Wednesday, January 29, 2020

A Guide to - 96

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96. Hamster Little Beastman
 

The three spaceships slowly landed and stopped in the desert area near the newly built base. After the spaceships were settled, people who had experienced the long interstellar voyage could hardly wait to get off the spaceships.
 
The gravity and the air on the Fallen Beast Planet were not the same at all as in the capital star, and nor were they the same as the environment simulated on board the spaceships. After the doors of the spaceships were opened, a large number of people on the spaceships slowed down to acclimatize themselves, and then they saw yellow sand as far as the eye could see.
 
There was no desert in the capital star. This desert on the Fallen Beast Planet made many people exclaim in astonishment. After that, they saw many fallen beasts in the distance.
 
This planet really deserved to be called the Fallen Beast Planet; there were actually so many fallen beasts here!
 
"Your Imperial Highness, Imperial Guard Kevin reports to you." A handsome young man jumped down from the spaceship belonging to the imperial family, stood in front of Edgar, and saluted Edgar. Seeing Edgar keep a humanoid form, his hands trembled slightly, and he blurted out excitedly, "Your Imperial Highness, have you recovered? It’s really great!"
 
When the imperial guard was in the capital star, he was responsible for protecting the imperial family, and his relationship with the imperial family had always been very good. Kevin was once Edgar's junior schoolmate, so his relationship with Edgar was even closer.
 
"Kevin." Edgar nodded at Kevin and then ordered someone to unload everything Kevin brought from the spaceship.
 
Kevin brought many people, including doctors and childcare experts, but most of them were soldiers. The soldiers were well-adapted to interstellar travel and also very orderly. They quickly transported the supplies after the spaceship stopped, and everything looked well-organized.
 
Everything was clear and in good order here, but the other two spaceships there looked a little chaotic.
 
The civilian spaceship was organized by an interstellar adventure group. Among them were many adventurers, who were very curious about the Fallen Beast Planet and wanted to come to the Fallen Beast Planet to take a look, as well as some families of the fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet.
 
The long interstellar voyage made the people on this spaceship a little dispirited and listless. They scrambled to get off the spaceship early without giving thought to others and caused a small riot. After leaving the spaceship, most of them still looked blank, obviously unsure of what to do and where to go next.
 
As for the private spaceship, two beastmen came down from it as soon as it stopped, and now they were anxiously looking everywhere for a doctor. Apparently, the owner of the spaceship was sick.
 
The Fallen Beast Planet currently lacked management. Edgar did not want too many people to come here and was not particularly welcoming to the two spaceships. But people had already come, and he also couldn’t ignore them.
 
After telling the soldiers to register the people coming down from the civilian spaceship and persuade them to keep staying on the spaceship as well as letting Reynolds take Jones to check out the private spaceship, Edgar finally waited for Shu Shu’s arrival.
 
"Edgar, there’re a lot of delicious things?" Shu Shu ran a little hurriedly, eyes as bright as the full moon.
 
"Yeah." Edgar nodded. He had already ordered someone to bring the fine food and set it aside earlier. Now, seeing Shu Shu coming over, he immediately stuffed an enormous fresh-keeping box into Shu Shu's hands.
 
Opening the fresh-keeping box, Shu Shu saw all sorts of desserts and fruits.
 
This fresh-keeping box had a freezing effect, so the desserts and fruits inside were a bit iced. Shu Shu took a piece of dessert from the box, put it in his mouth, and immediately closed his eyes in satisfaction.
 
This dessert was an ice cream cake, which was icy cold and tasted very, very delicious when eaten in the blistering hot and dry desert. It was simply yummy.
 
After eating the cake, Shu Shu quickly chose a sugar ball with a layer of crunchy nuts on the outside . . . . The outer layer of the sugar ball was very crispy, but the filling was a liquid with a strong milk flavor . . . . Shu Shu did not know exactly what the liquid was, but he knew that it was icy-cold and particularly delicious.
 
Shu Shu began to stuff food into his mouth incessantly. Some were eaten by him, and some were stored by him. After he ate for a while, a pair of small hands suddenly grabbed him, and then a child hugged his leg.
 
"Mum . . . Mum . . . ." Xiao Bao hugged Shu Shu's leg and uttered some simple syllables. He kept swallowing his saliva as he stared at the food box in Shu Shu's hand. Recently, he had been staying in the spirit gathering formation every day, and the duration in which he turned into a human form was getting longer.
 
Could children eat dessert? How much could they eat? Shu Shu did not dare to feed Xiao Bao too many snacks. He finally took out a fruit and stuffed it into Xiao Bao's mouth.
 
As a beastman, Xiao Bao was not particularly fond of eating fruits, but he had very few chances to eat fruits on the Fallen Beast Planet, and the taste of those fruits was basically not so good, so now the fragrant and sweet fruit in his mouth made him like it very much. He immediately opened his mouth wide and continued to demand for more.
 
Shu Shu stuffed him with another one.
 
Shu Shu himself ate three, fed the child one, and then picked another fruit for the child to eat. It did not take long for all the food in the food box to be eaten up.
 
Edgar took the empty food box in Shu Shu's hand and stuffed him with a full one.
 
"You’re really good, Edgar!" Shu Shu took the food box and kissed Edgar happily.
 
Shu Shu's soft lips fell on his face, making his face numb and his heart tingle . . . . Edgar could not do anything in the public place with numerous people, so he just picked Xiao Bao up and kissed his face, tasting some fruit juice in the kiss.
 
"Edgar." Just as their family of three were being joyous and harmonious, a voice suddenly intruded.
 
This voice was somewhat familiar. Shu Shu, who was busy eating, turned his head and found that the person who came over was actually Myer.
 
In Shu Shu's memory, Myer was full of grandeur, but now he looked wan and sallow and had lost a lot of weight. Nevertheless, all of this did not reduce his looks into a sick beauty. He looked at Edgar with joy, and tears emerged in his eyes uncontrolled, but he still managed to restrain himself in the end and did not shed any tears. After calming down, the excited expression on his face was also collected.
 
