The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 66 Crane's Jealousy
As Chongzhen spoke, his gaze remained fixed on her face. Only after the seriousness between her brows dissipated did he rest his cheek on one hand, staring intently at her, and say, "You were worried about something like this all night like an ant on a hot pan? I don't think you're like that at all. It's obvious you're not that kind of person."

Ling Chengen gazed intently at him: "What are your plans for the future?"

Zhong Zhen didn't know why she had brought up this topic again, but she still calmly shrugged and said, "There is only one mid-term goal, which is to merge Yao Luo into your Stone Forest, so that the orcs of Yao Luo can live a more stable life in the future."

"The short-term goal is to help you keep an eye on that potato field this year, so that you won't go hungry during the long cold season, and that fewer elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and young children die in the two tribes."

"There are no long-term goals."

Ling Chengen looked at him curiously: "Don't you have any plans for yourself? You're only thinking about the tribe, and you haven't thought about separating from me so that you can have a female partner to be with when the breeding season comes next year?"

Chongzhen had beautiful fox-like eyes that curved upwards, and the long eyelashes at the corners of her eyes cast shadows as she smiled.

"Do I have any other choice?" he asked rhetorically.

Ling Chengen retorted, "You don't actually think I'd help you get through your reproductive period, do you?"

Chongzhen shook his head: "I haven't considered that."

"It's not too late to consider it now," Ling Chengen said.

The smile in Chongzhen's eyes gradually faded. He stared at her eyebrows and the ends of her hair, then suddenly lay back down, leaning against the rock behind him. His eyes were fixed on the blue moon in the sky, and he murmured, "I don't really believe in the feelings between partners. I believe more in the intertwined interests between them."

“My mother had seven husbands. Among her husbands, my father could neither guarantee her a comfortable life nor make her happy every day. So she was always an outsider in the big family.”

Ling Chengen looked at him curiously: "So your mother was willing to give birth to you?"

Females on the Beast Plains do not actually bear offspring for every male beastman. They only conceive for powerful partners, because only a powerful partner can guarantee the survival of the female and her offspring.

Therefore, weak male orcs are likely to remain single, and even if they have a partner, it is difficult for them to have a child of their own.

Chongzhen smiled sarcastically, turning her head to look at Ling Chengen: "I was an accident."

"She didn't want to have me in the first place."

"Because my mother thinks we, the extremely arrogant red fox beastmen, are just beautiful trash."

"She coveted my father's good looks when he was young and took advantage of his reproductive period to become his regular partner, but she never thought about having a child with him."

"I don't know much about females, but I do know some of the basics. If a female doesn't want to have children for her partner, she can use contraception even if they get together under normal circumstances."

Ling Chengen's eyes widened slightly.

She didn't even know about something so amazing.

Chongzhen looked at her suddenly wide-eyed expression and found her surprised look rather cute. She asked in confusion, "Didn't you know that females can use contraception?"

“I grew up with my father, so I don’t know anything about these things.”

Ling Chengen calmly came up with a half-hearted excuse.

Chongzhen has some knowledge of her background.

Born into a large southern tribe, her mother seems to be a noblewoman exiled from the Southern Beast Plains, which is why she was able to bind a powerful beastman like Ling Xiao as her partner. She also looks down on powerful natives of the Northern Wilderness like Ling Xiao and only thinks about exploiting him.

However, most of the nobles exiled from the south were not as healthy as the native orcs from the north, so they were prone to illness during the cold season. Their hunting skills were also far inferior to those of the northerners. As a result, a large number of orcs exiled during the cold season would die each year due to food shortages and cold-related diseases.

Ling Chengen's mother was no exception. Although she had lived in the Northern Wilderness for almost ten years, in a large tribe with abundant resources, she still died of illness in the cold season.

Seeing that Ling Chengen genuinely didn't understand, Chongzhen kindly offered more information: "Females have many methods of contraception. In fact, if you find a female who already has a partner, she will most likely be able to give you a more comprehensive explanation."

"I only know three."

"The first situation is the breeding season. As long as the male in the breeding season does not form a knot in your body, you generally will not get pregnant."

"But this method is not necessarily safe, because my mother conceived me under these circumstances."

"Although the probability is very small, there are occasional exceptions."

"The second, safer method is to take the seedless herb."

"This plant can be eaten raw, and you won't be able to have children for six months after eating it."

"The effects of the drug take six months to metabolize, and it is harmless to the body."

"The only downside is that after eating this herb, your tongue will turn orange and it will take about half a month to fade."

"The seedless grass is not uncommon, but it is not easy to find either, so most orcs with partners will directly exchange goods or buy it with blue crystals at the trade market."

“Witch doctors rarely keep seedless herbs. Some may have them, but they are very expensive to sell.”

