Chapter 72 Discipline
Mingyu looked at him steadily.
"Only once." After a while, the young man replied.
"Give me another chance, and I'll reconsider you being my...boyfriend." He paused when he said the word "boyfriend", and for some reason he felt a little embarrassed.
But in a hurry, the young man raised a finger, pulling his mind away from the intimate relationship that might be about to happen, and warned Mu Boxingdao very seriously, "If you make a mistake again, I will kick you out, without even considering it!"
Mu Baixing: "Okay."
"You can't carry...anything dangerous by yourself, regardless of my wishes!"
"Um."
"You can't randomly increase your spiritual power level."
"Um."
"You can't just hold on without paying attention to your body!"
"good."
"You can't sail until the next Star Race! You must rest!"
"As you say."
“…”
Mingyu frowned, racking his brains for a long moment, unable to come up with the next line. After a moment, he extended his hand and said fiercely, "The rest can be added later! Now it's a pinky promise! You can't go back on your word!"
Mu Baixing: “…”
Mu Baixing chuckled softly.
"Okay." He stretched out his finger and, following Mingyu's instructions, hooked it with the designer's little finger.
The man's fingers were long and cold, their nails a pale white from lack of blood. Mingyu looked down, feeling uncomfortable. He hooked Mu Baixing's finger and said, "You should go to bed."
Mu Baixing took the opportunity to hold his hand.
"Okay." He responded as he had just now, looking up at Mingyu, and said calmly and naturally, "Come up."
"Sleep together."
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu was a little afraid that he would disturb the patient's rest, but he didn't want to refuse.
Even though Mu Baixing had woken up and the three critical illness notices he signed were no longer effective, Mingyu was still in shock.
For the time being, he just wanted to stay by Mu Boxing's side, confirm that the monitoring equipment in the ward had not sounded an alarm, and feel at ease only when he could hear Mu Boxing's breathing.
The hospital bed on Maze Star is not very big, but it can easily accommodate two adults.
Mingyu hesitated for a moment, then finally put on his coat and climbed onto the bed, lying down side by side with Mu Baixing.
"If I squeeze you, press you, or if you feel any discomfort, just call me directly," he instructed sternly. "From now on... no matter where you feel discomfort, you can't endure it by yourself."
"Remember you only have one chance!"
Mu Baixing: “…”
He looked helpless, thinking that he was being manipulated by the designer.
"Okay." The man could only answer, with a hint of willingness in his tone that was not obvious.
He was willing to be controlled by Mingyu.
The young man then closed his eyes.
He had been exhausted these past few days, feeling sleepy and tired. Feeling the body temperature of the person next to him, he gradually felt at ease and fell asleep quickly.
The young man faced towards Mu Baixing, with his forehead resting on the man's shoulder. He looked very sweet as he slept. After he fell asleep, he unconsciously rubbed against Mu Baixing.
The man then put his arm around his waist, watching Mingyu find a more comfortable sleeping position in his arms, and curled his lips with amusement.
After a while, fatigue from the injury overtook him. Mu Baixing also closed his eyes and fell asleep with Mingyu in his arms.
*
"Beep—The first team of the Labyrinth One-Star Monitoring Team reports that a black tide insect nest has been discovered in Area D of the Wild Resource Zone. The eradication operation is underway—"
"Reporting from the Second Monitoring Team! Black Tide Insect Nests have also been discovered in Areas C and F..."
"Team Three reporting! Area A, there's also one in Area A..."
The director of Labyrinth Star sat in a solemn chair in the meeting room, and looked annoyed after hearing the news.
After receiving reports of black tide bugs appearing on Labyrinth Planet, he immediately dispatched a monitoring team to investigate and eliminate them. However, the news he hated the most was that traces of black tide bug activity had also appeared in Area A, the virtual mining area.
He needed to use the first Star Navigation Competition Star Region Tournament to promote his newly established virtual mining area and attract explorers to mine. If the Black Tide Bug appeared, the Star Navigation Competition organizing committee might consider relocating the competition venue, and his virtual mining area would be marked as an orange danger zone, which would undoubtedly reduce the number of Star Network explorers who dared to enter.
But it was not reported to the Star Navigation Competition Organizing Committee...
He clicked on the communicator on his wrist.
I should have known not to let the Ming family's Third Legion in. The director thought in frustration, now that the existence of the black tide insects has been known to the Third Legion, if they want to avoid reporting it to the organizing committee, they will have to spend money to bribe the Ming family.
