Bringing a System to the Beast World

Chapter 360 My Country
One by one, they rushed over, eager to sleep on the warm kang (heated brick bed) that would keep them cozy in winter.

After experiencing it, they were filled with envy, and they were all eager to fire more bricks and tiles to build their own beautiful houses, which must have a warm kang (heated brick bed) inside.

For a time, the enthusiasm for building houses in the Snow Tiger Tribe reached an unprecedented high.

With the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove) in the bedroom, the rest—tables and chairs—became much simpler and could be left to Yuan Lang, since she really knew nothing about mortise and tenon joinery.

As the main people involved in the construction of the house, Teng Qian and Teng Kun were naturally highly regarded by many members of the clan.

Many of the young females even set their sights on the two single beasts, hoping to become their mates and thus live in such a warm and sturdy house.

Several powerful female orc warriors even extended offers to them, wanting them to be their third or fourth partners.

Seeing their faces contorted as if they'd eaten excrement, Wu Yue couldn't help but chuckle with schadenfreude: "In your country in the past, men could have many women, right?"

In ancient times, women had a low social status, so this was a very common occurrence.

Yuan Lang and the others nodded: "Weren't you like that back then?"

Wu Yue shook her head: "Back then, women and men were already on equal footing, and they could go to school just like everyone else..."

Seeing their puzzled looks, he smiled and said, "It's the school in your area. You can enter the army, become an official who decides the fate of the country, or even become the queen."

Therefore, our local laws stipulate that both men and women can only have one partner, and having an improper relationship with another person of the opposite sex during the course of a partnership is a violation of the law.

The three orcs froze...

Women could go to school, join the army, become officials, and even... even become empresses...

This is a matriarchal society, so the little female really does come from a matriarchal society?

However, the law that only allows one partner is somewhat different; in matriarchal societies, women can have many husbands.

When female orcs subsequently extended offers of marriage, the two orc warriors flatly rejected them.

Bah! Even though they're no longer in the previous world, why make them work as servants for others?

That's absolutely impossible!

Teng Qian and Teng Kun were put in charge of building the house. Both of them were highly skilled, so whenever the villagers encountered any problems during the construction, they would go to them for advice.

They built a heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), laid floor tiles, constructed their home, and installed doors and windows.

After some renovations to the courtyard, it took almost another week for the model house to be completed.

Snow Tiger Witch was the first to walk into the clean and tidy courtyard. She looked at the flat ground under her feet and the tables and chairs she had never seen before, until she felt the warmth of the kang (heated brick bed).

Her forced composure crumbled: "These houses are so much better than the stone houses of those super-large tribes."

A house built of bricks and tiles is naturally beautiful, but this house is not only beautiful, it is also warm.

Because it was the first time building such a structure, everyone's skills were not very proficient, so the construction progressed slowly. The shaman's courtyard was also the only courtyard in the entire Snow Tiger tribe.

After the shaman left satisfied, the members of the Snow Tiger tribe lined up in a long queue outside the courtyard.

Everyone wanted to go inside and see the beautiful house, and experience the warm kang (heated brick bed).

Back in his tent, the shaman dismissed the two orc warriors beside him, nestled in his animal-skin blanket, and chuckled to himself all night.

Meanwhile, the green-clad scorpion beastmen were filled with shock as they looked at the houses that the Snow Tiger tribe beastmen were lining up to see in the distance.

They were there when the orc warrior rammed into the wall with all his might that day. The orc's massive build meant it was no joke, but the stone house remained completely unharmed.

Thinking this, his eyes instantly gleamed.

They failed to capture the young female shaman and were detained here for an entire rainy season. If they didn't do something soon, returning to the tribe would definitely not end well for them.

“Captain, those houses are much nicer than the stone houses where the shamans and chieftains of the rock salt tribe live.”

A scorpion-like orc spoke up.

The scorpion orc glanced at him: "Of course I know."

He kept thinking about how to learn how to build this kind of house, and most importantly, how to learn the bricks and tiles used to build the house.

The irritable orc's small brain was working at lightning speed. After thinking it over, he realized there was only one way: steal the knowledge!

