CHAPTER 425: CHAPTER 142: [BEASTKIN RACE]

You let a child choose between a lollipop and a piece of gold.

The result might be that the child is likely to choose the lollipop!

So... although she is nominally my Slave Master, in actuality, she hasn’t exploited me.

Because she eats even less than I do!

She naively believes that those who work should eat more.

She is completely unaware that the status between a slave and a Slave Master is unequal.

And the so-called private property is more of a "don’t touch my things" childlike mentality.

Hmm, this female monster, her perception is somewhat distorted.

Like all precocious children, she understands some things but remains ignorant in some areas.

"Your Mother, Enbo, they all died in battle... What about your Mom?"

Mom, meaning mother.

"Dead." When Wooden Bowl said this, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes but quickly disappeared.

Then, she revealed a system that shocked Chen Yan...

In fact, over the past few days, Chen Yan also noticed some unusual things.

For example, he had been in this monster village for five days, and apart from Wooden Bowl, he hadn’t seen many female monsters.

They were there but not many, and... most were frail young female monsters.

He hadn’t seen a single adult or elderly female monster.

And Wooden Bowl told Chen Yan the reality:

In this monster tribe, the vast majority of female monsters serve mainly for reproduction!

Wooden Bowl’s mother gave birth to seven children, Wooden Bowl and six brothers.

Once old and unable to reproduce, she was abandoned and killed...

Every year in the village, a ceremony is held to bless the elderly and infertile female monsters of the tribe.

Then...

They are carried into the deep mountains and left behind.

The depths of the mountains are cold, with no food and dangerous beasts, leaving no chance for survival.

The only way to escape this fate is to fight in battles!

Go to the battlefield and become a female Warrior.

If you achieve merit and luckily survive, you can be supported by the tribe in old age.

—This is a savage, ruthless, brutal, and uncivilized beastly race.

"That day, the human slave who spoke to you had his leg broken." Wooden Bowl spoke calmly, chewing an ice block—here, the weather is too cold, and water quickly freezes, so the monsters consider eating ice as a normal way to hydrate.

However, it’s not like this all year round. According to what Wooden Bowl inadvertently mentioned before, there’s a season similar to summer each year in which the weather warms up, ice melts, and streams flow—but this only lasts a short time each year.

Chen Yan wasn’t bothered by the crunch of Wooden Bowl refusing the ice block. He quickly asked about Du Li and focused intently, asking, "How did it break?"

"It was broken by his owner." Wooden Bowl replied nonchalantly, "His owner is Supervisor Black Stone’s Enbo."

Saying this, Wooden Bowl cracked another piece of ice, tossing it into her mouth: "Supervisor Black Stone is a coward who never dares to go to war. Actually, we all discuss behind his back that he looks strong but doesn’t go to the battlefield... So he acts very mean to everyone, afraid that others will think he’s cowardly, just excessively harsh."

"The slave won’t die." Wooden Bowl, not entirely foolish, noticed Chen Yan seemed concerned and said, "His owner is stingy and won’t kill his property. Once the leg heals, he can continue working. Hmm, maybe they’ll sell him."

"But, with a broken leg, he can’t work for a long time. Will his owner care for him? A hundred days for bone and muscle injuries..." Chen Yan was somewhat worried.

Wooden Bowl widened her eyes at her slave: "What hundred days?"

"Bone and muscle..." Suddenly, Chen Yan realized he’d made a mistaken assumption.

For ordinary mortals, it’s a hundred days for bone and muscle injuries.

But... these are all monsters here.

Isn’t Wooden Bowl’s monster tribe made up of monsters?

And aren’t Domain Realm people also monsters?

Du Li, as some Left Vanguard General or other, must also be a strong Cultivator.

Cultivators have their bodies nourished by Primordial Qi, so their physical qualities shouldn’t be inferior to Chen Yan’s, right?

With such physical strength and health, their self-healing ability must be very strong. A broken bone shouldn’t require a hundred days.

"A broken leg takes five or six days to heal."

Indeed, Wooden Bowl gave the correct timeframe: "Supervisor Black Stone compensated the slave master with food, only requiring that the leg be broken to let the human slave suffer."

She looked at Chen Yan, her mouth twitching into what seemed like a smile: "Supervisor Black Stone also came to me, offering food to have me break your leg."

Chen Yan’s face stiffened.

"I refused! I hate him! He curses me as a worm, curses my Mother and Enbo as worms!" Wooden Bowl said fiercely, "I want to kill him, when I grow stronger!"

Chen Yan was relieved, ignoring Wooden Bowl’s talk of wanting to kill Supervisor Black Stone, but started calculating in his mind.

Du Li getting his leg broken must have happened on the day of the conflict!

If it takes five or six days to recover, then...

If luck’s on my side, I might be able to see Du Li tomorrow, or maybe the day after?

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The next day, that is, Chen Yan’s sixth day in the "Domain Realm."

Chen Yan was woken from his cold slumber by the noise of Wooden Bowl pushing open the door, knowing it was time to work.

After six days, he felt his body gradually adapting to the cold here—but only managing to adapt.

Chen Yan’s hands and feet were frostbitten.