Chapter Seventy- One: Auntie Weiwei’s Legacy

For months, the city had felt hollow without their powerful King. They had assumed he was handling private matters, but seeing this urgent signal, they immediately concluded that their King was facing a threat he couldn’t crush alone.

"Our King is in trouble!" the chief general roared to the gathering masses. "The southern wild beasts or some hidden power dares to corner our sovereign! Are we going to sit here and let him fight alone?"

"No!" a million voices roared back, the sound shaking the very foundations of the stone city.

The military adviser raised his staff, his face flush with happiness at the thought of serving his lord once more. "Mobilize the vanguard! Call forth the elite legions! We march south immediately to fight for the King!"

The response was instantaneous. The Beast City didn’t just send a rescue party; they mobilized their most powerful, terrifying military force.

A massive army of five million beasts, ranging entirely from Level 7 to Level 9 warriors, began to pour out of the city gates like a tidal wave of fur, scales, and armor. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

They marched with one single purpose: to crush whatever enemy had dared to make their King call for help.

Back inside the cottage, Lin Wan was completely unaware of the massive army currently heading her way.

She lay on the bed, staring up at the wooden ceiling. The initial panic of Weiwei leaving had finally passed, leaving behind a cold, hard clarity. For a long time, whenever she faced trouble, she would wait for that digital chime in her head.

She would wait for Weiwei to say, ’Host, I have a solution,’ or ’Host, why not seduce this person ’. Even when Weiwei had threatened to leave in the past, she always ended up staying.

But this time, it was real. The screen was black. The voice was gone. She didn’t know if Weiwei would return in a month, a year, or if she was gone forever.

’I can’t live like a pig waiting to be butchered miracle,’ Lin Wan thought, a sudden spark of defiance lighting up in her chest. She sat up slowly, her hands resting firmly on her stomach. ’I am a mother now. I have three babies coming into this world, and I have men who are willing to bleed to keep me safe. If the system is gone, then I will live my life for myself, my cubs, and the men who love me. I am not going to sit here and wallow in despair.’

A sudden surge of determination filled her. She felt more present in the beast world than she ever had before. The training wheels were off. It was time to grow her own strength and figure out how to survive on her own terms.

Hoping to see what the parting gift left behind by Weiwei, she closed her eyes and attempted to access the small, fragmented space of the system storage that Weiwei had control over before she disappeared.

To her surprise, the storage wasn’t as she last saw. Their was rows of modern medicines, and food items were locked away, but sitting right in the center of the dark void was a single object.

It was a sleek, heavy black box. Its surface was completely covered in thousands of glowing, shifting digital codes that scrambled and unscrambled themselves every second. It looked completely out of place in this primitive world.

’What is this?’ Lin Wan wondered, her curiosity piqued. ’ Is this what Weiwei left for me before she was pulled back?’

Focusing her mind, she reached out to the box within the storage space. ’Bring it out,’ she commanded mentally, intending to manifest the strange object onto the bed beside her so she could examine it.

The moment her mental fingers touched the box, a violent pull snapped through her entire body.

Before Lin Wan could even gasp, the wooden walls of the cottage, the smell of the fire, and the distant sounds of Long Zhan barking orders outside completely dissolved. The reality of the beast world vanished in a flash of blinding light.

When Lin Wan blinked her eyes open, the heavy weight of her advanced pregnancy felt strangely light. She wasn’t sitting on the furs anymore.

She was standing on a beautifully paved stone path, surrounded by a manicured green lawn and a vibrant garden filled with blooming roses and lavender.

The air smelled of fresh rain and cut grass, completely devoid of the wild, musky scent of the primitive forest.

She looked up, her jaw dropping in utter shock.

Standing right in front of her was a massive, luxury modern mansion with large glass windows and elegant white pillars. It looked exactly like a high-end estate from the modern world she had left behind so long ago.

Trembling, Lin Wan walked up the stone steps, her heart thumping against her ribs. She reached the grand front door, her hand shaking as she hovered her fingers over the sleek metal handle. Slowly, curiously, she reached out and pushed the door open.

. . .

The heavy metal door clicked as Lin Wan pushed it inward. The moment she stepped across the threshold, the sheer sight of the interior left her completely frozen, her mouth slightly agape in utter shock.

Instead of a regular living room, the massive, brightly lit space was filled with rows upon rows of long clothing racks. Every single rack was packed to the brim with baby clothes of every possible color, texture, and fabric.

There were small woolen tunics, tiny linen wrappers, and heavy fur-lined rompers designed for newborns all the way up to toddlers. It looked like a grand boutique containing absolutely everything a new mother would ever need to clothe her children for years to come.

Right in the middle of a glass coffee table, a sleek electronic tablet was blinking softly, drawing her attention. Lin Wan walked over, her boots clicking softly against the polished marble floor.

Words began to scroll across the screen in bright, glowing letters:

[From auntie Weiwei to the little munchkins.]

Lin Wan felt a sudden, thick warmth rise in her chest, a watery smile breaking across her face.

But before she could even process the gesture, the text on the screen shifted, blinking rapidly to reveal a new sentence below the bright greeting:

[Open the basement to find mummy’s gift.]

Lin Wan didn’t hesitate. She quickly turned around and hurried out of the living room, following a trail of bright digital arrows that Weiwei had left painted onto the walls.

The arrows guided her down a wide, elegant hallway, stopping directly in front of a heavy, reinforced steel door.

Right next to the handle, a final arrow pointed downward toward a glowing text block that contained a teasing message:

[Needed to be sure you could access the basement. Read that pregnant humans have memory loss as a pregnancy symptom, don’t want you losing your way.] At the very bottom of the text was a smirking cat sticker.

Lin Wan let out a breathless laugh, shaking her head. "Even when you are gone, you still find a way to call me stupid," she muttered, her heart feeling lighter than it had in hours.

She gripped the handle and pushed the heavy basement door open. Stepping onto the concrete stairs, she walked down into the subterranean room, but the moment she reached the bottom, what she saw left her far more spooked than shocked.

The basement was massive, stretching out like a military bunker. Standing in perfect, gleaming rows were hundreds of weapon racks filled to the brim with advanced military ammunition, sleek assault rifles, heavy artillery, and massive missile launchers.

Further back in the shadows, she could see the distinct, terrifying shapes of doomsday devices and literal nuclear weapons, their metallic hulls reflecting the cold overhead lights.

On the crate nearest to her, a large digital sticker was plastered over the metal latches. It read:

[Just in case those men can’t save you, as it seems you are really an unlucky person, just blow the enemy into pieces. If it still doesn’t kill the enemy, it can at least buy some time for you to escape far away. And just in case it doesn’t do anything at all, over at that closed cabinet are teleportation talismans that I got from a system brother. And you guessed right, a handsome hunk system brother! He happened to have been assigned to an immortal cultivator and had lots of them. He gave me just one thousand copies. He’s stingy, right?]

The tears that Lin Wan had been holding back finally spilled over her cheeks. She stood in the middle of the terrifying arsenal, her shoulders shaking as she wept silently.

The overwhelming realization of how deeply Weiwei cared for her, how the system had spent its final moments before the forced recall meticulously building a fortress of safety for her and her babies, broke through all her defenses.