The commotion was too loud; someone called Zheng Long over to handle it.

“Lieutenant Zheng, it’s these two! They beat Old Wu like this!” someone accused, pointing at Rong Shi and Song Yu.

Zheng Long’s gaze swept over the few old soldiers who were being helped up, then his eyes sharpened as he looked at Rong Shi: “What’s going on?!”

Song Yu casually tossed the soiled handkerchief towards the recycling robot, took Rong Shi’s hand, and walked over: “Why don’t you ask them what happened?”

Zheng Long frowned: “What kind of attitude is that?!”

More and more people gathered to watch.

Everyone wanted to see how these two newcomers would handle this.

Rong Shi clasped Song Yu’s hand in return, his expression calm: “They asked to ‘play’ with my companion, it was consensual, there’s no problem at all.”

“This is consensual?” Zheng Long pointed at the alpha named Old Wu, “With a pierced hand?”

Rong Shi said indifferently: “My companion has a slightly short temper and usually can’t stand provocation. It is indeed my fault for not informing him of this situation.”

The onlookers: “…” A little short temper?!

That was quite arrogant and quite hot-tempered, okay?!

Zheng Long touched his tongue to his cheek, his expression growing more impatient. Just as he was about to give an order to deal with them, he saw Song Yu smile.

“No way? Are the people in your legion so tasteless?” Song Yu scoffed, “They were the ones clamoring to play, and they’re also the ones who can’t handle it. How boring.”

This matter was neither big nor small.

Minor skirmishes happened daily in the legion, but today’s targets were special.

Zheng Long looked at them deeply and said coldly, “I hope there’s no next time!”

Song Yu snorted, completely ignoring him, and pulled Rong Shi away.

He didn’t even care about a lieutenant!

Once they left, the others immediately started discussing.

“He’s damn strong! Old Wu had no chance against him!”

“His skill looks comparable to Lieutenant Zheng’s.”

“The level of military academy freshmen has improved so much! Good thing I already graduated, otherwise I might not even have gotten a spot in the legion.”

“Awesome! I want to spar with them too.”

“Looks like we’re in for a tough time,” Song Yu said with a smile on the way back to their rest cabin. “This superior seems like trouble.”

Although he said so, his tone was very relaxed, as if he was talking about someone else’s business.

Rong Shi: “No matter how much trouble he makes, can he outsmart you?”

Song Yu: “…”

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In the middle of the night, Rong Shi lay on the narrow, one-meter-wide bed, gazing out the window, organizing his thoughts.

“Bunny…”

He vaguely heard Song Yu’s sleep talk and came back to his senses.

Across a small table, Song Yu lay on the other small bed, already asleep.

What was he dreaming about? Why wasn’t he calling his name?

When this thought popped into his mind, Rong Shi paused.

Why was he getting jealous of himself?

“Bunny…”

Song Yu’s voice choked halfway, and his body moved, as if startled by something in his dream.

Seeing his brows furrowed, Rong Shi propped himself up, ready to get out of bed.

Song Yu suddenly opened his eyes and looked at him.

Rong Shi softly asked, “Had a nightmare?”

Song Yu didn’t speak, but quickly got out of bed, took two steps to Rong Shi’s bed, knelt on the bed with one long leg, and squeezed in next to Rong Shi.

Rong Shi was forced to lie back down, momentarily bewildered.

He touched the cat head on his chest, “Xiao Yu?”

There was no movement for a long time.

He looked down but heard a soft purring sound.

Rong Shi: “…” He fell asleep again so quickly?

In the darkness, listening to the breathing, Rong Shi felt drowsy.

Before falling asleep, his last thought surfaced.

—Was Little Song Cat using him as a substitute for a pillow?

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He slept until morning, and Song Yu slept very well.

He vaguely felt the pillow in his arms move, and his half-awake mind didn’t immediately understand what was happening.

Afraid the pillow would run away, he stretched out his leg and clamped the pillow between his legs.

Rong Shi: “…”

He checked the time; it was past the point where he had to get up.

“Xiao Yu?” Rong Shi gently shook him, “Wife? Wake up.”

The covers were too comfortable, and the pillow felt too good and smelled too nice; Song Yu couldn’t bear to wake up.

Listening to Rong Shi’s gentle voice, he couldn’t help but smile.

“I need a kiss to wake up.”

Rong Shi: “…”

His wife’s voice right after waking up was so pleasant.

Only half an hour was left before the assembly time; there was no time for them to dally.

They quickly washed up, had breakfast, and arrived at the meeting point 10 minutes before the scheduled time.

