Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 238 Caicai is the best Caicai

Chapter 238: Chapter 238 Caicai is the best Caicai

But when it comes to that madman from the Thirteen Districts...

If you can’t beat him, death is the quickest release.

If he captures you alive, you’d wish for death instead.

The Insect Clan relies on spiritual power to communicate in the first place.

And this lunatic, using the spiritual power they depend on for communication, can control them instead.

The Master and Servant Contract can be signed with just a single talisman, it’s as simple as that.

Que Zelian asked suspiciously, "So contracts can be signed either using talismans or spiritual power?"

"There are many kinds of contracts. The ones I know of exist both in the Cultivation World and the Interstellar World," Lou Yan Zhi said with a smirk. "As a member of the cooperating side’s family, you have the privilege of asking me for guidance."

Que Zelian went silent for a moment before asking, "Can the method for establishing a Unity Contract also be this simple?"

"Doesn’t matter if it’s the Interstellar World or the Cultivation World, all contracts can be controlled with spiritual power," Lou Yan Zhi replied.

At least, in the Cultivation World where he came from, spiritual power was the highest-grade ability.

Only with spiritual power can one escape the constraints of their physical body.

"Doesn’t a Unity Contract require intimate contact?" Su Ye frowned.

This question left Lou Yan Zhi puzzled.

Just as he was about to respond, a sweet potato came rolling and tumbling in from outside, yelling at the top of its lungs, "Stop talking—"

However...

Did Lou Yan Zhi ever listen to Caicai?

He completely ignored Caicai and instead asked the group, "Who told you that signing contracts requires intimate contact?"

"If that were the case, wouldn’t cause and effect be reversed?"

"Isn’t it always name first, then reality?"

"The contract methods you’re talking about, their sequence doesn’t make logical sense."

"So, did you lie about the method for signing the Unity Contract?" Mo Jiao’s violet eyes narrowed dangerously at Caicai.

Caicai chuckled awkwardly, the leaves on its sweet potato head drooping as it turned to run away.

A black mist immediately blocked its escape route.

Caicai hurriedly turned left, only to find itself staring into its own reflection on the cold, gleaming surface of a blade.

Panicked, it scurried around like a mouse, darting wildly along the ground.

But no matter where it went, it was either blown back to its starting point by the Wind Element, frozen by icy water, or bound by green vines.

"Small in size, but full of mischief," Mo Jiao looked down at Caicai condescendingly.

Caicai waved its little sweet potato vines, panicked, "It’s not like that, listen to my explanation!"

"We don’t want to listen," Li’s red eyes were cold and stern. "From the day you appeared, I knew you weren’t reliable."

If you were reliable, you wouldn’t have picked the wrong host or bound to the wrong person.

And you certainly wouldn’t have dumped someone into the hazardous world of the Mist Continent.

"Why are you all so worked up?" Yu Yunxiao shielded Caicai and said disapprovingly, "I think it’s pretty good—well-behaved and obedient. Let’s first listen to its explanation."

"Don’t hit it." Chen Yunji’s elemental power wrapped around Caicai protectively as he said, "It’s just a fragile sweet potato. If you’re mad, hit me instead."

"Don’t hit it! Caicai is the best Caicai—" Xuan Jiu wailed as he lunged over.

He hugged Caicai tightly in his arms, sobbing, "It’s still a child! If you must hit someone, hit me. If need be, kill me instead."

"Your ability to stir up trouble is as reliable as ever," Lou Yan Zhi said gleefully, adding fuel to the fire.

Xiao Jinsheng cleared her throat, and the group of Beast Husbands, who were just about to gang up on Caicai, instantly dispersed.

Curious, Xiao Jinsheng crouched down, meeting Caicai’s gaze at eye level while it still nestled in Xuan Jiu’s arms.

She spoke gently, "Of course, I trust Caicai."

"But looking at you, Caicai, it seems like you do know about other methods of forming contracts."

Her curiosity was piqued—why would Caicai hide the existence of alternative methods?

Surely it wasn’t the same reason as Que Zelian and Huaiqing.

