Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 82 - 79: Don’t I Deserve a Reward?

"Wandering Beasts are a dangerous group. They prefer to be alone, have an extremely weak sense of community, and are prone to violent outbursts and attacking other Beastmen."

An Jin looked at Mi Yin, who was listing his own kind’s faults before her. After a moment of consideration, she beamed at him. "Well, I think you’re a good person. Why don’t we try a preliminary recruitment? We can see if they can integrate into the tribe before we plan our next move."

Mi Yin’s territorial instincts were extremely strong. He had long considered this area his absolute domain and would have killed any other Wandering Beast who dared set foot in it without a second thought.

But in the next second, the female’s words—"you’re a good person"—left him slightly stunned. A secret joy surged in his heart, and his expression softened considerably.

"How many do you want to recruit?" Mi Yin had basically agreed. With him there to protect Jin’er, he could just kill any low-Rank Wandering Beasts one by one if they tried to rebel.

An Jin shaded her eyes with her hand, gazing out over the vast forest, eager to get started. "About how many Wandering Beasts are in this area, and what are their Ranks?"

"There should be fewer than twenty left. I lived here for a while."

Mi Yin thought for a moment, a slight smile playing on his crimson lips as if savoring a pleasant memory. "There are Second, Third, and Fourth Ranks. There were also two Fifth Ranks, but I killed and ate them when I was Ranking up."

’Killed... and ate them?!’

An Jin’s lips twitched, but her expression remained calm. Snakes were known to eat their own kind, so eating a few Beastmen wasn’t that strange.

Since Mi Yin was a Sixth Rank and a Wandering Beast himself, he was the most reliable and safest choice to find the others nearby.

"Come here. I’ll take you back." Seeing that she had rushed over so quickly she’d gotten a red scratch on her arm from a branch, Mi Yin’s red eyes filled with concern. He bent down, scooped her into his arms, and returned to their territory with his snake tail coiled around some firewood.

「The next afternoon.」 Mi Yin returned with all sixteen of the nearby Wandering Beasts tied up, not a single one missing.

And he had literally tied them up.

His nearly ten-meter-long, black-and-red snake tail was coiled tightly around a dozen or so Beastmen, constricting little by little with their struggles, just as it would with prey.

The dozen-plus Wandering Beasts were squeezed so tightly by the tail that they could barely breathe. Their faces were flushed red as they gasped for air like fish out of water, the whites of their eyes showing.

CRUNCH, CRUNCH.

With every slithering movement of the tail, their bodies were crushed almost to the point of being pulverized. They cried out in agony, as if they were about to meet the Beast God at any moment.

Finally, the snake tail loosened.

The Wandering Beasts finally gulped in a long-awaited breath of fresh air. But just as tears of relief were about to well up in their eyes...

Mi Yin’s expression was cold. With a flick of his tail, he whipped the dozen or so half-dead Wandering Beasts forward.

Before they could even feel grateful, the Wandering Beasts were sent flying into the tribe by the terrifying force. With a series of THUDS, they crashed to the ground in various positions and passed out, each getting a mouthful of dirt.

An Jin and the other tribe Beastmen, who had been drawn by the commotion, were speechless. "..."

A few Beastmen went forward to check the unconscious Wandering Beasts’ injuries. Finding nothing serious, they proceeded to bind them one by one with tough vines, tying them in a circle around a tree so large it would take ten people to encircle it.

An Jin had already told her tribespeople about her plan for the Wandering Beasts, so they were quite calm. Most of them had already accepted the idea, especially with Mi Yin as a prior example.

His complete devotion to An Jin was something many of the females had witnessed with their own eyes and envied in their hearts.

’Perhaps Wandering Beasts aren’t as terrible as everyone says?’

As soon as the Wandering Beasts regained consciousness, they tried to struggle and break the vines to escape. But out of the corners of their eyes, they caught sight of the gloomy, dangerous Snake Beast staring daggers at them.

His needle-thin pupils were sinister and bloodthirsty. The sight terrified the Wandering Beasts into a violent shiver, and they instantly plopped back onto the ground. The lingering pain from their earlier beating left them too scared to even breathe loudly.

An Jin gave them a quick scan. These Wandering Beasts were all of the types not usually favored by females—Snake Beasts, lizards, toads, and the like.

