The official Gold Medal organization quickly issued an announcement, declaring that the contracted beasts were not for sale.
Xie Sen was relieved to see this, and said goodbye to the contracted beasts and left the feeding area. At the gate of the gold medal, the four of them parted ways again. Bai Jiao went home alone, Long Teng went to find his grandfather, and went with Xie Sen and Maine.
Xie Sen and Maine returned to the apartment and went straight to their bedrooms to take a shower and change clothes.
Xie Sen changed into a loose T-shirt and knee-length wide-leg pants. After drying his hair, he went straight to the kitchen, made potato stew and meat, and also cut half a watermelon and placed it on a plate.
The two of them had a sumptuous lunch together, and Maine took the initiative to wash the dishes.
Xie Sen was sitting on the sofa preparing to check the news when he entered the Star Network. With a chirp, Tuan Tuan flew in from the window.
It landed directly on the coffee table, stretched out its short wings and pointed at Xie Sen, one of its claws kept lifting and pressing down on the table, and it kept chirping in its mouth. Its tone was very angry, but it was young and its voice was very crisp, so Xie Sen did not feel any anger.
Xie Sen watched for a while before realizing that it was stomping its feet like a human when angry.
"Haha," he couldn't help laughing. After a little thought, he roughly understood why it was angry. He stood up and took out a large piece of melon rind from the refrigerator and placed it flat on his hand. "Sorry, we have to go into the forest for something. I promise, I will tell you in advance next time I go out."
"Chirp!" Tuantuan stomped his little paws again, his eyes fixed on the melon rind, not moving.
Xie Sen thought that the little thing was quite vindictive, so he lowered his voice and said, "You were not there when we set out, so I forgot to tell you. It's my fault. I will definitely tell you in advance next time."
He didn't know why Tuantuan attacked Star City with Maine in the book. He could only guess that it was because he grew up with Maine and was taught to hate humans. Now Maine was different, and its living environment was different, so he was not too worried.
He let Tuantuan run free, and Tuantuan didn't need his care. It could get its own food, and he only needed to give it some snacks.
"Chiu." Tuan Tuan called out crisply. It seemed that seeing that he had a good attitude in admitting his mistake, it flapped its wings, landed on the melon rind in his hand, lowered its head and started eating.
Xie Sen put the melon rind on the coffee table. Tuan Tuan did not move at all, standing steadily on the melon rind the whole time and was moved along with it.
Maine came out of the kitchen, stood behind the sofa, put his hand on Xie Sen's shoulder, glanced at Tuan Tuan calmly, and then looked away: "Do you want to take a nap?"
Xie Sen nodded: "I'll go after watching the news for a while."
After Chi's energy is recovered, he will be out of control every twelve hours after waking up. He woke up at five o'clock this morning. If he doesn't rest, it will be very dangerous if something urgent happens in the afternoon.
He clicked on the news. Maine stood behind him, bending over and watching with him. The top few news items were almost all about contracted beasts.
One of them stood out: "The most powerful league champions in history! They entered and exited the dangerous forest zone unscathed, and brought back a large number of high-level contracted beasts. What are their identities?"
Xie Sen didn’t think much of it at first, but when he saw this title he suddenly thought, what’s going on with them seeming so awesome?
He clicked on it and saw a few pictures at the top. One was a photo of the four of them entering the forest and sitting on the aircraft when passing the checkpoint. The following were photos of them returning. Except for one photo of the four of them, the rest of the photos had contracted beasts in them, and they were very conspicuous.
The photos were accompanied by exaggerated text that praised them, followed by a detailed revelation of the family backgrounds of the four people.
"Do you think these four amazing people are just ordinary recent graduates? No, after investigation, each of them has a great background!"
"Maine, the illegitimate son of the Kos family and the master of an A-rank giant lion beast, was publicly disowned by the Kos family. However, right after the announcement, Maine made a big splash. I don't know if he wanted to prove his strength and make the Kos family change their minds. I also don't know if the Kos family regretted making the decision to sever ties."
Seeing this, Xie Sen heard Maine make a "tsk" sound with a strong sense of sarcasm.
"Bai Jiao, born into the Bai family of medicine, is the owner of a B-level female contracted beast. She ranked first in her professional courses for three consecutive years in college. Her strength should not be underestimated. However, she was rejected by others because she was a female and her contracted beast was too high. Now it seems that perhaps the strong simply disdain to play with ordinary people."
