Beastman territory, at the checkpoint.

Lin Yi stared at the Fourth Level Bow.

[Fourth Level Legendary Hunter Bow]

In the several centuries of the Forest Tribe's existence, only a few hunters used this bow. It has tremendous stopping power and excellent accuracy.

If you inset an energy core into it, the core's element can be attached to the arrows shot from it.

[Required Power: 20 points]

A good thing indeed! he silently marveled.

After looking at the bow, he moved on to the armor.

The beastmen only have First Level and Second Level leather armor. According to Terghai, the Taru people will recycle leather goods to make armor, the same goes for metal products.

They keep firearms and bows mainly because they are mostly made of wood... could they be burned?

"How many of these do you have? If you don't mind me asking... where did you get these?"

"I don't know!"

"Don't know?" The Beastman Lord replied with a smile, and then sent another message detailing his explanation.

"I guess they were looted at some point. These weapons are the spoils of war from our ancestors. They've been stored in our warehouse for generations, left to us by our ancestors for trading."

Heh, are these ancient equipment?

As a merchant, Lin Yi was sure that there was definitely more good stuff in the beastmen tribe.

"I'll take everything you've shown me, and I can pay for it. Do you have anything else?"

"Hmm... I can give you Xidi, but I only need food. My people have been hungry for too long. I'll take you to see the Xidi Pit!"

Terghai led Lin Yi to the beastman fortress.

Behind a giant fence was a makeshift town with buildings similar to ordinary nomad tents, decorated with skulls and other war trophies.

Even when doing business, beastmen mostly stay outdoors.

Lin Yi saw a giant blacksmith smelting dilapidated or damaged armor into molten iron and then forging new armor parts.

As he walked, Lin Yi saw a middle-sized beastman cutting up the hanging corpse of something between a bug and a maggot.

Soon, he and the Beastman Lord arrived at a giant pit—not huge in depth, but in area.

Thousands, even more, of these bug-like and maggot-like creatures were crawling in the big pit, feeding on… or rather, absorbing the corpses of zombies.

"These are Xidi. Their meat doesn't taste good but is highly nutritious, and they can produce milk."

Terghai sent Lin Yi a message but couldn't help but chuckle upon seeing the newcomer's reaction.

"I also find them disgusting, but their milk is delicious. Come, have a taste!" After sending this message, the Beastman Lord pulled Lin Yi to the edge of the pit.

Up close, the Xidi looked even stranger. Their skin was pale beige, measuring 2 to 5 meters in length and 2 to 3 meters in height.

Some were extraordinarily large, almost bulging!

"Those are females. They produce milk!" said the beastman, pointing to a particularly large Xidi, "The others are males, and we eat the males."

The male Xidi were petite, looking more like maggots than bugs.

Terghai called over a nearby woman to milk a female Xidi.

The female Xidi made a sound akin to a certain creature, turned sideways, and the beastwoman quickly filled a jar with milk.

The milk looked and smelled just like cow's milk.

"Try some," the Beastman Lord took the jar and handed it to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi initially meant to refuse, but the milk looked perfectly fine... and smelled quite good.

He tasted it. The flavor was like milk, only with a slight sourness.

Overall, it wasn't bad!

"We also use their hide to make tents." Seeing Lin Yi's expression, Terghai immediately knew this deal was sealed.

"Do you have anything else?"

"Not much else. We need energy cores and have always been short on money. Generally speaking, our resources are not enough."

"So what do you usually eat? Just Xidi meat and milk?"

"About fifteen years ago, we suffered a devastating blow, and now only Xidi are left. I want to know what you humans can provide us?"

"We have rabbits." Lin Yi said, as an omnivorous rabbit appeared in his hand.

It was a plump rabbit weighing forty pounds.

Terghai looked at the cute little rabbit and sincerely asked, "Can I try it?"

"Go ahead."

Upon seeing Lin Yi's response, the Beastman Lord twisted the rabbit's neck, skinned it, and used his fangs to take a big bite out of the rabbit's leg.

From Terghai's expression, it was clear that he felt like he was experiencing a gourmet feast.

Holding the half-eaten rabbit, the Beastman Lord seemed deep in thought.

"I've never tasted anything so delicious... Are they prolific breeders? What are they called?"

"Omnivorous rabbits, highly prolific breeders."

"Omnivorous... do they eat Evil Spirits?"

"Um, I think they do..."

Lin Yi conjured another rabbit, pushing it toward a zombie corpse. The rabbit hesitated briefly, then started gnawing on the corpse.

Seeing this, Terghai grinned broadly, looking at Lin Yi with great anticipation.

