The surrounding voices chattered away, shooting the breeze about all sorts of things—females, Mechas, work performance...

From their conversation, Jiang Zheyu gleaned a little more information about this place.

It turned out this was a remote, isolated island, cut off from the Empire’s Star Network coverage. Even if these Beast Slaves escaped their rooms, it was nearly impossible to find a ship to leave.

Jiang Zheyu thought of the small, levitating Starship in her system. She silently opened the shop panel to check it. It required 100 points.

’My chances of a successful escape are pretty high,’ she thought.

A short while later, after midnight struck, Jiang Zheyu quietly reached out and took Ache’s hand.

For some reason, Jiang Zheyu felt like a pervert for secretly grabbing his hand, as if she were trying to take advantage of him.

She quickly shook the thought from her mind.

The moment Ache felt someone take his hand, he woke with a start. He tried to pull his hand back, his sky-blue eyes looking at her in terror. "Wh-what are you doing?"

Jiang Zheyu hadn’t expected him to wake up. Her own hazel eyes widened slightly.

Her mind raced.

’This is not going to be easy to explain. No matter how you look at it, I seem like a male who’s into Male Beastmen, and a creepy one at that.’

She quickly put on a pitiful expression and explained, "I-I’m scared I’m going to die here, so I wanted to hold your hand to draw some strength."

Ache paused. He knew Jiang Zheyu was new and had been tricked into coming here, so it was understandable that she’d be scared on her first day.

Sorrow clouded his features again, as he too had been abducted. He gently squeezed Jiang Zheyu’s hand, his voice extremely soft. "If we get a chance, we will definitely escape."

It was as if he was giving hope to the A Yu before him, and also to himself.

Jiang Zheyu paused. She felt a heavy, gloomy aura of death clinging to the young man.

"Yes, we will," Jiang Zheyu could only nod firmly.

The young man slowly fell asleep again.

This time, Jiang Zheyu deliberately used her spiritual power to put him into a state of hypnosis before entering his Spiritual Domain Space.

A pure white Spiritual Domain Space.

Inside was a small, fluffy hamster with blue eyes and golden-white fur.

The little hamster was lying on the ground, exuding a listless, deathly aura.

Layers of a dark aura also swirled around it, making it look even more miserable.

Jiang Zheyu quickly began to grab all of this dark aura and remove it.

After purifying the little hamster, she received 86 Beastification Value.

Jiang Zheyu gently stroked the little hamster’s body and sighed. "Don’t you go getting any ideas about killing yourself. When I get a chance to escape, I’ll take you with me. Once I’m back in the Empire, I’ll have A yuan bring people to shut this place down and abolish the Beast Slave laws."

She glanced down at the little hamster and saw her own hand. It was no longer a stick-figure hand, but a normal human one.

Her spiritual body had also completely transformed into the likeness of her original body.

When her spiritual power had upgraded to S+ yesterday, her spiritual body had changed from a stick figure into a human form.

Name: Jiang Zheyu 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Gender: Female

Current Spiritual Power Value: S+ (1374/3000)

Points: 507

Jiang Zheyu looked at these numbers and felt that reaching S++ Level was just around the corner!

Jiang Zheyu exited Ache’s Spiritual Domain Space. She had wanted to continue purifying other Beastmen, but she was worried they might not all be asleep yet.

Besides, she wasn’t familiar with the people here, and she was genuinely tired today, so she decided to be lazy and just go to sleep.

Who would have known that an alarm would suddenly blare in the middle of the night?

The sound of multiple gunshots also echoed from the hallway outside!

Jiang Zheyu woke with a start. ’What’s happening?’ The others woke up too, but unlike Jiang Zheyu’s confusion, they seemed to know what was going on.

"Someone’s trying to escape again?"

"Probably. Everyone knows that after lockdown, the surveillance system scans for any human figures and shoots indiscriminately. And yet, someone still tried to make a run for it."

"They must have a death wish."

...

After that was said, it was as if some nerve had been struck. Everyone fell silent.

"Let’s just get some sleep," someone said.

Everyone pulled their blankets over themselves and went back to sleep, as if what had just happened was the most normal thing in the world.

Jiang Zheyu lay back down on her bed. ’What did those guys just say?’

’Those dozen or so surveillance cameras outside don’t just monitor, they can also shoot?’

’And to think I was wondering about my chances of sneaking out in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention.’

’It’s a good thing I didn’t act rashly. Who knew the cameras had a firing function?’

So if anyone isn’t in their room during the designated time, they’ll be attacked indiscriminately the moment they step out.

’That’s too horrible, too dark.’

Escaping had just gotten another layer of difficulty.

Jiang Zheyu sighed. ’I should just get some sleep. It’s not like I can leave anytime soon.’

And so, just like everyone else, Jiang Zheyu slowly drifted off to sleep.

「 ... 」

’Life when you’re not treated as a female is truly painful.’

As soon as it was light out, it was time to get up and go to work.

Jiang Zheyu felt like the sky had only just turned fish-belly white. The sun hadn’t even risen yet, but they had to brush their teeth, wash their faces, and head to the livestreaming rooms to start work.

Even though they still had to put on makeup and change clothes upon arriving at the livestreaming rooms, it felt like that shouldn’t take so much time.

’What kind of sane person watches livestreams at six or seven in the morning?’

Jiang Zheyu certainly wouldn’t. At this hour, people were either on their way to work or still sleeping.

But the higher-ups were inhuman, so Jiang Zheyu had no choice but to comply. Disobeying meant getting whipped.

Jiang Zheyu considered whether she could sneak away and hide somewhere on the way to her workstation.

A flying surveillance drone buzzed above her head.

She immediately abandoned the thought.

If she didn’t clock in at her workstation before six o’clock, she would earn herself an extra whipping.

’This is Black Slave abuse!’

’What kind of sane person has to be at their workstation before six o’clock?’

Jiang Zheyu wanted to cry but had no tears. She could only quickly head out the door toward the work building, following the crowd to their shift.

Then began the squeeze into the crowded elevator.

The 20th floor arrived.

After arriving, Jiang Zheyu took her keycard to Room 24, and with a BEEP, the door opened.

The team leader had already walked them through everything yesterday, telling them what needed to be done. Today, they were completely on their own. Fortunately, there was no requirement to earn 10,000 a day on the first day.

So, after clocking in, Jiang Zheyu was in no hurry.

The livestreaming room was fully stocked with all sorts of clothing and cosmetics.

Jiang Zheyu first sat down and spaced out for a while.

She looked up and out the window. Countless flying surveillance drones blanketed the sky above the island like a swarm of dragonflies.

’These drones seem pretty expensive.’

’They really are making a ton of money.’

No wonder Si Yu could tip so much so easily. A few hundred million was probably just small change to him.