What Are You Going to Do?

After the three finished breakfast, Batu, Hu Feng, and the others finally came over. Jianyue was still asleep, riding on Hu Chun's back in beast form.

Feng Rumeng looked at Jianyue for three seconds, and her mind automatically filled in the scene of their fierce battle the night before.

"Little Meng'er," Ling said, taking out a beast hide and wrapping it around her. It was time to set off.

Feng Rumeng came back to her senses. "Okay."

Ling transformed into his beast form, and Feng Rumeng climbed onto his back. The group set off again.

Although Hu Yun was in human form, he was no slower than Hu Feng. When they stopped to rest along the way, his breathing had not even changed.

It was spring, and the beastmen were all in heat. Adult males without mates were especially irritable.

Over the course of that day, Batu, Ling, and the others got into more than a dozen fights with beastmen they encountered along the way.

They also ran into a pack of vicious beasts that had just seized a rabbit-tribe female. If the beasts had not greedily tried to snatch Jianyue too, Ling and the others would not have bothered getting involved.

When they returned to the edge of the Fierce Tiger Tribe's territory that evening, Ling took Feng Rumeng to the hot spring.

The waterfall in the mountain stream roared as before, while steam blurred the figures of the two in the hot spring.

"Little Meng'er, did you know? Snake beastmen get more irritable during their heat than other beastmen, especially those like me who have already mated with their mates. If we aren't soothed every day, it becomes even more unbearable."

"Every day? Fine, every day it is." Feng Rumeng grinned wickedly. "Who's afraid of whom? Neither of us is allowed to call a stop tonight."

"All right, Little Meng'er. You said it..."

Three days later, Feng Rumeng woke up and saw Ling smiling beside her. She promptly gave him a kick. Ling caught her ankle and kissed the top of her foot. "So fragrant."

"Ling, let go of me," Feng Rumeng said, struggling a little.

With a tug, Ling pulled her and the beast hide into his arms. "No."

He kissed her until she had no strength left. Slumping in his arms, Feng Rumeng said coquettishly, "You're so annoying~"

Ling looked at her pouting cherry lips and could not resist kissing them again.

"I'm hungry."

Ling took out an Orange Crystal, held it in his mouth, and fed it to Feng Rumeng. "This will ease the discomfort for now. I'll go make food."

Feng Rumeng swallowed the crystal. "Ling, I want Baibai Beast ball soup."

"All right, Baibai Beast ball soup it is." Ling helped Feng Rumeng put on her clothes and shoes, and the two went to the stream.

Ling entered the water in beast form and flung ten plump fish onto the bank. Feng Rumeng bent to pick them up, but Ling stopped her. "Your male is here. You don't need to lift a finger. Just tell me what to do."

"Oh, all right. I'll listen to you." Feng Rumeng had never dreamed that, in another world, she would live a life where she only had to hold out her arms to be dressed and open her mouth to be fed.

Once Ling had cleaned the fish beasts, Feng Rumeng told him to remove the bones, mince the flesh into a paste, and mix in some grain flour. Once the water boiled, he was to squeeze the mixture straight into it in round balls.

Following her instructions, Ling quickly worked the fish into a fine paste with his beast claws.

Feng Rumeng spotted some sour fruit by the stream, picked two, and squeezed their juice into the pot. The tender white fish balls floated to the surface, and Ling sprinkled some coarse salt into the clay pot and added a few pieces of greens.

In the blink of an eye, a bowl of fish ball soup was held out in front of Feng Rumeng.

"Little Meng'er, have a taste." Ling looked at her expectantly.

He had always eaten his food raw before, and had only learned to roast meat a few days before he wanted to take a mate. He had never imagined there could be so many ways to eat food.

Feng Rumeng scooped up a ball with her spoon. "Wow~"

"Ling, this is exactly the taste. Try it." She scooped up another and fed it to him.

After they had both eaten their fill, Feng Rumeng asked Ling to make another bowl and put it into her space.

After washing the pot and bowls, the two were in no hurry to return to the tribe. Feng Rumeng said she wanted to walk off her meal, so Ling accompanied her on a stroll through the forest.

After walking for a while, they saw a few trees laden with green fruit. Feng Rumeng went over to them. The fruit had wrinkled skin, and each was as big as the rim of a bowl. "Ling, what is this fruit called? Is it poisonous?"

"It's sweet. I call it green fruit." Ling shifted into his half-beast form, picked one with the tip of his tail, washed it with water from his space, and handed it to Feng Rumeng.

Feng Rumeng took a small bite, and her eyes lit up. "This taste—it's an apple!"

Seeing that she liked it, Ling picked many more and put them into his space for his mate to eat at her leisure.

Feng Rumeng smiled sweetly and held the fruit to Ling's mouth. "I can't finish it myself. Don't waste it. It helps with digestion."

"All right." Ling ate from her hand, gazing at her with adoration in his purple eyes.

Feng Rumeng suggested, "Ling, let's look for something else after we finish eating."

"As you wish." Ling finished the fruit in a few bites and continued walking with her.

After picking some purple berries, they returned to the tribe. Outside Jianyue's cave, Feng Rumeng handed her a bowl of Baibai Beast balls.

Jianyue took the wooden bowl. "Rumeng, these little white balls look delicious."

"My mate made them," Feng Rumeng said to her, glancing at Ling. "Enjoy them. We're going back to our cave."

"Mm-hmm." Jianyue chewed a Baibai Beast ball and watched Rumeng walk away, her eyes growing warm. She had thought that after what happened with the Azure Rock Tribe and the Baibai Beast, Rumeng would grow distant from her, but she had not expected...

When the two passed Lina's cave, Lina stopped them. "Ugly female, what gives you the right to hog Ling?"

Ling's gaze turned cold, and Lina shrank back in fright, but she did not stop talking. "What's so good about this ugly female? She can't even bear offspring. You must be really desperate."

This idiot has her eye on my man? Feng Rumeng wore a disdainful expression. "I'm already this ugly, yet you're still so fixated on me. Just how little confidence do you have in yourself?"

Lina's eyes burned with anger. "Fixated on you? That face of yours, which even a Grunting Beast would shake its head at? I really don't know where you get your confidence."

"Then did you shake your head when you saw me?" Feng Rumeng mocked.

"As for my confidence, my mate gave it to me. Are you jealous? Even if you are, it's no use. My Ling is better-looking than your mate."

"You..." Lina stomped her feet in anger.

"'You' what? I, Feng Rumeng, will make this clear. I'm in a good mood today and don't feel like arguing with a stupid pig like you. If you come running at me like this again, I won't just use my mouth."

Feng Rumeng linked her arm through Ling's. "Let's go, sweetheart. Bothering with a bad female like her is beneath us."

Lina's chest heaved with anger. Glaring at Meng's retreating figure, she reached out to grab her shoulder. "Ugly female, did I say you could leave?"

Ling turned around, his fangs shooting out as his fierce purple eyes locked onto Lina.

Lina screamed in fright and collapsed to the ground. "Y-you, what are you going to do?"

Feng Rumeng glanced at the trembling Lina. "Serves you right." Then she left with Ling.

Lina's two mates returned from picking fruit for her outside and saw her sitting on the ground. They went over and helped her up. "Na, are you all right?"

Lina came out of her terror. That look in Ling's eyes—he really had meant to bite through her throat. Her voice broke into a sob. "It was Ling. He wanted to kill me."

The two exchanged looks. They felt sorry for Lina, but they would not rush to take revenge on Ling. The last time they had fought over prey, both of them had battled Ling together and still failed to gain the upper hand.

They did not have any cubs yet and could not take risks lightly.