/
Character List
=The Chu Family=
Qiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.
Chu Rong: Marshal ML.
Chu Yan: ML’s younger brother. Is the same age as MC, currently attending intermediate college.
=The Xiang-Wei Family Alliance=
Xiang Kun: Chu Yan’s mortal enemy. Xiang Hui’s younger brother. Mecha manufacturing student.
Xiang Hui: A colonel. The Xiang family’s current heir. Xiang Kun’s older brother.
Xiang Lingyun: Xiang family’s head. Xiang Kun and Xiang Hui’s father.
Xiang Jing: Xiang Kun’s paternal female cousin. 22 years old.
Wei Xiongchang: Wei family’s head. A Liutenant General.
Wei Yu: Wei Xiongchang’s grandson. Probably around 20 years old.
Wei Lan: Wei Yu’s younger brother. 14 years old.
=The Ning Family=
Ning Kongran: A fifth-grader at intermediate college. Ning family current heir.
Chairman Ning aka Ning Tianya: Ning family’s head. Ning Kongran’s father.
Ning Kongting: Ning Kongran’s female cousin. 19 years old.
Ning Konghua: Ning Kongran’s male cousin. 21 years old.
=The Presidential Faction=
Long Baorou: the President’s daughter. 24 years old.
Long Ruizhang: Long Baorou’s younger brother. Probably 23 years old. Correction: he isn’t one of the supervisor. He’s just mentioned.
You Xia: Long Baorou’s maternal male cousin. Older brother to You Yuanyuan.
You Yuanyuan: You Xia’s younger sister.
The two ran towards the outside of the cave, and the camera equipment flew wildly with them. Because of the uneven ceilings of the cave, it turned up and down, forward and back, causing the live broadcast screen to become a mess in an instant, foggy and blurry.
The audience was confused: [What’s going on? Why are these two running again? The picture was already foggy and blurry, but after running like this, it will become even more unclear! The viewing experience is really bad! You said that you want to protect the privacy of the children by not allowing night vision, and let the audience have a sense of immersion, working and resting with the children. This is understandable, but can you provide a defogging function? Or let it fly a little more stable! Even the recording of the sound fluctuates like this, we can’t see clearly or understand!]
Just when the audience was complaining and reminiscing about the conversation that happened before the two started running, a roar of a beast that almost deafened the eardrums suddenly came from the live broadcast. It shocked the comment area for a moment. The supervisors of all families sat up straight one after another, their expressions of real or fake worry were hard to discern.
“What’s going on? Why is there the sound of a beast? Didn’t it be cleaned in advance?” Xiang Hui asked first, looking at the No. 8 and No. 9 screens.
Wei Xiongchang frowned, and said, “Could it be that Chu Yan and the Native boy angered the beasts nearby? Unfortunately, the picture is not clear. I heard them mention eggs just now. Could it be that they snatched some beast’s eggs for fun?”
“That’s not good,” Xiang Lingyun answered, looked at Chu Rong worriedly, and said, “The foggy weather is not suitable for fighting, and the Native doesn’t know how to drive mechas. If the two really attract a large beast, I’m afraid they  won’t be able to defeat it. Do you want to send people down?”
Long Baorou and Ning Tianya also looked at the No. 8 and No. 9 screens, as if they wanted to see what happened there so that they could respond in time.
“No need,” Chu Rong interrupted their wonderful acting performance. Although he looked at the screen with a very serious expression and was obviously worried, his tone was very calm. “They didn’t ask their supervisors for help, so it proves that they can handle it. The Chu family does not engage in privileges, let them play by themselves.”
After everyone was quiet, Long Baorou turned his head and said, “But what if…”
“There is no if,” Chu Rong looked at her with the tail of his cold eyes, as if he had seen everything through, “They are entering the cave to take the treasure. I have reason to suspect that the investigation work in the early stage of this event was negligent, and if something happens to them, the Chu family reserves the right to hold them accountable.” Long Baorou choked on her own words, frowning. She turned her head and stopped talking, obviously dissatisfied with his attitude.
Wei Xiongchang frowned and said, “Marshal Chu, I can understand your anxiety, but your Chu family also participated in the investigation, I think…”
“The Chu family is responsible for investigating the current route that Xiang-Wei’s team is taking,” Chu Rong unceremoniously cut his words off. Because he was in a bad mood, his patience became worse, and he bluntly said, “If the Xiang-Wei team also encounters such unknown accidents because of our negligence, my Chu family is willing to take full responsibility.”
