Xie Yungui returned home, fetched water, gave the two children a bath, and then put them on the bed.

"Dad, I'm so sleepy today, I don't know why, I just want to sleep!" Leng Yi'an said, and then started to doze off.

"I think you're always very tired every night." Tonight we're just staying up a little late to discuss things.

Goodnight, dear Dad!

"Good night!"

Just as Xie Yungui was about to go to sleep, Leng Ran's voice rang out: "Agui, may I come in?"

Xie Yungui was a little puzzled. Why was this person coming to see him at this time?

"Come in!"

A moment later, Leng Ran came in carrying a small wooden tube, which was only about the size of a child's arm.

"Ah Gui, this contains my own venom. I'm giving it to you for self-defense!" Leng Ran said.

Xie Yungui was taken aback, but quickly realized what he meant: "Thank you!" He didn't refuse.

"You're welcome. My venom is very potent, so be careful when using it. If you accidentally get poisoned, come find me!"

"You can even cure your own snake venom?" This truly surprised Xie Yungui.

"Of course we snake-beastmen can cure our own venom. If you get poisoned, just drink some of my blood and it will be cured."

Are all snake-beastmen like this?

"Yes, but only drinking your own blood will work if you poison yourself; it won't work if you poison others."

"I see, I understand now, thank you." It's really amazing.

"Then you should get some rest; you've had a long day!"

"good!"

The next day, Xie Yungui woke up late.

When he got up, the two little ones in the house had run out to ask Ah Ming and the others for food.

Leng Ran had already gone hunting, and it has to be said that Xie Yungui now finally understood the difference between females and beastmen.

My physical strength is really not as good as the orcs'. Even with that so-called strength spell, the aftereffect is that my whole body is sore.

It was two days later when Xie Yungui recovered, and the rice was ready for harvest.

So he led all the tribe members to harvest rice. Although they were old, weak, sick, or disabled, they could still carry some rice.

As for Leng Ran, he continued hunting.

"Chief Agui, is this really edible?" Afeng asked.

"Of course you can eat it. This is the white rice porridge we used to drink. You can eat it after removing the husk."

"So this is what it looks like, Chief Agui. You know so much."

"Hehe!" Xie Yungui chuckled, then put the harvested rice into the basket.

This rice crop is enough for them to get through the snowy season.

What Xie Yungui didn't know was that while they were busy picking rice, a strange bird flew overhead and was astonished by what it saw.

However, he didn't disturb them, but flew away directly.

After Xie Yungui led his people to harvest the rice, they dried it and stored it in the warehouse, which already contained a considerable amount of supplies.

"If only we had cotton, it wouldn't be so cold during the snowy season. I'm still worried that this animal hide won't keep us warm enough." Xie Yungui sat under a big tree, tidying up the tanned animal hides with the others.

"Chief, what is cotton?" Amao asked.

"It's white, soft, and a little fuzzy... um, flowers," Xie Yungui replied.

"I've seen it before!" Amao replied in surprise.

"What? You've seen it before?" Xie Yungui asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's on the mountainside of that mountain. I saw a lot of them just a few days ago." Amao pointed to the mountain in the distance.

Xie Yungui had never actually explored that mountain, because getting there required crossing a steep canyon, which he found inconvenient, so he didn't go. Little did he know that he almost missed the most important thing.

"I'll go take a look tomorrow!" Xie Yungui said.

"Chief, no need for tomorrow. I'll go pick some now and bring them back for you to see. I'm a squirrel beastman, and I'm very good at climbing trees. I can jump between big trees, so I'll be there in no time," Amao explained.

"Okay, thank you for your help!"

The strange bird that flew over the Death Forest was a winged orc. They were a winged race that specialized in gathering or delivering information to earn extra resources.

After the winged orc returned to his tribe, he told his people what he had seen, and the story quickly spread.

The tribe living closest to the Death Forest is the Panda Tribe, so they were quite startled when they heard the news.

Who would believe that a tribe actually lives in the Death Forest?

The Forest of Death has always been an ominous place, and no one dares to enter it.

"Chief, perhaps this is just a smokescreen. The Death Forest isn't as terrifying as we think. After all, we've only heard about it; none of us have actually been inside!" one of the panda orcs said.

"Whether it's a smokescreen or not, it has nothing to do with us. We have our own territory, and I don't want to take my people on any risks. As long as they don't provoke us, we shouldn't provoke them either. After all, the rainy season is coming soon, and the important thing is to store up food quickly."

"The chieftain is right. We don't know how long that tribe living in the Death Forest has been there. We've lived in peace for so many years, which means they don't want to provoke us. We might as well just pretend we don't know," said the priest of the panda tribe.

"Yes, that's true. No matter what other tribes think, our tribe shouldn't get involved."

Although pandas are mostly herbivores, they do eat meat. However, they are slow-moving and therefore cannot catch prey. But their bite force is unmatched in the world.

But no tribe would provoke them, because it wasn't worth it.

Because the panda clan is known for its gentle nature, neither causing trouble nor fearing it, and for being friendly to every tribe, they have become a unique tribe.

In a sense, Xie Yungui's choice to settle in the Death Forest was indeed a good one, because not only were the resources abundant and the territory vast, but the neighbors were also very friendly.

However, only the panda tribe thinks this way; other tribes do not.

Driven more by curiosity and competitiveness, they were eager to know what kind of orcs lived inside. Some tribes with very small territories had even entrusted winged orcs to investigate.

If the orcs inside weren't a powerful race, perhaps they could have stormed into the Death Forest and seized it, then they wouldn't have to worry about having too little territory.

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