The leader handed his gun to the squad member next to him. He was the first to jump down and lightly landed on the bottom of the well.
Unlike the students that had yet to pass their development period, he was fully mature. His psychic power and physical condition had undergone a qualitative change. This height was nothing to him.
The smell of thousands of insect corpses and eggs piled together mixed with the scent of blood was very disgusting.
Ye Muo had already fallen unconscious. He was covered in semi-clotted blood and wounds to the point where there was almost nowhere intact to hold him. The leader carefully took him from Ye Yun’s arms.
By now, the rest of the squad had stationed themselves at regular intervals on the stairs. The one at the bottom reached out to him. This impromptu relay was the quickest way to get Ye Muo to the top.
The squad member at the very top was already prepared. He put Ye Muo on his back and quickly ran towards the docked starships.
Ye Yun was the last one to come up. The rest of the squad pulled him up from below.
“Do you require first aid?”
“No need. It’s not my blood.”
He replied as he flipped himself out. Then he quickly went around them and followed the squad member who had gone ahead.
“Hey!”
The curly haired boy didn’t even finish speaking before Ye Yun disappeared from sight. He and the rest of the squad exchanged glances. Shen-jie closed the first aid kit she just opened and followed.
The factory was not far from the port. They quickly arrived at the starship, where medical personnel were waiting. Ye Muo was swiftly brought inside.
Ye Yun followed the stretcher the entire way. He quickly conveyed Ye Muo’s situation to the doctors.
“Major blood loss from external wounds in addition to insect bites. Impact wounds from a direct fall of more than 10m. The wounds have made direct contact with insect carcasses and mucus. The king insect was directly feeding off of him–”
Until Ye Muo was pushed into the operating room.
And one of the doctors stopped him outside.
“Thank you. This information will be very useful to us. Let me take care of your wounds first. Your companion will be stable by the time we’re finished.”
Ye Yun’s chest was still heaving from violent exertion.
The doctor tried to get Ye Yun to calm down.
“It’s okay, don’t be too nervous. Let’s get you bandaged up. Then you can go stay with your companion, drink some hot water and contact your family.”
“That’s my little brother!”
Ye Yun ruthlessly punched the corridor wall, trying to calm himself down. He closed his eyes for several seconds before saying.
“My apologies.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
He straightened up.
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Another doctor looked up at the instruments.
“Psychic power fluctuating. Inject soothing agent.”
Someone brought over a syringe and injected it into Ye Muo’s body.
The values on the instruments rose and fell sharply several times before evening out.
“Actually,” one doctor thought as he frowned at the display, “the value shouldn’t have fluctuated so greatly to begin with.”
Yet again, the final value was fine.
The other doctor looked up and urged him on.
“Hurry up and help disinfect the wounds. Don’t stitch them up. The treatment pod will take care of it.”
……
Ye Yun started waiting outside the operating room right after he finished being tended to. When Ye Muo was finally placed in the treatment pod and allowed visitors, he immediately went in.
In the treatment pod, Ye Muo floated naked in a light green liquid. His hair floated in front of his face from time to time. The middle part of the pod was covered in frosted glass, obscuring everything between the shoulders and the calves. It was designed this way to allow family to see the patient and receive peace of mind.
Ye Yun stared at Ye Muo in the treatment pod. For the first time, he felt that this scrappy design was ingenious.
He finally managed to break free of the terror of losing Ye Muo at this moment.
The doctor next to him was explaining precautions to him.
“We’re very lucky that most of the insects that attacked him were not fully matured, lessening the severity of his injuries. The king insect was also in a newly developed state. However, his wounds are likely to leave some scarring. They can be lessened by taking medications. I’ll bring them to you later. Other than that, we injected him with more than the maximum dose of psychic soothing agent to ensure the treatment process goes smoothly.”
The doctor pushed his glasses up, those initial abnormal readings coming to mind making him hesitate. In the end, he attributed it to a manifestation of psychic power instability and didn’t mention it. He continued instructing Ye Yun.
“He should still be in the active stage of the development period. In the near future, he should stay away from the psychic soothing agent and have his parents personally soothe him.”
Ye Yun nodded his head and assured the doctor.
“I will let Father know afterwards.”
As soon as the doctor left, Ye Yun immediately called Ye Zhiyuan’s comms. He cut straight to the point after the other side picked up.
“Ye Muo needs psychic soothing. He was injured and had to use a treatment pod, so the doctor said he can’t use psychic soothing agent again in the short term.”
[How did he get injured?]
“An accident during the experiential learning opportunity. We encountered insects.”
Ye Yun glossed over what happened.
[Got it.]
“Also, Father…”
Ye Yun put his hand against the wall. Even he didn’t realize how aggressive his tone and expression was right now.
“What was in those syringes you gave me?”
“Why was Ye Muo in so much pain after the injection he started hurting himself? He’s always had high tolerance.”
