Bringing a System to the Beast World

Chapter 499 The Rich Man Steals Food from the Beggar

The little guy looked at Ayu expectantly, his thin little hands grabbing the grass skirt around his waist that barely covered his bottom: "Let's go back together, they'll find out if you stay here by yourself."

Ayu shook his head: "You go first, go back and report. If they find out, I'll try to buy some time."

"The people of the Snow Moon Tribe are really bad, even worse than the Uk Tribe. I hate them."

The little guy mumbled softly as he backed away, sticking his little bottom out.

But her teary eyes kept glancing at Ayu, who was still lying there motionless, and she saw him wave to her, signaling her to hurry up and leave.

He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, turned over, and ran towards the cave where the gathering place was located.

The little guy was still young, and although he tried to keep his footsteps light, the sound was still very clear to the orcs and orc warriors.

The eyes of several people on the open ground all turned to look over.

Hiding behind the dense branches, Ayu suddenly felt as if she were being watched by several ferocious beasts. Her hair stood on end, and her body stiffened, not daring to move.

"That's strange, I clearly heard a sound coming from there just now."

Bren scratched his head, lay down on his side again, yawning repeatedly, while Yuan Lang and Ying Yan beside him both had a fierce look in their eyes.

Yingyan got up and walked into the deep forest on the other side: "I'm going hunting."

Bren opened his eyes wide and looked at him: "I'll go with you."

As he spoke, he stood up. Although everyone had become much more familiar with each other during the time they had been stealing herbs, compared to Wu Yue and Yuan Lang, who were always sticking together, he and Ying Yan had a better relationship after their last 'escape'.

Yingyan gave him a look of disdain, but did not refuse. The two figures quickly disappeared into the forest.

Seeing that he hadn't been discovered, Ayu breathed a huge sigh of relief. Only then did he realize that he was soaking wet, as if he had just come out of the river.

And my forehead and back felt cold in waves.

"Orc warriors are terrifying."

"Sure enough, there's a little guy hiding here."

A teasing voice rang out behind Ayu, making Ayu's scalp tingle as she had just relaxed a little.

No longer caring about hiding, it darted out from among the branches and ran away.

A soft laugh suddenly sounded behind him. Before Ayu could hear it clearly, he felt a large hand grab the back of his neck and lift him up.

"Let me go, let me go!"

The little guy's thin limbs were barely thicker than the surrounding tree branches, and he didn't have much strength. Bren curled his lip and said, "With so little strength, you'd better not bother."

Being just a cub, captured by the terrifying Snow Moon tribe, with no hope of escape, Ayu was overwhelmed with grief and burst into a wail.

Although he was small in stature, he had a very loud voice.

The sound of wailing rang in his ears, and Bren almost threw him away, but he quickly pulled him away with a grimace.

"This little brat is such a nuisance, he's so noisy. We should take him back to Wu Yue and Yuan Lang quickly."

He has the least patience for these little cubs.

Yingyan glanced at him, then turned and walked straight towards the open space.

Ayu's cries were so loud that Wu Yue and Yuan Lang, who were warming themselves by the fire and talking in the open space, also heard the noise and looked over.

"I can eat ten of these little guys in one bite, but they're so noisy."

As Bren spoke, he bared his teeth fiercely, and Ayu cried even louder.

Sure enough, none of the Snow Moon tribe members were good people; some even ate infants.

Seeing that the little cub was frightened and his cries were louder, Bren raised an eyebrow triumphantly and put him down.

As soon as his two thin legs touched the ground, Ayu immediately stopped making a sound and dashed off into the nearby forest.

But the next moment, that feeling of having your fate choked by the back of your neck returned: "You little thing, your little legs are quite capable of fiddling around, huh? Be careful or I'll pull you off and eat you!"

Another wave of threats came, and Ayu's thin body trembled, but the little glances he made from time to time told the others that he still hadn't given up on the idea of ​​escaping.

"you"

Wu Yue looked at it for a while before frowning slightly and saying, "Did you ever go to our tribe to peel corn before?"

She felt very familiar with the little guy when he was brought here before, and after observing him closely for a while, she finally confirmed that the skinny little guy was indeed the cub that had gone to the tribe to work and exchange for food.

"No! I didn't, I've never been to the Snow Moon Tribe, and I've never shelled corn!"

When the shaman recognized her, a frightened Ayu hurriedly denied it loudly, her fear and apprehension evident in her eyes.

Wu Yue's expression turned slightly cold. Although the little guy had only received food because he was working in the tribe, in such a time of scarcity, giving him food was already a very kind act. Why was the little guy avoiding him like the plague?

“If I remember correctly, you were a cub from the nearby vagrant settlement, right? When you left, I instructed my people to bring you back, and we gave you more food.”

She also had some impression of the little cub, because it was the first time she had seen someone in this forest earning food through labor.

In the past, I had only heard of wandering beastmen in the polar forest, but there were no wanderers. So I was a little curious and felt more pity for these poor little settlements, and gave them more food.

Little Ayu kept shaking her head: "No, I didn't, you're mistaken."

He kept repeating this sentence to himself, his thin little body trembling and his two wispy legs shaking. If Bren hadn't been holding him up from behind, he probably would have collapsed to the ground.

Seeing how afraid she was of him, Wu Yue instantly lost interest in talking to him and waved her hand dismissively, saying, "Let him leave."

Bren clicked his tongue: "You really don't know what's good for you."

After saying that, he carried Ayu back to the place where he had been found: "Alright, let's go. It's dangerous for you to be alone in the forest. Be careful that wild animals don't eat you."

Having said that, he clapped his hands and slowly strolled towards the open space. "The last time I saw this little guy, although he was somewhat afraid of us, he didn't show this strong defensiveness and hostility."

