LWGP - Chapter 225

Chapter 225: Miscarriage

Inside the medical room, Saling's expression didn't change when her assistant announced that His Highness was coming. She only inquired about the number of people scheduled for a "miscarriage," then after a moment's thought, said she would handle it.

The assistant was somewhat surprised. "Lord Saling, a procedure like this doesn't require your personal attention."

"If you were to do it, you'd have to use the fleet's life fruit resources. Should we encounter trauma later, the medical aid for the combat teams would be insufficient, compromising our safety. If I do it, I'll only consume some spirit power at most, which I can simply recover."

Saling didn't need anyone's approval. After she finished speaking, she had the pregnant women brought in one by one.

The chief medical officer of the Fourth Spacetime was truly terrifying. Wang Jiu, feigning unconsciousness, had already learned that this Lord Saling was performing the procedures herself and calculated the speed of her miscarriages.

Eight seconds. Each woman went in and came out in eight seconds, and every one of them looked radiant, not like they'd had a miscarriage, but more like they'd gone for a "massage."

It was a bit terrifying.

This medical officer's skill level was likely very high, which meant her average attributes must also be extremely high.

Escape was definitely impossible. She would have to go in and assess the situation first. Besides, she didn't have a single bit of energy in her body right now.

"My player authority should be higher than hers, right? If she can't see through my armor, then my Trickery disguise is effective?"

System: "Anyway, unless someone has average attributes of over three hundred thousand, they can't break through your armor to see you. Your armor doesn't come from your attributes; it's an effect of the Order Books."

It was quite perverse. A person with average attributes of only fifty thousand possessed two complete Order Books, Immortality and Ice Sealed. Moreover, the Book of Immortality was already level two, and she had half of the Evil Order (she could actually complete it, but hadn't used the item yet). Of course, she would be difficult to see through.

Reassured by the System's confirmation, Wang Jiu was levitated inside to enjoy the full, all-inclusive service of "insemination" and "miscarriage."

Saling, wearing gloves, didn't pay much mind to the woman covered in wounds and dressed in rags. She only gave her a second glance because, despite the wretched state of her surface injuries, her thick, smooth, dark hair was quite eye-catching after being washed, as were the glimpses of her fair skin and slender, delicate figure.

Saling took that one extra look, then placed her palm on the flat abdomen. A captivating, milky-white and golden halo emanated from her palm, but only for an instant before she frowned.

The assistant was surprised. "Lord Saling, no embryo came out?"

Saling withdrew her hand, looking thoughtful. "There's no embryonic life force."

The assistant asked, "A dead embryo?"

Saling said nothing, but suddenly reached out and pressed Wang Jiu's chest.

Wang Jiu: "…"

Checking for breast cancer?

After a moment, Saling withdrew her hand, her brow tightly furrowed. She said to her assistant, "Find out who was responsible for examining her. Their skill is too poor. Hold them directly accountable."

The assistant heard the annoyance in her voice and didn't dare to delay. While ordering his subordinates to investigate, he asked, "Then this woman…"

Saling glanced at Wang Jiu, remained silent for three seconds, then raised a finger and pointed to the medical room next door.

The assistant immediately sent the person inside for further treatment, while Saling continued with her "eight-second miscarriage" service.

"How lucky you are, to have Lord Saling herself oversee your recovery."

"But she's so ugly. Why would Lord Saling suddenly show her favor? Is she ugly in a particularly unique way?"

The assistant studied her for a moment, ultimately looking disgusted, and quickly left because His Highness had arrived.

By the time he arrived, Saling's miscarriage business was already finished.

"It's over? I just got here!"

"Saling, you did it yourself? Didn't I tell you to use the normal miscarriage procedure and recover them with life fruits? You are my empire's chief medical officer; how could I let you perform the procedure? If my royal father, who has always valued you, finds out, who knows how he'll blame me?"

This Highness emphasized the word "valued," seeming very dissatisfied with Saling and deliberately looking for trouble.

It was the kind of fault-finding a stepson might direct at a future "stepmother," or a son at his father's mistress.

Saling replied, "I am in charge of medical affairs. If Your Highness objects, you may take it up with His Majesty."

His Highness seemed furious and immediately retorted, "Is that so? Then I heard that some trash medical officer under your command made a misdiagnosis, sending in an ordinary female prisoner as an embryo bearer. Are you also responsible for an incident like that?"

Saling said, "Accountability has already been assigned. As her superior, I will also apply for a salary deduction. Is Your Highness satisfied?"

His Highness grew even angrier and kicked a nearby trash can. "Then you'll have to ask that poor woman whether she'll forgive her. Where is she?"

From the next room, Wang Jiu could hear the entire process of His Highness finding fault with Saling, as well as the full story of how she had been brought into the conversation. The door was then pushed open, and that noble, sanctimonious, and fastidiously clean Highness entered.

The young boy, wearing a crown, stood by the hospital bed for three seconds before finding another angle from which to attack Saling.

"She's so ugly. How can you be so stingy as to not give her any recovery resources?"

Saling leaned against the door. "I just had my salary docked. I have no money. Your Highness is merciful; are you willing to provide support?"

Toward such a young child, Saling's coldness was tinged with a hint of perfunctoriness.

He was just a child, after all.

The young prince was sullen for three seconds, then sneered, "If you priest medical officers are all so stingy and devoid of benevolence, I can still afford this little bit of money. Send her away once she's recovered. If she's unwilling to leave, tell her I'm not someone she can aspire to. Either die or get lost. If she's fundamentally pure, honest, and naive, and doesn't cause any trouble, then she can stay and serve me tea as a female slave. She's a bit ugly, but it's a good placement for her."

