Chapter 91: Shi Lingfeng’s Revenge

Chapter 91: Chapter 91: Shi Lingfeng’s Revenge

Before everyone could even figure out how to celebrate tonight, the branch dean of the Central Beastman Academy Agricultural and Science Institute came knocking on their door. She tactfully expressed her desire for Gu Weilan to grant the exclusive licensing of her patent to the pharmaceutical factory controlled by the academy. Gu Weilan did not agree.

Zhan Heng stood leisurely by her side, his tone unhurried. "My Female Master will authorize this patent to my family’s corporate group to set up a dedicated production line. If the academy wishes to use it, they can pay to share the rights. An exclusive license is inappropriate."

Though phrased as a negotiation, the decision was final.

The dean of the Agricultural and Technology Institute pursed her lips, nodded, and signed a patent implementation licensing contract with Gu Weilan. Afterward, the dean kindly reminded her, "Weilan Female, you should also apply for cultivation method patents for the few plant varieties you grew that only have a contamination level of three to five. That way, even if you publish the cultivation methods for free, other beastmen who wish to imitate them must still acknowledge your contribution!"

An excellent and successful beastman without a powerful Beast Clan backing them should make themselves highly renowned. That way, if any capital interests eyed her patented achievements, they would have to carefully weigh whether they could actually get their hands on them. Zhan Heng, Lorenzo, and Shi Lingfeng immediately understood the unspoken subtext behind the branch dean’s words, and their attitude toward her grew noticeably more respectful.

After seeing the branch dean off, Zhan Heng held Gu Weilan in his arms and began applying for the cultivation method patents. While helping her with the applications, he feigned nonchalance and asked about Shen Mianzhou, "Has that Beast Husband from the Hunting Team not finished his missions yet?"

Lorenzo narrowed his eyes. He had finally managed to secure a few extra days to prepare for pregnancy using the Incubation Pod. What was Zhan Heng’s intention in suddenly bringing up Shen Mianzhou? Of course, Zhan Heng knew perfectly well that Shen Mianzhou had been purposefully sent away by Lorenzo. Moreover, Shi Lingfeng had secretly revealed to Zhan Heng that ever since Shen Mianzhou was dispatched, he had been taking on an endless stream of missions—even accepting a frontline assignment to coordinate with the military legion in battle!

By mentioning Shen Mianzhou now, Zhan Heng certainly wasn’t trying to make their Female Master reminisce or pine for another Beast Husband. He was simply trying to sabotage Lorenzo’s image in front of her! The Female Master’s first Beast Husband hadn’t been decided yet! Fighting for favor had always been this cutthroat.

Gu Weilan sighed, letting Zhan Heng operate her Light Brain for her. Her expression revealed a mix of longing, loneliness, and melancholy.

"Mianzhou and his Hunting Team first took on a mission from the Bounty Association, followed by various other bounty quests. Now, they’ve been forcibly kept at the frontline facing off against the Insect Clan due to a military coordination order.

"It seems it’s because the minds of my former matches—Bai Yanli from the White Tiger Clan and Rong Hua Jin from the Vermilion Bird Clan—have been deeply infiltrated by the Insect Clan. As a result, both of them were arrested. Therefore, any military legions they came into contact with have been detained at the Central Star Military Hospital for a thorough investigation.

"This caused a delay in reinforcing the frontline legions, so several Hunting Teams were forced to stay behind under the mandatory coordination order."

Shi Lingfeng’s lips curled into a smirk. "Coincidentally, the bounty missions the Hunting Team took on those few times offered quite generous rewards."

Lorenzo completely ignored the blatant attempts by Zhan Heng and Shi Lingfeng to smear him. His gentle, boyish voice spoke softly, "Female Master, why don’t we wait until Beast Husband Shen Mianzhou returns to host a more grand banquet? We could invite those good friends of yours from your academy major.

"Of course, it wouldn’t be to show off your patents. Rather, since your female friends belong to different Beast Clans, they must have brothers or male cousins who have yet to successfully match with a Female Master, right?

