"Today, the System Mall is offering a self-heating rice meal for ten points. It's got everything—vegetables, fruits, and nutritious meat." Perhaps to ease Jiang Zheyu's resistance to the mission, the system quickly offered up some food.
Jiang Zheyu's face fell, and she asked sullenly, "Does this mean I'll have to do missions every day from now on?"
The thought of having to complete a mission every single day—with punishment for failure—made Jiang Zheyu feel like the sky was falling.
"Once the host's spiritual power reaches S+++, the system will no longer issue daily missions," the system explained slowly.
"Then what's my spiritual power now?" Jiang Zheyu asked curiously.
"The host's current spiritual power is S." The system's mechanical voice echoed in Jiang Zheyu's mind. "The following shows the black qi needed to advance."
A moment later, a panel appeared before Jiang Zheyu's eyes.
Name: Jiang Zheyu
Gender: Female
Current Spiritual Power Value: S (11/3000)
Points: 11
Four very simple lines.
"So, the host only needs to absorb 3000 points of Beastification Value to be promoted to the S+++ level," the system said slowly.
Jiang Zheyu silently counted on her fingers. If one person was worth, say, 100 Beastification Value, then 3000 divided by 100 equals 30.
That meant she would need to purify about thirty-some people to reach the S+++ level.
Besides, as her spiritual power increased, the number of points she could purify each day would also gradually rise.
For example, on the first day, she might only be able to purify 5 points of Beastification Value, but on the second day, she could manage 6.
Thinking about it this way, she felt there was a glimmer of hope for the future.
"System, I'll use ten points to buy the self-heating rice meal," Jiang Zheyu said aloud.
She'd have the self-heating rice meal for lunch. This current nutritional meal was tasteless, but at least it was edible.
In the pink and blue room.
The young woman sat cross-legged on the bed, clutching a wristband. She kept her head slightly bowed, staring at it for a long time. Her straight, shoulder-length bob fell forward, obscuring the sides of her face. From the side, only the elegant bridge of her nose was visible.
Jiang Zheyu's brow furrowed slightly as she stared at the wristband as if it were some mortal enemy.
Yes, she was conflicted again.
'Should I call Su Yan back now, or have him come back later?'
The embarrassing incident from the morning was still replaying in her head. Emotionally, she didn't want to see Su Yan again so soon. Rationally, however, she couldn't think of anyone else she could purify besides him.
"Host, you can find other Beastmen," the system said slowly. "Your spiritual power is S-rank, which is already higher than most males."
So, the host was fully capable of protecting herself.
The Spiritual Power Level classification for Male Beastmen was the same as for females, but Male Beastmen generally had a level of B+ or higher, which was typically above that of females.
"That's right," Jiang Zheyu realized.
'I definitely can't just go up to a Male Beastman and ask for a spiritual power soothing session. Not only would people get the wrong idea, but I'd die of social embarrassment.'
Jiang Zheyu searched the original owner's memories and found a good solution.
Just then, the wristband suddenly vibrated—someone had sent her a message. Her hand was still hovering over the chat window with Su Yan, and the vibration made her hand twitch. She accidentally tapped something, sending a picture of a sexy, scantily-clad handsome man.
Jiang Zheyu frantically scrambled to unsend the picture.
She thought she'd unsent it quickly enough that Su Yan couldn't have seen it.
But then, the indicator showed that he was typing...
Jiang Zheyu fell silent. 'So many embarrassing things in one day, and all of them in front of the same person.'
Su Yan: ?
Jiang Zheyu: It was a misunderstanding! I tapped the wrong thing.
Su Yan: Female Master, you should spend less time looking at those Beastmen on the Star Network.
Jiang Zheyu: Okay, okay!
Their chat ended, and Jiang Zheyu slowly let out a sigh of relief.
Only then did she look uncertainly at the picture from her album.
The picture was of a White Tiger Beastman. His features were exquisitely handsome, but his bold, wanton pose was a stark contrast to his cool, aloof beauty.
The White Tiger Beastman had silver hair, with two tiger ears peeking out from it. One ear was pierced with a row of red studs. He was wearing gray casual pants and kneeling with his legs spread wide, the shape between them hinting at a considerable size. His upper body was arched back slightly, one slender hand lifting his white t-shirt to reveal a taut waist and a set of perfect eight-pack abs. His other slender hand rested on his Adam's apple.
Jiang Zheyu: ...
She remembered now. This was the original owner's favorite male Beastman streamer on the Star Network, one who specialized in suggestive content.
The original owner was even the streamer's third-biggest patron.
She had only just taken over the original owner's wristband and hadn't looked through its functions carefully. Now, looking at the photo album, she found it was filled with pictures of handsome Beastmen, every single one exceptionally seductive.
And the one the original owner had saved the most photos of was that same White Tiger Beastman.
Jiang Zheyu fiddled around some more and then discovered another photo album.
She clicked into it without any mental preparation, and her eyes were met with a sea of pale flesh and crimson red.
Jiang Zheyu's hazel pupils trembled. This album was filled with photos of completely naked Beastmen locked in iron chains, their bodies covered in all sorts of whip marks and knife wounds...
The Beastman in every photo was different, but all were forced into extremely humiliating poses, their bodies without a single patch of unscathed skin.
There were even videos.
She clicked on just one video before she couldn't bear to watch any longer.
They were all videos of Beastmen being tortured.
Jiang Zheyu's delicate brows furrowed in disgust. She deleted all the photos and videos, along with all the pictures of that Beastman streamer from the other album.
Seeing all this, she searched the original owner's memories to find the source of these images.
The original owner's "best friend."
If the original owner was a villain, then her "best friend" was an irredeemable one.
Her "best friend" had made the original owner take all of these photos and videos.
In the beginning, the original owner had been too timid and hadn't laid a hand on them.
Later on, she only ever whipped those Beastmen a few times at her "best friend's" insistence.
In comparison, the original owner's evil was limited to whipping her own Beast Mate and having poor character. At least she had never killed a Beastman. Her "best friend," however, had already tortured many Beastmen to death.
A slight shiver ran through Jiang Zheyu.
At that moment, the wristband lit up with several new messages, all from the same person.
Jiang Zheyu saw the name on the screen: Bai Ruo.
It was the name of the original owner's "best friend."
Her eyelid began to twitch violently with unease as her finger slowly tapped open Bai Ruo's chat window.
Bai Ruo: A Yu, come hang out. I got a new pet today.
Bai Ruo: Why aren't you replying? Don't tell me you were actually killed by Su Yan after his Beastification? He did his twenty-four hours at the supervision bureau that day but wasn't thrown in a cell, so you must not have died.
Bai Ruo: Whatever. I'll come see you myself.
Jiang Zheyu really did not want to see this "best friend."
The mission-completion method she had just thought of was to go to the Beast Slave exchange, buy a Beastman, and keep them somewhere off-site. Once she finished purifying that Beastman, she would let them go.
But Bai Ruo was coming over soon.
'Ugh, so annoying.'