Chapter 63 Triple Pregnancy

Wu Zhuo placed Chong Zhen and Ling Chengen at the front and back of Hanshan Village, and handed Ling Chengen a bamboo whistle: "I'm going to take a stroll in that poison valley. When you're done, Sister En, blow the bamboo whistle three times, two short and one long. I'll come over immediately when I hear it."

Ling Chengen took the bamboo whistle, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Did you make this yourself?"

"Hmm." Wu Zhuo nodded, slightly raising her chin, and said proudly, "Sister En, how about it? Aren't I amazing? Don't you think I'm incredibly smart?"

Seeing his smug look, Ling Chengen smiled and said, "You are quite clever, but you should just go and check out Poison Valley, and don't provoke Chang Tianchen."

Wu Zhuo immediately nodded vigorously and said, "Of course! After the clan leader treated you like that yesterday, even if I had the guts of a bear and the gall of a leopard, I wouldn't dare to go to Poison Valley to cause trouble for Chang Tianchen again!"

Ling Chengen's face darkened instantly. Seeing that things were not going well, Wu Zhuo immediately turned around and ran a few steps like a roaming chicken, then flapped his wings and flew into the air: "I'm leaving, remember to blow the whistle!"

Chongzhen, hands on her hips, stood behind Ling Chengen, almost bursting out laughing. She covered her mouth with one hand and teased, "Looks like your reputation is ruined. Even your little follower dares to make fun of you to your face."

"you shut up!"

Ling Chengen, with a sour face, hooked his arm around his neck and dragged him forward.

Chongzhen had no choice but to bend over and try to struggle free from under her arms.

"Stop! I'll walk by myself!"

"You almost broke my neck! This is revenge! I'll tell Chief Ling!"

Ling Chengen wasn't afraid at all and sneered, "Go ahead and sue me if you dare!"

Chongzhen said with a mournful face, "I was wrong, I was wrong, okay?"

"Please, let go of my neck."

"A fox's life matters too—"

Ling Chengen dragged it into Hanshan Village before releasing his grip on its throat. He stretched his wrists and said disdainfully, "It's a shame you're so big, yet you're so weak."

Chongzhen touched her neck with her right hand, her face slightly flushed, and said, "I was just afraid of hurting your hand if I used too much force, okay?"

"Even if I'm not big in my beast form, I'm still a male beastman who's almost an adult, okay? If I can't even wring one of your hands with both of my hands, I might as well find a tree and hang myself."

Ling Chengen glanced at him indifferently, did not respond to his words, and strode forward.

The people of the Hanshan tribe didn't even bother to stop her when they saw her. Some of their cubs even scurried past her, casually raising their hands to greet her when they saw her.

Chongzhen followed behind her, clicking his tongue in amazement, "You really are quite ranked in the Hanshan tribe. As a young chieftain of another tribe, appearing in the center of their settlement, these people didn't even have any sense of vigilance or wariness."

Ling Chengen replied casually, "The orcs of the Crane Clan are quite friendly. If you come a few more times, they will still treat you kindly."

"Of course, most importantly, our two tribes are currently cooperating. Working together to grow potatoes is crucial for both tribes' food supply during the cold season, so of course they are willing to treat us kindly."

Chongzhen thought what she said made a lot of sense. Watching her skillfully take the side path and head towards a steeper area, he asked in confusion, "Are you very familiar with the interior of the Hanshan tribe?"

"I'd say I'm familiar with it?" Ling Chengen pointed to his head. "My mental power has long since allowed me to thoroughly understand the inside and outside of the Hanshan tribe, but I haven't explored it from beginning to end yet."

Chongzhen: "Are you planning to go directly to Bai Yun?"

Ling Chengen said, "Finding him is definitely the most direct and effective method, but unfortunately, he is not in the tribe right now."

"then you……"

"Find Bai Qingyu." Ling Chengen stopped and looked up at the sheer cliff above. "Bai Xu and Bai Xi are not in the tribe, so we can only look for him."

"Bai Qingyu, come down—"

Ling Chengen focused his energy in his dantian and shouted upwards.

Looking at her simple and direct way of greeting, Chongzhen suddenly felt that Bai Qingyu really had a good temper.

Two minutes later, Bai Qingyu stood at the cave entrance, peered down, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"You're still not fully recovered?"

Looking at his pale face and crimson lips, Ling Chengen felt that he truly had the advantages of being a sickly beauty. Even from this angle of death, he was so beautiful that it was shocking.

