The Crazed Little Darling: Pampered by the Possesive Commander!-Chapter 289: Where Were You When Ruan Ruan Was in Trouble?
The speculation was both novel and shocking to the three present; they had no idea that the understanding of the same thing could differ so greatly between humans and the Insect Race.
"That’s my guess, what do you think?" Su Ruan asked for the opinions of the three people.
The three fell silent simultaneously.
After a full minute, Lu Shinian was the first to speak, "Ruan Ruan’s speculation makes sense."
Cheng Qingye followed up, "No wonder these two stones are waste stones."
Su Heyuan, who was standing beside, adjusted his glasses perched on the bridge of his nose and asked, "Little sister, can you see and extract that black mist?"
At this point, Su Ruan’s unique spiritual power needed no further explaining.
She did not conceal anymore, nodded and said, "I can see it."
"But saying ’extract’ is not quite correct."
"I think I might have absorbed the black mist, that is, what Third Brother said about consuming the energy from the Energy Stone."
"I discovered this unintentionally before; my spiritual power slowly started to increase after absorbing this black mist."
’Increase’ is not exact either; accurately speaking, it’s slowly recovering.
"I see." Su Heyuan murmured softly, "No wonder your spiritual power is slowly recovering, little sister."
It’s not just because she left Muhe Star, but also due to her absorption of energy.
"Then, little sister, can you absorb the energy from the Pure Energy Stone?" Su Heyuan asked again.
Su Ruan nodded, "I can."
"But absorbing the energy from the Pure Energy Stone only helps relieve the fatigue brought by excessive use of spiritual power, it cannot make my spiritual power grow."
Su Heyuan nodded thoughtfully.
"Then you’ve inherited the use of Energy Stones from both humans and the Insect Race, little sister."
It truly is magical.
Su Heyuan couldn’t help but marvel in his mind.
Humans and the Insect Race have fought for so many years, yet it turns out they’ve been fighting over not-the-same thing.
"If there were tools to extract the black mist from Energy Stones, would the Insect Race stop invading human planets?"
Su Ruan looked toward Cheng Qingye and asked.
Cheng Qingye nodded faintly, "The Insect Race isn’t originally interested in human planets."
"They’re just too hungry."
The instinct to survive is present in all creatures, and the Insect Race is no exception.
After confirming this, Su Ruan excitedly turned to Lu Shinian, grabbed his wrist, and exclaimed, "We might not have to fight wars anymore in the future!"
If such instruments can be developed, humans and the Insect Race might live peacefully together.
Wars would no longer happen.
Moreover, humans wouldn’t have to worry about the Ancestral Stage anymore.
Lu Shinian understood Su Ruan’s excitement, he held her little hand, and with eyes full of tenderness, replied, "Mm, everything will be as Ruan Ruan hopes."
Su Ruan nodded heavily then looked at Su Heyuan sitting beside, "Second Brother, didn’t you say the Divine Revelation Society’s lab is here? Don’t they have some magical instruments? Can we go take a look?"
"Sure." Su Heyuan nodded, "Now?"
"Now!" Su Ruan quickly replied, and then turned and asked, "Third Brother, are you coming?"
Cheng Qingye shook his head, "I’m not going."
"Then, Third Brother, have a good rest." Su Ruan said, as she took Lu Shinian to get up, preparing to go to the Divine Revelation Society’s lab with her Second Brother.
At this moment, Cheng Qingye suddenly spoke, "Lu Shinian."
Lu Shinian looked up at him.
"Let’s talk." Cheng Qingye said again.
Su Ruan looked at her Third Brother, then at Lu Shinian, decisively let go, patted Lu Shinian’s back, and smiled sweetly, "Brother Lu, you two have a chat."
"I’ll go see the lab with Second Brother."
Lu Shinian looked down at his empty hands, with his eyes slightly flickering, not knowing what he was thinking.
Su Ruan and Su Heyuan quickly left, leaving Cheng Qingye and Lu Shinian alone in the large living room. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
"Sit down and chat?" Cheng Qingye was the first to speak.
Lu Shinian sat back down, leaned against the sofa, lowered his gaze, and his expression bore a hint of coldness.
"Talk about what?" he asked.
"Talk about little sister." Cheng Qingye’s expression was indifferent, he rarely showed emotions, or perhaps he inherently had very little emotion.
"Since you brought this up on your own." Lu Shinian slowly raised his gaze, an intangible aura surged toward Cheng Qingye from him, "Then tell me, when Ruan Ruan had an accident, where were you?"
"I was in the Insect Domain." Cheng Qingye was honest, "I didn’t know that little sister was in danger at the time."
"Didn’t know?" Lu Shinian’s presence was imposing, "Didn’t know or did you standby idly?"
Cheng Qingye slightly frowned, that otherworldly beautiful face flashed an expression of incomprehension, "Why do you think so?"
"Ruan Ruan is my sister, how could I standby idly and watch?"
"If I had indeed watched idly, I wouldn’t have used the one-time Time Space Reversal on her."
"I was indeed in the Insect Domain at that time."
"My father and mother had gone to the Empire to find a way for little sister to live like a normal person."
"Those Empire people were restless, unable to deal with Exotic Beasts, they tried to divert trouble toward my Insect Race. I spent quite a bit of effort cleaning up those Empire people."
Lu Shinian’s eyes darkened, his voice deep.
"The Empire?"
"You forgot you didn’t know about this." Cheng Qingye rarely explained, "Beyond the Insect Domain, there lives another human race, they call themselves the Empire."
"Unlike your kind, where Your Majesty is merely symbolic with the Four Great Armies balancing each other and merit above all, the Empire is hereditary, emphasizing lineage inheritance. I don’t know much about this."
Lu Shinian was hearing for the first time about another human race’s existence.
But...
"This isn’t important." he said heavily.
He had no interest in any so-called Empire; he was only focused on another more crucial question.
"When Ruan Ruan had an accident, what was I doing?"
Why wasn’t he by Ruan Ruan’s side? What was he doing at that time?
Cheng Qingye shook his head, "I don’t know."
"If you want to know this, why not ask little sister directly."
"She should have memories about this."
Lu Shinian would never ask Su Ruan; he didn’t even dare to mention to her that he knew she had an accident.
He couldn’t forgive himself for not knowing what he was doing, and he also didn’t dare to glimpse her pain and despair at that time.
Just thinking about it was enough to stir the ferocious rage inside him.
"I won’t ask her." Lu Shinian crossed his hands, rested them on his legs, his body slightly hunched, head lowered, not looking at Cheng Qingye, only repeating, "I could never ask her."
Cheng Qingye could not comprehend human thoughts, nor could he understand Lu Shinian’s thoughts.
"Then don’t ask."
"Asking me won’t help either."
"However..."
