After observing carefully with his eyes close up, Mindarak was sure that the badge handed over by Yang Yu was indeed the certificate of victory awarded by the plant clan to the winner of the Autumn Festival.
It is hard to imagine that the conservative plant tribe would allow a human to participate in their autumn festival and let him take the lead.
You have to know that the racial essence of the plant race is the key to their continued survival, and not everyone can use it.
Did I really make a mistake
Mingdarak decided to listen to Yang Yu's opinion before making a decision.
After all, the other party was the one who delivered the Elf Queen's letter here, which meant that he had completely gained the Elf Queen's trust.
Saving a few elves alone was not enough to make the Elf Queen hand over such an important letter to someone who looked suspicious.
Seeing Yang Yu's colorful hair fluttering in the air, Mingdarak felt that Yang Yu did not seem like a good and decent person, but rather frivolous to an extreme.
Before obtaining substantial evidence that Yang Yu is a human, Mindarak does not intend to do anything to Yang Yu. He even has to ensure Yang Yu's safety to avoid causing dissatisfaction from Queen Elena.
"Your Majesty, this is indeed the badge awarded by the Plant Clan to the winner of the Autumn Festival. Perhaps, as he said, there is some misunderstanding."
Taking the badge from Mingdarak's hand, Qian Xialan nodded. This badge has patterns that are extremely close to nature. It does not look like it was polished, but rather it was grown automatically by plants.
I heard that the tree mother of the plant family has the ability to control plants to grow into various shapes. This badge might have come from there.
Qian Xialan handed the badge to the guards and returned it to Yang Yu.
"Since Prime Minister has said so, I am willing to believe that this badge is real. I hope you can explain why you have the scent of a human and give us a reason."
Taking the badge from the guard, Yang Yu pinned it on his chest.
"This is a past that I don't want to recall. Since Your Majesty wants to know, I will tell you everything I have experienced."
As he spoke, Yang Yu took off his mask, looking a little sad.
"The reason why I smell like a human is probably because I am not a pure plant race, but a hybrid of plant and human. Yes, I am the legendary plant man."
"Vegetative?"
Qian Xialan felt a little strange when she heard this word, but she could tell what was strange about it.
"Mixed blood?" Mindarak thought for a moment. "It is indeed possible. Your Majesty, it seems that I overlooked this point. This is my fault."
"Prime Minister Mingdarak, the mixed-bloods you and he mentioned are the same as what I understand as mixed-bloods?" Qian Xialan asked.
"That's right. When orcs mix blood, the hybrids they create are more like one of the parents. But when two sub-human races are too different, if they give birth to offspring, both will have certain characteristics of their parents.
In the past, I have seen a hybrid born from Lamia and a cat-orc. The lower body was a snake, and the upper body had furry hair and ears. She lived with her mother Lamia.
Because she is half orc, sand always gets in her ears, and she always complains that she can't dive in the sand like other Lamias.
As for hybrids between humans and other subhuman races, since humans themselves do not possess many characteristics, the hybrids born from subhumans and humans often have the subhuman characteristics diluted, and are generally referred to as half-something.
For example, if a human, an elf, or a Lamia were to mate, the child would be called a half-Lamia, and might have scales on its body, but would look like a human.
Mingdarak patiently explained that as the war progressed, the various races that were originally scattered throughout the Wansheng country and grew up on their own would inevitably continue to have in-depth and simple exchanges. The emergence of hybrids was an inevitable trend of history and also a problem that the country must face in the future.
Now that he thought about it, Mindarak had to mention it so that young Chixialan could be mentally prepared in advance.
"Before humans expelled the demi-humans, hybrids called half-something were not uncommon. But now, except in the Dragon God Council Nation, hybrids called half-something are no longer seen."
"Really?" Qian Xialan seemed to understand, but she became interested. Lamia with animal ears might be very cute, not with a cold face. "Then what would happen if this hybrid mates with the same race of one of the parents?"
"The offspring born will probably be more inclined towards the non-hybrid side."
"So, what happens if two identical hybrids combine? If two different hybrids combine, will a hybrid with four sub-human characteristics be born?"
Mingdarak coughed lightly, and Qian Xialan realized her gaffe. She suppressed her curiosity, sat up straight, and tried to cover up the embarrassment by asking Yang Yu questions.
"You said you are a hybrid of plant and human. What's the evidence?"
Yang Yu pointed at his face with a wry smile, "Is it not enough to rely on my face that is no different from that of a human
I don't know if I am a hybrid of plant and human. I just heard that my adoptive parents found me in a bush.
When I was a child, I was no different from other humans, until I was eight years old, when something like a sapling suddenly grew on my head.
I was extremely scared at that time, wondering if I had contracted some strange disease. My adoptive parents were also very anxious, looking for prescriptions and medicines, and were constantly making a fuss.
Not only do I have to live in the shadow every day, but I am also laughed at by my friends. They even think that I did this just to appear unique.
They pulled the saplings on my head and it was excruciating pain every time.
Finally, I shut myself in at home, practicing human swordsmanship, thinking that as long as I mastered it, no one would dare to bully me.
It was not until I was sixteen that my adoptive parents finally found out from the Library of All Things that I might be a plant and did not belong to the human world.
The two couples who adopted me did not look down on me just because I was a plant. Instead, they were very caring towards me.
Since my plant abilities were not obvious, I had intended to live in the city hiding my true identity to repay my adoptive parents.
However, I unfortunately suffered from the wood metaplasia disease unique to plants.
If I leave it alone, my life will come to an end.
My adoptive parents didn't want to see me continue to suffer, so they finally told me that if I could obtain the essence of the plant race and be lucky enough to become a superior species in the plant family, all problems would be solved and I might even be able to find my biological parents.
I couldn't bear to let my adoptive parents down, so I embarked on a journey back to my hometown and successfully won the first place in the plant tribe's autumn festival.
Unfortunately, after using the racial essence, I did not become a superior species, but only a rare species. Although the symptoms were alleviated, they could not be completely eradicated.
Moreover, I did not find my biological parents, so I had to start over again."
(End of this chapter)