【Interstellar Contract Magician】Ruyuanke

Chapter 4 [Orc Country] My Marriage

Later, I learned some basic knowledge about this world from Niu Xiuxiu and Li Lei.

This is the planet of the Orcs, ruled by the Orc Alliance. It's a remote, underdeveloped D-class planet. Originally planned for resource production, its natural resources are neither high nor low. It can only serve as a transit point for interstellar travel. It should have been downgraded to E-class, but somehow, commercial trade has taken off.

There are tens of thousands of transit stars within the Orcs' jurisdiction, but only one of them can develop trade functions.

Maybe it’s because it’s closer to the human empire.

It turns out there are still humans in this place.

The Orcs are a race where females are superior to males. On the one hand, males do have a higher birth rate, and on the other hand, females are very powerful.

Unlike other human races, the Orcs' primary abilities and combat power stem from their own bestiality. These are special abilities or attributes inherited through bloodline. They're genetic, innate, and ingrained.

Unfortunately, this energy can only be inherited by females. Females are born as beasts, born in animal form, and only as they mature can they gradually begin to maintain their human form for extended periods of time.

Males are born in human form, and their appearance is not much different from other species, except for their brighter coloration. It's not that they don't have animal races, but they don't have animal forms. Throughout their lives, from birth to death, they never change into a human form.

The power of the orcs comes from their own beast form. Without the beast form, they have no power.

Among different sexes of the same species, the powerless sex group will naturally be reduced to a reproductive machine, or even worse, to slaves, private property, goods, commodities...

This is a stage of development that most civilizations cannot avoid.

The Orcs are currently at this stage.

Yes, just like other gender-disadvantaged groups.

Orc males can only marry one wife for their entire life, and remain faithful to her. As for females, as long as they are able, they can theoretically have no upper limit to the number of partners they can have.

Orc males could not work or go out on their own, living like accessories of this era. Fortunately, they could not be bought and sold as slaves, because without their beast forms, they had no labor capacity worth purchasing.

But what is even more tragic is that they are the ones who give birth to children among the orcs.

This made them feel like birds trapped in the backyard, with only the world around them in their sight.

The Three Obediences and Four Virtues did not exist in this era, but they passively chose a life of the Three Obediences and Four Virtues because they had no choice.

I don't know what to feel.

As a female on this planet, and as a beneficiary, I am well aware of all the misfortunes and sadness, but I don't know how I should feel.

Maybe I really don't feel anything.

On the one hand, it's true that I currently belong to a vested interest group. And I can't possibly change anyone's perspective, not even the perspectives of those around me, not even the perspectives of the oppressed males. In this time and space, I'm the true outlier.

Even if they couldn't agree to fight and be beaten, they couldn't really accept the ideas of gender equality that I had encountered in my previous two lives. At most, they would listen and laugh, scold me, "You're crazy!", and then continue to live the life that made them gnashing their teeth.

I have seen a lot of these things in the past.

On the human side, things are a little different.

The term "human race" is a general term for those human races that retain the ideas and ideologies of ancient humanity and believe they are more closely aligned with them. While it's a general term, it can also be considered a similar race. After all, they all live within the same power or nation.

Unlike the Orcish tribal alliance, they were a strict imperial state with a grand yet ordinary name: the Interstellar Empire.

There are mainly divided into humans, new humans, workers, artists, etc. Collectively known as the human race.

The New Humans, also known as Inhumans, or in some places, the Inhumans, are one of the Empire's main fighting forces.

Humans are the closest human race to ancient humans.

As for the workers and artists among the human race, they tend to be more about passing on skills than bloodlines. However, these people have distinct characteristics and generally develop as a group. They have blood ties, mentor-apprentice relationships, and in-law relationships... They are very close-knit, and to a certain extent, they possess strong self-protective tendencies and xenophobic tendencies, like a single race.

The curious baby opened his mouth wide.

Niu Xiuxiu said that I have liked a male since I was a child and always called him Brother Bai.

I worked day and night to marry him.

She has never seen me waste a penny.

I haven't seen me eat any food other than the staff meal.

Even the clothes are the same style, pure white that will not fade even after washing for a long time.

This time I asked for leave to go home just to marry him.

I was silent for a long time and asked Xiuxiu how much does a wedding usually cost.

Xiuxiu said that generally there is no charge, and even the banquet is optional, but...

Yes, that five million was the “bride price” for the Bai family.

I was silent all the way back to the rental house, and Xiuxiu could see that I looked depressed.

"Well... it's okay, little lamb. If he, if he doesn't like you... right, well, there are plenty of males..." Niu Xiuxiu comforted me dryly, but at the end, it seemed that she couldn't continue.

“Thank you, Xiuxiu…” I felt helpless. It was hard to imagine that if I didn’t have a friend like Xiuxiu, I wouldn’t even know that I almost got married.

In her pocket was a wedding gift from the heron—the pregnancy fruit. It was said to allow the male to conceive immediately.

Now that I think about it...

But the question is, was the money given or not?

Is this marriage concluded or not?

"Xiu Xiu, have I ever told you his name..." I asked casually, my voice weak.

"Ah, I seem to have some impression..." Xiuxiu scratched her head and thought, "I think her name is Bai Lan."

Bai Lan...

My mind exploded.

Bai Lan!

It’s Bai Lan again!

Bai Lan, the one who took 1500 yuan from the original owner every month!

I'm afraid the money has already been given and they won't acknowledge it!