Chapter 152: Giving Birth

Chapter 152: Chapter 152: Giving Birth

SMACK!

The snake tail slammed into the ground, leaving a deep crater with each strike...

Yan Lie dodged several times, once narrowly avoiding being ensnared by Zhu Xiu’s tail.

"Are you serious? I just told you, we’re family now."

The words had barely left his mouth when Zhu Xiu attacked again. This time, he didn’t manage to dodge completely.

He was struck and sent crashing heavily to the ground.

PUFF...

A single breath sent the dirt on the ground flying.

He felt like his back was about to break.

He quickly turned his head to look at the King Cobra, but the snake seemed to have suddenly lost interest in him.

Hissing in pain, Yan Lie climbed to his feet. ’Forget it,’ he thought. ’For Wanwan’s sake, since we’re all her Beast Husbands, I won’t lower myself to the level of a Snake Beast.’

He tried to take advantage of the moment to sneak inside while he wasn’t being watched, but the instant he moved, the King Cobra’s tail rose again.

Just then, a low cry from Bai Wanwan came from inside the house.

The sound immediately captured the attention of both males.

"Wanwan!"

Yan Lie shouted, about to bolt inside.

But the King Cobra suddenly reared its head, wreathed in black energy so thick it nearly obscured its head from view.

Yan Lie, who had been about to shout a few threats and charge in, was stunned by the sight.

"You... What’s wrong with you?"

Before he could finish, Zhu Xiu opened his beastly maw and lunged, trying to swallow him whole.

Yan Lie’s pupils shrank. He instantly transformed, a grayish-white leopard launching itself away like a flash of lightning.

Inside, after a final push, Bai Wanwan felt something roll out.

’Is it born?’

’This birth is so exhausting.’

It didn’t hurt much, but there was a bloating pressure, and it took more effort than her previous births.

Shi Hua joyfully presented an egg to Bai Wanwan. "Sister, look! It’s such a big egg."

’It was much bigger than a chicken egg!’

Bai Wanwan stared at the egg, which was ten times the size of a chicken’s, her mind in a jumble.

’I’m a mammal, aren’t I? So why am I laying eggs?’

’This Beast World Continent is seriously something else.’

Xin Feng reached out and took the egg from Shi Hua. "Careful, don’t drop it. I’ll put it in the nest first."

A small nest had been hastily prepared by the bed, and the egg took up nearly half the space inside it.

Bai Wanwan was about to speak when her belly tightened. The feeling was back.

She had no choice but to hold her breath and push.

One... two...

Two more eggs rolled out of her in quick succession.

Covered in sweat, Bai Wanwan began to communicate with the system.

"Hua Sheng, are there any more eggs in my belly?"

"No more. Congratulations, Host, on giving birth to two Yellow Rank male cubs and one female cub with excellent fertility. You are awarded a total of 70,000 Points. As you recently redeemed a Painless Childbirth Pill, your current balance is 85,540 Points."

’That many?’

Bai Wanwan hadn’t expected to get more Points from this one litter than from her previous two combined.

And this litter only had three cubs.

"Please continue your efforts, Host. Find high-Talent males to have cubs with. The higher the cubs’ Talent, the more Points you will receive."

Bai Wanwan thought, ’Once Zhu Xiu recovers, I’ll have to have a couple more litters with him.’

"Right, I have over eighty thousand Points now. How many more do I need to remove the Dark Curse from Zhu Xiu?"

"Around one hundred and twenty thousand."

’Not bad, not bad,’ Bai Wanwan thought. ’In that case, one more litter with Zhu Xiu should be enough.’

A huge weight was suddenly lifted from her heart, and Bai Wanwan felt much more relaxed.

Xin Feng sat beside her, holding a bowl of soup. "Are you hungry? Let me feed you some."

Bai Wanwan had just exerted a lot of energy and was now indeed tired, thirsty, and hungry.

She nodded, letting him help her up and hold her in his arms.

She drank the soup from the bowl as he held it to her lips.

