Chapter 62 (2/2)

It seemed that the fierce scarlet eyes were closing slowly. Like a good baby, this muka cub peacefully entered the land of dreams.

Making sure that the cub was asleep, Xie Luan turned off the light.

The temperature in the temporary heat preservation room was just right, Xie Luan did not feel uncomfortable when he was in the room. Lying down on his side, his breathing soon slowed down and became light.

The room was quiet and dark, it was late into the night. Xie Luan had since long been deeply asleep. At this time one of the eggs on the bed suddenly shook faintly.

It moved and moved, then moved and moved yet again.

Although very faint, this kind of small movement happened several times and finally, unbeknownst to the sleeping Xie Luan, the egg rolled into his embrace.

By the time Xie Luan found out about this matter, it was already the next morning. Drowsily opening his eyes, Xie Luan who was still not completely awake felt something pressing against his chest.

Because of this, he lowered his head and saw that the egg which was supposed to be lying close to the wall had somehow made its way into his arms.

Fortunately, he hadn't crushed it…. He breathed a sigh of relief, Xie Luan was now fully awake.

Still, he couldn't completely put away the unease in his heart. Xie Luan quickly sat up and picked up the egg, using his spiritual power to examine it.

The result of the examination surprised Xie Luan. The life response of this egg was much clearer than it had been yesterday. When he called, the response also seemed to be a bit more energetic.

”Baby must be trying hard to be born.”

Stroking the gray shell of the egg, Xie Luan gently encouraged the baby who had not hatched yet.

His voice might not reach the cub and suppose it did, it was not something the cub could understand. But Xie Luan thought that he should at least be able to convey the feeling of looking forward to its birth.

He did not know if it was an illusion, but after saying this sentence, he felt that the egg he was holding seemed to move.

Xie Luan spent the morning examining the eggs in the room one by one and once again conducted spiritual guidance. He found that among the eight eggs, the one with the strongest and most energetic life response was the one he had found lying in his arms when he woke up.

The life response of each egg was better than yesterday, but the degree of improvement varied.

There was one egg Xie Luan was extra worried about. The egg was probably the one who had been most seriously injured in the accident. At present, the life response was also the weakest among the eight eggs. It couldn't be regarded as out of danger. He needed to care for it extra long every day.

Completing the spiritual guidance, Xie Luan took along the nox and muka cub on a walk around the village and Duke took the initiative to come over to act as a guide.

”Were these buildings all built by the mukas themselves?” Xie Luan looked at the building in this village and found that some of them were actually very elaborate. He briefly ran his eyes over them, they were quite beautiful.

“Not entirely.”

Duke replied, ”Some of them were built by the mukas themselves and some were built by other races, the buildings in the city are also like this. Certain buildings are inconvenient for mukas to build by themselves, at that time they will hire people of other races to do it.”

Xie Luan did not expect this answer and only reacted after a second, nodding.

”Many people say that mukas have relatively lacking intelligence. I don't agree with them, their way of thinking is too outdated.” Duke lightly shook his head in disapproval. ”Maybe the muka race was like that a long time ago, but the mukas now have actually regular intelligence, they just can't advance into a humanoid form, that's all.”

As a guide, Duke could not help saying these words to the youth behind him as he lead the way. He felt that the other, like him, had no prejudice against the mukas and surely would be able to understand him.

Every race could evolve, and they had gone through a long period of development in order for them to reach their present state. A race without intelligence could gain intelligence, and a race without combat strength could become powerful.

Who was to say that one day, the mukas would not be able to advance into humanoid form like the other races? Xie Luan strongly agreed with what the other had said and once again nodded his head. He then looked around the small village belonging to the muka race.

Actually this village… This planet was still beautiful.

The main problem was the lack of vegetation and the low degree of reforestation. The sand blown by the wind obscured the beautiful scene this planet should have presented.

If they could solve this issue, in the future the mukas would have a home overflowing with green, right?

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Translator's note:

Oooh, is Xie Luan going to change an entire planet?

Also, I think there might be some interesting foreshadowing in this chapter~