Tiger Tribe IJiang Yu is the kind of person who cravenly clings to life instead of facing death.
So, during an accident when he was. .h.i.t by a car until his blood and guts flew horizontally, when a voice asked him if he wanted to be reborn, he agreed without hesitation.
Only a fool would pa.s.s up the opportunity to be reborn.
It was only when Jiang Yu felt the sensation of his soul floating in the air receding, and himself again returning to Earth that he finally realized what he had agreed to.
Really? What kind of a world was this?
Why was there a boy with a long, furry tail in front of his eyes?!
Jiang Yu’s soul had just returned, and because of the boy it almost flew off again.
“Ah Yu*, you finally woke up!” Upon seeing his eyes open, the boy with the long tail became excited and involuntarily waved his long tail.
(* "Ah" is a form of endearment)
Faced with this unusual scene, Jiang Yu trembled.
He gave the boy a stiff glance. The tail, which looked like a lone tree or a banner, had the same effect on him as the sky falling down. Jiang Yu’s strong-willed heart, which had experienced a car accident, fought to hold on, but finally, his eyes closed and he fainted.
In a haze of darkness, Jian Yu, now in his spiritual world, saw a glowing wall. A few words twinkled on it.
Jiang Yu looked at them silently for a long time.
Don’t even try to imagine how complicated his feelings were.
Of course, he still couldn’t believe the obvious things.
Why were there chimeras in this world?
The twinkling words on the wall explained Jiang Yu’s task in this world, as well as the world’s history.
Unlike Jiang Yu’s world, where there were males and females, this world had three genders: shapes.h.i.+fters, chimeras, and females.
On this primitive continent, the human race still hadn’t developed sufficiently, and their lives were primitive and harsh.
Shapes.h.i.+fters could shapes.h.i.+ft into animals and fight with actual animals for prey. In addition, the females in this world were unlike what Jiang Yu had pictured, their body structure was virtually identical to a male’s, but . . . apparently, they could give birth!
Give birth?
The most horrifying news was that he was currently in one of those female bodies!!
Jiang Yu felt that his worldview had just been profoundly challenged.
He silently hung his head, looking at his abdomen, his face ferocious.
Really, what was up with this stupid world? Was there anyone who could explain it to him?!
As expected, the pastry bun that falls from the sky is not a swindler’s trick, it’s just filled with poison*.
(*A common saying in China is 天上不会掉馅饼：pastry buns will not fall from the sky ）
But when he thought of how he would have died had he not chosen to be reborn, his fiery anger extinguished with a fizzle.
He silently comforted himself, at the very least he wouldn’t starve to death, right?
After building up his emotional defenses, Jiang Yu once again looked in the direction of the glowing wall.
Besides shapes.h.i.+fters and females, there was another cla.s.sification, the chimeras. The boy that Jiang Yu had seen just now was one of them, they had a beast form that didn’t disappear completely, but they were much weaker than wild animals and couldn’t help much at all during hunts.
Because their strength was inferior to the shapes.h.i.+fters and their fertility was inferior to the females, the tribal position of chimeras was extremely uncomfortable.
Jiang Yu’s task in this world was to straighten out a shapes.h.i.+fter villain named Mu.
He looked at the history of this world written on the wall. This villain Mu had almost died because he had been framed. Starving, he ate a red fruit and unexpectedly gained the power to summon wild animals. Shortly after he gained this ability, he destroyed his own tribe, then started to invade other tribes, causing countless casualties and deaths. Many tribes had been completely destroyed.
Even though he was eventually defeated by the darling of Wei Mian -- someone called Ai Ma, the damage he had caused set the Wei Mian civilization back many decades.
The tribes that had started to experiment with pottery had been destroyed by Mu’s army of animals, and likewise, almost all of the females and shapes.h.i.+fters experimenting with medicine had died.
And Jiang Yu’s task is to prevent Mu from doing all of this.
To make it easier, Jiang Yu was sent directly to the time when Mu was only four or five.
--Once Mu begins to destroy the tribe, he will have failed the task! The giant red words flashed before his eyes, and Jiang Mu suddenly felt an enormous pressure.
After thinking for a long time, he, having no alternative, could only shrug his shoulders.
Never mind, however you look at it, he has an extra life. To do a little something as repayment is only fair.
Not to mention that the task he is doing is important and can save a lot of people. To boast that he is the savior of the world is not excessive, haha.
Thinking of his merits and virtues, Jiang Yu could not help smugly laughing out loud.
“Ah Yu, are you okay?”
Upon hearing this sound, Jiang Yu recovered, and only then realized that he had left the spiritual world.
