Yu Wenxu stepped forward and carefully wiped the powder from You Lu’s hand.
You Lu took out another insect core. “A female’s psychic power is the bane of the insect race. Yangyang, you should give it a try too.”
Yunyang accepted the insect core and, following You Lu’s example, controlled her psychic threads and wrapped them around it.
The insect core likewise crumbled into powder in her hand.
Fu Shiyi had just begun to move when Pei Wenye beat him to it, using his ability to wash Yunyang’s hand clean.
Pei Wenye looked smug.
Fu Shiyi’s gaze darkened.
You Lu failed to notice the undercurrent between Yunyang’s two beastmen husbands and explained, “An ordinary insect’s core is located in its abdomen.”
“If you encounter an insect, all you need to do is make a small opening in its abdomen and send your psychic power inside. You can then easily destroy its core.”
Without its core, an insect loses its source of energy. At most, it becomes nothing more than a large reptile.
Yunyang was stunned.
Killing an insect might not be easy, but if all she had to do was make a wound in its abdomen, even the lowest-grade light-energy gun in the galaxy could manage that.
So… were females actually better suited to the battlefield?
As for why the ones fighting on the front lines were always males, Yunyang could more or less guess the reason.
With the Federation’s enormous beastman population, females were still far fewer in number than males.
Although females had an advantage against the insect race, going to war meant that casualties could never be completely avoided.
Given the astonishing disparity between the numbers of females and males, losing even one female would probably be more serious to the Federation than losing tens of thousands of males.
Yunyang nodded. “I understand. Thank you, Lulu.”
You Lu added, “Yangyang, insects are divided into nine levels. Our psychic power can easily destroy the cores of insects below level seven.”
“But insects above level seven have a certain degree of resistance. If you can’t kill them in one blow, it’s best not to engage them.”
Yunyang indicated that she understood. She opened her mouth, intending to ask something else, but a sound came from the dining room.
With the help of You Lu’s husbands, breakfast had been prepared especially quickly today.
Yunyang temporarily gave up on her questions and pulled You Lu to the dining table. After they finished eating, she took her into her room.
The two women’s husbands were left outside.
Fu Shiyi and Yu Wenxu exchanged a glance before taking up positions on either side of the door, standing guard over the two females inside.
In the room, You Lu looked at Yunyang in confusion. “Yangyang, what’s wrong?”
The room was spacious. Besides a bed, it also contained a low table and several armchairs. Yunyang sat down with her on one of the chairs.
“Lulu, if our psychic power can be used offensively, then does that mean… it can also attack a male’s psychic form?”
You Lu: “…”
Had Yangyang’s husbands done something heinous?
Though she was puzzled, You Lu still answered honestly, “That might be possible, but no one has ever tried it before.”
The Federation placed great importance on females.
If a male dared to harass or harm a female, the people from the Female Protection Center would deal with him. There was no need for a female to take matters into her own hands.
Yunyang also felt that it should be possible.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t experiment on her own husbands, and she couldn’t attack some strange male either.
She would have to verify it when she got the chance in the future.
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You Lu left after lunch. Once Yunyang had seen her and her husbands off, she went to find Qin Mo.
“Qin Mo, come with me to the fifth floor.”
All four of her husbands immediately turned to look at Qin Mo.
What had that tiger cub been doing behind their backs this time?
Qin Mo himself was pleasantly surprised, but only an idiot would refuse such an incredible opportunity.
He crossed the distance to Yunyang in three quick strides, picked her up, and headed toward the elevator under the murderous gazes of his four rivals.
The fifth floor of the villa was the exercise area prepared for the males.
Besides all kinds of workout equipment, there were also two empty rooms for specialized training.
Qin Mo usually practiced shooting in one of them.
Although he was on marriage leave, firearms were the sort of thing one could easily become rusty with if they went untouched for too long. So after working out every day, he practiced shooting for at least half an hour.
Yunyang’s destination was the shooting room.
After Qin Mo carried her inside at her instruction, Yunyang climbed down from his arms on her own. She walked over to Qin Mo’s gun rack and eagerly picked up a silver light-energy pistol.
The light-energy pistol was the lightest and easiest-to-use firearm in the Federation.
Yunyang figured that if she wanted to go to war, she would definitely need to know how to use a gun. The light-energy pistol seemed like a good choice.
It was compact, but its lethality was no joke. It would be more than capable of piercing the insect race’s most vulnerable abdomen.
“Qin Mo, teach me how to use a gun.”
Qin Mo glanced at the light-energy pistol in her hand and shook his head. “Female Master, this gun isn’t suitable for you.”
He wrapped his arms around Yunyang from behind, returned the silver light-energy pistol to his spatial button, and took out a red-gold pistol.
Yunyang examined it twice. “What’s the difference between these two?”
“This is the Federation’s newest light-energy pistol, the NG-T30. It has the most advanced technology, including a safety lock, tracking, and adjustable attack range. It’s also much lighter than that T20.”
Yunyang: “…”
She didn’t understand a word of that, but it sounded incredibly advanced.
“So how do I use it?” Never mind. As long as it could hurt the insects, that was all that mattered.
Qin Mo wrapped one arm around her waist and held her wrist with the other, adjusting her line of sight until she was aiming at the light-energy target he had set up earlier.
“Like this.”
He demonstrated the basic controls, then pulled the trigger.
The gunshot was so faint it was almost inaudible. The light-energy bullet shot out and struck the center of the target 0.01 seconds later.
Yunyang hadn’t even reacted before she saw the hole in the exact center of the target.
It was that simple?
Yunyang felt as though she could do it too. She snatched the pistol from him, aimed at the center of the target, and pulled the trigger. Then… the light-energy bullet skimmed the edge of the target and buried itself in the wall behind it.
The wall was made of the safest material in the galaxy, so the light-energy bullet didn’t leave even the slightest mark.
Yunyang fell silent.
It looked easy, but only after trying it herself did she realize how difficult it actually was.
She couldn’t even hit a stationary target, let alone attack insects moving at incredible speeds.
“Female Master, hitting the edge of the target on your first try is already impressive.”
Qin Mo followed the principles of encouragement-based education. He praised Yunyang first before correcting the mistakes she had made.
If the recruits of the Twenty-Third Army saw this, they would definitely think their deputy commander had been possessed by an insect.
After all, Qin Mo had never used encouragement-based education with them. If they missed their targets, all he ever did was call them idiots.
Naturally, he could never treat Yunyang that way.
He practiced with Yunyang for an hour, and during that time, he didn’t say a single harsh word. Yunyang was praised until her confidence swelled dramatically, and she had already reached the point where she could hit the edge of the target every time.
“Female Master, you’re doing great.”
Seeing that Yunyang was getting tired, Qin Mo put the pistol away and thoughtfully massaged her arm.
“Female Master, if you want to go to T01, your stamina needs to keep up too.”
“Starting tomorrow, how about I take you out for morning training?”
