She gave birth to a litter of furry babies, thus extending her life.

[Dear host, I am a data AI. Is it possible that I can't steal food at all, dear?]

After eating four fruits, Ruan Xiyue's eyelids started to feel heavy. She still managed to say to Duoduo, "Anyway, I know what I'm doing. Don't be like those 'simp' systems in novels, using my stuff to woo other systems. If you do, I'll kill you and never upgrade you again!"

Duo Duo's first reaction was: Ah! Is this even possible? Her second reaction was: No way! Why should I be a simp?

When Long Ze finished cooking a plate of fried meat and came over, he saw Ruan Xiyue sleeping soundly with two energy fruits in her hand.

"Get up and eat some meat before you go back to sleep?" Long Ze said softly in Ruan Xiyue's ear, propping himself up.

Ruan Xiyue couldn't open her eyes at all, and her hands groped around haphazardly, making Long Ze, who had just tasted meat, breathe heavily.

"Hmm—" Ruan Xiyue made a whimpering sound of rejection.

Seeing that Ruan Xiyue was still sleeping with the energy fruit in her hand, Long Ze wanted to take the energy fruit out of her hand to prevent it from being crushed and the juice from getting everywhere.

Suddenly, Ruan Xiyue opened her eyes briefly, popped the energy fruit into her mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. She even spat out the seeds to give to the system! Then she fell asleep again.

Long Ze had no choice but to eat the fried meat by himself without any appetite. Just as he finished eating the fried meat, tidied up the room and was about to go to bed, he suddenly felt the power of his bloodline.

Long Ze's narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes, which were exactly the same as Qin Ye's, suddenly widened.

He looked at Ruan Xiyue's lower abdomen with curiosity and uncertainty. His large hand trembled slightly as he gently placed it on Ruan Xiyue's stomach, slowly feeling it.

His blood seemed to sense him, and it stirred slightly with unusual activity.

Long Ze closed his eyes and carefully sensed it; he realized there were three cubs. Three cubs connected to him by blood. Fortunately, Xi Yue had helped him remove the mark of exile.

Otherwise, the baby will be born with the aura of exile.

Long Ze suddenly tightened his grip on the little female in his arms. She seemed to be displeased with his movements. She pressed her little hand firmly against the inside of his upper arm, adjusted to a more comfortable position, smacked her lips a couple more times, and then fell asleep.

Long Ze kissed Ruan Xiyue's forehead and just looked at her, unable to sleep at all.

The next morning, Long Ze opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and turned to look at Ruan Xiyue, who was still fast asleep. He gently lifted Ruan Xiyue's head and placed it on the soft animal-skin pillow. Then he quickly got up to cook.

The meat of the little beasts guarding the energy fruit tasted much better than that of ordinary wild animals. He felt that the food he made yesterday, which Ruan Xiyue hadn't eaten, was a waste of his. He decided to make her a better meal today to nourish her.

To everyone's surprise, even after Long Ze finished making the barbecue and sprinkled some seasoning powder as Qin Ye had taught him, he still couldn't wake Ruan Xiyue up.

Long Ze had no choice but to put the roasted meat on the stone table, sit down by the bed, and gently call Ruan Xiyue to get up.

As a result, Ruan Xiyue remained unresponsive, as if she were dead.

Long Ze was shocked and quickly reached out to check Ruan Xiyue's breath, which was very long and deep.

Without saying a word, Long Ze picked up Ruan Xiyue, forgetting even to put on his hood, and headed straight for the direction of the witch doctor's beast cave.

Just as Qin's mother was about to go out to answer the call of nature, she saw Long Ze carrying Ruan Xiyue quickly out of the stone house. She couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "A-Ye—"

Long Ze didn't care about anything else and disappeared like the wind.

The shaman examined Ruan Xiyue, first lifting her eyelids, then checking her pulse at the side of her neck. He then sniffed her nose and asked, "How many energy fruits did she eat?"

Long Ze shook his head, saying uncertainly, "All of them?"

The witch doctor looked at Long Ze speechlessly. Long Ze then somewhat embarrassedly stretched out his large hand and counted, saying, "Nineteen plants, I guess."

The witch doctor was stunned.

"Nineteen plants? What grade of energy fruit is suitable for consumption?"

“We have those suitable for purple, blue, and cyan ranks.” Before Long Ze could finish speaking, the witch doctor interjected, “Thank goodness. She’ll wake up soon!”

“There are also three green-tier plants,” Long Ze said.

The witch doctor's lips twitched; she felt an immense pang of heartache.

She opened her mouth and said, "She probably didn't finish it all, right? If she had, her blood vessels would have burst."

Long Ze frowned slightly and said, "That's just a portion. She put away the ones she didn't finish, so I don't know how much she ate. But last night, after she ate a few, she was just sleepy, and I even talked to her while she was asleep."

But when I tried to take the two energy fruits out of her hand, she suddenly stuffed them into her mouth and ate them both.

The witch doctor sighed and said, "She probably already had enough energy from what she ate yesterday. But then... she thought you were going to steal it and swallowed those two energy fruits, which caused her to have an energy surplus. This is her body's way of protecting itself, putting her into a deep sleep to digest the excess energy."

It's alright, don't worry. She..."

The witch doctor thought for a moment and then said, "The baby in her belly will absorb some of the energy."

Long Ze nodded and said, "How long will it take for my little female to wake up after all three cubs absorb the nutrients together?"

The witch doctor looked at Long Ze's large hand gently covering Ruan Xiyue's stomach, somewhat taken aback, and couldn't help but say, "Aren't you...?"

Long Ze was a little embarrassed and lowered his head slightly, saying, "Four days ago, I got together with the little female... I'm now a Red Rank, so yesterday I sensed three strands of my bloodline power in the little female's belly."

The witch doctor suddenly realized, his gaze fixed intently on the sleeping Ruan Xiyue, analyzing in his mind: So three of them were Long Ze's. Does that mean Ruan Xiyue, as a female, might have a rare mutated double uterus? No wonder her fertility value was low at the beginning! If someone mutates to have a double uterus, its development is slower than that of a person with a normal uterus!

"It's alright, you can take her back. She'll sleep until she wakes up naturally. Don't worry!" the witch doctor said.

Long Ze then borrowed a hooded rattan hood from the witch doctor to cover his head and face, and carried Ruan Xiyue back to the stone house.

The Qin family's beast mother said to Qin Ye's father, "Ye is back? He wouldn't... he wouldn't have done something foolish, would he?"

Qin Ye's father frowned slightly and shook his head, saying, "How could that be?"

Just as the Qin family's beast mother was about to ask something else, a beastman suddenly ran over and shouted, "Qin family's beast mother? Qin Ye, the male, has returned severely injured! He's at the tribe's gate! Send someone to meet him!"

The Qin family's beast mother looked puzzled. Had she gotten up too quickly this morning? Was her vision blurry? No way.

Before she could think too much about it, she quickly asked Qin Ye's father to pick up Qin Ye and also to inform the female Xi Yue that A Ye had returned.

Qin Ye's father frowned, hesitated for a moment, and could only nod and say, "Okay."