Chapter 162: Safe Return

Chapter 162: Chapter 162: Safe Return

Strength and money were the true tonics for a female! A massive tonic!

After Gu Weilan promoted, she didn’t stop for a moment, immediately commanding her vines to split into four thick strands. Like threading candied fruit on a skewer, each strand drove straight through the abdomens of three members of the Insect Clan. Gu Weilan frantically devoured the pure Vitality Energy from these twelve enemies.

The Insect Clan watched as these vines caused their companions to age beyond recognition in just a matter of minutes. Furthermore, they couldn’t even sever the vines with their scythe-like appendages. Even if they managed to cut one, new vines would immediately sprout and take its place. It was truly terrifying.

The Insect Clan was infuriated! They would not allow an existence even more disgusting and terrifying than themselves to remain in this universe. Swarming forward, they attempted to encircle and annihilate the forty-odd Beastmen!

In response, Ji Yanqing, Lu Xuyin, and Shi Lingfeng immediately unleashed a frantic barrage upon the Insect Clan using Energy Cannons, Energy Guns, and laser weapons.

Seeing one wave fall only for the next to close in on the Beastmen within striking distance, the group entirely transformed into their Beast Forms. They unleashed their various elemental Beast Ranks, vowing to protect Gu Weilan.

Meanwhile, Gu Weilan had devoured energy to the point of saturation once again! She commanded Pomegranate Seed, "Promote again!"

Consequently, the Eleventh Rank Gu Weilan sent her vines piercing through fifteen more members of the Insect Clan! At the same time, she released her Ice Element Beast Rank—the Ice Domain awakened at the Seventh Rank! She also unleashed the Domain Talent Skill awakened from her Seventh Rank Space Beast Rank!

The speed of the Insect Clan members slowed slightly, while all the Beastmen within the Domain received a speed-boosting buff.

This time, even after devouring to her limit, Gu Weilan didn’t have enough energy to promote. Only then did she unleash the Star Dust Light Blade to deal the killing blows to the Insect Clan.

The battle between the Insect Clan and the Beastmen lasted for thirty minutes. Shi Lingfeng and Lu Xuyin sustained multiple injuries, and the other Beastmen were scarred to varying degrees. Gu Weilan was the only one entirely unscathed.

She was just about to take a rest when she heard Pomegranate Seed warn her, "There are members of the parasitic insect clan on four of the Insect Clan corpses!"

Gu Weilan’s eyes widened as she saw the targets Pomegranate Seed had marked for her. "Ji Yanqing! Don’t move!"

After shouting, Gu Weilan walked over. She took out a bottle and scraped the nearly invisible parasitic insect clan members from the corpse Ji Yanqing was just about to store away.

Gu Weilan then pointed at three other corpses and said, "These Insect Clan members also have the parasitic insect clan on them."

The remaining Beastmen couldn’t help but step further away to avoid them. Gu Weilan scraped all the living parasitic insect clan members into her bottle. Only then did she let Ji Yanqing collect the Insect Clan corpses.

Three days later.

Gu Weilan and her group finally returned to the Medical Hospital. Vice Admiral Wu paced back and forth nervously. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Gu Weilan return completely unharmed.

Gu Weilan handed the bottle to Vice Admiral Wu, her expression reflecting her dissatisfaction. "These parasitic insect clan members are almost dead. This proves that they die shortly after leaving their parasitic environment.

"The ones in this bottle are merely the offspring they desperately divided and reproduced before dying.

"Vice Admiral Wu, take a look and see if your team can use these parasitic insect clan specimens to develop a vaccine that prevents Beastmen from being infected."

Vice Admiral Wu pursed his lips, his face still full of worry. "Once you have rested well, there are still some critical Beastmen who will need your help with treatment tomorrow."

Gu Weilan gave a slight nod without asking any questions. She was truly exhausted. Over the past few days, she had been traveling through the wilderness, keeping her focus razor-sharp at all times. Even when she had time to rest, she hadn’t slept soundly.

Therefore, as soon as Gu Weilan returned to her dormitory, she locked the door and retreated into her spatial dimension.

Lu Xuyin and Shi Lingfeng exchanged a glance, mutual disdain clear in their eyes, before heading to the legion and military dependents’ guesthouse next to the Medical Hospital.

