Extra chapter thanks to elaine! I’ve only realized now that we missed 4 normal uploads while we were on the extra chapter streak so I’ll be uploading another chapter this afternoon!
If you carefully calculate, this is probably the fourth time Huo Xianfeng’s collar has been pulled open by the other party. But what’s even more bizarre is that, apart from the slight surprise in the initial seconds, he unexpectedly accepted it very calmly.
Because Rhodes was kicked by Huo Xianfeng and flew more than ten meters away just now, in an instant, the expressions of the followers who were originally surrounding Jiang Ci changed drastically. They stood in place, hesitant to approach rashly.
At this moment, the silver-haired omega held the fabric on Huo Xianfeng’s chest with one hand and tightly grasped his shoulder with the other, bearing his weight of his body. Due to the overly close distance, the young man could clearly feel Jiang Ci’s hurried and trembling breath in his shoulder pit, like a drowning person that suddenly emerged from the water, frantically inhaling oxygen.
Jiang Ci felt his stomach churning like a stormy sea. That unfamiliar alpha pheromones made him uncontrollably repulsed and nauseated. He desperately tried to sniff the familiar pheromones on the young man’s body, hoping to alleviate the discomfort at this moment.
However, compared to other alphas who release pheromones all the time and always want to announce their existence to the world, Huo Xianfeng was extremely stingy, making him feel like a traveler in the desert about to die of thirst, only being able to sip the sweet liquid drop by drop.
This feeling made Jiang Ci almost want to bite him again and directly draw out his blood. But then, he suddenly felt a tightness around his waist, and the previously heavy pressure on his body suddenly lightened.
—Huo Xianfeng directly hugged the omega in his arms, who was trembling slightly, and helped him bear some of his body’s weight.
“Are you okay?”
“…….”
The familiar voice in his ears startled Jiang Ci, instantly waking up from his hazy and trance-like state.
This was truly an unavoidable situation. He now felt a physiological disgust towards the pheromones of any alpha other than Huo Xianfeng. So, the moment Rhodes approached just now, he felt as if his entire stomach was convulsing madly.
Avoiding directly vomiting on the other person’s face just now was probably the last bit of dignity for the Jiang family’s young master. However, now that he had come to his senses, Jiang Ci quickly realized what he had just done. He stiffened for two seconds, then immediately let go and stepped back.
Various emotions—shock, anger, and an awkward nervousness—swiftly flashed across his beautiful face, finally returning to its usual coldness. But now, it was clearly not the time for casual conversation. Rhodes had already climbed out of a pile of rubble, stood up in the midst of several worried followers, and stared at Huo Xianfeng with a mix of astonishment and anger.
Just now, he sensed it very clearly: that omega’s blood was filled with the fierce and domineering pheromones of an alpha.
—Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what this represents.
Jiang Jinsheng’s son, the next-generation heir to the Jiang family, had actually been marked!
As the Jiang family was on the Church’s observation list, Jiang Ci naturally also appeared in the monitoring records. Although they couldn’t openly monitor him up close with Zhou Jiuya around, they still had some information. For example, not long ago in the Capital, he had put a prospective marriage partner into the hospital, meaning he had not been marked at that time.
——Then who is this alpha who has marked Jiang Ci now? !
Rhodes actually had an impossible guess in his mind—a guess that emerged in an instant and couldn’t be shaken off anymore. After all, although his face was only three or four points similar to Huo Chao’s, it was enough to make him wary, not to mention the strength the young man had just demonstrated.
Now, there was a follower’s body lying on the ground, another one had just been blasted away by Jiang Ci’s attack, and there were only four people left standing behind the white-robed bishop.
For a while, both sides were caught in a subtle stalemate.
Jiang Ci paid no attention to the torn wound on his left shoulder. He stared coldly at the white-robed bishop, his crimson eyes filled with extreme disgust.
“Rhodes, when did the church’s hands reach here?”