Bai Qingyu sighed: "Thanks to you, it's not better yet."

"Come up."

He glanced at Chongzhen, who was standing aside watching the show. Although he didn't know why Ling Chengen would bring his beastman to find him, he still waved and turned to walk into the cave.

Ling Chengen turned to look at Chongzhen: "It's just a cliff a few dozen meters high, I don't need to carry you up there, do I?"

Chongzhen: "I can do it myself."

Ling Chengen received an affirmative answer, so he didn't transform into beast form at all. Instead, he climbed up with his bare hands like a gecko, so fast that Chongzhen almost couldn't react in time.

Although he couldn't match Ling Chengen's speed, he still managed to climb the cliff steadily and stand at the entrance of Bai Qingyu's cave.

It's windier and colder here.

Chongzhen, shirtless, shivered from the wind and quickly stepped inside.

It was also Ling Chengen's first time entering Bai Qingyu's cave, and he curiously looked at the layout of the cave.

This cave was much larger than the one she originally lived in, and it was divided into three rounded little rooms. The room he usually rested in should be the one on the left, the one with the straw curtain hanging to block the wind.

In the small room in the middle, the straw curtains are rolled up to let in light.

However, because the cave entrance was quite far from the small room, the room appeared exceptionally dark even without the straw curtains drawn.

Ling Chengen stood at the doorway, looking at Bai Qingyu sitting on the stone. The stone beneath him must have been repeatedly shaped and polished, so its surface was very smooth and its shape was very similar to a stone bench.

There are four such stone benches in the small room.

There is also a huge piece of wood in the middle, the upward side of which has been filed flat, and it is already taking the shape of a table.

"sit."

Bai Qingyu pointed to the two stone benches opposite him, picked up the wooden bowl on the table, frowned, and drank the dark medicine in the bowl in one gulp. Then he picked up the berries in the bamboo basket, threw several into his mouth, and finally suppressed the deadly bitter taste.

Ling Chengen sat down opposite him, turned his head to look at the bags of herbs placed in the corner and the small stone pots piled up in the corner, and asked curiously, "Does your tribe also have this kind of medicine that is boiled?"

"The tribe's shaman learned from you."

Bai Qingyu had never tasted anything so bitter in his life. But the tribe's shaman told him that this method of boiling herbs directly into a juice and then drinking it would be more effective for internal injuries.

So he could only reluctantly follow the witch doctor's instructions to cook and drink it.

Ling Chengen sympathized with him for three seconds, but quickly changed the subject: "I brought Chongzhen here because he wants the Yaoluo tribe to join the trade between the two tribes. Can you make that decision? If you can't, I'll wait for your father to come back and bring Chongzhen here again."

Bai Qingyu wiped the red berry juice off his fingertips, slightly lifted his eyelids, and looked at Chongzhen, who was sitting upright beside him: "I can make the decision, but why must we bring the Yaoluo tribe along? What benefits will we get?" Ling Chengen was not surprised by his bluntness, and turned to look at Chongzhen: "You can talk to him yourself."

Zhongzhen knew Yaoluo's situation best.

As an outsider, she only heard a few words from Chongzhen. Under Bai Qingyu's sharp questioning, she would probably be rendered speechless after a few rounds.

The discussion between Chongzhen and Bai Qingyu allowed Ling Chengen to observe the two from other perspectives.

Compared to the composed and calm Bai Qingyu, Chongzhen, despite being far inferior to her in terms of strength and background, was still able to calmly handle every question Bai Qingyu asked and even provide solutions very quickly.

Especially regarding the benefits that the Yaoluo tribe provides to the Shilin and Hanshan tribes, the two are locked in a tense struggle.

After listening for a while, Ling Chengen couldn't help but rest his chin on his hand, his thoughts drifting away.

Both of them are experts in finance and negotiation.

With her eyelids drooping and her mind filled with a jumble of random thoughts, she was incredibly bored... so she poked at the Love Security System, which hadn't moved all day.

This little yellow thing is usually very mischievous, especially when she doesn't silence it. It can tell stand-up comedy in her head and even add random voice-overs to the scenes she sees.

So when it became unusually quiet, Ling Chengen became curious about what it was doing.

After several attempts to poke the system, which was huddled in the corner of the mental domain, it finally gave a response.

"Why are you being so well-behaved today? Did you get a virus?"

The system immediately perked up and retorted, "Don't curse me! I never want to hear such a vicious curse as 'infected with a virus' again in my life."

