Hmm... People immersed in darkness always yearn for the sunlight and like to be in warmth; people full of schemes and tricks always prefer to be with simple people.
Li Ye fits this description perfectly: he is innocent, sunny, and incredibly loyal to the organization, making him the darling of the alliance.
If Li Ye went missing for more than three hours, people would notice and start searching for him. If they couldn't contact him after five hours, they would assume he was missing and start sending people to search for him.
When Ruan Xingyi sent people to spread the news, the Alliance had already marked the location where Li Ye disappeared. Even if they hadn't spread it, the Alliance would have eventually found out, since Ruan Mingchu hadn't concealed his actions.
"Shut up, I will definitely bring Li Ye back."
With a cold face, Qiao Du hung up on the call from who-knows-how-many people. Thinking that Li Ye had disappeared while he was in charge, he kicked the table in half in anger.
He was the head of the Anti-Imperial Alliance's Project X. He had only planned to bring Li Ye here for fun, but he never expected that Li Ye would be captured by those imperial bastards.
Anyone who dares to mess with him should be prepared to face his wrath!
"Sir, we have located the target and the warship he is on. Li Ye is also on the warship."
Qiao Du kicked the subordinate who was reporting to him away, shouting, "How dare you call Li Ye that?!"
The subordinate, clutching his stomach, ignored the pain and quickly knelt down to admit his mistake.
Governor Qiao sneered, "Gather the troops and set off! I'm going to kill that damn bastard!"
"To be torn to pieces!"
After watching Gong Zhushen, Ding Junji and the others enter the sleep pods, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu came out of the sleep pods and closed the pod doors.
Ruan Mingchu looked at Mu Yu: "Let's go to the control room."
Mu Yu: "Hmm."
As the two walked side by side, Mu Yu recalled that Ruan Mingchu had approached him last night saying he wanted to pull off a big heist, and he had agreed without a second thought.
It only comes to my attention now that I realize Ruan Mingchu didn't seem to have said what he was going to do, and he hadn't even asked at the time.
Asking now seems a bit silly, so I'd better not.
What kind of friendship could make Mu Yu blindly follow along without knowing what to do?! If Ruan Mingchu knew, she would definitely be moved to tears and laugh out loud.
The warship's main control room is divided into several sections, and the place the two were going to was more accurately the conference room within the main control room.
When Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu arrived at the conference room, there were already five people sitting inside. One of them was wearing a military uniform and was the captain of the warship. The other four were wearing the uniforms of the Empire's First Military Academy and were probably the people Rong Zhiming had contacted earlier.
Huang Songhan, the one with blond hair among the four, snorted coldly as soon as he saw the two of them, and said to Mu Yu, "You're Ruan Mingchu? You don't look like much. Want to have a match?"
He wasn't the captain of the Imperial First Military Academy's team and had never met Ruan Mingchu, so he subconsciously mistook the tall Alpha Mu Yu for Ruan Mingchu.
The fathers of Huang Songhan and the other three were all generals or brigadier generals, which is why Rong Zhiming sought them out for this operation.
To those without power, being targeted by the Anti-Imperial Alliance would be a disaster, but to Huang Hansong and his three companions, it was a springboard—a springboard to gain military merit and rapid promotion.
Good heavens, they were all rubbing their hands together at home every day, only to be told at the last minute that they should follow the orders of a man named "Ruan Mingchu".
Wouldn't he get all the credit?
If Nguyen Minh Thu were a big shot, that would be one thing, but he was just a country bumpkin from a remote area, and I'd never even heard his name before.
Who can tolerate this?
As for Ruan Mingchu next to Mu Yu, they completely ignored her; beauty held no place in the face of military merit. Occasionally, a thought would cross their minds: perhaps Ruan Mingchu was seriously ill, bringing her Omega lover to such an important matter.
When Mu Yu was mistaken for Ruan Mingchu, a smile flashed in his eyes. He turned his head to look at the person in question.
The person in question smiled and said gently, "Excuse me, I am Ruan Mingchu."
Huang Songhan and three others: ...
Silence was the dominant theme in the meeting room.
With thick skin, one is not afraid even if the mission fails at the outset.
Huang Songhan finally gave Ruan Mingchu a look, scrutinizing him from head to toe like an X-ray scan.
"Omega?"
Ruan Mingchu didn't want to nod at all, but his current identity card did indeed show him as an Omega.
His silence was taken as tacit agreement by Huang Songhan, who immediately raised his voice and shouted, "What kind of interstellar joke is this? Let an Omega lead an Alpha?!"
Ruan Mingchu sighed; it was always the same.
When will the world stop judging ability based on gender?
"Let's have a match."
The real test is in the hands of the hands.
"I don't play Omega."
Unexpectedly, Huang Songhan blurted out such a sentence.
Just like the ancient custom of "not hitting women," it carries not only respect but also contempt.
Ruan Mingchu stopped wasting words with him, flashed behind Huang Songhan, and kicked him in the butt, sending him flying.
It wasn't until Huang Songhan was flying in the air that he realized what had happened. His buttocks were sore, and he couldn't even keep his balance with his limbs. He could only fall to the ground, landing face down.
Ruan Mingchu replied in his usual gentle tone: "Does anyone else want to have a go?"
The trio shuddered and shook their heads in unison; they were not even as good as Huang Songhan.
