Chapter 74: Quarrel! Breakup?
Ye Heng's voice was very calm, without much emotion.
"You should have heard of that person's name, Lin Xue."
Lin Yao was stunned. The name did sound familiar. He frowned and thought for a moment. He remembered that it was when Shasha helped Ye Heng solve the isolation bag.
The member of the Lin family who was ordered to leave his spiritual power in Ye Heng's body.
Lin Yao asked, "When was it decided?"
Ye Heng didn't say anything, but unlocked his laptop and handed it over.
There was a message on the screen. The sender was the old butler who had been with Ye Heng’s grandfather for many years. The content was very simple.
Basically, it means that they have already reached an agreement with the Lin family, and after the mission on Mingsha Star is over, Ye Heng and Lin Xue will meet to finalize the agreement.
The message was sent four nights ago.
Lin Yao's eyes fell on the time, and his heart skipped a beat.
Four days ago, he was conducting large-scale mental power guidance for the Red Shadow First Army.
That night they went to the cafeteria to eat together. Halfway through the meal, Ye Heng said that he had a communication to send out.
At the time, he thought it was just ordinary military communication, but now he thought about it, he was actually dealing with this disgusting matter.
A surge of anger rose from the bottom of his heart without warning, and even Shasha in his mental picture began to become restless.
The vines crackled and swayed, and the golden and red lines on the branches and leaves became dazzling.
Lin Yao clenched his laptop tightly, his knuckles turning white. He looked up at Ye Heng, his voice tense and suppressed: "Do you have anything to say to me?"
Ye Heng looked at Lin Yao silently, then shook his head.
Lin Yao took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I don't have anything to say to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand and smashed the computer into the sand.
The mental power was poured into Shasha's body without reservation, and the golden and red vines suddenly grew several meters long and whipped towards Ye Heng with a sharp sound that tore through the air.
The whip was so powerful that Ye Heng didn't have time to react before he was whipped and sent flying.
He fell to the ground with a bang.
This sudden change made Cang Lie, Yun Ling and Shen Yunxing, who were not far away, open their eyes wide in shock.
The three people stood there in a daze, unable to react for a moment.
No one expected Lin Yao to suddenly attack, and no one expected Ye Heng to be knocked to the ground.
"Damn it!" Cang Lie was the first to come back to his senses. He yelled and rushed over, "Is this kid Lin Yao crazy?!"
Before Ye Heng could recover, Lin Yao raised his hand again with red eyes, and the murderous vines chased after him like a snake, hitting him hard in the chest.
Ye Heng groaned, with a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, but he still did not hide. He just stared at Lin Yao with his deep eyes.
"Get out!" Lin Yao's voice trembled when he shouted this word, and he turned and left.
Shasha was waving his sword wildly at Ye Heng behind him, and some of his moves looked really dirty!
Cang Lie, who wanted to call out to him, was muted manually by Shasha.
Lin Yao's figure quickly disappeared at the end of the sand ridge, leaving only Ye Heng, who was vomiting blood after being whipped twice, still recounting the fierce conflict just now.
"What on earth is going on?" Cang Lie was angry and anxious, looking at Ye Heng with a puzzled look in his eyes.
"Why are you two suddenly in such a mess?"
Ye Heng looked at the direction where Lin Yao disappeared.
He pursed his lips and said nothing, only his clenched fists revealed that he was not calm at the moment.
The wind was still blowing, with the rough feeling of gravel, hitting people's faces painfully.
Just like this sudden breakup, it left a thorn in everyone's heart.
Cang Lie and Yun Ling both supported Ye Heng. The golden-red vines were much more powerful than the ice-blue ones.
Shen Yunxing picked up Ye Heng's laptop from the ground. The message was still clearly displayed on the screen that was not turned off.
Her gaze lingered on the screen for a moment, then she raised her head in a panic and handed the laptop to Ye Heng, her voice apologetic:
"Marshal Ye, your optical brain. Sorry, I didn't mean to look at it..."
Her words made Cang Lie's heart skip a beat, and he keenly sensed that something was wrong.