Having comprehensively laid out several paths to perfectly stifle any "social-climbing vixen," the young prince left just like that.

Saling paid no mind to Wang Jiu, the prospective "pure, honest, naive, and trouble-free female slave," and simply had the medical team provide her with a certain amount of recovery resources.

Having obtained the resources to recover her "injured body" and with the immediate danger resolved, Wang Jiu discovered something was monitoring her.

That Saling seemed to suspect her and had left behind a monitoring spell specific to priests, affixed to the wall. It's not necessarily suspicion. It's probably because that young prince mentioned wanting me as his female slave after I recovered. This Saling has started to scrutinize me, afraid I'm a hidden threat.

She seemed like a nanny sent by the young prince's father to monitor or protect his son. No wonder she was so responsible.

System: "Frustrating, isn't it? Sitting on a huge pile of resources you can't use, forced to lie here and play dead."

Wang Jiu: "I'll be able to get away soon."

They were heading to the brood nest. If a fight broke out, the combat forces would surely be dispatched, and the high-level combatants would be guarding that young prince. Then she could slip away.

Wang Jiu's wait was not in vain. The fleet soon arrived at the brood nest, but the Zerg were no pushovers; they actually launched a preemptive attack.

Lying on the hospital bed in her room, Wang Jiu could feel the main ship shaking.

Hmm? She had thought this would be a slaughter of the Zerg by the fleet, but she hadn't expected the Zerg to strike first.

They must have known the fleet's movements in advance.

Her first reaction was that there was a traitor in the fleet.

"This young prince is probably a target someone wants to eliminate." Wang Jiu made a quick assessment and discovered that the monitoring eye had been withdrawn. Evidently, to avoid distractions, Lord Saling had retracted it. After all, the previous surveillance hadn't revealed anything unusual about Wang Jiu.

As soon as the monitoring eye was gone, Wang Jiu got up and walked to the window. Looking out into the night, she could clearly see many small spaceships exchanging fire with sandworms on the ground and in the sky.

The sandworms from the brood nest were more formidable. Some had bodies with a metallic texture, streamlined forms, and incredible speed. They could even use their blade-like wings to slice through small spaceships in an instant.

Wang Jiu glanced at the nearest metallic sandworm and assessed its strength.

Its average attributes were fifty thousand, but its damage output far exceeded that, comparable to sixty or seventy thousand.

Wang Jiu took a quick look, then activated her search function, only to find that the dot representing the Old Lady's soul-devouring beast was very faint on the device and extremely far away.

System: "The Fourth Spacetime is vast; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to measure it in planets. I advise you to increase your strength before you go looking for that Bloodthirsty Beast. Otherwise, you'll be dead within five steps before you even get very far."

Wang Jiu: "You make a lot of sense."

She turned and slipped out of the room, avoiding the area where the young prince was located. Hearing combat signals broadcast over the intercom, she directly knocked out a combatant who was rushing to a spaceship, dragged him into a storage room, stripped off his clothes, and put them on. She threw the naked man into a cage, stored the cage, and then left, heading for "her" assigned spaceship.

After boarding the spaceship using the identity card, Wang Jiu took out the cage and used her dark hair to "friendly question" the young man. She got instructions on how to pilot the spaceship from him, started it up, and detached from the main ship.

The unlucky young man initially thought Wang Jiu was trying to escape, but he discovered she actually began to seriously attack the sandworms. Moreover, she was very obedient to his commands, prisoner though he was. Her kill record, however, was so-so.

The young man's eyes flashed. He continued to give commands for a while longer, then suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his body.

Her dark hair had drilled into his body.

"Trying to deliberately give bad commands so your superior notices it's not up to your usual standard and comes to rescue you? Or is it a kind of communication via flight path? Be honest. Once you're dead, you'll have nothing."

Wang Jiu, still fiddling with the control panel, didn't even turn around. Her tone was flat, but it scared the young man so much he nearly wet himself. He stammered that it was a kind of communication via flight path.

It hadn't worked; she had noticed.

"Oh, that's a bit interesting. Now, will you continue to guide me seriously?"

"Yes, yes."

The young man resumed his serious instruction, his professionalism comparable to that of a master teacher. He was just short of treating this rookie student like a revered ancestor.

Wang Jiu did indeed get the hang of it, controlling the spaceship to continuously shoot down flying sandworms as she followed the fleet's frontline attack force closer to the brood nest.

She faintly sensed a terrifying creature beneath the brood nest.

The feeling was somewhat similar to that of the half-legendary Frost Bone Dragon King.

Which also meant $$$$$.

Had an opportunity to get rich arrived?

The brood nest was tough; the spaceships' laser cannons couldn't breach it. Wang Jiu saw the main ship to the side open its attack hatches.

"What's that?" Wang Jiu asked the young man. She learned it was the main ship's primary attack hatch, the No. 13 Origin Energy Cannon, which could blast the brood nest wide open.

The young man's tone was filled with pride, but soon it fired. Boom! The brilliant light filled more than half the sky, only to reveal the brood nest's outer shell, completely undamaged.

The young man was dumbfounded, his face flushing red. "That's impossible! A normal brood nest could never withstand that, unless…"

Unless the half-legendary Zerg Broodmother BOSS underneath possessed a half-legendary defensive skill.

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