Early the next morning, Huo Xianfeng appeared at the entrance of the recycling center.
Knock, knock!
The young man skillfully carried a sack of items with him and casually tossed it onto the counter.
“Boss, calculate the price.”
A dusty scarf covered the lower half of the young man’s face, exposing only a pair of eyes as black as ink.
“It’s you again?”
The moment Boss Wei saw Huo Xianfeng, he smiled like a shrewd merchant seeing a big, fat sheep.
“You certainly come here quite often.”
Five days ago, Huo Xianfeng had just sold the A-level mecha he brought from Earth to this place. To be more precise, he didn’t sell it; he played the role of an ignorant fool who didn’t understand its value, giving the boss a multi-million-star-coins-worth mecha for just a few dozen coins.
In reality, excluding individuals with a heaven-defying mental threshold like Huo Xianfeng, ordinary means are hardly effective at unlocking a mecha machine. As such, while Wei He had the items in his possession, he was unable to unlock the mecha in such a short time.
Nonetheless, this well-known local figure believed he had struck a tremendous deal and had a very good attitude towards Huo Xianfeng, sharing a lot of insider information with him.
Wei He puffed on his old brass tobacco pipe and blew out a thick cloud of smoke as he casually rummaged through the bag’s contents.
“Three hundred coins,” he said.
——It’s really a dragon-slaying knife.
The items inside were basically the most crucial components salvaged from abandoned mecha starships, in excellent condition, totaling at least five thousand coins.
The young man placed his hand on the bag and put on a show, pretending to be a seasoned pro.
“Boss Wei, I’m not new here. You don’t have to fleece me like a naive newcomer, right? These items are worth a lot more. Look, I’ve been working hard for several months. Can’t I make some profit for my bride-dowry?
Tsk, after all, he is a big fat sheep who doesn’t know anything.
Wei He sneered inwardly, but he liked this kind of person. He pretended to be impatient and waved his hand.
“Alright, alright, Laozi is not in the mood to chat with you today.”
Thud!
The boss took away the things and threw a bag of star coins on the table.
“Here, eight hundred is the most I can give.”
This planet was in a no-man’s land, so most people down here still used cash. However, Huo Xianfeng didn’t rush to confirm the amount of star coins. Instead, he casually leaned in.
“Boss, I want to ask you something. Recently, down below…”
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The impoverished residents of Winter Day Planet had barely received any education. So, the people in the lower class here were even more ignorant than in the Ancient Earth era. It was very common to buy and sell people here.
“Oh, you’re quite picky. You don’t want the locals, and you have the gall to prefer outsiders.”
After taking advantage of him earlier, Wei He was in an excellent mood, his previously cautious attitude relaxing considerably. Besides, it wasn’t like this was some secret he couldn’t talk about.
“You know where we are. It’s been decades since we’ve seen any newcomers. But, strangely, just yesterday, someone new came down, and their scent was exceptionally clean. However…”
The boss took a puff of his cigarette, leaned in, and whispered,
“In all my years here, I’ve never seen such a prickly beta. I’ve heard that several blocks in the underground city were destroyed by that man. The Old Snake’s crew put in a lot of effort to catch him.”
“—Catch?”
Huo Xianfeng’s expression darkened.
“Oh, yes,” the boss continued, somewhat smug, “those folks led by the Old Snake are experts in this business. Being a powerful newcomer doesn’t mean much to them. They use all sorts of sneaky methods. Let me tell you, not to mention betas, even alphas, no matter how fierce they are, can be tamed.”
At this point, Huo Xianfeng slid the bag of star coins on the table over to the boss and said in a smooth tone, “Boss Wei, I have a little quirk. I want someone from outside, someone clean. Could you help me arrange a meeting with the old man Snake?”
“——Arrange a meeting?”
“Well, I guess it won’t work.”
Wei He took a drag of his cigarette and shook his head. “For something else, perhaps, but this time it’s different. I heard that this beta is as beautiful as an omega, and, on top of that, he’s pregnant and widowed. Old Snake took a shine to him, and as soon as he was caught yesterday, he was sent to the auction house. They want to sell him for a big price.”
Auction house?
Huo Xianfeng frowned and clicked his tongue.
This was getting troublesome.
A few hours later——
The young man appeared in a hidden corner of the underground city.
Whoosh—
His large cloak swayed in the chilly wind, and the dim streetlights fell on his profile, swaying into mottled shadows, creating a sense of eerie and peculiar mystery.
This place and the surface of Winter Day Planet are like two completely different worlds.
This massive underground city, nestled beneath the surface, rivaled the Imperial Capital in its opulence. Countless photon tracks crisscrossed through the city, with technological skyscrapers stacked together. When looking down, there seemed to be no end in sight.
It’s just like…
…A colossal and tightly organized underground ant nest.
This analogy was quite precise because this city indeed had a similar and strict class division. From top to bottom, the higher one lived, the more power and status they held.
As for the city’s sole auction house, it was naturally backed by the Lord of the Underground City, situated in the most opulent district at the heart of the city.
“Tsk, I’m going to get into trouble again.”
The young man lowered the hood on his head, and in the next moment, he plummeted from the tall tower. Like a black fish, he vanished into the shadows in the blink of an eye.
Meanwhile, the silver-haired omega opened his eyes in a remarkably gorgeous crystal cage.
