Chapter 143 - 144: Cub Commotion (Part 1)

Chapter 143: Chapter 144: Cub Commotion (Part 1)

"You’re having a cub!"

Su Luoluo’s pupils contracted when she heard this.

’No way!’

’She was actually pregnant.’

When Su Luoluo heard the news, her first reaction was surprise, followed by swift denial.

’What kind of joke is this? How could I be pregnant?’

’I just felt like throwing up after eating something. How can they be sure I’m pregnant just from that?’

’Maybe the meat was just too greasy, and it made me a little nauseous. That’s all.’

She denied it in her mind, but her eyes stared blankly at the dry, roasted chicken leg in her hand.

’This roasted chicken leg doesn’t seem to have any grease on it at all.’

The helpful female’s voice wasn’t loud amid the clamor of singing and dancing. If you weren’t paying close attention, you would have missed what she said.

However, Fu Feng, Mo Xuan, Xiao Ye, Luan Ting, Nantu, and Xi Yi were all sitting near Su Luoluo and were constantly watching her every move.

Furthermore, as Fifth Rank Beastmen, their hearing was far more sensitive than that of ordinary people. The female’s words reached their ears effortlessly.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ye immediately glanced at Su Luoluo. Seeing her dazed expression, his lips curled into a smile, and his gaze shifted joyfully toward her stomach.

’Could she be carrying my child?’

Although he hadn’t kept careful track of who all Su Luoluo had mated with, he knew that based on frequency alone, he had been with her more than anyone else.

’Thinking about it that way, my odds are very good.’

’I wonder how many little cubs Luoluo will have... No, I should say how many Little Snake Eggs.’

’We Snake Beastmen have always hatched from eggs; we don’t call our young ’cubs’.’

Mo Xuan gazed at Su Luoluo’s stomach, his eyes glinting with secret delight.

’This child of Luoluo’s has to be mine. No doubt about it.’

’We panthers are naturally fertile. It’s only logical that she’d get pregnant.’

Luan Ting glanced at Su Luoluo’s stomach. His usually calm and placid face now showed a faint trace of anticipation.

’There’s a very high chance Luoluo is carrying my cub.’

’After all, we went to the Heavenly God Hall together, and Luoluo was very cooperative that day.’

’Those who visit the Heavenly God Hall have a much higher chance of conceiving a cub. By that logic, the child should be mine.’

’The Saint Heir even congratulated us, saying we would soon have a cub.’

’Ever since we returned from the Heavenly God Hall, I’ve been watching Luoluo’s every move with a sliver of hope.’

’After all, the Heavenly God Hall is known to be very effective.’

Nantu also grew pensive. Although he was the last of them to mate with Su Luoluo, they had done so in a hot spring. For Fish-men, the chance of conception increases greatly in water of a suitable temperature.

’Besides, fish are different from these land-dwellers. Our conception time is very short. So it’s not impossible for Luoluo to have conceived my cub in such a short period.’

In contrast to the other four’s silent competition, Fu Feng looked completely dejected.

’In the end, I was still a step too slow.’

’One step behind, always a step behind.’

’Now there’s no chance for this cub to be mine.’

’If I’d known Luoluo would get pregnant this quickly, I should have made my move on her sooner, just like Xiao Ye and Mo Xuan did.’

’What was I thinking, being all high-minded about wanting a private world just for the two of us?’

’Now I’m in a very passive position.’

’And now that Luoluo is pregnant, I don’t even know if I’ll get another chance to mate with her.’

The thought made Fu Feng even more morose.

Xi Yi glanced at Su Luoluo’s stomach, his brown eyes darkening.

’She got pregnant so quickly?’

’Those guys sure work fast.’

Su Luoluo hesitated for a moment, then pulled the chicken leg closer. She looked at the female who had just spoken to her and forced a faint smile. "That can’t be right! It’s probably just that I’ve been eating a lot of meat lately, and it’s a bit too rich for me."

"I just had a whole roast suckling pig yesterday, and now we’re having a barbecue today. Eating too much rich food at once can definitely make you feel nauseous like this."

The female chuckled. "That’s possible. I just thought your reaction just now was a lot like mine when I was pregnant with my cubs."

Su Luoluo, who had just managed to calm herself down, felt her heart clench. ’Could it be? Am I really pregnant?!’

’Oh my god, I was single back in the post-apocalypse. I’ve never been pregnant before!’

’Now there’s suddenly something in my belly... It’s impossible not to be nervous.’

"However, your situation is a bit special. The rest of us all mate with the Werewolves from our tribe, so our reactions when we’re carrying cubs are all pretty much the same. But for someone like you, Luoluo, being with several different types of Beastmen... your reactions might be different."

Su Luoluo had six Beastman mates in total. Besides Luan Ting, who was a gray wolf, there was a snake, a Dragon Sparrow, a Black Panther, a Black Bear, and even a Fish-man.

The situation was rather complex.

Each species had its own unique pregnancy symptoms; even the gestation periods and methods of birth were completely different.

Aside from Su Luoluo, nearly every other female in the tribe had mates who were Werewolves from their own tribe.

Therefore, the females who had already given birth to cubs believed that Su Luoluo’s case couldn’t be compared to their own.

Su Luoluo was already nervous, and hearing the female next to her say her situation was special sent her mind racing.

’From a biological standpoint, any one of them who’d mated with me could be the father.’

’If I go by human gestation timelines, the most likely candidates would be Xiao Ye and Luan Ting.’

’But even then, it hasn’t even been three months.’

’How did I get pregnant so fast?’

’Is it because a Beastman’s body is different from a normal human’s?’

’But even so, I didn’t have a single symptom before this!’

This made the likelihood of her being pregnant seem much higher to Su Luoluo.

’Not to mention, the gestation periods for some Beastmen are very short.’

’As far as I know, the gestation period for fish is extremely short.’

’So it’s not impossible that Nantu could have pulled ahead from behind.’

The more Su Luoluo thought about it, the more she felt the chances of her being pregnant were actually quite high.

The thought that she might be pregnant—and that she could be carrying a snake, a wolf, a panther, or even a fish—was something Su Luoluo found difficult to accept.

Plus, among them, some were viviparous, some were oviparous, and some gave birth to huge litters at once.

’And there’s no baby formula in this primitive society.’

She remembered back in the post-apocalypse how a sow would give birth to a huge litter at once. When it was time for the piglets to feed, they would all swarm their mother’s belly, and in an instant, more than a dozen piglets would be noisily suckling away.

The memory of that scene still haunted Su Luoluo.

’If I really am pregnant, will the cubs I give birth to be just like those piglets?’

The mental image alone made Su Luoluo feel sick to her stomach.

’I’m a human! I don’t have as many nipples as a sow!’

’My breasts may be big, but no matter how big they are, they couldn’t possibly keep up with feeding a litter like that!’

’If that happened, my breasts would probably be drained and deflated in less than a day.’

The thought that all her hard work losing weight and finally making herself look presentable would be wiped out overnight was something Su Luoluo found hard to accept.

’My capture mission isn’t even finished yet!’

’This is a devastating blow.’