Previous life

Ten years later, autumn.

"Hurry up! Today is the orc awakening ceremony, and we can see the high priest. If you are slow, you will miss the good position in front!!"

"Wait for me! I haven't finished the meat pie yet!" The small orc ran forward quickly, holding a piece of fried meat pie that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside and filled with the aroma of meat.

Not far away, a group of orcs dressed in black walked by, holding long swords in their hands and walking with their backs straight.

The two orcs who were chasing each other stopped and looked at the black-clad guards passing by with great admiration and envy. "Captain Maocao is so powerful. I heard that the sword in his hand was forged by Captain Shen Yi himself."

The orc holding the meat pie took a big bite of the meat pie before he ran away. His mouth was full of oil. He chewed the fragrant meat pie and said contentedly: "My meat pie is also made in the iron pot forged by Captain Shen Yi himself. It's delicious!"

Another little orc snorted upon hearing this: "You only care about eating! I won't wait for you!"

Shen Nong stood on the platform, looking at the bustling crowd below. Ten years later, the Mu tribe had grown into a city with countless residents. The platform he stood on was also much higher than before, and most of the one-story brick houses in the city had become two- or three-story reinforced concrete houses because of the steel bars.

During these ten years, Shen Nong felt increasingly powerful, and at the same time, he had more and more fragments of memories about his past life.

Shen Nong's current strength covers the entire city, and it is no problem for the orcs to awaken them. Some orcs don't have time to come to the high platform, so they just need to wait in their homes.

The green glow of the fireflies floats throughout the city, creating a beautiful sight.

The orc awakening ceremony was very quick. In previous years, Shen Nong did not feel any pain after such a huge energy consumption. But this year, for some reason, he felt dizzy after the ceremony. Ze, who was standing at the bottom of the platform, noticed that Shen Nong was not in a good state and stepped onto the platform.

When Shen Nong saw who was coming, he leaned his head into Ze's arms and fainted.

When he regained consciousness again, Shen Nong found that the scene in front of him had completely changed. He was very sure that he was not in the Mu tribe at this time.

The two-story buildings were all turned into thatched houses, and the surrounding trees were tall and green. Butterflies and bees fluttered their wings around the flowers, and some even landed on them.

His body seemed to be out of his control. When he saw a blue butterfly, he couldn't help but pounce on it.

The blue butterfly was also very alert. When it sensed the danger, it flapped its wings and flew away quickly.

"Tsk, I didn't catch him again."

Shen Nong didn't say anything, but he could hear "himself" sighing in disappointment. However, this voice was clearer and more cheerful, not exactly the same as his current voice. It sounded more like he was seventeen or eighteen years old.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a slender figure. Shen Nong felt the anticipation and joy in his heart, "Choose!"

Shen Nong heard himself being called like this.

Then a young man with a handsome face appeared in the sight, but the air pressure around him was as low as winter.

"I heard that you killed a tiger by yourself during this hunt?" Shen Nong looked at Ze with a stern face. He couldn't control his hand and actually raised it to poke the other person's face. The next second, the man's fierce eyes fell on him.

He had never seen Ze look at him like this before. He was stunned for a moment, but felt familiar for no reason. The next second he heard his own teasing voice, "Why are you looking at me? I saved your life, can't I poke your face?"

Ze frowned, as if he was having some psychological struggle. Shen Nong saw that he looked like he was going to die, and felt a little strange. Just when he was about to be kind and not tease this little wooden boy today, his wrist was caught by the other party.

Obviously, the two men are about the same age, and the other man is even thinner than him, but somehow he is very strong. Shen Nong subconsciously struggled to break free but found that his wrist did not move at all.

He used his other hand to pry out Shen Nong's index finger and put Shen Nong's fingertips on his face.

"Here, you, poke." Ze's voice was a little hoarse, and he spoke word by word, as if he had just learned to speak.

Shen Nong looked at the young Ze holding up his hand with a firm and serious face to let him poke his face, and laughed in his heart. Seeing now, he also knew that this was the memory of his previous life.

The next morning, Shen Nong opened the door of his thatched house and found a long, round bamboo tube on the ground. The bamboo tube was covered with leaves and wrapped with grass. The leaves were also pierced with several holes by small branches. Shen Nong picked up the bamboo tube and shook it gently to listen. There was a sound of wings flapping in the bamboo tube.

It doesn't look like a bee. I wonder who put a moth in a bamboo tube to scare him. Did they think he would be afraid?

Shen Nong tore the leaves apart, and nearly twenty blue butterflies flew out of the bamboo tube in an instant. They flew into the air and drew a beautiful and mysterious blue line.

Shen Nong seemed to see a familiar figure behind the blue line. Their eyes met as the butterflies fluttered, and Shen Nong heard the sound of his own heartbeat quickening.

He clenched the bamboo tube in his hand, turned around with a flushed face and went into the thatched hut.

