Chapter 68: The Mutant Melon

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: The Mutant Melon

Mr. Levi watched the child’s back with affection. Once Elijah was out of sight, the kindly look on Levi’s face vanished. He went back into the house, sending a message to Mr. Hall’s secret smart number.

[Head of the family, I suspect the person who was with the second young master that day is connected to the former Crown Prince.]

The reason everyone always said "the former Crown Prince" instead of "the late Crown Prince" was that His Majesty the Emperor and the Queen refused to believe their son was dead. Everyone felt these two were only consoling themselves.

The ship had exploded like fireworks, how could anyone inside still be alive. However, Mr. Hall believed it was the truth. Besides Mr. Hall there were also a few factions in the shadows. The people hiding in the shadows had always been secretly verifying the information relating to the former Crown Prince’s death.

As Mr. Hall’s most capable aide, Mr. Levi also knew the inner workings of the royal house. His Majesty the Emperor readily believed the slander of the Second Prince’s faction not because the Second Prince’s scheme was too perfect and without a single flaw, but in order to protect Crown Prince Noah Coronado.

Before the incident occurred, Noah’s mental sea had already begun to riot. Noah’s mental power was grade 2S, showing signs of breaking through to 3S four years earlier. Yet alongside that, his mental sea could not contain a mental force so powerful, so Noah’s body had begun to show wounds large and small.

The only way to protect Noah at that point was to remove him from the center of power, taking him to a secret planet outside the belt to carry out treatment. If Noah’s body truly could not endure any longer, they would be forced to place him in a hibernation pod, until his mental power degraded back below grade S.

Right at that moment, the pretext the Second Prince put forward happened to suit the Emperor’s purpose exactly. He immediately issued the decree stripping Noah of the position of Crown Prince, exiling him to the frontier of the belt. But His Majesty the Emperor was too anxious, overlooking how unbelievable this coincidence was.

The Second Prince had always been a fool, so how could he have lured Noah into a trap so easily, without a single flaw? One can only say there was someone pulling the strings behind him, and this person’s purpose was precisely to wait for Noah to leave the Solaris star system, to leave the protective circle of the Legion Alliance and the royal house, and then strike him dead.

And they had indeed succeeded, moreover doing it so thoroughly that nobody could trace a thing.

Traps within traps, a thousand traps stacked one on another, leaving the investigation at a dead end.

[Keep watching. Nobody is to know, not my wife and not Alexander either.] Mr. Hall messaged back, the content extremely brief. Once Mr. Levi had finished reading, the message was immediately encrypted and then vanished completely.

[Understood.] Mr. Levi answered.

Time slipped by like a weaver’s shuttle; in the blink of an eye two days had passed since Liam boarded the ship. A military ship and the route reserved for the Legions truly were not things everyone could travel on.

Liam and Isabella had been placed in medical pods from the moment they boarded, while Benjamin was also put into one by several of the soldiers after the first spatial jump.

Just like that the three siblings slept away soundly until the ship landed on the empty lot on the western side of planet Cygnus.

Liam was fished out of the medical pod by his brother and sister, then sat still for the private doctor to check his health before going down off the ship. Fortunately both Liam and the baby were healthy. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The Beta doctor finished examining Liam, breaking into a kindly smile: "Both Papa and baby are healthy. First open the hatch a while to balance the climate, to keep the Omega from heat shock."

This female doctor was the one with the best obstetric experience among the Hall family’s private doctors. She had been assigned outright to Liam by Mr. Hall along with twelve grade-A Alpha retainers.

Hearing her say that, the two retainers standing beside the ship’s hatch immediately pressed the button to open it.

The hatch had barely opened when a wave of sweltering heat rushed in at once. Liam drew a deep breath of that familiar smell of earth, feeling his whole body go weightless. However spacious and cool the Hall mansion might be, however soft the beds and mattresses there, this place was his home.

Waiting for the temperature outside and inside to balance out, Isabella and Benjamin stepped forward to support their younger brother down off the ship. With this many people, the utility vehicle naturally could not carry them all.

Liam immediately took out the two flying cars confiscated from the paternal family, handing them to the soldiers: "You all use these, we will take the utility vehicle for the fresh air."

