Chestnuts, dried meats, dried fruits, fruits . . . .\n  \nA big pile of snacks appeared in front of Shu Shu. The types were many and varied, and the quantity was also a lot. The only thing in common was that the size was not big.\n  \nSeeing these things, Ian was dumbfounded. How the hell did these things get here?\n  \nWhile pondering about how the hell these things got here, Ian suddenly thought of the egg in his arms . . . . Shu Shuâs body had been bare and had nothing at all, but Shu Shu had suddenly come up with this egg. Where the hell had this egg been hidden?\n  \nThe Beastman Empire had developed space buttons, but space buttons could not be loaded with living animals. In addition, whether it was Shu Shu or Edgar, they both had not worn any space button.\n  \n"Shu Shu, did you take these things out of your mouth?" Jones, who was a little more attentive, always felt strange.\n  \nHe felt it was really hard to accept that a sub-beastmanâs tiny mouth could suddenly spat out loads of food and what not . . . .\n  \n"Yeah! My innate ability is a particularly large food pouch." Shu Shu replied. "It leads to a subspace! "\n  \nâNo wonder you eat snacks so fast and so many . . . ." Ian stared at the food in front of him. A good deal of them were the ones he had bought for Shu Shu.\n  \n"Yeah." Shu Shu nodded and then asked, "Do you want to eat? If you think the food that I took out of my mouth is dirty, you can eat the ones with shells." Speaking, Shu Shu handed out the fresh chestnuts that he had picked himself on Gass Planet.\n  \nAfter arriving at the capital star and tasting all kinds of delicious snacks, he somewhat had overlooked these chestnuts . . . .\n  \nAlthough Ian and Jones had been fed a bit of food by Shu Shu while in the lifepod, but that bit was far from enough. Having long been very hungry, they also realized that only if they ate some food would they have the strength to do other things, so they no longer declined the food. They took the proffered chestnuts, cut them open, and eat them.\n  \nShu Shu straightened out the clothes on his body and glanced sideways at Jones, whose arms were bare because his clothes were given to him. He couldnât help but frown. "Unfortunately, I didn't bring the space button . . . . Now they don't have clothes to wear."\n  \nSpace buttons were expensive, but many beastmen would buy one, and they would always equipped it with a variety of clothes. In addition, when they became beasts, they would use it to store their clothes.\n  \nWhen the beastmen were in their human forms, the space buttons were generally worn on their wrists as wrist watches. When they turned into their beast forms, the space buttons would still be worn on their beast legsâas tight wristbands that could stretch a lot.\n  \nBut Shu Shu and Edgarâs previous situation was different. They became very small.\n  \nThey became so small, smaller than the space button itself. How could they still wear the space button?\n  \n"Itâs already pretty good that weâre able to survive." Ian ate a few sweet fresh chestnuts, and his face looked a bit better. Then he turned toward Shu Shu, "Did you bring water?" In this rock desert, besides having no food, they also had another huge trouble, which was having no water.\n  \n"Thereâre fruits and a little drink, but no water." Shu Shu somewhat regretted that he had not had a little more consideration before. Him storing food in his food pouches was purely to hoard snacks, so he could eat anytime and anywhere. Oftentimes, he only started to feel like storing food when he ate something delicious. Why would he purposefully store water inside?\n  \nMoreover, something like water was not so easy to store . . . . The drinks he stored were all in individual small bottles, but generally, the water he drank was not packaged like this.\n  \nIan already felt better knowing that Shu Shu could store food and immediately said, "Itâs good that we have something to eat. Tomorrow weâll look around. We should be able to find a water source."