Previously, Gu Weilan had snagged a flash sale at a ninety percent discount, spending 98,000 points to buy a villa from the System Mall. The villa came with a time-frozen warehouse, which was already stocked with a large amount of vegetables. While fruits and medicinal plants yielded better quality harvests the longer they grew in her space, the same wasn’t true for vegetables. If left to overripen, they would spoil and decompose into fertilizer. Therefore, Gu Weilan always had her farming robots harvest the vegetables on time. Aside from those left for seeds, everything else was harvested and stored in the warehouse.

When she opened the System Mall now, she discovered she had accumulated over a million points again!

Naturally, Gu Weilan wanted to purchase an upgrade to increase the output of her Spiritual Spring. The Enhancement Item cost 1.68 million points, yet she was lucky enough to catch it on a half-price sale. After buying the Spiritual Spring Water enhancement product, she didn’t have anything else she wanted to buy for the time being. Instead, she had a robot extract a portion of the Body Refining Medicine Bath for her, following the Body Refining Bath recipe.

Fortunately, they had managed to hunt down centipedes and scorpions during this trip outside. She had exchanged her entire share of the loot for centipede and scorpion Poison Sacs.

Looking at the deep purple medicinal liquid, Gu Weilan pinched her nose and poured it into the bathtub. As she slipped into the water, it felt as though her entire skin was burning. The sheer agony almost robbed her of her senses.

After soaking in the medicinal bath, the fatigue wracking her body was significantly relieved. She rinsed off and stretched her limbs, every joint in her body seemingly letting out a loud CRACK.

Taking a deep breath, Gu Weilan left the ventilation system running. She lay down on her bed comfortably and sent a message to her Beast Husbands’ group chat: "How have you all been recently? I’ve safely arrived at the Medical Hospital dormitory."

Zhan Heng immediately replied: "Everything at home is fine. It’s just that Gu Zhan Yuan, Gu Zhanqian, Gu Zhanchang, and Zhanshao have started learning to speak now. They even called out ’Mother’ yesterday."

Shi Lingfeng bluntly chimed in: "Then shouldn’t Gu Shiye, Gu Shibai, Shi E, and Shi Jiao be left for their older brothers and sisters to look after? Let them teach their younger siblings."

Lorenzo Snow couldn’t help but call him out: "Don’t listen to Zhan Heng Beast Husband’s nonsense. The cubs are only a few months old; they just make vague AWOO AWOO sounds. How could they possibly know how to call for their Mother?"

Zhan Heng scoffed: "You’re just jealous!"

Following that, Zhan Heng, Xie Jing, Lorenzo, Shen Mianzhou, and Samuel all couldn’t resist messaging Gu Weilan privately. They all caringly asked if she had been injured. Gu Weilan replied to each of them, reassuring them that she was fine and completely unharmed. Instead, it was the other Beastmen traveling with her who all had to lie in the Healing Pods for a while.

Liu Ruoxi and Zhuoma had also sent numerous messages. Gu Weilan replied to them one by one, letting them know she was safe. Having finished all these tasks, she finally fell into a peaceful sleep.

Meanwhile, Ji Yanqing stood outside Gu Weilan’s dormitory door, holding a thermal lunch box. After a moment of thought, he decided to just leave the lunch box at her door.

He had never expected Gu Weilan to be such a self-reliant and relentless female. The very female he had once degraded and looked down upon turned out to be the exact image of his ideal partner. Beautiful, resolute, brave, intelligent...

But what did it matter now? He was the one who had pushed such an incredible female away with his own foolish and, in hindsight, rather childish methods.

Gu Weilan had no idea that this was what Ji Yanqing was thinking. While she didn’t think his methods were malicious, she certainly wouldn’t call them childish either. It was just pure disgust, wasn’t it?

That vocal fry voice: "Baaaabe~"

BLEGH! Who was he trying to gross out?

Lu Xuyin, on the other hand, was so thrilled he was practically bubbling with joy! Sneering, he considered texting the Dragon Clan family group chat to brag about how outstanding his Female Master was. However, as he looked at the family group, he deleted the words he had just typed.

He had already made his decision! He would just wait until his Female Master was well-rested, then discuss it with her and put his plan into action. Tremble, you foolish Dragon Clan family members! Hmph!