Chapter 150 - 149: This Is Perfect for Baby

Yan Qin hated being ignored more than anything.

She shouted at Jian Yu.

"Don’t you forget who gave you all your resources. Where do you think the Beast Fruits they gave you came from? Those were all from Chief Duan! What right do you have to waste Chief Duan’s things?"

Jian Yu stopped walking, her tone placid. "Before you point fingers at me, you seem to have forgotten that your current special privileges with resources were also given to you by someone else."

She turned around, her gaze falling on Yan Qin’s eyes, which were nearly bloodshot.

"The Beast Fruits you mentioned—is your Chief Duan the only one who can provide them? Besides, I don’t plan on using Beast Fruits anyway."

Yan Qin sneered, "To form a Contract with an Alien Beast, you either tame it with spiritual power or you win it over by feeding it resources."

She lifted her chin. "You think I don’t know Shen Yinhong? Her spiritual power is pathetically low. If you want to help her form a Contract, you’ll have to feed it resources. She’s so useless. Giving them to her is a waste; they should be saved for someone useful."

Shen Yinhong’s face was filled with humiliation.

But the other girl was telling the truth. She didn’t have the courage to refute it.

Jian Yu wasn’t good at debating, nor did she like to argue.

She didn’t feel much emotion, just surprise. It was baffling. ’What is "useful"? Are people like you considered useful? And Shen Yinhong is useless?’

Shen Gu had truly had enough. He called over a few people. "Please escort her out. Don’t let her disturb everyone."

"I’d like to see who dares!" Yan Qin took out Duan Feiye’s chief badge. "Whether I stay or go is not for you to decide."

She walked over, shoving Shen Yinhong aside.

Yan Qin glanced at the number tag on Jian Yu. "You said it yourself. You won’t use Beast Fruits, and you won’t use the resources they gave you."

Arena One, 869. She memorized it.

Right in front of Jian Yu, Yan Qin used her privilege to make a change. "Switch my arena. I want to go to Sector 869 too."

The person next to her tried to stop her. "Yan Qin, I don’t want to switch. 869 is the juvenile zone. I want to form a Contract with an adult beast."

Yan Qin directly flung her arm off. "If you don’t want to switch, then find someone else."

She immediately asked the crowd, "Who wants to go in with me? I guarantee I’ll help you form a Contract. If it’s successful, you just have to pay me the auction price for a juvenile."

Yan Qin took out a pile of Beast Fruits, along with some herbs and dried meat that Alien Beasts liked.

"Me!"

"I’ll go!"

"..."

And just like that, quite a few people were willing.

Jian Yu didn’t stick around to watch her performance. She followed Shen Yinhong to choose an Alien Beast.

She glanced around and finally found Shen Gu in the stands to her right.

Shen Gu didn’t have clearance to enter the arena, so he could only wait in the observation area.

Jian Yu retracted her gaze. Only when the red thread stirred did she slightly raise her eyes.

Her vision gradually sharpened, from near to far.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of pale gold.

It was a rare color, like the robes of a crown prince in an ancient-style painting.

Not to mention, when the hem of the garment swayed, she could see a pattern of white feathers.

It was clearly Si Xu’s chief uniform.

Jian Yu’s eyes lowered.

From Arena One to Arena Seven—with the exception of Arena Three, which only opened today—the arenas had been divided into sectors 1 through 999 since the first day of the competition.

Although all 999 sectors could be seen from the stands...

...normally, the higher the number, the lower the potential danger, meaning a chief’s constant attention wasn’t required.

Jian Yu stared at the "869" on her chest tag.

’It wasn’t that I lack conceit, but Si Xu’s appearance and every action are so Immortal-like that he doesn’t seem like the type of person who would be interested in me at all.’

’Perhaps my plan to create the persona of a hatching genius was too successful, and that’s why the F1 and F3, who value hatching, are trying to approach and observe me, whether intentionally or not?’

"Let’s go with this one," Shen Yinhong said softly, stopping in her tracks.

Jian Yu snapped back to reality, her brow furrowing. "Didn’t you say you wanted a D-level Alien Beast? The competition rules say that once you choose, you can’t switch midway."

The introduction tag for the juvenile in the Incubation Chamber in front of them read: Two years old, Illusionary Red Luo Frog, Level F.

