Are you afraid of me?

Tudong and the medical team helped the women out of the cave. They were covered in mud and dirt. Some of them had messy hair like dead grass, while others had sticky hair that stuck to their scalps and cheeks in wisps.

Hot water has been prepared since the time of the cannibals. Tudong took out the powdered pills from the pottery jar, dropped one into each pottery basin, and stirred the water in the basin with his hands to speed up the dissolution of the pills.

This is an external anthelmintic, and its main function is to kill lice.

When Shen Nong first arrived at the Mu tribe, every orc had lice on their bodies, and the orcs could only rely on scratching each other's lice to make themselves less itchy.

At that time, Shen Nong himself had been bitten by lice on his legs and arms several times. Everyone around him had lice on their bodies, and he had no way to hide. Fortunately, there were no lice in his hair.

Later, the mall could exchange for internal and external anthelmintics, and they were very cheap. They were not exchanged by the pill, but by the kilogram. One infrastructure point could be exchanged for one kilogram. Shen Nong exchanged a bunch without hesitation and distributed them to the orcs of the Wood Tribe for internal and external anthelmintics.

Because the orcs have always eaten meat and the environment is poor, after the medical team was established, Shen Nong also exchanged a lot of them to release to Tudong.

The oral medication is distributed to the tribal orcs once a month, and the external medication is for the orcs to get it themselves. Whoever has lice can go to Tudong to get it.

Nowadays, there are almost no lice on the people of the Mu tribe, and Shen Nong has long forgotten about this thing.

We met again today, and these cannibal women had a lot of lice on their bodies, so many that you could see them jumping up and down in their hair with the naked eye, so they had to be cleaned simply.

After checking the system instructions, Shen Nong confirmed that pregnant women can use external products to eliminate lice, but they cannot take oral anthelmintics, so they can only wait and see.

After checking that the women had no wounds on their heads, the orcs from the medical team began to wash their hair.

These eighteen women had the same expression on their faces from the moment the people of the Mu tribe discovered them, to the time they were brought out of the cave, and now to the time they were forced to wash their hair - fear.

Because they were pregnant, they couldn't bend down, so Tu Dong asked them to sit on rocks. The medical team worked in pairs, one holding a pottery basin and the other standing to wash the women's hair.

The clear water in the ceramic basin quickly turned turbid, and when it was finally poured out, there was a thin layer of black sand-like substance at the bottom.

The women's heads were wrapped in soft, dry animal skins. They finally revealed a second expression besides fear: confusion.

Just as the eighteen women had washed their hair, the orcs from the Wood Tribe found ten pregnant women in another remote cave of the cannibals.

Shen Nong rubbed his eyebrows and followed his tribesmen to check the situation.

When we got there, we found that three of the pregnant women had given birth not long ago, but their stomachs had not yet shrunk after giving birth.

I don’t know if it’s because of their strong orc blood, but these three babies are still alive even though their breathing is weak.

When the women were helped out by the medical team, Shen Nong glanced into the cave. The sun was shining brightly outside and the cave was not particularly large, so the situation inside the cave could be seen at a glance.

The place was filthy and smelly. The blood from childbirth was nowhere to be found, soaked in the dark mud, and only some sharp stones still had traces. Shen Nong's eyes traced the shape of the stone, guessing that it was used by women to cut the umbilical cord after childbirth.

However, no trace of the umbilical cord or placenta was found in the entire cave.

Shen Nong's brows slightly raised, unwilling to think about it.

The orcs of the Wood Tribe conducted a carpet search of all the caves of the cannibals. Apart from the twenty-five pregnant women, the three who had just given birth, and the fifteen women who were not pregnant.

It is not accurate to say that they are not pregnant. Shen Nong's special ability can sense the new breath of life in six of the women.

It should be because she just got pregnant and her belly hasn't shown up yet.

Shen Nong asked the medical team to pay more attention to the conditions of the six women. They were less than three months pregnant and the fetuses were very unstable.

Finally, the search was over. Although the orcs of the Wood Tribe didn't feel tired, they were very hungry. While the medical team was washing the women's hair, they all started to cook broth, not forgetting to cook some for the cannibal women as well.

The aroma of meat soon spread. The cannibal women had never smelled this scent before. Some of them were washing their hair and didn't care whether the potion would slip into their eyes. They just raised their heads and looked for the source of the meat smell.

