The Beast Continent.
The vast land was covered in endless green plants, like a sea of green.
In the thick jungle, a young girl with a graceful figure was running as fast as she could.
Her heart pounded, her breath was short.
Her eyes were full of fear and despair.
She wore thin clothes, and her delicate skin was scratched by sharp leaves, leaving shocking cuts.
But she had no time to care about the pain, she only kept running, trying to escape from the terrifying rat beastmen chasing her.
"Little female, run faster, I'll catch you soon."
The leader, a male beastman with a rat head and human body, let out a sharp screech.
He had never seen a female with such a unique scent on this land.
His greedy eyes locked on the fleeing girl, his mouth twisted in a cruel smile. He laughed excitedly, "Once I catch you, you'll be my mate and give birth to a nest of little rats for me, hahaha!"
…
One day earlier.
The girl's name was Fannie. She was a freshman in college.
Because she saw her boyfriend and best friend betray her together, she couldn't take it and chose to jump off a bridge. But instead, she was pulled into a time-space tunnel and thrown into the rift of time.
"Life is so precious, and yet you don't cherish it?"
While Fannie was lost and confused, a deep and powerful voice sounded in her ears.
She looked up in shock and saw a figure in a black robe, filled with overwhelming power.
It was the ruler of time and space order.
He was furious at Fannie for giving up her life so easily, causing endless pain to her family.
As punishment for not respecting life, he forced a Childbirth System onto her and threw her into the Beast Continent, where she had to face survival and hardship.
The Childbirth System meant having children.
The more children she had, the more points she would earn.
According to the system's rule, one child gave one hundred points.
If Fannie wanted to return to Blue Star, she had to give birth to one hundred children to collect enough points.
Luckily, the system had a little humanity.
Besides having children, it also gave random missions. Completing them could give rewards between 1 and 10,000 points.
As long as Fannie could gather 10,000 points in her lifetime, she could return to Blue Star.
The system also came with a points exchange shop.
The shop had items like fertility pills, recovery pills, pain relief pills, stamina pills, detox pills, and more.
Only fertility pills were free and unlimited. Other items required points, at least fifty.
"I regret it! I really regret it!!!"
Fannie's voice was filled with pain and sorrow.
She should not have given up her life so easily because of a cheating man, making her family suffer her loss.
She truly regretted it now.
If only she could pause everything and be given another chance to choose again.
She really did not want to give birth to rat children!
Wuwuwu…
Fannie's POV
The rat-headed men kept getting closer and closer to me.
At that moment, I tripped on a vine and was thrown forward, landing hard on the ground.
The fall left me dizzy and stunned, my mind fuzzy.
When I came to, I realized I was already surrounded by a group of rat-headed men.
They wore rough woven clothes and held sharpened sticks as weapons. Their bodies gave off a disgusting stench. They made harsh noises while waving their arms and legs around me, like they were performing some strange ritual.
I looked at them, these rat-headed men with thick necks, and I wanted to cry. I forced myself to hold back the urge to vomit and tried to reason with them, my voice trembling with tears, "We are not the same species. Even if you take me back, I still cannot have a litter of rats."
The weaker the beastmen, the weaker their fighting power.
Only beastmen who reached rank five or higher could get rid of their beast features and transform into a perfect human form.
These rat-headed men in front of me were only rank two, so they still had rat heads.
Since they could not improve their rank by breeding within their tribe, they wanted to breed with other species. But their fighting power was too low, so other beast tribes often defeated them.
Today, they happened to find me, a lone female. It seemed even fate was helping them.
After their ritual ended, the leader sniffed my body with his rat nose, taking in my scent.
He opened his rat mouth and said, "Hehehe, little female, you smell so good. If you agree to be my mate, I promise I will treat you well and not let others bully you. How about it?"
"Ugh…"
I couldn't hold it anymore and threw up.
Do these rat-headed men never wash? The smell was unbearable!
"Little female, why did you vomit?" he asked.
"Why did I vomit? Don't you know? Don't come near me… ugh…"
I felt like I was about to throw up my bile.
Even though I wanted to earn points and go back to Blue Star, I couldn't accept having children with a rat-headed man. That would be the end of me.
The stench was killing me!
No, I couldn't do it. There was no way I could do it.
Rat-headed men lived in dark, damp underground places all year long. They were used to their smell, so they didn't think they stank. The leader looked displeased and said, "Little female, are you rejecting me?"
"For the future of the rat tribe, whether you agree or not, you will become my mate!"
"You can choose to mate with me here, or go back to the rat tribe and mate with me there. Either way, you are in my hands now, and I will never let you go!"
When he finished, the other rat-headed men raised their arms and shouted, "Mate! Mate!"
I knew nothing about this continent.
I didn't know what other creatures existed here besides these disgusting rat-headed men.
But one thing I knew for sure: this rat-headed leader wanted to mate with me. If I met other wild beasts, they might swallow me whole in one bite.
Even though it was cross-species, with the help of the fertility pills, it was still possible to get pregnant.
For survival, for points, I kept trying to persuade myself.
Above the neck he was a rat, but below the neck he was like me. He just smelled awful. If I endured it, maybe I could get through it.
Just as I made up my mind to go back with the rat-headed men, the leader, still waiting for my answer, moved his limbs. Right in front of me, he turned into a giant rat over a meter long and said in a cold voice, "So you like mating outside with me. Fine, I will make it happen."