"Myer?" Edgar glanced at Myer in surprise and then looked behind Myer, only to realize that the private spaceship belonged to Myer.
 
As the son of a duke, and very talented at that, it was not strange at all for Myer to have a private spaceship. But he actually didn’t expect that Myer would go so far as to rush over here from thousands of miles away.
 
"I heard that your beast core’s broken . . . . Are you all right?" Myer's voice somewhat quavered, but when Edgar listened carefully, he could not hear it again.
 
"I'm fine. Shu Shu helped me restore it." Edgar said; his expression was very gentle when he mentioned Shu Shu. A second later, he remembered something. "You came to find Calvin? He's over there."
 
In Edgar's impression, Myer and Calvin's relationship had always been very good, and Calvin also liked Meyer . . . . He regarded these two men as a couple.
 
Myer stopped breathing for an instant and then laughed bitterly.
 
After he knew that Edgar had an accident, he was very worried and rushed over here from thousands of miles away. He fell ill on the road and even had to be supported to come down from the spaceship. As a result, this was what he got in the end.
 
Although he had long realized that he and Edgar were no longer possible, but it was not until this moment that all his unwillingness disappeared completely.
 
Edgar really didn't think of him at all.
 
Myer raised his head and saw Calvin standing nearby staring at him. He took a deep breath and then walked towards Calvin.
 
The arrival of these three spaceships brought a burgeoning vitality to the base.
 
Although there were many fallen beasts in this base before, but because the fallen beasts could not speak, it made this place looked more like a large zoo than a human base. Now was different though; there were a lot of people and human voices here.
 
Some beastmen and sub-beastmen who came to find their fallen beast relatives brought out a lot of laughter in the base after getting reunited with their fallen beast relatives. Of course, some people were happy, some were anxious, and some who did not find their close relatives in the base ultimately looked sad.
 
But Edgar had no time to take care of all this because he and Shu Shu's second child was about to come out of the shell.
 
This child had stayed in Shu Shu's belly for a relatively long time, but after being birthed by Shu Shu, his development speed inside the eggshell was faster than Xiao Bao’s.
 
As a matter of fact, the egg could already move not long after being put in the spirit gathering formation. And now, there was a crack appearing on the eggshell.
 
Many people saw the moment Xiao Bao was born, but Shu Shu and Edgar did not intend to let others see the birth of this child—maybe a sub-beastman would come out of the egg, and since a sub-beastman baby was born naked, how could they let him be seen by irrelevant people?
 
The egg was held in Shu Shu’s arms while being gently caressed and stroked by Edgar. Both of them were constantly inputting spiritual power into the egg . . .  yet the egg’s speed of breaking the shell was still very slow. It seemed that he was not in the slightest hurry to come out.
 
"Why’s this child so slow in breaking the shell?" Having waited for quite a long time without seeing the crack widen, Shu Shu was a little depressed. "I’m hungry."
 
"I'll get you something to eat." Hearing that Shu Shu was hungry, Edgar immediately went to the kitchen. It did not take long for him to come back in with some piping hot food in both hands.
 
There were two chefs among the people who came this time. They were now responsible for cooking for Shu Shu and Xiao Bao to ensure that whenever Shu Shu wanted to eat, the food would be prepared quickly.
 
Holding the child, Shu Shu started to eat the food in front of him.
 
There was also rice in the Beastman Empire. Since Shu Shu preferred rice to other staple foods, the chef often cooked rice for him to eat. Today, the chef cooked fried rice.
 
Fried rice with a lot of ingredients smelled especially fragrant, and Shu Shu’s saliva was about to flow out . . . .
 
"I love you. I’m in love with you. Just like mice love rice . . . ." Shu Shu hummed a song and gobbled up the fried rice in front of him. As he ate happily, the egg in his hand suddenly produced a scratching sound.
 
The child inside the egg seemed to be scratching the eggshell . . . . Shu Shu stopped eating and stared at the egg instead, fixing his attention on the egg.
 
The child's movement was getting bigger and bigger, and the crack was also getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly, a very small hole appeared in the eggshell.
 
"The child’s coming out!" Shu Shu stared at the egg excitedly. He had already prepared himself for seeing a snake head drill out of the small hole. But he did not expect that after the small hole became bigger, what extended from the inside was actually a small white paw.
 
Paw? So . . . it was not a sub-beastman but a beastman again? Seeing this scene, Shu Shu and Edgar were terribly disappointed but also a little curious—Edgar and the little snake were both black, and their paws were also black. Why was it a white paw that stretched out this time? Was the child genetically mutated? Some doubt appeared in Shu Shu's heart, and at that moment, that paw thrust out again . . . .
 
This . . . seemed to look different from Edgar's paws?
 
How could this be? Why would this child not look like his father, ah?
 
Shu Shu frowned, a bit puzzled. Edgar, however, was pleasantly surprised and stated, "Shu Shu, this child is like you!"
 
"Like me?" Shu Shu was startled and only then realized that the paw looked like a hamster paw.
 
There was a sudden surge of joy in his heart, and for a moment, he wished he could pry open the egg and take a look at the child inside. Of course, he still curbed his impulse in the end—helping the child to open the eggshell was disadvantageous to the child; he certainly shouldn’t do such a thing.
 
He actually gave birth to a little hamster this time! A hamster, ah! Watching the little paw that was struggling with the eggshell, Shu Shu felt his heart melt.
 
This was his little baby and also the cutest little baby in this world . . . . Really, why were these beast people all oviparous? Their hamster family was always viviparous. As a matter of fact, wasn’t making the little hamster crawl out of the eggshell the same as tormenting him?
 
Shu Shu felt very sorry for his own child. Just now, the hole in the eggshell got a little bigger, and at the same time, a tiny mouth that belonged to a hamster poked out of the hole, and a pink little nose sniffed in, apparently breathing outside air.
 
