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

Chapter 208 Mammoth Herd
Su Weihua looked bewildered at the two people whose actions were perfectly synchronized, raised an eyebrow slightly, and asked, "What's wrong with me?"

"There has never been a precedent of intermarriage between the sea people and our land-dwelling beastmen. The sea people are a race that can live and breathe in the sea, and their bodies may be fundamentally different from ours. They may really be unable to have offspring?"

Ling Chengen said speechlessly, "Is that the problem?"

Bai Qingyu admired his thought process and said in a low voice, "Don't you have any sense of being a partner?"

"I've never seen a male orc as eager as you to find a rival for his affections?"

"One, two, three, four on land aren't enough, we need to find two more from the sea to make it complete, right?"

Su Weihua: "..."

"Are you kidding me?" Su Weihua belatedly realized.

Bai Qingyu and Ling Chengen both sighed, their expressions of disgust quite obvious.

"Never mind, I won't ask anymore." Su Weihua felt completely out of place with these two. "I came to ask you whether you want to find a place to camp around here, or continue walking before dark to find a safer place?"

"There might not be a safer place ahead, right?" Bai Qingyu looked at the four- or five-meter-tall fluffy grass and the light golden fluffy fluff flying everywhere. "But this place is not suitable for camping. We need to make a fire to keep warm at night. There is flammable fluff floating everywhere here, so it is not safe."

"I'll go explore the area and find a suitable place to set up camp."

The moment Bai Qingyu raised her arms, she transformed into a giant blue crane. Her long neck and head protruded from the four- or five-meter-high velvet grass. She took two quick steps on the ground and immediately flapped her wings and flew into the air.

Ling Chengen, who was crouching in the grass, stood up and shouted at him, "Bring someone with you, do you hear me?"

Bai Qingyu didn't reply, and Ling Chengen wasn't sure if he had heard him clearly. He sighed softly and said in a low voice, "None of them are easy to deal with."

Su Weihua asked, "Are you leaving? Everyone's waiting for you to rejoin the team."

He really wanted to say that the most troublesome person in the group was her, the young clan leader, but given that Ling Chengen wasn't very good at reflecting on his own mistakes, he didn't plan to go up and get scolded at this time.

"Su Weihua, do you have any way to get a spatial container?"

Su Weihua pushed aside the tall grass in front of her and turned her head slightly, saying, "Don't you have one?"

"The supplies are full, but our autumn hunt is only halfway through. We're sure to find a lot more supplies later. Wouldn't it be a shame to find them but not be able to take them with us?"

Ling Chengen quickly caught up with him, hoping to get a good answer from him.

Su Weihua pondered for a moment before replying, "I definitely don't have it here. Before Beya took the jade pendant for herself, I had no idea that the relic left by my mother was a spatial container."

"The Snow Wolf Tribe has never heard of anyone having one. This kind of thing is quite precious. Even if someone does have one, they probably wouldn't make it public until they have the ability to protect themselves."

"We haven't heard of any space container trading in the border markets of our central region, but we've heard of it happening in the southern border markets, though it's very rare."

"However, it's not entirely hopeless."

Su Weihua drew the double-headed gun from his back, used the long handle to clear away the obstructing grass, and continued, "This time, the extreme BH market is an opportunity. We can try our luck in the sea market; maybe we'll stumble upon a space container transaction."

"But these things are usually not priced openly, otherwise they might be snatched up as soon as they are made public."

After all, the border market is supervised and managed by the local large tribes, but the Extreme BH market is a trading market for sea creatures and land beasts.

The two sides were never in a relationship where they could trust each other.

This naturally formed trading market can be temporarily terminated at any time due to some strange conflict, and may not be opened again for several years afterward.

“You previously said that Shi Panxing has a spatial ability. His ability is not low. Although he is currently seriously injured and unable to use his ability, it does not mean that he has not made spatial containers before. With his ability, he has definitely reached the level of making containers.”

"Moreover, he is a sea creature from the North Sea."

"Who knows, there might be some of the things he made circulating in the market?"

Su Weihua's analysis was quite logical, and Ling Chengen felt it made some sense, but the problem was...

"What if we don't run into them? We've come all this way to the far north, only to find we have no containers to carry our heavy loads, so we just come here, check in, and head back home?"

