208: Chapter 209 Jiang Chen: Next time for sure, next time for sure

"Bang!"

Jiang Chen slammed the heavy metal airtight door shut and instinctively engaged three high-level physical locks.

He leaned his back against the door, gasping for air, feeling as if those few short steps had been more exhausting than dismantling an alien mecha with his bare hands.

The interdimensional communicator in his pocket felt like a red-hot branding iron, vibrating so intensely it made his thigh go numb.

"What the hell is this!"

Jiang Chen frantically ran his hands through his hair, then steeled himself and walked to the center of the study, pressing the answer button that was flashing with a deadly red light.

"Bzzt—hum!"

The blue light of a holographic projection instantly filled the entire study.

Amidst the interlacing light and shadow, the silver-haired Wasteland Empress, who made countless creatures in the Wasteland tremble in fear, slowly materialized in mid-air.

This time, she wasn't wearing her murderous nano-battle armor.

She had changed into a black lace silk nightgown with a distinctly modern Earth style, one that Jiang Chen had casually sent her before.

The thin fabric clung tightly to her perfect curves, with large expanses of snowy skin appearing and disappearing in the eerie blue light, and her long, straight legs crossed as she sat on the throne, perfectly embodying the word "sexy."

But at this moment, Jiang Chen had no desire to admire her.

Because Jiang Wanqiu's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

In those ruby eyes that should have been radiant, there was no killing intent, no rage, only a bottomless, drowning resentment.

She was tightly twisting a silk handkerchief she had torn from somewhere, and due to her excessive force, the handkerchief was already shredded in several places.

"Father... God..."

Jiang Wanqiu spoke.

Her voice trembled with a thick nasal tone, and her eyes were filled with unshed tears, looking exactly like a little girl abandoned in the snow.

"Is what those mortals on the internet said... true?"

She bit her lower lip so hard that a streak of crimson blood appeared, her voice heartbreakingly sorrowful:

"That vixen who fixes sewers... did she... get pregnant?"

Jiang Chen felt his scalp go numb, and cold sweat broke out instantly.

How could he explain this?

Say it was an accident? Say he couldn't control himself in the zero-gravity environment of space?

In the logic of the Wasteland Empress, that would just be making excuses!

"Wanqiu, let me explain."

Jiang Chen swallowed hard, his brain racing, trying to mask his guilty conscience as a scumbag with scientific rigor:

"This is actually an accident, an extremely rare quantum probabilistic collision event."

"We were at an altitude of 30,000 meters at the time, encountering intense cosmic ray interference, which caused an uncontrollable disturbance in our biological magnetic fields, and then..."

"I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it!"

Jiang Wanqiu suddenly covered her ears and finally broke down in tears.

She jumped off the throne, not even wearing shoes, her bare feet stepping on the edge of the holographic projection as if she wanted to break through the dimensional barrier and dive into Jiang Chen's arms to bite him.

"What quantum collision! What cosmic rays!"

"It's clearly just because you're biased!"

Jiang Wanqiu wept like rain, pointing at Jiang Chen's nose in accusation, stamping her feet in grievance:

"I was the one who came first!"

"I was the one who swore allegiance to you first! I conquered a city for you! I gave you 50 billion tons of gold and an entire planet as a dowry!"

"I even wore black stockings! I washed up and was waiting for you in bed!"

"And what happened?"

The more she spoke, the sadder she became, and the silk handkerchief in her hand was completely torn to shreds, fluttering down to the ground.

"You brushed me off with just one phrase: 'reproductive isolation'!"

"And then, you turned around and let that useless woman who can't even lift a sword get pregnant with a Divine Offspring?!"

"What right does she have?! Is she as good a fighter as me? Is she as obedient as me?!"

Jiang Chen was rendered speechless by this barrage of soul-searching questions, and could only awkwardly raise his hands, like a criminal caught in the act.

"Wanqiu, it's not what you think..."

"Then what is it?!"

Jiang Wanqiu wiped away her tears, her eyes suddenly becoming extremely dangerous.