"I think this planet most likely has living things. As long as thereâs life, youâll definitely be able to find a water source." Jones continued, "Iâll go and take a look around later."\n  \nIf it was possible, their best choice was to leave this desert together, but Edgar's current condition was very bad, and they could not move him at will. Also, they, three sub-beastmen, were naturally unable to move Edgar, who was very big and motionless.\n  \nThinking like this, Jones turned toward Edgar again.\n  \nEdgar's physical condition was very poor, and his breath was weak . . . . If they were in the capital star, he could definitely get medical treatment, but here . . . . They had nothing now.\n  \nAs Jones secretly sighed, Shu Shu came near Edgar's head.\n  \nHe had always been a little afraid of Edgar's big head, but this time, in a very rare moment, he approached the huge snake head of his own accord. Then he took a bottle of nutrient fluid from his food pouch and slowly poured it into Edgar's mouth.  Â
This nutrient fluid was bought by Edgar on the day when his pregnancy was known by others. As a result, he gave birth on that very night and didnât manage to drink any of it. However, he had tasted a bottle and thought it tasted very good. So he simply stored all the nutrient fluids, each in a thumb-sized bottle, in his food pouches.\n  \nThis thing was nutritious, but now he could not bear to eat it and directly fed it to Edgar.\n  \nAfter feeding a bottle and looking on Edgar's huge body, Shu Shu thought about it and fed Edgar with a second bottle and then a third bottle . . . .\n  \nShu Shu fed Edgar nutrient fluid for pregnant sub-beastmen, and this scene was seen by both Ian and Jones. The nutrition necessary for pregnant sub-beastmen and the nutrition necessary for injured beastmen were different. If it was before, they would definitely stop Shu Shu, but now . . . . In any case, it was also a nutrient fluid.\n  \n"Edgar, you quickly get better. Our child grows so fast. If you don't quickly get better, you might miss seeing him breaking the shell." Shu Shu stroked Edgar's head and said in a low voice.\n  \nHe liked Edgar very much, but he had always been simple-minded and never thought deeply about anything. Until this moment when Edgar was seriously injured.\n  \nHe suddenly discovered that he could not stand the possibility that Edgar might leave him.\n  \nHe wanted Edgar to accompany him to sleep, to prepare all kinds of food for him, to cradle him in his arms, and to dote on him . . . . In short, he just wanted Edgar.\n  \nThe nutrient fluid flowed into Edgar's throat, but Edgar did not make any movement or sound at all . . . . Stroking Edgar's head again, Shu Shu began to examine Edgar's wounds carefully while picking off each and every stone that got embedded in Edgar's skin and flesh after Edgar fell to the ground.\n  \nThe sun was setting, little by little, and the night was approaching.\n  \nThe temperature difference between day and night in the desert was extremely great. They felt blazing hot during the day but were getting colder and colder at night.\n  \nShu Shu and Edgar, in order to blend in to board the spaceship, did not bring anything at all and were stark naked. Although Jones and Ian were wearing clothes, but they were wearing thin clothes and only one layer at thatâthe temperature inside the imperial palace was always constant; was there any need for them to wear so much?\n  \nAs the temperature got lower and lower, Jones and Ian were terribly frozen, especially Jones. He had given his own clothes to Shu Shu, and now he had nothing to cover his body with.\n  \nJones had always lived in the barracks, and his physical fitness was very good, but now he also found the temperature a little unbearable. Seeing him like this, Ian hurriedly said, "Iâll give my clothes to you."\n  \nSaying so, Ian was going to undress, but Jones stopped him. "No need. Let's hold each other to warm ourselves." Ian's body was originally not so good, and when he was talking now, his jaw even chattered. How could he let Ian take off his only clothes?\n  \n"My clothesâre for you." Shu Shu abruptly stood up. He grabbed their only possession, a thin blanket found in the lifepod, and handed it over to Ian and Jones. Then he began to take off his clothes.\n  \n"No need. Shu Shu, youâre still injured. Also, you and your child can't be frozen." Jones quickly said. Before, Shu Shu was lying down beside Edgar, hugging the egg and bundled up in a blanket. Without the blanket and the clothes, wouldnât Shu Shu get frozen?\n  \n"I'm fine." Shu Shu said. After pondering for a while, he did not take off his clothes. Instead, he put the egg into Jones' arms and then, in front of Ian and Jones, turned into a little hamster .\n  \n"Shu Shu!" Ian cried out in fearâhow did Shu Shu suddenly disappear in front of him?\n  \nJones was also quite puzzled. Where was Shu Shu? Why did he leave his clothes and pants behind?\n  \nWhile the two of them were astonished, a little hamster suddenly crawled out from inside the clothes and pants that Shu Shu left behind.\n  \nWhat was this all about? How could a little hamster suddenly appear here?\n  \nBoth Ian and Jones were stunned, and then, something that shocked them further happened againâthe little hamster in front of them suddenly became Shu Shu.\n  \n"So long as I turn into a hamster, I wonât be afraid of the cold." Shu Shu smiled at Ian and Jones.\n  \nIan and Jonesâ faces were stiff and expressionless. Wasnât Shu Shu a sub-beastman? How could he suddenly turn into a hamster?\n  \nSo, was Shu Shu actually a beastman? A hamster beastman?