Runaway Guide

Chapter 69

Thank you so much Maddy and Anon! You made my day 😊

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Flying Egret, Xi Wei soon arrived at the Royal Hotel. This hotel’s biggest benefit was that it would never reveal its guests’ information, and would always safeguard their privacy. If you didn’t have the passcode to go into the hotel, no matter who you were, you wouldn’t be able to go into any of the rooms. That person had Xi Wei meet them here, so they obviously knew the Royal Hotel well.

—Exactly who were they?

Xi Wei used the passcode they had sent him to ride the floating platform inside up to VIP room #8. He hesitantly pushed open the door to the room.

To his surprise, there was no one at all inside the room.

The VIP room was quite large, and it was decorated sumptuously. There was a king-size bed in the middle, and a soft, thick, blue velvet carpet was spread across the floor. The chandelier hanging from the ceiling shone brilliantly, and delicate flowers glistening with dew were on the table. Through the huge French windows, you could see the capital planet’s spectacular nightscape and the stars twinkling overhead.

The fragrance of fresh flowers wafted through the room. The daily necessities like pillows, cups and the like all came in pairs. The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. A place like this was really suited for a couple to relax in during their leisure time.

Xi Wei carefully looked through the room and confirmed that no one was there. He frowned and sat down on the sofa.

Someone called him over to the hotel, but didn’t appear themselves. Exactly what were they plotting?

Just as he was thinking, the door suddenly opened. Xi Wei looked up and saw a very familiar face.

—It was Joen.

Just going by looks, Joen was really one of the most handsome alphas in the empire. Xi Wei, however, had always been very fed up with him, and simply couldn’t be bothered to meet him. Yes, he simply couldn’t summon up any good feelings for a man who was constantly thinking of pressing him down.

He hadn’t expected that the one who called him out today was actually him. How did he know about the Underground Alliance?

Xi Wei kept his cool and met his gaze steadily. He asked, “Joen, you’re the one who sent me a message asking me to come?”

Joen walked over to Xi Wei and sat down beside him. He smiled and said, “That’s right, it was me.”

His gaze on Xi Wei was particularly gentle, just like he was looking at a pet. Xi Wei felt his scalp tingling from being stared at. He quickly moved his eyes away, then walked to a sofa far from him and sat down. He said, “What do you want to do?”

“Nothing much. I just wanted to find an excuse to invite you out for a chat.” Seeing Xi Wei hiding far away from him, he shamelessly followed him over. He smiled and said, “Don’t worry, I won’t leak the Underground Alliance’s information. I wouldn’t have asked you to come here otherwise.”

Xi Wei raised an eyebrow. “With what conditions?”

Joen let out a light chuckle. “Prince, you’re really direct.”

“If there weren’t any conditions to exchange, you definitely wouldn’t have asked me to come out and negotiate.” Xi Wei said coldly, “Just say it, what do you want?”

Joen looked at Xi Wei with narrowed eyes for a moment, then finally squeezed out a few words. “I want you.”

Xi Wei: “......”

Fuck, if it wasn’t for this involving the interests of the countless omegas in the Underground Alliance, Xi Wei would’ve really wanted to give him a good punch and break his head open!

He took a deep breath and calmed down. Expressionlessly, Xi Wei said, “Don’t forget, I’m already engaged to Klaire, and the whole empire knows about it. I won’t betray my alpha.”

Joen looked like he’d heard a good joke. He smiled pleasantly and said, “That’s not a problem. As long as Klaire dies, you can get together with me and there’ll be nothing to criticize.”

Xi Wei stared at him. Suddenly there was a thread of uneasiness in his heart. “What do you want to do to Klaire?”

“It’s not me who wants to do anything, it’s him who’s run off to court death by joining the Glory Corps’s rear liaison troops.” Joen paused, then said, “I heard that Federal troops are lying in ambush near the wormhole leading to the Cigar galaxy. Whether Klaire can escape will just have to depend on his luck.”

Xi Wei clenched his fists, but to his surprise, it seemed like he couldn’t control his fingers. They actually didn’t have the slightest strength. His field of vision was gradually growing blurry. A strange thread of heat suddenly flowed through his body.

—What was going on?!

Shocked, Xi Wei wanted to have his mecha examine his body, but the strange thing was, at the crucial moment, Egret had actually shut down!

Ever since Egret acknowledged Xi Wei as his owner, he had kept a habit of staying on and alert 24 hours a day as he accompanied Xi Wei on many dangerous missions over the last few years. He couldn’t possibly have automatically gone dormant, unless his AI had been jammed.

