Chapter 476

Chapter 476: Tenderness

How wonderful…

Listening to Army Lady and Stealth One, and seeing the deep affection in their eyes as they looked at Lin Yu, Jilly no longer worried about the mother-daughter relationship.

Inside, she just felt a strong sense of envy.

Suddenly, memories of her own mother came to mind. Although it may not be as grand as the family before her, it was still a warm little home.

Her mother had been gone for more than six years.

Thinking of this, Jilly’s eyes became a little dim.

“Jilly, over here, we have arrived.”

At that moment, a familiar voice rang in her ear.

Jilly looked up, blinked her eyes that were slightly wet, and saw the girl with white hair and red eyes not far away.

In a way, the smile on the girl’s face seemed to blend with the image of her mother who had passed away.

“I’m coming!”

The brown-haired girl also smiled brightly and quickly caught up with Army Lady and Stealth One, who were walking ahead.

What kind of relationship do I have with Sister White Feather?

…

When Jilly caught up, she saw a hidden corner deep inside the stone cave where there was an opening big enough for two or three people to enter.

The opening was dark.

Is this where Sister White Feather and the others live? After all, my sister is an ant monster, so living underground makes sense…

There was no time to think more. As Jilly saw Lin Yu and the others take out a lamp embedded with a glowing Magic Crystal from the Magic Backpack and step into the opening, she hurriedly followed them.

After entering the cave, they first went down a slope and then came to a slightly wider flat area, where several branching openings appeared before them. Some openings went uphill, some went downhill, and others were flat, winding their way to unknown destinations.

After turning through several openings, most of the ant monsters they encountered were Worker Ants the size of a basin, along with a few squads patrolling the cave made up of Iron Armored Ants, Acid Ants, and Military Ants.

Jilly also saw the Herb Garden rooms inside the anthill, where various herbs and vegetables were grown. Most of the Worker Ants’ activities involved traveling back and forth between these Herb Gardens.

Next, there was a resting room for the ant tribe to relax.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, one could see that the room was filled with ant monsters. Some were hiding here to escape the heat, some were on a night shift resting, and some were simply being lazy.

However, since the ant colony didn’t have much to do at the moment, as long as they weren’t hungry, Lin Yu let them do whatever they wanted.

The ants they met along the way looked very excited when they saw Lin Yu, chattering non-stop.

Lin Yu would reach out and gently pat their smooth heads.

As they walked further down, more patrolling ants appeared, and their ranks were all Class A and above. After walking a while, the girls arrived at a spacious and bright room.

Glowing crystals were embedded in the ceiling, making the room bright as day.

In the center of the ant chamber stood a stone platform engraved with dozens of intricate patterns forming a magic circle. Above the platform was a tall stone archway, with a high-level Magic Stone of space attributes set at the very top, and other medium-sized Magic Stones of space attributes were embedded in different places around the arch.

Besides the stone platform and the stone arch, there were two beautiful young girls in the room. One had long red hair and red eyes, while the other had slightly curled short orange hair and silver-gray eyes.

They were sitting across from each other at a table in the room playing chess, with a deck of cards and a few books beside the chess set, and two bookshelves filled with various books against the wall.

These days, it was their turn to guard the space gate, and the two girls were currently playing chess to pass the time.

The two girls were named Mo Qiqi and Mo Bashi. Since activating the space gate required the cooperation of the Demonic Ants, the task of watching over the space gate had fallen to the Demonic Ants.

Although it was a boring job, there were only a few space gates set up by the ant clan on the continent, and the number of Demonic Ants had now exceeded ten thousand. After their watch this time, it might be one or two years before they had to do it again.

Moreover, from time to time, other sisters came by to play with them, which made the boring work feel less dull.

The daughters who could take on form could even play a few games of chess with them, while those who could not take on form stood by and watched. Some daughters who did not follow the rule of “silence while watching chess” even poked their two front limbs and chirped, pointing and chatting.

…

“Ah, Mommy! And big sister!”

At this moment, both girls were pleasantly surprised to see Lin Yu. The red-haired, red-eyed girl, seeing she was about to lose the chess game, slyly pretended to unintentionally knock some pieces on the board just as Lin Yu arrived.

Seeing the mischievous action of the red-haired girl messing up the pieces, the orange-haired girl puffed her cheeks and shot her a glare but said nothing.

They came over with excited and joyful faces.

However, they recognized Lin Yu, while Lin Yu did not really recognize them.

“You’ve worked hard.”

Lin Yu reached out and gently touched the heads of the two girls, taking a good look at them.

No wonder she was my daughter; she was truly beautiful!

Unlike daughters of other ant species, the daughters of Demonic Ant were influenced by their naturally different magical talents, so their hair and eye colors could be almost any color. Some of these daughters even had different colored eyes.

What Lin Yu remembered most was Demon One with long snow-white hair and red and blue eyes.

In the years since Magic Rainbow became the Chief Mage of the kingdom, she and Demon Two had also graduated from the Rollo Magic Academy in the royal capital, becoming the two youngest genius teachers at the school.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu started to miss the times when she held this daughter with different colored eyes in her arms.

If Demon Nine talked smoothly with the human race, it seemed there was no need for Demon One and Demon Two to stay at the Magic Academy anymore?

“Mom, did you come here this time to use the space gate?”

Just when she was lost in thought, her red-haired daughter asked.

“Mm.”

Lin Yu nodded and, almost instinctively, reached out to pinch her daughter’s cheek.

The touch was soft and delicate, making her heart flutter.

Demon Seven and Demon Eight… maybe I could find some time later…

…

After the two gatekeeper daughters activated the space gate, Lin Yu called her daughters and Jilly to pass through the door.

Suddenly, in a flash, the group of girls found themselves still in a cave.

However, the inside of this cave was very spacious.

Jilly was the last one to step out of the space gate, and as she walked out, the brown-haired girl froze in surprise.

This was not an ant nest; it was clearly a dragon’s den.

All around, there were large Earth Dragons lying in the cave, seemingly trying to stay cool.