When Lian Qiguang woke up, five days had already passed. Looking at the instruments operating around him, Lian Qiguang was not unfamiliar with them. It seemed that he had been sent to the hospital again.
Lian Qiguang immediately tore off the wires attached to his body. The sharp pain from the tugging made him frown slightly. Lian Qiguang looked around, one hand unconsciously pressing against his abdomen. Although there was still a faint pain, it was nothing like the excruciating, knife-twisting pain at the beginning.
The room was completely quiet. Apart from Lian Qiguang’s shallow breathing, only the cold sounds of the instruments operating remained. Lian Qiguang’s eyes swept around the room, but he did not see the slightest trace that Xiahou Shaoxuan had ever been there. Lian Qiguang silently lowered his eyes, only feeling a little heaviness in his chest.
“Xiaoguang, you’re awake!?”
A delighted voice came from the doorway. An Ruxin put down the things in her hands and quickly came over.
“What happened to me?” Perhaps because he had slept for too long, Lian Qiguang’s throat was somewhat hoarse, carrying a faint ache.
“Here, drink some water first.” An Ruxin handed him a glass of water. After seeing Lian Qiguang drink it, she finally spoke. “You child, you really don’t know how to take care of yourself. You’re almost two months pregnant already. Didn’t you notice? Do you know that this time, not only did you almost lose the babies, you almost didn’t make it yourself…”
Lian Qiguang did not take An Ruxin’s complaints to heart. At this moment, his ears were buzzing, the words pregnant constantly flashing through his mind, and for a moment he felt dizzy.
“Xiaoguang? What’s wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?” Seeing the strange expression on Lian Qiguang’s face, An Ruxin’s heart immediately tightened.
“Xiaoguang, wait. I’ll call someone over.” As she spoke, An Ruxin reached for the button beside her.
“You said…” Lian Qiguang grabbed An Ruxin’s wrist, stopping her. “You said pregnant? What… does that mean?”
“You silly child, what else could it mean?” Seeing Lian Qiguang’s somewhat dazed expression, An Ruxin could not help laughing. She reached out and tapped his forehead. “You’re pregnant. With two.”
Pregnant!!
The news left Lian Qiguang dizzy and nearly caused his vision to go black again. He had studied information about reproduction in this world. Generally, only naturals could become pregnant, while ordinary people could only rely on machines for artificial gestation. Then he…
Although his temperament was indifferent and he cared little about anything, apart from war, there was almost nothing that could leave a mark on his heart. But now, hearing that he was pregnant, that there were suddenly two little lumps of flesh in his belly—even Lian Qiguang was somewhat stunned.
Seeing Lian Qiguang’s silence, the smile on An Ruxin’s face slowly stiffened. Lian Qiguang was a minor and a precious natural. Suddenly becoming pregnant was something he surely could not accept. From the beginning, An Ruxin had deliberately acted relaxed while talking with him, hoping to cheer him up. But looking at Lian Qiguang’s expression, she could not help becoming worried as well.
“Xiaoguang, you…”
“Where is Shaoxuan?” Lian Qiguang lowered his head and asked coldly. If he really was pregnant, then why wasn’t Shaoxuan here? Could it be that he could not accept the two lumps of flesh that had suddenly appeared in his belly? Thinking of this, Lian Qiguang only felt even more miserable, and his nose began to sting.
“Shaoxuan, he…” An Ruxin tightened her hands, her tone hesitant.
An Ruxin’s hesitation made Lian Qiguang frown slightly. Suddenly, Lian Qiguang remembered Xiahou Shaoxuan’s joking words after they had been intimate on Buluo Star. He had told him that he had committed a crime.
Lian Qiguang’s aura suddenly dropped. He abruptly raised his head, his gaze as sharp as a torch as he stared at An Ruxin.
“I’m asking you! Where is Shaoxuan?!”
“Xiaoguang…” Lian Qiguang’s coldness and suppressed aura made An Ruxin mistakenly think that Lian Qiguang hated Xiahou Shaoxuan to the bone. She immediately panicked. “Xiaoguang, although Xiaoxuan did something wrong and hurt you, he is still your fiancé. And Father has already beaten him. Shaoxuan has already been punished, so you…”
“What did you say?!” Lian Qiguang’s voice rose slightly, his eyes tightening for an instant.
“Xiaoguang.” An Ruxin wiped away her tears and hurriedly stood up. “Xiaoguang, you just woke up, so you must be hungry, right? I’ll go get you something to eat. You rest first!”