As an S-class mecha, the number of mechas in the empire who could interfere with Egret’s AI could be counted on one’s fingers. Could it be that Joen had brought the Thunderclap Corps’s S-class mecha Blaze with him today?! Blaze and Egret had been made by different mecha manufacturing masters, and Blaze had been in active service longer. If he caught Egret when he was unprepared and gave him a virus ahead of time, he really could have made him shut down temporarily.

As if he’d seen through Xi Wei’s thoughts, Joen smiled and walked over to him, gently wrapping his arms around his waist. He said softly, “How is it? Do you feel like your body is hot?”

Xi Wei: “...”

When Joen came close, he brought with him a strong smell of alpha pheromones. Xi Wei’s stomach turned over. This position of being brought into the other’s arms really made him want to go crazy!

Unfortunately, he didn’t know why, but his whole body felt limp and sore. He didn’t even have the strength to lift his arms.

“I heard that you guys at the Underground Alliance developed a new drug called an omega pheromone suppressant.” Joen spoke word by word into Xi Wei’s ear, and his warm breath rushed onto it. “Since you guys can develop a pheromone suppressant, I can also find someone to develop a pheromone stimulant. Today’s my first time trying it, I didn’t expect the effect to be this good.”

“...” Xi Wei stared at him in shock.

The effect of the pheromone stimulant Joen spoke of was completely opposite to that of suppressants. Suppressants inhibited the production of pheromones, delaying an omega’s heat. Stimulants accelerated the omega gland’s production, causing the gland on the back of the neck to produce a large amount of pheromones in a short time, thus causing the omega’s heat come early.

When he realized the state of his body at the moment, Xi Wei’s heart immediately felt ice-cold.

—He didn’t expect that Joen would actually be so unscrupulous in order to obtain him!

He wanted to use pheromone stimulants to force his heat to come early, then take the opportunity to mark him. Did Joen believe that if he had his body, he’d obediently do what he was told?

What kind of cosmic joke was this? Had he lost his mind?!

If he really dared to do this, Xi Wei would absolutely use his most ruthless methods to make it so that he wouldn’t be able to live, and even if he wanted death, he wouldn’t give it to him!

Xi Wei stared at Joen ferociously, his eyes full of hatred, as if he could glare a hole into his face. His expression ice-cold, he said word by word, “Joen, daring to do this to me, have you considered that after I recover my strength, I’ll chop you into pieces to feed to the dogs?!”

Joen stared at him. Even at this moment, Xi Wei was actually still being so aggressive. However, looking at him suppressing his bodily discomfort, his eyes gradually reddening, Joen couldn’t help but smile. He said, “Your Royal Highness, do you know that when you’re trying to be brave, your expression really makes me want to bully you ruthlessly and fuck you til you cry? Don’t be so quick to run your mouth. Save some strength, don’t faint on the bed later.”

Xi Wei: “...”

There was simply no way to reason with this pervert!

Since it was no use wasting words on him, Xi Wei decided he’d better stay silent and save his energy.

His body was reacting more and more strongly, and the strange feeling made his whole body limp. Xi Wei opened his mouth and breathed in deeply, and a hint of an unnatural blush came to his cheeks.

Looking like this, Xi Wei was undoubtedly tempting to the extreme for Joen.

The most violent eldest prince who was once set up on high, whose combat power was ultra high and who could easily take out an alpha with one punch, was now lying in his arms, his whole body limp, with no strength to resist no matter how he bullied him. A situation like this really made his blood pump.

The more Joen thought about it, the more excited he got. He couldn’t help but hold Xi Wei tightly and start taking his clothes off.

When Xi Wei’s clothes were half taken off and his skin met the cold air, he couldn’t help but shiver. He gasped and said, “Joen, you really don’t understand romance.”

Joen said, half-smiling, “Oh?”

Xi Wei moved to his ear and said softly, “Kiss me.”

Joen stared blankly. He had never seen Xi Wei be this captivating before. An omega with misty eyes lay in his arms, saying, “Kiss me.” There definitely wasn’t an alpha in the world who could refuse.

Joen immediately kissed him in excitement. Xi Wei held back the urge to vomit, and gently lifted his right hand.

He held a minute silver needle between his fingertips. Under the light, that needle shone with a strange, cold light. At the moment that Joen got close to him, Xi Wei stabbed the needle accurately into the vein at the back of Joen’s neck.

“...” Joen didn’t manage to understand what had happened before he fell to the ground.