"Look! Blue butterflies! So many blue butterflies!"

"Who is this orc? Why did he catch so many blue butterflies to court a mate? Catching a blue butterfly means spending a mating season together. He caught so many at once. Are they preparing to form a mate?"

Ze, who was not far away, heard the orcs' discussion and froze in place. He asked with some difficulty: "Blue, butterfly, is, please, me?"

The orc who was surprised to see who caught so many blue butterflies replied, "You just came to our tribe, so it's normal that you don't know. Every autumn in our tribe, we have a rule of catching blue butterflies to court a mate. We give them to the orc we like. One butterfly means we can live in a thatched hut for a winter and a spring and have pups together."

After listening to this, Ze forgot to react and stood blankly in front of Shen Nong's door.

Shen Nong paced back and forth in his thatched hut, telling himself that Ze did not do it on purpose. He had just arrived in the tribe and did not know the tribe's rules.

The heat on his face gradually subsided. Shen Nong lay on his wooden bed, thinking about the time when he found Ze on the mountain in the summer. At that time, Ze was covered with wounds and curled up behind a big rock. It had rained heavily the night before, and he was soaked and then dried by the sun, and his whole body was hot.

Shen Nong was the only one among the candidates for the tribe's priests who had awakened his supernatural powers. He was the tribe's next priest, but he didn't control his supernatural powers very well. He wanted to use his healing ability to heal the dying boy, but he ended up tying him up before he could use the correct ability.

After the rescue, they found out that the boy's tribe was exterminated and he was the only one who escaped. He had no parents since he was born, so an elder from the tribe took him back to the cave to raise him. But the elder died after three winters. The boy had no name, and no orcs in the tribe had spoken to him before, let alone given him a name.

Shen Nong looked at the boy's beautiful eyes that showed a fierce look that kept strangers away, and said with a smile: "The priest said a few days ago that he sensed a few more characters. I think there is one that sounds particularly good, called Ze. You should be called Ze from now on!"

The fierce light in the boy's eyes instantly disappeared, and he kept repeating in a low voice, "Choose, choose, choose..."

…

The Mu tribe where Shen Nong lives is green in the three seasons except for the white snow in winter.

Winter is cold, and most of the beastmen spend the winter in pairs in their thatched huts. Shen concentrated in his animal skin, and the image of blue butterflies flying out would appear in his mind from time to time.

Ze was in his thatched hut, and he felt hot all over. This feeling was very strange, and he had never experienced it before. For some reason, Ze's mind was full of Shen Nong's appearance. He wanted to see Shen Nong very much, and this thought made his body even hotter.

Shen Nong was sleeping soundly when he heard the urgent knock on the door. He got out of bed wrapped in animal skin and opened the door. He didn't know who was not staying in the thatched hut in the middle of winter and came to him.

As soon as the door opened, Shen Nong felt a heavy weight on his body. The wind and snow outside the door poured in. Shen Nong shivered with cold, and regardless of the person lying on him, he reached out to the door. With a "pop" sound, Ze took a step back with Shen Nong. Shen Nong moved forward and pressed the person directly against the door. His posture at this time looked like he was throwing himself into the other person's arms.

Shen Nong was confused for a moment, then he immediately stood up, but he didn't expect that Ze grabbed his waist and pulled him forward, and he fell heavily into his arms again.

"You, let go!" Shen Nong's voice trembled a little. He struggled to get up, ruffled the animal skin on Ze's body, touched his hot skin, and then realized that something was wrong with Ze.

Shen Nong looked up and saw Ze's face flushed and his eyes blurred, staring at him without blinking. Shen Nong knew exactly what was wrong with Ze. The orcs were originally weak, and they would go into estrus in the first two years after awakening. The estrus period could not be fixed.

When I first met Ze, he was thinner than a rabbit. In his original tribe, he had no parents and was always bullied. Even after coming to their tribe, he could hunt prey every time, but this could not change the fact that Ze was an orc who awakened when he was weak.

Shen Nong was actually afraid when facing the beastman in heat. He didn't know what the beastman would do without reason. He felt a warm and moist touch on his cheek. Ze had been rubbing his face against Shen Nong, imitating the beastman's expression of love, and would occasionally lick his face.

Shen Nong was not as strong as the orcs, and his ability was still weak, so he could not move trees in winter. He could only let people hold him. Shen Nong could not tell what his emotions were, but he was sure that he did not reject the choice.

When Ze accidentally touched Shen Nong's soft lips, he subconsciously pressed his lips against them. Shen Nong froze in place, blinking his eyes, his long eyelashes scratching Ze's itch, Ze turned to kiss Shen Nong's eyes, Shen Nong closed his eyes reflexively, feeling the warm touch on his eyelids.

Shen Nong was lying on the ground, and the animal skin he had been wearing had already been pressed under him. Ze pressed him down with his whole body, making him unable to move. His cheeks and neck were all kissed by him non-stop.

