The little female is incredibly sweet and soft, healing the five evil beasts right from the start.

Chapter 94 Black Insects
The city gate.

Zhou Bai noticed that Jiang Mian was accompanied by a different beastman, not the same one from that morning. He was slightly taken aback, but quickly regained his composure and didn't ask any further questions.

"Let's go," Zhou Bai said, adjusting his black-rimmed glasses.

"Okay." Jiang Mian nodded and put on the oxygen mask.

The three people, wearing oxygen masks, left the city.

We've arrived at White Moon Forest once again.

Near a patch of red leaves.

Three people stood in the middle.

When Zhou Bai handed the collection tools to Jiang Mian, Jiang Mian took one set and said, "Could you please give me another set of collection tools?"

Zhou Bai looked at Jiang Mian with a slightly puzzled expression, thinking that Jiang Mian wanted his orcs to come and work for him as well.

However, in the morning, the other party was clear-headed and wouldn't let her own orcs come to work for him.

Jiang Mian looked at him and knew he had misunderstood, so she explained, "I want to borrow a set of collection tools from you so that my orcs can also collect Red Moon Worms. However, the Red Blood Worms collected by my orcs belong to me, but I can pay you for the collection tools."

She felt that she could also collect red bloodworms to make hallucinogenic drugs, and of course, she could make many other drugs as well.

Since I've already brought Rin Iku along, I might as well use her.

After hearing Jiang Mian's explanation, Zhou Bai seemed to understand and said, "It's okay, the collection tools aren't worth much money, you can have them."

He thought Jiang Mian wanted to collect Red Moon Insects to sell to pharmacists or something.

Naturally, they didn't know that Jiang Mian was collecting Red Moon Insects to concoct his own potions.

He didn't know or believe that Jiang Mian was a pharmacist.

After all, just as he had thought, no pharmacist would lower themselves to become another pharmacist's assistant.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Zhou," Jiang Mian replied with a slight smile.

"Okay, let's get to work." Zhou Bai took out a new set of collection tools and handed them to Jiang Mian.

After Jiang Mian took it, Zhou Bai went to a corner to start collecting Red Moon Insects.

Jiang Mian handed another set of collection tools to Lin Yu and slowly said, "Lin Yu, thank you for your trouble."

Lin Yu naturally took the gloves, put them on, and picked up the tools.

Jiang Mian put it on, grabbed his hand, squatted down next to the Red Moon Grass, and said, "It's very simple, just sweep these Red Moon Insects into the bottle."

Lin Yu stared at her mask for a while. It was just a mask, but it seemed to make her look different when she put it on.

The curved, smiling mask really did resemble her smiling face.

He also longed to reach out and touch it.

Lin Yu noticed that she was looking over, and when she did, he quickly pretended to look at the collecting tools in her hand.

"You know how, right?" Jiang Mian looked at him and handed him the collection tools. "You can collect them here."

Jiang Mian naturally had no intention of demonstrating this collection work, which required no technical skill, a second time. The first demonstration was simply to tell Lin Yu that she was collecting these Red Moon Insects.

"Okay." Lin Yu took the tools Jiang Mian handed over and began to collect them seriously.

Jiang Mian also went to another place to collect them.

The night is getting late.

Jiang Mian needed to turn on the light from the computer to see and collect the data clearly.

However, neither Rinyu nor Zhou Bai turned on the light collection of the light computer.

Jiang Mian glanced at Zhou Bai, who was still collecting things efficiently, and her gaze paused slightly. Orcs have better night vision than humans, so they don't need lighting.

Just like Rin Yu now, he collects things very efficiently without needing any lighting.

A guess came to Jiang Mian's mind.

Jiang Mian lowered his head and continued collecting. If Zhou Bai wasn't human, and the city lord was called Zhou Qing, these two people shared the same surname, so he always felt that they were related.

Na Zhoubai is an orc, and the city lord Zhou Qing might also be an orc.

Only beastmen who have fully transformed into beastmen and can freely exist in various forms—human, beast, or half-human, half-beast—can disguise themselves as humans.

However, the genes and blood of orcs are generally different from those of humans, and these differences can be detected through testing.

I don't know how they managed to evade the detection.

Jiang Mian thought for a moment and decided not to do anything.

Regardless of whether the city lord and Zhou Bai are human or beastman, as long as they get along well, that's fine. She didn't plan to investigate or report them.

It was past 10 p.m., and Jiang Mian had already put on her down jacket.

