Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 220 - I Have a Friend Who is Dying

"Didn’t hear you call out a few more times, did I?" Xiao Jinsheng retorted.

Li was momentarily speechless.

Unable to argue with Xiao Jinsheng, he chose to get up and slip away.

Opening the door, he found the hallway packed with people.

Li simply half-closed the door and leaned against the doorframe, saying, "Don’t you all have your own rooms? Blocking someone else’s doorway, what’s the fun in that?"

"This isn’t your room either," Mo Jiao scoffed.

Li took a long stride, moving directly from Xiao Jinsheng’s bedroom doorway to the wall of his own room. "This IS my room."

"Is my brain broken? Is yours broken too?" Xuan Jiu sincerely smiled and asked, "Playing robber at home—where did you tie up the Family Head?"

"I wasn’t tied up." Xiao Jinsheng stuck his head out of his own room.

As he did, he noticed that all nine Beast Husbands were present, not one missing.

Grinning, he said, "Since everyone’s here, why don’t we sign a more interesting contract?"

At those words, Huaiqing’s knowing gaze landed on Xiao Jinsheng.

Whether or not he could read minds, he immediately saw through Xiao Jinsheng’s intention to sign a Unity Contract with everyone.

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Combined with the Insect Clan’s invasion, Huaiqing understood why Xiao Jinsheng would consider signing Contractual Totems with everyone.

Even more so...

His gaze darkened slightly.

In the prophecies he had seen, Xiao Jinsheng had indeed signed Contractual Totems with all the Beast Husbands.

The only difference was...

In the prophecy, Xiao Jinsheng could read his and Que Zelian’s thoughts.

But in reality, thanks to his intervention, Xiao Jinsheng couldn’t read his thoughts.

Similarly, Xiao Jinsheng was unaware of what Que Zelian had discussed with him that one time.

Huaiqing felt a bit uncertain.

In this situation, did the trajectory he foresaw in his prophecy already begin to change?

Huaiqing was still grappling with his own doubts.

As for the contract proposal brought up by Xiao Jinsheng, the Beast Husbands were particularly cooperative.

Especially after learning that it was a Unity Contract—they immediately began fighting for the signing order.

Though speed didn’t directly matter, being quick still had its perks.

Even Chen Yunji got proactive, stepping closer to Xiao Jinsheng.

Xuan Jiu suddenly slid on the ground, attempting to tackle him.

With a sidestep, Chen Yunji dodged Xuan Jiu’s ambush, inadvertently making way for him, allowing Xuan Jiu to slide straight to Xiao Jinsheng’s feet.

Xuan Jiu simply sat cross-legged right at Xiao Jinsheng’s doorway.

Blocking Xiao Jinsheng from leaving his room.

Also keeping others from entering the room.

They could enter, but only if they leaped over him.

"Family Head, I have a friend who’s dying. Before he dies, he has one wish," Xuan Jiu said sorrowfully as he looked at Xiao Jinsheng.

The moment he heard that, Xiao Jinsheng knew he was going to act up again.

Sure enough, Xuan Jiu’s next line was his usual brand of insanity: "This friend of mine knows that I’m the ninth person to sign the Contractual Totem, so he hopes that when I sign the Unity Contract, I’ll no longer be the ninth."

"Move." Su Ye reached out and directly dragged Xuan Jiu away.

Yu Yunxiao flattened his ears in irritation as he glared at Xuan Jiu. "Apparently, you still don’t understand the rules of our household."

"Female Master, I brought the draw lots!" Shi Xie returned.

In his hands was the familiar lot-drawing kit Xiao Jinsheng recognized.

Though this time, there were two additional participants.

Still, since Huaiqing had already signed a Unity Contract, he could be excluded.

"Drawing lots—I’m a master at it." Xiao Jinsheng muttered to himself.

Expertly, he began drawing lots.

As a master, any situation involving drawing lots was his forte.

But the order of names he drew always contained a hint of mystical randomness.

As fate would have it, Shi Xie’s name landed on number seven once again.

And for Xuan Jiu... Xiao Jinsheng drew number eight.

