“Lulu, are you hurt?”
Yunyang immediately looked You Lu up and down with concern.
“No. I gave his spirit form a good thrashing, and he returned to normal.”
At the mention of this, You Lu grabbed Yunyang’s hand.
“Yangyang, thank goodness you told me before that mental power could attack a male’s spirit form. Otherwise, I would definitely have been injured today!”
After rescuing Yun Shaoqi, Yunyang had sent You Lu a message through her optical brain, telling her about her discovery.
“What are you thanking me for? As long as you’re all right.” Yunyang waved her hand. “Lulu, aside from you and that male, did anyone else hear that voice?”
Yu Wenxu stepped forward.
“I was with my female lord the entire time, but I didn’t hear the voice she mentioned.”
He had never doubted anything his female lord said, so it seemed that only certain people could hear that voice.
The other ten beastmen husbands also said they had heard nothing.
Yunyang fell into thought.
How strange.
Her older brother could hear it. Lulu could hear it. The male Lulu had purified today could hear it too, yet no one else could.
It was so complicated.
Yunyang was too lazy to keep thinking about it. She turned toward the kitchen. “Qin Mo, you can tell Adjutant Pan En and the others about this.”
This wasn’t something she needed to worry about.
Qin Mo’s voice came from the kitchen. “My female lord, don’t worry. I already relayed what Miss You Lu said to Adjutant Pan En through my optical brain.”
Yunyang trusted the five beastmen husbands to handle things.
She patted You Lu’s hand reassuringly. “Let the First Army investigate this. We’ll eat first.”
You Lu hurriedly nodded.
Naturally, investigating the matter wouldn’t trouble the two females.
Over the next few days, Yunyang continued as usual, arriving at the Purification Tower punctually to lend a hand.
With two S-rank mental-power users carrying out the purification, the number of males in the First Army whose contamination levels exceeded ninety dropped by half in just a few days.
On Yunyang’s sixth day on T01, Leo made the decision to give both her and You Lu a day off.
Since they had the next day off, the two women waited until their mental power had recovered that evening before summoning the members of both the main and reserve units of the escort team for a collective purification session.
The escort team protected them without compensation, of course, but if their contamination levels became too high, that would be bad for the two women as well.
In any case, their mental power recovered quickly, so there was no need to be stingy with it.
The escort team members were deeply moved.
The two esteemed ladies had come all the way to T01 to help them, so naturally they had to ensure the ladies’ safety. That was the first principle of the Federation’s Female Protection Act; no reward was required.
Yet the two esteemed ladies had given them compensation more precious than Federation credits or military merit.
For a time, the members of the escort team all opened their optical brains and transferred credits and military merit to the two ladies.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the main and reserve units of the escort team also switched shifts. The reserve unit would take the day shift, while the main unit would take the night shift.
Naturally, none of this required Yunyang’s attention. After the collective purification ended, she simply dragged her five beastmen husbands back to their residence.
Once her five husbands had served her dinner, Yunyang eagerly opened her optical brain to check her military merit.
All the males she had purified over the past few days had transferred twenty percent of their military merit to her account. Combined with what Commander Lei Ou and Lulu had given her before, she now had even more military merit than Qin Mo had possessed.
Yunyang showed the string of numbers to Qin Mo. “Qin Mo, can this military merit be exchanged for crystal cores at any Federation military station or base?”
Qin Mo was just about to answer when the other husbands beat him to it.
“Female lord, are you running short of crystal cores? I’ll go buy some more for you.”
“You don’t need to exchange them yourself, female lord. I’ll place an order online right now.”
“Do you need me to contact the mecha research base?”
“Female lord…”
Aside from exchanging military merit, Federation credits could also be used to purchase crystal cores.
It was just that compared with military merit, buying crystal cores of the same rank with Federation credits required far more money.
Yunyang waved her hand. “There’s no need for you to buy any. If I don’t exchange this military merit for crystal cores, it’s not useful to me for anything else.”
Besides, she wasn’t planning to exchange them for herself.
With her current ability level, she could absorb, at most, fourth-level crystal cores. The ones her husbands had prepared for her were more than enough.
She intended to exchange them for high-level crystal cores.
During their days on T01, her husbands had been doing their best to improve their abilities whenever they weren’t attending to her.
But unlike low-level crystal cores, high-level crystal cores—especially those above level eight—couldn’t be purchased with Federation credits.
Even though Qin Mo had exchanged quite a few using military merit, there still weren’t many to distribute among the five husbands.
And that was only because Fu Shiyi and Pei Wenye had voluntarily said they didn’t need any for the time being.
That was why Yunyang planned to use her military merit to exchange for high-level crystal cores for all five of them.
If her husbands’ abilities improved, her own safety would be better protected as well. It was beneficial in every way.
Besides, military merit didn’t cost her anything.
Qin Mo finally found a chance to speak. “Female lord, Commander Lei Ou can authorize your account later. Then you’ll be able to exchange your military merit for items on the military’s official website. You won’t need to make a special trip to a base or station.”
“However, you have to be there in person for the authorization.”
They could exchange items through the official website?
Yunyang nodded. “All right. I’ll visit Commander Lei Ou at the tower when I go there the day after tomorrow.”
It wasn’t particularly urgent, so there was no need to make a special trip to the tower.
These days, the tower was essentially her workplace.
Other than the boss, no one liked their workplace. That truth remained unchanged even in the interstellar age.
Once the serious business was over, the five husbands began discussing matters that were considerably less proper.
“Female lord, who would you like to attend to you tonight?”
The next day was their day off, which meant they could indulge themselves a little more than usual.
After all, from the time they had prepared to depart until their arrival on T01, they had gone half a month without properly indulging themselves because of their female lord’s orders.
Yunyang saw through the husbands’ little schemes at a glance.
Since they had the next day off, she wanted to indulge a little too.
But whom should she choose?
Yunyang thought back. During the previous four days and the journey here, all five husbands had already taken turns.
Today marked the beginning of a new round.
Although Fu Shiyi had attended to her at noon while she recovered her mental power, she still had to choose someone again for the evening.
Yunyang’s gaze moved across the five husbands. Before long, she had an idea.
“Let’s draw lots!”
She opened her optical brain and fiddled with it for a while before sending a lottery link to their group of contacts.
“You each get one chance to draw. Whoever wins the prize gets to attend to me tonight.”
There were always bloggers on the Interstellar Network who liked to host lotteries.
Yunyang enjoyed participating, but her luck was terrible and she had never won anything.
She decided to use this opportunity to see which of her husbands had the best luck. After that, she could have the luckiest one enter online lotteries for her!
That was one reason. The other was that she genuinely didn’t know whom to choose.
After all, each of her five husbands had his own distinct appeal.
After hearing Yunyang’s words, the five husbands rubbed their hands together eagerly.
They had never participated in a lottery before, but today, in order to win, they silently prayed to the Beast God in their hearts.
Then, all five pressed the draw button at the same time.
Yunyang watched the light screens in front of them with curiosity.
On the screens, five prize wheels spun rapidly before gradually coming to a stop one after another.
