Chapter 4: Small Fish and Big Pie

[Host, this is the beast world. Qi Yue becomes a mermaid and is over three meters tall.]

Yes, this is the world of beasts.

"How long will it take for him to reach adulthood?"

【One year】

It’s not small either.

Jianhe entered the room at the perfect time. The bowl was empty, and he huddled back into the bed sheets.

There are still tasks~

Jianhe thought for a moment and poked him, "Come out."

Qi Yue frowned and planned to pretend to be asleep, but the bad female actually started to threaten him.

"If I find out you've spilled the food, I'll..."

"I ate it! I ate it!"

Before Qian He could finish, Qi Yue angrily lifted the bed sheet and said, "Besides threatening me, what else can you do?!"

"Oh? Since you've eaten it, then tell me, which dish is your favorite?" If you like it, it can be considered a compliment.

Although this praise was self-inflicted, as long as the mission is completed, it's fine.

Qi Yue was forced to eat rice mixed with tears, so how could he have the mood to savor it carefully?

“It’s not tasty, it’s not tasty at all!”

Hey~you kid!

"Then you didn't eat~"

The woman approached with a wicked smile, her face dark, her teeth yellow, her body plump.

Qi Yue quickly stepped back, "Meat! Meat is the best!"

Damn it! If this woman touches him again, he will suffocate.

He felt sick when he thought about how she had just bitten his face with this mouth.

Jianhe stood up straight, mission accomplished!

Did the system hear that? He said meat is the best.

[No, host? You're being ridiculous! Where did he ever praise your cooking?]

It's outrageous that you're issuing this kind of task now. How scared is he of me? And you still want him to praise me. What are you thinking?

The two people were arguing.

The system sighed and said, "How about this? Go to the Colosseum tomorrow and bring Song Qianye back. The reward for this mission will be combined with the next one."

Song Qianye?

Song Qianye

Animal form: Black panther

Ability level: B

Mental strength: B

Dislike level towards host: -800]

Is this Shangguan Jianhe’s adopted husband?

Zhenhe remembers him.

Because at the end of the novel, it was Song Qianye who dealt Shangguan Jianhe a fatal blow.

After the attack on Li Nan failed, Shangguan Jianhe looked at the heroine who was high and mighty and surrounded by a group of beastly husbands, drank a special medicine, and became a monster whose mental strength and superpowers broke through SSS+.

In order to protect the heroine of the original book, the white moonlight in his heart, Song Qianye also drank the medicine.

This man grew up with Shangguan Jianhe and was the first to become her beastly husband. In the end, he killed her with his own hands for the sake of other females.

Jianhe put the dirty dishes in the sink. "Song Qianye? What if he finds out I'm not the original Shangguan Jianhe?"

[Rest assured, host. You are Shangguan Jianhe. Your body, scent, abilities, and beast form are unmistakable. As for your personality... He's been gone for a year now, so you must have changed.]

Zhenhe nodded, but was still a little nervous.

The wind and sand were blowing, making the old windows creak unpleasantly.

Qi Yue poked his head out from under the bed sheet and looked around. Where is the bad female?

"Bang!" The door was opened again, and Qi Yue immediately huddled under the bed sheets.

"I'm going out tomorrow. There's food in the fridge. You can make it yourself."

Get out?! Qi Yue became excited. No! Could this be a trap?

"You can't escape from here. This is a desert even more remote than the polluted land. The temperature can reach 100 degrees during the day. You will be roasted like a dried fish."

"Don't even think about it at night. With your abilities, you'll just be roasted into a dried fish by the other orcs."

100 degrees is still normal. If there is abnormal weather, the temperature here will only get higher, not lower.

Zhen He knew that her warning was nothing to Qi Yue. She thought about it and asked the system in her heart, "One day, can I come back?"

【have no idea】

Ash: ...

What else can you do besides issuing tasks to embarrass me?

System: [Acting cute~]

Qi Yue was rapidly planning how to escape in his mind, while Zhen He went to the kitchen and started kneading the dough.

The system was curious, [What are you doing? Didn’t you just eat?]

Making cakes

As the night drew to a close, all the beastmen around had turned off their lights and gone to sleep, and only the light in Zhenhe's small, shabby house was still on.

Qi Yue was so excited that he couldn't sleep. Once she left, he would have a chance to escape.

Although he has failed no less than a hundred times, he is still unwilling to give up.

It's better to become a dried fish outside than to rot and stink next to her.

As a result, the next day, before dawn, Qi Yue was tied up by Jianhe.

"Please let me go, I won't run away again, I believe you, I believe you will take me home, can you please not tie me up..."

"It hurts~" Qi Yue looked up at Zhihe like a kitten and rubbed his head against her.

Ah!!! Zhenhe was almost unable to bear it.

The little mermaid is really beautiful. She is also beautiful when she just wakes up. When she acts coquettishly, it makes people feel itchy.

Zhenhe tried not to look at him as much as possible, and kept a stern face to pretend to be cold.

Seeing that the beauty trap didn't work, Qi Yue became furious and wanted to bite her again.

I did bite it, but it felt different. It was dry and a little fragrant.

Qi Yue lowered his head, his face full of question marks, cake?

This female actually hung a cake around her neck.

"this……"

"This is bread, this is water," Zhihe pointed to the two large buckets beside him. "If you're hungry, eat bread. If you're thirsty, drink water. If you want to take a bath, Gupu Gupu can also go in."

"But I advise you not to, the wound will get infected."

The system covered its face, it was really unbearable to watch, what kind of good woman would hang a big pie on the neck of her beastly husband?

"Where are you going? How long will it take?" Qi Yue asked these questions not because he was afraid that she would abandon him, but to estimate the time it would take him to get out of here.

However, the bad female did not answer. She gave him a cold look and warned him, "I will be back soon."

"Shangguan Qianhe!"

"Bang!"

The door was slammed shut with the sound of iron chains. She not only locked the bedroom door but also the main door.

It seemed like it would take a really long time, Qi Yue was so happy that his whole body was shaking.

Finally! This time he will definitely escape!

As Qian He walked through the desert, he kept looking back, "What if he runs away?"

[If he runs away, chase him. He can't get far. This place is like purgatory for them fish.]

[Ding! New mission released: Rescue Song Qianye from the Colosseum. Rewards: a supernatural power repair pill and a space bracelet.]

Hearing this, Jianhe quickened his pace.

"Hey! Isn't this Miss Shangguan? Come and play with us?"

Before Zhenhe reached the entrance of the Colosseum, he saw a man with pointed ears and a rat tail waving at him.

The man looked exactly like his animal form, with shifty eyes.

The ears are okay and pretty cute, but the tail is disgusting, like little worms.

Jianhe shuddered: "I want to redeem someone"

"Ransom someone?" The rat orc narrowed his eyes slightly. "The person you are talking about is not Song Qianye, right?"

"Yeah." The female's eyes were firm, her appearance hadn't changed, but her body was much cleaner and no longer smelly.