Traveling through the world of beasts: Beast husbands! Stop snatching!

Chapter 269 Quickly Summon Ao Shuang

Xiao Chu suddenly understood why Fu Gui'er's eyes always carried a melancholy.

A person grows up twice in their life. You've truly grown up when you have secrets in your heart.

Chu: "So, you never saw each other again after that?"

Fu Gui'er: "I've met her, but she seems to have forgotten me, or perhaps she'd rather we didn't know each other."

Chu: "Why don't you try to win her back?"

Fu Gui sighed and got up to leave.

"Forget it, none of it matters anymore. There won't be another chance."

Watching Fugui's retreating figure, Xiao Chu pondered the words he had left behind.

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Inside Tiger Lion City, Xiao Chu met Yuan Xiao.

Yuan Xiao had been feeling down lately due to too much going on. Xiao Chu's arrival cheered her up considerably, and she wanted Xiao Chu to stay a few more days.

Xiao Chu pursed her lips: "The scenery in the Eternal Forest is truly beautiful, but I've come to see you this time because I have something to discuss with you."

"what happened?"

Yuan Xiao was a little puzzled, since Xiao Chu rarely acted so seriously.

Xiao Chu: "I think something's off with Fugui'er..."

Yuan Xiao: "Why do you say that?"

Xiao Chu recounted their conversation word for word.

Yuan Xiao: "I never expected that Fugui'er had such a heartbreaking love story... But I don't think Fugui'er is the kind of person who would die for love, right?"

Xiao Chu agrees with this point.

In recent years, Fugui'er has become somewhat closed off from love, not only refusing to talk about romance, but also always treating those around him with indifference.

If his emotions were so volatile, he wouldn't have waited until today to do something foolish.

Yuan Xiao: "Maybe he's just in a bad mood right now. He's always been mysterious, isn't he?"

Xiao Chu also had some doubts.

Upon closer comparison, Fugui'er was indeed the same as before, but based on his understanding of Fugui'er over the years, he always felt that there was something inexplicably different about him.

Here, take this.

Yuan Xiao got up and took out a delicate little bottle from the drawer.

Chu: "What is this?"

Yuan Xiao: "Eternal Life Liquid".

Chu was overjoyed: "Wow, you actually made it!"

Yuan Xiao: "This is all thanks to them."

Chu then pushed it to Yuan Xiao, saying, "This thing is so precious, you should keep it for yourself."

Yuan Xiao still stuffed the immortality liquid into Xiao Chu's hand: "There's still a lot left, and there's an extra portion. If you're worried, you can take it first, just in case."

After Xiao Chu left, Yuan Xiao sat by the window in a daze for a long time.

She suddenly remembered something, got up and took out the crystal ball.

"I don't know if it will work..." she muttered to herself, holding the crystal ball in her palm.

A pale blue halo flowed slowly inside the sphere. Yuan Xiao closed her eyes and concentrated on silently reciting Fu Gui'er's name.

At first, there was no reaction inside the crystal ball; it was just like a piece of ordinary glass.

Yuan Xiao was not giving up and tried several more times. Finally, blurry fragments of images began to appear inside the sphere.

However, the images were intermittent, like a television with a poor signal, flickering every now and then and turning into static.

"Does the snake beast have a built-in shielding function...?" Yuan Xiao sighed and rubbed her sore eyes.

Whether it's due to their nature or not, snakes seem to have an innate ability to conceal themselves.

As a king cobra, Fugui'er probably has an even stronger ability in this regard.

Yuan Xiao went through a lot of trouble to barely manage to identify him.

She slowly flipped through Fugui'er's past. The scenes jumped around wildly, sometimes showing young Fugui'er wandering in the forest, sometimes showing him handling affairs in Mutian City. There were large blank spaces in between, as if someone had deliberately erased something.

“Fugui’er…” Yuan Xiao murmured to herself, the unease in her heart growing stronger.

Various clues swirled in Yuan Xiao's mind, like a tangled mess, impossible to unravel.

The guards had already lit the lamps twice, but Yuan Xiao was completely unaware, staring intently at the crystal ball.

Yuan Xiao didn't make any progress until the sun was almost setting.

The image freezes on a relatively clear scene.

The newly-adult Fugui stood there, a gentle and shy smile on his face. In his hands he held something that shimmered slightly, which must have been the "first transformation upon entering adulthood" that Xiao Chu had mentioned.

A woman was standing opposite him.

Yuan Xiao held her breath, trying hard to see the woman's face clearly.

But then the screen started flickering, and the woman's figure appeared and disappeared in the light and shadow. It was only barely possible to tell that she was slender and had long hair.

"Don't shake it..." Yuan Xiao was so anxious that sweat beaded on her forehead, and her hands holding the crystal ball trembled slightly.

She gritted her teeth and poured all her mental energy into it, and the image finally became clear again.

When Yuan Xiao finally saw Xuehu's face clearly, her blood seemed to freeze at that moment.

She knew that face all too well.

Although he looks much younger than he does now, and his features and expression show less signs of age, he is clearly...

With a "thud," the crystal ball slipped from Yuan Xiao's hand and fell onto the ground covered with animal hides, rolling twice before coming to a stop.

Fortunately, the animal hide was soft, and the sphere did not shatter; it just dimmed.

Yuan Xiao's face turned deathly pale, her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter a single word.

"Are you alright?" The guards standing outside the door heard the commotion and poked their heads in to ask.

Yuan Xiao suddenly snapped back to reality, her voice trembling: "Quickly, quickly call Ao Shuang here!"

When the guard saw that her face was pale, her forehead was covered in cold sweat, and she was swaying as if she were about to collapse, his heart skipped a beat: Could she be about to give birth?

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll go right away!"

The guards were terrified and panicked. They turned and rushed out, shouting at the top of their lungs, "Help! The Queen is about to give birth! Go and get help!"

Upon hearing that Yuan Xiao was about to give birth, Ao Shuang's mind went blank, and she flew straight to the castle gate. When she landed, she stumbled and almost lost her balance.

"Xiaoxiao!" He rushed into the room and saw Yuan Xiao sitting in a chair, her face deathly pale. His heart clenched immediately.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling something?"

Ao Shuang knelt down and took Yuan Xiao's icy hand in hers. "Don't rush, I'll be with you as you give birth! Breathe, follow me, inhale—exhale—"

Yuan Xiao shook her head repeatedly, trying to speak, but she was so shocked that her tongue seemed to be tied in knots: "No, no... it's Fugui'er..."

Ao Shuang: "Who is Fugui'er?"

Yuan Xiao: "Can you please stop interrupting me!"

Ao Shuang: "Okay, go ahead and say it."

Yuan Xiao: ...

Ao Shuang: ...

Ao Shuang: "Go ahead and say it, I'm listening."

"Hiss—" She gasped and instinctively clutched her stomach.

She curled up in pain, large beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.

"I...I think..." Yuan Xiao's voice trembled with tears, "I'm really going into labor..."