Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 197: The Third Path Left by the Terminal

Xiao Jinsheng was at a loss for words.

She had figured it out.

The females on Mist Continent were all quite bold with their words.

"Come on, spill it. What’s the gossip?" Ming Huaxin urged. "Didn’t you say Bai Yan lives next door to you before? I went to check and the person next door isn’t part of Bai Yan’s family."

"I fought with Bai Yan and killed one of her Beast Husbands. She’s already moved away from Moon City." Xiao Jinsheng had also mastered Chen Yunji’s zero-frame opening move.

"What?" Ming Huaxin froze in place.

She raised her hand to rub her ears, uncertain, and asked, "Whose Beast Husband did you kill? Bai Yan’s?"

"Yes. She tried to harm my friend, and it turned into a total fight between us," Xiao Jinsheng replied.

At that time, both Bai Yan and Kui Mao were coming for her life.

In the apocalypse, everyone acted for self-preservation. She did not feel there was anything wrong with what she had done.

Except, her enemies at the time weren’t zombies, Fog Corpses, or Mutant Beasts.

But rather her own kind—female Beastmen.

"Sister, you’ve lost your mind!" Ming Huaxin ground her teeth, her anxious expression betraying her frustration.

Xiao Jinsheng’s suspicious gaze fell on Ming Huaxin.

Ming Huaxin paced back and forth angrily. "What’s the point of killing her Beast Husband? If you were going to kill, you should have killed her."

"Now look what you’ve done. You killed her Beast Husband, but she’s still alive. You’ve let the tiger go back to the mountain!"

"And besides, the Terminal has now updated its new rules. Females and Beastmen are no longer allowed to fight internally."

"If internal fighting leads to a death, the Terminal will randomly select one of the female’s Beast Husbands for extermination."

"Now you can’t kill her anymore."

"The only good news is that she can’t come after you for revenge either."

"Why do you think the Terminal suddenly issued this rule?" Xiao Jinsheng asked with a faint smile.

Ming Huaxin stared at her in astonishment.

Xiao Jinsheng calmly spoke. "This new rule was announced by the Terminal right after I killed Bai Yan’s two lives."

"Wait, wait." Ming Huaxin looked up and clutched her head in confusion. "I feel like I don’t quite understand anymore."

Wasn’t Xiao Jinsheng supposed to have killed Bai Yan’s Beast Husband, Kui Mao?

How did it turn into Bai Yan losing two lives?

"Did she mutate? Does she somehow have two lives to lose?" Ming Huaxin was puzzled.

"She has eleven lives," Xiao Jinsheng replied without hesitation, revealing the secret.

After all, it wasn’t her secret—so she didn’t care.

"Are you still speaking in Mist Continent language?" Ming Huaxin grew increasingly confused.

Or perhaps these events, despite being real, felt so unbelievable that the more she listened, the less she dared to believe.

"Every time spiritual power increases by one Star, she gains an additional life," Xiao Jinsheng explained, laying Bai Yan’s secret bare. "Mist Continent’s maximum Star Level is Twelve Stars. Counting the One Star inherent at birth, she can gain up to eleven extra lives."

"What? No way!" Ming Huaxin inhaled sharply. "Why? We’re all from Mist Continent, so why does she get so many lives? Why is she so special... A unique constitution?"

Ming Huaxin widened her eyes in terror and turned to Xiao Jinsheng. "Speaking of which, did you hear the new announcement from the Terminal?"

"Interstellar Insect Clan is invading Mist Continent, and a traitor has emerged among us," she said.

"This traitor possesses special superpowers and an extraordinary constitution."

"This traitor... could it be Bai Yan?"

After all, she could even seduce other people’s Beast Husbands.

Betraying Mist Continent seemed like something Bai Yan would do, in Ming Huaxin’s view.

"Who can say for sure?" Xiao Jinsheng chuckled lightly.

"So the gossip you mentioned—is it about Bai Yan being the traitor?" Ming Huaxin asked. She then realized something was off. "But the time you mentioned having gossip was earlier than when the Terminal announced a traitor in Mist Continent, wasn’t it?"

