160: Chapter 161 Invisible Tentacles Launch a Sneak Attack? The Star Alliance Princess's Tea Art Erupts!

It was at this very moment that a sudden Change occurred.

To outsiders, it looked like she had merely grabbed his lapel.

But to Jiang Chen's perception, it was an entirely different story!

Countless invisible "tentacles," ten thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, slithered along the lapel and instantly burrowed into his clothes!

These were not physical tentacles, but the materialization of mental energy—nanoscale nerve fibers.

They seemed alive, wandering across Jiang Chen's skin, gently brushing over his abs, winding around his spine, and even... lingering in certain sensitive areas.

"Hiss—!" Jiang Chen gasped, his entire body stiffening like a cat with its fur standing on end.

That feeling was too bizarre, and also too... stimulating.

It felt like hundreds of gentle little hands were simultaneously giving him an all-encompassing "soul massage." Every nerve ending was teased, and every sense was infinitely amplified.

"Husband, your heart is beating so fast." Gu Liuli whispered against Jiang Chen's ear, her breath like an orchid.

Her voice was no longer the "green tea" tone from before, but had changed into a magnetic, seductive, mature woman's voice that only Jiang Chen could hear.

"Don't be afraid, this is just a small local specialty of the Star Alliance—the [Nerve Soothing Technique]. The Sisters are too rough; all they do all day is fight and kill. They either hack at you with swords, point guns at you, or feed you nuclear bombs."

"They don't know how to cherish a man at all."

"Unlike me... I only care about my husband's aching waist~"

As these words fell, those invisible tentacles tightened abruptly, pressing precisely onto the small of Jiang Chen's back, releasing a warm bio-electric current.

Ah, that felt good!

The lumbar muscle strain caused by years of "eating soft rice" seemed to be completely cured in that instant.

But what followed was a more terrifying side effect.

Jiang Chen felt the dopamine in his body spiraling out of control.

His reason was crumbling. His hands uncontrollably wanted to lift up and embrace the enchantress before him.

"Beep—beep—beep—!!!" Just at the critical moment when Jiang Chen was about to succumb.

The [heart of absolute calm] that Change had personally embedded at his waist suddenly erupted with a piercing alarm, flashing red light frantically, like a pressure cooker about to explode.

A chill capable of freezing the soul gushed out from the belt buckle, instantly covering Jiang Chen's entire body and turning him into a human ice sculpture.

"Oh?" Gu Liuli was forced to step back by the sudden cold air, a trace of surprise appearing on her face. "This is... the [heart of absolute calm]? Such an ancient, out-of-print artifact of abstinence, actually embedded in a belt?"

"Hmph." A cold sneer came from behind. Change stood up.

Her battle robe shone brilliantly, and her eyes were so cold they seemed ready to freeze the entire universe.

"Little sister, not bad tricks you have there." Change walked over, step by step, each step landing on a node of space, shattering those invisible tentacles that Gu Liuli had released.

"Right in front of the main wife, using mental tentacles to conduct this kind of 'underground work'—do you think I'm old and blind, unable to see those nano-filaments?"

Change walked up to Jiang Chen and reached out to pat the now ice-sculpted Jiang Chen, as if patting a piece of frozen meat.

"Fortunately, I had the foresight to put a lock on him. Otherwise, this silly boy might have already been sucked dry by you, this octopus, right?"

Having been exposed on the spot, Gu Liuli was not embarrassed at all; instead, she covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Sister truly has a sharp eye." She smoothed the hair at her temples, her expression composed. "I just saw that my husband was too tired and wanted to help him relax his muscles and bones. Since Sister is so bothered by it, I'll just withdraw them."

"However..." Her tone shifted, her eyes becoming provocative.

"Sister can lock his body, but can you lock his heart?"

"Can that cold, icy stone bring him happiness? Can it be like me, possessing eighteen forms and three-hundred-and-sixty-degree, flawless tenderness?"

"You!" Change was so angry that the space around her began to collapse. This was a naked declaration of war!

This was questioning her value as the "Number One Soft Rice Provider"!

"Enough!" Jiang Chen finally thawed from his frozen state. He shivered, his teeth still chattering.

He glanced at the innocent-looking Gu Liuli, then at his three murderous wives, feeling like the wire sandwiched between the detonators of a nuclear bomb.

"Can you both just say less?!" Jiang Chen shouted in grief and indignation. "I am a human! Not Tang Monk meat! Nor am I a magical artifact for you to fight with!"

"Husband~" Gu Liuli immediately leaned in, eyes brimming with tears. "Liuli doesn't want to make things difficult for Husband. Since the Sisters cannot tolerate Liuli, then Liuli... had better go."

"It's just a pity about the resources of those hundreds of star systems, and that fleet capable of arming the Solar System to the teeth... I originally wanted to give them to Husband as a dowry so that Husband could walk sideways across the galaxy."

"Now it seems Husband doesn't have the fortune to enjoy them." She turned around, her movements slow, as if playing at 0.5x speed.

"Don't!" Before Jiang Chen could speak, Lei Keming's voice came out of the loudspeaker again, filled with tears and determination:

"Director Jiang! Stop her! That's hundreds of star systems! That's our hope for stepping out of the cradle!"

"The nation has decided! For the future of all humanity, we approve your taking of a concubine! Even if she is an octopus, as long as she brings a dowry, she is our kin! She is our national treasure!"

"Jiang Chen! Even if you have to sacrifice yourself, you must swallow this bowl of soft rice for me!"

Jiang Chen watched that "slow-motion" back, listened to Lei Keming's roar, and finally looked at Change and the others, who were angry but hadn't actually tried to stop her (after all, they weren't stupid; this dowry was truly too tempting).

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. What the hell kind of world is this! In the past, eating soft rice required face, now eating soft rice requires your life!

"Sister Liuli!" Jiang Chen shouted, rushing up to grab Gu Liuli's hand (the touch was smooth and tender, not at all like a tentacle).

"Since you're already here, why the rush to leave?" Jiang Chen revealed a smile that was uglier than crying. "The Sisters were just joking with you earlier. Our family... is very hospitable."

"Really?" Gu Liuli turned back, her tears instantly retracted, her smile as bright as a little fox whose conspiracy had succeeded.

"Husband is so good." She leaned into Jiang Chen's arms, and from an angle where no one could see, she mouthed to Change and the others: [Fighting with me? You're still too young.]

Change's fist tightened. Ji Linglong drew her sword. Ling's weapon system preheated. Inside Guanghan Palace, killing intent soared into the sky.

And Jiang Chen, holding this "green tea bomb," the most dangerous in the entire universe, feeling that soft touch and the bone-chilling cold from the belt buckle at his waist, silently shed two lines of tears in his heart. It seemed that from now on, he would have to eat this soft rice on his knees.