"Complete the cleanup within two days." After a while, the director gave orders to the supervisory team, then opened his bank account and counted the funds he intended to use to bribe the Ming family with great pain.
"Team Three reporting!" Another report from the Monitoring Team came through the channel. "A Black Tide Hive has been discovered in Area E! Two wrecked starships have also been found! One of the starships has no signs of life! What's inside... is..."
The reporter shuddered.
"Director." He swallowed and said, "They are from the Third Legion..."
The heavy red rain lasted for three days before it finally stopped.
Two days ago, the thunderstorm weakened and short-distance communications were restored, but long-distance communications were still unavailable.
In order to ensure the safety of the monitoring team, Maze Star did not send people out of the city to search until yesterday. After a day of sailing, they arrived at Area E.
Mingyan and Feren have been trapped in the starship for three days.
Their starship carried a first aid kit, along with ample food, water, and medicine. Their starship was running low on energy, and its engine thrust was weakening. As they were turning to evade, Mulan seized the opportunity to shoot them down. Fortunately, the starship was already flying at a very low altitude, and although the two men were knocked unconscious by the violent vibrations of the starship's fall, they were unharmed upon waking up.
Instead, he was filled with frustration and anger.
"Impossible." Feren paced nervously in the starship cabin, exhausted and angry, still in disbelief. "Impossible, how could I not be able to penetrate Mu Boxing's mental power?! And how could I be swallowed by Luce's mental power... What was his last trick!?"
Akihiko shook his head.
"Your mental power concentration was too high. I couldn't see clearly!" Ming Yan said solemnly. "I don't know what Luce was doing! Maybe it was a special mental weapon he designed for his powered exoskeleton."
He didn't think that A-level mental power alone could cause such great damage to the starship, so he simply attributed Mingyu's mental power explosion to the weapon.
"Be careful next time we compete," Ming Yan whispered. "If Luce and Mu Baixing's mental powers are amplified by the starship's heart and they cooperate with Mu Baixing..."
He shuddered.
Feren glared at him and raised his voice, "Why are you trembling?! Are you scared?!"
Akihiko: "..."
Ming Yan's throat choked, and he said angrily, half-seriously, half-jokingly, "I'm cold!"
As he said this, he actually sneezed.
All non-emergency systems in the starship had stopped working due to lack of energy. The two men had been freezing in the cold for several days and had no place to wash or dress, looking very miserable.
It wasn't until yesterday that we made contact with a starship from the Third Legion.
The other party drove a starship and found Mingyan together with the Labyrinth City Inspection Team.
When the rescue arrived, Mingyan and Feilun's originally straight white uniforms were already covered with wrinkles, their clothes were soaked with sweat and splashed rain, their hair was disheveled, and they looked completely undignified.
The two boarded the surveillance team's starship, and Mingyan immediately saw the corpse covered with black tarpaulin placed in the cabin.
"What... is this?" Mingyan saw the white corner of the clothes exposed under the black fabric.
Just as he was about to step forward, the captain of the first squad of the Third Legion reached out to stop him.
"The body." The captain whispered and helped Mingyan remove the black rain cloth.
Akihiko: "..."
His face turned pale and he took a step back.
Sun Nian's body was left with a single bloody hole, expanding from the center. Its edges showed signs of being torn from the inside out, and it was stained with black mucus. Meanwhile, the man observing the hand had his entire chest ripped open, leaving only a few remnants of his internal organs. It was a horrific sight.
"It's the Black Tide Bug," the surveillance team member whispered. "The Black Tide energy activity was too intense on the last Black Tide Day, and low-level Black Tide creatures followed the energy tide and entered the Labyrinth Planet."
He turned his gaze to Sun Nian and frowned again.
And that hole in the body...
The location where they appeared happened to be a fatal location, as if they had been shot and killed before the black tide insects emerged.
But he didn't want to make trouble for something that could be easily determined, so he didn't express this conjecture that had no evidence to support it.
"I've already reported the situation to the commander and deputy commander," the captain frowned. His dark eyes deepened, and he spoke a little slower than usual, each word emphasized with seriousness. "The starship's record chip has been destroyed, and we still have no clue."
"In addition, the Legion Commander and the Deputy Legion Commander are very concerned about the safety of you and Mr. Ferran."
"The deputy commander hopes you can respond to her communication."
Ming Yan nodded casually with a straight face, entered the cabin at the rear, turned on the communication bracelet, and called Ming's mother.