"I want to recruit you into my tribe. Are you willing?"

The female before them was small, yet she stood in front of all the other Beastmen, clearly holding a high status.

Of course, what first caught the male Wandering Beasts’ attention was her fair skin and pretty face. It stirred a desire in each of them to snatch her away.

But an impulse was just an impulse. They weren’t stupid. Suppressing their surging emotions, they growled sullenly, "Recruit us? Your tribe is really willing to recruit Wandering Beasts like us?!"

’What a joke. What tribe would willingly accept Wandering Beasts?!’

’A trick!’

’This must be their trick!!’

The Wandering Beasts gritted their teeth, their suspicion written plainly on their faces. Their gazes were as vicious and dark as wild animals.

An Jin took a step forward and gestured for a few of the tribe’s females to come out. She smiled gently at the Wandering Beasts. "I’m not deceiving you. We are a newly established tribe, and we need a large workforce and population."

"If you are willing to join, I can let you stay in the tribe permanently and grant you the right to freely pursue females."

The Wandering Beasts froze instantly. They even forgot to look vicious, their pupils dilating in a way that was almost adorably dazed.

’Permanent... residence?’

’Does that mean... we won’t have to be branded as Wandering Beasts anymore...’

’We can freely pursue females, too?!’ 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

The sheer, overwhelming joy muddled the minds of several Wandering Beasts, making them even more certain it was a conspiracy. How could something so good possibly happen to them?!

’Liar!’

’She must be a liar!!’

The Wandering Beasts’ gazes grew even more vicious, yet their eyes paradoxically welled with tears. But then they saw the tribe’s females nod and smile kindly at them.

The shame, anger, and suspicion on the Wandering Beasts’ faces instantly cracked. ’Oh god, did a female just smile at me? Am I blind? Or am I so desperate for a female that I’m hallucinating??’

Their eyes widened, filled with shocked delight.

Gou Ni stepped forward on behalf of the females. She lifted her chin, pointed a small finger at them, and declared, "We really don’t like Wandering Beasts, but that’s because you’re always trying to snatch females, and you can’t even take good care of us! That’s why we hate you!"

"But if you come to our tribe, you can settle here permanently, so you won’t need to snatch us. We can permit you to pursue us!"

At first glance, Gou Ni’s words might have sounded like a condescending handout, but in the Beast World, they were the "sweet nothings" that countless Wandering Beasts would never hear in their entire lives.

They instantly cast aside all their suspicions.

One by one, they flushed red with excitement, their brains short-circuiting as they blurted out, "I—we are willing to join!"

Wandering Beasts were known for their brutality and bloodlust, but right now, they were all like young boys experiencing their first crush, their cheeks crimson with shyness and ecstatic joy, so elated they looked like they might take flight.

It would probably take each of them quite some time to process this intoxicating "beautiful dream."

’To hear a promise from a female’s lips, as a Wandering Beast?!’

’Even if it’s a dream...’

’It’s worth it!’

[Type: Tribe (Small)

Area: 684㎡↑

Population: 51↑ (6 Females)

Housing: Residential Log Cabin (1↑)

Farmland: 1 Mu↑

Livestock: 8 Head↑

Influence: F

Combat Power: E↑

Morale: 34↓

Personal Prestige: 85↑]

Aside from Morale, which had dropped due to the integration of the Wandering Beasts, it was still within a safe range. All the other stats had risen. This was a good start.

Happiness blossomed in An Jin’s heart. Mi Yin turned to look at the smiling female, his own heart stirred. A rare joy colored his usually calm and placid state of mind.

"Huh?" An Jin suddenly felt a cool, smooth sensation on her calf as a snake tail coiled around it. She instinctively glanced down, then shot a look at Mi Yin, raising an eyebrow in amusement. "What are you do—"

Before the "-ing" could even leave her lips, they were covered by a cool, chilly kiss. An Jin’s eyes widened slightly. "Mmph..."

He pulled her tightly into his embrace, lowered his head, and kissed her wantonly for a while before reluctantly letting go.

Meeting the female’s small, angry and indignant face, the man lowered his red-eyed gaze to hide his desire. He looked down at the tip of his tail, which was half-exposed as it wrapped around the female’s waist. His cool, deep voice held a hint of a young cub’s grievance and plea. "Don’t I deserve a reward?"