Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children

Chapter 424 - 423: How to Borrow Strength to Strike?

Qin Wu’s lips thinned, and his expression turned cold. "Young Master, I don’t care why you’ve come here or why you sought me out. I advise you to stay out of other people’s business.

The powers in Underground Yecheng City are tangled and complex; it’s not something you can meddle in. If you want to live, you’d best just follow the rules."

But with Little Hong present, both Si Shuo and Yin Jiang heard his inner thoughts.

’A restriction was placed on me, so I can’t speak a word about the secrets here. I came with my older cousin, traveling with a passing merchant caravan. We left our clan to see the world around Guangshou City, hoping to find work or maybe a female to follow.

Who would have thought that just as we were about to reach Guangshou City, we’d be drugged and knocked unconscious by some Beastmen in the caravan? When we woke up, we were here...

They wanted us to service other males! We refused, so they beat us, drugged us, and even broke our Beast Marks.

My cousin couldn’t take the blow. On top of that, he had bad luck and caught a disease after just a few months of receiving clients. He’s gone now... I don’t even know what I’m holding on for anymore, being debased by people every day, fawning over them with no dignity...

Maybe I’m waiting for the Beast God to open his eyes and see just how dark this world is!

But I can’t accept this... I used to be one of the top Warriors in my clan. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been so ambitious as to come venture into Guangshou City. Now, though... hah...’

Si Shuo took a deep breath, suppressing her anger. She pulled an apple from her satchel, tossed it to him, and took a bite before continuing, "You’re Qin Wu, right? How long have you been here, and how much do you know about this place?

Besides you, how many other Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan Members are here?"

Hearing her question, Qin Wu, who was taking a large bite of his apple, snapped his head up to look at her. Then, his expression went blank as he continued to chew. "I forgot. I don’t know."

’I came the year before last. The Male Slaves and Female Slaves here are constantly drugged. There’s a high turnover of clients, and most of us don’t live long. So, the only clan members of mine who are still alive are the ones who were abducted in the last three to five years... We’re all scattered. Underground Yecheng City is controlled by many factions. The Hundred Beasts Hall is just one of them, and this place alone has over a dozen of my clansmen...

The powers in Underground Yecheng City are too great. They only deal in shady business. A lot of Male Slaves and Female Slaves like me were just randomly abducted, with no questions asked about our identities or backgrounds.

They have many ways to torture people here. Drugging and whipping are child’s play. They make you walk over hot coals, drive metal spikes into your body... Anyone who’s still disobedient gets dragged off to be fed to Wild Beasts. Whether you escape or not depends entirely on your own abilities...

This place is a lightless hell, with a strict hierarchy and tangled, complex powers. How could this young master possibly solve it all on his own?

This kind of cancer has coexisted with Beast City civilization since its very beginning...’

Si Shuo clenched her fists. ’He’s right. Where there’s light, there will always be shadows. It’s an unstoppable phenomenon.’ She was only seeing one Underground City. On the vast Beast World Continent, how many more places like this existed that she didn’t even know about?

She casually asked Qin Wu a few more questions, but when it was clear there was no new information to be gained, she fell silent and continued to eat her apple.

After finishing his apple, Qin Wu hesitated before asking in a low voice, "Master, are you here looking for someone? Although I can’t say much, if you can get me out of here, maybe I can help."

Si Shuo raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Aren’t you supposed to be timid? What, you’re not afraid that after I find who I’m looking for, I’ll push you out as a scapegoat to keep you from talking?"

Qin Wu smiled. "My life is worthless. I’m betting on that sliver of compassion you have, Master. Either way, it’s just death, sooner or later. If I bet right, then I can leave this hellhole and start over!"

Si Shuo was about to speak, but then a thought stopped her. If the people in charge could keep these Female and Male Slaves from talking out of turn, then they must also have ways of forcing them to talk.

"You’re overthinking it. This is just my first time in the Underground City, and I’m curious about everything."

Qin Wu saw through her but didn’t expose the lie. He smiled and sat quietly to the side, his earlier frivolity gone, replaced by a look of confusion and a hint of despair.

Si Shuo looked at him. ’If Xiao Cheng hadn’t been with me, if he had still chosen to be a male, maybe one day he would have been abducted and brought here too.’

Her heart clenched with a pang of pain. Her fox at home was proud, passionate, and silver-tongued. His whole world revolved around her. He shouldn’t be tainted by a single speck of this filth.

’And didn’t the families of all these Beastmen who were abducted to be Female and Male Slaves feel the same way?’

Si Shuo lowered her gaze, slowly nibbling her apple. ’Underground Yecheng City is huge. It involves the interests of countless factions, and it’s been entrenched beneath Ten Thousand Beasts City for eight hundred or a thousand years. How could her small group possibly hope to eradicate it?’

’She could help others, but only on the condition that her own people’s safety was guaranteed. This would require careful planning!’

Keeping an eye on the time, Si Shuo put on a look of sated satisfaction and emerged cheerfully with Qin Wu. In front of the Shopkeeper, she tossed a Twelfth-Level Crystal Stone into his arms. "Not bad. This young man is quite good. I like him.

Shopkeeper, I’ve paid generously with this Crystal Stone, so you’d better treat him well. I’ll be back for him next time!"

A vein throbbed on Yin Jiang’s forehead. He wrapped an arm around Si Shuo’s shoulder and quickly steered her outside.

Si Shuo didn’t forget to wave goodbye. She looked so much like a regular customer that the Shopkeeper didn’t notice anything amiss. He even found himself thinking that this Male Slave, Yin Jiang, must have been trained in some other hall—he was far too bold, daring to interfere with which person his master favored.

Once they were out of the Hundred Beasts Hall, Si Shuo and Yin Jiang continued their pretense of browsing around. Finding a secluded spot, they finally summoned Ji Liang and Xiao Cheng and briefly explained the situation.

Xiao Cheng was so angry he stomped his foot. "So they’re specifically targeting and capturing our Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan Members! Who knows how many of our people’s lives Xiao Quan has ruined. He should be brought here to taste this suffering for himself."

Ji Liang let out a cold laugh. "Perhaps not. I imagine his life isn’t easy right now either. Bringing him here might actually be giving him a way out.

Our top priority now is to investigate how many Beast Slaves are being held in each hall and what their individual situations are. Perhaps we can use their own strength against them and, amid the chaos, quietly rescue the Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan Members."

Si Shuo couldn’t help but hug Ji Liang’s arm. She knew the Big Snake Beast would have a plan. "Ji Liang, how do we use their strength against them?"

"Didn’t that Male Slave say they abduct people without asking about their identity? As far as I know, quite a few youths from powerful backgrounds left home long ago and have never returned. Perhaps they’re here.

As long as we leak the information, their relatives in those families and tribes will definitely come looking for them!"

Si Shuo nodded repeatedly. "That’s a great idea. Then whoever is with me on a given day can help investigate the situation here..."

Before she could assign herself the task, Yin Jiang cut her off. "Shuo’er, it’s still dangerous here. You stay home with the cubs. We’ll come and gather information on our own!"

’What a joke. Did they really expect him to let his little female tag along to watch the live drama of the fights here?’