If it were ten minutes ago, the white-robed bishop might have had the mood to casually chat with this beautiful and delicious omega. But now his attention was entirely on Huo Xianfeng beside him.
However, the latter didn’t care about Rhodes. He glanced at Jiang Ci’s bloody shoulder, subconsciously frowning, and keenly detected its sweet yet bloody scent in the air, along with the familiar, rose-like fragrance.
The blend of these two scents made the young man feel a slight restlessness.
Just then, there was a sudden tremor in the ground.
Maybe it’s the quicksand, or maybe it’s something else…
But at this moment, no one had the time to investigate it because Rhodes had already raised the long knife in his hand and instantly thrust it towards Huo Xianfeng’s neck. On the other side, the remaining four disciples attempted to surround Jiang Ci again. After all, Zhou Jiuya was still on Winter Day Planet, and they still had a fragile cooperative relationship. So, Rhodes didn’t intend to touch this beautiful and sweet omega. However, it didn’t mean he would allow the other party to interfere with his mission.
In the next second, Rhodes’s icy killing intent was like a hurricane, and with his chilling blade, he swiftly approached the young man.
If this guy is related to that person, I can only find out by trying.
Huo Xianfeng’s index finger stuck in the round ring at the end of the dagger’s handle. He casually turned it, then suddenly stabbed forward without any warning.
In the second round of the fight, the young man’s movements and speed were completely different from before. His sharp phoenix eyes showed no intention of evasion, launching direct and forceful attacks with every move.
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“Who… who are you?”
This question was actually on the minds of everyone present, including Jiang Ci and Huo Xianfeng himself. After all, the strength demonstrated by the latter just now was not that of an ordinary youth on the surface of the Winter Day Planet.
Huo Xianfeng squinted his eyes and half-truthfully deceived him. “You just recognized me, didn’t you?”
“……”
Rhodes’s pupils suddenly enlarged to the extreme.
“You…”
In that instant, the white-robed bishop exposed a fatal flaw!
Bang!
After a fierce and brief collision, the young man suddenly pulled sideways, and the blades of both sides erupted sparks in all directions. This action allowed Huo Xianfeng to unload most of the opponent’s strength, and then he abruptly reversed his grip, directly penetrating Rhodes’s left arm.
The alarm in the white-robed bishop’s mind screamed frantically. Ignoring his pierced left arm, he directly pulled the dagger out, repeatedly retreating. The long knife in his hand swung horizontally, directly cutting off the supporting pillar nearby, blocking the rhythm of the young man’s attack.
With a thunderous “boom!” the pillar shattered into pieces and collapsed abruptly.
But the next moment, Huo Xianfeng rushed out from the rain of falling debris, his momentum fierce and violent, and almost in the blink of an eye, he directly confronted Rhodes—
Clash!!!
The knife in the white-robed bishop’s hand was thrown fiercely, embedding itself deeply into the wall more than ten meters away.
Slash!
The next second, Huo Xianfeng’s dagger ruthlessly pierced through the hand that had just held the knife, then firmly nailed it to the wall behind him.
Rhodes’s face suddenly turned pale, his facial muscles trembling slightly due to intense pain.
“Your name… is Rhodes, right?”
The young man held the handle of the dagger, slowly turning it. His side profile showed a jade-like hardness and his eyes calm and cold in the darkness. The light reflection of the knife’s blade on his face revealed a sharp chill.
“Tell me, when you saw me just now, who did you think of?”
“……”
Rhodes breathed heavily, like a wounded beast. But when he stared at Huo Xianfeng for a few seconds, his painful expression suddenly distorted, and he burst into laughter.
“So, it’s not you… not…”
Otherwise, the other party wouldn’t ask such a question.
Huo Xianfeng frowned, wanting to ask more. At this moment, a clear sound of bone cracking suddenly came from behind.
Crack!
The young man turned around, and immediately, the subsequent painful screams drowned out the former sound of cracking.
