Chapter 82
‘Where’s His Majesty?’ the panda cub asked, pressing his head together with the little snow ferret’s as they whispered.
But before the little snow ferret could answer—
“What are you two doing here?”
A voice suddenly sounded from behind them, startling both the little snow ferret and the panda cub.
When they turned around, they discovered that Lan Fangyu had somehow crouched down behind them without them noticing.
Lan Fangyu was His Majesty’s adjutant. In terms of strength, he was a level below them and counted as an unofficial member of the Blade Squad.
But now that their powers had severely regressed, they hadn’t even noticed him approaching.
As His Majesty’s adjutant, constantly accompanying His Majesty at all times, his appearance here was perfectly normal.
‘N-Nothing at all…’
Bai Shuo guiltily darted his eyes around.
Lan Fangyu ignored this slippery little rascal and turned his gaze toward Shen Chunming, instantly making the panda cub nervous enough to instinctively want to run.
Unfortunately, he still wasn’t faster than Lan Fangyu.
The next moment, Lan Fangyu suddenly reached out, scooped the panda cub up in one arm, and directly lifted his clothes to inspect him.
“You really grew fur?”
Shen Chunming was so frightened that he didn’t even dare make a sound, afraid of disturbing Doctor Ye in the distance, as well as those suspicious rabbit ears.
‘I really did grow it! Hurry up and put me down!’
Ignoring his struggle, Lan Fangyu carefully examined the new layer of fluff growing on his back before finally pulling his clothes back down.
Then, while still holding the panda cub in his arms, he vigorously rubbed him all over.
“Not bad, you’re really almost recovered.”
Although Lan Fangyu had already heard over the past few days about Shen Chunming’s recovery, he hadn’t had time to personally see him yet.
He hadn’t expected to run into him here today.
The relationship between teammates had always been quite good, so seeing them recover genuinely made Lan Fangyu happy from the bottom of his heart.
‘Not completely recovered yet, but I can already come out and walk around…’
Before he could finish speaking, Lan Fangyu tucked the panda cub under one arm, grabbed the little snow ferret with the other hand, and started carrying them outside.
The little snow ferret tried to struggle, only to be instantly restrained by Lan Fangyu’s spiritual power.
“This isn’t somewhere you two should be. Hurry back. The assistant doctors are panicking because you disappeared.”
The two of them had secretly snuck in, while the assistant doctors had been stopped outside by the guards.
‘We just came to play with His Majesty and Doctor Ye.’ The little snow ferret still sounded utterly carefree. ‘Wouldn’t they get bored just sitting there?’
Clearly, this wasn’t his first time sneaking over here.
His innate ability was space-related, which already made him extremely difficult to catch. Earlier, when he had secretly slipped into the top-floor ward, he had used this ability as well.
If he hadn’t brought Shen Chunming along today, even Lan Fangyu wouldn’t have had an easy time catching him.
Lan Fangyu glanced at him. ‘What do you know? Doctor Ye… is treating His Majesty.’
‘So those rabbit ears really are His Majesty?’ Shen Chunming suddenly interrupted.
Although he had already seen His Majesty’s juvenile form before, and although he’d heard Doctor Ye call His Majesty “little rabbit”…
He still found it hard to connect those twitching rabbit ears with their wise and mighty emperor.
After thinking for a moment, Lan Fangyu said, ‘This is a royal secret. Don’t go spreading it around.’
The little snow ferret still wanted to say something, but then Lan Fangyu added:
‘His Majesty’s recovery is going very well now. His spiritual power can already cover the entire Royal Sanatorium.’
Only then did they realize that at some point, Lan Fangyu had switched to communicating through spiritual power.
The two instantly quieted down.
Even private spiritual conversations weren’t absolutely secret. In front of someone with a much higher spiritual rank, transmitted messages were basically no different from openly speaking aloud.
If His Majesty really had recovered to his former level, then…
‘His Majesty is the coolest! The person I admire most is His Majesty!’ the little snow ferret declared immediately.
‘Y-Yeah, me too.’
Lan Fangyu looked at them with some amusement. Seeing that the little snow ferret had finally calmed down, he continued carrying them away before returning them to the assistant doctors.
‘If we can’t play here, then let’s go somewhere else.’
The little snow ferret already seemed extremely familiar with the botanical garden as he spoke to the panda cub.
‘Then where are we going next?’
Even though running around everywhere had left Shen Chunming somewhat tired, he still didn’t want to go back yet.
‘Let’s go see Brother Chuan!’
‘Oh right, I don’t think we’ve seen him since coming to the botanical garden. Did Doctor Ye take him away separately for treatment?’
That wasn’t entirely inaccurate.
The little snow ferret grinned mischievously.
‘Hehe, you’ll know once you see him.’
‘Okay.’
So the two of them shook off the assistant doctors again and ran toward the pool where the littlequeen of the night was located.
Activity Area.
Just after ten in the morning, the patients from the core inpatient department arrived there on schedule.
The originally quiet botanical garden instantly became somewhat lively.
The little squirrel jumped down from the robot caretaker and ran happily around the grass.
Her recovery was going very well. She could already independently eat some easily digestible normal foods, and naturally her physical condition improved day by day.
After playing for a while, she stopped and sat down on a rock.
At that moment, a little panda lying on a hospital bed waved at her.
‘Zizi, come over here and sunbathe with us!’
This little panda was also one of Song Zi’s closer wardmates. Seeing her call out, the little squirrel happily ran over.
