Chapter 1437: Chapter 1285: Ancient Beast World 42
Wu Yan and Li Yi both thought Shuangshuang had previously taken them on a tour of the Silver Tiger Clan to showcase its strength, indicating that the Silver Tiger Clan did not need the Mammoth Clan’s protection, which was a disguised rejection of their earlier proposal.
In fact, they had misunderstood. Shuangshuang’s intention was simply to place the Silver Tiger Clan and the Mammoth Clan on an equal footing, breaking down Wu Yan and Li Yi’s subtle arrogance.
This arrogance was not something Wu Yan and Li Yi intentionally displayed. It was just that the Mammoth Clan had always been undefeated, with hardly anything troubling them aside from food storage.
In such a state, even if they were of good character, and wouldn’t look down on other beastmen or deliberately act superior, a self-pride born from their bones was inherent.
The Silver Tiger Clan was also a very powerful tribe, but compared to the Mammoth Clan, it was considerably less so. Therefore, even when seeking an alliance with the Silver Tiger Clan, Wu Yan and Li Yi approached it with a few unconsciously superior airs.
Such a situation might not pose any problems shortly after the two clans started living together, but in the long term, it could easily lead to the Silver Tiger Clan becoming a vassal to the Mammoth Clan. More importantly, Shuangshuang needed to have absolute authority.
Shuangshuang planned to build a city, even a country, and the Mammoth Clan was a highly valued ally. With the Mammoth Clan’s inclusion, combined efforts from both clans would play a crucial role in Shuangshuang’s future plans.
Therefore, Shuangshuang needed to eliminate the hidden, unaware arrogance of Li Yi and Wu Yan, encouraging them to regard the Silver Tiger Clan with an equal mindset. The attitudes of the Great Witch and the Clan Leader were enough to influence the entire Mammoth Clan.
Only when Shuangshuang’s authority was strong enough to command the Mammoth Clan would her future plans unfold smoothly, without any hindrance.
Shuangshuang’s approach proved effective. This time, when discussing an alliance, the subtle superiority in Wu Yan and Li Yi’s attitudes had vanished, and they no longer mentioned having the Mammoth Clan handle the safety of the Silver Tiger Clan.
Shuangshuang directly presented the city model, a small-scale future city model that she and Yan Ming painstakingly crafted together over a month.
The city model was incredibly beautiful, neatly arranged houses, interconnected roads, and greenery embellishing it, making it nothing short of stunning.
As soon as Li Yi and Wu Yan saw the city model, they were astounded. Although they didn’t know what a house was, they could immediately tell the squared-off items were meant for living in.
Shuangshuang and Yan Ming took turns explaining to Li Yi and Wu Yan what a city was and sincerely invited the Mammoth Clan to join this future city, becoming part of it.
When it came to persuasion, Shuangshuang was a master, while Yan Ming, though not speaking much, made every word feel utterly reliable, owed to his own charisma.
Under the repeated persuasion of Shuangshuang and Yan Ming, Li Yi and Wu Yan almost eagerly agreed, their blood boiling with excitement as Shuangshuang and Yan Ming painted a beautiful vision of the future.
Looking at the city model in front of them, they could almost imagine what life would be like living in such a city in the future, and the thought of personally participating in building such an unprecedented city made them feel extremely excited.
The Mammoth Clan’s mobility had always been incredibly strong, as evident when they previously wanted to join the Silver Tiger Clan and came without waiting for a moment.
Now, as they decided to move the entire clan to live in the Silver Tiger Clan’s valley, Wu Yan and Li Yi immediately mobilized the tribesmen, completing the grand relocation task in less than three days.
Fortunately, there were plenty of vacant caves in the Silver Tiger Clan’s valley, accommodating the Mammoth Clan was not a problem at all.
The Mammoth Clan members were very industrious. Noticing the simplicity of the Silver Tiger Clan’s vegetable storage cellar, they immediately started modifying the cellar upon arrival, based on the Mammoth Clan’s way.
The Mammoth Clan’s cellars were very exquisite, featuring not only wide corridors but also different storage rooms to categorically store wild vegetables.
The Mammoth Clan was even easier to get along with than Shuangshuang had anticipated, almost requiring no adjustment, as they got along very well with the Silver Tiger Clan.
The Mammoth Clan’s beastmen were very simple and honest, and particularly good-tempered, while the Silver Tiger Clan members were remarkably tolerant, different from other beastman clans or even other Silver Tiger Clan members.
Bringing such approachable groups together, with mutual tolerance, naturally made it easy to get along without any conflicts.
The harmony was unexpected even for Shuangshuang, who had prepared multiple conflict resolutions in advance, fearing friction when the two tribes lived together.
On the square, seeing the simple Mammoth Clan beastmen transformed into enormous Mammoth beast forms, training with Silver Tiger Clan beastmen to hone their combat skills.
Shuangshuang couldn’t help but marvel, thinking this rare harmony could only appear in a primitive society where almost no one harbored ill intentions, with survival as the greatest concern.
In such harmonious conditions, the cold season passed quietly as water, and soon came the blooming spring. Shuangshuang’s city construction plans could now proceed.
However, Shuangshuang did not hurry to start the city building plan but first prepared to expand the farming area, which had been long planned, as well as cultivate land.
Despite her eagerness to build the city, Shuangshuang did not begin immediately. Before starting city construction, she had to solve the food issue.
Only when full and warm can people work on construction; otherwise, working on an empty stomach would lead to resentment, even among the simplest beastmen. Moreover, Shuangshuang’s aim in building the city was to provide a better life for everyone, not to exploit them.
Shuangshuang wouldn’t do things against basic priorities. Thus, after the cold season passed, the first issue Shuangshuang addressed was food.
Firstly, meat issues needed to be resolved by the farm. Through years of farming, the Silver Tiger Clan had progressed from merely capturing prey to now being able to breed their own cubs.
The farm was built large, a vast area of caves was excavated next to the underground caves to allow animals to avoid the cold during the cold season.
The outdoor pens were also built very spacious, ensuring farm animals could be active outside even during cold seasons without freezing to death.
Shuangshuang designated the beastmen in the Silver Tiger Clan who were skilled in farming to be responsible for raising animals at the farm and assigned those skilled in cultivating land to supervise the collective farming efforts.
With the Mammoth Clan’s help, both farm construction and land cultivation progressed rapidly.
During the farm construction, a single Mammoth Clan beastman could easily lift objects equivalent to half the weight of a truck. The giant stones used in building the farm were all fetched by the Mammoth Clan from the mountains.
When cultivating land, Mammoth Clan beastmen dragged specially enlarged farming tools, one person rivaling the work speed of four or five Silver Tiger Clan beastmen.
