Chapter 19 Naming Him
Ancestor? What is that?
Qianzhi had no time to think about the boy’s strange name. The silver hair was wrapped around her waist, then climbed up along her arms and kept caressing her cheeks.

“Sister,” the young man said softly, “how pitiful it is that your strength has been weakened so much.”

He tilted his head to avoid the thousands of vines that suddenly sprang out, but the sharp branches at the top still scratched his cheek.

The boy wiped away the blood with his hands without caring, and smiled ambiguously:

“You know how adorable your struggle is, like a baby insect, waving its fragile forelimbs helplessly.”

But the spider sitting under him growled because Qianzhi’s attack hurt its owner.

Its other huge forelimb suddenly stretched out and smashed towards Qianzhi.

The young man turned over swiftly, jumped off the spider, and held Qianzhi in his arms.

At the same time, he easily blocked the spider’s huge tentacle with one finger.

“Who gave you the courage?” He narrowed his beautiful eyebrows, looking extremely sinister. He pinched the front end of it with two fingers and squeezed it gently. “Go attack the ancestor?”

The giant spider whined softly and trembled in the hands of the boy who was several times smaller than it, begging for forgiveness from its owner.

But the sound of puffing was heard the next moment.

The spider seemed to be crushed by the giant palm out of thin air, its limbs were crushed into a ball of scattered fragments, and green body fluids splashed everywhere in an instant.

“Oh no,” Chizhi heard the young man hugging her say softly.

The finger that easily crushed a spider gently wiped the liquid splashed on Qianzhi’s cheek, as if cherishing a delicate petal: “It’s dirty.”

“I think you’ve got the wrong person. I’m not the original ancestor.” Qianzhi softened her voice, raised her little face, and looked at the boy softly.

A good plant knows how to seek benefits and avoid harm.

The silver hair on her waist had loosened, replaced by the boy’s strong arms.

The boy’s body was stronger and bigger than she had imagined, and he held her in his arms, almost completely covering her in his chest.

“Besides, this place is very close to the fortress, and my sentinels will be here soon.” Qianzhi looked around quietly and heard the footsteps and shouts of people approaching.

“I’ll pretend you’ve never been here.” She whispered, secretly extending the vines behind her.

Even if he wanted to kill her, or take her away, her vines would hold her back for a while, at least allowing the sentries to find her.

“Are you threatening me, sister?” The boy’s voice was sweet and seductive when he laughed. He winked at her, “But instead of threatening me, it’s better to worry about them.”

Qianzhi suddenly felt a chill. His mental vision was so huge that ordinary sentinels would indeed not be his match.

If they come here, they might be killed by him.

“I’m not threatening—”

“Shh.” The boy tapped her lips with his finger.

“I don’t want to hear my sister talking about other people. There’s only you and me here. Besides,” his beautiful eyes drooped, with a look of grievance, “you haven’t asked my name yet.”

Chizhi: “…May I ask your name?”

The young man smiled and said, “Sister, guess what?”

He stared at Qianzhi’s green almond eyes and flicked her soft and long eyelashes. “Sister, your eyes are really beautiful.”

Just like the endless forest when there were no stars.

Qianzhi thought for a moment: “Cui?”

The silver eyes in front of him sparkled instantly: “Yes, my name is Cui!”

Chizhi: . . . She suspected that the boy was waiting for her to give him a name. And his overly abrupt behavior made her feel that he seemed to be a mutation of a species just like her.

But there is no doomsday in this world, nor is there any cross-species mutation.

So what is he?
“——Chie!” “Chie!”

The voices of the sentinels came from far away.

Qianzhi couldn’t help but struggle in the boy’s arms.

They shouldn’t have come here, it’s dangerous.

“Sister, you’re worried about them?” the boy whispered softly, “Are you afraid that I’ll kill them all?”

His smile gradually grew more vicious, and he snapped his fingers: “If I kill them all, will my sister only look at me?”

As he pointed, huge shadows appeared in the jungle, and the red light of insects’ compound eyes was looming in the jungle.

“Even if you do that, I won’t look at you.” Qianzhi bit her lip and looked away from the boy.

His ideas were weird and crazy, and even if she was pretending to be nice, he would see through it at a glance.

“It really makes me sad.” The boy snapped his fingers again.

There was a dull and loud sound coming from the ground, and the giant insects were about to jump out of the jungle disguise and rush towards the fortress behind them.

Suddenly, a very loud and penetrating insect chirp sounded from a distance.

The young man raised his head suddenly, and even the insects that were about to move stopped.

“Mother Worm?” He frowned and sighed softly, “It’s such a pity that it happened at this time.”

The arms around her loosened suddenly, and the boy gently put her back on the ground.

“Although I really want to kill them now, it’s not the right time yet.” He pressed his thin red lips against hers and kissed her cheek gently. “For the time being, they can still be of some use to my sister.”

“Also, go to the Imperial Star. There you will find what your sister needs.”

The boy who was sticking to her suddenly disappeared after saying the last sentence, as if he had never appeared.

“Qianqian!” Several figures rushed towards her through the bushes.

The first person to arrive was breathing heavily and hugged her tightly.

“Thousands.”

The person holding her had long, beautiful hair that was still dazzling in the darkening sky.

“Lu Chenzhou?” Smelling the chaotic and complex aroma of plants, Qianzhi felt a little surprised while hugging him back.

After all, as a plant-type sentinel with the most stable emotions, Qianzhi had never seen him lose his composure or have his spirit body partially alienated.

“What happened? Why did he become like this?”

The sentry who hurried over from behind saw that Qianzhi was safe and sound, and heaved a sigh of relief while looking bitter.

“It’s also our fault. Doctor Lu consumed too much mental energy as a healing sentinel. When he knew that all the guides had safely entered the fortress and only you hadn’t returned, Doctor Lu became alienated.”

It was also the first time that he saw Lu Chenzhou’s sudden transformation. His short black hair instantly extended and turned red, and the roots and branches of plants protruded from the man’s skin like bone spurs.

If Dr. Lu’s spirit had not been strong and stable enough, he would have almost released the carnivorous plant toxin and killed everyone in the fortress.

“Lu Chenzhou, I’m fine now.” Qianzhi slowed down her voice and comforted the trembling man who was hugging her, “Release your spirit body, you need treatment.”

(End of this chapter)