The body had already shown strange reactions, and he didn't know how to do it, and the kissing movements became a little heavier. As a candidate for the priest, Shen Nong had been taught by the priest. The priest had shown him the pattern drawn on the wood, and he roughly knew what to do next.

His face was flushed, his lips were glistening with water, he slowly bent his knees and touched her. But he was inexperienced after all, so he used a little too much force. The pain gave Ze a brief moment of clarity.

When he saw the face of the person he was holding, he froze in place like a wooden sculpture. He had forgotten even the pain, his brows were tightly knitted, and his face was a little pale.

Shen Nong knew that Ze had regained his sanity, and when he thought about what he had just done, he felt a little embarrassed. But he was still being held down and couldn't move, so he could only turn his head away, bit his lower lip, and said nothing.

There were bright red marks on the white and tender neck, and Ze knew without thinking that it was his own doing. It was winter now, and the animal skin on Shen Nong's body was torn into pieces. Ze stood up silently, wrapped the person tightly with the large animal skin on the ground, and carried him horizontally to the wooden bed.

Then he took another look at the wooden bed, as if he was worried, and he started to tear off most of his skin until he completely took it off. Shen Nong listened to the sound of the skin being taken off and couldn't help but be startled. Was Ze awake or not?

He suddenly felt a weight on his body, so Ze covered Shen Nong with his animal skin and stuffed him back and forth. The man was wrapped like a silkworm.

Shen Nong turned his head and saw Ze's back, which was a little thin but full of muscles and still very powerful.

The door opened and then closed. Shen Nong lay on the wooden bed, staring at the ceiling.

For a long time, the orcs have always pursued their other half bravely if they like them, and they would do it if it is feasible and not pursue it if it is not feasible.

Shen Nong had never known the feeling of being in love before, and he had never thought that he would like Ze. He just felt that Ze was different from the other orcs in the tribe. Ze was very good-looking, but he was always fierce. He was fierce to everyone, as if he wanted others to be afraid of him and not dare to bully him easily.

He was also fierce to him, but in a different way. Even though Ze would look at him fiercely, he would obey whatever he wanted to do to Ze.

Shen Nong always thought Ze was very interesting and wanted to see him and tease him every day.

He had never realized before today that this feeling was love.

On the other side, Ze also fell into deep thought.

He stood shirtless in front of Shen Nong's door for a long time, paying attention to the movements inside.

He knew that he liked Shen Nong, very much. Shen Nong saved him, gave him a name, and always talked to him and played with him.

This was something he had never experienced before.

Every time he saw Shen Nong, all his unhappiness would disappear. He wanted to stay by Shen Nong's side, protect him, and keep him from getting hurt.

But he injured Shen Nong today.

The red mark on Shen Nong's neck was dazzling, as if it was imprinted in Ze's mind. He injured Shen Nong's neck and let Shen Nong be frozen in winter.

He shouldn't be like this...

Shen Nong didn't know what Ze was thinking, he only knew that most of the winter had passed and he hadn't seen Ze again. However, there were always some newly shot rabbits in front of the door from time to time, proving that Ze had been watching him in the dark.

Ze didn't want to hide, but after that experience, that strange feeling always appeared. Every time it appeared, he missed Shen Nong very much, and was afraid of hurting Shen Nong again like last time, so Ze hid in the mountains.

After the strange feeling disappeared, he searched the mountain for hibernating prey, and when he caught any, he went down the mountain to deliver them to Shen Nong.

Shen Nong knew that Ze was deliberately avoiding him, and he felt very depressed. He didn't like this empty feeling in his heart, so he had to stop Ze and ask him clearly whether he liked him or not. Anyway, he had to have an answer.

Tianze had several eggs in his arms, which he had spent a long time digging out of the chicken coop to get. They were delicious when boiled in water. Although he had never eaten them, the beastmen who had eaten them said they were delicious.

He wanted Shen Nong to try it.

The late night in winter was colder than the day. Ze stepped on the snow, making a crackling sound. He walked to Shen Nong's thatched cottage as if he knew the way there. He bent down and was about to put the eggs in the snow when he heard the door open.

Shen Nong shivered in the cold wind, and Ze quickly stepped forward to block the wind and snow, "It's cold, go back."

Shen Nong refused to do so. He stared at Ze with his dark eyes and said bluntly, "You gave me so many blue butterflies, so do you want to live with me in the future?"

The usually clear and bright voice was trembling now. After asking, Shen Nong's eyes began to wander, and he dared not look directly at Ze. He was in a state of anxiety, expecting an answer but also afraid of it.

Ze understood what Shen Nong meant and was stunned. He never dared to think that someone as bright as the sun like Shen Nong would be willing to be with him.

"want."

Ze spoke this word with extraordinary firmness and solemnity.