Chapter 267: The Smell of Nutrient Liquid From the Inside Out

Because Mo Si stood by Jiang Qiuqiu’s side like a guardian, both Meimei and Qian Xingxing assumed he was Qiuqiu’s boyfriend.

Besides, he was clearly taking good care of Qiuqiu, and his aura was just too intense...

To avoid being third wheels, they stayed for a short while, snapped a few photos of Jiang Qiuqiu, and then said their goodbyes.

By now, Jiang Qiuqiu was hooked up to an IV of Spirit Nourishing Liquid.

She couldn’t take it orally, so the energy had to be injected into her veins using the most primitive method.

The room was quiet. Mrs. Ai’er had gone out to see another old general, so Mo Si opened his terminal and began browsing through information on Jiang Tianming.

He had previously asked Jiang Qiuqiu why she had dropped out of school. She had said she wanted to handle it herself, and Mo Si felt he shouldn’t pry into the young woman’s privacy. Coupled with her apparent confidence, he hadn’t pressed the matter further.

But that moment of laxity—

—had led to all of this.

His face was expressionless as he took it all in. The report clearly detailed everything, from Jiang Qiuqiu arriving in the Federation from a Low-level Star after testing with B+ spiritual power, to her enrolling in school and her various encounters with Jiang Tianming and his clique.

After all, in the eyes of the nobles, people from the Low-level Stars were worthless plebeians, no different from ants. Even if someone saw them set fire to an ant hill, who would bother to speak up?

The more he read, the darker Mo Si’s eyes became.

’So this is what some universities have become.’

’Some nobles.’

’Some shameless degenerates.’

—Mo Si: Go through everyone in that circle.

—Qiudao: Admiral, what is this about?

—Mo Si: Send a message to the academic center. Ask them how Gong Fan became a principal.

—Qiudao: Yes, Admiral.

—Mo Si: Hold the mercenary review department accountable as well. Do they think this is still the old Tal Empire? So useless. The Federation has been around for nearly a hundred years, and they’re still letting scum access the dark web?

Qiudao keenly sensed that Mo Si was in a foul mood.

A very foul mood.

The Admiral had actually sworn... To Qiudao’s knowledge, the Admiral only spoke like that on the rarest of occasions, when he was on the front lines of a battlefield.

—Qiudao: I’ll head to the review department in person tomorrow.

—Mo Si: Have Changbei go with you.

Qiudao understood. ’If Changbei is going... then we aren’t going there to talk things out.’

’Applying pressure? What happened? Why do I feel like something major just went down that I don’t know about?’

The next day, Jiang Qiuqiu still hadn’t woken up.

Mrs. Ai’er insisted it was a good thing. "Not waking up just means she’s still recovering. It shows the young lady’s Spirit Sea has some depth. Don’t you worry too much."

Mo Si verbally agreed, but he remained just as worried as ever.

Seeing this, Mrs. Ai’er didn’t press the issue.

’Why get in the way of young love? This is the stuff of future romance.’

It wasn’t until the third day that Jiang Qiuqiu finally woke up.

Her sleep had been so deep that it felt as if no time had passed at all—like she had simply blinked. But in that single blink, the world around her seemed to have changed completely.

And also...

’What is this taste in my mouth?’

As her spiritual power slowly stabilized and she began to recover, she felt an indescribable, nauseating taste fill her entire body. Unable to hold it back, she let out a dry heave.

The sound startled Mo Si, who was just outside. He pushed the door open, saw that Jiang Qiuqiu was already sitting up, and hurried to her side.

"Qiuqiu, you’re finally awake."

"...BLECH!"

Jiang Qiuqiu clutched her chest, looking even more miserable now that she was awake than when she had been unconscious. Mo Si grew anxious and, supporting her, was about to call for Mrs. Ai’er.

"What is that? Why do I taste Nutrient Liquid all through my body... like it’s coming from the inside out?"

Mo Si glanced up at the IV bag of Spirit Nourishing Liquid that was still connected to her.

Jiang Qiuqiu followed his gaze to the bag of liquid.

’Case closed.’

’I’m actually on a Nutrient Liquid drip?!’