A Guide to - 99

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99. Pretending to be a Beastman
 

"Your Imperial Highness, the little prince's beast form grows very slowly, which is abnormal. He . . ." Dean looked at the little prince with great distress. It was fine if you were very small when you were born but later developed quickly because then you still had a chance to catch up with other beastmen. If the little prince’s body could grow very, very tall, even if he was a hamster, he could easily bite down snakes and crush tigers.
 
Unfortunately . . . the child's body weight that should have increased the fastest during infancy actually didn’t increase one bit!
 
According to the results of his tests, the little prince . . . might not be able to grow tall in this life.
 
Dean continued to speak with a somewhat ugly expression, "Although auxin can make the beast form grow bigger, it'll have a bad effect on the human form. The little prince's human form development is normal, so you mustn't use it rashly . . . ."
 
The little hamster was held in the hollow of Edgar’s hand. Because he was afraid of hurting the little hamster, his movements were a bit stiff, and even the whole person was very tense—his child was really too small, making him feel like he would crush the child as long as he exerted a little bit of force.
 
Such a scene was seen by Dean as Edgar being unable to accept the result, which made him even more worried.
 
Fortunately, Edgar reacted quickly, saying to Dean, "It doesn't matter if he’s like this. Beastmen nowadays don't need to show their beast forms even in the battlefield. The size of the beast form alone can’t be used to judge one’s success while fighting. This is my child, and I believe he mustn’t be weaker than others in any respects."
 
Edgar spoke very confidently. After speaking, he glanced at the little hamster in his arms warily. The little hamster in the hollow of his hand was feeling bored and annoyed, and now he began to crawl along his arm. Oh, great, his arm was all stiff now, and he did not dare to move at all. If he moved, he was afraid that the little hamster on his arm would be unbalanced and then fall.
 
However, despite this, Edgar still stated with particular confidence, "My own child, I’ll naturally protect him for a lifetime."
 
Dean was very moved. Meanwhile, the little snake on the side, seeing Edgar's appearance, looked pensive.
 
Every time he crawled on his mother’s body, his mother would be particularly stiff. From the beginning, he had not understood what exactly this was all about. He did not expect to see that his father would be likewise stiff after his younger brother crawled on his body . . . .
 
So, they were actually unable to get along with the child whose beast form was different from them?
 
The snake climbed up from Edgar's leg and waggled his tail at the little hamster.
 
They had been playing together for many days and already had a set of communication methods of their own. When the little hamster saw the little snake’s movement, he promptly climbed down from Edgar’s body and started chasing his older brother.
 
After the little hamster climbed down, Edgar at once breathed a sigh of relief and said to Dean, "Xiao Bei’s my child, and his body’s very special. You must never spread this matter. As for how he’s going to live . . . he’ll be the treasure of all of us.”
 
Dean saw the little hamster chase the little snake everywhere and even climb onto the little snake’s back and strut around, and he finally nodded, relieved. Even if the little prince had genetic mutation, as long as his parents and close relatives loved him dearly, he would definitely be able to live well.
 
After Edgar had an in depth conversation with Dean, he brought the two children back and then told Shu Shu, who did not go with the children for their checkups, the result of the checkup.
 
Shu Shu did not in the least care about whether the little hamster would grow big in the future. Hamsters were originally small; it was already amazing that he could grow up to the size of a fist. Wasn’t it very normal that his son could only grow this big in the future?
 
As for being not powerful enough to fight . . . why on earth would you fight without rhyme or reason?
 
Why did he cultivate so hard to become a human? Wasn’t it because humans would not frequently fight each other or cannibalize their fellows?
 
Now that the Beastman Empire had entered the interstellar era, science and technology were the primary productive forces. And sub-beastmen, who were unable to change into beast forms, didn’t a lot of them earn more than the beastmen?
 
His son should study hard every day and then test into a good university and find a good job. This was the normal life, ah!
 
For Shu Shu, who had long yearned for human society, his requirements for his children were the same as ordinary humans’. "If he can be as outstanding as Myer, why should you worry?"
 
"I think so too." Edgar said. "But there’s still a problem. That is, Xiao Bei has no beast bead. Maybe he’s the same as you, able to accept another man’s beast bead to form a womb. In this case, when we talk to outsiders, should we just say that he’s a sub-beastman?"
 
Both Shu Shu and Xiao Bei could turn into beast forms, but strangely, they were born without a beast bead, which made them more like sub-beastmen. This made him wonder how to judge his son’s gender.
 
Say that he was a beastman? He was actually not. Say he was a sub-beastman? He clearly could turn into a beast form.
 
Hearing Edgar's question, Shu Shu was also confused. "But if we say that Xiao Bei’s a sub-beastman, what’s to be done if he likes a sub-beastman in the future?"
 
