After Pampering Her 5 Beast Husbands, the Villainess Struck It Rich

Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Hu Yan Has Arrived

The system said calmly, "Don’t worry, Host, you won’t die. This Starship can also detach smaller vessels, and the Starship carrying your Beast Husbands has already caught up."

Bai Zhi was silent for two seconds before shouting, "Are you expecting me to just bounce my way over there? Do you think they’ll wait for me to do that? Or are you hoping I can fly?!! Are you sure that by the time I manage to get there, all that’ll be left is this empty Starship, which they’ll then blast into smithereens with a single shot?!!"

Bai Zhi’s outburst left the system silent for two seconds.

Just when Bai Zhi thought she had scolded the system into silence, it suddenly said, "They have already detached the smaller vessel. In other words... you are now alone on this Starship."

The system’s words made Bai Zhi’s mind go blank for several seconds. She was utterly stunned.

Bai Zhi: "What did you just say?"

System: "Apologies, Host. The second before you finished speaking... they detached the vessel."

Bai Zhi was so furious her head was buzzing. "You motherf—"

’The system hadn’t expected them to be so efficient, either. They’d abandoned the Starship and fled immediately, not giving them any time to react.’

The system tried to reassure her. "Don’t worry, your Beast Husbands have arrived."

The moment it finished speaking, the Starship began to plummet wildly.

"Ahhh—"

As the Starship suddenly plummeted, Bai Zhi was thrown violently upward. Her hair fanned out around her, floating in the zero-g. If this were a movie, it would have been a stunningly beautiful scene.

But this was reality. The sudden lurch made one of her hands slip, and she nearly lost her grip entirely. She flailed frantically in the air a few times before catching hold again, letting out a terrified scream. "Fuck! Fuck!—"

’I can’t believe I avoided a plane crash just to end up on a crashing Starship!!’

’What can Hu Yan and the others even do now that they’re here? It’s not like they can just stop the Starship from falling, can they?’

The Starship was now in a nosedive. An alarm blared frantically from the control room. "BEEP BEEP BEEP... WARNING! WARNING—"

The system suddenly interjected, "Host, to prevent the descent from becoming too rapid, we can’t wait for their rescue. Please get to the control room immediately. You have only one minute. You must pull the Starship up within that minute, otherwise it will crash long before it has a chance to explode."

The intense forces on Bai Zhi’s body suddenly lessened. The moment her feet hit the floor, she steadied herself and sprinted toward the control room the system had indicated.

Even though her arms were screaming with exhaustion, her will to survive drove her forward, and she ran for the control room without a moment’s hesitation.

Bai Zhi asked as she ran, "Which button do I need to press?"

System: "On the control panel, there’s a green button. Push the lever next to it up."

Bai Zhi burst into the control room, spotted the green button the system had described, and forcefully shoved the lever next to it upward.

The moment she pushed it, she felt the Starship lurch violently upwards.

As soon as the minute was up, Bai Zhi felt the crushing force of the fall return.

Just then, Bai Zhi felt the Starship shudder with a loud BANG, and the entire vessel shook violently.

The jolt nearly flung her across the room. Luckily, having learned her lesson from before, she quickly grabbed onto something nearby. But the force pulling at her body was so strong that she almost lost her grip.

Just then.

"BANG—"

The door was smashed open from the outside.

Because of this sudden impact, her grip slipped, and she was sent flying into the air.

"Ahhh—"

Just then, a fluffy tail coiled around Bai Zhi’s waist, stopping her from being flung against the Starship’s ceiling.

Bai Zhi only felt something circle her waist, and the next moment, she fell into a warm embrace.

Her vision filled with white fur. The tails swayed constantly in the air, seeming to fill the entire room in an instant.

Bai Zhi turned her head and met a pair of familiar, light-blue eyes. For some reason, her nose suddenly stung and her eyes grew hot. A feeling of being wronged surged up from the depths of her heart. "Hu Yan..."

A pair of white ears perched atop Hu Yan’s head, and countless tails swayed in the air behind him. The moment he caught Bai Zhi, he began to retreat, yet still found a moment to comfort her. "It’s okay now. I’m taking you back."

The wind from Hu Yan’s swift movement brushed against her cheek. Hearing his words filled her with an indescribable feeling.

’Just moments ago, I was sure I was going to die. I never expected to see Hu Yan here.’

’I couldn’t quite describe what I was feeling in that moment.’

’Perhaps it was Hu Yan’s embrace that gave me a sense of security.’

’Or perhaps seeing a familiar face when I thought I was about to die made me feel less terrified.’

’Or maybe it was some strange, unexplainable emotion stirring in my heart.’

’In any case, I felt a sense of peace.’

’It was the kind of feeling that made me think that even if I died right now, I’d be okay with it.’

Hu Yan was incredibly fast. In just a few seconds, he had carried Bai Zhi to the doorway.

Only then did she realize that the Starship’s door was open. Something that looked like a small sphere was attached to their vessel, and the other end of this device was connected to another Starship.

The two Starships were side-by-side. Even with their pilots trying their best, both were still being dragged into a rapid descent.

Lang Qiu was standing in the doorway of the other Starship, yelling, "Hurry up! That Starship is about to explode!"

The words had barely left his mouth when Hu Yan leaped across the connecting sphere and back onto the other Starship.

A second later, the sphere retracted with a THUMP, and the Starship’s door slammed shut.

The moment he saw Bai Zhi, Yue Junxiao’s eyes reddened. "Matriarch!"

They had just managed to catch up to the two kidnappers’ Starship, only to see another vessel attacking the one Bai Zhi was on. And it had scored a direct hit.

In that instant, everyone’s hearts leaped into their throats.

Even Sang Mo, who always spoke ill of Bai Zhi, couldn’t help but frown.

The members of the Female Alliance saw the kidnappers flee in a smaller ship and assumed Bai Zhi was with them. But Hu Yan insisted on boarding the crippled Starship to check, and to their surprise, Bai Zhi was indeed still on board. If Hu Yan hadn’t insisted, they might have chased the smaller ship and missed her completely.

Yan Yichen also asked with concern, "Are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?"

Lang Qiu was even more direct, immediately reaching out to check her for injuries.

Seeing their familiar faces, their worried eyes, and hearing their caring words, all the fear and injustice she had kept hidden inside burst forth. The feeling of surviving a near-death experience made tears stream down her face.

"Sob... WAHHH..."

Seeing Bai Zhi cry, Yue Junxiao and Yan Yichen at once grew flustered, stammering, "Matriarch, d-don’t cry..."

Yan Yichen, thinking Bai Zhi must be hungry after being held captive for so long, pulled a small handful of jerky from his spatial storage and offered it to her. "Are you hungry? I have some jerky. You can have it all, okay?"