Chapter 78 Royal Family
The moment the tentacles strangled the warden's head, all three inhibitors on Jiang He's body released super powerful electric currents.
Little A's mechanical voice rang in her mind: [My Queen, killing the warden will activate the suppressor.]
Little A spoke very quickly, and Jiang He could sense that his emotions were fluctuating greatly.
Killing the warden would have consequences that would even worry Little A.
But Jiang He did not hesitate or pause for a moment, and still used his tentacles to strangle the warden's neck.
In the eyes of the warden, prisoners are like ants. She is high and mighty. Even if Jiang He holds her life in his hands, she will never yield. Jiang He will not completely believe what she says.
The warden said that many people with amnesia appeared in the training camp, and that these people's amnesia was due to problems with the suppressors.
She stated in a positive tone that Jiang He had lost his memory. Jiang He was inclined to believe that she was lying to him, but why was the warden suddenly so certain?
Nothing special happened in the process of the other party reaching this conclusion, only her tentacles appeared and counterattacked the other party.
What is the connection between tentacles and amnesia?
Jiang He had many doubts in her mind, but she didn't plan to look for the answers from the warden.
The warden answered every question and cooperated very well, but for a man like the warden, it would be impossible for him to take them into the laboratory and let them leave alive after such a great humiliation.
When she strangled the warden's head, her suppressor released a powerful electric current in an instant.
Jiang He only had time to throw the warden's head into Yao Leng's arms. Without even being able to utter a word, he fell to the ground with smoke rising from his face.
"Ba Ba." Old Man Shi was stunned and hurriedly wanted to throw Yao Leng out of his arms to hug Jiang He.
Someone was one step faster than him, the consumptive man who had been standing on the edge of the abyss.
He took Jiang He, whose body was as black as coal, into his arms and held him horizontally.
His behavior was so consistent that it seemed strange to some.
Yao Leng froze the warden's head and then went to check on Jiang He. "How is she?"
"Not bad." The consumptive ghost glanced at the two wounded men and walked out of the mine first. "Let's go."
Although it was cold in the mine, it was not frozen. Yao Leng looked at the time and it was a little after seven in the morning.
The consumptive man did not return along the same route. Yao Leng didn't know much about this man, so he was alert and tried to move Jiang He from his arms.
He walked a few steps to the front of the consumptive ghost and blocked his way. "You are not in good health. Let Old Man Shi hold her."
The consumptive man raised his eyes and stared at him.
His eyes were gray, a color rarely seen in the training camp. They were out of focus, as if he was blind or had something wrong with his eyes.
But when he looked at Yao Leng, Yao Leng's hair stood on end, his muscles tensed, and he inexplicably had the illusion that he was being targeted by a hunter.
"She needs star grass." The consumptive ghost said expressionlessly, "There's no time to delay. You'd better get out of the way."
His voice was calm and composed, but Yao Leng could sense the murderous intent.
"Okay." Yao Leng made way and said bluntly, "If anything happens to her, we will never let you go."
The consumptive man didn't respond. He was usually hunched and frail, looking like he could cough to death at any moment, but at this moment, his steps were brisk, and he was incredibly steady as he held Jiang He. Yao Leng stared at his back, feeling that there was something odd about him.
Old Man Shi didn't understand why Yao Leng had stopped the consumptive ghost just now. "He's not injured. He won't fall if he holds Baba. It's better than me holding him."
The road in the mine is winding and if you are not careful, you will fall into the pit if you miss a step.
Yao Leng: ...We have no idea of the other party's background, and we don't even know whether he is a human or a ghost. What should we do if we take him away and run away?
However, he was concerned about another question at the moment, why did the consumptive ghost say that Jiang He needed star grass.
"Why did her whole body suddenly turn black? Was it because of the current from the suppressor?" Yao Leng endured the pain in his leg and followed the consumptive ghost closely.
The consumptive said, "When a prisoner attacks the warden, it will indeed activate the suppressor's elimination command."
Did he mean that there was another reason for Jiang He's charred body? Yao Leng didn't wait for his next words. Realizing that it was impossible to get this person to speak on his own, he continued to ask, "What about her? What's the reason?"
Consumptive: "Because she killed the warden."
