Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 100 - 99: The Scheming System

The Central Continent already had oil lamps. The lamp oil was a mixture of animal fats and certain plant oils, with a thick cotton wick placed inside. They didn’t use much fuel, burned for a long time, and provided illumination—much better than bringing a bonfire inside.

Especially since the weather was gradually getting warmer, if one wanted to do some delicate work at night, they couldn’t just huddle around a bonfire flickering in the wind, could they?

The Beast Skin Bag was made from the Beast Skins they had brought. After sewing them together, they had a gold elemental beastman help build a frame to support it, and then had a beastman with a Stone Ability conjure a smooth stone bed, stone table and chairs, and a stone cabinet.

Inside the Beast Skin Bag, Ji Liang first set up a defensive barrier and lit the oil lamp.

Si Shuo placed a glass cover over it, so the black smoke and smell from the oil lamp would only rise upward.

She found some kraft paper and a pencil and leaned over the stone table to write a letter to Zhi Le and Gong You, who were out on the spring hunt.

She wrote about the people from the Qingxi Tribe setting up an arena, described everything she had seen, and also expressed how much she missed them.

Ji Liang felt a little sour again. ’I’m the only male by the little female’s side, yet she’s thinking about and missing those others.’

’I don’t even know if it’s better to stay by her side, or to go out and be the one she worries about and misses.’

After finishing the letter, Si Shuo specifically found an envelope, folded the letter, and stuffed it inside. On the envelope, using Chinese characters, she wrote "To Zhi Le" and "To Gong You," followed by the words "From Si Shuo."

Of course, she was afraid they wouldn’t recognize the characters, so she added Pinyin annotations for all of them.

After she had tidied up, she looked outside the tent. It was so late, and Xu Chi still wasn’t back. ’He’s not planning to challenge people all night, is he?’

Ji Liang pulled her into his arms. "Little Shushu, tomorrow I’m also going to spend the whole day on the arena stage to properly hone my Combat Power.

For now, let me test my skills a little, and help you pass the time. It’ll save you from sitting around bored, worrying about one thing and another, staring at me in a daze..."

Si Shuo felt the coolness and passion from his body, and her mind quickly grew hazy. She dimly wondered if her Mating Period this time was a bit short, or if she was just preoccupied, because it hadn’t been as unbearable at night.

She once again slept until she woke naturally. Without even opening her eyes, she buried her face in the pillow in embarrassment. ’Ugh, this is so decadent!’

Seeing that she was awake, Xu Chi smiled and pulled her into his arms, nuzzling her neck. He placed a hand on her abdomen, touching it gently, his voice hoarse and tinged with excitement. "Si Shuo, you’re amazing. You’re pregnant with my cub."

Si Shuo?!

She was wide awake now. ’What the hell?’

Si Shuo stared at Xu Chi in a daze and asked haltingly, "Xu Chi, what did you just say?"

Xu Chi chuckled and kissed her forehead, then moved to continue affectionately downwards, but Si Shuo covered his mouth.

He held her hand tenderly and began to kiss the back of it. This clingy affection was much more intense than before; he was completely out of character!

Seeing the little female glaring at him, Xu Chi hugged her as if she were a rare treasure. "I said, A Shuo is carrying my cub right here."

Si Shuo was completely unprepared. Both Zhi Le and Ji Liang had said before that because her body was weak and they had to travel to the Central Continent, they had been very careful.

She had never worried about this and had subconsciously planned to get settled in Guangshou City first, then have a cub for Zhi Le, taking them one by one with a pregnancy every year or two.

That way, she wouldn’t get too tired, and the Beast Husbands could spend those couple of years properly raising the family’s cub.

Seeing her still in a daze, Xu Chi pressed his lips together, his expression crestfallen. His face even paled slightly as he asked in a low voice, "Does Si Shuo not want to have my cub? That’s not what you said yesterday."

