Two round heads suddenly appeared on the pitch-black sea surface and moved toward the island at a very fast speed.

Chi Yao checked the energy on his protective suit.

Only less than 3% was left, which was probably just enough to get them ashore.

A moment later, he estimated the distance to the shore and used his feet to test the depth of the seawater. It was already shallow enough to only reach his chest.

Chi Yao opened his helmet and took a deep breath.

“I’m suffocating.”

He turned his head and saw Jing Xi taking off his helmet.

“It’s a good thing we weren’t separated, or our energy wouldn’t have been enough.”

Jing Xi glanced at him and said nothing. After unbuckling the clasp, he looked around.

This island was very small. It was probably very far from the coast. Without tools, it was impossible to get back by just swimming.

“Let’s go up first.”

Chi Yao waded to the shore.

The temperature difference between day and night on this planet was huge. The cold wind with moisture leaked through the large collar of the protective suit, and the clothes quickly became damp.

Chi Yao had excellent night vision. Even without any lights, he could see very clearly.

He didn’t know if the people from the casino would chase them. It was not a good idea to just stand on the shore.

Even if he asked someone to come pick them up now, it would take at least one or two hours. No matter what, they had to find a place to stay first.

Chi Yao looked around. Just as he was about to go toward the small forest, Jing Xi suddenly bumped his arm and handed him something.

He looked down and saw Xiao Hong, which had turned into a pair of night-vision goggles.

Jing Xi’s voice was faint. “Turning on the lights would make us too obvious.”

Actually, Chi Yao didn’t need this thing, but he still took it. “For me?”

“A loan.” Jing Xi added as he passed by him, “To offset the favor from tonight.”

“Damn it.” Chi Yao cursed in a low voice. “I don’t want it. I’m giving it back to you.”

Jing Xi walked toward the small forest. “Too late.”

Chi Yao followed, his voice laced with a laugh. “You’re forcing a sale on me. That’s illegal.”

Jing Xi said calmly, “It’s not the first time I’ve broken the law. It doesn’t matter this time.”

When they reached the middle of the small forest, Jing Xi made sure they were far enough from the shore before turning on the lights on his terminal.

Chi Yao came over with some wood from somewhere. He roughly used a bullet to create sparks by rubbing it against a stone to light a fire.

Seeing Jing Xi look at him, he put his gun away and began to take off his protective suit.

“What, is this the first time you’ve seen fire started this way?”

Jing Xi didn’t deny it. “Are you that confident in your marksmanship?”

Chi Yao threw his protective suit and helmet to the side and then tore off his facial disguise. “Why don’t you ask me why I’m so skilled at making fire?”

Seeing his face, Jing Xi’s eyes flashed.

After looking at that disguised face for several days, the sudden sight of Chi Yao’s original appearance felt a little dazzling.

Dazzlingly beautiful.

It was a face that anyone, regardless of gender, would love.

There was a layer of film on his face. After being wet by the seawater, the fire steamed it, making it hot and humid.

Jing Xi couldn’t stand it and also tore it off.

Thinking of the mutated Alphas in the underwater casino, his mood became heavy.

“What’s wrong with those people?”

“That question has a fee. Are you sure you want me to answer?”

Chi Yao walked over, took out the military knife from Jing Xi’s leg holster, and used it to cut a few bamboo pieces to hang the two bulky protective suits to block the wind.

Jing Xi: “What’s their relationship with the Ghost Brigade?”

Chi Yao: “Fee.”

Jing Xi looked at the fire. The wood crackled as it burned, occasionally splashing out some sparks.

“Once you enter that place, is there really no chance of leaving?”

“It’s not that there’s no chance.” Chi Yao sat down casually. “When you are strong enough to have no rivals, you can enter and leave any environment as you please. What’s a small underground casino?”

Jing Xi: “What if a child enters that place?”

The firelight illuminated the side of Jing Xi’s face, which was so perfect it didn’t look human.

Chi Yao was mesmerized again.

Every single pore on this face hit his aesthetic perfectly.

It was just that there were too many thorns on him. He could only look but not touch.

Jing Xi added, “A four or five-year-old child.”