Yao Leng: ...Isn’t this the same answer as before?
After a moment of silence, he continued to ask, "How is she now?"
"We need star grass."
But he didn't answer about Jiang He's condition. Yao Leng felt heavy in his heart.
He knew that Jiang He's healing ability was extremely strong, but could a person who was burned to charcoal still recover?
Jiang He was also burned into charcoal by the lava fire before.
Others may not be able to recover, but Jiang He has such a possibility.
Yao Leng calmed down and asked the consumptive ghost: "Why don't you cough now?"
Consumptive: "What nonsense."
Yao Leng: ...
This is the first time someone has commented on him like this since he entered the training camp!
A pitch-black shadow hand suddenly appeared at the corner ahead. The shadow hand was many times larger than before, now as big as a human shadow, and its palm was filled with star grass.
These star grasses were in its palm, just like encountering a natural enemy, and it dared not move at all.
The consumptive ghost immediately laid Jiang He flat on the ground, grabbed a star grass from the palm of Shadow Hand, pinched Jiang He's mouth open, and stuffed the star grass in.
"Hey, hey, hey." Old Man Shi exclaimed, "How can you eat star grass directly?"
Although the star grass looks like a star and is beautiful and nice, it is a third-level mutated plant that has developed self-awareness. If such a mutated plant is swallowed into the stomach, it will explode on the spot!
The consumptive ghost seemed not to hear. After stuffing one into Jiang He's mouth, he continued to stuff more into Jiang He's mouth.
Shadow Hand stuffed all the Star Grass in his hand into Jiang He's mouth. He said to Shadow Hand, "If you want more, go again."
Shadow Hand turned around and ran away.
Yao Leng squatted beside Jiang He, and the moment he took a look, he realized that Jiang He was in a bad state. His body was charred, and he had no heartbeat or breath.
After the consumptive ghost stuffed the blue star grass into her mouth, the blue star grass disappeared like a stone sinking into the sea.
"Star grass can heal damaged mental strength." Yao Leng asked the consumptive ghost, "Will eating star grass be effective in her case?"
Although star grass can heal people's mental strength, it is never eaten directly. As Mr. Shi said, if a normal person swallows star grass in one mouthful, his body will explode.
Fortunately, Jiang He's body is now charred black, so he can't explode any further.
Consumptive: "It works on her."
The strange feeling Yao Leng had towards the consumptive patient resurfaced.
He was sure that the consumptive man had not known Jiang He for as long as he had.
But the way the other person spoke and acted seemed like he had followed Jiang He for a long time, making him look like an outsider in comparison.
"Is this really going to work? He looks dead," said Old Man Shi in panic. "He's completely dead. How can he still be alive?"
The consumptive ghost glanced at Jiang Heshi and was about to reach out to push him, but he didn't look at Jiang Heshi's face again until the other party's hand retracted.
He continued to say to the Stone Old Man, "You can also swallow a piece of Star Grass."
Old Man Shi: ...This guy actually wants me to explode and die. He is too cruel!
Yao Leng looked thoughtfully at the body of the old man, which was almost completely petrified.
Shadow Hand returned soon.
This time, not only were its palms full of star grass, but it was also followed by Little Green, Green, the Venus Fly, and male iron-eating ants.
A row of them, each with a mouth full of star grass.
The consumptive ghost frowned and complained, "It's stained with saliva, so dirty."
Yao Leng discovered that after the consumptive ghost said this, the deformed beasts such as the nail-eating green python suddenly became like children who had done something wrong, and they wanted to wash the star grass clean with their saliva.
The consumptive man probably guessed their thoughts and immediately said, "Swallow it yourself and don't spit it out."
He glanced at the Stone Old Man and said, "Leave one for him."
Stone Man: ...No, do you really want him to swallow it?
He watched as the consumptive ghost stuffed all the star grass brought by Shadow Hand into Jiang He's mouth. Just as he was hesitating, the male iron-eating ant sprayed a star grass directly into his mouth.
Yao Leng was silent.
These deformed beasts were unruly and only Jiang He could subdue them, but that was all he could do. With the exception of Shadow Hand, who was gentle and considerate towards Jiang He, the other deformed beasts were very ferocious and often "rebelled."
