Chapter 21

At night.

A reception was also organized inside the warship while the students in the exercise took a field break. 

Even if Gu Huan didn’t like certain people, he still wanted to do his best as the landlord. The chef prepared a sumptuous dinner in the hall. The instructors of the Second Military Academy, as well as some journalists who came specially for the training, were all gathered in the hall for dinner. Many students who surrendered due to starvation were also taken to the lounge for dinner.

In such a crowded hall, Gu Huan found a quieter place to hide, but even if he hid, it was useless. Wherever he was, everyone’s focus would be there, like a magnet, attracting everyone’s eyes.

As long as you carefully observe the direction everyone is paying attention to, you can find him.

Relying on this, Chu Xinglin found Gu Huan in the corner. 

Supporting the wall of the sofa, he handed Gu Huan a glass of orange juice.

Gu Huan silently glanced at the orange drink in his hand, wondering how he could tell that he liked to drink this kind of thing.

As if seeing Gu Huan’s dissatisfaction from his expressionless face, Chu Xinglin shook the drink himself, “You can’t drink alcohol.”

“You should remember that you passed out after taking a sip last time.”

Waves quickly appeared in Gu Huan’s eyes, and then fixed his on the cup handed over by the other party.

He reached out and took it, took a sip, frowned slightly, and put it down.

He didn’t like sweets very much.

“Speaking of last time.” Gu Huan raised his head and asked in a low voice, “Did you tell me something later?” 

Chu Xinglin’s eyes turned slightly, staring at those eyes, but he couldn’t help noticing his lips, which were soaked by the drink. It looked very sweet.

After realizing what he was thinking, Chu Xinglin subconsciously avoided Gu Huan’s gaze.

“Nothing.”

Looking at Chu Xinglin’s expression, Gu Huan frowned slightly. 

His answer made him feel that he might have said something.

But after missing last time, the other party didn’t want to tell him anymore.

Chu Xinglin took the wine and sat down on the sofa next to Gu Huan. The angle was just to the side of Gu Huan. Gu Huan was a little thin in comparison to his burly body, and his deep blue eyes were a little distracted, trying to be genuine. “Recently, should we reposition our relationship?”

Gu Huan ignored him, and he talked to himself. 

“We probably… can be counted as friends.”

After a moment of silence, the admiral opened his lips slightly and repeated the word Chu Lin said. “Friends?”

Mentioning this word, Gu Huan felt as if he were separated from the world.

In the last life, as a rare half-elf, he had to exhaust all his strength just to survive, and there were many “friends” who deliberately made friendship with him because of various thoughts. The losses he suffered were enough for ordinary people to die countless times. Back then, in order not to be betrayed by others, he simply developed the habit of being wary of others and not being close to others. 

Friend.

This is a word that was gradually unfamiliar to him.

He neither admitted nor denied, and looked at Chu Xinglin indifferently, raising his eyelashes slightly.

“I thought you remembered that you have been threatening me.” 

Just buried near the heart, a little thing the size of a bean was buried in his skin.

He originally wanted Xiao Ling to help him check what it was for.

But Chu Lin told him that checking that thing casually might lead to consequences that he didn’t want. He stopped the thought again.

“How heartless.” Chu Xinglin slightly supported his chin with his index finger, thinking of the specific use of the device, he murmured in a magnetic voice, “That’s for safety.” 

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Gu Huan raised his eyebrows.

Lin Shuyan? 

How did he come here?

Gu Huan stood up and scanned the field with his mental strength, and he found Shang He there.

Although Ye Qiyan’s matter was resolved, Lin Shuyan was still studying by Shang He’s side because of his talent in spiritual healing, so Gu Huan just turned a blind eye and passed by, because Lin Shuyan would become a great mental power therapist in the story. Having them both around was more than he could ask for.

But… today’s banquet is not a good one, why did Shang He bring Lin Shuyan here? 

Out of the awareness of the equation that the protagonist group = causing trouble, Gu Huan directly caught up with Lin Shuyan in the direction he left without even thinking about it.

Seeing Gu Huan stand up, Chu Xinglin also frowned, put down his wine glass, and followed.

