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Chapter 458: Chapter 459: No Cubs for Twenty Years
After a moment of hesitance, he finally made up his mind to ask. "My Mermaid Clan has not given birth to a cub for ten full seasons. You are a messenger of the Beast God, can you ask the Beast God if there is a solution? Otherwise, if this continues, my Mermaid Clan will eventually be extinct!"
Su Tang was almost taken aback!
Ten full seasons!
That’s twenty years. In twenty years, if no new members have been added to the population, it is indeed a terrifying number.
If they haven’t been able to produce a cub in so many years, they can basically rule out that they are suffering from rare diseases.
After all, the Beastman Continent is full of fantasy, she couldn’t apply the possibilities from her Earth to here, especially when mermaids do not exist on Earth. n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
Ye Qiao looked at Su Tang, aware of the System’s situation, she understood that Su Tang was not a Beast God’s messenger, so she was very worried that this problem would make her difficult.
After Su Tang gave her a reassuring glance, she turned to Hai Qin.
"I can promise to try, but I cannot guarantee that there will be a solution. Or even the solution is too difficult, I might not be able to do it."
Hai Qin breathed a sigh of relief, he nodded quickly, "Thank you! I’m grateful that you’re willing to ask. If there could be a solution, nothing could be better!"
Wen Jue also interjected at this time,"The White Tiger Clan has not given birth to a cub for four seasons, and there are only one hundred and eight people left in the clan."
Hai Qin immediately made a bitter face,"There are only seventy-four mermaids left. We are not far from extinction..."
Su Tang was stunned. They seemed to be heading straight for the road of extinction with no intention of looking back!
Without thinking too much, she opened the System’s Survival Q&A page.
[Ding! Please enter the question you need to query!]
’Why haven’t the Mermaid Clan and the White Tiger Clan had cubs for many years? How can they give birth to cubs?’
[Ding! The answer to the current question has been queried. Do you want to spend 10000 Exchange Points to view it? 0/1]
Su Tang fell silent for a moment.
It seemed like the Sea Tribal Chief had a grudge against her. She had just arrived and was already consuming an Intermediate Survival Q&A and an Advanced Survival Q&A, not to mention so many Exchange Points!
It seemed that last time she had over twenty thousand Exchange Points left, almost thirty thousand.
Good grief, querying a question directly deducted a third of it.
She was in pain, every part of her body hurt!
But then she thought about the Crystal Stones. In order to live a few more days, she took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and went for it!
[Ding! You have successfully unlocked the answer to the question, the current balance of Exchange Points...]
The anguish caused Su Tang to close the tips panel before the balance could load.
Then, the answer to the queried question popped up on another panel.
The Unresolved Mystery of the Mermaids Not Having Cubs:
It is rumored that the Beastman Continent is a new world created solely by the Beast God. At the dawn of the new world, five beasts have always accompanied the Beast God. The Beast God loved the five beasts extraordinarily and granted them the power of the Five Elements between Heaven and Earth.
To prevent the Five Beasts from becoming too powerful and encroaching on the living space of other species, regulations have been set that the descendants of the Five Beasts will inherit their clan’s Heavenly and Earthly Primordial Power, and can have at most two cubs. However, the chance of pregnancy for the clans of the Five Beasts is only one third of that of other clans.
The Mermaid Clan belongs to cold-blooded species and is not easy to get pregnant. Plus, they live at the bottom of the sea all year round, so they have a Profound Cold Physique. This reduces their chances of pregnancy significantly.
