25: Chapter 25 What a wishful thinking!

He suddenly turned his head, "Put on your beast skin skirt and get up first, I'll go get you some hot water."

Watching Xin Feng turn away in a hurry, Bai Wanwan looked down at herself.

The coarse linen clothes were worn properly, but the sleeves were very loose; whenever she raised her arms, they would slide right down.

Really not able to take a joke... but she liked it.

She quickly wrapped the beast skin skirt around her body, but it was still chilly.

Bai Wanwan shivered as she climbed out of bed.

"System, you'll give me a reward once I've given birth to the Cubs, right?"

"Yes, Host."

"Don't lie to me! If you try to fool me, I'll definitely find a way to make things difficult for you, too."

"I'm wrongly accused... Host, these are the rules set by the system. I won't lie to you; I'm counting on you to give birth to Cubs for powerful Males to earn enough points."

While fastening the belt on her beast skin skirt, Bai Wanwan asked, "What do you need points for?"

"points are my performance metrics. This world has many parallel dimensions where many systems like me exist. We all have to earn points through our Hosts. The better our performance, the more likely we are to get an upgrade opportunity to go to a larger world and earn even more points."

It had been talking for ages but said nothing. It was just a system; it had no life, didn't pursue material enjoyment, so what did it need points for?

"Hmm, and then what? What are you going to do after you've earned more points?"

This question silenced the system.

"Host, the system has encountered a bug and needs to restart. I'm going offline."

"Hey... don't play dead."

The mechanical voice vanished completely.

Fine... given her current situation, how much worse could it get?

She would wait until she gave birth to this litter of Cubs before deciding.

During her conversation with the system, Xin Feng had finished boiling the hot water and brought it in for her.

"Were you talking just now?"

"You misheard," she quickly changed the subject, "I saw several Traveling Merchants wearing fine linen yesterday. Can Tribes outside weave fine linen already?"

"It must have been brought by the Super Tribe; other Large Tribes only have coarse linen..."

Xin Feng thought of the Little Female's arm exposed that morning—it was thin and soft, likely even softer and more delicate than fine linen.

She must be very uncomfortable wearing coarse linen, right?

"I'll go trade with the Traveling Merchants later..."

"Wait... I was just asking. Given our current conditions, we can't afford fine linen. I was just asking."

The Cat Clan Tribe traded with Traveling Merchants for coarse linen and couldn't afford fine linen either.

Bai Wanwan actually disliked the coarse linen on her body because it chafed her skin; it wasn't comfortable to sleep in at all.

"It doesn't matter. I still have some precious beast skins and salt bricks; I can trade them for fine linen."

Judging by his tone, a single fine linen garment would require quite a few resources to trade for.

"Stop right there. You need to get rid of that thought immediately. Our resources are limited right now. If we use them all for trading, what will we do ourselves?"

She would have fine linen clothes eventually, but for now, they couldn't go hungry and needed to eat well.

"You are a Sacred Female; you should naturally enjoy the best of everything. Those things are useless just sitting there..."

Bai Wanwan simply reached out and covered his mouth.

If she had known, she shouldn't have brought up this topic.

She was just purely curious and asking.

"In the future, I will definitely be able to wear fine linen, and even better clothes. But for now, we should save where we can. The most important thing is for you to recover first. Your Talent is so strong; once you recover, do you think I'll be worried about not being able to get fine linen?"

Xin Feng's hands, hanging by his sides, clenched. Before, when Wan Wan said she would help him recover his Talent, he was just treating a dead horse as if it were alive, holding onto a glimmer of hope.

But now, he was very worried. What if he couldn't recover?

Wan Wan was a Sacred Female. If her identity got out, she would definitely be fought over by the most powerful Males in the Beast World.

If he didn't have enough ability, he wouldn't be able to help Wan Wan drive away the Males she didn't like.

"Really, believe me. Once I give birth to the Cubs, we will definitely get better and better. You are not allowed to secretly take things to trade behind my back, you hear me?"

Her eyes remained fixed on him; she wouldn't be at ease without an answer.

After all, they only had that many salt bricks. If Xin Feng was stubborn and took all of them to trade for fine linen clothes, she would be devastated.

Seeing that Xin Feng was clearly still planning it, Bai Wanwan had to up the ante.

"You're not listening, right? Then let's make an agreement: if you take things to trade, I won't wear whatever you bring back. I mean what I say."

After saying this, she huffed and turned to wash up.

Seeing that she was ignoring him, Xin Feng spoke helplessly, "Alright, I won't trade. Once I recover my Talent, I'll trade for fine linen for you to wear."

Only then did Bai Wanwan smile, "Good, I'll wait."

After Bai Wanwan finished washing up, Xin Feng had already sliced the meat and was roasting it on a stone slab.

The sizzling sound of the grease once again whetted her appetite.

Seeing her greedy look, Xin Feng smiled and picked up a piece with his tongs, placing it on the stone plate in front of her.

Bai Wanwan enjoyed his care, eating a piece herself and feeding him a piece.

The two were eating happily.

The uninvited guest from yesterday appeared again.

"Mmm, so fragrant!"

Roger didn't say a word, acting even more casual than before, and sat directly on the Stone Stool beside them.

"Is this meat roasted over a fire?"

Roger stared curiously at the stone slab, then grabbed Bai Wanwan's wrist as she held the meat.

"What are you doing?"

The next second, the piece of meat covered in sauce, which should have gone into her mouth, ended up in Roger's mouth.

After chewing twice, Roger's eyes widened.

"Delicious!"

Bai Wanwan huffed. Of course it was delicious.

These Males' taste buds had barely been developed; the flavorful roasted meat was like opening a door to a new world for him.

He didn't stop after eating one piece; he picked up the wooden chopsticks nearby and, imitating Bai Wanwan, reached out to grab more meat.

Bai Wanwan blocked him with her chopsticks, "What are you doing? If you want to eat, go home and make it yourself."

"Can't I even eat two pieces of your meat? Look at how good I am to you..."

As he spoke, he picked up a small box and opened it.

Inside, besides various types of Dried meat, there were colorful stones that looked like gems.

"I'll give these to you, I just want to eat a few pieces of meat."

Bai Wanwan was no philanthropist.

She couldn't accept things he gave for free, as his motives were impure.

But if he wanted to use them to trade for meat, she would absolutely agree.

Although it wasn't an equal trade, since the party involved was willing, she wouldn't owe him anything.

"Really just trading for a few pieces of meat?"

Roger popped a piece of meat into his mouth, chewed, swallowed, and then looked at her with a smile, "These things just for one meal of meat?"

"Then what do you want?"

"I want to eat this every meal while I'm in the Cat Clan Tribe."

"In your dreams!"

Bai Wanwan glanced at the things in the box.

She was too poor right now; she had no savings.

It would be a waste not to fleece such a sucker.

"If you bring your own meat, I might consider it."

If he brought meat, she could also let Xin Feng eat more.

This deal... it looked profitable no matter how she looked at it.

Her little schemes were plain as day. Roger huffed, looking quite annoyed.

"Fine! Little Female, you remember this; this is the first time I've made such a losing deal."

Bai Wanwan didn't coddle him at all, "If you don't want to, you can choose to leave right now."