12dz Chapter 331 I Disdain It!
Chapter 331 I Disdain It!
Li Miao nodded and accepted the energy fruit before heading to the kitchen.
Ruan Xiyue said to Duoduo, "Have the android beastmen wash the cubs clean before I let them out. They've been playing wildly for two hours and are covered in the stench of beasts; I can't stand it!"
Duoduo pouted and muttered, "Other beast mothers find their cubs smell delicious even if they stink. Host, you're so cold-hearted."
Ruan Xiyue rolled her eyes, too lazy to argue with Duoduo. Stinky is stinky, she wasn't going to use any self-deceiving filters!
After a busy day, Ruan Xiyue received the final results of the cubs' tests the next day.
The Spirit Fox Tribe and the Treasure-Seeking Rat Tribe truly live up to their reputation as large tribes. Their cubs are generally blue-tier and cyan-tier, and the two with green-tier and yellow-tier cubs are considered among the best of their kind.
The difference in foundation between the Cheetah Lion Tribe and the newly joined Fox Tribe is immediately apparent here.
They are generally purple and blue tiers, with the best being cyan and green tiers, but the cub is already seven years old, which is outside the age range that Ruan Xiyue is looking for.
Ruan Xiyue gave Qi Heng and Li Miao three questions to ask the cubs, and in the end, each of the two tribes selected fifteen cubs.
The house next to Ruan Xiyue's house, belonging to Cong Xian's mother, became vacant, and they moved into the newly built stone house.
The old house belonging to Xian'a's mother was left for Xuanjia and his group, along with thirty cubs from the Spirit Fox Tribe and the Treasure-Seeking Rat Tribe, to live in.
Because the twenty-five cubs from the cheetah lion tribe and the fox tribe play together during the day and can go home at night, the two-story stone villa is not crowded.
After upgrading, Duoduo will have the function of blocking the ancestral bloodline characteristics of cubs.
Therefore, Ruan Xiyue arranged for the thirty-six little cubs who were over one year old and had taken the Cub Intelligence Pill to start attending the cub daycare center together with the newly arrived little cubs.
Qi Heng, Li Miao, and Cong Xian were all somewhat surprised to see Qin Ying transform into an ordinary black panther.
That wasn't the worst part; what truly shocked them was that Long Niannian and Long Sisi had transformed into ordinary black and white little dragons.
Aside from Ruan Xiayi and Ruan An'an, who couldn't be released, the Fire-eyed Honey Badger Ruan Xiaqi, the Moon Leopard Ruan Qinsen, the Three-Tailed Spirit Cat Ruan Chenyi, the Spirit-eyed Iron-eating Beast Ruan Chenliang, and the Heterochromatic Spirit Cat Ruan Chenyan all transformed into ordinary cub forms, which truly made Qi Heng and the others' eyes widen like copper bells.
Xuanjia and the others talked to the little cubs about the terrain and customs for fifteen minutes, and then took out the toys that Ruan Xiyue had bought for 0-3 year old cubs in the system store.
There were also various jigsaw puzzles and building blocks that Qi Heng and the others helped make.
The guards standing by were incredibly envious of the little cubs.
They didn't have these kinds of fun things when they were kids! They could only silently swallow their grievances and envy.
The cubs are still getting used to each other. Besides Xuanjia and the other six, there are ten older females and males who are responsible for looking after the cubs.
They were responsible for making minced meat porridge, including lunch. However, they would come and collect the energy milk that Ruan Xiyue had prepared and add it to the stone pot for cooking the porridge.
The three little cubs with atavistic bloodlines in Ruan Xiyue's portable parenting paradise looked aggrieved and extremely envious.
Ruan Xiyue had no choice but to let the toddlers, who were less than a year old, play with the three of them.
Ruan Xiyue sighed: "Do you think they will develop a pure friendship, or will the little ones listen to their families and scheme against my little ones?"
Qi Heng and Li Miao pursed their lips. Li Miao scoffed lightly, "The oldest cubs you picked are only four years old. What can they remember? Even if the guards are orcs from two tribes, the cubs live next door to us."
"Besides, I just saw that our cubs seem to be smarter than the other cubs..."
As Li Miao spoke, he fell into deep thought.
Qi Heng frowned slightly: "It is somewhat obvious, but I hope these guards will observe slowly and not rush to report."
Ruan Xiyue frowned: "I don't think they're that smart either! Look at them! They're still competing with the other cubs to see who can bite their toes the longest... What kind of intelligence is that..."
While absorbing the beast core, Cong Xian said in a deep voice, "Didn't you notice? The oldest of our cubs is almost two years old, but they can play with three- or four-year-old cubs and even order other cubs around."
"It's becoming quite obvious."
Ruan Xiyue watched for a while longer, then waved her hand and said, "It's alright. They're smart, but they've done plenty of stupid things too. Eating each other's boogers is enough to make other beastmen overlook their intelligence."
Qi Heng couldn't help but defend his own: "But everyone grows up like this when they're little. This has nothing to do with intelligence, right?"
Ruan Xiyue suddenly turned her head and took a step back.
She held up a finger and wagged it: "Don't kiss me lately! I'll hate it!"
Li Miao and Cong Xian suddenly turned to look at Qi Heng, their lips pursed and teeth clenched.
Ruan Xiyue had barely begun her planning when she received a message from the guard captain.
Ruan Xiyue frowned slightly as she looked at the information on the animal skin scroll, lost in thought.
Cong Xian gently put his arm around Ruan Xiyue and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Ruan Xiyue handed the animal skin scroll to Cong Xian, gently stroking her belly: "The Black Dog Tribe and the Gibbon Tribe behind our tribe want to form a marriage alliance with me?"
Cong Xian shook his head: "Previously, we needed the help of the Black Dog Tribe and hoped they would send some orcs to help us build the Beast City. They proposed a marriage alliance."
"They only sent three thousand orcs to help."
Although Ruan Xiyue and her group's purpose in seeking a marriage alliance between the Black Dog Tribe and the Tanuki Tribe was not solely to accelerate the construction of the Beast City, they also harbored a separate ambition: to have either the Black Dog Tribe or the Tanuki Tribe join them, forming a three-way balance of power with the Spirit Fox Tribe and the Treasure-Seeking Rat Tribe, creating a divide-and-rule situation where each side could check and balance the others.
However, things are not the same as they used to be.
Ruan Xiyue nodded: "We should repay their kindness. When we meet over the bonfire, we'll have them bring two hundred females with low fertility. We'll make sure that more than half of their females can give birth to cubs!"
"As for the marriage alliance... let's think about it some more!"
Qi Heng first expressed his disagreement: "The Black Dog Tribe is relatively close to our Beast City. If we were to form a marriage alliance, let's forget about it! After all, they are nearby, and once our Beast City develops, they will definitely covet it and want to take it for themselves!"
Li Miao remained silent, staring intently at Ruan Xiyue. After a moment's thought, he said, "I heard that the chieftain of the Black Dog Tribe has a young son who is only six years old."
Ruan Xiyue raised an eyebrow: "You mean, you want my Ruan Ling to take a beast husband who's four years older than her? It's not impossible, but... let's think about it!"
Cong Xian pursed his lips: "That's not impossible, but... would little Ruan Ling agree?"
Ruan Xiyue shook her head: "She has big ambitions, but she's my daughter, and I can't let her suffer. If the cubs of the Black Dog Tribe are not good-looking or well-behaved, that won't do!"