That yandere possessiveness, catalyzed by jealousy, instantly overwhelmed her reason.

She grabbed the neckline of her nightgown and pulled hard, exposing a shocking amount of scenery, her voice filled with desperate madness:

"I don't care!"

"Father God, I want one too!"

"I want it now! Right now! Immediately!"

"Screw reproductive isolation! Even if I die in bed from genetic collapse, I will bear you a Divine Offspring!"

"If you can't come over, I'll go push the star gate's energy output to the critical limit and force open the dimensional wall to come find you!"

Jiang Chen's heart nearly stopped from fright.

Force open the dimensional wall?

That would cause a spatial collapse! By then, never mind having a child, the entire Earth would have to be buried along with it!

This crazy girl really doesn't care about her own life when she gets jealous!

"Stop! My dear lady, please calm down!"

Jiang Chen hurriedly shouted, summoning all his authority and affection, trying to soothe this rampaging lioness:

"Do you think I don't want to?!"

"Do you think I'm some kind of saint for not touching a beautiful Empress like you?!"

Jiang Wanqiu was stunned, tears still hanging on her eyelashes: "Then why do you..."

"Because you are too important!"

Jiang Chen took a deep breath and began to unleash his "master of empty promises" skills, his tone incomparably pained and affectionate:

"That Academician Chen Shuyin, she is just an accidental product, a mere mortal!"

"But you are different, Jiang Wanqiu! You are my sword, my Divine Empress! Your genes are too powerful; if we were to conceive our offspring, the low-dimensional energy on Earth simply couldn't support it!"

"If we force it, your life will be in danger!"

"I would rather endure it myself than ever gamble with your life! Do you understand my good intentions?!"

These words were half-true and half-false, but the emotional value was maxed out.

Jiang Wanqiu was stunned.

She stared blankly at Jiang Chen, the madness in her eyes gradually fading, replaced by a dizziness of being struck by immense happiness.

So... Father God was doing this to protect me?

He didn't dislike me, but rather, it was because I was too precious?

"Father God..."

Jiang Wanqiu covered her mouth, moved to tears again, "It was Jiang Wanqiu who wronged you... Jiang Wanqiu didn't know you were bearing such great pain..."

Phew.

Jiang Chen let out a long sigh of relief in his heart and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

These scumbag quotes actually worked surprisingly well on Wastelanders.

"So, you must stay in the Wasteland and wait for me to come over."

Jiang Chen struck while the iron was hot, quickly steering the conversation back on track: "I am about to take the fleet to Centaurus. Once I take that resource planet, I will use the high-dimensional energy there to reshape your body..."

"By then, we'll have a whole reinforced platoon of Divine Offspring!"

"Mm!"

Jiang Wanqiu nodded vigorously, the gloom on her face swept away, and she once again radiated the dominance of an Empress.

But immediately after.

A chill that made one's blood run cold flashed in her red eyes.

She leaned closer to the holographic lens, staring intently at Jiang Chen, her tone gentle but filled with extreme killing intent:

"Father God, Jiang Wanqiu can wait for you."

"But you must also remember what you said today."

She stuck out her tongue and lightly licked her bright red lips, revealing a smile that was the epitome of yandere:

"When you return from this interstellar expedition."

"If you don't immediately fulfill your promise and give me a Divine Offspring..."

"Then Jiang Wanqiu will have no choice but to take all the Machina Legion and planet-killing cannons from Dawn City, cross the dimension, and blow that vixen's laboratory into cosmic dust."

"I'm serious, Father God."

"Snap!"

The communication cut off.

The study fell back into deathly silence.

Jiang Chen stared blankly at the darkened screen, feeling a cold draft blow across the back of his neck.

Blow up the laboratory?

This is a naked threat!

This isn't going to fight an interstellar war; this is clearly risking his life to preserve peace on Earth!

"What a sin..."

Jiang Chen looked up at the ceiling in despair.

Right now, he just wanted to pilot that spaceship out of the Solar System as fast as possible and get as far away from these terrifying women as he could.