Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 235: Fellow Daoist, I Gift You a Few Mounts

Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Fellow Daoist, I Gift You a Few Mounts

"On the Mist Continent, when a Beast Husband dies, the female’s spiritual power drops," Xiao Jinsheng answered.

She glanced at Huaiqing and spoke with suspicion, "But then why, according to Huaiqing’s prophecy, when you die as my Beast Husband, my strength actually increases?"

"Is it just because I am the Star Stone Origin?"

But she was indeed bound by Caicai and brought here from another world.

Even with the fragmented memories from her previous world, Xiao Jinsheng had already confirmed they were real.

"The prophecy does say so," Huaiqing sighed.

By now, Xiao Jinsheng had used mind reading to uncover all the details of the prophecy.

He had no reason to keep secrets anymore.

If he persisted stubbornly,

it wouldn’t just be Xiao Jinsheng threatening divorce anymore.

She would directly unbind their relationship unilaterally.

Without the contract, even if he sacrificed himself as originally planned,

dying would simply be dying, and it wouldn’t boost Xiao Jinsheng’s strength.

Huaiqing deemed such a death unworthy.

Everyone was pondering over this particular mystery.

After all, Xiao Jinsheng’s unique constitution and the unresolved mysteries surrounding her raised endless questions.

First of all, where were the memories erased by the Insect Brain 1.0?

Even after killing Insect Brain 1.0, they hadn’t found them.

And Bai Yan – Bai Yan was the first person Xiao Jinsheng had used mind reading on.

Bai Yan had only tampered with her memory, but she also had no idea where the modified memories were stored.

Then there was the mystery regarding her constitution as the Star Stone Origin, which had already been addressed.

Moreover, why could she still move freely and function normally, despite possessing a superpower level exceeding the terminal’s 12 Stars threshold that should have crushed or controlled her?

"Do you guys think there’s a possibility like this," Xuan Jiu suddenly speculated wildly.

He was, after all, the only one among them who had encountered the terminal face-to-face.

"Given all these peculiarities about you, the terminal might not be refusing to kill you or waiting for your emotions to peak."

"What if it simply can’t kill you?"

"Or, perhaps, it’s unable to deal with your superpower level being too low?"

"My superpower being too low ends up making it powerless against me? What kind of logic is that?" Xiao Jinsheng was genuinely baffled.

"Just speculating," Xuan Jiu spread his hands wide. "After all, it’s the terminal. We can’t approach it using common logic."

"Granted, these speculations are bizarre, but they’re based on your peculiarities."

Listening to Xuan Jiu’s abstract theorizing, Xiao Jinsheng nodded thoughtfully, finding it more plausible the more she considered it.

Xuan Jiu might be abstract, indeed.

But the terminal... isn’t it abstract too?

Still, this led her to doubt her own identity.

"Caicai?" Xiao Jinsheng looked around for it.

"Sleeping," Su Ye interjected, then explained, "It says it’s hibernating."

Apparently, when he passed by Caicai’s room, he heard snoring from inside.

Xiao Jinsheng hurried upstairs to find Caicai.

She flipped through the blanket and unearthed a snoring purple sweet potato.

She was silent for a long while.

Then finally shook awake this snoring purple sweet potato.

"Ah? Ahh?" Caicai looked dazed and panicked. "Has the interstellar exploded?"

"It’s me," Xiao Jinsheng leaned her face closer.

"Ah, kind stranger, you scared me to death," Caicai patted its sweet potato leaves against its face, still a little breathless.

Xiao Jinsheng could handle this calmly.

If it had been Lou Yan Zhi disturbing its hibernation instead,

Caicai would surely use its sweet potato leaves to slap his face.

"I have a question," Xiao Jinsheng explained. "Wasn’t there a theory before that I am not human, but a stone?"

"Does this mean I was originally a being of the Mist Continent—uh, a stone."

"Then, due to some circumstance, I went to another world and lived for over a decade as a human."

