activa-t Chapter 218 You still refuse to accept us?
Chapter 218 You still refuse to accept us?
Everyone was packing their things, and Ye also took Ye Yin and Ye Qing out of their backpacks and put them in a corner to keep watch.
Bai asked, "Lin, tell us about what happened that day, starting from when you fell into the hole."
So everyone looked at Linni, waiting for her to speak.
While eating peaches, Lin Ni gave a brief talk to everyone. Since the danger had passed, she just wanted to keep it simple and focus on her plan to become partners with Tian Tian. She planned to wait for Tian Tian to bring back the partnership gift, and then she, Tian Tian, and A Zhi would worship the Beast God together. She would first become partners with A Zhi, and then Tian Tian could become partners with him later when he reached level seven, just like Yan did.
No one objected to Tian Tian joining them. Tian Tian seemed like an obedient person. In the past, when everyone was weaker, the requirements for strength were higher. Now that there are three or four level nines, it doesn't matter as long as he's not too weak. Besides, it was made clear at the Beast Carving Tribe that they didn't mind if Lin Ni had two more partners.
Night and White had no objections, but Xuan and Ling did! How come they could accept the level six black and white bears, but not them, who were level nine? Are cold-blooded beastmen really that bad?
Ling took Lin Ni's hand: "Lin, please accept us too."
Lin Ni pulled her hand away from Ling's and looked down at Ye Yin and Ye Qing, who were circling around her feet. They no longer tried to circle around her feet (mainly because Ye Qing would snatch them away every time they did); they were like the circles Sun Wukong drew for Tang Sanzang, circling around her feet. Lin Ni squatted down and touched the two small snakes. She felt a little guilty; it seemed like two days had passed since the incident, and she hadn't even thought about them. She looked up at Ling again and said, "You two... let me think about it some more."
Ling asked, utterly dejected, "Lin, you still don't want to accept us?"
Ye pushed them out: "We've been apart for so long, so don't bother us. You can stay with Sheng and the others for now." Then she blocked the door.
Lin Ni teased the two little snakes for a while with her head down, then said to Yao, "Yao, is there any more meat? I'll feed Xiao Yin and Xiao Qing some."
Yao cut off a piece of meat from the prey that Lin Ni didn't like to eat and handed it to Ye. Ye took the meat, tore it into small pieces, and had Lin Ni feed it to the two small snakes.
After talking for a while, the sun began to set.
Lin Ni went to change her clothes. She had been wearing the same outfit for several days, and after such a bad thing had happened, she originally wanted to throw it away. However, she was reluctant to part with it because it was sewn with Yao's hair. So she asked Yao to put it away first, since the snakeskin clothes didn't take up much space.
After Linni dressed herself up beautifully and changed into new shoes, everyone went to the next room to call Sheng and the others to head to the Bear Beast Tribe's council hall. They didn't bring Ye Yin and Ye Qing this time, since they'd been carrying them for days, so they blocked the doors and windows of their room (the one they slept in every night) so they could crawl around inside. Since A-Zhi was unable to move around easily, he stayed home to help look after the children.
The council chamber was not on the mountain where they lived, but between two mountains where the Black and White Bear clan lived. It was a large bamboo shed with only one stone wall and the other three sides open to the wind.
When Linni and her group arrived, it was just getting dark. Four bonfires burned in the bamboo hut, three of which were surrounded by males, leaving only one bonfire unoccupied. Linni finally saw the other bear-like beastmen besides the black and white bears and the red pandas. This bear-beast tribe had only six types of bears: the black and white bear beastmen had black hair and white skirts, the white bears had white hair and white skirts, the brown bears had brown hair and brown skirts, the black bears had black hair and black skirts, and the raccoons had gray hair and gray skirts. Only the red pandas had more varied colors—brown, orange, and yellow—and were generally very easy to identify. However, the white bears and raccoons had skin like Caucasians and features that resembled Westerners, while the brown and black bears had darker features. Only the black and white bears and the red pandas resembled Chinese people not only in skin color and features but also in height and build.
Upon reaching the bamboo hut, Ye put Lin Ni down. Lin Ni, holding Yao's hand, was about to go inside when the Black and White Bear Clan Chief Yuan led several male beastmen towards them. Lin Ni looked over and saw four level-nine beastmen and three level-eight beastmen. Judging from their strength and appearance, all six clan chiefs and leaders of the Bear Beast Tribe were present.
The Black and White Bear Chieftain Yuan smiled and said to Lin Ni and her group, "Lin, this is the leader of our Bear Beast Tribe: Zhong; this is the chieftain of the Brown Bear Tribe: Ke; this is the chieftain of the White Bear Tribe: Lun; this is the chieftain of the Black Bear Tribe: Zhuo; this is the chieftain of the Red Panda Tribe: Shan; and this is the chieftain of the Raccoon Tribe: Lei."
Linni greeted them with a smile: "Chief Chong, hello! Clan leaders, hello everyone!" Then she introduced them: "These four are my companions: Yao, this is Ye, this is Bai, and this is Yan. These two are guardian beastmen from the vast North Sea: Xuan and Ling. This is Sheng, Wei, Luo, Huan, Da Wen, and Xue from the Eagle Beast Tribe."
After exchanging greetings, everyone sat down by the empty campfire. Instead of roasting meat, several long bamboo poles were burning, apparently for cooking bamboo rice. Large leaves were placed around the fire, covered with a variety of food, including prepared meat, fruits, bamboo shoots, vegetables, and mushrooms, along with many bamboo cups.
After everyone sat down, the Black and White Bear Chieftain Yuan said, "Lin, we Xiongren are very casual about what we eat. We're cooking bamboo rice here. Just add whatever you want to the bamboo tubes and cook it yourself."
Linni smiled and said, "Okay, thank you, Grandpa."
Yao had always been in charge of Linni's food, so since Chief Monokuma had said so, Yao began to prepare food for Linni.
The leader of the black and white bears, Chong, was a tall and strong middle-aged man. He took out a large bamboo tube, opened it forcefully, and everyone smelled a refreshing aroma of wine.
Chief Ke of the Brown Bear Clan immediately laughed and said, "This bamboo wine smells so good!" Chief Chongzheng of the Black and White Bear Clan poured the wine into the bamboo tube, and Chief Ke pointed at him and said, "You black and white bear are so stingy! Why pour it? Just drink it directly from the bamboo tube!"
Chief Lun of the White Bear Clan said, "It's alright for you young males to drink more, but we old males won't drink as much."
Amidst laughter and conversation, the wine was poured, and everyone present, including Lin Ni, shared a glass.
The leader of the black and white bears raised his cup with both hands and said to everyone, "Today, thanks to the blessing of the Beast God and the light of the little female, it is truly a joy to see the strongest warriors from all corners of the Beastman Continent gathered here. Come, everyone, please have a cup of our Black and White Bear clan's special bamboo wine!"