(Two in One) The distant skyline rolls up fiery clouds
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Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly, this is the unique charm of Salba Desert.
Even though this place has swallowed countless bones and flesh and is the nightmare of countless hunters, no one can deny that the beauty here is breathtaking.
[I finally understand why some people know that Salba is so dangerous, but still want to come here packed with an airship for an air tour drive]
[+1 package of airship is still expensive]
[Well, check out the XianXing General Aviation, there are discounts for fans in Brother Lu’s live broadcast room!——SaltedFish YuYu gifted the anchor 1x Buddha Jumping over the wall]
[This local tyrant fan did not belong to the management of XianXing General Aviation, right XD]
[Boss, can you consider launching a route of the same type as Brother Lu! We won’t walk on the ground, we’ll walk high in the air!]
Xian Yu rubbed his chin, it seemed that it was not impossible, but he had to discuss it with the flight team to see how the turbulence in the air area was.
As soon as Xian Yu clapped his hands, he was extremely mobile, and immediately contacted the flight team, and held a video conference to discuss the possibility of opening the same travel route.
“The route close to the area where Mr. Lu is currently is definitely not allowed. This area is called the cemetery of pilots. It is impossible to fly there. If any airship flies over this area, the radar, engine, and all instruments will fail. You can only fly blindly, and finally crash.” The captain of the flight team categorically denied it as soon as he heard it.
“If you really want to take the same tourist route, you can open it in the first half at most, but the impact of turbulence is not small, and there are risks.” He continued.
Xian Yu was taken aback when he heard his words: “All the airships can’t flyover? What about the search and rescue ship? Didn’t the Desolate Star government send a research and rescue ship to search and rescue in the hinterland before?”
“It also hovered far away from this area for a short time, allowing the search and rescue team to walk there.” The captain said, “Anything related to the airship must not come close. This desert is very strange.”
Xian Yu didn’t expect Salba to be like this, and his expression became heavy: “Why didn’t anyone mention it before?”
“Pilots keep this area secret, and usually don’t take the initiative to mention it.” The captain said, “Furthermore, there are very few pilots who know that desert area. I can assure you that there are only a handful of them in the entire Desolate Star.”
Xian Yu took a deep breath. He restored the evacuation route drawn by Lu Liran for Xian Dan in the live broadcast room to the flight team, and asked: “Then if Xian Dan’s team passed through this area, where can you meet them at the nearest point?”
The other party looked at it, and after discussing with his team members, he carefully selected a landing point: “It’s around this place.”
“Good.”
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.
Xian Yu discussed in detail the details of supporting the merchant fleet with the flight team on the opposite side, and on the live broadcast room, the other members of the merchant fleet finally climbed up one after another.
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“Suddenly I feel that the hard work to climb up, after seeing this scene, is worth it.” A young Beta in the team whispered.
What he said immediately aroused the approval and resonance of other people: “That’s right! Who would have thought that this damn place could be so beautiful…”
“It’s so beautiful…if only others could see this scene.”
“……”
There was a moment of silence in the team. They walked all the way here, watching their companions decrease one by one, and finally only a dozen or so survivors remained.
It was unknown if it was because of being infected by the magnificence and desolation of the sunset in front of the desert, the people in the team felt an inexplicable sadness, and some people sobbed softly.
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes and watched deeply, he could empathize with these people’s current mood better than anyone else.
He waited quietly for a few minutes, then said: “Now that you have come here, you living people should realize more deeply that what you bear now is not only your own life, but also the responsibilities and obligations of those companions who did not survive. Everything is tied to you.”
“Cherish the chance to survive. If you don’t do your best, the death of those people will be meaningless.” His voice was deep and low, like an alarm bell, and he bellowed, “Got it?!”
Everyone was shocked, and subconsciously stood up straight: “Understood!”
Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran. Under the fiery sunset, the face of the man in front of him seemed to be imprinted in the firelight. He suddenly understood something, and asked in a low voice: “If you don’t do your best, the death of those people is meaningless?”