"The cheapest and most affordable way is to find it yourself."

"The characteristics of the seedless grass are also very obvious. It can grow to about an arm's length, with dark green ribbon-like leaves, and the stem is greenish at the base and white at the top. In autumn, seven orange-red round fruits, about the size of a fingernail, will grow at the top."

"You'd better remember this: the seedless plant matures in autumn, and only the mature seedless plant has a contraceptive effect. Don't look for the wrong one."

"Dried seedless grass also has a contraceptive effect."

"The two methods I mentioned are quite common in various tribes."

"The last one is relatively rare. I heard my father mention it. It should have been passed down from the Southern Beast Plains."

"It uses the intestines of some animals, as well as the swim bladders of fish of suitable size. The key is that they must be elastic, otherwise they cannot be used."

"This thing is mainly used by male orcs, but it needs to be cleaned and prepared in advance... otherwise it can't be used, and it has a particularly strong fishy smell."

Ling Chengen was speechless. Wasn't this just the Beast World version of Little Umbrella?

The Southern Beast City is full of talented people!

However, this method of contraception doesn't seem very reliable.

The seedless plant, though rather unusual, is more interesting.

Seeing that she seemed a little disgusted with the third method, Chongzhen smiled and said, "Actually, I've heard a saying that if a female doesn't want to get pregnant, her body seems to instinctively prevent the formation of offspring. In this way, the offspring will die before it becomes a fetus. After that, there will be a little bleeding for a day or two, and by the third day it will be almost the same as usual."

“I don’t know where this claim came from, but I have indeed seen it in the Medicine Tree.”

“Last year, one of the females in the tribe was killed by orcs who were robbing her on her way to the trade market. Not long after we brought the news back to the tribe, the female stopped having a pregnancy because she did not want to give birth to a cub without a father to raise it. She was also unable to give birth and raise a cub during the cold season. So three days after the pregnancy stopped, she returned to normal and had a new mate about a month later.”

Chongzhen spoke of these things with a calm expression, tilting her head to look at the stunned Ling Chengen: "This kind of situation is actually quite common."

"No one would blame a female who is unwilling to reproduce and has lost her mate. Everyone knows how cruel the cold season in the Northern Beast Plains is."

"She doesn't even have enough food to get through the winter, let alone raise a cub... Rather than let the cub die of illness or starvation in the winter, or use her resources to get through the cold season and become an orphan in the spring, it would be better not to bring the cub into this world in the first place."

Ling Chengen blinked and remained silent for a long time.

The environment of the beast world is somewhat different from that of the apocalypse.

Children are very few in the apocalypse, and each one is extremely precious.

After the zombies and beasts were largely wiped out, and the situation at each base was consolidated, the number of newborns in a year... was less than three hundred.

This data is terrifying.

In such an extreme post-apocalyptic environment, the surviving population was approximately 13 million.

The year before, when the social environment was not stable enough, the number of newborns was ten.

Neither humans nor those with superpowers possess the ability to automatically stop having a baby, unlike orcs.

But in some ways they are the same.

Whether human or beastman, they all prefer to raise their offspring in a safe, stable environment with abundant resources.

Ling Chengen lowered her eyes and fell into deep thought. Chong Zhen rested her head on one hand, quietly observing her absent-minded face, sighed softly, and reached out to tug at a strand of long hair that had slipped down her left shoulder.

"Are you thinking of changing partners?" he suddenly asked. Ling Chengen snapped back to reality, looking at him with a puzzled expression: "Why would you ask that?"

“I always feel…” Chongzhen’s eyes darted around before she could find the words, “You’ve never treated the three of us as your partners from beginning to end, and it seems like you don’t plan to live with us in the future? This can’t be just my imagination, right?”

Ling Chengen scratched the back of his neck, thought for a moment, and then said, "It's not an illusion."

“I never considered you as my partners, and I never thought of relying on you.”

"In some ways, we're quite similar; I don't believe in the emotional bond that sustains a relationship either."

Chongzhen suddenly smiled, revealing his teeth, and extended his right hand to her: "Great minds think alike."

"Whether I become your partner or not is actually none of my business, but I'm not going to willingly give up that role right now. I will absolutely not separate from you until my plan succeeds."

Chongzhen released her hand, took the back of her hand and used it to catch the strand of hair behind her ear, helping her hang it back on the bamboo branch behind her head. She smiled gently and said, "However, that little panda is another matter."

"He must have made up his mind to stay by your side."

Ling Chengen chuckled and said, "It doesn't matter. I'm not afraid of being taken advantage of. Anyway, there's nothing he can do to me."

Looking at her confident and determined appearance, Chongzhen narrowed his eyes slightly and advised, "Male men are very jealous! You mustn't mess things up."

