Chapter 106 - 104: This Wonderful Misunderstanding
Six years ago.
Nan Zishi arrived in this world and was forced by the Childbirth System to sign a contract with it.
After the contract was established, the System found itself completely at the mercy of the human girl it had just bound. It was fuming internally. "I really don’t get it. What’s the difference between having a few kids and having dozens or a hundred?"
Nan Zishi replied, "The difference is huge. The difference is that I get to stay alive and still have a choice."
This human was too difficult to control. The System was getting impatient. "You only have half an hour left. Hurry up and find a Male to mate with."
"Mate my ass! We’re in the middle of nowhere!"
"There’s a heavily injured Male lying in a tree hollow a hundred meters ahead of you. Hurry up!"
The aphrodisiac from the System was incredibly potent. Nan Zishi’s breathing grew heavier as she stumbled forward.
’This Male really hid himself well.’
Nan Zishi pushed aside the tall grass and saw a strong, handsome, but severely wounded Male Beastman inside.
He was strong and handsome.
He looked incredibly tall, definitely over two meters. Compared to him, Nan Zishi felt like a child.
In a daze, she sized up the appearance of her first Male.
His chiseled features were soaked in a cold sweat, and a bead of blood that had clotted on his brow bone slid down the bridge of his nose.
His star-like eyes, which were usually too intense to meet directly, were half-closed and clouded with a painful haze.
With a suppressed grunt, the veins on his neck bulged and trembled slightly.
His muscles were powerful and firm, his body covered in wounds. Ice crystals were even spreading out from his heart.
’He’s clearly a fighter.’
The Male’s body was dotted with a few red feathers. He looked like a Bird Beastman... like an Eagle?
Although the man before her was dashingly handsome, she was still a little intimidated by someone so tall and strong.
’Should I have a child with him? My first child.’
"He’s been afflicted with a cold poison," the System explained. "Looks like snake venom."
"Cold poison, snake venom?"
"This is the Beast World, a Low Magic World where superpowers exist."
Nan Zishi took a disposable non-woven mask from her pocket and put it on.
"What are you putting a mask on for?"
"I’m about to do something terrible to him. Even if it is to save myself..."
After silently cursing herself, Nan Zishi steeled herself to go through with it.
"Besides, this man is muscular and looks like a tough fighter. I can’t let him recognize me."
As Nan Zishi approached the Male, his eyes fluttered open slightly, but he was too gravely injured to move.
"System, you have medicine for his injuries, right?"
"What are you doing? You just need to have a child with him. You don’t have to save him."
"I don’t want my kid to be fatherless from birth. More importantly, he needs to stay alive to raise the child for me. Give me the medicine, and I’ll do the mission right now."
"Nan Zishi! Don’t push your luck!"
"I’m pushing it."
"I must owe you from a past life! Getting stuck with a host like you is the worst luck I’ve had in eight lifetimes."
The System was hopping mad, but it still gave her the medicine to suppress the snake venom.
After receiving the round antidote pill, Nan Zishi dragged the Male down and laid him flat.
This Male was so big and strong that just dragging him into position was a huge effort.
The commotion caused by her actions roused the Male Bird Beastman a little. His face was pale.
’A young female?’
’A young female is touching me?’
The Male forced out the words, "Who are you?"
No female had ever dared to offend him like this.
He threatened her verbally, "What are you doing? Let me go."
"Mr. Eagle. I don’t know your name, and I don’t want to know it. So for now, I’ll just call you Mr. Eagle."
The Male frowned slightly.
’What kind of name is Mr. Eagle?’
Besides, he wasn’t an Eagle.
"Don’t touch me... or I’ll kill you, even if you are a female."
"Kill me?" Nan Zishi was glad she had worn a mask. Wouldn’t her life have been forfeit otherwise?
"You’re seriously injured and on the verge of death right now. And I, unfortunately, ate something I shouldn’t have and got bound to something I shouldn’t have."
"I need you to be my medicine. Mate with me, help me have a kid."
"And as it happens, I have a pill in my hand that can save your life. So..."
"I save you, you save me."
Nan Zishi couldn’t help but laugh. "Our fates are intertwined now. I’m a pawn for some system, and now you’re going to be my pawn."
"Don’t blame me for this."
Nan Zishi fed him the medicine for his injuries.
The temperature in the cave gradually began to rise.
Mr. Eagle’s abs were incredibly toned, and Nan Zishi didn’t hold back from touching them when the aphrodisiac took effect.
...
’It’s that Birdman, it’s Mr. Eagle!’
’The one who’s so burly and powerful, who looks like you shouldn’t mess with him, who looks like he could kill me with a single punch!’
’He’s the one husband I wanted to avoid acknowledging the most! Aaaah!’
’However satisfying it was to force him back then while doing the mission...’
’...is how panicked Nan Zishi is right now!’
