Chapter 111

Chapter 111

This group even brought detection equipment, leaving no corner of the planet unexplored, meticulously scanning every inch.

But they found nothing and gathered all the staff for thorough questioning.

They didn't dare to ask too specifically, but in the end, their inquiries yielded nothing.

In fact, this group also wanted to find the planet's owner, hoping to access the recent records of cargo spacecraft, including which planets the spacecraft had visited and the specific addresses of clients—information that should not be disclosed.

Previously, because they arrived so suddenly, the planet's owner was caught off guard, but now with such an outrageous request, he was instantly enraged.

However, since they dared to act this way, there must be a powerful force backing them. But their planet wasn't to be trifled with either; who doesn't have connections behind them?

The planet's owner then directly sought help, eventually reporting to the master behind the scenes.

Not long after, one of the Huang family's herb base planets was also suddenly disrupted.

This highly popular livestock planet, like many other specialty planets with unique features, had already been largely divided among various forces. These forces generally knew who was behind each planet.

To suddenly move against someone else's planet would naturally not be taken lightly by those in charge. Especially among the royal offspring, such actions were tantamount to a direct declaration of war.

Thus, while Bai Qi was still asleep, this time they provoked another member of the royal family.

At this moment, Old Qi was staring at a mass the size of a small elephant. Since two nights ago, when the insect prince suddenly lost his life force.

When he saw it, he could hardly accept it. After all, the prince's vitality was extremely strong; if such a level of combat and medication could bring him down, the insect princes wouldn't have so many terrifying legends in the interstellar battlefield.

But after repeated tests, he finally confirmed that this mass had no signs of life. Not only that, but the limb parts of a prince collected by the royal family, which had been studied for over a thousand years, still retained activity and formidable offensive power. Now, after being hit by anesthetic darts and various suppressants, this once formidable mass was beginning to melt!

Old Qi held a tentacle, which was continuously softening and dripping a thick, semi-transparent, semi-solid liquid. This liquid was highly corrosive, capable of eroding the ground into pits. Even with specially designed gloves, Old Qi began to see smoke after just a short contact.

Old Qi quickly took off his gloves and watched as the originally small-elephant-sized mass gradually collapsed, becoming a puddle of a translucent, unidentified substance.

He had been tricked!

He naturally didn't know that from the moment the insect prince fell into a deep sleep, the outer shell, having lost its mental control, had been stripped of most of its essence and thus turned into a lifeless mass. At this point, even studying this mass would yield nothing. It couldn't be stopped from melting and would slowly evaporate in an unsealed space.

As Old Qi faced this mass, helpless and furious, a deep blue, translucent mass was chasing a cow inside an ecological container.

An ecological container in the interstellar age is essentially a mini-farm, much larger than ordinary containers before the apocalypse. Inside, various animals have their own living spaces, food, air, water, artificial sunlight, and soil, ensuring that the animals remain lively and fresh for up to a month without affecting their taste.

When Bai Xiaoyu first saw it, he was amazed and even went in for a tour.

Now, the deep blue mass was chasing the strongest, fattest, and most nutritious cow.

In the past, even if the cow was a hundred meters away, he could easily pull it over and drain it dry with a single tentacle. Now, reduced to the size of a basketball, his tentacles were only as thick as thumbs and barely half a meter long. He could only jump about a meter high and, before entering here, had used up most of his remaining energy. Now, facing the charging cow, he could only watch its rear end and crawl after it.

But he just couldn't catch up! Couldn't catch up! Couldn't catch up!

Unable to catch the cow, he shifted his target to a nearby sheep. The result...

He tried pigs... geese... chickens... ducks...

Finally, the deep blue mass lay on the ground, watching the livestock run away, finding it incredibly difficult to get a meal.

Seeing his originally round, basketball-sized body slowly deflating, he noticed that a chicken had been stepped on and squashed, either by a frightened cow or sheep.

The deep blue mass happily rolled over and looked at the flattened chicken, which had almost no life force left. In the past, he would have ignored such a meal, but now he used all his tentacles to happily pluck the feathers...

With the feathers in the way, absorption was difficult. The interstellar animals were large, and even after plucking the feathers, the chicken was still two to three times larger than the mass.

The deep blue mass climbed onto the chicken, and soon only some impurities and residue were left on the ground.

This small meal provided a bit of energy, and the deep blue mass set its sights on other prey. Now, he deeply realized his current strength and decided to ambush his targets.

Even ambushing was difficult, but he had to eat and recover as much as possible; otherwise, he couldn't go find his egg.

Two days passed as he hunted with his tentacles. Now, the deep blue mass was viciously feeding on a sheep.

After this meal, he planned to leave and search for his egg. But just as he finished, he sensed a faint connection with the main tentacle.

Since transforming, the deep blue mass had been unable to establish a mental link with the main tentacle. Mental links required energy from both sides, and he hadn't reached the minimum threshold. That's why he had been chasing these prey so hard.

