First Arrival at the White Tiger Tribe

Hu Yu hurried over, patted Feng Rumeng's cheek and called softly, "Little female, wake up. You..."

Feng Rumeng didn't respond.

Hu Yu frowned. The little female must have been starving to eat the wild fruit animals eat. Poor little female, she has so many injuries too. This may be the edge of Sunset Forest, but it isn't entirely safe.

Hu Yu swept her up in his powerful right arm. I'd better take her back to the tribe and have Witch Doctor Aima look at her. As a male tiger beastman, I would never leave any female alone in the forest.

A flash of white light shone, and the next instant, a giant tiger with greenish-black stripes and a white forehead appeared. It grasped Feng Rumeng's arm with its paw and tossed her onto its back, then curled its furry tail around her slender waist and settled her securely there.

Tree shadows flickered past. After a long run, a tall stone wall appeared ahead, with a huge, fan-shaped mountain range behind it.

Outside the Fierce Tiger Tribe's gates, two tiger beastmen in the watchtower spotted Hu Yu carrying an injured female on his back. They called out while he was still some distance away,

"Hu Yu, who's that on your back? Did you pick up a wandering female?"

"Hu Yu, how did that female get so badly hurt? Did you rescue her from a savage beast?"

Hu Yu skidded to a halt and turned human. "The little female is unconscious. I'm taking her to the witch doctor."

Before he had finished speaking, he was already running into the tribe with Feng Rumeng in his arms.

The ground inside the tribe was broad and flat. Beastmen stood about in twos and threes, and some who saw Hu Yu carrying a female craned their necks to look.

At Witch Doctor Aima's cave, Hu Yu climbed the stone steps and strode inside on his long legs. "Witch Doctor Aima, hurry and take a look at the little female," he said anxiously.

Aima was squatting at the back of the cave, pounding medicine. "Put her down. Let me see."

Hu Yu did as she said, laying Feng Rumeng on the stone bed. Aima came over, looked at Feng Rumeng and sighed with pity. "What a poor little female cub. How did she get so badly hurt? Oh, she's been poisoned too!"

Hu Yu looked at Aima and asked in concern, "Will the little female die?"

Aima glanced sideways at him. "She won't die, but this poison won't be easy to cure. I'll brew some medicine for her first. Go ask the chief what arrangements to make for the little female."

Hu Yu nodded. "I'll go right now."

Three days later, the bright cave entrance was reflected in Feng Rumeng's eyes.

After looking at it for a while, her eyes grew sore. She pulled the animal hide over her head and hid beneath it, crying softly.

She cried for a long time, until her eyes were somewhat swollen.

As she wiped away her tears, she found that her face was numb and swollen.

She took a mirror out of her space and looked at her face, covered in pustules and as black as if it had just been smeared with shoe polish. So ugly and disgusting. This time I look even more like a pig's head than a pig's head.

She remembered that after she fell from the bushes, the wound on her back had started itching and hurting again. In those circumstances, she hadn't had a chance to disinfect it.

Feng Rumeng put the mirror away and sat up. She found that her wounds had all been coated with a thick green medicinal paste, and the scratches on her back had been properly bandaged. She murmured, "There are still more good people in the world."

Feng Rumeng lifted the animal hide and got off the stone bed, looking at the animal-hide bandeau and short skirt she was wearing.

"Wh-what kind of outfit is this? Stick a few feathers in my hair and paint a few streaks on my face, and wouldn't I be a bona fide primitive native?"

She swept a glance around the cave. It was very clean, as clean as if it had been ransacked. Apart from an extinguished fire, there was nothing in it.

Feng Rumeng rubbed her thighs together. Who had changed her clothes? And why was she going commando? It was so drafty.

She picked up the animal-hide blanket and wrapped it around herself. The temperature wasn't suited to wearing so little, either.

While she was grumbling, a tall woman came around the cave entrance.

She had flowing orange hair that reached her waist, with colorful feathers tucked in on both sides. She held several red, egg-shaped fruits in her hands. The granaries on her chest were especially well stocked, and they bounced tremendously as she walked.

Smiling, Jianyue greeted her. "You're awake."

