Barto’s cooking was surprisingly delicious.
It looked like a simple dish of mashed potatoes over rice, but one bite made Gu Ning feel like she was back in the human world.
The pan-fried at was drizzled with a fragrant sauce and served with a few lettuce leaves and a type of berry that looked like a blueberry. Its sweet and sour flavor was a perfect palate cleanser.
In Zone 19, vegetables were more expensive than at, so most Beastn didn’t eat them often. She had only seen one vegetarian shop, which catered specifically to Beastn with herbivore genes.
According to the information she’d looked up on her terminal, Beastn with herbivore genes and those with carnivore genes simply had slightly different food preferences; both ate vegetables and at.
Beastn with herbivore genes were no weaker in temperant or combat ability than those with carnivore genes. On "Press Paw," she had seen a Beastman with goat horns beat a mber of the Wolf Clan to the ground. She’d also seen a Beastman with rabbit ears kick an opponent so hard they flew into a wall, cracking it. Their leg strength was astounding.
Many foods in this world were similar to those in the human world, but there were also so Gu Ning couldn’t na, like this blue berry that looked like a blueberry but tasted like a combination of tomato and lemon.
Gu Ning hadn’t expected Barto, a fox, to know how to cook vegetarian dishes, and to do it so elegantly. ’He’s a fox who really knows how to live,’ she thought.
She finished most of the vegetables but ate less of the at. For the past month, she had been living on either compressed biscuits or dried at, which had given her a bit of indigestion.
Seeing Cook sitting on the floor with a large bowl of pan-fried at and sausages, she offered him a piece of lettuce.
Cook sniffed the lettuce a few tis before opening his mouth to eat it.
When Gu Ning saw him sll it first, she knew he didn’t like vegetables. Usually, he’d eat whatever she gave him, sniffing it only once at most.
While eating, Gu Ning opened "Press Paw," logged into her account, and first checked her backend earnings.
It was already over 420,000 Beast Coins.
The total tipping progress bar under her account avatar was maxed out.
For a verified Level 1 account, the tipping limit was 500,000. No matter how many more videos she posted, that was the maximum.
To unlock a higher tipping limit, she had to level up her account.
Gu Ning then checked her "Affection Value," which was also maxed out.
A Level 1 account’s Affection Value was capped at 10,000. The total Affection bar was below the tipping bar. No matter how many likes a single video received, once the total bar was full, she had to level up for it to reset. Furthermore, likes and dislikes could not be cast more than once.
After she posted that pinned comnt announcing a teaser, her Affection Value hadn’t dropped at all.
Even if there were so dislikes, they couldn’t make a dent.
Gu Ning casually scrolled through the comnts. The top few hot comnts each had tens of thousands of replies, with many IDs spamming repeatedly. Most were rushing her to post the teaser video.
Besides those, there was another top comnt cursing her out. It was that familiar ID again: Leo the little dog from Zone 11.
Gu Ning chuckled. ’Beastn really are straightforward thinkers. I blocked him and deleted so many of his comnts, yet he hasn’t even thought to use a different account to fla .’
He had changed his avatar, though. Before, it was a close-up selfie of his humanoid form grinning widely, baring his teeth. Now, it was an avatar of a small, snarling dog.
Gu Ning took a closer look. That familiar black and white coloring... it was a husky.
She glanced at a couple of Leo’s comnts. It was the sa furious spamming as before, telling everyone not to watch her videos, not to be srized by a virtual character, and not to rot their brains.
Right, right, right.
Gu Ning once again one-click-deleted Leo’s comnts. ’See ya! You annoying little husky!’
After deleting the comnts, Gu Ning quickly upgraded her account to Level 2.
Then, she went to the tipping page. The tipping progress bar changed from 500,000 to one million, and the Affection Value progress bar changed to 100,000.
The Beastn who were camping on her video page quickly noticed that [Gu Demiao Ning] was now a Level 2 account and started comnting again, demanding the promised teaser:
[You’ve already upgraded your account, where’s the teaser you promised?]
[If I don’t see a teaser in the next five minutes, I’m smashing that dislike button.]
[Every video is ten seconds long and now she’s making a teaser for them? I really want to beat the crap out of this Miao-whatever girl.]
[Seconded. If this video isn’t any longer, I’m disliking it too!]
[Spend less ti watching virtual Beast Females and work on improving yourself. Maybe then a real Beast Female will give you a glance.]
[Hey poster above, I’ll watch what I want. Are you the internet police now?]
[Who’s policing you? You idiot whose brain’s been eaten by a Mutant Species. Watching virtual Beast Females is all you’re good for.]
[Holy shit! My fists are clenched. If you’re so high and mighty, poster above, what are you doing here watching a virtual Beast Female?]
[To watch how brainless idiots like you get their minds rotted by a virtual Beast Female, obviously. This virtual Beast Female is nothing special. You guys go stupid just from seeing her back. You all should be thrown into Zone 19 and the No Man’s Land to feed the Mutant Species. Oh, wait, the Mutant Species would probably just spit you out after one bite. They’re allergic to idiots.]
[This Birdman from Zone 9 has such a foul mouth. Were you raised on a placenta your Beast Mother threw out?]
[Birdn don’t have placentas, you egg-laying thing.]
[So what if you’re born from a womb? Just a bunch of idiots crawling on the ground with your asses in the air.]
The comnts devolved into a fla war between viviparous and oviparous Beastn.
Gu Ning paid little attention to the comnt section; she was already filming the teaser.
The teaser was simple. It only needed to be a few seconds long.
The goal was to placate these Beastn so her account could successfully level up again.
She had to save up as much money as possible before leaving Zone 19!
’But what should I film?’
Gu Ning paced around the room, rummaging through the clothes, blankets, and other things.
Suddenly, Gu Ning rembered what that Beastman had said when she was hanging on the outer wall today.
Then, an idea struck her—a great way to keep these Beastn continuously giving her likes.
Based on her understanding of Beastn over the past few days, although they deeply respected Beast Females, their instincts still made them partial to Beast Females from their own clan.
Just like before she had verified her identity, after she posted her first video, most of the viewers who clicked were from the Dog Clan and the Wolf Clan. They also sent the most private ssages.
Thinking of this, Gu Ning pulled a thin, gray blanket out of the large box of clothes.
She draped the blanket over her shoulders, ssed up the desk a little, opened a book and placed it beside her, then sat down at the desk and pretended to be asleep, lying on her side.
After adjusting the terminal’s cara angle a few tis, Gu Ning fild a nice five-second teaser.
In the video, she appeared to be asleep, moving only slightly as if shifting uncomfortably to adjust her position, which made her seem more alive.
This ti, she didn’t wear the fake beast ears, instead letting her hair fall to cover her own ears. However, a little more of her side profile was visible, showing the outline of her nose and her eyelashes.
She didn’t add any custom tags to this teaser video, only writing a title:
[You should tuck your ears in when you sleep. When I wake up tomorrow, I’ll be different. What will I beco?]
Click. Send.
Just as the fla war in her comnt section was about to escalate into an offline brawl, the Beastn camping there saw her new teaser.
The five-second video and its temporarily incomprehensible title made them pause their fighting and fall into thought.
[What does that an? You should tuck your ears in when you sleep?]
[So you don’t crush your ears when you sleep? Makes sense. I’ll try tucking my ears in tonight.]
[A little Beast Female who tucks in her ears to sleep is too cute! I want to pat her head so badly. My heart just stopped for a second. I would gladly watch a five-minute video of her sleeping!]
[I can’t stand you guys, you bunch of womb-born idiots.]
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