nucmednet Chapter 342 The War Without Gunfire (Bonus Chapter for Added to Favorites)
Chapter 342 The War Without Gunfire (Bonus Chapter for Added to Favorites)
Xuan Geng, Xuan Xin, and Xuan Ren are the three small, bionic robotic beastmen from the Cheetah Lion Cemetery that Duo Duo retrieved, pretending to be dead cubs.
They first came into everyone's view the day before the Cheetah Lion Tribe set off. Ruan Xiyue paid out a lot of points to upgrade them into adult beastmen.
At the time, Ruan Xiyue had a minor disagreement with Duoduo because the points Duoduo had collected to make up for the shortfall were almost enough to buy a new adult beastman. And the original juvenile bionic beastman had cost over ten thousand points!
Ruan Xiyue only has a little over 200,000 points left. She always feels like she doesn't have enough points to spend.
Li Miao looked at Ruan Xiyue, stayed by her side, and asked, "I'll go find Luo Yurou and the other females first. Will I be able to find you when I come to the cub playground later?"
Ruan Xiyue raised an eyebrow: "Are you free? Have you finished counting all the beastmen in the Treasure-Hunting Rat Tribe? We need to start arranging for them to work tomorrow. They've all signed contracts with me using animal hide scrolls."
"Forty percent of the cost of building the Beast City will have to be handed over to the Holy City! Before the end of the year, I need to produce one million red-tier beast cores, or something worth one million red-tier beast cores."
"Don't sit idle! Everyone get to work! We're short-handed right now. Go, get busy!"
Li Miao was stunned; he suddenly felt incredibly miserable.
There's no waiting list for someone to sleep with at night, and during the day, Ruan Xiyue treats him like a slave.
What is he after?!
"Fine," he thought, looking down at the chubby little baby treasure hunter wiggling its bottom. He calmed himself down, put his arm around Ruan Xiyue's waist, and huffed, "Give me a kiss, or I won't go to work!"
Ruan Xiyue wrapped her arms around Li Miao's neck, and a passionate kiss rekindled Li Miao's weakened romantic mind.
After the kiss ended, Ruan Xiyue kissed Li Miao's fair and handsome cheek again.
Li Miao then eagerly went to do things for Ruan Xiyue.
Watching the cubs happily playing in the huge cub playground, Ruan Xiyue couldn't help but ask Ruan Ling, "The playground at home has even more facilities than this one, and there's a ball castle. You can climb up and slide down through a sea of balls, and you can chase and play in the ball sea. Why do you seem to like this place more?"
Ruan Ling thought for a moment: "Mom, it's just us there. It would be more fun with other cubs. We can build sandcastles together."
Ruan Xiyue thought for a moment, and couldn't help but think of Ruan Xiayi, Ruan An'an, and Ruan Xiabo in the portable childcare playground. Their public identities were that of dead infants. Therefore, they had been unable to leave.
Even if the system is upgraded and their ancestral bloodline characteristics are concealed, the image on the bloodline stone will still be lit up, attracting the Beast King.
So annoying! Ruan Xiyue is really annoyed by the Beast King. But she can't beat him yet.
She suddenly vaguely remembered someone who had told her that as long as she was willing to help him give birth to an heir, he would help her deal with the Beast King.
Who is it? Is it a hallucination?
Ruan Xiyue shook her head, feeling that there must be something wrong with her brain.
She mentally confirmed with Duo Duo, who, with that silly cat skin, looked even sillier: [Host, Beast King Earth-rank ability. Host's ability is Brown-rank; you still need to pass Silver, Gold, Human, and Profound ranks to reach Earth-rank.]
[If the host gives birth to two more offspring with ancestral bloodlines, they will reach the Silver Rank of superpowers. If they reproduce quickly, they might reach the Earth Rank in three or four years. However, that requires the host to continuously give birth to offspring.]
[Unless the host gives birth to four offspring with atavistic bloodlines again. In that case, the time required can be reduced by half.]
Ruan Xiyue narrowed her eyes and gritted her teeth. It seemed her rest time was about to be cut short again. This time, she would have to try to give birth to her fourth child with ancestral blood again!
Ruan Xiyue asked Duoduo: "How can I ensure that all four or five babies in one litter are of atavistic blood?"
[Only after consuming the Talent Enhancement Pill, and ideally after immediately advancing to a higher level of supernatural ability, and during their first mating after that advancement, is it possible for the beastman to simultaneously conceive two litters, resulting in four or five offspring with reverted ancestral bloodlines.]
Ruan Xiyue pursed her lips, calculated the levels of Qin Ye and the others' abilities, and felt that it was still too slow!
Ruan Xiyue thought for a while but couldn't come up with a better solution, so she could only think about the things she planned to discuss with the leaders of the various tribes of beastmen at the banquet.
Li Miao brought over Luo Yurou and Chu Jiayun's best cook, Beast Husband, and Ruan Xiyue then asked Li Miao to take them to arrange the dinner.
Although what we can use now are all frozen wild beast meat left over from the beast tide season, they are all high-level wild beast meat, which is a very good source of nutrition for males.
Ruan Xiyue spent a noisy afternoon with the cubs.
It's not that she doesn't like offspring; she believes that any carbon-based creature could barely like having three offspring, but what about when she has more than sixty?
Besides the three little cubs hidden in the cub paradise space, she now has to take care of sixty-five cubs!
Just imagine all the cubs calling "Mama" in unison, showing off their newly piled-up sand, standing on the slide ready to slide down, sitting on the seesaw and pressing the other up into the air... all trying to attract their mother's attention and calling "Mama" at the same time!
Ruan Xiyue finally brought all the cubs home and had Xuanjia and the other nine bionic robot beastmen bathe all the cubs.
Ruan Xiyue perked up, preparing for the dinner party later. So, she unusually wore a pure black silk cheongsam embroidered with dragon patterns.
Of course, this was purchased from the system store, but Ruan Xiyue had already mastered the techniques for raising silkworms and making silk fabrics.
The climate in the sloth tribe is rather cold; otherwise, raising silkworms to make silk would have made them incredibly wealthy.
When Ruan Xiyue appeared in the council hall in the center of the inner city, the tribal leaders who had arrived earlier couldn't help but gasp.
"What kind of fabric is this? It's so gorgeous."
"This fabric looks like the surface of water; it must be very expensive!"
Ruan Xiyue remained unmoved by the exclamations of surprise from the orcs around her.
Her guards were in place, and the defenses of the Beast City were very strong. She could now bring out some major assets to stimulate the economic development of the surrounding area.
Economic development determines the superstructure. She intends to erode the Beast King's dominance over the various beast cities and tribes without bloodshed.
It doesn't matter if she can't win for now. She doesn't believe in economic warfare. In this war without gunpowder, can the Beast King defeat her?
She stands on the foundation of five thousand years of experience, looking down upon these orcs.
Tonight, she's going to turn all these beastmen into her cattle and horses!
Beast King? Just you wait and see!
Every day, they either want to cause trouble for her beastly husband, or they want to cause trouble for her, and they even want to take away her child.
When the guards left, they subtly reminded her to keep a close eye on the cubs.
What does that mean? Keep an eye on the cubs in her beast city? Who dares to be so arrogant? The answer is practically a slap in the face!
This really forced her to turn her life around! It's so annoying!