Tan Geng successfully seized the brief instant Luo was stunned and immediately explained at rapid speed:
“Your Highness Luo, what we meant was that we wished to negotiate with you through the livestream. The matter of General Gu Yuan’s punishment would still mainly depend upon your personal opinion. It is not what you imagined.”
Luo tried several more times. After confirming that he truly could not summon his tentacles anymore, he simply decided to start causing trouble openly.
“My head hurts. I’m dizzy. Please leave.”
After speaking, he turned to look at Gu Yuan again.
“Yuanyuan, can you make him leave? Luo feels terrible.”
Gu Yuan fell silent for a moment before finally stepping forward and speaking to Tan Geng.
“My apologies. Since Luo’s condition still hasn’t fully recovered, perhaps it would be better for us to leave the room first and allow him to rest properly for a while.”
The livestream comments were nearly dying from laughter.
“Luo baby, if you’re going to claim you have a headache, at least pretend a little harder hahaha!”
“Gu Yuan, you really spoil him too much!!”
“Fake acting pitiful: deliberately falling into a dramatic pose. Real acting pitiful: ‘My head hurts.’ completely righteous”
“Luo: I’m not listening, I’m not listening, turtle chanting scriptures.”
“He’s too cute, baby, let me kiss you a million times!!”
Tan Geng looked as though he wanted to speak.
Then stopped.
Then wanted to speak again.
In the end, despite clearly wishing to continue explaining something, he still surrendered to Luo’s utterly justified performance of being pitiful. After glancing at Gu Yuan, he followed him out of the hospital room.
And it was precisely at the instant the room door opened that Luo saw Fast hurrying anxiously toward the ward.
The blond little male zerg looked up just in time to see the door opening. While running, he shouted breathlessly,
“You all… are not allowed… to punish General Gu Yuan!!”
His hair had been blown into complete disarray by the wind and even his clothes were not properly arranged. He looked extremely messy and disheveled.
Luo: ?
Since when did his Yuanyuan need protection from an idiot whose spiritual tentacles were thinner than threads?
If Luo could still find his tentacles right now, he absolutely would have tied Fast up and thrown him out again.
But unfortunately, he could not throw Fast out at the moment, so he could only stop Gu Yuan verbally instead.
“Yuanyuan isn’t allowed to leave! Only that zerg can go out!”
Gu Yuan obediently stopped in place. Raising both hands helplessly in surrender, he replied,
“Alright, alright. I’ll listen to Luo. I’ll come back.”
As he spoke, he directly pushed the stunned Tan Geng outside before decisively shutting the door.
Only Tan Geng and the newly arrived Fast remained standing there outside, staring at one another.
Fast looked confused.
“Aren’t you here to make things difficult for General Gu Yuan? Why did you come out?”
Even though the door had nearly smashed directly into his face, Tan Geng showed no sign of anger whatsoever.
He calmly put away the flustered expression he had displayed moments ago, reorganized the documents in his hands and gave Fast a polite yet distant bow.
“Good day, Your Highness Fast. Before His Highness Luo awakened, I had already finished negotiating the punishment arrangements with General Gu Yuan. Today’s visit was merely done at General Gu Yuan’s request, to put on an act so that His Highness Luo could recover peacefully. Now, I should take my leave.”
Luo had been unconscious for a full three days.
How could they possibly have done nothing during those three days?
It was simply that the details of the punishment negotiated between both sides could not be publicly disclosed. Otherwise, it would create extremely negative consequences.
In other words, regardless of whether Luo’s unreasonable disruption happened today or not, they had already planned to announce before the livestream audience of hundreds of millions:
“No punishment will be imposed. Due only to the urgency of the war situation, it is hoped that the General will return to the border as soon as possible.”
That was also why Tan Geng had agreed so easily to leave earlier.
After all, the final result would have been the same regardless.
The only unfortunate part was that the Male Protection Association had now lost the opportunity to improve its image somewhat in front of the livestream audience.