Jiang Mian fished for a while, then glanced at Zhou Bai, who was tirelessly collecting Red Moon Insects like a machine.

Aren't you going to leave work yet?
"Alright." Zhou Bai finally spoke at 10:30.

Jiang Mian handed him the bottle and tools with a sigh of relief.

Seeing Jiang Mian's anxious expression, Zhou Bai's lips twitched slightly, but he ultimately said nothing.

Jiang Mian had already walked up to Lin Yu. She naturally took the three bottles of Red Moon Insects he had collected and then helped him take off his gloves. "Lin Yu, thank you for your hard work."

As Lin Yu looked at the gloves Jiang Mian had helped him take off, a sweet feeling welled up in his heart once again.

Even the smallest gestures brought him joy.

Pleasure always seems so easy to come by because of her.

Being with her always makes me happy.

Lin Yu had no idea that Jiang Mian had taken off his gloves because he had been collecting red bloodworms for Jiang Mian all night.

Jiang Mian packed up her things, and just as the three of them were about to leave, a tremor came from behind them.

Footsteps echoed from the inner perimeter of White Moon Forest, and a dozen or so people suddenly appeared.

The light from the quantum computers in their hands was dazzling.

When Jiang Mian subconsciously looked over upon hearing the sound, she was startled by the blinding light emanating from the waving headlights and had to squint slightly. Just as she was about to raise her hand to block the light, a long, slender hand was already in front of her eyes, shielding her from the glaring light.

She paused, then glanced at Lin Yu, who was silently shielding her from the glare beside her. As if sensing her gaze, he lowered his eyes slightly, his eyes falling on her.

Before Jiang Mian could react, a cold glint flashed in Lin Yu's narrow red eyes, and he quickly grabbed her waist with his other hand and jumped away from where he stood.

At the same time, Zhou Bai shouted, "Watch out!"

The sounds of trees collapsing violently, along with the buzzing of the wind, all clamored into Jiang Mian's ears.

Jiang Mian was taken away by Lin Yu and landed in a safe place. She turned her head and looked back at the place where she had just been. She saw a huge worm with two black and sharp wings and a body like a worm suddenly fall on the spot where she had just been. It crushed the red leaves and grass around her and knocked down the trees.

The alien insects blocked the path of the dozen or so people who rushed out from the inner edge of the forest.

The two enormous black tentacles of the alien insect lashed out from its mouthparts like whips, hurtling towards the people rushing out from the inner edge of the forest.

Those people instantly pulled out laser guns and began firing them at the giant alien insect's tentacles and body.

Zhou Bai quickly arrived at Jiang Mian's side and said, "Let's leave quickly. Those people somehow provoked a strange insect."

"Mm." Jiang Mian nodded as well.

As the three were quickly leaving, one of them was flung away by the tentacles of the alien insect and crashed down in front of them, forcing them to stop.

A middle-aged man in a white coat and wearing a white mask fell to the ground in a disheveled state.

Their eyes met instinctively.

Wearing a mask, one naturally doesn't recognize anyone.

"I'm a pharmacist. Are you going out? I broke my leg. Could you take me with you?" the middle-aged man quickly asked. "You'll be very grateful after we get out!"

The men he brought were fighting against the alien insects, and he was carrying 100,000 of those insect eggs.

The eggs of the black-winged beetle are naturally of research value.

"Pharmacist Li?" Zhou Bai recognized the voice.

"You know me?" Li Chengfeng asked in surprise.

"Pharmacist Li, it's me, Zhou Bai." Zhou Bai quickly pulled Li Chengfeng up.

Zhou Bai helped him walk quickly forward.

Lin Yu held Jiang Mian's hand tightly, and the two walked forward quickly together.

"Oh, you're the pharmacist. I was just planning to visit you these past few days," Li Chengfeng said slowly. "What a coincidence!"

"What are you doing here?" Zhou Bai asked.

"I saw on the cloud network that the sleepless person posted an experiment on the possibility that longevity cells could be extracted from the evergreen plant cultivated from the eggs of the black-winged insect. I just happened to be here to collect some black fungus, and I also took the black-winged insect eggs with me," Li Chengfeng replied casually.

A moment later, he excitedly spoke again: "I had the same idea, but I'm still experimenting. However, at my pace, it would probably take decades or even until I die to get it. What that guy Bu Mian released is like advancing my thinking by a hundred years! Now I'm even more confident that I can extract longevity cells while I'm still alive!"

(End of this chapter)