I Live on the Land in Global Games
Chapter 595 - 578: Negotiations

Chapter 595: Chapter 578: Negotiations

"That’s no ordinary cub, she can transform into so many powerful beasts, and her recovery is so strong, it’s just that she probably hadn’t fought much before, so at first, although she had a strong body, she couldn’t use it well. Now, after fighting with us for a while, she has slowly corrected that. Give it some more time, and we might really not be able to handle her!"

"Sigh, what do we do! Tomorrow, I’m afraid it will take eight teams to stop her, and even with eight teams, who knows how long they can hold her off."

...

The "King" character on Taiger’s forehead was all wrinkled up; their tribe had never encountered such a tough opponent before.

Unable to kill her, they could only watch her slowly get stronger and pose a threat to them.

"Tomorrow, we’ll leave eight teams to guard the tribe and draw her attention, while the others pretend to leave for hunting. Later, when she turns into a leopard and her energy drops somewhat, we’ll sneak back and encircle her, trying to capture her this time! If that doesn’t work, we’ll prepare to relocate again!"

This was the only viable plan Taiger could think of.

The next day, Mu Ying faced eight Beastman squads, and when she couldn’t hold in her previous animal shapes, she transformed into a leopard.

Normally, she would leave when about half of her energy in leopard form was depleted.

But today, unusually, she continued to fight on.

Taiger, leading his tribesmen, crept closer to the tribe, ready to strike her a fierce blow when she was about to flee. The lower her energy during her retreat, the more advantageous it was for them.

However, just when they saw a glimpse of victory as she was running out of energy and they burst out from the forest, she instantly shifted back to human form and, riding on a bizarre-looking staff, flew up into the sky.

Taiger and his men had leaped at nothing.

Mu Ying had actually sensed their approach long before and had been on guard.

Her Perception had breached 20, achieving Extraordinary Perception, which meant unless someone could attack her instantly from miles away, it was impossible to ambush her; she would always detect it beforehand.

But hadn’t the Beastmen given up on attacking her actively? Why had they suddenly gone through so much trouble to attack her again? Mu Ying was still somewhat puzzled.

But seeing the demoralized look of the Beastmen below as she flew into the sky, she suddenly realized something.

What would make fierce tigers turn into dejected kittens? It must be her persistent Kingly Aura conquering them.

Using amplification magic, she said, "If you can’t hold on, just surrender honestly, and from now on, follow my orders, and I guarantee your entire tribe will eat their fill every day!"

She should not have mentioned eating. As soon as she did, the Tiger Clan Beastmen all looked up at her, their eyes filled with deep sorrow.

A Beastman couldn’t help but say, "How dare you talk about letting us eat our fill, ever since you come disrupting our hunting daily, we haven’t had a full meal in a whole month, my little ones are at the age where they need to grow and you’ve starved them skinny!"

Mu Ying: "..."

She felt like she was now playing the role of a major villain who had done too much evil.

And upon closer inspection, these Beastmen did indeed look thinner than when she had first seen them, their bellies all sunken in. It seemed quite excessive.

She awkwardly coughed and said, "Actually, I just wanted to teach you a way to have enough food without hunting every day. Before, you didn’t take my words seriously. Hearing that you revered strength, I kept coming to challenge you."

By now, the Beastmen no longer looked down on her at all and began to think seriously about what she had said.

"Not hunt and still have enough to eat? Are you serious?" Taiger asked.

Seeing there was a chance, Mu Ying immediately affirmed, "Of course!"

She deftly proposed a compromise, "How about this? You send twenty elderly Beastmen with me to the wilderness outside the forest to learn for a month. During this time, I’ll provide all their food. They can return to the tribe at night if they wish, but they must at least spend the days with me in the wilderness learning. After a month, you should understand my sincerity. If you agree, I can ensure you all have enough food starting now, and I won’t come to challenge anymore!"

From her observations over this period, the elderly Beastmen of the Tiger Clan Tribe rarely went out hunting; they generally took on the role of teaching the Little Beastmen and building the tribe.

Sending just twenty elderly Beastmen should be something they would be willing to try.

Taiger genuinely believed that Mu Ying wasn’t trying to exterminate them; if she had wanted to kill them, she wouldn’t have held back during their previous fights.

They fought with life-and-death fierceness, but she did not, and so far, she hadn’t caused them irreversible damage.

However, he didn’t believe her when she said she just wanted to teach them. What benefit would teaching them have for her?

Could all the natives of this place be as absurdly kind-hearted as the Rabbit Clan Beastmen?

Taiger wasn’t one for beating around the bush. With doubts in mind, he directly asked, "What’s your real purpose? Just to teach us? What do you gain from teaching us?"

"I am a Druid. Do you know what Druids are?" Mu Ying realized from their puzzled expressions that they did not know, not knowing what secluded place they had migrated from.

"To put it simply, we Druids are people who gain strength by maintaining the natural environment.

Your Beastmen recklessly slaughter wild animals in the field and devour plants without understanding sustainable development; such behavior, if continued over time, causes great harm to nature.

Unrestrained taking will eventually render this land as barren as the wilderness you brought with you when you migrated. As a Druid, by stopping such actions, I gain power from nature’s feedback. That’s my purpose.

Our elders say that you are capable of being educated; it’s just that you have never had the opportunity to learn, which is why you still maintain such a primitive way of living. Once I teach you to be self-sufficient, you won’t harm the environment as much, which is why I came to teach you.

In fact, I want to educate not just you, but all Beastman Tribes that have migrated to Deep Blue Star. You are just the beginning."

Mu Ying spoke earnestly and convincingly.

But most Beastmen did not understand at all.

With their limited education and isolation from outside news, the only things they had learned within the tribe since childhood were the Beastman Language and hunting; at most, the older ones learned a bit about building the tribe. They had no idea what a Druid was, what Mu Ying referred to as ’nature’, or why their actions could turn a fertile land into a barren wilderness.

Because their lifespan was limited, similar to that of ordinary humans, such a transformation would take hundreds to thousands of years. Moreover, constantly migrating, they were even less aware of these changes.

Although they couldn’t understand the complex causes and effects explained by Mu Ying, they grasped one thing—that by teaching them, Mu Ying would gain strength and become stronger!