After a long silence, Nguyen Minh Thu suddenly asked, "Are you afraid of war?"
Mu Yu wanted to shake his head, but found his face still buried in Ruan Mingchu's shoulder, so he could only speak, his voice a little muffled: "It depends on the type."
If it is necessary, and if the purpose of war is for peace and a better future, Mu Yu is not afraid.
But if it's just for personal gain, then it's not fair to say I'm afraid; Mu Yu finds that hard to accept.
Ruan Mingchu hummed in agreement and didn't continue the conversation.
On the sixth day of their journey, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu arrived at the Shuangjiu Star System. After disembarking from the warship and disguising themselves, they smuggled themselves onto the nearest civilian spaceship and set foot on the planet where the Comprehensive Military University was located from the interstellar port.
The news of the occupation of the Military Academy is currently being kept under wraps. Ordinary people are unaware of it, and even the teachers and students who have been relocated are unaware that their school has been occupied by a terrorist organization.
Ordinary civilians who occasionally approached the military university were driven away by armed personnel, and they simply thought they had stumbled into some dangerous place.
Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu met Marshal Mu as soon as they arrived at their destination.
Marshal Mu said as soon as he arrived, "Something unexpected has happened."
Ruan Mingchu & Mu Yu: ...
Ruan Mingchu hummed in agreement, indicating that Marshal Mu should explain in detail.
Marshal Mu said, "Hao Youyou, you should know Mu Yu. He went missing after having a big fight with his parents. I deduce that he should be at school now."
“He may not know about the problems at the school, or he may have already been arrested. We always thought he went to Planet Greta with the main group until his parents came yesterday and discovered his disappearance.”
"His parents' demand is to bring him back intact and healthy."
Marshal Mu seemed to have waited here specifically to say these things, because after saying them, he only told Ruan Mingchu that everyone should follow his orders and cooperate with his actions.
Ruan Mingchu couldn't help but overthink it.
Were they afraid he wouldn't get involved, so they specifically found Hao Youyou, who was important to him, to force him to join the game?
In that instant, Ruan Minchu suddenly felt disappointed in them. Was he really so untrustworthy?
Father, if you give the order, will he disobey his command?
Ruan Mingchu thanked Marshal Mu for his hard work and then took Mu Yu to arrange the hotel.
Marshal Mu's gaze fell on the two's clasped hands, and a question arose in his mind. Do young people these days hold hands when they're in a good relationship? Isn't that a bit too clingy?
He only knows how to put his arm around someone's shoulder, but he's never heard of holding hands. Isn't that something only young couples do?
Speaking of which, where is Mu Yu's Omega boyfriend? Did they break up?
Several guesses flashed through Marshal Mu's mind, then he shook his head and left. Young people's love affairs are just unreliable.
The Military Academy currently has 92 people on campus, including 30 students and the rest are faculty and staff.
If you include Hao Youyou, there are a total of ninety-three.
As for Hao Youyou, Ruan Mingchu was overthinking it again; his situation was entirely an accident.
Eight days ago, Hao Youyou was summoned home. Upon arriving, she learned she was there to attend her engagement party; the groom was an Alpha from a powerful family in the Sixth Star System.
As long as Hao Youyou marries into the family, the Hao family can leave this backward Ninety-Nine Star System and become a member of the imperial elite circle.
Ironically, Hao Youyou was greatly inspired by Ruan Mingchu's achievement of leading the Comprehensive Military Academy team to first place in the league. Since returning, she has changed her previous listless attitude and is working hard to pursue her dream.
It was precisely because of the league that the powerful figures of the Sixth Star System took a liking to an Omega like Ruan Mingchu, but were unable to contact him. They somehow learned that Hao Youyou was a good friend of Ruan Mingchu, and directly sent people to the Hao family to propose marriage.
Anyway, he's just the second son of a collateral branch, so it doesn't matter if Hao Youyou disappoints them in the end.
Hao Youyou was tricked into returning home. He was told that an elder in his family was seriously ill and that he needed to come back to prepare for the funeral. He never expected that he would have to attend his own engagement party with a strange man without his knowledge.
How could he possibly be willing?
Even if he had accepted the fate of being destined for a marriage alliance, the marriage partner still had to be approved by him!
Moreover, Hao Youyou has no intention of accepting this damn fate at all.
Even though Hao Youyou didn't show any signs of refusing, his parents locked him in the house as a precaution and had him closely guarded.
Unable to escape on her own, Hao Youyou thought for a long time and then asked Gong Zhushen and Ding Junji for help.
Gong Zhushen had a revolutionary friendship with him, and he himself disliked arranged marriages. Upon hearing about this, he rushed to the rescue without delay.
As for Ding Junji, who would have thought that his contact number was only one digit different from Gong Zhushen's? Hao Youyou accidentally sent the message by mistake, but quickly recalled it.
But Ding Junji saw it, and no one knows what Ding Junji was thinking, but anyway, he came over to help.
Ding Junji and Gong Zhushen worked together to bring Hao Youyou out.
Where did you take it?
The school, of course.
So there are a total of ninety-five people in the school now, including Ding Junji and Gong Zhushen. Since neither of them has been reported missing by their parents, everyone assumes they are on Planet Gerida.
To avoid his parents who might come to the school to arrest him, Hao Youyou simply found a random place to stay for the trial. He applied for the trial on the system, which is why Marshal Mu said he should be at the school.
Gong Zhushen and Ding Junji were worried about Hao Youyou, so they stayed with him. However, they didn't register on the system, so no one knew they were there.
