A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy

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66. Someone Wanted to do a Kidnapping

The news of Shu Shu giving birth to an egg and Jonathan conspiring to murder Edgar broke out, so Edgar naturally had many things to be busy with. After accompanying Shu Shu for a whole night, he did not have much time to stay beside Shu Shu on the next day. He finally came back when it was very late at night.

As an old daemon who could change into a human form, Shu Shu was actually able to not sleep at all, but he was used to sleeping every day and for a very long time, too . . . . When Edgar returned, he had already fallen asleep long ago.

Looking at Shu Shu who sank into the soft big bed, Edgar felt his heart melt. After kissing Shu Shu’s cheek once and then kissing his own egg a few times, he quietly went to the bathroom to wash himself clean and then lay down beside Shu Shu.

As soon as he lay down, Shu Shu rolled into his arms and chose a comfortable position, nestling up. Edgar chuckled and kissed him on the head, heart warm.

This was his spouse.

The next day when Edgar woke up, Shu Shu was still not awake. He softly and quietly climbed out of the bed just like in the past.

"Bring the child for me to hug." Shu Shu slept very well last night, so when he felt some movements beside him, he lifted his eyelids and spoke.

The temperature inside the incubator was the most suitable for the newborn eggs to stay in, but the Empire Parenting Organization always called on everyone to have close contact with the egg for a period of time every day. Therefore, everyone would not let the child stay in the incubator all day long.

Edgar took the egg out of the incubator, injected some spiritual power into it, and then put it into Shu Shu’s arms.

Shu Shu held the egg in his arms, closed his eyes, and slept again.

Edgar lowered his head and gave Shu Shu and the egg a kiss each before turning round and leaving for work.

Shu Shu only got up when the sun was already high in the sky. He held the egg while injecting some spiritual power into it and went downstairs. He just reached the living room when he saw Ian and Jones sitting on the sofa and talking.

"Why don't you sleep for a while longer?" Seeing Shu Shu, Ian immediately spoke and also reached out to the egg held in Shu Shu's arms. "Isn’t it quite heavy? Let me hold it."

"It’s not heavy at all. It’s especially light." Shu Shu said. This egg only weighed four or five pounds; such a little bit of weight was completely nothing for him.

"Even if you feel it’s not heavy, you also have to be careful. A sub-beastman who just gave birth to a child needs to rest well." Ian said. He originally wanted to explain some methods of nursing a postpartum sub-beastman back to health, but seeing Shu Shu’s vigorous appearance, he suddenly felt that the nursing methods he knew were perhaps of no use to Shu Shu . . . .

Yesterday, he had specifically sought the doctor to dispense some medicine. He wanted to give it to Shu Shu for treating the lacerations caused by childbirth. As a result, Shu Shu said that he had no wounds on his body at all . . . .

"I’m already one hundred percent fine." Shu Shu said while passing the egg on his hand to Ian. Ian stared at the egg in his arms with a burning gaze; it was estimated that he wanted to hug the egg very much.

Ian indeed wanted to hold the egg very much. Sub-beastmen usually wouldn’t let people they were not familiar with see their eggs. Except for Edgar, he had never held any other eggs!

Thinking of Edgar, Ian immediately said to Shu Shu, "Shu Shu, I’ve a lot of photos of newborn Edgar. Do you want to see them?"

"I do!" Shu Shu replied at once.

Ian smiled at Shu Shu and quickly took out his communication device. After that, he searched out Edgar's childhood photos and showed them to Shu Shu.

Edgar was born in the hospital, so the photos at the beginning were all in the hospital. On the hospital bed, Ian looked a bit wan and sallow, but his smile was brilliant, and he was holding an egg, Edgar, in his arms.

That egg was not like the one Shu Shu had given birth to, but the difference was not big; after all, they were both eggs.

At the beginning, the egg only got its pictures taken. Later on, the egg started to have videos.

