Adjutant Li Ya had been walking around in circles with the urgent documents that were supposed to be processed yesterday morning, but he still planned to come over to see if the legion commander was awake.
Of course, he is definitely not a gossiper.
He is just serious about his work.
But Li Ya didn't expect that as soon as he walked over, he would run into the silver-haired young man who was walking hurriedly.
"…Major General Jiang Ci?"
The major general had an unpleasant look on his face and walked past him without saying a word.
Li Ya was stunned for a moment.
Logically speaking, although Jiang Ci has a cold personality and is not close to anyone, he still has basic courtesy. At least every time when Li Ya greets him, he will nod slightly no matter how busy the other party is.
But today is strange.
It didn't seem like rage, nor did it seem like sadness. In short, Li Ya didn't know how to describe Jiang Ci's expression at the time. It was probably a little dazed, a little shocked, and hard to accept.
Wow!
Jiang Ci's extremely fast speed brought up a gust of wind, which slapped Li Ya's face coldly. The alpha pheromone in his body made his hand, which was used to greet him, freeze in mid-air.
That is Huo Xianfeng's pheromone.
Since they are not in the ovulation period, although the omega will be infected with the alpha's pheromones during daily mating, they will not mindlessly threaten all the alphas around them. In addition, Jiang Ci always has a lot of pheromone masking agents, so as before, a temporary mark will not be sensed by people within a radius of dozens of meters.
However, what stunned the adjutant was not Huo Xianfeng's pheromones, but two other very faint alpha pheromones.
Generally speaking, this situation only happens because you stay in a place with strong pheromone content for too long and accidentally get a little bit of it.
"…?"
He pondered for a few seconds, glanced in the direction Jiang Ci came from, and suddenly something flashed through his mind.
"Hiss..."
The next second, Li Ya took a breath and showed an expression of disbelief.
Could it be that the affair between the Legion Commander and Lieutenant General Ye Shu has been discovered? ! ! !
Ye Shu's rank in the Dawn Legion was Lieutenant General, and the Empire's First Legion was reorganized from the Dawn Legion, so it was normal that many people knew Ye Shu.
The adjutant hurried over with the documents in his arms.
Immediately afterwards, he met Huo Xianfeng at the door of the legion commander's lounge.
"Hello... Hello, Mr. Xiao Huo."
"Um."
Unlike Jiang Ci who was in a hurry, Huo Xianfeng was playing with Wan Jiang casually while walking slowly past him.
Li Ya didn't have time to think about why General Wan was in Huo Xianfeng's hands, because he could already smell the scent of alcohol and the pheromones intertwined between the two alphas coming from the room.
"… sky."
Even though he hadn't seen the inside yet, the adjutant had already imagined an indescribable scene in his mind. He stared blankly at the door that was so close to him, and for the first time he began to hesitate, not knowing whether to go in or back out.
On the other side, before Zhou Jiuya had time to digest Huo Xianfeng's meaning, the other party turned his head and walked away very decisively.
Grabbing the ankle, since it's all... be gentle
"What on earth is this guy talking about?"
He was stunned for a long time before he realized what the other person meant.
"???"
"?!!!"
But now, the legion commander has no way to explain it because everyone has left.
Crash-
After the sound of water, Ye Shu came out with a wet face. He rinsed his head and finally woke up, but his face looked very ugly. It was obvious that he was also very upset by the blunder in the morning.
In this world, 99% of alphas are straight as hell. This is determined by the alpha's desire to reproduce genes. They are naturally attracted to omegas. If they are combined with betas, it is equivalent to normal love before humans differentiated into ABO genders.
But AA is absolutely not acceptable, because they are inherently competitive and threatening to each other. This is no longer a rare event, it has simply reached the level of hunting for novelties.
So, when Ye Shu found out that the people around him actually had such a misunderstanding about him and Zhou Jiuya, his first reaction was to feel disgusted and want to vomit.
At this time, Zhou Jiuya turned his head and looked at Ye Shu expressionlessly. Just when he was about to say something, the latter's face turned pale and he covered his mouth and retched.
