Feis's eyes widened. He hadn't expected Huang Ji to guess even that. How was it possible?
Yes, he had paid a steep price for the Energy Shield... he had carried a child for Dis.
Little Greys couldn't reproduce on their own. They were artificial beings, born without that ability. That meant they weren't considered an independent species, so enslaving and selling them broke no laws, no matter how intelligent they were.
The only way to produce more was to synthesize and cultivate them through the prescribed process. Even cloning was impossible.
Cloning required a Little Grey's egg cell, and Little Greys had none. Their genes contained no biological blueprint for reproduction at all.
Ordinarily, that wasn't a problem. That was how their species had been made; their masters' needs determined everything.
But Dis was different. He had lived on the moon since birth, and the Little Greys stationed there spent almost their entire lives watching over their little patch of Earth.
Even at its busiest, the moon had no more than five of them. What kind of culture could they form? Dis often went down to Earth for fun, and human culture had become a significant part of his identity.
At some point, he began to want to pass on his own bloodline!
The new Little Greys cultivated through the prescribed process were his kin, but they were all made from the same parent database, with minor details left to chance. At best, they were siblings.
Gradually, Dis wanted a child, and the desire only grew stronger.
He kept that secret buried in his heart, an impossible dream—until one day, Feis asked him about a new superpower he had acquired...
Feis would risk anything for power, even a procedure with an eighty percent chance of killing him! After gaining rapid