Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 153 - 152: Proud of Them
Back home, Si Shuo slowly sipped a fruit and honey drink, her heart still pounding with a bit of residual fear.
Even though they had many ways to escape, they had managed to remain calm while dealing with so many High level Combat Power Beastmen. It was only now that the various discomforts were starting to creep in.
Si Shuo stretched her legs, and Ji Liang laughingly scooped them up and began to massage them for her.
"Ji Liang, my legs are still a little weak. At the time, I wasn’t scared—just angry and wanting to argue right from wrong. But now, the more I think about it, the more I feel like my heart is going to leap out of my chest.
It was so thrilling and dangerous. It’s a good thing they abided by the rules. Otherwise, I think the Gray Parrot Clan Members would have wanted to eat us alive!"
Ji Liang nodded with a smile. "Of course they’d want to eat us alive. From their perspective, we were cutting off their source of income."
The Gray Parrot Beastmen are impetuous, for one thing, but they’re also exceptionally greedy and have no sense of earning things through proper means.
Even though they became one of the Thirteen Families, some things in their nature are hard to change. At most, they’ve just moved their activities from the open into the shadows.
They were just unlucky to run into the He Xi Tribe, who are even greedier and more obsessed with saving face, and got royally screwed over.
He quietly mentioned that he had given Jin Si a Storage Ring. This was just a normal part of social etiquette.
"I’ll make more frequent trips over there these next few days. What happened today will become a breakthrough.
We have Beast Soldiers in our family, so we can live in the Beast Soldier Camp and receive a monthly salary. We have some Crystal Stones and supplies saved up, so we’re not in a hurry.
But the other Beastmen who won houses and fields from the He Xi Tribe won’t be willing to just hold onto their contracts without getting any tangible benefits. I expect they’ll start making a fuss soon.
We can just follow behind and pick up the scraps. When the time comes, we’ll ask Lord Jin Si to help us see if we can trade the houses, fields, and shops for properties in our South City District. It’s too hard to manage things that are so far away."
Guangshou City is huge. Even if houses aren’t sold often, the Beastman population is large, and the Contract Management Office has plenty of listings for trades. As long as the terms are similar, a deal can be made by adding a few Crystal Stones.
Just as they were talking, the Beast Husbands, who had also been training all day, returned.
They had all showered before coming back, and each of them looked slightly excited. It seemed they had good news.
Yin Jiang took a step forward and pulled Si Shuo into his arms. He chuckled, but instead of sharing his news first, he asked her how her day had been.
So Si Shuo began to count on her fingers, starting from when Yimei wanted to find a husband, all the way to how they evaded the Gray Parrot Beastman’s surveillance and scouted out locations on their way back.
Although Ji Liang and Zhi Qi’s Combat Power Values weren’t very high, they were cautious and reliable. Plus, their little female could Teleport back at any time.
So, no one was too worried about their safety. They just watched with smiles as Si Shuo played several roles, vividly and animatedly re-enacting the scene.
The cubs in her belly also seemed to feel her excitement and happiness, occasionally cheering her on with a punch or a kick.
Dinner was food Zhi Qi and the others had bought at the market: a soup with ’noodle-fish’, shredded meat, and green vegetables, served with toasted multigrain flatbreads, juicy, crisp cucumbers, and the supermarket’s specialty spicy bean paste.
After Si Shuo finished eating, Xiao Cheng began to report on the situation with the five of them.
Zhi Le has the Clone Ability. His current combat situation is the same as it was before he manifested his clone—he’s brave and a clean fighter, but his Level is ultimately low. Plus, with his clone standing guard by Si Shuo’s side, he only participated in the arena matches to spar with others and didn’t aim for a Little Captain position for now.
Xu Chi is at the Peak of Level 10, just one opportunity away from advancing. His Combat Power was honed through his own struggles, and he gained more experience fighting others in the Dongye Middle Square arena matches. This time, he became a Little Captain without much effort.
