After exchanging beast mates, those crazy S-rank beasts are all vying to be my pets.

Chapter 44 The Little Mistress Smells So Good
The usually calm mechanical voice suddenly went berserk.

A surge of agitation rose in Shen Jinxi's heart. "Could it have been done by another family?"

[System: No, there are only three families, what's going on?]

Hearing the system's question, Shen Jinxi couldn't contain her anger. "Who's the system here, you or me? You can even find bugs in Stardust, how come you can't find the person who killed Poison Scorpion?"

[System: Please, if I could do everything, I would have become the ruler of the Stardust long ago. This vulnerability has taken me a lot of effort, and I can't find out who did it yet.]

When the mechanical voice responded, it was sharp and piercing, followed by a burst of electrical noise.

Only Shen Jinxi could hear the system's voice. She covered her ears in pain, feeling dizzy from the noise.

"I was wrong, please stop yelling!" Shen Jinxi frowned in pain and quickly tried to calm the system down.

The sharp sound stopped abruptly, and no matter what Shen Jinxi said, the system did not respond and disappeared again.

Sitting on her sleeping bag, Shen Jinxi realized she needed to have a backup plan. She fell into deep thought and quickly decided to focus her attention on Zuo Ya.
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The next day, it got light on High Temperature Island earlier than on the Beast World Continent. At only four in the morning, the sky was already turning a pale white, and the Milky Way had faded away.

Sang Tian opened her eyes and sat up to check the tent zipper, which was still in the same place as last night.

She crawled out of her sleeping bag; it was only six in the morning, but the temperature had already reached thirty degrees Celsius.

Sang Tian changed her clothes before going out, wearing a waist-length short-sleeved shirt paired with loose cargo pants to prevent her thighs from getting burned by insects or sunburn. She had felt a burning sensation on her skin yesterday, so she dared not wear anything short today.

The fire lit last night had long since gone out, and only Wu Lanyuan was outside.

"Good morning," Sang Tian greeted as she stepped out of the tent.

Wu Lanyuan raised his eyes and glanced at her indifferently, "Yes, good morning."

Sang Tian rubbed her forearms to ease the awkwardness, and instantly felt less hot; the other person's tone was quite cold.

She found a place to sit down, tactically cleared her throat, and prepared to give an explanation.

"You don't need to explain the space thing to me. I'm not very interested in your affairs." Seeing Sang Tian's hesitant expression, Wu Lanyuan stated directly.

This made Sang Tian's previous actions seem utterly unnecessary, and she felt that she had been presumptuous.

"That's good." Sang Tian breathed a sigh of relief, feeling an invisible pressure when she was with Wu Lanyuan, making it hard to breathe. "I'll go take a walk around here."

The grove wasn't large; you could walk about a hundred meters ahead to get out, and the surrounding vegetation wasn't particularly lush.

Wu Lanyuan was worried, "I'll go with you."

"It's alright, this forest isn't big."

Ignoring Sang Tian's refusal, Wu Lanyuan stood up and walked straight towards her, saying, "Let's go."

Having no other choice, Sang Tian had to bite the bullet and walk into the woods.

There were many dead branches and withered grass in the woods, which made a crisp snapping sound when stepped on.

"Will there be more forests like this ahead?" Sang Tian gazed at the boundless desert.

Wu Lanyuan had a darker complexion and was more robust than the other four beastmen, standing at 1.9 meters tall.

His golden pupils were dazzling in the sunlight, his sword-like eyebrows were sharp and his eyes were fierce, and he exuded a sense of aloofness that kept strangers at bay.

"Yes, these are progress points. There are three such forests for the families to rest in. Once you complete them, you've passed the challenge."

Sang Tian withdrew her gaze and prepared to return the way she came.

"Wait." He took a half step forward and shielded Sang Tian behind him, vaguely hearing movement around them. "It sounds like there's something there. Don't move."

She appeared suddenly, without her Flame Bow, truly powerless.

hiss--

After the two fell silent, a chilling sound filled the air—the sound of a snake flicking its tongue.

Wu Lanyuan knew that snake-type beastmen were very fast, so he dared not make any rash moves without knowing the target's location, and he also had to protect the people behind him.

The hissing sound surrounded the two of them; the other person was moving very quickly, making it impossible to pinpoint their exact location.

Sang Tian tugged at Wu Lanyuan's sleeve and asked softly, "Why do I feel like there's more than one?"

Wu Lanyuan glanced sideways at Sang Tian, ​​who was huddled behind him. He saw her brows furrowed and her expression worried, and a strange, unprecedented urge to protect her arose in his heart.

"Not only that, but you need to be careful. If there are too many, I might not be able to take care of you."

It's not that they can't take care of her, but they're worried about accidentally hurting her. The strange beasts of the Floating Islands will all rush to attack the female master first. In other words, they are typical bullies who prey on the weak.

"Okay, don't worry about me. If anything happens, I'll just hide in my spatial dimension."

In the blink of an eye, a curved blade appeared in Wu Lanyuan's hand. He rushed forward, drew the blade with his right hand, flicked his wrist inward, and quickly threw the blade away.

The scimitar was thrown out, spun half a circle, and returned to his hand in just three seconds.

All vegetation within the range of the curved blade's circling motion was cut in half.

"Hiss hiss hiss—interesting, a B-rank female master paired with an S-rank beast husband."

A strange beast with a human body and a snake tail appeared. It had a long red forked tongue and always spoke with a hissing sound and the sound of its snake tail trembling.

