It came as no surprise to Jing Xi to see the Flying Dragon team arrive.

If he could summon the Extreme Shadow, Chi Yao could, of course, summon the Flying Dragon.

A moment later, a small military spaceship landed.

“Boss,” Jiang Feng hurried over to Jing Xi. “This illegally-operated amusement park is actually floating in the air. How bold—”

Mid-sentence, he saw the thick beard and unruly long braid on Jing Xi’s face, and his eyes froze.

His boss… had never been this disheveled in his life, had he?

The sacrifice was too great for the sake of the investigation!

Jing Xi: “Take all these people back and hold them on the warship first. Don’t make any public announcements.”

Outside the Happy Tower, it was a mess. The ground was covered in blood and metal debris. Strange-looking people were lying everywhere, their original appearance barely recognizable.

“Understood!”

Jiang Feng glanced around without asking for details. He opened his communicator and had the people below split into groups to take the prisoners up.

Jing Xi was about to walk toward Chi Yao but suddenly remembered something and called out to Jiang Feng again.

“There’s another group of people in the maze. I’ll send you the map. Take a few more people and go get them personally.”

“Understood.”

Jiang Feng agreed. Seeing his boss about to leave, he hesitated and stopped him. “Boss, do you… want to go to the rest cabin and wash up first?”

As he spoke, he pointed to his own face, his hint obvious.

“No need,” Jing Xi casually refused. “I can’t see it anyway.”

Jiang Feng: “…”

That’s a good point.

By the time Jing Xi got there, the gold-masked man had already given up resisting.

“Let’s take them back first,” Jing Xi said in a low voice as he walked up to Chi Yao. “If this gets any bigger, it won’t be good for us.”

They were in the open while their enemies were in the dark. To completely cut out this tumor, they needed to learn more. Now was not the time for a head-on confrontation.

“Us?” Chi Yao tilted his head to look at him. “When did you and I become partners?”

Jing Xi: “Only on this matter.”

Chi Yao: “Did you pay the cooperation fee?”

Jing Xi: “…”

Chi Yao controlled his hand, stopping it from tugging on the big black mole, and refocused on the gold-masked man.

He lifted the gold-masked man’s chin, his finger brushing the edge of the mask.

The gold-masked man suddenly struggled violently. “Get away!”

Chi Yao felt a very thin thread at the man’s temple. With a skillful flick, he pulled off the mask.

“After all this time, shouldn’t we get to know each other?”

Feeling the lightness on his face, the gold-masked man’s pupils contracted, and he trembled all over.

“N-no! Give me back the mask!”

Chi Yao held it in his hand, looked it over, and casually tossed it behind him. The mask landed in a puddle of blood.

Stained with blood, the mask looked even more eerie.

Underneath the mask was an ordinary-looking face with a circular scar on the left cheek, which looked like a bullet had passed through it.

Jing Xi held out his palm, aiming it at the man’s face, and his personal information was quickly read.

[Zhang Dabao, Alpha, 43 years old, born in Vega M021. Ten years ago, he was sentenced to one year of service in a Level 5 danger zone and then death for a serious case of robbery and murder.]

Another death row inmate who had supposedly “died.”

Jing Xi checked his personal file, scrolling down.

His ear suddenly felt warm, and he reflexively almost threw a punch.

Chi Yao leaned in: “Share the screen so I can see.”

Jing Xi’s fingertips twitched, but he forced himself to stay calm. “This is a military confidential file.”

Chi Yao looked at him. “Are you going to show it to me now, or should I wait until I’m inside your body to look?”

Jing Xi: “…”

Hearing such explicit words again, Li Yuan elbowed Fang Liang and whispered, “When did the boss get with him?”

Fang Liang dutifully recorded the situation at the scene and the beastly state of the transformed people, glancing at them from the corner of his eye. “It’s not surprising. Besides us, isn’t he the only one the boss is close to?”

It was a sad reality that the Extreme Shadow’s leader, who seemed so glorious and could walk sideways across the entire empire, actually had a very narrow social circle. He often refused to deal with other teams and only messed with them when he was in a bad mood, causing smaller teams to run when they saw the Extreme Shadow, and his reputation gradually became polarized.

The old man had mentioned it several times, telling him to have more normal social interactions, but it hadn’t worked.

After Fang Liang’s analysis, Li Yuan suddenly felt it made a lot of sense.

If the boss wasn’t dating someone within the team, then there really was only Jing Xi left.

From the corner of his eye, Jing Xi saw their subtle glances and knew they had misunderstood.

He shared the screen. “Can you stop talking about bodies all the time?”

“If I don’t talk about bodies, what should I talk about?” Chi Yao looked at the file, grabbing his hand and flipping to the incarceration information page.

“Cygnus N999 Eighth Prison.”

Every death row inmate was assigned to a certain prison and then sent from that prison to a designated mining planet for their service. After their time was up, they would return to the prison to be euthanized.

Jing Xi closed the communicator, lost in thought.

Chi Yao: “Did you check the others before?”

Jing Xi looked at him. “You want to know?”

