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88. A Lot of Fallen Beasts
After finding Ian and company, Chris used the military emergency communication channel to contact the people in the capital star. He conveyed the situation on the Fallen Beast Planet, but he himself did not immediately go back.
He fell ill.
Beastmen seldom fell ill, but Chris was not young after all. In addition to having gone through a big upset, he had also stayed strong for quite a long time. Naturally, he could not stand it. After everything was settled, he fell ill.
At first he only felt very tired, but he soon began to ache all over. At the same time, some of his old injuries were also triggered off, inducing a low fever.
Chris rarely fell ill, but although he was ill now, he did not feel uncomfortable. After all, Ian was always at his side, taking care of him.
Such an experience of being taken care of was very rare for him. Because as a beastman, he had always taken care of Ian instead of Ian taking care of him.
Talk about taking care of Ian . . . . He had been so busy he had not had much time to take care of Ian, and it had been a long time since they had spent time together without being disturbed.
"I stewed some soup. You eat it, okay." Ian came in from the outside with a bowl of fish soup on his hand. "I don"t know what fish this is, but it’s been tested and has very good nutrients. You can eat more."
Seeing Ian, Chris smiled and suddenly remembered the days when they first knew each other. At that time, they disguised themselves and pretended to be a pair of ordinary partners. Ian would cook for him then, but later . . . .
Ian’s cooking skills could not compare with the robots’, and they were also very busy. Gradually, Ian stopped doing it. Today, finally, he could once again eat a love meal that Ian made personally.
The fish soup did not smell good at all, but it was cooked personally by his own sub-beastman . . . . Chris raised the bowl with both hands and drank a big mouthful of soup. Then he took a pair of chopsticks and ate the fish meat as he drank the soup.
Sub-beastmen ate fish very carefully for fear that they would get a fish bone stuck in their throats, but beastmen certainly didn’t have to be so careful when eating fish. The fish used by Ian for stewing the soup was not big, and its thorns were thin and soft. Chris chewed the fish directly and then swallowed it down into his stomach.
Chris ate with gusto, making another being in the room envious. A little snake slithered to the front of Chris and abruptly turned into a white, fat baby, who then stared at Chris impatiently, eyes full of thirst for the fish soup.
Chris did not feel bored when he was recuperating. Besides having Ian to keep him company, there was also another reason. His grandson always accompanied him while he was recuperating.
He could not say how close he was to his son, but his love toward his grandson was beyond words. Just seeing his grandson already made him thoroughly happy. As soon as he thought of his other grandson in Shu Shu’s belly, his mood was even better.
He previously thought that their imperial family was going to be a thing of the past. He did not expect that they now got two children all at once.
"Xiao Bao also wants to drink?" Chris smiled at Xiao Bao. He took a spoonful of soup and blew it to cool before feeding it to the baby. The baby opened his mouth wide and gulped down a mouthful of soup. After that, he continued to stare at Chris impatiently like before.
When Shu Shu and Edgar came over, the child had not only drunk the fish soup but also eaten a lot of other things. He was lying supine on the bed while stroking his own belly; his hands and feet were fleshy, and his gurgles were especially cute.
"Xiao Bao!" Shu Shu liked children very much. Seeing the baby, he rushed up to hug him and give him a few kisses. Xiao Bao hugged Shu Shu back and also kissed Shu Shu a few times and even called "mama"—this child was still small and unable to talk yet, but he could utter some simple p.r.o.nunciation now.
"Xiao Bao can already talk! You’re really amazing!" Shu Shu, holding the child, gave the child a few more kisses.
The little beastman was well-fed and not p.r.o.ne to crying. He was not impatient at all as he was caught and kissed by Shu Shu. On the contrary, he gave a gurgle of laughter and kissed Shu Shu back.
Edgar, who came in later, was still snake-shaped and unable to do anything and thus felt that it was extremely unsightly. "Shu Shu, don"t spoil the little beastman like this."
"How do I spoil him?" Shu Shu glanced at Edgar, unconvinced. He only kissed and hugged his own child, that’s all.
"Edgar, you can"t be so harsh on children." Ian said. "Children must be taught well. If they do something wrong, you can"t be excessively tolerant of them, but you also can"t be cold to them. I always disapprove of many of the beastmen"s parenting methods." Baby Xiao Bao was so cute, ah! He also wanted to hold him for a while!
Edgar could only turn his gaze toward his father. He remembered that when he was a child, his father often said that little beastmen should not be pampered so they could toughen up. It might be a.s.sumed that his father was endorsing his parenting philosophy.
As a result . . . . Chris coughed twice. "The child’s still young. Wait until he’s three years old before training him properly. We’ll just throw him into the military camp to learn through experience for a few days."
Edgar: ". . ." Beastmen started to form memories early, and so he had memories from when he was very young. At that time, Chris clearly didn’t say so!
“Going to the military camp when he’s three years old?” Shu Shu opened his eyes wide in astonishment. He wanted to refute, but he suddenly thought of the growth speed of beastmen, which seemed to be very different from that of humans.
Maybe beastmen could really go to the military camp when they were still very young . . . . Come to think about it, ordinary hamsters generally lived for less than three years.
"A three-year-old beastman can already do a lot of things." Ian looked at Shu Shu and smiled. "Once I return to the capital star, I’ll send you the videos taken when Edgar was three years old along with other videos . . . ."
