BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP—
WARNING! WARNING!
High-level danger detected for the host. System is providing an energy supply.
Host, wake up!
AHHH—HOST, RUN!
Su Yu felt like her head was about to explode from the barrage of mechanical sounds.
"Tch, can't even let a person die in peace."
She impatiently opened her eyes, only to be met with the sight of a creature as massive as a small mountain—bizarrely ugly and resembling a wild boar—charging right at her.
Su Yu's mind went blank, but her body reacted faster than her brain. She scrambled and rolled out of the way, dodging the Tun Tun Beast's charge.
With a thunderous BOOM, the Tun Tun Beast slammed heavily into the mountain wall behind her, stumbling around as if drunk.
Su Yu's body trembled. She turned, eyes wide, to look at the Tun Tun Beast, her mind struggling to process what was happening.
'Wait…'
'A system, a Wild Beast, a world of ice and snow.'
'Did I... transmigrate after dying?'
The thought flashed through her mind. The next moment, Su Yu scrambled to her feet and took off in a mad dash.
'If I don't run now, once that thing snaps out of it and takes a bite, I'll lose half my body!'
The Tun Tun Beast behind her shook its dazed head and let out a furious roar. It snorted heavily, its front hooves restlessly pawing at the ground.
'It had been starving for half the winter. It had finally caught a lone weakling, and it wasn't about to let this one get away!'
250: [Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wrong way! Host! There's a cliff ahead! Run somewhere else!]
250: [Quick, this way! You can meet your fated one over here!]
The next second, a virtual map appeared in front of Su Yu, an arrow pointing to the left.
Without hesitation, Su Yu changed direction and ran with every ounce of her strength.
-
Meanwhile, not far from Su Yu, a pair of eyes the size of lightbulbs stared unblinkingly from the deep snow, fixed on her desperate escape.
It was a black Wolf Beast. He had been here for a while.
At first, he had noticed the small female lying in the snow and thought she was dead. He had been planning to go over, regretfully dig a grave to bury her, and then kill the Tun Tun Beast that had sent her flying as a form of revenge.
But to his surprise, she was alive the next second, nimbly dodging the Tun Tun Beast's attacks.
Any other female would have been so terrified upon seeing a Tun Tun Beast that their legs would have gone weak, and they would have resigned themselves to their fate. But Su Yu actually had the courage to run, which sparked a bit of curiosity in the Wolf Beast.
He slowed his intended rescue, wanting to see just how far she could go while being chased by the Tun Tun Beast.
Su Yu was still unaware that her every move was being watched by a Wolf Beast. She was pumping her legs with all her might, running for her life.
But no matter how fast she ran, she couldn't outpace the Tun Tun Beast behind her.
Soon, the Tun Tun Beast charged again. This time, Su Yu couldn't dodge completely, and its enormous tusk grazed her arm.
The immense force sent her tumbling messily across the ground. Branches hidden beneath the snow left scrapes of varying degrees all over her body, and the pain was so intense she could barely get up.
Gritting her teeth against the pain, Su Yu scrambled and rolled to dodge another charge. She forced herself to calm down, her mind racing as she calculated her odds of winning against the Tun Tun Beast.
Half a second later, she had her answer: zero.
'A head-on fight is certain death.'
'But in this situation, my two legs can't outrun its four.'
'Either way, it ends in death.'
'The fated one the system mentioned hasn't shown up. Relying on him is also a dead end!'
Faced with these three paths to death, Su Yu clenched her jaw, her expression hardening with resolve. She asked the system, "You guys have a novice protection mechanism for hosts, right?"
System 250: [Theoretically, yes.]
Su Yu: "Good."
'Good? What's good about this?' 250 was taken aback.
The next second, it saw that Su Yu had stopped dodging.
Not only did she stop dodging, she grabbed a rock and hurled it at the Tun Tun Beast's eye, actively attacking and enraging it!
250: [!!!!]
The hidden Wolf Beast: "!!!!"
'Has this little female lost her mind?!'
250 watched the enraged, roaring Tun Tun Beast and could only think one thing: 'Holy shit.'
'It wasn't about to become the first system in the entire Universe to lose its host right after binding, was it?!'
Watching the enraged Tun Tun Beast roar and charge at her, Su Yu gritted her teeth, suppressing her fear. She was betting that the system's protection protocol would activate the moment the beast injured her.
She knew she couldn't defeat the Tun Tun Beast on her own, but she didn't want to die. She wanted to live!
She had to fight for that one sliver of hope!
Just as Su Yu squeezed her eyes shut in fear, bracing for the pain, a deafening wolf howl echoed through the air.
She felt a gust of wind from behind her, followed by a piercing roar right next to her ear.
250 smoothed out its own scrambled code.
'Thank goodness, thank goodness.'