Without waiting for Ye Heng to reach out, he took the laptop from Shen Yunxing and looked down at the screen.
When he saw the content of the message, the impatience on Cang Lie's face instantly faded away, replaced by a complicated silence.
He stared at the screen for a few seconds, then silently returned the laptop to Ye Heng, patted his shoulder, and said with a tone of indifference:
“You…”
After a pause, he sighed, "Lin Yao looks gentle, but he's actually very stubborn.
I understand that it's hard to accept this kind of thing for the time being, but if you go back and comfort her, and pay a little more, she'll probably get better."
Yun Ling also understood the general idea and nodded in agreement:
"Uncle Cang is right. Major Lin just can't accept it for the time being."
Ye Heng took the laptop, stroking the cold screen with his fingertips, still without saying a word.
—
After returning home that day, Lin Yao moved to an empty tent far away.
When moving out, Lin Yao specifically asked Shasha to pack his luggage, and walked ostentatiously from Ye Heng's tent to the empty tent.
Ye Heng was the only one left in the command tent that had been crowded with two people. Next to the tactical map spread out under the lamp was a bottle of unfinished nutrient solution.
That was the brand that Lin Yao usually drank.
The most painful encounter was in the cafeteria.
Lin Yao always went to get food at the time when Ye Heng left. If he accidentally bumped into him, he would immediately turn around and go to another window.
Ye Heng tried to walk over with the plate in hand, but just after taking three steps, golden-red vines sprouted from Lin Yao's wrist.
The tip of the plant was stretched straight, and the leaves spread out with a swish. The lines on them were dazzlingly bright, clearly a warning gesture.
Lin Yao just looked at Ye Heng, his eyes coldly saying: Get out of the way.
Ye Heng paused, his fingertips clenched the edge of the plate, and finally he retreated silently.
It’s even worse on the training ground.
While Lin Yao was doing mental coordination training with the sentry, Ye Heng stood by and watched for half a quarter of an hour.
I wanted to go closer and say something affirmative, but after taking two steps,
The murderous vines seemed to have eyes and "whoosh" jumped out from Lin Yao's sleeves.
The leaves pointed straight at him, making a slight friction sound, like an irritated snake.
The sentries stopped moving in fear and looked at each other.
Lin Yao frowned: "Continue."
But the vine never retracted until Ye Heng turned and left, then it slowly wrapped around his wrist.
The soldiers of Chiying saw all this and gathered together to chat privately.
"The Marshal is going to run into trouble again?"
"What else? Didn't you see that Shasha was furious?"
"What were you arguing about? We went to the cafeteria together yesterday morning..."
"I don't know, but it's definitely the Marshal's fault." A sentry made the final decision in a firm tone.
"What kind of personality does Major Lin have? To make him so angry that he even asked Shasha to intervene, the Marshal must have done something really bad."
"Yes! During the previous cleanup, Chen Yang almost injured Major Lin, and he was never this angry!"
"We have to find a way to make the Marshal admit his mistake..."
When the discussion reached Ye Heng's ears, he was standing outside Lin Yao's tent.
In his hand was a freshly baked energy bar with the honey flavor that Lin Yao loved.
There was no light in the tent, only the vines poking out a little from the crack in the door, the leaves swaying slightly, as if watching him.
Ye Heng sighed and put the energy bar at the door.
Just as he turned around and took two steps, he heard a very light rustling sound from the tent behind him. It was the sound of vines rolling up the energy bar.
He subconsciously slowed down his pace, the tension in his back relaxed a little, and he even couldn't help but want to look back.
After all, it was collected.
Just as this thought came to mind, something suddenly hit my back.
There was a dull "bang" sound, with a somewhat crisp and hard texture.
Ye Heng's body stiffened, and when he looked down, he saw the honey-flavored energy bar rolling to his feet, the wrapping paper was crumpled.
The tip of a creeping vine was poking out from the crack in the tent curtain.
The leaves shook proudly, as if they had accomplished some remarkable task.
Then it shrank back with a "swish" and hit the ground with a "bang".
The sound was like saying "Get away".
Ye Heng stood there, still feeling a dull sensation on his back.
