After the Moon Silver Demon Wolf gave birth, it was very weak. Although it remained in a state of vigilance and alertness, Qian Qi still took care of it for a few days despite past grievances.
Beside the warm water basin, she held a shoe brush in her hand, humming a tune while scrubbing the beautiful and majestic silver wolf fur of the Moon Silver Mother Wolf.
"Silver, listen to me, we’ve been together for so long, you should know what kind of person I am."
Qian Qi’s small hand gently stroked the soft silver wolf fur, her little face was seriously earnest, "Even your child was delivered by me personally. In this sense, not only do I have grace for you, but I am also half a godmother to the children."
She coaxingly suggested, "How about this, you take the initiative, send me a contract request, and in the future, you call me sister and benefactor and master, I call you ’the mother of the children’ and ’Silver,’ how does that sound?"
Moon Silver Mother Wolf: ...
[Wow, you are really shameless...] The system couldn’t help but remark.
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf lay on the soft blanket, its ice-blue, gem-like beautiful wolf eyes lowered. It carefully watched Qian Qi, who was bathing it, while its gaze moved to the little wolf pups playing outside the door.
The little wolf pups were well taken care of by Qian Qi, as they were never lacking in food and were taken out for walks daily. Their muscles developed very well. Even though they hadn’t awakened yet, they already began to show the wisdom and agility inherent to the Moon Silver Demon Wolf Clan. Their agile figures ran freely across the prairie, looking wild and unrestrained.
Most importantly, because of Qian Qi’s presence, any magical beasts that attempted to enter the plains to prey on wolf cubs were driven away or killed by Qian Qi.
So, Qian Qi is very good.
She is strong, and also its lifesaving benefactor. The Demon Wolf Clan is a race that knows gratitude and reciprocation, and it will repay Qian Qi.
But, she rides the wolf pups.
Its children aren’t even a month old yet! What a devil she is!
Suppressing the urge to roll its eyes, the Moon Silver Mother Wolf let out a deep sigh.
Contracting with Qian Qi is undoubtedly a good choice. There is no food here, and hungry magical beasts eye them everywhere. Once they launch a group attack, it alone cannot manage all the children.
If it could obtain Qian Qi’s protection, its children would be very safe, at least until they could awaken their skills.
Of course, the premise is that Qian Qi would be willing to protect its children.
Just as the Moon Silver Mother Wolf thought of this, Qian Qi shamelessly said, "One won’t be too few, nine won’t be too many. If you pull your children together to recognize me as your master, I wouldn’t refuse your goodwill~"
Moon Silver Mother Wolf: ...
Though it didn’t quite understand, it felt she seemed to be coveting its wolf cubs somehow.
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf pondered for a moment, and after a long while, it raised its large head, with its silver reflective wolf fur slightly swaying with its movements, creating a breeze that was cool and refreshing.
The Moon Silver Demon Wolf lacked flashy unicorns and terrifying beast faces, having only pure silver-like wolf fur and clear, beautiful ice-blue eyes, racing under the moonlight like flowing silver moon water, breathtakingly beautiful.
Even though Qian Qi usually acted like a scatterbrain, she found herself drawn to magnificent and beautiful things. Perhaps she still had some of her planting family’s hobbies and obsessions, with a particular fondness for white and silver fur.
However, seeing that the Moon Silver Mother Wolf appeared not to understand her words, she planned to teach it Mandarin during this period, so it could properly understand human language.
Qian Qi turned and walked towards the outside of the cabin, preparing to plan the mother’s Mandarin devil training. After taking two steps, she suddenly felt a shadow looming over her.
She looked up to find the Moon Silver Mother Wolf had rested its head on hers.
"Hoo-moo-hoo..." its deep, raspy wolf voice issued a low chant, as if reciting a spell. Shortly after, Qian Qi saw a strange white magic pattern appear in front of her. The pattern’s lines were incomparably ornate, flickering slightly with a white light body, connecting to Qian Qi’s spiritual power.
