Chapter 342: The Male Zergs’ Psychic Conversation: Long Time No See, Uriel

Although this wasn’t an inspection or an official trip, since Ulysses had come to the Ninth Military Region, there were still many things he needed to handle, so he couldn’t truly relax.

He needed to meet with many officers, learn about the Ninth Military Region’s equipment research and defensive deployments, the military application of Psychic Soothing instruments, and the progress of the psychic cooperation and exchanges with the Tianjia, which the Ninth Military Region was primarily responsible for...

Before leaving, Ulysses called Xi’an over to keep An Ruo company and act as his guide. An author and a protagonist would naturally be a little closer, and with two “Male Zergs” together, they would probably have more common ground.

Of course, if An Ruo didn’t want to go out and look around, he could stay in the villa and play games with Xi’an, or chase Xi’an away and stay by himself.

An Ruo really did have the urge to spend some time alone, but then he remembered that this was the Ninth Military Region, and Eugene was also working here as a military doctor, so he became very curious about how official military-region Psychic Soothing specialists worked.

A Male Zerg like him, who worked in a Military Region Prison, naturally counted as “unofficial.”

Though calling it unofficial wasn’t quite right either. After all, his work had official and legal recognition. It was just fundamentally different from Male Zerg military doctors who had passed the exams and entered a Military Region through the standard route.

Xi’an knew both of his identities, and he knew even better what kind of accomplishments this lord had achieved in the field of Psychic Soothing, so he wasn’t surprised at all that An Ruo was curious. He immediately offered to take him to the military hospital.

If the military hospital could receive guidance from this lord, they would benefit endlessly from it.

In the hearts of military doctors, this lord’s status was no different from that of a god.

This was the miraculous doctor who had developed a method of group Psychic Soothing and single-handedly raised the overall psychic values of the Federation’s Female Zerg population by several percentage points. It wouldn’t even be an exaggeration to say that he had solved the centuries-old problem of military Female Zerg psychic riots.

However, this lord kept his two identities very clearly separated. Xi’an could tell that as well, so he would never mention the other identity in front of outsiders.

It was just a pity that the Male Zerg military doctors at the military hospital couldn’t recognize the idol they worshiped like a god when they actually saw him.

“An-shen!”

Xi’an quickly discovered that his expectations had been wrong.

When the Male Zergs at the military hospital heard that An-shen was coming, they were so excited they nearly fainted. Once they actually saw An-shen, their excited shrieks almost triggered the hospital’s alarm system.

All right.

This “An-shen” was also “An-shen.”

“An-shen! Oh my god, it’s really An-shen! A living An-shen!”

“An-shen, I love your books so much! Can you sign something for me? Major Xi’an is here too, perfect, sign the same book for both of us! The Instructor one! That’s my favorite.”

“I like the one where a Female Zerg turns into a Male Zerg...”

“What Female-to-Male transformation??? Isn’t it the Male-disguised-as-Female one? Fuck! A transformation novel! I missed another five yuan’s worth of content!”

“What, what? Stop squeezing! I want a photo with An-shen!”

The Male Zergs in doctor uniforms crowded together around An-shen, every one of them overflowing with excitement, talking over each other as they eagerly hoped to get An-shen’s autograph or a photo with him.

Even Xi’an was squeezed out of the crowd.

He could only watch as these Male Zergs completely abandoned their usual arrogant, composed, or thoroughly work-weary demeanors and clustered around An-shen, chattering nonstop. They looked even more excited than the Female Zergs standing nearby.

Military Female Zergs at least understood the need to restrain themselves.

Male Zergs had no need to restrain themselves and openly expressed their affection.

The military Female Zergs standing guard nearby watched with intense envy.

This was also An Ruo’s first time facing so many enthusiastic Male Zerg fans at once.

He signed autographs for them one by one and cooperated for a group photo before he finally managed to coax them into calming down a little.

It wouldn’t be appropriate to keep standing around in the lobby, so An Ruo said that he wanted to see their working environment.

The Male Zergs were all extremely enthusiastic and began inviting An-shen to visit their treatment rooms.

The closest treatment room belonged to Eugene. He wasn’t there, so An Ruo followed the Male Zergs into the room next door.

Pure-white tables and chairs, adjustable medical chairs, and hospital beds.

