Traveling through the world of beasts: I lead the system to build an empire - Chapter 684 The Temple is Gone

"We are friends after exchanging names," Gu Pan shook off the image in his mind and smiled gently at the little lion, "How about I treat you and your friends to candy?"

This time when he went out, Gu Pan brought a lot of candy.

Gu Pan likes sweet things and is a big fan of candy. He believes that the kids will like them too.

"What is sugar?"

"Sugar is something sweet and delicious. It makes people happy when they eat it. Do you want to try it?"

When it comes to food, the cubs all become interested.

In the cub's world, there is no awareness that they cannot eat food given by strangers.

Because of the food shortage in the beast world, beastmen usually do not give food to each other, let alone give food to others for free.

Even if someone really wants to poison something, no one would do it on precious food.

Therefore, no adults would specifically teach children not to eat food given by strangers. Therefore, when the kids heard that Gu Pan was going to treat them to delicious food, they were only looking forward to it.

No matter whether this thing tastes good or not, as long as it is edible, it is worth looking forward to.

Facing those pairs of bright, clear eyes full of expectation, Gu Pan did not keep them in suspense. He asked the escort to take out the candy from the space, carefully peel off the candy wrapper, and stuff it into the mouth of the person closest to him first.

"No need to bite it, just put it in your mouth and hold it. You can eat it for a long time." Gu Pan instructed.

He obediently put the candy in his mouth and savored it for a moment. His eyes suddenly lit up, "Delicious."

I had known this would be the result, and I felt the joy of finding someone with similar interests.

He naturally did not forget about the other cubs, and gave each of them a handful. "If you like it, eat more. I have a lot, everyone can have a try."

The cubs ate the candy and wagged their tails with joy. If conditions allowed, they would probably fly straight into the sky.

The little tiger was the most cheerful, and he began to ask Gu Pan in a familiar manner, "Gu Pan is amazing, there is such delicious food, I have never eaten it before, what tree is it from, I want to pick some, and pick more for my mother to eat."

He looked at the candy in the paper bag with cherishment.

The kid only ate one, and he planned to take the rest home to share with his parents.

In the animal world, all edible food is precious knowledge, usually coming from one’s own father, and the animal people also attach great importance to this.

Generally speaking, when others find new edible food, the beastmen will pay attention and not ask, or even deliberately avoid suspicion.

This is the orcs' reverence for knowledge.

However, the cubs are still young and do not have as many concerns as adults.

After living in Shenqi for several years, Gu Pan's thinking has changed a lot. In addition, he came here with a mission from Mu Yang, so naturally he would not hide anything.

"I didn't pick these, I bought them," Gu Pan explained, considering that the outside world doesn't have the concept of buying. "It's just exchanging things, just like exchanging salt."

When they mentioned changing, the cubs' ears drooped.

"But we have nothing to exchange with you."

Such delicious candy must be exchanged for a lot of meat, right?

The cubs had never exchanged anything, but they knew that precious things required more food in exchange.

Like salt rock.

The witch doctor said that orcs cannot live without salt, otherwise they will lose their strength and die.

"It's okay, this is my treat, we are friends, right?"

After Gu Pan's explanation, the first to respond was the most outgoing tiger cub, "Gu Pan is so nice, he's different from those scary adults."

Gu Pan frowned.

"Sir" is the name used by the beast world to refer to those of high status. This name first came from the temple and has been used to this day.

Judging from the little tiger's tone, he guessed that they were probably a group of unpleasant orcs.

But logically speaking, this tribe is located in such a remote area, there shouldn't be any high-level orcs passing by?

And judging from the state of these tribes, it doesn't look like they have been robbed by stray beasts.

"What sir?" Gu Pan asked.

They seemed to treat Gu Pan as a companion with whom they could confide, and they did not hide anything, telling him everything they knew.

The little tiger was still the first to speak, "Father said that an adult who was going to the Central Continent passed by our tribe and stole the food that the tribe had to survive the cold season."

Little Leopard also agreed, "Yes, there were so many people, I was so scared that I hid in my mother's arms and dared not come out."

The little kids all complained to Gu Pan, telling him about the evil deeds of those "bad adults".

The kid didn't know much, and most of the information he learned came from his parents and playmates, so what he said was confusing.

After listening for a long time, Gu Pan finally successfully extracted useful information from the kids' chaotic word order.

It turned out to be that rose again.

In order to speed up the march, Rose's large army rarely rested and had little time to hunt.

Very simple.

Relying on support from passing tribes.

With the title of Son of the Rose God, the tribes along the way are actually quite willing to contribute food.

