After the Black Moonlight’s "Death Escape" Failed [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 65

Chapter 65: Survival Day One

◎How can a celebrity survival livestream be this terrifying?◎

Amidst a flurry of question marks and screams from the comments, Jiao Qingyin landed gracefully on the ground.

She was like a fallen leaf, making not a single sound as her feet touched the grass.

Only the mutated star beast discovered her.

Jiao Qingyin met the beast’s gaze with a calm expression. Judging by its size alone, the opponent was easily more than ten times her size, casting a dangerous, mountain-like shadow over her.

The appearance of this mutated star beast was somewhat similar to a yak, but it possessed a mouth full of sharp fangs, and its limbs were not hooves but claws more akin to those of a canine.

Its senses were far sharper than a human’s. Almost the instant it saw Jiao Qingyin, it sensed a threat emanating from her. It lowered its body and squeezed a low growl from its throat.

Hearing this sound, the pack of wolves—whom Jiao Qingyin considered “stupid”—finally realized their natural enemy was right behind them.

The alpha wolf let out a shrill howl, and the rest of the pack moved instantly. After a few short yips, they vanished into the cover of the jungle.

However, the alpha was a few steps slow; it looked back at the giant tree where Wen Fengyue was hiding, then looked at Jiao Qingyin, as if waiting for her to keep up.

Jiao Qingyin: “?”

She took a step to the side. The alpha wolf stopped waiting and quickly dashed out of the area to join its pack.

The wolf howls faded into the forest as they quickly ran far away.

Jiao Qingyin: “…” She couldn’t figure out what those wolves were thinking.

Seeing its mouth-watering prey escape, a fierce light glinted in the star beast’s massive eyes. Without further hesitation, it lunged directly at Jiao Qingyin.

Its gaping maw was large enough to swallow her whole.

“Aaaah, Xiao Jiao—”

“Why did you jump off the tree just now!!”

“Hahaha, the first dead guest of the season. Time to pop the champagne.”

Jiao Qingyin originally intended to deal with this star beast cleanly and efficiently. However, remembering that the cameras were filming and that Wen Fengyue would surely rewatch the recordings of these few days later, she felt a spark of interest.

She sidestepped the beast’s lunge. As it quickly adjusted its direction to bite at her, she pressed one hand against its head, using the momentum to flip over in a showy display of skill, landing directly on the giant beast’s back.

Jiao Qingyin’s speed was so fast that the viewers staring at their screens didn’t even have time to react.

With the weakness of its neck exposed to the enemy, the star beast instantly became frantic. It began ramming into the surrounding trees with brute force, trying to shake Jiao Qingyin off, snapping several large trees in its wake.

Jiao Qingyin looked up at the tree where Wen Fengyue was, then grabbed a handful of the long fur on the beast’s neck. With terrifying strength, she forced it to change direction.

The star beast let out a roar of pain. From an angle the camera couldn’t capture, blood began to seep through its fur.

When it came to enemies, Jiao Qingyin never held back.

She drew her dagger and plunged it straight into the beast’s spine. Blood erupted instantly.

From the viewers’ perspective, it looked like the dagger had pierced the flesh, but in reality, Jiao Qingyin had used the cover of the fur to snap the thickest bone with her bare hands before sliding the dagger in.

During the action, Jiao Qingyin leaned back slightly, ensuring not a single drop of blood splashed onto her.

The comments were blank with shock from the sudden reversal, but seeing that Jiao Qingyin didn’t seem to intend to continue her attack, they became anxious.

How could a single dagger take down an entire mutated star beast? If Jiao Qingyin didn’t follow up her victory now, then—

The mutated star beast crashed to the ground. Its forelimbs twitched, but it could never stand up again.

The world went silent.

Jiao Qingyin stood up, brushed off the non-existent dust from her clothes, and jumped down from the beast’s back.

From the moment she leaped from the branch to the killing of the star beast, the entire process took less than three minutes. Every one of Jiao Qingyin’s movements was fluid and elegant, as if she were dancing.

Watching this scene, all the viewers watching from Jiao Qingyin’s main perspective were deeply shaken.

Aside from some comments so enamored they could only shout “Wife, marry me,” people began discussing Jiao Qingyin’s skill level once they recovered.

“Special effects? Or modified prosthetics?”

“I still think it’s ancient Blue Star Chinese Kung Fu. I heard that back in the 21st century, they had to take exams on flying swords for the college entrance exam, and people from the Sichuan area could even drive the legendary Iron-Eating Beasts.”

