Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 375 - 250: "Purchasing" a Beautiful Female + Loyalty Unto Death

Chapter 375: Chapter 250: "Purchasing" a Beautiful Female + Loyalty Unto Death

An Jin spread the crumpled piece of paper out on the stone table. "Look, it’s a request to purchase a female, but the contents..."

"Purchase a female?" Xi leaned over the table. The confused words slipped out before he could even read the paper clearly. "Selling a precious female... isn’t that something only small, poor tribes that can’t protect themselves would do?"

"Why would someone want to buy a female from our city? Besides, our city has never announced that we’re selling females..."

Mi Yin and Ling Hong, however, seemed to already know. They didn’t spare the paper much attention or curiosity, but their expressions suddenly darkened.

This is what the paper said.

—To the prosperous city and its great City Lord, I wish to purchase a female from your city.

—I trust that a city of your wealth can surely provide me with the most beautiful female in the world. A rare, unique, and perfect female to bear me the strongest offspring... and so on for another seven or eight lines.

An Jin was speechless. ’The only thing missing was my social security number.’

—A one-of-a-kind female.

’Isn’t that a female with a beast form?’

Although she wasn’t sure if she was truly the only one in the world, for now, every single condition specified in this letter pointed directly to her.

"This person didn’t sign their name, but..."

She ran her hand over the black seal at the bottom of the paper, took a deep breath, and let it out. Looking down, she said with certainty, "Someone from the Beast Slave King City had a Beastman deliver this to me. And it’s highly likely it was the person behind all this."

"Before you were due to give birth, I received a similar paper. The words written on it were identical, even the handwriting was nearly the same."

Ling Hong looked down, his gaze falling on her worriedly. "I was afraid it would upset you, so I... I didn’t tell you..." He unconsciously clenched his fists, his deep voice as if tempered with ice. "Nothing has happened for the past two months. I thought they had given up, but I never expected them to still be harboring such wicked ambitions!"

Mi Yin’s lips curled into a cold sneer. A cluster of flames erupted from his fingertip, instantly burning the paper to ash. "If they want a war, then we’ll give them one."

Because they were exposed while their enemy was hidden, Mi Yin and the others had planned to lie low and bide their time out of concern for An Jin’s safety. But they hadn’t expected the enemy to be so relentless. Naturally, they wouldn’t just let themselves be bullied.

Moreover, that damned Beastman’s target was Jin’er. If it had been some other unrelated matter, given Mi Yin’s lazy personality, he wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But now, he was itching to snap the neck of the person pulling the strings.

"Don’t act rashly just yet." An Jin grabbed his hand and shook her head. "Since he dared to have a Beastman bring this matter out into the open, it means he’s already prepared."

She clasped her hands tightly, her mind in a turmoil. This feeling of being exposed while the enemy lurked in the shadows was awful. "The moment you leave, the spies he’s already planted in the city might make their move. After all, his real target... is me."

"The reason they haven’t dared to act rashly, lying in wait in the city for nearly two months—no... perhaps even longer—is because you two are by my side. After all, no one would fail to be wary of the threat posed by two King Beasts."

Mi Yin’s and Ling Hong’s killing intent and desire for battle cooled bit by bit at her words. It was true. If they really acted on their anger and rashly went to declare war, Jin’er would be utterly defenseless without their protection—like meat on a platter.

"Then what should we do?" Xi was burning with anxiety, hating his own powerlessness and weakness all the more.

’If only... if only I were a little stronger, if only I had trained more diligently in the past, I wouldn’t be so completely useless right now.’

"Don’t worry. We’ll take this one step at a time. As long as you’re by my side, those things hiding in the dark corners won’t dare to make a reckless move."

After the initial panic and anger subsided, An Jin’s mind became clear again. She looked at them with a light smile, her slender fingers tapping gently on the tabletop. "Step one: we root out the spies. This time, we conduct a thorough search of the entire city. No one gets missed!"

...

In the first-floor meeting hall of the castle, thirty or forty Beastmen were gathered. All of them were from the first batch of spies who had previously switched their allegiance.

An icy chill emanated from her clear, dark eyes. An Jin sat ramrod straight, her gaze sweeping coolly over the dozens of uneasy figures. Her fingers tapped lightly on the table. "Do you all understand what I’ve said?"

"Don’t make me regret saving you. Now is the time to prove your worth."

Through the ultimate use of her spiritual power, she could freely probe their state of mind and level of loyalty. This was also why she had dared to so easily spare these "spies" in the first place.

She had seen their forbearance and unwillingness to submit.

The expressions on the Beastmen’s faces gradually shifted from their initial unease to firm resolve.

The highest-ranking and most influential among them, an Old Beastman, stepped forward.

He was old but sharp, and he could see the current situation—and who was the right side to be loyal to—most clearly.

He bent his stooped back, placed a hand over his heart, and performed a grand salute of the Beast World. "We are willing to await your command, esteemed female."

The crowd grew excited as well.

"If it weren’t for you, we’d still be struggling to survive under that damned monster’s thumb, with no freedom or humanity, destined to become his food in the end. It was you who saved us!"

"From the day you saved us, you became our new City Lord!" They looked at her with firm, profound gazes. Remembering their past humiliation, their eyes turned bloodshot with rage, which in turn forged an even more unshakeable loyalty to An Jin.

An Jin nodded. "I am naturally willing to believe in your loyalty, but I’m not so sure about your efficiency." ’After all, Ling Hong rounded them all up so easily last year. It makes me seriously doubt how bright this secret little team is.’

"Don’t worry, City Lord! It’s just catching spies, right? Those newcomers are no match for us!"

"Things like Sound Transmission Butterflies for exchanging information, secret passwords, hidden bases, and all that..." A tall, thin Beastman chuckled. "We’ve seen all those little tricks before. We know them like the back of our hand. We can definitely round up all the new guys in one go."

An Jin was speechless. ’"Round them up in one go," indeed.’

’Keeping them around back then was definitely the right choice.’

’They talk a big game. I hope they can actually deliver. They’d better not just be a bunch of braggarts.’

...

"AWOO!" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Seeing a lot of strange Beastmen "invading" their home, the three cubs, who had just come back from frolicking outside, "fiercely" let out a couple of yips at them. After successfully "scaring off" the trespassers, they swaggered into the house, their little tails wagging smugly.

"AWOO!"

The eldest cub spotted An Jin with his sharp eyes and immediately turned and ran toward her, his increasingly fluffy, snow-white wolf tail wagging happily back and forth on the ground.

The second and third cubs followed close behind.

The cubs affectionately rubbed against her calves, but when they saw their mother’s furrowed brow and worried expression, the three little ones looked at each other, then let out a cautious, questioning "Awoo?" at her.