Help! The Villainess Trapped in the Beast World's Drama!

Chapter 25: Chapter 24: Cleansing Scum

Shen Tang’s face was covered with tears and snot, making her already unattractive features scrunched on her bloated face, even uglier.

In the past, Shen Li would keep silent and still harbor a great deal of disdain in his heart.

But now, he didn’t mock her, instead softening his voice gently, ”You can call me next time, and in the future, let me come with you.”

”Really?” Shen Tang stopped crying, looking at him expectantly.

Seeing her look of surprise, Shen Li also felt a surge of unexplainable emotions, nodding, ”Yes.”

No matter how much he disliked Shen Tang, they had grown up together since childhood. Now, being her nominal Beast Husband, he naturally couldn’t stand by and watch her suffer such insults.

Shen Tang curiously asked the system in her heart, ”Has Shen Li’s affinity increased?”

She had already seen through this fox’s façade of being warm on the outside but cold inside; last night showed his true face, very unempathetic. She didn’t expect that he would really help her today.

[Yes, Host. After the mental comfort you provided last night, Shen Li’s affinity soared by 30. The current affinity is 40. Please continue your efforts to win him over eventually! Obtain his premium gene samples!]

Shen Tang was full of doubt, ”What gene samples?”

[...Just that, that something.] The system rarely showed a hint of shyness, [The host will know in due time!]

Shen Tang had a bad feeling, thinking that the system was setting a trap for her, but she didn’t think much of it.

Both remained tacit about last night’s events, and Shen Li returned to his usual gentle and composed demeanor, looking indifferently at the middle-aged Beastman with a broken wrist in front of him. Yan Hui was still lying on the ground, wailing like a ghost, as his accomplices helped him up.

A big, burly male beast stepped out, glaring viciously at Shen Li, shouting, ”Pitched battles between beastmen are strictly forbidden within the team; you attacked publicly, violating military discipline!”

Shen Li sneered, ”If you are so familiar with military regulations, harassing a female is an even more serious crime; are you unaware?”

Yan Hui, supported by people, stood up, his face ashen and biting down on his refusal to admit, ”Who saw me touch her? Don’t speak without evidence! I wouldn’t want this fat woman even if she offered herself! It’s this fat woman falsely accusing me! You’re in cahoots with this damned fat woman! Compensate me! Compensate!”

Shen Li said coldly, ”Since you claim to be innocent, let’s go to the City Lord and let him judge the matter.”

”Fine, let’s go! I’m innocent, how could I be afraid of you?” Yan Hui sneered, utterly unafraid.

Incidents like this happened too often, even the City Lord turned a blind eye. Besides, he didn’t succeed; at most, he’d be detained for a couple of days as a formality.

The City Lord was in a vehicle, meeting to discuss the next action plan.

Xiao Jin, Jia Lan, Xue Yinzhou, and more than a dozen High-level Beastmen were also present.

Everyone saw Shen Li coming and wasn’t surprised, but upon noticing Shen Tang behind him, they frowned deeply. What’s this fat woman doing here?

”Today, I bring my Female Master here to seek justice for her! She was providing mental comfort to the single beastmen in the troop, but was molested by this Beastman named Yan Hui. There are witnesses, and I request the City Lord to make a fair judgment.” Shen Li clarified the entire matter and brought along Yan Hui and his cohorts.

The onlookers, seeing these old Beastmen, showed expressions of disgust. These people were habitual offenders, hardly worth mistakenly accusing.

However, no one thought that Shen Li would specifically bring such a matter to the City Lord.

The City Lord frowned, indicating he understood but didn’t care much, casually issuing a three-day detention as a warning.

Beside him, Xiao Jin furrowed his brows tightly, exuding an intense killing intent. It wasn’t because he felt pity for Shen Tang—he utterly loathed this fat woman, but this female was nominally his; he could bully her, but being humiliated by such old scoundrels was a slap to his face!

What Xiao Jin didn’t expect was that the usually lazy and indulgent Shen Tang would actually help comfort the troop’s single males.

According to his understanding of her, this fat woman wouldn’t bother with such thankless tasks and would likely seek opportunities to evade the duty.

Mental comfort consumed a lot of energy; many females wouldn’t even perform it for their Beast Husbands, let alone provide mental comfort to unfamiliar male beasts. Most females would find excuses to avoid such tasks unless absolutely necessary.

Thus, the number of females willing to provide mental comfort was at most half, and those who were willing were usually kind and gentle, unwilling to see more beasts die on the battlefield and willing to lend a helping hand.

But kind and gentle?

What attribute of hers could be associated with this fat woman?

Xiao Jin’s golden eyes flashed with a hint of intrigue. He stepped forward, walking up to Shen Tang, his grim and mischievous face staring at her, full of evaluation.

He suddenly noticed that this fat woman had lost more weight, the disgusting pimples on her face were gone, and her skin was now tender and smooth, a world apart from her former ugly appearance.

Her changes over these days were so significant that Xiao Jin almost couldn’t remember what she looked like before.

Seeing Xiao Jin suddenly approaching, Shen Tang instinctively took half a step back.

But this dog of a man kept standing in front of her, intently examining her, making Shen Tang feel uneasy, wondering if he had noticed something. Had he seen through her different from the original host?

Shen Tang swallowed hard, about to say something to break the odd atmosphere, but the man’s deep, magnetic voice reached her ears first,

”You’re different from before.”

Shen Tang’s heart skipped a beat, trying hard to maintain her composure, pretending to be clueless, ”Huh? What do you mean?”

Xiao Jin sneered without replying. He turned and strode over to those old male beasts, curling his lips in a wicked smile, ”Detention is a punishment——”

His golden eyes were icy and malicious. He suddenly grabbed the old male Beastman named Yan Hui with casual ease as if he were a chicken, bound him with chains, then kicked open the car door, throwing him out.

”Alive you’re a scum, better off dead.”

Xiao Jin’s sudden action left everyone stunned, unable to react, let alone stop him.

The City Lord’s face darkened, ”Xiao Jin! What are you doing?”

Xiao Jin chuckled, shrugging, ”Cleaning up the scum.”

”Ahhhhh—help, save me, let me back, I know I was wrong!”

The sky was dark and the wind bleak as dozens of armored vehicles drove stably through the dilapidated roadways of the contamination zone, tailed by tens of thousands of contaminated zombies, an enormous black mass emitting waves of roars.

Xiao Jin’s move was tantamount to throwing Yan Hui directly into the zombie horde.

The chain connected to the car, and Yan Hui couldn’t match the speed of the armored vehicles. He shouted desperately, but not one came to his rescue.

Soon, he couldn’t sustain his strength, collapsed to the ground, sharp stones and thorns slicing his body, leaving a long blood-streaked trail on the ground.

With fierce collisions, the moment the chain snapped, Yan Hui was flung backward, completely engulfed by the advancing zombie horde, not even bones remained.