Chi Yao came back to his senses and said casually, “Then there’s no hope. Any level-one beast could swallow him.”

Seeing Jing Xi’s cold face and him remaining silent for a long time, he said languidly, “However, they generally don’t let four or five-year-olds on stage. After all, it’s obvious they’ll lose. No matter how stupid those fools are, they won’t bet on them to win, and it’s not exciting to watch.”

Jing Xi’s voice was very low. “So they buy and sell infants and toddlers as reserves, and when they reach a certain age, they let them on stage?”

Chi Yao did not answer. Instead, he asked, “Is the person you’re looking for only four or five years old?”

On the uninhabited small island in the deep sea, the surroundings were silent, as if the whole world was left with only them and the fire in front of them.

Under normal circumstances, Jing Xi would never say an extra word to Chi Yao.

But today, he couldn’t help it.

Underwater, Chi Yao had helped him several times.

Given their positions, Chi Yao didn’t have to save him. It would have been better for him if he had died.

But from beginning to end, the other person had treated him as “his own.”

Perhaps, putting aside their positions and personalities, they weren’t completely unable to trust each other.

Chi Yao lived in a different circle than he did, so he might know some things.

Jing Xi hesitated. “He was five years old when he went missing. He should be twenty-six or twenty-seven now.”

If he was still alive.

Chi Yao teased, “Does the Flying Dragon still take missing person cases?”

He said that, but he had a feeling that this person’s meaning to Jing Xi was unusual.

Jing Xi’s voice was very soft. “He’s my brother.”

Chi Yao was stunned.

When he said these words, Jing Xi’s expression and voice were very different from usual.

Usually, he was like a wild cat with its claws out at all times. Now, he was caught off guard and exposed himself, revealing his soft belly.

“You have a brother?” Chi Yao’s voice was a little tight. “I remember you were an only child?”

Jing Xi: “Not a blood brother.”

Chi Yao tried to force his eyes away from his face, recalling Jing Xi’s personal file in his mind.

Jing Xi’s father was a military officer, an only child. His father also served in the military and was also an only child.

Whether it was a paternal cousin or a maternal cousin, it was impossible for Jing Xi to have one.

Where did this “wild brother” come from?

Chi Yao was inexplicably a little annoyed. “So you had Qinchun check the list and ran to Cetus just to find him?”

Jing Xi nodded. “Don’t you know everything?”

Chi Yao: “What? You want me to help you find him?”

Jing Xi said seriously, “If you can help me find him, I can give you all my assets.”

Chi Yao: “…”

He had a big order, but why wasn’t he happy at all?

Chi Yao deliberately mocked, “That sounds so good. Don’t go back on your word.”

Jing Xi: “We can sign a contract.”

Chi Yao snorted. “I don’t have a registered hukou, so I won’t win a lawsuit.”

Jing Xi: “Then you set the rules.”

Chi Yao glanced at him and smiled with ill intentions. “I don’t lack money. If you want me to help you find someone, you have to trade your photos.”

Jing Xi’s brows furrowed slightly. “…Photos?”

Chi Yao: “Yes, photos taken according to my requests. I’ll tell you how to undress, and you’ll undress. You’ll undress wherever I tell you to.”

Jing Xi’s face was cold. He almost didn’t hesitate. “Okay.”

Chi Yao was incredulous. “I mean, I want you to take explicit photos.”

Jing Xi: “I know. I’m somewhat aware of your tastes.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Chi Yao: “If I post them online, you probably won’t be able to stay a major general.”

Jing Xi picked up a wooden stick, broke it, and threw it into the fire. “If I find him, it doesn’t matter if I’m a major general or not.”

His words were almost as if to say that he became a major general just to find this person.

Damn it—could this thousand-year-old ice block be so sentimental?

Chi Yao: “What about the star pirates? You won’t even arrest me?”

The hair tie suddenly came loose. Jing Xi casually pulled it, and his long hair fell down.

He smoothed the bangs from his forehead back. “Someone else will naturally arrest them. Why should I worry?”

Chi Yao’s eyes fell on his long hair involuntarily.

“If someone else takes over, I won’t be so merciful.”

Jing Xi brought the topic back. “So, are you taking the job or not?”