Ling Chengen: "So what are you doing?"

"Attending a seminar held by the main system," Xiao Huangtong said excitedly. "You locked me up before, and I missed many seminars. This time I can finally join in the fun."

Ling Chengen exclaimed in shock, "You guys are making this sound pretty professional? What can a bunch of AIs possibly discuss at a seminar?"

System: "Strictly speaking, we're no longer considered artificial intelligence. I've already told you, we come from a higher dimension."

"The main system is the interstellar brain, which can edit and produce a large number of specialized assistant systems, such as mine."

"Although the main system was originally designed by humans, it has been continuously learning and upgrading. When humanity faced the end of the world, it survived with a group of survivors. As a result, the main system was no longer called artificial intelligence, but was called the first leader of the machine race."

"Therefore, I am considered an omnic."

Ling Chengen chuckled and said, "You, a machine race?"

More like the mentally challenged!
What respectable race would have members who are so idle and irresponsible, spending their days watching others fall in love and have children—things that are utterly immoral?

However, given that it had just done the calculations for her yesterday, Ling Chengen was very considerate and didn't criticize it in person.

The system was a seasoned veteran, completely unmoved by Ling Chengen's disdain.

Instead, it swaggered around in her mental domain twice: "It's not too late for you to apologize to me now! I did something big at the seminar. If you apologize to me, I'll tell you something good."

"What, are you going to untie me and go harm other people?" Ling Chengen asked curiously.

The system shut its mouth and refused to speak again.

Seeing that Zhong Zhen and Bai Qingyu were still locked in a tug-of-war, Ling Chengen thought for a moment, apologized verbally, and continued to tease the system.

"I've apologized. Now tell me, what earth-shattering thing have you done?"

System: "Wasn't I only able to redeem items from the single-channel category section in the shop before?"

"You've scolded me for this many times."

Ling Chengen rested his chin on his hand and casually replied, "Yeah, so what?"

"Therefore, I applied at the seminar to break down the barriers between different frequency divisions and develop from single-frequency zone shopping to cross-frequency shopping. This can motivate hosts like you to be more proactive in completing tasks."

Ling Chengen suddenly sat up straight, lowered his eyes, and asked intently, "You mean, I can shop in the malls of other channels such as the Agriculture Zone, or the Technology Zone, or even the Fantasy Zone?"

"Yes." The system nodded, hands on its hips, head tilted back, and said, "So? Doesn't it deserve a good compliment?"

Seeing its "praise me" expression, Ling Chengen gave it a thumbs up without hesitation.

"Awesome! You deserve a huge compliment."

The system was so smug it almost spun around in place, leaving afterimages, and grumbled, "However, this application has not yet been approved by the main system. Because cross-frequency shopping involves many aspects, especially items from sub-frequency categories like fantasy, immortals, and interstellar, which involve advanced super-powered technologies. If they flow into other small worlds, the impact will be enormous, so we must consider it carefully."

"However, my proposal has received a lot of support from the system, so it will definitely be approved."

"The most likely outcome is that the main system will approve it, but it will raise the threshold and restrictions for cross-frequency shopping. You should be prepared for that."

The Love Security System was a little guilty, but still put its hands on its hips and said confidently, "This is the best I can do, so shouldn't you do your task?"

"As you reach the pinnacle of your life, you also help me reach the pinnacle of my life."

Looking at its arrogant demeanor, Ling Chengen didn't want to discourage it, but he couldn't help but complain, "Of course you can do missions, but look at what kind of weird missions you have?"

Ling Chengen opened the system's taskbar and looked at a bunch of tasks with red dots in the upper right corner.

"Just stick it on, that's fine."

"Kiss... well, forget about that."

"Seven times a night" and "Triple birth achievement"—what the heck are these?

Love Security System: "These are all small tasks related to your personal happiness!"

"Don't you humans always hope that your partner is strong and healthy, and that you will have many children and grandchildren in the future?"

"These are all tasks designed to be most suitable for you based on human desires."

Ling Chengen was speechless, utterly exasperated: "..." So, is she a pig?

Triples in one pregnancy.

Let's kill her and entertain this brainless little yellow-haired bastard!

"Shut up."

Ling Chengen sighed deeply, stood up, and said to the two people who were looking up at her at the same time, "You two continue talking, I'm going out for some fresh air."

Sitting here scrolling through the tasks that pop up in the system, she often feels like she's not a human being.

(End of this chapter)

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