Chapter 321: I Guess Black Hole Is a Close Relative of Mo Si

Although she had delivered meals for two days straight, there were no visible effects.

Most people just said they felt more energetic after eating, so a longer observation period was still needed.

Jiang Qiuqiu sat in the main hall with Little Qing. "How were you so sure I had that ability before? There clearly aren’t any obvious effects."

"No, there was a clear effect before." Little Qing shook his head. "I think it’s because this isn’t our first time, so the potency has diminished a little."

"I’m very sensitive to this sort of thing. I wouldn’t be mistaken."

"Oh, right, Miss Jiang..."

"Please, don’t call me Miss Jiang." A hint of a smile touched Jiang Qiuqiu’s eyes as she watched the men and women, young and old, exercising together in the outer room. "Just use my name. I’m Jiang Qiuqiu. You should be pretty familiar with me by now."

"I am." Perhaps because things had been going so smoothly lately, a rare smile finally appeared on Little Qing’s somewhat gloomy face. "How do you know people from the Military Department?"

"The Military Department?" Jiang Qiuqiu asked, puzzled.

Seeing her surprise, Little Qing was surprised too. "The ones who come to do data monitoring every day. They must be from a legion directly under the Military Department. You didn’t know?"

"I didn’t know. I’m not the one who called them here."

"...Oh, I see." Little Qing let out a soft "oh." "It’s fine that you didn’t know. You can rest easy. Now that the Admiral has taken over, there won’t be any complications."

"He’s a good man—fair, upright, a respecter of human rights, and he always looks out for the citizens. Being under his protection is the safest place you can be."

At the mention of the Admiral, Little Qing’s eyes lit up.

This surprised Jiang Qiuqiu a little. "The Admiral you’re talking about... is he the Imperial Blade, Admiral Mo Si?"

"Yes! That’s him!"

"You seem to really admire him."

"Of course." His eyes shone with unwavering conviction. "Almost everyone admires him. He’s a legend in the legions, he’s..."

"We all love him. I enlisted because of him, too." At the mention of enlisting, Little Qing’s expression slowly darkened. "Unfortunately, before I could even be officially sent to the battlefield, while I was still just in the reserve legion, I..."

...was diagnosed with gene collapse and immediately discharged by the legion. They sent me back to Federation Star, and I ended up in this rescue center.

"I’ve never even met him."

He had worked so hard to get into the Sixth Legion. He thought he’d finally get to be close to his idol, but who would’ve thought his dream would be shattered before it even began.

Little Qing seemed to know a lot about the Military Department and Mo Si. As it happened, Jiang Qiuqiu suspected Black Hole had some connection to the Military Department and the Mo family, so she started chatting with Little Qing out of curiosity.

He shared a lot of stories about the Imperial Blade—all of them complimentary, of course.

As he went on, he started adding his own commentary, heaping effusive praise on Mo Si.

His excited state made Jiang Qiuqiu feel like she was looking at a teenage fanboy, and the distance between them instantly closed.

Now that they felt closer, they fell back into casual conversation. Somehow, the topic of Beast Clan Genes came up.

"I’m not sure about the others."

"I just know that the Beast Clan Gene passed down in the Admiral’s family has always been a type of bear."

"A bear!?"

"Yep, the kind with immense strength!" Little Qing said. "Majestic and mighty! The all-black kind! I heard the old Marshal was one, too—super imposing!"

’Both are bears, both are connected to the Military Department, and both are so mysterious...’

’And Sister Chengyu... Mo Chengyu!’

Jiang Qiuqiu felt like all the pieces were falling into place. Sister Chengyu had once said Black Hole was her younger brother. The two of them looked quite similar, and their dynamic was strange.

’Maybe Black Hole is Sister Chengyu’s biological brother. His name might be Mo Hei Dong.’

’Then there’s the fact that Black Hole is also connected to the Military Department, that many of his operations were personally ordered by the Imperial Blade, and that both of them are Genetic Hybrids with bear Genes.’

’Although one is a formidable black bear and the other is a cute panda.’

’But none of that matters. The conclusion she’d reached now was that Black Hole must be a close relative of Mo Si.’

’Maybe... his nephew?’

’His status seems so distinguished.’