But this faint connection was fleeting and broke again.

The deep blue mass's tentacles exploded outward, and he quickly finished the sheep before darting toward the cow he had initially chased.

Just as he was about to grab the cow's leg, the startled cow kicked him away, and the deep blue mass tumbled into the grass.

Meanwhile, Bai Xiaoyu was feeling a headache as the tentacle egg became increasingly restless after enlightenment.

Shortly after enlightenment, the tentacle egg and the tentacle began to act up, even trying to break out.

It was late at night, and Bai Xiaoyu naturally wouldn't let them run outside. In the end, he fed them insect crystals, which they ate, but they continued to demand to go out.

The large tentacle couldn't communicate, so Bai Xiaoyu used his mental energy to probe inside the tentacle egg. Inside, the youngling had grown, with a chubby little face and short, fat limbs. All the tentacles surrounded the youngling, filling the massive egg, which was nearly as tall as his shoulders and wide enough for two people to barely encircle. Upon sensing Bai Xiaoyu, they all gathered around.

This time, they didn't play and cuddle as usual but instead anxiously darted around his mental threads.

Bai Xiaoyu was puzzled. What was going on?

He probed the youngling's forehead, where a chubby, short mental tentacle was frantically waving. He gently touched the small tentacle and immediately received the youngling's thoughts: "Pain, pain, pain..."

Bai Xiaoyu frowned and asked, "Little one, where does it hurt?"

Worried that the youngling might not understand, he used other mental threads to touch different parts of the youngling's body, asking. The youngling then pointed to every part of its body and its tentacles with all its tentacles. His mental energy continued to receive the youngling's thoughts: "Everything hurts."

Bai Xiaoyu was alarmed, thinking something was wrong with the youngling, but after checking the entire body, he found no issues.

When the young one couldn’t explain what was wrong, he just looked at it as if it was in real pain, even convulsing from the agony. He had tried many pain relief measures, but none of them worked. He was also a bit confused; if the young one’s body had no issues, why was it in such pain? Could there be something in its body that he hadn’t detected?

Fortunately, not long after, the young one returned to its normal state. This time, it didn’t cry out in pain, and its tentacles weren’t flailing around. Instead, the young one’s telepathic message changed to “Save me...”

Bai Xiaoyu asked, “Save what?”

In the next second, the young one’s tentacles all pointed toward the direction of the large tentacle. Bai Xiaoyu looked at the large tentacle, which seemed to have no problems. Could the young one be referring to the main body of this tentacle?

But he didn’t even know where the main body of the tentacle was, so even if he wanted to help, he was powerless.

Since that night, Tentacle Egg and Tentacle Day had been causing trouble, but things had calmed down a bit over the past two days.

He stopped Egg from going out, “It’s too late now. The live prey in the forest has been hunted almost to exhaustion by you two over the past few days. New prey will be delivered tomorrow, and I’ll take you out then.”

The next morning, after checking on the young ones, Bai Xiaoyu was about to leave with Big Black Egg and the others when he saw Lou Hao and Tao Limeng.

Lou Hao was laughing and trying to console someone, but Tao Limeng behind him looked increasingly dejected, like someone who had just experienced a breakup.

Seeing his state, Bai Xiaoyu asked Lou Hao, “What’s wrong? Has he not recovered yet?”

Lou Hao nodded, his voice tinged with amusement and a hint of schadenfreude, “Yes, he still can’t let go.”

At that moment, Tao Limeng suddenly looked over with a resentful expression, “Ah, the silk gauze I was about to get!”

Even Bai Xiaoyu couldn’t help but want to laugh at this.

The big tiger from the metal egg was rolling on the ground in laughter.

The story was simple: that night, Tao Limeng had taken advantage of the darkness to take the mermaid clan member into the woods to feed the mosquitoes.

They didn’t know the details, but the next day, Tao Limeng was in this state, complaining that he had been used and discarded, and that his twenty-three years of virginity had not earned him even a piece of silk gauze.

The information was overwhelming, and no one had expected such an outcome.

Tao Limeng would only act normally when he entered the lab; otherwise, he was always like this, constantly talking about the silk gauze.

Ignoring the two people laughing unscrupulously, Tao Limeng continued to grumble, “It’s really unfair. I’ve exhausted all my efforts, and I still didn’t get a fingernail-sized piece of silk gauze…”

Bai Xiaoyu smiled, watching Lou Hao lead Tao Limeng away while laughing like a pig. At that moment, his optical brain received a notification that the live prey he had ordered was about to arrive.

Now, with Tentacle Egg and the large tentacle hungry for breakfast, the timing was perfect for their delivery.

He opened the order and saw that the transport ship carrying the live prey had already entered the planet’s outer space. If everything went well, it would land in fifteen minutes.

Usually, Bai Xiaoyu wouldn’t rush to let the large tentacle and Tentacle Egg go hunting, but...

He turned to look at the suddenly agitated tentacle and Egg, and led them to the designated location.

