Xu Cenfeng obviously wouldn't come to Asui for no reason. He stepped into the starship in the snow, then raised his hand to take off his hat, brushed off the snow on it, stared at Asui and asked, "I heard from the guards outside that you beat up Carlos yesterday?"
Asui didn't expect Xu Cenfeng to come here to call him to task. He paused and subconsciously stopped not far away. He lowered his head and poked the ground with the long sword in his hand. He didn't deny it, and said in a muffled voice: "Yes, I beat him."
Asui went out for two hours last night. It turned out that he deliberately beat Carlos severely while Xu Cenfeng was sleeping. He didn't hold back. I heard that Carlos was in so much pain that he couldn't even get out of bed.
Xu Cenfeng didn't seem angry: "Why?"
Ah Sui turned his head and gave a ridiculous reason: "There's no reason, I just want to beat him up."
Xu Cenfeng frowned slightly when he heard this: "More than half of the Clete Alliance's forces are under Carlos' command. How can you attack him casually? Aren't you afraid that he will retaliate against you?"
Ah Sui muttered, apparently unconvinced: "I am the leader, why can't I beat them?"
Xu Cenfeng ruthlessly exposed his sore spot: "You are the great leader, but you have no soldiers under you. Who will listen to you?"
Pushing Asui to the position of leader was just a temporary solution. They just had to stay out of the spotlight and wait for the army to come and clean up the mess. Unexpectedly, Asui caused so much trouble in just a few days.
Ah Sui didn't want to admit his mistake, but he didn't say anything back. Seeing this, Xu Cenfeng couldn't help but slow down his tone: "Don't do this next time. You don't know how to play tricks, so how can you fight them?"
Asui felt that they could escape now: "Brother Cen Feng, why don't we take a starship and escape secretly? Their guards are not very loose now, so they shouldn't notice us."
Ah Sui shook his head, and a small dimple appeared on the side of his cheek when he smiled: "No, he used to learn Kung Fu with my great grandfather, so he is half my senior brother. Anyway, I am the youngest in the whole village."
Ah Sui quickly supported him upon seeing this: "Just lie down and rest. I'll help you with anything you need."
This topic was too private, and Xu Cenfeng obviously didn't want to discuss it in front of Brande. He casually said a few words to comfort Asui and turned and left. He came and went in a hurry, looking quite mysterious.
Brand looked at him and said, "You mean the Imperial Capital? If the army doesn't have any missions, I usually live in the Imperial Capital."
Xu Cenfeng was about to say something when he heard this, but suddenly he noticed a pair of eyes watching them from a distance. He turned his head and saw a female insect with blonde hair and blue eyes sitting on the bed where Asui was sleeping. So he swallowed the words back half a beat late.
He has to call everyone grandpa or brother.
Brand now had a vague idea of the cause and effect. It was very likely that Asui was tricked into becoming a space pirate, and the culprit was Xu Cenfeng. He wanted to persuade Asui not to be fooled, but seeing that he seemed to have a good relationship with Xu Cenfeng, he had to suppress the thought for the time being in order to avoid being misunderstood as trying to sow discord.
Brand glanced at his hand and didn't dodge it: "It's okay, I just got up and took a walk."
Brand was startled when he heard this. He didn't expect that Asui went to fight for him: "Aren't you afraid that Carlos will kill you?"
Asui was always curious about big cities. Seeing that Brand was a high-ranking official, he guessed that he must live in the city, and couldn't help asking, "Do you usually live in the city?"
Brande was puzzled: "Brother?"
Brand put on his clothes, threw back the quilt and stood up from the ground with difficulty. However, his legs were weak and he staggered for a moment and almost fell.
Ah Sui had no opinion of his own since he was young. He only knew to follow his fellow apprentices. Now that he was in an unfamiliar place, he instinctively regarded Xu Cenfeng as his backbone: "He is my brother, of course I will listen to him."
Brand sensed something unusual in his mumblings. Asui was a simple-minded man and didn't seem to be willing to be a space pirate. Could it be that he was bewitched and coerced by some bad guy
"Why do you like to ask the same question as Brother Cen Feng?" Asui walked to Brande and squatted down. He did not hide anything from him and said as a matter of course: "He whipped you so much yesterday. I went to help you get revenge."
