The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 94 The Little One Goes Beachcombing
After Ling Chengen and Bai Qingyu came out of the forest, they went straight to the beach.

It had been about half an hour since dawn, probably just 6:30.

Right now is the best time for beachcombing and fishing. According to the old clan chief and the seafarer, egg yolk jellyfish will appear in large numbers in the nearshore area around 10 a.m.

But actually, egg yolk jellyfish will start appearing one after another from around 8 o'clock.

Ling Chengen wanted to observe the egg yolk jellyfish to see if it was the kind she knew about.

If so, that would be very troublesome.

Before she transmigrated, there were also egg yolk jellyfish in her original world, but before the apocalypse, egg yolk jellyfish were poisonous and could not be eaten.

After the apocalypse, the egg yolk jellyfish in the sea also mutated, becoming more toxic. If a person's exposed skin comes into contact with the tentacles of the egg yolk jellyfish, they will be poisoned and die within a day.

So she still wanted to see for herself whether this egg-yolk jellyfish was the kind she remembered.

Hai Xing carried a wicker basket on his back and walked towards the reef area with several male tribesmen beside him. Ling Chengen pointed in that direction and said to Bai Qingyu beside him, "Let's go over there and see what kind of catch they usually get."

Bai Qingyu nodded, and seeing her great curiosity about the ocean, asked, "Do you like to eat sea fish?"

"The sea fish around here?" Ling Chengen hesitated for two seconds, then shook his head and said, "I've never eaten them."

Bai Qingyu walked beside her, seemingly lost in thought, until Ling Chengen stopped and suddenly said, "Before the cold season arrives, I'll take you to the Arctic Ocean in the north to catch fish."

"In the waters beyond the Arctic Ocean, there are no mountain beastmen. The sea beastmen mostly live in the deep sea. Around the time of the cold season, there are a lot of fish and shrimp that like the cold seawater, and they taste very delicious."

Ling Chengen glanced at him and nodded casually: "Okay, if you have time, you can go and take a look."

The two stood on the reef, watching Hai Xing and the others calmly walk into the sea, and soon plunge into the water, their figures disappearing completely.

Not far away, several baby crabs with baskets hanging from their backs were squatting on the beach after the tide had receded. They were digging in the sand with polished seashells in their hands, and soon pulled a blue crab out of the sand.

Seeing that Hai Xing and the others hadn't resurfaced for a long time, Ling Chengen approached several sun-tanned cubs, rested his hands on his knees, and asked, "Cubs, can you take a look at your catch today?"

The cubs were wary of the unfamiliar face and looked at her cautiously. Ling Chengen took out a few small flying fish from her spatial storage and distributed them to them: "Please have some fish. These are inland lake fish, and they taste very good."

The older cub twitched its nostrils a couple of times, and the smaller cubs hiding behind it couldn't resist the temptation of the grilled fish. They peeked out and whispered, "You're not going to steal our catch, are you?"

"I won't steal it." Ling Chengen squatted down in front of them, looking down at the large blue crab that was being stepped on by a cub, and asked curiously, "I'm just curious about what you coastal beastmen usually eat. I know your chieftain and young chieftain, so don't worry, I won't hurt you."

The older cub took the grilled fish skewered on a stick and handed it to the youngest cub behind him, saying sincerely, "Thank you for treating us to fish. This is a catch I just collected; we can trade with you."

Ling Chengen waved his hand: "No need to change it, can I take a look?"

The child took off the basket from his body and handed it directly to Ling Chengen. He also bent down to pick up the blue crab that had been stepped on and casually tossed it into the basket carried by the youngest cub.

Each of the young birds was given a six- or seven-inch flying fish, which they devoured with gusto, accompanied by the salty sea breeze.

These cubs have all been able to maintain their human form for a long time. The smallest cub has a fluffy little tail, but each one looks extremely thin. They are really dark and thin, with their small chests so thin that you can see their ribs, and their heads look a bit big.

These cubs looked even thinner than the batch they had previously abducted.

Ling Chengen saw this and felt very uncomfortable.

However, she couldn't help improve the lives of these cubs for the time being. After all, life in Shilin wasn't easy either. Only when the Hailing tribe actually produced sea salt and started doing business with them could the children's lives begin to change.

