The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 103 The Machine Clan
Ling Chengen ignored Xiao Huangtong's taunts, took out a new animal skin blanket from a bamboo basket in the corner, draped it over Bai Qingyu, and then returned to his own spot to lie down.

"What about the mission rewards?"

The system felt it was best to avoid any discouraging topics for now, since its host was genuinely unenthusiastic about completing tasks. The fact that it had finally made a small step forward in the main storyline had given it a glimmer of hope for the future.

"The mission reward has been sent to your personal inventory. Click to claim it."

"Complete the mating ceremony with a beastman to receive 999 mission points. Wishing you and your partner a long and happy life together."

When Ling Chengen heard the second notification sound, he paused for a moment while clicking on the task reward. Then he heard the third, fourth, fifth and so on notifications.

"Didn't you mention there would be so many rewards?"

Ling Chengen was a little surprised. Was the system acting strangely? It was suddenly being so generous; something felt off.

The system almost teared up, and said resentfully, "This is a benefit I got after many rounds of feedback to the main system following deep optimization. You'd better do your tasks well from now on, or I'll really start howling in your head every day."

The Love Security System learns very quickly; it would never proactively tell its heartless host that the reward for this task was actually something that was already included after the upgrade.

Whether Ling Chengen believes it or not is another matter.

However, they readily accept any rewards or rebates offered for these tasks.

The system truly delivered on its promise; the task reward was exactly what she needed: the salt mine map distribution.

After opening your personal inventory, the quest reward will be a golden package.

With a light poke of mental energy into the golden package, the package exploded.

Ling Chengen remained expressionless, letting a large amount of firework fragments spray out, creating a huge rain of paper scraps.

After all the pieces of paper had fallen, she sighed deeply: "Are you happy doing this?"

Little Huangtong replied cheerfully, "Happy duck!"

"You have no idea, I filled in the fireworks myself to create the effect."

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"

Ling Chengen rubbed his temples and said with a forced smile, "A pleasant surprise."

Forget it, it's a great day, I'd better not mess with this damn system.

She took out the mission reward hidden at the bottom of the package and found that it contained three maps.

All three maps had a retro feel. She touched the material of the maps; they were probably made of some kind of animal hide. They were yellowish and soft, with some small cracks along the edges.

She unfolded the three maps one by one to examine them. The first map was a map of the mineral distribution in the Southern Beast Plains, the second map was a map of the mineral distribution in the Northern Beast Plains, and the third map was the largest, but it was blank.

Ling Chengen: "In addition to the distribution of salt mines, you also included the locations of other mineral resources. I didn't expect you to be so generous."

The system stared at the map in her hand, remained silent for a long time, and did not respond to her words.

Ling Chengen didn't care about his answer. Holding up the third map, he asked, "What's with this third map? It's a blank map. Did you put it there just to tease me?"

This time, the system didn't play dead; instead, it replied directly, "No, just keep these three maps safe; you'll definitely need them later."

"These maps can all be taken out of the country."

Ling Chengen was somewhat surprised. She immediately sat up in bed, her right hand slightly open, and a map fell into her hand from mid-air.

"It's still possible?"

The system explained, "To make it easier for you to take it out and explore, the resource distribution map was specially made into a parchment scroll. However, you'd better keep the parchment scroll safe. Although it is sturdy and durable, it can still be affected by other factors, such as aging, damage, and rotting."

Ling Chengen nodded: "Understood, I will be careful."

These maps are very important, so she will naturally keep them safe and sound.

"Aren't you going to check the rewards for the other tasks?" The system was quite curious to see her reaction.

Ling Chengen randomly clicked on one of them, and a book suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"Congratulations, host, on obtaining the Book of Omniscience (incomplete)."

Ling Chengen looked at the old book, which only had patterns and no words: "Is this omniscient book a tool for searching and querying information in disguise?" "You could say that," the system said.

