Chapter 95: The Youbuluo Tribe

It was night, in a remote corner of the Youbuluo.

From a stone house came a wavering scream of a female, which soon turned into a sobbing whimper.

When Chang Yue arrived with Teng Fei, that was the sound he heard; he wore a faintly cold expression and kicked the stone house's wooden door with a foot.

Boom—

As the wooden door slammed to the ground, a string of curses immediately came from inside.

"Who says you have no eyes? Do you want to die?"

Teng Fei saw Chang Yue's mouth corner drop, felt a jolt in his heart, and hurried inside to scold.

"So it's Lord Teng Fei, how…"

"Lord Chang Yue, we didn't know you were coming?"

The two males, who had spoken to Teng Fei with teasing and relaxed tones, instantly stood up with panicked expressions the moment they saw Chang Yue.

"Tail!"

Teng Fei looked at the male on the left, still half‑beast, walked over and whispered a rebuke.

The male quickly withdrew his tail, reverting to two legs.

None of the three knew why Chang Yue had come this time; surely he wasn't interested in these females, right?

It should be noted that Lord Chang Yue, because of something in his childhood, despised outsider females.

Yet Chang Yue circled the females inside the house, his face sinking as he said, "Didn't you capture six females? Where's the seventh?"

"The remaining one is already Cha Li's female; when the person arrived here, he took her away."

The two guarding males dared not conceal it and quickly reported the whereabouts of that female.

Upon hearing that, Chang Yue slightly furrowed his brows but did not pursue the matter further.

After all, those females were captured by Cha Li's men; taking one away wouldn't be excessive.

But… looking at the two females who were terrified into faintness, the other three huddled messily together, their faces a blur of tears or snot.

Chang Yue disgustedly averted his gaze, but before leaving he instructed, "At least these females are to stay in the Tribe later; don't frighten everyone, take good care of them."

Hearing this, Teng Fei stared in surprise at Chang Yue's departing back.

Has Chang Yue suddenly changed his nature?

He, who always gave outsider females a cold shoulder, could now utter words about caring for them.

The two guarding males were even more baffled, "Lord Teng Fei, does Lord Chang Yue mean…"

That they should stop intimidating these females, and instead lure them with good food and drink?

Teng Fei glanced at the five females; though he pitied their plight, their contempt and disdain for the Snake Beastmen hardened his heart further.

"Since Chang Yue ordered it, you should obey him and also block the Tribe's single males from coming here for females."

Otherwise, after only a few days here, they'd be driven mad.

Teng Fei said that and then left as well.

The two guarding males stared at each other; fine, since Lord Chang Yue instructed, they needn't act so ferociously toward those females.

They are still single males; if they could take the chance to win over one of the females and form a Mate Bond, they'd become males with a female.

Elsewhere, a golden eagle swooped swiftly across the night sky above the Youbuluo.

Having been here before, Ji Xuan soon found a hidden spot to land, evading the Youbuluo patrol Beastmen's watch, and began searching for the whereabouts of the captured females.

But after more than two hours, Ji Xuan had found nothing; just as he was about to change direction, a sudden noise came from a remote corner of the Youbuluo.

His brows furrowed slightly, and he thought, "Damn, Mu Qing must have been discovered."

As the commotion inside the Youbuluo grew louder, Leng Xiu, who had been waiting for news, gazed at the distant flames and murmured softly:

"Was (he) discovered?"

Finishing his words, he transformed into a black wolf, leapt from the tree, and headed toward the Youbuluo.

……

"A Li, take a seat. Mu Qing and Ji Xuan are Blue Rank Beastmen; even if they were discovered in the Youbuluo, with their strength no one could stop them from getting out."

Leng Xiao had no way of knowing that Mu Qing and Leng Xiu went to the Youbuluo to check the situation, which would keep A Li up all night, standing guard.

"I know, but look at the time; they still haven't returned."

Yun Li said, sitting on a stone mound, watching Leng Xiao's unhurried demeanor, and couldn't help asking, "They went and still haven't come back; aren't you worried?"

Leng Xiao quickly denied, "I'm anxious, but isn't it that you'd become even more anxious if you saw it?"

Yun Li found it hard to believe him, but recalling his earlier words, it made sense; the Youbuluo only has a few Blue Rank Beastmen, and this time only two came, so the chance of trouble is low.

Being gone this long, they were probably just delayed by something.

But she couldn't see anyone, so she was a bit anxious.

"A Xiao, have you inquired about the males the Youbuluo released this afternoon?

Besides the Elder Clan Leader, is there an old Beastman who can read?"

If that literate old Beastman hasn't been returned, would the Silver Eagle Tribe still need to continue trading with the Youbuluo?

"No."

Leng Xiao frowned, "The males the Youbuluo sent back this afternoon include only one old Beastman, the so‑called Elder Clan Leader; the other males aren't old enough to be called that."

Only two of the males, though young, have already become world‑weary, and it's unclear what they experienced in the Youbuluo.

"No," Yun Li whispered, "Will the Silver Eagle Tribe still send females over?"

Leng Xiao, listening, twisted his brows, "Probably not; when the Youbuluo captured those females, although they deliberately avoided crowded places, someone still saw them."

Not to mention, they also released the Beast Husbands of those females.

That means the incident of the Silver Eagle Tribe's females being taken by the Youbuluo's Snake Beastmen will spread throughout Red Grass Valley tomorrow.

"If they hadn't deliberately avoided it, that would be strange."

Yun Li ponders what the Youbuluo's Snake Beastmen actually want to do.

"Is it because they don't trust the Silver Eagle Tribe to send the females over? Or are they afraid that the Silver Eagle Tribe, given the chance to send females, will strike at them?

So they strike first: not only do they seize the females without avoiding people, but after capturing them they flamboyantly send the Silver Eagle Tribe's elder clan chief back.

Not only can they tell the Silver Eagle Tribe that the initiative of this transaction is in their hands, but they also tear the Silver Eagle Tribe's shroud."

Yun Li understood those earlier words, but the later part—what initiative, what shroud—left Leng Xiao full of question marks.

"A Li, what were you just saying?"

Leng Xiao asked because he didn't understand.

Yun Li didn't hide her thoughts from him and said, "The Youbuluo is using this matter to scheme against the Silver Eagle Tribe; I reckon tomorrow someone will claim that the Silver Eagle Tribe, for the sake of its own tribe's males, sent the newly arrived females out."