Shu Shu clicked one of the videos. The video initially just showed an egg lying quietly in the incubator. After a while, the egg suddenly moved and even turned its own body over.

"Ah!" Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised as he watched the video. It was obviously just an egg, but he thought it looked very, very cute!

"There’s also the video of Edgar hatching." Ian smiled and clicked on another video.

In the video, the egg swayed violently for a long time, and then a crack suddenly appeared on it. After another very long time, the crack finally became a little bit bigger.

This video was very long. After watching it for an entire hour, only a very small hole appeared on the egg, but Shu Shu unexpectedly enjoyed watching it and was not the least impatient.

His egg later would also give birth to a new life like this, right?

Shu Shu watched the video attentively and suddenly saw a snake that was as thick as two fingers together climb out of the eggshell.

". . ." Shu Shu had a sensation of his prior expectation and love disappearing in a flash.

Why was it the snake he disliked the most that came out of the egg?

How did he find a snake as a partner?

However, although he disliked snake, but he still liked Edgar very much . . . .

"Edgar at that time was cute, right?" Ian turned his head to look at Shu Shu.

Shu Shu shook his head. Although he would not go so far as to get scared just by watching a video now, but he really didn’t think that this snake was cute at all!

"Well . . . I also think he’s quite ugly." Ian said and directly moved on to show Shu Shu the photos taken when Edgar changed into a human form.

Looking at the little baby on the photo who, didn't know why, seemed to be frowning, Shu Shu wanted to cuddle and kiss him.

Ian took out all of Edgar's childhood photos and showed them to Shu Shu. Shu Shu liked the photos and videos of baby or toddler Edgar the most. As for the way Edgar looked when he changed into a snake form . . . there were a few of such snake photos, and he also liked them.

For example, in one of the videos, Chris, as a father, grabbed Edgar and tied him into two knots. Edgar could only turned and twisted with difficulty and finally untied himself after quite a while. Shu Shu thought it was very interesting . . . . He really wanted to try doing what Chris did himself!

After looking at the photos and videos for a long time, the three people were all hungry. Ian immediately called the chef and had him bring some food over.

Shu Shu had just given birth to a child, so the kitchen had prepared a lot of ingredients and already stewed some soups . . . . The chef assented and started to get busy. After half an hour, seven or eight robots brought the food to them.

Every robot held a food box on each hand. They placed the food boxes on the dining table and then started to take out plate after plate of dishes from the food boxes.

So many dishes! So fragrant! Shu Shu, seeing so many dishes being placed in front of him, could not help but drool and quickly scuttled over.

Seeing this scene, Ian couldn't help but smile.

After Shu Shu had practiced in the virtual cabin for quite a long time, as long as he was willing, he could quickly put on airs. In normal times, however, he was still forthright . . . . Of course, Ian did not dislike this one bit; on the contrary, he rather liked it.

Old people like them liked energetic children.

Holding the egg, Ian and Jones also came to the dining table.

They just reached the dining table when a few robots that had brought the dishes suddenly moved and emitted some smoke from their bodies.

The smoke puffed toward Shu Shu, Ian, and Jones's face. The three people were caught off guard, and everyone inhaled a lot of smoke in the end.

Ian was the focus of the "care". His physical fitness was the worst among the three. He just inhaled the gas, and he immediately became dizzy and collapsed to the floor. In that moment, besides protecting the child in his arms, he could not manage anything else.

Although Jones had some experience living in the military camp and his physical fitness was pretty good, but he was a sub-beastman after all. After grabbing hold of the table, he also went down to the floor and could not make any more movements either. As for Shu Shu . . . .

Shu Shu had plenty of escape experience but very, very few combat experience and was also very lacking in alertness. As a result, he too inhaled the smoke that should not be inhaled. It could be said that he was currently still able to be clear headed entirely because of the spiritual power in his body.

With the dizzying situation before his eyes, Shu Shu had an urge to lie down and sleep, but he knew that he could not sleep.

