Chapter 145 - 146: The Cub Disturbance (3)

Chapter 145: Chapter 146: The Cub Disturbance (3)

After sending away the few people who were looking at her expectantly, Su Luoluo lay down on her beast skin bedding.

She began her ’reckoning’.

"System, aren’t you forgetting to give me something?" Su Luoluo called out to the system in her mind.

After she spoke, there was a long silence from the other end.

Su Luoluo narrowed her eyes, looking at the screen where the blue control panel had already appeared.

"Why aren’t you saying anything? Don’t tell me the system is upgrading again."

"Host, that’s not it. I just had a bad connection and was a little slow to respond."

’Bad connection?’

Su Luoluo couldn’t be bothered to call out the unreliable system’s lie. If the connection was so bad, how could the control panel have appeared so quickly?

’It’s probably hiding, too embarrassed to face me.’

Su Luoluo said languidly, "System, it’s time you gave me my reward! You’re so slow even with a simple reward. I’m starting to doubt your credibility."

"Host, our system is absolutely honest and trustworthy! Don’t worry, I’ll distribute your rewards right now."

"That’s more like it." Su Luoluo’s mood improved considerably upon hearing the system’s newfound efficiency.

The blue control panel paused for a moment, then slowly unfolded before Su Luoluo.

[DING! Congratulations, Host, on successfully winning over Nantu. Nantu has been upgraded to ’Filter Brain.’ Reward: Host’s Fire Ability has been raised to Level 2, and you have been awarded one Farming Guidebook.]

’As I thought. This stupid system is still just giving me scraps as rewards.’

’It won’t upgrade my Water Ability, which I’m actually good at. The upgrades are always for these minor things.’

However, recalling how the upgraded Gold Element Superpower had been a huge help before, she could now accept these miscellaneous superpower upgrades.

’Fire Ability?’

’Besides starting a fire to cook, what else could I possibly use it for?’

’It’s not like I have anything to attack with fire, after all.’

Whenever she received an unfamiliar superpower like this, Su Luoluo always had to ask one more question. "Does this Fire Ability come with a user manual?"

"Yes, Host. The user manual has been placed in your system inventory. You can view it at any time."

"Now that your Fire Ability is at the Second Level, you can control fire at will, Host~"

’Sounds nice, but it’s a shame I have no use for it right now.’

Su Luoluo nodded distractedly. Then, a corner of her lip curled up as she faced the system. "You’ve distributed the reward for winning over Nantu, but what about the reward for winning ’Most Beautiful Female’?"

She remembered how this useless system in front of her had, for once, been generous enough to tell her in advance that if she won the ’Most Beautiful Female’ title, she would receive a surprise reward—one that was related to Xi Yi.

So much time had passed since then, yet it still hadn’t delivered on its promise.

’This system is definitely up to something.’

’But it’s the one that brought it up. I didn’t force it.’

So no matter what, Su Luoluo was determined to pry some useful information out of it.

’This Xi Yi is always hanging around, watching me. As long as I don’t figure him out, he’ll remain a huge problem.’

"That one?" The system began to stammer when the topic came up.

Seeing that it was no longer speaking as forthrightly as before, Su Luoluo’s eyes shot daggers at it. "What? You told me yourself. Are you planning to go back on your word?"

"That’s not it, Host. The reward exists, it’s just... the system suddenly encrypted the previous information. I can only see a small part of it."

’Of course. I knew it wouldn’t be that simple.’

She shot it a vicious glare, giving it no room to squirm. "Don’t tell me you can’t give me the information on Xi Yi anymore."

"I can, it’s just... the information might contradict what I told you before," the system said awkwardly.

"You’re making things up again! System, tell me, when have you ever been reliable? Can I even trust you anymore?"

"It’s true, Host! I’m not lying to you."

For once, the system grew anxious. Afraid Su Luoluo wouldn’t believe it, it pulled up the system file. "Look, this is what Xi Yi’s information looks like now."

Su Luoluo glanced at the main interface. A symbol of an encrypted lock was displayed on the document.

’This system is really something else. It just went and locked it, just like that.’

"Can I ask why I can’t see it? It’s just about a potential conquest target, isn’t it? Is it really that big of a secret?"

"To be honest, Host, I find it strange, too. I could freely access information on the conquest targets for all my previous hosts. Yours is the only one I can’t." The system’s voice grew lower toward the end, as if embarrassed.

This was no simple situation. Su Luoluo sensed something strange was afoot.

It couldn’t help but remind her of the time her house was struck by lightning.

’I wonder if that incident had anything to do with the system.’

’Looks like I won’t be getting anything else out of this system.’

She raised an eyebrow at the system. "Well, in that case, why don’t you tell me what the final reward for winning the ’Most Beautiful Female’ title is?"

"While I can’t help you confirm if Xi Yi is your conquest target, Host, I can tell you that his background is extraordinary."

Su Luoluo pursed her lips. That was as good as saying nothing.

"Tell me something useful. This doesn’t help me decide whether I should try to win him over or not."

"Xi Yi’s Beast Rank is very high, far above Fu Feng and the others. From what I can sense now, it’s about the Seventh Rank. And he’s not an ordinary Black Bear Beastman."

’Seventh Rank?’

Bai Meng’s Fourth Rank Beast Ability was already considered powerful among the surrounding tribes. She had thought that Xiao Ye and the others, with their Fifth Rank Beast Ability, were unrivaled. And now there was a Seventh Rank.

Unfortunately, as impressive as Xi Yi’s Level 7 Beastification was, it didn’t have much practical bearing on whether she should try to win him over. After all, it’s not like she needed to team up with powerful Beastmen to go fight monsters.

The last part of what it said, however, was suspicious.

"What do you mean, ’not an ordinary Black Bear Beastman’?" Su Luoluo asked thoughtfully.

"I can’t track Xi Yi’s specific movements. Only a member of a very powerful Beast Clan can achieve that."

Even though it was a system, its actual control over the Beast World Continent was very limited. There were some more powerful clans whose detailed information it simply couldn’t access.

Su Luoluo didn’t doubt the truth of this statement.

She already knew perfectly well that the system she was stuck with was completely unreliable.

’It looks like I really need to keep a close eye on Xi Yi.’

But for now, he wasn’t the most important thing on her mind.

The thing Su Luoluo wanted to know most right now was whether or not she was actually pregnant.

At this thought, her eyes turned cold as she faced the system. "System, you’ve been avoiding me for the past few days. It couldn’t just be because you didn’t have information on Xi Yi, could it!"

The system gave a couple of awkward laughs. "Host, what do you mean by that?"

Su Luoluo snorted and pointed at her own stomach. "Out with it. Am I pregnant or not?"

"It’s true. The Host has been pregnant for several days," the system said, shrinking back.

’No way!’

’So I’m really pregnant.’ Hearing this, Su Luoluo’s last shred of hope vanished.

"Then what exactly am I pregnant with?" She closed her eyes, her face a mask of despair.