Ling Chengen looked down at the basket containing several palm-sized small fish, a small octopus, a rather large sea cucumber, two red starfish, and a large number of razor clams, mantis shrimp, and bamboo shrimp.

The variety is quite rich, but the quantity is not very large.

This was the harvest after five or six half-grown cubs had been collecting for more than half an hour.

The youngest child put down the basket on his back and pushed it in front of Ling Chengen: "There are still these. If you want to eat them, kind sister, you can have them. We can pick more later."

Ling Chengen shook his head, returned the basket to them, and stood up, saying, "You guys continue with your work. We'd like to wander around the neighborhood a bit more."

She reached out and patted the heads of several mud-covered cubs, asking Bai Qingyu to keep an eye on them to prevent them from being swept into the sea by a sudden wave.

These children's animal forms are not all amphibious; some are terrestrial beastmen.

For example, the smallest cub has a tail that looks like a cat's tail.

Even if someone knows a little about swimming, they won't last long once they're swept into the sea.

Bai Qingyu nodded, unsure of what she was planning, but stayed with the cubs to keep an eye on them. She observed how they gathered seafood and quickly learned how to catch crabs from under the mud and sand...

Ling Chengen walked around the reef and saw a lot of abalone in the crevices. She glanced back at a few baby abalone and realized that it seemed like no one had pried them open.

These orcs from the Sea Spirit tribe don't seem to eat abalone. Have they not discovered that it's edible?
Besides abalone, some rocks are covered with densely packed oysters.

Her eyes lit up immediately when she saw it.

She turned to Bai Qingyu and asked him to come and help her.

After hearing her voice, Bai Qingyu spoke to the cubs and quickly walked over.

"what happened?"

Ling Chengen reached out his hand to him: "Can I borrow that small bone blade you have?"

Bai Qingyu drew the bone blade from his side and handed it to her. Seeing her walk towards the pile of rocks without looking back, he was puzzled for a few seconds before following her.

He watched as Ling Chengen began to pry open the densely packed small stones on the reef with his bone blade, observed for a moment, and then asked, "What's the purpose of prying these stones?"

“These are oysters.” Ling Chengen brushed her long, loose hair behind her back, but it quickly slipped down in front of her as she bent over, making her a little impatient. Her hands were dirty at the moment. “Could you help me tuck my hair in? It’s getting in the way.”

Bai Qingyu walked behind her, bent down slightly, and noticed that the wooden hairpin she usually used to secure her hair was gone: "Did you lose the wooden stick you used to tie your hair?"

"That's called a hairpin. I guess it fell into that cave before, but I didn't notice it." Ling Chengen was a little annoyed.

Bai Qingyu thought for a moment, then untied the colorful rope from her wrist and wrapped it around her hair, tying it up. "I thought these were stones. These things called oysters, are they edible?"

"Of course it can, and it has other uses as well."

Ling Chengen pointed to a spot a little below: "Could you help me pry off all the larger abalone as well?"

"You can eat that?"

"Of course, and it tastes great."

“There are plenty of these here. I don’t think the orcs of the Sea Spirit Tribe dig them up. They probably don’t know they’re edible, otherwise they wouldn’t let these things proliferate.”

This rocky area is quite large, and after the tide recedes, oysters and abalone can be seen everywhere in the crevices of the rocks.

Ling Chengen was quick and efficient. In a short time, he pried all the oysters off the rocks and threw them and abalone into his spatial storage. He also picked up a few octopuses, two red ribbons, and an eel that hadn't managed to escape after the tide receded and were struggling to survive in the small puddles between the rocks.

Bai Qingyu watched as she worked skillfully, as if it were her first time doing this, and was somewhat puzzled by what she had said earlier.

However, he quickly came to terms with it, perhaps because he had seen it in other sea areas.

When Hai Xing and his group surfaced from the sea, they saw a group of cubs circling around Ling Chengen and his companions, happily shouting, jumping, and waving their arms and legs.

He carried a basket of fish ashore, looked back at the tribesmen popping up one after another, and then felt relieved. He carried the heavy catch towards the direction where the cubs were.

"What happened?"

Hai Xing shook the water off his head; his animal skin skirt was still wet, and water dripped from his clothes. He looked at Ling Chengen and the others with some confusion on his dark face. He took two steps closer and found the children happily gathered around a basket.