But these deformed beasts are now obediently driven by the consumptive ghost.
Yao Leng couldn't help but have a thought in his mind: Who on earth is this guy?
"Cough cough cough cough cough..." The consumptive man suddenly started coughing violently. He was originally sitting cross-legged on the ground with Jiang He's head on his legs. When he coughed, he tilted his head and bent over, and his whole body was shaking violently.
The stone old man next to him slammed his huge body to the ground with a plop after swallowing a piece of star grass. He twitched all over for a moment, his heavy petrified limbs were all charred black, and thick smoke came out of his mouth.
It turns out that the rumor that one will explode on the spot after swallowing the crystal core is not true.
Yao Leng didn't know which one to look at for a moment, "Hey, hey, hey, are you guys okay?"
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Welcome back, Your Majesty!
Xiao A's voice brought Jiang He's wandering thoughts together. She looked up and found herself at the gate of the Blue Silver Manor.
This is also the pioneer relic that the people of the Federation are eager to find.
She was a little surprised and looked around. Everything around her was hazy, and only the gate of the Blue Silver Villa in front of her was extremely clear.
"Xiao A, what is this place?"
Although her question was brief, Little A, as an intelligent robot, understood that Jiang He was asking where the Blue Silver Villa was released by it.
[In your sea of consciousness, Blue Silver Villa cannot be released to the outside world for the time being. The energy fluctuations will attract those people's covetousness. Your sea of consciousness will be upgraded after devouring the deformed beast at the bottom of the abyss. Blue Silver Villa can be released in your sea of consciousness.]
Jiang He was a little confused: "Sea of consciousness?"
[This is what humans call spiritual power. People with strong spiritual power have a spiritual sea, which I call the sea of consciousness. Queen, your body is still recovering. You can rest at Blue Silver Villa first.]
Jiang He thought of Ah Jing. She and Ah Jing must have been talking in her sea of consciousness before, but her sea of consciousness was not big enough to accommodate the Blue Silver Villa.
She asked Xiao A: "Where is Ah Jing?"
"In Blue Silver Villa, all your pets are inside."
Jiang He hadn't seen Ah Jing for a long time. Upon hearing this, he strode into the villa gate and continued to ask, "Little A, what kind of human am I?"
Xiao A did not respond.
Jiang He paused at the door and was about to continue asking when she looked up and saw Ah Jing standing inside the door, smiling at her.
Ah Jing likes green robes, which have a very ancient style. His hair reaches his waist and his facial features are too delicate. At first glance, you would think that he is not a real person, but a character in a game.
But he wasn't really a human either.
"Ah He." He walked over to Jiang He. "The tomatoes and strawberries I planted are ripe now. You're back just in time."
Ah Jing actually doesn't talk much, but there is no one here, and he is inevitably lonely on weekdays. After seeing Jiang He, he told Jiang He all about his farming and fishing after entering the Blue Silver Villa.
Jiang He sat on the recliner that Ah Jing had made after work, eating the small tomatoes and strawberries he had picked from the field. The sun shone on her through the thin clouds, and the yard was filled with birdsong and flowers. This day was a little too beautiful.
After chatting with Ah Jing for a while, she asked Xiao A in her mind: "Am I a deformed person, an alien, or a genetically modified person?"
At least it can rule out robots.
[My Queen, you are a primitive person]
Jiang He: ...Good boy, as far as she knows, there is no such type of "primitive people" in the current Federation.
Jiang He: "What is a primitive man?"
Xiao A fell silent again.
Jiang He asked it, "Can't you tell me?"
[Your Majesty, the information about primitive people is only available in paper form, stored in the Federal University library on the 36th floor, location 282. I'm sorry, you'll need to check it yourself.]
She can't even go out for training now, let alone leave Planet A62.
Fortunately, there was no rush, so Jiang He continued to ask it: "My tentacle, do you know what its properties are?"
It was hard to miss the look of shock on the warden's face when he saw her tentacles.
[My Queen, the tentacles are part of your body]
This answer did not satisfy Jiang He. Jiang He guessed that Xiao A's knowledge of human distortion belonged to its time and was somewhat outdated compared to the current human era.
