Chapter 298: Chapter 298: Faction

「At night.」

Long Hao tossed and turned restlessly in bed.

Finally, he couldn’t help but say with some annoyance, “Qinqin, your new partners are just too inconsiderate.

First the monkey, now the tiger. It’s already dark and they’re still not back. Don’t tell me they’re planning on staying out all night?

Just as I thought. Males from the Chaotic Star have no husbandly virtues whatsoever!!”

Getting beaten to the punch by males like them made him feel like a complete loser.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, until he had twisted himself into a pretzel.

Jiang Qin found it both amusing and strangely cute.

She hadn’t yet decided how to tell him, because currently, only her first three partners knew about her Superpower. Even Cang Hong was still in the dark.

So she wasn’t sure if she should tell Long Hao.

After all, he was different from her other partners.

Even if he became her partner, he would still be different.

Their allegiances were different.

The Empire was constantly suppressing the Federation. Jiang Qin wasn’t sure if he could firmly choose her when it came down to a choice between her and his homeland and family.

Honestly, she didn’t care where she lived, but she had to consider her other partners.

This was one of the reasons she hadn’t proposed marrying Long Hao and Jiang Qingfeng before.

One family, two factions.

’Who could say for sure how important a partner like her would really be to them when their factions finally clashed?’

It wouldn’t matter if they were ordinary males from the Empire, but they weren’t.

One was a Prince, the other a Young Marshal. Both had received military training.

People like them generally held a deep sense of allegiance to a greater cause.

This was the reason for her hesitation.

Everyone has their biases. All her current partners were from the Federation, so naturally, she was a bit biased toward them.

If war broke out between the two nations one day and Long Hao asked her to immigrate to the Empire, she probably wouldn’t be willing.

She might not have any family, but her partners did.

Not everyone was unattached and completely alone in the world.

She could live that way, but she would never ask her partners to cut ties with their families.

Besides, it wasn’t as if she had no one she cared about in the Federation.

There was Uncle You Wei, Uncle Kang, Bai Mufeng who had helped her several times, as well as her assistant and her fans.

Especially her fans.

Most of her popularity came from her fans in the Federation; fans from the Empire were, after all, a minority.

So, she wasn’t as carefree as she claimed to be.

In times of peace, it didn’t matter where she lived.

But in times of war, you naturally had to stand with the people you cared about.

’Even I, an Interstellar outsider, think this way. So what about Long Hao and Jiang Qingfeng?’

That was why she was hesitating.

The most important thing for a family is to have a common goal. Once factions become an issue, it’s easy for the family to be torn apart.

In the end, she still couldn’t make up her mind.

Feeling a pang of guilt, Jiang Qin chose to evade the issue once again.

Pretending to pull a harmonica from her pocket, she said, “Let me play a soothing melody for you again. Otherwise, you won’t be able to sleep tonight.”

“No need, Qinqin. It’s useless. Don’t waste your spiritual power.”

“What kind of serious condition do you have? Can you tell me so we can figure something out together?”

Long Hao stopped mentioning the monkey and the tiger, burrowing into the blankets as if to escape.

“It’s nothing, just some internal injuries.”

Jiang Qin frowned. “Are they serious? Can an Advanced Healing Potion cure them?

If you take one, how many days can you last? I’ll find a way to get you back to the Imperial Hospital for treatment as soon as possible.”

’The Empire’s medical equipment is better than the Federation’s,’ she thought. ’Even if it’s a serious condition, the Imperial Hospital should have a solution, right?’

’Besides, internal injuries shouldn’t be that serious.’

’As I recall, with current technology, as long as a Beastman can hold on, even with ruptured internal organs, it’s possible to get new ones transplanted.’

’They can even extract their own cells to cultivate organs, which are then kept in storage at the hospital.’

’Given Long Hao’s status, the hospital should have backup organs stored for him.’

But Long Hao just shook his head, indicating that she shouldn’t risk looking for an Advanced Healing Potion for him again.

Even in the Empire, those potions were restricted items. Finding one on the Chaotic Star would probably come down to sheer luck.

This made Jiang Qin’s heart sink with anxiety.

’No, they have to get back to the Empire as soon as possible.’

’If Long Hao dies because of me, I’ll never find peace for the rest of my life.’

She already knew why Long Hao had attacked the research institute.

That’s right—it was to find her.

Long Hao had arrived in such a hurry that news of her escape hadn’t reached him yet, so he assumed she had been taken directly to a research institute on the Chaotic Star.

The moment he landed on the Chaotic Star, he started asking about research institutes.

Then he went through them one by one, checking which institute had recently abducted new females.

Once he got a lead, he went straight over, attacked the institute, and even took a somewhat high-ranking researcher hostage.

He offered to trade the researcher’s life for the person he was looking for.

The institute agreed but was secretly plotting something else. After all, their institute had never captured Jiang Qin!

Theirs was just an affiliated institute, not Dr. A’s research institute at all.

But Long Hao didn’t believe them. The information he had gathered pointed to this damn institute having captured a batch of females.

With one side refusing to believe and the other unable to produce the person, the negotiations naturally fell apart.

Long Hao killed the hostage researcher outright. In his view, none of those involved in illegal human experimentation were good people anyway.

So he killed him. If it was a mistake, the researcher could only blame himself for choosing to work for criminals.

After that, he killed a few more Beastmen who surrounded him, blew up the institute, and forced his way inside for a quick search before escaping.

It had to be said, his flight-enabling Genes provided him with a great deal of convenience.

If he had been any slower, one of those high-powered thermal weapons would have hit him.

It was also because the researchers had their reservations. They didn’t want to raze the institute to the ground, as there was still a lot of data that could be salvaged.

But if they had used their most destructive weapons, the entire area would have been turned to rubble.

After that, he became a wanted man.

He was on the run, his injuries worsening and his Riot Value climbing higher and higher.

By the time he met Jiang Qin, he was already showing signs of going berserk.

If she hadn’t arrived in time, it wouldn’t have been long before he lost consciousness and became a feral beast.

That was why Jiang Qin simply couldn’t stand by and watch him die.

’In any case, there’s no harm in playing a soothing melody for him now.’

So Jiang Qin said no more, directly pulling out her harmonica and beginning to play.

A faint, melancholic, yet melodious tune drifted out once more…

The green-haired man with the buzz cut, who hadn’t left and was still stubbornly squatting by the window, had his eyes light up in an instant.

“Heh heh, I knew it. As long as I follow that little brat, I’m bound to hear more of that music.”

He promptly pulled a bed out of his Space Button, planning to set up camp right under Jiang Qin’s window.

As for the White Tiger?

Hah. He wasn’t afraid. In fact, he was itching for another fight with the White Tiger.

He must have just been too careless last time!

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