He bent down to pick up the energy bar, pinching the wrinkled wrapper with his fingertips, and a helpless smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The relief I had just felt was completely destroyed by this blow.
Not far away, two Red Shadow soldiers who were secretly observing quickly retracted their heads and covered their mouths to stifle their laughter.
"See, what did I say? Major Lin is still angry."
"Shasha has even learned to throw things. Marshal, this is a big mistake..."
“Keep your voice down!!”
Of course Ye Heng heard it, but he didn't turn around.
He held the despised energy bar in his hand and slowly walked towards his tent.
The setting sun stretched his shadow very long, and the energy bar in his hand swayed in the afterglow.
When he reached the door of the tent, he suddenly stopped and stuffed the energy bar into his pocket.
Try a different flavor tomorrow? Maybe Lin Yao doesn't want to eat honey flavor today.
Ye Heng touched the back of his heart, which still ached slightly.
But this little pain was far less than the stubbornness hidden in Shasha's attack, which belonged to Lin Yao, and made him feel heavy in his heart.
Take it slow, everything will be fine.
He said this to himself, as if to cheer himself up.
—
During the two days of rest, the air in the military camp seemed to be compressed, and even the wind had a sense of tension.
Even the leaders of the other two groups avoided Lin Yao.
Cang Lie deliberately chose the seat farthest away from Lin Yao during the meeting, and Yun Ling didn't dare to look at him when she was talking about information and data.
It’s not that I’m afraid that he will disobey orders, but I’m afraid that he will be burned by the energy that can explode at any time.
On the day we set out to encircle and suppress the remaining two Gu Yin insects, it was just dawn.
The golden-red vines just stood quietly in the air, surrounded by extreme oppression.
Lin Yao's sentry partner Xiao Wu was so frightened that he started swallowing his saliva.
It was obvious that his spirit body was a great white shark, and his ferocious appearance scared many guides to tears.
God has his own way of dealing with things, and no one can escape this fate. Now it’s his turn to be afraid.
But it was obvious that the sentry was too early to worry, as the killing at this moment was not the most terrifying thing.
When the battle started, ten vines suddenly shot out from both sides of the cabin.
Like ten steel whips that had been accumulating strength for a long time, they lashed out at the Gu Yin insects in the front row.
The force was so shocking that the insect that was hit flew sideways, knocking over a group of its kind behind it.
Before the insects could react, ten vines had already drilled into the insect pile like living creatures.
Sometimes they gather together like spears and fiercely plunge into the densest part of the insect swarm;
Sometimes it spreads out like a net, gathering together groups of insects.
Then it tightened suddenly, and there was a crisp sound of shells breaking, and the insects were actually crushed into pieces.
Even more frightening are the star-shaped serrations at the end of the vine.
A cold light flashed, and then insect heads fell to the ground in large numbers, and the insect's body fluids splattered everywhere.
The murderous vines seemed to be stained with anger, and every chop carried the momentum of destroying the world.
Lin Yao was directing Shasha and Xiao Wu at the same time, telling them where the mecha should go and at what angle.
Xiao Wu carried out the order tremblingly, his palms were full of sweat and sticky to the joystick.
He didn't even dare to take a deep breath, for fear that any breath he took would attract Shasha's attention.
Just now, a small insect that had escaped the net flew close to the mecha, and the killing vines did not wait for Lin Yao's order.
He turned around with a "whoosh" and nailed the insect to the ground. The saw teeth turned half a circle, turning the insect's body into green mud.
"Left, there's a swarm of insects approaching from the left!" Xiao Wu stared at the tactical screen.
He was no longer a rookie, yet he could still stutter out of fear.
He saw Mo Yun trying to get closer, and he was only ten meters away from them.
A vine of Shasha hit Mo Yun's body with a "snap", leaving a deep mark and causing several scales to fall off.
The meaning is obvious: don't come over.
Xiao Wu's heart skipped a beat and he secretly glanced at Lin Yao.
There was no expression on the other person's face, and his movements in controlling the vines were terrifyingly steady, as if the bloody scene before him was just pruning branches.