Wu Yue frowned: "Yes, it was hostility. Although he tried very hard to hide it, the emotions that occasionally showed in his eyes could not be concealed."

"Did you destroy their settlement?"

Bren, always eager for a good show, chimed in.

Yingyan glared at him: "After we established our tribe here, we haven't attacked any other tribes or settlements."

Bren scoffed, picking his nose as he said, "That's hard to say. Just because you few don't do it doesn't mean your tribe won't. With orc warriors and shamans backing you up, who knows what they might do in secret."

This kind of thing is very common in our tribe, and as long as it's not too outrageous, the tribe won't interfere.

After all, not everyone can get a share of the food the hunting team brings back each day; everyone has to find their own way!

“Yingyan, go with that little cub and see what they’re saying. If something like this really happened in our tribe, we can’t let them off easily.”

Wu Yue's voice was cold.

The tribes in the polar forest did not have this bad habit, so Yingyan also found this practice very disgusting. He nodded, flapped his wings, and flew away.

"Lord Wuyue, this kind of thing is normal. You don't need to worry about it. It's just that they are weak."

Bren said it was nothing new, after all, that's how they've lived for generations.

Wu Yue glanced at him indifferently: "Your people do this because they don't have enough food, but our tribe always has plenty of food. If they still want to do this, I won't allow it. Our Snow Moon tribe doesn't have such rules."

Seeing her displeasure, Bren wisely kept quiet.

I'm becoming increasingly curious about the Snow Moon tribe. I wonder where this shaman and his orc warriors came from, and how they could have such compassion for the weak.

Unable to understand, he simply shut up, returned to his previous resting place, and closed his eyes.

"Don't worry. If it's really because someone in the tribe did something wrong, it's actually a good thing to find out."

A deep orc voice sounded beside him.

Wu Yue turned her head and looked over, a hint of doubt in her slightly furrowed brows: "Good news?"

Yuan Lang chuckled and nodded: "The tribes haven't been integrated for very long, and we haven't set any rules yet. This is a good opportunity to clarify the tribes' rules."

Wu Yue nodded: "We originally came here to work because we felt sorry for a little cub, so we gave him extra food to take with him when he left. If this really brings disaster to their settlement, that would be truly terrible."

"We'll know when Yingyan comes back."

Eagle Yan didn't keep them waiting for long. About an hour later, it flapped its huge wings and descended from the sky above the forest, carrying two male humans in its claws.

One looked older and had some gray hair, while the other looked younger, but both were extremely thin.

“Witch, something really did happen. I heard them talking about exchanging corn outside their cave, but they were kicked out because they didn’t get any food. It was too noisy inside the cave, so I didn’t hear it clearly.”

The settlement leader and Ganser, who had been put down, stood huddled to the side. After their flight through the air, their heads were buzzing, as if countless bee-like creatures were flying inside them.

"So, someone from your tribe is really bullying the people in this settlement!"

Brenton, who was supposed to be asleep, suddenly jumped up from the ground and came over with a lewd grin.

In his heart, however, he felt a certain contempt for those tribal people who bullied the homeless.

"What could a homeless person possibly have that would interest you? Tsk tsk!"

Wu Yue felt a little embarrassed by what he said.

Because of the last time the cub went to work in the tribe, some tribesmen mentioned the gathering place of wanderers, saying that they are the lowest of the low in the forest, and even when food is most abundant, it is difficult for them to have enough to eat.

It's like a rich man robbing a beggar of his bread.

"Tell me everything that happened to you in the Snow Moon Tribe, and I will stand up for you. If it was really our tribesmen who did something wrong, I will punish them as well."

If they steal your belongings, I will return them all to you as compensation.

The two males were stunned. They had thought the orc warrior had brought them here to kill them, and they were relieved that their tribesmen had escaped, but now...
The two looked at each other in disbelief, and even wanted to reach out and pinch each other to make sure it was real.

The chief was, after all, the chief. Although his body was still trembling with fear, he still bowed and stepped forward to greet Wu Yue. He said sadly, "The cubs of our tribe are working in the Snow Moon tribe and have received a lot of food. They say they are processing a kind of food called corn kernels."

The food he brought back was delicious, so we wanted to collect these corn kernels to exchange for food with the Snow Moon tribe, but…

He glanced cautiously at the expressionless shaman sitting on the rock, then quickly lowered his head and continued, "But the patrolling male chased us away, leaving behind the food we had painstakingly gathered all day."

His voice was already choked with emotion: "Because all the tribe members went to gather corn kernels, we didn't have time to go out and find food, nor could we go to other tribes to do things."

There were no more corn kernels and no other food. The tribespeople had been hungry for many days, so we went and collected some more corn kernels to make cornmeal and eat.

Although it wasn't as delicious as the food Ayu brought back, it filled my stomach.

He suddenly looked up at Wu Yue: "Honorable shaman, we did not want to steal the food that the Snow Moon tribe found. It's just that the tribe's cubs are starving. We will no longer eat corn in our settlement. Please let us go."

Wu Yue stood up from the rock: "Take us to the cave in your settlement. I didn't know about this, and my tribe doesn't allow such a thing to happen, so I will take you back to the Snow Moon tribe. You must point out the person who stole the corn you were taking there that day."

Her voice was soft, but full of authority: "I will not blame you; on the contrary, I will punish the clansman who did such a thing."

Suppressing her anger, her gaze softened slightly as she looked at the two of them: "Let's go, go to your cave and rest for a while. We'll set off back to the tribe tomorrow."

The leader and Gan blinked in disbelief. Was this really true?
"Are you really not going to kill our people in our settlement?"

The leader said nervously.

Wu Yue was speechless: "If I wanted to kill you, I would have had Ying Yan do it just now. Why would I bother to capture you?"

(End of this chapter)