100: Hain's father

Over the past two days, Tu Nan had been mingling among different groups of people and had indeed gathered quite a bit of information.

The matter of the Gene Lock was indeed true; it was not something the pig-beast sisters had made up to deceive her.

As for the Female Beast, if one could reach S-rank, they would also possess this special contraceptive Talent, though there hadn't been many S-rank Female Beasts in the history of the Empire.

She feigned curiosity and asked several Male Beasts about the failure rates and methods of the Gene Lock.

Unfortunately, she only received refusals in return.

A young, cheerful man, inexperienced in the ways of the world, saw the disappointed look on Tu Nan's face, grabbed his glass, moved closer to her, and asked her secretly.

"What are you trying to do? I advise you not to waste your effort on Colonel Kong."

Tu Nan was stunned.

She opened her mouth to speak, but realized that there was really no way to refute this.

Fortunately, seeing her embarrassment, the man kindly comforted her: "Sigh, this isn't hard to guess. On the ship, only Colonel Kong is S-rank, and besides, weren't you two often together a few days ago?"

A miscalculation!

Tu Nan realized she had been too impatient.

After arriving on the ship and resolving those immediate survival crises, how could she have been so careless in her actions?

One really shouldn't get carried away.

Taking a few deep breaths, she recalled how many people she had actually asked and realized... she had indeed left quite a few traces.

Tu Nan gripped her glass tightly, her knuckles turning white.

"It was... presumptuous of me." She managed to spit out these words with difficulty.

The young man shrugged, not minding much.

"It's nothing, it's Colonel Kong, after all. What you're doing is only human nature." He seemed to quite envy Kong Jiamu's power and his luck with women.

He looked at Tu Nan with some regret.

If this Female Beast hadn't had Children at such a young age, with her looks, she would really be very attractive...

"However, seriously." The young man clinked his glass against Tu Nan's.

"The S-rank Gene Lock, even if there were a way to achieve a Breakthrough, it's not something people like us would know."

"Instead of asking people like us, you might as well ask Colonel Kong himself." He laughed self-deprecatingly.

Tu Nan was enlightened.

Very well, not only had she foolishly asked several people, but she hadn't even distinguished between what was important and what wasn't.

In fact, if she thought about it, she would know that some specific details about S-rank could not possibly be known to everyone.

Kong Jiamu himself, when talking about his Talent, didn't he also boast about this point?

Wait?

Talent... Tu Nan had a new idea.

* * *

She deliberated repeatedly in her heart and finally made up her mind to send a message to another S-rank she knew.

"Lord Hain, my daughter Huai En, she... she has developed some special skills. I believe this is a Talent."

After sending the message, Tu Nan stared intently at her bracelet.

She was very nervous.

Miao Miao's uniqueness she had originally intended to keep under wraps, but the situation was different now.

If she couldn't win over Kong Jiamu, she would have to find a way to entrust her Children's future. Hain, that gentle and reliable Male Beast, should be worth entrusting them to.

Kong Jiamu wasn't impossible either.

But as a mother, she really didn't feel at ease entrusting her daughter to such a person.

As for Ao Ao, his personality was steady and a bit devious, so finding a suitable caregiver for him was actually simpler.

Besides, if she really couldn't handle Kong Jiamu, she would have had to consider turning to Hain anyway.

Miao Miao would also be an entry point.

Sorry... Miao Miao, Mommy used you.

Please forgive me.

The bracelet lit up with an icon she had never seen before, and Tu Nan clicked it in confusion.

A point of light appeared in the room, the light spot twisted for a moment and gradually expanded, as if a magical brush in the air was drawing a figure from bottom to top.

Hain's figure appeared clearly before Tu Nan's eyes, visible in every detail.

"Ao Ao! You stay in the bedroom first, don't come out."

She reacted instantly and had Ao Ao hide first. As for Miao Miao...

Sure enough, seeing that she hadn't given instructions, Miao Miao darted out of the bedroom.

