Pampered Beast: Frail Beauty with Many Children Brings Blessings

Chapter 9: A Small Harvest

After fooling around with his beast husband all night, Si Shuo thought he wouldn't be able to get up today and would miss the harvest.

However, after accepting the beast mark of Jill, apart from some soreness in her lower back, her body felt more relaxed and comfortable than ever before!

She touched the snow leopard head print on the inside of her left wrist; it looked cool and stylish no matter how you looked at it.

Si Shuo sipped her meat soup and, while she did so, checked the rewards for main quest 1: a survival pack and 1,000 beast coins.

She opened her survival pack, and inside fell a "Plant Guide to the Beast World Continent", a dusty Tibetan knife that could cut through iron like mud, a 20-meter-long shrimp trap, a recipe for firing pottery jars, and a superpower awakening pill!

Either reward would be very necessary for her right now.

Si Shuo opened the plant encyclopedia, and the book transformed into starlight, flowing into her mind. Her eyes flickered slightly as she took out the purple wild strawberry she had stored in her space yesterday. The system immediately provided detailed annotations: name, physical characteristics, distribution range, growth habits, propagation methods, species classification, and value, etc. This function was simply an essential tool for picking wild strawberries.

She stored the other items in her own space. Not knowing how long it would take for the Awakening Pill to take effect, or whether it would cause any physical discomfort, she didn't dare to take it immediately, planning to wait until she returned with the collected items.

The system also features an online store where the variety and prices of goods are the same as in a supermarket.

Looking at the dazzling array of goods, even though Si Shuo only had a thousand beast coins, she felt much more at ease.

After receiving the reward, the system immediately issued a new task!

Main Quest 2: Give birth to a baby.

Main Quest 3: Form a partnership with a second beastman whose combat power is level six or higher.

Side Quest 1: Awakening Superpowers

Daily task: Gather resources.

Si Shuo's face flushed red. She recalled her intimate moments with Zhile last night. As expected of a vigorous beastman, his brute strength was both lovable and frightening.

She hadn't even processed what was happening when the system kept pressuring her to have more children and to take in a second beast husband...

"Si Shuo," Yi Mei waved to her from the cave entrance, already ready, "Are you all packed? We need to meet at the tribe's gate."

Si Shuo nodded, quickly took the leather bag that Zhi Le had filled with hot water for her, and walked out with the wicker basket on his back.

Without Zhile holding her as they jumped down, Si Shuo carefully climbed down the stone steps using both hands and feet.

There are no strict requirements for gathering tasks in the tribe. The females can go if they want, or they can stay at home and wait for the males to serve them if they don't want to go.

However, most of the females felt sorry for their husbands, fathers, and brothers at home and were willing to share some of the work.

The Roni tribe has several regular gathering points, each equipped with a person in charge and a strong guard team.

Yi Mei pulled Si Shuo to queue up with ease. "There are lots of delicious wild fruits in the bushes to the southwest right now. Let's pick more and dry them into dried fruit while the weather is nice."

Are you going tomorrow? If you are, we'll go up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables. If we're lucky, we might catch a few silly rabbits. A female rabbit dug up a whole nest of bamboo rats the other day!

Si Shuo nodded, "Go ahead, Zhi Le has a big idea. He wants me to stock up on meat before the spring hunt so we can hunt every day. I'll go with him to gather meat every day."

Yimei happily pulled her along, "Okay, let's go hunting together from now on."

As she spoke, she introduced several other females to Si Shuo who were easy to get along with, all of whom had below-average fertility and average beastmen combat strength.

After assembling, the guards' orcs transformed into their beast forms, each carrying four females, and raced towards the bushes. The orcs moved swiftly and steadily, and in about ten minutes, they arrived at a large thicket.

After getting off, Yi Mei grabbed Si Shuo's arm and earnestly instructed him: "Later, we'll spread out and collect the materials. There are guards patrolling back and forth in this area, and there are also eagle beastmen watching from the sky."

If there is danger, you shout. If you hear the horn, you should head back to the tribe. By then, the sun will be high in the sky.

If you encounter other females gathering, don't approach them; go look for other places...

Si Shuo smiled and agreed to everything, then waved goodbye to Yi Mei.

She walked slowly, found a secluded spot, and spent three yuan from the mall to exchange for a leopard-print scrunchie, which she used to half-tie her wind-blown, messy hair.

She has a poor sense of direction and was afraid of getting lost, so she spent another twenty yuan on a vintage-style compass. Of course, a watch and a towel also needed to be bought!

After checking the direction, Si Shuo walked quickly south, listening intently to the sounds of birds in the jungle.

Since there were plenty of berries at this time of year, birds would surely gather to peck at them. She quickly located the spot and jogged over.

The closer she got to the place, the more birdsong she heard, their chirping and chattering giving her a headache.

However, when she arrived at the destination, she was stunned.

The bushes were filled with short, sturdy trees with lush canopies, appearing as continuous stretches from the outside, so the eagle-beastmen outside couldn't see what was happening below.

But besides the trees, there were many thorny, tangled, and sprawling plants, and the berries on the outside had been almost all picked.

Si Shuo couldn't see what was inside even as she jumped around, but from the lively chirping of the birds, she could guess with her toes how many good things were inside!

She looked up through the gaps in the leaves and saw the eagle-beastmen patrolling overhead from time to time. After a moment of contemplation, she jogged along the thicket of thorns and found the path that the female had broken earlier.

Clearing out such a narrow path was too difficult; the previous female only managed to clear five meters before giving up.

After she crawled inside, she gritted her teeth and spent 700 beast coins in the mall to buy a set of windproof jacket, a pair of discounted hiking shoes, a pair of work gloves, protective goggles, and a mask.

After fully arming herself, Si Shuo found a slightly sparse spot, curled up, and painstakingly crawled inside. After about a meter, she took out her Tibetan knife and began to clear a new path.

The thorn branches are not thick and are quite brittle; they can be cut with a little force.

Si Shuo cut the roots of the thorns and pushed them aside. The thorns remained entangled on top, while the branches below moved to create a small path. This way, she wouldn't attract the attention of the eagle beastmen, and clearing the path was effortless for her.

After chopping for a few minutes, the sweet aroma of the fruit filled her nostrils.

When Si Shuo looked up, he saw bunches of wild grapes that were so purple they were almost black!

Her eyes sparkled as she took off her gloves, plucked a fruit, and popped it into her mouth. It was sweet and sour, juicy, and refreshing.

Si Shuo immediately bought a pair of scissors, cut off a bunch of grapes, and weighed them in his hand; they were about a pound in weight.

She rinsed the grapes clean with water, proudly showed off half of the bunch, and then continued working, storing the cut bunches of grapes into her storage space!

Besides grapes, there were also red berries, wild strawberries, purple mulberries, and yellow cherry fruits that the original owner recognized. She could pick the fruits in the groves with just a reach, and occasionally she could even catch a few birds trapped in the branches.

(End of this chapter)