"It's a little hamster! It’s really a little hamster!" Shu Shu was extremely happy.
 
Edgar was also very happy. He was very fond of little hamsters now. However . . . when this child was born, it was in a hamster form. So, he was a hamster beastman?
 
A hamster beastman, ah . . . . Edgar glanced at Shu Shu, somewhat worried.
 
In fact, Shu Shu really wanted to say that he was still very strong, but he was a hamster, and his courage was too small, so this strength would often not come to light. If his child was a hamster beastman . . . .
 
Edgar tried to imagine Shu Shu doing his many antics in a tall and sturdy beastman body. After turning it over in his mind, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up. He did not get into a tangle when he knew that Shu Shu was a beastman, but he was somewhat thrown off balance over the possibility that he might have a beastman son who was not like a beastman.
 
Anyway . . . Shu Shu's situation was very special, so maybe his child would also be very special?
 
Edgar felt it was too early to start getting into a tangle, and his gaze soon fell on the egg again.
 
The paw sticking out of the eggshell was very small. Obviously, the child inside the eggshell was also very small . . . . Thinking that he would have a tiny hamster child who could be held in the palm of his hand, Edgar felt his heart melt and looked forward to the child even more.
 
And at this time, the hole in the eggshell was a little bigger, and then a tiny hamster head poked out from the hole completely. There was no hair on his head, making people can see the pink skin, which totally gave the impression that you should not touch it rashly . . . .



Wednesday, January 22, 2020

A Guide to - 95

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95. There Are Spaceships Coming
 

It was not easy to train a group of fallen beasts. After all, their beast forms and types were so varied that there was no way at all to train them uniformly.
 
Anyway, Reynolds had no plan to train them into a regular army. He just wanted to let those fallen beasts vent their vigorous energy and understand a few rules, which was a very simple matter actually.
 
At first, these fallen beasts were a complete mess during training, but now they could already line up into neat and tidy rows. Even more, they could make many extremely difficult moves according to orders, which was a huge progress.
 
These fallen beasts were trained during the day, and at night, Reynolds would show them movies outdoors, making them watch various videos that the military got for the soldiers to watch.
 
These videos were specifically selected for soldiers to watch and had passed censorship. Other than that, all of them were to promote positive energy and also proclaim some spirits such as "selfless dedication" and so on.
 
These things were not too suitable for ordinary people, but it was just right for these fallen beasts to watch. The fallen beasts had encountered huge changes and had been abandoned by the entire society. Many of them hated normal beastmen and sub-beastman out of jealousy. With this kind of mentality, they were unsuitable to re-enter society.
 
Right now, there was no way to do psychological coaching on them, so Reynolds could only do this first.
 
This evening, the outdoor cinema was in operation as usual.
 
The desert area seldom had rain and snow. Occasionally, there were rain and snow, but they only fell for a moment. Reynolds did not prepare accommodation for the fallen beasts and just randomly chose a place to put the projector to show the movies. The fallen beasts could only find a space to lie down on their own, but they were already very satisfied.
 
As fallen beasts, they had no such thing like entertainment before.
 
What was shown tonight was not a movie but a documentary video instead.
 
Don't look at how powerful the Beastman Empire was now, and how there were no neighboring countries that dared to invade them. Once, they had also encountered all kinds of troubles. When they had just stepped into the interstellar era, the Beastman Empire had even suffered colonial rule.
 
The space aliens invaded and occupied the mother star of the Beastman Empire, captured the beastmen to work for them exploring new planets, and even regarded sub-beastmen who retained some beast characteristics as playthings while arresting and taking away the beastmen to the fighting arena and making them duel . . . .
 
Later, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of that time led numerous beastmen to rebel. Only then did the Beastman Empire break free from the humiliating colonial rule. Afterwards, the beastmen also fought countless battles in order to be able to obtain more living spaces.
 
During those battles, many beastmen died, and there were many others who were wounded and became fallen beasts. However, the beastmen still did not give up and charged into the battlefield wave after wave.
 
Many of the battles had been filmed, and the video they were watching today was cut out from those filmed battles.
 
Although the fallen beasts had gone through arduous training during the day, but they already recovered now and were quietly staring at the huge screen not far away.
 
They used to think that they were very pitiful, but now it seemed that . . . they were actually still lucky.
 
Although they had become fallen beasts, but they could live freely on the Fallen Beast Planet, and they did not have to be like those beastmen in wartime, who were considered as cannon fodders to charge at the forefront. Furthermore, they even had hope of restoring their beast cores.
 
The male lion Bruno, a fallen beast who had followed Reynolds for many years, was in the leading position among the lion-shaped fallen beasts who were now divided, and he also occupied the best position when watching the video.
 
He had always scoffed at the movies Reynolds made them watch and even vaguely thought that this was an evil design of the imperial family, whom wanted to brainwash them. Naturally, he had never taken those movies seriously.
 
But today, his whole attention was finally attracted by the content of the video.
 
He even could not help but feel ashamed and remorseful after watching the battles in the video.
 
"Bruno." Jesse, who had turned into his lion form, came to Bruno’s side and slowly licked Bruno's hair. "Don’t worry, your beast core will also be restored after a few more days."
 
Edgar originally said that he would only help Bruno restore his beast core last. Bruno had never been chosen in the past few days, so Jesse was worried that he was unhappy and came to comfort him.
 
"I'm fine." Bruno said. "I’m not worried . . . . I’m really not."
   
Saying so, Bruno lay on the ground, the emotion showing in his eyes complicated beyond words. He had been chided several times but always felt that he had done nothing wrong, and he had even been rather opposed to Edgar and others. But now, as he looked back and thought deeply about it, he suddenly realized that many things he had done seemed to be a little self-righteous, arrogant, and childish.
 