’No wonder my Moon Attracting Starlight superpower turned me into a female Bird Beastman! Aah!!’
Nan Zishi quickly turned her head away, avoiding the Red Eagle’s gaze.
Even though she wore a mask back then, anyone who’s ever worn one knows it does next to nothing to prevent someone from recognizing you.
’If he recognizes me, isn’t this going to be a total train wreck?’
’This is going to kill me!’
Chi Xiao was still flapping his wings in the air. "Don’t be afraid..."
’No, I am afraid!’
"Fly slowly. I’ll teach you."
’Aah! I don’t need you to teach me!!’
Chi Xiao’s encouragement (?) had a huge effect.
Nan Zishi flapped even more furiously, but the pair of wings on her back refused to obey her.
’Heavens! This is the end of me! Somebody help!!’
When Hu Qian arrived, he thought he was just coming to the countryside to handle a minor case and hadn’t taken it very seriously.
This large territory in the East had weak spiritual elements, making it the weakest region in the entire Beast World.
The most powerful beings here were merely Seven-striped Beast Kings.
But to his surprise, the female he was sent to capture actually had two Beast King-level Beast Husbands—Xuan Jin and the Fox King—as well as a Mermaid Prince who, while not a Beast King, was just as powerful.
She had even cultivated her own power, and she was a Bird Beastman!
For the first time, Hu Qian felt that this was going to be tricky.
Especially this Cold-blooded Snake Beastman in front of him. He was a whole major rank lower, so how was it possible that Hu Qian couldn’t shake him?!
Hu Qian roared fiercely, "Chi Xiao, are you planning to harbor a criminal too?"
Chi Xiao’s presence was overwhelming as he stated firmly, "Hu Qian, our High Mountain Fire Red Eagle Clan has no females left."
He looked at Nan Zishi, his expression changing to one of warmth and tenderness reserved for his own kind. "She is the last one. Therefore, I cannot let you take her."
Nan Zishi: "..." ’Oh, what a beautiful misunderstanding.’
Hu Qian shot back, "She committed a heinous crime! The crime of killing a female!"
"So what? If someone from my High Mountain Fire Red Eagle Clan kills a female, then she’s dead. So be it." After speaking, Chi Xiao turned to Nan Zishi, who was still floundering on the ground, and said, "A beautiful kill! Well done!"
Nan Zishi: "..." ’Hahahahahahaha.’
Xuan Jin, who had been mortal enemies with Chi Xiao, was now on the same side.
He once again rushed in front of Hu Qian to block him.
"You’re not taking my female master." Xuan Jin flicked his snake’s tongue ominously.
Facing Chi Xiao, Xuan Jin, and Lanxing, Hu Qian’s authority as an Eight-striped Beast King was being seriously challenged!
"You are showing contempt for Ten Thousand Beasts City and the High Priest! I’m not the only Eight-striped Beast King in Ten Thousand Beasts City! Aren’t you afraid that I’ll go back and tell the High Priest what happened here, and Ten Thousand Beasts City will send an army to suppress the Eastern Continent?"
"What’s there to be afraid of?" Xuan Jin shouted to Chi Xiao in the sky. "Chi Xiao, what are you spacing out for? This guy is going to run back and tattle!"
Chi Xiao jolted.
Xuan Jin yelled, "Kill him! We can’t let him take the news back! Kill him!!!"
The Bird Beastmen in the air looked at each other in dismay, and the members of the Mermaid Clan who were slowly arriving were also completely bewildered.
What was the Snake King of the Eastern Swamp saying?
’He wants them to kill a Priest from Ten Thousand Beasts City?!!’
’That’s an Eight-striped Beast King!!!’
Xuan Jin, the professional shit-stirrer, began to frantically muddy the waters. He stood up and shouted, "Are you all stupid? He’s going to run back to Ten Thousand Beasts City and report that you Bird Beastmen are harboring a Bird Beastman female, and that they should annihilate your Bird Beastman Tribe!"
Hearing this, the Bird Beastmen glared furiously at Hu Qian. "He wants to annihilate our tribe!"
"The High Priest wants to annihilate our tribe!!"
Hu Qian sensed the danger and said anxiously, "Don’t listen to Xuan Jin’s nonsense! When did I ever say I wanted to annihilate the Bird Beastman Tribe? Xuan Jin is just a shit-stirrer!"
However, at that moment, the Bird Beastmen chose, with surprising unanimity, to believe Xuan Jin!
Chi Xiao swept his wings and led the other Bird Beastmen in a great shout, "Protect the only female of the High Mountain Fire Red Eagle!"
The crowd of Bird Beastmen roared in unison, the sound waves surging like a tsunami!
"Protect the only female of the High Mountain Fire Red Eagle!"
Chi Xiao then declared, "Everyone, stand back! Watch me kill this white-haired bastard!"