Interstellar Power Couple
Translator: Mukyuu
Quality Check: Lala
First Published on Chaleuria
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Chapter 72: The Second Little Piglet is Fat Enough
Di Lin had great night vision. He saw with just one glance that the potted plant Zuo Feng was staring at was a type of plant known as the Balai tree, only found on Casweir. He just didn’t know why the idiot would put a poisonous plant, one that was capable of affecting your emotions after long-time exposure, in an expensive looking pot like that and keep it in his bedroom.
As if sensing something, Zuo Feng turned his head to look towards the door. But he aimed his gaze slightly too high and didn’t look towards the door crack. Plus the room wasn’t lit, which meant the lighting was poor, so he didn’t notice Di Lin, who had already hidden himself in a corner of the door crack.
He reached out his hand and touched the 50-60 centimeter tall Balai Tree, then he sat down on the bed and lit a cigarette.
He had a special way of lighting his cigarettes; because he was a fire ability user, he didn’t need the help of any tools. He quietly snapped his fingers and the cigarette ignited. The flickering of the small flame gave his pale features a melancholic air.
Di Lin watched from a distance of about seven to eight meters away, and his slender branch, about the size of a finger, waved imperceptibly.
In just a few moments, the cigarette in Zuo Feng’s hands was half gone. He grabbed the cigarette butt in his hands and brutally squashed the flames in his palms, his ability preventing him from being burned, then he walked into the bathroom with it.
The light in the bathroom turned on, and the vague silhouette of an adult male appeared through the frosted glass.
Di Lin tilted his head and observed silently for a while to make sure that Zuo Feng really had taken off his clothes, and wasn’t going to come out any time soon. Then, he immediately ran towards the stone table holding the flower pot, and transformed himself into a tiny Balai tree sapling. The sapling had a tiny sprout, but a thick root, because the communicator was hidden there. Despite the root’s size, Di Lin managed to successfully pierce it into the soil and attach himself to the root of the bigger Balai tree. All that was left was a barely noticeable small Balai seedling.
Zuo Feng clearly didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when he came out. He walked out naked, not even a towel around his waist. He wasn’t a tall man, not even 180 centimeters, but he was well proportioned. He walked across the carpet with sturdy legs, and when he bent over to look for his pyjamas in the closet, Di Lin, hidden in the flower pot, had a very clear view of his butt.
‘It’s pretty perky!’ Di Lin thought.
Zuo Feng took out the pyjamas but didn’t put them on immediately. He looked guardedly in the direction of the Balai tree, turning the light on inside the bedroom via voice command, but he didn’t see anything. However, the sensation of being watched was still there.
He hurriedly put on the pyjamas and walked closer to the tree, looking around again to double check before shutting off the light and getting into bed.
Half an hour later, the only sound of breathing in the living room evened out. Di Lin, who had been silently observing for a very long time, uprooted himself from the soil.
He used the technology he got from Xiao Lingyu to disrupt all the equipment in the room capable of recording, and then started growing at an insane rate.
In a short while, a huge shadow fell over the sleeping figure on the bed…
That night, Zuo Feng had a strange dream.
The dream was a quite erotic, and also a bit indescribably weird. He dreamt of his first love having sex with him in the form of a Balai tree, and very roughly at that. In the dream, branches had wrapped around him, stretching him into an embarrassing position, and then…
Zuo Feng wiped harshly at his face, which was turning purple and red.
He stopped himself from remembering more, but right after, as if suddenly recalling something, he shot up and checked himself out in the mirror. He didn’t notice any signs of strangling around his neck, and confusion flashed across his eyes. He then took off all his clothes, but, just like his neck, there were no suspicious marks on his body.
So it really was just a dream? But the sensation of being choked had been so real…
It couldn’t be that he was having these kinds of dreams because he had been celibate for too long, right?! But it had to have been a dream; they couldn’t have gone all the way without him waking up.
Zuo Feng kneaded his temples and refused to think further. He changed clothes and then went to fiddle around with the Balai tree. It was then that he suddenly discovered a tiny sapling by the root!
He touched it with the tips of his fingers, surprise and happiness abundant in his eyes.
The sapling under his touch discovered that, when the idiot didn’t smile in that eccentric fashion of his, he actually looked quite nice. He wasn’t a sensual beauty like his nephew was, but was rather charming in a cold and melancholic fashion.
Zuo Feng took up his communicator, “Enoch, record and save to disk.”
From the communicator came the voice of Zuo Feng’s AI assistant, “Yes sir.”
After Enoch took a picture, he said, “Sir, it’s been verified that Mr. Single has started taking private requests. Should we contact him?”
Zuo Feng intended to upgrade his AI assistant, but his request could only be fulfilled by someone of Mr. Single’s level of skill. That damned Mr. Single was a temperamental and picky man, and had always refused to take private requests, so Zuo Feng had never upgraded. He was someone who would rather go without than comprise; either he gets the good stuff, or he wants none of it.
“Contact him.” Zuo Feng said and waited a while but a response came quickly from the other end.
“Sir,” Enoch said hesitantly, “they refused.”
“Refused?” Zuo Feng held up the communicator to look. Indeed, it displayed: Mr. Single has refused your request.
“I think they might have their hands full.” Enoch said. “After all, there are so many people who want to have Mr. Single customize a program for them, the waiting line is probably enough to make a perimeter around the Southern Clearwater District.