He always had a very strong opinion against sub-beastmen because of some bitter experiences after becoming a fallen beast. Yet if he thought about it carefully, even if his mother had made him bitterly disappointed, but not all sub-beastmen were like that.
 
Turning his body around, Bruno leaned on Jesse and stopped talking. He secretly vowed that he would definitely perform well later and make Shu Shu sit up and take notice of him, so he could get the chance to restore his beast core early.
 
Bruno was in a complicated mood. Reynolds, however, was very excited at the moment.
 
There were countless fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet. All the fallen beasts who followed him were basically sane and clear headed, but a lot of the fallen beasts who lived in various settlements had begun to suffer from dementia and even become crazy from time to time.
 
These fallen beasts barely remembered that they were beastmen and not real beasts. After the news about Shu Shu being able to restore the beast core spread, they also came here, but they caused a lot of trouble after arriving.
 
Reynolds had been very anxious before. He worried that, in the end, these fallen beasts might not be able to become beastmen again because of their unsound minds. Now though . . . .
 
Since Shu Shu created that so-called spirit gathering formation, these fallen beasts unexpectedly looked a lot more clear headed. Among them was a fallen beast whom once was his friend and had long forgotten about him, but now he remembered him again.
 
Learning this fact, Reynolds felt indescribably happy and also admired Shu Shu very much. Thinking that Shu Shu seemed to like watching those fallen beasts being trained in various ways, he took out a handheld computer and then began to design all kinds of new moves for the fallen beasts so that they could please Shu Shu when they underwent training.
 
As a beastman, it was only right to work hard to make the sub-beastman happy . . . . Reynolds earnestly designed highly difficult moves for those fallen beasts.
 
He was also for these fallen beasts’ own good, ah! Almost half of the fallen beasts were single, so they would definitely try to pursue a sub-beastman after becoming beastmen again. If they learned a lot now, later when the sub-beastman was being unhappy, wouldn’t they be able to rely on these lessons to coax the sub-beastman?
 
He provoked Jones’ anger yesterday, and Jones did not let him enter their room. In the end, he certainly relied on performing a sideshow and even wagged his tail like a pet dog, which made Jones can't help but burst out laughing, to climb up Jones' bed.
 
Shu Shu felt that his recent life was simply very rich.
 
He could accompany the children to play, watch the fallen beasts train, and study the formation method. At night, he could pull Edgar to bring the children to watch a movie and then do things that were not suitable for children with Edgar afterwards . . . .
 
Such a life, Shu Shu felt that even if he lived it for a long time, he would not feel bored!
 
Shu Shu thought so, but Edgar's thought was completely different from him.
 
Although the Fallen Beast Planet was good, but life in the capital star was more convenient and allowed the children to get better education . . . . As a father of two children, Edgar felt that he had to redouble his efforts to resolve the fallen beast problem early so he could take the children back to the capital star as soon as possible.
 
In the beginning, Edgar could only help ten fallen beasts restore their beast cores every day. Over time, this number changed. Nowadays, Edgar could already help twenty fallen beasts restore their beast cores every day!
 
In this way, animals that suddenly became naked men as they walked around the base were getting even more . . . .
 
These beastmen, whose beast cores had not yet stabilized and who were temporarily unable to control their physical changes, initially lived together with other fallen beasts. However, after Edgar bumped into transforming men twice and found that Shu Shu actually started to observe those fallen beasts’ bodies with full interest, he kicked all these men out without the slightest hesitation, making them live in other areas while hunting for meat as well.
 
Of course, he found a high-sounding reason for this—he made this decision for those beastmen’s own good, so as to make them adapt to their bodies as quickly as possible!
 
A new day came, and outside the house where Edgar and Shu Shu lived, twenty huge beasts gathered together at dawn.
 
These beasts were huge in size, and a sneeze from one could make a hole in the sandy ground. However, they were currently motionless and, surprisingly, had not made a single sound.
 
They were all waiting for Edgar and Shu Shu to wake up, hoping to restore their beast cores soon.
 
When Edgar and Shu Shu came out of the house, the twenty fallen beasts fixed their gazes at them simultaneously. Those fervent gazes made people can’t help but feel spooked, but fortunately, whether it was Edgar or Shu Shu, they were already used to being watched attentively like this.
 
Edgar looked at the twenty fallen beasts in front of him and saw Bruno, the lion he was very familiar with, among them, but he did not say anything. He greeted these people and let them follow him into a room in the storied building next to him.
 
In this room, there was a highly effective spirit gathering formation, which had gathered a lot of spiritual power. As soon as these fallen beasts went in, they felt indescribably comfortable . . . .
 
Twenty fallen beasts soon regained their beast cores.
 
After completing today's task and using up all his spiritual power, Edgar was just planning to go back and think of a method to improve the efficiency of the beast core restoration, and then he saw Calvin coming over from a distance.
 
When Chris took Ian to leave the Fallen Beast Planet, he took away several spaceships and many people, but he did not take Calvin and the Duke of Mund.
 
Edgar had been very busy. Moreover, Jonathan had almost killed his family, which made him take offense to some extent, so he had not tried to find Calvin, and Calvin also avoided him deliberately. As a result, after the two men met again, they actually never communicated with each other.
 
Calvin had lost a lot of weight, and the former playboy looked very wan and sallow now. Edgar glanced at him and called him, "Calvin."
 
"Your Imperial Highness." Calvin saluted Edgar and looked at Edgar with  shame in his eyes. He always considered Edgar as his best friend. Edgar as well as the emperor and the empress had also taken very good care of him. And as a result? His mother had actually caused Edgar to almost die twice.
 
"What’re you going to do in the future?" Edgar asked.

"I’m going to go to the army." Calvin replied.
 
Calvin had been the police chief of the capital star and had a pretty high status, but now he was already sacked. If he entered the army, he might have to start from the bottom . . . . Edgar originally wanted to say something, but when he saw Calvin's resolute expression, he choked back the words he was going to say and only said, "Work hard."
 