"It's okay. Nowadays, gay love isn’t a big deal in the Beastman Empire." Edgar said directly. Although it was not accepted as the mainstream, but as his son, did he still need to worry about this?
 
"That’s to say, if Xiao Bei’s a beastman and likes a beastman in the end, he also doesn’t need to worry that he’ll be criticized?" Shu Shu asked curiously.
 
"Of course." Edgar nodded.
 
Getting Edgar’s affirmative answer, Shu Shu made a decision on the spot. "In this case, it’s better to tell people that Xiao Bei’s a beastman." He had already seen that although his son’s figure looked very weak, he actually had abundant spiritual power and great strength. In the future, it would be no problem at all for him to beat the hell out of a group of beastmen. Therefore, it was better to let him be a beastman, so that when he looked for a job in the future, he would have a wider choice.
 
In the Beastman Empire, sub-beastmen were not allowed to do some dangerous jobs in addition to being unable to do those jobs, but they were good at research and art. However, if there were beastmen who did well in those fields, no one would block their paths.
 
By comparison, being a beastman was more free.
 
Since Shu Shu had made a decision, Edgar certainly wouldn't oppose it, and he also brought up this matter to Chris and Ian.
 
As a result, when the imperial family made an announcement, besides mentioning that the crown prince couple was helping the fallen beasts to restore their beast cores on Fallen Beast Planet, they also mentioned another thing—the crown prince couple had another child, a cute little beastman who came out of the shell on Fallen Beast Planet!
 
". . ." After the people on the star network saw this announcement, they went silent together.
 
Damn it, what the hell was going on? How long had the crown prince and the crown princess been married, ah? And the crown princess’ second child had actually broken the shell?
 
How the hell did the crown princess give birth, ah?
 
"Mouse type sub-beastmen are indeed easier to conceive, and the pregnancy period is also shorter, but it’s also not to this degree, ah . . ."
 
"What’s going on with the crown prince? How can he make his partner pregnant again so quickly?! So enviable!"
 
"I'm so envious and jealous of his achievement! I've been married for ten years and still haven’t had any children!"
 
"Ask the crown princess how to quickly conceive and give birth. If conceiving an egg only takes a month and won’t delay my work, I’ll also go and conceive one. "
 
. . . . . .

The star network was noisy. For a while, such news as the fallen beasts on Fallen Beast Planet were currently recovering fast or the Crown Prince Edgar had restored his beast core and was no longer a fallen beast lost their heat and were unable to surpass the news about the crown prince couple’s second child having come out of the shell.
 
The imperial family, which had always had only one child per generation, actually had two children this time. The netizens all wondered whether there would be a fight for the throne in the future, and they felt so excited when thinking about it!
 
Countless people on the star network were waiting to see the photos of the little prince. As for the little snake, who had only been a little prince for a few days, he was promoted to a big prince.
 
It was a pity that the imperial family kept the little prince well-hidden. Except for a side-face photo of a human-shaped baby, they did not send out any more photos of him. Contrariwise, some photos of the big prince would be sent out from time to time.
 
"The imperial family intends to let the big prince inherit the throne? As for the little prince, I guess they want to let him live happily, so they hide all his information."
 
"They’re only a few months apart, and the little prince won’t get the throne because he’s born late? I feel sorry for him."
 
"Fallen Beast Planet’s really too far away, ah! If they live in the capital star, someone must be able to take a photo of the little prince. Now though . . . ."
 
"The big prince’s so cute! I really want to see whether the little prince’s also this cute or not, ah! ”
 
. . . . . .

The netizens were extremely depressed because they felt that the information exchange with Fallen Beast Planet was too slow. Therefore, many people proposed to set up more information websites to bring Fallen Beast Planet into the scope of the star network . . . .
 
Of course, such a proposal was quickly rejected without the slightest hesitation.
 
Fallen Beast Planet was a more remote place than Gass Planet. The amount of money required to connect the star network to that place probably couldn’t be counted. Even if the Empire was currently not short of money, it would not do such a foolish thing either.
 
Besides, Fallen Beast Planet had become a private planet now.
 
Emperor Chris bought Fallen Beast Planet after receiving some information from Edgar.
 
The reason Chris gave for doing this was that Fallen Beast Planet held lots of important memories. Given that the imperial family always had endless money, the Empire had no doubt about this reason at all. Because Fallen Beast Planet had no permanent residents or government, the handover was particularly easy, and the matter was settled very quickly.
 
The imperial family was really a little foolish, ah . . . . The Empire had checked the entire Fallen Beast Planet back and forth hundreds of times in the early days, and there were absolutely no natural resources there. Yet the imperial family still spent a lot of money to buy this kind of planet. The question was, did they have no brains?
 
