Chapter 6

"Is that all right?"

Unexpectedly, it was Xiao who spoke first. He looked at Shi Yu's drooping furry head and couldn't help laughing. Suddenly, he felt as if he saw Xiao Hei at home - a little coal ball with white gloves who was just one month old when he left Dongguo's home to start school.

Shi Yu was entangled and looked at the hem of her skirt with her head buried in the ground. Seeing this, Xiao bent down slightly. The aroma of beer and the strong and solid body invaded Shi Yu's senses.

He bent his fingers and tapped Shi Yu's head helplessly: "Hey, look up."

Shi Yu's eyelashes twitched slightly, and he dodged with a blushing face: "Oh..."

"These past two days, here—" Xiao calmly tapped her head with his knuckles. The petite beta still kept her head down disobediently, and she refused to raise it even when asked. "You may have intermittent headaches, but don't worry, it will pass in a while."

Xiao pondered for a moment, then added, "If you really can't stand it, you can come to me."

"...Hey, you know how to give a massage?" Shi Yu asked with his mind blank.

Maybe she ate too much barbecue in the evening and her throat was itchy. She swallowed dryly and with difficulty.

The handsome young man from the East paused for a moment, then lowered his thick black eyelashes and smiled, "Let's just take it as it is."

The soft sound of grass falling came to his ears. Shi Yu was about to speak but stopped and took a deep breath.

Since she couldn't hide from him anyway, she just made up her mind, turned around awkwardly and raised her head to laugh at Wayne: "Um, I'm back?"

“Huh…?”

Shi Yu stuttered slightly and asked in a panic, "What... happened?"

The boy with red hair and green eyes stood in front of her. The Alpha who was studying at the military academy stood tall and straight, and Shi Yu had to tilt his neck to talk to him - so he noticed that the gauze on Wayne's right cheek had fallen off at some point, revealing a long and thin wound that was still bleeding. Blood beads dripped from his angular jaw, making his handsome and flamboyant face even more aggressive.

His coat was nowhere to be found, leaving only a sleeveless black vest on his body, revealing the muscular arms. Wayne scoffed and roughly wiped away the blood that was still dripping with his half-gloved hand, leaving a dark red stain on his glove.

Shi Yu's gaze was too frightening, and the boy's beautiful, upturned green eyes narrowed slightly. He frowned and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Don't rub it like that! How did you do this? It's still bleeding."

Shi Yu anxiously ran over from beside Xiao and circled around him. Although they had just met, and Shi Yu had suffered a lot of fright and mental oppression from Wayne, but actually... she tried to find excuses for herself - after all, these were also related to her timid personality.

After all, they were friends. Thinking of this, she tried to show some concern for Wayne, but she didn't expect Wayne to stretch out his hand and press Shi Yu's head impatiently. Shi Yu's knees suddenly sank and he almost sat down.

Pressed down by the force above his head, Shi Yu froze pitifully, like a cat with its neck pinched.

Then, she heard Wayne ask Xiao beside her in a rather bad tone: "Is there anything that can stop the bleeding?"

Xiao folded his arms together, but found that one of his sleeves was already missing, and he was not wearing a kimono at the moment, so he gave up the gesture with a look of regret. He smiled and said, "You have to go find Noah for this. Their little group has a lot of stuff, right?"

Wayne's face showed undisguised disgust: "No."

"But, you have to stop the bleeding..." Shi Yu mustered up the courage and spoke softly while struggling under Wayne's palm.

Wayne glanced at her with a frown, pulled his wrist back, and turned it twice as if flexing his muscles.

The moment Shi Yu felt a lightness on her head, she crouched down and slipped out. She didn't learn from her mistakes at all and walked around to Wayne again: "I'm serious, Wayne."

The girl's eyes were always moist. She brushed the dust off her head and patiently advised with a faint gleam in her eyes: "It's not good to leave a wound on your face. It's such a pity. And what if it gets infected..."

"So, are you okay now, or are you free?"

“Ah, not really…”

Wayne's prickly attitude made Shigure stop talking awkwardly.

The boy's sharp features were partially obscured by his red hair. He lazily lowered his wrist and ignored her. His emerald eyes glanced at Xiao and asked, "Can you move normally?"

"It's okay, it's not a mark, no problem, no problem." Xiao smiled and waved her hand warmly like a lucky cat, "Just don't hang around in front of them all the time. It would be bad if they smell my scent on her."

As he spoke, Xiao rubbed Shi Yu's already messy hair quite smoothly. Shi Yu, who was still immersed in loss, thought they were discussing her illness. She made a "hmm" sound and did not react, allowing him to do what he wanted.

Xiao finally patted her on the head, as if to remind her, but also as a subtle comfort.

"Let Wayne keep an eye on you." He said with a low laugh.

Before Xiao waved and said "bye~" to them cheerfully, he did not forget to hand her some herbs tied with red ropes - Xiao had just taken her to find these things.

"Uh, but," Shigure hesitantly asked Wayne, who was sitting next to him, while picking at the plants in his arms that looked more like a bouquet than herbs, "How do I use these?"

"Is there anything that can stop the bleeding?"

The faint light of dawn appeared on the horizon, and Shiyu had almost fallen asleep again that night. The abundant sleep left her alert and alert, and she had no desire to sleep. She and Wayne found another secluded spot, leaning against a mecha in the far corner. Shiyu asked, holding a pile of herbs, curiously gazing at the teenagers noisily dragging something in the distance.