Ye Muo first came as a child littered with injuries. When the adults in the family were busy, Ye Yun and Ye He helped tend to Ye Muo’s wounds. Children like them were obviously clumsy, but Ye Muo never cried even once.
Ye Zhiyuan only said they were emergency medications when he gave them to Ye Yun, to be injected if Ye Muo lost consciousness. He didn’t offer any other explanation.
Ye Zhiyuan unceremoniously refused to relent.
[Watch your attitude, Ye Yun. Just because I lower my head to your mother doesn’t mean I’ll indulge you or Ye He.]
Ye Yun was silent for a while. He seemed to realize that this approach wouldn’t work on Ye Zhiyuan and softened his tone.
“Many wounds inexplicably appeared on Ye Muo’s body. He lost so much blood, Father.”
Ye Zhiyuan remained silent.
“Am I really not allowed to know? I’m very worried about him.”
[I’ll take care of it.]
With that, Ye Zhiyuan hung up.
……
Lin Huixuan was observing the real-time footage from the surface in the command centre with the ship’s captain. He rushed here to Z472 as soon as he received the order in the conference room. He had already familiarized himself with the situation on the way here.
After clarifying some details, Lin Huixuan immediately realized the seriousness of the incident. More than a thousand geniuses from the First Military Academy, the future of the Empire, had almost been wiped out on one of the Grantz Empire’s own remote abandoned planets.
That was before adding in sensitive elements such as the galactic pirates and insects. Even if His Majesty was not enraged, news of this incident would cause public outrage across the entire Empire.
The original flag of the Grantz Empire was flown over the corpses of galactic pirates and the carcasses of insects. This was both the glory of the entire Empire as well as a wound deep in their hearts.
The ship captain beside him scowled deeply at the swarms of insects on the screens in front of him. If not for His Majesty’s orders, they would have stayed out there until the galactic pirates used one of their own warships to bury their children on this remote, abandoned planet.
“We’ve already sent people to search for students while cleaning up the insects. Due to this originally being a warship experiential learning opportunity, the students were not wearing positioning devices. We can only search everywhere for them. The majority have been rescued already, and there are no casualties yet.”
“The galactic pirates had already dropped about a fifth of their insect-filled containers. We’ve got a pretty good handle on things. It’s fortunate that His Majesty notified us in time, or else we probably would have had our hands full by now.”
Lin Huixuan pushed his glasses up.
“What of the galactic pirates?”
“The ones trying to escape using the Mother Bear were intercepted. There were no hostages on board. After interrogation, we learned they were only responsible for transporting the king insect. The seller was from one of the Exile Sectors, and the buyer only knew of the location where the exchange would take place. The pirates were abandoned after being captured by us. No one’s attempted to come rescue them. They have yet to be dealt with. What are His Majesty’s intentions?”
Lin Huixuan made a hand gesture, causing the entire centre to go quiet. He dialed a certain comms number.
The instant the connection was established, the Grantz insignia appeared on screen– interweaving sword and flame.
Lin Huixuan only made an audio call, so they could not see over there, and His Majesty could not see them. Still, the moment the connection was established, everyone in the command centre stood up in unison and clenched their hand into a fist over their heart. They bowed their heads in the direction of the insignia.
Lin Huixuan reported the information he had collected as well as the chain of events. He finally added.
“Your Majesty, all the galactic pirates were captured in the outskirts of Empire territory. Preliminary speculation is that they intended to release the king insect within our borders.”
“The king insect was transported here from the Exile Sector. We are currently investigating the exact source. The galactic pirates have not been dealt with for the time being.”
Everyone in the command centre waited for the order. A few seconds later, a very calm voice from the other end lightly stated.
[Raise the flag then.]
“Understood!”
The entire command centre spoke in unison.
“May imperial glory endure, and Grantz forever be immortalized!”
The screen reverted back to its original appearance as the call ended.
The first time the Empire raised its flag was in the original imperial capital. On an abandoned planet similar to the current Exile Sectors whose people were no better than livestock that anyone including the galactic pirates could mistreat, the first Grantz held their swords and raised their flag against the neverending insect tide.
As Lin Huixuan put down his hand, he heard the person beside him quietly say.
“Let’s hope that the blood of the enemy can be quell His Majesty’s anger.”
Author’s Corner
Sending you a finger heart!
I’m wondering what YZY is thinking. I’m slightly angry at him. Baby Ye Yun warms my heart. Ye Muo, get well soon!
Raise the flag…the king is P.O. Hahahaha! Thanks for the update ❤️🤣
Ye Yun breaking my heart ;-; he just cares for his brother and his father is not being transparent :[
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
I say, Daddy Grantz is so cool and awesome. I’m drooling… ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄
Dad ye ! You’re to strict.
Please can you be a bit accomodating to your children?
sigh 😔