“Late on the first day!” Zheng Long glared at them, his voice stern, “In the legion, you must obey the legion’s discipline!”

Song Yu: “Whose time are you looking at? My imperial time shows nine more minutes until it’s due.”

Zheng Long snorted coldly: “In the legion, the commander’s words are above all else! I hope you remember that clearly.”

Song Yu scoffed, silently calling him an idiot.

Which family had arranged this person here to trip him up?

Such low-level tricks?

The vanguard exploration team’s first mission was to inspect the artificial atmospheric devices in the M80 zone on V99.

The most troublesome creatures in this area were mutated bees.

Once stung by these venomous bees, survival was virtually impossible.

They entered a small military spaceship from the warship’s hangar. During the descent, Zheng Long gathered everyone to discuss the upcoming battle plan.

“The mech unit will help us clear and distract the vast majority of mutated beasts, but they can’t eliminate all of them. Remember not to casually take off your combat suits and do not approach areas with dense populations of venomous bees.”

As he spoke, he deliberately scanned Rong Shi and Song Yu, who were sitting at the back.

“Stick close to the main unit; don’t get separated and add to our workload!”

There were hundreds of people in the conference room.

Many people laughed when they heard this.

Listening to the laughter, Zheng Long’s face was tense, but he was in a good mood.

“Next is team grouping—”

Hearing that the new students would take up two slots in a squad, everyone was unwilling—

“Why are freshmen coming to our exploration unit? Is this a game of house?”

“Exactly, our mission is already heavy. Why do we have to bring kids?”

“I hate self-righteous people like that the most.”

“I’m not taking them, it’s too much trouble.”

Being openly given a hard time and ostracized, Rong Shi sat in the back row, expressionless like a salted fish.

Being targeted like this, Song Yu would have sent them back if it were before, but seeing Rong Shi so calm, he also let it go.

He wanted to see what kind of trouble this person was going to stir up.

The spaceship landed, and everyone put on special material combat suits over their original ones, and also wore radiation isolation devices.

All the soldiers were orderly, but they left Rong Shi and Song Yu to their own devices; no one guided them, and no one taught them how to put on the gear.

Zheng Long’s gaze swept over them, and remembering Young Master Zhao Wan’s instructions, a smirk played on his lips.

Now that they were on his turf, wasn’t it up to him how to mess with them?

This time, he was sure to skin them alive.

The combat suit was complex in structure. Song Yu coldly observed how others put theirs on when his hand suddenly felt empty; Rong Shi had taken his suit.

Rong Shi skillfully helped him put it on, opened the button-sized radiation isolation device, adjusted it to the corresponding value, and helped Song Yu put it on his collar.

Song Yu stretched his arms, letting him do as he pleased.

“You know this too.”

Rong Shi smiled faintly: “Didn’t you say I know everything?”

Song Yu smirked: “My wife is good at everything, except giving birth, which is a bummer.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Having seen how Rong Shi put on the gear, Song Yu followed suit and helped Rong Shi put his on.

The combat suit wasn’t bulky; it didn’t feel much different once worn.

By the time they walked out of the equipment area, everyone in the squad had already left.

“Leaving us to fend for ourselves?” Song Yu scoffed, his gaze sweeping outside through the open hatch of the spaceship.

M80 was mostly mountainous. The spaceship landed in a large valley. As far as the eye could see, there were dense trees, huge in size, with the shortest estimated to be over fifty meters tall and three people wide around the trunk.

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[The biological laboratory is also in M80, searching for address data—]

01’s voice echoed in his mind as Rong Shi and Song Yu walked out together.

“It’s better they’re not here,” Rong Shi said indifferently. “They look for devices, we look for the laboratory.”

[Couldn’t find a specific address, can only search for a general area—]

“That’s fine,” Rong Shi pulled out the military knife from his leg and held it in his hand. “Open radar mode.”

[Yes!]

“A laboratory built in a place like this?” Song Yu looked around. “It clearly isn’t a legitimate lab.”

The two walked through the rainforest according to the area circled by 01.

Not long after, Rong Shi tilted his head slightly, his ears twitching.

Almost simultaneously, Song Yu also paused his steps.

01 and Little Brother simultaneously issued warnings.

[Suspicious individual 100 meters behind, at 7 o’clock on the tree!]

[Suspicious individual 160 meters behind, at 5 o’clock on the tree!]

Song Yu and Rong Shi exchanged glances, instantly understanding each other’s thoughts.

On a tree not far away, two men in black hid behind the trunk, wearing special tracking lenses on their eyes, their gun barrels locked on Rong Shi.

