Chapter 46: Trembling I lost a very important person...

It was a very simple sentence, but Huo Yubai read it over and over again, as if he couldn't understand what these words meant when spelled together.

For the first time, Colonel Huo questioned whether the federal military had made a mistake. The words on the letter were floating in the air and he couldn't catch them.

Alpha blinked heavily and sent another message to the other party with trembling fingers. Ji He must have been busy reminiscing about the past and that's why he didn't reply to him.

Huo Yubai stared at the computer screen and turned to Ji He's last reply, which was a very simple "It doesn't matter."

Perhaps because he had been staring at the screen for too long, his eyes felt a little sore.

I kept repeating Ji He's name in my mind, hoping that a message would pop up.

Even a punctuation mark, even a small expression.

no.

Nothing.

Like a stone thrown into the sea, silently.

Ji He should be on the Tong planet, so how come he is on the interstellar spaceship heading to the Huoyao planet?

There must be something wrong.

That's right.

Colonel Huo nodded, searched for reports related to Mars, found the list of victims, and read it carefully line by line.

When his eyes fell on the familiar name, the man's heart skipped a beat.

Impossible, how could this happen?

He began to verify it in all possible places, and the answers he got all pointed to the original sentence.

They told him that Ji He was dead.

Some people knew that Sergeant Ji was Colonel Huo's subordinate, and would gently advise him not to be too sad.

Is everyone lying to themselves?

Or is he deceiving himself?

Colonel Huo walked onto the terrace in a single layer of clothing, his dark, narrow eyes filled with unknown suffering and pain.

Glittering snowflakes fell on the man's shoulders, forming a thin layer, but it was nothing compared to the chill emanating from his body.

The brightly lit capital star.

Alpha stood at the highest point of the Huo family's old house and said nothing. The power that belonged to the superior was stripped away bit by bit, and he exhaled a thin stream of cold air.

Huo Yubai carefully recalled everything that happened before Ji He's accident, and thought of someone.

A man he respected immensely.

"Grandfather, is that you?"

Huo Yingzhan's face appeared on the computer. He had returned to the Glorious Legion and was handling the work at hand.

Admiral Alpha was not surprised by the call and had even expected it.

"Grandfather, why did you do this!"

"Why is Ji He on the Fire Star?"

He had never looked so shabby in front of others before. There was a spot on his clothes that was wet by the cold snow, and his hair was messy. He looked very different from the serious and dignified Colonel Huo.

"General Huo, where did you take my followers?"

For the first time, Huo Yubai spoke to his grandfather with gritted teeth, his voice concealing simmering anger and veins bulging on his forehead.

The other side of the virtual screen.

When Huo Yingzhan saw Huo Yubai's expression, he was stunned for two seconds, suppressed his displeasure, and replied with a frown, "He took the initiative to apply to leave."

"Why?"

Ji He was obviously doing a good job on Planet No. 2, and there were new recruits here that he had personally trained. If he wanted to go to another planet, why didn't he tell me?

Huo Yingzhan snorted and repeated, "Why?"

"Of course it's because of you."

"Because of me?"

Admiral Huo took off his gloves, raised his eyes and said, "You said it was just for fun."

"I don't like him, and I don't mean to be serious about him."

"He won't stay with you forever, will he?"

Huo Yubai took a half step back, held the corner of the table with his hand, and asked with trembling lips, "Grandfather, what do you mean?"

Huo Yingzhan took a long breath and confessed, "I talked to him before, and he said that I shouldn't influence your will."

"So I think maybe only by letting him hear your true feelings can he leave on his own initiative."

"Yu Bai, why don't you understand my good intentions?"

Huo Yubai's pupils suddenly shrank and he suddenly realized something.

"At that time, he was..."

Huo Yingzhan looked at this familiar face and suddenly felt as if he was looking at that rebellious son. He was shocked and continued, "Behind the one-way interrogation wall."

The young Alpha frowned. Ji He had heard all those hurtful lies.

Heartache, regret, and shock made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Why would you do that!"

"I am not a prisoner of the Federal Army, and neither is Ji He!"

Admiral Huo felt a headache, stretched out his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, and said: "At least I can use a lie detector on the prisoner."

"Huo Yubai, you really disappoint me."

The proud son of heaven, who was surrounded by countless halos, grew up under control and restraint. He would never have thought that the price of telling a lie would be the loss of his loved one forever and unbearable pain.

"Where is he now?"

Admiral Huo looked away. He had not expected that the other party would encounter interstellar pirates. He replied, "You should have received the news."

"I can give you some time. Once you have adjusted yourself, you can return to Planet Two."

Huo Yubai slammed his hand on the table. His palm felt numb, but he seemed not to feel anything. He repeated loudly, "Where is he now?"

"You hid him, didn't you?"

