Ch 1: An Infertility-Prone Mutated Cat
“Adapter detected, Original Owner being deployed… Peanut System is here to provide you with the most intimate, ‘more offspring, more happiness’ service!”
“Original Body’s physique is being modified and upgraded, 1%…55%…100%, upgrade complete, congratulations Original Body for obtaining a Special Grade ‘easy to conceive’ physique that surpasses even the Holy Lady’s…”
“Please check the binding gift pack… Main Quest 1 has been sent… Wishing Original Body a pleasant journey in the Beast World Continent…”
The cold, mechanical voice woke Si Shuo from her coma.
She rubbed her forehead and slowly opened her eyes, taking in a small stone cave. At the cave entrance hung several vine-like plants, barely blocking the outside view, casting dappled sunlight inside.
On a stone table were five or six fruits and a strip of dried meat, and beneath her was a stone bed covered with a yellowish-brown beast hide.
She remembered hearing about a heart match before she fell unconscious, feeling relieved that she wouldn’t have to continue being sickly and treating the hospital as her second home. After the heart transplant, she could run, jump, marry, and have children!
How did she end up in a mountain cave when she opened her eyes?
“Si Shuo, you’re awake?”
A plump girl with orange-yellow hair, holding a fish, lifted the curtain and walked in. Seeing her get up, her brown eyes flickered, and she smiled, waving her hand as she spoke slowly:
“Are you feeling better? The Lu’ni tribe’s Spring Coming-of-Age Ceremony is about to start, and many excellent males will be receiving their beast marks. I wonder if we can choose excellent beast husbands!
I was worried you wouldn’t make it. Here, some other males gave this to me; you eat first, and we’ll go together.”
Si Shuo blinked, politely curling her lips, wanting to say thank you, but her throat was too dry from not drinking water for too long.
The girl didn’t mind, shoving the fish into her arms, “Eat quickly, you’ll need strength to participate in the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.”
Si Shuo looked down at the fish in her hand. Although the fishy smell was tempting, raw fish had many parasites; how could she eat it?
Meanwhile, the girl had already turned around, excitedly muttering to herself, even with a hint of mania:
“The Lu’ni tribe is indeed one of the best tribes in the southern Dongye Forest. Our Thousand Cats tribe’s most powerful beastman is only level three. Here, you can randomly stop a male on the street, and they’re all level three; the most powerful ones are level eight!
My fertility is top-notch; I’ll definitely choose a male above level six to be my first Beast Husband.”
“It’s a pity, Si Shuo. You’re pretty, but you’re a mutated cat with low fertility, destined to be my foil!
When the time comes, I don’t mind having cubs and letting you help take care of them…”
Si Shuo looked at her back in surprise, wondering if she had gained the ability to read minds. Then, the memories belonging to the Original Owner flooded her brain, providing the answer.
This girl was named Yu Jiao, and she was the Original Owner’s half-sister from the same mother but a different father.
Their mother was a tabby cat from the Thousand Cats tribe with top-notch fertility. Yu Jiao was an orange cat, sweet and plump, inheriting her mother’s good fertility, and had been the center of attention since she was a child.
The Original Owner was a blue-eyed white cat, a mutated breed, born with hearing impairment, only able to barely understand by reading lips when others deliberately slowed down their speech. She only knew a few simple phrases.
Ever since Father passed away, the frail and sickly her had become Yu Jiao’s little follower, highlighting her sister’s gentleness, kindness, and excellent fertility.
So Yu Jiao was taking advantage of the Original Owner’s inability to hear, revealing her true nature behind her back?
Hearing the horn outside, Yu Jiao suddenly stood up and dragged Si Shuo out.
Si Shuo, barefoot, stumbled along, pursing her lips as she looked at the tall and sturdy males covered in beast hides outside. Some beastmen still preferred to run in their beast forms, children and cubs frolicking and playing, females surrounded by males…
Her azure eyes trembled fiercely. She deeply realized that she had been reborn in the Beast World Continent!
The beastmen were all heading to the tribe’s center, a plaza built with many large and small stones.
The plaza was terraced. Everyone stood around the perimeter, while Yu Jiao dragged Si Shuo to climb to the third level, standing in a row with a group of young females from various small and medium-sized tribes in the southern Dongye Forest, all with medium to high fertility and not yet mated.
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Below them, on the next level, were six rows of particularly brave and robust males. Even from five or six meters away, Si Shuo could feel a surge of hormones!
A blush involuntarily crept onto her face. This damned beastly reaction…
“Yu Jiao, why did you bring Si Shuo up here? She’s not qualified to stand with us!”
Ma Hui, also from the Thousand Cats tribe, pulled at Yu Jiao, grumbling in a low voice, “I know you’re kind and take care of your sister wherever you go, but what kind of occasion is this?”
Yu Jiao said with a smile, “It’s precisely because Si Shuo’s fertility is low that she needs to stand here more than I do. Maybe some powerful male doesn’t care about having cubs and is attracted to her pretty face?
If she can’t get a level five or six Beast Husband, level three or four will do. By the way, have you guys set your sights on any Beast Husbands?”
Several cat beast females couldn’t help but excitedly whisper about the males who were about to receive their beast marks below, as well as some high-level males who already had beast marks but didn’t have females yet.
Si Shuo stood close to Yu Jiao, shyly and timidly lowering her head slightly.
While listening to the females’ gossip, she began to study the system.
The system wasn’t very intelligent, like a voice assistant in a phone. The interaction program was pre-set, only able to help her understand the Beast World Continent, issue tasks, and give rewards.
The Beast World Continent was divided into beastmen and wild beasts.
Wild beasts had low intelligence, were irritable, had strong attack power, and reproduced quickly, posing a great threat to the beastmen.
The female beastmen among the beastmen were in human form from birth, so their bodies were delicate, and their ability to survive in the wild was almost zero.
Male beastmen could transform into beast forms during battle, divided into twenty levels according to combat strength, with a certain chance of awakening abilities. They were the main force for hunting and protecting the tribe.
The ratio of female to male beastmen was one to thirty, plus the Beast World Continent had long rainy and winter seasons.
Therefore, a female with good fertility would usually have more than a dozen Beast Husbands to protect and provide for her!
Seeing this, Si Shuo was completely stunned.
She hadn’t even had a boyfriend in modern times, and now she had to choose Beast Husbands on the spot, and not just one?
At this moment, Yu Jiao nudged her, pointing to a male with light gray hair in the middle, her lips trembling:
“Si Shuo, that’s Liwa, the tribe leader’s son, the youngest level six gray lion beastman in the entire southern Dongye Forest, and he’s awakened a fire ability!
Do you think he’ll like me? Our cat beast females have strong reproductive abilities; I want to give him many little lion cubs…”
After being excited for a while, Yu Jiao saw Si Shuo tilting her head, blankly looking in the direction she pointed, and couldn’t help but grit her teeth, tugging at her as she said slowly:
“Si Shuo, with me here, I’ll definitely help you choose a Beast Husband too! In the future, you’ll have a Beast Husband to provide for you, so you don’t have to worry about suffering in the Female Cave!”
Female Cave? A hint of confusion flashed in Si Shuo’s eyes, and the system immediately presented a definition: red-light district.