Qin Chu didn't believe it. If he was completely unaffected, who was the person who tried to bite him before?
He pointed to the sealing strip on the ground: "Why did you install this if it's not affected?"
The alpha didn't speak, his blue eyes quietly watching him, leaving Qin Chu completely confused.
After staring for a while, Levi looked away, scratching his hair in annoyance: "Senior, I'm starting to think you're trying to seduce me."
Qin Chu: "???"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qin Chu cursed.
Alpha turned to look at him again.
Seeing his genuine confusion, Levi sighed and explained, "Omega pheromones during estrus often trigger group estrus, meaning that Omegas not in estrus will compete to go into estrus because of other Omegas going into estrus."
Qin Chu: "???"
This is supposed to be a competition?
General Qin was greatly shocked.
Levi then installed the sealing strip, muttering under his breath, "This is knowledge from high school physiology class. Senior, are you shy? Didn't you pay attention in class?"
Shy my foot.
He always took his physiology class very seriously!
After installing the sealing strip, he took out a small pheromone purifier and installed it. After doing all this, the alpha, who had been busy for half a day, turned to look at Qin Chu, seemingly deep in thought.
This time, Qin Chu felt his scalp tingle from his gaze.
Because of that phrase "competitive estrus," he's now constantly worried that something's wrong with his body, and thus subconsciously he's become a bit wary.
Levi stared at him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Senior, you don't even know these things? Do you also not know where the hiding room in the art studio is?"
“…I don’t know,” Qin Chu said.
The young alpha sighed again and walked ahead: "Follow me."
He opened the bathroom door, pressed a button on the wall, and a small door opened. Inside was a clean little room, which had another exit.
Levi pointed to the room and said, "This room can be locked from the inside. There's a communicator that connects to the outside world, and there's also a door that leads to a small elevator, but it's a medical staff access point."
As he spoke, he walked inside: "There's a small bed in the room... wait?"
Levi looked around, puzzled. "Where's the bed? Didn't the base provide it?"
“…They’ve moved out,” Qin Chu said slowly.
Levi looked up at him, somewhat shocked.
Qin Chu coughed lightly, looking down: "The one you were sitting in outside, I came in before and thought it was a storage room, um..."
The alpha seemed momentarily at a loss for words, remaining silent for a moment before continuing, "There's another compartment on the wall; open it and you'll find nutrient solutions and hydration..."
Levy paused again; the cubicle was empty.
He looked at Qin Chu.
Qin Chu gradually became more self-righteous: "I was hungry and too lazy to order food, so I just ate."
Levy: "..."
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This was the first time Qin Chu had realized the power of an Omega's heat cycle.
When he arrived at the studio the next day, he found that the door next door was still closed, which meant that the two people inside had been there for a day and a night.
It seems that staff members came by at some point, and an isolation layer was placed over the door of the studio, leaving only a food delivery window in the middle.
Qin Chu was impressed by the base's efficiency, but also felt that it was making a mountain out of a molehill.
How much longer can these two stay in there?
Is it really necessary to be so thorough?
However, Qin Chu did sense the effect of an Omega's heat cycle on an Alpha.
Several military academy students requested leave today, seemingly unable to control themselves, so they simply stayed in the training room.
Qin Chu did not receive Levi's leave request, but Levi never came.
Around nine o'clock, the door to the art studio was opened.
Levy quickly squeezed through the crack in the door and dragged in another box.
"What are you holding?" Qin Chu asked, looking up from his easel.
Alpha glanced at him, seemingly somewhat helpless.
He didn't answer, but instead carried the suitcase into the hiding room in the bathroom.
Qin Chu followed and saw the man open the box, first taking out a single folding bed, then several bags of nutrient solution and several bottles of water, which he neatly stacked in the compartments on the wall.
After doing all that, he sprayed some pheromone decomposing agent inside, then left the hiding room and closed the door.
Seeing Qin Chu following closely behind him, Levi laughed and, quite disrespectfully, reached out and patted Qin Chu's head: "It's all set. Now, if senior doesn't want to be marked during his heat, he can hide inside."
"...Do you still want your hand?" Qin Chu said.
Alpha sighed, his tone somewhat ambiguous: "Senior is so stupid, I have to teach you all this stuff."
Qin Chu unexpectedly understood what he meant.
If Qin Chu were to go into heat, the most dangerous person for him would be the alpha in front of him, who was sharing a room with him.
But now, it was this alpha who taught him all these things and even helped him tidy up his hiding place.
"Thank you," Qin Chu said.
Levi glanced at him: "If one day I stand outside this door yelling and banging on it, please don't hit me, senior."
Ha, not only will we not hit you, we'd better let you in, right?
Qin Chu remained silent.
He and Levy withdrew together.
He sat in front of the easel, continuing to sketch out the inspiration in his mind, while Levy sat beside him, leisurely playing with his personal computer, looking as if he were on vacation.
Qin Chu was very serious.
Because the selection of models had taken too long, his progress had fallen behind the others.
But now, because the Omega next door is in heat, many models in the building have taken leave, giving him a chance to catch up.
That's what I think.
but……
In the silence, the wall connecting to the next room suddenly made a "thud".
Qin Chu's hand holding the paintbrush trembled, and he almost drew a crooked line.
He subconsciously looked towards the next room, then, as if possessed, turned his head again to look at Levi.
Unfortunately, Levy also looked at him.
Even though nothing had happened in the studio, the air suddenly became tense.
Someone coughed softly, and the two tacitly looked away, one focusing on the drawing board in front of them, and the other staring at the computer screen again.
After staring at it for a while, not a single line appeared on the drawing board, and the page on the computer remained unchanged.
In this quiet place, only the noise from next door was excessive.
First there was a series of loud thumping sounds, then a rhythmic creaking sound began.
Qin Chu held the paintbrush, frozen in place as if about to place it on the paper, for a long while.
For the first time, he realized how poorly soundproofed the studio was.
The sounds from next door were very clear and varied in rhythm. This was the first time Qin Chu had ever encountered something like this in his life, and he felt that something was wrong.
Amidst this awkward silence, Qin Chu even considered pulling Noah aside for a chat.
He called out to Noah, and all he heard was a system reply: "Privacy mode is now enabled."
Privacy mode?
Why are you using a privacy mode when your neighbor is in heat?
Qin Chu, who already felt something was off, felt even more uneasy after hearing those words.
He scribbled and revised on the drawing paper, but as the noise from next door grew louder, Qin Chu gradually lost his ability to continue drawing.
It's probably because it's so quiet here that the sounds from next door are clearer.
Amid a series of rhythmic sounds, the wall thudded again, as if the entire wall was trembling.
Qin Chu was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "What was that sound?"
Unexpectedly, he spoke up at this moment. Levy, who was sitting next to him, paused for a moment: "...The bed?"
There was an Omega next door in heat, but he, a single Alpha, couldn't tell anything. He just kept his head down the whole time, never looking up at Qin Chu.
"A bed?" Qin Chu was somewhat surprised. "There's a bed in the art studio?"
"Hmm... I guess they pulled the bed out of the hiding room."
Levy spoke slowly, and both of them paused after he finished.
The bed in the hiding room...
Their gazes turned in unison to where the alpha was sitting.
Qin Chu also pulled out this bed.
The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat subtle again.
There was another creak from next door.
Levi, who had been sitting steadily, stood up and moved away from the somewhat awkward bed.
The third day.
Seeing that the door to the next-door painting room was still closed, Qin Chu considered calling the medical center.