Yun Yang almost fell off the washbasin counter.
Qin Mo, you really dared to say anything.
“No need. I can do it myself.”
Yun Yang snatched the new clothes from him, then jumped down from the washbasin counter and hurried into one of the bathrooms in the bathing area. She closed the door before starting to change.
Watching her somewhat flustered figure disappear, Qin Mo laughed in a good mood.
Mm, he could be sure now. The Female Master did not dislike him. She was just a little shy.
That was fine. Some females were simply more prone to shyness. He could take things slowly, as long as the Female Master did not break off their engagement.
In a good mood, Qin Mo went to the bathroom next door to take a shower.
He had injected another suppressant that morning, and working out had also calmed the restlessness in his heart. His contamination level was fairly stable at the moment.
Before long, he finished showering and walked out of the bathroom in clean clothes, only to find that Yun Yang was nowhere to be seen.
Had the Female Master already gone downstairs?
Just as Qin Mo was wondering, the door of the bathroom next door suddenly opened a crack from the inside.
“Um, Qin Mo, could you get me some clothes?”
Wrapped in a bathrobe, Yun Yang did her best to keep herself hidden behind the door, showing only her head as she spoke to Qin Mo.
She had originally only intended to change clothes, but after taking them off, she realized that she was covered in sweat, so she decided to take a shower as well.
Only after she finished showering did she realize that the clothes Qin Mo had prepared did not include anything to wear underneath.
The smart terminal came with a built-in temperature regulation function, so interstellar clothing was about as thin as the spring and summer clothes she had worn in her previous life.
If she wore nothing underneath, it would be very easy for certain parts of her body that she herself would find embarrassing to show.
Qin Mo asked, “Did I leave something out when I prepared your clothes?”
Yun Yang answered as tactfully as she could, “Well, there’s nothing to wear underneath.”
Fortunately, male interstellar academies taught their students about such things, so Qin Mo quickly understood.
“I’m sorry, Female Master. That was my oversight. I’ll go get you some right away.”
After successfully changing, Yun Yang went downstairs with Qin Mo and sat down to eat.
Of course, Yun Yang was the only one eating. Qin Mo simply kept her company.
Yun Yang had been thinking about what happened the night before. After taking a couple of bites, she asked, “Qin Mo, if… I mean, hypothetically, if a female had another kind of energy in her body besides mental strength, what would it be?”
Qin Mo paused with his chopsticks, then placed the food into Yun Yang’s bowl.
“According to the history of the Federation, females with S-rank mental strength have a relatively high chance of awakening an ability as well. Why did you suddenly ask about this, Female Master?”
Yun Yang bit down on her chopsticks.
She did feel that the extra energy inside her was strangely familiar, but if it was an ability, wasn’t it a little too weak?
After thinking for a moment, she put down her chopsticks. “Qin Mo, can you show me your ability?”
“Of course.”
Qin Mo suddenly took hold of the hand holding her chopsticks. The higher temperature of the male’s palm seeped through, and Yun Yang’s fingertips trembled slightly, but she did not pull away.
It was only her legally bonded beast husband holding her hand. There was nothing wrong with that.
But wasn’t he supposed to show her his ability? How did he suddenly…
Yun Yang was still wondering when she saw the chopsticks in her hand instantly turn into gleaming metal.
She pulled her hand back and looked at the chopsticks, now made of metal, in amazement. She even tentatively bit them.
“This is one of the effects of my ability. I can turn any object within a certain range into metal, including…” Qin Mo glanced at Yun Yang but left the rest unsaid.
Yun Yang looked at him, then at the chopsticks bearing the imprint of her teeth, and sucked in a sharp breath.
An ability that could turn anything into gold. If she took Qin Mo to Earth, wouldn’t she become filthy rich?
“Qin Mo, is this permanent or temporary?”
“Temporary.”
Qin Mo took her hand again and withdrew his ability. The chopsticks immediately returned to their original state, and even the bite marks disappeared without a trace.