Operating his spiritual power with great effort, Shu Shu did not hesitate to approach and kick one of the robots. He kicked the robot in the stomach hard.

Getting a kick from him, the robot fell back a few steps, and a footprint appeared on its steel stomach. It seemed to want to attack Shu Shu, but after a loud crackle, the robot unexpectedly stopped moving.

Shu Shu brushed aside this robot and immediately charged into the next one. He reached out with one hand to grab Ian while sending a kick to the robot. He managed to kick this one but failed to guard against the other robots. In the end, he was actually hit by another robot in the stomach. Staggering back a few steps, he fell on the floor.

The stomach that suddenly hurt woke Shu Shu up somewhat, and it was because of this that he saw the current scene—Ian and Jones were already shackled by the robots, and another robot was going to grab the egg from Ian’s hand.

Shu Shu was shocked and immediately jumped up and rushed toward those robots, but he was blocked once again—the two robots that had been kicked away by him suddenly lunged at him. These two robots were already broken, but their hands could still move and actually caught hold of Shu Shu's legs.

"Bastard." Shu Shu was dizzy from the pain in his stomach, but he kept struggling with all his might.

"You actually have some skill." While Shu Shu was struggling, a voice suddenly rang out.

Shu Shu kicked away one of the robots and raised his head to look at the arrival only to see Jonathan standing not far away.

Jonathan previously looked more exquisite and more splendid than Myer, but now he looked like he was in a difficult situation, and his expression was also gloomy.

"It's you!" Shu Shu remembered what Edgar had said about Jonathan wanting to harm Edgar. For a moment, he hated Jonathan so much. Raising his hand, he hurled a ball of spiritual power toward Jonathan.

It was a pity that he was in the middle of having a dizzy spell and completely failed to take aim at the target accurately. That ball of spiritual power actually flew clear over Jonathan's head and ultimately smashed a hole in the wall behind Jonathan without injuring Jonathan at all.

Shu Shu, seeing this scene, wanted to charge at Jonathan, but a robot once again came over and entangled him . . . .

Jonathan glanced at Shu Shu, his expression ugly, and then he ran out without looking back.

He originally wanted to capture all the people here, but Shu Shu was truly too troublesome, so he could only give up.

Seeing Jonathan running out, the robots followed him and started running out as well. They all finally stopped at the open space in front of the house used for parking the aircraft.

After coming to a stop, Jonathan turned toward the house where Edgar lived, his face showing an ice-cold smile. He didn’t capture that Shu Shu, and for Shu Shu, it was definitely not a good thing at all.

The sound of a violent explosion suddenly filled the air.

The robot that was blocking Shu Shu’s path and the robots that had been ruined by Shu Shu unexpectedly exploded together!

Shu Shu was in the center of the explosion, and no one could see his situation. At the same time, the alarm sounded through the entire imperial palace and even the entire capital star.

The imperial palace was attacked!

The guards in the vicinity of the imperial palace arrived in a very short time. After seeing the situation here, all their expressions changed greatly.

The place where the crown prince lived was actually blown up! The wanted criminal Jonathan also seized the empress and the empress' friend as well as the little prince who had not hatched yet!

"You had better not come over. I have explosives on my body. If you come over, I’ll take them down with me." Staring at the guards in front of him, Jonathan showed a rather strange smile.

"Jonathan, what do you think you’re doing?!" Someone among the guards shouted. The one who shouted was a beastman who was about the same age as Jonathan. He once had been secretly in love with Jonathan in his youth. When he saw the news about Jonathan conspiring to murder the crown prince, he thought it was untrue, and that someone had framed Jonathan. He didn't expect to be proven wrong so quickly.

Jonathan’s current appearance was very frightful. His impression of Jonathan was a sub-beastman who was magnificent and unmatched in his generation. When did Jonathan become like this?

"Make Chris come here." Jonathan got his hands on Ian while watching the guards opposite.