But Xiao Wu could feel the extremely suppressed anger in Lin Yao's body, and even his murderous attacks were filled with a fierce desire to vent his anger.
He suddenly felt very regretful.
If he had known that Major Lin was so scary when he was angry, he should not have taken the initiative to apply to partner with Lin Yao no matter what he said just now.
Now, I’m afraid that if I make a wrong move, I’ll be the next one to be crushed by the vines.
This feeling of regret has always been with Xiao Wu.
Watching Lin Yao use those two hundred vines to tie up the two Gu Yin insects,
Collide them with each other, then slam them into the ground, torturing them over and over again.
In the end, the two insects that lost their lives were finally released, and Xiao Wu actually felt a sense of "the Guyin insects are finally freed" in his heart.
He's actually sympathizing with bugs!!!
When the mecha came to a complete stop on the camp's helipad, Xiao Wu's hands were still shaking.
He stared at the sweat stains on the joystick in a daze, and only came back to his senses until Lin Yao walked away, and hurriedly unbuckled his seat belt.
As soon as I pushed open the car door, my legs went weak and I almost fell down. Fortunately, I grabbed the edge of the door.
Along the way, he did nothing else except driving the mecha to the designated location.
He didn't even dare to report any more tactical instructions, and was like a puppet in the driver's seat throughout the whole process.
"Wu, Wu Ge?" a soldier asked him, "Are you... okay?"
Xiao Wu opened his mouth, his throat was tight, and he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
What could he say? That he was so frightened by a guide's spirit that he nearly peed his pants? That he didn't dare move an inch?
He could only smile awkwardly and curse the person who pissed off Lin Yao (no need to think about it, you know who it is) eight hundred times in his heart.
Why did you have to mess with this ancestor when you could mess with anyone else?!
—
The tragic death of the two Guyin insects seemed to have sounded the clarion call for evacuation.
Less than half an hour after the battle, the White Tiger Legion's starships had already lit up their engine light tracks.
Cang Lie stood on the bridge of H001, his fingers sliding rapidly on the control screen.
The staff officer behind him was panting as he held onto the tactical terminal. "Captain, the last batch of data hasn't been given to Chi Ying yet!"
"Upload it to the cloud! Let Ye Heng download it himself!" Cang Lie gave the order for the starship to take off without even turning his head.
"Coordinates locked on the central star, maximum speed!"
The ship trembled slightly, and the anti-gravity device hummed and lifted the starship off the ground.
The sand was lifted up by the air currents at the bottom of the starship and rolled into rotating sand columns outside the portholes.
Cang Lie looked at the ground through the observation mirror and happened to see that the Feiyu Legion's starship had also taken off, and the light blue energy shield was shining hastily.
"Yun Ling, this kid, is even more anxious than me." Cang Lie sneered, but shouted into the communicator,
"Have you set the jump coordinates? Run!"
"It's already been set up." Yun Ling's voice came from the communicator, not caring at all about being teased.
"That particle cannon on your stern hasn't returned to its position yet. Aren't you afraid of it exploding while running so fast?"
"It's better than staying here and getting overwhelmed." Cang Lie glanced at the ground camp. The three starships of Chiying were still standing quietly at their berths.
Lin Yao's figure appeared outside the tent, with golden and red vines hanging down at his sides.
Occasionally, gravel would fall on the vines and be instantly crushed into powder.
There was silence on the communicator for two seconds, and Yun Ling sighed:
"Indeed. I just sent the sentry to say goodbye to Major Lin, and when he came back, his legs were weak. He said Shasha flashed his saw teeth at him three times."
"How can I not be soft?" Cang Lie thought of the two broken Gu Yin insects, and always felt that they were suffering for someone.
"The migration is ready." The adjutant's voice interrupted their conversation.
"Go." Cang Lie and Yun Ling gave the order almost at the same time.
Two streaks of light suddenly pierced through the atmosphere of Mingsha Star, and the fleets of Baihu and Feiyu were like a school of disturbed fish.
They jumped into the jump channel one after another. Before the lavender space ripples dissipated, the shadows of the starships had disappeared into the sky.