“Perimeter my ass! Is he blind?!” Zuo Feng looked at his identity on full display and suddenly became furious. Did that guy have a brain? He didn’t even accept an order from him, Zuo Feng!
Di Lin spat in his mind and said inwardly, “You’re the blind one, how could my nephew find someone who’s blind!”
Even though Xiao Lingyu never said anything in front of Di Lin, but Di Lin had guessed that Xiao Lingyu was Mr. Single. That was because Left Hurricane’s defense program was only penetrable by Mr. Single but Xiao Lingyu managed to do it. In addition, Mr Single, who never used to take private orders, now began to do so. That was clearly because he’s got a couple of money-sucking sons at home!
But why didn’t he take this one? This Zuo Feng was clearly a fat pig ready for slaughter!
Uncle decided that once Zuo Feng leaves he’ll need to find a way to tell his nephew this.
At the same time, Xiao Lingyu debated whether to tell Uncle. In actuality, Zuo Feng’s request was great; he paid well and the request was easy to fulfill with his current abilities. But he wanted to know how long Uncle would be staying with the Zuo’s. If he was going to stay there for a long time, then he needed to leave Uncle some space to hide when he completed Zuo Feng’s requests, so that Uncle wouldn’t get discovered. That would be awkward.
“Uncle is already there either way so if Zuo Feng does anything, he should know. It’s currently daytime over there so we should avoid contacting Uncle, let’s talk about it again when it’s nighttime.” Lei Jue pointed at a big flower pot on the photon brain and asked, “What about this one?”
“Isn’t that too small?” Xiao Lingyu looked at the numbers, “Why don’t I have someone make you one?”
“That works too, have them use this as a sample.” Lei Jue handed the photon brain over to Xiao Lingyu and went over to look at the Golden Fruit tree seedling emerging from the wolf carving.
Just like Uncle predicted, this wood must be Dina’s origin wood and Pipi’s pee really could make it grow again. But it grew slowly and even providing it with life energy couldn’t speed up the process.
Currently, Lei Jue couldn’t sense much from the newly grown sapling. Luckily, even though they couldn’t get any useful information to prove the crimes the Vice Party Leader and Mr. Huang committed, Party Leader Li and the Vice Party Leader’s feud has been successfully sparked. Party Leader Li assumed that the Vice Party Leader stole Lei Jianying away, so he’s been guiding efforts at cracking down, and they were all aimed at the Vice Party Leader’s profit chains. The Vice Party Leader and Mr. Huang had taken quite a hit
The vice party leader was definitely angry, but this was an open crackdown effort, and at least in the public’s eyes, this was the correct behavior. So as angry as he was, he couldn’t do anything about it.
“Mr. Huang will definitely get in touch in the next few days.” Xiao Lingyu said as he calculated the time. “Carrera, in the next 10 days, decline any offers that aren’t made by the Zuos or Mr. Huang.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Also, send a message to Yu Le and the others, tell them to pay attention to any big groups of suspicious armed forces that appear near the resource supply planets. If there are, they must notify the chain of command immediately.”
“Yes, sir.” Carrera took note of each and every request and began processing them in an orderly fashion.
“You’re worried someone will try to investigate Maikalun again?” Lei Jue looked at Xiao Lingyu. Because Casweir was very far from Maikalun, it would take a long time even if they used an interstellar spacecraft, so they had to replenish their energy on the way.
“Yes. Even though Party Leader Li, Vice Party Leader, and the Xiao family are all of different ranks, we wouldn’t do well to go up against each other. I can instigate feuds between Party Leader Li and the Vice Party Leader and let them go at each other, but if they still don’t get what they want, they’ll keep looking. Especially Party Leader Li. He, unlike Mr. Huang or the Vice Party Leader, won’t know that without help from the natives they won’t be able to enter into the land of the Golden Fruit Tree Clan, so he’ll definitely make an attempt.”
“I really want to send a few poisonous critters over to bite them to death. What’s the probability of success on that, do you think?” This wasn’t the first or second time that Lei Jue had thought about it.
“If you can kill with a single strike, I have every confidence I can protect you. But if you can’t, they’ll definitely ask you for help. Then will you help or not? Helping them just feels more disgusting.” Xiao Lingyu smiled, “Think about it.”
“Tsk. Carrera, when you’re not busy let me see a full view of Little Odd Flower.” Lei Jue sat down on the sofa afterward and started to seriously consider this.
The spectral spider’s poison was very hard to kill with just one bite, never mind that these stupid relics all had their own healers. So the possibility of succeeding in one strike was low. As for the ice snake, while it’s poison was strong enough to kill a creature as big as Xiao Lei in one strike, its poison was too identifiable and easily traceable. Plus the spectral spider and the ice snake both came from Northern Ling, and would be too obvious of a clue.
Looks like it would be best if he could catch some other poisonous creature from their gardens and one that was small enough such that it could approach their target without sound or being noticed.
“Lingyu, do you know of any bugs that can crawl into the soil that are so poisonous it could kill with one strike?”
“I wouldn’t know that, but I think we can ask Uncle. After he arrived on Casweir he’s spent most of his time hanging around the various woods, and he’ll know a lot more.” Xiao Lingyu said, “What a coincidence, he just messaged us.”
Xiao Lingyu laughed as he handed Lei Jue the communicator. Lei Jue saw a line of text float on top of the communicator, “The ‘second little piglet’ fat enough for slaughter, you can ask for three times the usual pay from him!”