If the medical team had not been quick to wipe away the water that slid onto their foreheads with animal skins, these people's eyes would have suffered a lot.

More and more women were attracted by the fragrance. The orcs in the medical team were already accustomed to the smell of the broth and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

But they can also understand these people's feelings, because when they first ate the broth, they also wanted to taste it immediately.

"Don't worry, everyone will have something to eat after we finish washing their hair." After comforting the women, the medical team moved much faster.

These women are very thin, and the children in their tribe are stronger than the women in front of them.

The orcs in the medical team had also experienced the hard days of hunger and cold. They knew how uncomfortable it felt to be hungry, and they wanted to let the cannibal women drink the hot broth as soon as possible.

"If you want to drink the broth sooner, I won't straighten your tangled hair here." The orc from the medical team held the tangled hair in his hands and suggested, "I'll just use a bone knife to cut it for you. The bone knives in our tribe are sharpened from the bones of giant beasts and are very fast."

The cannibal women, who had no extra emotions about their hair, strongly agreed with this proposal. Their stomachs, which were already aching from hunger, hurt even more when they smelled the smell.

The bone knives of the Wood Tribe were indeed sharp. A cannibal woman said, "Then you should cut them all off for me, otherwise my head will be very hot and uncomfortable in the summer."

"good."

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When Shen Nong raised his head, what caught his eye was the cannibal women's hair that looked as if it had been chewed by dogs.

No matter how sharp the bone knife is, it can't trim the hair neatly. So everyone can only have strange hairstyles with bald spots here and there. Shen Nong quickly retracted his gaze. After the ironmaking team is established, he must make a pair of scissors.

The cannibal women finally drank the broth. They had never eaten such tender meat before. In the past, the men in the tribe were afraid that they would have too much strength after eating and would become disobedient, so they always gave them the meat that they themselves were unwilling to eat.

They couldn't describe what the broth tasted like, but if they were asked to die after drinking it, they would be willing to do so.

Amid the sounds of slurping soup and chewing meat, the sudden exclamation sounded particularly harsh.

"No! Don't let my child eat meat! She doesn't eat meat! She doesn't want to eat it!" The thin and frail cannibal woman who was screaming not to feed her child meat, somehow got the strength from somewhere and snatched the baby directly from the arms of the orcs from the medical team.

Not only that, the other two cannibal women who had given birth also rushed forward to snatch the babies, refusing to let them have a single sip of the broth.

The orcs from the medical team had to persuade them: "If they don't eat, they will starve to death. Do you want to watch your children starve to death?"

Originally, he thought that these words would be able to convince the three women to hand over the babies to them to feed them with broth, but who knew that the three women shook their heads together, and looked like they would rather starve the babies to death than give them a sip of broth.

"What's going on?" Shen Nong put down his bowl and came to check after hearing the movement. Under Shen Nong's gaze, the orcs from the medical team couldn't help but clench the pottery spoon in their hands and explained nervously, "Priest, those three children will starve to death if they don't drink the broth, but they won't let us feed them..."

The orc who answered was relatively young. Shen Nong saw that he was too tense, so he smiled and comforted him, "Relax, I don't blame you."

The orc heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and was no longer as nervous as before. However, this was his first time being so close to the priest, and he could not completely get rid of the nervousness.

Shen Nong didn't look at the little orc again. His eyes swept over the three cannibal women one by one. Although his gaze was not gentle, it was not sharp either. But even so, the three women were frightened and fell directly to the ground.

Fortunately, they held their children tightly and did not fall.

Shen Nong looked at their actions and asked in confusion: "Are you afraid of me?"

The three of them lowered their heads, their bodies trembling visibly, the answer was obvious. Shen Nong was now wondering if his facial features were not as gentle as before after coming to the beast world, and even became much more ferocious, otherwise why would one by one be so scared when seeing him?

The three babies were in very bad condition. Just as the orcs from the medical team said, they would starve to death if they didn't eat something.

Shen Nong could probably understand why these three cannibal women would rather let their children starve to death than let them drink the broth.

Judging from the background of the beast world that I learned from the system before, the cannibals are a relatively special tribe.

This tribe is made up of orcs who cannot transform into human form, and the reason they cannot transform into human form is because they eat humans.

