CHAPTER 139: CHAPTER 131 LUCK-TRANSFER BEAD_1

She hurriedly took out the salt bag Si Yan had just given her, and several more bags besides. Her face was flushed, her head lowered, and even her ears seemed to heat up. "Si Yan, for you, all of these are for you!"

Si Yan looked at the salt bags, one after another. She accepted the first bag and then refused the rest, "This bag is enough for me; it’s also the reward we agreed on from the start."

"No, no, no, take them all!" Jin Li urged, her face flushed as she pushed them toward her. "You saved Aunt San Wen’s life; you are our benefactor!"

"There’s no need. After all, it was my Beast Husband first... who exchanged a few moves with your fish." Si Yan resolutely refused the other salt bags from Jin Li.

Jin Li thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Si Yan, wait for me a moment."

Si Yan didn’t understand what she was going to do but saw the pretty gold-and-red mermaid dive into the water. Soon after, the mermaid spouted a stream of water, which looked extremely beautiful.

Golden scales shimmered on Jin Li’s body, and in her hand appeared a Fish Pearl woven of gold and red.

With a beaming smile, she excitedly said to Si Yan, "Si Yan, this is for you!"

"I don’t..."

Si Yan had barely started her reply when the gecko in her space suddenly erupted!

"No, you must take it, you must, you absolutely must!!!"

Si Yan immediately shut her mouth and suspiciously asked the just-awakened gecko, "What are you so excited about?"

"The Luck-Transfer Bead, kiddo, this is a Luck-Transfer Bead!"

"So what about the Luck-Transfer Bead?"

"Kiddo, have you forgotten? You adopted a little female cub, and you need to transfer the fortune of the world’s female protagonist into that little female cub’s body. How will you transfer it? You need this Luck-Transfer Bead! Look carefully at this Luck-Transfer Bead: red for collecting, gold for transferring! Why wouldn’t you want such a great treasure?!"

Only then did Si Yan understand the function of the Luck-Transfer Bead. After realizing this, she could no longer bring herself to refuse it.

Jin Li watched Si Yan, puzzled, but then saw Si Yan’s eyes curve into a smile. "I really like it, thank you."

With Si Yan’s smile, the pretty little mermaid’s face blushed even more. Forgetting the pearl in her hand, she hurriedly covered her face with both hands.

PLOP! The Luck-Transfer Bead fell into the water.

Si Yan: "..."

Jin Li quickly snapped out of it. "Don’t worry, I’ll retrieve the bead for you right now!"

Jin Li dove into the water. SPLASH! She quickly found the Luck-Transfer Bead, then handed it to Si Yan before shyly hiding in the water, peeking out with just her head.

Such a beautiful female, oh, such a beautiful female.

Her heart pounded. THUMP-THUMP.

She liked her so much~

After receiving the Luck-Transfer Bead, Si Yan found a tree to lean against, sat down, and in the sunlight, gazed at the red-and-gold bead.

The Luck-Transfer Bead, huh.

"Old Gecko, you’re not sleeping?"

"Thought of something, so I woke up," the gecko said lazily.

"What now?" Si Yan asked casually. "Can’t you think of everything at once?"

The gecko wanted to rap her on the head, then cleared his throat. "Kiddo, do you remember how the Delusional Domain ended in the Heavenly Book?"

Si Yan was a bit puzzled. "What’s wrong with the Delusional Domain?"

The gecko crawled out of her clothes. "Have you forgotten? In the Heavenly Book, there are no citizens of the Snake Tribe in the Delusional Domain."

Si Yan was startled. Then suddenly, with Old Gecko’s reminder, she remembered everything.

The antagonist She Wang in the original was very cold-blooded and sinister. He didn’t trust any tribes or Beastmen. He regarded everyone as an enemy!

But what was the reason?

"Did you not read it carefully?"

Si Yan: "..."

She couldn’t be blamed. The novel was so boring. If not for killing time, she wouldn’t even want to read it.

The gecko said, "I’ll just tell you directly.

"There’s a brief record of it in the Heavenly Book.

"During the Flame Day, the cold-blooded Emperor of the Snake Tribe, She Wang, led the Delusional Domain to occupy Dark Sun Lake. After the arrival of Flame Day, the lakes outside gradually dried up. The tribes rejected by She Wang reached a critical point of life and death.