“Okay." Shu Shu nodded and suddenly remembered something. "Are you going to go back? "
“We’ll go back in a few days." Ian nodded. Edgar presently was still a fallen beast and could not go back to the capital star, but he and Chris had to go back. After all, they still had a lot of work that needed to be done.
Anyway, they had already decided. Otherwise, it would not take long before they became loafers!
Chris and Ian really left after a few days, but Shu Shu and Edgar stayed on the Fallen Beast Planet. At the same time, the Imperial Fleet also left behind several warships on the Fallen Beast Planet.
In the capital star, many people who were very busy with their jobs would often had a notion to find a remote and isolated planet where they could be far from the Internet and live quietly all alone for a while. Let them live that way for a few days, and they could still stand it. However, if you let them live a little longer, they absolutely wouldn’t be able to stand it.
How could people who were accustomed to the Internet bear to live without it?
The crown prince and the crown princess had to live on the Fallen Beast Planet for quite a long time. Many people thought that this was a very painful thing. In reality, whether it was Edgar or Shu Shu, they both adapted well to this kind of life.
Their previous living conditions were quite hard and really not very convenient, but now that there was the Imperial Fleet, their lives were practically very comfortable.
Cultivate, sleep, look after the child, and a day of hard work would pa.s.s in the twinkling of an eye. As for going online . . . as long as there was a tablet to download some TV dramas, Shu Shu now could watch those things until the end of time. He totally didn’t care about having no star network.
Over time, Edgar"s strength recovered more and more. At the same time, a piece of news spread on the Fallen Beast Planet—the crown prince and the crown princess of the Beastman Empire were on the Fallen Beast Planet, and the crown princess could help the fallen beasts restore their beast cores!
The Fallen Beast Planet was very large. At first, this matter was only known to the fallen beasts in the vicinity of Edgar and company, but slowly, the news began to spread out, and then more and more fallen beasts knew. On top of that, all the fallen beasts who knew the news were coming to the place where Edgar and company were located.
Which fallen beast did not want to become a beastman again?
Even those fallen beasts whose minds were already not so clear also wanted to become beastmen again.
Compared with the total population of the Beastman Empire, the number of beastmen who became fallen beasts every year in the Beastman Empire was actually not many. But because the current population of the Beastman Empire was very many, there were at least seven or eight hundred beastmen. Oftentimes, the number even reached a thousand or two. In this way, the fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet were getting more and more.
When Reynolds had not yet arrived on the Fallen Beast Planet, the fallen beasts had been killing each other. But in the past thirty years, such things had rarely been seen.
There were nearly thirty thousand fallen beasts who lived on the Fallen Beast Planet nowadays. At present, these fallen beasts basically already knew about Edgar and Shu Shu.
In an area very, very far away from Edgar and company, a slightly-built hyena fallen beast traveled through the jungle at full speed and finally arrived in front of some mounds hidden inside the forest.
"Mike, what happened outside?" A huge snake slithered out of a mound and turned his gaze toward the hyena as he used his tail to hold a twig and write on the ground. They lived in the forest and seldom came in contact with the outside world. They basically relied on the hyena to get the news . . . . Of course, there was actually no important news on the Fallen Beast Planet.
The hyena made some barks, and then, worried that his explanation was unclear, he eventually started to write on the ground with his claws and quickly wrote down everything that happened outside clearly.
A good deal of fallen beasts came out one after another from the surrounding mounds. There were many kinds of fallen beasts, but the most in number among them were undoubtedly snakes. They all saw the words written by the hyena and, from time to time, made some low roars or flicked their tongues. Someone could actually help the fallen beasts restore their beast cores? This was real?
"Everyone’s rushing over there. I have to go too." The hyena wrote again.
The fallen beasts who came out of the mounds looked at each other in surprise, and their eyes were full of excitement. They also wanted to go; they wanted to repair their beast cores and become beastmen again!
The huge snake, who was the very first to come out from the mound, suddenly swatted a tree on the side with his tail, breaking the tree directly as well as making the excited fallen beasts on the scene quieten down.
"Don"t forget why we’d stay here. Do you think they’ll really help us restore our beast cores?" The words the huge snake wrote down silenced the rest of the fallen beasts on the scene.
Yeah, even though other fallen beasts had the opportunity to become beastmen again, they did not. How could those people be willing to spend their efforts on a group of criminals?
However, should they continue to hide here and wait for the day they went crazy or died just because of this?
The eyes of these fallen beasts were full of unwillingness. That snake beastman once again wrote, "Let"s go take a look at the situation first and put off the discussion until later."
There were countless fallen beasts gathering near the area where Edgar and company lived, but there were only Reynolds and his men to maintain order as well as the Imperial Fleet to intimidate. This actually didn’t affect Shu Shu at all.
But even so, Shu Shu still felt that the pressure was quite big.
With so many fallen beasts, even if he had enough eggsh.e.l.ls, restoring one a day meant that it would take ten years to finish the whole lot!
Shu Shu suddenly regretted it very much. He regretted not keeping his mouth shut and saying that he could restore the beast core as soon as he met Reynolds and others . . . . If he had known earlier that there were so many fallen beasts, he certainly wouldn’t have made such irresponsible remarks!
But it was already too late . . . .
Shu Shu was very distressed, and Edgar could sense his mood. After thinking about it, he briefed his subordinates to go prepare a candlelight dinner.
Shu Shu was very easy to coax. Just give him something delicious, and he would cheer up right away.