While she was closing her eyes to rest, she logged into the Evil Abyss Forum.
The forum was packed with posts. Jiang He was a visitor and could not post messages, nor did he have the authority to search for keywords. He could only continue to open the posts one by one and browse them as before.
[Regarding Star Grass, let me give you some basic knowledge. Star Grass is a distorted plant. Iron-eating ants are Jun's companion animals, and Star Grass is Jun's companion grass. Star Grass is born as a third-level distorted plant and will not be promoted.
It has the power to revitalize a person's appearance and accelerate cell division and reproduction. The main ingredient in Kangfuxin Liquid is tenuifolia, and several well-known cosmetics brands consistently source it. The tenuifolia from Planet A62 is the most effective, but also the scarcest, with virtually no supply on the market. Tenuifolia from other sources is mostly cultivated artificially, due to the extremely demanding conditions required to grow it. Even cultivated tenuifolia commands exorbitant prices.
Ordinary people don’t have a deep understanding of star grass. Medical students like us often see it in literature. The reason is that specially refined star grass has a certain chance of curing deformed people, but star grass is rare and the amount needed to cure deformed people is too large, so this method cannot be promoted for the time being.
Swallowing countless star grasses in one gulp like Baba does is roughly equivalent to swallowing the value of a small planet in one gulp. In fact, the main reason why I popularized star grass is to tell everyone that this thing is really, really rare.
How rare is it? It is said that one year, a prince of the royal family suffered from irreversible deformity and needed star grass. At that time, the training camp on the A62 planet issued a task reward for picking star grass. The reward was unprecedentedly high, but in the past few years, only one prisoner picked star grass. The tunnel where the star grass grew at the bottom of the mine was so big that it was dug out at that time.
Stargrass does have side effects, but they are minimal and can even be a great tonic for humans. But I'm really worried that Baba swallowed so much of it in one go.]
[Oh shit, after hearing what the above person said, I remembered that a few years ago, there was indeed a report that a certain prince of the royal family had deformities, but it was quickly clarified by the media that it was just a small reporter sensationalizing. Can royal family members really have deformities? Oh my god, I am shocked.]
Even the wealthy and powerful royal family is helpless against the distortion. How hopeless must ordinary people be.
[Ordinary people are at least better off than the royal family. Once a royal family member becomes deformed, if they cannot be cured, they will probably be immediately disposed of.]
[The royal family has fewer and fewer members. There were no new royal family members born this year. I don’t understand why the royal family doesn’t reproduce on a large scale.]
…
Jiang He scrolled down and found that it was all gossip about the royal family. This stuff had nothing to do with her life, so she swiped it and opened the next post.
[Let’s take a look at the handsome men around my overlord]
…
This post was too magical. Jiang He took a quick look at it and deleted it without hesitation.
[Will Baba be executed for killing the warden?]
[What are you thinking about? There is no such thing as the death penalty now, but I am also curious about what will happen to Baba if he kills the warden.]
Will Captain Xiao catch Baba? Will he be locked up in a small dark room? That place is too torturous.
[Will Captain Xiao really catch Baba? But I think he likes Baba]
[Don't be so self-indulgent, the guy above. A training camp is a place where liking someone is worthless. Captain Xiao is much more ruthless than the warden.]
[Is Captain Xiao going to have a love-hate relationship with Baba? Wow, I'm so excited, I want to see it]
[Don't overthink it. Baba killed the warden at the edge of the abyss. The training camp had no idea.]
[That's right. Planet A62 has an independent judiciary. Although the live broadcast shows everything about A62, outsiders cannot interfere with the internal operations of A62. Only things like the Pioneer Ruins would require the Federation to dispatch personnel there.]
[Ahhh, I really want to remind Yao Leng to throw away the warden's head quickly, kill him and cover up the crime, so that Captain Xiao won't know that Baba killed the warden.]
[Why hasn’t Baba woken up yet? I want Baba to wake up quickly. It hurts to see Baba like this.]
I really didn't expect that Baba would kill the warden. Her behavior finally made me believe that she was an unforgivable criminal. Woohoo, I don't know whether I am sad or happy for a moment. My mood is really complicated. I really don't want Baba to be a criminal who does all kinds of evil and kills without blinking an eye.