Ling Chengen didn't want to go back like this. He only came once a year, so he had to bring back more good things to make it worthwhile.

She's just greedy.

Su Weihua's expression was cold and stern as he patiently advised her, "Most hunting teams don't have spatial containers. Teams like ours, which carry little weight, are the ones that stand out."

"So my suggestion is that on the way back, each person in our team should carry some supplies, even just a little, to avoid others eyeing your spatial container."

"Of course, it's also possible that Bea and my father have already spread the word that you have that thing. Anyway... we need to be more careful on the way back and try not to run into other hunting teams to avoid being robbed on the way."

"It's not like carrying supplies will prevent you from being robbed." Ling Chengen fanned the fluffy hairs clinging to his eyelashes. "Every year, the hunting teams that travel from north to south will almost always encounter some fools who want to get something for nothing."

“We’re not carrying any weight… at least we can run faster, and the space container is a small target, so they might not know who’s hiding the stuff.”

“But the spatial container can only be opened by specific people,” Su Weihua reminded her.

"What if this person is missing, or dead..."

Before Ling Chengen could finish speaking, he bumped into Su Weihua's back, who had suddenly stopped.

She rubbed her nose and forehead, and asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

“Don’t say such unlucky things.” Su Weihua turned around and said seriously, “Sometimes… good things don’t come true, but bad things do.”

Su Weihua was indeed a stern person, but he rarely showed such a serious expression to her. Ling Chengen looked at his lowered head and solemn expression, slowly nodded, and tentatively asked, "Then I won't say anything?"

Su Weihua said, "You can reorganize the supplies in the space and move some out so that the soldiers in the team can carry them. Everyone here is not a delicate baby who needs to be carefully protected. They are here to be trained, and this kind of hard work is also part of their trial."

After all, they can't always run into Ling Chengen leading the team during every autumn hunt. Without a spatial container, they'll have to solve all sorts of difficulties on their own.

The stockpiling and transportation of supplies is a major challenge that all teams face during the autumn hunt.

"Alright, that's the only way then."

Ling Chengen casually broke off a piece of velvet grass and held it up in front of Su Wei's picture: "I want to collect this velvet. When the tribe doesn't have enough rainbow velvet fruit, we can use these to stuff the layers of clothes and quilts to keep them warm."

Su Weihua picked up a handful of fluff and rubbed it in her hands: "This kind of thing is not as easy to get as rainbow velvet fruit. It has to be put in something and sealed properly."

Otherwise, they would all be blown away by the wind.

"Then let's use burlap sacks to pack them." Ling Chengen followed him out of the ramie growing area and took out a strip of ramie from his spatial storage. "Before we came to the far north, didn't we encounter several ramie forests on the way?"

“I had you cut a lot of this stuff and peel it all off.” “Now that there’s no room in the space to store supplies, why not take out these ramie plants and make them into burlap sacks? We can use the sacks to carry things, which will make it easier to collect supplies and transport them.”

Su Weihua touched the hemp strips, which had become much more pliable: "Is it difficult to weave a burlap sack?"

"It's not very difficult, just time-consuming."

Ling Chengen had been trying to restore spinning wheels and looms for a long time. Under the current conditions, it was impossible to make a modern, high-efficiency loom, but the equipment that his ancestors had used for thousands of years was not that difficult to restore.

Making burlap sacks is quite difficult, involving only a few steps: retting the burlap, peeling the burlap, and scraping off the green fibers.

One reason is that the process is lengthy and complicated, and the soaking time needs to be precisely controlled in order to separate pectin and lignin while ensuring that the fibers are not damaged.

But Ling Chengen had already figured out the tricks of the trade, and all the ramie fibers she had stockpiled in her space were already processed.

Another more troublesome process is spinning hemp.

Spinning hemp is the process of connecting short fibers into long threads, which requires manual twisting and joining to form long hemp threads.

The hemp thread is woven into hemp yarn by a hand-cranked spinning wheel, then warped and threaded, and finally woven into hemp cloth by a pedal loom.

After being sewn and reinforced, the burlap becomes the final product – a burlap sack.

The spinning wheel is now finished, and she has taken the time to try it out. The finished product works well, but the quantity is not large.

However, when she was designing the spinning wheel, she had Bai Qingyu help her with the actual work.