Zhou Jiuya: “…”
This reaction seemed as if he had some perverted thoughts about Ye Shu.
The legion commander had a blank expression on his face, and veins on his forehead were throbbing. He could no longer bear it, and pointed his big hand at the door.
"Grab your clothes and get out of here!"
The adjutant who was pointed at was stunned. He heard these words as soon as he came in.
"Mr....Mr. Commander..."
At this moment, the eyes of the two people in the room were instantly focused on him.
Li Ya tried to pretend that he didn't see the mess in the room, the wet leaves, the broken corner of the legion commander's lip, and the bite marks on the inside of his wrist. He controlled the calm expression on his face and spoke,
"Do you have time to look over these documents today?"
After a pause, the adjutant lowered his eyes, pretending that he saw nothing, showing a strong desire to survive.
"But... But it's not really urgent..."
Ye Shu closed his eyes. In the past, if Zhou Jiuya spoke to him in this tone, he would have fought back no matter what. But now the situation was special and he didn't want to stay here any longer.
So the city lord said nothing with a gloomy face, picked up the wrinkled coat on the ground and prepared to leave. But who would have thought that the coat was somehow entangled with the buttons on Zhou Jiuya's coat and could not be untied.
"… "
The two people next to him just watched him and couldn't get it open.
Finally, Ye Shu lost his patience and pulled hard. "Swish--" the clothes of both of them were damaged to varying degrees. He frowned and said "tsk", then took the clothes and walked away. He walked so fast that he even knocked the adjutant at the door and made him stumble.
Zhou Jiuya rubbed his temples with a headache, but he still had to do his work, so he waved to his adjutant.
"Bring it here for me to see."
"… good."
The adjutant found it difficult to take his eyes off Zhou Jiuya's broken mouth, but he didn't dare to look directly at him, so he just glanced at him unintentionally.
In fact, it was broken by a fist, but the recovery ability of the S-level alpha is very strong. After one night, there was only a little redness and swelling there, so it looked more like a mark of ambiguity.
Zhou Jiuya didn't pay any attention to this minor injury and quickly got back to work.
But at this time, the legion commander didn't know that Ye Shu had been seen by many people as he hurriedly ran out of his lounge with his clothes in disarray, covered with scars, and half of his body soaked.
In fact, Jiang Ci was originally the focus of the entire legion. Whether it was his omega gender or the recent incident of being suspected of being marked by a higher-level Zerg, it instantly attracted everyone's attention.
So when Jiang Ci hurriedly came out of the legion commander's lounge with a grim look on her face, many people noticed it. But they didn't expect that within a few minutes, they would see Ye Shu, who was in disheveled clothes and had the legion commander's pheromones on his body.
"… "
This seems to be the case where, before we have figured out the whole story behind the previous one, a bigger one breaks out.
“What the hell! What the hell!!!!”
Someone posted this shocking gossip on an anonymous forum within the military.
"Guess what I just saw?!!!"
"Lieutenant General Ye Shu! Lieutenant General Ye Shu actually...!!!"
Many people in the First Legion knew Ye Shu. But rumors said that Ye Shu left because he failed to compete with Zhou Jiuya for the command of the First Legion and because he was at odds with the Emperor.
There were even rumors that Ye Shu had been killed by the Emperor. Until last time Ye Shu was captured on Tiandong Star and taken back to the capital star for imprisonment, it was possible that he would be sentenced to death.
Who would have thought that—
Not only was the other party treated well by the legion commander, but the two of them were inseparable almost every day.
"I told you!!! I told you they must have some secret!!!"
"Fuck, you know what? I just asked the people from the logistics department who went to deliver daily necessities to the legion commander. The scene was so fierce. The beds were changed, and the tables, bookshelves and other things were all broken into pieces..."
"Help! Are they in this kind of relationship???"
"Tsk tsk tsk, you didn't see it at the time. I don't know what Major General Jiang Ci saw. When he came out, his face was green."
"Which alpha can stand being oppressed? Maybe Lieutenant General Ye Shu left because..."
"… "
For a while, Zhou Jiuya and Ye Shu's gossip overshadowed Jiang Ci. For a long time afterwards, the eyes of the entire First Army looked at the two of them abnormally.