Walking through the quiet corridor, Gu Huan saw Lin Shuyan listening to the corner.

That room is a lounge specially prepared for Jin Chi. 

Although Lin Shuyan couldn’t reach the level of Gu Huan’s superb control of mental power, his mental power was still enough for him to get a rough idea when he laid on the soundproof wall and listened.

His expression seemed to be terrified, as if his legs were so weak that he couldn’t move at all.

Gu Huan stretched his mental strength and found that the people in the room had already noticed that someone was eavesdropping outside, and their hands were already on the door.

He immediately rushed up, grabbed Lin Shuyan’s hand, dragged him to his side, and pressed him against the wall, speaking very coldly: 

“Why are you here?”

Jin Chi came out from the door, and when Chu Xinglin walked through the passage, he happened to watch the scene.

“General…”

Lin Shuyan was dumbfounded by Gu Huan’s words before he could restrain his frightened expression in the future. 

“Omegas shouldn’t be here.”

“Are you so dissatisfied?”

What? Lin Shuyan opened his mouth empty.

Gu Huan faced Lin Shuyan, his anger was suppressed in his cold expression, and he pointed at Chu Xinglin. 

“Did you find him here?”

Lin Shuyan still couldn’t pick up his jaw.

Ha?

Chu Xinglin also reacted quickly, realizing that Gu Huan was talking nonsense, he glanced at Jin Chi who was rushing out of the door, started the cooperation mode, and immediately walked towards Gu Huan who was holding Lin Shuyan down, forcibly pulled Gu Huan’s hand away, slightly frowning, the sharp eyebrows immediately added a bit of danger. 

“General, I respect you, but general, can you stop threatening Shuyan? He has the freedom to choose who he likes.”

Shang He told him the name Lin Shuyan. It just came in handy.

“…”

Looking at the two alphas crowding his left and right, Lin Shuyan was very confused. 

He also read Mary Sue’s novels, but he didn’t dare to act like in the novels.

When Jin Chi walked out the door, seeing this situation, he was a little suspicious at first, and then suddenly realized.

He had just communicated with the Duke, and suddenly smelled a faint smell of omega pheromone, thinking that someone was eavesdropping, so he came out to check. But what did he see?

Gu Huan was robbing someone for an omega. 

No wonder when he investigated them before, he said that Gu Huan hated Chu Lin, and the relationship between the two was very bad. It turned out that they were rivals in love.

“Take care of your omega and don’t let him run around.” Jin Chi sneered, walked out of the door, and left with his head held high.

Grabbing an omega? How could he do such a shameless thing. If he wanted an omega, most of them came to throw themselves into his arms.

Seeing Jin Chi go, Gu Huan glanced at Chu Lin’s hand holding his wrist. 

After finding out, Chu Xinglin felt that he opened his fingers obediently, as if nothing had happened.

Lin Shuyan looked left and right at the two instructors standing beside him, a little confused.

Is their relationship good or not?

Gu Huan poured a cup of hot tea for Lin Shuyan, poured himself a cup of coffee, and Chu Xinglin leaned against the wall. 

Because the student was still sweating on his head, it could be seen that he was frightened, holding the teacup in both hands, still shaking.

“Why did you go there?”

Lin Shuyan pursed his lips, “I heard from Ye Qiyan that you told him that General Jin Chi might have done what happened that day, but the people who did it had been ‘sealed off ‘. You can’t go after General Jin… and I don’t want to let the bad guys go.”

“…” 

Gu Huan sent someone to tell Ye Qiyan, just because he felt that Ye Qiyan should not be kept in the dark, unexpectedly, he just told him about it to the omega at his side.

Anyone who read the novel knows how likely the protagonist group is to step forward bravely if something happens to them.

Lin Shuyan looked calm, but he really deserved to be Nie Chuan’s future partner. This was really “cold on the outside and hot on the inside”.

Gu Huan frowned and said coldly. “Don’t meddle in this matter anymore.” 

Since he was being plotted against, he can solve it by himself.

No need for his students to do anything for him.