But that had only ever been a secondary goal to begin with. Failing to achieve it was not particularly significant.
“Wait. You’re not allowed to leave.”
Fast reached out and grabbed Tan Geng, who was about to depart.
“You need to explain clearly. What punishment plan exactly did you negotiate with the General?”
Was it a fine?
Demotion?
Or perhaps lifelong exile to the border while forced to wear an electric shock collar?
Tan Geng apologized calmly.
“My apologies. This is not information that I, as a mere investigator, may casually disclose. Perhaps Your Highness could ask the elders within your own family.”
After speaking, he turned and left directly behind, leaving Fast alone outside the room, so anxious he nearly stomped his feet.
“You, you! What a completely heartless zerg! I’m going to tell my male father to report you!!”
Inside the hospital room,
The expert medical team conducted a complete and professional full body examination on Luo from head to toe.
In the end, they reached only one conclusion:
There was absolutely nothing wrong with him.
But the fact that he had inexplicably remained unconscious for so long, only to suddenly awaken without any problems whatsoever, not even showing signs of hunger, was itself deeply unreasonable.
Several female zergs from the expert team stared at the examination results in disbelief. They stood there discussing the matter seriously for quite some time before a relatively younger female zerg finally gathered the courage to speak.
“If His Highness Luo’s unconsciousness was possibly caused by excessive spiritual power usage… then should we perhaps examine His Highness’s male pheromones as well?”
The question was undeniably invasive.
Yet the moment he said it, it seemed to open an entirely new train of thought for everyone else present.
Another female zerg immediately followed up,
“And the development of his tail hook. It would also be best to examine his insect markings.”
Luo, who possessed neither a tail hook nor any idea how to manifest insect markings, instinctively shrank farther beneath the blanket.
He wasn’t even a zerg, how could he possibly have a tail hook?!
The expert team discussed the matter with utmost seriousness.
Meanwhile, the livestream comments became unprecedentedly lively.
“What tail hook? Is this really something I get to watch for free?!”
“Shhh… they forgot to turn off the livestream. Everyone be quiet. Let’s secretly keep watching.”
“Damn, this is so exciting. I’ve never seen a male zerg’s tail hook in my life, wuwuwuwu. Let me touch it too! Let me touch it!”
Gu Yuan stepped forward expressionlessly and shut off the livestream at once, instantly crushing all the wildly unrealistic fantasies in the comment section.
The viewers staring at the suddenly black screen: ?!?!?
How could there exist such a cold hearted and merciless zerg in this world?!
At this moment, Luo had already guiltily buried half his face beneath the blanket. Seeing that the medical team was practically about to make the final decision to examine his tail hook, he panicked.
In desperation, he reached out toward Gu Yuan, who had remained silent the entire time.
“Yuanyuan… hug.”
The moment he moved, he accidentally yanked the IV needle directly out of his hand, causing bright red droplets of blood to immediately spill out.
Gu Yuan hurried forward in alarm, quickly removing the needle for him, terrified that the delicate little male zerg might injure himself further.
However, in the very next second,
Luo wrapped his arms around him.
The little male zerg’s body was soft and warm. Clinging tightly around Gu Yuan’s neck, he pressed himself desperately against him like a young cub lacking any sense of security.
“Yuanyuan… scared… hug…”
After waiting a long time without receiving a hug from Gu Yuan, Luo decisively took the initiative himself. Wrapping his arms around him tighter, he instinctively softened his voice into something pitiful and aggrieved.
“They said male zerg tail hooks can’t be shown to other zergs. Yuanyuan, take Luo home. Luo only wants to show his tail hook to Yuanyuan.”
He really did not have a tail hook.
He could not even transform one out.
If they actually examined him now, wouldn’t his identity be exposed immediately? QUQ
The moment Gu Yuan heard those words, his entire body stiffened instantly.