"Is this..." Qian Qi swallowed softly, "a contract pattern?"
People with beast taming talent can send a special contract pattern to magical beasts. Once the magical beast agrees, it becomes the human’s contracted beast. Similarly, magical beasts can send a contract pattern to humans.
But the contract pattern from the Moon Silver Wolf looked entirely different from the one humans sent. The beast master’s contract pattern is a fixed magic pattern encased in a circle, but the magical beast’s contract pattern lacks the confining outer circle, appearing more ornate and flamboyant.
Qian Qi’s heart pounded, she raised her head incredulously and asked, "You really want to contract with me?"
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf lowered its blue gaze to Qian Qi, and although it didn’t understand human language, it could see the surprise in Qian Qi’s eyes.
What was she surprised about?
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf didn’t understand, so it stuck out its tongue, retracting the sharp barbs on it, and licked Qian Qi’s cheek, letting out a gentle growl.
Qian Qi touched her small hand and was a bit taken aback, as even though she had tried to contract with Ah Tu for quite a while, that stubborn dog-like beast never agreed, yet the Moon Silver Mother Wolf wanted to contract after only a few days with her.
"You are truly a good wolf," Qian Qi said, touched, as she turned and reached towards the contract pattern.
[Oh~ my dear Boss Qian~]
Suddenly, the system panel appeared in front of the contract pattern, blocking Qian Qi’s hand.
A feeling of foreboding surged inside Qian Qi.
[After system detection, the Silver Moon Demon Wolf ranks E-level. Due to your D-level spiritual power, you can only contract with one D-level magical beast, and cannot additionally contract an E-level demon wolf. It’s advised to be more cautious in choosing contracted beasts~]
Qian Qi raged, "Why didn’t you say it earlier?"
This is like she was ready with a betrothal gift, ready to marry her beloved suitors one by one, only to be told that her gift price can only marry the higher-priced one first. What’s the difference?
[Dear~ you still need to go and convince a D-level magical beast~] The system laughed slyly, [Being able to freely warn you is already the system’s great benevolence, ouch—!]
The system was thrown to the ground by Qian Qi and stamped on twice.
What a dog-like system, why is it so petty! Hadn’t she been coaxing for nothing just now!
Qian Qi’s little face was full of anger, as she glanced at the Silver Moon Demon Wolf behind her, she couldn’t help but feel a wave of bitterness flowing through her heart. She touched the mouth of the Silver Moon Mother Wolf, speaking huskily, "Sorry, you are a good wolf..."
With words that were almost the same before and after, yet with circumstances so different, leaving only sadness flowing like a river, not knowing how to express the pain within.
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf was surprised when Qian Qi didn’t agree to its contract request. Clearly, it hadn’t anticipated Qian Qi would refuse.
Could it be that she’s calling it too weak?
The Moon Silver Mother Wolf’s damned pride felt severely hurt, directly lifting a wolf paw to punch Qian Qi to the ground.
Qian Qi lay on the ground in a delicate and seductive posture, covering her face: ???
Sob sob, they weren’t even married yet, and already engaged in domestic violence?
After the failed contract, the Moon Silver Mother Wolf felt extremely annoyed. Yet the lifesaving grace needed to be repaid, and it had to come up with a new way to repay.
Its gaze moved to the wolf cubs playing outside the gate, it steeled itself, got up, and brought the weakest little wolf cub to Qian Qi.
The other little wolves would soon be able to awaken their skills inherent in the Demon Wolf Clan, and perhaps even have escape abilities, but not the eighth. It was physically weak and unclear how long until it could awaken; most needing Qian Qi’s protection.
Qian Qi was handed the wolf cub by the wolf mother; perplexed, she turned to ask the system, "What does this mean?"
The resentful system smiled slightly, with Qian Qi’s footprints glaringly obvious on its panel: [If you want a translation, it costs 3.74 units ~＾＿＾~]