Free Web NovelChapter 50: Chapter 50: I Don’t Like Contact with Females
However, the thought of her spiritual power growing stronger was very tempting.
She had to provide the treatment, but Shi Lan found it hard to make up her mind. For one, she worried that entering the prison would trigger the collapse of their spiritual power. For another, the lords in the prison might not want her getting too close to them.
And when it came to methods of spiritual power soothing, both Basic Healing and Deep Healing were inseparable from the word "contact."
Shi Lan didn’t even dare to think about Deep Healing. That was something only a Beastman and his wife would do.
Doctors generally used Basic Healing. This method was quite effective for Beastmen whose spiritual power collapse wasn’t severe. It was similar to what Xiao Du had described: using spiritual power to absorb the toxins from the other person’s body in small, repeated doses until they returned to normal.
According to Xiao Du, what she needed to do now was Basic Healing, but it was still very difficult.
This was especially true for Mu Tangfeng and Jiang Xia. She’d heard from Jiang Yan that those two completely avoided women. Now that her relationship with the men had finally grown a bit more harmonious, Shi Lan was unwilling to disrupt that balance.
She fell into deep thought. After a long while, she stroked Xiao Du’s head and said, "I’ll have to trouble you for a little while longer. I’ll make a decision in a few days."
’I’ll test their attitudes and the state of their spiritual power first,’ she thought. ’If it’s particularly unstable, going into the prison wouldn’t just be pointless for treatment—it would be a suicide mission.’
Having decided on a plan, she set the matter aside for the time being.
「Meanwhile, at the Bai Family residence on the Capital Star.」
Mr. Bai sent a message: [How did it go? Is she taken care of?]
The other end was silent for a long time before an infuriated reply came through: [Damn it, you set me up! Didn’t you say this female had no backing and was just a useless female?] ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
Mr. Bai was silent for a moment. His investigation had indeed shown that, but something about the man’s words sounded off.
He carefully probed: [What’s wrong?]
But this time, there was no reply for a long time. After all, the man in the black trench coat was currently being cornered by the Jiang Family, the Mu Family, the Space-Time Battleship from the Capital, and Admiral Lu’s team.
He looked at the dense cluster of red dots tailing his Teleportation Spaceship on the locator, then glared at his wrist. Gritting his teeth, he took out a dagger, dug out his own identity chip, and crushed it. Ignoring the excruciating pain as blood streamed from his wrist, he quickly activated the Teleportation Spaceship’s dismemberment mode, piloting the front half to fall randomly toward a Deserted Star ahead.
The rear half of the Teleportation Spaceship careened wildly through space. Lu Dinfeng saw something was wrong up ahead and quickly halted the main fleet.
Before long, the Teleportation Spaceship began to spark and sizzle. Then came a violent roar as an explosion ripped through the silence of space, sending fragmented parts hurtling toward their ships.
"Disperse and retreat! Armored division, open fire!"
Lu Dinfeng gave the order just in time. Chunks of debris, each with the force of a cannonball, were blasted into fine dust by their attacks. The sound of cannon fire echoed continuously. Finally, the opposing forces cancelled each other out. Long, blinding streaks of light flashed across the void. The debris returned to a state of calm, drifting silently and alone through space, waiting to be collected by the space patrol.
Lu Dinfeng squinted into the distance. The person they were tracking had vanished, and the pursuit locator signal was completely gone.
"Split into teams and search the nearest few planets."
He made the decision decisively, refusing to believe the kidnapper had died so easily.
That evening during dinner, Shi Lan heard about the incident from a message sent by Lu Dinfeng. She hadn’t expected the man to be so cunning as to escape from so many pursuers. freēwēbnovel.com
But she also knew that Grandpa Lu and the others had certainly done their best, so she replied understandingly, [Thank you for your hard work. This person has S-rank spiritual power and has awakened a special Domain-type Talent Skill. He is indeed very tricky to deal with.]
Lu Dinfeng and his team were already aware of this. After all, during the two-day pursuit, the target’s location would occasionally vanish only to reappear somewhere else entirely.
Otherwise, with a force like theirs, it would have been impossible not to have caught him by now.
Lu Dinfeng sighed. [You’ve been through a lot, child. We will definitely bring this person to justice as soon as possible. For now, stay on Black Star. Comparatively speaking, the prison there is very secure.]
Shi Lan: [Okay.]
After they ended the chat, Shi Lan thought about the man in the black trench coat who had tried to capture her, and she was still deeply puzzled.
’Why? Was he really sent by the female lead?’
For some reason, the man who had bumped into her at the graduation ceremony on the Capital Star popped into her mind again. But it was for no reason at all; they were complete strangers. She couldn’t fathom his motive, and there was no memory of him in the original owner’s recollections either.
At this thought, Shi Lan sighed. She could only set the matter aside for now.
However, the escape of the man in the black trench coat was another wake-up call. No matter what, she had to increase the strength of her spiritual power to handle future threats more safely.
Shi Lan started thinking about Xiao Du’s suggestion from that morning again. She stroked her chin, looked at the freshly portioned meals, and decided to test the waters first.
After all, He Hanshi was the first person she wanted to heal. So, Shi Lan casually asked him, "By the way, Lord He, why is the degree of your spiritual power collapse so high?"
"Has a female never given you Basic Healing before?"
He Hanshi glanced at her and quickly shook his head. As if trying to prove something, he said rapidly, "I don’t like being in contact with other females. I haven’t even been touched by the medics on base."
"Huh? Not a single female?"
Shi Lan was astonished. She had learned from the Star Network that He Hanshi was already 37 years old. The average interstellar lifespan was 200, but because reproduction was difficult in this world—with females being especially rare and the practice of taking multiple Beast Husbands common—the typical marriage age for males was 25, in order to secure an heir sooner rather than later.
Comparatively, He Hanshi was considered an "old bachelor"!
’Not only a bachelor, but he won’t even let a female touch him...’
He Hanshi shook his head again. He looked at Shi Lan and noticed a strange look in her eyes, though he didn’t know what she was thinking. He added another explanation, "My spiritual power is too high, so I’m sensitive to healing from other females."
And because of that, the toxins in his body had continued to accumulate until they finally reached a breaking point.
"Oh, oh... I see..."
Shi Lan forced a smile. She understood what he meant. Not only did he dislike contact with females, but he was also sensitive to their healing. Wouldn’t his spiritual power just easily reject it then?
’Then there’s no way for me to even start...’
Shi Lan felt the problem was extremely tricky. She frowned and thought for a while, until her head started to ache.
He Hanshi looked at her with concern. "What’s wrong?"
Shi Lan snapped out of it and shook her head, taking a gift out of her Space Bag. "It’s nothing. I just remembered I bought you all some gifts from the Capital Star."
Shi Lan had never been in a relationship and didn’t know what to buy for men. The last time she was on the Capital Star, she went to a shop specializing in male products, and the clerk had recommended this.
She had looked at it; it was some kind of perfume, and it smelled quite nice.
Men’s cologne existed in modern times, so she didn’t think there was anything wrong with giving perfume to males now.
However, she had no idea that this perfume, named Jasmine, had a very different connotation. And she had bought a bottle for everyone in the prison.