Anyway, it was not surprising that the imperial family did this . . . . The crown prince originally met the crown princess on Gass Planet. Afterwards, the imperial family began to actively build the planet, and the money spent on it was not less than the cost of buying Fallen Beast Planet . . . . Say, if the crown prince and the crown princess, or maybe the two little princes, went to those remote planets that had been regarded as of little value by the Empire, would the imperial family develop or buy those planets to lighten the burden on the Empire?
 
Chris did not know what others thought, but he was actually very pleased after buying the Fallen Beast Planet.
 
Edgar had already said that there were many precious natural resources as well as spirit stones on the Fallen Beast Planet. It was indeed a good place!
 
"Chris, Xiao Bei is really so cute!" Ian, seeing Chris return from the outside after dealing with work, stated again.
 
"Yeah." Chris replied. His little grandson was really very cute; if he had the opportunity, he really wanted to take his little grandson to go play everywhere.
 
"He's so small that I can take him in my pocket . . . . Chris, I want to go to Fallen Beast Planet to see him!" Ian said. He had two grandchildren, but he could not see them. This really made him feel very sad.
 
"We can't go now, but rest assured that two children will definitely come to our hands." Chris suddenly said.
 
Ian looked at Chris with doubt but only saw Chris' inscrutable expression.
 
Edgar and Shu Shu did not know that Chris and his wife had already thought of the two children. They were still living on the Fallen Beast Planet, and Shu Shu was watching the circus . . . no, watching the fallen beasts training. Fallen beasts who trained on the drill ground were getting less and less. At the same time, there were more beastmen who would turn into various animals training in another newly built base.
 
At the beginning of training these fallen beasts, Reynolds only wanted to let them vent their excess energy, but after a while, he thought of something deeper.
 
These fallen beasts had received Edgar’s great favor and been treated well. They could absolutely become the crown prince’s most loyal subordinates.
 
Now was a time of peace. The imperial family did not need to keep too many troops, but it was also a pretty good idea to have so many loyal people work for the imperial family, wasn’t it?
 
With this in mind, Reynolds spent more and more energy on these people, and Edgar also began to train them personally.
 
Time passed by so quickly just like that.

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A Guide to - 98

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98. Handicapped Little Beastman
 

"Xiao Bao, the younger brother’s still small. If you chase him like this, he’ll get tired, you know?" Having caught the little snake, Shu Shu explained to him seriously.
 
The little snake coiled around Shu Shu's wrist and looked at Shu Shu in confusion, habitually flicking the snake tongue in his mouth.
 
Shu Shu had not truly adapted to the tactile sensation of his eldest son's beast form, but in order not to make the child feel deeply hurt, he still endured and stroked his head. "You’re the older brother, so you must take care of your younger brother as much as possible. If you chase him, he’ll probably run around all over the place, and it'll be bad if he knocks into something in a hurry. It’d be better to let him chase you."
 
The little snake nodded.
 
"Also, you should turn into a person often when you play with your younger brother, so when your younger brother sees you in your human form, he’ll want to turn into a human form earlier." Shu Shu solemnly expressed.
 
The little snake cleverly turned into a person.
 
The white, plump, well-behaved, and clever baby looked really cute. Shu Shu did not dislike him one bit this time; instead, he liked him very, very much. Hugging the little snake, Shu Shu bestowed several kisses on his chubby little face, "Xiao Bao, let me tell you that a beastman who can turn into a person is the most amazing. You see, how happy those beastmen outside are after they can turn into people, ah!"
 
The little baby showed a thoughtful expression. He had not yet managed to talk fluently, but he could already understand quite a lot of words. Moreover, he often ran outside all day long to play with those fallen beasts who were able to turn into people. So now, after hearing his mother say such things, he had a sudden feeling of realization.
 
No wonder every time he turned into a person, his mother treated him particularly well. It turned out that this kind of ability was the most amazing!
 
Unfortunately, he could not always turn into a person . . . .
 
The little snake immediately became a little dejected. Upon seeing this, Shu Shu promptly praised him, "Don’t worry, Xiao Bao, you’re already very amazing. Many uncles outside aren’t as amazing as you!"
 
The little snake was quickly coaxed and then continued to play with his brother under Shu Shu’s guidance.
 
Edgar went to help the fallen beasts restore their beast cores as usual today. After draining all his spiritual power, he hurried back to the room.
 
In the room, Shu Shu was fiddling with some spirit stones, and appearing on one side of the room . . . were a snake who was scurrying in front and a little hamster who was pursuing him closely behind, unwilling to let go.
 
The little snake slithered very fast and often shook off the little hamster if he was not careful. When this happened, he would stop and wait for the little hamster to catch up and then continue to run.
 
"The two kids are having a great time playing together." Edgar laughed as he watched this lovely scene.
 
"Yeah." Shu Shu nodded earnestly. "They’re happy playing, and I’m also happy."
 