Moreover, after Chu Lin found out about Jin Chi, he cooperated with him. The Jin family was actually one of the financial pillars behind the emperor’s uncle, but this time after the prince’s accident, they completely exposed their wolfish ambitions. He has always wanted to get rid of this family that had become a cancer in the empire, and he wants to teach Jin Chi a lesson. The two of them had quite the same opinion on this aspect.

After cooperating with Chu Lin, they dug out something that was more poignant to Jin Chi than making an Omega enter estrus at the banquet. It’s not that he didn’t want to get rid of Jin Chi, but because the investigation involved too much in the later stage. If he didn’t kill him with one blow, he might scare the snake away and Jin Chi might live. 

“Hurry up and go back to the Omega’s room.” Jin Chi will definitely not end well, it’s just a matter of time.

“General! No, I can’t go back first! Listen to me, I heard something very, very serious!” Lin Shuyan suddenly raised his head.

Gu Huan frowned even deeper. “What’s the matter?”

“General Jin Chi said that tomorrow there will be Zergs appearing on the practice field.” 

“He can’t mean it.”

Lin Shuyan’s voice trembled with fear when he mentioned the Zergs.

In the years since the birth of the energy shield, the Zerg has gradually become divorced from people’s reality, becoming the existence of horror stories and nightmares.

Hearing Lin Shuyan talk about Zergs, the atmosphere instantly became a little dull. 

Gu Huan didn’t speak any more. He was silent for a while, holding the handle of the coffee firmly with his slender hand, and took a sip. The warm liquid flowed down his throat, warming his heart that was startled, and he raised his eyelashes and said in relief.

“Don’t worry. You’ll be fine.”

The Omega immediately felt relieved when he heard the words from his trusted general, but Chu Xinglin’s eyes moved slightly.

Gu Huan said that nothing will happen. 

But he didn’t say that the Zerg would not appear.

After Lin Shuyan was sent back, Gu Huan returned to his room only to find that Chu Lin hadn’t left yet.

I have to say.

These few times, as long as he is alone with Chu Lin, nothing good will happen. 

So seeing that Chu Lin was still there, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

But at this time, he is definitely the most suitable person to discuss the situation.

Sure enough, before Gu Huan could speak, the alpha who was silent by the wall asked. “What do you think about the Zerg news?”

What did he think? 

Of course Jin Chi didn’t have the ability to order the Zerg to wreak havoc, but Chu Fengyuan definitely did.

Gu Huan sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, just opposite to Chu Xinglin, the dark tide surged in his golden eyes, and he didn’t speak.

Chu Xinglin moved his lips slightly, “Yes, someone can predict where the Zerg will appear. What a terrible thing, how could it be true? Recently, making up stories is getting more and more unrealistic.”

Gu Huan knew that Chu Lin wanted to get words from him. 

If he wants to leave, he can’t involve himself too much in this matter. Chu Fengyuan has never told the original owner anything about the Zerg tide, and he should also show that he doesn’t know anything about it.

But he is willing to say something more in order to protect the students who are now with him.

“We have to consider this is a possibility,” he said quietly.

Chu Xinglin put on a serious expression and continued to listen to Gu Huan. 

“But the size of the Zerg is huge… It is absolutely impossible to appear suddenly. The Zerg must have been ambushing in the exercise field long ago.”

“It’s just that they didn’t show the traces of the Zerg in the flight camera lens.”

They couldn’t suspend the drill if they couldn’t find the Zerg on camera.

“I have a solution.” 

Gu Huan slightly raised his index finger supporting his chin, and lightly scraped across his cheek.

“I have to borrow your hacker force.”

Gu Huan felt that the two of them were not good enough to borrow each other’s forces without reason, so he added on purpose. “If you want to protect the students as much as I do.”

“Okay.” 

Chu Lin answered short and quickly, as if letting him get whatever he wanted.

Gu Huan raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn’t expect the other party to be so easy to talk to.

Was it his illusion?

This man seemed to be treating him better and better. 

He raised his eyes to meet those dark blue eyes, and feeling like he was being burned, he looked away again.