A Guide to Raising your Natural Enemy

chapter 66

66. Someone Wants to do a Kidnapping

The news of Shu Shu giving birth to an egg and Jonathan conspiring to murder Edgar broke out, so Edgar naturally had many things to be busy with. After accompanying Shu Shu for a whole night, he did not have much time to stay beside Shu Shu on the next day. He finally came back when it was very late at night.  
  
As an old daemon who could change into a human form, Shu Shu was actually able to not sleep at all, but he was used to sleeping every day and for a very long time, too . . . . When Edgar returned, he had already fallen asleep long ago.
  
Looking at Shu Shu who sank into the soft big bed, Edgar felt his heart melt. After kissing Shu Shu’s cheek once and then kissing his own egg a few times, he quietly went to the bathroom to wash himself clean and then lay down beside Shu Shu.
  
As soon as he lay down, Shu Shu rolled into his arms and chose a comfortable position, nestling up. Edgar chuckled and kissed him on the head, heart warm.
  
This was his spouse.
  
The next day when Edgar woke up, Shu Shu was still not awake. He softly and quietly climbed out of the bed just like in the past.
  
"Bring the child for me to hug." Shu Shu slept very well last night, so when he felt some movements beside him, he lifted his eyelids and spoke.
  
The temperature inside the incubator was the most suitable for the newborn eggs to stay in, but the Empire Parenting Organization always called on everyone to have close contact with the egg for a period of time every day. Therefore, everyone would not let the child stay in the incubator all day long.
  
Edgar took the egg out of the incubator, injected some spiritual power into it, and then put it into Shu Shu’s arms.
  
Shu Shu held the egg in his arms, closed his eyes, and slept again.
  
Edgar lowered his head and gave Shu Shu and the egg a kiss each before turning round and leaving for work.
  
Shu Shu only got up when the sun was already high in the sky. He held the egg while injecting some spiritual power into it and went downstairs. He just reached the living room when he saw Ian and Jones sitting on the sofa and talking.
  
"Why don't you sleep for a while longer?" Seeing Shu Shu, Ian immediately spoke and also reached out to the egg held in Shu Shu's arms. "Isn’t it quite heavy? Let me hold it."
  
"It’s not heavy at all. It’s especially light." Shu Shu said. This egg only weighed four or five pounds; such a little bit of weight was completely nothing for him.
  
"Even if you feel it’s not heavy, you also have to be careful. A sub-beastman who just gave birth to a child needs to rest well." Ian said. He originally wanted to explain some methods of nursing a postpartum sub-beastman back to health, but seeing Shu Shu’s vigorous appearance, he suddenly felt that the nursing methods he knew were perhaps of no use to Shu Shu . . . .
  
Yesterday, he had specifically sought the doctor to dispense some medicine. He wanted to give it to Shu Shu for treating the lacerations caused by childbirth. As a result, Shu Shu said that he had no wounds on his body at all . . . .
  
"I’m already one hundred percent fine." Shu Shu said while passing the egg on his hand to Ian. Ian stared at the egg in his arms with a burning gaze; it was estimated that he wanted to hug the egg very much.
  
Ian indeed wanted to hold the egg very much. Sub-beastmen usually wouldn’t let people they were not familiar with see their eggs. Except for Edgar, he had never held any other eggs!
  
Thinking of Edgar, Ian immediately said to Shu Shu, "Shu Shu, I’ve a lot of photos of newborn Edgar. Do you want to see them?"
  
"I do!" Shu Shu replied at once.
  
Ian smiled at Shu Shu and quickly took out his communication device. After that, he searched out Edgar's childhood photos and showed them to Shu Shu.
  
Edgar was born in the hospital, so the photos at the beginning were all in the hospital. On the hospital bed, Ian looked a bit wan and sallow, but his smile was brilliant, and he was holding an egg, Edgar, in his arms.
  
That egg was not like the one Shu Shu had given birth to, but the difference was not big; after all, they were both eggs.
  
At the beginning, the egg only got its pictures taken. Later on, the egg started to have videos.
  
Shu Shu clicked one of the videos. The video initially just showed an egg lying quietly in the incubator. After a while, the egg suddenly moved and even turned its own body over.
  
"Ah!" Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised as he watched the video. It was obviously just an egg, but he thought it looked very, very cute!
  
"There’s also the video of Edgar hatching." Ian smiled and clicked on another video.
  
In the video, the egg swayed violently for a long time, and then a crack suddenly appeared on it. After another very long time, the crack finally became a little bit bigger.
  