“I estimated it when they were climbing earlier; that tree is probably twenty meters tall. Not only was she unharmed jumping from the top, but now she can wrestle a star beast… I don’t know what to say.”

“Wrestle? If you hadn’t said that, I’d have thought she was just one-sidedly teasing a dog.”

“This mutated star beast is a registered ferocious beast with a 5-star lethality rating. I’m floored by the person who called it a dog; a dog’s lethality doesn’t even reach one tip of a 5-star rating.”

Someone remembered Wen Fengyue and switched to her perspective, only to find the screen filled with comments saying “Wake up quickly”—

Despite the massive commotion happening below, Wen Fengyue was still in a deep sleep, showing no signs of waking.

Worst of all, who knows what she was dreaming about, but her sleeping face looked exceptionally peaceful.

On the other side, Jiao Qingyin didn’t move the dagger stuck in the beast’s neck—she had used too much force and the blade had snapped inside—instead, she pulled out another one. As the comments asked questions in confusion, she walked toward the beast’s left forelimb.

—She began collecting trophies.

At first, the comments didn’t recognize what she was doing, thinking she was just delivering a finishing blow to ensure the beast was dead, and they even praised her. However, as time went on, her actions became increasingly “wrong.”

“Who delivers a finishing blow so gently—holy crap, how did she remove the entire front leg!”

“Such a complete hide. Feels like it could be a rug.”

“What rug! The point is obviously why Jiao Qingyin is dismembering this star beast and even skinning it!”

Regarding Jiao Qingyin’s act of skinning, the comments erupted into a serious and solemn discussion. The thick academic atmosphere could even rival some university libraries.

Specifically, it seemed a few genuine star beast scholars had mixed into the chat. They began analyzing every part Jiao Qingyin dissected. The increasingly professional terminology left other viewers in a daze.

Unable to keep up with the rhythm, some viewers turned their attention to other things, for example—

“Sob, such a bloody scene. I’ll never be able to look at Xiao Jiao the same way again.”

“Who understands? I just finished watching Jiao Qingyin get bullied on campus by bad students, and now the scene shifts to her “white blade in, red blade out.” The contrast is just too jarring.”

“It’s fine. You just feel a contrast. This star beast was physically “contrasted” into pieces and didn’t say a word.”

“No, if the star beast spoke while being skinned, this would turn into a horror livestream.”

“Isn’t it already horrific? Killing it is one thing, but why mess with the corpse?”

Even space pirates, after hunting a star beast, would at most dig out the star core to be used as an energy source and leave the rest behind. They had never seen behavior like Jiao Qingyin’s.

While the audience discussed heatedly, a golden-lit comment indicating a large gift sent to Jiao Qingyin floated by: “Sister, stop skinning the beast, come skin off my clothes instead.”

“???”

“Outrageous.”

“Skin mine too! I’m wearing a short skirt, it’s very easy to skin.”

“???”

The entire live room was suddenly filled with a strange atmosphere. Some troublemaking comments were swallowed up by these overwhelming “love-sick” remarks until not even a punctuation mark was visible.

Jiao Qingyin looked up and saw these words. She raised an eyebrow slightly but offered no comment.

Her expression was captured perfectly by the camera, causing the people screaming in the comments to go even wilder.

It was truly… Jiao Qingyin’s face was too beautiful, and the lens was always focused on her fair, slender fingers. It made people feel like she was plucking strings on a zither rather than skinning and deboning a beast.

By the time Jiao Qingyin finished processing the entire forelimb of the mutated star beast, the meat she had collected could be stacked into a small tower.

“Hmm… a lot more than expected…”

The bushes shook slightly. Jiao Qingyin’s expression remained unchanged as if she hadn’t noticed, but her muscles tensed slightly.

A wolf’s head poked out.

It was the alpha from the pack that had run away earlier.

Behind it was a fluffy sea of large and small wolves. Wolf heads popped out one by one, looking like a much larger group than before.

Jiao Qingyin glanced at the radar and found a total of thirty wolves.

No one was shouting for Jiao Qingyin to run anymore. Even the most oblivious realized that someone who could effortlessly kill a large mutated star beast in seconds could basically walk through this island sideways.

Star beasts possessed a pressure that made ordinary animals stay far away. Even when dead, with the scent of blood filling the air, other creatures wouldn’t dare approach. Jiao Qingyin hadn’t expected these wolves to dare return.

“Is something the matter?” Jiao Qingyin wiped the blood off her dagger and sheathed it.