As long as orcs eat the flesh of their own kind, they can no longer transform. However, the orc blood in their bodies still exists and will be passed on to the next generation. But the orc blood in their next generation will not be as pure as that of other orcs, and after awakening, they will be much weaker than orcs of the same level.

Moreover, this blood impurity will accumulate from generation to generation. If the cannibalism is stopped after five generations, the orc blood in the cannibal orcs will completely disappear due to too many impurities, and the offspring will not have orc blood.

However, only Shen Nong himself knew the information that the bloodline would disappear completely. According to the system, the cannibal beastmen in various regions now do not have the brains to discover and summarize this law.

He picked up the ceramic bowl and slowly approached the three women. He was afraid that they would lose their temper if he got too close, so he stopped one meter away from them. "This is beef soup made from cow meat, not human meat."

Shen Nong deliberately lowered his voice. His voice was originally clear and non-aggressive, and now it sounded more like a gurgling stream. The three women obviously listened to his words and were secretly looking at the pottery bowl in his hand.

Shen Nong also took the opportunity to push the ceramic bowl forward so that they could see it more clearly, and continued to guide them, "Smell it carefully, the smell is different."

In fact, they couldn't be sure whether this smell was the smell of human meat, but the meat they had eaten before was dirty and smelly, and the broth in front of them smelled particularly good, which made the three of them begin to relax.

Shen Nong waited patiently, not in a hurry. The broth in front of him was even more fragrant. This was undoubtedly a torture and the ultimate temptation for someone who had been extremely hungry.

After a swallowing sound, the woman who first snatched the child asked softly, "If I drink the broth, will I be locked in a cave and keep giving birth to children?"

This question was a bit confusing, but Shen Nong understood what the other party was trying to say. He could not guarantee that these three baby girls would be able to become orc warriors in the future, because he did not know which generation these three baby girls were from.

"Whether they can become orc warriors or not, I can guarantee that they will not be locked up in caves and give birth to children endlessly." Shen Nong's voice was clear and every word struck the hearts of not only these three women, but also other pregnant cannibal women. "They will be the same as all the orcs in the tribe, no different at all."

Some of these women were originally cannibals, and some were kidnapped from various tribes by cannibals and force-fed the flesh of meat men, so that they could no longer transform.

The female orcs who were abducted knew that in other tribes, only the ability of the orcs was considered. In the cannibal tribe, because they could not transform, the female orcs were much weaker than the male orcs and could not participate in the unique "hunting" of the cannibal tribe.

Therefore, the only function of cannibal women is to give birth to children for men.

For fear that they would run away, they were locked up in remote caves and given minimal food, so that they always had no strength.

The three women who had snatched the child were previously snatched back from other tribes by the cannibals. After hearing what Shen Nong said, they couldn't help but think of their time in the previous tribe, and their noses began to sour.

"Let the children eat quickly." The three babies had really reached their limit. After Shen Nong said this, the three women did not refuse again.

After making sure that the three babies would not starve to death, Shen Nong breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the skinny appearance of these female orcs. It would take some time to raise them and feed them with breast milk. The babies could not drink meat soup all the time.

He remembered that there were a few ewes in the flock that were still in the lactation period, so Shen Nong called Shen San over and asked him to go back and milk the sheep. When they returned, they could just cook it.

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Marginal tribe.

The Fire Ceremony of the Cliff Tribe was about to begin. Fox Tree had said that Rabbit Wind could take two orcs with him. Rabbit Wind had learned from his experience in the Flower Tribe and did not take any orcs of a high level with him. He only planned to take Cat Grass with him.

Although Maocao was only level three, he was agile and fast after transforming. Even if he wanted to catch Maocao, it would take some effort. If something really happened, even if he couldn't beat him, he would definitely be able to run away with Maocao's speed.

However, Lu Shui said that he wanted to go to the vicinity of the Yai Tribe to see if there were any suitable herbs to pick, and Tu Feng also knew that this was the habit of their medical team.

When they were on the road before, Lu Shui would look around for any useful herbs during his rest time.

Tufeng nodded in agreement. "But after you go to the Cliff Tribe, you can't run out to pick herbs by yourself. You have to wait until I talk to the tribe leaders and priests about the matter. Then, Maocao and I will follow you, and then you can go to pick herbs."

Lu Shui thought Tu Feng would refuse, but after hearing the other party's agreement, he promised again and again, "I will definitely not run around, and will follow the captain and Mao Cao closely."