On the ground, Chiying's new recruit, Xiao Wang, pointed at the sky, stunned: "They don't even use a buffer when their starship jumps? If they hit the asteroid belt..."
"It's better to bump into him than to stay here for one more second." The old soldier pointed his mouth in the direction of Lin Yao.
The other party was bending over to check the external energy interface of the starship. The killer vines were wrapped around the interface line, and his movements looked very gentle.
When Baihu's starship took off just now, the tail flame almost burned Chiying's starship. Canglie wanted to just ride on the starship and run away.
Ye Heng stood in the command center, watching the light spots representing White Tiger and Feiyu on the tactical screen completely disappear in the jump trajectory diagram, and tapped lightly on the table with his fingertips.
A message from Cang Lie popped up on the computer, a single line of text: [I'll have the staff monitor the review. You focus on resolving internal conflicts.]
He looked up outside and saw Lin Yao walking towards his tent, with Shasha following behind him, leaving a faint golden-red arc in the air.
"Marshal," Ye Mang asked softly, "When do we set sail?"
"Leave a carrier ship for me, and go back to the Sphenoid System first."
—
When the last of the Red Shadow starships disappeared into the sky, Lin Yao's voice came from behind Ye Heng:
"Are they all scared away?"
Ye Heng turned his head suddenly, his gaze meeting Lin Yao's calm eyes, and all his composure and composure were shattered.
He almost rushed over, opened his arms, and hugged Lin Yao tightly in his arms.
The force was so strong and the arms were so tightly clenched that it was almost impossible to breathe.
He buried his face in Lin Yao's neck, rubbing his nose against the other's skin, and his muffled breathing was accompanied by an imperceptible tremor.
"Bad Mumu," he said, his voice trembling unconsciously, "you've been..."
I got stuck before I could finish my words, perhaps because I had accumulated too much grievances and didn't know where to start.
He just buried his face deeper, clearly feeling Lin Yao's warm body temperature.
Only then did she dare to let that bit of vulnerability show, the corners of her eyes turned slightly red, and the corners of her mouth turned down.
"You beat me with your sword," he complained in a muffled voice.
Her voice was filled with deep grievance. "Now it hurts even when I touch it. When I lie down in the tent at night, I wake up just by turning over..."
His fingers clenched the clothes on Lin Yao's back, as if he was venting the discomfort he had been holding back for the past few days:
"I stand outside your tent every day, but you don't even leave a light on for me..."
At the end of his speech, his voice was choked with sobs, and he buried his face in the crook of his neck and rubbed it, as if he was acting coquettishly, but also as if he was accusing:
"I miss you... Mumu, so much."
Ye Heng just held her like that, not saying anything, all his emotions were put into this hug.
Lin Yao could feel Ye Heng's skin against his neck getting slightly hot.
But he slapped him without any hesitation. Ye Heng groaned, but he tightened his arms even more, almost trying to embed Lin Yao in his arms.
Lin Yao didn't care and patted him again: "Humph, those two captains probably think I have a bad temper."
"How can you hide it if you're not truthful?" Ye Heng wiped the sand off his cheek, and the grievance in his eyes faded, replaced by a hint of solemnity.
Lin Yao snorted and raised his hand to poke his chest.
Ye Heng grabbed his wrist and began to say, "I had no intention of agreeing to that matter at all, don't be angry."
"I'm really angry." Lin Yao pulled back his hand and signaled him to let go, as he still had things to do.
Ye Heng let go and at the same time took his hand, pulling him towards the cave.
Shasha wove a net of energy behind them.
It can block wind and sand, and isolate any eavesdropping devices.
"I'm not mad at you for having an assigned female guide; I'm mad at you."
"You hid the news, Ye Heng, do you think I'm an outsider?"
"No!" Ye Heng hurriedly defended himself, "I said that as long as I'm here, my family won't be able to hurt you. So, I'll handle this matter."
Lin Yao looked at the earnestness in his eyes and listened to his explanation, "But we should be honest with each other, right?"
"I accept your explanation, but I'm still angry and don't intend to forgive you just yet!"
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