“So, tell me—”
The silver-haired Major General’s side face was stained with blood, his expression icy as he looked down at the followers painfully writhing on the ground.
“Why are you all here?”
“Looking… looking for the Forbidden…”
“…….?”
One of them finally couldn’t bear it. However, the instant he uttered a single word, golden patterns suddenly appeared around his neck. Like parasitic vines, they abruptly entwined around the disciple’s neck and tightened—
Crack!
After a subtle sound of breaking, there was no more breathing.
Jiang Ci was shocked and exclaimed, “Damn, what the hell is this thing?!”
But the next moment, the ground suddenly shook. Jiang Ci immediately turned around, exchanged a glance with Huo Xianfeng, and both saw the same message in each other’s eyes—
—This definitely couldn’t be something caused by quicksand.
The next second, the entire smelting plant violently shook, the ground beneath Jiang Ci’s feet cracking and collapsing. Caught off guard, he could only stagger to stabilize himself and quickly move away.
Looking up, countless cracks unexpectedly appeared on the ceiling, and Jiang Ci’s face changed dramatically.
“Huo Xianfeng! This place is collapsing!”
However, at this moment, the young man seemed to be indifferent to Jiang Ci’s voice. As if he had suddenly heard something, he abruptly stood up, turned around, and quickly scanned the entire factory area where the ground was crazily shaking and cracking, as if looking for something.
Just then, seizing the opportunity, Rhodes pulled out the dagger from his palm and quickly fled.
“Stop—!”
Jiang Ci’s face darkened, about to chase after him. However, the next second, Huo Xianfeng grabbed his wrist.
“No need to chase!”
“….?”
Jiang Ci was stunned. Before he could react, Huo Xianfeng pulled him in the opposite direction.
“Usually, underground factories like this one have emergency elevators!”
—How do you know it’s not on the side where Rhodes is running?
A thought flashed through the Major General’s mind, but in the end, he didn’t ask anything and followed Huo Xianfeng at a fast pace.
At this moment, the collapsed rubble and dust fell like a torrential rain. A piece of rubble, half the size of a person, even brushed against Jiang Ci’s hair as it fell.
This was probably the fastest Jiang Ci had ever run in his life. Held tightly by the young man, he didn’t have time to look back and didn’t notice the ground behind him. Cracks spread in all directions like countless arteries, and it seemed like something underground was about to break through, causing the flat ground to swell into massive bulges.
But fortunately, half a minute later, they finally reached the right place—the emergency elevator.
Ding—
The elevator doors opened and Huo Xianfeng pushed Jiang Ci in first before entering himself.
Coincidentally, their direction aligned perfectly with the opposite direction Rhodes had run. If one were to carefully look back at this moment, perhaps they might catch a glimpse of a desperate figure running amidst the chaotic collapse.
But the young man happened to stand in the middle of the elevator doorway, blocking the only direct line of sight.
At this moment, Rhodes also rushed to the doorway in another direction. He forcefully blasted open the door, his face full of the joy of escaping imminent danger.
But behind the door was not a safe exit; instead, it was a pair of cold, crimson compound eyes.
The next second—
The monstrous creature opened its bloody and sharp mouth.
Bzz—
The elevator doors closed.
Jiang Ci was finally about to take a breath when he suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness.
“Wait! Aren’t we going up?” He frowned, as the weightlessness clearly indicated a downward motion.
“Yes, we are going down,” Huo Xianfeng casually brushed off the dust on his clothes, speaking naturally. “Since we’re here, don’t you want to see what Rhodes is really after?”
“…”
Jiang Ci was slightly surprised but did not refuse. At this moment, the previously terrifying shaking and trembling of the elevator suddenly stopped. The elevator descended at a very stable and slow pace, as if the collapse crisis just now was an illusion.
A quiet atmosphere enveloped the elevator.
Huo Xianfeng touched his neck and adjusted the collar that had been pulled down to his chest a bit. This action made Jiang Ci suddenly recall what had happened earlier, making him pursue his lips. He turned his head away, and muttered, “…That guy stinks.”