Upon seeing that long tail again, Jiang Yu felt much more comfortable due to his newly built emotional defense.
“Why did your laugh just now sound so . . . strange?” the long-tailed boy looked very confused, he kept on feeling that the Ah Yu before him seemed a little off.
Jiang Yu looked at him expressionlessly, and in a confident voice said, “You heard wrong!”
“Ah?”, the boy stared blankly, completely fooled by Jiang Yu’s expression. Then he foolishly nodded his head.
“Right now is there any place that feels painful?” After a long time, the boy reacted to the most important thing, worried.
“I’m fine”, Jiang Yu felt awkward, and quickly changed the subject, “I heard that the shapes.h.i.+fters of Qi are training, let’s go and watch.”
The boy’s eyes lighted up at once, and a hint of red floated onto his face, he awkwardly stuttered, “Well, . . . well ok.”
After Jiang Yu woke up he discovered that he can access this body’s memory, which is like a collection of disorganized images. When he discovered why the original body was comatose, he didn’t know whether to frown or smile.
You can say that this child intentionally sought death.
Because females are rare, in this world they can be considered more precious than gold and doted on by others their whole lives. Thus, most of their att.i.tudes are very arrogant and willful.
Ah Yu was that kind of a person, only four years old and already unbearable because of his rude and unreasonable att.i.tude.
Today Ah Yu wanted to go to the forest to play, but by chance, most of the little shapes.h.i.+fters were going training, and the grown-ups were going hunting. A small female like Ah Yu has a very weak body, and definitely would not be able to walk so far. Just when Ah Yu was throwing a tantrum, he met the shapes.h.i.+fter Mu.
This was no cause for alarm, the rude and arrogant Ah Yu immediately shouted for Mu to shapes.h.i.+ft into an animal and carry him to the forest.
Mu very rarely partic.i.p.ated in activities except for very important ones because of his frail body, and he extremely disliked the unruly little female, so he very bluntly refused.
And how could Ah Yu, who was used to people helping, stomach being rejected by someone else?
In a rage, Ah Yu looked for Mu’s father and Ah Yu’s father to tattle to.
In the memory, Jiang Yu could see Mu’s malicious gaze at that time. It was hard to imagine that such a gaze would appear on a seemingly cheerful child.
Jiang Yu felt an unnameable feeling of oppression.
Mu had stared at Ah Yu for an instant and then agreed.
He changed into his animal form and carried Ah Yu on his back, running to the forest. Because his body was weak, their speed was slow, causing Ah Yu to become impatient.
Ah, Yu continuously swatted his head and fiercely pulled on his fur, shouting at him to go faster.
After finally reaching the forest, Ah Yu even ordered Mu to climb on a tree.
Seeing Mu’s weak body tremble, Ah Yu laughed evilly and mocked his good-for-nothing stature.
Perhaps Mu’s body had finally reached a critical point, his foot slipped while he was walking, causing both Ah Yu and himself to fall out of the tree.
In panic-stricken Ah Yu’s comatose state, he saw Mu’s pitch-black eyes even more clearly.
They were full of despair, hate, and unwillingness, the intense emotions seemed to rush out of his eyes.
Jiang Yu felt as if something was stuck in his throat.
A hundred different emotions were tangled in his heart, bitter and unusual.
Although Jiang Yu was a coward, in reality, he just hadn’t been in any threatening situations and had only been in a couple of frustrating situations.
His parents were loving, and he and his friends were as close as brothers.
Although Jiang Yu didn’t have any achievements to his name, he pa.s.sed his life in a very satisfactory manner.
And so in his twenty-odd years, he had never experienced Mu’s hate and unwillingness, either firsthand or in someone else. It was only today that he saw it in a small child.
He was very shocked, and in his heart he felt extremely uncomfortable.
The intense emotions in Mu were not temporary.
Jiang Yu had seen the reason why the villain destroyed his village on that wall.
A weak shapes.h.i.+fter, in this world governed by the law of the jungle where the strong were respected, was shunned. With the exception of a few kind shapes.h.i.+fters, he was only met with biting ridicule and blows.
As for the father who was supposed to caringly raise Mu, he was the cruelest to Mu out of everyone.
All of Mu’s father’s warm-heartedness went to Mu’s new stepfather and the little step-brother he brought along, leaving Mu with only icy frigidness.
As for the so-called affection, Mu has a vague feeling that as long as his stepfather is alive, it will be very far away.
Mu endured all of the cruelty of the tribe, suppressing his feelings frequently, and after his last thread of hope went up in smoke, he lost it.
It’s not right to say he’s a villain, because right now he is only a pitiful child.
“Ah Yu, we’re here,” the boy by his side said softly.