Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 399 - 271: Taking Her Back and What’s Your Name?
The sole surviving Beastman was still in a daze as he left.
Once Mi Yin had devoured all the power from the dead Beastmen and Demon Beasts, the wounds covering his body gradually vanished, revealing smooth, cold, pale skin.
Just as they were about to leave.
A Demon Beast with a keen sense of smell suddenly stopped in its tracks. Its cold, terrifying gaze shot toward a patch of grass not far away.
Its eyes locked on the target. It took a few slow steps, then shot forward like an arrow from a bow.
A searing white light collided violently with its massive body, sending it flying. With a series of BOOMS, the mountain-sized Demon Beast was knocked through five thick tree trunks.
Many of the Demon Beasts tensed at the sudden aura. Even Mi Yin, whose expression was usually one of languid indolence, changed in an instant. He lowered his gaze, staring at the rustling patch of grass in the distance.
’This is...’
The man’s eyes suddenly flew wide open.
In that instant, a tempest raged in the heart that had been frozen for ten years.
Almost no one saw him move. With one hand, he had a small, snow-white fox by the neck. The man lowered his gaze, his expression frigid to the extreme.
His eyes were scarlet as he spoke, enunciating each word,
"A wild beast, or a Beastman?" ’Why... does she have an aura so similar to hers?’
"Awoo..." The cold wrist tightened its grip on her neck, little by little. Wamiya felt like she was suffocating, the blood rushing to her head.
She flailed her limbs, struggling desperately to escape his grasp. The skin beneath her fur grew redder and redder.
’I’m... I’m about to be choked to death.’
Her life on the line, in a moment of desperation—
Ze Sheng’s warnings were long forgotten. Wamiya stared at the blurry, reddening figure before her and rasped, forced to speak with difficulty, "A Beast... a Beastman!"
The familiar voice, one he missed so much it replayed in his dreams every night, was enough to make his heart tremble, even though it was raspy.
Mi Yin was in a daze. He stared blankly at the little white fox for a long, long time. The strength in his hand slowly faded as he gradually loosened his grip on her fragile little neck.
"...Who are you?"
After a long moment, he asked in a hoarse voice, his overly calm and detached expression betraying no emotion.
Seeing that the terrifying Snake Beast had finally let her go, Wamiya gasped for air like a fish out of water, which brought some relief to her aching, deflated lungs.
"I..." She looked fearfully into those scarlet pupils and realized he seemed to be in a daze.
Although the man was still looking at her, so focused that he spared not even a peripheral glance for anything else, his once razor-sharp snake pupils had now quietly dilated into circles, appearing somewhat vacant and lost.
She glanced at the Demon Beasts that had surrounded them completely, realizing the person before her was their leader. She had no choice but to speak honestly. "Unicorn King City. I was..."
Being kidnapped was too embarrassing, so Wamiya decided not to mention it.
"Unicorn King City?" The man finally snapped out of his daze. Hearing her words, he chuckled softly. "Ze Sheng?"
"Yes, yes!" She hadn’t expected him to know Ze Sheng. ’Maybe they’re on good terms. He might even take me back.’
Mi Yin quickly concealed the malice in his eyes. His gaze fell upon her again, his expression dark and unreadable, and he remained silent for a long time.
His mind, usually too lazy to even bother thinking, was now spinning rapidly.
’What in the world is going on?’
’This fox... what is her relationship to Jin’er? I was certain she’d stopped breathing back then. That’s why I left that city without any lingering attachment.’
"King, this cub’s meat is the most tender. Why don’t you grant her to me? I love eating the flesh of young cubs!" the ape beast from before said through gritted teeth, clutching its ruined eye and glaring viciously at her. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Madness and greed flashed in its one remaining scarlet eye as it reached out to snatch her from Mi Yin’s hands.
The next second, the ape beast’s heart was ripped out by an invisible black energy and tossed like trash to the other eager Demon Beasts.
The ape beast’s body collapsed with the force of a falling mountain. The ground trembled, then fell silent again moments later.
The Demon Beasts swarmed forward, tearing the ape beast’s corpse and heart to shreds and devouring them. The scene was a chaotic mess.
Mi Yin retracted his hand, his brow furrowed in disgust. He said meaningfully, "I hate it most when people try to take things from my hands."
"..." The foul stench of blood assaulted her nose. Wamiya’s face was pale, and her stomach churned.
Pampered by Ze Sheng ever since she had woken up, there was no way she could endure such a scene.
Belatedly realizing the little fox was trembling, Mi Yin glanced over at her again. The familiar aura silently eroded his long-frozen and sealed heart, and his icy expression softened slightly.
After a long while, he reached out and drew her into his arms, protectively. The movement was somewhat stiff and clumsy, and his expression looked a little unnatural.
It had been a very long time since he had been in such close contact with anyone.
"Take this stuff back. Take what you need, and throw away the rest." Mi Yin looked at the "trash" littering the ground, picked through it for a moment, and took a few articles of clothing.
Then, right in front of all the Demon Beasts, he left.
The Demon Beasts looked at each other, not daring to leave, yet not daring to follow.
—The King took that fox cub?
—As food? It didn’t look like it.
—What’s going on? Why did the King leave by himself? Should we follow? Weren’t we supposed to attack the city?
—So, should we follow him or not?
—The King’s temper is always unpredictable. He didn’t tell us to follow, so we should... probably not follow, right? I’ve only got one life, and once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.
...
「After some wandering,」
Mi Yin brought her directly to a relatively spacious and clean cave. Inside, there was a messy pile of dry grass.
He tossed the fox from his arms onto the pile of hay, along with the few pieces of cloth clothing.
He said coldly, his tone more a command than a request:
"Change into your human form."
"..." Alarm bells went off in Wamiya’s mind. Outwardly, she seemed to stare at him blankly for a moment, but inside, her thoughts were spinning.
’Ze Sheng told me not to reveal my human form in front of others, or it could be dangerous. He never said why, but I’ve always trusted his words completely.’
"I can’t change into a human form..."
The man watched her with cold eyes, clearly not believing her.
His black-and-red serpentine tail, which wound from outside the cave all the way inside, slapped unconsciously against the ground. The repeated thuds struck her pounding heart like a death knell.
Wamiya kept nervously swallowing. She had witnessed this Snake Beast devour those other Beastmen without hesitation, and she was terrified she would meet the same fate and end up as food in its stomach.
The sky darkened. The night grew deep and dewy, and chilly gusts of wind occasionally drifted in through the wide mouth of the cave.
The long silence made the temperature in the cave feel even lower. She couldn’t help but curl into a ball and shrink into a corner.
"...What’s your name?"
"Wamiya."
The man fell silent again, and his presence grew even colder.
The cave once again fell into a long silence, filled only with the sound of breathing and the whistling of the cold wind.
Wamiya pretended to close her eyes, but she could constantly feel those scarlet snake pupils fixed on her. Even though she had tried her best to shrink her body into the shadows of the corner, he could still see her perfectly clearly.
Wamiya felt like her fur was about to stand on end from being stared at so intensely. She couldn’t even pretend to be asleep anymore, so she simply opened her eyes.
"So, what’s your name?"
