Beast World: Rise to Power with the Offspring System

But the mother and son were nowhere to be seen.

Sally looked around, but couldn't find them.

"The virus must have been created by the System," Xiaomei's voice rang out.

"Why?"

"Perhaps to eliminate Humans."

"What does the Human have to do with the Offspring System?"

"Humans can reproduce normally."

"Indeed. There's no problem with Human fertility."

Lu He said he had four children. On the streets of District Nineteen, children were seen running and playing everywhere. Even on Earth, although there were infertile individuals, reproduction was not an issue even during the dark times, and artificial assistance was available, let alone.

"It's much harder for Beastified Humans, and the Offspring System is only for the Beastman Clan."

"Are you saying that now the Offspring System wants to turn this place into a Beast World as well?"

"Hmm."

"Why do this? If they couldn't reproduce, I could understand, but to exterminate them when they can?"

"Do you mean to say that this sudden outbreak is unrelated to the Offspring System?"

"With the current dire situation in Zone Zero, any sort of mutation wouldn't be surprising."

"Do you intend to intervene?"

"I don't have the power to struggle against nature," Sally replied.

"Xiaomei can eliminate these mutant viruses."

Sally was astonished, "You?"

"Yes, but it requires the host to decide."

After a moment of silence, Sally asked, "How many points would it cost?"

Xiaomei replied, "One hundred billion points, as there is a vast number of Humans."

Sally was at a loss for words.

"Host?" Xiaomei probed.

"This situation is clearly beyond my capabilities."

One hundred billion points!

How could that be possible?

Without being influenced by emotions, without recalling those Beast Husbands and their children, Sally calmly analyzed all the information she had about the Offspring System.

Ark System No. 002 was originally part of the Offspring System.

But it was later discarded.

Why was it discarded?

Why did the programmer who wrote her code give her such a powerful upgrade setting?

To destroy the Offspring System's mother unit? 009821 must be just the first to come and reclaim Xiaomei; who knows what sort of figures will follow.

Then there's the Holy War, which at the moment can be confirmed to be just for data collection.

After the collection is complete, all Offspring Systems will be released again.

Distantly observing the Holy War, while cruel, also stabilized the entire Beast World to some extent, sparing it from the sufferings of wars for supremacy.

And the population in the Beast World seemed not to be small. Although the females were few, their number was gradually increasing.

According to Xiaomei, the data essence of the Offspring System had also appeared in this world.

Could it be possible that the Offspring System detected the Beastified Humans in this world being unable or having difficulty in reproducing?

And wanted to set up a laboratory here?

Beastified Humans, being able to survive in the harsh environment of Zone Zero and unaffected by the zombie virus, had been verified.

As for the demise of pure Humans in this world, it had been a foregone conclusion since the great migration 200 years earlier.

And the Human Clan never went extinct. As she saw in Yunshan Continent, Humans were still reproducing and their civilization was gradually developing.

If the Offspring System was an allowed existence, then it surely had its reasons for existing.

She, a small Human soul, with just a few decades of life, without power or data, could not discern who was good or bad, who was right or wrong—she was in the dark, dependent on her limited perspective to make judgments.

Even her survival to this day, in whatever form, was an accident.

While she was queueing to bind with the Offspring System, she wasn't completely hypnotized.

And the staff member responsible for binding her to the Offspring System, Zhang Lin, who should have erased her memory, did not. Instead, he bound her to the soon-to-be-destroyed Ark System No. 002, claiming it was Xiaomei's last chance...

Before she recalled the memories of the laboratory, she thought returning to her mother's embrace was her own true wish.

In reality, it was Zhang Lin's.

Did she have a true wish of her own?

Could her feelings be manipulated, and could her memories also have been altered?

At this thought, Sally's entire soul started to tremble...

After all, did she have a true wish, and if so, what was it?

["Xiaomei, I want to ask you a question, and you must answer truthfully."]

["Host, please ask."]

["If 009821 can't send me back to Earth, can you really do it?"]

["I can!"]

["How? Or rather, how will you send me away?"]

["I will use the Offspring System's seed machine to enter the mainframe system. With the power of the mainframe, sending the host back to Earth is not difficult. If 009821 had applied to higher authorities, they could do it too, but it would cost too much in resources, which is very uneconomical for them."]

["The points I've earned and the points I still owe, who is handling them? You?"]

["Not me."]

["Then who is it?"]

["Xiaomei still has many areas that haven't been unlocked. Once these areas are unlocked, I will inform the host."]

["What is my true wish?"]

["Isn't it to be reborn as a human from Earth?"]

["Wait, you said... reborn as a human from Earth?"]

["Yes."]

Reborn as a human from Earth! How exactly should she interpret this sentence!

Sally was confused. She didn't know if the System could lie, but even if it did, there was nothing she could do about it.

She might as well trust that what she had previously said was true; they were like grasshoppers on the same vine right now. No matter what secrets each carried or what objectives they had, they were companions in the current moment.

...

Sally arrived at the Tianfeng Grand Hotel.

However, the place was already sealed off, not allowing anyone from outside to enter.

The spread of the walking corpse virus was even faster than Sally had anticipated.

Not far away, she could already see the walking corpses moving closer to this location.

Upon learning of Sally's arrival, Huo Qing immediately requested the hotel to open its doors and informed them that Sally was one of the Beastified Humans.

Sally could only transform again into a jungle wolf, and after going through numerous disinfections in her beast form, she was able to enter the grand hotel.

"So you still know to follow, not bad at all," Huo Qing patted Sally's wolf head.

Sally opened her mouth and clamped her teeth around his hand, ready to bite it off if he dared make another move.

"Spare me, spare me," Huo Qing immediately pleaded for mercy.

Only then did Sally let go, "Where are Xiaoji and the others?"

"They have already left," Huo Qing replied. "After you left, a fire suddenly broke out among the roach swarm. That fire was a bit strange, it burned the roaches to ash upon contact, it was more effective than explosives."

"...I won't apologize for leaving the team on my own, but you can dock my pay."

"Surviving is what matters, you won't be missing your wages," replied Huo Qing.

"That's good then."

"How did you get here? We didn't arrive much before you," Jerry asked curiously.

Sally said, "I caught a ride on a tailwind plane."

Lu He remarked, "Lucky for you, we almost got swallowed by a Giant Horned Lizard."

Jerry looked at Sally with a touch of envy, "Beastified Humans don't have to worry about the virus."

Sally nodded, "That's right, the infected pass by me as if I don't even exist."