"Long Teng, born into the business tycoon Long family, is the owner of an S-class flying dragon beast. He has always been low-key. If it weren't for the uproar over the contracted beast, his identity would probably not have been exposed. His combat power is off the charts, and he is a famous battle maniac at Star City University."
"Xie Sen, the adopted son of the Xie family, an orphan, has the most inconspicuous identity. However, according to multiple investigations, he is very unusual. He is the owner of a plant-type contracted beast that has not appeared in many years. He has a very strong affinity. It is speculated that this contracted beast incident may have a great relationship with him."
After reading it, Xie Sen couldn't help but sigh: "Are these journalists all detectives?"
Maine looked at him: "Don't like these reports?"
Xie Sen shook his head: "Not really. Such a big commotion would definitely not go unreported. It's just that it would be very troublesome if someone recognized me when I go out or work."
He was used to being an ordinary person and was not used to being noticed. He felt very uncomfortable just thinking that he might be recognized at any time.
Maine thought for a moment and patted his shoulder: "Go and rest first."
Xie Sen nodded and stood up, thinking for a moment: "I have to go to work tomorrow. I will go to the Botanical Research Institute in the afternoon. What are your plans?"
It has to be said that when he met Li You, he was greatly shocked by the fact that Li You valued plants even more than his own life.
He felt that he should change his attitude towards plants. Although he had always known that plants on Brandt Star were rare, he had never really taken them seriously.
According to Adam, different energies in the system correspond to plants of different colors. Now that the red energy has been recovered, the red plants in the system should be able to be planted.
He planned to personally deliver the pepper seeds to the Botanical Research Institute so that peppers could be mass-produced, increasing the variety of vegetables on Brandt Star. At the same time, it would also be convenient for him to eat peppers in the future.
If the plants in the system were not used for attack but just for eating, pepper would be the most energy-consuming of the three plants he currently has activated.
A red pepper is not big in size. If you really want to stir-fry a dish with peppers, the spiciness must not be too high. At least a dozen peppers are needed to make a dish.
This is equivalent to spending more than ten kilocalories on a plate of chili peppers, which he simply cannot bear to do, considering that on average he can only get more than twenty kilocalories a day.
Maine made a direct decision: "I'll go with you."
After taking a nap, the two went directly to the Botanical Research Institute. In order to avoid being stopped at the door, Xie Sen contacted Dean Ma on the way. Dean Ma was surprised and delighted and extended a warm welcome to him.
As soon as the shuttle flew over, Li You, who was wearing a white uniform, came to greet us. A smile appeared on his dark face: "Welcome, welcome."
Xie Sen sighed: "Is your research institute so busy? Did you come to work directly after coming out of the forest?"
Li You smiled and said, "I was impatient. The plant I picked is a tomato, which is rich in vitamins. I want to study it as soon as possible and hope to grow it successfully." He took the two of them to the institute and explained, "President Ma is in the research room. He originally wanted to come and pick you up in person."
Xie Sen quickly said, "You're too polite. I'd be embarrassed if I caused you any trouble."
"No," Li You smiled, "Dean Ma was very excited. He said he invited you several times, but you refused."
As Li You spoke, he led them through the three buildings in the front row of the research institute and came to an endless flat land composed of pieces of land. There was a house in the front of each piece of land.
Li You pointed at the houses as he walked and introduced them to him: "These are all research laboratories. Different plants are cultivated in each piece of land." He pointed to the far right, "Over there are Chinese cabbage and potatoes, which are the vegetables with the highest yield and the most stable growth at present."
After a while, they arrived at the door of a research room. Li You scanned his fingerprint, and the door opened. He stepped aside and said, "President Ma is inside."
Xie Sen followed Li You in and saw various instruments placed everywhere in the laboratory. There were many transparent boxes on the wall. There was soil at the bottom of the boxes and LED screens outside the boxes with various numerical displays. He only understood the temperature and humidity.
He roughly understood that these boxes were probably all incubators, and the environments inside were different, so they could be used to research the best cultivation method.
Sure enough, Li You explained to them the purpose of these boxes, which was exactly what he thought.
Following Li You into the inner room, Xie Sen saw a tall and thin man who was adjusting the values of an incubator. He had a calm expression and focused eyes. He adjusted the values carefully before turning his head to look at them.
His eyes fell directly on Xie Sen, his gaze was filled with burning heat, he took a few steps forward, extended his hand, and said straight to the point: "Welcome, you took the initiative to come to the institute, I guess there must be something important?"
