Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 156: I’ll Give You a Boost

As she ascended to a certain height, Xiao Jinsheng sat at the edge of the mist, looking down below.

She could see the Demon Territory shrouded in fog.

After yesterday’s experiment, Xiao Jinsheng had already confirmed that the poisonous fog of the Mist Continent emanated from deep underground.

In Mist West, at an altitude of two thousand meters, the poisonous fog became significantly thinner.

Higher up, the poisonous fog was almost nonexistent.

This was also the reason Cloud Island could grow trees to purify the poisonous fog.

"Not returning to the room tonight?" Xiao Jinsheng leaned against Que Zelian’s chest, curiously asking.

Que Zelian reached from behind, placing his arm around hers and pulling her into his embrace.

At her words, he lowered his gaze, chuckled softly, and leaned in close: "Here is fine too."

Xiao Jinsheng suppressed her surging emotions and glanced nervously at the bright full moon above the mist.

"But this is... outside."

And high in the sky.

"No one can see us." Que Zelian waved his hand, thick clouds and mist shrouding the two of them.

Fog that wasn’t quite fog, a hazy moon.

The moonlight tonight was exceptionally beautiful.

The next morning, Xiao Jinsheng woke up in her room.

She glanced beside the bed, but Que Zelian was nowhere to be seen.

Jumping out of bed, she rushed to the bathroom, curious about what kind of beastification traits she might have gained while with Que Zelian.

Yesterday, while with Li, a pair of black-and-red demon horns had appeared among her jet-black hair.

The demon tail was different from the fluffy tails of panthers or cats.

Xiao Jinsheng could entirely conceal the slender demon tail around her body, often wrapping it around her leg.

What she anticipated most was whether she might grow a pair of wings.

But standing in front of the mirror, the reflection showed only a strand of red streaking through her black hair.

Beyond that, there were no other changes.

Just as Xiao Jinsheng was puzzling over it, she heard a sound coming from outside the bathroom.

She poked her head out and locked eyes with Que Zelian, who had brought breakfast. frёeweɓηovel_coɱ

"I thought you’d probably be awake by now, so I went ahead and made breakfast," Que Zelian said with a smile. "I made the dumplings you mentioned earlier."

After all, Xiao Jinsheng wasn’t picky with food.

To her, things fell into simple categories: delicious or not, loved or detested.

Of course, she despised buns the most!

Meat buns! An eternal nemesis!

"Why don’t I have wings?" Xiao Jinsheng curiously inquired.

Que Zelian entered the bathroom with a soft chair and helped her sit down as he assisted her with her toiletries.

With a smile, he replied, "Probably because I’ve always kept my wings hidden."

Among the seven beast husbands, those who regularly carried visible beastification traits were Yu Yunxiao and Mo Jiao.

Yu Yunxiao had cat ears.

Mo Jiao had a small section of strikingly gorgeous black scales on the side of his face.

The other beast husbands generally concealed their beastification traits most of the time, unless alone with Xiao Jinsheng.

"Do you want to try having wings yourself?" Que Zelian asked.

"Mm-hmm, I’ve already tried flying with Wind Element before," Xiao Jinsheng nodded. "But I’ve never experienced flying freely with wings."

"You can try next time." Que Zelian replied with a smile.

Xiao Jinsheng nodded eagerly, then froze as she realized something wasn’t right.

This time, she hadn’t successfully replicated Que Zelian’s beastification traits because he had hidden his wings.

But if, next time, she could copy those wings...

Wouldn’t that mean he’d reveal his wings to her while....?

Xiao Jinsheng’s face flushed hot as her thoughts raced, cheeks turning bright red.

"Want to try?" Que Zelian leaned in, his shimmering gaze locking onto hers.

"Uh... I... I’m curious." Xiao Jinsheng nodded, in a restrained voice.

After spending two days at the Demon Territory in Mist West, Xiao Jinsheng returned to Mist East with Que Zelian and several beast husbands, having enjoyed the corn dumplings prepared by him.

She wasn’t expecting to bump into Bai Yan at her doorstep. Besides, even back in Mist East, she still planned to head to the Tree Planting Area to work on her assigned task.