The overall layout wasn’t much different from the hospitals An Ruo knew, except that different Male Zergs added decorations according to their own personalities and preferences.

For example, the desk in this treatment room was covered with fruit, snacks, novels, and all kinds of small merchandise and toys, neatly lined up in a row.

Seeing An-shen looking at the things on his desk, the Male Zerg doctor became a little embarrassed and explained, “These are very important! Keeping a Male Zerg in a good mood helps with treatment.”

The other Male Zergs nodded along in agreement.

“My desk is covered in green plants. There are plants all over my room too. They help me relax and give me motivation to work. Whenever the flowers bloom, I get to the hospital one whole star-hour earlier than usual!”

Ah.

Then that really was important.

The Military Region probably had to specifically assign a Zerg to take care of his plants for him.

Maybe they were already doing that.

The others began enthusiastically sharing their own “secret weapons” for getting through work.

“My room is full of plushies.”

“I have a body pillow of my Female Lord!”

“I like listening to music.”

“Movies are good too. There haven’t been many assignments lately, so there’s plenty of time to watch movies.”

An Ruo caught the key phrase and asked, “Have there been fewer military Female Zergs who need Psychic Soothing recently?”

“Not exactly fewer. Mainly, the Psychic Soothing instruments are all in use now, so our workload has decreased a lot,” one Male Zerg explained.

“We only need to handle military Female Zergs that the instruments can’t treat, and recharge the instruments from time to time.”

The Psychic Soothing instruments also needed to be charged with Male Zerg psychic power. Otherwise, they couldn’t directly affect the psychic domains of Female Zergs.

For Male Zergs, simply charging the instruments was far easier than personally performing Psychic Soothing on Female Zergs.

But correspondingly, all the Female Zergs whose psychic values were too low for the instruments to soothe were sent over to them for manual treatment.

That meant the difficulty of treating each individual Zerg had increased.

Male Zergs with poor technique or low rank couldn’t handle cases like that at all.

Fortunately, all of them were experienced professionals, technical military officers who even held formal military ranks, so it wasn’t especially difficult for them.

An Ruo chatted with the Male Zergs for quite a while.

Feeling that he had taken up their time and delayed the military Female Zergs waiting for treatment, he decided to stay and help.

He temporarily opened a treatment room and began providing Psychic Soothing for military Female Zergs.

In this area, he was the true “experienced worker.”

When it came to the sheer number of military Female Zergs he had soothed, no Zerg could even come close.

Group Psychic Soothing was something he could perform effortlessly, as casually as lifting a hand.

But group Psychic Soothing was far too distinctive.

To avoid making people associate his two identities too closely, he still didn’t intend to use it. There was no need to show off like that anyway.

Treating the Female Zergs one at a time wasn’t troublesome.

After An Ruo finished soothing one military Female Zerg, he habitually called out, “Next.”

His hand had even already lifted, ready to press the button on the desk.

Only after discovering that there was nothing there did he belatedly remember that this wasn’t his treatment room at the prison.

There was no personal call button made specially for him.

Naturally, there also wasn’t a military Female Zerg guard squad waiting to escort the treated Female Zerg away.

And so, An Ruo was grabbed by the military Female Zerg whose face was streaming with tears of gratitude, who kept thanking him over and over.

An Ruo hadn’t encountered a situation like this in a long time.

He instantly froze where he stood, completely at a loss, with no idea what he was supposed to do.

The Male Zergs gathered nearby to observe and learn clearly hadn’t thought to usher the treated Female Zerg out either.

They were all staring curiously and reverently, and one of them had even opened a terminal light screen to take notes.

An Ruo: “...”

Someone save me.

Perhaps some Zerg really did hear the cry in his heart.

An Ruo watched as the former prison warden descended like a god from heaven.

Uriel gently placed a hand on the military Female Zerg’s shoulder and, in a mild but utterly irresistible tone, invited him to leave.

“The Psychic Soothing session is over. You should leave now. Do not disturb His Lordship’s rest.”

Uriel said the sentence with astonishing familiarity, as naturally as though he had already said it thousands upon thousands of times.

Perhaps he really had.

The silver-haired, blue-eyed military Female Zerg looked at him.

With one white-gloved hand, he adjusted his military cap and smiled.

“My Lord, long time no see.”

Long time no see, Uriel.

The corners of An Ruo’s lips also curved into a smile.