Xie Sen shook hands with him, took out a whole pepper that he had exchanged and placed it in his palm: "I'm here to give you pepper seeds, and I also want to discuss cooperation with your research institute."
Ma Qun looked at the pepper seeds and sighed, "We tried every method last time, but we couldn't get it to germinate. We can't plant it."
Xie Sen said: "Now we can plant."
Hearing his affirmative tone, Ma Qun couldn't help but look at La Jiao: "Is there anything different?"
"It's indeed different," Xie Sen said. He couldn't explain it in detail, so he just vaguely said, "I'm sure it can be planted. How about we talk about cooperation?"
Dean Ma: "Okay."
Xie Sen said directly: "I know that the vegetables you grow will be sold to takeaway customers in cooperation with Fuyou Supermarket. I hope that I can get a share of the profits from the peppers you grow, and you can also give me some as gifts every month."
Ma Qun pondered for a moment and said, "Your request is reasonable, but pepper cultivation takes time. If the cultivation goes well, the first few batches of finished products will not be sold, but only kept for seeds so that they can be widely planted. So in the short term, I probably can't give you anything in return."
He paused and suggested, "How about the institute giving you a bonus directly? This is also a method we often use. We will reward discoverers of new species to promote the development of plant research."
He smiled and said, "Even if the training fails in the end, the bonus will not be taken back."
Xie Sen shook his head: "No reward money."
The plants exchanged by the system were easy to grow, and the fruit quality was very good. He had grown peppers in the last days, and was very familiar with the growth cycle of peppers. From cultivation to fruiting, it only took more than two months, and then the process of alternating flowering and fruiting, and the large-scale production of fruits, could last for about two more months.
With the professional equipment of the institute, it is equivalent to greenhouse cultivation. There is no seasonal limitation and there is output all year round. In this way, the peppers can be sold to the outside world.
Ma Qun smiled and said, "It seems you are very confident."
Xie Sen nodded: "Yes, I only provide seeds, I probably can't help with the rest, I just want a 10% dividend of the profits, and the same if there are other plants in the future, can you accept it?"
Ma Qun asked: "How much is the gift?"
After thinking about it, Xie Sen said, "In the beginning, the amount will be small, so you can do it as you like. After one year at the latest, it will be fixed at 10 kilograms per month."
"Ten pounds?" Ma Qun was surprised. You know, peppers are different from potatoes and cabbages. They are very light individually, so ten pounds is not a small amount.
Xie Sen smiled: "Believe me, it's not difficult."
Ma Qun looked at his expression and said with a smile: "You are so sure that I almost doubt whether you have planted it before. I have to say, I am looking forward to it."
Xie Sen also laughed: "Dean Ma, don't forget that I'm from the Department of Plants. I know the growth cycle of peppers."
Ma Qun pondered for a moment and nodded: "Okay, I agree to your proposal." As he spoke, he drafted the contract quickly. After Xie Sen confirmed that it was correct, both parties entered their fingerprints.
Xie Sen gave the pepper to Ma Qun, who took it cautiously.
Xie Sen looked at the remaining 130 energies and thought about it. After taking back the red energy, his current demand for energy was not urgent, so he simply exchanged ten more at once, so that the number of seeds in the first batch would be a lot.
He turned his pinky ring, pretending to take it out of his backpack, and handed the ten peppers back to the horses.
Ma Qun took it with surprise, and couldn't contain his excitement: "I'll go breed right away."
Xie Sen recalled the scene when he was planting peppers: "The temperature for seed cultivation should not be too low, 20 to 30 degrees is about right."
Ma Qun looked at him and couldn't help but invite him again: "Come to work at the research institute. You are a plant beast master and have solid professional knowledge. This is the most suitable place for you."
Xie Sen thought, no matter how good it is, there is no way to collect energy.
He shook his head: "Thank you, I am very satisfied with my current job and I like it very much. I don't want to change jobs for the time being."
Ma Qun sighed in disappointment: "I still say that, if you change your mind, the institute welcomes you at any time."
"Okay." Xie Sen smiled, then said goodbye and left.
After he left, Ma Qun and Li You immediately went to the research laboratory next door and started cultivating pepper seeds.
On the way back, Xie Sen remembered that the meat in the refrigerator was almost finished, so they went to the supermarket to buy some more meat before returning to the apartment.
