"..." My heart is ashen, my heart is torn apart, and the heavens have forsaken me!
Cen sat on the sofa, looking dejected.
Lan Yao chuckled. "You really don't want to be on the same side as Wen Xihe?" He glanced at Wen Xihe's closed room, confident that with an Alpha's hearing, he could easily have overheard the conversation in the living room. "You hate him that much?"
Cen Yu knew, of course, that Wen Xi could definitely hear him.
"I hate poor Alphas," he emphasized again, showing he hadn't forgotten his original intention.
Immediately afterwards, some noises came from Wen Xihe's room.
Whether it was because it overheard their conversation or simply made some noise, Wen Xihe's door opened a moment later. He leaned against the doorframe and looked at Cen Yu. Perhaps because his pheromones had been unstable lately, he still had a glaring bite guard on his face. "If you want to say bad things, you'd better do it when no one else is around."
He then pushed open the door and walked out, saying, "Rather than marrying into the Federation, your most important thing right now is figuring out how to avoid being expelled from school."
...Marrying into the Federation?
Cen Yu was stunned for a few seconds, then remembered his crazy remarks in the office.
No way! How did these people overhear even this?!
"What do you mean, 'marrying into the Federation'!" Cen Yu refused to admit it. "I think it's more like he's marrying into the Empire!"
Wen Xihe didn't speak. He was wearing a light brown T-shirt, and seemed to have just finished exercising, as there was still some sweat on his body... He looked Cen Yu up and down, "You? Married to the Federation?"
Although he didn't finish his sentence, the meaning was clear—you?
Lan Yao chuckled and patted Cen Yu's shoulder reassuringly, "Wen Xihe is just concerned about you, worried that you'll be expelled..." He looked up at Wen Xihe, "Right?"
Wen Xihe remained noncommittal, but took a bottle of water from the dormitory refrigerator. He first removed his bite stopper before taking a sip of the chilled water. "This competition is not on the usual terrain."
This can be considered an answer to Lan Yao's question.
"A battle between three factions."
"On the planet Nott."
Planet Nott… Cen Yu clearly remembered that the previous competitions were all held on the affiliated planet of the Imperial Military Academy. There were various terrains here, which could simulate a real battlefield environment. In addition to mutated beasts, there were also some mechanical insects made by the Empire, which could simulate most of the insect race's combat methods.
Although the planet Nott also belongs to the Empire.
However, it requires three space jumps by starship to reach it. The only difference between this place and its neighboring planet is that it was indeed once infested by insects. Although some of them have been wiped out by the Empire and the Federation, the place is almost a ruin. Apart from occasional space pirates and insects, almost no other creatures will stay here.
In short, this is indeed the front line of the battlefield.
“…Planet Nott?” Lan Yao hadn’t expected the competition to be held in a different location this time.
Logically, he should be very well-informed.
He glanced at Wen Xihe, knowing that because this person had no background but was exceptionally talented and had a dominant position among most ordinary Alphas, he was secretly favored by some forces within the school. However, he did not expect that the other party would know such big news in advance.
"What is the school thinking?" Lan Yao couldn't help but ask.
"Perhaps they're tired of playing house," Wen Xihe said.
Although the affiliated planets are nominally home to mutated beasts and mechanical insects developed by the Empire, and there are also casualties, the actual level of danger is not high.
“After joining the legion, the legion also grew tired of having to teach everything from scratch,” Wen Xihe added.
Cen Yu never expected that the location would be changed to Planet Nott this time.
He remembered that this planet played a significant role in the later episodes. Although it was an uninhabited place, there was a secret underground laboratory, where a group of mad scientists who hadn't evacuated were researching a hybrid of humans and insectoids...
But clearly, the research failed.
The creature that emerged from the laboratory was a bizarre half-human, half-insect.
The Empire and the Federation subsequently expended considerable effort to finally eliminate these monsters on Nott.
Although there were still ten years before this plot unfolded, Cen Yu felt a vague unease. He asked casually, "Planet Nott? I thought it had become ruins."
“It has indeed become ruins,” Lan Yao said. “The Empire previously sent a small team to eliminate the space pirates.”
"Planet Nott is on the shipping route, and several important space jump points are nearby, so space pirates often lie in ambush on the planet."
Lan Yao still felt that the Imperial Military Academy's erratic behavior was inappropriate. "...Can our firepower cover the space pirates?" Who knows if there might be space pirates trading nearby at that time.
Wen Xihe shrugged. "Who knows?"
“Perhaps we’ll have to deal with space pirates again this time.” He glanced at Cen Yu. “You can forfeit the competition at any time, and the teacher will take you back to the starship.”
Cen Yu: "..."
"The simulator shows the environment of Planet Nott," Lan Yao kindly reminded him. "Although it's the environment from ten years ago, it shouldn't have changed much."
Wen Xihe finished the water she had taken from the refrigerator in one gulp and threw the empty bottle into the trash can.
"Cen Yu."
"Bad news."
Cen Yu gave a questioning look.
"Many poor Alphas have been assigned to the blue camp." Wen Xihe seemed to be genuinely just trying to be helpful, "So..."
He walked over and gently patted Cen Yu on the shoulder. "Be careful of the poor Alpha. Your enemies aren't just the other two factions."
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