My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 68: The Matter of Females Giving Birth

Lin Ni thought for a moment. Although she didn't know anything about medicine, she thought that if someone ate something wrong, they should have their stomach pumped. But there were no hospitals around! Lin Ni suddenly remembered that gagging might induce vomiting, so she said, "Help her up."

Mei helped Huang up and asked helplessly, "What do we do now?"

Linni stepped forward to try and dislodge the vomit, but then hesitated, a little scared. So she had Bai pry open Huang's mouth and had Huang's male partner insert his fingers deep into Huang's throat. After a short while, Huang vomited. Linni quickly stepped back a few paces, making sure her animal-hide shoes didn't get vomit on them.

Huang vomited for a while before weakly opening his eyes to look at everyone, calling out, "Mother," before fainting again.

Mei frantically shook her, "Huang, Huang, how are you?"

Yao said, "She fainted, but she has already vomited up the poisonous mushroom. She should be fine after some rest."

Mei touched Huang's head and face to make sure she was still breathing and had a heartbeat, and knew that she was really unconscious and not dead. Only then did she feel relieved: "Yes, it's good that she vomited it out!" Then she turned to the two men and said: "If you let her eat these poisonous herbs again, I will skin you alive!"

The two men dared not speak. They went up to clean the dirt off Huang and then carried him to his nest in the back.

Lin Ni suddenly remembered the half-bag of mung beans she had collected near the waterfall. She remembered that mung beans had the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, so she said to Bai, "Bai, go back to our house and bring over the half-bag of mung beans I dried before. Have them grind them up and cook them for Huang. They can clear heat and detoxify. Eating them for a couple of days should make him fine."

Bai tilted his head and thought for a moment, then gestured with his fingers: "Is it those small, hard, green fruits?" After seeing Lin Ni nod, he said "okay" and turned to run out.

Mei asked curiously, "What kind of amazing plant is that mung bean?"

Lin Ni nodded: "It has a slight effect of clearing heat and detoxifying."

Mei came over and hugged Linni again: "Lin, thank you so much! You saved another one of my cubs! You really are sent by the Beast God to our Tiger Beast Tribe to save me!"

Lin Ni said shyly, "No, it was just a coincidence."

Li said with certainty, "It's not a coincidence, this is the blessing bestowed upon our Tiger Beast Tribe by the Beast God!"

This was the first time Li had affirmed her directly, and Lin Ni couldn't help but look at Li.

Mei nodded in agreement: "Yes, thank you for the blessing of the Beast God!"

Everyone waited in Huang's cave until she drank the mung bean soup and regained consciousness before leaving with peace of mind.

From then on, mung beans became as precious as salt in the tiger tribe.

Back in Mei's cave, everyone thanked Linni again. They sat down together once more to reheat and eat the remaining food. Linni finally got to eat her hard-boiled eggs; they had a slightly fishy taste, but they were delicious, with a texture similar to goose eggs, but with a rich egg flavor. During this time, Linni taught Mei and Li the first aid method for choking on food, "The Embrace of Life," not expecting them to actually use it, but simply hoping that it would provide these rare females on the orcish continent with a better chance of survival in emergencies.

After finishing their meal, the sun was already beginning to set. Mei held Linni's hand and said, "Lin, I'm entrusting my eldest and youngest cubs to you. You are a blessing from the Beast God to our Tiger Beast Tribe, and it's their good fortune to have met you. I won't ask you to have children for them; I just want you to live a good life together!"

Linni was powerless to refute their claims that she was the Beast God and had blessed the Tiger Beast Tribe that afternoon. She could only nod and say, "I will live a good life with them, but I hope Mei will not mention the blessing to the other tribesmen."

Li smiled and said, "You were blessed by the Beast God twice when you prayed at the Beast God's Stele. Everyone knows that you are a female that the Beast God especially cares for. Moreover, you were born female, so why do we need to tell the other members of our tribe?"

Linni: Okay, so everyone knows I'm the female the Beast God favors, except me. Thinking about having children, Linni whispered in Mei's ear, "Mei, about having children, I want to know how they decide which race's offspring to have?"

Mei smiled meaningfully at her, then chased all the males out of the cave. She and Li took Linni back to their resting cave, and whispered in her ear in the same voice, "If you want to have offspring, you must mate during your estrus cycle." Seeing Linni nod, she whispered again, "Activating the power of the Beast God before mating proves that you want to have offspring for that partner, and that's how you get pregnant. Otherwise, you won't be able to conceive. If you want to have offspring of the same race as yourself, you must activate the power of the Beast God again at that moment; otherwise, you can only give birth to offspring of your partner's race."

Lin Ni's mouth formed an O-shape: So mysterious? So powerful? She was now certain of what Ye had said that night: the Beast God favored females. If a female didn't activate the Beast God's power, wouldn't she be unable to produce offspring no matter how she mated? And a female could choose whose race she wanted to give birth to—amazing, I admire her! Could the Beast God of this world also be female? Otherwise, why would she be so kind to females? No wonder the males of this world treat females so well; with such rarity, with this ability to decide whether or not to have offspring, who would dare treat a female badly! What's rare is that the females of this world also have very good personalities; I haven't seen any truly exceptional ones. —That's because you just haven't seen them.

Mei told Linni that females generally only live to be over sixty years old. A normal female can have a reproductive period of thirty years after reaching adulthood at sixteen. However, she only enters estrus in the spring each year, and she cannot get pregnant successfully every year. During pregnancy, she will carry one to three offspring at a time. If there is not enough energy, the offspring may stop developing in the womb or be born as weak offspring that have difficulty growing up. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort for an offspring to be born successfully and grow up well.

Linni guessed that it might be because nurturing orc cubs requires more energy, making it difficult for them to give birth to multiple offspring like ordinary animals. Then she realized that she hadn't seen a single pregnant woman in the three tribes she'd visited. Apparently, the gestation period for females on the orc continent is mostly around 180 days. Since females only go into heat in the spring, they generally conceive during this time. With each season lasting about 100 days, they typically give birth before the end of summer. This is indeed choosing a good season for reproduction—summer has good weather and abundant food. The species on the orc continent have evolved remarkably well to adapt to their environment!