Rebirth in Another World: My Brother is an Intelligent Being

The rumor spread quickly. In just two days, the victims' families had formed a team online to attack the Ouyang family.

The general story is that the Ouyang family used underground channels to sell problematic drugs, causing people to turn into bestials, and used this to make profits, establish their own image, and take the opportunity to sell inhibitory drugs, etc. Anyway, there are several versions of the rumor, and none of them are good.

The medicines sold by the Ouyang family are not cheap, require long-term injections, and only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

There is no way around it. The ingredients in the potions are not common, and the cost is there. The serum of high-level monsters alone is not something that ordinary people can afford, let alone the serum that contains elemental power.

But rumors could spread so quickly and get out of control. If it weren't for the instigation of other families, even the simple-minded Ouyang Siyu would not believe it.

Naturally, Hanlin is involved. It is said that Hanlin has been conducting research on exotic beast grafting in recent years, and now he is planning to use living people for experiments.

This just happened to be linked to the Warcraft riot in Hanlin a while ago, and someone posted photos of the corpses of the Warcraft in the beast tide at that time.

Suddenly, the situation became more complicated.

Many teachers from the four major schools have seen these corpses, and the four major colleges also have these corpses. They were shared by Hanlin with other colleges for research.

Although the beast tide incident was kept secret from the general public, nearly every student and faculty member at Guang Hanlin Academy participated in the fight. Technically, this incident wasn't a secret within the supernatural world, but it was unexpectedly exposed to the public in this way.

Hanlin was unable to defend itself, especially given its prestige within the supernatural world. Unable to stop the overwhelming number of ignorant people, both Hanlin Academy and the Ouyang family were quickly trending in negative news.

As soon as this rumor came out, naturally none of the psychics believed it, especially the students from the four major academies. They knew best what the orcs were, as they had been out on missions.

However, ordinary people were unaware that the rumors were becoming increasingly outrageous, with rumors circulating online that Hanlin Academy was attempting to research a new species of human. Fortunately, these people were merely making complaints, and their lack of physical strength meant they didn't cause any substantial damage to Hanlin Academy.

Li Xingchen hadn't finished sorting out the matter yet, but the imprisoned orcs had a problem first.

A hole was poked in the yellow mud house where the orcs were imprisoned, and two orcs came out fighting each other, followed by the roar of beasts from inside.

The first one to react was Jiangjiang, who immediately transformed into a tree and took root in the center of the cave.

It has recently been very fond of taking root here, because when Zhang Xuan set up the formation, he also added the spirit gathering, and it happened that the middle of the cave was the location with the most abundant energy.

A vine whip hit the faces of the two orcs. As soon as they separated, Xiao Hei roared like a beast and slapped one of them with his claws.

“Roar!!” Behave yourself, my king!!

The orcs, each with two more bloodstains, stared warily at the tree and the leopard in front of them with red eyes, and made a whining sound like a wild beast.

They all understood what the huge black panther in front of them roared, and their brains automatically translated what it said.

Before the half-orc, whose mind was still unclear, could figure out the situation, two more people rushed out of the yellow mud house. Two vines used for building a structure were stuck in the newly opened hole and shattered outside.

The talisman paper drawn by Zhang Xuanyi was no longer on the foreheads of the two halves of the beast. It seemed that the effect of the talisman paper had expired.

Without saying anything, the craftsman drew these two more.

Then, without waiting for anyone inside to come out, the vines rushed directly into the yellow mud house. After a burst of chickens and dogs shouting, those with talisman papers on their foreheads and those without, including the four who had rushed out earlier, were all tied up by the craftsmen and hung on the trees.

Everyone was watching in amazement.

This little tree demon is really fierce when he shows his power.

A new vine structure instantly emerged from the broken yellow mud house, and the fallen branches slowly sank into the mud.

It seems that the craftsman hates these orcs very much for destroying the fruits of his labor.

Xia Qin and A Wang hurriedly flew down from the warehouse on the top of the cave carrying the injection medicine.

Li Xingchen's eyes twitched.

"I'll let you get some potions. Just take a few. You don't have to carry them all down."

The two birdmen were embarrassed. "We were too anxious just now."

Li Xingchen glanced at the orcs hanging in the air and said to the only two of his own who could fly, "Give them the injection. Once you're done, I'll have to help carry the rest back."

After being injected with the potion, the orcs finally regained consciousness. Several of them immediately began to sob and let out unknown beast roars.

Xia Qin translated quietly to a few people.

Several people immediately understood that these people had accidentally transformed into beasts and some of them had accidentally hurt their families.

He didn't use any strength when he transformed into a beast, so maybe...

Li Xingchen didn't want to think about it too much. Similar incidents were happening in various regions across the country. The most important thing now was to control the situation from getting worse.

Capturing orcs was one possible solution for the various noble families, but no family had the resources to supply them.

It's no wonder that both the Ouyang family and the academy were in the spotlight. They wanted the potion, but they also feared the two would seize the opportunity to increase their power.

The Ouyang family and Hanlin Academy, one has been committed to peace and prosperity since its inception, and the other has been loyal to the peace of Country Z since its inception. Now that they are being treated so disgustingly, no one knows how they will fight back.

Li Xingchen was thinking about the group of orcs he had rescued from the academy. The academy was unable to speak for the orcs now. Judging from the attitude of the major families, if he didn't care, the orcs' previous identity cards would probably be in vain. If the situation got worse, they might even become slave pets of Country Z.

Zhao Gang was also worried. He looked at Li Xingchen, then at the others hanging upside down in the tree. He wondered what his benefactor was going to do with them… These were his kind now, right? They could no longer be considered “human.”

Noticing Zhao Gang's actions, Li Xingchen thought for a moment, then went over and whispered a few words to him, then pulled his brother and jumped onto Xiao Hei's back.

They are going to the woods.

When Ouyang Siyu and the others came two days ago, they agreed to intentionally drive the mad orcs into this forest. Now, patrolling and picking people up every day is an indispensable job for Xiao Hei and the other beasts.

"My brother and I will be out for a while. You three can handle the things here."

The words were spoken to three orcs. Among the three, Zhao Gang had the most say as he was an elder of the alliance.

Xiao Hei let out a low roar, leaped up, and a little elemental power surged under his feet, and he rushed out like the wind.

Shadow One and Shadow Two hurried to follow.

The craftsman stretched out a trembling branch towards Li Xingchen. It wanted to go there too. Thinking of the orcs still hanging on it, it had no choice but to retract the branch and wrap the hanging people tighter.

Someone couldn't bear it anymore and screamed, and finally spoke in human language, "Sacred Tree, we can talk it over."

The craftsman whipped the tree again, and the leaves above his head trembled after he whipped them.

What are you yelling about? It can be considered a tree demon at best, but it doesn’t deserve the name of “sacred tree”.