Chapter 219

Chapter 219

Noticing Bai Xiaoyu's gaze, the Little Prince’s tentacle grew even more defiant, slapping him with greater force and frequency. The tentacle tilted slightly, and the black dot at its tip seemed to glare at him, as if trying to convey just how upset it was.

Little Bai's tentacle also tightened around him as Bai Xiaoyu turned his attention to it.

Still unsure of what had upset them, Bai Xiaoyu decided to try calming the little guys down. He bent down and reached out to touch both tentacles, hoping to ease their anger. He managed to touch Little Bai's tentacle. As usual, Little Bai was quick to calm down. At first, he wasn't as enthusiastic as usual, but after a few more strokes, he couldn't resist. The black dot on the tentacle wobbled, and then the tentacle began to rub against Bai Xiaoyu's palm.

After a while, the tentacle wrapped around Bai Xiaoyu's finger and continued to coil up his arm until it nestled on his shoulder. The surrounding furry tentacles suddenly sprang out to clean his shoulder, then gathered into a ball, looking at him eagerly with the black dot.

Bai Xiaoyu turned his head, and the little guy even came forward to rub against him. It felt like rubbing against a smooth, cool surface, unlike the two tiger cubs, whose soft fur and warm bodies made them much more comforting.

The entire process from Bai Xiaoyu touching Little Bai's tentacle to the tentacle rubbing against his face took less than thirty seconds.

The black dot on the tentacle on Bai Xiaoyu's leg rolled its eyes. From outside, the Little Prince turned to Little Bai and said, "Hey, little tail, Bai Xiaoyu is trying to make peace with you. Can't you hold out a little longer? Next time, can you last more than thirty seconds?"

Little Bai blinked in confusion. "Huh?"

Accepting Bai Xiaoyu's peace offering was inevitable. Was there really a difference between thirty seconds and thirty minutes? The egg yolk was being so fussy now, but in a while, it would obediently climb onto Bai Xiaoyu's shoulder, right?

Sensing what his "egg yolk" was thinking, the Little Prince steeled himself. He resolved to hold out for more than thirty minutes and not give in to Bai Xiaoyu's attempts to make peace.

Knowing the Little Prince's thoughts, Little Bai responded, "Oh."

It still wanted to climb onto Bai Xiaoyu's shoulder.

After calming Little Bai, Bai Xiaoyu's other hand also moved. The little tentacle on his leg was angrily pushing his hand away, clearly still mad and not ready to reconcile.

Bai Xiaoyu couldn't help but laugh, about to continue soothing him, but the little tentacle pushed and dodged again. At that moment, the optical brain flashed. Bai Xiaoyu reached out again and said, "I need to check who's contacting me, but I'll come back to you in a minute."

This time, the little tentacle didn't dodge. After a few reluctant pokes, it finally agreed but still clung to his leg.

Bai Xiaoyu straightened up and accepted the call. The person on the other end was Mo Yan, the person in charge of Dawn.

Seeing Bai Xiaoyu, Mo Yan waved and greeted him, "Boss, this time we've delivered most of the serum. Mo Lin and I are taking a team back to transport more over."

Dawn had already set up a transportation network in the nearby star systems and had delivered the Fire Seed serum to nearly eight hundred planets.

In just a few months, the number of planets receiving the Fire Seed serum had grown from three hundred to eight hundred—a significant achievement.

At this stage, the Dawn team was still relatively relaxed. They had safely delivered the serum to hundreds of planets over the months. Compared to other suppliers, who frequently faced robberies during transport, Dawn stood out as one of the safest. Even the royal family's shipments had been hijacked without military protection. Especially in recent years, with Marshal Bai missing and the bugs rampant, the people across the star system were on edge. Naturally, those desperate for survival took advantage of the chaos to rob more boldly.

Dawn had been targeted by space pirates before, but they knew the routes well and were fast. They were well-versed in the space pirates' tactics and tricks. Want to rob them? Impossible. So far, they had no record of being successfully hijacked.

Not only that, after delivering the serum, they would track down the pirates who had previously robbed them and retaliate.

They used the same mechs but in different configurations. For transporting the serum, they used one form, and for retaliatory strikes, they switched to another.

This form was still their original mech design, recognizable by space pirates across the star system as the mechs of Dawn, the pirate-hunting gang.

The first mech form had been modified with the soil from the planet that was once the Little Prince and Little Bai's food as a second layer. This second layer could be flexibly deployed. When covering the mech, it blocked external detection, making it hard to locate and track. Others couldn't detect that it was Dawn's mech inside.

In fact, their first mech form had also been modified, but they wouldn't use the second layer unless absolutely necessary.

As for previous pirates who tried to rob them, didn't they deserve special treatment?