\n  \nBut if that was the case, where did the egg in their arms come from? Beastmen basically could not give birth to a child, ah!\n  \nPreviously, the blowing wind had made Ian and Jones shiver all over and almost frozen them to death. But at this moment, they already paid no notice to the cold and no longer had time to think about it.\n  \n"You put on these clothes and hold each other." Shu Shu spoke and then said another sentence, "You hold the egg." He had no spiritual power now, and after he turned into a hamster, he could not become smaller or bigger anymore and could only keep his original state.\n  \nAnd his original build was of course smaller than the egg. Since his size had become this small, it was impossible for him to hold the egg even if he wanted to.\n  \nDone talking, Shu Shu once again turned into a little hamster and then ran to Edgarâs side to find a place to nest.\n  \nIan, stupefied, gave a nod, and Jones, also stupefied, put on the clothes. Then the two men held the egg in the middle and bundled up in a blanket.\n  \nAlthough the blanket was rather thin, but it was made of special materials nonetheless. Not only it protected them against the cold, but it also blocked them from the wind. After bundling up in a blanket, they were not so cold anymore.\n  \n"No wonder! Edgar originally gave his beast bead to Shu Shu, so after Shu Shu accidentally lost it, he would consider himself as having no beast bead . . . ." Ian couldn't help but exclaim. He had really blamed his own son wrongly. At any rate, his sonâs physiology course should have been pretty good. But at that time, this unlucky child most likely always thought that Shu Shu was a beastman and unable to give birth.\n  \n"Yeah." Jones replied. No wonder Edgar and Shu Shu could not have thought that Shu Shu would be pregnant or even believed that Shu Shu could be pregnant . . . . Shu Shu, he was a beastman, ah!\n  \n"I suppose Shu Shuâs different than the average beastman." Ian said again.\n  \nJones nodded and added a sentence, "We can't let others know about this."\n  \nIan also thought so. He nodded and then, rather helpless, said, "Edgar, this child, heâs given his beast bead to Shu Shu beforehand and then tell us that . . ." He did not continue to speak and just sighed ruefully. His son actually gave his beast bead to a beastman; this was to recognize Shu Shu?\n  \nHe felt upset somewhat. But then he thought of what he had seen under the moonlight, a little hamster with a few bald spots on its body as well as a wound on its head, and felt that it did not matter.\n  \nNo matter what Shu Shu was in the end, he was Edgar's partner and already gave birth to a child for Edgar.\n  \nThinking this way, Ian gently stroked the egg in his arms.\n  \nHaving just experienced a life and death situation and, prior to this, been bombarded by all sorts of newsâthe son died, the son became a fallen beast, the son lost the beast beadâ, Ian was very calm and collected right now. He readily accepted the fact that his own beastman sonâs partner might be a beastman too and quickly entered the land of dreams.\n  \nJones also accepted this matter right away, but he was nevertheless unable to constrain the feeling of excitement in his heart, to the extent that he had some difficulty to fall asleep.\n  \nShu Shu had many magical properties on his body. Maybe he could really make the fallen beasts have the beast core again.\n  \nIt was just that he did not know whether Reynolds was still alive or not . . . .\n  \nThinking of Reynolds, Jones, after calculating the time, suddenly realized that this yearâs supplies delivery day to the Fallen Beast Planet had passed.\n  \nAlthough it was unknown whether Reynolds was still alive or not, but when the Beastman Empire did its yearly delivery of the newly-emerging fallen beasts and some supplies to the Fallen Beast Planet, Jones would also send some things to Reynolds. He would even send along some of his own image data every year, absurdly hoping that Reynolds would be able to see it.\n  \nFor this yearâs supplies delivery, he had already prepared some while in Gass Planet, but then he suddenly ran into Edgar and discovered that a fallen beast could still recover. He followed Edgar to return to the capital star and had no time to attend to the delivery. Later, he planned to go to the Fallen Beast Planet in person but then forgot about it altogether.\n  \nThirty years had passed by; Reynolds was probably dead already, and the image data he had sent was also meaningless. Not to mention that because Edgar had almost become a fallen beast, the imperial family sent a lot of supplies to the Fallen Beast Planet this year. Even if he did not send anything, it also did not matter . . . .\n  \nHe did not know if this place was far from the Fallen Beast Planet or not . . . .\n  \nJones, thinking about his past with Reynolds, slowly closed his eyes.\n  \nShu Shu was curling up beside Edgar at this moment. At the same time, he discovered that although the environment on this planet was not so good, but the spiritual influence of this place was actually quite abundant, allowing the speed of his spiritual power recovery to become faster.\n  \nEvery time Shu Shu recovered a little spiritual power, he would immediately send it into Edgar's body, leaving nothing at all for himself.\n  \nNested in Edgarâs arms, close to Edgarâs heart, Shu Shu slowly fell asleep.\n  \nShu Shu did not sleep well, and he was awakened by his painful stomach at night.\n  \nWhen he had overdrawn his spiritual power in the lifepod, his stomach had also hurt, but it had not been this serious. At that time, although he had hurt all over, but he had managed to ignore it. But this time . . . .  Â