The alpha wolf naturally couldn’t understand her words, but it could sense no hostility from her. It tucked its tail and whined as it approached her.

Jiao Qingyin narrowed her eyes. She thought this alpha wolf looked very much like a Siberian Husky.

The comments thought so too. Some people were charmed and encouraged Jiao Qingyin to step forward and pet the “good-looking” wolf.

Jiao Qingyin saw these comments and gave a playful smile.

Then she looked down at the alpha who was nearly in front of her and said, “Get lost.”

Her eyes were so cold that the alpha wolf’s fur stood on end. It vanished from Jiao Qingyin’s presence in a flash. The wolf pack fell into a brief commotion before retreating back into the bushes, not coming out again.

Jiao Qingyin didn’t bother with them. She walked straight to a nearby river, washed the skinned hide and meat, and started a fire.

With the system’s help, she knew Wen Fengyue was still asleep and in a normal condition, so she wasn’t worried.

Though they didn’t understand why Jiao Qingyin was starting a fire by the river, after watching the livestream for this long, the audience had subconsciously learned a truth—understand first, then question.

After all, those who liked to question Jiao Qingyin had already been “slapped in the face” countless times.

Thus, they watched as Jiao Qingyin removed the blood vessels and fascia from the meat, cut them into small pieces, skewered them with clean branches, and placed them over the flames.

The aroma of fat immediately wafted out.

Many viewers with holographic viewing mode enabled started salivating.

“Smells so good—!!”

“What is this fragrance? I’m hungry as soon as I smell it.”

“Can star beast meat actually be eaten?”

Seeing the raw meat slowly change color, Jiao Qingyin stood up and walked toward Wen Fengyue.

She left the half-roasted meat unattended. Because the star beast’s corpse was there, no creature dared to approach rashly, and that pack of wolves, having been driven away by her, remained huddled in the bushes, making it even less likely they would steal the food.

Under the tree, Jiao Qingyin looked up at the high branches filled with flowers, a much more genuine smile appearing on her face.

With neither dagger on her person, Jiao Qingyin didn’t use her previous climbing method. Instead, she grabbed a vine, used the leverage to jump, and landed mid-air onto a nearby branch.

In a few seconds, she reached Wen Fengyue’s side.

Wen Fengyue had her eyes closed, arms wrapped around her knees, sleeping soundly.

Jiao Qingyin reached out with the hand that could easily snap a beast’s spine, patted Wen Fengyue’s head, and gently called her: “Time to wake up.”

She called twice before Wen Fengyue opened her eyes groatily, “…Jiao Jiao?”

After meeting Jiao Qingyin’s smiling eyes for two seconds, Wen Fengyue recognized the person in front of her and subconsciously opened her arms.

Jiao Qingyin did not disappoint her, leaning down to embrace her.

Wen Fengyue rested her chin on Jiao Qingyin’s shoulder, her eyelids fighting to stay open. To wake herself up, she tilted her head and buried her nose in Jiao Qingyin’s hair, taking a deep breath.

There was the scent of grass and flowers, and a bit of… a metallic scent?

Wen Fengyue blinked in confusion.

The night breeze blew against her body, tossing her hair and waking her up further, allowing her to recall the dream she just had.

“Jiao Jiao,” she loosened her grip slightly and looked at Jiao Qingyin, “I just dreamed of you.”

“What did you dream about?”

“I dreamed… I became a puppy, and you held me in your arms to sunbathe in the garden.”

Jiao Qingyin’s heart stirred. The fingers resting on Wen Fengyue’s back tightened slightly. “And then?”

“Then… you were always feeding me a very sweet cookie and giving me wine to drink…”

Jiao Qingyin: “…”

She had taken Al to the garden so many times, yet the first thing the other remembered was her experience of being fed unpalatable food.

The comments also snapped out of the warm, sweet romantic atmosphere. Some people began spamming warnings like “Dogs can’t drink wine”.

Jiao Qingyin hadn’t known the common knowledge of raising dogs in the past, but after coming to this world, she had learned plenty from the Star Net.

…Though her understanding came a bit late, as she had not only fed Al cookies and wine but also chocolate…

“Thinking about it that way, the nutrition was quite balanced,” Jiao Qingyin told herself.

Wen Fengyue saw the comment screen and finally remembered that her and Jiao Qingyin’s every move was being watched. She immediately felt displeased.

She “snapped” the comment function off, and the people watching from her perspective were collectively muted.