Shu Shu was also happy? Why? Edgar looked at Shu Shu curiously.
 
"Xiao Bei has fulfilled my lifelong dream!" Shu Shu stated with a serious face. He had previously fantasized that one day he would be able to chase a snake until the snake was scared witless. In the end, even if he had cultivated successfully, he still couldn't do it because of his own instincts . . . . His second son, Xiao Bei, was different though. This child had just been born but was not afraid of snakes and could run after them! He was truly a hero in the hamster world, ah!
 
His sub-beastman’s dream was too small . . . . Edgar felt his heart moved. "If you like, I’ll become small and let you chase me? I can flee a little slower, and you can also bite me after you catch me." Shu Shu biting him on the lips and on other places . . . .
 
"I definitely don't want to bite a snake!" Shu Shu refused without the slightest hesitation and then saw his eldest son deliberately slow down a little after hearing Edgar's words and let the little hamster catch up.
 
It was estimated that the reason the little hamster did not fear the little snake one bit and always liked to play with the little snake was because he knew from the scent that the little snake was his own brother. After he caught up with the little snake, he really went up and bit the little snake’s tail.
 
He was too small and simply unable to cause any harm to the little snake. In the end, he could do nothing more than wet the little snake's tail. The little snake swung his tail and directly put the thumb-sized little hamster on his back. After that, he started to go round the entire house while carrying the little hamster on his back. Because he was worried that his younger brother would fall off from his body, he slithered very slowly and steadily.
 
His second son was really amazing! Not to mention chasing a snake, he could even ride a snake! Shu Shu watched this situation with great satisfaction and decided to encourage them to do it like this in the future.
 
This was how you played games, ah!
 
Edgar, seeing Shu Shu's envious look, chuckled, "Shu Shu, would you like to ride me?"
 
"I don't want to ride a snake." Shu Shu said. Edgar's scales were slippery, so he had to hold on tight to avoid being dropped, but holding onto a snake was absolutely not a good experience for him.
 
"You can ride a man." Edgar smiled at Shu Shu.
 
"Wolf (pervert)!" Shu Shu cursed in Chinese.
 
"I'm not a wolf." Edgar also replied in Chinese.
 
Xiao Bao glanced at his father and mother and pursed his brows. Riding a man?
 
Turning into a little baby, Xiao Bao put the little hamster on his head and began to crawl very carefully.
 
". . ." Shu Shu was momentarily speechless. He pounced on Edgar in a flash and then took a bite on Edgar's arm—these kinds of words that were not suitable for children, he and Edgar definitely weren’t allowed to say them in front of the children later!
 
It took Edgar some effort to appease the embarrassed and angry Shu Shu, and then he mentioned one thing. "Shu Shu, after Xiao Bao and Xiao Bei were born, they haven’t gone through detailed checkup. I plan to take them for a checkup tomorrow."
 
"What will they check? "Shu Shu asked, puzzled.
 
"Every aspect has to be checked. The physical fitness, the beast core, the beast bead, the innate skill and ability . . ." Edgar explained briefly. "Actually, this kind of checkup should be done at the big hospital in the capital star to be more accurate and thorough, but your situation is quite special, and the two children may be the same. I think it’s better for Xiao Bao and Xiao Bei to be checked on the Fallen Beast Planet. In any case, the equipment has been transported here. "
 
"Then we’ll go for a checkup tomorrow.” Shu Shu nodded. Wasn’t it just a medical examination?
 
For the medical examination of the two children, Edgar asked Jones and the old doctor, whom once wanted to worship Shu Shu as a teacher, to lend a hand.
 
This old doctor was a sub-beastman named Dean. The last time he communicated with Shu Shu, he was bombarded with a lot of knowledge on acupoints and meridians by Shu Shu. After that, he was completely wrapped up in his study to the point of ignoring other matters. This time, it was only because he heard that the two little princes had to undergo a medical examination that he temporarily put aside his study.
 
Jones knew that Shu Shu was special, so Edgar was quite reassured. As for Dean, Dean had been working with the imperial family for many years. He was the exclusive doctor of the imperial family and had signed a confidentiality agreement, so he would certainly not talk about anything that should not be said.
 
When Edgar and Shu Shu brought the children to the medical room on the spaceship, Jones and Dean were already waiting there.
 
"You’re here." Jones said with a smile, his eyes falling on the nursery basket Shu Shu was carrying in his hand. "Did you bring the newborn little prince? Does he look good? Are his scales particularly smooth?" After the child was born, Jones always wanted to see the child, but Shu Shu and Edgar hid the child so well that he never saw him.
 
"He looks very good, but he has no scales." Shu Shu replied. His youngest son's beast form looked very beautiful and was a thousand times better than his oldest son’s!
 
