Chapter 86 Inconvenient

"What lowly! What inferior!" Tang Zhao couldn't stand it anymore and was so angry that he was about to punch the cowardly alien in front of him until he was unconscious.

Bai Chenzhu stopped him and glanced at the calm Jiang Ye. It was rare to see Jiang Ye so indifferent, as if he was not interested in what the aliens were saying.

But upon closer inspection, Jiang Ye's calm demeanor masked a raging storm within, which he had to suppress to maintain his composure.

Logically speaking, if the alien in front of him couldn't tell him about the communicator, he would be considered useless. However, even though he couldn't get any information about the communicator, Bai Chenzhu still had other things he wanted to know.

There are some things that Jiang Ye won't go into detail about, but from the perspective of the alien race, there might be other ways to approach them.

Bai Chenzhu took out the smart terminal he had found on the aircraft from his pocket and turned on the recording function.

"Tell me everything you know," Bai Chenzhu threatened the trembling alien.

The alien race clearly recognized what he had in his hand. At first, they refused to speak or leave any evidence, but after being stabbed, they became obedient.

According to the alien race before them, their race has always been the most powerful warriors in the starry sea; however, their strong genes also bring them the problem of reproduction.

So they began to seek out similar species, attempting to solve the problem through 'intermarriage'.

This is a one-sided narrative from a foreign race.

To be precise, they have been secretly conducting human-like reproduction experiments in various lower civilizations that could potentially "intermarry" with each other, without the knowledge of the Interstellar Alliance. Earth is just one of many experimental bases, and Lord Kula is their supreme leader on Earth.

Humans, this unique race, are able to reproduce with other races, but due to their poor physical condition, fetuses are prone to miscarriage during pregnancy. Even if they are born, they are likely to die young.

Since humans are too weak, let's help them evolve, give them strong physiques, and then help other races reproduce.

So they tried to edit the 'advanced genes' of other races into human genes, but accidentally caused a large-scale mutation.

That is, 'zombies', and superhumans whom they are unaware of.

Speaking of their race, the aliens said with self-righteousness, "It is an honor that you have been able to climb the social ladder and have the opportunity to evolve. You should be happy about it."

This statement confirms Bai Chenzhu's guess.

Previously, Bai Chenzhu had felt that the abilities of the alien race were extremely similar to those of human superhumans. After learning what he wanted to know, Bai Chenzhu sneered and his gaze towards the alien race changed.

Bai Chenzhu slowly turned off the recording on the smart terminal.

"You didn't even come out to clean up the mess after the incident occurred. Oh, no, the solution is..."

A sharp, cold light flashed through the air. The alien creature opened its eyes wide, then collapsed onto the stage, its blue blood trickling down. It died with its eyes wide open, its death hasty and untimely.

Bai Chenzhu uttered the second half of the sentence in a low voice, "...to silence them."

Tang Zhao instinctively covered his eyes.

Jiang Ye released his grip on the alien's hand and shook his wrist.

As the corpse grew colder, Bai Chenzhu, gripping the dagger, looked at Jiang Ye, who returned his gaze expressionlessly.

"Jiang Ye?" Bai Chenzhu thought Jiang Ye's serious expression meant he was about to say something important, and was waiting for him to speak.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Ye looked Bai Chenzhu up and down, gestured towards the cage with his lip, and said something inappropriate: "I just saw a man with a big belly in the cage. Do you think the genes for male pregnancy have been woven into it?"

The heavy atmosphere was instantly shattered. Tang Zhao's thoughts had truly been swayed, and he clutched his stomach in terror. Bai Chenzhu's heart settled back into his stomach, and he gave Jiang Ye a slap on the elbow, "Get to work, bury the body."

Jiang Ye's eyes crinkled into a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. He casually picked up a rag and wiped the bloodstains on the table, saying to Tang Zhao, "We stuffed it into the ventilation duct. It would have been quite troublesome if it had been discovered."

——

Only one alien species is on duty at this laboratory.

Looking out from the laboratory, Bai Chenzhu saw that each floor of the base was designed with large circles inside smaller circles.

An elevator runs through the entire building, serving as the center of a smaller circle. The larger circle is surrounded by various rooms, with wide corridors and staircases separating the smaller circles.

The alien race guarded the surrounding area; their laboratory was just one of many rooms. Alien guards were stationed at intervals along the corridor.

Moreover, they all look stronger and more difficult to deal with than the one in the lab.

Tang Zhao whispered, "What should we do?"

After all, they were only there to steal. Bai Chenzhu was thinking about how to use his mental power without alerting the male insects, as they were outnumbered and at a disadvantage. But then he saw Jiang Ye take out some currency from his backpack and wink at him, "I'll call out the numbers later, and you can run over when the time is right."

"Money is truly a wonderful thing," Bai Chenzhu remarked, watching him play with the coin.

A patrol team passed by, and Jiang Ye seized the opportunity to throw out the coin in his hand. A shiny coin flew through the air, hit the opposite wall, and rolled down.

The two alien guards near the stairs pricked up their ears and heard a familiar sound. Drawn by the familiar sound of coins, their eyes involuntarily fell on several coins on the ground.

