The Wicked Female and Her Eight Beastmen Mates: Pregnant From Day One - Chapter 9:

Save Them

Reward granted: Ten square meters of storage space and ten catties of rice seeds. Would you like to extract them now?

The system’s voice echoed inside Bai Yue’s head, flooding her with delight.

Extract, she said without hesitation.

Eleven square meters in total. Plenty of room for all her random junk.

Extracting.

The moment the system spoke, Bai Yue felt a sting on her ring finger.

She lifted her hand and noticed a tiny red mark had appeared there glowing faintly.

Her new storage space.

She explored it with her mind, eyes bright with excitement.

After admiring her new treasure for a few minutes, she tucked all the rice seeds safely inside.

Those seeds were her future. Her food. Her hope.

While Bai Yue played with her newly acquired system rewards inside the cave,

the battle outside had already ended.

Bafeng wiped the bl00d from his face, his brow furrowed as he stared

at the last person he expected to see—Xue.

You shouldn’t be here. Shouldn’t you be with her? By her, he meant Bai Yue.

Xue looked up at him coolly. That’s my business.

Bafeng’s jaw tightened.

Xue. Don’t forget what the witch doctor told us before he left.

Xue froze mid-step. I don’t need you to remind me.

Her loyalty to the witch doctor was absolute and by extension,

so was her loyalty to Bai Yue and the unborn cub she carried.

Serving the witch doctor was the only reason she was still alive.

For a moment, the two beastmen stared at each other with barely concealed irritation,

their tension snapping only when a woman’s desperate wail pierced the air.

My mate is dead! He died protecting me torn apart by those wandering beasts!

Someone help! My mate’s bleeding won’t stop! Please!

Cries of anguish filled the clearing. The air stank of bl00d and rust, thick and metallic.

Bodies lay scattered across the ground white fox beastmen and rogues alike.

The ambush had left no true victor, only devastation.

Bafeng turned toward the chaos, then looked back at Xue.

Help them. I’ll go bring her back.

Xue nodded grimly. Fine. He’d be of no use here anyway.

But as she turned toward the wounded, her throat tightened.

There were too many of them injured males gasping for breath,

weeping females clutching their hands.

And she couldn’t save a single one.

Unless the witch doctor were here. But he had taken a group of males deep into the

Mist Forest to search for the Tree of Life.

The only one who could help them now was…

Her eyes lifted toward the direction of the cave where Bai Yue was hiding.

Xue! Xue! Please, save my mate! Save my brother!

A bloodied female collapsed at Xue’s feet, eyes red and swollen from crying.

Her fur was matted with dirt and bl00d, her body shaking.

Xue caught her before she fell.

I’m sorry, Yani. I don’t have the Beast God’s blessing. I can’t heal anyone.

At that, Yani crumpled completely, her body folding in on itself as if her soul had given up.

Her voice came out hollow, broken.

Then what will I do? My mate and my brother they’re dying! It’s my fault. It’s all my fault!

Her cries ripped through the clearing, raw and jagged, echoing against the trees.

If only she hadn’t been so greedy for food that night.

If only she hadn’t begged them to roast meat for her.

If only she hadn’t wandered outside the cave and gotten captured.

Her mate and her brother wouldn’t have been forced to come after her.

They wouldn’t be lying there now, covered in bl00d, their breathing faint and fading.

Watching the two she loved most slip away, Yani felt as though her

heart was being torn apart piece by piece.

I was wrong, she sobbed. I was wrong… Xue, please, save them… please.

Her cries drew others. Soon, more females surrounded Xue, pleading for help.

In the tribe, only Xue had ever served beside the witch doctor.

Only she had come close to receiving the Beast God’s gift.

Tears burned in Xue’s eyes. The scene before her dragged her back to the past to the day she,

too, had knelt in the dirt, begging the witch doctor to save her family.

He had found her tribe too late. She’d been the only one still breathing.

Yani, I don’t have the Beast God’s blessing, Xue said softly.

Yani let out another broken cry. Then they’ll die…

The word died came out as a whisper, fragile and disbelieving.

She couldn’t bring herself to say goodbye.

But death was the rule of the beastman world. Life was short, brutal, and cruel.

For a fleeting second, Yani felt something dark rise in her chest

anger at the witch doctor for leaving them now, of all times.

But the thought scared her as soon as it formed.

How could she think that? How could she dare?

Guilt washed over her, heavier than grief. She pressed her face into her

hands and sobbed in silence, mourning her helplessness.

Xue wiped away her tears and crouched down, her voice low but steady.

Yani, stop crying. If you truly can’t accept this, I might have another way…

When Bai Yue returned to the tribe, her heart felt unbearably heavy.

Bafeng carried her on his back, and she looked around as they walked

everywhere she turned, there was bl00d, smoke, and ruin.

It felt like a stone lodged deep in her chest.

Back in her world, she’d read about war, seen it in movies, scrolled past it on the internet.

But nothing had prepared her for this.

Now she was living it its stench, its screams, its silence after.

She spotted faces she recognized. White fox beastmen she’d met before,

their heads now lying lifeless in the dirt.

Her stomach turned. She buried her face against Bafeng’s back, trying to block it all out.

Bafeng… are we going straight back to the cave? she murmured weakly.

He grunted an affirmative.

But as they walked, she began to hear the sounds soft sobs carried on the wind.

She bit her lip, hesitating for a long moment before whispering, Bafeng… shouldn’t we help them?

He stopped walking, caught off guard.

After a pause, his eyes swept over the wounded scattered on the ground.

His voice came out low. We can’t.

Why not?

Because the Beast God hasn’t blessed us with that power.

What does that mean? she asked silently in her mind, directing the question to the system.

She couldn’t afford to ask Bafeng directly it would expose her.

The system explained, The power to heal belongs only to those blessed by the Beast God.

Without that blessing, any healing energy is just… ordinary.

But I healed Xue in the cave, didn’t I? And she got better really fast!

That’s because you cheated, the system said bluntly. You’re literally using hacks.