Had no scales? Could it be that there was something wrong with the child? Having heard what was said, Jones was shocked. At this time, Shu Shu lifted open the muslin covering the nursery basket.
 
In the Beastman Empire, because children were born from eggs, newborn children were very small in size regardless of whether they were beastman babies or sub-beastman babies. It was nothing much if the children were small in size, but beastman babies might change their shapes at any time, and there were all kinds of beast shapes, which made it very inconvenient to hold them. Later, someone invented the nursery basket.
 
This was a lightweight and portable big basket that allowed a beastman baby or a sub-beastman baby to lie in it, so that the child's relatives could  carry them everywhere, which was very convenient.
 
Shu Shu opened the muslin covering the nursery basket, and Jones finally saw the situation inside the nursery basket, but the basket was clearly empty . . . .
 
"What about the child?" Jones asked in puzzlement.
 
"Isn't he here?" Shu Shu picked up a little hamster from under the towel spread at the bottom of the nursery basket.
 
"!!!" Staring at the little hamster in Shu Shu's hand, Jones was stunned. "How’s he a hamster?"

"This child’s like me!" Shu Shu was quite proud of himself.
 
"But . . . normally, the beast type of a beastman child is inherited from his father." Jones' expression was quite tangled. In the Beastman Empire, the reproduction of a beastman and a sub-beastman relied on the beast bead that formed a womb within the sub-beastman’s body, and the process of producing offspring was a battle between the genes of both sides.
 
If the beastman father's genes prevailed in the embryo, the embryo would grow into a little beastman. If the sub-beastman mother's genes prevailed in the embryo, the embryo would grow into a sub-beastman.
 
Because of this, if the child born to the couple was a beastman, his beast form would definitely be exactly the same as his beastman father’s. If the child was a sub-beastman, his racial type would be the same as his sub-beastman mother’s.
 
Although a child was the offspring of a beastman and a sub-beastman, 90% of the genes in the beastman baby were inherited from the beastman father, and 90% of the genes in the sub-beastman baby were inherited from the sub-beastman mother.
 
But now . . . why was the little beastman's beast shape different from Edgar’s and similar to Shu Shu’s instead?
 
Wait a minute . . . Shu Shu seemed to be . . . a beastman, too? Jones suddenly remembered that Shu Shu had once turned into a hamster in front of him . . . . Shu Shu had a lot of secrets on his body, and he could also become a hamster. It would seem that the child being like this . . . was quite normal?
 
Jones quickly figured it out, but old Dean was still confused. "It's truly strange. Could it be that this little beastman inherited too many of the crown princess’ genes? In that case, shouldn’t he grow up into a sub-beastman?"
 
Dean’s thought strayed to a not-so-good area; he planned to say something but ultimately held back. After the crown princess had just given birth to his first child, he rushed to conceive a second one, and then he went through a kidnapping and nearly died. It was said that his life was very difficult then. Under these circumstances, the child might have suffered some injuries. Would it be . . . genetic mutation?
 
No wonder the crown prince and the crown princess kept the child well-hidden after the child broke the shell. It turned out that the child had a problem!
 
Dean felt very sorry for the child in front of him. In the end, he merely asked, "Which child will be checked first?" Besides the little hamster who got much attention, the little snake was also brought. However, he was coiled around Edgar’s body, very normal and very spirited, and almost completely ignored.
 
"Check Xiao Bao first." Edgar pulled the little snake off his body.
 
90% of the little snake's genes were from Edgar. All the data that came out of the examination were very good, much better than Edgar's when he was a child, and his development was extremely advanced.
 
"The child’s beast bead looks very beautiful. His beast core looks quite different from ordinary beast core, but the energy fluctuation in it is very strong. He’ll definitely grow up into a strong beastman and should be likely to surpass his father." After Dean and Jones finished checking the little snake, they spoke briefly of the little snake’s condition in addition to praising him—this was the first time they saw such a strong and powerful little beastman.
 
After the little snake had been checked, it was the little hamster's turn.
 
The little hamster’s size was really too small, causing a little trouble for the checkup, but it still went smoothly in the end. As the results of the checkup came out one by one, Jones and Dean's expressions became more and more grave.
 
"This child . . . . He has no beast bead in his body!" Dean's expression was very ugly when he said this. A beastman without beast bead indicated that he was infertile, which could be said to be a handicap.
 
The second child of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince and the crown princess actually didn’t have a beast bead . . . .
 
Edgar was somewhat surprised when he heard what was said, his brows puckering slightly.
 
The child had no beast bead; could he still be considered as a beastman? If he was not regarded as a beastman, then he in the future . . . . Edgar suddenly recalled that Shu Shu was also a beastman without a beast bead, and then . . . he had children.
 
His little son was in fact not a beastman in the traditional sense but a “sub-beastman” like Shu Shu?
 