“Stop!!”
Lian Qiguang jumped barefoot from the bed, enduring the discomfort in his body as he stared coldly at An Ruxin.
“What exactly happened?”
As though frightened by Lian Qiguang’s pressure, An Ruxin stammered out everything that had happened that day. Upon hearing that Xiahou Shaoxuan had been severely injured by Xiahou Zhong and then taken away for investigation, Lian Qiguang suddenly erupted with intense killing intent. His dark eyes were cold and terrifying.
“Shaoxuan. Where is he now?”
“The First Prison of Blue Star.” An Ruxin sobbed. “It’s where Blue Star imprisons special criminals. There are military and government officials, as well as vicious pirate leaders. Xiaoxuan was locked up there, and he…”
Looking at the crying An Ruxin, Lian Qiguang’s brows furrowed tightly. His fists clenched, anger impossible to suppress surging through his heart. As if understanding Lian Qiguang’s rage, the two little lumps in his abdomen did not make trouble either, remaining unusually quiet.
After a long silence, just as An Ruxin wiped away her tears and tried to force a smile, Lian Qiguang suddenly flashed forward, kicked open the tightly closed window, and leaped out.
“Xiaoguang!!”
Seeing this, An Ruxin nearly fainted. She screamed as her legs went weak and she collapsed onto the floor.
This… this was more than a hundred floors up. If he jumped down…
“What the hell happened!!”
Xiahou Zhong hurried over to the hospital room where Lian Qiguang had been staying after receiving the order. Seeing the shattered glass and disheveled bedclothes, he roared furiously.
“Xiaoguang, Xiaoguang found out that Xiaoxuan had been arrested. I don’t know what happened, but he jumped out of the window and then disappeared.” An Ruxin was held in Xiahou Jue’s arms, sobbing quietly.
“Where is he!”
Xiahou Zhong turned around and roared at the soldiers assigned to secretly protect Lian Qiguang.
“What the hell are you doing! You can’t even keep an eye on one person! If anything happens to my granddaughter-in-law, I’ll execute every one of you!!”
“Marshal!”
An adjutant hurried over, holding a smart computer in his hand.
“A citizen just reported that a modified aircraft suddenly appeared at First District Memorial Square.”
“Give it to me.”
Xiahou Zhong took the computer with a dark expression. When he saw the red-and-black aircraft in the photograph, his face immediately darkened.
“Dad, this is Shaoxuan’s aircraft.” Xiahou Jue spoke solemnly.
“It’s probably Xiaoguang.” Xiahou Zhong handed the computer over and issued his order in a deep voice. “Give my order. Immediately mobilize a battalion of troops to intercept that aircraft. Remember, absolutely no opening fire. If the person inside gets hurt in the slightest, you’ll all be sent to polish parts!!”
“Yes!!”
Lian Qiguang sat pale-faced inside the aircraft. Looking at the rows of buttons before him, he recalled the sequence Xiahou Hetian had used during their training. He opened the map, set the destination as the First Prison of Blue Star, and activated the automatic navigation.
At the same time, more than fifty combat aircraft took off from the military base, pursuing and surrounding Lian Qiguang in a well-trained formation.
The densely packed aircraft swept across the sky like a dark cloud. The citizens of First District became anxious, thinking that some kind of war had broken out.
The military aircraft soon caught up with Lian Qiguang and surrounded him in a U-shaped formation.
“Young Master Lian! Please stop flying immediately and come back with us.”
Through the floating screen, Lian Qiguang looked at the aircraft surrounding him. His face was expressionless as he accelerated.
Seeing this, the soldiers inside the military aircraft immediately issued the order, slowly tightening the U-shaped formation until Lian Qiguang was completely surrounded.
Seeing the path ahead gradually blocked, Lian Qiguang’s eyes caught sight of something resembling a control stick beside him. He gritted his teeth, grabbed it, and suddenly exerted force with both hands.
He accelerated the aircraft and ruthlessly rammed straight toward the aircraft blocking his path.
Lian Qiguang’s crazed, reckless action made the surrounding soldiers’ bodies turn cold. The soldiers ahead hurriedly moved aside. Even so, Lian Qiguang’s aircraft still scraped against one of them.
How could the other aircraft compare with Xiahou Shaoxuan’s heavily modified fighter?
Half of it was immediately snapped off, rendering it useless. The soldiers inside hurriedly opened the aircraft’s doors and jumped out.