Upon arriving at the designated spot, Bai Xiaoyu and Tentacle Egg reached the location, while Big Black Egg and the others hid nearby.

As time passed, Bai Xiaoyu noticed that Tentacle Egg’s reactions were getting stronger, and the hidden large tentacle kept trying to rush out, only to be flattened into a green, elongated blanket by Big Black Egg and the others.

Soon, a spacecraft appeared overhead, and Tentacle Egg suddenly stopped moving.

The spacecraft landed quickly, and as soon as it did, Tentacle Egg started rolling toward the cargo hold at the back of the spacecraft.

The staff members who emerged from the spacecraft were startled to see the giant egg, worried that it might cause damage. They looked at Bai Xiaoyu, “Breeder Bai, should we stop this egg? What if it gets damaged?”

Bai Xiaoyu gave them a reassuring look, “It’s fine. Its shell is very hard.”

The staff member replied, “That’s good to know. We’ll start unloading the cargo immediately.”

Bai Xiaoyu watched as the egg collided with the cargo hold and then the eco-container, becoming more agitated. When the staff members were about to open the eco-container for inspection, he called out to stop them, “No need to inspect the cargo. Leave the container as it is, and you can return when the next batch arrives.”

The staff members nodded in agreement. Most clients didn’t have the space to store the eco-containers, so they often left them behind. This regular client had even requested the removal of the surveillance inside the containers after the last delivery. Privacy was highly valued among interstellar beings, and this wasn’t the first time they had received such a request.

They would comply with these requests, but they wouldn’t be responsible for any issues that arose.

After reiterating this, they operated the spacecraft and left.

Shortly after they departed, Big Black Egg, the metal egg, and the smallest white tiger simultaneously blocked Bai Xiaoyu’s path. Tentacle Egg was still ramming the container, and a deep blue, flattened blanket-like object moved toward them.

At that moment, a faint sound came from inside the container. Compared to the louder noises, this sound was more like a wave.

Hearing this, the white tiger immediately extended its claws, bared its teeth, and growled at the container.

Bai Xiaoyu, who had full access to the container, seeing how hard Tentacle Egg was struggling, used his mental power to pull it back.

Then, he probed inside with his mental power but found nothing unusual. Finally, with a strange expression, he opened the container door, and a lump fell out with a thud.

At that moment, the creature, which had been squeezed into a bizarre shape, finally saw the light of day.

However, it quickly regained its form, and soon a basketball-sized, round mass appeared before everyone.

Everyone present, including the eggs and the beasts, was speechless.

The deep blue mass, upon regaining mobility, bounced up a meter high and rolled toward the position of Tentacle Egg.

It seemed to forget everything around it, the trembling black dot on its round body focused solely on the egg.

Egg, I’m here~~~

Just as it was about to touch Tentacle Egg, it was poked by Bai Xiaoyu’s mental power with the same force he used to stop the large tentacle. The mass immediately flipped backward, rolling several times.

Bai Xiaoyu: “….”

Was this really the main body of the large tentacle, the insectoid prince who, despite being in a juvenile form, was supposed to be much stronger than Tentacle Egg? How could it be knocked over so easily? He still couldn’t believe that this creature, rumored to be extremely fierce, was so weak. Even now, he was holding Tentacle Egg back firmly.

The deep blue mass continued to move forward, regardless of being poked and flipped several times, and finally realized that there were three white tigers around!

His entire body erupted with tentacles, as if he was trying to expand his form and intimidate the surrounding enemies with a show of force.

But even when he expanded to his maximum, he still didn't match the size of the tentacle egg.

Once again knocked over, the deep blue mass seemed to sense something. The black dot, resembling an eye, struggled to shift its gaze from the tentacle egg and looked at Bai Xiaoyu.

They locked eyes, engaging in a silent confrontation. The deep blue mass even tried to use its exaggerated tentacles to suppress Bai Xiaoyu's aura.

At this moment, the large black egg, the metal egg, and the little one all took a step forward.

The deep blue mass's tentacles trembled, and soon the black dot turned back to Bai Xiaoyu. A small mouth opened on the main body of the deep blue mass, and it began to swell.

Bai Xiaoyu narrowed his eyes. Was it going to attack?

He watched as the small mouth of the deep blue mass grew wider, and after a moment of apparent pain, a light blue egg, almost as large as the deep blue mass itself, was spat out.

After expelling the egg, the deep blue mass used its tentacles to push the egg toward Bai Xiaoyu, then more tentacles reached out to try to pull the tentacle egg over.

Seeing that the tentacle egg remained unmoved, the deep blue mass seemed to sigh, then began to swell again, preparing to expel another egg.

In the next moment, an even larger egg of the same color was spat out. It cautiously observed Bai Xiaoyu's expression, and after failing to pull the tentacle egg back, the round mass swelled once more...

Without strength, negotiations are so unfair, wailing.

How many more eggs will it take to exchange for my precious egg? Speak up already.