Edgar was a little worried when he knew the results of the checkup, but after thinking carefully about it, that worry immediately disappeared, leaving only joy.
 
He always wanted a sub-beastman child, and now he had!
 
Edgar thought of this implication, and so did Shu Shu, which made him very happy as well—this child was like him in all respects; how good, ah! As for having no beast bead . . . he did not have it either, yet didn't he grow up well?
 
Edgar and Shu Shu were very happy. Seeing their expressions, Jones also felt relieved, but the other doctor present was not aware of this.
 
"Your Imperial Highness, although the little prince has no beast bead in his body, and his hamster build leaned to small beast type that’s unsuitable for fighting, but he’s still very healthy." Dean tried to comfort the crown prince and his wife and could not help but give the little hamster a pitying glance. Such a little beastman would be overshadowed by his older brother in the future, right?
 
Or worse, the imperial family would hide him as airtight as before and keep him hidden from others forever . . . .
 
"I know, this child’s very healthy." Edgar said. He saw Dean’s expression and realized that Dean, who did not know Shu Shu's situation, must have misunderstood, but he had no intention to explain.
 
After putting the little hamster, who was very impatient with the medical examination, into the nursery basket again, Edgar briefed Dean and Jones to not divulge the child's condition and then went back with Shu Shu and the children.
 
Edgar and Shu Shu did not care about the checkup results at all. Jones later figured it out, but Dean was very uneasy. Of course, even so, he still said nothing when facing people outside and didn’t even show the slightest difference in front of them. However, he looked for Edgar a few days later and put forward a proposal, hoping to check the two children once every few days to record the children's growths.
 
"Checkup every few days? Isn't it too much?" Edgar asked.
 
"It’s not too much. Actually, it’s the same as when you’re a child, Your Imperial Highness, and I also recorded all your data at that time . . . . You grew very fast then." Dean said. In fact, this kind of check up was not necessary, but he was really uneasy about the little prince who had no beast bead. He thought about recording his data and then doing research to see if there were other ways to stimulate him to grow a beast bead.
 
Edgar considered it and then agreed with Dean's request.
 
Xiao Bao had no problem at all, but Xiao Bei’s situation was very special. Edgar felt it was quite necessary to record his development so that there was a reference if there were more children like Xiao Bei born in the imperial family in the future.
 
The little snake and the little hamster began their new life of having a medical examination every few days. At the beginning, they were very curious about the various machines that gave them medical examinations, and the little hamster always couldn't help but gnaw on them, but after a few more times, they never took it seriously again.
 
That's when Dean once again discovered a big problem with the little hamster.
 
The little hamster, he grew too slow!
 
Beastmen were usually small when they were born, but they grew very fast, and oftentimes, they could grow very big in just a short time. The little snake's weight and length had already grown a lot.
 
But the little hamster, he hardly grew. If he continued like this . . . maybe he would only be as big as a fist after he grew up!

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A Guide to - 97

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97. Gluttonous Little Hamster
 

The hole in the eggshell was now about the size of a fingernail. The little hamster tried to get out but found that he could not, so he stopped moving.
 
But after a short pause, he moved again and began to gnaw at the eggshell with difficulty.
 
"He actually has teeth!" Shu Shu stared at the little hamster with some surprise. The hamster babies he had seen before had no teeth when they were just born, and it was simply impossible for them to bite off an eggshell.
 
"Beastmen don’t breastfeed and generally develop their teeth while inside the egg." Edgar explained while fixing his eyes on the little hamster.
 
Shu Shu nodded and continued to stare at the egg without blinking.
 
By this time, the child had already gnawed the hole a little bigger and was slowly crawling out of it.
 
A newborn baby hamster was normally unable to open its eyes and had no hair on its body, looking extraordinarily immature and tender. But this was really not the case for the little hamster who crawled out of the eggshell. Although he also looked pink and tender, his body was already covered with a layer of short fur, and his eyes could open as well.
 
He was only the size of Edgar's thumb and seemed to be extremely delicate, making it very hard to believe that such a small thing could actually open the eggshell and drill out of it . . . . Shu Shu once again felt indescribably sorry for the child, whose mode of reproduction had changed from viviparous to oviparous.
 
"He's so cute." Edgar only felt that his heart had melted looking at the tiny child, but he did not dare to reach out and caress his child. "He’s so small . . ."
 
"Yeah, why’s he so small? Such a big egg only contains such a small hamster?" Shu Shu picked up the eggshell in puzzlement, looked through the hole, and saw that the inside of the egg was completely empty.
 
There was really only a thumb-sized little hamster inside such a big egg.
 
"You’re also not much bigger than him." Edgar glanced at Shu Shu, and then his gaze fell on the newborn child again. At this moment, the snake-shaped Xiao Bao slithered over and flicked his forked tongue toward the little hamster.
 
