A vicious female is trapped in a beastly hell.

Chapter 54 Abnormal System

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Shen Tang arrived at Jia Lan's residence, knocked on the door, and called out several times but received no response.

Could it be that he's not home?

Turn the doorknob, and the door is locked from the inside.

Even if Jialan didn't want to see her, she wouldn't just ignore her completely. In fact, given that mermaid's sharp tongue and cunning nature, she would definitely go out and mock her.

Shen Tang suddenly felt a sense of foreboding and, disregarding all propriety and shame, used her female master privileges to open the door by facial recognition.

As soon as Shen Tang entered the living room, she saw the brown-haired boy lying unconscious on the ground not far away. Blood was still seeping out of the shocking wound on his wrist, spreading all the way. The bathroom faucet was not turned off, and the water was almost spreading to the living room floor.

Grass.

Shen Tang's pupils contracted, almost thinking that this kid was thinking of committing suicide.

Shen Tang quickly pulled up her trousers and ran to the bathroom to turn off the tap.

Fortunately, she arrived in time, and the water on the floor quickly drained away.

Shen Tang returned to the living room, took out the healing potion that Xiao Jin had given her last time from the quantum computer space, and applied it to Jia Lan's wrist wound.

When her fingers accidentally touched his skin, she was startled by its burning heat.

This is far too serious.

Jia Lan's exquisite face was as red as a cooked shrimp. Shen Tang knelt down beside him, lowered her head and touched his forehead. She felt that this pampered mermaid prince probably still had a fever. It wouldn't be that serious if it was just his heat cycle.

She immediately got up to look for fever reducers and suppressants.

They had only taken a couple of steps when they heard the boy's incoherent babbling behind them, seemingly delirious and incoherent, "It hurts so much...it hurts..."

"This awful place...it's disgusting..."

"Insects, rats... filthy..."

"It's all that fat bastard's fault... If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be in this godforsaken place..."

Shen Tang turned around and saw Jia Lan still lying on the ground, motionless with her eyes closed. Even in her unconscious state, she hadn't forgotten to curse.

Her lips twitched slightly, utterly speechless. She never expected that this dead mermaid would dream of her in her nightmares. How much must he hate her?

Forget it, I won't bother arguing with this stupid fish.

Shen Tang found the fever reducer in the drawer, and there were several tubes of inhibitors in the drawer next to it, but they were all empty syringes.

The system, exasperated, said, "Host, what are you looking for an inhibitor for? You yourself are the best 'inhibitor'! The important thing is to take advantage of Jialan's weakness and get his gene sample!"

Hearing the dog system's unusually excited voice, Shen Tang felt a strange sensation and suddenly widened her eyes, saying, "The gene samples you keep mentioning, could they be...you know...from these men?"

Her chubby face immediately turned bright red.

This damn perverted system!
She does like handsome men, that's true, but she's definitely not a perverted lecher who takes advantage of others in distress.

No, no, she absolutely couldn't do this. Shen Tang endured the burning sensation on her cheeks and quickly mixed the fever reducer with warm water and fed it to Jia Lan.

Even in his unconscious state, the boy seemed to sense someone approaching. He frowned in resistance and instinctively tried to push Shen Tang away, but he was too weak to do so. He could only let her pry open his mouth and swallow the fever-reducing medicine whole.

Brown liquid dripped down his lips, staining the collar of his white shirt.

Shen Tang remembered that this mermaid prince was very clean, so she ran to the bathroom to get a clean towel and gently wiped his mouth.

The apocalyptic potion worked extremely quickly; Jia Lan's body temperature subsided somewhat, but his face remained flushed, and the black aura surrounding him grew increasingly dense over time. Shen Tang's palm emitted pure white spiritual energy, slowly dispelling the black aura from his body.

The black aura slowly dissipated, and the abnormality in the boy's body gradually subsided.

it works!

Shen Tang's face lit up with joy, and she increased her mental energy output.

The boy's furrowed brows slowly relaxed, as if he had fallen asleep.

After it was all over, Shen Tang was exhausted. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, but at least she managed to stabilize her current situation.

This action couldn't eradicate Jialan's heat cycle, but it delayed it, which could be considered as fulfilling the system's mission—after all, the system only asked her to help Lancang get through this heat cycle.

Shen Tang spread his hands and asked, "System, where's my reward?"

The system, having failed to obtain the gene sample it most desired, lost interest. [Why doesn't the host seize this opportunity to take him down?]

"...Look at how limp he is, what can I do?" Shen Tang said speechlessly.

The system fell silent. "That makes sense."

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the side quest: Help Jialan get through this heat cycle. Reward: Self-defense equipment! The reward has been automatically sent to your system inventory. Please check it yourself!]

Shen Tang valued her life very much, so she took out self-defense equipment directly from the system's backpack. Unlike the bulletproof vest design she had imagined, the self-defense equipment produced by the system was more like a thin, cicada-wing-like energy body.

After reading the system's instruction manual, she focused her mind, and the equipment transformed into a stream of light, adorning her body.

The transparent self-defense gear clung tightly to her skin, making it look like she wasn't wearing anything, but Shen Tang could clearly feel a tough layer of gear protecting her.

That's great.

After so many days in this post-apocalyptic world, she finally felt a long-lost sense of security.

Before leaving, Shen Tang took another blanket and covered Jia Lan with it. After seeing that his condition had stabilized, she left with peace of mind.

Many passersby saw Shen Tang leaving Jia Lan's residence and began to discuss it.

"The female who just walked by looks like Shen Tang."

"Strange, why did she leave Jialan's residence?"

"The two have always been rumored to be at odds. Princess Jialan's dislike for that fat woman is obvious; she doesn't even pretend and avoids her as much as possible. How could the two of them be secretly together?"

"I heard that Jialan recently bought a lot of drugs to suppress his heat on the black market and hasn't left the house for several days, like he's in heat. Shen Tang even came out of his room today. Could it be that the two of them have already mated..."

One of the females was indignant and full of jealousy. "Impossible! Even if that fat woman isn't that ugly anymore, she's still quite average-looking, not even as good-looking as me. How could His Highness Jialan possibly be interested in her!"

"Hehe, the male is in heat. Who cares what she looks like? Turn off the lights, as long as she's a female, that's fine."

The females were jealous and resentful. If they had known it would turn out this way, they would have gone too. If that fat woman could do it, there was no reason why they couldn't.

The news quickly reached Gu Lian's ears.

She had been confidently waiting for Jialan to come and beg her, and had even planned how to humiliate that proud and arrogant mermaid prince. But after hearing this news, she could no longer hold back and almost fainted from anger.

No, she could never believe that Jialan would mate with that fat woman. That fat woman was not even as good-looking as her. Jialan would never be interested in that ugly woman!
She was extremely anxious and sent her beastmen to inquire. Many beastmen had personally witnessed Shen Tang leaving Jialan's residence, stopping for nearly an hour along the way.

Not long after Shen Tang left, some people saw Jia Lan leave with a normal expression, clearly indicating that she had passed her heat cycle.

(End of this chapter)