Living in the Beast World With a System - Chapter 117

Qing Cao grinned with a look full of shameless excitement. “Let me tell you something. Today my mother went to the chief’s cave for a meeting. The chief said that this time, during our tribe’s ritual, all the pure-blooded minors will get to participate. We will even receive a blessing from the Wu.”

Wu Yue still looked completely lost. “Oh.”

Qing Cao stared at her with disappointment. “What kind of reaction is that? Do you know that during every tribal ritual, beastmen from other tribes also come to join in? And when that happens… hehehe…”

That suggestive laugh finally pulled Wu Yue out of her fog. “What are you planning?”

Qing Cao cleared her throat. “What do you mean planning? If handsome male beastmen show up, we can choose the ones we like and be with them.”

Wu Yue looked shocked. “Aren’t we snow tiger beastmen? Are we even allowed to be with beastmen from other tribes?”

Wouldn’t that be… crossbreeding?

Qing Cao looked at her with deep pity. “Yue, your old tribe must have been really backward if you don’t even know this. As long as a female gets the Wu’s blessing after becoming pregnant, the cub that is born will be a snow tiger beastman.”

Wu Yue gasped. “Our Wu is amazing.”

Suddenly, she felt hesitant about becoming a Wu herself. Why did the Wu have to manage everything in this place?

They were in charge of rituals, healing the sick, and now even taking on the duties of a medical technician. She just wanted to know if there was anything the Wu did not handle.

“The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. That principle holds true no matter where you go. I trust the Host understands that, right?”

The System, which had claimed it needed to rest, immediately jumped back to work the moment it sensed Wu Yue’s reluctance to continue her duties.

Having such a lazy and unmotivated Host made life extremely difficult for a System.

To prepare for the snow tiger tribe’s most important ritual, the entire tribe had become busy. Even the gathering trips, which used to happen every few days, were now taking place every day.

With food now abundant, the tribespeople had begun to plump up at a pace visible to the naked eye.

Even the little cubs had grown round and chubby. Sometimes, when a group of the little ones was chasing each other around, their short legs would trip them up. They would tumble forward, rolling into another cub, wobble their dizzy heads, shake their pudgy bottoms, and keep toddling after their playmates, howling as they ran.

Under the fur lifted by the wind, their round little bellies were visible. They no longer looked like the bony little things they once had been.

When a cub occasionally flopped onto an beastman’s foot, the beastmen would gently nudge them aside. The movement was so light that it seemed as though they were playing with them.

After experiencing the feeling of being swung like that, the cubs would stare up with their shiny black eyes and gather around the beastmen again, howling in excitement as they waited to be gently kicked away once more.

This kind of parent-child interaction was a rare sight.

“Yue, hurry and help out!”

Hua Shu’s thunderous voice rang out across the clearing. Wu Yue quickly turned her eyes away from the cubs and ran over.

The females of the foraging team were using the method Wu Yue had taught them. They bundled the wild vegetables using dry grass and tied them into tidy bunches.

Now, Hua Shu’s foraging team had become the most sought-after group in the tribe. Not only did they have vine bags that could carry large amounts, but they also had beautiful and practical vine baskets.

If other teams wanted to use the same equipment, they had to trade food in return.

The wild vegetables were neatly packed into the vine baskets. Hua Shu and several other females each carried a basket on their backs. Wu Yue stepped forward to help as well.