As long as they found the right moment to strike, they could let the beasts devour Rong Shi and Song Yu’s bodies, which would conceal their tracks and create the illusion of an accident.

“Are you trying to pick a fight with me?!”

The two, walking side by side, suddenly started arguing.

Song Yu swung Rong Shi’s hand away, his voice furious: “We agreed it’d be half a month for you on top, half a month for me on top. Are you going back on your word?!”

Rong Shi’s face was grim, his voice cold as ice: “But this month has 31 days!”

Song Yu: “Then half a day for you, half a day for me!”

Rong Shi: “Daytime for you, nighttime for me.”

Song Yu: “You motherf—”

The two started fighting at the drop of a hat.

The men in black were dumbfounded.

They were fighting over who gets to be on top in bed?

This issue was a bit stimulating, and he was unconsciously sidetracked, his thoughts wandering.

The two below fought fiercely, and as soon as the man in black aimed his gun, the person flashed away.

He stared into the scope, but he couldn’t help but wonder, who was on top and who was on the bottom between these two?

After thinking, he forced himself to refocus on the assassination.

Song Yu was so strong, he must be on top, right? But Rong Shi had such high combat power, he surely wouldn’t be willing to be on the bottom.

So who was on top and who was on the bottom?!

Listening to the bickering of the two below, plus constantly missing his aim, the black-clad assassin gradually became agitated.

Suddenly, something appeared in the scope and rapidly grew larger.

It looked like a blue foxtail grass?

The moment he clearly saw it, the assassin’s instinct made him instinctively pull the trigger and fire.

Bang!

The foxtail grass flew into the muzzle, and the bullet fired was directly blocked inside, causing the gun barrel to burst.

“Hiss—!” The man in black felt a sharp pain in his hand, and the gun fell from the tree.

The other man in black on another tree heard the commotion, turned his head to look, and in just a fraction of a second, by the time he pulled his gaze back, a blue cat wand appeared in his scope.

“Ah—!”

The man in black on the opposite branch hid behind the tree trunk, his heart pounding, thinking that at least he still had a teammate and should be able to complete the mission.

But as soon as this thought flashed, a person fell from the opposite branch.

“Hahahahahaha—” Song Yu draped his arm over Rong Shi’s shoulder, laughing unrestrainedly, “Don’t try assassinating if you’re this stupid.”

Rong Shi: “Happy being mischievous?”

Song Yu: “Happy, yes.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Only he would find amusement in playing pranks on assassins.

However, he himself, who willingly cooperated, had no right to say anything.

Hearing their conversation, the assassin hiding on the tree trunk broke down, cold sweat pouring down his body, his eyes quickly scanning the surroundings, confirming an escape route.

But as soon as he took a step, a charred bullet hole suddenly appeared on the tree trunk in front of his toes.

“Did I tell you to leave?”

Song Yu’s lazy voice rang out from behind him.

The man in black’s expression changed, he pulled his foot back and quickly turned to the other side.

Another sound of air friction, which made the assassin’s scalp tingle.

Song Yu’s smile at his lips turned cold, as he held up a handgun and precisely shot it in front of the assassin’s toes: “Either jump down yourself, or come down lying down, you choose.”

The cat wand flew back into Rong Shi’s hand and quickly transformed into the same model of handgun.

Rong Shi pulled back the slide, and without another word, aimed at the other assassin who was holding onto a tree trunk, ready to flee, and fired.

[Master, 3 o’clock direction—]

Suddenly hearing 01’s warning, Rong Shi also heard a very subtle movement and quickly raised his gun, aiming at that direction.

Before he could pull the trigger, a whooshing sound suddenly echoed in his ears.

With a short, sharp cry, a man in black fell from the tree.

[Sugar Daddy hit the opponent’s gun muzzle, and the air pellet went through the gun barrel, piercing the opponent’s head. Scary~]

Rong Shi’s eyes flickered, and he turned his head to look at Song Yu.

“Have you thought it through?” Song Yu’s gun was once again aimed at the previous assassin, his voice casual and unhurried. “I heard that being headshotted doesn’t hurt at all.”

Song Yu, holding a gun, was truly both aloof and mischievous.

Rong Shi couldn’t take his eyes off him.

All this time, he might have had some misunderstandings about his own preferences.

Compared to a well-behaved and clingy kitten, this Song Yu had a more fatal attraction.

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Author’s Note:

Rong Bunny: Who told you that a headshot doesn’t hurt?

Song Maomao: The person whose head I shot told me in a dream.

Rong Bunny: …

Another day of a life-and-death race after working overtime. I’ll correct typos tomorrow, I’m too sleepy~

There will be extra updates on both weekend days~