Therefore, adding a few more units later is not a problem.

She did the final adjustments to the loom last night, and the trial run tonight went well. Over the next few days, until the opening of the sea city... they will have to work overtime to rush the production of burlap sacks.

Then we'll arrange for another group of people to harvest this neglected velvet grass...

A warm winter is just around the corner.

Before the two had returned to the group, Ling Chengen suddenly stopped talking, pricked up his ears, and turned to look in the northwest direction.

Su Weihua stopped in front of her, blocking the cold wind blowing from the west, touched her slightly chilly nose, and asked, "What's wrong?"

“A group of very large strange beasts is moving towards us.”

She looked wary and quickened her pace, pulling Su Weihua along: "Hurry up, tell them to get ready to leave."

Su Weihua took off her hat and coat, put them in her hands, transformed into her beast form, and turned back to her, saying, "Come on."

Ling Chengen rode on his back, his left hand grasping the long, soft hair on his back, and his right hand holding his clothes and hat in front of him, slightly lowering his body to avoid the cold wind blowing into his collar.

The two quickly returned to where the group had stopped. A group of people were squatting or sitting in a sheltered spot, chatting and eating dry rations, while holding cups and drinking warm water.

Ling Chengen called out to them, and the previously leisurely and relaxed group immediately changed their state. They poured the water in their hands on the ground, hung the cups on the ropes around their waists, stuffed the dried meat directly into the animal skin bags, and in the blink of an eye, they restored their formation and followed Su Weihua in an orderly manner.

Su Weihua led the team, stepping on the stones in the river, and ran all the way to the other side.

This is at the foot of the Asta Mountains.

At the foot of the mountain are large tracts of tall and cold-resistant coniferous forests, as well as patches of birch trees that are turning from green to yellow. The leaves at the base of the trunks are golden and bright, while the tops are still tinged with a cool, verdant green, creating a very layered and gradual transition.

Su Weihua led the team into the woods before stopping and gazing across the river.

Ling Chengen had told him before that the group of giant beasts was moving in their direction.

About twenty minutes later, a group of slow-moving ancient mammoths walked in a line to the riverbank at the foot of the Astar Mountains.

The river here is shallow and the water quality is excellent, clear and transparent, reflecting the white clouds that are rushing across the sky in the far north, as well as the azure sky that seems to have never changed.

"These mammoths probably won't cross the river, right?"

Zhilu shrank in size, its body wrapped in tough spider silk, and suddenly descended silently from above their heads.

"No, they probably came here to get a drink of water."

Ling Chengen sensed that the aura of these giant beasts was very peaceful, unlike many large wild animals whose violent emotions could be felt from a great distance.

"What a huge herd of elephants!" Yuan Ran peeked out from between the leaves at the elephants drinking water and muttered to herself, "This is the first time I've ever seen mammoths."

"These giant beasts are never seen in the central region under normal circumstances."

Su Weihua nodded and said, "Ancient mammoths lived in the far north and did not like to move south. They would only migrate south during the cold season when food was scarce."

"However, these mammoth herds are very clever. In the last hundred years or so, even when they encountered a major cold wave, there is no record of them migrating south. I heard that they have gradually learned to store food so that they will not starve to death when the snow covers the wild."

Ling Chengen asked, "Are there hunting teams that go hunting mammoth herds?"

Su Weihua instantly became alert and turned around to ask, "You want to go?"

"I don't have that idea for now," Ling Chengen shook his head.

Su Weihua still couldn't relax, even though she said it was only temporarily...

“Mammoths are very powerful attackers, and most of them possess superpowers.”

“Attacking just one elephant will enrage the entire herd.”

"Unless it's a particularly powerful hunting team, they generally wouldn't dare to target a mammoth herd."

Because this is basically a group at one end.

Only the young mammoths were left behind, and they could not survive the long and cold winter in the far north on their own.

But if the mother elephant is left behind, she will not let the orcs who harm her tribe get away with it.

Even orcs, who are used to hunting, are mostly unable to accept this kind of slaughter.

If every hunt wipes out a group, then they themselves will have no future.

Therefore, the best approach is to avoid hunting mammoth herds as much as possible.

This group reproduces very slowly.

A female elephant will only give birth to one calf every two to three years.