My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 31 Cursed Land

Only then did Linni notice that Yao really did have a mark on his left arm with his own female pattern. She took out two animal skin belts from the pocket of her sweatpants under her animal skin skirt (because it was uncomfortable to move around in just the skirt, she always wore her sweatpants as leggings underneath) and tied them on Yao and Ye's left arms. Although the eagle beastmen should have seen them, it was better to tie them on just in case.

After the eagle beastmen finished inspecting the area, they returned and found Linni and the others. They seemed a little surprised to see Bai Shu and Bai Ji and said, "It's you?"

Linni looked at them curiously: "Do you know Atractylodes macrocephala and Bletilla striata?"

The eagle-orc looked at the two white tigers, one unconscious and the other injured, nodded, and said nothing.

Together they set the strange valley ablaze, then retreated to a hillside. They would wait until the fire had burned down enough to ensure it wouldn't start a forest fire before leaving.

The three eagle beastmen were all tall and thin. "Thin" was relative; they were about the same height as Yao, around 1.9 meters, the kind of men who looked lean in clothes but muscular underneath. However, compared to Yao and Ye, they appeared quite thin. One of the eagle beastmen, who looked more mature, was named Rui, and he was already in a relationship. The other, who wasn't yet in a relationship, was named Can, and he resembled Yan somewhat. They said they were born from the same litter. Lin Ni glanced at Yao, whose muscles were very well-defined and whose bearing was handsome and upright. "Hmm," she thought, "no wonder he's the man I fell for at first sight." Compared to Ye, who was nearly two meters tall, broad-shouldered, and as imposing as a small mountain, Yao was much more to her liking. Moreover, he was not only the only beastman on the beastman continent who could speak Mandarin, but also her first man. Lin Ni unconsciously took his arm and stayed close to him.

Yao reached out and patted her head, tidying up her stray hairs. Ye watched their interaction, clenching her fist in slight jealousy, but now was clearly not the time to be jealous, so she turned to the three eagle-beastmen and asked, "Now tell me, what's going on here?"

Yan said, "We call places like this the Cursed Land. I don't know when the Cursed Land started appearing in these towering mountains, but I do know that one or two of these places are born every year. First, the plants in that place wither, and then those strange, blood-sucking red flowers slowly grow. After they bloom, the beasts that enter the Cursed Land will mutate. Their eyes turn red, and they emit black energy. They devour each other, and then they break through the limits of beasts and grow into intermediate-level ferocious beasts."

The eagle-beastman Can continued, "We are eagle-beastmen from the tiger-beast tribe. More than ten years ago, the chieftain of the tiger-beast tribe came to the Ten Thousand Cliffs for help, which is why our father beast came to the towering mountains. Over the years, our father beast has been patrolling the towering mountains. If it discovers a newly born cursed land, the high-ranking beastmen in our tribe will come out to eliminate it."

The eagle-orc Rui, who had already formed a mate, added, "In the past, only one level-six ferocious beast had appeared in the Cursed Lands; most were level-five. I never expected there to be three level-six beasts here."

Night: "If that's the case, perhaps there's a possibility that higher-level ferocious beasts will appear in the future?"

This conjecture silenced the three eagle-beastmen. Rui said, "By the Beast God, it seems the situation is getting more and more serious. I need to go back to the tribe chief as soon as possible and tell him about the situation here. We've never found any cursed places in the Ten Thousand Cliffs before, but we found two this time. I wonder if there are any in the Rainforest Swamp Kingdom and the Vast North Sea!"

The eagle-beastman Can nodded, then looked at Yan together.

Yan turned around and asked Lin Ni, "Lin, where are you going with your luggage?"

Linni smiled and replied, "Actually, we want to go to the Tiger Beast Tribe now."

Yan said with delight, "That's great! Let's set off together! If you sit on my back and fly back, it will only take a few days. If you walk on your own, it might take twenty or thirty days, and the journey is fraught with danger."

Ye also thought about the situation on the way, and the various problems those two silly tigers had encountered. If it weren't for them, none of this would have happened. But Lin Ni couldn't bear to leave them. Now, some were injured, and others were dizzy, making things even more troublesome. And then there was the mysterious Yao, who actually offered to protect her. She had never seen such a man before. Lin Ni couldn't bear to abandon even the silly tigers, let alone her first companions. She nodded and said, "Sure, but can you fit us on your backs?"

These black eagles weren't very large; two humanoid figures could barely sit together. The problem was the two white tigers.

Rui glanced at the two white tigers with a complicated expression and said, "These two white tigers are our clan chief's cubs. Let's take them back with us."

Linni exclaimed with delight, "That's wonderful, thank you so much!"

While waiting for the fire that burned the cursed land to die down, the group found a water source and went hunting for food. Of the three eagle-beastmen, only Can was level five, while Rui and Yan were level six. In the autumn when prey was plentiful, they easily caught several large goats. While Bai Shu was skinning and gutting the goats, Bai Ji finally woke up. It shook its head, seemingly unharmed, and Bai Shu happily ran around it twice.

The three eagle-beastmen watched as Ye and the two white tigers gathered firewood, built a stove, cut the gutted goat into small pieces, went to find fruit, and boiled water with a strange thing (a stainless steel lunchbox). After all this busy work, they couldn't help but sigh: It's really not easy to raise this delicate little female!

Then Yan looked at the man named Yao, who was Lin's first partner, but he looked as weak as a male who had just successfully transformed into human form.

Yao helped Lin Ni wash her water glass and folding knife, then asked directly, "Lin, is there anything I can help you with?"

Linni noticed that he had been speaking the language of the orc continent instead of Mandarin in front of Ye, so she guessed that he probably wanted to integrate into their lives as soon as possible. So she readily handed him a folding knife and said, "Can you help me slice the meat into thin slices?"

“Thin slices, how thin would be appropriate?” Yao gestured with the folding knife.

Linni looked around and pointed to the lunchbox, saying, "It should be about the same size as this box." Then, worried that he wouldn't be able to cut it that thin, she quickly added, "It's okay if it's a little thicker."

"I understand." Yao smiled and nodded, then focused on cutting the meat.

Yan leaned closer and asked, "What about me? I also want to do something for Lin."

Linni: I feel like I have nothing to do.

Ye Guo said, "Go and make a big stone basin, boil some water in it, Lin loves taking hot baths the most."

Yan happily said, "Okay, no problem!"

"Night!" Lin Ni blushed slightly. How could she possibly trouble a man she barely knew to do something like heating up bathwater?

"I'm happy to be able to help Lin." Yan's voice came from afar, and he had already transformed into a black eagle and flown away.