Xi Wei took a breath and used up the last of his strength to push Joen to one side. He cursed, “Moron! You heard about the Alliance, but you didn’t hear that every member carries tranquilizers with them, did you? Who told you to be so proud of yourself? Bastard!”

He gave him a couple kicks while he was at it to vent. Xi Wei really didn’t have any strength left. He could only press the blue necklace at his neck with a finger.

His uncle had given him this necklace when he was born. It was Egret’s storage space. Unfortunately, Egret had gone dormant, and there was no way to wake him at the moment. Xi Wei calmed down and thought it over, and could only helplessly contact Bluestar for lack of a better option.

Before Klaire left, he had Bluestar and Egret open a channel for direct communication. As long as he was within range of the imperial network and had a signal, Bluestar and Egret could reach each other’s communicators at any time. Even if the mecha was dormant, it wouldn’t interfere.

Xi Wei unlocked the communicator with his fingerprint, and Bluestar soon verified it was him. Klaire’s familiar face appeared on the holoscreen before him.

“Xi Wei, you were looking for me?” Klaire’s words had just landed when he saw the picture Xi Wei made lying on the sofa with his clothes disheveled. He looked a little blank, and then he saw Joen lying on the carpet on the side. He quickly realized what had happened.

As soon as he realized that Joen had actually dared to touch Xi Wei just now, Klaire’s expression abruptly changed, and his sharp gaze could almost kill.

He took a deep breath to calm himself down and then asked worriedly, “Are you alright?”

“...I’m alright.” Xi Wei inhaled deeply and said slowly, “I don’t have any strength right now, hurry...and think of a way to save me.”

Klaire said without the slightest hesitation, “Don’t be afraid, I’ll be there right away!”

After that, he immediately sent down an order for the Morningstar Corps to stop their advance. Right after that, under his subordinates’ astonished eyes, the young major general flew Bluestar away at his fastest speed and disappeared into the vast universe.

“...Exactly what is Major General Klaire thinking? He’d just given an order for the army to enter the wormhole to the Cigar galaxy, and now he’s ordered us to stop, and gone off by himself?”

“Uh...I don’t know.”

“Anyway, it’s enough for us to obey orders. Let’s just wait here!”

The Morningstar Corps’s officers’ tongues were wagging in private, but Klaire couldn’t spare the time to explain things to them. Flying Bluestar, he used up a great quantity of power to make three hyperleaps in succession, and returned to the capital planet before ten minutes were up.

Using the password Xi Wei gave him, Klaire stormed into the Royal Hotel with a dark face. When he opened the door and saw the state Xi Wei was in, he was so angry he almost wanted to immediately slice Joen into pieces!

—How could the Xi Wei he’d always cherished in the palm of his hand undergo humiliation like this?!

Klaire lifted the unconscious Joen by the collar with one hand, and with two unceremonious blows, he gave him two black eyes.

Xi Wei said, “Alright, Klaire...you can sort out this bastard later, first help me out the door.”

Klaire looked back and saw Xi Wei with his collar half-open, his cheeks flushed, and a hint of moisture in his eyes, and the strong fragrance of omega pheromones in the room swept over him.

The scent of his pheromones was this strong, had his heat come?

Klaire’s back straightened. With shaking arms, he gently took Xi Wei up in a princess carry.

Xi Wei frowned a little restlessly. Klaire was also an alpha. During the sensitive period of his heat, the strong alpha smell coming from him was undoubtedly a great trial for Xi Wei.

Faced with an omega’s pheromones, an alpha would instinctively want to get close to and possess them, while an omega would instinctively reject an alpha’s smell at this time, and even want to escape.

It was a good thing that the two of them had grown up together, and Xi Wei didn’t particularly dislike Klaire’s scent. Otherwise he might have used his tranquilizers to knock Klaire out as well.

The position Klaire was carrying him in didn’t make Xi Wei feel too comfortable, but at this urgent moment, he couldn’t have too many stipulations. The most important thing was to get out of here. When he thought of this, Xi Wei didn’t struggle, and said, “Have Bluestar take us out of here. Don’t let my father know about this.”

Klaire looked at Xi Wei in his arms, and said gently, “Alright, don’t worry, I’ll take you away.”

Holding Xi Wei tight, he entered Bluestar’s cockpit and had him open the skylight.

The blue mecha opened his great wings, soared into the sky, and disappeared into the dark horizon in a flash.

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4 hours and 58 minutes for 2,661 words, or around 11.2 minutes for every 100 words. I’m just handwriting five rows of characters a day now.

I thought it was weird at first, but there actually is a Cigar galaxy. They named it that because it looks like—you guessed it—a cigar.

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