Where did the money come from?

A patrol team passed by them.

The two aliens on duty both considered one possibility: some idiot patrolling had dropped the coins.

They quickly scrambled to grab the coins.

Three figures emerged from the laboratory and quickly disappeared into the stairwell.

On other floors, the central pillar serves as an elevator. However, on the central floor, the core of the entire base, the pillar has been converted into a suite of rooms, with tighter security.

The three of them tacitly dealt with the two alien races and hid behind the nearest cover to the room, looking for an opportunity.

The room, which was quite large, was tightly closed. The number of patrols around it was four or five times that of other places. The three of them hid behind cover, looking for an opportunity to enter.

After all, it's the core location of the entire base, so there's a very high probability that it contains fragments.

——

Unfortunately, they never found an opportunity. The room was cylindrical and guarded on all sides, making it impossible for them to simultaneously send all the patrols away.

As dawn approached and the patrol was rotated, they still hadn't found an opportunity to get close.

What to do? Bai Chenzhu was at a loss. Squatting like this wasn't a solution.

Jiang Ye pointed to the way he came, intending to look at another place.

At this moment, several alien races passed by one after another. Their wings were smaller, and the colors of their eyes, hair, and wings were more brilliant. They had a faint aura of spiritual power floating around them.

Bai Chenzhu looked at Jiang Ye with a questioning gaze: This should be a male insect, right?

Jiang Ye nodded.

Bai Chenzhu inexplicably thought of how, in nature, some males are indeed more beautiful, which is used to attract mates. In this alien species, male insects also represent a special class.

As if by prior arrangement, they walked together into the room.

The room was finally opened, and you could see that the area near the door was carpeted, with a long table and several chairs.

It looks like a conference room.

The males chatted as they walked toward the middle room.

"That guy Ceci clearly went back to the base last night but didn't come to see the adults. Where did he go?"

Isn't that the name of that male insect in the ancient city? Bai Chenzhu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he touched the translator by his ear.

It couldn't possibly have appeared, because the person piloting the spaceship was human. The incompetent insect-engineered crew on board only mentioned uploading the flight path to the main unit; there shouldn't have been any video recording, right?

"Didn't it say it discovered other forms of human mutation? Selfish thing, I thought it came back to offer treasure and atone for its sins, but it secretly hid again. Let's see how the adults punish it!"

"It's not the first or second time it's been absent. It has powerful backers, and even the adults can't do anything about it. Hey, what else do you think humans can become? The ones in the lab have never reported to me."

"Who knows? No matter how it changes, it can't evolve much further. I'll go check its room after the meeting, then I'll know the answer, right?"

...

They went into the room, which appeared to be a conference room, side by side.

Bai Chenzhu glanced around the conference room doorway, then turned back and grabbed Jiang Ye's backpack, pulling him towards a secluded spot. "Is that male insect's 'identity card' with you? Let's see where it lives."

Jiang Ye understood, took off his backpack, and rummaged through it. "You're planning to go to its room?"

“Male insect, that’s a male insect.” Bai Chenzhu pointed to the back of the figure entering the conference room, reminding the two, “Didn’t they destroy the communicator? They must know its whereabouts.”

If you can catch one and ask it, you won't need to open any blind boxes.

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow, took out a bracelet-like object, looked it over, and said, "Hmm, it happens to be on this floor."

Tang Zhao gave Bai Chenzhu two thumbs up, "You truly are my brother!"

——

This male beetle named Ceci hasn't lived here for a long time; the room is empty, and it's clear that its owner doesn't intend to return.

Tang Zhao relaxed a bit, jumped onto the table and sat down, swinging his legs as he looked around. "There really isn't anything here. I thought there would be more tech products."

Jiang Ye pointed to the 'cocoon' in the corner and said, "A bed, high-tech, do you want to go in and lie down?"

Tang Zhao shook his head desperately.

Bai Chenzhu spun the chair around with one hand, so that the back of the chair faced the door. He straddled the chair, leaning on the back and playing with the ID card.

The identity card had incomprehensible patterns, but one string of symbols was exactly the same as the one hanging above the room door, which allowed them to identify the room.

Bai Chenzhu rested his chin on his arm and looked at Jiang Ye, who was sitting in another chair, lost in thought. Bai Chenzhu suddenly asked, "Is there anyone here you want to 'take revenge' on?"

He saw Jiang Ye pause for a moment, then turn to look at him with a blank expression.

Bai Chenzhu beckoned to Jiang Ye with his index finger, "I'll remember that. Do you have someone you want to get revenge on? Like that alien race that came with the 'antidote' to sow discord?"

Jiang Ye is a member of the human camp, who are absolutely opposed to the alien races.

In Bai Chenzhu's remaining memories of that book, Jiang Ye personally dealt with the alien races that came to negotiate in the later stages of the apocalypse, but many alien races still appeared in other bases one after another. In the end, the alien races even joined forces with other humans with ulterior motives to stab Jiang Ye in the back.

Since they're already here, it doesn't make a difference if they take a few more heads with them.

After he asked the question, Jiang Ye's expression became subtle. Bai Chenzhu couldn't understand his meaning at first, so she waited patiently.