Inside the room, she still preferred to maintain her Beast Form. Simply because Mommy seemed to prefer holding her like this?

Hain's long black hair was uncharacteristically messy, and his clothes seemed to be a robe he had grabbed at random. Although the buttons were fastened to the very top, he was... barefoot on the carpet?

The environment vaguely visible behind him seemed to be a bedroom.

"Sorry... I didn't calculate the time difference correctly." Tu Nan had probably disturbed his sleep.

Hain smiled; perhaps because he had indeed just woken from a dream, his smile was particularly sincere.

It was the first time Tu Nan noticed that dimples appeared on his cheeks when he smiled.

"It's okay, converting star time is quite troublesome."

Hain was very happy; it had been too long, and he finally saw Tu Nan once again.

"You seem... even more beautiful." He exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "The Goddess favors you so."

"..."

No, Tu Nan really didn't understand. Her appearance had improved by a full 30%. Sometimes when she looked in the mirror, she herself would marvel at that change. How could these Male Beasts, one and all, unremarkably think that she had just put on some makeup?

"I had someone make some minor adjustments to my appearance." She reluctantly made an excuse for herself, "I'm afraid of being found."

Hain was stunned for a moment. Only then did he notice that Tu Nan's appearance had indeed changed somewhat. Just now, he had really only thought that Tu Nan had escaped a painful marriage and that her whole spirit had changed.

He gentlemanly refrained from commenting too much on a lady's appearance and let his gaze fall on the little tiger-beast crouching at her mother's feet.

"Your daughter?" He asked.

This Children had the same green eyes as her mother, and was extremely cute.

"Yes, this Children's name... you even named her, it's Lan Huai En."

Tu Nan disliked her own name, but was quite satisfied with the name Miao Miao.

"It fits very well." Hain looked at the Children with even more affection. He tilted his head slightly and asked the Children: "You have awakened a Talent? What is it?"

Miao Miao tilted her head and shouted frantically in her mind: "Mommy! How does he know! Didn't you say I couldn't let anyone know!"

"It's okay, this is the Master I found for you; he is an exception. Be good."

Upon hearing this, Miao Miao extended a paw, and a ball of golden flame swirled between her front paws.

"Fire..." Hain thought to himself, it was of the same lineage as the peacock's Talent. Actually, it would be better for Kong Jiamu to teach this Children, but...

Tu Nan spoke just in time: "Miao Miao, you haven't greeted Uncle Hain yet."

"No." Hain threw the peacock out of his mind and spoke directly.

"Let me adopt her as my goddaughter; she is destined to be an S-rank powerhouse. Leave her to me to teach properly." Hain smiled.

Huh? Although a Master is also like a half-father, this progress was much faster than Tu Nan had imagined.

"Would this be..." Tu Nan was about to refuse.

Hain had already made a turn with his hand, and several water dolphins were chasing each other's tails in circles in the air. Miao Miao's eyes immediately followed the dynamic "fish," drool dripping.

Those dolphins were conjured as vividly as in a circus performance, and Hain coaxed Miao Miao with a smile.

"Call me Father Hain, and I'll teach you everything later; you can even conjure them with fire."

"Father Hain!" Miao Miao fell for it immediately, then glanced at her mother with a guilty conscience.

Wuwuwu, it's mainly because this person is so good-looking. His hair is black, just like Mommy's... Although she liked Uncle Kong's green curly hair, black was still the best-looking!

Tu Nan... what else could she say?

It could be considered a pleasant surprise.

She sent Miao Miao back to the room, and only then did she ask Hain with a worried expression.

"After knowing that she might be S-rank, I really breathed a huge sigh of relief." She twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a somewhat sorrowful smile.

"If it weren't for the accident... my life might have been different. I've always been afraid that my daughter would follow in my footsteps in the future."

Tu Nan felt ashamed and bit her lip.

"I've always been afraid that she would have this day in the future, but S-rank is different. She has the Gene Lock; she will definitely not have that day."

"As long as no accidents happen..."