“Oh.” Yun Yang turned and left the kitchen.
Some people simply didn’t like being disturbed while they were cooking, so she figured it was better not to get in the way.
Qin Mo was quick and efficient. In less than half an hour, three steaming dishes and a soup were brought to the dining table.
After setting out the tableware, he was about to call Yun Yang over for dinner when he saw her staring intently at the light screen before her. Judging from the shifting colors on the screen, she seemed to be watching some interesting video.
Qin Mo didn’t dare disturb Yun Yang, but he was also worried that she’d go hungry. After hesitating for a while, he finally steeled himself and walked over.
Then, imitating the way his father usually did it, he reached out and picked Yun Yang up.
The sudden sensation of being lifted off the ground startled Yun Yang, and she instinctively wrapped her arms around Qin Mo’s neck.
Once she realized what had happened, she looked at the male so close to her in confusion. “What are you doing?”
A pleasant scent drifted over as though it were free for the taking. Qin Mo’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he tried his best not to pay attention to it. “Female Master, the food is ready. It’ll get cold if you don’t eat now.”
Qin Mo felt a little guilty when he said this.
He had checked just now, and the dining table at his female master’s home had the same smart temperature-control system as the one at his own home. The food placed on it would be kept at the optimal temperature, so it wouldn’t get cold even after another hour.
Yun Yang knew that too, but she had only drunk three spoonfuls of nutritional supplement since transmigrating here, so she was indeed a little hungry. She didn’t bother calling Qin Mo out on his lie.
She glanced at the dining table, which was some distance away from the sofa, and said matter-of-factly, “Qin Mo, carry me over to eat.”
Now that she’d transmigrated into a rare female, it would be downright unreasonable not to enjoy being waited on by a handsome man!
And this was her legally recognized beast husband, no less!
The female in his arms was so soft that it hardly seemed real. Even this simple touch was enough to intoxicate Qin Mo, and he had been more than happy to hold Yun Yang anyway.
Of course, when it came down to it, nothing was more important than making sure his female master had a full stomach.
Qin Mo set Yun Yang down in the dining chair, then sat beside her and began piling food onto her plate.
Yun Yang took a bite of the stir-fried vegetables, and her eyes lit up. “This is really good.”
It was so much better than the pre-made takeaway meals she’d eaten in her previous life!
Pleased by her approval, the corners of Qin Mo’s lips lifted involuntarily. “If Female Master likes it, I’ll make it for you every day from now on.”
Every day?
“Don’t you have to go to the battlefield?” Yun Yang asked, remembering Qin Mo’s occupation.
Qin Mo continued putting food into her bowl. “I applied for marriage leave, and the Zerg have been relatively well-behaved lately.”
The interstellar era had marriage leave too?
Yun Yang became interested. “How many days of marriage leave do you get?”
Qin Mo: “134 days. But with the annual leave I’ve accumulated, I can take half a year off.”
Yun Yang: “!!!”
134 days!
If they had that kind of leave on Earth, wouldn’t every office worker be green with envy?
Having once been an office worker herself, Yun Yang was fiercely envious. She angrily stuffed a piece of meat Qin Mo had put in her bowl into her mouth, as though she weren’t eating food at all, but the wretched boss incarnate.
Qin Mo thought he must have said something wrong and immediately became nervous.
Fortunately, Yun Yang quickly adjusted her mood and happily continued eating.
After they finished eating, Qin Mo put the dishes into the fully automatic dishwasher and dryer, then sat with Yun Yang and browsed the StarNet.
With her stomach full and her whole body feeling warm, Yun Yang looked at Qin Mo in a good mood.
“Qin Mo, what’s your contamination level?”
She had eaten a meal Qin Mo had prepared for her, so as a thank-you, she decided to purify some of his contamination.
She was also rather curious about how mental strength could be used to purify contamination.
“89.” Qin Mo’s reaction was remarkably calm when the subject came up.
Yun Yang, however, widened her eyes. That contamination level could be considered extremely high.
According to the original owner’s memories, a contamination level above 70 would begin to affect a male’s body.