…
Jiang He deleted the post and opened another one.
The forum is such a mess! I'm watching a live stream of prisoners fighting, and they're all talking about some bullshit. I'm speechless.
…
Suddenly, Jiang He's body felt extremely heavy, as if she was tied to a big stone and soaked in water. The next moment, she suddenly opened her eyes.
Her body was buried in the soil.
Seeing her wake up, Yao Leng beside her was excited, "Hey, you can actually wake up."
He grabbed Jiang He's shoulders and pulled him out of the dirt. "How do you feel?"
Jiang He glanced down at herself, who was covered in dirt, and found that there was also a person buried next to her. He looked a little familiar?
"It was Old Man Shi. The consumptive ghost said that this would help you two shed your skin faster, and he was right."
As Yao Leng spoke, he glanced at the listless-looking consumptive next to him and whispered to Jiang He, "Where did you meet this guy? He seems to know everything. He's quite impressive."
Jiang He brushed off the dirt on his body and said, "I was planning to let him do a caesarean section for you. Isn't he omnipotent?"
Yao Leng: ...He had almost forgotten the nightmare about spider eggs, but when Jiang He mentioned it, the feeling of nausea came over him again.
"I need to go to the lab." Jiang He looked at the warden's head, which had been frozen by Yao Leng. "Her pupils should still be usable, right?"
Yao Leng nodded: "It's very fresh and can definitely be used."
"That'll do."
Jiang He reached out to take the head, and Yao Leng realized that the other party had no intention of taking him to the laboratory at all.
He took a step back, not giving the warden's head to the other party, and said, "I'll go with you."
"That place is not easy to get into. I don't plan to come back alive."
Jiang He paused, then continued slowly, "I agree with what you said before. This training camp should be overturned. If I can make it back alive from the lab, I will join you. I know nothing about the training camp, and the chances of survival are slim. You stay here and lie dormant..."
"I'll go with you." Yao Leng interrupted her and said firmly, "Two people groping in the dark is better than one person groping in the dark."
At this moment, Old Man Shi also opened his eyes and said, "Baba, I'm going too."
The consumptive ghost next to him: "Ahem, ahem, if you take me with you, I might be able to provide some information about the laboratory."
Jiang He was originally alone, but now he has become a team of four.
She took a few steps and subconsciously reached out to touch her lower abdomen.
The consumptive ghost glanced at her behavior, silently took a few quick steps, and followed her side, squeezing Yao Leng and Old Man Shi behind him. He said to Jiang He, "The laboratory is not under the jurisdiction of the training camp. Even the warden has to seek permission from the people inside before entering the laboratory."
Jiang He: "Mr. Chen?"
Consumptive: "Yes, although only the laboratory is under the charge of Mr. Chen, but as long as Mr. Chen needs it, Captain Xiao and the warden have to cooperate with him. It can be said that Mr. Chen is the real person in charge of the entire training camp."
Jiang He: "Have you seen him? Is he an alien or a deformed person?"
"Neither." The consumptive man answered very calmly: "I have never been to the laboratory either."
But he knew so much, how could he not have been to the laboratory?
"I have the ability to peer into people's minds." The consumptive ghost glanced at the warden's head in Yao Leng's hand. "The conditions for peering into people's minds are very harsh. Coincidentally, when you killed the warden, I was able to spy on some of her thoughts."
This ability was too special and too terrifying. Yao Leng asked him, "Are you spying on the living or the dead?"
"A dying person." The consumptive ghost said, "A dying person with intense emotional fluctuations, whose head just happened to be chopped off. Level five or above..."
Most people in the training camp cannot reach level five or above.
Although this ability is very powerful, given the consumptive ghost's physical strength of 0, this ability is equivalent to waste to him.
Yao Leng breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang He continued to ask the consumptive ghost, "What did you spy on?"
Consumptive: "You asked her about the lab. Her mind was full of information about the lab."
That is, there is no information about tentacles.
Jiang He couldn't tell whether she was disappointed or relieved. She continued to ask, "Is there any more information about Mr. Chen?"
"Yes, Mr. Chen's original surname was not Chen. He was from the royal family."
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