Whether he’s a widow or not doesn’t matter much to Huo Xianfeng.
He only intervened earlier because he happened to come across the two garbage traffickers he was targeting. Huo Xianfeng didn’t continue this topic any further and merely glanced at the little girl’s bag.
“Keep the star coins, but you should get rid of that bag.”
On this lawless planet, one must be cautious about everything they do. A small cloth bag contaminated with a pregnant beta’s pheromones, for the sake of caution, cannot be left around.
“Oh, okay~”
Tang Cha obediently emptied the star coins from it, carefully checked, and then put them into her small bag. She was ready to throw away the little cloth bag.
“Wait.”
Huo Xianfeng seemed to suddenly sense something. He snatched the small cloth bag from Tang Cha’s hand and wrinkled his brow as he sniffed it.
“What’s this smell on it? It’s like perfume.”
Even though pheromones and regular odor molecules might give similar sensory experiences, they were entirely different things. Therefore, while Huo Xianfeng couldn’t sense pheromones, it didn’t hinder his sense of smell from identifying various scents.
“Huh?”
Tang Cha was stunned. After double-checking, she hesitated and said, “There’s no perfume on it.”
It was completely clean, with only a tiny trace of pregnancy pheromones that were barely detectable.
“None?”
How strange.
Huo Xianfeng leaned in again and carefully sniffed, sensing a peculiar floral fragrance, unlike pheromones but oddly present on the bag.
“…”
Tang Cha silently stared at the young man as he continued sniffing. Her expression gradually became strange because an adolescent alpha sniffing something that had someone’s pregnancy pheromones was an unusual behavior.
——Not to mention that the pregnant beta in case was even a widow.
Perhaps because the intensity of the girl’s gaze became too burning. Huo Xianfeng finally snapped out of it and realized what he was doing. His spine even stiffened for a moment.
“Cough…”
He cleared his throat and gestured towards the two contorted humanoid beings on the ground, shifting the topic very bluntly,
“Go, see if they have anything useful on them.”
“Okay…”
Tang Cha obediently nodded and swiftly began to rummage through the clothes of the two human traffickers. Broken limbs didn’t frighten her, as such scenes were common on this planet.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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The hot-blooded teenage alpha stared at the small bag, examining it closely. There were no markings on it, and it was made of the most ordinary material.
The only peculiar thing was the floral scent.
However, Tang Cha, with her keen sense of smell, said there was no smell at all on it. This inconsistency puzzled Huo Xianfeng.
A few minutes later, the area behind him finally fell into silence, and the intense smell of blood began to dissipate. Huo Xianfeng tucked the item into his embrace and casually asked, “Has everything been taken care of?”
“En!”
Tang Cha ran back to his side, looking up at him with a bright smile.
“Xiao Huo-gege, I’ve done everything just as you taught me.”
The teenager turned to look at her. In just a short ten minutes, she had not only expertly buried the bodies of two adult men but had also cleaned herself up, leaving no traces of blood on her hands.
—— Very skilled indeed.
Huo Xianfeng had no intention of staying on this planet for long, so he didn’t plan to keep Tang Cha with him the whole time. During this period, he intentionally taught her some life-saving skills.
Huo Xianfeng glanced at the girl’s smiling face and casually pulled down her hood to cover it.
“Then let’s go back,” he said as he took large strides forward.
“Alright,” Tang Cha wiped her eyes and then followed the teenager’s retreating figure with small steps.
“Xiao Huo-gege, we had such a great haul today. Tomorrow, we can take the stuff to the recycling center and make several thousand star coins. How about celebrating tonight? I can make some Loose liquor for you, and we can pair it with peach-flavored supplements, what do you think?”
“—Do as you wish.”
As night fell, they returned to an unknown shantytown on Winter Day Planet. To be more precise, it could be considered a slightly cleaner junkyard. It was a makeshift structure built from the remnants of old machinery, covered with several layers of thick waterproof fabric, fitted with windows and a door, making it a rustic house.
The only significant difference was that Huo Xianfeng didn’t join a group of people for safety but chose a remote location to build his small house. As for Tang Cha, after she insisted on following him, she also set up a small shack nearby.
Gurgle gurgle…
Tang Cha skillfully cooked dinner in the pot, which was more like a stew made from loose liquor and nutritional supplements. Although it sounded devilish, it was the daily diet of the common people on Winter Day Planet. The loose liquor, mixed with factory-made alcohol, had a spicy taste and contained many impurities. However, it was affordable, and on a planet with an average temperature of minus ten degrees Celsius, loose liquor was an indispensable commodity for surface-dwelling paupers.
Huo Xianfeng loosened his heavy cloak, revealing a thin white linen shirt underneath. He grabbed a bottle of loose liquor and sat by the window, enjoying the cold breeze. The thin fabric occasionally fluttered in the wind, outlining the faint muscular contours on his chest and abdomen.
—This was quite an extraordinary phenomenon.
A little over a month ago, when Huo Xianfeng woke up in the ruins of the ancient Earth battlefield, he had the appearance of a young teenager of around fourteen or fifteen years old. However, in this short period of time, his body had undergone an entirely unnatural growth rate that defied human developmental norms. Now, he appeared to be eighteen or nineteen years old.
Such a significant change was to the point that the recruit he kidnapped probably wouldn’t recognize him even if he didn’t receive the mental suggestion.