Feng Rumeng tore her eyes away from that conspicuous pair and replied, "Hello."

Jianyue came closer and handed her a red fruit. "You're not well yet, so don't walk around. Have some fruit."

Feng Rumeng nodded and accepted it. "Thank you."

Jianyue put the remaining fruit at the head of the bed. "Which tribe are you a female from? How did you end up alone in the forest?"

She sat on the edge of the bed and patted the spot beside her. "Come sit down!"

Did she just say female too? Female... When that hyena had spoken human words, she had also wondered whether she was no longer in her original world.

Feng Rumeng's thoughts went through countless twists and turns as she sat down beside Jianyue. Though she had read plenty of beast world novels, and they were sweet, not everyone liked transmigrating.

She liked her old life, and she still had a great grudge to avenge.

Clinging to her last shred of hope, Feng Rumeng said, "Sister, what is this place? Is that handsome guy with blue eyes your husband?

"Could you take me to a nearby town? I'll pay you accordingly."

Jianyue blinked her orange eyes. "Little female, what are you talking about? What are a town and a husband? Could you be from Beast City?"

Feng Rumeng's brain completely crashed. She didn't like a beast world that didn't even have toilet paper or water heaters.

Her experiences over the past two months had taught her just how dangerous the beast world could be.

In the conversation that followed, Meng had no choice but to pretend she had lost her memory in order to draw information out of Jianyue. Jianyue didn't suspect a thing and vividly told her all about the forest.

As Feng Rumeng listened, she either turned pale with shock or clutched her head in despair.

Watching her strange movements, Jianyue grew a little worried. "Rumeng, should I take you to the witch doctor?"

Feng Rumeng smiled awkwardly. "There's no need. I just haven't rested well. I'll be fine after another sleep."

Jianyue looked at her, somewhat puzzled. "Really?"

Feng Rumeng said earnestly, "I'm really fine. Don't worry."

When the light at the cave entrance turned golden, Jianyue got up to leave, telling her to take good care of her injuries so she could attend the Mate-Seeking Gathering in seven days.

Feng Rumeng leaned against the cave entrance and looked at this unfamiliar place. So she had already been in the beast world when she woke up.

She had naively thought someone had deliberately dumped her deep in the mountains and forests, and that as long as she walked out of the forest, she could return to her city.

Now her sky had fallen.

She had never heard of anyone being able to return after transmigrating.

Feng Rumeng looked at the fox mark on her abdomen. She had never dreamed she would lose her most precious thing right at the start.

She walked back into the cave, picked up a red fruit and bit into it fiercely, sorting through what she had learned from Jianyue.

This was the Giant Fang Continent of the beastman world, and she was in the Fierce Tiger Tribe, the most powerful tribe in Sunset Forest.

Females were scarce in the beast world, and one female would mate with multiple males, much like the settings in the novels she had read.

Because females had no beast forms, their mortality rate was extremely high. But after taking mates, they could absorb beast crystals to strengthen their bodies.

Moreover, the stronger their beast husbands were, the stronger the females' bodies would grow from their nourishment. Some females would even awaken special abilities.

Once they reached the fourth tier, they could also transform into beast form like males. Females who reached the fifth tier were called holy females and could choose any powerful, unmated males in their own tribe.

In this beast world, males liked strong, voluptuous females. That was a symbol of health and strong fertility.

Feng Rumeng strongly suspected that the fox beastman had found her too skinny, regretted mating with her and pulled on his animal hide and run off.

What was different here were the four seasons: each season lasted six months, and a full year was twenty-four months. Females here chose at least three beast husbands on the day they came of age.

Before they turned twenty, they had to choose at least six beast husbands, or the Beast God would punish them.

Jianyue couldn't say exactly what the punishment was. She said males were only too eager for a female to take them as beast husbands.

Feng Rumeng thought that she was already twenty-one this year, and she had transmigrated bodily. Surely that rule wouldn't apply to her, someone from another world.

Jianyue had also said that if she wanted to stay in the Fierce Tiger Tribe permanently, she had to take a beastman from the tribe as a mate.

Otherwise, when the flower season came-spring-she would be sent to the Flower Pig Tribe in an exchange of females.