Outside the room, a Male Zerg with golden-red hair poked his head in while holding an egg.

It was Eugene, who had returned together with Uriel.

His appearance caused another commotion.

Mainly because he was holding an egg.

And not just any egg, but a snow-white Male Zerg egg.

A familiar Male Zerg military doctor had taken leave and gone home for a while, only to return to work carrying an egg.

What kind of explosive breaking news was this?!

The Male Zerg doctors exchanged knowing looks, their psychic power becoming extraordinarily active.

€€€€So Doctor Eugene took leave because a Female Zerg in his family was about to lay an egg! He went back to accompany him through the delivery!

€€€€But when did Doctor Eugene get married? How come I never heard about it?

€€€€I thought he was unmarried too. ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

€€€€I remember he was still going on dates not long ago.

€€€€Dates?

€€€€He takes leave once every month to go out. Isn’t that obviously dating?

€€€€It’s perfectly normal for an outstanding Male Zerg to have lots of Zergs pursuing him. I just didn’t expect him to already have an egg. We never heard anything about a marriage either. Did they only recently make the wedding official? Shotgun marriage because of the egg?

€€€€Are Capital Star Male Zerg weddings all this low-key? I thought they’d hold weddings that lasted several months and livestream the whole thing across StarNet.

€€€€The Marshal and An-shen’s wedding only lasted a week. Several months? How idle would you have to be? Sounds like your workload is too light. Better increase it.

The high-ranking Male Zergs enthusiastically discussed the matter with one another through their active psychic power.

The military Female Zergs’ emotions were considerably more complicated.

Those who had originally been interested in Eugene, especially the ones aiming for the position of Female Lord, instantly felt as though they had just suffered a breakup.

A Male Zerg could marry many Female Zergs, but he could only have one Female Lord.

When an outstanding high-ranking Male Zerg married, he would usually choose a Female Lord first. Then, using the connections and resources belonging to himself and his Female Lord as the core, he would attract more Zergs into the family.

Only a small number of Male Zergs who were neither particularly outstanding nor completely hopeless—those whose own abilities were insufficient but who still hoped to marry a higher-ranked Female Lord—would leave the Female Lord position vacant and first marry a few Female Attendants.

Eugene obviously didn’t belong to the latter category.

He was the hatchling of a former Archon and a General, and he himself was exceptionally outstanding.

Almost every excellent Female Zerg was available for him to choose from.

Since he was already married and even had an egg, then the one he had married had definitely become his Female Lord.

The Female Zergs who had been aiming for the Female Lord position could only quietly give up.

However, they didn’t stay dejected for long.

After all, there were plenty of high-ranking Male Zerg lords here today.

Especially An-shen.

An-shen was, together with that lord, regarded as the dream of countless Female Zergs.

Before he revealed his face, his status had still been slightly unstable.

After he showed his face, every last doubt disappeared and was replaced with even deeper fanaticism.

It was a kind of beauty that was different from that lord’s, yet somehow similar.

The Marshal had excellent taste.

Although An-shen was also married, and his Female Lord was even the Marshal, making it impossible for anyone to surpass him—and frankly impossible to even produce the thought of competing for that position—

they could still feast their eyes on his face.

The military Female Zergs assigned to guard duty had so many beautiful faces to admire today that they didn’t even have time to feel sad over their “broken hearts.”

The other Male Zergs also noticed what was happening on the other side and secretly exchanged looks with their companions.

€€€€Lieutenant General Uriel knows An-shen?

€€€€Probably not? Lieutenant General Uriel used to work at the First Military Region Prison. He shouldn’t have had any connection with An-shen. Though Uriel definitely knows that lord... But before that, Lieutenant General Uriel was also the Marshal’s adjutant. With that connection, it wouldn’t be strange if he and An-shen had met a few times and knew each other.

€€€€Hehehe, Lieutenant General Uriel is seriously handsome. Silver hair, gloves, that abstinent vibe—it hits exactly right. If I go after him, do you think I have a chance?

€€€€No chance.

€€€€Good luck. I believe in you.

€€€€€€? Hey, the one before that, why no chance? Explain yourself.

€€€€Has he looked at you even once since he walked in? Every single one of us has been treated like air and completely ignored! Guys who think they’re above everyone else are the worst! So what if he’s tall? Big deal! (angry)!

€€€€QAQ.