Lin Yi conjured a large piece of steel and tossed it to him.

"This is metal, you'll definitely like it!"

"Fantastic! This iron is indeed very good!" the Orc Lord said sincerely.

The Taru Race, the Ter Tribe, mostly use iron, they've never even heard of steel...

They actually have some, but it was acquired by melting plundered equipment.

They don't have much steel and don't know what to call it, so they simply call it "iron."

Afterward, Lin Yi also offered vegetables to the orcs, but... the orcs can't eat vegetables, they only eat meat.

Next, the two continued their conversation in the Orc Lord's palace.

Lin Yi brought along Chen Youyou and Immanuel, while Terghai came with four elders.

Chen Youyou was very nervous about this meeting, terrified of these fearsome creatures.

But Immanuel behaved as if he had lived with orcs his whole life.

This old fellow was indeed deserving of being a tour guide, handling all sorts of scenarios with ease.

Thus, in this negotiation, he single-handedly faced off with the four orc elders—

Pulled to the extreme, for a whole hour!

However, the elders were no pushovers either, after falling at a disadvantage, they finally played their trump card: Skill Books!

The orcs have raided and plundered the territories of many other Lords of Space-Time, but mostly found their spoils in the Fragment World of humanoid zombies.

Most of these skills are unusable by orcs, but the elders knew their value, so they haggled until both sides flushed with anger.

Finally, Immanuel argued based on reason, and the two tribes reached an agreement—

The orc's equipment would be returned to them, plus they would receive 500 adult rabbits and 200 cars, for the orcs to disassemble and reforge into weapons and armor.

Humans would also provide Magical Lake Water within the next three days, offer them a ton of meat, and forgo collecting the remains of zombies killed in battle.

In exchange, the orcs would provide humans with 600 pieces of plundered level 1-4 equipment, fifty milk-producing "bugs," i.e., "Xidi."

And 31 Skill Books!

Lin Yi chuckled softly.

This deal was indeed extremely profitable!

The rabbits in the Shelter were too numerous to cull.

The cars to be melted down by the orcs were all scrapped vehicles, piled up like mountains in the junkyard Fragment Space, previously used to make barricades.

Not to mention the Magical Lake Water, which was inexhaustible.

In other words, this trade was like exchanging stones for gold, especially Skill Books!

The orc's Skill Books were brand new... Lin Yi had never seen similar skills before.

For instance, there was a "Precise Shooting" skill, which enables the user to shoot firearms more accurately.

Once "Precise Shooting" is upgraded to level 3, equipped with a machine gun, the user could become the "Death Messenger."

Another interesting skill was "Mechanician," which could be used to build steam-powered machines.

This book even included several schematics, one of which was a design for a steam-powered tank!

The Transformation Skills were equally formidable, but no one knew what skills like "Saliva Shooter" or "Furious Fierce Mountain" would transform a human into.

The orcs also didn't know what these skills were.

They could only learn a small portion of the skills from the book whenever they tried to learn a transformation skill.

"Great Gods" would send them a message saying they were "version incompatible"...

This explained why humans and orcs couldn't use each other's equipment.

After all, System Armor automatically adapts to the wearer, if the system versions of orcs and humans were the same, then orc armor could be worn by humans and vice versa.

Lin Yi imagined orcs wearing black leather armor, barely holding back from bursting out laughing.

After the negotiations ended, the humans returned to the base.

It was already 2 PM, and aside from the bug milk, they hadn't eaten anything, everyone was exhausted.

Lunchtime was very quiet.

But the main reason wasn't fatigue, but—

"Boss, sisters!"

Nurse Martha, tears streaming down her face yet extremely excited, pulled someone out from behind her.

"This is my sister, I really didn't expect to find her! Mary, this is the boss..."

Lin Yi was eating, looked up.

Puh!

So shocked that the meat in his mouth sprayed out.

This girl named Mary... uh, hard to say, really hard to say!

To say she's ugly, not really, just looks a bit strange, especially her teeth, while others have them all in a row, hers are like luxurious villas.

To say she's fat, not really either, looks about three hundred pounds, just has a big appetite.

Lin Yi found it hard to imagine, it's already the end of the world, yet she hasn't slimmed down, or maybe she had slimmed down, which begs the question of how she looked before the apocalypse...

Mary is Martha's biological sister, but in appearance, they were worlds apart.

Mary's personality was also quite different from her sister's.

She grinned broadly, greeting everyone present.

Finally, she looked at Lin Yi.

"Hello, boss! I'm Mary, just like my sister, I've been raised by my parents to be a good wife since childhood!"

Puh!!!...

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