The next day, the beastmen of the Snow Tiger tribe discovered that the green scorpion beastmen had shaken off their previous dejection and were now actively helping without the lure of delicious food.

Something unusual is bound to happen. The donkeys, which are usually so hard to rouse even with a whip, have suddenly become unusually diligent. There's only one reason for this: what are these green donkeys up to? And judging from the recent events in the tribe, they're very likely eyeing their houses.

Under the leadership of this unscrupulous shaman, the orc warriors of the Snow Tiger Tribe are anything but innocent tiger cubs; beneath their憨厚 (honest and simple) tiger skins lie nothing but dark, cunning little hearts.

After reporting the strange behavior of the scorpion orcs to the shaman and the chieftain, they secretly prepared to teach these scorpion orcs a lesson for their wicked schemes, which had turned green with anger.

Today, they were secretly discussing going to a distant place to collect special stones for house foundations. They were 'accidentally' overheard by the Poison Scorpion Beastmen, who asked to take them along to get some food. After being refused several times, they finally agreed with a reluctant expression.

As a result, the few lush green plants that could be occasionally seen in the tribe before completely disappeared from the Snow Tiger tribe.

After the rainy season, everything began to grow, and the tribespeople gathered and hunted every day, so they did not lack food.

Now, building houses became a major event in the tribe. Without the scorpion orcs, everyone was more free to do things.

In order to build sturdy and warm houses, it wasn't so difficult to bow down and learn from slaves how to make bricks and tiles.

It was through their interactions with the slaves that the Snow Tiger tribe discovered that these slaves were quite intelligent and had good temperaments, leading to a better atmosphere within the tribe.

Meanwhile, Wu Yue had already given up on building houses and was now focused on her own farming business.

The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest thing.

After being fertilized and irrigated, the malnourished taro seedlings finally began to grow, and the weeds in the field also grew vigorously.

In order to clear away the weeds, Wu Yue recalled several of the slaves who had been sent to make brick and tile blanks.

Knowing that Wu Yue valued these taro, the slaves took extra care of them. Every morning, the first thing they did was to go to the taro field and treat even the newly sprouted weeds as if they were facing a formidable enemy, insisting on digging them up by the roots before they would stop.

With no wild grass competing for nutrients, and given that the tribe's previous settlement was spacious and sunny, the taro seedlings were practically bubbling with happiness, growing rapidly and changing every single day.

I thought I would be able to witness the taro's growth from start to finish, but right after lunch, the tent flap was suddenly flung open, and a half-orc warrior rushed in with a grave expression. "Moon, hurry to the witch's cave."

Seeing his expression, Wu Yue's heart jumped. Without even asking why, she simply picked out the wild vegetable stuck between her teeth and followed the orc towards the shaman's cave.

At this moment, the atmosphere in Xuehu Wu's cave was very heavy. Even Yuan Lang, who was usually calm, had his dark eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Seeing Wu Yue come in, he gestured for her to sit down to the side.

Wu Yue then noticed that there were actually several troublesome Black Wolf Tribe orc warriors here.

They looked quite disheveled, their body hair appearing as if it had been burned, with patches of baldness here and there.

"You've all seen what the Black Wolf Tribe orc warriors look like, right? I'm sure you all know what's going on."

The Fireball Beasts, who had gone out to avoid the rainy season, are returning to the Arctic Forest. The orc warriors of the Black Wolf Tribe have discovered their tracks in the forest very close to our tribe's territory.

The weather will get hotter every day, so we must drive these fireball beasts back to the depths of the polar forest as soon as possible, otherwise disaster will strike again.

Fireball Beast? Disaster?

Wu Yue sat to the side, looking completely bewildered. Could you please say something she could understand?

"Let's put the building of houses in the tribe on hold for now. Leave some of the orc warriors to hunt, and the rest of the orc warriors will all go out to drive away the fireball beasts."

The clan chief spoke up.

The shaman nodded in agreement regarding the assignment of the clan leader.

The orc warriors naturally had no objections; it concerned their territory, which they had lived in for generations, and they were determined to protect it with all their might.