Toxin: D, Attack Power: F, Defense: F.

Shen Yinhong pressed her lips together, her eyes darting away. "It’s fine. Let’s just pick this one."

She didn’t want to make things too difficult for Jian Yu.

’A lower Level means a higher success rate for the Contract. If it doesn’t work, I can still try using Beast Fruits myself.’

"This is all you’re worthy of anyway." Yan Qin rushed up, her words immediately cutting.

Shen Yinhong’s shoulders trembled with anger. "No matter how low my spiritual power is, I’m still a Half-awakened. You’re not any better than me."

Even now, she didn’t stoop to belittling Yan Qin for being an ordinary person.

Jian Yu turned around.

’Crap, I’m at a loss for words. I’m just as useless at insulting people.’

’I should’ve memorized some classic villainess lines.’

"What do you know? You think you’re worthy of being compared to me? Sooner or later, I’ll..." Yan Qin stopped herself just in time.

She couldn’t reveal that she was about to be Awakened. Otherwise, Duan Feiye would definitely stop looking after her.

She had originally planned to use this last period to get more resources and win over as many people as possible. She never expected to run into Jian Yu and Shen Yinhong and still be unable to control herself.

A message from Star Brain Express arrived. Yan Qin checked it and saw that the nightgown she had bought online had been delivered.

A shy blush flashed across her face.

"Hmph. Stay away from them, so you don’t get tainted by their bad luck," Yan Qin said, pulling the person next to her away.

She boasted, "Pick whichever one you want to form a Contract with. On second thought, I’ll pick the best one for you."

Jian Yu felt a little angry. Her small face was tense, her lips pressed tightly together.

She mulled over Yan Qin’s words and, with a deadpan expression, pulled Shen Yinhong along to follow them.

"I remember the competition has a rule that if two people choose the same Contracted Beast, they can compete for it fairly."

’If I can’t out-argue her, I’ll try to snatch what she wants.’

Shen Yinhong stared at the hand Jian Yu was holding. "There’s no need. Let’s just go with the one from before. I don’t want anything she chooses anyway."

Jian Yu mused, "We won’t take hers, but I think she’s right about one thing—we should pick the best one."

She tried to persuade her, "I have my own selfish reasons for helping you with the Contract, you know. You wouldn’t want me to rely on some weird frog to save me in a life-or-death situation, would you?"

Jian Yu pulled Shen Yinhong to the staircase for the upgraded sectors. "Let’s go to 13. The juveniles in Sector 13 have the highest Levels. Let’s give it a try."

"..." Shen Yinhong wasn’t very assertive.

’Failing to form a Contract in Sector 13 seems a little better than failing in Sector 869. At least it would be more respectable to talk about, right?’

Shen Yinhong decided to go for it. ’If I lose face, so be it.’

She remembered her older cousin saying that Jian Yu was a fan of princess dresses and had asked her to help watch her step.

Shen Yinhong scooped up the hem of Jian Yu’s dress and held it in her arms.

"?" Jian Yu turned her head. "Did it touch the ground?"

"..." Shen Yinhong let go of the dress, realizing it only reached Jian Yu’s ankles; it was just very fluffy.

Her face flushed red, and she changed the subject. "Actually, Yan Qin wasn’t like this before. For some reason, over the past two months, she started going crazy whenever she saw someone pursuing me."

Shen Yinhong let out a sigh of relief. "Luckily, she transferred schools. Otherwise, even though my name was cleared in that surveillance incident, she would never have stopped bringing it up."

Jian Yu found this familiar. ’Are this many people suddenly going mad?’

’How come the plot sounds a bit like Xu Jianjuan’s?’

Shen Yinhong shifted her feet, tugging on Jian Yu’s arm. "It looks like she followed us up here."

Two looked up, two looked down.

Jian Yu disliked the inexplicable malice in Yan Qin’s eyes.

She turned her head away just as the spiral staircase stopped at Sector 13.

"It’s fine. Let’s go in first."

There were only a few scattered contestants inside.

Jian Yu stopped in front of one of the beast chambers, her big eyes sparkling. "This one feels perfect for you."

...

「At the same time.」

Si Xu received the wristband.

It was pink and smooth all over, and he looped it around his fair, slender fingers.

Ah Qi watched Jian Yu on the live feed and said softly, [This one feels perfect for baby.]