Chapter 76

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76. Drawing a Circle of Admirers

After Shu Shu brought the water and fruit into the dugout, he immediately fed Edgar and Ian the water. After that, he clasped the fruit and used his fingernail to cut it open.

Shu Shu drank a mouthful of the fruit juice, and his mouth was filled with a pure, sweet taste. He at once grinned from ear to ear, and then, holding the fruit with both hands, he came before Edgar and fed Edgar the fruit juice.

"Edgar, we seem to have come to the Fallen Beast Planet, and the fallen beasts here appear to be very friendly." Shu Shu babbled on as he fed Edgar. He had just said a few words when Edgar suddenly opened his eyes.

"Edgar!" Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised.

Edgar glanced at Shu Shu; his eyes somewhat recovered a bit of clarity. His body was very good, and his resilience was also quite remarkable. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to recover so quickly when he was thrown into Gass Planet by a space crack after he had self-detonated his beast core. Nevertheless, he still required energy if he wanted to recover.

When he first fell onto Gass Planet, he happened to fall into a river, and the bloody smell on his body drew many fish to come . . . . Those fish ate the rotting flesh on his wounds and conveniently became his meals, allowing him to recover well.

But this time, his injuries were more serious than the last time. Not to mention that falling into a desert was also very unbearable for him.

When he was in good health, it was no problem for him even if he lived in the desert, but when he was being seriously injured, he still preferred a damp environment and also required a lot of water.

Shu Shu had already given him a lot of water to drink and fed him plenty of fruits and nutrient fluid, but the fruits that Shu Shu usually stored up were basically only the size of a chicken egg, and a bottle of nutrient fluid was the size of a thumb. What effect could such little things bring? As a result, Edgar's recovery rate was naturally very slow.

This time, a large amount of water suddenly entered his throat. Only then did Edgar have the feeling of coming back to life.

After drinking water and reviving, he smelled the scents of many beastmen . . . . Edgar gave Shu Shu a glance before he turned to face the hole entrance—Reynolds, who had been excited for a while, was just poking his huge wolf head into the hole.

"What kind of beast is this? Why is he so strange?" Taking a quick look at Edgar, Reynolds gave a small whine. He was considered to be experienced and knowledgeable, but he had never seen a four-legged snake like this.

However, although he did not recognize Edgar's beast form, but he recognized Ian.

Chris’ sub-beastman actually came here too . . . . What’s the matter with Chris? He could not even protect his own sub-beastman?

There were two sub-beastmen in the hole in addition to a seriously injured beastman, and the space was also small . . . . The most important thing was that the scent of that strange-looking beastman inside was extremely dreadful, and his gaze was also very cold and harsh . . . . Reynolds gave another glance and then returned outside. After that, he sat upright at Jones’ side.

After seeing the situation inside the hole, he finally understood why Jones would roam the desert alone. The beastman in the hole was injured to that point, so they could only rely on a sub-beastman to go out and find something to eat . . . .

If he had not become a fallen beast, Jones definitely wouldn’t have had to suffer such grievances. Thinking so, Reynolds extended his tongue and licked Jones again.

Jones pursed his brows and eventually opened his eyes.

Seeing Jones waking up, Reynolds moved closer and licked him several times.

Jones, whose face was getting wet from Reynolds’ saliva, wrinkled his brows even more tightly. He felt a little uncomfortable, and the sunburned area on his face also hurt a bit . . . . But, looking at Reynolds, he simply couldn’t bear to refuse or push away the big white wolf. In the end, he just seized the fur on the big white wolf’s chin.

Reynolds immediately shoved his head closer, making it easier for Jones to grip his fur.

The surrounding fallen beasts: We didn't expect that you’re actually this kind of a boss! Didn’t you usually get mad and violent and not let people touch you?

Anyway, they were really envious of Reynolds . . . .

Bruno extended his paws and seized the mane of his partner, Jesse. As a result, Jesse gave him a backhanded slap . . . . Bruno lay on his back on the ground and suddenly had an urge to change partner.

To add insult to injury, Jesse also pushed Bruno away and then took out a lot of medicines from his space button and put all of them in front of Jones. Their boss' partner seemed to be a doctor? In this case, he was probably more aware of what remedies he needed, and giving him medicines could also make him not hold a grudge against Bruno.

The medicines that Jesse took out were all the remedies that the Beastman Empire prepared for the fallen beasts. These very common medicines were all mass goods, and many sub-beastmen could not use them . . . . Among them, there was no medicine that came in useful for Jones, but after Jones observed them, he was still pleasantly surprised—there were several kinds of medicines that were useful for the seriously injured Edgar!

Realizing this, Jones picked up the medicines in front of him and hurriedly entered the dugout—he already saw that he had been brought back to the place they had been staying for a time by Reynolds.

"Awoo!" Reynolds, watching his own sub-beastman go and leave him just like that, yowled sullenly.