"I will." Calvin took a deep breath.
 
Edgar did not say anything else. He knew that his relationship with Calvin certainly couldn’t go back to the way it was before. After all, what Jonathan had done could not be utterly erased.
 
The two men looked at each other silently. At this moment, a soldier of the Imperial Fleet arrived in front of Edgar. "Your Imperial Highness, there’re spaceship coming to the Fallen Beast Planet!"
 
"What kind of spaceship?" Edgar asked.
 
"One of them is an imperial spaceship, and the other two are a civilian spaceship and a private spaceship with no symbol on it." The soldier stated.
 
Before Chris returned to the capital star, he had already contacted the capital star using the military emergency communication channel to inform the situation here and let the capital star there sent some supplies.
 
The Fallen Beast Planet was a little far from the capital star. It was estimated that Chris had not yet reached the capital star now, but the supplies sent by the capital star should indeed have arrived.
 
There were really a lot of things in them that were in short supply. It was said that there were several professional childcare experts . . . . Edgar immediately asked, "Where’re the spaceships ?"
 
"The spaceships are still outside the atmosphere and can land at any time." The soldier replied.
 
"Arrange a landing right away." Edgar said and recalled something. "You find someone to notify the crown princess." He had ordered people to prepare a lot of fine food to be brought along. Shu Shu would definitely like it.



Wednesday, January 15, 2020

A Guide to - 94

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94. Watching the Circus Show
 

Edgar and Shu Shu returned after digging the spirit stones.
 
They found a spirit stone mine on that mountain. There were not many spirit stones in it, and the spirit stones did not contain much spiritual power either, but for them, it was already a huge surprise.
 
Edgar had re-cultivated into the jīndān period. For this reason alone, compared to Shu Shu, it was much simpler for Edgar to help those fallen beasts restore their beast cores. Now that they had some spirit stones, it was even more convenient . . . . Of course, if they wanted to make good use of the spirit stones, they also needed to do some studying.
 
After returning to their place of residence, Edgar and Shu Shu took a nap first and then began to learn the formation method—this was considered to be the main way to use spirit stones.
 
Shu Shu wrote down all the information he had obtained from his red bead. He recorded them on paper one by one and studied them together with Edgar. When he came across a part he did not understand, he would either find the answer from the red bead or try it a few more times.
 
The two of them studied very seriously. Within a few days, they had learned to arrange the simplest spirit gathering formation using the spirit stones. After the first spirit gathering formation was arranged, Shu Shu immediately put the little snake and the egg in it.
 
Shu Shu was initially a bit afraid of Xiao Bao, this little snake, and he actually didn’t adapt too well to being a father. After all, the child came too sudden. But Xiao Bao always hung around at his side these days, and after taking care of Xiao Bao for a while, he slowly accepted the child . . . or the snake.
 
"Xiao Bao, when you go to sleep later, you’ll sleep here, okay?" Putting Xiao Bao into the spirit gathering formation, Shu Shu smiled and talked to the little snake, who was already doubled in size.
 
The little snake nodded while his eyes narrowed in concentration and his body started to sway, looking very, very comfortable.
 
"Does Xiao Bao like it here?" Shu Shu asked again.
 
The little snake quickly nodded.
 
"Then Xiao Bao, you stay by yourself for a while first. Mother will help you make a bigger one!" Shu Shu reached out and stroked the little snake's smooth head—his child was really smart; it had not been long since he was born, and he could already understand what he said!
 
Although this child looked unattractive, but at least he was smart, ah. If he had had children with a female hamster, he probably would’ve been still worrying about how to open the children’s spiritual wisdom to prolong their life span. And now? In a few years, he would be able to make the child work and support him to live comfortably!
 
Imagining the beautiful scene of himself reclining comfortably and calling the child out when he wanted to eat something and the child obligingly coming to bring him food, Shu Shu looked at the child with a softer gaze. He forgot that, in fact, the robots could already do a good job helping him with such things.
 
Chatting with Xiao Bao, Shu Shu continued to study the formation method.
 
Strangely, Shu Shu unexpectedly learned better than Edgar when it came to the subject of formation method . . . .
 
When Edgar laid out a formation, he always couldn’t help but want to lay out the formation neat and tidy. He subconsciously had to ensure that the distance between each spirit stone was the same and study why this kind of layout could gather spiritual power together . . . .
 
Wouldn’t being so fussy lessen one’s learning speed?
 
Shu Shu, however, was different. He often laid out formations based on feeling, and in the end, he actually did better than Edgar.
 
When Shu Shu began to learn the second formation method, Edgar was still having a go at the spirit gathering formation and even failed again.
 
"Granted, the size of these spirit stones is indeed different. But even if the size is the same, the amount of spiritual power contained in them isn’t the same. It’s really too difficult to keep a balance. With great difficulty, I finally calculated the right distance between these piles of spirit stones to make a formation. But if the piles of spirit stones are changed, then I have to recalculate." Edgar stared at the spirit stones in front of him with a tangled feeling.
 
". . ." Shu Shu goggled at Edgar. He watched Edgar use the computer to simulate the formation method and draw the formation method diagram with a weird expression. "Won’t this fussing around only make it overly complicated? Also . . . according to the red bead, those cultivators can’t always lay out a formation on level ground. Sometimes they also have to lay out a formation when cultivating in the wilds. They can even lay out a formation when fighting with others. You doing it this way . . ." Totally wouldn’t cut it. In addition, you had to calculate the size of each spirit stone and the amount of spiritual power it contained first and then use a computer to figure out the appropriate placement?
 
Edgar was silent. He also knew that it was unacceptable for him to do so, but he really couldn't understand this formation arrangement stuff.
 
How could an arrangement of a few stones produce all kinds of magical effects?
 
"Try to feel it with spiritual power. Sometimes you just have to rely on feeling." Shu Shu said and then looked at Edgar proudly. "Edgar, do you think I'm amazing? I’m smarter than you!"
 
