The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 256 A Tough Personality
The hunting party did not head straight for the Stone Forest when it went south. Instead, like other tribes, it first traveled south until it had enough prey to last through the winter before returning to the tribe.

In the central and southern parts of the northern wilderness, the temperature in October has not yet completely dropped. The daytime temperature is in the teens, and the nighttime temperature is generally between zero and five degrees Celsius, with a large temperature difference between day and night.

Looking at the hunting team's catch, Ling Chengen decided to take the supplies back to the tribe first, and also check on the progress of the beast city being built by Chongzhen. She wanted to lead her people into the beast city before the heavy snow blocked the roads, so she needed to do a lot of preparatory work in the early stages.

So Ling Xiao thought about it for a while and decided to temporarily change the route, changing the southward hunting route to pass by his home. This would prevent the young children from being robbed by some shameless orcs on their way back with the entire tribe's life-saving supplies.

After the supplies were sent back to Shilin, Ling Chengen decided not to go south with the team and handed over the task of leading the team to Su Weihua and Bai Qingyu.

Shi Ruoan rested briefly in the tribe for a day, chatted with Shi Panxing alone for a night, and then left with the hunting team from Shilin early the next morning.

It's clear that he wanted to stockpile a large amount of supplies before the cold season, at least to ensure that he and Shi Panxing had enough food.

Ling Chengen didn't mind having two more mouths to feed, since there were already plenty of mouths to feed at home. She had spent most of the year preparing for the winter season and was well-prepared. However, since Shi Ruoan was willing to pay for her own meals, she certainly wouldn't stop her, after all, her family's food didn't come from thin air.

With Shi Ruo'an's abilities, hunting enough food for two people during the cold season would be a piece of cake.

After the group left again, the tribe returned to its previous quiet state.

The house suddenly became quiet and deserted, and Ling Chengen was still a little unaccustomed to it.

Especially when you sleep until you naturally wake up, it's already late morning. There's no one on the rocky beach in front of your house, only large areas of fire crystal cotton and rainbow velvet fruit fluff drying in the sun.

Ling Chengen, with a biscuit in his mouth, squatted in front of the flat straw mat and reached out to grab the clumps of colorful cotton fluff. They looked a lot like cotton, except that the fluff seemed to be larger and longer. They were warm to the touch and would even stay warm for a long time after being exposed to the sun.

Ling Chengen picked up the cotton wadding from the mat and thought it was really interesting. This kind of natural plant that could use the sun to charge and generate heat was almost comparable to a solar panel.

The cotton wadding in the tribe has all been collected. The stockpile is not large, but each family can get a little. It is definitely not enough to make a thick quilt, but this cotton wadding that can generate heat, together with the large amount of straw collected on the way north, can barely make up one quilt for each household.

Ling Chengen planned to start organizing the females in the tribe to fluff the cotton-like fluff, making it fluffier, but she needed a lot of manpower.

Ling Chengen went directly to Zhilu, who was a giant spider beastman and very skillful.

Ling Chengen had witnessed her sewing and knitting skills and felt that she was on a completely different level from others, and that she was both fast and good.

Zhilu even revealed that she can control some small spiders to help with weaving, and can also play with the weaving in various ways.

In addition, Zhilu showed exceptional reliability during this trip, and Ling Chengen felt that she was more suitable for this task than himself.

Although she is the young chieftain, to be honest... because she is not thick-skinned enough, she sometimes really can't stand up to the aunts, grandmothers and mothers-in-law in the tribe.

Zhi Lu loves gossip and is very good at handling interpersonal relationships, so Ling Chengen felt that this person was simply a savior sent to her by God.

Zhilu was initially upset that Ling Chengen wasn't continuing to lead the team south. After returning, she hung on a tree in front of her house, staring blankly at the leaves and the sunlight filtering through the gaps.

Upon learning what Ling Chengen was going to entrust to her, she instantly perked up and patted her chest, assuring him, "Young clan leader, don't worry. I'm the best at this kind of thing. I know better than anyone in the tribe who has the most skillful hands and who has the clumsiest hands, so... you can rest assured, leave this to me, and I guarantee I'll give you a satisfactory result."

Having had experience hunting with a team, she found that the things she did before, such as simply harvesting fruits and herbs from the forest and searching for nature's gifts buried inch by inch under the ground, no longer brought her excitement or joy.

She enjoys an adventurous and exciting life. Although it is dangerous, it gives her a real sense of being alive, rather than just drifting through each day in a daze.