Ruan Mingchu walked over slowly and extended his hand: "Aren't you going to get up?"
Huang Song was filled with shame and indignation, and really wanted to stay lying down forever.
However, he couldn't. A real man gets up wherever he falls. He raised his arm to reach Ruan Mingchu's hand and said:
"Ruan Mingchu, is it? I declare that you are worthy of being my opponent, and one day I will defeat you."
“Okay,” Ruan Mingchu said with a smile. If he hadn’t pulled his hand away when Huang Songhan was using her for leverage, causing Huang Songhan to fall flat on her face, the trio would have believed he was a good person.
Seeing that the six had reached a harmonious and friendly state, the captain finally spoke: "I invited you all here so that you could get to know each other, since you will be fighting side by side for a while from now on."
Ruan Mingchu introduced himself first: "Ruan Mingchu, Ming as in tomorrow, Chu as in original intention, and control profession. As for my strength, I think Huang has a deep understanding of it."
Huang Songhan glared at him fiercely, but then she thought that Ruan Mingchu actually knew her, which meant that she was very popular and well-known.
Mu Yu followed behind Ruan Mingchu. "Mu Yu, the Yu in Xiao Yu, fourth tone, strong attack profession, A-level."
Both are equally concise.
After the two finished their introductions, it was Huang Songhan's turn.
He rested his elbow on the table, smoothed his hair in front of his forehead, and finally gently placed it on his forehead, striking what he thought was a very cool pose.
"The pines of Huangshan possess an elegant charm. Huangshan pines, the strongest A among the powerful attackers, are 1.85 meters tall, have a waist circumference of 2.5 feet, weigh 70 kilograms, and live in..."
The captain's forehead veins throbbed, he couldn't take it anymore: "Alright, this is like a blind date, next one."
Huang Songhan was very annoyed that his perfect self-introduction was interrupted, but since the captain was his father's friend, he didn't dare to argue back. He was feeling down.
"Qiao Hezhi, support, specializes in stealth, A-level."
"Feng Mingjie, support role, skilled in investigation, Rank A."
"Liu Dawu, assistant, unauthorized communication, Class A."
After listening to the three men's self-introductions, a look of understanding flashed in Ruan Mingchu's eyes. Huang Songhan was just their bodyguard.
Otherwise, what can you expect from a reckless, impulsive, aggressive Alpha? Luckily, Ruan Mingchu didn't voice his thoughts, or he wouldn't have had a peaceful few days ahead.
Alphas who always think they're the boss wherever they go are very difficult to appease when provoked.
After the self-introductions, the meeting room fell silent again.
Within minutes, Huang Songhan could no longer sit still; the atmosphere was simply too oppressive.
What should we do next?
The captain glared at him: "You have no patience at all, what else can you do but wait?"
The most important thing about fishing is patience. If you don't sit on the shore to fish, the fish won't jump into the bucket.
Huang Songhan scratched his head, leaned back in his chair, irritably opened his terminal, glanced at it, and slammed it onto the table.
The signals were all blocked. That's the downside of warships; what's the point of having a terminal if you can't connect to the internet?
A short while later, Huang Songhan took the terminal back. At least there was a single-player game, which was better than nothing.
Ruan Mingchu's lips twitched as he watched their every move. No wonder Rong Zhiming thought they were unreliable; with that kind of temper, they might explode when they saw someone from the Alliance.
I don't know where Rong Zhiming got the confidence to come up with this plan.
Huang Songhan was bored for long, because the villainous alliance arrived much earlier than they had expected.
Ruan Mingchu calculated the time in his mind; it was almost as if the warship had just taken off and the Alliance had followed right after.
Too hasty.
The captain returned to the main control room and took control of the warship, while Ruan Minh Thu and his six companions stood by and watched the battle.
Without any communication, they fired a shot right away, but it only landed on the stern of the ship, a harmless spot. This shows that the other side was very angry, but also had something to consider.
To hesitate to act for fear of breaking the law.
This continued for several minutes.
Thinking of Li Ye, Ruan Mingchu thought to himself, "Interesting."
The things Li Ming revealed covered a wide range of topics, jumping from one thing to another. Although they weren't major secrets, they far exceeded what Li Ye, in his position, should know.
So Nguyen Minh Thu made a small test.
Now it seems that Li Ye may have played a significant role.
According to the plan, the captain and others should maneuver the warship to resist with all their might, then pretend to be powerless, feign death and escape, leaving the students on the warship to the villainous alliance, and then take them to their stronghold or even their lair.
But Ruan Mingchu has now changed his mind; doing so is too passive, and he prefers to be proactive.
"Ruan Mingchu, what are you doing?!" Huang Songhan shouted, his face full of panic.
Ruan Mingchu shook her fair hand and revealed a bright smile: "I didn't do anything."
I'd heard that this captain was stubborn and inflexible, so I didn't bother trying to persuade him and just let him rest for a while. Luckily, I had a habit of replacing all the ship's control crew except the captain with my own people, otherwise it would have been even more troublesome.
Huang Songhan was momentarily stunned by his smile, but quickly regained his senses. He swallowed hard as he backed away. This Ruan Mingchu must be a big bad guy in disguise; they'd all been fooled!
The trio also ran to Huang Songhan's side, showing the same panic and fear.