Thus, many space pirates cried and wailed, some almost losing their underwear. Who wouldn't cry when faced with the invincible scourge of space pirates, Dawn, who specialized in targeting their own kind?

Other people deliver medications with empty small transport bays in their mechs, but the Dawn crew always returns with their cargo holds packed full. Moreover, the team claims that they could carry even more if there was more space in the cargo hold.

Bai Xiaoyu wasn’t surprised when Mo Yan mentioned bringing back a bunch of souvenirs. He thought about the optical brains and medications for the cubs, which could be taken over there.

Bai Xiaoyu: "When will you be back?"

Mo Yan: "About a day."

Bai Xiaoyu: "Have you been to the F73 sector? Would it be a problem to deliver a batch of medications there?"

Knowing that his boss was now the star lord of F73, Mo Yan was excited about the opportunity to see the planet that had been occupied by the Bugs a hundred years ago. He said eagerly, "Of course, no problem. If someone leads the way, with our skills, we should be able to navigate through the asteroid belt."

Bai Xiaoyu couldn’t help but chuckle at Mo Yan’s enthusiasm. "When the Royal Guard transfers the cubs over, I’ll have them prepare the flight warriors and such. You can follow them in."

Mo Yan: "Let’s make it a plan then."

They’d ventured just beyond the asteroid belt before, and if it weren’t for their unavenged grudge, their adventurous spirits would have driven them to explore it already.

As Mo Yan began imagining the stimulating and perilous interior of the asteroid belt, Mo Lin next to him detected something and tugged at Mo Yan, "Brother Yan, is that the Huang Family's craft?"

After years of ambushing the Huang Family and destroying many of their hidden labs on various planets, the Dawn crew was quite familiar with the Huang Family's special crafts and even their models or codes.

Mo Yan reflexively said, "Check the nearby planets."

Mo Lin, anticipating this question, replied, "There are three closer ones and five slightly farther away."

In the past, they would have set up ambushes on each of these planets. But things were different now. Mo Yan told his team to take note, "Next time someone’s on leave, they can handle the ambushes."

They continued on their journey, but their craft was also detected by another craft.

Inside was Bai Qi, who was not in a good mood. Seeing the craft on his display and frustrated by the repeated failures in cultivating eggs and the unsuccessful attempt to capture Bai Xiaoyu, he was ready to unleash havoc.

Bai Qi ordered, "Chase them down."

The modified craft had already detected the approaching craft. The Dawn member piloting the craft said, "They’re catching up."

Having roamed the star system for years, Mo Yan had a strong sense of crisis. As usual, he took it seriously. "Make a hyperspace jump at maximum speed, and activate the second layer of anti-detection coating the moment we’re out of their detection range."

Bai Qi hadn’t anticipated such a swift reaction, and by the time they realized it, the Dawn crew had already jumped out of range.

Bai Qi muttered, "Looks like they got lucky this time."

He had already transported thirty eggs containing a mix of genes from the leaders of the dragon clans. Initially, he planned to capture Bai Xiaoyu to cultivate these eggs, but not trusting anyone to take Bai Xiaoyu to his most important lab, he transferred some eggs over. However, the eggs were ready, but Bai Xiaoyu was still out of reach.

Now, Bai Xiaoyu had returned to the D36 planet despite being hunted by numerous factions in the Imperial Star. This was unexpected.

These eggs hadn’t been soaked in the hibernation solution, and their cultivation period would expire in about half a month.

If they didn’t capture Bai Xiaoyu within two weeks, the eggs would be useless.

After escaping, the Dawn crew was quite dissatisfied. They thought, "So they like chasing us, huh? Looks like we haven’t targeted the Huang Family’s labs much recently, and they’ve gotten cocky."

On their way back, Bai Xiaoyu was multitasking, comforting the small tentacle on his leg from time to time. Just when he thought the small tentacle would stay on his leg, it suddenly became agitated after half an hour. Not only did it tighten its grip on his leg, but it also started to flick his calf with an added sense of urgency.

What was the small tentacle doing now?

At that moment, the small tentacle on his shoulder reached over and patted his hand. Bai Xiaoyu quickly understood and reached his hand to the small tentacle on his leg again. This time, the small tentacle seemed quite satisfied with Bai Xiaoyu’s action, giving his calf a few more flicks with its tail before darting up to Bai Xiaoyu’s shoulder in less than three seconds.

Unlike Little Bai, who was usually calm, this one went wild, using its tiny hairs to thoroughly clean and expand across Bai Xiaoyu’s shoulder.

The Little Prince was out hunting when he saw two tiger cubs training. He wrinkled his nose in disgust, "What a stinky tiger smell, and all that tiger fur."