But the problem is that there are too many people in the Rose Team.

Thanks to Gong Yicheng, whenever there was a large tribe on the mainland in recent years, he would send people to slaughter them to prevent the emergence of any force on the mainland that could compete with him.

This resulted in there being no large tribes of thousands in size on the entire continent.

Rose's team had thousands of people, and those small tribes with only a few hundred or dozens of people simply could not provide so much food.

So every time Rose and her companions passed by a tribe, they would steal some food.

When they left Nanshou City, they took away a lot of things, but they hit a wall in the East Continent.

I didn’t even see the shadow of the city lord, let alone eat or take anything.

Seeing that the tiger tribe was approaching, Rose was unwilling to waste any time.

But as the cold season approaches, each tribe begins to store food to get through the cold season. They are reluctant to eat it themselves, so how could they be willing to give out the life-saving food?

They just walked away, but these tribes suffered.

As the cold season approached, their food was taken away again. The beastmen could only accept it with a pinch of their noses. The males went up the mountain to hunt day and night. Many of them died accidentally in the mouths of wild beasts due to exhaustion while hunting.

But even if they paid a more painful price than in previous years, they still couldn't gather enough food.

Due to lack of food, more than a dozen people in the tribe starved to death during this cold season, and those who survived were not much better off.

Small tribes are already weak, short of labor, and have poor risk resistance. Rose's actions will undoubtedly cost the lives of the orcs of these small tribes.

This is the tribe where Ruohui was born. Gu Pan is naturally close to them. When he heard about the evil things that Rose had done, he was filled with hatred.

But when he thought that the rose was dead, Gu Pan felt much better.

He said to the indignant cubs, who were baring their little teeth, "Not all people are like this. They are bad people, and bad people will get the punishment they deserve."

In fact, he had heard it before he came, but he just didn't want these cubs to be affected by what Rose did.

Sure enough, children's attention is easily distracted, and the topic was easily diverted by Gu Pan's interruption.

The little tiger pointed at Gu Pan's clothes with his little paw, his eyes full of curiosity, "We are talking about the leaves on Gu Pan's body, they look so soft."

"What are you talking about?" Gu Pan picked up the corner of the clothes. "This is clothes. I bought it. It's not made of leaves. It's made of cotton."

"Made of flowers?"

They had never heard of clothes made from flowers.

When it comes to knowledge, one can only say that Gu Pan and Ruohui are from the same family.

Neither of them is very good at studying. Gu Pan is better, at least he can finish fourth grade of primary school, but Ruohui is not so good.

Being stared at by pairs of curious eyes, Gu Pan tried hard to recall.

He seemed to have heard this from a colleague...

“It’s a plant, white and soft, like the clouds in the sky.”

"Pick those flowers and make them into cotton thread, just like animal tendons, and you can make them into clothes and wear them."

But it's more than enough to fool children.

Just as Gu Pan expected, those kids all had an expression of 'not understanding, but greatly shocked'.

"Wow! Gu Pan knows so much, even better than the witch doctor!"

The above comes from our little tiger with the highest attendance rate.

He knew that the clan leader would not ignore the two outsiders. Whatever he and Ruohui said and did today would definitely reach the clan leader's ears, so he had to seize every opportunity to hook up with the clan leader.

“Because I went to school.”

"What is going to school?" the little tiger tilted his big head and asked curiously.

"It's just a gathering of many cubs, learning words and knowledge from a learned wise man."

This time it was an older cub who spoke.

He probably heard it from someone, otherwise ordinary cubs might not know it.

It was good to have someone to talk to. It was exactly what Gu Pan wanted.

He shook his head, "No, I'm just an ordinary person."

From the looks of it, people who didn't know him would have thought that he had received compulsory education since childhood.

All I can say is that his acting is amazing.

The naive cubs naturally didn't know Gu Pan's little thoughts. Of course, they believed whatever he said and shook their heads when they heard it.

"But the youngsters in our Shenqi Nation all go to school."

Seeing the cubs' confused expressions, Gu Pan took a breath in an exaggerated manner, "No way, you really don't go to school?"

His face was full of the expression 'I'm from outside, don't team up to cheat me'.

The older cub stepped forward, looking like a little adult, and said seriously, "Why would I lie to you? The witch doctor said that only witch doctors can go to the temple once every five winter seasons to be taught knowledge by the great witch doctor."

Gu Pan pretended to be enlightened and nodded seriously, "No wonder you don't know about candy and clothes."

"But that's not right. The temple is long gone. Where can you learn witchcraft?"

"what?!"