Jiang Ci didn't know that he was finally not the focus of gossip for once, but he still couldn't get away with it completely. As he walked, he couldn't help thinking about the time when he saw Ye Shu pinning his uncle to the ground and beating him when he was a child.
Zhou Jiuya is very strong and has only been beaten by two people in his life.
One is Huo Chao and the other is Ye Shu.
Jiang Ci felt her scalp tingling. Perhaps from that moment on, the relationship between the two of them had become abnormal.
It’s not that he has any problem with Ye Shu, it’s just that this matter happened too suddenly.
In Jiang Ci's mind, Zhou Jiuya was a dignified and cold patriarch, and he was also the commander of the First Legion and his superior. Jiang Ci admired and looked up to this uncle, but was also distant and cautious.
But today I caught him doing something like that.
It's hard to face.
It's like you run into your parents who have been divorced for many years and fight with each other as soon as they see each other, and suddenly a passionate scene breaks out.
No, no, no, actually this analogy is not quite appropriate.
Jiang Ci's mind was confused, and he couldn't find an appropriate metaphor. But anyway... It was very strange, too strange. As a result, Jiang Ci could no longer look his uncle in the face, so he avoided Zhou Jiuya for several days.
Later, he stayed in the Central Temple during the day, working with the teachers to repair the core brain of the Central Temple and the Forbidden Abyss. In the evening, he took three or four hours to follow Huo Xianfeng's class. It must be said that in terms of teaching methods and teaching results, Huo Xianfeng is indeed a very good teacher.
His words seemed simple, just a few words, but each one was sharp. He seemed to be proficient in not only mechas, but also firearms, hot weapons, and various cold weapons.
This guy seems to be born for fighting.
The more Jiang Ci understood Huo Xianfeng, the more shocked she was by his strength and perfection. If he covered his mouth, he would be like the most proud masterpiece of the Creator.
"Well?"
At this moment, Jiang Ci, who was immersed in his own thoughts, suddenly felt the corner of his clothes being pulled. He turned his head and saw the little tail behind him.
—It’s Nora.
She was asking when Xiao X would wake up.
The little girl seemed to be very dependent on Xiao X. When Huo Xianfeng didn't need her, Nora usually stayed with Jin Yuan in the repair room of the Central Temple, and pestered her to watch early childhood education films. So Jin Yuan took out the data package from Xiao X and played it for her, so she learned a lot of words now.
"Yeah, very quickly."
Jiang Ci reached out and touched the little girl's head. Perhaps because Nora had protected him when he was in the most dangerous time, and because of Huo Xianfeng's filter, he had a high degree of favorability towards Nora and treated her like a younger sister.
"Probably tonight at the latest."
“Ah~”
Nora's eyes lit up, she rubbed Jiang Ci's palm, then squatted back in the corner, put on her headphones, and continued to chew on a large piece of Lingtie. The repair of the Forbidden Abyss external machine requires a lot of Lingtie, but at the same time there will be a lot of scraps left.
Nora would pick up a lot of them and pile them at her feet, eating while looking at them. Perhaps because she had been hungry for a long time, she was not as picky as Huo Xianfeng, who only ate the rarest and most energetic metal parts in the core of the S-class mecha. Nora was not picky about anything now, she liked to eat rare metals with high energy, and she also ate Lingtie with low energy.
Not only preschool films, she can now understand some enlightenment cartoons. The energy injection allowed her to recover quickly, but her speed was not as fast as Huo Xianfeng's.
The appearance of this strange Zerg girl made everyone frightened and curious at the same time.
"Xiao Jiang."
Vice President Zheng couldn't help but ask.
"Is she really... a Zerg?"
Nora's appearance was indeed very different from the terrifying and hideous monster in people's impression. She was still wearing the puffy skirt given by Xiao X, squatting obediently in the corner. Her face and eyes were round and childish, just like the most popular girl idol on Starnet.
Surrounded by white-haired old academicians, they were busy and worked day and night. Nora's painting style was out of tune with the group of old-fashioned pedants.