When the two tiger cubs finished their training and returned, they saw that their special spot had been taken by one of those guys' tentacles. They immediately charged up in anger, and in an instant, Bai Xiaoyu's shoulders turned into a battleground.

They went at it pretty hard, but surprisingly, they didn’t even scratch Bai Xiaoyu.

Usually, the tiger cubs had trouble dealing with the Little Prince and Little Bai, but handling this little tentacle was no big problem. The tentacle was quickly slapped down by the two tiger cubs, just as the Little Prince and Little Bai arrived.

Ten minutes later, Bai Xiaoyu calmly watched the few little guys wrecking his place, waiting for Big Black to bring him food.

In the middle of the night, Bai Xiaoyu woke up groggily and saw Big Black struggling with two tentacles in his hand. Just as he was about to say something, Big Black swiftly twisted the two tentacles into a perfect bow, and with a casual toss, threw them out of the high-rise window.

At this point, the Little Prince's face darkened, and Little Bai's face puffed up in anger.

Big Black was such a jerk! He got to sleep with Bai Xiaoyu every night, while they couldn’t even get a wink of sleep!

They weren’t about to let this slide.

So, that night, their tentacles were thrown out countless times until Bai Xiaoyu got up.

The next day, when Mo Yan and the others came back, they rested for a day before setting off again with the optical brain and medicine.

So, they still had a chance.

That night, their tentacles started earlier, after many attempts to outsmart Big Black. Bai Xiaoyu, now fully awake and seeing the persistent tentacles, couldn't help but laugh. He told Big Black, "Why don't you let them sleep here for the night?"

Finally, the two cubs were extremely happy, and through the tentacles, they could see Big Black's reluctant face, which was dark with displeasure, before they fell into a satisfied sleep.

At this moment, the two tentacles boldly wrapped around each other, drawing a clear boundary between Bai Xiaoyu and Big Black.

The next day, Bai Xiaoyu was in the middle of a handover with Mo Yan when the Little Prince suddenly appeared, carrying a giant transparent container with adjustable opacity that Bai Xiaoyu had prepared for him and Little Bai. It was filled with medicine, and the two tentacles were swimming inside.

This medicine was used to mask their aura, especially when the masked man visited. Now, they could use it for the little tentacles.

The Little Prince put down the container and, seeing Bai Xiaoyu's puzzled look, said, "What are you looking at? Aren't you worried about the safety of those guys on the F73 planet?"

With that, he huffed, still fuming over what Bai Xiaoyu had done, and dragged Little Bai away before Bai Xiaoyu could respond.

Bai Xiaoyu looked at the two tentacles intertwined in the semi-transparent container, both annoyed but still helping him. This way, he could feel relieved about that side.

Soon, the two little tentacles and the optical brains and medicine were taken away by Mo Yan and his group. They thought the opaque container held medicine and didn't pay much attention.

The group distributed the medicine across several planets before heading straight for the F73 planet. They happened to encounter another batch of cubs being delivered the next day, so they didn’t have to wait. They smoothly boarded the warriors' ship that came to pick up the cubs and moved everything on board. The cubs on the ship showed no changes at the moment.

Inside the container, the tentacles’ black eyes twitched as they watched the crying and whimpering Bug cubs outside. At the same moment, the Little Prince looked disgusted, thinking these guys were too weak.

How are they supposed to conquer anything like this?

When they arrived at the F73 planet, the two tentacles emerged from the container. The moment they came out, all the Bug cubs on the planet went into a frenzy, prostrating themselves and twisting their insect bodies, looking up in the direction of the tentacles and emitting a unique Bug sonic roar.

Soon, they seemed to lose their target, and the roar got stuck in their throats.

The tentacles only revealed their presence for a moment, just long enough for the Little Prince and Little Bai to announce—'The King has arrived!'

After following Bai Xiaoyu for so long, they finally got a taste of the regal presence a prince deserves.

They quickly pulled back, not wanting to draw attention and cause trouble for Bai Xiaoyu, given how many people were around.

Little Prince saw everything here through the black dots of the tentacles. This star completely belonged to Bai Xiaoyu. Finally, it wasn’t just a tiny, palm-sized space in the incubation facility. Even when they grew up, there wasn’t enough room for him and his tail to find a proper place to rest.

Almost instantly, his tentacles detected the presence of Wormholes. Clearly, there were other planets nearby.

Little Prince’s tentacle suddenly retrieved an optical brain from the container. When he opened it, he found the star map of the star system.

All these dim, unlit planets were fair game.

If possible, he would have liked to claim the illuminated planets nearby as well, but Bai Xiaoyu wouldn’t agree to that, because humans lived on those planets.

Little Prince clicked his tongue. Bai Xiaoyu definitely wasn’t cut out to be a ruler.