"Or perhaps, if those friends are willing to try using the Incubation Pod to gestate cubs just like you, they won’t have to carry the cubs themselves for six months. If they could be like you and have two or three Beast Husbands gestating cubs in the Incubation Pods simultaneously within a six-month period...

"...the probability of them producing a female cub would greatly increase! They would naturally be incredibly grateful to you, Female Master!"

Shi Lingfeng let out a soft scoff. "Do you think just anyone is as blessed by the Beast God as our Female Master?"

Lorenzo shot him a cold glare, but Shi Lingfeng’s narrow, peach-blossom eyes showed no fear as he coldly stared back.

Back when Shi Lingfeng’s importance in Gu Weilan’s heart had just begun to grow, it was Lorenzo who had deliberately brought up Zhan Heng, stealing away his chance to consummate the marriage with their Female Master that day! As a result, it had become incredibly difficult for him to ever regain that kind of status in her heart.

The only reason Shi Lingfeng hadn’t been at each other’s throats with Lorenzo earlier was that Lorenzo Snow was, after all, the Female Master’s first initiating Beast Husband. Since he hadn’t known exactly where Lorenzo stood in her heart, he feared that fighting too ugly a battle would cause her to dislike him even more before he even had the chance to consummate their relationship. Shi Lingfeng had endured it, time and time again.

But now, he was using the Incubation Pod to gestate the Female Master’s very first female cub! Although one of the four cubs in Zhan Heng’s pod might be female, he had read the posts on the Star Network. They said that if the probability was under forty percent, it was basically guaranteed not to be a female cub. Furthermore, if the probability of it being a female cub fell between twenty and forty percent, the cub was highly likely to be a natural-born homosexual male.

Shi Lingfeng now had two! With two little cubs holding a forty-seven percent chance of being female, his confidence soared. Naturally, he now dared to provoke and snap back at Lorenzo!

Paying no mind to the squabbling between Lorenzo and Shi Lingfeng, Zhan Heng instructed Housekeeper Zhan Ci to start preparing dinner. Meanwhile, Gu Weilan took out the vegetables she had grown in her space and handed them over to Housekeeper Zhan Ci.

The vegetables grown in her space were truly good stuff! The Spiritual Spring Water could relieve Gu Weilan’s physical fatigue and slightly improve her constitution, but only the crops grown in the space could massively replenish the deficit caused by consuming her Beast Rank Energy. It was essentially like one restored health while the other restored mana—two completely different functions.

Every day now, Gu Weilan needed to use the awakened talent of her Space Beast Rank, completely depleting her Beast Rank Energy in order to make the environment within her space more solid and stable. As the space solidified, the recovery speed of the Spiritual Spring Water would become a teeny bit faster. This was also something the planting robot had told her after noticing that the space wasn’t very stable. Frightened by this, Gu Weilan frantically used her Space Talent Skill, Synchronized Binding. The planting robot then noticed that the space was gradually stabilizing, and the Spiritual Spring Water’s recovery rate had increased by zero point one times.

From then on, Gu Weilan seized every opportunity to use her Space Talent Skill to keep her space as stable as possible. It was during one of those times when her energy was completely drained that she ate a tomato, only to discover that the vegetables grown in her space could actually restore the energy consumed by her Beast Rank’s spiritual power. She wasn’t a stingy Female Master; sharing something good with her Beast Husbands on a day worth celebrating was perfectly fine.

By the time everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Gu Weilan’s Beast Husbands couldn’t help but experience somewhat of an upset stomach. If Pomegranate Seed were there, it would have told her that eating pure energy food caused them to expel some impurities, just as Gu Weilan had after drinking a handful of Spiritual Spring Water. Of course, because they had eaten a relatively small amount, the impurities naturally wouldn’t seep directly out of their pores. The vegetables grown in her space were only enough to clear out the contaminated impurities from their internal organs.

Xie Jing had eaten relatively little, so he answered nature’s call early on. After taking a fragrant shower, he put on his wig and contact lenses, then knocked on Gu Weilan’s bedroom door.