Chapter 79
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“Ah Qin, I’m sorry, wuwuwuwu…”
The alpha sobbed and roared, his voice low and hoarse. Both the formal army and the volunteer army were present. Although they couldn’t analyze more from this crying, all the alphas present understood that the one crying was an alpha, and he had already entered the susceptible period, calling for his partner.
The top echelon of the volunteer army’s alphas had gone from being bystanders to being crazy spectators.
Their leader’s name was Rong Qin! Although the supreme commander turned off the video, based on the voice, they could judge that the speaker was their leader, Rong Qin, so their leader actually had an alpha partner, who was so attached to their leader. Their leader was really powerful. According to various strange studies on folk alphas, the higher the level of the alpha population, the more fragile the susceptible period. The reaction of the partner of Rong Qin’s leader during the susceptible period was so intense, it was at least an A-rank alpha…
Among all the people present, Rong Qiu’s expression was the strangest.
He had the privilege of hearing this video once before.
At that time, his brother Rong Qin had conflicts with Qin Zexi, and he hadn’t returned home for several months. Later, Qin Muye sent this crying video, and Rong Qin went back to comfort Rong Qiu during his susceptible period.
But what did Rong Qiu mean by bringing out this video now?
And he even showed it to Qin Muye?
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Rong Qiu didn’t have any special intentions, he just accidentally clicked the wrong button.
This morning, he was still cleaning up the videos of Qin Zexi on his phone. Like the previous Rong Qiu, he was a romantic, eager to record every detail of Qin Zexi. So a video of Qin Zexi crying during his susceptible period and calling him over was naturally not deleted by him. Unexpectedly, this time his video hadn’t been deleted yet, and he accidentally showed it to Qin Muye.
But there shouldn’t be anything wrong.
Qin Muye, as Qin Zexi’s younger brother, had seen Qin Zexi’s susceptible period countless times.
Rong Qin calmly closed the video. “Sorry, I played the wrong one.”
Qin Muye was quick to act too. As soon as he saw the discussion in the meeting room’s chat room, he quickly closed the meeting channel.
Rong Qin didn’t realize that he had inadvertently exposed Qin Zexi’s susceptible period to everyone in the meeting room. He flipped through the light brain and switched to a new video.
“This is the one I wanted to show you.”
“Okay.”
The second video that Rong Qin opened was quite long, lasting for a full forty minutes.
But Rong Qin fast-forwarded several times in between, pausing for the first time at the twentieth minute. “Look here, at this black mecha.”
Qin Muye watched carefully but didn’t notice anything different.
“The way this mecha slides to the left and ascends is different from ordinary mechas. It doesn’t slow down when sliding to the left, and it veers to the left when ascending. Among the people I know, only your brother can operate a mecha like this.”
Qin Muye rewound and watched it again, and indeed, as Rong Qin said, this black mecha slid to the left very fast, and he remembered that his brother was left-handed and liked to stay close to the left line when driving. It was very likely that he would veer to the left when piloting a mecha.
But this confirmation made Qin Muye’s expression instantly dark.
The rest of the video passed quickly, and Rong Qin closed it. “I know you can’t accept this, but I’m one hundred percent sure that the person piloting this mecha is your brother. I just don’t understand why he would do this. If it’s just to prevent me from defeating the pirates, why would he collude with them?”
This was also a point that Qin Muye couldn’t understand.
Originally, Qin Zexi was only colluding with the military district’s higher-ups to sabotage the Federation’s operations. But now, Qin Zexi’s mecha appeared among the pirates, making the situation much worse.
Treason, why would his brother do such a thing?
“During the time you spent with your brother, did you notice anything different about him?” Rong Qin could only ask Qin Muye. Since he and Qin Zexi had separated, his understanding of the Alpha had become increasingly shallow. “Besides the difference in the susceptible period, did he have any other reactions? How could he have time to collude with the pirates?”
“My brother…” Qin Muye recalled carefully. “Except for being extremely irritable before the susceptible period and having an increased desire for destruction, there didn’t seem to be anything else different…”
“But…”
“But what?”
“He always said I disappointed him and made a mess of our home.”
“That’s not right.”
As someone who was close to Qin Zexi, Rong Qin understood him well. He put down the cup of warm water brought by the beta officer and said decisively, “Your brother doesn’t usually have a violent tendency. Before the susceptible period, he often felt depressed, and the week before and after the susceptible period is when he’s most vulnerable.”
Rong Qin sat heavily in the armchair. “So what’s going on? Can your Alpha’s susceptible period change like that? In the over ten years that I’ve been with your brother, apart from crying like a leaking bucket during the susceptible period, he’s always been calm. He couldn’t even hold a cup of water steady, so how could he have made such a mess of your home?”
Qin Muye’s expression was grim.
In fact, he had only encountered his brother’s susceptible period several times in the past year. Before that, Rong Qin had always been by his brother’s side during his susceptible period. Since his brother was usually impulsive, he thought it was normal for the Alphas to have violent tendencies during this phase.
Rong Qin’s doubts were not well answered. He pressed the glass bottom against his palm, and Rong Qin half-covered the cold light in his deep blue eyes.
Things had become serious.
Qin Zexi’s sudden changes during his susceptible period, as well as his collusion with the pirates, had exceeded Rong Qin’s expectations.
“Let’s leave that aside for now. I just wanted to inform you about this matter, whatever you have in mind,” Rong Qin said with a heavy frown, his eyes bearing a striking resemblance to Rong Qiu’s. “By the way, where is Rong Qiu now? My recovery is almost complete, so I should go find him.”
“Outside the rainforest.”
“Rainforest? What rainforest?”
After Qin Muye briefly explained the current military situation, Rong Qin’s face turned pale with shock.
How could he not understand?
How could the rainforest suddenly become the pirates’ headquarters?
Rong Qin’s hand holding the glass shook violently, and he clenched his teeth tightly. He gently placed the empty cup back on the table mat, his voice seeping out through his gritted teeth.
“The pirates’ headquarters is in the rainforest, and you’re sending Rong Qiu deep into the rainforest for a mission? Do you know how dangerous that is? I originally thought you were just sending Rong Qiu to defeat a few hundred pirates. If all the pirates have moved their families into the rainforest on the subsidiary star, there must be tens of thousands of them! By letting him go, aren’t you afraid of something happening to him?”
Rong Qin’s astonishment and anger turned his face red. Watching the beta breathe heavily, his expression darkened, but Qin Muye didn’t react as strongly as he did.
With the blinds wide open, the warm autumn sunlight climbed over the window sill and spilled onto the carved redwood table, then climbed onto the man’s facial bones, casting a hazy filter. Qin Muye’s hands were crossed on the table, his thin lips pressed lightly, as steady as a mountain that hadn’t moved for tens of thousands of years.
“I’m afraid too, but I won’t stop him.”
Rong Qiu is like a free-flying bird.
He couldn’t, and wouldn’t, use invisible strings to bind him.
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