And of course, there was no need to even mention Gong You, who was nearly undefeated in the arena; Xiao Cheng, a Twelfth Level who had improved by leaps and bounds under the training of his Couple Brothers; and the Level 13 Yin Jiang.
However, Yin Jiang was quite famous, with formidable Combat Power and a high Level, so he was promoted straight to Middle Captain, skipping the usual ranks.
From this new batch of 200 Beast Soldiers recruited into the camp—selected through four rounds at Dongye Middle Square—a total of ten Little Captains and two Middle Captains could be chosen. And her family had taken so many of those spots!
Listening to this, Si Shuo felt exceptionally proud of them.
"Sister, we’ve already chosen our houses and came back! Our family qualifies for the housing standard of one Middle Captain, three Little Captains, and one Beast Soldier.
A Little Captain gets three rooms, slightly larger than this place, plus a three-fen vegetable plot. A Middle Captain gets seven rooms with a small courtyard and one mu of land. We exchanged the Beast Soldier’s housing for a one-fen vegetable plot.
We happened to choose plots that were right next to each other and found a Beastman with an Earth Element Ability to help us modify the houses a bit.
We can move in right now!"
Zhe Heng from Yimei’s family also did them proud, snagging a Little Captain spot. Their family also exchanged their Beast Soldier housing in Pan Zhou for a one-fen vegetable plot.
That gave them three seven-square-meter rooms, a thirty-square-meter fenced yard, and a four-fen vegetable plot. And they could be neighbors with Si Shuo’s family again.
Moving into a big house so soon? Si Shuo couldn’t wait!
Xiao Cheng smiled and carried her over to see it first, leaving the other brothers to pack.
Zhi Le went with them, leaving Zhi Qi behind to do the work. The two of them had a clear division of labor, taking turns accompanying their little female.
The new home was especially large. There were nine seven-square-meter rooms in a row, with a ninety-square-meter small yard enclosed by a fence in front.
The Middle Captain’s courtyard was laid out neatly: a main building with three rooms and two rooms in each of the left and right wings. Each room was about ten square meters, and there was also a two-hundred-square-meter courtyard enclosed by a stone wall, offering good privacy!
And unlike the housing for Beast Soldiers and Little Captains, which had fixed specifications, the Middle Captain’s residence could be freely modified or rebuilt, as long as it didn’t extend beyond the stone walls.
The three rooms of the main building had now been knocked through, creating a spacious and bright thirty-square-meter room that would serve as their living and dining room. Moreover, the main building had been built with two stories.
A stone gateway had been opened up in the space between the east wing and the main building, connecting to the courtyard of the nine-room house.
Xiao Cheng took her to see each room one by one. "Behind the house is our two mu of land. You can get to it directly through the stone gate here by the west wing.
Our house is at the end of the street, and the street next to the west wing is a main road. A lot of Beastmen pass by, and many family members have set up stalls to sell small things.
I discussed it with the brothers, and we wanted to get your opinion. Should we expand the west wing to five rooms and open doors and windows on the side facing the street to turn it into a row of shops?
We have plenty of rooms anyway, more than enough to live in!"
Si Shuo was delighted by the sight. She just loved having lots of rooms and a large area.
She nodded repeatedly. "Yes, we can! I went to the western district today and passed by a Shell Bookstore. Everything inside was Beast Text written, carved, or branded onto Beast Skins, shells, and bones. The prices were so expensive!
The Beast God gave me an inheritance in this area. It’s just that I haven’t had much exposure to it before, so I’m a slow learner, but I can teach you all as I learn.
I was thinking, we could open a school on both floors of our main building. In your spare time, you can teach the cubs of the Beast Soldiers to learn Beast Text.
Once more people learn Beast Text, combined with the paper and pens we can make, many things in the Beast City can be recorded on paper in the future.
And Beast Text will no longer be something exclusive to the families and the top ranks of the tribes!"
Popularizing Beast Text will definitely be a huge boost to the progress of civilization on the Beast World Continent, and it’s also a very important foundation.