Above 80, it would cause irreversible beast transformation in a male’s body unless he received purification from a female or used suppressants.
Once it rose above 90, suppressants would become completely ineffective. There would also be a constant risk of going berserk and injuring others, leaving purification by a female as the only option.
There was no obvious sign of beast transformation on Qin Mo, which meant he had injected himself with suppressants.
But the process of injecting suppressants was excruciatingly painful, and the side effects would also make males irritable and prone to anger. Yet there was no sign of any of that in Qin Mo.
Yun Yang recalled the knowledge she had crammed from the StarNet that day and took the initiative to say, “Qin Mo, let me purify you.”
There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with those words, yet they made even the tips of Qin Mo’s ears turn red.
“F-Female Master, you just finished eating. It isn’t advisable to, to…”
Qin Mo simply couldn’t bring himself to say the last word.
Yun Yang was stunned, but she quickly realized what Qin Mo meant.
Her face grew hot.
There were two ways to purify contamination. One was to enter a male’s mental landscape and use mental strength to remove the contaminants within it. This method could only lower a male’s contamination level to above 30.
The other was the word Qin Mo couldn’t bring himself to say. It could completely purify a male’s contamination level, but the process was somewhat difficult to describe.
But Qin Mo was her beast husband now, so when she said she would purify him, Qin Mo naturally assumed she meant the other method.
Yun Yang rubbed the tip of her nose awkwardly. “Um, I meant the other method.”
Although she did want to try that sort of thing, today was probably not the right time.
After all, she knew nothing about Qin Mo. He seemed pretty good so far, but what if he was just like that crooked tree, Wei Zhuo, and actually didn’t want to form a bond with her?
Something like this was better when both parties genuinely wanted it.
“I see.”
Realizing that he had misunderstood her, the flush on Qin Mo’s face quietly faded.
Ignoring the slight disappointment in his heart, he took the initiative to open his mental landscape.
Yun Yang studied it for a moment, then quickly released her mental strength and successfully entered Qin Mo’s mental landscape.
Qin Mo’s mental landscape was a forest. But because of his high contamination level, the trees in the forest had withered, while his beast form, a white tiger, lay listlessly among the trees, its entire body shrouded in an unpleasant black mist.
This was probably the contamination?
Yun Yang’s mental strength approached the white tiger, and the black mist seemed to sense the threat. It fled frantically.
Yun Yang reacted quickly, wrapping her mental strength around a mass of black mist and swallowing it whole.
The black mist gradually disappeared under the effects of her mental strength. At the same time, Yun Yang suddenly felt an inexplicable surge of energy appear inside her.
Since she was still helping Qin Mo purify his contamination, she didn’t investigate it right away. Instead, she continued using the same method to eliminate the black mist.
Her mental strength was depleted rapidly. After fifteen minutes, more than half of it was already gone.
The StarNet said that excessive depletion of mental strength would make a female extremely uncomfortable. Yun Yang eliminated two more masses of black mist before taking the initiative to end the purification.
Before leaving Qin Mo’s mental landscape, she seemed to see the white tiger open its eyes. Its amber eyes, the same color as its master’s, were filled with gratitude.
The smart terminal on her wrist flashed. Yun Yang lowered her head and glanced at it, only to find a notification from the smart terminal’s built-in monitoring device.
【Warning, your mental strength is below 30%. Please make sure to rest!】
She had used up more than 70% of her mental strength that quickly?
Then how much contamination had she purified?
Yun Yang took a moment to recover, then looked at Qin Mo. “Qin Mo, how do you feel?”
Qin Mo didn’t say anything.
The higher a male’s ability rank, the stronger the contamination caused by using his ability.
From the time he reached adulthood until now, aside from the first year after awakening his ability, he had relied on suppressants to control his contamination level.
He had almost forgotten what it felt like not to use suppressants. But today, he seemed to have rediscovered that feeling. In fact, he had never felt this relaxed before.
“Female Master, I feel very good.”
After saying that, Qin Mo immediately activated the contamination-level detection function on his smart terminal.
He couldn’t wait to find out what his contamination level was now.