Xiao Ling

edited by shay

He’s too good at teasing, and it’s even unintentional teasing, which is more provocative.

Chu Xinglin hoarsely muttered, “Gu Huan,” and then leaned in.

Gu Huan didn’t realize the power of his words, so he was caught off guard when he was suddenly bitten.

Gu Huan took a breath of cold air.

The previous adhesive bandage that Gu Huan had applied on his neck had been taken off by Chu Xinglin at some point.

The bite marks that were originally shallow had deepened. The pheromones surging from his neck to his brain left him worried for a moment. Such marks would be discovered by the prison guards later when he went out. After his rationality returned, Gu Huan calmed down.

This was the medical room, not somewhere else.

There were many ways to deal with such “evidence.”

Chu Xinglin, on the other hand, seemed to have realized this too and became more aggressive in his actions.

They lingered for a while, and there were crisp sounds of handcuffs colliding with each other.

If it weren’t for Gu Huan’s reminder, Chu Xinglin would very likely have triggered his estrus early if he continued.

Chu Xinglin will never stop.

He even had the idea just now of asking someone to knock out the prison guard guarding the door and drag Gu Huan out.

“He Yunan said,”

“All his help to Chu Fengyuan was to help me regain the throne that should have belonged to me.”

Chu Xinglin retracted his grip that was pulling the handcuffs on Gu Huan’s wrists, and furrowed his brows slightly, somewhat suspicious of He Yunan’s motives.

“Why would he do that?”

Among all the things that Gu Huan had just told him, He Yunan’s motivation was the most difficult to understand.

“Because… he is the key to my rebirth.”

“He intervened in the first batch of experiments on artificial humans and gave me the opportunity to be reborn.”

However, there was no way for Gu Huan to explain the methods involved in this.

After all, he was born in the Western fantasy world in his last life, and it is still possible to say that the seeds of giant trees are very metaphysical, so when He Yunan told him this, he did not doubt it, but explained it to a person who grew up in a high-tech world, it’s a little more difficult

Chu Xinglin was incredulous.

Are scientists now so powerful that they can control life and death?

“He has always been very skeptical about the truth of the founding of the empire.”

“After I successfully reincarnated, the memories I possessed confirmed his suspicions.”

“Then he became my supporter, wanting me to regain the throne and save the empire from the brink of disaster.”

“So, what you mean is, He Yunan actually didn’t want to help Chu Fengyuan; he was using him? He helped Chu Fengyuan purely for his own interests?”

Gu Huan nodded.

He knew that He Yunan had been helping Chu Fengyuan for so many years, and it was impossible to believe that he didn’t genuinely support Chu Fengyuan.

Even though he knew that the experiments on the first batch had failed, He Yunan still took away the fertilized eggs of the twins, cultivated them into two vibrant lives, and then told Chu Fengyuan that his experiment had failed and that this Zerg Crystal was irreplaceable.

If Chu Fengyuan hadn’t been so naive and had seen through his lie, he might have acted against He Yunan long ago.

According to this, as the financial provider for all these years and the person who raised a group of interstellar pirates to plunder energy stars everywhere, Chu Fengyuan was clearly just a tool, and has been helping Gu Huan avenge himself.

“Whether what he said is true or not, I want to use him to find Chu Fengyuan’s hiding place.”

He Yunan had been helping Chu Fengyuan for so many years, and they definitely had a deep connection.

If Chu Fengyuan had to hide, he would definitely tell He Yunan where he had gone. He Yunan might become a clue to finding Chu Fengyuan.

However, the premise was that he had to gain He Yunan’s trust.

According to He Yunan’s intention, he must stand on the opposite side of Chu Xinglin.

“Gu Huan, if you escape from prison, do you know what the consequences will be?”

Although this plan sounded foolproof, the consequences were very severe. Once he escaped, the court trial would be terminated immediately.

Directly pronouncing the level of Gu Huan’s crimes, which is treason, would be enough to make Gu Huan a super SSS-class fugitive, ending up with a fate similar to Chu Fengyuan’s.

The Starnet would be filled with wanted posters for Gu Huan.

“I’m willing,” Gu Huan said firmly.

Chu Xinglin knew he couldn’t convince him any further. He believed in Gu Huan’s abilities and his own, and when the time came, he would never let Gu Huan bear all the pressure alone.

“You can leave with him, but be careful of He Yunan.”

For so many years, He Yunan had maintained the appearance of having no desires, and even Chu Xinglin’s mother had trusted him so much. Regardless of what he said, no matter how good it sounded, Chu Xinglin felt that he might have other motives.

Gu Huan nodded.

Of course he knows that he may be seeking skin from a tiger, and the other party knows a lot of things that he doesn’t know. This is his disadvantage.

But he had his secrets as well.

He had memories from two lifetimes.

