322: Chapter 322 Everyone is looking forward to your birth

A violent tremor arrived, as if it would shake Huan Du's egg yolk until it was scrambled.

"Yong Wu! How many do you have left there?"

"Seven or eight!"

"Go help Heng Zhou, leave the rest to me! It's dangerous here!"

"You aren't going to break that egg on purpose, are you?"

Huan Du, the one referred to as "that egg," felt a shiver run through him.

Then he felt someone pick him up.

The warm body temperature made him experience once again a feeling similar to being in his mother's arms.

But soon, he was placed on the cold ground.

The sound of the world collapsing around him echoed through the air.

Inside the eggshell, Huan Du hugged his trembling self tightly, although his physical body was still just a mass of sticky liquid.

Suddenly, a loud "thud" came.

It was a giant rock that had landed beside him, and he heard the sound of several eggs shattering.

Accompanied by the "sizzling" sound of something being crushed.

"Ahhhh!" Huan Du screamed inside the eggshell, even though he didn't have a mouth yet.

Suddenly, a "rumbling" sound came.

Amidst this deafening noise, it seemed to be accompanied by the sound of wings flapping.

"Thud!" The sound of another stone hitting an eggshell came.

This time the sound wasn't loud, but it hit his eggshell directly.

Huan Du: ...

A crack appeared in Huan Du's eggshell.

He lifted his head, his soul peering through the crack, and saw the back of a beastman with black wings.

He was gently flapping his wings, hovering above his head, holding up a rock the size of a mountain with both hands.

Then, he forcefully threw the "mountain" in his hands away.

Just now, if he hadn't caught that giant rock, he would definitely be smashed to pieces by now.

However, even if he wasn't smashed to pieces, his eggshell was broken.

Would he still be able to hatch?

After being brought here, he had originally lost interest in hatching again.

Because outside the egg, there was no mother, no one he wanted to see, and he might even see the beastman he was afraid of — the one who killed him.

Therefore, he didn't want to hatch; he only wanted to escape this place.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt some anticipation about being able to hatch.

Once he hatched, could he become friends with this strong beastman?

He had a pair of black wings.

Their Phoenix clan also had wings. Huan Du felt a sense of closeness.

Just as he was thinking this, something fell down.

A beam of light shone into the cave, and the egg, which originally only had one crack, was now missing a large chunk.

Now, there was a hole the size of a fist.

Huan Du: "... It's over, now he really won't be able to hatch!"

Just then, four faces appeared simultaneously above the cave entrance.

"Is this egg unable to hatch now?" said the blue-haired Male Beastman excitedly.

"The Beast God seems to like this egg quite a bit," said the Male Beastman with light purple hair and a pleasant voice.

"Then what should we do?" said the strong Male Beastman with wings.

"How about... I try?" said the beautiful Female Beastman.

"Your Supernatural Ability only works on living things; if the thing inside is dead, it won't work," said the Male Beastman with light purple hair.

The Female Beastman leaned in closer and sniffed.

"It doesn't smell bad, so it should be alive, right?"

Huan Du: ...

The Female Beastman placed her hand on the eggshell.

Immediately, a continuous stream of Energy poured in.

The liquid inside the eggshell began to wriggle as if it had grown tentacles.

The cracks on the eggshell slowly closed up.

Huan Du watched excitedly, feeling the warmth of that Energy...

She had actually managed to repair his egg.

But... he hadn't even been happy for two seconds before he discovered a problem.

The cracks were repaired, but the hole in the eggshell hadn't closed...

Huan Du: ...

"Looking at it like this... it definitely won't be able to hatch! You guys help me think of an idea! I'm going to go see off my little Female Beastman!" said the cheerful Male Beastman happily.

He clasped his hands behind his head and turned to leave.

Not long after, they all left.

But Huan Du could no longer remain calm.

He wanted to hatch; he wanted to be with them.

Perhaps this was what they were talking about, that he would identify with the first — no! With the few beastmen he saw...

But that night, the Female Beastman and the winged Male Beastman appeared in front of him again.

"A-Wu, why do you insist on healing this egg? Don't you want Duan Shi to see the person he likes?" asked the winged Male Beastman.

"Fen Tian, it's not that I don't want him to see her. It's that Female Beastman..." The Female Beastman called A-Wu hesitated.

"Is she dead?"

"No."

"Then why?"

A-Wu pulled Fen Tian and sat down beside Huan Du. She simply told him the whole story.

During the last apocalypse, Duan Shi secretly kept one Tribe and hid them in a canyon from which they could never leave.

He thought he had saved them. But in the eyes of these beastmen, he had forcibly driven them out of their homeland and locked them in a place with extremely harsh living conditions.

And the reason they were locked up was because one of the Female Beastmen among them had interacted with Duan Shi.

Consequently, their entire Tribe hated this Female Beastman.

In order not to be discovered by the Beast God, Duan Shi hadn't been to that canyon for over a hundred years.

But last time, when she and Heng Zhou were completing the Beast God's mission, they passed by there. She pretended to be an ordinary beastman, wanting to help Duan Shi inquire about the situation of that Female Beastman.

Only then did she learn that her eyes had been blinded by her clansmen, and her legs had been broken by them.

Even she herself believed that it was because she knew Duan Shi that she had brought disaster upon herself and her clansmen.

"Can't you explain it clearly?" Fen Tian asked.

A-Wu shook her head, "We explained, but she simply doesn't believe it. She only wants to kill Duan Shi. And her mental state is also a bit unclear... If Duan Shi sees her, he will only be heartbroken."

Seeing Fen Tian look worried, A-Wu patted his shoulder, "But now, her descendants have high status in the Tribe, and no one dares to bully her anymore. It's just... they all hate Duan Shi."

"For safety, we don't dare to take them out to look around. If the Beast God discovers them..."

Fen Tian: "So it's best if Duan Shi doesn't know."

"Right! If he doesn't know, he won't be sad."

As the two chatted, they both fell into silence.

Suddenly, Huan Du felt a warm embrace press against him.

A-Wu wrapped her arms around the eggshell and rubbed her face against the smooth surface of the egg.

"So... you must successfully hatch. Otherwise, Brother Duan Shi will be sad."

"Your Brother Fen Tian, Brother Heng Zhou, and I — Sister Yong Wu, are all looking forward to your birth!"

Inside the eggshell, the transparent egg white suddenly showed two patches of red blush.

Sister's embrace was so warm. He must hatch and be with his brothers and sisters.

From then on, someone came to talk to him every night and shared their Energy with him.

Sometimes it was Yong Wu and Fen Tian, and sometimes it was Yong Wu, Fen Tian, plus Heng Zhou.

They looked forward to his birth, and he liked these brothers and sisters more and more.

Until one day — Duan Shi arrived.