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

Chapter 161 Resolutely Moving Forward (End of Volume 2)

Unlike the southwestern border of the towering mountains, which is largely devoid of tribes and orcs, the southeastern border between Wanren Stone Cliffs and the Rainforest Swamp is home to a massive tribe. These are orcs who don't hibernate, and they have spontaneously gathered together. This has shifted the border southward considerably, and it's from there that grains originated. To prevent wandering orcs from the Rainforest Swamp from causing trouble, Wanren Stone Cliffs has established a large tribe there—the Eagle Beast Tribe. Another level-nine orc from Wanren Stone Cliffs lives there permanently. Furthermore, every year during the dry season, all the tribes of Wanren Stone Cliffs send a certain number of orcs to the Eagle Beast Tribe for defensive duties, returning only when their own tribe's orcs arrive the following year. It's similar to military service in modern society—a year-long, mandatory service, though some desert. Therefore, the number of wandering orcs in Wanren Stone Cliffs is steadily increasing. Some, like those in the rainforest, couldn't find partners or lost their partners; some were deserters; and others had run away from the rainforest.

However, most of the wandering orcs who manage to snatch a female from the Ten Thousand Cliffs will still try to live a good life with her, if reality allows it—but reality generally doesn't allow it. We're all wandering orcs, so why should you be able to snatch a female and live a good life with her? It's definitely not allowed. Either we all live together, or I'll snatch your female too—that's just how reality is.

Unless they are as strong as Ye was back then, and choose to hide or leave the Ten Thousand Cliffs, the towering mountains are the safest place they know of at the moment.

As for the vast North Sea, one reason is that there is no contact with it, and another reason is that the vast North Sea is full of water and small islands. How would land-dwelling orcs live there? Therefore, very few people go to the vast North Sea.

The orcs of the Eagle Beast Tribe could only take Linni and her group to the large, mixed-dwelling tribe in the Rainforest Swamp. However, Da Jin offered another solution: "Perhaps you can wait until my partner lays an eagle egg, and then I will accompany you to the Rainforest Swamp? With three level nine flying orcs, plus the orcs of the Eagle Beast Tribe, we will definitely get you safely to the guardian stone tablet in the east."

Linni looked at Sang's belly, which was already five months along like a pregnant woman in the human world, and said to Sang, "Sang, you should be giving birth soon, right?"

Sang smiled and nodded, saying, "I'll be giving birth in twenty days, and I don't even know how many eggs are inside."

Yao said, "There are three, and they are all healthy, so don't worry."

Upon hearing this, Sang happily patted her belly, a kind smile on her face, and said, "Really? That's wonderful!"

Linni certainly couldn't let Da Jin, whose wife was about to give birth, accompany her to the Rainforest Swamp, even if she gave birth in twenty days. She couldn't let him leave his wife and child immediately. So she said to Da Jin, "Thank you for your kindness, but you should stay with Sang in the Eagle Beast Tribe while she prepares for childbirth. You don't need to come with me to the Rainforest Swamp." After saying that, she looked at Da Jin with some hesitation and asked, "With so many strong people here going with us, can't you guarantee my safety?"

Da Jin glanced at Lin Ni and her group: one level eight orc and five level nine orcs. He thought for a moment before saying, "I haven't heard how many level nine orcs there are over there. I just considered that wandering orcs like to travel in groups. You are all very strong, so in theory there shouldn't be any problem, but six males are really too few. If there were more than a dozen males, the safety would be much greater."

Sang said, "Why don't you find a few companions in our Eagle Beast Tribe to go with you? They can carry you there and have more males to take care of you! You have far too few companions. A young and beautiful female like you should find more now. You are even an envoy of the Beast God! You wouldn't be worthy of your status if you didn't have at least twenty or thirty companions!"

Linni: "Thank you, no need!" Twenty or thirty more? I can't even handle these four! Linni suddenly remembered what she learned about the origin of the Cursed Land from the Tiger Beast Tribe, and asked in confusion, "Isn't it said that forcing females will turn them into ferocious beasts? Why are there so many males vying for females?"

The men exchanged glances for a while before Da Jin's companion said, "This saying comes from the towering mountains, but we've never seen any beastmen turn into ferocious beasts because of it at Wanren Stone Cliff. However, we beastmen of Wanren Stone Cliff believe this rumor. So, we've heard that those cunning wandering beastmen will lock up the females they kidnap, and after a while, most of them will willingly stay with them. That shouldn't be considered coercion, right?"

So this isn't coercion? They snatched me home, locked me up, and then forced me to "mate" with them to avoid starvation—that's not coercion?! What kind of logic is that? They're real bandits! It seems that if I didn't have so many powerful people around me, I would have been forcibly kept in that vulture tribe! Those orcs don't look like good orcs at all.

Lin Ni's expression must have been quite unpleasant after thinking about all this, so the eagle-beastman who had spoken awkwardly explained, "These things were done by those despicable wandering beastmen, especially those from the rainforest. The beastmen in our eagle-beast tribe are all good beastmen. We would never steal females. We would only treat them well and formally ask them for mates."

Linni glanced at the eagle-beastman, then at Ye: He was the kind of person who would treat a female well and live a good life with her after taking her away! Ye knew she was thinking about how he had dragged her away from the water, so he smiled ingratiatingly at Linni. Linni didn't want to talk to him, so she rolled her eyes at him.

Linni considered sending it, and finally said to Da Jin, "Chief Da Jin, we would also like to trouble the Eagle Beast Tribe to send three flying beastmen to the Eagle Beast Tribe on the border. We will go there to find out the situation and then decide on our next steps."

"Okay, no problem." Da Jin nodded and went to make the arrangements.

Although Linni asked Da Jin to send three flying beastmen to take them, Da Jin still arranged for four males—Lan, Guang, and Luo—who had picked them up, as well as a single beastman named Su, to serve as their flying mounts.

Yao glanced at Luo and Su, the two single beastmen, and said to Da Jin, "Our Lin is going to the Rainforest Swamp Kingdom to complete the mission entrusted to her by the Beast God. If these single beastmen delay the Beast God's affairs, can they bear the responsibility?"

Da Jin's expression changed, and he turned to Luo and Su, saying, "During the time you escort the Beast God's envoy to the Eagle Beast Tribe, you are not allowed to ask her for a mate, nor are you allowed to speak to Lin alone, unless she takes the initiative to approach you, understand?"

Luo and Su, the two single orcs, solemnly replied, "Understood."

Since they had all said so, Yao didn't object anymore. So the group of eleven left the territory of the Eagle Beast Tribe and flew eastward.

Lin Ni sat on the back of the giant phoenix that Yao had transformed into, facing the sunrise in the east, heading northeast. She didn't know what awaited her ahead, but she would continue to move forward with determination.

Regardless of the twists and turns of her journey to the Myriad Cliffs, Linni had gained a great deal: her two snake babies were born safely; Yao regained his beast form; Bai and Yan both reached level nine; they also learned the secrets of the Beastman Continent, awakened and activated the guardian stone tablet, and cleared the cursed land of the Myriad Cliffs. Most importantly, she found a clue to return home! In fact, she had already exceeded her expectations for this trip.

However, things did not go perfectly; Feng's passing was a great regret for her during this trip.

So, is it really impossible for life to be perfect?