The sound came from behind Sang Tian. The hissing sound made her scalp tingle and her back feel eerie and cold.

Sang Tian didn't dare to stand still and ran away immediately.

The moment she lifted her leg, the snake's tail wrapped around her calf. The snake tightened its grip, making it impossible for her to move. The rattlesnake's tail trembled.

"Quickly enter the space." Sang Tian was tightly bound and realized she couldn't enter the space. "No, I can't get in."

It was through this experience that she learned that one needs to be in a safe and spacious place to enter a space.

Wu Lanyuan remained expressionless and warned the other party, "Let her go, and I'll give you a chance to live."

"You still don't understand the situation, do you? I have your life in my hands now. You should be begging me to spare your life." The rattlesnake's lower body was tightly wrapped around Sang Tian.

Wu Lanyuan's thin lips curled into a sarcastic smile as he coldly tilted his head to examine the strange beast, his eyes filled with disdain. "You think you can take me on?"

Talking wasn't enough. The beast used its snake tail to bring Sang Tian to its side, sniffing her scent as if it were enjoying a meal.

"What a fragrant little mistress, no wonder she found an S-class beast husband."

The rattlesnake, believing it had the key to the Misty Abyss's fate, became increasingly arrogant.

Sang Tian's face scrunched up, her expression one of resistance, especially when the other person was about to stick out their snake tongue to lick her. She could no longer bear it and forcefully pulled her hand out to grab the other person's snake tongue tightly.

"How disgusting! Are you a snake or a dog? If you want to kill me, then kill me. Since when has a rattlesnake hunted its prey by disgusting it to death?"

Clearly, the other party did not expect Sang Tian to take this approach, and he opened his blood-red mouth as if to intimidate her into letting go.

Seeing this, Wu Lanyuan chuckled, gripped the hilt of his sword, and slashed at the rattlesnake. His speed was so fast that afterimages appeared.

The snake tail wrapped around Sang Tian loosened, and her body fell, only to be caught by someone a second later.

She looked at the rattlesnake and saw that its tail had been severed by Wu Lanyuan, blood was gushing out, and the snake's tail was still twitching on the ground.

The rattlesnake revealed its true form and darted into the desert at lightning speed.

Wu Lanyuan put Sang Tian down and chased after her again. He swung his curved blade once more, the blade cutting through the heat wave and creating a stream of air that swirled around the blade before landing on a sand dune in the distance.

The moment the knife tip pierced the sand, a pitiful scream rang out.

"Do you want to drink snake head soup?" Wu Lanyuan asked Sang Tian seriously, hesitating whether to go over and grab the person's head.

Sang Tian recalled the guy's head being boiled in a pot earlier, and her stomach churned. She quickly covered her mouth and shook her head in refusal.

"No, please don't take it back!"

When Wu Lanyuan returned, there was still rattlesnake blood on his scimitar, with the most blood at the tip, and blood was still dripping down.

Sang Tian frowned, her face full of disgust, looking at her palm with disdain, which still had rattlesnake saliva on it.

"How disgusting. Wait a minute, I'm going to wash my hands in my spatial dimension."

Wu Lanyuan was taken aback, but he didn't feel disgusted by her affected behavior. He nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you outside."

As Sang Tian was about to go inside, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that Wu Lanyuan had rattlesnake blood on his hands, which he must have gotten on them earlier.

"Come in with me and wash up; you have his blood on your hands."

Wu Lanyuan looked down and noticed bloodstains on his right palm and the back of his hand. He had no wounds, so the blood must be someone else's.

He wanted to refuse, but when he looked up and met Sang Tian's utterly disgusted gaze, he swallowed his words of refusal.

"OK then."

Sang Tian grabbed Wu Lanyuan's hand with the hand that had touched the rattlesnake and led them into the space.

So far, all five beastmen have entered her space, but Wu Lanyuan is the most composed, not even glancing at her twice, and is about to leave after washing his hands with Sang Tian.

As the two left the space and walked back, Wu Lanyuan remembered what the rattlesnake had said before it died.

"Your weak female master can even kidnap me. When you encounter the new A-level venomous scorpion, I don't believe she can escape."

Considering Sang Tian's pride, Wu Lanyuan omitted the word "weakling".

Sang Tian had just washed her face in the space, and the water droplets on her face were not completely dry. Under the sunlight, she looked like a hibiscus flower after the rain, very delicate and beautiful.

A pair of bright, moist eyes looked at Wu Lanyuan, her gaze fixed solely on him.

"I don't know either, let's go back and discuss it." He looked away and down at the ground.

Upon seeing a patch of green on the ground, Wu Lanyuan frowned slightly, realizing that the withered grass from before had all come back to life, forming a green belt.

Wu Lanyuan looked up at Sang Tian and realized that this activity trajectory was the route Sang Tian had taken.

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(Small Theater)

Bi Jingyan crawled into Wu Lanyuan's tent and said excitedly, "I just went into her space! It's such a special space, with trees, flowers, and even butterflies..."

Wu Lanyuan turned over impatiently. "Okay, let's go to sleep."

Bi: "She said I was the first one invited."

Fog: "Hmm."

Bi: "She didn't invite you, did she?"

Wu Lanyuan opened his eyes, instantly wide awake. "If you're not going to sleep, then go sleep in a tree."

Bi: "Admit it, admit you can't stand being isolated like this."

Fog: "Do you think you're special? She only has Li Su's beast mark on her. Are you sure you're special to her?"

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