"Yes, Shu Shu’s the smartest." Edgar could not help but hug Shu Shu and kiss him on the lips.
 
Shu Shu responded enthusiastically, groping Edgar's body and trying to seduce Edgar, yet Edgar remained unmoved—Shu Shu had just given birth to a child and had also been injured before, so it was better to do things slowly.
 
"Edgar, what's wrong with you? Why don't you want to mate?" Shu Shu was somewhat depressed. Shouldn't humans and beastmen be in heat all the time?
 
"You’ve just given birth to a child . . . ."
 
"I’ve fully recovered!" Shu Shu patted his chest and then rolled his eyes. "It shouldn’t be that you can’t do it, right?" According to his experience, which came from reading various novels, a man was most afraid of others saying that he could not do it. Once he was told so, he would definitely try to prove that he “could do it”.
 
They all said that poodles would hump everything and any time. In fact, hamsters also had a very strong desire, ah! Edgar surely couldn’t ignore him!
 
Edgar was indeed unable to control himself. He embraced Shu Shu and proved himself one time.
 
He definitely had no problem! In fact, he was almost stifled to death, but it had only been a few days since Shu Shu gave birth to an egg. He always felt that he was a little too beastly for putting his hand to Shu Shu just now.
 
At the end of the fun and invigorating sex, Shu Shu exhaled comfortably. "That’s really nice . . . . I was going to touch myself if you didn't come round . . . . But touching myself doesn’t feel this nice. After all, no one gives me spiritual power if I do it myself." When Edgar entered, he never forgot to give him spiritual power. He also never forgot to take care of him first and would even give him spiritual power ahead of time . . . . It was really pleasurable!
 
Edgar: ". . ."

Shu Shu did not want to have children anymore, and Edgar also didn't want Shu Shu to give birth to a child one after another. Therefore, although Edgar was excited, but he also took some appropriate measures and actually saved Shu Shu a lot of things. Not to mention other things, at least the clean up work was much easier. Shu Shu even directly refused to take a shower and just turned over and fell asleep.
 
Edgar took a shower and then lay behind Shu Shu and held Shu Shu in his arms, feeling contented.
 
After Edgar determined that he was not good at laying out formations, he handed over this work for Shu Shu to handle and started to study the various spirit grasses instead. Conveniently, he also thought of a method to turn his scales into fine powder.
 
The spiritual power in the spirit grass was difficult to preserve but easy to absorb, and you could eat the grass directly. Spirit stone, however, was different. The spiritual power in it would not dissipate easily, but if you ate the stone directly . . . . Except for some special races, nobody could digest stone, right?
 
Edgar thought of quite a lot of methods before he finally found a method to process the spirit grass without letting the spiritual power inside dissipate. And this method was borrowed from some alchemy recipes.
 
The spirit grass was made into a number of pills, and some of Edgar scales were also added into these pills . . . . After the preparatory work was done, Edgar found Reynolds and asked Reynolds to select ten fallen beasts. He was going to try to help these fallen beasts restore their beast cores.
 
Edgar said he could not guarantee that it would be successful, but the fallen beasts still scrambled for this opportunity. Soon, ten fallen beasts were presented in front of Edgar.
 
Edgar made these ten fallen beasts stay inside a spirit gathering formation. He then activated the spirit gathering formation and used the accumulated spiritual power to nourish these ten fallen beasts for a few hours. After these ten fallen beasts had recovered to their optimum state, he entered the spirit gathering formation and then gave each fallen beast a pill.
 
Didn’t they have to eat eggshell to restore their beast cores? Why did it change into a pill now? These ten fallen beasts were somewhat puzzled, but no one questioned it, and no one asked about the composition of the pill.
 
They ate the pills and continued to stay quiet. At this moment, Edgar started working . . . .
 
The beast cores of these ten fallen beasts were successfully restored, but their beast cores were very small. As a result, they were just like beastmen in their early years, unable to control their transformation.
 
This side effect was actually quite troublesome, but for these fallen beasts, it was not a big deal at all—as long as they could restore their beast cores, they were not afraid of anything!
 
Ten people's beast cores were restored in one go, which made the fallen beasts waiting to restore their beast cores in this newly built base go crazy.
 
"Ten people got their beast cores restored!"
 
"Maybe it'll be my turn before long!"
 
"I must perform well, and I won't be lazy anymore when training!"
 
. . . . . .

The fallen beasts were full of hope for life, and they were getting more and more energetic when they were training. Although their types were different, but they all listened to orders seriously and did their utmost to make all sorts of moves. They did not hesitate to do it even if they would be drained at the end of the day.
 
All beastmen liked to fight. But nowadays, the science and technology of the Beastman Empire were developing rapidly, and there were not many wars, so many beastmen had been living like a prince and never received high-intensity training. These fallen beasts were no exception, but now they were working hard to train and make themselves stronger . . . .
 
Shu Shu had arranged a huge spirit gathering formation using several football-sized spirit stones. The formation would be set up in the desert and would encompass the training ground that could accommodate tens of thousands of people. He planned to use spiritual power to improve the physique of those fallen beasts.

After doing all this, he sat on the high podium while holding the child in one hand and holding the egg in the other hand and watched the circus . . .  no, watched the fallen beasts training.
 
Look at that group of tigers, they were walking on their feet!
 
Look at those lions, they were jumping into the ring of fire!
 
Look at those elephants, they were marching forward!
 
There were still many, many other animals, and all of them made all sorts of different postures . . . . On the earth, it was absolutely impossible to see so many animal performances at once, and it was even more impossible to see such a grand "circus show".
 
Shu Shu watched the show with keen interest and thought that it was extremely entertaining. Below, the fallen beasts who were training suddenly found that they seemed to be a lot more relaxed when they were training, and the speed in which their physical strength recovered had become faster.
 