After Maine returned to the apartment, he received a message. He took a look and said to Xie Sen, "I'm going back to the bedroom to deal with some things. Call me if you need anything."
Xie Sen nodded, put the meat in the refrigerator, and sat on the sofa to rest for a while. He felt extremely bored having nothing to do for a while, so he thought for a while and called Adam.
After hearing Adan's response, he asked directly: "Do you feel the rest of the energy?"
Adan said in a frustrated voice: "No, I can't feel it. It's very likely not on Brant. The energy I have now is not enough to sense the energy of aliens."
Xie Sen comforted him, "It's okay. It will only be out of control for twelve hours now. It's quite safe."
"No," A'dan said excitedly, "If your soul is unstable for a long time, your body will have problems. You must gather enough energy as soon as possible."
Xie Sen was puzzled: "I have already taken back the red energy. Didn't you say that my body will get better every time I take back a kind of energy?"
"That's right, but...if you're always short of the five types of energy, you'll have big problems after a year. With one more type of energy, your stability period will be extended by half a year. You've been here for more than a month. If you don't recover the second type of energy within one year and five months, your uncontrolled time will start to become unstable, and then, and then..."
Adam's voice became lower and lower, and he did not finish his words, but Xie Sen already knew what he was going to say next.
He jumped up: "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I was afraid that you would be scared. I thought that I just needed to keep encouraging you to collect energy. Nothing would happen anyway. But now you are just muddling along and you are not even active in collecting energy. I feel that if I keep it from you, something might really happen."
Xie Sen stood for a while, then sat down again. Indeed, he breathed a sigh of relief the moment he took back the red energy. It was too easy to sleep every twelve hours. As long as he paid attention, it would basically not affect his life.
So he was less motivated to take back the rest of the energy.
He collapsed on the sofa: "What should we do now? You can't feel the energy. Do we have to go to other planets one by one to try?"
"No need," said Adam, "There are too many planets here. It's too late to try them all. We just need to increase our energy."
It raised its voice, full of encouragement, as if the head teacher of a senior high school graduating class was encouraging his students: "Asen, keep collecting energy and activate the fourth plant, then I will be able to feel the alien energy."
"You are the best. You can do it. You are collecting energy much faster than before. Your ability is beyond my imagination. You..."
"Alright," Xie Sen interrupted his flattery, "I will work hard. Don't worry, I won't slack off. You should take good care of yourself."
"Asen is awesome, I like him the most." Adam praised again before falling into a deep sleep to accumulate energy.
Xie Sen opened the system panel. The number below the blank page on the fourth page of the green-covered hard book was 132/400, which meant that 268 energy points were needed to activate the fourth plant. At the rate he was collecting energy now, it would take half a month to activate it.
He felt relieved instantly. After activating the plant, Adam could sense the energy. In more than a year, he would definitely be able to find and recover the next kind of energy!
"Chirp!" He had just turned off the system when he heard a group of cheerful calls from behind him. He turned around with a smile.
The next moment, his smile froze at the corners of his mouth. The ball hovered very close to him, flapping its wings and blinking its round eyes happily, looking very cute.
But! In its claws was a long, thin striped snake, which was still twisting. When he turned his head, he almost touched it.
“Ahhh…” Xie Sen suddenly felt as if his scalp was exploding. He suddenly jumped up from the sofa, screaming uncontrollably and running away from the sofa.
He was most afraid of this kind of mollusk, especially this snake which looked very poisonous. He instantly got goosebumps all over his body.
"Chirp, chirp~" Tuantuan was confused by his reaction and flew towards him worriedly.
“Ahhh…” Xie Sen’s voice was trembling. He saw Maine striding out of the bedroom out of the corner of his eye. Without thinking, he ran towards Maine, grabbed Maine’s clothes and hid behind him.
"Quick, get it away."
"Chi~" Tuantuan tilted his head.
Maine grabbed Xie Sen's wrist with his backhand and looked at Tuan Tuan coldly: "Throw it away. If you dare to bring something like this back again, you won't have to come back."
Tuan Tuan blinked and realized why Xie Sen reacted like that. He shook his paw in confusion. What was there to be afraid of?
Arsen is really timid.
Originally, it wanted to let Arsen taste some delicious food, but it flapped its wings in disappointment and flew out of the apartment with the snake.
"Okay," Maine squeezed Xie Sen's hand, "Are you so scared?"
Xie Sen could no longer see Tuan Tuan and the snake, and he relaxed. He looked at Maine's calm expression, and thinking about his reaction just now, he couldn't help but blush, feeling so embarrassed.