“…” Fuck! Isn’t this like cursing their juniors to get in an accident!
The supervisors of the Xiang-Wei’s family kept silent with dark faces.
Ning Tianya was able to stay on top of this muddy situation. He would stay silent and neutral so long the situation allowed it.
Just as Long Baorou was choked, she also kept silent with a cold face.
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room dropped to freezing point, and everyone’s eyes were focused on the No. 8 and No. 9 screens, looking forward to the next development.
“Roar—!!”
The sad and angry roar of the beast was getting closer and closer, and the ground seemed to tremble.
“What do you want!” Chu Yan’s heart was beating out of his ribcage. He couldn’t help cursing the person who hid the box three hundred times in his heart. Seeing that the hole was in front of him, he hurriedly released the mecha to block the hole. Then, he crawled around into the cockpit from behind and activated the mecha.
Seeing him get on the mecha, Qiao Zhiya hurriedly said loudly, “Quick, lift off!”
Chu Yan started to operate without him saying anything. Seeing a huge black spot flying towards him from a distance, his heart almost stopped beating in shock as he started the machine. The mecha quickly turned around and bent down to catch Qiao Zhiya who just ran out holding the egg, and then went straight into the air.
“Boom!”
A gray, long-haired monster the size of a small house slammed into the mecha. The mecha narrowly avoided it and hovered a few meters above the head of the monster.
“Crash!”
A large piece of rubble fell from the place hit by the giant beast, revealing two deep holes pierced by the horns of the giant beast’s head.
“Ho ho ho!”
The giant beast couldn’t take it down with a single blow, and became more angry. It seemed to smell its cub. It frantically jumped towards the mecha, knocking down the mecha that was hanging in the air against the mountain wall. The edges of its black pupils were red, and the long hair was scattered, looking very scary.
“Fuck! What kind of beast is this? It looks so fierce!” Chu Yan carefully made the mecha close his hands and held Qiao Zhiya in its palm. Then he looked down at the giant beast below and swallowed, and asked, “Qiao, what’s next? What to do?”
Qiao Zhiya also saw the giant beast below, and noticed the messy wounds on its body, which looked like they were formed by crashing and climbing in the forest.
“Go down until it can see me, don’t let it pounce on you,” Qiao Zhiya ordered with a frown. His little face tensed, and he hugged the egg more carefully.
Chu Yan trusted him very much, and without saying a word, he controlled the mecha and lowered it a little bit, which caused the giant beast to rush to the mecha and hit the mountain wall even more frantically.
“What are you up to?”
“Save its child and show it,” Qiao Zhiya replied. He poked his head out of the palm of the mecha carefully, then opened his mouth and uttered a long cry that sounded like something between a bird and a big mammal. Then, he threw something down outside the mecha’s palm.
After going outside, the live broadcast picture became clearer. When the audience saw that the two did not run for their lives immediately, but approached the giant beast, their hearts were raised into their throats. They were so anxious that they swiped their screens in the comment area, screaming at them to run.
Especially after seeing Qiao Zhiya boldly looking out, the audience almost exploded in fear. The speed of the barrage became faster. But, a small number of people were curious – what did Qiao Zhiya throw down just now?
Chu Yan was obviously one of those few people, so he asked out of curiosity.
“It’s food. The beast should have been hungry for many days,” Qiao Zhiya simply replied, and then continued to cry softly, while releasing his wood-elemental magic power to wrap the giant beast’s body. After it gradually calmed down, he carefully hugged the egg and made it easier for the beast to see. He then took out a small pot marked with leaves from his storage ring, and poured the light green juice into the broken egg.
Seeing this, the giant beast became anxious again, and tried to jump up again.
“It’s alright, it’ll be alright soon,” Qiao Zhiya whispered in Elvish.
After the juice half-soaked the weak cub in the egg, he carefully injected some wood-elemental magic power into the cub’s body, then he took out a mixture of minced green fruit and nutrient solution to feed the cub. Finally, judging by the cub’s movements, he blocked the camera and secretly put a few high-level wood-elemental  magic stones into the egg, and drew a magic circle on the egg with his fingers. It was a maintenance magic circle.
The cub gradually stopped whining, stretched out its paws and took the comfortable magic stone into its arms. It lay comfortably in the juice and closed its eyes, as if the broken shell wasn’t a problem at all.