Si Shuo blinked. She suddenly remembered that she *had* said something yesterday about having his cub.

’But the problem is, I didn’t mean right this instant!’

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Si Shuo hugged Xu Chi and muffled her laughter against him for a moment. Then, full of wonder, she placed her hand over his on her abdomen.

"Is there really a little deer cub in here?" Her other hand gripped Xu Chi’s arm tightly. She looked up, her azure eyes filled with shimmering flecks of joy.

’The little female is happy about having a cub with me!’

This realization brought Xu Chi even more joy than the feeling of his own bloodline continuing. The latter was like a precious spring rain, but the former was like a life-saving downpour after a long drought.

Xu Chi nodded, stroking her face. The surge of emotion in his heart made the rims of his eyes redden. "Yes. Our cub." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Si Shuo kissed his lips. "Then from now on, besides us, you have new family, someone to carry on your bloodline.

From now on, you can’t just fearlessly charge ahead anymore. You have to remember to look back and slow down sometimes, to wait for mother and child."

Xu Chi nodded emphatically again. "Okay. A Shuo is my life, and the cub will be the treasure in the palm of my hand."

Si Shuo felt a mix of love and heartache for Xu Chi. "Why did you stop calling me Si Shuo? So it’s only after I’m carrying your cub that I get to be your life, to be your A Shuo?"

"I was afraid you would leave me," Xu Chi said with a soft laugh. "I always felt that having A Shuo was a blessing from the Beast God, one that could be taken back at any moment. I didn’t dare to let myself get too greedy.

Calling you Si Shuo was a constant reminder to myself to work hard, get stronger, and protect you. But in my heart, I always really wanted to call you A Shuo.

Just like Zhi Le and the others do. That way, if I call out ’A Shuo’ in a crowd, you’ll know it’s me!"

To him, the cub was like a tangible thread connecting the two of them, a bond even deeper than the Beast Mark.

Si Shuo never expected that Xu Chi, who was always so quiet and selflessly devoted, had a much richer inner world than she had imagined.

After the two of them doted on the barely-conceived cub in her belly for a while, Si Shuo’s eyes shifted. She unmuted the System and, sure enough, she had completed Main Quest 2!

System: Congratulations, Host, for completing Main Quest 2 and successfully conceiving a cub! You have received the following rewards: one Superpower Awakening Pill, one Hidden Beast Form Pearl, one Pet Egg, one case of twenty-seven cans of formula, and twenty thousand Beast Coins!

Si Shuo couldn’t help but beam, her eyes curving with happiness. The System was so thoughtful! After acquiring her copy superpower, she had regretted taking a Superpower Awakening Pill herself, as it meant she could no longer copy anyone else’s abilities.

Moreover, the cub in her belly was a Horned Deer Cub. If it were a little female, that would be fine; little females don’t transform into a Beast Form, so as long as they were discreet, no one would know if she was a Horned Deer or a regular Deer.

But if the cub was a little male, they couldn’t possibly have Xu Chi stick by his side every second, constantly guarding him to make him stay in human form, could they?

With the Hidden Beast Form Pearl, she wouldn’t have to worry, even if she had several litters of cubs for Xu Chi in the future!

The System had always been quite stingy, especially when it came to Beast Coins. To cultivate her into a paragon of virtue, intellect, and physical labor, it had stubbornly tied all methods of earning Beast Coins to her own work.

Having been spoiled by her Beast Husbands, Si Shuo didn’t like to be too hard on herself, so she had already spent most of the Beast Coins she had accumulated.

She hadn’t had any time for gathering resources during their journey, so she never expected the System to reward her with twenty thousand all at once!

Si Shuo strongly suspected the System was indirectly encouraging her to have cubs. It had thought of everything—it was so worried the cub might be unable to awaken a superpower that it had even prepared a Superpower Awakening Pill without her having to ask.

’After all, in some modern countries, when people run out of money, they have children and live off of government support...’