would whip anyone who got too close away with his snake tail, and it was quiet outside the tree hole after a while.
At this moment, Xuan carried in a basin of clean water: "Lin, why don't you wash your hands and rest for a while?"
"Okay, thank you!" Linni smiled at him.
Xuan and Yao tidied up the tree hollow together. Lin Ni originally wanted to sleep on the upper level of the tree hollow, but the beastmen of the Vulture Beast Tribe obviously didn't consider that any beastmen would like to sleep on the upper level. In the Ten Thousand Ren Cliff, everyone used the upper level as a place to store food, and the beastmen who were passing by and staying there obviously didn't have that much stuff to put, so they actually blocked up the upper level. Yan went up to take a look and found that no one had been up there for a long time. There was a thick layer of cobwebs and dust, and it would take a lot of time to clean it to a habitable state, mainly because it would require a lot of water to wash it.
Linni was a little disappointed, but she stopped Yan and Bai from going up to clean: "Never mind, I'll just sleep downstairs. This tribe is so scary, I think I'll leave tomorrow, I'll just make do for one night."
As Ye packed her luggage, she said, "This tribe is really annoying! I came here once before, and it wasn't like this then. Although they were hospitable, they only courted at the campfire party. Now they've actually come all the way to our settlement."
"Is this how bonfire parties are too?" Linni asked in surprise.
Ye thought for a moment: "They eat barbecue together, then they dance a courtship dance, and if the female chooses more males, they will decide the order of mating by fighting beasts."
Linni wanted to see how their courtship dance differed from that of the Tiger Beast Tribe, but considering it was also a large-scale courtship event, and what if the same situation happened again... she tentatively asked, "Is it okay if I don't participate?"