Chi Yao: “…”

Jing Xi gestured for his people to take the gold-masked man up.

“Fifty credits for one piece of information.”

Chi Yao: “Can you stop talking about fifty credits all the time?”

Jing Xi walked away expressionlessly. “Take it or leave it.”

Chi Yao snorted. “You’re even more ruthless than a space pirate.”

He slowly followed him. “Hey, one credit for one piece of information. No more than that.”

Jing Xi: “Don’t even think about it.”

Li Yuan/Fang Liang: “…”

Fang Liang looked at Jing Xi and his own boss and whispered to Li Yuan, “What happened in the days I was gone?”

The atmosphere between those two was different from before.

“Huh?” Li Yuan tried to remember. “Nothing happened. We just played a few games and killed a few people. It was pretty normal.”

Fang Liang: “…”

In just half an hour, the Flying Dragon team had searched every corner of the amusement park.

When Jiang Feng hurried back, he saw his boss and the enemy’s boss standing side by side outside the hatch, seemingly discussing something.

Both of them had their arms crossed and one leg bent. They were about the same height and, for a moment, looked quite well-matched.

Jiang Feng shook his head, clearing the absurd thought from his mind, and walked over.

“Boss, everyone has been taken to the warship.”

Jing Xi: “Tag this amusement park and have Team Three stay nearby to monitor it. Everyone else, return first.”

Jiang Feng glanced at Chi Yao and agreed in a low voice, wondering in his heart.

Why was the boss giving such clear instructions in front of Chi Yao?

Wasn’t he afraid Chi Yao would mess things up?

Watching the Flying Dragon’s ships gradually return to the warship, Jing Xi whispered, “Are you coming with me or…?”

Chi Yao: “What would I do at your military group?”

Jing Xi: “The people are in my hands. Are you not worried?”

Chi Yao smiled. “If you don’t want to be apart from me, just say so. I might not even refuse you.”

Jing Xi’s face remained wooden. He turned and walked away.

Chi Yao beckoned for Fang Liang to come over.

“You take them back first. I’m going to spend a few days at the Flying Dragon.”

When Yin Wei heard “spend,” its eyes lit up, and it sprinted over from a hundred meters away.

“Awoo awoo~”

Chi Yao roughly patted the dog’s head. “You want to go too? The Flying Dragon has a rule against pets on the warship.”

Yin Wei froze, its ears drooping. Its eyes were filled with extreme grievance as it looked at Chi Yao.

Fang Liang looked at the Flying Dragon fleet hovering in the air, his face filled with concern.

“What if he tries something and detains you there? If you’re going, I’m going too.”

When Li Yuan heard they were all going, he was unhappy. “I don’t want to go back alone!”

As soon as Jing Xi boarded the spaceship, Chi Yao followed with his whole entourage.

He turned to look.

Yaoyao was one thing, but why were Fang Liang and Li Yuan here too?

Chi Yao walked in as if he owned the place. “One is in charge of cooking for me, one is in charge of washing my clothes, and one is in charge of warming my bed.”

Jing Xi: “…”

Fang Liang nodded slightly at him and followed his boss in. “I’m in charge of cooking.”

Li Yuan, halfway through, came to his senses and explained, “I’m not the one warming the bed.”

Jing Xi: “…”

If you can get into Chi Yao’s bed, that’s your own skill.

Seeing the two in front of him greet Jing Xi, Yin Wei remembered what Chi Yao had said earlier. As it passed Jing Xi, it was a little nervous, afraid of being stopped, and there was nowhere to hide.

“Awoo woo~”

It cracked its voice from nervousness.

Jing Xi patted its head. “Warm my bed tonight, and I’ll let you on board.”

Yin Wei: “…”

The spaceship returned to the warship’s hangar. Jiang Feng and Lü Meng were already waiting there.

When he saw the people from the Extreme Shadow, Lü Meng’s face immediately fell.

“What are they doing here?!”

Li Yuan retorted roughly, “Don’t pretend you don’t know me just because you took off your makeup, big… sister!”

Being called that in front of so many people, Lü Meng’s old face flushed. He rolled up his sleeves and rushed over. “I’ve had enough of you! Let’s go, one-on-one!”

Li Yuan: “A one-on-one it is!”

Without another word, the two of them agreed to go fight in the training room.

Seeing his boss and Chi Yao walking toward the main cabin, Jiang Feng stopped Fang Liang. “Since you’re here, I have a few questions I’d like to ask you. Do you have time?”

Fang Liang glanced at his boss. Seeing no instructions, he said, “What do you want to ask?”

Jiang Feng made a gesture for him to lead the way. “Let’s go to the holding cabin.”

In the metal hallway of the warship, soldiers were stationed every so often.

Seeing their boss and the Extreme Shadow’s boss walking side by side, with a super-weapon dog following them, their expressions almost cracked.

What was going on?

Why was the boss dressed like this?!

What was the deal with Chi Yao?!

Had the boss finally subdued the Extreme Shadow?

Entering the rest cabin, after the hatch closed, Jing Xi asked, “Where are you planning to dock your three warships?”

