11.6

A smirk slid quickly across Osborne’s eyes. He gave the teenager a deep look before he ungently picked up Barnett, whose bones were broken all over his body, and threw him on the starship.

Darren expected him to leave right away, but instead he turned back around, sat down by the campfire and said, “I haven’t had dinner yet, mind if I join you guys in using some?”

“Don’t mind, eat.” Zhou Yunsheng handed him his share of the hind limbs, and at the end waved towards Barnett’s two followers, “Come over here as well, I’m afraid that a group of only two people won’t be able to make it out of this jungle alive.” At the same time, he also withdrew the psionic power that had stabbed into their minds earlier. These two people hadn’t gone crazy until now, so it was clear that they were people with firm hearts and pure intentions, and could be befriended. Moreover, in front of all the interstellar people, it was necessary for him to show the generosity of the Bernard family.

Seeing that he intended to take him in, both of them were very touched after their surprise and immediately walked over to sincerely thank him.

Osborne handed them the hind limbs and headed toward the poison wasp carcass. He pulled back the wings and sliced off two pieces of white meat hidden in the root area of the wings and returned to the fire to grill them, also sprinkling the seasonings from his space capsule over them one by one. The rich smell of the meat spread through the air, tickling Darren’s mouth again.

Zhou Yunsheng had only eaten a few bites, and was hungry at this moment, unable to resist coming over to his side and staring at the roasted meat with bright eyes. He leaned so close that he could smell the freshly bathed water, and although he was already wearing a work undershirt, the too-flattering cut outlined his powerfully thin figure.

That effect is even more sexually-charged than not wearing it.

Osborne’s heart was beating very fast, but his face didn’t show it, and he spoke slowly, “In fact, the best meat on the venomous wasp is the two pieces of the wing root area, which are hidden underneath the hardest exoskeleton and have never been worked out, so they are very tender. You try it.”

He handed over the roasted piece of meat as if it was natural. Zhou Yunsheng hastily stretched his neck and took a bite, his eyes suddenly glaring and giving Mr. Commodore a thumbs up.

“It’s delicious you eat more.” Osborne handed the meat over and couldn’t help but put a doting smile on the corner of his lips when he saw his cheeks bulging like a little hamster. He even pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth, moving skillfully as if he had done it a thousand times before.

“Cousin, you bake me one too, quick quick quick!” Darren threw away his half-eaten hindquarters and busily urged.

“Roast it yourself.” Osborne’s smile was all but gone as he impatiently tossed another piece of meat and the seasoning in his space capsule over. His treatment of the two men was so wildly different that it drew several glances one after the other from the adjutant following him.

Treating Cecil like a gentle spring breeze, but treating his cousin like a cold wind, don’t be too obvious about the double standard. Don’t forget Joshua is still watching on the astroturf, so pay attention!

The adjutant sent a look over, intent on reminding his superior that since he had repented of his marriage and caused Cecil to have his glands removed, that past should be put behind him once and for all.

Osborne grasped his meaning, and the pleasure that had filled his heart dissipated in a moment. He still swooned at the thought of Joshua’s saintly face, but he could shiver with excitement while sitting next to Cecil. God knew how much self-control it took him not to run over and hug him the first moment he saw him.

He couldn’t even stand the thought of him disappearing from his sight for even a second. Yet all of Interstellar knew that he was the one who had been the first to abandon Cecil and had a beta lover. He and Cecil could never be together.

Osborne is in a daze like he’s never been in before and suddenly can’t remember exactly how he fell in love with Joshua and how he got into this quagmire. When Cecil, who has had his glands removed, first appears before his eyes, everything becomes different.

Everything he had once held on to was now looking more and more like a trap, a trap designed to trap him and interfere with him so that he would lose some important treasure.

He snapped to his feet and headed for the starship, if he stayed around Cecil any longer he would lose control sooner or later. He should find a quiet corner to clear his head.

Joshua, who had seen the scene in his dorm room, finally let go of his high spirits. He saw Osborne’s tenderness towards Cecil as a form of guilt. To be honest, he disliked Cecil’s proximity to Osborne; they had been fiancées after all, and Cecil had paid that huge price for Osborne. In no way did he believe that Cecil was dead to Osborne, and that he had enrolled in Chelman for nothing more than to get closer to Osborne.

Cecil is too attractive, what am I going to do? Feeling threatened, Joshua exited the terminal and sulked, burying himself under the covers so he didn’t see Osborne, who had gone and returned.

He walked over to the teenager, tossed a clean set of combat clothes over to him, and said, “Cecil, your every move is visible to all of Interstellar, so pay attention in the future.”

Zhou Yunsheng immediately comprehended his meaning and asked rhetorically, “What do I need to pay attention to? I have removed my glands and am about to become a qualified soldier. I fought in blood and defended my country, and didn’t feel that I had done anything inappropriate. Brigadier General Matthew, you once said that even omega must be strong, brave, and independent, but it’s clear that you’re just paying lip service, and your essence is no different from those who discriminate against omega.”

He paused and sneered, “You’re so hypocritical.”