After just a few sips, a sudden commotion came from outside.

"Is Zhu Xiu still out there? What’s that noise?"

Everyone’s attention had been focused on Bai Wanwan giving birth. Elated by the huge number of Points she’d received after the delivery, she had also almost forgotten about the situation outside.

"Shi Hua, could you feed Wanwan her soup? I’m going out to take a look."

"Oh, okay."

Shi Hua reached out for the stone bowl, taking Xin Feng’s place.

Just as Shi Hua was about to continue feeding her, Bai Wanwan raised a hand to stop her. "Listen... Doesn’t that commotion outside sound a little too loud?"

As if on cue, Yan Lie’s voice drifted in from outside, "If you hit me again, I swear I won’t hold back anymore."

Yan Lie was taking a brutal beating. He kept holding back, not daring to truly fight back, because he was mindful that Zhu Xiu was also Wanwan’s Beast Husband and held a special place in her heart.

As a result, he was sent scrambling for cover, and several blows nearly made him cough up blood.

Hearing Yan Lie’s voice, Bai Wanwan worried that Zhu Xiu, in his current state, wouldn’t recognize him and would seriously injure him. She immediately had Shi Hua put the bowl down. "Shi Hua, help me get outside."

Then she said to the system, "Hua Sheng, redeem a postnatal recovery for me."

Having just given birth, she had been weak and feeble.

After the redemption, the fatigue completely vanished from her body.

Even the sore and swollen areas felt normal again.

"Sister, don’t go! You just gave birth, your body..."

Bai Wanwan had no time to explain. Seeing Shi Hua hesitate, she simply threw off the covers, sat up, and slipped on her coarse cloth shoes before heading out.

By the time she reached the doorway, Yan Lie had already been coiled up in Zhu Xiu’s tail.

The enraged snake had opened its beastly maw.

Xin Feng stood before him, his face taut with grim tension.

"Zhu Xiu, calm down! He’s one of Wanwan’s Beast Husbands, just like us! If you swallow him, Wanwan will be devastated..."

But Zhu Xiu’s movements didn’t pause. He used his snake tail to lift the coiled Yan Lie toward his waiting maw.

Seeing this, Bai Wanwan broke into a sprint, quickly reaching Zhu Xiu. She began to scramble up his body, using both her hands and feet.

None of the Beast Husbands had expected her to suddenly appear right after giving birth, much less to so nimbly climb onto Zhu Xiu’s beastly form.

Xin Feng snapped out of it and immediately lunged forward, intending to pull her back.

But Bai Wanwan was too fast. Before he could reach her, she had already climbed higher.

Zhu Xiu abruptly abandoned his attempt to swallow Yan Lie, instead lowering his head to hiss and roar at the approaching Xin Feng.

His long, forked tongue flickered out, his maw a terrifying sight.

"Zhu Xiu, don’t hurt Wanwan!"

Bai Wanwan was halfway up but could climb no further.

The upper half of Zhu Xiu’s body was reared up vertically; there were no footholds, and she would just slide back down if she tried.

"Wanwan, get down! He can’t swallow me," Yan Lie shouted.

’If he really dares to swallow me, I’ll just tear up his insides from within.’

But Bai Wanwan saw that his face was already turning purple from the pressure, and she grew frantic.

She didn’t have time to reassure Yan Lie. She turned her head and shouted to Zhu Xiu, "Zhu Xiu, you can hear me, can’t you?"

Zhu Xiu stopped menacing Xin Feng.

His massive head slowly turned, and his enormous, bell-like black eyes fixed on Bai Wanwan, a deeply unsettling sight.

But Bai Wanwan wasn’t afraid in the slightest. She reached out her arms and hugged his immense, beastly body.

"I just gave birth to two little male snake cubs for you, and one little female. Do you want to see them?"

She tilted her head back to look at him, her gaze exceptionally gentle.

The other two males present held their breath, terrified that if Zhu Xiu went berserk, they wouldn’t be able to save Wanwan in time.