Having experienced a brush with death, she cherishes her life even more. She will no longer argue or fight with others like before, unable to win either, and will eventually develop a sense of self-loathing, feeling that life is meaningless.

Seeing her excitement, Ling Chengen personally led her through the process.

The main reason is that she already knew the techniques, and she mastered these techniques after just one look.

Moreover, beastmen are incredibly strong; even the relatively weaker females are still far superior to many men from my previous life.

So even though the cotton-fluffing tool was large and heavy, Zhilu just grabbed it casually and lifted it up with one hand, as if she were holding a wooden sword. With her other hand, she hooked the animal sinew rope and kept fluffing the cotton spread on the mat.

Watching the cotton fluff fluttering in the air, Ling Chengen gave Zhilu an idea: to make a simple mask to prevent the inhalation of large amounts of airborne fluff and dust.

Having resolved the issue of cotton wool that had been weighing on his mind, Ling Chengen prepared to make a trip to the Mulan Beast Plains.

Yuheng was about to go out, so he pushed Shi Panxing, who was sitting on a wooden mobile bed, out of the room and casually placed her in the sun, letting this almost moldy Beihai mushroom bask in the sun and get rid of the mold.

Are you going out again?

Yu Heng bent down and looked at the booklet in front of Ling Chengen, which contained many items to be done.

He looked at the words circled by Ling Chengen and asked, "A heated kang? Didn't you tell Chongzhen about this technology before? You told him to have it installed when the house was built."

Those detached houses require a separate heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove).

Collective housing, especially honeycomb-like cubicles, primarily provides centralized heating.

Central heating is much warmer than heated brick beds, which involves the design of heating pipes, especially metal heating pipes. Refining metal pipes by hand is very slow, so advanced technologies such as iron smelting and steel forging are required.

However, conditions in the Beast World were very rudimentary, and the Beastmen were more accustomed to using their supernatural abilities. As a result, the development of technology was relatively immature, and the use of supernatural abilities was far less widespread than that of other supernatural powers.

Ling Chengen glanced back at Yu Heng standing behind him, put away his charcoal pencil, and said seriously, "The two things, the heated kang and piped heating, are related to whether everyone in the tribe can move into the newly built city. If these two things are not done well, or if there are any problems, it will be difficult to continue construction after the heavy snow. We can only wait until next spring, and the use of this heating system can only be done next winter."

“Every winter, countless orcs die silently on the cold winter nights in the northern wilderness. I don’t need to tell you the exact number; I guess you know it too.”

"Since we have the resources and can work hard to get it done before the winter season this year, why not do our best?" Ling Chengen raised an eyebrow and asked rhetorically.

Yuheng was stunned for a few seconds by her question. He straightened up, put his hands on his hips and said, "I didn't say I shouldn't do it. Why are you questioning me like that? I was just curious and asked casually."

After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and prepared to leave.

Ling Chengen reached out and grabbed the end of his hair, not with force, but enough to stop him.

"I have something to ask you!" Ling Chengen said before he could get angry.

Yu Heng glared at her expressionlessly, pulled up a chair and sat down next to her, resting his chin on his hand and saying lazily, "Speak, what do you want to ask?"

"You've been to most of the Northern Beast Plains, haven't you?" Ling Chengen asked. Yu Heng nodded, raising an eyebrow slightly. "Yes, just say what you want. What exactly do you want?"

"Heating requires raw materials."

Ling Chengen took out a Crimson Source Stone from his spatial storage and placed it on the table: "This is a type of heat source ore that I found in the scorched land outside Huangyan Beast City. It contains enormous amounts of heat. I'd like to know if you've ever seen this kind of ore in the Northern Wilderness!"

Although there are many primeval forests in the Beast World, the mountains and forests are actually related to the survival of each tribe, and most of the mountains and forests are owned.

This ownership does not mean that it has been assigned to anyone's name or has received official recognition.

There is no such thing as an "official" in the Beast World. Most tribes have defined the boundaries of their territories. Rushing into another tribe's territory to compete for resources will be seen as a provocation, or even as a signal to start a war.

Forests are also an internal resource of the tribe's territory, helping the orcs in the jungle to better hide and obtain more food that suits their tastes.

Therefore, orcs actually cherish the forest, and they only cut down trees because they need to make fires to keep warm during the cold season.

However, most tribes still believe that forests are a natural resource and do not actively cultivate them.