Gu Huan didn’t know what expanding one’s mental power meant. So far, he had not felt any problems with his mental power other than the estrus period, and the last time he had used super SSS-level mental power, he remembered what the Empress had said and became vigilant, not digging deeper into the matter. Therefore, Gu Huan believed that he could possibly control the expansion of his mental power.

As someone who had been a mage, as long as his mental power wasn’t in chaos, he should be able to control it no matter how great it became, in normal circumstances.

In the Western Fantasy World, having more mental power wasn’t a bad thing; it was a good thing. Typically, mental power only increased with breakthroughs in one’s profession. For example, when a magician broke through to become a mage, their mental power might increase. Some people had poor innate talent and might only have one breakthrough in their entire life.

Gu Huan had suspected that this mental power expansion and the breakthrough as understood in the Western Fantasy World might not be the same thing. Earlier, he had thought the original host was a normal human, so he was just skeptical. Now that he knew that his birth might be rather fantastical, he believed his guess was correct.

This was not an illness at all.

The expansion of the Zerg Queen’s mental power, when manifested in his elf body, became an exceptional display of innate talent.

And he had never realized that there was anything wrong with his mental power. Even if it expanded, he could make use of that mental power through meditation. His mental power had always been at the level of SSS, but it was unclear how much it could go beyond that; it wasn’t a fixed number.

The data that Fang Yuanqi used when designing the mecha wasn’t his latest data, and that was why there was a problem. It wasn’t an issue with Sui Ran’s device. He Yunan certainly didn’t know that Gu Huan could control his mental power.

While Gu Huan was deep in thought, Chu Xinglin reminded him, “He Yunan will definitely be curious about how you handle your estrus. Have you thought about how to explain it?”

Gu Huan’s lips moved slightly. “I was marked by someone during my estrus.”

“Because my condition during estrus is extremely aggressive, I injured that person severely, and they haven’t dared to see me since then.”

If the person died, it wouldn’t be easy to explain why he had killed someone without facing charges from the Interstellar Court. So Gu Huan thought it would be better to say that the person was afraid of him.

Although… it didn’t look like Chu Xinglin was afraid of him.

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After quite some time, the black-haired general who had just entered the infirmary finally walked out.

Several prison guards surrounded him.

“You’ve finally come out. Is there anything wrong with your health?”

As soon as he entered the detention center, he was called to the infirmary. It didn’t seem like the body of General Gu Huan, a battle-hardened warrior, was as healthy as one might expect.

How could a general who has been fighting for many years not have any old diseases in his body?

“General…your neck seems to be worse than before.”

“Well… is it inflamed?”

A prison guard who had watched Gu Huan enter the prison pointed at Gu Huan’s neck, which now required three bandages to cover a wound that had previously been concealed with just one.

“…Mn,” Gu Huan responded.

Seeing that the prison guard seemed to continue to care, Gu Huan raised his handcuffed wrist.

“Let’s go.”

The prison guard held back for a moment.

He held back the “Yes, General.” that he almost wanted to say.

Gu Huan didn’t mean to use a commanding tone, he was just too used to it, seeing the prison guards look embarrassed, he realized that his tone might have been too authoritative. So he changed it.

“Should we go back?”

The prison guards finally had a feeling that they might be actual prison guards.

They had a sense of joy they couldn’t hide as they accompanied Gu Huan back to his cell.

If they were too weak, they wouldn’t be able to manage the other detainees in the prison. But if they were too dominant over Gu Huan, they wouldn’t dare. So cooperating with Gu Huan was the best option.

Jin Haoming opened one eye and closed the other to sneak a glance at Gu Huan when he returned. “Finally back.”

“I find those prison guards really hard to deal with,” Jin Haoming commented.

Gu Huan was quite popular among military and law enforcement circles.

Anyone who wanted to become a police officer or even a prison guard had some dreams of being a military officer. The fact that Gu Huan was imprisoned was an accident, but he still has many young fans here.

Seeing that Gu Huan still ignored him, Jin Haoming was so angry that his liver ached, but because of his self-esteem, he didn’t want to ask directly, why he wasn’t speaking.

In the past, when he was still an elder, he was the master of all things, and no one dared to ignore his words.

“Heh. You’d better cherish the present.”

Jin Haoming continued, “Right now, they’re only suspecting you, not convicting you yet.”

“The judges from the Interstellar Court, one by one, are more stubborn than the other.”

“Listen to their verdict, and you might start doubting whether you were a powerful figure in the past.”

“I suspect the judges from the Interstellar Court are not human, but machines.”

Jin Haoming had gone to court several times, and every time he thought he could get his sentence reduced, his optical brain would provide new evidence to the Interstellar Court.

This was giving him a massive headache.

“Even if you were a double-agent for Chu Xinglin, he might not be able to save you. They only trust the optical brain.”

“…”

They only trusted the optical brain.

Gu Huan lowered his eyelids, thinking about what Xiao Ling had said to him.

——Master, trust me, you will be acquitted.