A snake and a newborn little hamster who looked tasty with not much hair in the way . . . . Seeing this scene, Shu Shu was so nervous he grabbed Xiao Bao subconsciously. "Xiao Bao, turn into a person!"
 
He knew that his first son was not malicious to his second son, but this scene really made him feel a little overwhelmed . . . .
 
The little snake gave Shu Shu a questioning glance. Under the nourishment of spiritual power, he could already control himself to transform into a human shape or a beast shape, so after hearing Shu Shu's words and flicking his snake tongue again, he turned into a baby and then looked at the little hamster curiously.
 
The little snake became a white and tender baby, and Shu Shu had no psychological barrier anymore. Picking up the little hamster, Shu Shu put him in the little snake’s hand. "This is your younger brother. You must take good care of him, okay? "
 
"Xiao Bao hasn’t learned to control his strength yet. How can you give him the child?" Edgar frowned. He kept an eye on the little snake to prevent him from harming the little hamster while educating the little snake like Shu Shu had done. "Xiao Bao, this is your younger brother, and you’re the older brother. In the future, you must take good care of your younger brother, and you must not let your younger brother get hurt . . . ."
 
At first glance, it was plain to see that the little snake had rough skin and thick flesh and was capable of enduring falling and beating. But this child . . . . Edgar always felt that he could not use any force at all when touching the child.
 
The little snake nodded without really understanding it. He had only been born not long ago. Although beastmen developed quickly, and he had the assistance of spiritual power to develop faster than ordinary beastmen, he certainly didn’t understand everything.
 
However . . . feeling the warmth in the palm of his hand, the little snake vaguely felt that he had to protect this little thing in the palm of his hand well.
 
Such a mouthful of edible little thing, if he did not protect it well, it might be accidentally gone!
 
Staring at the little hamster in his palm, the little snake frowned tightly, and his little face looked very serious.
 
At this time, the little hamster in the hollow of the little snake’s hand moved and lifted his head in Shu Shu’s direction.
 
"Little guy, do you want your mother?" Shu Shu plucked the little hamster from the hollow of the little snake’s hand and held him in his hand. He loved to get close to people, so he really wanted to kiss this little guy who looked like himself. But . . . this child was too small!
 
Looking at the child in the hollow of his palm, Shu Shu was a little at a loss. The child, however, was still moving incessantly and tried to climb down from Shu Shu's arm. At the same time, he kept raising his head in one direction while his eyes opened wider and wider.
 
"What the heck are you looking at?" Shu Shu was very puzzled.
 
Edgar did not dare to touch the child, but he kept watching the child attentively as well as observing all the child's behavior. At this moment, he suddenly said, "He’s looking at the fried rice."
 
"What?" Shu Shu stared blankly.
 
"He should be looking at those foods." Edgar said. This child was truly exactly the same as Shu Shu. Didn’t Shu Shu just want to rush over when he saw food?
 
Shu Shu stared at the child in his hand for a while and finally placed him on the table. Then he saw the child quickly run to the plate with fried rice and try to climb up the smooth plate by holding onto it with his paws. It was a pity that the plate was quite big, and the edge was also not low. With his clumsy movements, there was no way at all for him to climb in. He could only watch the plate helplessly.
 
". . ." Shu Shu was temporarily speechless while suddenly thinking of one thing—this child had stayed inside the eggshell for a long time without any movement; later, his fried rice was brought to him, and the child suddenly began to fight the eggshell and soon drilled out of it . . . . Could it be that it was because he smelled the fried rice?
 
Why was his child like this, ah?! Was it really okay for him to be so gluttonous? Shu Shu was depressed.
 
"He's like you, fixing his gaze on food." Edgar commented, the corners of his mouth giving rise to a smile.
 
". . ." Shu Shu was even more depressed.
 
The little hamster went around the plate once and was still unable to see the food. Finally, he stopped moving.
 
"Be good, Xiao Bei. You’re just born and unsuitable to eat fried rice . . ." Shu Shu wanted to get the child back upon seeing this, but unexpectedly, Xiao Bei suddenly turned into a person at this moment.
 
A naked baby with only a few sparse hair on his head appeared on the dining table and then plunged his whole face into the plate with the fried rice. To say nothing of plunging his head into the plate, he also took a mouthful of fried rice.
 
My son was amazing! Shu Shu hugged the child and found that his face was full of rice grains, but the child hardly cared about it and started to chew the rice. Shu Shu suddenly admired him somewhat.
 
When he was just born, he would only fight over breast milk with his brothers and sisters. His son, however, was much more powerful and directly fought over food with him, his mother.
 
