Tang Wu Yuan was kept in this room overnight and during the day, the Lieutenant General came again.
He had come today to admire the wretchedness of Tang Wu Yuan and perhaps to hear him beg for mercy, although he would not have let Tang Wu Yuan go even if he had begged.
Tang Wu Yuan looked up at him, and the same pointless smile tugged at his lips.
The Lieutenant General’s men brought a chair and placed it opposite Tang Wu Yuan. The Lieutenant General sat down in a victorious posture and asked in a low voice: “I heard that the Commander asked the kitchen to cook more fish for the next meal?”
Tang Wu Yuan gave him a look, his tone seemed angry and strange, “Your cooks’ skills are really no good, not as good as our army’s, only that fish tastes fresh and I could eat a few bites, you tell the cooks that it’ll be better to make me a fish soup for the next meal, or maybe a sweet and sour fish is also ok.”
Lieutenant General: “……” Do you think you’re here on holiday?
He looked at Tang Wu Yuan’s posture leaning leisurely on the bed, his forehead couldn’t help but jump, he turned his head and found the small flower emerging from the window, the surrounding area was even watered, the corner of his mouth twitched, “Commander Tang is so cheerful, you still have time to water the flowers.”
“So-so, it’s rare that I have time to rest.” Tang Wu Yuan squeezed out a fake smile at him, which he withdrew in a second, returning to his expressionless face, with the look of ‘I’m too lazy to deal with you’.
The Lieutenant General pursed his lips, trying to hold on to the smile on his face, and said conspiratorially, “Commander may soon be able to rest all the time. By then, you won’t be able to wake up even if you want to, sleeping forever in the ground.”
Tang Wu Yuan gave him a look and curled his lips into a light smile, “The Lieutenant General is envious? If you’re envious, I can let you sleep first.”
“Heh…..Tang Wu Yuan you’ve arrived here, do you think you can continue to be arrogant? The only reason you’re staying here intact now is because I haven’t poured out time to clean you up, behave well and maybe I’ll let you die a happier death.”
Tang Wu Yuan blinked, “Then I beg you?”
The Lieutenant General gave a smile of triumph and looked at him quietly, as if he was watching a child who finally understood.
Tang Wu Yuan hooked a finger at him, “You come here.”
The Lieutenant General moved automatically, Tang Wu Yuan is very clever, even if Tang Wu Yuan is now in his hands, he would not dare to go near him easily.
Tang Wu Yuan changed his posture, his tone disgusted, “Che……coward.”
“……” the Lieutenant General glared at Tang Wu Yuan fiercely, it was a pity he didn’t bring a whip in his hand this time he came over, otherwise he would have to whip Tang Wu Yuan a few times to explain.
Tang Wu Yuan looked at him, touching his chin with a puzzled look on his face. “Lieutenant General, you say, you are a good officer, why do you have to be a pirate? Even the food here is not as delicious as the army’s. If it was me, I definitely wouldn’t want to stay here.”
“The army?” The Lieutenant General sneered, “I stay in the army and continue to be pressed over the head by Song Xiao Bai? On what grounds? Just because he is an Alpha and is naturally more powerful than me, I have to obey him and do his bidding all the time?”
Tang Wu Yuan froze for a moment, he heard a strong sense of resentment and dislike in the Lieutenant General’s tone, he hadn’t known before that the Lieutenant General had been so jealous of Song Xiao Bai.
He frowned and said without moving: “What does this have to do with Alphas?” Alphas, Betas and Omegas does differ physically, but each has their own benefits and are suited to different positions.
Alphas are naturally excellent, physical ability and pressure are their strengths, but Beta can be free from pheromones, and there are many jobs that Alphas and Omegas are not capable of doing that require Betas. As for Omegas, their minds is a little more delicate and sensitive than Alphas and Betas, and they are often able to notice things that Alphas and Betas do not, making them suitable for planning or design.
Alphas, Betas and Omegas each have their own strengths.
