Deliberate Mark

thout dying immediately.

Gu Ang looked tense as he pressed his hands to the console, observing the current situation.

Lin XiuYong put on his glasses and examined the mecha with an expressionless face.
He knew that during this outing, Lu ChangBai would definitely make a move, but he didn’t expect it to come so quickly, and it was a bit different from the expected plan.
Could it be that, besides Lu ChangBai, there was someone else behind this?

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Soon a series of violent explosions went off in almost no particular order, parts splashing out of the bulkhead of the flying ship and sparks of desire to ignite everywhere.

“Ontology under attack, damage count in progress… Tally complete, ship injury rate at 64.8%… Awaiting further instructions.”

“Make a forced landing immediately!” Without hesitation, Jiang RuiYuan immediately gave the order to the airship.

“Forced landing initiated…” Just as everyone on the ship was stressing about the forced landing, outside the Ice Blue Star, the attackers were standing in front of a huge holographic projection discussing the battle.

“My lord, the ambush plan has been successful and the target has been forced to land on the Ice Blue Star.” A particularly shrewd looking man, bending slightly, reported back to the white-haired man petting the cat beside him.

“Good work, send the idiot lord the location of their forced landing and make sure you get me the target alive.” The white-haired man said absently as his eyes fell on the cat, his fingertips tracing the delicate fur.

The man cautiously warned, “Copy that! But my lord, why don’t we just shoot them straight up in space? With the saturation of our weapons attacks we would never let any of them get away.”

The white hair looked at the hastily fleeing crowd in the projection and was in a much happier mood.

Intent on lifting the adjutant, he casually explained, “Although the unencrypted message we intercepted didn’t explicitly say so, I went to look into it earlier, and guess who Red Flame Military Academy sent to quell the rebellion this time?”

“I don’t know, my Lord.”

“The top ten students in the Red Flame Undifferentiated Combat Games points this time around have some worthy goods inside.
Ye Fei, the eldest grandson of the Empire’s top ten families, Gu Ang, the only son of the Empire’s highest ranking civil official, and presumably some brats from high ranking families.”

The man said, “So you’re trying to…”

“Do you have any idea how much money these men could bring us if they lived? It’s the Union’s business to fight the war, all we have to do was make enough money out of it.”

The white-haired man dropped the cat on the floor and walked around the room on his bare feet, “When the time comes, contact the Ye and Gu families privately and have them pay ransom for these two little brats back so I can buy my Lulu a full cat castle for my little heartless cutie.”

“…My Lord is wise.”

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On the other side, because the ship’s power module was damaged, directly after entering the atmosphere, the ship exploded in the air like a bright firework.
The unparalleled explosion drove a violent storm of wind that swept everyone into the center and scattered them in all directions.
The crowd in the airship was like ethereal dust, scattered everywhere by the wind.

In the middle of the storm, Gu Ang controlled the mecha and forced it down into a cave.
The powerful curling wind slapped some cracks in the mecha, and the incoming air currents broke off the mecha’s back, bouncing debris that hurt Gu Ang’s hand and back.

The mecha provided by Jiang RuiYuan was no longer advanced, but after all, it was just an ordinary high-grade mecha that couldn’t withstand such a toss.

Gu Ang drew a breath of cold air and opened the hatch to move to the ground outside.
He found a clean shirt from the suitcase he had with him in the mecha, cleaned the debris from his hands and back roughly, and did a simple bandage.
He tried to connect to the others’ mecha signals, but only a thin murmur of current remained, “Is anyone there? Please answer if you hear me.”

The cave never responded again, except for the intermittent sound of electricity.
He got separated from the others.
To be precise, it should be that everyone had scattered to various unknown locations.
Everyone had to rely on their survival skills to get by and find another opportunity to rendezvous. 

The bandage was a little rough and didn’t completely stop the bleeding.
Blood seeped through the clothes wrapped around his hands, and Gu Ang wrinkled his brow in pain.
Because of the injury to his back, he couldn’t sit halfway, so he had to find a rock and lie on his side.

Red Flame students had an accident and the school should send someone out to rescue them.
But there was still a question of when exactly they’d be back.

This wasn’t the first time that Gu Ang had encountered such an in-flight accident.

In the midst of war, enemies abounded in ambush in the middle of the route, and there had been those who had waged great battles in the universe, so he was in a fairly calm mood.

Only, he didn’t know if it was the several injuries, but Gu Ang felt his body getting hotter and hotter.
Even some of the smell of pheromone began to slowly disperse with the blood and waft into the air.

“Fuck, don’t tell me 

I’m going into heat at a time like this.” Gu Ang couldn’t help but swear.
Mostly because the injury had accelerated the blood and stimulated the hormones in his body, and he now felt unusually out of sorts all over.
Gu Ang got up through the pain and rummaged through his suitcase to find the inhibitor.
Before he came, he bought ten bottles as a backup just in case.
It was just that after that bumpy ride, almost all of it shattered in the luggage, and only a small half of the bottle remained.

Gu Ang gritted his teeth and jabbed the needle into his skin, feeding what little inhibitor was left into his bloodstream.
There was no way to completely suppress it, but it was slightly eased.

With the injury and the precursors of the rut, Gu Ang had become a little weaker.
He was a little worried that if someone did target them one by one at this point, there was no way he could be anyone’s match.
The cave was silent, except for his lighter and lighter breathing, and the stronger and stronger smell of white peach oolong.

