ISMW Chapter 120

As long as Yu Chen was responsible for piloting the mecha that Yun Xunlan was in, and Yun Xunlan remotely controlled other mechas, then the mecha they were riding in would be very difficult to crash, after all, Yu Chen’s fighting style was too cunning.

He would never rush to output firepower, only often hiding in the shadows of dark places, like a perfect assassin. Only when the optimal moment arrived would he reveal the sharp sword in his hand and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

Under his protection, Yun Xunlan could truly “disregard life and death,” because the mechas he piloted had no mecha pilots inside them at all. In this situation, they were no different from bullets, and where they would shoot to bring death depended entirely on the will of Yun Xunlan, the gunman.

Even Yun Xunguang had to admit that, setting aside her protective feelings for Yun Xunlan and their familial relationship, purely from the perspective of increasing the success rate of the forced landing plan, Yun Xunlan was one of the most suitable participants.

Perhaps even the indispensable one.

“Sometimes I really can’t understand.” After watching the live footage of Yun Xunlan and Yu Chen’s coordinated combat, Yun Xunguang sighed with a rather complex expression. “Why do you have such powerful mental strength?”

Yun Xunlan naturally had no way to explain the real reason to her, so he used the words from the medical team doctors: “Didn’t they say it might be a mutation caused by insect venom?”

“Those are all speculations without actual evidence.” Yun Xunguang raised an eyebrow. “But if it really is a mutation caused by insect venom, then I would consider it karma.”

Yun Xunlan was puzzled: “Karma?”

“Yes.” Yun Xunguang told him. “Don’t you think your state of controlling mecha groups is like the Brood Mother controlling insect swarms?”

Upon hearing this, Yun Xunlan was slightly stunned but couldn’t say a word of refutation, because as Yun Xunguang said, the two indeed had similarities.

“But you’re still not as powerful as the Brood Mother.” Yun Xunguang continued. “Her mental strength can span across two star systems, while you can only cover one planet.”

“Comparing like this, your mental strength doesn’t seem particularly strong either.”

Yun Xunlan smiled: “Then it seems I need to practice more.”

“Practice then, in this last week.”

Yun Xunguang patted Yun Xunlan’s shoulder while informing him of the official launch time for the third forced landing plan.

In fact, without Yun Xunguang’s reminder, both Yun Xunlan and Yu Chen had been training frantically recently. Yu Chen was even working harder than Yun Xunlan, after all, he didn’t have a cocoon chamber to use and could only rely on a strong enough physique to withstand impacts.

So during this time, Yu Chen would get up early every day for physical training, return at noon to eat heavily for nutrition, accompany Yun Xunlan in simulation battlefield training in the afternoon, continue eating heavily in the evening, then accompany Yun Xunlan for additional training at night, followed by a final meal before bed… This cycle repeated, and even Yun Xunlan felt tired just watching.

Yet Yu Chen was like an iron man, showing not a trace of fatigue from morning to night. Under such intense training, his weight and body dimensions became much more robust, looking increasingly fierce and making Yun Xunlan unable to look away.

However, the problem lay here: after Yun Xunlan became an omega, they hadn’t had a sex life.

This was very wrong. Yun Xunlan knew how strong Yu Chen’s worldly desires were, and now that he had become an omega, logically they should be more clingy with each other. Yet his first heat period was spent with temporary marking.

Except for that one time in the hospital ward before discharge, at other times even their kisses were very pure—just touching lips.

But when waking up in the morning, Yu Chen had normal physiological reactions, and when sleeping together at night, Yun Xunlan could feel it too, but Yu Chen always acted as if it didn’t exist.

So on this evening, when Yu Chen had finished washing up with him, kissed him and said “good night baby” and lay down on the bed, Yun Xunlan didn’t lie down with him but seriously asked: “Baby, is there something wrong with your body?”

Yu Chen was really energetic. Hearing Yun Xunlan ask this, he immediately sat up straight: “Darling, what do you mean by asking this?”

He was currently at the peak of his physical condition. It would be hard to find a few alphas in the entire galaxy with better physiques than his, right?

Yun Xunlan slowed his speech and explained: “We haven’t had sex for over a week. Only during our platonic period did we act like this, but we’re not platonic now. This isn’t normal. So either there’s something wrong with my body, or there’s something wrong with yours, and there’s nothing wrong with my body.”

The implication was that there was something wrong with Yu Chen’s body.

However, when Yun Xunlan said this, he looked down at the part of Yu Chen that had “stood up” earlier than Yu Chen himself after kissing him, and felt that his lover’s body couldn’t possibly have problems either.

After thinking it over, Yun Xunlan asked him: “Do you have sad sex syndrome?”

Yu Chen looked puzzled: “What kind of condition is that?”

“Have you heard of sad nipple syndrome? It’s similar to that. Some people might develop such conditions after excessive stress and prolonged emotional tension.” Yun Xunlan said. “Baby, do you want to see a psychologist?”

Yu Chen: “…I can confirm that I don’t have such conditions, neither of them.”

“…Oh.”

Yun Xunlan responded, then gently untied the belt of his robe, letting the thin silk pajamas fall to his waist, then reached out to touch Yu Chen’s chest muscles that weren’t afflicted with any disease, and finally said directly: “Then shall we make love?”

