Chapter 11 Companion
[System: Host, this mission is a side quest, with only 5 attributes, do you want to take it? ]

Ah Yao was still working hard to make a stove out of mud. He answered without hesitation, "Yes, I will do it if there is a task. I will take any amount."

[System: This mission is called a long journey. Sister Yao needs to leave this place and go to a tribe to help them through their difficulties.]

You cannot bring cubs of other tribes into the tribe. It is very dangerous and can easily cause discord among the people in the tribe. A Yao cannot bring the rattlesnake and the snow leopard cub with him.

It was spring, and the snow leopard and rattlesnake were playing happily on the side. Black Deer was still standing beside A Yao in a serious manner, looking at the strange-shaped clay sculptures she had made.

A Yao looked a little gloomy, but no one noticed.

The girl leaned towards the black deer and said to him in a very small voice: "Would you like to accompany me back to the tiger tribe?"

Black Deer nodded and said to A Yao very seriously: "Of course I am willing. It is spring now. I am sure someone in the tribe will be happy if you return."

A Yao knew that she would inevitably be criticized when she returned to the Tiger Tribe. She killed the Tiger Tribe leader with her own hands. Although no one knew about this except Rattlesnake and it would not be leaked, the fact that such a great tribe leader disappeared while looking for his wife would definitely be gossiped about.

[System: Sister Yao, you have raised this cub for such a long time, and you just threw it here? ]

"Some things have to be faced sooner or later, don't they?"

At this time, the rattlesnake and the snow leopard had returned. Baichuan had grown a lot after hibernating and shed his skin. He had grown from a small snake as thick as a water pipe to as thick as a bowl. A Yao saw that Baichuan had returned with the body of a little snow leopard, and began to teach him carefully again.

"Baichuan, you can't play with this little leopard like this. You have to be careful. When you bring him back, just let him run with you. There's no need to tie him up."

The rattlesnake stuck out its forked tongue and said in confusion: "Sister, how come this little brother is even more useless than me? It's not that I have to tie him up and bring him back, it's that he was playing outside and didn't want to go home, so..."

A Yao stretched out his muddy palm and gently patted the rattlesnake's snout.

"Okay, I know you don't have much patience, Baichuan. It's really not easy to take care of your brother. Put it down, or you'll strangle it to death in a moment."

Rattlesnake put the snow leopard on the ground obediently. This troublesome little brother did not forget to breathe at Shirakawa with bared teeth. He must be unhappy.

A Yao put the mud on his hands on the snow leopard's clean fur. Cats all like cleanliness, so he kept reaching up to the snow leopard's neck to lick it.

Look, it's not a big deal. Just try another way to play with the kid. But there's no way that hot-tempered little bastard like Baichuan can learn it.

at night
A Yao didn't have any belongings or food to take with her, so she left all the spoils of her hunt to the two little guys. Taking advantage of the bitterly cold night and the absence of anyone, she took the black deer on a long journey.

There were always monkeys in the monkey forest staring at them with ill intentions. The black deer was extremely powerful. It only needed to release its black energy to silence the forest.

The girl's body rose and fell, and every time she jumped from the ground, she would create a strong breeze. The black deer followed leisurely behind her. After a while, A Yao might have been tired from running, so he stood there and rested.

Black Deer saw beads of sweat on her full forehead and said to her, "Ayao, how about I take you with me? I can walk faster."

A Yao thought of the huge body of the black elk and shook his head. If he used the body to carry himself, he would probably scare away another tide of beasts. It happened to be spring now and the animals were sleeping soundly in the forest. It was estimated that once the black elk made a move, the territory within hundreds of miles would suffer.

She couldn't possibly destroy the body just to save some distance, right?
The girl burst out laughing and replied to Black Deer, "Not really, I just need to take a rest. It's not a big deal anyway, no need to rush."

Ah Yao took out the wild fruits he had picked while on the road, picked a relatively clean one and threw it to the black deer. The black deer had gotten used to Ah Yao always giving him these fruits to send him off, so he ate them silently. The fruit was sour and bitter, making his lips and teeth numb. The berry was picked just when it was a little pink, so how could it not be sour!

A Yao was willing to watch the black deer eating the fruit with its teeth bared, but his peripheral vision was actually always on the man.

[System: Host, you have quite a few bad tastes. I've told you that the herbivorous beasts here also eat meat. You feed him some wild fruits every day and watch him twist his face like the word "囧" for fun.]

"Silly Tongzi, you don't understand. I am trying to hone his will. You say that life has become like this, but he still follows me. He must have other intentions. He is not a good person. I deserve to bully him."

[System: Ah, yes, yes, yes, the host has always been a beautiful woman with extraordinary wisdom. She is a woman who will do great things in the future.]

After two days of traveling, A Yao still felt bored and annoyed, and he didn't say a single word. He didn't know whether the black deer was made of iron or not.

Finally they arrived at the tiger tribe. When the several sturdy male guards smelled the familiar scent on her, they ran to the tribe in joy and shouted, "Ayao is back! Ayao is back!"

Fortunately, the parents of this body of A Yao had passed away long ago, and she was raised by other female tigers who took turns. Otherwise, Zhou Yao would really not be able to bring herself to call her parents, who were unfamiliar to her and had never raised her, "dad and mom."

A Yao saw an elderly tiger orc running towards him in a hurry, his face full of wrinkles, looking very old.

"Yao girl, you've found us so well. It must have been hard for you to be out there these years. Come, Uncle Rong will give you the wild rabbit that you loved to eat when you were a child. Take it and eat it."

Before A Yao could refuse the old man's words, he saw a female with a stern face walking towards him, followed by two relatively strong men. The female was proudly holding up her big belly, as if she was showing off.

"Father, I'm pregnant now, so I deserve to eat more. How can you give the food you hunted to outsiders? I haven't even eaten it."

A Yao agreed with what the female said. This tribe did not look very wealthy. The beastmen wore clothes made of leaves, barely covering their key parts. Some of the simple folks just lay on the ground and rolled around, rubbing their white bellies against their backs. Although it was not smelly, the tiger tribe all had a strong smell of blood. The current tribe was not very hygienic and the smell was a bit irritating.

The girl stared at the woman's belly, took out a handful of dried meat from the snakeskin bag on her waist and handed it to Uncle Rong.

She smiled with her fangs bared, not disliking Rong Bo's kindness towards her.

"These are all the dried meats I have left over from the winter. I'm giving them to my sister. She's pregnant now, so uncle should take better care of her health."

The female's eyes widened when she saw the dried meat. She had never thought that the cowardly A Yao would be so considerate of her. The deep brown animal eyes couldn't help but look at her a few more times. It was spring now, and A Yao was wearing a long coat made of unknown material. Although it was a little dirty, it still looked very warm. Only then did she realize that there was a handsome man standing behind the girl. He was wearing a black robe and looked unruly and aloof, with an aura that was very arrogant.

"Sister Yao, is this your husband? He looks very strong."

A Yao could only lie to both sides. She told Hei Lu that she was very strong in the tiger tribe, but females without partners could not borrow supernatural powers, so their strength could be imagined. This group of tigers knew A Yao's past very well, so she could only use Hei Lu as a shield.

The girl's fair hand reached out to Black Deer's arm and introduced him happily, "This is my partner. Don't underestimate him because he's a herbivorous beastman. He's very powerful. You can call him Black Deer."

Anyway, only high-level orcs can smell whether a female is marked or not, so A Yao is not afraid of being exposed.

The girl secretly pinched Heilu's taut lower back and said without moving her lips, "Smile quickly and continue the show with me."

(End of this chapter)