Chapter 67 part3 (1/2)

This time's long journey was coming to an end. It had been confirmed that the condition of the eight newborn cubs had stabilized and Xie Luan felt ready to return.

Knowing that the youth was about to leave, the day before Xie Luan had booked the return trip, the adult mukas in the village brought the cubs with them to do something.

Xie Luan saw the adults take the cubs with them in the morning. Nick who normally liked to follow him around took the initiative to join the group as well.

At first, Xie Luan also wanted to follow them and have a look, but Duke stopped him and had him wait in the house.

Since this was all the other had told him, Xie Luan could only stay there so he didn't ruin their plans.

It didn't take too long. After waiting in the house for about an hour, Xie Luan heard the sound of the adults and the cubs returning.

The cubs walked into the house. Xie Luan barely had time to notice this before he at once was surrounded by the dozen of muka cubs who had entered.

Encircled by the cubs, Xie Luan originally intended to coax the cubs like usual. But before he could do it, he was distracted by the blue gems they held with their forearms.

It was baseda ore.

Baseda ore was in fact a kind of blue and semi-transparent gem. Even if you disregarded its important role as a raw material for cores of high-tech weapons and merely relied on appearance alone, after being processed and polished, this kind of stone would certainly still sell at a considerable price.

The gems held in the forearms of these cubs were not mined by the adults, but by the cubs themselves after having studied and imitated the adults' actions.

Considering the cubs' builds, the ores mined by the eight muka cubs who were still only small babies were going to be a bit smaller. Xie Luan squatted down to receive the gems the cubs held up to him with their forearms.

One by one, the cubs let go of the gems and Xie Luan used two hands to catch them with a bit of difficulty. Once finished, the eight cubs seemed very happy and were waving their forearms at Xie Luan, making low hissing sounds.

It was about liking, but also about thanking.

They had been able to be born into this world all thanks to the youth's attentive care.

The biggest gem Xie Luan received was the one Nick gave him. The adults who had gone with the cubs told him that in order to smoothly extract it, the muka cub had diligently chosen to work on it for a long time.

「Which, family, cub?」Word by word this sentence appeared on the floating virtual screen as an adult muka in the room asked Xie Luan this question.

They only knew that this muka cub came to the village with the youth. The mukas in the village didn't know anything else.

Because he didn't think that it was necessary to specially mention it, Duke hadn't told them at that time.

He now had to explain that this muka cub was staying at a cub raising branch, that there were no parents. But just as he opened his mouth, Xie Luan rushed to answer before him.

“He is my family.”