The Omnipotent Queen in an Interstellar Age - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: Labour Force

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Although that was how Hao Pi put it across, he still felt that this girl from this Planet Trash with her cooking skills would have no difficulty in gaining alliance coins.
But at this moment, he wanted to annoy Cheng Gong, so he did not spill out his real thoughts.
“She is going to pay for the mistake she has made!” Cheng Gong found this girl from Planet Trash increasingly annoying.
Her behavior was really strange, starkly different from what normal people would do. This girl from Planet Trash had no logic to her actions. She was definitely going to cause quite a lot of trouble if she was accepted in the school!
Hence, he truly did not want this girl from Planet Trash to pass the examination.
If she really ate up the color bird, the Dean might disqualify her.
Jin Ling chose to stay silent as she watched Cheng Gong and Hao Pi argue with each other.
If she said anything, it would only add to the trouble. Why not just stay and watch until both parties made peace with each other.
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In the forest zone of mimicry planet.
Not too far from the fire by the brook, where Lan Jiao was doing the roasting work.
Chen Cheng was about to put forward his request when Zhao Qingyan denied him.
Lan Jiao looked up and caught sight of Chen Cheng who seemed like he would burst into tears any minute now.
She could not help but find it funny. This boy, who looked strong like a bear, could not possibly start crying after being tormented by a girl!
But the next moment, she saw Chen Cheng raising his hand and wiping his tears.
Chen Cheng’s bitter feelings were spilling out. He kept repeating only one thing again and again. “It is such a hard day, it is such a hard day!”
Lan Jiao: “…”
Zhao Qingyan frowned and bellowed at him. “Stop crying, you big guy, if I see one more tear of yours, I will throw you far away!”
Hearing her reprimand, Chen Cheng stiffened and stopped crying.
He believed that Zhao Qingyan would follow up on her threat.
If he continued to cry, he might not be able to even smell the roasted color bird!
Chen Cheng decided to stop, after re-evaluating the situation.
But, he still looked at Lan Jiao with a pitiful expression in his eyes, hoping that she would soften her heart and offer him one bite of the food.
That proved to be a successful move.
As Lan Jiao finished roasting the chicken stomach, she gave the wooden stick to Chen Cheng.
“It is not a free meal. Go and collect some dry branches after eating. We are running out of fuel!”
“Oh okay!” Chen Cheng’s expression underwent a drastic change. He was so happy that he pulled the roasted heart off the stick, but was unwilling to chew it fast.
The taste of salt was swimming on the tip of his tongue, stimulating his taste buds. He could not help but keep taking more meat into his mouth.
The roasted heart of the color bird was chewy and bouncy. It looked a bit burned yet had a wonderful smell. As the tender meat spread in his mouth, he started to chew on it.
Chen Cheng was still chewing when he set out to complete the task given to him – to find dried twigs.
He did not know how many dried twigs the girl needed, but since he had already accepted the food, he was going to try his best to satisfy her.
When Chen Cheng left, Zhao Qingyan said to Lan Jiao, “You can leave the task to me, why make him do that? Paying him with the food!”
Lan Jiao knew what Zhao Qingyan was thinking.
She was not feeling very comfortable when a stranger joined them and shared their food. It had always been the two of them who were drinking and eating together.
But Lan Jiao smiled softly and said in a soft voice, “It is just one bite of food and we get free labor force like that. Why not use him?”
“Also, it would be a waste for you to pick up twigs! He is right for the job. We have lots of food left, and don’t need to be stingy about that small amount of meat.”
Hearing Lan Jiao’s explanation, Zhao Qingyan threw a look at the roasted color bird roasting over the fire frame. It seemed to be almost done.
True, this color bird was large enough to feed both her and Lan Jiao!
“And we are going to capture more than one color bird. Didn’t Dean Ferrero say that there are 100 color birds in the entire forest zone?”
Zhao Qingya’s heart skipped a beat at her words.
Lan Jiao was thinking about catching more of these color birds?
After eating one of the birds, they might have to face some punishment from the school. If they ate one more…
Zhao Qingyan tried to control her greed as she stared at the delicious-looking roasted color bird.
Actually, one more bird would not hurt.
But Lan Jiao had other purposes to make Chen Cheng stay around them.
She and Zhao Qingyan were just two girls who might need some help in the future. With him around, they would be able to expand the seeking area. It would become easier to capture the color birds.
Didn’t Dean Ferrero say that there were 100 of them?
If that was the case, they would need a strong man to carry the piles of color birds which they were going to catch.
Lan Jiao had decided to change their diet in the following two weeks, after finding out that the color birds were none other than roosters!
Soon Chen Cheng came back with a pile of dry twigs. He added them to the fire on Lan Jiao’s order and waited for Lan Jiao to finish roasting the meat.
He was alright with just smelling, even if he did not get any more food.
Also, he had a feeling that Lan Jiao might share another small piece with him, maybe two pieces! As long as he worked hard, he might get lots of food to eat.
While waiting for the roasted chicken to be properly roasted, Lan Jiao saw more people gathering around the fire.
When the three locals from Planet Trash spotted Lan Jiao, they underwent different reactions.
Zhu You had not liked Lan Jiao right from the beginning, and the feeling had not changed till this point.
As they tracked down the smell and found that it was generated by Lan Jiao, he suddenly became increasingly jealous.
If not for the beautiful swordswoman, who looked intimidating, and the strong-looking big guy, who could not to be offended, Zhu You would have taken a step forward.
The girl with long braids caught sight of the pretty girl from Planet Trash and realised that she had teamed up with some excellent people. She suddenly felt ashamed and did not dare to walk up to her.
The third local from Planet Trash, who had no idea of who Lan Jiao was, felt even worse.
Apart from the three locals, there were several youngsters from other planets who were here for the examination as well.
This included Ji Chenfeng, the genius with double S-level, born in the warband.