Other fallen beasts who saw Jesse giving medicines to Jones suddenly got an idea.

Giving things? It’s a good idea, ah!

That sub-beastman said that he had a way to restore their beast cores . . . . Should they try to curry favor with him? Although they were not sure whether this matter was true or not, but maybe it was true? If it was true, they should certainly curry favor with him so they would be able to become beastmen again!

Many of these fallen beasts were wearing space buttons when they were exiled to the Fallen Beast Planet. As for some of them who had no space buttons . . . . Quite a lot of fallen beasts had died on this planet, and those fallen beasts had left a few things after their death, including the space buttons. Therefore, the fallen beast troops led by Reynolds could be said to have a space button each.

Their space buttons contained food, water, and some other stuff. Now they took them out without the slightest hesitation and began to choose the best stuff inside, planning to give them as presents for that sub-beastman.

Inside the hole, Jones was feeding Edgar and Ian medicines. He fed Ian a bit of antipyretic and had Shu Shu give Ian more water to drink. As for Edgar . . . . After he had identified the medicines for treating internal injuries, he gave a dose of each medicine for Edgar to eat, but he also upped the doses because Edgar’s body was big.

"Shu Shu, both of them have taken medicine. They’ll be all right once they’ve rested well." Jones said as he sat on the ground, feeling sore.

“OK!” Shu Shu nodded. After he found out that the water in his hands was already finished, he climbed out of the hole again. “Do you still have water?”

They had, ah. There was water everywhere now . . . . Shu Shu’s voice had just fallen when he discovered that there were all kinds of things piled up near the hole entrance. Not only water, but there were also various kinds of foods and fruits and even flowers.

Seeing so many things, Shu Shu opened his mouth in amazement. Then he looked up and found that not far away, a group of fallen beasts were sitting neatly and watching him with bright eyes.

This kind of gaze made Shu Shu feel a little strange as well as a little puzzled.

"These are all presents for you." Reynolds wrote.

Presents for him? Shu Shu was very surprised and pleased. After he adapted to the gazes of those fallen beasts, he showed a smile right away, "Thank you!"

The eyes of the fallen beasts were brighter. They subconsciously wanted to roar and howl loudly, but, thinking that it would scare the sub-beastman, a group of ferocious beasts actually made a series of "whimpers".

"This little sub-beastman is so cute."

"So tender, I really want to touch him!"

"Kara, control yourself. If you insensibly and recklessly go into estrus, we’ll definitely throw you out. People without self-control can't stay in our ranks."

"That’s right, we certainly mustn’t scare him!"

"Look into what he likes, and we’ll go get a little more."

. . . . . .

The fallen beasts exchanged ideas one after another. Some of them had already formed a partnership with their fellow comrades, but when they saw sub-beastmen, they still couldn't help but want to protect them.

"Jesse, why are you staring at that sub-beastman?!" Bruno, seeing his own partner keep staring at Shu Shu, was angry. What good was a sub-beastman? Was he as strong as him?

Jesse glanced at his partner and then lay down on the ground and began to lick his own hair. He only look longer at that sub-beastman because he remembered his own sub-beastman little brother, that’s all. Bruno, on the other hand, had actually kept a sub-beastman in his mouth!

Since Reynolds and his men came, the poor, sad life of Shu Shu et al. had instantly changed.

Nowadays, apart from some high-tech products, they had everything they wanted. They did not have to worry about what to eat and drink, and they also had new clothes to wear . . . . In fact, they even got some high-tech products.

For example, among those fallen beasts, a certain fallen beast carried a mini solar power plant, which allowed the hole that Shu Shu had dug out to be connected to electricity. After getting electricity, although they could not connect to the network, but they could pass the time with the huge amount of downloaded videos on the tablet.

Shu Shu had to take care of Edgar and also cultivate; he had no time to watch videos. But Ian, who had finally recovered, and Jones had time to watch them.

These days, the fallen beasts were the ones responsible for their food and drink, so the two sub-beastmen had nothing to do besides looking after Edgar. Otherwise, how could they have time to spare?

Of course, the one with most free time was Ian. As for Jones . . . . More often than not, when he watched a video, he only watched half before being taken away by Reynolds.

The bottom of the dugout was now covered with various kinds of wide leaves collected by the fallen beasts. They also gave Shu Shu bedding and quilts sent by the Beastman Empire. These things made Edgar able to lie down very comfortably, which greatly benefited the healing of Edgar’s wounds. There were also several fallen beasts who were good at digging holes, and they helped expanding the dugout.

Shu Shu stepped on the soft quilt barefoot while holding a large piece of barbecue. He came next to Edgar's head and then fed the whole barbecue to Edgar.

With enough medications and not having to worry about food and drink, Edgar recovered very quickly. It was just that losing the nèidān cultivated in his body turned out to be quite troublesome—he could not speak anymore.