The Lieutenant sneered, “If it wasn’t for the fact that he’s an Alpha and I’m a Beta, why should he be a Major General and I’m a Lieutenant?”
“Because he’s more outstanding than you ah.” Tang Wu Yuan said rightfully, there was no doubt that Song Xiao Bai and the Lieutenant General’s abilities were obvious to all.
The Lieutenant General, like all losers, always liked to find countless reasons for himself, and those reasons often had nothing to do with himself. There were few capable Beta’s in the army, how come the Lieutenant General was the only one affected by the Beta status? In the end, he was just jealous of Song Xiao Bai and refused to work hard, so he wanted to take a shortcut.
The Lieutenant’s face turned ugly as he stared grimly at Tang Wu Yuan and coldly snorted: “When I become a Marshal and Song Xiao Bai is called a captive, I would like to see if you will still say that he is superior to me.”
Tang Wu Yuan’s heart twitched, the Lieutenant really had a big heart to want to become a Marshal, but how could the Lieutenant become a Marshal since he had defected to the pirates? Unless……he was working for some high official and that high official promised him something, did the pirates have a connection with a high official in Interstellar?
Tang Wu Yuan bowed his head in contemplation and smiled without moving, “Now that you have betrayed the interstellar army, I don’t think you still have a chance of being able to become a Marshal.”
The Lieutenant General gave a winning smile and said in an icy voice: “Don’t worry, when that day comes, even if you are no longer able to see, I will go to your grave and tell you myself.”
Before Tang Wu Yuan could speak, a pirate pushed the door in, and the moment he pushed it open, Tang Wu Yuan couldn’t help but look puzzled and instantly held his breath as a large amount of pheromones poured in with him, and the smell was very strong.
The Lieutenant General was a Beta and could not feel the change in pheromones, he just looked impatiently at the pirate who suddenly entered, “What’s wrong?”
The pirate replied: “There is an Omega in heat among the hostages outside.”
The Lieutenant General sneered, “Then won’t it be ok if you guys just help him out, Omegas are rare.”
“He he…… we’d like to, but unfortunately that’s a marked Omega, there’ll be a life at stake if we force him again.”
The Lieutenant General’s voice was even colder, saying indifferently: “If someone dies, then someone dies, even without him, we still have a dozen hostages.” He looked at Tang Wu Yuan and smiled, “The most important thing is that we have the Commander as a hostage.”
Tang Wu Yuan’s eyes looked at him with disgust, the Lieutenant General used to pretend to be kind and warm-hearted when he was in the army, but only here did he reveal his true colours, cold and selfish, making people’s hearts chill.
“That’s great!” The pirate laughed twice and said in a very unfortunate tone: “It’s a pity you are a Beta, otherwise you could have gone and given him a secondary mark yourself.”
The Lieutenant’s eyes flashed, and he gave the pirate a cold look. The pirate was chilled by his look, and immediately stopped speaking with fear.
Tang Wu Yuan watched them silently, having worked together for many years, he had never realised before that the Lieutenant General was so resistant to being a Beta.
His nostrils twitched as the smell of another pheromone suddenly assaulted the air, one that belonged to the Alpha.
His face paled and his lips tightened, in the early stages of the Alpha and Omega’s heat, it was hard not to be affected even with the barrier patch on. Not to mention the fact that the longer the patch was on, the less effective it became, the barrier patch on the back of his neck had been on for two days and the effect was wearing off, he was somewhat affected by the pheromones outside.
He barely managed to act as if nothing was wrong, trying to keep his face as calm as if he hadn’t noticed anything. As a ‘Beta’ he should have been as unaffected as the Lieutenant General and couldn’t even smell their pheromones.
Another pirate hurriedly pushed his way through the door, “What do we do? That Omega’s mate smelled his pheromones in the other cell and went into heat too, now the Alpha and Omega in the other cells are all a bit confused by the effects, and some of them have been slamming the cell doors hard.”
The Lieutenant frowned in disgust, “Hurry up and put them together.”
The pirate from before asked reluctantly, “Didn’t you just tell us to play him?”