"Xiao Yan!" Ming's mother answered the call almost immediately. She looked anxious, but upon seeing Ming Yan's condition, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then, distressed, she asked, "How did it get like this? What's going on with you guys in the resource area..."
"mom."
Ming Yan was filled with anger. "It's so colorful. LUCE is collaborating with the Mu family."
Ming's mother was stunned for a moment and her expression turned cold.
"What's going on?" She asked with some suspicion, "We haven't found any information about Luce, but the Mu family can find it?"
Ming Yan shook his head and added, "Colorful also got the Firebird's crystal core."
Zhao Ying: “!!”
"They stole the Firebird's core?" Zhao Ying asked anxiously. "With the Mu family?"
"Yes." Ming Yan said quickly, "I don't know whether this crystal stone fell into the hands of Wucaibanlan or the Mu family. But when we were fighting with Wucaibanlan for the crystal core, Mu Lian suddenly opened fire, as if to provide them with cover."
Zhao Ying: “…”
"This is not good news," she murmured. "After Mu Baixing's mental power exploded... he possessed the ability to ignite. If they eventually joined the Mu family's Second Legion, the Mu family's strength might surpass ours..."
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly realized something and looked up at Akihiko.
"I'm not saying you and Fei Lun aren't strong enough." Zhao Ying, taking her beloved son's feelings into consideration, immediately slowed her voice. "It's just that you're still young...you need time to grow. Mu Baixing and Luce, judging by the former's use of mental power and the latter's starship design style, must have much more experience than you and Fei Lun."
Ming Yan responded and whispered, "I know."
"But, mother, they have already worked for the Mu family, so it is impossible for them to agree to our invitation."
"Besides, I want to get the Firebird Crystal Core back."
"Although the Firebird's core was taken away this time, Wucaiqiqi was badly injured. He's probably in the medical clinic in Labyrinth City 1 now..."
"Mom, tell the people who have returned to the Maze City."
"Tell them to bring the crystal back before Wucaibiancai leaves."
"That Luce and Mu Boxing... Fei Lun and I have already offended them... so it doesn't matter if it happens again!"
*
"According to the weather forecast, Labyrinth City will experience even more severe red rain and thunderstorms over the next three days. Labyrinth Star will close its landing port for starships. Residents are also requested to close all private ports..."
"Damn it, I came to the resource area in vain." At midnight, in the medical center, an observer who was seriously injured in a starship accident and was forced to be hospitalized for treatment was lying on the bed, listening to the official broadcast on the communication channel and muttering angrily.
"We crashed into a thunderstorm just after entering the resource area. I'm now hospitalized, and even after I'm discharged tomorrow, I still can't take off..." He couldn't sleep due to the pain, tossing and turning in his hospital bed. His teammate, who had come with him, was sleeping soundly, snoring in the accompanying chair nearby, which annoyed him.
In the intervals between his teammates' regular snoring, the observer caught sight of footsteps passing through the corridor.
The footsteps were very light, as if someone was deliberately controlling the strength of the footsteps.
His sensitivity from years of entering and leaving dangerous resource areas made him unable to help but sit up slightly, releasing some mental power and carefully looking out through the crack in the door.
He didn't dare to look too conspicuously until the footsteps had left for a while, then he used his mental power to secretly peek out from the crack in the door.
He saw a straight-statured, short-haired doctor in a white coat, three nurses, and a medical robot push open the door of a ward at the end of the corridor.
Observer: “…”
The environment in Maze City is poor, and there are few doctors and nurses willing to work in the medical clinic here.
He had been to Maze Star many times, and because of various accidents, he had long recognized the staff here.
There are only two attending physicians here. One wears a pair of ostentatious big earrings and looks like a street thug, and the other has long hair down to his waist and looks like an artistic young man. But there is no doctor with clean ears, short hair, and walking with shoulders straight.
This person has bad intentions and seems to be here to seek revenge and kill people.
There are many evil spirits coming to the Maze Star. Even though the public security has improved on the surface, there are still many cases of personal revenge.
This matter has nothing to do with him.
The observer lay back down on the bed, watching the group of people push open the ward door with a look of spectator interest.
A flash of thunder flashed across the sky.
The person on the bed was sleeping soundly due to his injuries. He vaguely heard the sound of the door opening and closing, frowned slightly, but failed to wake up in time.
Until a cold and hard touch touched his brow.
The sound of a gunshot was drowned out by the next thunder.
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