Star Beast World: Super rare females become popular

Chapter 28

Lan Heng's eyes were heavy, revealing a sense of reminiscing about the past, and he slowly spoke: "There are more males than females in the empire, and the level of female pheromones is getting lower and lower every year. A large number of males can only wait to get out of control."

"So I promoted a plan that year, recruiting a large number of researchers across the interstellar space, and used the power of the empire to develop artificial pheromone inhibitors without side effects, as well as female pheromone upgrades, to change the empire's predicament."

"But I didn't know the right person and let a wolf in. The researcher who led the project back then was called Dr. Scoop. He sneaked in and took advantage of the resources and position of the empire, claiming that he needed to recruit outstanding female volunteers for project research. In fact, it was for his own vicious experiments."

"Many outstanding females signed up for the future of the empire. Su Jing's sister was one of the volunteers back then. Because of her excellent S-level pheromone talent, she was picked and abducted by Scope. When she was found, her pheromones had collapsed and dissipated. She had been lying in a coma in the treatment cabin for three years and could not wake up."

"Su Jing was deeply shocked and stimulated by that incident. He resolutely gave up martial arts and turned to medicine, hoping to find a way to save his sister. Unfortunately, there has been no progress so far. So he hates me. After all, if I hadn't promoted that project and let the wolf in, his sister wouldn't have become like this."

Li Zhi finally understood Su Jing's reaction and connected most of the things. She hesitated and comforted him, "Sir, you can't be blamed for this. Your starting point is for the good of the empire, but some bad guys got involved. No one wants this to happen."

As the commander of the empire, Lan Heng has always been considered almighty and has many people relying on him. However, this was the first time he received comfort from a young female, and a strange feeling flashed through his heart.

He lowered his eyes, a light flashed across his narrow eyes behind his lenses, and he chuckled, joking for once: "Let's go, I'll take you home. Can you still treat me to dinner today?"

Hearing Lan Heng's question, Li Zhi fell silent. Because of Jiang Yue's injury, she was still a little angry with him.
Li Zhi bit her lip and couldn't help looking up at him: "Sir, why did you hurt Jiang Yue like that? Is it because I am a female without pheromones?"

Lan Heng lowered his eyes and looked at her, with a hint of complexity in his eyes. He was usually very frugal with words, but he rarely explained seriously:

"Li Zhi, I'm not prejudiced or discriminating against you, but the interstellar world is not peaceful right now. The empire is facing internal and external troubles. It needs me, and it also needs Jiang Yue. The empire cannot be without him to protect it."

Li Zhi was silent for a moment, thinking about Jiang Yue's past and inner thoughts that he had revealed to her, and asked in a low voice: "Then if we can find a way to avoid losing control, then protecting the empire and being a guardian will no longer conflict, right?"

Lan Heng's eyes were filled with extreme rationality and a persistence that was close to faith, and also contained a hint of helplessness that others could not detect: "Li Zhi, the future of the empire cannot be lost. It won't work if we just rely on what if."

"We all need to treat ourselves as machines, discard useless emotions, and remain absolutely rational, so that we can ensure accurate and efficient decision-making."

"You can turn yourself into a machine, but Jiang Yue is not a machine, and he doesn't want to be a machine. He has a heart and emotions, and he is a living person."

Li Zhi shook his head in disapproval, raised his face, and his eyes were full of determination: "Sir, I told you before that I would persuade Jiang Yue to withdraw his application. But now, I want to respect his idea."

"He firmly chose to protect me, and I have to live up to his choice. Rather than giving up directly, I want to fight for a chance before finding a female who can save him."

Lan Heng looked at her steadily and fell silent. His heart, which had never had many emotional fluctuations, was suddenly filled with inexplicable and complicated emotions.

Some bitterness, some anger, some grievance.

Isn’t he a living person? Doesn’t he want to become a machine? Doesn’t he want to have an if?

If it were not for the empire, in order to prevent the tragedy he experienced from happening to others, if he did not have much time left, how could he be willing to shoulder the heavy responsibility and burden of ideals, keep his brain and heart tense at all times, abandon life and emotions, and be left with only reason and career.

"I've become the villain who broke up the couple." Lan Heng murmured to himself, turning around and saying, "Let's go. I'll take you back."
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Lan Heng sent Li Zhi to the door and did not mention anything about eating. After watching Li Zhi enter the door, he turned and left.

But he did not leave directly. Instead, he sat in the car parked on the side of the road, took off his gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed his eyebrows, was silent for a moment, and gave instructions to the intelligent computer.

"Call up the playback of the previous discovery of Li Zhi."

The images from the first scene on the screen were extremely clear. A transparent vertical glass cabin, with a sweet girl in a white dress quietly floating inside, her body full of nutrition hoses and data cables, and a golden sacred soft light emanating from her body.

When he saw this photo before, he felt nothing in his heart. He just felt that the empire had lost an S-class female, which was a pity from a profit perspective.

He just took a quick look at her at the time, and then told Jiang Yue to take her back to the female protection center and take good care of her. He then stopped paying attention to this little female, with whom he thought they would never have any more interactions.

But now, not only did he have repeated encounters with this little female, he also ate the food she cooked, talked to her, listened to her complaints in person, and was repeatedly stirred up by her, causing him to do many unexpected and even irrational things.
And when he saw this scene again, he actually felt some emotions in his heart that went beyond reason and considerations of interests.

However, as he and Li Zhi said, as the commander of the empire, he should not have emotions and should be a rational machine.

He thought of the wars of his childhood and the devastated planet.

With the invasion of foreign enemies and the flames of war, the once happy and warm home turned into ruins in the blink of an eye.

Under the bricks and tiles, his loving father and mother used their bodies to support a small space for him to survive. His best friend, who had grown up with him, encountered a huge change and took different paths, standing on the opposite side.
Lan Heng recalled what he had said to Jiang Yue.

"You're just a female. The overall situation is more important. You know what to do."

He said to himself, Lan Heng, you are just a female. The overall situation is more important. You know what to do.

He forced himself to erase the turmoil in his heart, put on his glasses again, and his eyes returned to rationality and determination.
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In the room, Li Zhi had just walked into the villa and had not yet turned on the lights when a gloomy voice came from behind him and a cold wind blew in his ears.

"Hehe, I found you, my little baby."

Li Zhi felt a sudden chill on his back, and the hair on the back of his neck stood up. Before he could even scream, his mouth and nose were covered.

A strange fragrance rushed into her nose, and she suddenly lost consciousness and fainted.

Outside the house, Lan Heng was about to drive away when the guards around the villa came running over with anxious looks on their faces.

"Sir, Lord Li Zhi is missing!"

Lan Heng, who had just suppressed his inner emotions and regained his rationality, suddenly felt his heart tense.

The guard handed Lan Heng a piece of letter paper with handwriting on it: "It should be Scoop who kidnapped the person. The subordinates found a note at the door."

Lan Heng took it and saw black words written on it: Borrow this little treasure for a while, return it when you are done, quickly, don't worry.

In the lower right corner is a black scorpion, waving its pincers wantonly and looking extremely arrogant.

The commander, who used to remain calm and composed in any situation, now had a cold face, tinged with tension and anger that he himself was not aware of.

"Damn it! Go find Li Zhi immediately and catch the poisonous scorpion!"

(End of this chapter)