The Alphas had no intention of offering any persuasion, nodding as they climbed aboard the flying cars. The female doctor said: "I will go with you children. It has been a long time since I rode in a utility vehicle, I feel a little nostalgic."

The utility vehicle had four seats, and Liam did not refuse. So the four of them climbed into the vehicle, Benjamin taking responsibility for driving, the two flying cars skimming along closely behind.

Everyone looked around as they went, privately marvelling at how barren this planet was. But as they drew near the residential area, the atmosphere suddenly changed completely. The ground was a lush green, the air fresh and carrying the damp smell of soil and water vapor. The female doctor marvelled:

"Oh my, I never imagined a place this barren could grow greens as fresh as this. But what is that tall plant over there? I keep looking and cannot tell what species it is at all."

Liam looked where she pointed, discovering it was the corn the two Robots had planted. The two corn fields were planted side by side; the field of corn that had been soaked in restoration fluid now stood taller than a person’s head, having tasselled and put out young ears. Meanwhile the field of original corn had only reached knee height now.

"That is the corn plant, auntie, it is a new variety I discovered." Liam pointed it out for the female doctor to see: "The field on the right is planted from seed soaked in restoration fluid, while the field on the left is the original seed. I never expected there would be such an enormous difference."

The female doctor nodded, then pointed at a whole series of other crops: "Are those plants over there new seed as well?"

Isabella picked up: "That is right, Auntie Camila. That thing crawling long and sprawling across the ground is sweet potato, that thing with the purple flowers is potato. There is also that yellow climbing vine called cucumber. A few days ago the Robots harvested one round already, so now that we are home we can eat them right away."

Isabella’s finger swept across the cucumber field, and reaching the next few fields she pulled her hand back in embarrassment, saying with an awkward laugh:

"How embarrassing, I do not know a single one of the items beside it."

Liam smiled: "Beside the melon field is choy sum, about now they are just right to eat. Beside the choy sum is dryland water spinach, we have taken two rounds off it already. That blazing red thing climbing the trellis over there is yardlong beans, just entering the harvest season, while the jade-green thing beside it is also a kind of bean, called climbing green beans, which are ready to eat as well."

"Does everyone see that fruit over there glittering red like glass? That is the tomato plant, yesterday the Robots picked the first round of fruit. Besides that there are a few other crops, but it will be a long time before they can be harvested."

Having finished speaking, Liam marvelled again inside his head: [Nirvana, I never imagined I would only be away a few days and come back to a whole pile of food inviting me to eat. The acreage is looking very promising too!]

Nirvana jumped out and said: [Host, there is one more thing you have forgotten. That is the watermelons planted way over on the southern row of fields. I just scanned it and... Bingo! Congratulations to the host on unlocking a super food with the highest energy reading among all the current plants of this world!]

Liam’s mouth fell open: [The highest? Higher even than the primordial plants? How much exactly?]

Nirvana immediately displayed the data table. The mental energy figure of seven hundred and twenty-two had been coated by it in a dazzling gold, nearly blinding Liam’s eyes. Sweat poured off Liam as though he had bathed in it:

[Bloody hell, three times higher than Amethyst greens?! This is you worrying I will not die fast enough, is it not?]

Nirvana shot him a contemptuous glance: [The host dreams too beautifully. This is you, a blind cat stumbling onto a fried fish. The other watermelons in the field only reach an average mental energy reading of fifty to a hundred and ten; this melon king with a reading of seven hundred and twenty-two is a mutant. Something like this, even in a hundred years you may well not grow a second one!]

Liam quietly let out a breath of relief, then asked Nirvana: [So what do I need to do with this melon now? With mental energy that large I am afraid it cannot be hidden from anyone.]

Nirvana laughed: [Host, firstly, up to now nobody has switched on an energy scanner, so its existence is known only to you. Secondly, the other melons are bigger than a person’s head, but this melon with the greatest energy is only the size of three finger joints. You only need one mouthful and it is finished.]

It swished its tail: [Go and eat it on the sly in a little while, host. That melon is extremely good for the baby!]

Liam: "..."