Doctor of Science's Journey into Another World

Chapter 614: The Critical Situation in the Beast Forest

A week later, in the western basin of the Beast Forest, at the Night Cat Village.

"Mom, I'm hungry."

A cute pink little girl was calling out lazily. Her tail was an extremely rare round velvet, somewhat like a rabbit's tail. Her pair of furry gray pointed ears kept shaking. Her black hair was like a waterfall, hanging down to her heels, and her hair was sparkling with bright spots like the night sky.

"Humph, you only know how to eat. At least half of the vegetables and fruits that your father and three brothers worked so hard to grow have gone into your stomach. I really don't know what sin I committed to give birth to a foodie like you..."

There was a grumble in the kitchen, but soon, a beautiful woman with a graceful figure came out angrily, holding a basin of freshly washed green fruits in her hand, with many water droplets flowing on the green skin.

The girl meowed tenderly, then grabbed a green fruit with her claws and started to eat it. She was very reminiscent of her ancestors, with both her feet and hands covered with cat claws and her body covered with thick hair.

But correspondingly, the girl's physical fitness and the racial talents of a night cat are several times better than those of ordinary people. Therefore, she eats a lot. Before she is ten years old, her appetite is as much as that of several adult night cat orcs.

"Squeak-"

The simple wooden door was slowly pushed open, and a slender man walked in. He had a solemn look on his face, and the two short knives in his hands were stained with blood. But when he saw the little girl eating green fruit, he immediately hid the knives behind him.

However, the little girl with a keen sense of smell still smelled the blood. She jumped up nimbly and instantly jumped behind the man. Her speed was so fast that the man was caught off guard.

"Dad, what's that red jam on the knife? It smells so good. Can I lick it?"

Looking at the innocent look of the little girl, the man sighed, then looked at the woman helplessly and said, "Lixi, talk to Xiaonai. She will have to go out with us to carry out the attack mission soon. Those two-legged beasts are becoming more and more restless..."

"Adi, what nonsense are you talking about? Xiaonai is only eight years old. She is just a child. How can she go with you to do such dangerous things? Besides, she is so playful that she will definitely delay things. I strongly disagree!"

"Lixi, my good wife, you have to understand me," Adi rubbed Xiaonai's head, then looked at Lixi and said in a deep voice: "Our daughter is the only night cat orc in the village who has returned to her ancestral state. Her fighting ability is even stronger than that of ordinary adults..."

"That won't work either. She is your daughter. You should protect her instead of taking her to kill people!" As she said that, Li Xi hugged Xiao Nai and held her in her arms lovingly.

Adi was silent for a moment when he saw this, then he sat on a low stool and rubbed his feet, with his long cat tail hanging down on the ground. He didn't want his eight-year-old daughter to do anything dangerous. At this age, she should enjoy her childhood without worries.

"Today, three orcs from the Red Fox tribe appeared outside the village. They were wearing light armor and holding strange weapons. They could easily release terrifying fireballs. The village owner's two sons... were killed in the battle."

"Those should be orc soldiers from the Seth Empire. They are probably scouts coming here for reconnaissance. Our village may have been discovered. There will definitely be more soldiers approaching us later!"

Adi wiped the blood off the dagger with cotton cloth, looked at the mother and daughter and said in a deep voice: "If we all die and the village is breached by the two-legged beasts, who will protect Xiaonai?"

Everyone in the Night Owl Village is very united. It would be more accurate to say that most of the orc villages in the entire beast forest are very united, because those two-legged beasts have always been coveting them, and there are no disunited villages any more.

Lixi also grew up in the Night Owl Village, and she knew this truth very well. Xiaonai, who had the strongest fighting ability, should not be hidden at home. If she went out to fight the enemy together, the casualties among her fellow tribesmen would be reduced a lot.

Adi also loves his daughter, but he still proposed this idea. Perhaps this is also the result of a joint discussion among the Night Owl Village. No matter what, Xiaonai must do those dangerous things, even though she is only eight years old.

Late at night, in the central tower of the Night Owl Village.

Dozens of Night Cat Orcs gathered here, both men and women, most of them were middle-aged. They were representatives of the warriors in the village, and tonight's meeting would determine the future fate of the village.

An old man from the Night Owl tribe with a gloomy face sat in the main seat. He was the current village chief. When he was young, he had led the Night Owl warriors to many great feats and usually had a very high prestige. At the same time, he had just lost his two sons.

"My fellow countrymen, I think you all know that the current situation in the village is very critical. This month, four groups of two-legged beast spies have appeared nearby. Although they were all discovered and dealt with in time, the three cunning red fox spies today..."

"Before they died, they activated some strange device. According to my intelligence, this is some kind of communication method. Soon, hundreds of two-legged beasts will surround the village and make us their slaves, forever!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the tower became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone's breathing stopped. The village chief's words were like a bolt from the blue. If there really were hundreds of two-legged beast troops attacking, then there was no doubt that the village would be doomed.

Only three light-armored scouts came today, and dozens of night cat orcs ambushed them in advance, but in the end they were barely dealt with at the cost of two deaths. The gap in combat power was hopeless.

The revolutionary innovation brought about by the life-saving magic stone has brought about a qualitative change in the orc soldiers. Three red fox orcs holding magical weapons are equivalent to three mages specializing in close combat, who can attack or defend.

This was a dimensionality reduction attack on the Night Owl orcs. This was the gap between advanced magic technology and primitive cold weapons. If the Night Owls were not flexible and good at fighting, perhaps even more people would have died.

"Village leader, why don't we move away from this basin and go deeper into the beast forest? Maybe someone from our tribe will be willing to take us in..."

"Yes, Jim and Kuya died in battle today, and you only have one son left now!"

"Those orcs who have joined the evil two-legged beasts are all well-equipped. We have no chance of defeating them. I heard that this red fox orc is just a spy with the weakest combat power. If those heavily armored two-legged beast soldiers attack us, we will be finished!"

The old village chief stood up and paced slowly in the meeting room. Almost with every step he took, he would hear suggestions from his fellow tribesmen.

But without exception, all of them were talking about retreat. In the past few months, basically all the Night Cat Orcs who had fought did not want to resist anymore.

After more than a dozen fierce and swift slashes, all he got was a few shallow cuts on the opponent's enchanted vine armor...

After careful planning of ambushes and mobilization of almost the entire village, they still failed to kill without any injuries...

The orc soldiers only launched a simple counterattack, and the Night Cat Orcs were seriously injured and dying. They had no means to resist magic at all...

Such situations are common and have occurred in many villages in the Beast Forest. The Night Owl Clan at least has flexible and agile skills and can launch a decent counterattack, which is already an excellent situation.

Some orcs are not born with the ability to fight, such as the pigmen, mountain deer or sheep. Generally, once they are discovered by wandering mages hired by orc slave owners or the regular army of the empire, they will basically be captured.

"In the past ten years, our tribe has migrated three times," the old village chief's words were sonorous and powerful, shocking, "each time we moved closer to the center of the Beast Forest, each time we moved more miserable and humbler."

"Don't think that other orcs will let us enter the center of the Beast Forest at will. This place is so small and has long been divided up by those powerful orcs. We don't have a chance to squeeze in!"