He could only stare at the young female with pleading eyes for a long while. When he saw she wasn’t going to budge, he trudged dejectedly toward the cave entrance.

After walking some distance, he noticed the young female hadn’t followed him out, and his body felt no different. An idea sparked in his mind, and he took off running into the distance.

Wu Yue sat leisurely in her nest of grass, eating roasted meat. The surrounding Beastmen of the Scorpion Tribe saw that the first beastman hadn’t returned and assumed she was just bluffing.

They quietly shuffled toward the mouth of the cave. Seeing that Wu Yue had no intention of stopping them, they turned and ran outside, disappearing into the curtain of rain in an instant.

The others looked back at the young female, who was still eating her roasted meat. She seemed completely unfazed.

Overjoyed, they all ran out.

At this point, the only ones left in the cave, besides the still unconscious beastman, was the Angry Beast who had moved closer to the fire to warm himself.

Wu Yue looked at him with a grin. "Why aren’t you running?"

The Angry Beast sneered. "You witches are always scheming. Seeing how unconcerned you are about them escaping, I knew something must be wrong with them."

’Beastmen aren’t stupid. Why waste all that energy running away, only to have to come back?’

Wu Yue glanced at him and continued to leisurely eat the roasted meat in her hand.

Just as she finished her roasted meat, and even the Angry Beast was beginning to feel tempted, a series of hurried footsteps finally sounded from outside the cave.

A few Beastmen whose faces had turned a ghastly black and blue were dragging in another whose face was completely black. They came straight to Wu Yue. "Witch, please save him."

Wu Yue looked up. The one whose face had turned completely black was the very beastman who had captured her earlier.

She stood up and walked over to the beastman. "How pitiful. Why did you run so fast? I even called out to you a few times, but you ran so far you couldn’t hear me."

The Angry Beast: "..."

’This young female isn’t just ruthless, she also loves to lie to beastmen.’

The black-faced beastman: "..."

’Yeah, right!’

But he couldn’t speak or move right now. He could only lie there, his whole body stiff, letting out a few weak cries.

"He can hold on for a while longer. I’ll wait for the rest to come back and save them all at once. Doing it one by one is too much trouble."

Hearing this, a chill ran down the Beastmen’s spines. This female was even more heartless than a beastman. ’As expected of a witch.’

If Wu Yue knew what they were thinking, she would have scoffed in their faces.

’If I were really just a helpless young female, what good would come of being captured and sent to that Worm Witch?’

’I highly doubt that Worm Witch was coveting my beauty; after all, he doesn’t even know what I look like.’

’He only sent people to capture me because I dealt with his Poisonous Insect. If I were taken back, he’d probably feed me to his bugs.’

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before more and more Beastman Warriors returned.

By the time the beastman who had captured her could no longer hold on, there were still three Beastmen who had not returned.

"It seems the remaining three won’t be coming back," she said calmly.

With that, she stood up, took a jar of medicinal powder from the basket on her back, and slowly sprinkled it over the Beastman Warriors with pitch-black faces.

"You all had better behave. If you run off again, I won’t be saving you next time.

You’ve seen it for yourselves. As the poison takes effect, your legs are the first to stiffen. Then, it spreads bit by bit until every single part of your body is as hard as a rock.

At that point, all you can do is wait for death."

The Beastmen looked at their fellow tribesmen, feeling nothing but bitterness.

’We came here to capture someone, but we ended up being the ones controlled. When will this ever end?’

"What do you want us to do?" the Angry Beast suddenly spoke up.

Among all the Beastmen, his complexion was the least affected.

Wu Yue sneered. "I’m taking you back to my tribe, of course. You’ll work to compensate me for the fright you gave me earlier."

"You want to take us back as slaves?"

The Beastman’s expression instantly turned foul. After all, no tribe had ever used other beastmen as slaves.

Wu Yue shook her head. "You can’t be considered slaves. Slaves are our own tribe’s people. You can only be considered captives.

Beastmen from a tribe outside the forest who harmed our Snow Tiger Tribe and were captured by us.

After the long rainy season ends, I’ll send one of you back with a message. Let your tribe bring Beast Skins and other precious items to trade for your release."