"I’m coming!" Chris' voice rang out, and at the same time, two aircrafts suddenly appeared in front of Jonathan. The two aircrafts had not stopped completely, and Chris and Edgar already jumped down from the aircrafts.

They had put some devices on Ian and Shu Shu as well as in the house to monitor abnormal situation. So when Ian and Shu Shu were sneak-attacked, they discovered it immediately. However, even if they found out about it, and even if they used the fastest speed to rush over, it seemed that they were too late.

"Why did you take him?" Chris clenched his fist tightly and fixed his whole attention on Jonathan.

"What about Shu Shu?" Edgar's clenched fist tightened even more. Although Ian was unconscious, but at least he was still in front of them. Where was Shu Shu? Where did Shu Shu go?

"The crown princess . . . . I guess he’s become a mass of ground meat now?" Jonathan looked at Edgar and began to laugh, revealing his snow white teeth.

Edgar's pupils abruptly became vertical snake-like pupils, and his whole body stiffened for a second. Then he immediately rushed straight toward the blown up house.

"His Imperial Highness!" Some beastmen wanted to catch up with him, but they were thrown away by a gale that Edgar conjured. Realizing that Edgar obviously didn’t want anyone to follow him and that saving the crown princess did not need too many people, those beastmen no longer kept up with him and eventually stopped far away.

Jonathan gave a gurgle of laughter and turned toward Chris. "I’ve put explosives on each of these robots. You had better be a little careful now. Don't provoke me, or else there’ll be more people turning into ground meat."

Chris' expression became very ugly. He clenched his teeth and said, "You’ve been hiding in the imperial palace for two days?" He had dispatched quite a lot of people to hunt down Jonathan. He didn't expect that Jonathan actually stayed under his very eyes . . . .

"I was indeed here, ah. Here’s my home.” Jonathan’s gaze was firmly locked on Chris’ face.

"This place isn’t your home, and I also don't have a younger brother like you!" Chris coldly stated.

Staring at Chris, Jonathan’s expression became cold as well. He grabbed Ian's neck with one arm and abruptly tightened up his hold. In addition, his fingernails squeezed into Ian's flesh so much so that they cut open Ian’s skin.

"Let go of your hold!" Chris was horrified. "Release him! Jonathan, you let them go. I’ll definitely treat you with leniency."

"Do you like him?" Jonathan's expression became very ugly.

Chris frowned. Of course he liked Ian; Ian was his spouse!

"Why would you like him? Why would you like this despicable guy?" Jonathan stared at Chris, anger across his whole face.

"It’s you who are a despicable guy!" Chris countered straight away.

Jonathan’s gaze flashed, and right at this instant, an anesthetic needle shot towards Jonathan’s body . . . .

The tip of the needle that was going to prick Jonathan's neck abruptly stopped, and then the needle fell to the ground. It turned out that Jonathan had opened his personal protective cover.

This needle obviously startled Jonathan. He turned his head and glanced at the anesthetic needle that had fallen to the ground and then turned to face Chris again. "You get me a private spaceship, that latest model of spaceship with so-called unrivaled speed which you bought last year."

Chris had not yet answered, and Jonathan suddenly took out a knife and slashed the arm of unconscious Jones. "You better hurry. Otherwise, I’ll use the knife on your empress’ body next."

Chris' complexion was deathly pale, and his gaze toward Jonathan was full of loathing. Jonathan noticed this look and was instantly inflamed.

It shouldn't be like this; Chris should like him instead of loathing him. It’s all because of Ian! He had to kill him!

Jonathan’s expression became extremely ugly, while Chris couldn’t help but roar, “If you dare to hurt them, I’ll never let Mund and Calvin off!”

The flame in Jonathan’s eyes went out. Sneering, he stressed his point once again, "If the spaceship doesn’t appear in front of me in five minutes, I’ll chop off one of his hands."

Jonathan nudged Ian's arm as he said so.

In the past two days, he had actually been hiding in the imperial palace.