"Books always write characters like this," Xiao Jinsheng concluded her conjecture, adding a casual remark.

Caicai blinked.

It even went to its system to confirm information about Xiao Jinsheng.

Shaking its head, it said, "From the information I have, you were indeed mistakenly bound by me in your original world."

"As for why you were sent to the Mist Continent, it was due to my monitoring back then. I thought the Mist Continent was a good world."

"Then why do I have so many peculiarities in the Mist Continent?" Xiao Jinsheng was still puzzled.

Caicai shook its head in confusion as well: "I don’t know either."

"After all, you are not my Host."

"If you were my Host, I could access more information."

"As I said before, only when we are bound can I gain more permissions to gather information about the Host’s world."

"So..." Caicai chuckled mischievously.

The idea of Xiao Jinsheng becoming its Host, infinitely more fun than being stuck with Lou Yan Zhi, made it excited.

Xiao Jinsheng grew interested too.

"How about we bind?" she suggested. "It would fulfill Lou Yan Zhi’s request."

"If you’re certain, I’ll contact him," Caicai perked up at the prospect of binding to Xiao Jinsheng.

It was even willing to waste its points.

It called Lou Yan Zhi via video.

The moment the call connected, it began with, "These points are mine. This video involves your matter, so I’ll count lending you the points as a favor. You owe me."

Lou Yan Zhi: ???

He tilted his head in confusion, just about to hang up the call.

Then he heard Caicai say, "Xiao Jinsheng has decided to bind with me. Get ready; we’re unbinding."

Lou Yan Zhi’s previously indifferent gaze suddenly lit up.

He gripped two gleaming brown antennae tightly, maintaining his usual composure as he warned in a low voice, "You know the consequences of lying to me."

"Hurry back," Caicai urged.

"One incense stick’s time," Lou Yan Zhi replied.

If Xiao Jinsheng was willing to bind to Caicai, freeing him from this ordeal.

It seemed fitting to offer a small gift in return.

He raised his hand, holding two still-twitching antennae: "Where’s Xiao Jinsheng? Show her to me."

"I’m here, what’s up?" Xiao Jinsheng curiously approached the virtual screen.

Only to come face-to-face with the cockroach’s head entering the frame, antennae and all.

The cockroach was scraping its spiked forelegs at the forefront.

Xiao Jinsheng instinctively stepped back, suppressing her visceral disgust for cockroaches. Seeing Lou Yan Zhi’s smug display in the feed made her mood plummet.

She realized Lou Yan Zhi was dangling something strange from his hand.

It turned out to be cockroach antennae?

"This is your gift." Lou Yan Zhi gripped the cockroach’s antennae, further presenting the three-meter-long "larval" cockroach to Xiao Jinsheng.

"I wasn’t sure if you’d prefer larger or smaller ones, so I prepared several."

Lou Yan Zhi stepped aside, revealing a shot of the floor covered in unconscious cockroaches in the camera frame.

Of course, he continued showcasing them.

He pointed out the cockroach antennae, then tapped the armored wings on its shell: "In the Cultivation World, we had Demon Beasts as mounts."

"In the Interstellar World, there are flying crafts."

"You Mist Continent folks are still too outdated."

"Don’t even have proper transportation."

"This interstellar cockroach is perfect; it can crawl or fly."

"It’s gentle by nature and easy to control."

"Pick a few you like."

"No no no no no no no no no no—" Xiao Jinsheng screamed, practically becoming a broken record of rejection: "No, thank you, no."

Unable to make an excuse,

she firmly turned him down!

"They’re very easy to handle," Lou Yan Zhi mistakenly assumed she was being polite.

He stepped onto the cockroach’s back and tugged on its antennae, and the cockroach immediately carried him into the air.

"See? These two antennae can be used to control direction. Their crawling and flying speeds are excellent."

"If you make me ride it as a mount, I’ll die very quickly," Xiao Jinsheng muttered in despair.

She couldn’t even imagine a nightmare where she rode a cockroach to travel...

Somebody save her—