The Lieutenant gave him a cold look, “There will be plenty of time for you to play later, don’t make more trouble in the next two days, the Golden Eagle Army may come to rescue them at any time, the most important thing now is to make this group of people behave well.”
The man said reluctantly, “Yes.”
The pirate was ordered to go out and release the Alpha in heat out of the cell and take him to the Omega’s cell.
As the Alpha walked past, he passed right through the doorway of Tang Wu Yuan’s room, the intense pheromones pounded in so hard that a dense cold sweat sprang up on Tang Wu Yuan’s forehead, the pheromones in his body stupidly trying to bubble out.
He glanced at the Lieutenant, who was still not leaving, quietly changed to a position where he was lying on his back facing upwards, pressing his gland onto the cold bed board, but his cheeks uncontrollably, slowly flushed with a thin layer of red.
The Lieutenant swept his gaze over him, noticing that he looked a little out of sorts, and asked with a slight frown: “What’s wrong with you?”
Tang Wu Yuan barely managed to keep his voice steady as he sneered, “Not only does your cook here seem to be a poor cook, even the food he cooks is unclean, I have a terrible stomachache now.”
The Lieutenant smiled grimly, “Then you just be in pain here ba.”
With that, he turned around and walked out, seemingly wanting to leave Tang Wu Yuan here alone with the pain.
Tang Wu Yuan could not help but breathe a sigh of relief and pressed his gland even closer to the cold bed board.
When the Lieutenant reached the doorway, his footsteps suddenly lurched and Tang Wu Yuan’s heart lifted for a moment.
The Lieutenant stopped walking and looked back at Tang Wu Yuan, his voice slow as he asked: “Why are your cheeks so red when your stomach hurts?”
Tang Wu Yuan’s hand clenched fiercely, his heart beating suddenly faster, but his face remained unchanged, he only said indifferently: “I have a special constitution, since I was a child, when I am in pain, my face was always be red, not white.”
The Lieutenant sneered and walked over step by step, looking at Tang Wu Yuan from a high position.
Tang Wu Yuan looked up at him, his voice tight, “What are you looking at?”
The Lieutenant leaned down, “What have you been doing lying face up and not moving since a while ago?”
“My stomach hurts, just this position is comfortable.”
“Heh…..” The Lieutenant sneered, suddenly reaching out and yanking Tang Wu Yuan over, his collar slipping during the action, the back of Tang Wu Yuan’s neck was exposed.
When he saw the barrier patch on the back of Tang Wu Yuan’s neck, his eyes narrowed, then he hooked his lips and ripped off the barrier patch, and the smell of Omega pheromones spread uncontrollably.
Tang Wu Yuan had just been under the influence of Alpha, so the pheromone smell was not strong, very light.
Although the Lieutenant General could not smell the pheromones, he instantly understood it by looking at the barrier patch, a nasty smile curled on his lips, “You are Omega.”
Tang Wu Yuan knew that he had already been exposed, there was no point in talking more, so he tensed his lips and did not speak, his hand did not move and secretly clenched the dagger in his sleeve. Now, only by capturing the Lieutenant General and using him as a hostage could he have a chance of survival.
A sharp light flashed in his eyes and he was about to swing the dagger and put it near the Lieutenant General’s neck when the Lieutenant General took a step back just in time and straightened up to look at him.
His fingers twitched and he bit his lower lip reluctantly, hesitating for a moment before finally refraining from the impulse and secretly putting the dagger away, only to look for the next good opportunity.
The Lieutenant General looked at him with a playful smile, rubbing his chin as he sized him up and said in a grim tone, “You’re actually an Omega, that’s really interesting.”
melon: an even bigger cliff?
FYI, there was one instance previously where Lieutenant was translated as Adjutant, tbh I thought they were 2 different people but they’re not lol. I have went back and corrected it. Sorry I’m clueless about military ranks idek if Lieutenant General is correct because google says it ranks above Major General? So I’m just going with what MTL gave me…