Chapter 305: Protecting with one's life, but finally abandoned
Chapter 305: Protecting with one's life, but finally abandoned
Don’t I have a home? I think I do have a home.
My father is here, and this small basin is my home.
But this home is incomplete, missing something important.
I grew up here and when I first went to the tribe I was bullied, laughed at, and I was very unhappy.
Later, I got used to it.
Sometimes, I have to admit that a child without a mother to protect him is indeed like a homeless stray child.
I work very hard because my father said that with a female I will have a real home and I will be very happy with her. Of course, I also need to meet all the female's requirements.
In the wild, I became more and more adept at hunting wild animals. In the tribe, I was bullied, not because I didn't want to resist, nor because I didn't have the strength to resist, but because of my mother's eyes and my father's expectations.
And, I want a home, a warm home.
I don’t like the female cubs in the tribe because they are very tall and strong. I like thinner and smaller ones.
Because I know that once I have the beast ring, I will be as tall, as strong, and as... brave as my father.
If the female is thinner or smaller, I will feel like protecting her.
But the father said, "Little python, only strong females can lay snake eggs. Don't you want cubs?"
I was a little silent. Don't you want it? It seems that I don't want it, but a home without my baby is also incomplete.
I nodded and gave the food and animal skins to the tallest and strongest female cub. I thought it would be easy for her to lay snake eggs in the future, right?
I seldom spoke to her, and every time I would just stuff food and animal skins into her hands and leave.
Because I really don't want to talk to her. She doesn't look like she needs my protection at all, and I don't like that.
But is liking someone important? Father likes Shan, but does he have a family?
No.
I just want a female who will accept me, lay snake eggs, and give me a home.
Many years passed like this, and I watched the female cub grow more and more unlike what I wanted.
And she doesn't like me at all, because I heard her say to other green-haired bastards:
"The little python looks scary, but he always brings a lot of food and animal skins. My father said that the little python will go to the Misty Forest and give me a lot of round animal crystals."
"Then let him stay outside like Mo Gu."
I looked at the animal skin and food rolled up in my tail and left.
She is not a female who can give me a home. What I want is a home. If I must live outside the tribe, why can't I choose a thin and favorite female?
I never sent anything to this female cub again. When my father found out, he didn't say anything to me. He just sighed.
The requirements for me became more and more strict. If the food I cooked was not tasty, I would be whipped with a rattan stick.
The walls of the wooden house were gradually covered with broken rattan whips.
My cooking and housekeeping skills gradually became better than my hunting skills...
My evaluation of this is: it’s very tiring, very painful, and I really don’t want to do it.
But for the sake of the home my father talked about...I endured it all.
Until - when I had lived for ten winter seasons, the tribe was attacked by other wandering beast tribes.
My father was going to protect Ah Shan, and he took me with him. I asked him, "Can't you take Ah Shan with you? There are so many stray animals, what if you can't defeat them?"
"Then die." Mo Gu's eyes were sharp, like a warrior charging for love.
I stayed around him in silence until we reached the tribe, and the surrounding turtle orcs shouted:
"Mo Gu! You're finally here! Come and help!"
"Mo Gu! Go chase the stray beast! The stray beast took Ah Shan away!"
These two sentences made my father rush out instantly, and I also saw Ah Shan with a look of fear on his face.
"Mo Gu...save me..." Ah Shan had tears in his eyes and looked at his father with a look of grievance in his eyes.
My father was furious. I knew he would never bear to see Ah Shan suffer any injustice. Even if I said something bad about Ah Shan, he would whip me severely with a rattan whip.
He quickly killed two stray animals, saved Ah Shan, and hugged her tightly in his arms, choking a little: "Ah Shan, I'm a little late, I'm sorry."
Ah Shan patted his back, his voice was still gentle, but his words were very vicious: "Why did you come just now? Two of my partners have died, and I almost died. It's all your fault! Why didn't you die!"
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, don't cry, Shan." The father coaxed her softly, "Do you want to come with me? To live somewhere else?"
"No...my partner is still there, I have to go back, Mo Gu...can you save them?" A Shan said.
Looking at her sad face, I couldn't help but wonder, if her father was gone, would she be so sad?
What happened next proved that she wouldn't.
A bitter smile appeared on my father's lips. He hadn't mentioned protecting the tribe for a long time, as if it started from the time I was repeatedly bullied.
When she returned to the tribe, her partner was being besieged by a group of stray beasts. The turtle beastmen were really cowardly. They basically did not dare to resist. They could only hide the females and then shrink in their turtle shells to be beaten.
When Ah Shan saw that her partner was on the verge of death, she immediately ran over. The consequences of a female rushing into a battlefield of males can be imagined.
The father's eyes widened and he quickly followed to help Shan defend against the attack of the stray orcs.
The joining of the father gave these stray animals an outlet to vent their anger.
"Ashan! Come into the tribe!"
He transformed into a beast and held on tightly. Many stray beasts surrounded him and attacked him, but Ashan and her partner fled like deserters.
He didn't even glance at my father or me.
When the people from the Turtle Tribe saw this, they quickly withdrew, leaving my father alone here to struggle with me.
His blood gradually covered my body. With bloodshot eyes, he shouted at the tribe that was about to be blocked:
"Take the little python away!"
Tears couldn't help but fall from the corners of my eyes. I didn't understand. My father would definitely win, so why were these turtle orcs running away?
Why are they running?
"Father, let's run away." I begged my father to leave here.
But he did not respond to me, just like the Turtle Tribe did not respond to him.
Blood was spilled on the ground, and he looked at the stray beasts that kept besieging him, his eyes filled with bloodshot.
I just hung on him like this, watching him protect me, protect the tribe that abandoned him, and protect Ah Shan who didn't want to go with him and left him to die.
My father died in battle.
Before the battle, most of the stray animals here died, and the rest had already run away.
The sun was very bright that day. I looked at my father lying on the ground, almost lifeless, and burst into tears.
"Father! Please don't die! Father! I can't live without you! Father——"
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