Shi Yu's question only made Wayne's eyelids twitch slightly. He stretched out his long legs, rested his elbows on the mechanical arms, and dozed off against the iron wall of the mecha. His sharp profile was stained with blood, like a sleepy lion after a fight.

“…”

As expected, Shi Yu didn't get a reply, but he wasn't sad at all.

Her attention was now completely focused on the movement in the distance.

A boy with a stern face was dragging a worm with a large mouthparts that was more than two meters long. She finally saw clearly that the teenagers next to him were not helping, but were just shouting and watching the fun. He could drag the worm away by himself.

The scene at this moment is quite shocking. Shi Yu couldn't help but think of what happened yesterday when she encountered the spider alien. It was obviously something that would leave a shadow on her life, but her mood now was surprisingly calm.

It didn't seem like it was that difficult to accept, she thought. After all, these young soldiers around her were pretty impressive. She had never seen a soldier who could drive a mecha.

Just like...

"Wow, hello, hello, good morning! Little Beta~"

When Phil dozed off and pushed open the iron door of the mecha with a tired face, he unexpectedly met an unexpected confused look from below because he felt the movement - when he realized that it was the weak and cute Beta, he woke up almost instantly, put on a warm smile, jumped from a height to the ground, and landed not far from her.

Hmm, the person in front of me...?

Shi Yu was stunned: "Hello?"

"Yeah, I'm fine! Thank you!! Why are you lying here to rest? It's quite cold at night. Next time, sleep inside the mecha!"

The slender, sunny, white-haired boy stared at her with a smile, his tone warm and lively. He pointed at himself and continued to speak at length as if talking to himself: "By the way, I don't know your name yet. Tell me, tell me. My name is Phil!"

Eh? So familiar?!

Shi Yu didn't know how to start replying for a moment. The series of syllables that rushed into her ears made her a little dazed and unable to react. The girl opened her mouth slowly and could only choose the simplest answer: "...Shi Yu, my name is Shi Yu."

"Cute!! It suits you very well. Are you from the East Country? Or the Xia Country? I heard that the scenery in both countries is very beautiful. However, I have never been there. My home is quite far away from the home galaxy."

The young man gave people a clean and energetic feeling. He stared at Shi Yu intently, a smile on his lips, and his tone rose happily: "When there is a chance, will you take me with you?"

"Ah, this..."

Seeing Shi Yu's hesitant look, Phil wanted to say something else, but the next moment, his eyes narrowed slightly, and with the sound of rapid wind breaking, he suddenly took several steps back, leaving a string of charred marks on the grass he had just stepped on along his backward trajectory.

There was a faint smell of burning in the air, and Phil's handsome face couldn't help but twist, like an animal that was being prevented from hunting.

He covered his nose with his sleeve with an unpleasant expression and smacked his lips slightly: "Mad man."

Wayne didn't even open his eyes. Shi Yu heard him chuckle softly, then turned over nonchalantly.

Shigure, Shigure was stunned—

What was that?! This isn't right! There wasn't a gun or anything like that!

Shi Yu was also frightened and speechless for a long time. This development was too terrifying. When she reacted, she couldn't help but ask with a little worry: "Are you okay?"

At the end of the winding burn mark, Phil lowered his gaze. At Shigure's voice, his brows twitched slightly, and then he let out a soft breath, a playful smile returning to his lips.

The boy looked over with slightly curved eyes, his voice soft and cold.

"Are you concerned about me?" he said. "I'm fine."

"That's good. You'd better not come here." Shi Yu looked away uncomfortably and advised him sincerely, "Thank you for coming to chat with me, but... you should be more careful."

She didn't blame Wayne.

Although it wasn't nice to say so, and she didn't agree with Wayne's approach, she inexplicably felt that Phil's gaze was very strange - as if he was looking at and evaluating something strange.

In short, Shi Yu also felt that this boy was really difficult to handle.

"Okay, got it. I'll leave today then!"

Shi Yu lowered his head and didn't see the boy's expression, but he must have smiled happily: "Well, next time I'll come to see you when Wayne is not around?"

"Shigure."

Wayne didn't sleep for long. When Shigure was watching the teenagers dismembering and cooking the aliens with a look of despair on his face - that was breakfast time, Wayne had just woken up with half-closed eyes when Shigure grabbed his strong naked arm tremblingly.

"Isn't that what we ate last night?" She pointed at the strange food being cooked on the iron pot in the distance, almost tearfully. "Is that what we ate last night?"

Wayne: “…”

"Yes." He said, "What else do you want to eat?"

"Woo!" Shi Yu's face turned pale in an instant, and then he couldn't help but let out a thin whine from his throat.

Breakfast was also barbecue, and Shigure's stomach churned, and she felt uneasy. She finished the meal with a blank expression. Afterward, the boys rested for about half an hour, while Shigure stared into the distance, holding a bunch of flower-like herbs, as if questioning her life.

Half an hour later, the young men set out into the forest in groups of three or two. The smell of chili peppers enveloped her unconsciously. Shi Yu frowned slightly, clenched the bouquet in her hand, and her long eyelashes fluttered slightly. The girl said with a somewhat embarrassed expression, "Wayne..."

Wayne raised his eyebrows, put his raised arm back down, and his green eyes vaguely glanced at the black-haired girl's slender white neck that was exposed because she lowered her head forward.

"I'm not sleeping anymore." Shi Yu said.

As if she couldn't bring herself to speak, her eyes wandered, and with a blush on her face, she suggested, "I, I want to go find Xiao? Is that okay...