Lu Liran looked at him as a matter of course: “What’s wrong?”
“The purpose of you doing your best is to live well, not to repeatedly and constantly warn yourself that those people are dead and you are alive.” Ke Ji looked into Lu Liran’s eyes, “It doesn’t mean that those who survive have to carry the burden of putting their best into everything they do in the future.”
Knowing that the glacier fissures will close, he has to do his best to take the person out; knowing that an avalanche was coming, but he still has to do his best to save people, Ke Ji now vaguely understands what the other party is thinking.
Lu Liran couldn’t avoid being looked at by those eyes. He had had the illusion that he was being pierced. The feeling of being exposed with nothing to hide for a while made him irritated, and he couldn’t help but bring a touch of self-protective sharpness.
“It has nothing to do with you.” He said coldly, “Instead of focusing on me, you might as well pray that the person you are looking for is still alive.”
As soon as he said something, he regretted it a little, but he was never someone who would take back what he said. After he finished speaking, he turned around, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Ke Ji’s eyes suddenly went blank, and his face became pale.
Lu Liran pursed his lips tightly.
[Hey, this, this is a bit heavy (whispering)]
[Brother Lu is a hedgehog cub, what Ke Meiren said may have touched the softest belly of the hedgehog cub]
[I think these two people must be doing something in private while the live broadcast is off. The Progress is like a rocket, I didn’t know how to say it, but Brother Lu just exploded]
[Agree]
Before Lu Liran could figure out what to do next, when he heard someone around him yelling——
“Look over there! Is that an oasis?! Was it there just now?!”
“I saw it too! Isn’t this the oasis we’ve been looking for???”
“It’s actually here! It’s so close to us! It can be reached by running down this sandy slope!?”
Lu Liran suddenly looked over, and saw them obliquely ahead. Under the afterglow and the scorching and distorted air waves, the dense trees grow in layers, and there are birds flying between the branches, which can be clearly seen, just like a rainforest, which is simply a miracle.
There were two team members who wanted to rush down excitedly, but Lu Liran made a sudden move. Using each hand, he held their back collar, which slipped up, and threw them behind him.
His face became colder: “Want to die?”
The two team members subconsciously turned their heads to look at Lu Liran’s cold eyes, and their bodies trembled all over. That feeling was even more exciting than seeing that one-horned viper python, and the two of them suddenly remembered Lu Liran’s previous warning—— never go in front of him.
“Yes, I’m sorry, I was just too excited and forgot…” The team member flinched and said in a low voice.
Lu Liran snorted coldly.
Xian Dan looked at the oasis that seemed to be right in front of him, then looked at Lu Liran’s face, and couldn’t help asking: “Isn’t that an oasis?”
He thought for a while, then vaguely came up with an answer, and asked tentatively: “Is it a mirage?”
Lu Liran nodded slightly.
To put it bluntly, a mirage is just an optical illusion, a virtual image formed by the refraction of light. Such mirages usually appear repeatedly at the same place and at the same time.
Lu Liran remembered that in the information collected before, there were many opinions about the location of the oasis, but those who mentioned the time all agreed on the same time, six or seven o’clock in the afternoon. He thought what those people saw was probably just a mirage.
“The scene refracted by the mirage seems to be right in front of you, but the real location is hard to estimate. If you run to the location of the mirage, you may not be able to reach the oasis until you die of dehydration and thirst.” The corners of Lu Liran’s mouth twitched, and looked mockingly at the two young team members, who almost rushed down.
The two were so frightened that they became numb, they swallowed, and dared not speak.
After Lu Liran finished speaking, he glanced at Ke Ji quietly, but saw that the other party didn’t seem to be listening to him at all, and his face seemed worse than a few minutes ago.