Shocked, dissatisfied, and extremely annoyed, the audience could only flood into Jiao Qingyin’s perspective to protest Wen Fengyue’s tyrannical behavior.

Jiao Qingyin found it funny. She ruffled Wen Fengyue’s hair and asked casually, “Then, do you like the feeling of being a puppy?”

Although it was just a casual question, Wen Fengyue began to think seriously. Her focused expression was as if she were contemplating some profound life problem.

A minute later, she gave her answer: “I like it, but I don’t like being a puppy all the time.”

Jiao Qingyin was curious: “Oh? Why?”

Wen Fengyue replied solemnly: “Being a puppy means I can be held in your arms and taken to all sorts of places to play, but that way, I can’t hold you back.”

As she spoke, she embraced Jiao Qingyin again, holding her tightly before finishing her sentence: “…I hope I can hold you forever.”

Her direct and intense affection caused a faint blush to appear on Jiao Qingyin’s face.

How could her Al be this cute…

“Holy crap? I heard there was a female demon here who killed a star beast in seconds and even skinned and dismembered it, so I came in. Did I enter the wrong room?”

“You didn’t. What? Female demons aren’t allowed to have love?”

“Female demons can have love, but shouldn’t a female demon have that yandere-style bloody love? This is so pure my teeth are about to rot from the sweetness!”

“I’m crying. Our Caramel Moon is just too perfect together.”

By now, news of Jiao Qingyin killing a 5-star lethality mutated star beast had filled the Star Net. A massive number of viewers were continuously pouring into her livestream, only to be fed a giant mouthful of romance.

Fans who had left midway out of fear also returned. Although they found Jiao Qingyin’s strength incredibly unbelievable, they were mostly pleasantly surprised.

Seeing Jiao Qingyin survive successfully and shine in “Blue Star Adventurer” made them so excited they almost blew the roof off with their screams.

Facing doubts from some people on the Star Net, some fans even dug up old footage of “Jiao Qingyin.” An interview video from her debut became the most widely circulated.

In the video, the “Jiao Qingyin” from back then said: “I am the strongest person in the universe, possessing strength you can’t even imagine.”

The host interviewing her smiled while smoothing things over, and the subbing team even added a “Chuunibyou” tag next to her head.

This video had previously been used by Jiao Qingyin’s anti-fans to mock her, but now, it served as evidence of her hiding her strength.

The comments became lively and varied—some were fixated on the smell of meat from earlier, some were explaining to other viewers what “Caramel Moon” was, and some were seriously discussing academic issues…

Until Wen Fengyue noticed the abnormality under the tree, and the comments paused.

They really wanted to know what Wen Fengyue’s reaction would be when she saw the star beast Jiao Qingyin had hunted—after all, judging by their behavior during the tree climbing, she wasn’t aware of Jiao Qingyin’s strength.

“There seems to be firelight over there…” Wen Fengyue gripped Jiao Qingyin’s hand, her face sinking slightly.

Jiao Qingyin admitted directly: “I started that fire.”

Wen Fengyue snapped her head around, “You went down the tree by yourself just now?”

Jiao Qingyin knew her too well. So, before Wen Fengyue could get angry, she gave her a peck on the forehead.

“!!” Wen Fengyue’s face instantly turned red, forgetting what she had wanted to say.

But she quickly came to her senses, “Jiao—”

Peck, another one.

Wen Fengyue’s forehead was hot enough to start a fire. She glared at Jiao Qingyin, looking extremely angry yet unable to vent it.

“Don’t worry,” Jiao Qingyin shook her hand and pleaded softly, “I won’t let myself encounter danger.”

“…” Wen Fengyue turned away in frustration, refusing to speak.

But while she was angry, she couldn’t help but recall those two kisses on her forehead—what did Jiao Qingyin mean? She kissed her in front of the camera. Was this a hint? Or…

Halfway through her thought, she heard Jiao Qingyin read a comment, “‘Are you a couple? Why aren’t you kissing on the lips’…”

Wen Fengyue’s heart rate accelerated instantly, forcing her to steady herself by holding the tree trunk to avoid losing her composure.

As long as Jiao Qingyin showed a bit of hesitation or any unnatural behavior, she, she would—

“Of course we’re not a couple. We’re friends. Friends can kiss each other on the forehead too.”

Jiao Qingyin laughed and denied the comment, then turned to meet Wen Fengyue’s eyes. “Right, Teacher Wen?”

Wen Fengyue: “…”

Wen Fengyue froze for a long time before slowly nodding.

