"An underground structure?" Huo Shen had participated in the rescue of survivors from Planet Nott ten years ago.
Some of his teammates were left behind on Nott forever. He later wondered why those people were unwilling to leave Nott for so long, and even why they later escaped from the starport. He guessed that there was something strange about it.
However, the military leadership didn't take it seriously, and the matter ended there.
Upon hearing about the secret laboratory in the underground building, he immediately pushed back his chair and stood up. "Gentlemen," he tapped the table a few times with his knuckles, "I have to go to Nott Planet."
Bai Jinyu's father immediately objected.
“This is interference!” he said immediately.
Of course, in that instant, Huo Shen saw through his selfish motives—
He hoped something would happen to Li Chonghe.
"Is simply staying in the starport also a distraction?" Huo Shen countered. "I suspect this underground laboratory holds a much bigger secret."
Thinking of this, he suddenly looked at the higher-ups and asked, "Why is this year's competition being held on Planet Nott?"
"In previous years, it was always on an auxiliary planet."
Huo Shen's question was quite direct, and the school's senior officials looked at each other in bewilderment, ultimately offering no answer.
Huo Shen understood in his heart that it was mostly because Li Chonghe and Wen Chunjin, whether from the Empire or the Federation, had their own selfish motives and wanted to do something underhanded in this competition... Thinking of this, he looked at Bai Jinyu's father, "Li Chonghe's glands are damaged."
"This is a big deal."
Even the Imperial Military Academy didn't want to see this situation—
The Second Prince of the Empire's glands were damaged during the competition. If the opponent's glands really had problems, causing them to lose their mental power, that would obviously be a big problem.
On the projection screen, the instructors and accompanying doctors who received the report immediately prepared to head to the desert area.
The instructors also formed another team to investigate the underground building where the secret experiments were being conducted.
Wen Xi and her two teammates continued to report that they had encountered danger inside, and during the battle, the mech's fuel leaked, causing a fire in the underground structure...
...
Cen Yu and the others are still in the desert.
It was already late at night, and there was less than half an hour left before the match was to actually begin.
Wen Xi wiped the sand off her face. "When will the medical team arrive?"
Chi Jiazhen kept looking at the communicator. "It'll be soon."
"We'll be there in half an hour."
Li Chonghe remained seated on the ground; the wound on the back of his neck had stopped bleeding… When he looked up, he saw Cen Yu looking at him.
Li Chonghe habitually smiled, but in the end, it was Cen Yu who spoke—
"If you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh."
"Haha." Li Chonghe laughed a few times, and then his face finally lost its expression.
Cen Yu frowned as he looked at Li Chonghe.
He hadn't expected Cen Shen and Li Chonghe to be so bold. He turned his head again to look at the underground entrance... This underground building had its own fire prevention measures. When he ran out, the underground fire prevention measures had already started to activate. Fortunately, the mecha's fuel was very flammable. He figured that by the time the fire prevention measures took effect, most of the tanks on the fifth underground floor had probably been burned.
"What did you see underground?" Chi Jiazhen asked after a moment's hesitation.
Wen Xi hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "A secret laboratory, it seems to be conducting some dangerous experiments, perhaps experiments related to humans."
Chi Jiazhen nodded as if he understood, then looked down at the communicator. "They seem unable to pinpoint the location accurately." He handed the communicator to Wen Xihe.
Wen Xi glanced around and noticed that the rescue team and instructors were actually circling in the desert—
It's as if some kind of signal jammer has been installed here.
"I'll go find them."
Wen Xihe made a quick decision, glancing at Chi Jiazhen, "You wait here until I come back."
“I’ll go too,” Cen Yu said.
Wen Xihe glanced at him, her gaze lingering on the ends of his charred hair for a moment. "You wait here."
“People from the green camp might come here.” He glanced at Chi Jiazhen and Li Chonghe, his meaning clear: a Beta who hadn’t fought much and a second prince who had lost his glands… they really needed Cen Yu’s help here.
“Soon,” Wen Xihe said.
"Ten minutes at most."
He then climbed into his mech, saying, "I'll be back soon."
After Wen Xi finished speaking, the mecha flew into the air, preparing to search for the medical team and instructors.
For some reason, Cen Yu felt a vague unease. He looked at the entrance... and then he found Chi Jiazhen beside him. It was at that moment that he suddenly smelled a faint citrus scent.
He immediately turned to look at Chi Jiazhen, wanting to remind him of the pheromone leak, but then he remembered something else—
Wasn't Chi Jiazhen also poisoned by the medicine developed by Cen Shen?
"What's wrong, Xiao Yu?" Chi Jiazhen turned to look at him, seemingly not understanding why Cen Yu was looking at her like that.
“Your pheromones,” Cen Yu whispered.
"Chi Jiazhen." Perhaps because there were no outsiders present, Li Chonghe suddenly spoke, "Don't you feel anything is wrong with your body?"
"What's wrong?" Chi Jiazhen tilted her head and looked at Li Chonghe. "Are you saying you're too tired?"
"You also took Cen Shen's medicine." Li Chonghe looked at him. "Your glands and your back are all normal?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Jiazhen touched the gland on the back of her neck. "...I don't quite understand what you mean."
"Did you also take Brother Cen's medicine?"
Chi Jiazhen smiled and looked at Li Chonghe, "You are a Beta to begin with, so you don't need to pretend."
"So you want to become an Alpha?"
"Perhaps this kind of Alpha-turning drug is more dangerous," Chi Jiazhen muttered to herself. "My neck and back are perfectly normal."
At this moment, Cen Yu finally felt a strong sense of unease.
The timid and shy Chi Jiazhen, upon hearing Li Chonghe's words, did not experience any panic as if he had taken the "three-no" medicine. On the contrary, he seemed to know everything.
"Second Prince," Chi Jiazhen looked at Li Chonghe, "what happened to your glands and back?"
He looked at Li Chonghe with concern, "It seems that you were injured in these two places."
Li Chonghe remained silent, deep in thought... It was highly likely that Cen Shen himself was unaware of the drug's side effects, or that his mentor had deceived him from the outset.
Otherwise, Cen Shen wouldn't have wanted to use the medicine on Cen Yu as well.
And Chi Jiazhen...
Li Chonghe looked at him and said, "Your home planet is Nott."
“You immigrated from Planet Nott to Planet B5-273.”
Despite Li Chonghe's almost interrogative tone, Chi Jiazhen still spoke softly, "Yes."
"My home planet is Nott."
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