“How would an unregistered warship dare to dock in your territory?” Chi Yao said deliberately. “I can only tell them to go home first.”

Jing Xi pondered for a moment. “Tell them to go back to N231 for now. I’ll arrange a docking spot for them later.”

Chi Yao paused as he took off his jacket. After a moment of confusion, he scoffed. “Did I hear that right? The Major General is going to build a nest for me, a space pirate?”

Jing Xi pulled the hair tie from the end of his braid, casually tidied his messy long hair, and walked toward the bathroom.

“It’s only temporary.”

As long as the Flying Dragon team completely took over Cygnus, hiding a hundred Extreme Shadows wouldn’t be a problem.

Based on the information they had so far, the matter of the transformed people had already involved certain officials in the military.

He still couldn’t be sure of the Extreme Shadow’s position in the incident, and it was clear that Chi Yao wouldn’t just let go just because he told him to.

Instead of having the Extreme Shadow moving in and out of Cygnus repeatedly, it would be better to have them stay here temporarily, which could avoid a lot of attention.

Chi Yao’s eyes swept over his slightly curled long hair, and his fingers twitched.

Jing Xi’s hair had a good drape to it, but from being braided for the past few days, it had curled a bit, which instead made his entire aura softer.

It was a shame his face still had the beard on it, otherwise, his profile would be absolutely beautiful.

Chi Yao shook his head and sighed, then turned to go to the bathroom in the other direction.

In the bathroom, warm water rushed down. The gray color sprayed on Jing Xi’s hair gradually dissolved.

His gaze swept over the scar on his abdomen that had disappeared. He then touched his gland, and his eyes flickered.

Chi Yao seemed to be very concerned about scars, so why didn’t he remove the scar on his arm?

Could he be Yaoyao?

As soon as the thought flashed through his mind, his heart throbbed.

Although the two of them had a few things in common, the differences were also obvious, such as their personalities.

In the other bathroom, Chi Yao took a quick shower, wrapped a towel around his waist, and walked out, drying his hair.

As he passed the full-length mirror, he caught a glimpse of the burn on his arm, and he paused.

The person in the mirror, besides being too handsome and having a perfect body, was completely normal.

“It’s okay, you’re still a person right now,” Chi Yao said to the mirror, his voice so soft only he could hear it.

Jing Xi had just put on his military pants when the bathroom door was knocked on. The next moment, it opened in front of him.

“Old Jing, clothes—”

Chi Yao looked up and suddenly forgot what he was going to say.

The dirty disguises he had put on before were completely gone. Jing Xi was only wearing a pair of long pants, the button at the waist not yet fastened, revealing a bit of the edge of his underwear.

His face was still the same ice-cold one, but perhaps after looking at the full beard and big black mole for so long, this face now looked even more beautiful.

His wet hair was loose, with a small strand resting on his shoulder, and water droplets dripped from the ends of his hair onto the floor.

Chi Yao didn’t know if he had controlled his expression, but a beautiful person coming out of the bath was definitely worth taking a few more pictures of.

They had the same body, but Jing Xi looked more beautiful when he used it than he did?

Was the original core just better?

Jing Xi fastened the button on his waistband, his voice icy. “Next time, please knock.”

Chi Yao walked in brazenly. “I did.”

Jing Xi: “What’s the difference between you knocking and not knocking?”

Chi Yao urged him. “Hurry up and get dressed, or I’ll just take the clothes off you.”

Jing Xi: “…”

Was it a mistake to let this person on board?

Yin Wei lay in the lobby, miserable for half an hour, until the two of them finally came out.

Chi Yao had changed into a white shirt and black pants. With his broad shoulders and narrow waist, he finally looked a little more decent.

Jing Xi sat down at the desk and opened the holographic drawing system, switching to the personal files of the Ghost Legion members he had previously investigated and marking their prison information.

Cygnus N999—

Ursa Major X123—

Vermilion Bird 810—

…

“It’s too scattered,” Jing Xi said, putting down the drawing pen, his face serious. “Are they randomly selected?”

Chi Yao leaned back against the desk, holding a coffee cup in his hand. “You’re asking me? Do you even dare to believe what I say?”

Jing Xi: “…”

After a long day, they had six more hours to go to N1. It would be daytime when they arrived, so they had to rest before then.

To arrange accommodations for Li Yuan and Fang Liang, Jiang Feng volunteered to take them back to his own rest cabin.

A senior military officer’s rest cabin was a suite, so having two more people wouldn’t be a problem.

In the middle of the night, Chi Yao finally managed to lull himself to sleep, but he suddenly felt a little cold. When he woke up, the dog was gone.

He opened the door and saw that the opposite room’s door was ajar.

The dog was lying on his nemesis’s bed, its belly exposed, sleeping like a dead pig.

Jing Xi was lying on his side, one arm across the dog, nestled in its fur. His eyebrows were relaxed, and he looked very comfortable.

Chi Yao: “…”

These two guys dared to sleep together behind his back.

He let out a cold scoff, slipped in quietly, and closed the door behind him—