No way, no way, could it be that he was even angrier because he didn’t go gentler with him? Tsk…
Lu Liran pursed his lips, thinking in his own shoes, if Ke Ji said that about the Commander, whose life and death on the battlefield are uncertain, then he…
Xian Dan stayed by Lu Liran’s side, but felt a sudden murderous aura. He was startled, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the source of murderous aura.
Seeing that Lu Liran was frowning tightly, as if he had encountered some insurmountable difficulty, Xian Dan could not help but raise his heart, thinking that there was a problem with the route they were going to take.
However, Lu Liran just walked slowly to that Omega’s side, gently poking the other’s shoulder with his hand, and said in a low voice: “Hey, are you still angry?”
Xian Dan: ???
Ke Ji muffled a grunt. From just now, his frantic mental power was like a bundle of spinning blades, causing sharp pains in his brain. Those memory palaces built by mental power were all smashed into powder, and tenaciously pieced back together bit by bit.
“Hey, are you still angry?” He heard a voice that seemed to come from a distant place, like a clear spring flowing through, gently soothing the dull pain in his brain.
He looked at the source of the sound, only to see a soft, warm, dark brown like caramel.
Angry? Ke Ji managed to recall the memory of the previous moment, and slowly replied: “I’m not angry.”
Lu Liran looked at him with a look of understanding, his brows frowned into a knot, he’s still angry? What a duplicitous Omega.
“I know I’ve crossed the line, so I’m not angry.” Ke Ji endured the dull pain and organized his sentence word by word. He then gently held Lu Liran’s poking finger, “It has nothing to do with you.”
Lu Liran coughed uncomfortably, the soft and dry warm touch from his fingertips made him feel hot all over, and he didn’t know why. It seemed that every time he had physical contact with Ke Ji, he couldn’t help but feel palpitations.
It must be because he’s too good looking, he has no resistance to beauty.
Lu Liran thought wildly in his heart, and withdrew his finger, it was rare that he didn’t make another sarcasm because of this intimate gesture.
He turned around and walked away in a bit of a panic, not noticing Ke Ji’s increasingly pale and ugly face.
Sunnyshies: Now, you know why Ke Ji’s so slow!
In fact, Lu Liran was suffering from pheromone disorder (this is general, I dunno about the specific, but I know it will be discussed in the future chapters), while Ke Ji had mental power disorder. Actually, except for the quantum animals that don’t exist in the world settings, the ABO settings here are more like Sentinel and Guides. It’s just that the people with high mental power here are more like mages. And Ke Ji is a high physical great sage, while Lu Liran is a powerful knight. Maybe this is why they have gender equality unlike any other Omegaverse novel, and didn’t promote force matching and marriage despite the low birthrate. So except for gender stereotypes and pheromones, those usual cliché ABO scenes you’ll see in typical ABO novels won’t be seen here.
Thanks for the update!! Having a super bad headache now so this helped distract me
Happy Easter and thanks for the update 🤣❤️🐇
Looks like I wasn’t completely wrong to imagine that their one-night stand (I’m calling it that because we haven’t been told how many nights they actually were together) was something like them both getting black-out drunk and sleeping together, then making their way home and not remembering anything about the last 48 hours. It’s no wonder Ke Ji didn’t even know he’d slept with someone, because unlike Lu Liran he didn’t have a cub as living proof something had happened.
»You can only fly blindly, and finally crashed.« crash (?)
I’m still glad that this here isn’t your 08/15 ABOverse. I love it to have a tough omega who is able to stand on his own. I’m just hoping that it will stay this way, even after the identity reveal. I read too many novels were the shou (mostly the MC) degenerates to the exact opposite after the ML appeared… and I hate it and usually those novels were dropped somewhere on the way…
I bet I were under those people who would happily walk into the fake oasis lolol And die on the way.. yup xD
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
thanks!!
Thanks for the info translation. I also find it a mix of ABO/SentinelGuide tropes. I do like that Brother Lu can still be strong. (gonna try the mtl and see if it understandable)