Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 85 - 82: The Beast World’s White Lotus
Before he even entered the house, Xi was stunned by the beautiful wooden structure before him. After An Jin led him inside, the clean and tidy interior also left him deeply shocked.
He had always thought that the Beastmen on land lived in dilapidated and backward little stone huts.
But now, it seemed he had been ignorant. This place was no less exquisite than the palaces of his Blue Shark Clan in the deep sea! 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
An Jin went into the back of the living room and took out some animal-hide bandages from a wooden chest. With gentle and careful hands, she bandaged Xi’s wound, then arranged a room for him.
Xi had swum from the deep sea back to land just to see her, not closing his eyes for days and nights. He looked exhausted, and without another word, he ducked into the room to sleep.
「Around noon」, the Beastmen who had gone out to hunt returned one after another.
An Jin was sitting by the window, sanding bamboo strips until they were smooth, planning to weave them into small bamboo plates for serving vegetables and meat.
Hearing the loud roars of many wild beasts, An Jin stuck her head out the window and saw a particularly eye-catching black and red figure among the crowd.
Mi Yin had returned, his tail coiled around a plump sheep. An Jin quickly put down her bamboo strips and ran down to greet them.
"The Miaomiao Beast you wanted. A pregnant one." Mi Yin wrapped his arms around the approaching female, and with a flick of his black and red snake tail, he released the fat and sturdy ewe onto the ground.
He had heard her muttering a few days ago about wanting to drink beast milk. It just so happened that he had encountered a ewe about to give birth during this hunt, so he’d kept it alive and gently coiled his tail around it to bring it back.
The moment the ewe hit the ground, it staggered to its feet. Seeing so many Beastmen around, it was terrified and began to BAA BAA loudly as it ran around in a panic.
Many animals are aggressive during pregnancy, and they tend to bully the weak. The ewe was no exception. Realizing it couldn’t escape, it charged straight at An Jin, the weakest one in the crowd.
A black and red snake tail swept past. With a tremendous BOOM, the crazed ewe was sent flying dozens of meters away.
By the time An Jin hurriedly ran over, the ewe was already dead.
"I’ll catch you a couple more another day." Mi Yin hadn’t controlled his strength. He pressed his thin lips together, stealing a glance at the female, afraid she would be disappointed, and quickly added.
An Jin sighed. "The rainy season starts in two days."
"I’m a snake type. I’m good in the water. The rainy season doesn’t affect me much, so I can still go out."
Mi Yin held the female tighter, flicking his forked tongue against her face. "When the rainy season comes," he said gently, "most of the prey will be hungry and weak. When they come out to forage, I’ll catch you a few pregnant ones."
An Jin nodded, her disappointment vanishing. She crouched down, thinking about how to deal with the ewe. "This kind of Miaomiao Beast has wool that’s so soft and thick. We can tan it into a fleece pelt to wear in the winter."
"Let’s have some mutton for hot pot tonight, too! Hot pot would be perfect in this cold weather!"
Just as she was thinking about what seasonings to use for the mutton, Mi Yin suddenly pulled her into his arms again. He lowered his head, his forked tongue flicking against her cheek. "HISS HISS~ Why is there a fishy smell? The scent of an unfamiliar male?"
"Huh?" An Jin looked up at him, touching her own face, which was now wet from his tongue. "A fishy smell?"
’Is he talking about Xi?’
’Beastmen really do have a strong sense of smell.’ She, however, hadn’t smelled anything fishy on Xi. On the contrary, he had a salty scent like the sea and sand, which, as a seafood lover, she quite liked.
An Jin told Mi Yin everything that had happened in detail. But unexpectedly, he just flicked his tongue and focused on one thing. "Unmated?"
"Huh? I don’t think so..." She scratched her head. She’d never heard Xi mention being mated.
A terrifyingly fierce glint flashed through his red eyes, and then his crimson lips curved into a slight smile.
’Very good.’
’A male. Unmated...’
Nothing more needed to be said. Those two points were enough. In his heart, he had already sentenced that unknown male to "death."
Mi Yin wrapped one arm around her and slithered silently toward the wooden house. That disgusting fishy smell was getting stronger and stronger...
Mi Yin’s expression remained impassive, betraying no joy or sorrow, but his snake-like pupils, which revealed his true emotional state, were slowly constricting into slits as thin as needles.
