Chapter 186 Two Tubes of New Medicine

The Royal Ball is held at 7 p.m. sharp.

Before that, she had complete control over her own time.

Today is Thursday, and she is going to take Ao Cang to the Royal Sacred Beast Treatment Center where Li Chonghua works.

After class yesterday, she asked her homeroom teacher, Saiqin, for leave, saying she was going to take her pet to see a doctor.

It's no secret that she chose a Forsaken Beast as her familiar.

Ao Cang's condition directly affected her, so Sai Qin certainly wouldn't stop her. She even told her that if one day wasn't enough, she could ask for another day.

They said the classes could be made up later, but if attending classes delayed Ao Cang's treatment and threatened Qiao Mei's life, it would be a loss.

Qiao Mei estimated that one day would be enough, but just in case, she accepted the two-day leave slip given by Sai Qin, thinking that if it was enough, she could just come back directly.

The Royal Beast Treatment Center is located on the Imperial Star. Qiao Mei couldn't possibly say that she would come back to the Federal Academy after treating Ao Cang, so she simply brought some cosmetics she had left in her dormitory. She also contacted Xu Hui and asked her to take out the dress she would wear to the dance that evening and iron it for her.

With everything prepared, she took Ao Cang onto the public spacecraft bound for the Imperial Star.

Given her current status, which has been recognized by Old Master Xu, she could actually ride in a higher-class first-class aircraft. However, the price was too expensive, and she wanted to save the money for Ao Cang's offerings. So she chose the more economical public aircraft that she used to ride often.

As Ao Cang watched all this unfold, he quietly added another item to his plans for the future, once he had a legitimate identity.

At 10:00 AM, when Qiao Mei and Ao Cang officially arrived at the Royal Sacred Beast Treatment Center, they heard that a familiar beast had died, and the awakened one who was the familiar beast's master had suffered a severe mental blow and fallen into a coma.

"Originally, that little Vermilion Bird could have been saved, but for some reason, it suddenly had a lot of death energy inside it. Luckily, we were wearing protective suits, otherwise, who knows what might have happened to our familiar beasts. It scared me to death."

"Yes, it was truly terrifying. This hasn't happened in interstellar history for a very long time. The last time was..."

"Shh, keep your voice down. Is this the kind of thing you can just say in a place like this? Be careful someone with ulterior motives doesn't overhear!"

The two nurses talked and headed towards a more secluded spot, forcing Qiao Mei to stop eavesdropping.

At this moment, Li Chonghua's personal computer called, asking if she had arrived yet. She had no choice but to suppress her curiosity and go up the optical elevator.

When they arrived at the location, Li Chonghua was still busy extracting some stone materials. When he saw Qiao Mei come in, he stopped what he was doing, took off the nano gloves he was wearing, and went to get the medicine that he had put in the freezer for Qiao Mei.

"This time the extraction is quite large; we made two vials of the medicine. It might feel a bit uncomfortable when it drinks it, so please coax it a little more and make sure it doesn't vomit. Even a small amount will greatly affect its effectiveness!"

Qiao Mei knew that Ao Cang had no sense of taste, so she wasn't worried at all about the situation Li Chonghua described.

When she carefully fed Ao Cang a vial of medicine, she asked her about the gossip she had overheard in the lobby on the first floor.

"Why did that familiar suddenly die? Did something happen?"

The beasts that live here are similar to pets; they too can be subject to natural disasters or man-made calamities.

But after hearing her question, Li Chonghua told her that it wasn't the reason she had guessed.

"It's quite strange, actually. When the little red bird was brought here, its physical condition was relatively normal, except for a fist-sized blood hole in its abdomen."

"When I asked the owner what happened, he stammered for a long time and couldn't say anything. I could only treat it first, but I didn't expect that when it was almost finished, a very thick death aura suddenly emanated from the wound of the little red bird, which directly caused its death. If I hadn't been there at the time and helped to control the situation, the other familiars in the treatment center would definitely have been affected as well."

After listening to the whole thing, what puzzled Qiao Mei the most was where that deathly aura came from.

Li Chonghua sighed: "I am also puzzled. Logically speaking, death energy is not only rare, but it is also very difficult to keep it so close to the body. Moreover, the most puzzling thing is why it only appears on a very low-level familiar beast like the Little Vermilion Bird."

During their conversation, Qiao Mei finished feeding Ao Cang a bottle of medicine and opened another one.

After drinking one bottle, Ao Cang's body doesn't seem to have changed much so far.

Qiao Mei was a little confused. When she poured the other bottle into his bottle, she looked at Li Chonghua and asked him with her eyes what was going on.

Li Chonghua: "This is normal. I've incorporated some new medicinal herbs into it this time. It should take about half an hour to take effect. You can stay here and observe it for a while. There's no need to rush to leave."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Mei breathed a sigh of relief and continued to feed him the medicine.

After finishing this bottle, Ao Cang's entire dragon looked a bit listless, and its body became a little cold. It kept moving closer to where Qiao Mei was.

She reached out and picked him up, only to find that his dragon body was ice-cold.

Li Chonghua took the opportunity to reach out and touch the dragon's body, then opened his quantum computer to record it.

"Take it in now. There's a bed inside. Put it in the blankets to warm it up, or you can go up there too, that will warm it up faster. I estimate that once its body cools down, it should be almost there. I still need to prepare some more medicine based on its condition. You go in and rest first."

"Okay, if anything seems amiss, I'll contact you immediately."

After saying that, Qiao Mei carried Ao Cang into the room with a bed without looking back, pulled a quilt over herself and his dragon body, and stuffed his cold dragon body into her arms.

Summer is almost here, and the weather is unbearably hot.

There was no air conditioning in the room, so Qiao Mei should have been sweating profusely by now that she was under the covers.

On the contrary, after she covered herself with the blanket, she didn't feel hot at all; instead, she felt as cold as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

The situation on Ao Cang's side was even worse. Not only was there a thin layer of ice on the dragon scales, but there were also many ice shards on his long, thick eyelashes.

Qiao Mei held his dragon body, barely able to feel even the slightest bit of his body temperature.

"Cangcang, Cangcang, can you hear me?"

In this situation, it would definitely not work for Qiao Mei to continue covering him up while still wearing her clothes.

After gritting his teeth, he ripped the clothes open.

Now it's time for everyone's favorite part~