Fortunately, Shu Shu had long been accustomed to a big snake that could not speak. Contrary to what one might expect, he did not stay away from Edgar or treat him like a stranger. Because Edgar was seriously injured, Shu Shu even had to move him around manually and also feed him food and water, and thus, he was getting less and less scared of Edgar’s snake form.

"Edgar, when will you get better, ah? It’d be great if you can recover quickly." Shu Shu took out a fruit and bit a mouthful before stuffing the rest into Edgar's mouth.

Edgar swallowed the whole fruit down into his stomach and rubbed against Shu Shu. He had already begun to cultivate, but his body had not recovered yet. Most of the time, he only managed to gather a little spiritual power, and then that small amount of spiritual power instantly dissipated into all his wounds. So he could only lie down for the time being.

But he believed that he would definitely get better soon.

"Shu Shu! Shu Shu, come here and see what we brought back!" Shu Shu and Edgar were just leaning on each other and talking when Jones’ voice suddenly came through from outside the dugout.

Jones used to be very stolid and also had some queen-like demeanor, but after acknowledging his old relationship with Reynolds, he became more and more lively, and his person had been brimming with a cheerful and lighthearted atmosphere.

Hearing Jones’ words and realizing that they had undoubtedly brought back something good from the outside, Shu Shu hurriedly jumped up and walked outside, abandoning Edgar entirely.

Edgar wriggled and then started cultivating again, a little depressed.

Shu Shu barely made it outside when he saw a clamshell that was much bigger than himself, and inside this clam shell . . . there were fish that were still leaping and frisking about! It was not strange for this planet to have fish, but here was the desert! Shu Shu was totally amazed.

"Reynolds had a few of his men go to the coast to deliver supplies, and these fish are what they brought back." Jones explained. The fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet were not only the ones at Reynolds’ side. In fact, besides these fallen beasts led by Reynolds, there were also many fallen beasts who formed various living communities to live on this planet.

Although the Beastman Empire would send them plenty of food, but those foods were not enough for all the fallen beasts to eat their fill. Fallen beasts ate a lot after all, not to mention that their lifespans were also quite long.

When Reynolds arrived on the Fallen Beast Planet, all the fallen beasts of this planet basically lived near the landing point of the Beastman Empire’s spaceship, relying on the food delivered by the Beastman Empire every year to make a living. In order to be able to eat their fill, they fought each other and bullied newcomers. From time to time, violent fights broke out, to the extent that the fallen beasts often died, and the dead fallen beasts became food for other fallen beasts.

At that time, the number of fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet was not many, not to mention that these fallen beasts really took themselves as beasts. It was at this juncture that Reynolds arrived.

Reynolds came here with several other fallen beasts as well as a lot of supplies. He had once been a general; in addition to having people prepare many essential things for him, Jones also prepared a lot of food for him. Because of this, all eyes were on him.

Reynolds smashed down all the fallen beasts who had the idea of beating him and then led these fallen beasts to go hunting to feed their stomachs to the full. He also led them to find some suitable places to live, so that they could live a stable life . . . .

Now, all the fallen beasts on this planet were sincerely convinced and ready to concede to Reynolds, and so the supplies delivered by the Beastman Empire every year were all left to Reynolds to receive and then distribute to various residential areas.

The fallen beasts in the residential areas who got the supplies would often send some gifts. These fish were given by them. The two fallen beasts who had delivered the supplies and received some fish in return walked all the way here while holding the clamshell with their mouths, which could be said to be very arduous. And now these fish were presented in front of Shu Shu.

"These are all for you." Reynolds wrote on the ground.

"No need. One’s enough for me." Shu Shu replied at once. He would feel embarrassed if he always took other people's things, but it was only proper and to be expected if he took what Edgar gave him.

"You eat. You have children, so you should eat more and drink some fish soup for supplement." Reynolds wrote again. All the fallen beasts at his side also nodded in unison.

They initially gave Shu Shu things in order to make Shu Shu help them restore their beast cores, but later they knew that Shu Shu actually had children, which thoroughly changed their way of thinking.

God knew how long they had not seen any little beastmen, and now this sub-beastman in front of them was carrying an egg in his arms in addition to another egg in his belly!

Here, they could only die without being able to have any descendants, so they had completely lost hope. But now, they finally saw new lives.

The mood of these fallen beasts was indescribably complicated. At this moment, they felt that even if Shu Shu could not help them restore their beast cores, they were still going to take good care of this sub-beastman!

They all wanted to see the child breaking the shell!

"Shu Shu, you take it, okay? If you feel embarrassed, let them take a look at the egg." Jones said. He could understand the mood of a group of old bachelors who wanted to see the child.

These days, Shu Shu had taken the egg out for these fallen beasts to see several times. These fallen beasts would not poke the egg, so he felt quite reassured.

Taking the egg out of the bag on his waist, Shu Shu offered it in his cupped hand for a group of beasts to see. It was at this moment that the egg suddenly moved!