Ling Chengen actually wanted to use the Crimson Source Ore as a heating energy source. This ore is very special. She originally thought that after the heat of this ore was used up, it would become a useless piece of waste rock. However, because of the Crimson Source Stone that had been used up before, she did not want the people tracking them to find out, so she also carried the stone with her when its energy was depleted.

Unexpectedly, after a period of time, the stone began to slowly regain its heat.

Especially when near a heat source.

Out of curiosity, she later placed the Red Source Stone in the sun and discovered that it was also slowly accumulating energy, but it was still quite slow.

The fastest way to recharge is actually to be near lava. Simply place the Red Origin Stone near the lava to get a full pack of Red Origin Stones again.

The color of the red source stone represents its quality and determines the upper limit of the heat it can absorb.

In a sense, Red Origin Stone is actually a kind of clean energy that can be recycled.

Moreover, Ling Chengen learned from Shi Ruoan that the Baman Snake Clan beastmen were not native to the North Sea, so this race was extremely afraid of the cold. However, they were able to move freely in the North Sea because the Baman Snake Clan beastmen seemed to have a device that was very energy-efficient and provided long-lasting warmth to their entire bodies.

This device relies on Crimson Origin Stones, but the technology is in the hands of the noble orcs of the Southern Beast Plains.

She desperately wanted this.

However, the Southern Beast Plains are still extremely dangerous for her, so she cannot risk going deep into the enemy's lair again. Otherwise, her elderly father and a few other people who are quite nosy at home will get worried and anxious.

Yu Heng picked up the Crimson Source Stone on the table, looked it over for a long time, and finally leaned on the table, turning the small Crimson Source Stone over and over with his fingertips: "I feel like this kind of stone looks familiar. Do you have any others? Take them out and let me see them."

Ling Chengen still has a lot of Crimson Origin Stones.

She took out a whole bunch and piled them on the table; they were all different colors.

The reddish-brown Crimson Origin Stone refracted brilliant colored light, making Ling Chengen and Yu Heng's faces glow red.

After a long while, Yuheng gently tapped his forehead with his fingertip and suddenly said, "I remember now!"

“I have indeed seen this thing before, in the Southern Beast Plains. But where did you get this Crimson Source Stone? I heard that this thing is a mineral that is strictly controlled by Huangyan Beast City. It seems to be related to the production of some kind of special and mysterious artifacts, but this technology is only mastered by Sha Qing, the lord of Huangyan Beast City.”

Ling Chengen's eyes widened slightly: "The lord of Huangyan Beast City, do you mean the city lord? Is she a female?"

Yu Heng nodded, surprised that Ling Chengen didn't even know this, so he told her more: "Sha Qing is indeed a female, but she is quite different from ordinary females. It is said that she is a member of the whiptail lizard clan."

Ling Chengen blinked, then spread his hands and said, "So?"

Looking at her clueless face, Yuheng put his hand to his forehead and said, "Haven't you heard of the whiptail lizard?"

"I don't know." Ling Chengen shook his head frankly.

"The Whiptail Lizard tribe only has females, no males!" Yuheng couldn't help but pinch her tender, collagen-filled face, speechless. "You really don't even know such a special and representative race? I really don't know how your brain works. You only accept information that is useful to you, right?"

Ling Chengen slapped his hand away, narrowed his eyes, and his intent to kill was obvious.

"If you pinch me again, I'll break your claws!"

Yu Heng immediately stopped and scoffed, "So young, yet so arrogant."

Ling Chengen lifted his foot from under the table and kicked Yu Heng hard in the shin: "Are you looking for a scolding or a beating? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll make sure you lose your 'damn it'."

Yu Heng glanced at her, speechless: "..."

He paused for a few seconds, then immediately got down to business: "The whiptail lizard species does not rely on males for reproduction; they mainly rely on themselves for reproduction."

"Asexual reproduction?"

Although Yuheng didn't quite understand, he managed to grasp the meaning of her novel vocabulary through a combination of guesswork and nodding, "It's roughly the same meaning as what you said."

"They can create a copy of themselves by removing a part of their own body."

"Therefore, the whiptail lizard is only in female beastmen, and there are no males."

"To be precise, they are not female, since they do not reproduce, but rather use a part of their bodies to cultivate the next generation, so they are genderless."

Ling Chengen exclaimed in shock, "You can do it like that?"

Isn't that a bit too outrageous?!

Yuheng loved watching the expressions that came out when her worldview was shattered; they were especially cute and funny to watch.

He added quietly, "The whip-tailed lizard beastmen are also known as the Southern Plains Eternal Female Clan."