The mother and the child had a spiritual bond. As the mother beast noticed that its baby’s condition had improved, the beast no longer scratched the ground anxiously. Instead, it hummed a few times towards Qiao Zhiya, crawling down in a friendly manner, looking up at the egg in his hand eagerly.
“I’ll return your cub to you right away,” Qiao Zhiya comforted it, and asked Chu Yan to fly the mecha to the side. After getting close to the tree, he picked a few leaves from the tree and carefully wrapped the egg as he signaled Chu Yan to land.
Chu Yan was a little nervous, and asked, “Can we really come down? It won’t attack us, right? What is that green thing you just poured into the egg? Can it really save this little guy?”
“It’s a juice mixture from the tree of life. It’s… well, it’s a substance that is used in my hometown to pray for newborn babies and newborn beasts. We always carry some with us when we walk in the forest, so that we can rescue animals in need,” Qiao Zhiya explained, and then reassured Chu Yan, “It’s okay, let’s go down, it won’t attack us.”
Chu Yan was relieved, and began to control the mecha to land on the ground.
Seeing this, the behemoth-sized beast took a few steps back to make room for them to land, but it still looked at the egg wrapped in leaves in Qiao Zhiya’s hand without blinking.
The hearts of the audience were slightly relieved. They were also still a little excited – they thought they were going to see a fierce fight, but it turned into a warm scene of saving animals. Exoplanet Natives sure are mighty!
The supervisors in the live broadcast room all froze, as if they had been slapped in the face by someone. This rang especially true for Long Baorou, whose eyes were uncontrollably gloomy — Qiao Zhiya’s amazing twist was really unexpected. That cub whose shell has been broken for a few days was also damn vigorous, and it could still be saved!
Under the nervous gaze of countless people from the Federation, Chu Yan drove the mecha to the ground, then bent down and gently put Qiao Zhiya on the ground. He got off the mecha himself, and quickly protected Qiao Zhiya.
“It’s fine.”
Qiao Zhiya patted him on the shoulder to calm him down, walked out and slowly approached the giant beast. He stopped when he was two meters away from the giant beast, gently put the egg on the ground and stepped back.
He maintained eye contact with the beast, then spoke in Elvish, “The child’s egg is broken. Be careful not to let the tree of life’s sap leak. The wound on your body needs to be treated, can I touch you?”
The monster seemed to somehow understand what he said. However, there’s still a language barrier between them, so it was still wary. It tentatively took a step forward, saw that Qiao Zhiya didn’t back up or step forward, and hummed anxiously. Finally, it couldn’t hold back its motherly instinct – it quickly stepped forward to pick up its egg. Then it took a few steps back, lay down and held the egg on its long-haired front paws. From its mouth, it sprayed out a ball of viscous liquid to paste the whole egg, blocking the hole.
“What’s that?” Chu Yan got behind Qiao Zhiya at some point, curiously looking at the transparent viscous liquid on the egg.
Qiao Zhiya recalled the wet soil in the cave, and replied, “It should be something that this kind of beast uses to incubate eggs and build nests.”
While talking, the giant beast has confirmed the safety of its child. It got up to put the eggs into the cave. But it hesitated for a moment, stopped again, turned around a few times in a hurry, and finally seemed to have made up its mind. It brought the egg back to Qiao Zhiya.
“What is it doing?” Chu Yan was stunned, ‘Why does this giant beast look like it wants to get help from Qiao?’
Qiao Zhiya was also a little surprised by its behavior. He frowned, looked back and forth at the cave and at the helpless giant beast at this time, thought about it, and asked tentatively in Elvish language, “You don’t want to use the cave as your lair again? You’re afraid it’s not safe, and you want me to take it with you?”
The giant beast lay down in front of him, rolled the egg in front of him, and whimpered pitifully.
It seems that the behavior of the cleaning personnel occupying the lair before has caused a psychological shadow on it. It no longer believed the safety of the nest it carefully prepared.
“Oh my God, I’m going to be made to cry by it. Why don’t we take this egg back and raise it? We’ll return it when the cub is ready to hatch,” Chu Yan began to come up with an idea, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
Qiao Zhiya, who seemed very soft-hearted and talkative, directly shook his head and said, “No, it’s too dangerous for the cub to leave its mother. If the egg is not broken, it should hatch naturally in a few days. It’s not suitable to leave its mother now. It’s like this… the beast is afraid that its cub will have problems again, and it thinks that I can protect it until it hatches safely.”