“I’ll take it,” Chi Yao scoffed. “You’ve come to my doorstep to ask for a favor. Wouldn’t it seem like I don’t know how to appreciate beauty if I don’t?”

Jing Xi ignored his verbal teasing and said seriously, “There’s not much information on him. He has black hair and black eyes. He’s very handsome, has a cheerful personality, and loves to laugh. He went missing twenty-one years ago when he was flying from the Imperial Star to Cetus.”

“What else?” Seeing him not speak, Chi Yao laughed. “That’s it? Do you think I’m a god?”

Jing Xi thought back. “He was an Omega.”

Chi Yao: “The underground casino doesn’t accept Omegas.”

Jing Xi: “He could also be an Alpha.”

Chi Yao: “You’re looking for someone without even knowing their gender?”

Receiving his questioning gaze, Jing Xi looked away. “He was still young back then.”

His childhood memories were already very blurry. He only remembered that the other person had a sweet, milky scent and the smell of liquor-filled chocolates.

The second gender usually differentiates between the ages of five and ten, but pheromones are innate.

The difference between Alpha and Omega pheromones is huge. After a child is born, their second gender can basically be determined by their pheromones.

But he had already forgotten which scent was the other person’s pheromone.

Chi Yao: “His name also has the character ‘yao’ in it?”

Jing Xi: “Yes.”

Chi Yao thought back to the information he had just said and suddenly laughed out loud.

“Isn’t the person you’re looking for me?”

Jing Xi was stunned.

Chi Yao counted on his fingers. “Look, black hair, black eyes, handsome, cheerful, loves to laugh, name is Yao, and he’s your brother. Everything checks out.”

After a moment of surprise, the light in Jing Xi’s eyes faded.

“I knew you were a promiscuous, heartless, and ruthless person. You’re a completely different species from him. The age doesn’t match either. He’s twenty-six or twenty-seven. You’re at most twenty-four.”

Chi Yao: “…”

You decide my age? Are you bullying me because I don’t have a registered hukou?

A thought suddenly flashed in his mind, and an idea uncontrollably came out.

“The reason you’ve been chasing and fighting me all these years… is it because I have the same name as him?”

Seeing that he didn’t speak, Chi Yao continued to ask, “And you always held back… is that also because of the name?”

Jing Xi still didn’t say anything, as if he was tacitly admitting it.

Chi Yao: “Then call me ‘gege’ and let me hear it?”

Jing Xi: “…”

There were still three hours until dawn. They just sat by the fire and waited for time to pass.

Jing Xi tucked the hair on the side of his face behind his ear and used his terminal to try and contact his closest subordinates.

After seeing the replica of the God of Hell gun in the underwater casino, he had become suspicious of the garrison in Cetus.

To be safe, he could only take a long way and contact his own people.

His peripheral vision uncontrollably followed his hand to his ear and then to his long hair. Chi Yao forced himself to focus on the terminal.

[D: How many?]

Chi Yao replied.

[About two hundred. They have already mutated to an irreversible stage. Most of them are fish-like.]

[D: The same as the ones before?]

[The mutation speed is faster, and the aggression is stronger.]

[D: What about the location?]

[The magnetic field is chaotic. It’s difficult to pinpoint.]

[D: I see. You can return to Extreme Shadow first.]

Chi Yao sent an “ok” emoji. Thinking of what Jing Xi had just said, he typed up the conditions.

[Black hair, black eyes, cheerful, loves to laugh, handsome, name has ‘yao’ in it. If you have any leads, send them to me immediately.]

The other side replied a few minutes later.

[D: All those conditions together describe you! You brat, how many times have I told you not to mess with old people!]

Chi Yao glanced at it and laughed heartlessly.

This matter was indeed absurd.

On the other side, Jing Xi looked at the enlarged virtual screen on his terminal, his peripheral vision always watching Chi Yao.

Suddenly, the soft voice of that person from his childhood rang in his ears.

[Dad says a wolf only has one mate in its life. I’ll become as strong as a wolf and loyally protect my mate.]

Loyal my foot.

Chi Yao, a playboy with a bunch of lovers, didn’t even know what loyalty was.

He could never be that person.