"The way you looked at me in the lab just now, were you trying to see my reaction? Did you think I would feel better?" Jiang Ye's feelings were complicated.

“Yes.” Bai Chenzhu nodded. He killed so decisively, partly because he was dissatisfied with the alien race’s flippant excuses for harming humans, and partly because he felt that Jiang Ye should do the same.

But he could tell that Jiang Ye didn't seem to be any happier about it, and he didn't know what the other person was thinking.

Jiang Ye lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "How can one person quell my anger? If I had come alone, I would have blown this place up by any means necessary. But right now, that's not my primary objective..."

Because Bai Chenzhu was there, he was unwilling to take risks and always acted conservatively. If it were any other time and place, in his most impulsive moments, he would have constantly thought about coming here to die together with Bai Chenzhu.

But since he had promised Bai Chenzhu, he shouldn't have tried such an extreme method for their future. Jiang Ye's lips moved, he sighed, and looked at Tang Zhao.

Bai Chenzhu, not understanding why, followed his gaze to Tang Zhao.

Tang Zhao couldn't understand what the two were saying, but that didn't stop him from eating sunflower seeds. His eyes darted around as he watched the two of them like he was watching an interesting TV drama. His spectatory gaze annoyed Jiang Ye, who had originally wanted to confide in him.

Jiang Ye said, "You shouldn't be sitting on the table."

Tang Zhao stopped swinging his leg, still confused as to why everyone was looking at him while they were talking. Tang Zhao scratched the back of his head, "Huh?"

Jiang Ye said blankly, "You should be under the table."

Bai Chenzhu pondered the words for a moment, her eyes crinkling with a smile, "Alright, enough already, you're always criticizing other kids."

"Hmph." Jiang Ye stretched out his hand, palm up, toward Bai Chenzhu.

What are you doing? Bai Chenzhu calmly placed his fist in his palm, and the next second he was pulled up from the chair and staggered into the bathroom.

The door slammed shut, trapping Bai Chenzhu in the corner, his waist pressed against the sink. He looked into Jiang Ye's eyes, an endless passion swirling within him. "Wait, are you serious?"

That male insect just said it was coming over!

Jiang Ye simply held him tightly, burying his head in his neck and shoulder without moving, his nose wrinkling, his breathing heavy.

Bai Chenzhu hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and touched the prickly back of Jiang Ye's head.

Jiang Ye said sullenly, "I did bring that thing with me."

"Which thing?" Bai Chenzhu asked patiently.

"That thing that Sister Zhuohua gave you..." Jiang Ye said bluntly, and Bai Chenzhu immediately remembered what it was. His face flushed, and he stroked the back of Jiang Ye's head a few times like petting a big cat.

"This place isn't convenient," Bai Chenzhu said. The cramped bathroom, the unfamiliar room, and the approaching enemy—none of these conditions were ideal.

He couldn't see Jiang Ye's face, but he could hear Jiang Ye laugh out loud twice for no apparent reason.

"What's wrong?" Bai Chenzhu asked, puzzled.

You said 'inconvenient,' not 'cannot.'

Bai Chenzhu's gaze sharpened before he realized that Jiang Ye had set him up: first, he would propose an impossible thing to test the other party's bottom line, and then he would try to "bargain"...

"Jiang Ye!" He was about to speak when a soft touch pressed against his lips, roughly crushing them.

He was speechless, his heart skipped a beat, and looking into those eyes so close to his, burning with fiery passion that reached straight to his heart, making his heart pound so hard it felt like it was about to burst out of his throat.

"You remember this for me, and I'm happy about it," Jiang Ye mumbled indistinctly as he leaned close to him.

Bai Chenzhu closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again, wrapped his arms around Bai Chenzhu's shoulders, turned over, and pinned him against the wall, deepening the kiss.

The sound of running water in the bathroom drowned out all private noises.

——

Inside the room, Tang Zhao was trying to climb into the 'cocoon' when the person in the bathroom came out. He immediately closed the lid, stood up straight, as upright as a pine tree.

He always had a strange curiosity, looking at this and that, and Bai Chenzhu tried to stop him many times on the way here.

Feeling guilty, Tang Zhao blurted out before he could think, "Why did you guys come out so quickly?"

Judging from Jiang Ye's demeanor, he looked like a bandit, and Brother Bai's lips were still swollen... Wait! What was he thinking? Tang Zhao pulled himself out of his increasingly yellow thoughts, his eyes darting around, not daring to look at the two of them.

Bai Chenzhu remained silent, while Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow and retorted, "Otherwise, how long do you think it will take?"

Tang Zhao was speechless, his eyes wide. Jiang Ye, in a good mood, changed the subject and laughed, "Did I disturb your intimate moment with your 'bed'?"

Where did this talk of mutual affection come from? Tang Zhao shivered, feeling that Jiang Ye was like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, in a great mood, shaking his colorful tail feathers.

A knocking sound suddenly came from behind, and Bai Chenzhu turned his head slightly.

Strange language came from outside the door, a jumbled mess. He fumbled for his translator and put it on; the male insect outside was calling out the name of the room's owner.