Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 312 - 311: A Black and White Match

Si Shuo let out a soft cough. "Mm, I don’t feel anything. I was probably just groggy from sleep."

Ji Liang nuzzled against her and chuckled softly. "Little Shushu, you should go eat. Remember to have Zhi Le and the others process and store the food I brought back."

"What does Ji Liang want to eat? I’ll bring it to you." Si Shuo lingered by his side, unwilling to leave. She suddenly felt a surge of responsibility, as if she were the male and Ji Liang was the female nesting on their eggs.

"Little Shushu, I’ve already eaten breakfast, and there’s food in my Storage Ring. I don’t need to move much while incubating the eggs, so I don’t have a big appetite. You go eat first. Just bring me some fruit and jerky." Ji Liang wanted to pull her into his arms, too. From the moment he saw the Snake Eggs to now, incubating them beneath him, he still felt like he was in a daze. ’I’m a Father now, and these are the cubs our little female gave me.’

Besides the Beast Mark between them, they now had two more ties to this world.

Si Shuo nodded and gave him a hug. Only then did she speak to the cubs beneath him. "Bai Bais, Mother is going to eat first. I’ll come see you again in a bit."

"Bai Bais? Is that the name for our Snake Cubs?" Ji Liang asked, amused. "HISS HISS, Little Shushu, just because the Snake Eggs are white doesn’t mean the cubs inside will be white. Have you forgotten that I’m black?"

Si Shuo chuckled. "That’s not necessarily true! I’m white. Wouldn’t it be great if our cubs were a mix of black and white?"

Ji Liang nodded. "I’m really looking forward to it, then."

The other cubs were intensely curious about the Snake Cubs. After eating, they all crowded around, murmuring all sorts of things to the Snake Eggs under Ji Liang.

Ji Liang’s eyes were gentle as he lazily watched the cubs. ’The house is getting livelier and livelier,’ he thought. ’I’ve almost forgotten what my life was like before.’

While she ate, Si Shuo checked the rewards she received for giving birth: 20,000 Beast Coins, twenty-seven boxes of milk powder, a Superpower Awakening Pill, and a piece of Warm Jade.

Snakes are cold-blooded animals and hibernate when the temperature drops in winter. With this Warm Jade, they would be like regular beastmen, no longer at the mercy of the cold.

This time, for the talismans, she chose the Speed Talisman and the immobilization talisman!

Outside, dark clouds gathered, and muffled thunder rumbled continuously. Lightning tore across the sky from time to time as the rain fell without end. It would only let up a little around noon and midnight; the rest of the time, it was either a constant drizzle or a torrential downpour. The entire Beast World Continent seemed to have been put on pause, with hardly a single Beastman to be seen outside.

Yin Jiang had just teleported back from patrol. After drying himself off outside, he entered the main hall only to have Si Shuo press a bowl of hot ginger and jujube tea into his hands.

"There’s an exceptional amount of rain this year, and it’s been heavy—probably two or three times the usual volume. Many areas on the outskirts of the city are flooded. Guangshou City isn’t on high ground, so water is already starting to pool on the streets. A lot of families have moved up to their second floors."

"The fear is that the second floors will flood too. By then, the ground beneath the first floor will be saturated and too soft to support building a third story... And living in a damp, cold environment for a long time... the little females and the cubs won’t be able to bear it..."

Wei Ce frowned. "The weather has been very unpredictable these past few years. The rainy season started four or five days earlier than usual this year. If this keeps up, I’m afraid many places will suffer from severe flooding!"

Hearing this, Si Shuo’s heart clenched. In her world, during the summer rainy season, there would be floods in the south every few years. Back then, the entire nation would unite for disaster relief, and at the very least, aid and supplies would arrive in time.

Here, however, no household had ample supplies. They could spare enough for three or five meals, but any more than that would jeopardize their own chances of surviving the coldest season.

’What wouldn’t a starving Beastman do?’

"Then what do we do?" she asked subconsciously.

Xiao Cheng shrugged. "What else can we do? The natural course is to move the whole family up the mountain, braving the wind and rain."

"But wouldn’t the soil on the mountain be saturated and soft, making it dangerous too?" Si Shuo bit her lip, looking outside with worry.

Their home was in a valley, and rainwater was pouring down from the clifftops. The water here had two outlets: one was a mountain spring, and the other connected to a waterfall through a wind cave. Neither of these outlets was very large, which had already turned the valley into a shallow pool, and the water level was rising daily.

Zhi Le put an arm around her shoulder. "Kitty, we’re on a Stone Mountain, so it’s less dangerous. As long as we’re careful coming and going, there shouldn’t be a major problem."

"There aren’t many Stone Mountains in the Central Plains. I’m afraid the other side of our mountain will have quite a few neighbors soon," Gong You said with a twist of his lips.

Xu Chi narrowed his eyes. "Better safe than sorry. There might be a path leading here that we don’t know about. I’ll go out now and erase any tracks we left outside, then conceal the entrance."

"I’ll go with you," Yin Jiang said with a nod of agreement.

Si Shuo pressed her lips together. "Does the treehouse have to be taken down too?"

Xu Chi smiled and ruffled her hair. "We’ll just dismantle it. I’ll put it in my space. When the weather gets better, I’ll take it out and set it up again."

"I’m afraid everyone will have their eyes on Bamboo Forest Mountain now," Wei Ce added with a frown. "Shuo, I’ll head back to the clan more often these next few days. Our Iron-eating Beast Clan doesn’t mind them taking shelter from the rain on our mountain, but we’re worried that after taking shelter for a while, they’ll start treating it as their own territory..."

Si Shuo understood. ’It’s easier to welcome a guest than to show them the door.’ "Aren’t there endless mountain forests beyond Bamboo Forest Mountain? People hunt there often. There are no particularly ferocious Wild Beasts on those mountains, so can’t they take temporary shelter there for the rainy season?"

"They won’t see it that way. They’ll only think that Bamboo Forest Mountain is close to Guangshou City, and who wouldn’t be envious that our single Iron-eating Beast Clan occupies several hundred acres? They’ll probably offer Crystal Stones as payment to stay, and it will be hard for us to firmly refuse. The relationships in the city are complicated, and our Iron-eating Beast Clan has many in-laws. We can’t just stand by and do nothing in a time of crisis..." Wei Ce let out a breath and smiled. "Don’t worry, Shuo. After what just happened with Mi Xing, they won’t dare to go too far."

Yin Jiang thought for a moment and added, "If everyone else is migrating, it won’t look good for us to stay in the valley. We’ll have to make a show of moving with them."

"Let’s just follow the clan’s arrangements," Si Shuo nodded. "But Ji Liang has to stay here to incubate the Snake Cubs. I can just teleport back and forth!"

Sure enough, within two days, neighbors began to arrive one after another on the other side of the mountain. Seeing this, Xiao Cheng quickly claimed a relatively high spot, threw on some Beast Skins, and started digging with all his might. He believed in being prepared for anything. He worked for three whole days and managed to dig out a dwelling with one room and three halls. Next to him was Xiao Zhao, who was also busy widening his own space, preparing for a potential evacuation. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Before long, the mountainside was dotted with rows of densely packed caves dug out by the beastmen. If not for the natural disaster forcing their hand, one might mistake it for a large tribe’s settlement.

One day, Wei Ce teleported to the corridor outside their valley cave. He took a bite of a Dust Cleaning Talisman, and once he was clean and refreshed, he entered the cave.

"Shuo, the water in the city has already submerged more than the entire first floor. It’s reached ankle-deep on the second floor. After discussing it, Father and the elders have decided that everyone should start moving to Bamboo Forest Mountain..."