However, the way she squatted on the ground and chewed on the metal... She looked like a poor little girl who had no money and could only chew on garbage.
"Yes, Nora is a high-level Zerg."
Jiang Ci stopped the work in her hands, thinking that the other party was worried.
"But don't worry, Teacher Zheng, she is very well behaved and won't make noise or attack anyone."
"Oh no no no, I want to ask..."
The old man hesitated for a moment, then asked a little embarrassedly,
"Do Zerg eat all kinds of metal?"
"… ah?"
Jiang Ci was stunned.
Before he understood what it meant, he saw out of the corner of his eye that an old academician was cautiously approaching with the metal material of the mecha's core and trying to feed it.
Nora tilted her head, her sharp vertical pupils fixed on the man's hand. Then her nose twitched, and she hesitantly moved forward, took it in her mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.
The person feeding her was even skilled enough to touch the little girl's head. Probably because of the snack, Nora didn't resist, but she just let him touch her.
Jiang Ci: “… ?”
A strange thing happened.
His teachers seemed to be feeding the Zerg
Perhaps Jiang Ci was so shocked by what happened to Zhou Jiuya and Ye Shu that he didn't even realize that Nora had become accustomed to being fed by his teachers.
"Teacher Zheng, didn't you guys..."
Are you scared
Vice President Zheng pondered for a moment.
"Yes, indeed."
When they heard about cooperating with the Zerg, most of the First Legion was actually very excited, but they were suppressed by Zhou Jiuya. As for these academicians, if they hadn't seen the things in the church's arsenal and Zhou Jiuya and the emperor's guarantee, they wouldn't have come.
But after arriving, they found that the facts were a little different from what they had imagined.
In fact, humans have had very little contact with the Zerg, because they appeared suddenly, suddenly appearing in the Milky Way a few months later, and then said they wanted to invade the earth. However, the entire invasion process took less than two or three days before the earth exploded.
The survivors were divided into two groups. Sixty percent of them were transferred to Hengyun Star by Pei Changyun, and the remaining ten percent were taken away by the church. The others either died at the hands of the Zerg or in the nuclear explosion.
Therefore, the only ones who are still alive and have actually come into contact with the Zerg are the vanguard troops of the Dawn Legion back then, and the only ones who can come into contact with advanced Zerg are Zhou Jiuya's group of top mecha pilots.
Because most other people would be killed as soon as they met him.
Therefore, humans’ emotions towards the Zerg are very complex and strange, probably a kind of hatred mixed with confusion.
Most people's only impression of the Zerg is what is described in history books: they are terrifying, hideous, bloodthirsty monsters, and are invaders that cause the destruction of the earth.
But whether it was the beautiful fireflies in the sky a few nights ago, Huo Xianfeng who was driving Bai Ze and holding down the legion commander, or Nora who was watching cartoons obediently in the corner, they all broke everyone's stereotype of the Zerg.
—They are intelligent.
And they will not actively attack humans.
Even after a few days of observation, the old-fashioned academicians were actually very frightened at first, but when they found that this Zerg girl seemed to do nothing but eat and was not aggressive or threatening, they relaxed.
Moreover, the little girl squatting in the corner looked a little cute and a little pitiful.
So since the first person tried to feed the fish and was not attacked, and even got a pat on the head, the number of times and the number of people feeding the fish increased.
"She's so thin and small. My thirteen-year-old granddaughter looks fatter than her."
"You must be starving after eating so much."
"Do your legs feel numb from squatting on the ground? There's a small bench over here."
"… "
Then, the old men's frightened eyes turned into more pity. They looked at Nora's small body and sighed.
"You're so small, are you hiding here because you're being bullied by those big guys outside?"
"… "
In the eyes of humans, the huge and terrifying lower-level Zerg appear to be stronger and more terrifying than the humanoid higher-level Zerg. But in fact, it is completely the opposite.
The more Jiang Ci listened, the more she felt the urge to hold her forehead.
"Well, teacher, she wasn't bullied... She's actually quite powerful."
—The kind that is so powerful that he can crush a person’s head with one hand.