He slithered into the wooden house, followed the scent to a door, and opened it. Mi Yin’s serpentine eyes focused on the startled and dazed Xi, who had just woken up. A moment later, there was a deafening CRASH, and Xi’s figure on the bed vanished.
An Jin was speechless. "???"
She saw that Mi Yin, who had been beside her, had also vanished in an instant.
They both reappeared at the doorway, with Mi Yin looking down like a king at the fragile merman curled up on the ground, covered in wounds.
’One strike, and he’s not dead?’
The curve of Mi Yin’s narrowed, blood-red eyes became even more sinister and unpredictable.
RUSTLE RUSTLE. The sound of his snake tail scraping against the ground rose again. The tensed tail was poised to strike.
The instant he raised the tip of his tail again, An Jin quickly stopped him. Mi Yin looked at her coldly, his jaw tight. The killing intent in his heart didn’t lessen, but grew stronger.
An Jin was genuinely afraid he would beat Xi to death. She had just seen the undisguised killing intent in Mi Yin’s eyes.
Snake Beasts were possessive; she knew that. So the most urgent thing was to explain their relationship to prevent Mi Yin from misunderstanding.
"He’s not a suitor?"
Mi Yin’s mood calmed slightly, but he remained hostile. "Just a merman who has submitted to the tribe? Then why is he in this house?"
An Jin said calmly, "No one else knows Xi is here yet. If you mind, we can build a new wooden house for him."
Mi Yin was silent for a long time. Xi looked at An Jin, panicked and pitiful. ’Please don’t! If that happens, my plan will fail! My trip to the surface will have been for nothing!’
"He’s not worth the effort of building another house." This was Mi Yin’s way of agreeing to let Xi stay. It would give him a chance to see what this merman was planning. Besides, he had just seen a look of pity in Jin’er’s eyes.
"I’m going to deal with the Miaomiao Beast. I’ll save it for you to eat tonight." Mi Yin swished his tail and left the room.
Xi, still shaken, watched him go.
’Damn it. How could there be such a brutal Snake Beast here? I never expected this. This is far beyond what I planned for.’
"Are you badly hurt?" After Mi Yin left, An Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief and crouched down to check on Xi, whose wounds had split open again.
He quickly shook his head in a fluster. "No, I’m fine. I’m the one who caused trouble. It is I, Xi, who has wronged Ah Jin..."
"I’m sorry. I should have told him beforehand."
"Ah Jin, I don’t like that Snake Beast." Xi gently tugged on her hand and said weakly, "The way he is... he scares me..."
His voice was as quiet as a mosquito’s buzz. His beautiful, fragile appearance, looking utterly heartbroken, was especially moving.
Mi Yin, who had just been about to come over and ask An Jin which cut of meat she wanted, let out a cold laugh. His black and red python body slithered out from behind the door. "Were you just talking about me?"
Xi’s face turned deathly pale. He pitifully clutched An Jin’s sleeve, his blue eyes welling with tears.
This time, however, Mi Yin couldn’t be bothered to strike him. Instead, he coiled his snake tail around the female’s waist, possessively and domineeringly pulling An Jin into his embrace before lowering his head and kissing her.
Then, he shot Xi a provocative smirk, his cold, warning gaze making Xi’s body tremble faintly.
"Don’t even think about taking what doesn’t belong to you."
’Hmph. A merman. Other Beastmen might not know, but as a Wandering Beast who has roamed far and wide, I’ve personally witnessed the vile, predatory behavior of the Merfolk more than once.’
’After they fully transform into a human form, they come to land to find female mates. They use their beauty and mind-bewitching songs to lure females into the deep sea, completely severing all contact between the female and her other mates so they can have her all to themselves...’
Mi Yin hated this fish.
He hated him even more than the wolf.
No, compared to this, the wolf was actually much more tolerable.
’At least the wolf is honest, loyal, and simple-minded, making him easy to control. Not like this fish, who only knows how to use that weak and pitiful expression in front of Jin’er to gain sympathy.’
Although the Beast World didn’t have terms like "innocent lotus" or "green tea bitch," Mi Yin was thoroughly disgusted. What kind of male would make an expression like that?
It made him want to kill him with a single lash of his tail!