Ling Chengen couldn't stand his hand being so close to his shoulder, so he decisively pulled back, sat up straight, and looked at Chongzhen, who was lying in a seductive position: "If you can't make it through next year's breeding season, you can find a suitable partner."

"I should be able to merge Yaoluo into Shilin before the winter season this year."

Chongzhen suddenly looked up: "You're not lying to me?"

Ling Chengen raised his hand and gave him a high five as a pledge: "I always keep my word."

Suddenly, several rustling sounds came from the woods. Ling Chengen looked up sharply into the dark forest, but saw nothing and quickly looked away.

Chongzhen also turned to look at the woods, and after a long while, he lazily said, "Is it him?"

"They slipped away pretty quickly."

Ling Chengen simply lowered his eyes slightly and said nothing.

Chongzhen put her hands behind her head and said in a low voice, "If you go after him now, you'll definitely catch up. Don't you need to explain to him? He probably misunderstood something just now."

Ling Chengen shook his head: "No need."

She didn't have any romantic feelings for Bai Qingyu; she simply thought he was beautiful, intelligent, and a good person.

If he misunderstood, that's fine too.

That put an end to his little bit of hesitation.

She is not the same person she used to be, and she can no longer give him pure affection.

The Crane Clan is a rare breed on the Beast Plains known for its deep affection, unwavering loyalty, and strong sense of justice.

If you get stuck with her, you're completely doomed.

It would be better to follow the proper path and find a crane-tribe beastman who shares his views on relationships to have children.

"I'm going to rest now. You've had a busy day, so go to sleep early."

Ling Chengen waved to Chong Zhen, who was lying on the ground, and went to Ling Xiaoxi's cave without looking back.

……

Bai Qingyu walked a long way through the dense forest before finally stopping and looking back at the dark, silent forest.

Above him was a dense carpet of pine needles. He casually brushed the needles off his forehead, jumped onto a branch, and sat on the trunk, quietly gazing eastward.

She didn't come along.

Bai Qingyu lowered her eyes to look at the colorful feather on her fingertip, and it would be a lie to say she wasn't disappointed. The place where he had just appeared wasn't far from her doorstep, and with her special ability, she could easily detect his location and aura.

He knew very well why he hadn't come along.

The wind in the woods passed quietly through the branches and leaves, stirring up a few rays of blue moonlight that filtered through the gaps in the trees. He stared at the bright blue spots on the branches and leaves not far away, slightly lost in thought.

The scene from just now still lingered in his mind.

they.

she was.

He always knew that Ling Chengen was actually very beautiful.

She differed from most females in her gentleness and fragile nature, which required careful protection.

Her beauty is like the most arrogant giant sequoia in the jungle, or like a raging river rushing in the rainy night.

The first impression most male orcs have is one of awe and scrutiny.

Even though her body was tall and slender, she always possessed a sense of power that was on par with any male.

It is something that cannot be ignored, nor can it be ignored.

He admired her strength, but also felt awe for that vibrant, burgeoning power.

Her affection was intensely aggressive and oppressive, which made him feel very uncomfortable and uneasy.

The feeling was as if she were a raging wildfire, and if he took even half a step into that wildfire, she would relentlessly engulf him, giving him no chance to breathe or resist.

But her giving up made it even harder for him to bear.

Especially after she chose Chongzhen, she leaned close to him, their breaths mingling... that scene brought this unbearable feeling to its peak.

He is now certain that he has a very strong possessive desire for her.

As for love and lust, he couldn't distinguish them clearly.

But the only thing he understood was...

He needed to have a place by her side, and then...

Drive away the males around her.

Bai Qingyu suddenly raised her eyes, crushed the beautiful colorful turquoise ornament in her hand into powder, and stared intently at the half-snake beastman who had appeared under the tree at some unknown time.

The man's features were sharp like a sword, with an arrogant air about him. He had prominent bone structure, a straight nose, thin lips, and a taut jawline.

Her long black hair was braided into a single braid, loosely draped over her broad left shoulder. Her chest was bare, her waist and abdomen were taut, and the V-lines of her lower abs neatly disappeared below her hips.

From the belly down to the back is the snake's body, and the snake's tail is covered with dreamy iridescent scales.

Even without moonlight, the scales still radiated a lustrous glow.

The man exuded a cold and hard aura, with the sinister look of a snake-like beastman. When he curled his thin lips, there was an extremely sarcastic tone: "So you really do like that little female."

Bai Qingyu's handsome and dashing face darkened slightly: "So?"

"so……"

Chang Tianchen raised his eyes, a wicked smile appearing on his lips.

The voice, as light as a ghost, quickly dissipated in the refreshing night breeze.

Sitting on the tree branch, Bai Qingyu's temples bulged with veins, and a rare anger welled up in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)