Hao Youyou discovered the anomaly at the school two days ago. After thinking about it for so many days, he made up his mind to leave and make a living elsewhere.
Abbreviation: running away from home.
So they left the trial grounds.
Ding Junji and Gong Zhushen were quick-witted enough to hide their whereabouts after noticing something was wrong, and they were not discovered.
The Miracle Organization set up a signal jamming base station, so the terminal could not contact the outside world, but the three of them could leave from other places. It would only take them ten days or half a month to get away, which was safer than staying at school.
But as a military academy student and a future soldier, no one could possibly run away alone knowing that their comrades had been captured.
So the three of them spent the last two days investigating the situation and recently made contact with the main group that had been captured.
Of the ninety-two people, eighty-five were arrested and imprisoned in a small auditorium. They were all injected with muscle relaxants and fitted with pheromone-binding collars, making them practically vegetative.
Rescuing them was nothing short of a pipe dream for Miyazaki Shin and his two companions.
The teachers advised the three of them to leave first and find someone outside to help them.
Hao Youyou argued logically: "It's impossible that no one outside knew about this after so many days, and it's impossible that no rescue team was organized. The fact that the rescue team is not coming for so long means that there must be a problem. We can't do much if we go out, but we can do a lot if we stay here."
The teachers didn't try to persuade them further, only telling the three of them to protect themselves and not to act impulsively.
Back at their temporary secret base, Hao Youyou and the other two each took a vial of nutrient solution. Thanks to Ruan Mingchu's habit of stockpiling nutrient solutions, Hao Youyou had also brought two boxes of nutrient solutions with her before entering the trial grounds, which allowed them to stay here for a while.
Hao Youyou said, "If only we could find the antidote for muscle relaxants and the key to the confinement ring."
"Hmm... we also need to establish contact with the outside world so we can coordinate an attack from within."
Seeing Ding Junji looking at her with surprise, Hao Youyou glared at him: "Why are you looking at me like that? Haven't you ever seen a handsome man before!"
Ding Junji didn't argue back after being scolded by him; instead, he withdrew his gaze.
Gong Zhushen felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was strange, but he didn't think too much about it. Given the current situation, he couldn't really think about it too much.
"It might be a bit difficult for us to accomplish the above three tasks. Why don't we start with the simplest one and figure out their troop distribution?"
Hao Youyou nodded in agreement, "We can also find out who their leaders are. Important things are definitely not in the hands of random henchmen."
Gong Zhushen asked Ding Junji, "What do you think?"
Ding Junji still didn't look up, only saying, "Okay."
While they were busy, the seven-day deadline agreed upon by the Seventh Divine Envoy and Ruan Mingchu arrived.
Ruan Mingchu made a point of changing into clean clothes, hoping to return in the same state.
As Ruan Mingchu walked along the road, he wondered what methods they might have to keep him trapped for a while.
I'm not exaggerating. Even if those people currently occupying the Military Complex held knives to the hostages' necks, Nguyen Minh Thu could kill them all while protecting the hostages.
Hmm... They can poison hostages, but unless it's an instantaneous poison, as long as the person is alive, it's no problem for the healing professions that specialize in deciphering poisons.
Or did they think their strength could trap him? But Ruan Mingchu couldn't sense any powerful presence at all. Unless that person was as powerful as Qingyao, but if that were the case, his father wouldn't have allowed him to come.
At the entrance of the Military Academy, three rows of people stood behind the Seventh Divine Envoy, making quite a grand entrance.
They also captured a Beta teacher, who was bound hand and foot with a gun barrel stuck to his forehead.
Ruan Mingchu walked to a suitable distance and stopped: "I'm here, and then what?"
The Seventh Divine Envoy stood inside the door. Hearing Ruan Mingchu's words, he chuckled.
He said, "Come in."
Ruan Mingchu stepped through the gates of the comprehensive military university, one step at a time. "And then?"
The seventh divine messenger bowed deeply: "Welcome to the world of gods."
Ruan Mingchu: I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
The next second, the Seventh Divine Envoy and the people behind him suddenly disappeared, leaving only the Beta teacher who was tied up.
Beta was also completely bewildered, having no idea how the person who was just there could have suddenly disappeared.
Ruan Mingchu went over and helped him untie the rope, pondering what was going on as he did so.
He sensed spatial fluctuations the instant the Seventh Divine Envoy disappeared, which must have been some kind of spatial skill or spatial talisman.
Ruan Mingchu learned about the existence of spatial runes and various formations from Qingnuo's memories.
After untying Beta's ropes, Ruan Mingchu helped him sit down to the side and then walked towards the gate.
I walked in just a dozen steps, but now it seems like I can't get there no matter what I do.
This must be some kind of formation at work.
In the interstellar world, formations only exist in novels and movies. There is absolutely no basis for their use in reality, nor are there any traditions to learn from them.
It's obvious that the Miracle Organization has a close relationship with the Mermaid World; it must have taken a lot of effort to materialize the formations from there here.
But now is not the time to overthink things. What Nguyen Minh Thu needs to do now is to assess the situation and leave as soon as possible to head to the 37th border district.
Even if District 37 can be left unchecked, he must ensure that the star beasts here do not migrate to other areas and then wreak havoc within the Empire.
Ruan Mingchu asked Beta, "What's the situation now?"
Beta said, "Before I was brought here, everyone was locked in the small auditorium. There were a total of 85 people, including me. Everyone was injected with muscle relaxants and put on restraint rings. We couldn't use our mental power or pheromones."
Ruan Mingchu reached out and touched the collar. With a "click," the collar shattered into several pieces and fell off.
He asked again, "How are you feeling now?"