CHAPTER 108: CHAPTER 100 IT’S A BLESSING FOR THIS LONG INSECT_1

The journey back to the cave was extremely quiet, so quiet that Si Yan thought time had stopped. It wasn’t until they returned to the cave that the chirping of insects outside started up again.

In Si Yan’s space, the noisy gecko that had faked a collision with her seemed to have tired itself out, finally falling silent.

The Old Gecko said, "I’m tired. I’m going to sleep. Good grandson, don’t call me Grandpa unless it’s necessary."

Even the usually good-tempered Si Yan rolled her eyes at the Old Gecko, who liked to take advantage of her and call her grandson.

"You’re just like that snake; you love to sleep."

The Old Gecko opened its eyes and swept its gaze around the cave before landing on the adult snake Beastman inside.

"You’re talking about this snake Beastman," the Old Gecko said, its eyes spinning, its voice growing a bit more serious. "He suffered very serious injuries in his early years. If not for forming a contract with you, he wouldn’t have survived. His body is like a sieve; no matter how much he sleeps, it doesn’t help him recover. Therefore, he can only sleep to preserve his life. But it’s useless."

"Huh?" It was Si Yan’s turn to be stunned. "He survived because he formed a contract with me?"

If this Old Gecko wasn’t making up stories, then back when I was pushed into the cave, and he didn’t eat me but contracted with me, was it a subconscious act?

"What’s with the ’huh’?" the Old Gecko exclaimed. "You are my bloodline, my ONLY bloodline in this world! It’s perfectly normal for him to subconsciously yearn to form a contract with you. Gaining sustenance from contracting with you was that long worm’s good fortune."

Si Yan looked at the Old Gecko in her space. Does this gecko not consider itself a worm?

Seizing the loophole in his words, Si Yan said, "I’ve given birth to four cubs. You say I’m your only bloodline, so what are my cubs?"

The Old Gecko wasn’t stumped. "The two little long worms here are your cubs, right?"

Si Yan’s expression turned cold in an instant. "Get out."

I could overlook him insulting She Wang, but insulting my cubs is out of line!

The Old Gecko immediately clung to her bucket. "I’m not leaving! I was wrong. They’re not long worms; they’re snake Beastmen cubs!"

Si Yan was speechless.

The Old Gecko, ever adaptable, said, "These two cubs have obviously inherited that big long worm’s bloodline, not mine, so how can they be considered my descendants?"

Si Yan understood what the Old Gecko was saying. Because her four cubs were snake Beastmen cubs, not gecko cubs, the Old Gecko did not see them as his heirs.

Si Yan looked inward at the Old Gecko in her space. So it’s just a gecko Beastman, fancy that.

The Old Gecko said, grinning again, "Why don’t you have another litter? Maybe then we’ll have descendants."

Si Yan’s face darkened. "...Get out."

Tired of arguing with the Old Gecko, and seeing that she couldn’t chase it off, Si Yan decided to let it stay for the time being.

The cubs were sleeping together. Si Yan walked over and lay down beside them. Before long, Dongchi and Nan Mo subconsciously burrowed into her embrace and hugged her tightly.

It is in a snake Beastman’s nature to love their mother.

Once Si Yan had also fallen asleep, a black gecko with a hint of golden sheen on its body crawled out from her space. It climbed onto Si Yan’s head and raised its gaze towards the dark purple Sen Ran snake Beastman before it.

This life, with all its changes, is quite interesting. Grandson. Grandpa will take you for a walk in his dreams.

"I hate cold-blooded snake Beastmen!" a female shouted hatefully in the cave, surrounded by a dozen males. Yet, among these dozen males, not one was a cold-blooded snake Beastman.

"Mistress..." a male, her Zheng Xiong, knelt before the female. "Please bear with it. I beg you, just bear with it."

This female had been snatched away by a wandering cold-blooded snake Beastman who had forced a mating and contracted as a mate with her. After the mate contract was established, the female used her Mistress’s right to exact the price of life from that cold-blooded snake Beastman!

"I don’t want to," the female said with hatred and anger. "I don’t want to give birth to snake Beastmen! I don’t want to give birth to snake Beastmen! If I give birth to snake Beastmen, I will lose all face. Everyone will know I’m a female who gave birth to snake Beastmen. I don’t want to! I don’t want to!"

"Mistress!"

"I want them dead! I want all of these cubs dead!"

The males hurried to appease the female. Her Zheng Xiong worried anxiously, "Mistress, now that you’re pregnant, you must carry the cubs to term. Not doing so is bad for your health."

The other males also nodded in agreement. In this world, many females who had miscarriages, without exception, fell seriously ill. Some were even unable to conceive again.

"Mistress, if you really don’t like them, we can wait until they’re born, then kill them," the males said.

Si Yan stood to the side, watching the scene with some surprise. The black Old Gecko slowly crawled onto her shoulder.

"Well now, finally made it in," the Old Gecko said.

Si Yan asked, "Where is this?"

"The dream of that long worm," the Old Gecko replied.

Si Yan was silent for a moment.

"This long worm sleeps too much," the Old Gecko continued. "When bored in his dreams, he inadvertently dreams of these past events."

"This is his past?" Si Yan looked again at the female’s belly. "He’s in there?"

The Old Gecko nodded its tiny head.

He was in her belly, listening to his mother discuss how to kill him. Who knew how he felt at that moment.

The female was about to give birth, and more than a dozen anxious males waited. Sen Ran snake eggs were larger than those of other snakes, leaving the female drenched in sweat from labor.

Si Yan counted to the side. One, two, three... six.

Si Yan asked the Old Gecko, "Do Sen Ran Beastmen’s eggs need to be incubated?"

The Old Gecko nodded. "Of course, they need to be incubated. It takes two months."

Si Yan fell silent. I don’t think this mother will incubate these six snake Beastman cubs.

As expected, the moment the female finished giving birth, still weak and sweating profusely, she hurriedly moved her body, trying to get as far away from the eggs as possible.

"Hurry, kill them! Kill them!"

Now that the eggs were laid, the female’s Beast Husbands cared only about her health, not these eggs. Thus, they didn’t hesitate. They lifted stones, ready to smash the snake eggs.

Si Yan urgently tried to block them. "What are you doing? These are your family members! They’re living beings too!"

Her words were meaningless; she only saw the ferocious female and the executioner-like males.

The Old Gecko whispered softly, "This is a dream. They can’t hear you."

"But... they can’t do this!"

Everything that had happened to her four cubs played back in Si Yan’s mind. Even if they were snake Beastman cubs, they were still their family! How could they do this?!

However, just then, the snake Beastman cubs, which were supposed to take two months to incubate, began frantically pushing against their eggshells. The instinct to survive made them abandon their incubation growth time and try to hatch ahead of schedule!

A red Sen Ran cub emerged, and a male killed it with a single smack of a stone.

Another Sen Ran cub tried to flee upon hatching, only to be picked up by another male and crushed to death.

Yet another Sen Ran cub attempted a stealthy escape but was caught and ruthlessly stepped on by an approaching male.

At the sight of these scenes, Si Yan was too shocked to speak. Hell. This is a living hell.

Finally, she saw the pale purple Sen Ran break out of its shell. He had hatched two months early; his body was underdeveloped, pink and raw. But even though he was so small, he too had to find a way to escape. He stealthily tried to hide his body as he prepared to slip away from the broken eggshell.

Si Yan anxiously squatted beside him. "Great Demon King, hurry! Move faster! Don’t let them catch you!"