This video was very long. After watching it for an entire hour, only a very small hole appeared on the egg, but Shu Shu unexpectedly enjoyed watching it and was not the least impatient.
  
His egg later would also give birth to a new life like this, right?
  
Shu Shu watched the video attentively and suddenly saw a snake that was as thick as two fingers together climb out of the eggshell.
  
". . ." Shu Shu had a sensation of his prior expectation and love disappearing in a flash.
  
Why was it the snake he disliked the most that came out of the egg?
  
How did he find a snake as a partner?
  
However, although he disliked snake, but he still liked Edgar very much . . . .
  
"Edgar at that time was cute, right?" Ian turned his head to look at Shu Shu.
  
Shu Shu shook his head. Although he would not go so far as to get scared just by watching a video now, but he really didn’t think that this snake was cute at all!
  
"Well . . . I also think he’s quite ugly." Ian said and directly moved on to show Shu Shu the photos taken when Edgar changed into a human form.
  
Looking at the little baby on the photo who, didn't know why, seemed to be frowning, Shu Shu wanted to cuddle and kiss him.
  
Ian took out all of Edgar's childhood photos and showed them to Shu Shu. Shu Shu liked the photos and videos of baby or toddler Edgar the most. As for the way Edgar looked when he changed into a snake form . . . there were a few of such snake photos, and he also liked them.
  
For example, in one of the videos, Chris, as a father, grabbed Edgar and tied him into two knots. Edgar could only turned and twisted with difficulty and finally untied himself after quite a while. Shu Shu thought it was very interesting . . . . He really wanted to try doing what Chris did himself!
  
After looking at the photos and videos for a long time, the three people were all hungry. Ian immediately called the chef and had him bring some food over.
  
Shu Shu had just given birth to a child, so the kitchen had prepared a lot of ingredients and already stewed some soups . . . . The chef assented and started to get busy. After half an hour, seven or eight robots brought the food to them.
  
Every robot held a food box on each hand. They placed the food boxes on the dining table and then started to take out plate after plate of dishes from the food boxes.
  
So many dishes! So fragrant! Shu Shu, seeing so many dishes being placed in front of him, could not help but drool and quickly scuttled over.
  
Seeing this scene, Ian couldn't help but smile.
  
After Shu Shu had practiced in the virtual cabin for quite a long time, as long as he was willing, he could quickly put on airs. In normal times, however, he was still forthright . . . . Of course, Ian did not dislike this one bit; on the contrary, he rather liked it.
  
Old people like them liked energetic children.
  
Holding the egg, Ian and Jones also came to the dining table.
  
They just reached the dining table when a few robots that had brought the dishes suddenly moved and emitted some smoke from their bodies.
  
The smoke puffed toward Shu Shu, Ian, and Jones's face. The three people were caught off guard, and everyone inhaled a lot of smoke in the end.
  
Ian was the focus of the "care". His physical fitness was the worst among the three. He just inhaled the gas, and he immediately became dizzy and collapsed to the floor. In that moment, besides protecting the child in his arms, he could not manage anything else.
  
Although Jones had some experience living in the military camp and his physical fitness was pretty good, but he was a sub-beastman after all. After grabbing hold of the table, he also went down to the floor and could not make any more movements either. As for Shu Shu . . . .
  
Shu Shu had plenty of escape experience but very, very few combat experience and was also very lacking in alertness. As a result, he too inhaled the smoke that should not be inhaled. It could be said that he was currently still able to be clear headed entirely because of the spiritual power in his body.
  
With the dizzying situation before his eyes, Shu Shu had an urge to lie down and sleep, but he knew that he could not sleep.
  
Operating his spiritual power with great effort, Shu Shu did not hesitate to approach and kick one of the robots. He kicked the robot in the stomach hard.
  
Getting a kick from him, the robot fell back a few steps, and a footprint appeared on its steel stomach. It seemed to want to attack Shu Shu, but after a loud crackle, the robot unexpectedly stopped moving.
  
Shu Shu brushed aside this robot and immediately charged into the next one. He reached out with one hand to grab Ian while sending a kick to the robot. He managed to kick this one but failed to guard against the other robots. In the end, he was actually hit by another robot in the stomach. Staggering back a few steps, he fell on the floor.
  
The stomach that suddenly hurt woke Shu Shu up somewhat, and it was because of this that he saw the current scene—Ian and Jones were already shackled by the robots, and another robot was going to grab the egg from Ian’s hand.