She was a bit spaced out, so much so that she didn’t realize how wrong the surroundings were until Jiao Qingyin led her to the fire.

Many trees were snapped in half, the mutated star beast—the obvious culprit—lay on the ground, and on the fire Jiao Qingyin started, there were skewers full of meat…

Wen Fengyue looked at Jiao Qingyin, only to find her looking helpless, with a bit of a dazed expression similar to her own.

“When I came down, it was already here. I just cut off a bit of its meat… if we can eat roast meat, let’s set aside the nutrient solutions and dry rations for now.”

Wen Fengyue: “…”

Wen Fengyue didn’t speak. The comments that had been asking what smelled so good also went silent.

“No, Jiao Qingyin, do you think anyone would believe that?”

“Teacher Wen definitely saw through it.”

“A mutated star beast is dead in front of you with a dagger in it—though you can’t see the dagger from this angle—at least prepare a script for your lies!”

The comment screen on Jiao Qingyin’s side was a bit far from Wen Fengyue, so she didn’t see those comments. She just let her gaze scan back and forth between Jiao Qingyin and the star beast.

Jiao Qingyin gave a weak smile, like a little white flower in the wind.

Wen Fengyue took a deep breath.

While the comments were all thinking Wen Fengyue was going to interrogate Jiao Qingyin, she took the other’s hand instead. “It’s dangerous. Next time, you must call me to go with you.”

If one listened carefully, a slight grinding of teeth could be heard when she spoke, as if the anger from before hadn’t fully dissipated and more fuel had just been added to the fire.

Jiao Qingyin was about to nod in agreement, but just as her head moved, Wen Fengyue pinched her palm.

Wen Fengyue stared into Jiao Qingyin’s eyes and emphasized through gritted teeth, “Definitely. Call. Me.”

Even if she could do nothing, it was at least better than finding out afterward that Jiao Qingyin had faced danger alone.

Stared at by her persistent gaze, Jiao Qingyin’s casual attitude dissipated quite a bit. She was a bit helpless but answered much more seriously than before: “Okay.”

The two sat by the fire. Jiao Qingyin pulled a seasoning bottle from her bag and twisted it twice, failing to open it.

She handed the seasoning bottle to Wen Fengyue, looking at her expectantly.

Wen Fengyue: “…”

The comments were again flooded with question marks, with countless people questioning Jiao Qingyin’s behavior.

“Where’s the person who just killed a star beast with one hand? Where’s the person who just told a wolf pack to get lost?”

Among them, one comment was liked countless times, causing it to glow red: “With this kind of double-standard behavior, you still want to say you’re just friends? Is it that as long as you don’t go to bed, you’re just friends?”

Jiao Qingyin pretended not to see these question marks. She propped up her head, her gaze toward Wen Fengyue full of anticipation.

Wen Fengyue knew perfectly well the other was faking, yet she still had to admit she fell for it.

The different attitude Jiao Qingyin showed toward her compared to everything else hit exactly on Wen Fengyue’s heart every single time.

Wen Fengyue took the seasoning bottle and unscrewed it.

Amidst the hungry howls of the comments, they shared this meal of roast meat together.

#Turns out star beasts can be eaten# also quietly made it onto the Star Net trending topics.

The people of Blue Star were inspired by Jiao Qingyin’s desire for gourmet food; they also wanted to taste roasted star beast meat!

The proliferation of star beasts had always been a hidden danger for low-level planets. Because the profit from hunting them was too low, every expedition by defense teams was more of a loss than a gain, so the problem was never solved.

Yet overnight, similar comments appeared on the official websites of countless low-level planetary capitals: “Buying star beast meat at a high price, large quantities preferred.”

At this time, the people on low-level planets hadn’t realized that this seemingly ordinary night would become the turning point for them to become wealthier.

During the second half of the night, Wen Fengyue took the watch. Jiao Qingyin slept in the tent they had just set up, while she watched the stars at the tent’s entrance.

After an unknown amount of time, Wen Fengyue suddenly heard a faint wolf cry.

She immediately became alert. Taking her radar, she stood up and looked over. In the process, her hand accidentally struck the nearby tree trunk.

After a tiny creak, the giant tree began to snap at the exact spot she touched it—breaking in half.

Wen Fengyue: “…”

The viewers who had been watching the livestream all night and were half-asleep: “…?”

“Why is my new keyboard broken? Oh, it’s because I was watching Jiao Qingyin and Wen Fengyue’s livestream and wore out the question mark key.”