Huo Yingzhan turned his head away and said, "There is no need for me to hide a dead person."

dead.

Huo Yubai sat down on the ground exhausted, covered his ears, and said softly, "No."

"No, no."

Huo Yingzhan pursed his lips, said nothing, and lightly scolded: "What nonsense."

Admiral Huo's eyes were cold and ruthless. He had seen too many deaths and could not understand Huo Yubai's obsession with Ji He.

Just a Beta who can't even smell pheromones, it's not worth Huo Yubai's distraction.

"He won't die."

"He said he would always be with me."

"He likes me. He likes me very much."

Huo Yubai curled up in pain and didn't notice that the satellite phone call was hung up two minutes ago.

"Yeah, I know he likes me so much."

"What have I done?"

Alpha tilted his neck back and took deep breaths, not daring to think about how sad Ji He would be at that time.

The robot butler heard the unusual movement, extended his mechanical arm, knocked on the door, and said, "Master, are you okay?"

After a few minutes, the door slowly opened.

"What's up?"

Alpha's voice was shaking, as if he was suppressing something with all his strength, as if carving a few mottled strokes in the air.

The robot butler did not move, and replied in a cold, mechanical voice: "It's getting late, you should go to bed early."

The featureless metal face disappeared from Huo Yubai's sight. Alpha walked out, closed the door, and came to a room that had been sealed for a long time.

This is his mother's room.

Colonel Huo pushed the door open and walked in. The furnishings inside had not changed. Because no one lived there, there was a faint smell of death in the air.

During the days after he lost his mother, Huo Yubai had nightmares every night and simply stayed awake all night long in his mother's room.

"Mother."

Huo Yubai stood there, reached out and touched the cloth frame that his mother hung on the wall, but no one responded to him.

"I lost someone very important."

Alpha spoke slowly and seriously, his eyes became a little sour and his vision instantly became blurred.

He was unable to continue speaking, his chest heaving up and down, and the lighter in his arms fell out.

Colonel Huo immediately bent down and picked it up, rubbing the cypress leaf pattern on it hard until the cold metal pressed out marks on his skin.

"Mother, what should I do?"

He locked himself in his mother's room for a whole day.

Although the room was warm, Huo Yubai, curled up alone at the end of the bed, felt freezing cold.

"elder brother?"

Huo Lingyue sat in an electric wheelchair and let the robot butler behind her knock on the door for her.

She didn't know what had happened. Her brother would never act like this, and she felt a little worried.

"Brother, open the door."

After a long time, the electric wheelchair slid into the darkness.

The lights came on. Huo Lingyue held the blanket on her knees, looked at her brother who had his back to her, and asked, "Brother, what happened?"

"I lost him."

Alpha lowered his head, his voice was hoarse, and his red eyes swept over as he turned around.

From childhood to adulthood, Huo Lingyue had never seen her brother like this before. He looked as if he had lost his soul.

"Brother, what are you talking about?"

"They said that the spaceship that had the accident had someone my brother liked on board."

Huo Lingyue opened her mouth, but when she thought of the scary-looking list of victims, she didn't know what to say.

An unprecedented feeling of powerlessness swept through her body. She looked into the Alpha's scarlet eyes and pursed her lips.

"How could this happen..."

In Huo Lingyue's eyes, her brother is calm, strong, and omnipotent.

But such a person was now half-kneeling in front of her wheelchair, trembling all over.

Huo Lingyue could clearly feel that the Alpha's soul was sobbing and begging for mercy.

"You clearly don't want to leave, so why can you say it's okay?"

"He's obviously very sad, why does he still have to endure it?"

Alpha's voice was choked with sobs, his head lowered, his back bent like a tight bow.

When Beta asks him again and again if he likes her, he should answer firmly instead of thinking that there is a long time to go and he can wait before answering.

He got himself into a bad habit, but then he just walked away.

"Jihe, are you punishing me?"

"I can't stand it, Ji He."

Unlike Huo Lingyue's cautious life, her brother had to face strict education and cruel training since childhood.

She had never heard her brother complain, let alone say "I can't stand it".

But this time, Huo Yubai said he "couldn't bear it".

"I really can't stand it."

The Omega's nose felt sore, and as the Alpha trembled, tears poured into his eyes like a burst dam, piling up more and more.

Finally, her eyelashes could no longer bear the tears, and strings of tears rolled down.

"If Brother Ji He were still alive, he would be sad to see you like this."

Huo Yubai had never felt such touching words before. He raised his eyes and wiped away the tears on Huo Lingyue's cheeks.

"He'll be fine."

“No one saw him actually die.”

"I should go look for him. I will find him."

Huo Lingyue turned the wheelchair in a direction, looked at her brother's leaving back, and swallowed the rational advice in her heart.