Combined with Huaiqing, who had already signed, the numbers reaffirmed that Xuan Jiu was still the ninth.

"Well, my friend’s doomed," Xuan Jiu sighed as he accepted the slip of paper representing him.

Chen Yunji frowned. "What friend are you even talking about?"

During those two years at Snow Peak...

Xuan Jiu often muttered to himself.

Thanks to his excessive chatter, he ended up having no actual friends.

As a kid, the Beastmen he used to play with were gradually matched with Female Masters by the Terminal.

Once those Beastmen started their own families, it was only natural they wouldn’t come to play with Xuan Jiu anymore.

"Don’t you count as my friend?" Xuan Jiu countered.

Chen Yunji remained silent.

He pressed his lips into a thin line, choosing not to respond.

In his mind, they were rivals in love now.

Following the randomized order, Xiao Jinsheng sought each of them to sign the Unity Contract.

Regardless of the contract type, the process of signing was always simple, just like the Contractual Totem.

The only difference was that during each signing, Xiao Jinsheng needed to mentally focus on the specific type of contract she intended to form.

Since all the Beastmen in the household were already Beast Husbands, Xiao Jinsheng naturally had no reservations about living alongside them.

She gazed at the expanded Realm with a sense of calm in her heart.

Her thoughts aligned with her words: "Once we empty out the Star Stone Mine, we can head back."

"Fog Corpses also have tracking abilities," said Li, a long-time resident of Mist West and someone accustomed to dealing with Fog Corpses. He offered a reminder: "So once the task is complete, our first teleportation must take us to Mist East to shake them off."

The Poisonous Fog could restrict the Fog Corpses within Mist West, preventing them from holding a grudge and later following them to Demon Territory.

Leaving the Star Stone Mine meant the first stopping point had to be Mist East to ensure safety.

But this plan was incredibly risky.

Mist East had been taken over by the Insect Clan, and after so many days, nobody had a clear understanding of the situation there.

A single teleportation could drop them right into the heart of an Insect Clan base.

"If we teleport quickly, we should be fine, right?" Xiao Jinsheng said. "Besides, everyone will be in the Realm."

For mining Star Stones, Xiao Jinsheng still intended to keep the task limited to herself and Chen Yunji.

"During the teleportation, let Chen Yunji enter the Realm, and I’ll take his place outside," Li suggested.

With the plans complete, it was time for action.

Xiao Jinsheng took Chen Yunji, Caicai, and the Cannibal Flower with her as they left the Realm.

Reappearing inside the Star Stone Mine, they could feel how distinctly different it was from the Realm—it bristled with Star Stone Energy denser than in any other area.

Xiao Jinsheng noticed that her Plundering Superpower was showing signs of reaching the Thirteen Stars level, likely due to being within the Star Stone Mine.

"Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen any Thirteen Stars Fog Corpses outside," Xiao Jinsheng remarked curiously to Caicai.

Caicai blinked, flapping his tiny potato-like wings, flew up a bit, scanned the surroundings, and then pointed a potato wing: "There aren’t none at all."

"Fog Corpses are different from Beastmen. I found that when a Fog Corpse tries to break through from Twelve Stars to Thirteen Stars, it self-destructs."

"The superpowers they possess return to this world of Mist Continent."

Frowning, Xiao Jinsheng voiced her suspicion: "So, when Fog Corpses break through Twelve Stars, they vanish and are absorbed by Mist Continent."

"Conversely, when Beastmen ascend to Twelve Stars, they’re consumed by the Terminal."

"These two may appear unrelated, but why do I feel there’s some kind of connection?"

The more she thought about it, the more Xiao Jinsheng felt her head ache.

Around her, the flow of Star Stone Energy seemed to be guided by something as it surged into her body in a frenzy.

But Xiao Jinsheng wasn’t aware of this at the moment.

Suspicious, she muttered, "If we were to think of Mist Continent as a living, conscious being..."

"Why do I feel like the Terminal’s everything—its form, its actions—is eerily mimicking this ’being’ that is Mist Continent?"

"It has this... almost pathological imitation."

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