Gu Ang laughed to himself, it would be no fun to actually die here.
He ripped the button off his collar and closed his eyes slightly.
Not noticing the faint flicker of the neck ring around his neck.

Ye Fei, who had just finished a forced landing, received a signal from the neck ring.

When XuanBird made this item, it incorporated a sensing system, especially for when the owner wearing the neck ring was in danger or in heat, and would quickly gather information to send out a call for help.
And on the other end of the caller’s side, the binding was Ye Fei.

Ye Fei uncuffed his cuffs and clicked the watch on his hand to bring up a virtual screen.
The screen showed that Gu Ang had suffered some injuries and was in danger of going into heat.
Which meant that if someone found Gu Ang before him at this moment, the consequences would be unthinkable.

Ye Fei went back into his mecha, located the direction of Gu Ang and launched towards the signal point.
The two men were forced to land not too close together, and it would take forty minutes to get over there.
Ye Fei set the speed to maximum and, after turning on auto mode, rummaged through the luggage for gear.

In addition to the medical kit he needed on a daily basis, there was the mission gear he carried with him, the disguise machine, the pheromone masking agent, and the clothes he only wore to do missions.
Originally, he thought that if Lu ChangBai made a move, he would use this face to fight against it, but he didn’t expect Gu Ang to have an accident first.

Gu Ang’s current condition was such that a medicated dressing was a must.
Perhaps, he also needed a temporary mark.
But recently Gu Ang’s deliberate distancing had put him back on the fence.
Gu Ang should be less willing to go over with his usual face.
Gu Ang, now, didn’t even want to see him.
Was it, again, going to be someone else’s face? But how should he explain that this other identity also appeared light years away on Ice Blue Star?

Ye Fei thought about it all the way through, and finally rounded up a more plausible explanation.

When he reached the location, he hid the mecha behind the cave to finish changing his face, spraying himself with a pheromone masking agent, and changing into an outfit Gu Ang hadn’t seen before walking to the entrance of the cave with his medical kit.

It was getting dark and the cave was devoid of light and almost pitch black.
Ye Fei walked carefully towards the inside, but after just a few steps inside, he caught the scent of white peach oolong.
He narrowed his eyes and followed the smell inward, deeper into the cave, when he finally saw Gu Ang leaning against a large rock.
He looked like he was asleep, lying on his side with his eyes closed.

Ye Fei stepped into a crouch and saw his wound oozing blood.
The pheromone of the white peach oolong practically poured out, sweeping through his breath and down the seeping blood, releasing it with impunity.
It was sweet and soft, with a heavy dose of seduction.

Ye Fei asked him, “Gu Ang, are you okay?”

Gu Ang responded vaguely, not opening his eyes.

“You’re burning up.” Ye Fei touched his palm and his body temperature was frighteningly high.

The wound triggered complications that, along with the rut, scorched the person.
It left the handsome face bloodless, and even his lips turned white.
Ye Fei saw the half-broken inhibitor glass bottle next to him, and it was obvious that Gu Ang had used every trick he could.
However, it didn’t seem to be working particularly well.

Ye Fei’s fingers brushed up against his gland, and while Gu Ang wasn’t looking, he lowered his head and bit right into the soft flesh, quickly piercing it with his canines and ferrying the pheromone in.

Gu Ang woke up from the stab of pain in a cold sweat, opening his eyes to see that familiar yet unfamiliar face.
His voice was cold to the bone and he lifted his foot to kick out, “Let go of me.”

Ye Fei pinned him down easily with his legs, not stopping his movements, just holding his hands firmly on his neck as he continued to jab his head sideways deeper.
Gu Ang fought and struggled, feeling pathetically like a dried up fish.
This was the second time, with his and its reluctance, that he had been marked by this man.

Ye Fei’s face flashed through his mind, and he blinked again, his eyes left only vacant.
How heartbroken Ye Fei would be if he saw him like this.
It was better not to be seen and let him destroy himself.
Gu Ang had no strength due to the injury on his hand, so he dropped his eyes and opened his mouth like a small beast stubbornly trying to survive, and took a deadly bite on the shoulder.

He came down hard, with stubborn inviolable resistance.
Not just anyone could come and violate him, even if the person seemed to be carrying extremely good intentions.
He belonged to that person even if he wasn’t with Ye Fei, body and mind.
Even in death, he would end his life with this body and soul, with silent love.

Through his clothes, Ye Fei felt as if his shoulder was bleeding, the gripped piece of flesh almost bitten off.
He fought the pain and injected the last bit of pheromone into the gland, then gently lowered the man to the floor.
The mark was the medicine, and Gu Ang’s fever promptly receded.

“Okay, loosen your mouth.” Ye Fei patted Gu Ang’s head.

Gu Ang lifted his leg and kicked the man away, his eyes guarded, “What are you doing here?”

Ye Fei was stung by the wary look, and felt at peace.
His fingers pressed against the disguise machine, a little harder and he would return to his original appearance, so he eventually let go.
Ye Fei covered the wound on his shoulder and looked deeply at him through a face that didn’t belong to him, “Don’t be afraid, I’m here to save you.”

Don’t you be afraid, I love you so much.

Because I love you so much, I’m afraid that one wrong move will result in a total loss.

 

Author’s Note: 

It won’t happen again, I promise that next time he’s in heat, he will know it’s Ye Fei.
Guang Guang isn’t far from becoming pregnant.