Stay with me, I rely on the childbearing system to get pregnant and dote on me alone

"If you were carrying a treasure, would you send someone to keep a close eye on it?"

Facing the gunner's question, Cha Jiu didn't answer the question.

"Of course," the gunner replied without hesitation.

"Then these zerg have the same thinking." Chajiu picked an instant blast mine from the weapon box next to him and randomly hit a lucky leaf-cutting ant.

After the leaf-cutting ant had its head blown apart, its first reaction was not to repair the damage, but to concentrate all its hard carapace on one part of its tail to protect it.

Chajiu pointed at that place and said: "This is their life gate. Leaf-cutter ants know very well that their bodies have extremely strong regeneration power, so when they are in danger, they will concentrate their hardest carapace to protect the most deadly place. Because there is no way to regenerate.”

Everyone suddenly realized.

Anna began to look at Cha Jiu with suspicious eyes again.

She probed: "Even people like us who have been fighting in the rainforest all year round don't know these insect-killing techniques. Why do you, a servant next to a baron, know so well?"

Chajiu didn't bother to prove it himself.

She said impatiently: "These things are not difficult. Anyone with a brain can find them with a little observation. Who should blame you if you don't pay attention to them?"

The team members who were insinuated that they were stupid and lacked eyesight looked embarrassed.

Yes, they don’t have brains, why shouldn’t others be allowed to have them?

The leaf-cutting ants' actions to protect their vitality gate were so obvious. It wasn't just for Cha Jiu to see. If they didn't pay attention to observation, who could they rely on?

Anna was also choked and couldn't speak a word.

……

It should have been a great pleasure to have collected spice rhizomes and learned about the fatal weakness of leaf-cutting ants.

But because a team member died, the atmosphere in the team was obviously much duller.

After dark, Lawrence chose a relatively safe and dry place and asked people to set up a campfire and prepare to spend the night.

Anna hugged her legs and sat beside the campfire in a daze.

She stared blankly at the wrapped body of her companion not far away, and then recalled the tragic scene in which he was bitten in half by leaf-cutting ants before he died, and suddenly burst into tears.

Chajiu, who was leaning against a big tree and preparing to close his eyes to rest, said: "..."

Very meow.

Just squinted.

Lawrence went over to comfort his niece: "What's going on?"

Anna wiped her tears and cried: "It's nothing, I just think we are very sad."

"Our companions paid the price with their lives to pick spices, and in the end they could only exchange for a dozen star coins from the baron, which was not even enough to eat black bread for a week."

"And that Princess Siris can enjoy all of this easily just by sitting in a bright and warm palace."

Anna was talking with even some resentment in her eyes.

"This arrogant and extravagant princess has no idea that how many people lost their fathers, brothers, and friends in exchange for a cart of spices that she can consume in one night? How can she accept it with peace of mind?"

Everyone was silent.

They were all moved emotionally by Anna's words and felt sad about the hopeless future. At the same time, they also felt resentment towards the royal family and the princess from the bottom of their hearts.

"Why can't the princess accept it with peace of mind?"

Cha Jiu, who was sitting aside to rest, suddenly spoke.

Anna and the others looked at her, surprised.

Cha Jiu looked cold and matter-of-fact: "If she didn't have the demand for spices, then the royal family would not spend money to purchase them, and you wouldn't even be able to get these dozen star coins. Think about how you lived without relying on spices in the past. Bar."

Everyone couldn't help but start thinking about it.

Before the royal family acquired spices, all their land capable of growing food had been usurped by the barons.

They either starve to death or hunt the zerg for their flesh. The latter choice was not much better than the former, and many people who hunted the zerg died in the mouth of the zerg.

On the contrary, the survival rate of picking spices for the princess is higher.

Anna was unconvinced: "You mean, we still have to thank this respected princess for buying our lives for a dozen star coins?"

Cha Jiu said calmly: "If you think the reward is low, then you don't have to accept the mission and don't get paid. This is fair. No one is forcing you to work hard for those dozen star coins. Everything is voluntary. choose."

When you get money, you have to do things.

Instead of eating from the bowl and cursing the cook.

"What's more, the price the princess gives for purchasing spices every year is not low. The person who really deducts your reward is the lord of this planet, Baron Osman. Instead of blaming him, you blame Princess Siris who provided you with a way to survive. This is It’s really strange.”

Cha Jiu's tone seemed puzzled, but in fact it was full of ridicule.

The team members were speechless and didn't know how to refute.

No need to refute.

They have indeed endured the kindness of Princess Siris. There is no doubt about this, and it was only today that we saw it clearly.

Anna has always been prejudiced against nobles, and is unwilling to believe what Cha Jiu said. Princess Siris pretended to prefer this special spice in order to give them a way out.

She found out what she thought was a loophole in the facts and asked Chajiu: "If the princess really wanted to help us, why didn't she choose to buy some better-picked spices? This way there would be no need to sacrifice so many lives."

Cha Jiu smiled.

There was no malice in her smile, only full of surprise, as if she heard a three-year-old child say something childish and ridiculous.

Ana was puzzled and frowned: "Why are you laughing?"

Cha Jiu said unceremoniously: "I'm laughing at you for being stupid."

Lawrence held Anna down just in time before she could snap.

"Okay Anna, I understand what this little brother means."

He glanced at Cha Jiu, his eyes searching deeply.

"If the things Her Royal Highness the Princess purchases are easy to obtain, then the Baron will choose to send his own army to collect them, and it will not be our turn to work hard to make money."

"Nowadays, the process of picking spice rhizomes is difficult and dangerous. The baron doesn't want to waste his army, so he pays us to pick spices."

So this is also a kind of screening.

Everyone will compete for easy-to-obtain benefits. Where will these poor people get their turn?

But if it requires paying a huge price, it will naturally filter out those who are not very embarrassed and are unwilling to take risks, so that this charity will fall into the hands of those who are truly in need.

Lawrence has begun to doubt Cha Jiu's identity.

How could someone who looked at the problem so profoundly be just an ordinary servant?

Cha Jiu was not afraid of his appraising gaze.

She lowered her head and stared at Lance, who was still lying on her lap with his eyes closed tightly. She smiled half-heartedly and said, "Open your eyes when you wake up. Don't pretend to be asleep."

Two seconds later, Lance pretended to have just woken up and slowly opened his eyes.

"Your Highness, are you injured?"

It's true to pretend to be asleep, and it's true to care about Cha Jiu's body.

"Very good, how much have you heard?" Cha Jiu asked.

Lance said honestly: "When you teased them that they should stop doing it if they don't want to do it, and don't take advantage of it and act like a good boy, my subordinates woke up."