“… Let’s talk about it in a few days.”
Asui let go of his hand after hearing this, but he was worried that Brande would fall again, so he followed him not too far away. Although he seemed careless, he was actually very thoughtful.
Ah Sui thought, "He has been trying to poison me for a long time. Even if I don't do anything, he will still kill me. The worst that can happen is that he can sneak away in the starship, but it's a pity that Brother Cen Feng won't let me."
Brand couldn't help but think of Xu Cenfeng just now. He lowered his eyes and put on his clothes, and asked casually: "Why do you listen to him so much?"
Brand remained silent from beginning to end. When he saw Xu Cenfeng leave, he looked at Asui again: "Did you fight with Carlos yesterday?"
Asui: "Is the imperial capital beautiful?"
Brand wanted to say that although the imperial capital was prosperous, the powerful people there were scheming against each other, and the situation was turbulent, so it might not be much better than the wilderness. But when he saw Ah Sui staring at him with sparkling eyes, he suddenly changed his tone: "Of course the imperial capital is beautiful. It is the most prosperous place on the entire main planet. You can have whatever you want. It is much better than being a star pirate here."
Asui couldn't help but sigh: "The imperial capital is really great."
Brande could hear his excitement and said in an ambiguous way, "If you want, I can take you to the imperial capital. Don't you want to find your third grandfather? Maybe he is also in the imperial capital."
Ah Sui suddenly became embarrassed when he heard this, and said with a red face: "But I don't have money. I will go to the capital when I earn enough money."
His great-grandfather said that prices in the city are quite high and people from the mountains can't afford to go there.
Brand didn't expect that Ah Sui didn't want to go because of this. He saw the other's fair face dyed with a touch of crimson, and his fingertips couldn't help but flick it for a moment, but raised his hand to brush away a golden hair on Ah Sui's shoulder, lowered his eyes and whispered: "You can go even if you don't have money. I am also in the imperial capital and will not let you go hungry."
He suddenly felt that this sentence sounded a bit ambiguous, so he paused and added, "I am older than you, you can treat me as your brother, don't feel embarrassed."
Brand was so close to him that Asui couldn't help but think of what happened last night. He felt his face burning and subconsciously took two steps back. He asked with a vague look in his eyes, "Hmm... Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat?"
He was trying to change the subject, but he didn't expect the fat chef to come over to deliver breakfast. He walked into the starship from outside with two trays in his hands, still smiling and kind: "Captain, I'm here to deliver breakfast to you."
Seeing this, Brande's eyes flashed with vigilance and sharpness. He lowered his voice to remind Asui: "Don't eat what he gives you."
Asui glanced at the plate in the fat cook's hand and looked away from the rich food with difficulty: "Put it aside. I'll eat it when I'm hungry later."
The fat cook said anxiously, "You didn't eat anything yesterday. You'll be starving if you don't eat. Drink this bowl of meat soup while it's hot. It will taste fishy if it gets cold." As Sui was thinking about what reason to use to refuse, Brand's fingertips silently grew into claws. He walked to the fat cook and suddenly grabbed his neck. He asked in a low and cold voice without any emotion, "Do you dare to drink a sip yourself?"
The fat cook was startled when he saw this, and looked at Ah Sui in surprise: "Big... Big Chief, you don't suspect that I poisoned the bowl, do you?!"
Asui nodded hesitantly: "Yes."
Fat cook: “…” The fat cook understood something instantly. He knelt on the ground with a plop, waved his hands and said, “The second and third leaders did try to bribe me to poison your food the day before yesterday, but you saved my life on the battlefield, how could I be ungrateful? These meals are all good, if you don’t believe me, I’ll eat them for you to see!”
He quickly picked up the food on the plate and began to wolf it down, finally picking up the meat soup in the bowl and drinking it all in one gulp. He choked and pounded his chest: "Big... Big Chief... You see... These dishes are all good. I didn't poison them at all..."
Ah Sui was a little surprised when he saw this: "You really didn't poison it?"
The fat cook nodded repeatedly. "The night before yesterday, the Second Chief gave me a bag of jewels and asked me to poison the food. I wanted to tell you yesterday, but you stayed in the starship the whole time and I didn't have a chance to tell you."