They did not know the existence of the spirit gathering formation and only thought that they had become stronger after training. For a time, their interest increased greatly. After the daily training ended, some fallen beasts even agreed to stay put and then . . . began to fight.
 
This was a beast fighting show, ah! Shu Shu was even more pleased seeing this and even began to wonder whether he should encourage them and let them develop more performances.
 
Edgar, however, felt a little mixed up. His sub-beastman actually went to watch other beastmen all day long . . . . Otherwise, should he also join in  and fight with others?



TL's note: For people who want to re-translate this novel to other languages, feel free to do it.


Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A Guide to - 93

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93. Found the Spirit Stone
 

The aircraft used by Edgar and Shu Shu was very big. It was a jujube pit-type with a slightly pointed head and tail. In the front was the cockpit, while the round space in the middle was decorated into a room with a bed and a dining table as well as separated bathroom and kitchen. It was more convenient than RVs on the earth and good enough for a family of three to live in.
 
Of course, given that Edgar's build was too big, he usually could only sleep on the floor with the child or lie on the floor alone after looking on helplessly at Shu Shu sleeping on the bed with the humanoid child.
 
Now his hands and feet finally returned.
 
After carrying Shu Shu into the aircraft at lightning speed and putting the egg on the bed, Edgar carried Shu Shu into the narrow but multi-functional bathroom and helped Shu Shu clean up thoroughly.
 
"I can wash myself." Shu Shu felt extremely awkward being carried and washed by Edgar, whom had just transformed and did not wear any clothes.
 
He had not been intimate with Edgar for a long time, so them being this close together naturally gave rise to some indecent thoughts. But it was obviously not the time now.
 
"Soon, okay." Edgar said. He controlled the stream of water to wash Shu Shu squeaky clean, took out a bath towel to wrap Shu Shu up, and carried Shu Shu to the bed.
 
"This second egg looks exactly the same as that of Xiao Bao then." Finally leaving Edgar's arms, Shu Shu concealed his throbbing "little Shu Shu" with the bath towel, sat up, and turned his gaze toward the egg in front of Edgar.
 
However, he had barely spoken a word, and Edgar already covered him with a quilt and forced him to lie on the bed.
 
"You take a rest first." Edgar said and then looked for something to wipe the egg clean like he had done it numerous times.
 
Shu Shu felt that this egg was exactly the same as the one before, but Edgar felt that there was a big difference between these two eggs. Not to mention that the eggshell of this egg seemed to be not as hard as Xiao Bao’s eggshell.
 
Was this . . . because of congenital deficiency?
 
Although Xiao Bao had once been mistaken for a tumor and thus got his supply of spiritual power cut back by them, but Shu Shu had not sustained any injuries at least. It was different this time . . . .
 
Edgar wiped the egg while inputting spiritual power into the egg, wishing he could give all his spiritual power for the egg to absorb.
 
It seemed that Edgar would take care of the child but not his own affairs . . . . Shu Shu was a bit bored lying down on the bed, so he started to look for the little snake around.
 
"Xiao Bao, where’re you?" There was nothing inside the box that Edgar had prepared for Xiao Bao. Shu Shu was anxious and immediately called Xiao Bao, but he did not receive any response.
 
Although the little snake was naughty, but he usually wouldn’t run around all over the place and, according to reason, could not run out either—there was a robot guard at hand responsible for looking after him.
 
"Xiao Bao is missing?" Edgar was alarmed. He quickly checked the entire aircraft with his spiritual power but did not found Xiao Bao's presence on the aircraft.
 
These days, they always brought the child with them, took care of him very carefully, and basically wouldn’t leave him alone. When they went out to look for the spirit grass this time, they did not bring the child along because he happened to be sleeping. However, they opened the protective cover and also turned on the alarm system.
 
The protective cover was still there; the alarm system had not been touched, and the robot standing on the side had not reacted at all. How did the child suddenly disappear?
 
Edgar immediately switched on the aircraft’s monitoring and looked for Xiao Bao's traces on it. Only then did he find that Xiao Bao actually slithered out confidently by himself without any hindrance, and the robot had never notified them . . . .
 
How could this be? Edgar frowned but quickly remembered one thing—as long as the spiritual power was distributed around the body, they could achieve "undetectable" under most high-tech products. The little snake was born with spiritual power; although he had never done this before, but he could do it when he wanted to. He . . . should have run out on his own.
 
"I'm going to look for him!" Edgar scowled. As he was about to rush out, the protective cover suddenly moved.
 
A very small, black little snake carrying a beautiful glossy tiny stone crawled in from the outside. With his small size, he seemed to be very cautious as he crawled slowly while carrying the stone. But even then, the glossy tiny stone carried by him still slipped down several times. After that, he tried to clasp the stone with his two paws as he went forward, but the stone was too small and too smooth that it ended up rolling down from his paws.
 
The stone fell to the ground again and again, obviously making the little snake at a loss. After climbing up the aircraft with difficulty, he simply placed the stone on the ground and then pushed the stone forward with his snake head.
 
"Xiao Bao!" Shu Shu called out.
 
The little snake raised his head and glanced at Shu Shu. Then he suddenly turned into a person and crawled ahead to Shu Shu’s bed. His development speed was much faster than that of humans on the earth. Although he still couldn't do many things, but he could already crawl fast. After crawling to the bedside, he stood up by holding onto the bed and then showed a toothless smile at Shu Shu.
 
After smiling, he plopped down on the ground. Clutching the stone with his chubby little hand, he stood up again and handed the stone to Shu Shu.
 
Although the child only gave him a piece of stone, but Shu Shu felt his heart full to bursting—his child knew to give him things; he was really so cute!
 
Hugging the child and kissing the child's forehead, Shu Shu emotionally took the proffered stone . . . . Wait, this . . . this was not a stone at all!
 
Staring at the piece of round stone in his hand that was only as big as a thumbnail and looked like a white jade, Shu Shu was dumbfounded. This stone was full of spiritual power . . . . It seemed like the legendary . . . spirit stone?
 