Without a moment’s hesitation, Yu Chen immediately pulled up the robe to help Yun Xunlan dress properly and refused: “No, I need to build muscle recently. Sex will lower my testosterone and affect my muscle quality and mental stamina.”

Yun Xunlan: “…”

Yun Xunlan: “We’re going to the border in another week.”

Yu Chen nodded: “We’ll definitely do it when we come back.”

After saying this, he paused and added: “It won’t work even if you call me ‘daddy.'”

Yun Xunlan, whose “scheme” was exposed by Yu Chen, thought for two seconds and tilted his head slightly: “What if I call you ‘husband’?”

Yu Chen immediately fell silent, also thought for a moment, and finally decided to “fall for it.”

He lifted the blanket and buried his head in it. Yun Xunlan helplessly grabbed his hair: “Just like this… don’t you want to?”

Yu Chen answered without thinking: “I don’t want to.”

Yun Xunlan continued grabbing his hair, forcing the man to look up at him, while his toes gently stepped on the most honest part of Yu Chen’s body: “I think it wants to.”

Yu Chen refused to admit: “It doesn’t have a brain, what thoughts could it have?”

But after saying this, he probably felt this explanation was ridiculous too. After being sullen for a long time, Yu Chen finally was willing to tell the truth: “…I’m actually a bit scared.”

Yun Xunlan was stunned: “…Huh?”

“I relearned physiology. The course said that giving an omega a lifelong mark before marriage is irresponsible behavior.” Yu Chen supported himself on the bed with one hand and straightened his upper body. The muscles at his shoulders and back tensed from this movement, showing beautiful and solid muscle lines. “I’m afraid I won’t be able to resist giving you a lifelong mark before marriage.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Yun Xunlan joked with him. “I’ll take responsibility for you.”

Yu Chen buried his head in his neck and laughed softly: “Don’t try to harm me.”

“I’m not trying to harm you.” Yun Xunlan pressed against the alpha’s chest, pushing the man away slightly, his gentle voice carrying a slight hoarseness. “You can’t mark with a bite guard on.”

After hearing this, Yu Chen stopped talking. He looked down at Yun Xunlan from above for a while, then finally got out of bed to put on the bite guard.

The black bite guard covered the lower half of the alpha’s handsome face, leaving only those pure blue eyes like a frozen sea surface, gazing intently at his lover in the night. And in the depths of the night, Yu Chen once again asked Yun Xunlan for a mark.

—Omega marks on alphas were invalid, but Yun Xunlan’s marks on him were always effective.

A week later, Yun Xunlan and Yu Chen boarded a warship heading to the first border line together, with Yun Qihe and Admiral Fu Yingxuan also among them.

Yun Xunguang only saw them off to the interstellar port. Besides her, other guards and Mu Xingyu also came, and even Jian Wenxi, who had said he didn’t plan to come, didn’t miss it.

With red-rimmed eyes, he kept muttering “there are so many people, I shouldn’t have come,” then asked Yun Xunlan for a hug. After hugging, he felt even sadder and whispered to Yun Xunlan: “We’re both omegas now, so why does Yu Chen still glare at me when I hug you? And he’s looking more and more fierce…”

Yun Xunlan habitually protected his lover: “He’s not fierce, he just got a bit more muscular recently.”

Jian Wenxi: “…That’s just a bit more muscular?”

Yun Xunlan: “…”

Well, he had gotten much more muscular, so much so that even today Yun Xunlan still regretted why he had made Yu Chen wear the bite guard that night. Wouldn’t it have been better to just sleep obediently?

Fu Yanxi was also hugging his father. He had always had a poor relationship with his father and still couldn’t forgive his father’s past neglect of the family. But at this moment of parting, Fu Yanxi still called him “Father” for the first time in years, hoping this soldier who had devoted his life to the Empire could return home.

Gui Yan looked at Fu Yanxi then at the Third Prince, then turned his gaze to Yu Chen: “Brother Yu, they all have someone to hug, how about we two also…”

Yu Chen said with a dark face: “Get lost.”

Gui Yan dared to be angry but not speak out. Officer Dike found it hilarious and, along with other guards, said some farewell words to Yu Chen.

Among those who came to see them off, no one paid attention to Mu Xingyu except that Yun Xunguang and Yun Qihe also looked at each other speechlessly.

The two pairs of extremely similar golden eyes gazed at each other for a long time. Finally, she spoke: “Father, I wish you a safe return.”

Yun Qihe said expressionlessly: “Don’t curse me. Just wish your brother a safe return.”

Yun Xunguang’s expression instantly twisted. Unable to bear it, she waved at the warship captain, signaling him to quickly take Yun Qihe and get lost.

Yun Qihe was also eager to leave, immediately turning to board the warship and sitting in his exclusive mecha.

The moment the operation screen lit up, He Chubai’s voice rang out: “Welcome to piloting the Wait mecha. I am Captain He Chubai.”

He wasn’t the mecha’s AI system, just a recording He Chubai had left behind.

But Yun Qihe spoke to him: “I hope this is the last time I pilot Wait. I miss you very much.”

He Chubai said another recorded line: “I miss you too, my love. May this journey take you to the stars. Don’t be afraid, don’t cry. I will always be with you.”

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