He took out a gray cloth bag from his apron pocket. It was filled with gems. They shone brightly under the light, almost blinding people's eyes. "Look, these are the gems they gave me."
Ah Sui was a country bumpkin, and he couldn't help but swallow hard when he saw this: "So many."
The fat cook said with a sad face: "I dare not accept such dirty money, big leader, I'll give it to you."
Ah Sui was embarrassed to take it: "If they give it to you, it's yours, just keep it."
The fat cook tentatively suggested, "How about I split it with you?"
Ah Sui's eyes lit up for a moment when he heard this: "Are you really going to split it with me?"
The fat cook took it as his agreement and quickly took out a handful of gems from his pocket and handed them to Ah Sui. He kept only a small half for himself and kept muttering, "You need to save more money for self-defense. The treasures robbed by the second and third chiefs are enough to fill two starships, but you have nothing. How are you going to recruit soldiers in the future?"
It turns out that even the fat cook knew how poor Asui was.
Brand stood aside and watched Asui and the fat cook divide the spoils successfully. The latter went to get two more breakfasts and sent them over. The crisis was resolved.
Brand still felt something was wrong. He looked up at the fat cook, and before he could retract his sharp claws, he asked in a deep voice, "Aren't you afraid that Carlos and the others will kill you?"
Unexpectedly, the fat cook shook his head confidently: "Don't worry, I'm the only chef left in the entire Clayt Alliance. If they kill me, there will be no more insects to cook."
Brand: “…”
Brand never deeply realized the saying "birds of a feather flock together". Asui is stupid, and his subordinates are not much smarter.
Brand was originally worried that Asui would be framed by Chong, but now it seems that he was worrying too much. Silly Chong is lucky, and the other party is nothing for him to worry about.
Asui was hungry and had already sat on the ground to eat breakfast. He saw that Brande's fingertips hanging by his side were shining with cold light, very much like the claws of some animal. He couldn't help but pause and unconsciously bit his nails.
It’s over. The doctor told him before that Brand would fall into a worm state. Could it be true
Asui thought it was impossible, but at the same time, he thought that Brande could even change his claws, so he couldn’t really be a bug... right? ? ?
This thought startled Asui for a moment, and he dropped the strawberry bun in his hand. But Brande was unaware of it. He watched the chef leave, quietly retracted his claws, walked to Asui's side, sat down and had breakfast with him.
Brande found the bread that Asui dropped on the ground and asked: "Why did your bread fall?"
Asui explained dryly: "I didn't hold it firmly just now."
Without thinking too much, Brand handed the bread on his plate to Asui and ate something else absent-mindedly. He was thinking about how to pull the male insect in front of him out of the star thieves' nest and persuade him to leave with him, but Asui seemed to have a good relationship with the male insect named Xu Cenfeng, so it was a bit difficult to implement.
Ah Sui was also a little absent-minded. He took a bite of rice, glanced at Brande secretly, took another bite of rice, and looked at Brande again. He racked his brains but couldn't figure out how such a beautiful woman could turn into a bug.
Ah Sui couldn't help but ask tentatively: "Can you... turn into a bug?"
Brande paused after hearing this and looked up at Asui: "Why do you ask that?"
Female insects in the south rarely transform into insect form except when they are in a frenzy and have their wings plucked off.
Ah Sui shook his head. In order to cover up the fact that he was afraid of insects, he made up an excuse: "Nothing, I'm just a little curious about what your wings look like."
boom!
He accidentally stepped on another huge thunder.
When Brand heard this, the curve of his lips froze, and then fell down bit by bit. He lowered his eyes and ate without saying a word, his silence was unusual.
Ah Sui couldn't let go of the gems that the fat cook had just given him. He lowered his head and wiped them carefully with the hem of his clothes. Holding a bunch of sparkling gems, he asked Brande: "Are your wings also sparkling and as beautiful as the gems?"
Brand: “…”
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Asui lowered his voice and whispered, "I heard from Brother Cen Feng that your wings are all sparkling and look like diamonds."
Brand: “…”
Ah Sui blinked blankly: "Why are you ignoring me?"
Brand: “…”
Ah Sui scratched his head and asked cautiously, "Did I say something wrong?"
(End of this chapter)