Huo Xianfeng took out the little bag and examined it closely. Its scent had faded considerably, but it still had a mysterious and appealing fragrance. He silently turned to look at Tang Cha, who was cooking, and saw that she was completely focused on her task. So he turned back, stiffened his neck for a few seconds, then lowered his head to sniff the scent on the little bag.
The only scent in the world that would make an alpha foolishly like it would probably be omega pheromones. However, omega pheromones not only induced positive emotions but also sexual impulses, violence, and possessiveness in alphas, among other negative feelings.
But the scent on this bag was a very pure one, only making people feel happy and love it.
It’s like the scent of roses mixed with a cooler, cedar-like note.
Huo Xianfeng felt that if this were perfume, the person who created it must be a master perfumer. However, the reality was quite different, as Tang Cha’s earlier response indicated that only he could smell the fragrance on the bag.
He is the only one…
Huo Xianfeng’s intuition told him that this was probably not a coincidence. He furrowed his brow and turned to Tang Cha, intending to confirm something.
“Tang Cha, about that widow beta we encountered during the day…”
However, to his surprise, when he turned around, he was met with Tang Cha’s complex gaze.
“Hn?”
” ——Why are you looking at me like that?”
Clearly, Huo Xianfeng, who was solely focused on his investigation, didn’t realize how strange and creepy it was for a young alpha to be excessively interested in a pregnant beta widow and continuously sniff his belongings.
“…Nothing,” Tang Cha shook her head. “Do you want to ask that person something?”
“Did you get a good look at his face? Did he say why he came here?” In this moment, Tang Cha’s gaze took on a subtle change that was hard to describe.
“I didn’t see his face clearly, but his voice was nice,” she recalled. “At the time, he asked me how to get to the underground city, and I pointed him in the direction of the recycling station.”
“The underground city?” Huo Xianfeng latched onto the keyword. It was quite a coincidence.
A month ago, Huo Xianfeng had accessed the military database through the neural interface of the new recruit, Lin Jin, and gathered information about Winter Day Planet. In this era, everyone’s life was extensively documented by the interstellar network’s big data. However, someone like him, with an unclear identity and possibly even an unknown species, could only find refuge in a gray area.
The border planet, Winter Day Planet, was the ideal location because it had an underground black market where you could supposedly buy anything you desired, including various pieces of information. However, for safety’s sake, Huo Xianfeng decided to stay on the surface for a week, pretending to be one of the local residents, before heading underground. It was just that this beta seemed rather impatient, coming to Winter Day Planet and heading straight for the underground city.
Well, it seemed that the newcomer was indeed clueless about the dangers of this place, and he was likely to end up as food for the jackals here, with nothing left but bones.
Huo Xianfeng made a soft “tsk” noise and stood up. “I need to go out for a while.”
He casually tucked the small cloth bag into his coat and grabbed his cloak before heading towards the door. “Xiao Huo-gege—!” Tang Cha called out, hesitating as if struggling to find the right words. “Um, wait…”
“?”
Huo Xianfeng turned back, raising a puzzled eyebrow. Tang Cha’s eyes were wandering, and she hesitated for a long time before speaking softly, “When a pregnant beta loses their mate, they… usually don’t accept other people’s…”
Huo Xianfeng: “…?”
He was stunned for more than ten seconds before he understood the implication of Tang Cha’s words.
???????
What? Did he really look like a pervert who targets widows?
“…I have no interest in that person whatsoever,” he replied, almost exasperated by the misunderstanding.
As if he felt that the explanation he just said was not strong enough, Huo Xianfeng even strode back and said solemnly, “I absolutely would not have any thoughts towards a pregnant widow!”
“Oh, I see…” Tang Cha nodded, her gaze fixed on the small bag he had tucked into his coat for a long time, before finally agreeing in a very understanding manner.
“That was my misunderstanding, so it turns out Xiao Huo-gege isn’t going to see him this late at night.”
Huo Xianfeng, who had been planning to go out to look for someone: “…”
The young man froze for a moment and explained instinctively, “I just wanted to ask…” what perfume that guy was wearing.
Halfway through his words, Huo Xianfeng suddenly fell silent.
Hey, that’s not right,
Why did it sound even more perverted?
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Author’s note:
Huo Xianfeng: Whether he’s a widow or not, I have no interest!
The next second—
Wait, what perfume are you using?
M1zushi: I forgot to say Tang Cha’s name is lit. Tea (Cha)
Hello everyone 😊😊 we’ve now entered December and I have a goal to reach 10 ko-fis until the end of the year. If we do reach 10 ko-fis, I’ll do a Holiday’s week of updates 🥳🥳 that is, if we reach the goal we’ll get 10 extra chapters + 4 free chapters 
Thanks for the chapter! Let’s go go go for that holiday week of updates! ☕️
Noo. Stop planning to leave tang cha behind!
Zerg-nip is working! Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
I pictured him rolling around on the floor near the rosebush when he’ll eventually find it ever since he mentioned it smelled nice 😂
Very funny to imagine, but also very distracting for my reading the rest of the chapter. I’m so torn!
Zerg-nip 🤣
I don’t think that “pregnant beta widow” will like you asking that very much Huo Xianfeng! 😭
Setting my camp here 🏕ヽ(*´▽)ノ♪
I love this story 💯😹
Sniffing around a bag.. Houhuo is just like a dog 🤣
Kkkkk misunderstandings are the joy in life!
Dr He’s antidote has attracted an Alpha – Huo Huo. So a double-win! 😘
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Even a little girl could see through you, Huo Shao. There’s no need to deny it
Right? Jiang Ci, please send me the link of your perfume hahahaha
thanks for the chapter!