The shaman then turned to Wu Yue: "Yue, this time you will go with the beastmen to drive away the fireball beasts."

His voice was full of solemnity. Although she was a little confused, Wu Yue still nodded: "Yes."

The chieftain led the orc warriors away to assign tasks, while the shaman carefully explained the Fireball Beast and the disaster to Wu Yue.

"The Fireball Beast is a wild animal that lives deep in the polar forest. It has two long, sharp, curved horns. It is good-natured and does not attack people easily."

Wu Yue frowned. How could such a beast be related to disaster?

If they have a good temperament and are docile, maybe we can catch a few and tame them.

"But their excrement falls into the forest, dries, and when exposed to the sun, it easily catches fire and burns for a long time."

Long ago, when the people of four tribes were cleaning up the dung of the Fireball Beast, they missed a few pellets. Those few pellets nearly burned down half of the polar forest.

Wu Yue gasped in shock; she had almost burned down half of the polar forest!

"How big of a fire must it have been?" she thought, her throat feeling dry. "Then... how was that fire eventually extinguished?"

Snow Tiger Shaman sighed, touching his wrinkled old face with deep emotion: "Don't you think the shamans of our four tribes all look very old?"

Hearing him ask that, Wu Yue had a vague guess in her heart, but she was not sure.

But the next second, the Snow Tiger Witch confirmed her guess: "This is the result of our sacrifice."

That kind of fire couldn't be extinguished by a small river; we tried for a long time but to no avail.

They ultimately decided to offer a sacrifice, praying for a great rain to end the long and terrible disaster.

Wu Yue's heart skipped a beat. No wonder the people here respected the shamans so much; it turned out they really were people who could sacrifice their lives to communicate with heaven and earth.

"Fortunately, there were the four of us old guys. Each of us sacrificed half of our life force, which is how we managed to pray for the heavy rain that extinguished the disaster."

And we, the young and robust men, have transformed into the decrepit old folks we are today.

Wu Yue's lips twitched. Actually, there was no need to say the last sentence, which emphasized her beauty.

"All you need to do this time is follow behind the orc warriors and see for yourself. When it comes to driving away fireball beasts and dealing with their excrement, our sorcery is far less effective than the orc warriors' sense of smell."

Wu Yue nodded: "Yes."

"Alright, hurry back and pack your things. We'll leave tomorrow morning."

Emerging from the shaman's tent, Wu Yue let out a deep breath: "Tongzi, I've just realized how little I know about this world."

After a moment of silence, Tongzi said, "Host, the farthest place you've ever been is the Black Wolf Tribe, right? This world is vast. There are many places beyond the polar forest, with many beastmen and plants you've never seen before."

Hearing him say that, Wu Yue couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation: "I must go out and travel if I have the chance."

Tongzi nodded in agreement: "We do need to go out for a walk, but the prerequisite is to improve our strength first and be able to save our lives."

Wu Yue rolled her eyes dramatically: "System, is your existence just to spur me on?"

Hearing her say that, Tongzi became even more proud: "If you say so, then I'll accept it without hesitation."

The two walked toward the tent, bickering as they went, and in the distance they could see a tall figure standing there.

"Yuan Lang?"

Wu Yue asked, somewhat puzzled, "We're leaving tomorrow, aren't you going back to pack your things?"

But the orc didn't answer her question immediately. Instead, he frowned and looked at her: "Don't go to drive away the fireball beasts."

Wu Yue frowned upon hearing this: "Why? This is a task given to me by the shaman, and I also really want to see this fireball beast."

Yuan Lang sighed: "The fireball beasts look a lot like the oxen from our old world, and they are indeed gentle, but no one knows if they are all gathered in one place."

Their droppings dry out easily and will ignite when exposed to sunlight, taking longer to burn than charcoal.

He turned to look at the dense forest in the distance: "Every year, many orc warriors die in this forest while trying to drive away the fireball beasts, and naturally, there are quite a few shaman disciples among them."

Wu Yue nodded: "Of course I know. Now that we've come to this world, how can there be no danger?"
When faced with danger and difficulties, what we should do is recognize them and overcome them, not run away from them. I am not that kind of person.

(End of this chapter)