Buzz—
But before his blurry vision could focus, his mind was pierced by a sharp tinnitus in his ears.
“Ah…”
He let out a pained and suppressed gasp, closing his eyes as his body instinctively curled up. It was as if he were inside some kind of enclosure, being pushed around by a cart.
“Huh, it seems like he’s… awake?”
Outside the cage, there was a layer of pitch-black curtains, and Jiang Ci could only vaguely see the moving figures outside. But now he was weak and dizzy, unable to utter a word, only feeling waves of nausea in his stomach.
He wasn’t sure if this was caused by the Gardenia Rose Blossom or the aftereffects of the addictive drugs.
“It can’t be… with such a high concentration of the psychedelic agents… an ordinary person… would be comatose for a month. Not to mention, a pregnant… beta…”
“Hey, but he is truly genuine… Everything on the pheromone analyzer is normal… He’s not an omega…”
“…”
Listening to the intermittent conversation outside, Jiang Ci finally felt a bit relieved. In the professional field, He Zhun was quite reliable.
At least, whether it was Tang Cha’s keen sense of perception or the underground city’s specialized medical equipment, both would conclude that Jiang Ci was a pregnant beta.
If the Gardenia Rose Blossom hadn’t mutated due to an overdose of regular suppressants, perhaps he could have even removed the “pregnant” descriptor.
Jiang Ci struggled to feel his left wrist, but there was nothing on it.
—— Xiao X is gone.
Although it was an Artificial Idiot, it didn’t affect the fact that it had also undergone a special-grade upgrade as an A-grade mecha. In terms of strength, it was no less than an S-grade mecha.
When he was captured, Jiang Ci had been exposed to an extremely high concentration of psychedelic agents, which led him to faint before he could even activate the mecha.
He was groggy and still had not metabolized the drug completely, which left his whole brain in a half-dream, half-awake state. He didn’t even know when the human voices outside disappeared.
“Next… auction item… a beautiful… beta… widow…”
Jiang Ci couldn’t hear clearly what the people outside were saying, but his intuition told him that the situation was very unfavorable. He wanted to struggle to get up, at least to open his eyes and clear his mind.
However, in the next second, just as Jiang Ci was trying to open his eyes,
Swoosh—
The pitch-black curtain was suddenly lifted, and blinding white light flooded in from all directions.
“Ugh…”
Involuntarily, Jiang Ci closed his eyes and let out an uncomfortable groan in his throat.
There were blinding lights all around, but the audience seats, which were packed with people, were pitch black. They wore pure white masks and openly gazed at the person inside the cage, as if they wanted to turn their gazes into tangible sensations and lick every inch of his skin.
Betas couldn’t be marked, and even in the end, their body will only carry the partner’s pheromones for a short time. However, when a beta becomes pregnant, their bodies go through significant changes, becoming incredibly soft and sensitive. The scent of their pheromones changes, and the betas would carry their partner’s pheromones for an extended period, making them almost indistinguishable from marked omegas.
In this age of extreme omega scarcity, pregnant betas were a valuable commodity. The simplest and crudest method was to make a beta pregnant, then eliminate their partner and sell them to certain affluent individuals with peculiar tastes.
However, beta pregnancy was challenging, and the Empire’s laws provided extensive protection to pregnant individuals. Such situations were only found in the underground cities of planets like Winter Day.
The more taboo something was, the more it fascinated the monsters lurking in the darkness.
“Is it an omega?… No, it’s not…”
“A top-tier specimen… Unique…”
“That rare silver hair… I want to buy it…”
“….….”
The discussions from the audience became increasingly fervent, with no attempt to conceal their excitement and anticipation.
Jiang Ci’s current pheromone profile remained that of a beta. However, due to his body’s rapid metabolism of suppressants and the mutation of the Gardenia Rose Blossom, his body had entered an early pregnancy-like state.
Whether beta or omega, once pregnant, they’ll be extremely insecure, making them highly dependent on their partners. They needed their partner’s pheromones for comfort in almost every moment.
But Jiang Ci hadn’t been marked yet, so at this moment, this huge gap of uneasiness couldn’t be filled. Countless unfamiliar gazes made him instinctively uncomfortable, and he curled up as he desperately wanted to hide. His heart was engulfed by immense fear and anxiety, and his dense eyelashes trembled with moisture.
His silver hair was disheveled, mingling with the soft and delicate brocade beneath him, casting fragmented beams of light.
The omega Major General, who was accustomed to wearing military uniforms in his daily life, had no idea that he was now wearing an extremely vibrant and flimsy qipao.
He hugged his knees and curled up on the cloud-like, soft bedding. Due to his leg’s movement, he exposed a large area of fair skin on the back of his thigh.
Just like an extremely rare and precious piece of Eastern porcelain displayed in a crystal cabinet,
——He was unabashedly scrutinized by numerous pairs of greedy eyes.
Ooh I hope those bastards die!! Hurry up and get him out of there Huo Xianfeng!! ಠ益ಠ
Pretty sure they’re the corpses in the summary. Good! Rekt them, Ah-Ci!
Gender equality 💪💪
Ugh,hope all those perverts die already!
Huo Huo cause trouble again 😡 💪
Thanks for the chapter 💞
thanks for the chapter!