When Ai Qinglan first arrived at the Plague Forest, she was startled before anything else.
When the child had been born, that silver-haired female Primordial Spirit cultivator had already been waiting there for her.
"Uncle Qiao, were you... bringing a disciple?" Chen Feng could not help sweeping his spiritual sense in all directions. Apart from Song Shufu's disciple and a few Returning to One Alliance cultivators, he found no unfamiliar cultivators below the Core Formation stage.
"I merely received the assignment, so I came."
The husband and wife both froze at once.
All they had wanted was a nanny with somewhat higher standards, someone reliable.
But who would have thought they would directly send a Primordial Spirit cultivator?
Primordial Spirit stage! Primordial Spirit stage!
A head of obstetrics would not go babysit someone's child, would they?
Uncle Qiao smiled. "Sky Spirit Ridge offers fairly generous pay; it cannot be called a loss even for a Primordial Spirit cultivator. Besides, your child is also a special case—I said so before, did I not? That unusual birth process has considerable research value as well. I'll look after the child and write some observation records along the way. You don't mind, do you?"
"Not at all, not at all." Ai Qinglan immediately shook her head.
Who would mind something like that?
"Earlier, I spent half a day opening up a small additional room beside the empirical research department. Its air pressure is slightly higher than outside. The child can sleep there, and be fed there as well. Also, be mindful when using incense." Uncle Qiao cautioned, "There are bats infected with adenopestilence in the empirical research department. Adults have strong resistance to adenopestilence, but it is best not to take risks with a child."
"Adenopestilence?"
"Bats?"
Chen Feng looked at Song Shufu. Were