"There’s spiritual power on this stone?" Edgar found it too.
 
"This is a spirit stone!" Shu Shu stated excitedly. A spirit stone, ah. The red bead in his body said that people in the cultivation circles all used spirit stones, and he finally saw one now.
 
Spirit stone? Edgar was momentarily astonished after hearing Shu Shu mention this thing. He and Shu Shu had really been very lucky recently!
 
Speaking of, when the Beastman Empire first dispatched people to investigate the natural resources on the Fallen Beast Planet, they had found some good-quality jade mines. It was likely that those so-called jade mines were in fact spirit stone mines, right?
 
While Shu Shu gave birth to the second egg and found the trace of spirit stone, in the desert where he, Edgar, and others had landed, a cleanup against all fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet was in progress.
 
The past management of the Fallen Beast Planet was very disorganized. It could even be said that there was no management at all. Reynolds could guarantee that all the fallen beasts who followed him were not bad people, but he did not dare to vouch for other fallen beasts. Now they were reviewing the identity of each fallen beast one by one and learning about the situation of each fallen beast from the fallen beasts who lived with them.
 
Those who were criminals before coming to the Fallen Beast Planet were the first to be picked out. After that, those who had bullied and even killed other fallen beasts after coming to the Fallen Beast Planet were also picked out.
 
Not every fallen beast could become a beastman again, and these guys had no chance at all.
 
Fallen beasts who had committed unpardonable crimes and had a criminal record were put under unified supervision. As for the rest of the fallen beasts . . . . They were drilled by Reynolds and the soldiers of the Imperial Fleet, who had nothing to do.
 
Of course, when they drilled these fallen beasts, they actually didn’t count on them to be able to come up with something and only wanted to make these very excited fallen beasts vent their excess energy during the drill—a group of energetic and exuberant fallen beasts crowded together would have an accident sooner or later, and unfortunately, how long it would take to restore their beast cores was still unknown.
 
"Mr. Reynolds, the guarded fallen beasts made trouble again. They want to escape." A captain of the Imperial Fleet hurriedly ran to Reynolds, who was drilling a group of fallen beasts.
 
"Can they escape?" Reynolds asked.
 
"They certainly cannot." The captain answered.
 
"In this case, no need to care about them. Those guys will be honest after being hungry for a few days." Renault said. Seeing that the fallen beasts who were being locked up still had energy to make trouble, it seemed that he was too lenient with them. Giving them meals was too good, so in this case . . . it might be better to starve them for a few days.
 
"Yes, Mr. Reynolds." Receiving the order, the captain immediately set off. Unexpectedly, as he stepped out, there was a sudden noise outside. At the same time, an aircraft flew over from a distance.
 
They were all very familiar with that aircraft. However, wasn't that the one they had left behind for the crown prince?
 
"It’s His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess on board the aircraft."
 
"His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess came back?"
 
"Is there someone else with restored beast core?"
 
. . . . . .

The fallen beasts who were gathered together for a drill talked with each other while watching the aircraft impatiently. And then they saw the aircraft stop under the huge spaceship.
   
The aircraft's door was opened, and a tall, handsome adult man walked out from within.
 
The man was hugging a child with his left arm and carrying an egg very carefully in his right hand. Who else if not Edgar? 

Edgar had turned into a person?!
 
The crown princess had given birth again?!
 
"This boy looks very handsome, ah . . ." Reynolds raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw Edgar's appearance. This guy Edgar looked even better than Chris. Fortunately, there was a large age gap between them. Otherwise, the number of sub-beastmen who had liked him in those days would have fallen to zero.
 
"It’s His Imperial Highness!" Some fallen beasts who had only come to the Fallen Beast Planet a few years ago stared at Edgar excitedly—they saw their idol!
 
"His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince is really on the Fallen Beast Planet!"
 
"The sub-beastman beside His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince is the crown princess who can help people restore their beast cores?"
 
"I didn’t expect that His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince would have a crown princess so soon . . . ."
 
. . . .

While the fallen beasts were talking spiritedly, they also paid attention to the egg in Edgar's hand.

"Another little prince was born?"
 
"That egg looks really beautiful!"
 
"I heard that it hasn't been long since the crown prince and the crown princess got married . . . . They already have two eggs in no time. I wonder how many more will be born in the future . . . ."
 
"It seems like the eggshell is needed to restore the beast core? How long will it take for that egg to hatch? "
 
. . . . . .

Edgar had completely recovered his strength, and he could hear such comments clearly. But because they did not speak ill of Shu Shu, he didn't care and just stood there, waiting for Shu Shu to get off the aircraft.
 
Shu Shu quickly got off the aircraft with a small bag on his back. The beasts outside made him a little scared, so he quickly rushed to Edgar's side.
 
At this time, Reynolds also went up to greet Edgar, "Your Imperial Highness, your beast core has been restored?"
 
"Yes." Edgar nodded at Reynolds.
 
"That's really great!" Jones got the news and looked at Edgar happily. Soon after, his gaze fell on the egg. "Shu Shu has given birth so soon?" Edgar and Shu Shu were really amazing. With this speed . . . what was having two children within three years? He reckoned that they could have a bunch in one year.
 
"Yes." Edgar nodded. "We also found some good things on this planet. We’ll be much faster in helping people restore their beast cores later."
 
Edgar did not lower the volume of his voice. The fallen beasts who were far away could not hear what he said, but the fallen beasts who followed Reynolds and were drilled by Reynolds heard it. After hearing it, they all looked at Edgar and Shu Shu with excitement and also spread the word.
 
It was unclear which fallen beast took the lead to fall onto the ground, showing the attitude of fealty. Surprisingly, the fallen beasts in the distance all followed suit and made the same move.
 
For a moment, all the fallen beasts lay down on the ground.




Referring to - 67

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