At the same time, a deafening explosion rang out. Flames soared into the sky, and the aircraft was blasted into pieces.
An Ruxin saw this scene through the surveillance feed, her vision going black as she collapsed into Xiahou Jue’s arms.
“Ruxin!”
Seeing An Ruxin faint, Xiahou Jue panicked and hurriedly called for a doctor.
Xiahou Zhong stared at the flames soaring into the sky on the floating screen, his brows tightly furrowed, his face also somewhat pale.
Lian Qiguang gripped the control stick and turned it wildly, crashing toward the aircraft around him. His reckless actions terrified the surrounding soldiers, who could only suffer in silence.
Wasn’t he supposed to be a natural?
For fuck’s sake, whose natural is this crazy, domineering, and badass?!
The news reporting the battle was being broadcast live. In less than half an hour, the number of clicks on the brain networks and computers had already exceeded one million. Hundreds of comments appeared every second, almost crashing Blue Star’s central mainframe.
Xiahou Hetian sat on the hospital bed, staring at that imposing and domineering aircraft with his mouth hanging wide open. He did not even notice that the fruit he had been biting fell onto the bed.
“Hetian.” His fellow patient, Shentu Sihao, swallowed and spoke dryly. “D-doesn’t this aircraft look familiar to you?”
“You call this familiar?”
Xiahou Hetian’s mouth twitched as he spoke stiffly.
“It’s fucking too familiar.”
Another aircraft was blown up by Lian Qiguang. Looking at the aircraft once again swarming toward him from all directions, flames burned fiercely in Lian Qiguang’s eyes.
They had arrested Shaoxuan.
They wanted to kill Shaoxuan…
Thinking of this, Lian Qiguang could not suppress the violence and madness in his heart.
The aircraft surrounding Lian Qiguang only blocked his path and did not attack him. Although Lian Qiguang was reckless with his life, there was nothing he could do against their shameless persistence. He could neither advance nor retreat.
Lian Qiguang’s frustration grew even stronger. Looking at the aircraft constantly closing in around him, he tightened his grip on the control stick and suddenly charged forward.
At the same time, his fire-type ability erupted, rapidly sweeping over the entire aircraft. The flames violently blasted open a gap in the surrounding blockade.
Lian Qiguang bravely broke through the encirclement.
From a distance, he looked like an enormous fire phoenix spreading its wings, about to soar into the sky.
The soldiers around him were stunned.
The watching citizens were stunned.
Even Xiahou Zhong was stunned.
At the same time, inside the First Prison.
Xiahou Shaoxuan’s fist smashed into the face of a scarred burly man. The man flew several meters and slammed heavily into the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Xiahou Shaoxuan stood up, straightened his collar, and coldly looked at the bodies lying all around him, groaning in pain.
He spoke icily.
“Who else?”
“No! No one!”
A man lay sprawled on the floor, helplessly shaking his bloodstained hand.
“Major General, I’m convinced.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan coldly swept his gaze across the surroundings. Everyone his eyes passed over looked terrified and hurriedly shook their heads.
“I’m convinced! Stop hitting us.”
“Convinced, convinced! From now on, I’ll follow you!”
“……”
Xiahou Shaoxuan flicked his hand and turned around. With his back facing everyone, he placed one hand over his shoulder.
Although the injuries Xiahou Zhong had inflicted on him had already healed, they had been caused by Xiahou Zhong’s ability, so his internal condition was still somewhat weak.
Just as Xiahou Shaoxuan was preparing to leave, a sudden tremendous explosion rang out. Even the specially reinforced metal walls seemed to tremble from it.
“What the hell is that? A terrorist attack?”
The prisoners around them all propped themselves up and sat upright. The burly man grinned, his smile carrying a hint of schadenfreude.
“Hahaha… Let them fight! It’s been peaceful for so long. It’s about time there was some noise.”
“……”
Excited cheers of agreement filled the room.
Xiahou Shaoxuan looked at their expressions, his eyes darkening.
These were all people who had lived through survival and war. Toward war and slaughter, they possessed an unusual excitement and thrill.
The floating screen on the wall suddenly activated, displaying the battle outside the prison.
Another deafening explosion.
Another aircraft exploded.
A red-and-black aircraft, wrapped in flames, burst out of the encirclement.
Amid the excited screams surrounding him, Xiahou Shaoxuan’s eyes widened.
“Wife…”