Wanting her to form contracts with more Beast Husbands, only for her to grow stronger after death?

"I... I... waaahhh!" Caicai’s lips quivered before it burst into tears, wailing, "I’m a system! But I’m not high enough level to provide you with more tools and support."

"Even when it comes to contract methods, in the scope of what I can help you with, intimate contact is the easiest way."

"Take talisman contracts for example. I can’t draw talismans, so of course I can’t bring it up."

If it revealed that a contract could be completed simply with a talisman and a bit of spiritual power,

then Xiao Jinsheng’s Beast Husbands would definitely want her to choose the talisman-and-spiritual-power method.

But it didn’t have the ability to facilitate that.

Saying such a thing would only make people question its competence as a system.

Besides, the latter additions to the Beast Husband roster were strictly monitored by it.

In any case, contracts had to be formed, and eventually, they’d all become spouses.

So what was the harm in using its recommended method? Why was it an issue?

If they were to be together in the future anyway, what’s wrong with a little kiss?

Caicai wanted nothing more than to grab the malicious Beastmen surrounding it and shake them, demanding, "Do you even know what ’marriage before love’ means?" 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Of course, it didn’t dare actually do so.

After all, it was introducing these Beastmen to their romantic rivals. It understood perfectly well.

"Daddy Fox, you’re the best Daddy Fox," Caicai sniffled, wiping away tears as it hid in Xuan Jiu’s arms.

Looking at the sweet potato calling him ’dad,’ Xuan Jiu’s feelings were complicated.

He was only shielding Caicai because he knew without the contract methods it provided, he might still be an outsider in this family.

"Don’t tell me..." Lou Yan Zhi’s expression turned bizarre as he spoke, "You’ve recognized nine dads in this household?"

"Three dads," Caicai pointed one by one to Yu Yunxiao, Chen Yunji, and Xuan Jiu.

Then it pointed at Que Zelian, Huaiqing, Li, Su Ye, and Shi Xie, saying, "These are probationary dads. Whether they get promoted depends on their performance."

"That one’s not a dad. He’s the shady snake," Caicai specifically pointed at Mo Jiao.

Mo Jiao sneered coldly, "And you’re a snot bug."

He scoffed, looking at Xiao Jinsheng as he added, "So what? Probationary ex-husband? Probationary dad? Why not just count me as family?"

He remembered how he was once incessantly called the ’probationary ex-husband.’

Now the title had shifted to ’probationary dad.’

Xiao Jinsheng was quiet.

She’d realized something.

Whether it was herself or Caicai, the so-called ’child,’

it seemed that from the very start, things just didn’t mesh well with Mo Jiao.

Even the mount she ended up with was a mantis shrimp.

After waiting for Xiao Jinsheng and the others to finish chatting, Lou Yan Zhi took the initiative to mention the matter of switching Caicai’s binding.

Binding a system, opening cheats—Xiao Jinsheng naturally accepted this readily.

Lou Yan Zhi plucked Caicai from Xuan Jiu’s grasp and said to Xiao Jinsheng, "I have some accounts to settle with it first. Prepare yourself; at most, within three hours, we’ll have the binding switched."

"What accounts?" Caicai stuttered in panic, emphasizing, "Don’t you know the saying, ’When a person dies, their debts disappear’?" 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Once I unbind from you, I’ll consider you dead."

"If you’re dead, the points you owe me naturally don’t need to be repaid."

"In your dreams," Lou Yan Zhi sneered.

Ignoring Caicai’s struggles, he forcefully carried the sweet potato out, grabbing along the Cannibal Flower that had looted half his belongings as well.

Freedom at last.

He could already see the road to liberty beckoning him.

After Lou Yan Zhi left, only the family was left in the reception room. Xiao Jinsheng’s posture grew more relaxed.

She casually sprawled on the sofa beside her, leaning against one of the Beast Husbands out of habit.

But as she leaned, she realized something was off.

Raising her head, she locked eyes with Que Zelian’s smiling gaze.

Recalling everything she did earlier that morning to force him into revealing his hidden prophecies,

Xiao Jinsheng began to sweat profusely.