Yun Yang was a little disappointed by the answer.
Then again, gold didn’t seem to be worth much in the interstellar era.
Once she remembered that, she quickly adjusted her expectations and continued asking, “Can all abilities be manifested like this?”
“Except for some special abilities, yes.”
Just as Yun Yang was about to ask more questions, Qin Mo added a generous helping of food to her bowl. “Female Master, eat first. We can discuss these questions after you’re done.”
Fine.
Yun Yang turned back and continued eating.
After the meal, she sat on the sofa browsing StarNet. When Qin Mo finished clearing the table and cleaning up the kitchen and came over to sit with her, she continued the topic from before.
“Qin Mo, which special abilities were you referring to?”
Qin Mo did not answer directly. Instead, he asked, “Female Master, do you suspect that you have an ability?”
Seeing the surprise flash through Yun Yang’s eyes, Qin Mo knew his guess had been correct.
He took an instrument Yun Yang had never seen before out of his spatial button. “Female Master, would you like to get tested?”
Yun Yang hesitated.
As though seeing through her concern, Qin Mo added, “This is a military testing device. The test results won’t be uploaded to the Ability Testing Center.”
“Really?”
Qin Mo raised one hand and held up three fingers together. “I swear it by the Beast God.”
Yun Yang was reassured. She wasn’t worried about other people finding out that she had an ability in addition to her mental strength. Rather, she wasn’t sure whether the energy that had appeared inside her body yesterday was actually an ability.
What if it turned out to be a false alarm? Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
Besides, perhaps because she had read too many stories about transmigrators with cheat abilities in her previous life, she inexplicably felt that even if she really did have an ability, it wouldn’t be anything ordinary.
Was this the confidence of a transmigrator?
Yun Yang didn’t dwell on it. After asking how to use the ability testing device, she pressed the start button.
The testing process was very simple. In less than ten minutes, the result appeared on the device’s display.
It was just that the result was very strange.
F-rank, Unknown Ability.
Yun Yang turned her head. “Qin Mo, what does ‘unknown ability’ mean?”
The question stumped Qin Mo. But how could he admit that he didn’t know in front of his Female Master?
So Qin Mo tried hard to recall the training he had received when he joined the Federation military.
“This ‘unknown’ should mean that the ability has never appeared in the history of the Federation, or perhaps it has appeared before but was never recorded. For the specifics, we may need to consult the Ability Testing Center.”
“If Female Master is willing, I can contact the Ability Testing Center on X92 Star for you.”
That was basically another way of saying he didn’t know, but somehow it sounded much more reliable than simply giving her three dry words.
Yun Yang hesitated.
If they investigated her unknown ability, would that expose her identity as a transmigrator?
Even though females were precious in the interstellar era, Yun Yang still felt that revealing her identity as a transmigrator could bring her nothing good.
But if she didn’t go to the Ability Testing Center, she wouldn’t know what her ability was actually useful for.
Yun Yang felt a headache coming on.
How come she hadn’t gotten some kind of system when she transmigrated? If she had, she could simply ask the system about something like this and get an answer.
Forget it. Her other four beast husbands didn’t look like ordinary people either. She could ask them one by one when the time came. If that didn’t work, she could consider going to the Ability Testing Center.
Having made up her mind, Yun Yang shook her head at Qin Mo. “Not for now.”
Qin Mo fully respected her wishes.
Thinking that Yun Yang had just finished eating, he extended the same invitation as the night before. “Female Master, would you like to go for a walk together?”
Yun Yang was just about to nod when Butler No. 1 issued a reminder. “Master, there is a visitor.”
This time, before Yun Yang could ask, Butler No. 1 immediately began identifying the visitor.
The next second, the mechanical voice sounded again. “Genetic identification successful. Visitor: Xuan Yu. Birth planet: unknown. S-rank ice-type ability user. Confirmed as Master’s beast husband. Open the door?”