His hands hovered awkwardly in midair, neither daring to embrace Luo nor push him away. In the end, he could only freeze there helplessly while allowing Luo to cling to him with all his strength.
The surrounding medical experts: …
One female zerg attempted to explain weakly,
“Your Highness Luo, we only mean a medical examination. It isn’t the same kind of ‘seeing the tail hook’ that you’re thinking of.”
Luo looked as though tears were about to spill from his eyes at any second.
“But everyone says that if another female zerg touches Luo’s tail hook, then Luo won’t be able to marry Yuanyuan anymore. Luo still wants to lay eggs with Yuanyuan.”
He was merely a young child who had been misled by the livestream comments.
How could he possibly understand that “seeing the tail hook” might have any other meaning?
The expert team exchanged helpless glances with one another, clearly never expecting the conversation to derail in such a direction.
Naturally, Gu Yuan had not expected this either.
He tried to reason things out clearly with the clingy little male zerg but the moment he heard the other’s soft sniffles, all his words abruptly stopped.
The little male zerg kissed his cheek while tears shimmered in his eyes.
Finally, the tears overflowed and rolled down.
He cried as though the entire sky had collapsed.
“No looking… Luo wants to go home. Luo wants to sleep with Big Bunny.”
Even though not a single trace of male pheromones had leaked from him at this moment, every zerg present felt strangely as though they had already been bewitched by male pheromones anyway.
Some of them even began sincerely feeling that they themselves were unbearably cruel sinners.
What had Luo done wrong?
Luo simply didn’t want them to see his tail hook!
How could they possibly be this cold blooded and excessive?!
Take him home!
Let him go home!!
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Gu Yuan: You pity him? Fine. Then you try giving birth yourself 🙂
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ChaptersChapter 1 · It’s Hatching!Chapter 2 · Mealtime!Chapter 3 · Angry!Chapter 4 · F.. Found Out!Chapter 5 · SpeakingChapter 6 · RiceChapter 7 · Live BroadcastChapter 8 · XiongbaohuiChapter 9 · Bullet CommentsChapter 10 · I’m sleepyChapter 11 · WrongedChapter 12 · Going to SchoolChapter 13 · ChoiceChapter 14 · Knock KnockChapter 15 · NoisyChapter 16 · AccidentChapter 17 · WingsChapter 18 · CrowChapter 19 · General is blushingChapter 20 · RiotChapter 21 · The Insect EmperorChapter 22 · Good BoyChapter 23 · UnconsciousChapter 24 · DisappearanceChapter 25 · Tail HookChapter 26 · ReturningChapter 27 · DepartureChapter 28 · ReunionChapter 29 · Played with by tentaclesChapter 30 · Moist, Damp EyesChapter 31 Part 1 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 31 Part 2 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 32 · Don’t cry, sweetieChapter 33 · Reproductive tentaclesChapter 34 · Even if you kill me, I won’t grow backChapter 35 · Lord Evil GodChapter 36 · Why not refuse?Chapter 37 · He can cry; he’s not a monster.Chapter 38 · Some alternative ways of boiling waterChapter 39 · Why aren’t you kissing me?Chapter 40 · Here, my command is the highest orderChapter 41 · The Evil God’s Disguise Makes its Grand DebutChapter 42 · Be the breeding ground for my eggs.Chapter 43 · Carrying EggsChapter 44 · MasterChapter 45 · CryingChapter 46 · InterrogationChapter 47 · LikeChapter 48 · The TruthChapter 49 · ConfessionChapter 50 · Identity ExposedChapter 51 · BackgroundChapter 52 · SuspicionChapter 53 · The Feeling of HungerChapter 54 · SleepingChapter 55 · The NameChapter 56 · Memories (1)Chapter 57 · Memories (2)Chapter 58 · Memories (3)Chapter 59 · Gu YuanChapter 60 · A Falling KissChapter 61 · MonsterChapter 62 · RabitChapter 63 · Bathroom