Chapter 207: Invasion of Outside Beastmen?

"..."

After the Priest of You's words fell, the room stayed quiet for a good while before Ke Si's cold voice suddenly rang out, "If you came to talk about these things..."

"Of course I came to help you. After all, before I came, your sister gave instructions that no matter whether things work out between you and that female or not, your cubs must be brought back to the Youbuluo to be seen."

The Priest of You said this, finally showing an expression of wanting to discuss proper business. "You should know that beastmen outside have already heard some news and are heading toward the Heiyan Shanmai."

So?

Ke Si shot him an inquiring look—what did this have to do with him and Yun Li's cubs.

"The Tribe also wants to take this opportunity to learn more about the outside. More precisely, we want to use this opportunity to thoroughly establish contact with the outside, but our Tribe's Market is clearly not as attractive to outside beastmen as the Silver Eagle Tribe's Market."

When the Priest of You said this, he also paused for a moment. Because most of the beastmen in the Youbuluo were Snake Beastmen, they were actually somewhat exclusionary; even though they had their own Market, they only allowed beastmen from small nearby Tribes they were familiar with to enter.

And if unfamiliar beastmen wanted to enter the Youbuluo, even with an acquaintance leading the way, it would still draw the wariness of their tribesmen.

Therefore, no matter how they looked at it, their Tribe had no way of attracting large numbers of beastmen to the Tribe through a Market like the Silver Eagle Tribe did.

"So if your two cubs could be raised by both Tribes at the same time, it could likewise achieve the goal of deepening the cooperative relationship between the two Tribes through Yun Li."

Hearing this, Ke Si understood, but he still had one question, "Why must we maintain contact with the outside?"

The two Tribes didn't have deep contact with the outside before either, and didn't they get along just fine? Maintaining contact with the outside—just look at how a few years ago, outside beastmen learned about the Five Salt Mountain through scouting in Red Grass Valley; this kind of thing has both pros and cons.

They wanted to learn more methods from the outside to increase their Tribe's strength, while outside beastmen were also, when they weren't paying attention, snooping around to see what good things they had.

"You should still remember the beast tide three years ago. At the time we thought it was just an accident, but as the Silver Eagle Tribe's Market became famous, some beastmen who originally lived in the northern part of the mountain range would sometimes come over to the south."

The Priest of You knew that if he didn't explain these things clearly to Ke Si, there was no way to get him to continue interacting with Yun Li and the others.

And if Ke Si didn't go, relying on him alone, how could he persuade Yun Li to hand the cubs over to both Tribes to raise?

Ke Si listened the whole time without interrupting him.

After the northern beastmen came to the south, the Youbuluo learned that the beast tide from a few years ago was not an accident, but man-made.

Some powerful beastmen from the outside had entered the depths of the Heiyan Shanmai. No one knew what they discovered inside, but they stayed there for a full half a year, and afterward the northern beastmen would often hear a faint, elusive beast roar by their ears.

After the beast tide erupted, a Tribe in the north received several severely wounded beastmen who entrusted someone with items to go outside to deliver a message, but the moment the message was sent out, those beastmen immediately changed their attitude and actually annihilated the Tribe that had originally rescued them.

If the beastman who went out to deliver the message hadn't failed to find the right way out—he took a huge detour and came back—and seen the Tribe's tragic state, then everyone would not have learned from the mouths of those messengers that the beast tide happened all because outside beastmen were hunting and killing a fierce beast called the Earth-Armored Dragon.

Although the Earth-Armored Dragon was not skilled at combat, it could dig holes, and its digging speed was extremely fast.

Perhaps it was because those beastmen hunted too many Earth-Armored Dragons, provoking the Earth-Armored Dragons into a rampage, which caused the mountain to shift and set off a chain of reactions.

On the other side, Yun Li had just finished inspecting the new things the Hunting Squad brought back from outside when she was notified by a beastman of the Patrol Team that the Clan Chief and the Priest wanted to see her about something.

"Clan Chief, Priest, you were looking for me?"

By the time Yun Li hurried over to the Clan Chief's side, she saw that Ji Xuan, Mu Qing, and Leng Xiu were already all here; besides them, other beastmen who held real power in the Tribe had also gathered here.

What was going on? There were so many beastmen here today.

"A Li, you came at just the right time."

The Clan Chief waved her over and had someone get her a seat, but Yun Li walked straight toward her own Beast Husband.

Ji Xuan made room for her, and the snake cubs currently hanging on several males, upon catching their mother's familiar scent, quickly claimed their spots on Yun Li one by one.

Yun Li petted them one by one, and also casually tapped the head of the eagle cub that Ji Xuan carried with him with her finger.

"What happened? Clan Chief, you actually called so many people here today."

"We just received bad news. Beastmen from the north revealed to us that outside beastmen have forced their way into their area, and after they arrived, beastmen from several small Tribes suddenly disappeared."

"So the Priest and I called all of you over today to discuss how to prevent outside beastmen from doing harm to the Silver Eagle Tribe."

After Jicheng finished speaking, the Priest picked up from there, "Although it's not yet certain whether the matter of those small Tribe beastmen disappearing after the outside beastmen came in is true, our Tribe is no longer the same as before."

"Unfamiliar beastmen enter the Tribe every so often, and we cannot guarantee that all the beastmen who come are harmless to the Tribe."

Jicheng added, "Although this matter could just be handed to the Tribe's Patrol Team, the Patrol Team now not only has to patrol the activity around the Tribe and protect the Tribe, but also has to constantly cooperate with the Market to handle unexpected situations."

"Therefore, they may be somewhat short-handed, and expanding the Patrol Team's scale obviously cannot be accomplished before the rainy season arrives."

"So what are all your thoughts?"

The Priest swept his gaze around, and his eyes finally settled on Yun Li.

But Yun Li just smiled at the Priest, showing no intention of sticking her neck out, while she was also thinking in her heart—Moluo said he came here following the nomadic Tribe, so did he come here from the northern part of the mountain range following the nomadic Tribe?

"We can have the Hunting Squad's beastmen help patrol the Tribe's territory."

The one who said this was Miduo. With the passage of time, she was no longer the Miduo of the past; that insufferable Miduo now also carried a steadiness befitting an adult beastman.

And right after her first words fell, the other beastmen finally had a reaction, "The Hunting Squad's beastmen can indeed help share some of the Patrol Team's responsibilities."

"But how to prevent outside beastmen from doing harm to the Tribe is originally the Patrol Team's responsibility. If the Patrol Team doesn't have enough people, then just recruit more powerful beastmen..."

"Didn't they already say that recruiting people now won't make it in time either?"

A group of beastmen gathered here, and before even saying a few sentences, someone had already started arguing.

Seeing this, Jicheng and the Priest both couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.

If they could, they also wouldn't want to gather so many beastmen here to hold a discussion, but the problem was that the two of them had never come up with a feasible plan, so gathering so many beastmen was also to hear a useful opinion from their mouths.