"The fragment you just marked... does that mean this thing is incomplete?"

"The orc civilization here is relatively backward in the entire universe, still in its infancy. The Book of Omniscience is a product of a higher dimension, used to collect information about each newly emerging civilization, including all species on the entire planet."

"The Book of Omniscience is incomplete because the last host who perfected the Beast World civilization has been dead for a long time. And the Beast World is changing every day. In these thousands of years, many new races have appeared in the Beast World, while many ancient races have become extinct..."

"You can currently find information from a thousand years ago in the fragments of the Book of Omniscience, but you can't find information about new species or events that have appeared in the last thousand years."

Ling Chengen finally understood: "So, I won't find any useful information in this book. At most, I can just look at a thousand-year-old story. In fact, I'll have to take this book with me and record everything I encounter, both familiar and unfamiliar, little by little... to help you build your database?"

"That's what it means."

"If you can perfect the Book of Omniscience, there will be unexpected mission rewards!" The system tried to win her heart with its cuteness.

Ling Chengen tapped the hardcover of the book in his hand and chuckled, "The omniscient book that contains all the information, the final information will be fed back to your superiors, right? Once that so-called mastermind obtains all the information about the beast world, what does it plan to do?"

Ling Chengen's question was too sharp, and the system paused for a few seconds. It then said somewhat guiltily, "I don't know either, but I'm just a low-level task system, not the main brain. I can't possibly know the main brain's thoughts and plans."

"But the main brain has always been friendly to living beings."

You can rest assured about that.

“The extinction of life is inevitable, and this process repeats itself, but you are unaware of it. However, for the almost immortal mechanical intelligent species, collecting information about life forms, their living conditions, and changes in their living environment can actually help newly born life forms in the future.”

Ling Chengen said nothing and simply put away the Book of Omniscience.

"You're not planning to just leave the Book of Omniscience unused, are you?" The system was a little flustered.

The reward for this task is actually a mandatory standard feature.

The main system included it in the rewards for this main quest, so it had no choice.

Ling Chengen lay back down on the bed and said calmly, "You've already mentioned the concept of life and civilization, such a lofty realm. Wouldn't it seem inhumane of me to refuse?"

The system exclaimed in shock, "You actually have this much self-awareness?"

Ling Chengen closed his eyes, snorted coldly, and ignored it.

She wasn't in the mood to open the other task rewards for the time being.

The system's words just now gave her some unexpected information, and at the same time, some speculations arose.

Mechanical Intelligence.

A group that the system had never mentioned before.

It is still immortal and indestructible.

Life forms that are truly born from the universe and nature repeat the process of emergence, evolution, and extinction.

Are these non-living groups collecting such a massive amount of information simply to help newly emerging life groups in the future?

However, if we follow this line of reasoning, in her previous life, human civilization had already completed the entire process from its emergence to its evolution. At that time, the system had already appeared beside her, but it did not mention anything related to the Book of Omniscience.

This means that... the information from that previous world had already been collected long ago.

But after the end times, humanity will save itself through its own efforts.

The so-called mechanical saviors, who might help the new life form, have arranged a system that calls itself a love protector, trying their best to guide her to help the male and female protagonists in what is supposedly an apocalyptic novel fall in love.

I saw absolutely no help.

What she perceived was a haughty indifference, as well as manipulation and toying.

Because she did not follow the system's planned tasks, she went against the intentions of those in power, thus altering the outcome that had been predetermined...

So even though she reached the end of the apocalypse and ushered in a future of rebuilding an orderly home, she still lost her life in a daze.

If human civilization is already in such a state, what about the beast civilization, which is still in its infancy...?
Ling Chengen was momentarily bewildered, followed by anger and helplessness.

Therefore, she, like all the life forms around her, was closely observed and monitored by the mechanical savvy, like a lab rat, rather than helping the new life form as the naive Huang Tong suggested.
I'm experiencing some writer's block, so this chapter will be shorter.