Chapter 2000: Day 33 of Being Pampered by My Wife in the Zerg Clan

The Corpse Rift Abyss Beast is more troublesome than Jin Chen imagined.

More precisely, it's disgusting.

After all, no one can stay calm facing a monster whose entire body is covered in foul-smelling slime, bristling with tentacles, capable of emitting sound-wave screeches, and enormous in size—especially when that slime, flung about randomly, also possesses high corrosiveness.

The original plot never specified how many Corpse Rift Abyss Beasts were in this monster horde, but for this heavily injured specimen, there's simply no way to lure Jin Chen to the Source Area.

Ai Sai Ya was anxious, unsure what Jin Chen wanted him to help with, yet every time he killed monsters he was powerless.

As a female insect, this is the last scene he wants to see; Jin Chen doesn't even need his comfort.

Just as Jin Chen was completely strangling this heavily injured Corpse Rift Abyss Beast, the detector on Ai Sai Ya's wrist suddenly blared with a long, urgent beep—the radiation here has exceeded the limit his protective combat suit can withstand.

"Cough..." Ai Sai Ya held his breath in midair, then immediately wanted to dive down to bring Jin Chen flying out of this area, but the instant he turned, his pupils constricted sharply.

"Ze Nuoer?"

Because it was a breathy voice, Jin Chen below didn't hear it.

How could Ze Nuoer be here? Jin Chen said yesterday they arrived before Ze Nuoer, didn't he?

Unfortunately, even though the distance isn't far, they belong to different regions; Ai Sai Ya remembered via his light-brain map that the edge over there is part of the Phage Phase Zone, where the Corpse Rift Abyss Beasts living there are even more troublesome.

Ai Sai Ya stared for a while, clenched his fist in indecision, then gritted his teeth and flew down to retract his wings.

"Lord Jin Chen, do the various regions of the forest exhibit compression-transfer phenomena?" Ai Sai Ya asked, somewhat hesitant, his words hiding meaning.

Jin Chen bandaged his wrist, raised his eyes doubtfully, "Compression-transfer?"

There's also this?

Jin Chen instinctively lowered his head and pressed the eye bracelet, his pupils turning icy.

The distance between Ze Nuoer and him is only two hundred meters!

How come a region transfer appears just now!

Jin Chen stood up, pressing his worry, and asked: "Can you see Ze Nuoer?"

Ai Sai Ya blanked for a moment, not knowing how Jin Chen extracted that from his words: "I can see it—in the suddenly appearing Phage Phase Zone—but what you need to do…"

Jin Chen had already rushed over.

The barrier between regions isn't that easy to break.

Just as Ze Nuoer likewise failed to notice Jin Chen's aura.

After locating the trapped soldiers and civilians, Ze Nuoer, who had just arranged for the assault team to mobilize aircraft for transfer, serendipitously again discovered the traces of Corpse Rift Abyss Beasts, as well as the so-called treasure—a strange beast egg, whose secreted DNA information fluid, upon rough testing, turned out to be the reverse sequence of the virus currently rampant and spreading.

Ze Nuoer made a swift decision, letting the assault team continue escorting ordinary civilians to safety, while he led An Bo and the remaining squad to slaughter the Corpse Rift Abyss Beast horde and seize that mysterious beast egg.

But Ze Nuoer never expected that, in the valley where the monster horde dwelled, there would lie the remains of former comrades and uncorrupted medals.

In the events that followed, the surviving female soldiers of the unit later recalled it as if only Major General Ze Nuoer, after desperately slaughtering the Corpse Rift Abyss Beasts, charged blood-soaked into the valley.

Afterward, the sky was filled with bombardment.

"Major General!!!"

"Ze Nuoer! Ze Nuoer! Come back!"

An Bo hoarsely shouted.

He wanted to follow up, but as he got close he was overturned by the shockwave from a sudden collapse explosion; the dark river in the valley surged, and another Corpse Rift Abyss Beast appeared.

Immediately afterward, a Corpse Rift Abyss Beast bound by some force in an instant stiffened and trembled in midair.

The soldiers overturned on the ground looked back in surprise.

Black combat boots trod over the boiling ground; sparks of high-energy material overflowing from the valley illuminated Jin Chen's stern side profile.

"Jin… Lord Jin Chen?" An Bo struggled to rise, shocked to the point of fear.

"Major General… Major General he… is inside!"

Following the gazes of An Bo and the female soldiers, Jin Chen looked toward that collapsed valley and flashed inside.

Ai Sai Ya closely followed, gritting his teeth as he went after.

——

Ze Nuoer leaned against a boulder, the index finger that pulled the trigger split open, flesh tearing, the golden ripples bursting from the muzzle representing his spiritual power now dim and lackluster.

Even so, he managed to kill the last Corpse Rift Abyss Beast here before dying from exhaustion.

At this moment, Ze Nuoer is only ten meters from that beast egg.

But he has no strength left.

In the collapsed valley there is no light; each breath is dust, and the high radiation energy from the exploding Corpse Rift Abyss Beast makes Ze Nuoer bleed all over, his spiritual power near exhaustion.

It's too painful.

Ze Nuoer weakly lowered his hand, his vision dazed.

He feels a bit regretful; perhaps he should have prepared more before coming to probe the valley, but he equally knows that region transfers won't be this fortunate again—if that beast egg is brought back, perhaps it could solve the virus now spreading.

More than regret, there is remorse.

He has no way to return to see his male lord.

Just then, a tall, slender figure appeared in Ze Nuoer's hazy vision.

Without Ling Gun Gun needing to guide the way, Ze Nuoer's fading aura allowed Jin Chen to precisely locate the soul's whereabouts, deep in the valley.

Jin Chen embraced Ze Nuoer's collapsing body, his slightly trembling fingers lifting his chin: "Ze Nuoer, you really don't listen."

"Didn't you promise to come back safely?"

【Best exit route planned for Host, suppressing high radiation frequency.】

【Currently exchanging Host for special-effect restorative fluid, deducting 2000 points!】

Male lord…

Ze Nuoer couldn't make a sound; his throat and lungs were filled with blood traces, yet his pupils stared fixedly, afraid it was an illusion.

"Good, close your eyes and sleep." Jin Chen lowered his head and kissed the tip of his nose.

The familiar temperature overwhelmed the senses; Zenuoer could no longer hold on and fainted completely.

Aisaiya watched from a distance, their expression complex.

These past few days, he almost forgot what Your Excellency Jin Chen looked like in front of Zenuoer.

It turned out to be so different.

"Aisaiya." Jin Chen picked up Zenuoer, voice devoid of warmth, "Go get the beast egg."

"Ah? Oh..." Aisaiya recalled the promise between the imperial father and Jin Chen, glanced blankly at the strange, oozing beast egg, and slowly approached under Jin Chen's gaze.

Jin Chen's psychic power was suppressing the beast egg.

Aisaiya realized this, grew a bit bolder, closed eyes and grabbed the beast egg, enduring the scorching heat while following behind and leaving.

The instant the psychic power was withdrawn, the valley became a completely ruined flatland.

In the tent hastily erected by Anbo, Jin Chen took out the recovery chamber, held Zenuoer, and placed them inside.

No bug dared ask where this golden restorative fluid came from.

Outside the tent, the wounded female soldiers who were resting and healing were overjoyed and burst into tears, then hurried to tend to the badly burned Aisaiya.

"What do you say..." Anbo finally had the mood to jest, "Waiting for the Major General to wake, one may not necessarily be able to appease Your Excellency Jin Chen."