'Her fated one... er, her fated wolf has arrived!'
'The host doesn't have to die!'
A few seconds later, the roaring stopped, replaced by the thick, nauseating stench of blood that filled the air.
Su Yu's eyelashes fluttered as she slowly opened her eyes.
Before her stood a giant black wolf, over two meters tall. Its soft fur danced in the cold wind, and its black eyes held a hint of brilliant gold.
'A very beautiful wolf.'
The wolf was staring at her. "Which tribe are you from? Why are you out here during the winter?"
Su Yu's eyes went wide.
'The wolf... it talked!'
Su Yu shivered, her voice trembling. "I... I'm..."
The next second, the mechanical system voice chimed in: [Danger to host has been resolved. Disconnecting energy supply.]
Su Yu's vision suddenly went black, and her body fell limp, collapsing heavily into the snow.
Su Yu: "..."
'At least let me finish my sentence...'
The Wolf Beast, Shi Wei, was startled. He gently prodded her with a massive paw. "Hey? Wake up."
Su Yu didn't move.
A flicker of worry crossed Shi Wei's eyes.
'He didn't roar this female to death, did he?'
He quickly shifted from his beast form to his human form, carefully lifting Su Yu from the ground and rushing back to his tribe to find a witch doctor.
-
While Su Yu was unconscious, the system crammed all the information about this world into her brain.
Only then did Su Yu understand.
She had transmigrated into a book.
She had transmigrated into a Beast World novel she had once read, called *Mengdong Beast World: Reborn Female Lead She is Soft and Coquettish*, and had become the villainess who shared her name.
The original owner of the body was a mutated one-tailed black fox from the Fox Clan. She was born with a congenital disability, had poor eyesight, and her parents and older brother had been killed by Wild Beasts while defending the tribe when she was young.
From then on, she was considered an ill omen by the tribe. Combined with her frail health and low Fertility, she was of no value to them. However, because she was not yet an adult, the tribe still bore the responsibility of providing for her.
If she had just stayed quiet and not caused trouble, the tribe would have continued to raise her until she came of age. But she often did things to harm the novel's protagonist, Hu Ya, out of jealousy, causing the Beastmen in the tribe to despise her.
When one winter arrived, the original Su Yu got into another argument with Hu Ya, making her cry. This once again made her the target of the tribe's Beastmen's blame and revulsion.
The leader was also very displeased with her and, using the excuse that she was about to come of age, withheld the winter food rations the tribe was supposed to give her.
Starving, the original Su Yu couldn't help but leave the tribe to find food. She never expected the bad luck of running into a hungry Tun Tun Beast and died of sheer terror on the spot.
This just so happened to create a convenient opening for Su Yu, who was also frail and had just lost her life to a virus.
Su Yu's eyelashes fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes.
She wanted to see her current situation, but her vision was filled with large, blurry blobs of color.
Su Yu fell silent.
'She'd forgotten. The original owner had poor eyesight.'
'She had only been able to see clearly because of the system's energy supply.'
'Now that the energy supply was cut off, she couldn't see anything clearly.'
She looked around, barely able to make out that she was in a cave with a fire.
Nothing else.
Just then, a rustling sound came from the cave entrance.
Su Yu turned her slightly vacant eyes toward the sound, and her vision was met with a short, squat... blob of color.
If Su Yu could see clearly, she would have seen a cute, fair-skinned cub.
He wore a Beast Skin Skirt on his lower body, while his upper body was bare. His little belly protruded slightly, and two semi-circular ears stood atop his head, making him look adorably silly.
He shivered when their eyes met, then his own eyes lit up. He turned and ran outside. "Grandma! Grandma! Oof!"
He had only taken two steps when the Beast Skin Skirt around his waist snapped and fell off with a SMACK, tripping him and sending him face-planting.
Su Yu was startled by the sound and called out in a hoarse voice, "Are you alright?"
He paid it no mind. Butt naked, he continued to run out on his short little legs, shouting clamorously in a high, childish voice, "The female is awake!!!"
Su Yu heard the sound of a curtain being lifted at the cave entrance, and then a tall, dark blob of color walked in.
She nervously clutched the soft Beast Skin covering her. In a hoarse yet gentle voice, she said, "Are you the elder who saved me? Thank you—"
Before she could finish, the black blob spoke. The voice was deep and magnetic; it was a male.
He said, "Open your fox eyes and take a good look. I'm a male! Not a female!"
"No, that's not right."
Shi Wei narrowed his dark eyes. His handsome, cold face suddenly moved closer to Su Yu. As he caught the faint, sweet scent coming from the female before him, his voice couldn't help but soften. "Can you... not see?"
But he remembered that when he first saw this female, her eyes were bright and clear, not vacant like they were now.