Chapter 275: The Goddess Hypothesis

Seeing Jia Sha go from initial shock and bewilderment to quickly becoming resolute in expression and looking at him anew, a flicker of appreciation crossed the male's heart.

This was the beast person he had his eye on!

If Jia Sha remained stubbornly unrepentant even after his reminder, then she couldn't blame him for being ruthless later.

After all, if she wasn't on the same path as him, she would sooner or later become an obstacle to his progress.

"So, what exactly is it you want to tell me?"

To go to all this trouble watching her and saying so much to her.

Jia Sha didn't believe he was kindly reminding her of what to do and what not to do just because they were both Beast Slaves.

This male... thinking of something, Jia Sha's brow suddenly twitched violently twice.

But the male unhurriedly sat down, smiling at her, "The night is still long, we're not in a hurry. Sit down and let's talk slowly."

Jia Sha looked at the empty space beside him, then stepped over and sat down cross-legged next to him.

The smile on the male's face deepened, but when he opened his mouth, his words startled Jia Sha so much she nearly stood up, "Meng Liang must die. Even if he doesn't die, he must become one of us."

Jia Sha thought he was crazy! That was a Purple Rank Beast Person!

But clearly, she still didn't know the male well enough, because besides wanting to kill Meng Liang, he even intended to fabricate a "Goddess."

Madman!

Did he know what he was saying? How could any beast person in the Tribe believe that a Goddess existed in this world, that she was the Beast God's envoy, and that obtaining her would grant dominion over the entire continent?

Listen to this—is that something a sane beast person would say?

But Jia Sha didn't know that while there might be no Goddess in this world, there was precisely a foreign soul from a modern civilization.

Obtaining the Goddess might not guarantee control of the entire continent, but obtaining a spiritual civilization superior to any material one—beast people could use that civilization to rule the entire continent.

Of course, the male, confessing his plan before his subordinate who would accompany him the longest, could never have imagined that one day he would actually encounter the "Goddess" he theorized about.

And that "Goddess" would never have imagined that a momentary act of kindness in rescuing someone would bring upon herself a "demon" capable of turning her originally calm and stable life completely upside down.

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In broad daylight, when everything seemed to be improving, Yun Li finally managed to get a peaceful sleep, only to have a nightmare.

Even after waking, the suffocating feeling of being tightly entangled and unable to break free hadn't dissipated. Yun Li looked down at the several snake cubs that had somehow climbed onto her, and for a moment, even breathing felt difficult.

"Mu Ci, Yun Mei, and Yun Zheng, Yun Xiu—all of you get off me."

Four snake cubs were coiled around her; no wonder she felt uncomfortable breathing while asleep.

As Yun Li spoke, she began to peel off the snake cubs lying motionless on her.

The largest, Mu Ci, was definitely the first to be moved. But just as Yun Li's hand touched her, Mu Ci moved on her own, then transformed on the ground into a female cub barely knee-high.

The cub didn't look like Mu Qing or Yun Li, but she was still a pleasing round-faced cub, just as fond of wearing a serious expression as her father, making everyone want to coax her into smiling.

Next came the two male cubs. Both were fair-skinned and clean, their features quite resembling their father. But since they were young, the males in the family noticed this but didn't think much of it—after all, as they grew, they might come to look more like A Li.

Last was Yun Mei. As the youngest in the family and a female cub, Yun Li and the others couldn't help but be a bit indulgent with her.

When Yun Li tried to take her off, Yun Mei refused no matter what. After being placed down from the lounge chair, she climbed back up on her own.

After going back and forth with her twice, Yun Li saw that she was stubbornly determined to cling to her, so she simply let her be.

Seeing her little sister climb onto their mother and cling to her without letting go, little Mu Ci pursed her lips, stepped forward, and reached out to Yun Li, "Want to be held!"

These were her and Mu Qing's cubs. Just thinking about that made Yun Li's heart soften toward her. She picked up little Mu Ci, then said to the two male cubs:

"You two come over too?"

Yun Zheng and Yun Xiu exchanged a glance, and the envy on their faces instantly turned to joy.

"Mother, I want to turn into my beast form."

Yun Xiu didn't like being so crowded. Awkwardly, he asked his mother if he could also turn into his beast form and hang onto her like his little sister.

Yun Li sighed, "You can all transform now, so why do you still keep hanging on us? Didn't we make you a tree rack?"

Isn't hanging on the tree rack good?

The eighth child, Yun Xiu, refused without hesitation, "The tree rack doesn't move."

Hanging on an adult, you don't have to crawl yourself, and you get a high vantage point to see your surroundings.

Of course, the reason they liked hanging on their mother wasn't for that—it was because when their mother went out to work, she rarely took them along.

They simply wanted to be close to their mother. Other snake cubs, after learning to transform, often snuggled up to their mothers too, and they wanted the same.

Yun Zheng, the seventh child and older brother, usually spoke little, but now he also said a sentence, "Miss Mother, so only hang on Mother."

Mu Ci even reached out and hugged Yun Li, "Mother smells nice, not like Father, who often smells stinky."

Hearing these words, Yun Li couldn't help but laugh.

She touched the faces of the three of them and told them, "Mother loves you all very much too. But the four of you turning into beast forms and hanging on Mother at the same time is out of the question—Mother can't carry that many cubs."

At most two. If Mu Ci wanted to hang on, then she'd be the only one, or else Yun Li couldn't sit properly or walk at all.

Yun Xiu's face instantly fell, but the next second he reached out to grab his little sister.

Yun Mei sensed her brother's intention, turned around, and opened her mouth wide at him, scaring Yun Xiu into quickly pulling his hand back.

But soon he reverted to his old ways, reaching out again, only to have Yun Mei bite him on the mouth, catching him a second time.

Without a second thought, Yun Xiu transformed back into his beast form, and the two cubs confronted each other on Yun Li's body.

Yun Li sighed but didn't stop them; otherwise, they'd just end up fighting again where she couldn't see.

And perhaps because their biological father was all Ke Si, Leng Xiu and Leng Xiao treated these three snake cubs equally, while Mu Qing's attention was mostly on his own female cub.

Regarding this, aside from spending more time with the snake cubs, Yun Li couldn't think of any other good way to make Leng Xiu and the others treat the snake cubs better.

After all, they didn't hit or scold the snake cubs, and they were the first to care and solve problems when something happened. With them being so virtuous and kind, could Yun Li really demand that they love these three snake cubs as if they were their own biological children?

That was clearly impossible! So Yun Li did nothing. She looked up at the clear sky above her head, then after a while lay back down and stared blankly into space.

The dry season had long passed, and today was a rare good day during the rainy season.

The earlier attack by foreign beast people on the Tribe felt like a dream. With Ji Xuan and Ke Si returning together from outside and finishing off the thirty-plus foreign beast people one by one, it marked the failure of the invasion by outside clans and tribes.

It's just that after the two of them returned to the Tribe, I don't know if they had made some prior agreement; one went into seclusion right after coming back and is still nowhere to be seen, while the other stayed in the Tribe, apparently intending to reside here permanently.