He grew up in the imperial palace from childhood and was very familiar with the place. In the past, he was able to enter and leave the imperial palace freely, and so he secretly dug himself a hideout basement in the imperial palace. Hiding himself there, especially with the help of the imperial palace's defense system, it was guaranteed that no one could find and get him.

In addition to this, he also tampered with some of the robots in the imperial palace.

He had always been considered to be more outstanding than Myer. Myer was already a mech master in his young age; he naturally wasn’t inferior than Myer. In some fields such as robot modification and robot control, he was one of the very best in the Beastman Empire.

When he stayed in the imperial palace a few days ago, he controlled some of the robots in the imperial palace and even loaded up their bodies with explosives.

At that time, he was just guarding against the unexpected. He did not expect them to be really useful now.

When Jonathan and Chris confronted each other, Edgar was looking for Shu Shu.

Probably to avoid being discovered, Jonathan did not load the robots’ bodies with too many explosives. The house was not entirely blown up, but the living room was already blasted beyond recognition into a pile of ruins. The floor between the living room and the second floor was also blown up.

Edgar smelled Shu Shu’s scent here but did not see Shu Shu crawling out of the ruins.

His hands could not stop shaking, and he suddenly turned into his original form.

The huge jiāo lóng squatted in the living room, and two of its claws quickly clear away all kinds of detritus . . . . Edgar almost frantically began to search for Shu Shu.

Suddenly, there was some tiny rustling noise.

Edgar was stunned, one claw unconsciously let go of a piece of ruin, and then he looked under the ruin with both apprehension and joy.

Just under the ruins he had swept away, there was a very small hole, and on the bottom of the hole, a little hamster that was no bigger than an egg lay curled up into a ball.

The fur on the little hamster’s face was scorched, its eyes closed, and its curled up body quivered. It looked extremely pitiful, but at least it was alive.

Edgar held the little hamster with his claws and injected his own spiritual power into the hamster’s body without the slightest hesitation.

Once a great amount of spiritual power rushed forth into Shu Shu’s body, he eventually woke up.

Shu Shu continued to circulate his spiritual power, so that the incapacitating agent would only make him feel uncomfortable but no longer make him confused and disoriented. As for the wounds . . . .

The previous explosion was quite powerful, but at most it was about the same as the lightning tribulation which Shu Shu had encountered alone. When the robots exploded, he immediately changed into his original form and used the spiritual power to protect himself. Therefore, the injuries he suffered were not serious at all. Now that there was Edgar who was injecting him with spiritual power, he had more or less recovered.

After waking up, Shu Shu promptly turned back into a human. He still had a lot of wounds on his body, but he couldn’t care less for himself. Cradling his head, he said, "The child! The child was snatched!"

The huge jiāo lóng nodded, "I know. We’ll go save them." Daemons that had cultivated into jīndān stage could become humans. Naturally, they could open their mouths and speak. It was just that, in the end, the structure of animal was different from that of human being, so this speaking was actually using the spiritual power to vibrate the air and produce a sound. It was also considered to be a gate to enlightenment which you needed to hone before you could use it.

Edgar had honed and mastered it. Shu Shu, however, was not too proficient at it.

"What are we going to do?" Shu Shu asked. How would they save them?

"Become smaller!" Edgar took a quick look at the situation outside and concealed the distress in his eyes.

Chris feared that Jonathan would hurt Ian, so he quickly had people bring his private spaceship over. And now, Jonathan was ready to board the spaceship.

Become smaller? Shu Shu glanced at Edgar and immediately realized that Edgar, in all likelihood, would use his former method of catching those star pirates, stealthily going up and hiding himself in the spaceship. Shu Shu quickly changed into his original form and then, with some difficulty, controlled his spiritual power to make himself even smaller. After that, he rushed straight toward the spaceship. At the same time, Edgar also made himself smaller and followed Shu Shu.

TL's notes:

jiāo lóng = legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods

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