Free Web NovelChapter 107: Chapter 107: His Talent Skill
The Prison Director’s lounge wasn’t hard to find. He Hanshi found it two minutes later.
He opened the lock with Shi Lan’s fingerprint. The room carried the warm air of a young woman, filled with the faint scent of roses.
He Hanshi didn’t let his eyes wander around her room. He found her bed and quickly laid her down.
While the Treatment Pods of the interstellar era could heal most injuries, they were mainly for external wounds. Internal illnesses, as well as common ailments like colds and fevers, still required a regular doctor.
This was why regular doctors had never been phased out in this world.
Of course, while the Beastification of a Beastman carried the side effect of spiritual power collapse, its benefit was near-immunity to other diseases. He Hanshi had only learned about things like fevers from a course on females; neither he nor the other males in his unit had ever had one.
Fever-reducing medicine was an option, but He Hanshi had no way to purchase anything. Even if he could, delivery would take time.
Furthermore, pharmaceuticals had to be signed for by the recipient in person and couldn’t be bought by a third party, making it easier to trace any future issues. freewēbnoveℓ.com
Left with no other choice, He Hanshi could only resort to physical methods to bring down her fever.
The course on females that interstellar males were required to take now came in handy. He Hanshi recalled the textbook mentioning some conventional treatments for fever.
He gave Shi Lan’s room a quick scan, his gaze sharpening slightly before he headed into her bathroom.
A piece of Shi Lan’s lingerie was still hanging on a rack in the bathroom, and He Hanshi saw it the moment he entered. It was pinkish-purple with a heart-shaped design in the center. It wasn’t hard to imagine what an alluring sight it would be when worn...
In an instant, a distinct blush spread across his flawless, ivory-white face, and his usually pale pink lips suddenly deepened in color.
He Hanshi’s thick, dark lashes fluttered downward. His throat felt inexplicably tight. Not daring to look any longer, he ducked his head and grabbed a nearby towel.
He rinsed the towel clean and soaked it in cold water, keeping his head down the entire time as he left the bathroom.
Once outside, He Hanshi felt Shi Lan’s forehead. Her temperature seemed even higher. A simple cold compress wouldn’t be enough.
He placed the cold towel on her forehead for the time being, then left Shi Lan’s quarters.
After he stepped out, the patrol robots outside repeatedly swept over his body with their scanners. He Hanshi looked at these giant weaponized robots and the high-voltage cage in the sky—seemingly calm but secretly packing millions of volts—and a flicker of irony crossed his eyes.
’The Empire really has no intention of letting us leave this planet safely. If our spiritual power collapse values were still in the high-risk range, leaving the detention area would just make us a collective target for these robots. The Empire would rather see us dead than let us run free and cause destruction.’
’But these robots are all brawn and no brains. Their sole attack trigger is a high spiritual power collapse value—and that’s not me anymore.’
But in his anxious state, he’d forgotten something else rather important.
Cell Block One...
The prison’s butler robots primarily monitored people. Unlike the weaponized robots with their simple spiritual power collapse value scans, these were more logical and intelligent.
Normally, an alarm would trigger if it didn’t detect them within two minutes, and it had been much longer than that. He figured Jiang Xia must have frozen the robot in time.
However, Jiang Xia’s spiritual power collapse value hadn’t dropped yet, so his Thousand Miles Ice Seal wouldn’t last long.
He Hanshi’s brow furrowed. Gliding past the robot that was still scanning him fruitlessly, he had no choice but to head back toward the prison for the time being.
First, he made a trip to the Prison Director’s office.
As one of the first inmates here, he knew that when Black Ming Star Prison was founded, the Prison Director’s personal access wasn’t the only way in. He remembered there was also a pass that could open the prison. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Having been here for over half a year, Shi Lan had rearranged the Prison Director’s office into a workstation that suited her tastes. On the desk sat a somewhat retro, emerald-green vase adorned with a few mushroom stickers, giving it an oddly charming, if mismatched, look.
He Hanshi recognized the mushrooms on the stickers at a glance—they were the prototype for her spirit body. An inexplicable smile touched his eyes, but time was short, so he didn’t linger.
He didn’t rummage through the office. Instead, he directly addressed the butler robot inside.
"Bring me the prison pass."
As far as the office butler robot was concerned, no one besides the prison’s creators knew about the pass.
Thus, when He Hanshi issued the concise command, the robot registered his unfamiliar face with only a flicker of confusion. Its programming deemed him a safe individual, so it quickly retrieved the well-preserved pass from an internal storage compartment.
A faint smile touched the corners of He Hanshi’s lips as he accepted it.
He proceeded unimpeded to the prison’s detention area. But when the main gate opened, he didn’t step inside directly. Instead, his eyes glinted, his body pulsed with a faint white halo, and an identical copy of himself appeared beside him.
This was his Talent Ability: Doppelganger.
When the detention area’s main gate rumbled open, the four remaining men in the prison instinctively looked toward the entrance.
They knew it couldn’t be Shi Lan, given her fever, but a trace of disappointment still flickered in their eyes when they saw who had arrived.
Seeing He Hanshi, Mu Tangfeng immediately asked with concern, "Vice Admiral He, how is Lanlan? Why are you back so soon?"
He Hanshi’s double glanced at him. "Relax. My original self is taking care of her. I’m his doppelganger."
Mu Tangfeng knew better than anyone else in the prison what He Hanshi’s Talent Skill was. Back when he had single-handedly fought a thousand members of the Insect Clan, outsiders might have mistaken it for sheer speed, but in reality, there had been more than one White Lion weaving through their ranks.
At these words, he secretly sighed in relief, though he couldn’t help but envy Vice Admiral He for getting to personally care for Lanlan.
But he was also grateful. With his Doppelganger Talent Skill, He Hanshi could handle matters both inside and outside the prison simultaneously.
He Hanshi’s double returned to Cell Block One. The door wasn’t fully closed. Seeing the frozen robot in the room, he said, "Thank you, Young Master Jiang."
Jiang Xia, a bit embarrassed, rubbed his face with a handful of snow. "Vice Admiral He, no need to be formal. I did it for Lanlan, too."
"Besides, we’re all beasts in the same predicament. We should at least have that much of an understanding."
He Hanshi’s double gave a faint "Mm," and said, "You can put away your Talent Skill for now."
"Okay."
Jiang Xia nodded and said no more.
This was his first time seeing Vice Admiral He’s Doppelganger Talent. For some reason, he felt the double’s personality was much colder than the original’s.
He Hanshi’s double looked at the robot inside the cell. To keep it from being a nuisance, he simply dismantled it piece by piece, then silently leaned against the wall by the bed and closed his eyes to rest.
Meanwhile, He Hanshi went to the kitchen.
The kitchen robot was still busy, with various cuts of meat laid out on the counter. He gave them a cursory glance before heading directly to the ice-making room to get some ice cubes. He also took the time to make some congee, which he put into a thermal container before returning to Shi Lan’s quarters.