"No, not really," Xie Sen let go of his clothes and laughed dryly, "I just turned my head and saw something and got scared."
A hint of smile flashed across Maine's eyes. Xie Sen changed the subject abruptly and glanced towards his bedroom: "What were you doing just now?"
Maine directly opened the bracelet and turned on the virtual screen to show him. Xie Sen read as he read: "Sanmu Software Information Company, Legal Representative: Maine..."
When he read this, he suddenly realized, isn’t Miki the same as Sen?
His heart couldn't help but start beating wildly and his face was getting hotter and hotter. This, this, this, other than this explanation, there should be no other explanation, right?
Maine said: "I prepared the information a few days ago. It was approved when I returned to the apartment. I just went to do the identity verification and the company was successfully established."
"Congratulations." Xie Sen hesitated whether to ask about the company's name.
Maine looked at him, suddenly put her arm around his waist, and gently twisted his right ear with her fingers: "Why is it so red?"
Xie Sen's body trembled slightly, and he suddenly covered his ears which turned even redder, and stepped back in fear, but Maine held him tightly and he couldn't retreat at all.
Xie Sen grabbed Maine's arm with his other hand and lamented, how could the sensitive point of this body be on the earlobe! Moreover, it was a little too sensitive. He actually went weak in the knees after just a touch.
"Let me go." He said with no strength in his voice.
Maine stared at him. His eyes were confused and flustered, and his white skin was stained red, making him look particularly want to be bullied.
Maine's eyes darkened gradually, he slowly lowered his head, and his hands uncontrollably pulled Xie Sen towards him. Their bodies were pressed tightly together, which was particularly ambiguous.
Xie Sen felt the changes in his body, and the scene of the two of them returning to the gold medal immediately emerged in his mind. He panicked instantly: "I, I, I, I, I'm going to make dinner."
"No hurry," Maine said hoarsely, "It's still early."
He rubbed Xie Sen unconsciously, frowned, and his pretty face showed an expression of discomfort and pleasure: "Asen, it's uncomfortable, touch me."
Xie Sen's legs suddenly became weaker. Seeing that he didn't move, Maine frowned even more tightly and whispered almost close to Xie Sen's mouth: "You said you wouldn't lie to me."
Xie Sen immediately felt his lips numb and itchy. He licked them subconsciously and touched Maine's lips at the same time.
Maine's eyes darkened instantly, and he touched Xie Sen's lips with his own, pulling Xie Sen closer to him with his hands, leaving no space between them.
Soon Maine was no longer satisfied with just touching him, and he began to bite Xie Sen's lips without any rules, as if they were a delicious cake.
"Hiss..." Xie Sen felt pain in the corner of his mouth from being bitten by him. He frowned, took a breath, and raised his hand to hit Maine's arm.
Maine loosened his grip a little, and Xie Sen panted, leaning against Maine with little strength.
Xie Sen felt extremely ashamed of his reaction. After thinking about it, he felt that there was only one explanation: his health was too poor because his energy was incomplete!
Maine rested his forehead against Xie Sen, and both of their breathing was extremely hot, as if they wanted to burn each other.
Xie Sen raised his eyes and met a pair of eyes that were deep and burning with flames. His heart trembled suddenly and he felt his chest burning.
Maine rubbed against him, anxious and uncomfortable: "Ashen, touch me, I feel so uncomfortable."
His delicate face was filled with passion, and he was so beautiful that he didn't seem to be a real person. Xie Sen seemed to be bewitched and uncontrollably reached out to touch the side of his face. With an idea in mind, he tiptoed and gently bit his left cheek.
A circle of shallow teeth marks immediately appeared on the beautiful skin. Xie Sen thought, it is indeed easy to bite, and then he licked it soothingly.
Maine's hand around his waist exerted uncontrollably force, and Xie Sen cried out in pain. He patted Maine's hand, "Be gentle, it's going to break."
Maine loosened his grip and looked at him fiercely, as if he wanted to swallow him whole: "If you touch me, I can't control it."
Xie Sen muttered: "It hasn't really touched me yet!"
Maine moved his waist and whispered in his ear: "You're also reacting, do you want me to touch you?"
Xie Sen gritted his teeth and decided not to wrong himself. After all, it was a happy thing that both parties agreed to. After thinking it through, he was no longer shy. He put his arm around Maine's neck and said, "Let's go to my room."
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