"So, they secretly united."

"They united against the Delusional Domain?" Si Yan asked. "Was the Delusional Domain persecuted?"

"Exactly," the gecko said.

"Then why do you say there are no Snake Tribe beastmen in the Delusional Domain? What about the Fox Tribe beastmen?"

The gecko continued, "This is what I want to tell you. The Fox Tribe beastmen betrayed them, pushing out the Snake Tribe beastmen.

"The beastmen of Beast World disliked the Snake Tribe beastmen to begin with, so the Snake Tribe beastmen suffered a joint massacre by a multitude of tribes.

"Faced with enemies on both sides, in the end, apart from She Wang, no Snake Tribe beastman from the Delusional Domain survived."

Si Yan frowned.

The Snake Tribe beastmen were betrayed; the Snake Tribe beastmen were massacred.

This matter must have had a huge impact on Wang.

Already cold-hearted and detached, he became even more distrustful of any beastman, further prompting his descent into darkness.

The gecko spoke earnestly, "Kiddo, this time you have to change the course of fate in the Heavenly Book, saving the Snake Tribe beastmen of the Delusional Domain."

The gecko spoke leisurely, "Now, do you have any way to save the Snake Tribe beastmen of the Delusional Domain?"

Si Yan closed her eyes gently. "Let me think."

The gecko crawled onto her head, tugged at her hair, and asked, "Let the tribes outside enter Dark Sun Lake? Now that you are the Mistress of the great villain, if you speak up, the great villain should listen to you."

Si Yan said, "Old Gecko, Dark Sun Lake doesn’t have enough water for so many beastmen. If resources run short, won’t they resort to killing each other for water? And ultimately, to ’correct’ the plot, wouldn’t that ’fake turtle’ orchestrating things from above let these outsider beastmen unite to wipe out the Snake Tribe, just to reduce the number of those sharing the water?"

"As long as the final outcome is the joint elimination of the Snake Tribe beastmen, then in the end, the Snake Tribe beastmen can’t be saved."

The ’fake heaven’ above loomed over this world like a colossal, uncaring turtle—hence Si Yan’s secret nickname for it: the ’fake turtle’.

The gecko remarked, "You’re quite thorough in your thinking. So, what do you plan to do?"

Si Yan asked, "What if we only let a portion of the people in? If I only let the females and cubs of the outside tribes enter Dark Sun Lake, would the males of the outside tribes give up competing for Dark Sun Lake for the survival of the females and cubs?"

No sooner had she spoken than Si Yan herself shook her head. "No, that won’t do.

"After all, Beast World is Beast World. Females here have little power on their own; the males are their support. They wouldn’t be willing to enter Dark Sun Lake without their Beast Husbands. Besides, the beastmen of Dark Sun Lake don’t have the capacity to care for so many capricious females.

"The males outside would be even more worried. The females are their weakness; if the females die, they all perish.

"The males wouldn’t let go of that. This plan is unworkable."

The gecko said, "So, letting everyone in doesn’t work, and letting in only a portion doesn’t work either. Si Yan, what other ideas do you have?"

The gecko knew without being told there were likely many ways to save the Snake Tribe beastmen of the Delusional Domain. For instance, they could warn She Wang in advance, allowing him to prepare and have the Snake Tribe seek refuge beforehand.

However, the outcome of such plans would invariably be rivers of blood.

The gecko looked down at Si Yan from amid her black hair.

He was intentionally trying to cultivate her, curious about the solution she would ultimately choose.

Si Yan slowly opened her eyes.

The merfolk around her were still sneaking glances at her.

If a major disaster and turmoil were to occur, the weak merfolk before her probably couldn’t be protected.

She didn’t want anything to happen to the merfolk in front of her.

Suddenly, she lay down on the grass and looked up at the blue sky.

She didn’t want anything to happen not only to the merfolk but also to those Snake Tribe beastmen who were so grateful for the slightest show of respect from her.

She also didn’t want any harm to come to the innocent beastmen of the other tribes outside.

She was indeed greedy.

If given a choice, she would choose to protect more people.

But if there was no choice, then in the end, she could only choose to prioritize protecting her own people.

Suddenly, Si Yan sat up sharply.

"I’ve got it!"