She jumped onto the little panda’s bed, and the panda shifted aside to make room. The two little ones lay together beneath the warm sunlight, their bellies facing upward as they sprawled into two soft little pancake shapes.
It was truly comfortable~
Aside from them, the other patients were also enjoying their sunbath.
By now, they had completely fallen in love with coming to the botanical garden every morning to bask in the sunlight. They were all still plants, and the sunlight was technically the same, yet staying here simply felt far more comfortable than anywhere else in the ward.
You could say this had already become the thing they looked forward to most every day.
“Thunk thunk thunk— thunk thunk thunk—”
Hearing the approaching footsteps, nobody reacted much at first.
They initially assumed it was probably the gardeners hard at work again.
But gradually, everyone realized something was off—why did it sound like some kind of animal running around?
It definitely wasn’t that little kitten. Cats were light-footed and practically silent when they walked.
Nor was it the little flower deer. She could only move slowly along the ground and still couldn’t run properly. And it wasn’t the little lamb either—when she ran, her hooves made distinct tapping sounds, and she loved hopping around…
Could some animal have snuck in?
Finally, someone opened their eyes to look, only to see a black-and-white furball rolling across the grass in front of them.
Huh? What just ran past?
The little squirrel jumped up and stood at the foot of the bed with her tail raised high as she looked around.
‘It’s a panda cub!’
At her words, everyone immediately released their spiritual power. The moment they clearly saw the figure, every single one of them became unsettled.
Holy crap, wasn’t that Shen Chunming from the Blade Squad? How was he walking normally?!
‘Major General Shen, is that you?’
Some familiar patients directly used their spiritual power to call out after the panda cub.
Shen Chunming paused briefly before answering:
‘It’s me.’
That single response instantly caused the spiritual power “group chat” throughout the activity area to explode.
After all, the last time they’d seen him had been over ten days ago. Back then, before they even had a chance to say goodbye, they heard that all the Blade Squad Warriors had been taken away by Doctor Ye and transferred to the botanical garden for treatment.
But despite coming to the botanical garden for activities these past several days, none of them had ever seen the Blade Squad Warriors.
Occasionally, they could only spot the little snow ferret Bai Lele dashing around everywhere playing, while the others remained completely unheard from.
They still remembered how those guys had once joked that if Doctor Ye treated them for a year or two, they’d already be lucky just to walk normally again…
But how long had it actually been? Not even two weeks yet, right? And panda Shen Chunming was already walking normally—even running!
Everyone fell into a daze.
Meanwhile, after resting briefly in place, the panda cub heard the little snow ferret urging him again.
So he waved his paw at everyone before continuing to follow after the little snow ferret in search of littlequeen of the night Yu Zhenchuan.
By the time the others wanted to continue chatting with him, the panda cub and little snow ferret had already gone far away, leaving behind only the sight of his fluffy round butt bouncing up and down as he ran.
So… Doctor Ye had really cured Shen Chunming?
What could they possibly do to make Doctor Ye become their attending physician too? They desperately wanted to regain their mobility as well!
Beside the longan tree.
Ye Yumeng opened his eyes and glanced in the direction where Lan Fangyu had left. He had noticed their conversation noises long ago.
He lowered his head to look at the little rabbit inside the incubator.
The little rabbit was still wrapped in bandages, but he was already sitting upright now—a movement that no longer posed any difficulty for him.
Only, the rabbit ears that had just been standing upright earlier had now drooped down again, making him look puffed-up and unhappy.
“How about asking Lan Fangyu to carry them back over?” Ye Yumeng suggested.
He remembered that the little rabbit and the little snow ferret were very good friends.
“You probably haven’t seen what Shen Mingming looks like after recovering yet, right? He’s already grown new fluff. Once it gets longer after some time, he’ll definitely be super cute!”
Even Ye Yumeng hadn’t expected that the fearsome iron-eating beast (a.k.a panda) would actually be this adorable during childhood.
Round and pudgy, honestly cute to the point of melting hearts.
But clearly, Lu Nanzhou didn’t think so. He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Looks like it was about time to find Bai Shuo something to do.
Seeing that he didn’t answer and seemed lost in thought, Ye Yumeng didn’t continue the topic. Instead, he stretched lazily and let out a comfortable sigh.
As the Spirit Gathering Array continued functioning, the spiritual energy inside the botanical garden became denser day by day, especially around the core of the formation.
Nourished by the spiritual energy, the vegetation grew increasingly lush. By now, there was no trace left of the plants ever having been transplanted.
Given enough time, perhaps heavenly treasures might even be born here.
Ye Yumeng couldn’t help daydreaming a little.
But soon, he thought of something and asked the little rabbit:
“Little Rabbit, could you lend me your Mystic Flame sometime in the future?”
Lu Nanzhou looked puzzled.
Since he now went outside every day, Mo Yin had installed a voice device inside the incubator so he could conveniently communicate with Ye Yumeng.
Activating the voice system, he asked, “Lend it how? What do you want to do?”
Ye Yumeng took out his green jade brush.
“This brush actually isn’t fully complete yet. It still needs to be refined with spirit fire before it can truly be considered finished. Its quality could improve to an even higher level.”
“Your Mystic Flame is one type of spirit fire.”
Lu Nanzhou nodded.
“As for how to lend it… that’ll depend on your recovery condition. Artifact refining is physically exhausting work, and it’s hard to estimate how long it’ll take.”
Ye Yumeng continued, “Once your recovery is more or less complete, we can figure it out together, okay?”
“Okay.”
Lu Nanzhou replied, “I’ll cooperate with you.”
Ye Yumeng smiled.
“Thank you.”
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