The Major General pretended not to care and further explained, “Don’t misunderstand. I was just using you to slow down.”
“…”
Slow down?
Huo Xianfeng raised an eyebrow in confusion, taking a few seconds to realize that Jiang Ci was referring to the incident where he suddenly buried his face in the other’s neck.
The young man slightly raised an eyebrow, finding the explanation quite amusing and novel. He just didn’t expect that his expression, in Jiang Ci’s vision, would be interpreted as mockery or some kind of rejection.
Furrowing his brows, Jiang Ci said, “Hey, we agreed earlier, and I paid you.”
The implication is that it is just a simple transaction and does not mean anything else.
Paid?”
Huo Xianfeng: “…?”
The young man was slightly stunned, only belatedly realizing the meaning behind the other’s words—
I paid you, so what’s wrong with me scenting you?!
A surprised yet amused expression appeared on Huo Xianfeng’s face. In reality, when he first demanded that exorbitant price of over six million, it was just to gauge the omega’s financial situation and uncover his identity.
Who would have thought that Jiang Ci would transfer the money without a word?
Moreover, this time, Huo Xianfeng had originally intended to go together. The so-called reward for acting heroically was just a casual remark. Who could have known that the other party would really give him 10 million as soon as he opened his mouth?
In the end, Huo Xianfeng, who woke up in the eggshell, broke and penniless, readily and happily agreed to this foolproof transaction.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but at this moment, the irritated and frustrated omega had already briskly moved two meters away from him, diagonally across the elevator, very swiftly.
Huo Xianfeng: “……..”
So, the two of them remained silent, separated by the longest diagonal distance of two meters, silently facing each other.
The elevator seemed to be heading to a very deep underground place, and despite descending for so long, there was still no sign of stopping. The narrow space suddenly became unusually quiet.
Jiang Ci thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around, as if wanting to say something to Huo Xianfeng. However, in that instant of turning his head, his gaze happened to catch sight of the young man’s disheveled collar.
The traces there were quite evident, indicating that it had been forcefully torn open. Two buttons had successively burst off, revealing a large expanse of chest skin, clearly outlining the faint shadows of his chest muscles…
Wait a minute.
Jiang Ci was slightly stunned. He remembered that last night he had bitten a wound on Huo Xianfeng’s clavicle…
It’s gone!
Before Jiang Ci could figure it out, the next second, Huo Xianfeng silently pulled up his collar.
The handsome omega was momentarily stunned. Looking up, his peculiar gaze coincidentally met the young man’s strange eyes.
Huo Xianfeng: “……..?”
Jiang Ci: “……..!”
The atmosphere in that instant was somewhat subtle, as if the other’s recent action was specifically for preventing him from peeping.
Peeping???
There was a momentary blank expression on Jiang Ci’s face. He immediately opened his mouth to explain, but the subtle atmosphere just now made him feel like anything he said would sound like a cover-up.
Damn it!
The Major General held back his frustration, angrily turning his head away.
OMG A-CI UR SO TSUN IN THIS CHAPTER ITS TICKLING MY BRAIN.
Anwy, thanks for the chapter! Can’t wait for another update laterr (〃ﾉωﾉ)
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
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So cute I love it , thank you for the many updates
Thanks for the chapter!
On their way to drive Huo Chao’s mecha!
Hehe yet another bout of misunderstanding added to poor tsun jiang ci’s inventory 😂
New title: Peeper. Lmao… Thanks for the great translation 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
‘A simple transaction’- yeah right!! 😂
Thanks for the chapter 💞
I wonder what’ll happen when they’re finally going to unearth all of those pile of misunderstandings…. will there be war? 😶
thanks for the chapter!
Maybe ‘breathing in your scent’ could be used instead of ‘scenting’? You could also use ‘sniffing’ but that sounds like a dog 🤣🤣🤣