He put down the basket of fish he was carrying, bent down to look at the bamboo basket that the children were staring at, and paused for a few seconds in surprise: "I actually found eels and octopuses today, and two redfish too? Who's so amazing?"

He subconsciously looked at the oldest cub, who immediately shook her head and said, "This older sister picked it up. She saw it in the crevice of the rocks over there, picked it up, and put it in our basket."

"However, she also pried off a lot of hard things growing on the rocks, saying that they were edible."

Hai Xing looked up at Ling Chengen and said, "You pried off those useless stone shells too? Those things are all shells with very little meat, and they are very hard. If you slip and fall on those stone shells, you might get seriously injured."

“Yes, I know.” Ling Chengen nodded. “But you don’t have much time to catch fish each day, so why not consider including these shellfish in your diet as well?”

Hai Xing frowned and said, "We only go for seashells when the catch is pitifully small. Besides, the seashells in the sea are bigger and have more meat than the rock shells on the reefs, so the tribesmen prefer to go into the sea to catch them."

“It takes some strength to pry off those rocky shells, and the rocky area is somewhat dangerous, so we usually don’t dare to let the cubs go there to collect seafood.”

“Since you don’t want those stone shells, would you mind if I made some to try at noon?” Ling Chengen didn’t argue with him. Sometimes, only by seeing the result can one change their initial prejudice.

Wild abalone will be hard to buy before the end of the world.

Unexpectedly, the coastal areas of the Beast World were overrun with beastmen, who were starving and yet remained indifferent to the situation.

Hai Xing looked at the eels and red silk in the bamboo basket, picked up the basket from the ground, and handed it to Bai Qingyu: "You can prepare these for yourselves for lunch. You can't go into the sea to catch fish, so you can't just eat those shellfish that won't fill your stomachs."

As he spoke, he opened the lid of his wicker basket and took out two large bread crabs and a large blue-green fish weighing five or six pounds.

"This is for you too, have it for lunch."

Bai Qingyu turned to look at Ling Chengen. Hai Xing was too lazy to argue with them, so he simply threw the fish and crabs into the small basket, which filled it up in no time.

"Aqi, are you going to continue fishing, or do you want to go home?" Haixing asked the cubs, looking down at them.

The young leader, named Aqi, stood tall and said, "We're going to keep catching crabs and shrimp here. Brother Haixing, you should go back first. We'll wait for Mother and Sister."

Hai Xing turned to look at the sea, frowned slightly, and asked, "Haven't your mother and the others come up yet?"

"Not yet. It surfaced once in the middle and left its catch there for us to watch."

Aqi pointed to the basket placed on the sand in the distance. It was a bit far from the sea, and it wouldn't be submerged unless the tide came in.

Hai Xing nodded, pointed to the two male orcs behind him, and instructed them: "You two stay here. If they haven't come ashore by now, go down and bring them up."

"If you get stung by a jellyfish, that would be troublesome."

The Hailing tribe lacks medical care and medicine. The male orcs are responsible for dealing with the jellyfish and often get stung. Over time, they gradually develop resistance. However, the female orcs are physically weaker and do not deal with jellyfish as often as the male orcs, so they are in great danger if they encounter them.

Having received their assignment, the two orcs immediately handed their fish baskets to their companions and turned to walk towards the sea, where they were to observe the changes in the water.

Ling Chengen glanced back at the rising sun, took out a similar new basket from his spatial storage, and gave it to Aqi: "I'll take your basket with me, but this new one is for you. It just doesn't have a lid. I hope you don't mind."

"After you return to your tribe at noon, you can come find us. I will cook the fish, shrimp, and crabs in the basket and treat you to a meal."

Aqi: "Is it as delicious as the fish we had before?"

Ling Chengen nodded: "It wasn't baked, but it tastes very good."

"I understand. We'll be there at noon. If we find any really good stuff, we'll bring it over for you to try."

Ling Chengen smiled and said, "Then thank you in advance."

After saying that, she picked up the basket, waved to Bai Qingyu, and the two of them followed Hai Xing and his group away.

It's still early; she'll come back to check when the egg yolk jellyfish appear in large numbers.

However, there is a very serious problem.

When Bai Qingyu brought her out this time, she didn't bring the big iron pot.

Chongzhen took the iron pot to cook for the cubs.

How can you cook these fish without a container?
Should we use a stone pot again?

(End of this chapter)