However, Jiang Ci swallowed the second half of the sentence.
Never mind, it’s fine now.
There was no training this evening because Huo Xianfeng seemed to have something to do, but he didn't say what it was.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Xiao X's separation was over, but it still needed to be restarted. In the past few days, Nora had been sleeping beside Jin Yuan, but Xiao X was taken away by Jiang Ci tonight, so she followed Jiang Ci back.
Several old men saw Jiang Ci off and gave him serious instructions.
"Be careful on the road."
"Okay, teacher. I'll go back first."
Jiang Ci was very happy and said goodbye to all the teachers seriously. Then he heard the next sentence,
"Xiao Jiang, remember to bring Xiao Nuo here tomorrow—"
How should I put it? At a certain moment, Jiang Ci felt like there was a second child in the family.
“… Got it, teacher.”
Twenty minutes later—
Jiang Ci walked into the lounge of the warship. The lights inside did not turn on automatically this time, but it was not dark either. Since the last time the Zerg lit up the sky with fireflies, they would fly in groups into the air every night to illuminate the ruins.
Jiang Ci saw the young man lazily leaning against the window. He seemed to have sensed his coming, and he glanced at her carelessly with his golden vertical pupils in the dim light, looking cold and mysterious.
The dim light of fireflies shone in from the window, casting a layer of silver light on the profile of Huo Xianfeng, making him look strangely handsome.
Jiang Ci was a little dazed until she heard the other party speak.
"came back?"
—But what he said was very homely.
Jiang Ci came back to her senses and took a closer look.
"You... this is?"
Huo Xianfeng changed his clothes, and it was a very special outfit that he had never seen before.
The lining of the upper body is a warm white cross-collar shirt, the shoulders are embroidered with intricate red-gold patterns, and the outer chest area is black soft armor made of a strange material.
Below is a long skirt similar to ancient costumes, but it is not covered in the front but in two pieces, one on each side and the other on the back. The trousers inside are white with red clouds, and the fabric is printed with red lotus clouds, which is as hot as flames. The waist and hips are tightened, and gradually puffed down until the ankles are tightened again.
But it doesn't look like clothes from this era. It looks a bit like a combination of the royal family of the Western Regions and the ancient country of China in ancient times.
Moreover, because of the black soft armor on the chest, he looks handsome and combat-like.
Jiang Ci reached out and touched the other person's sleeve. It felt a bit like silk, but even cooler than that.
"Huo Xianfeng, what are you doing?"
"Well, these are Zerg clothes."
To be precise, it is the clothing of the royal family.
His tone was nonchalant, but inexplicably there was a sense of boasting in it.
Congratulations, Brother Huo finally doesn't have to wear his wife's clothes anymore. Of course, the most important reason is that if he wears Zerg clothes, Huo Xianfeng doesn't have to keep his tail in anytime and anywhere. He also doesn't have to worry about embarrassing things like his tail piercing his pants when it comes out.
Jiang Ci was stunned for a moment. That's right. Huo Xianfeng now has a large Zerg army with all kinds of insect species divided into different categories. It's not surprising that they can make clothes.
After all, higher-level Zerg possess intelligence that is no less than that of humans, so it is normal for them to have their own civilization and clothing.
Jiang Ci nodded.
"Well, it's pretty nice."
It's just... a bit of a show-off feeling.
Hearing the compliment, Huo Xianfeng's mouth curled up.
"Well, it's not bad."
Not sure if it was an illusion, Jiang Ci felt that the hem of Huo Xianfeng's clothes seemed to move behind him. He was a little unsure, after all, the light was a little dim. But in fact, it was not an illusion.
Because the next second, Jiang Ci felt something quietly wrapped around his waist.
Jiang Ci: “…”
If he guessed correctly, this should be Huo Xianfeng's tail. Ever since Huo Xianfeng showed him his tail for the first time that morning, he hid it from behind and never showed it to him. He treasured it very much.
Jiang Ci reached out to grab the tip of the other's tail, tightened her fingers slightly, and said in a cold tone,
"Why, are you finally willing to let your precious tail out?"
(End of this chapter)