"The protagonist of the gossip isn’t Bai Yan," Xiao Jinsheng replied.

She confirmed that the defense of the Realm was still in place.

At the same time, she glanced at Ming Huaxin’s Beast Husbands.

Previously, Ming Huaxin had eight Beast Husbands. One divorce with Qing Zelin later, she now had seven remaining.

Among these seven, Xiao Jinsheng recognized Yi Le, who made dried fruits for Ming Huaxin.

Because Xiao Jinsheng’s strongest superpower, Plundering Superpower, was rated at Nine Stars.

Her superior abilities allowed her to quickly discern the Superpower Levels of Ming Huaxin’s family.

Ming Huaxin’s spiritual power was at Six Stars. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

Yi Le had an Eight-Star superpower.

Among the remaining six Beast Husbands: two had Seven Stars, three had Six Stars, and one had Five Stars.

Evidently, this time on Cloud Island, Ming Huaxin’s family had acquired plenty of Star Stones, using them to boost their Superpower Levels.

"The gossip I want to talk about is related to the Terminal." Xiao Jinsheng’s tone turned heavy.

Her dark expression prompted Ming Huaxin to adopt a more serious demeanor and ask solemnly, "Did the Terminal secretly give you some sort of hidden task?"

"Mist Continent’s survivors live under the deception of the Terminal. All Beastmen who reach Twelve Stars will become food for the Terminal, while Twelve-Star females will be confined together to serve as tools for breeding offspring," Xiao Jinsheng revealed, using her zero-frame opening move once again.

By the time Ming Huaxin realized it, this information had already been deeply etched into her mind, making it impossible to forget.

"The Terminal..." Ming Huaxin hesitated, unsure. "That doesn’t seem possible."

She couldn’t bring herself to imagine the Terminal as a malevolent presence.

After all, in Mist Continent, the Terminal had always been seen as protecting females—from their personal safety to ensuring access to daily necessities.

The Terminal always provided the best.

Even when it matched females with Beast Husbands, it only selected Beastmen with good genes.

Those with poor genes were often banished to the wild at the age of three, where most couldn’t survive for long.

Even if they managed to grow up safely, if their genes were lacking or their character showed major flaws, the Terminal would skip over them entirely during data matching for females.

Such Beastmen were abandoned by the Terminal.

They would never have a Female Master.

And they would easily become Fallen Beastmen.

At least from her own childhood memories until now, Ming Huaxin had never felt that the Terminal was malicious.

"Xiao Jinsheng, could there be some misunderstanding?" Ming Huaxin asked. "The Terminal has treated us so well—it can’t be bad, right?"

Even the Terminal’s binding system between females and Beastmen was beneficial to the females.

"Plus, isn’t the Terminal currently saying there are Insect Clans appearing? It’s organizing us to search for insect eggs and helping us defend against the upcoming second apocalypse descending upon Mist Continent."

"Even if the Terminal is bad, aren’t you afraid it would find out if you told me this?" Ming Huaxin asked.

In that moment, her mind raced with thoughts, making it chaotic.

"Because the Terminal has already discovered that we know its secrets," Xiao Jinsheng said solemnly. "We’ve seen the Terminal—it’s the one that personally sent us back here from Cloud Island."

"It has now given me three options."

"Wait for three months—or even sooner, possibly half a month—for the insect eggs to hatch, then die in the Insect Clan’s jaws."

"Or live for five months until the death sentence it gives us."

"Of course, with the Insect Clan hatching soon, even in the face of their invasion, we will still strive to improve our Superpower Levels to Twelve Stars."

"By doing so, we will willingly march onto the dining table the Terminal has prepared for us."

"This is also... the third option the Terminal hasn’t explicitly stated but left for us."

Because it enjoys watching its food surrender to despair as it willingly walks toward death.

Just like how it tortured Xuan Jiu to dig out his own Star Stones.

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