"I'm going to get some baby food." Edgar said. The spaceship had brought a lot of supplies, which included various kinds of foods suitable for beastman and sub-beastman babies to eat. As for fried rice . . . . Little beastmen could immediately eat meat as well as all kinds of foods that adult beastmen ate, but they should not eat seasonings, not even salt. As it happened, Shu Shu's fried rice contained a good deal of seasonings.
 
When taking care of the little snake, Edgar felt that it did not matter if the child ate a bit rough. The little snake liked to eat some fried rice, and he would not stop him. Yet when it was this child's turn . . . . Thinking of the little hairless guy, Edgar grabbed the beastman baby food and then stuffed the food prepared for sub-beastman baby into his space button as well.
 
"Edgar, the child’s been born? Is it a beastman or a sub-beastman?" Jones always paid attention to Edgar and Shu Shu’s situation and immediately came to find them.
 
"It's a little beastman." Edgar said.
 
Another little beastman? Jones was somewhat disappointed, but recalling that he did not even have one little beastman now, he was rather envious. "Congratulations."
 
Edgar smiled and nodded. "I still have something. I’ll go back first."
 
Edgar quickly left. Jones stood still yet could not help but stroke his own belly.
 
"You also want a child?" Reynolds suddenly appeared behind Jones. He picked Jones up and carried Jones back to their room. "I must work hard!"
 
After Edgar left the room, the child whose head was planted on the plate became a little hamster again.
 
Shu Shu breathed a sigh of relief. He put the little hamster on the table again and then moved the fried rice to the cupboard on the side . . . . Even if it had already been eaten, and there was spiritual power that could protect the child, he still wouldn’t give him the opportunity to eat a second mouthful.
 
However, when he turned his head to look at the child after doing all this, he suddenly found that the little hamster actually took a grain of rice out of his mouth, held it with his paws, and began to nibble at it.
 
It felt like this child had already seized the opportunity just now to hide the rice in his food pouches and was currently about to taste it slowly in his little hamster form!
 
Shu Shu glanced at the little snake on the side who was staring at the little hamster curiously and suddenly realized that his eldest son was in fact very cute, too.
 
After Edgar returned, he first took out the rice paste for sub-beastman babies to eat. As a result, the little hamster turned up his nose at it. Only when he took out the meat chunks for little beastmen to eat did the little hamster deigned to eat them. As the little hamster ate, he also stored the food in his food pouches.
 
Although this child had just been born, he had learned to store food, which was self-taught, as well as being picky about food.
 
By comparison, the little snake was much more well-behaved. After Edgar handed him the opened rice paste for sub-beastman babies to eat, he did not refuse it at all and spooned himself big mouthfuls of it until it was completely finished.
 
The little hamster was a bit gluttonous but had no other problems at all and was very easy to raise.
 
However, he was really so small that Shu Shu was always very worried. He worried that he would be careless and accidentally lost the child. It was still fine if he only lost the child, but if he accidentally stepped on him . . . .
 
In the evening, Shu Shu found a box, put the little hamster in it, and placed the box on his headboard. Only then did he get into Edgar's arms to sleep. At the same time, the news of him and Edgar having another little beastman spread in the base.
 
The fallen beasts were very happy and spontaneously celebrating for Edgar and Shu Shu. Looking at the great celebration scene outside, Myer felt terribly bitter and sour.
 
He always felt that he was much more outstanding than Shu Shu, but in the end? Not only did Shu Shu possess such an innate skill of "healing", but he also came up with a method to help the fallen beasts restore their beast cores.
 
Now, he even had two children.
 
Edgar and Shu Shu's second child had come out of the shell. After the people in the base heard this news, they began to raise their heads and look around, hoping to see the cute little beastman.
 
However, the crown prince and the crown princess, who never restrained the little snake from running around, had actually hidden their second child well out of sight. It had been a few days since the child was born, but everyone still couldn’t see the appearance of the little beastman.
 
While people in the base were being very curious about the mysterious little beastman, Shu Shu was currently in a quandary as he looked at the snake and the little hamster in front of him.
 
The little hamster would crawl after he was born, and his movements had become extremely flexible in just a few days. After that, he became more and more naughty.
 
It was originally not a big deal for him to become naughty, but the scene right now . . . .
 
A little hamster was running in front, and a four-legged little snake was chasing behind and would roll up the little hamster when he caught up . . . . Even if this was not the first time Shu Shu saw this situation, he still felt that his heart could not stand it.
 
He wanted to stop the little snake from chasing the little hamster, but he initially hadn’t been very friendly to the little snake's beast form, and if he was like that again, the little snake would surely feel deeply hurt, right? After all, he only wanted to play with his younger brother . . . .   

After pondering for a while, Shu Shu suddenly thought of an idea, and his eyes brightened.



TL's note: Xiao Bei means little baby.
And this pic from IG that I've kept since last year especially for this chapter Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

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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 . . . .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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