Thriving in the Beast World
Chapter 680 - 684: Stealing the Cub

Chapter 680: Chapter 684: Stealing the Cub

Su Tang’s gaze swept the crowd and finally landed on an elderly female selling small wooden crafts.

She took out a bone coin from her purse and walked forward with Gaiyin.

The old woman was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a small dagger in hand and tirelessly carving a piece of wood.

A beast skin was spread in front of her, filled with all sorts of wooden trinkets, among which the statue of Long-eared beasts was the most vivid one.

Su Tang picked up a wooden block of a Long-eared beast and waved it in front of Gaiyin, "Ayin, Ayin, call me Little Tuji from now on~"

Gaiyin gave a sarcastic laugh.

Upon hearing the sound, the old woman paused her carving and looked up at Su Tang and Gaiyin.

But she said nothing and continued to carve the wood.

Su Tang also turned her eyes to the wood in her hand, which faintly took shape and seemed to be a coiled snake beast.

Su Tang curiously asked, "Grandma, how much for these things?"

The old woman stopped again, looked up at Su Tang with a gloomy face.

Her voice was hoarse, "five for a copper coin, choose whichever you like."

Su Tang pretended to pick four, her gaze fell on the unfinished wooden block in the old woman’s hand.

"Grandma, I like the one in your hand, give it to me after you finish carving it. I’ll pay you first."

Saying that, she placed the bone coin behind a slightly larger wooden carving its sight blocked from other stalls but clearly visible to the old woman.

As expected.

The hand holding the dagger paused.

She looked up at Su Tang, then said in a hoarse voice, "I don’t have change for you."

Su Tang gave a light smile, "No need for change, I really like your craftsmanship, it should look good in my house."

The old woman seemed unwilling to take advantage of Su Tang. She said indifferently, "Then take everything from my stand."

Su Tang looked at Gaiyin, scratching her hair awkwardly.

This old lady was tough to chat with.

Even so, she had to ask the question.

As if nonchalantly, Su Tang asked, "Oh right, grandma, did anything big happen in the Kingdom recently? I remember it wasn’t like this when we last visited."

The old woman lowered her head as if she didn’t hear Su Tang’s words, engrossed in the carving.

Su Tang waited for a while but received no response. She asked in a lower voice, "Grandma?"

As soon as her words fell, the old woman suddenly raised her head, her emotionless face startling Su Tang!

The old woman opened her palm. Inside was a finished snake beast ornament.

After Su Tang took the ornament, she asked again expectantly, "Grandma, can you tell me?"

The old woman bent down to pack up her stuff. After that, she stood up and brushed the dust off her beast skin pants.

"Take everything from the stand. I don’t know anything and don’t come looking for me again."

With that, she took her things and left.

Su Tang sadly piled all these wooden ornaments together and wrapped them in beast skin.

Qiu Mo walked over, "How was it? Did you get any information?"

Su Tang shook her head helplessly, "No, how about you?"

Qiu Mo grimaced, "The same for us. What is going on? As soon as we brought up the matter, the Beastmen here seemed to be very resistant, but they dared not speak up and chased us away furiously."

Su Tang sighed, staring thoughtfully at the figure of the old woman who had just left.

Seeing the figure about to disappear, she suggested, "I think that grandma knows something. Why not follow her? Maybe she didn’t divulge anything earlier because there were too many people. We can ask her again."

No one objected.

So they chased in the direction of the old woman.

Although here in the inner city, the way she went was quite secluded and almost reached the outer city.

The further out they went, the more dilapidated the houses were. Su Tang saw many houses with large holes in the roofs, some had collapsed walls, while others only had two walls left.

The outer surface of these broken houses were all pitch black, as if they had been burned by a great fire.

It was all ruins, debris, and dead branches. Had it not been known that this was the Ten Thousands Beast Country, Su Tang might have thought it was a small village ravaged by bandits.

No one could have imagined that the edge of the inner city would look like this.

By the time they got here, they had lost sight of the old woman.

Not wanting to give up so easily, they aimlessly continued to search.

As they were walking, suddenly they heard a fierce argument and the wail of a cub.

Su Tang startled, she suddenly asked, "Have you seen any cubs since you arrived here?"

At her question, the others also frowned.

That’s right.

Since they arrived in the inner city, besides feeling that the citizens were strange, they also noticed that they had not seen a single cub in this huge city state!

Everyone exchanged glances, and saw a deep meaning in each other’s eyes.

The next second, they all ran towards the sound of the cub’s cry.

From a distance, Su Tang saw a group of beast soldiers in armor surrounding a house. One of them was holding a cub that was struggling violently, while two others were preventing a beastwoman from coming out of the house.

The cub’s screams were heartbreaking, "Nanny! Nanny, save me, waa~ Nanny!"

The beast soldier who was holding the cub must have been annoyed by the crying and slapped its buttock, "Shut up, be quiet!"

The cub struggled violently, "Nanny! I want Nanny!"

The beastwoman in the house didn’t care about the beast soldiers blocking her and tried her best to get out.

But her power was no match for the two beast soldiers, she cried out in despair and cursed.

"Si Zai, my cub, don’t be afraid, nanny is coming to save you! You will be punished by the Beast God, you thieves! Stealing someone’s cub, you will all die miserably! Die miserably!!"

Su Tang looked at Gaiyin in surprise.

Wasn’t this the voice of the old woman who sold them wooden ornaments just now?

Although they didn’t understand what was going on, but judging from the scene, it seemed that a group of beast soldiers was robbing a cub.

How could this be tolerated?

Su Tang tapped on Gaiyin’s arm, "Quick, Ayin, help save the cub for Grandmother!"

Gaiyin nodded, he rushed over, followed closely by Yadang and Xi’en.

Under the crush of superpower levels, they easily subdued the three beast soldiers.