Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 143 - 142: Beast Fighting Arena

Si Shuo regretted sending that guy Xiao Cheng away so early. Now she had to bear the brunt of four people’s jealousy all by herself.

She quickly said with a smile, "You’re right, Xiao Cheng is completely shameless. Having you six is more than enough for me. How could I possibly want anyone else!"

"Unless we need him to gather information and use his Transformation, if he ever transforms into another Beastman behind your backs to tease me, I’ll definitely tell on him and let you guys deal with him."

The little female threw Xiao Cheng under the bus so fast that the males couldn’t even manage to keep a straight face.

Zhi Le pulled her into his arms. "Kitty, you’d better remember what you said. The two of you are not allowed to pull any tricks behind our backs!"

Si Shuo nodded repeatedly. "I’m not like Xiao Cheng; I keep my promises. I’ll help you all supervise him."

The weather was starting to get hot, and there was no air conditioning here. But Si Shuo had Ji Liang, who could regulate the temperature—he had an Ice Ability.

For the past couple of days, she loved to nestle in Ji Liang’s arms. He was like a piece of cool jade, helping her dispel the sweltering heat of late spring and early summer.

Si Shuo took out some ingredients and made a grass jelly dessert. She added dried cranberries, crushed peanuts, and taro balls, then drizzled it with coconut milk and honey, eating it with great relish.

They were finally about to reach Guangshou City, and they all let out a huge sigh of relief.

Si Shuo had been pregnant for nearly forty days. In human terms, that was equivalent to twenty-five and a half weeks of a forty-week pregnancy. Her belly had swelled up like a balloon, and the Horned Deer Cubs inside were already able to have simple interactions with her.

That’s right. On the eighth day of her pregnancy—the morning Xu Chi had left for the Dongye Forest to participate in the Beast Soldier selection trials—he had sensed two of his bloodline in her belly!

But she had been sleeping deeply at the time, so he couldn’t tell her right away. Later, two more Beast Husbands joined the family, and the little female was always drowsy. When she was awake, she was either eating, condensing Spirit Plants, or manning her stall, so telling her was delayed again and again.

It wasn’t until they were on the road, when he was holding the little female as she slept, that he finally shared the joyous news with her.

Now, as she was eating her dessert, the cubs became quite active. They stretched their little arms and legs, poking her belly uncomfortably. It felt like she had eaten too much, to the point where she could feel pressure in her throat.

Si Shuo liked to poke them gently in response. The little ones would dodge away and go cause trouble in another spot.

This was the family’s first pair of cubs. Even though they weren’t their biological children, the males were all extremely protective of them. After all, their beloved little female was working so hard to carry them. Their love for her extended to the cubs, and they would be good Fathers to them too!

Over the twenty-odd days they had been traveling, Si Shuo had been eating four meals a day, with extra helpings and snacks in between. Her mouth was never idle. Her little face had grown a bit rounder, making her look even more charming and adorable.

Her body had become fuller, and the males who held her at night would recall their passionate intimacy with her and could only curse Xu Chi’s name through gritted teeth again and again.

Xu Chi didn’t feel good about it either. Back then, when the little female said she would bear his cubs, he had been so overjoyed that he’d completely lost his head. ’It was a mistake of youthful ignorance, after all...’

By the time they finished their bowls of grass jelly, Xiao Cheng and Xu Chi had returned from gathering information.

Si Shuo handed each of them a bowl of grass jelly.

Xiao Cheng’s smile was dazzling; he had completely forgotten that he’d just infuriated his Couple Brothers.

After gulping down half the bowl of grass jelly, he let out a satisfied sigh. ’This little female I’ve found is smart, beautiful, capable, and so caring. Most importantly, the delicious food is endless. I’ve completely hit the jackpot!’

"That estate was originally inhabited by a female Golden Pheasant and her Beast Husbands. But one of her Beast Husbands was addicted to beast fighting and gambled away all the family’s Crystal Stones. He even forged the deed and sold the estate to two different buyers."

"One buyer was a Beastman from Puchang City, and the other was the big boss of the Beast Fighting Arena."

"But the big boss didn’t care for the estate, so he gave it away as a reward!"

"Right now, three families are living on the estate, and they all have Beast Husbands who work as enforcers for the Beast Fighting Arena."

Hearing this, Si Shuo and the others understood that it would be basically impossible to reclaim the estate.

For a Beast Fighting Arena to operate, it must have a powerful backer. In a matter like taking an estate to cover a debt, they would have surely gone through the proper channels to get the property firmly in their grasp.

Even if the deed had been a forgery at the time, it would have been made legitimate by now!

Xu Chi added, "The Beast Fighting Arena is a business of the Golden Python Ni Family—the very same family with a Level 15 Beastman, the only one in the Central Continent besides Zhu Bang."

"I heard they took advantage of the spring hunt to capture a large number of Fierce Beasts in several forests."

"When the time comes, they’ll force Male Slaves to fight the Fierce Beasts, while the spectating Beastmen bet Crystal Stones on the winner."

"The Beast Fighting Arena has a lot of enforcers, and their strength is on par with the city’s Beast Soldiers..."

Yin Jiang raised an eyebrow. "The Beastmen outside the Beast City live scattered about. Even the tribes that exist only have eighty to a hundred members, and they aren’t particularly united."

"They mostly enter Guangshou City during the day to do odd jobs and leave in the evening."

"A place lacking unified management is bound to be dirty and chaotic. Even without this business with the Beast Fighting Arena, it would be difficult for us to manage things on this side."

Si Shuo nodded, feeling quite relieved. "Right. The land here is quite barren; otherwise, it would have been incorporated into the city long ago. The yield from thirty acres here probably wouldn’t even match the yield from three acres in our own planting zone."

"Anyway, we have the courtyard, fields, and shop from the Qinghe Tribe, so we’re not counting on this place."

It’s just that the City Lord of Puchang City is so unscrupulous. He took advantage of the great distance between our cities to pass off a worthless deed as a returned favor.

Ji Liang hissed, "I’m just worried that Shi Fu of Puchang City has other schemes in mind. Why would a man as ruthlessly profit-driven as him voluntarily promise us an estate and shops both inside and outside Guangshou City?"

They previously had no place to stay in Guangshou City, so even though they suspected Shi Fu’s properties were a sham, they had accepted them for the time being to get into the city first and make plans later. Perhaps they had unintentionally walked right into trouble.

"He probably can’t stir up much trouble. We’ll just have to be more vigilant. We’ll face whatever comes our way," Gong You said with a smirk, his entire being radiating a fierce battle intent.

Estimating that the main group was about to arrive, Xu Chi first used his Invisibility to run ahead and tail them from a distance. Then, Si Shuo would teleport the others to his side, and they would all pretend to merge with the main group!

About a hundred Twelfth Level Beast Soldiers stood guard at the gates of Guangshou City, checking the identity of everyone entering the Beast City.

Five of Si Shuo’s Beast Husbands and two from Yimei’s family had been selected as Beast Soldiers, so after a simple registration, they were allowed to enter.

Once everyone was inside the city, the group leader led them eastward. They ran for another two Beast Hours before finally arriving at the Second Beast Soldier Barracks in the southern district.

The males here were clearly all burly and powerful, their auras imposing. The rhythmic calls of training drills rose and fell in waves, inspiring an involuntary sense of solemnity and awe in the onlookers.

Si Shuo felt as if she had stepped into a military barracks from her previous life.

Checking in, being assigned quarters, receiving enlistment benefits... by the time everyone was settled in, the sun had already sunk below the horizon, leaving a faint violet glow in its wake.