Thus, Li directly teleported Xiao Jinsheng near the Tree Planting Area.

Arriving at her designated plot, Xiao Jinsheng noticed Bai Yan’s two cars parked by the roadside.

Her gaze shifted to Bai Yan, lounging comfortably beneath a parasol, and her lips curved subtly.

Planting trees, huh...

She absolutely preferred doing it when Bai Yan was around.

Insect Brain: [Host, it’s Xiao Jinsheng.]

Bai Yan was puzzled: [You said her Star Map Task isn’t even finished yet. Where has she been these past two days if she hasn’t been home?]

Insect Brain: [She hasn’t been planting trees or staying home. With seven beast husbands, she was definitely at one of her beast husbands’ houses.]

Not to mention Li is Superpower-enhanced with Spatial abilities.

He could teleport and traverse dimensions.

If Xiao Jinsheng had been in the Demon Territory or the sea regions these past two days, Insect Brain wouldn’t doubt it.

Bai Yan: [Her assigned task is to plant trees in Mist East. Without a Resistance Bracelet, how did she make it to Mist West?]

Insect Brain, startled: [Didn’t I tell you before? Items like Mermaid Pearls, Blood Demon Gems, and other special materials can resist poisonous fog.]

Insect Brain: [Demon Lords and Deep Sea Lords are in her household. Those items are overly abundant for her.]

These words pierced Bai Yan deeply.

Insect Brain, obliviously twisting the knife: [Speaking of which, the materials used to create Resistance Bracelets at the Terminal also include Mermaid Pearls and Demon Gems.]

The fact that the Terminal controlled some Mermaids specifically to collect Mermaid Pearls wasn’t disclosed to Bai Yan by Insect Brain.

Bai Yan snapped irritably: [She doesn’t even need a System. Her beast husbands alone make her life easier than mine.]

Bai Yan: [You claim to be a System, but you’re less useful than her beast husbands, who act more like a real System.]

At the Terminal, they could only access tree-planting tasks.

There was no way to acquire Resistance Bracelets to venture into Mist West and hunt Mutant Beasts or Fog Corpses to obtain Star Stones.

Compared to planting trees, Bai Yan much preferred hunting Fog Corpses in Mist West.

Insect Brain, offended: [What nonsense are you talking about! How am I not like a System?!]

Bai Yan: [Then why don’t you let me cheat the system?]

Bai Yan: [Xiao Jinsheng can rely on her two Lord-level beast husbands to acquire Blood Demon Gems and Mermaid Tears resistant to poisonous fog.]

Bai Yan: [You’re the System. What can you give me?]

Insect Brain: [I could give you items you wouldn’t dare to take.]

Insect Brain: [Are you brave enough to venture into Star Stone Mines?]

Insect Brain: [Clear out those mines, and there’ll be enough Star Stones to elevate all eight of your beast husbands to Twelve Stars.]

Bai Yan paused, stunned.

Bai Yan, skeptical: [You knew where the Star Stone Mines were all along. Why didn’t you say so earlier?]

Insect Brain: [What’s the point of telling you earlier if you didn’t have the strength to go there?]

Insect Brain: [That area is the nest of Fog Corpses.]

Insect Brain: [Do you really think telling you now means you’d successfully reach the mines and extract the Star Stones?]

Bai Yan fell silent: [Then why the hell did you bring it up?]

Insect Brain: [Don’t be so hasty. As a System, I can naturally help you cheat the rules.]

Insect Brain: [Humans can’t approach areas where Fog Corpses reside; they’d be attacked.]

Insect Brain: [But you could use things that Fog Corpses don’t attack to help you mine.]

Bai Yan grew increasingly curious: [What things? Mutant Beasts won’t work, and robots aren’t available to us—those are exclusive to Terminal shelters.]

Insect Brain: [This world is vast. There’s something often overlooked by humans.]

Insect Brain: [Ever since the apocalypse, mutated insects.]

Insect Brain: [You awakened an affinity with insects. By enhancing that Superpower, you could control them and use them to mine Star Stones for you.]

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