“No, it’s not what you understand!” Osborne was speechless and heartbroken. He realized he couldn’t stand Cecil’s misunderstanding at all. He wasn’t saying that Cecil shouldn’t go to war, but he didn’t want anyone to see his wonderful body. Just the thought that someone was molesting-Cecil across the astro-net made him maniacally want to kill someone. But these feelings were beyond even his own comprehension, let alone frankly.

He was now very hard and very bewildered, and there was no one else who could have struck him with such a rout as Cecil had done in two or three words.

Zhou Yunsheng didn’t want to have another conversation with Osborne. He could treat him with a calm attitude, but only if he could also treat himself with a calm attitude. He waved his hand and spoke faintly, “Goodbye Brigadier General Matthew, I hope you won’t meddle in my affairs in the future, you don’t have that qualification.”

“Bye cousin.” Darren was firmly on his teammate’s side. The spunky Cecil was so charming and deserved better. Repentance was repentance, and you couldn’t presume to start over.

You don’t have that qualification, the words were like a sharp knife, stabbing hard into Osborne’s chest. He fought with all his might not to show his pained expression. He nodded his head stiffly to show that he knew, and left a hoarse apology before leading his adjutant back to the starship.

He sat in the command seat for a long time without moving, a row of monitors in front of him, and Cecil was eating barbecue and chatting with Darren, smiling brightly and talking in such a way that Barnett’s followers couldn’t help but come up to him and listen to him attentively. He possessed a certain unrivaled charm that could make anyone submit for him.

Gradually, Osborne’s eyes turned crimson as he gazed at the screen. He was angry, manic, overwhelmed, and desperate to tear the starship he was traveling in to pieces.

The adjutant noticed that the air around him was getting thinner and thinner, which made him realize that his superior’s mental power was on the verge of collapsing.

“General, please calm down and don’t destroy the monitor.” Worthy of being the most adept at reading people in the First Legion, the adjutant directly poked his superior’s soft underbelly as soon as he opened his mouth.

Osborne immediately withdrew his mental powers, and also reached out to hold up the monitor screen closest to him, making sure that he hadn’t lost Cecil’s figure on it before letting out a sigh of relief.

The lieutenant had never seen his boss care so much about someone, even when confronted with Joshua, who was only superficially infatuated and his behavior did not get out of hand. Who he really loved was self-evident. However, as a person with high-end bad taste, the adjutant felt absolutely no need to wake up his boss, and very ‘considerately’ kept silent.

Osborne stroked his fingertips over Cecil’s face reflected on the screen, suddenly feeling that the act was very familiar, as if he had done it a thousand times before. He loved the feeling of silently watching Cecil, the peace, the pleasure, the happiness.

But he’d hurt him, almost reduced him to the joke of all the stars. Osborn covered his eyes so that deep, substantial despair would not pour from the depths of his pupils.

At that exact moment, a medic approached and whispered, “General, Barnett’s wound has been healed, would you like to go over and take a look?”

Barnett was an alpha with a double S physique, and his recovery power was already amazing, coupled with the extremely advanced medical technology, a normal trauma could be healed in just an hour of immersion in the restorative fluid.

“Go check it out.” Osborne stood up and headed toward the medical room. No one noticed the flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

Star Network is still broadcasting the aftermath of Barnett’s situation live in order to garner ratings. He’s now confined to his cubicle, his mental powers having leveled off due to the repair fluid, and realizes the dire situation he’s in.

He was very quiet now, and even put on a penitent expression. Because he knew that no matter what he said, it was useless, so he might as well obediently confess to his crime to save some face for the family, and if he confessed with a good attitude, he could even change his sentence from death to exile. A few decades later, he might even be able to return to the Imperial Capital Star.

But many things can’t be controlled by human beings, for example, if some people want to kill you, you can’t avoid it no matter what. Osborne had just stepped into the cubicle with one foot, and his spiritual power had already congealed into an awl and stabbed into Barnett’s brain.

That’s right, his mental powers could be used to kill people directly, something only he and old Matthew knew.

Barnett’s spiritual energy, which had just regained its calm, boiled up again. He leapt up like a mad dog and launched an indiscriminate attack on everyone, screaming, “Who are you to arrest me and judge me? Those people are just dogs raised by the Aldrich family, and the laws of the Lenon Empire don’t stipulate that you need to be responsible for killing a few dogs.”

These remarks caused a furor on the Star Network, and the netizens simply couldn’t understand where the Aldrich family’s sense of superiority came from. It turned out that in their eyes, all the people under their command were animals that could be trampled on and killed by them.

The netizens were speechless and didn’t even want to make a single comment, only summarizing their feelings with a series of ellipses or shit-eating emoticons.

The various forces that had cast their allegiance to the Aldrich family were almost not enraged. They flatly rejected the Aldrich family head’s call request and reached a unanimous consensus – the Aldrich family was not worthy of their continued allegiance.

Old Aldrich’s hair turned gray with worry. He constantly dialed the terminal, constantly received a rejection tone, his heart sank to the bottom bit by bit. Aldrich family seems to be a behemoth, but all depends on the baking of the people underneath, if one day those people are no longer willing to support Aldrich, this behemoth will fall directly from the clouds to the ground, the situation can only be used to describe the ‘tragic’ two words.

He never expected that his once most favored and beloved son would bury all his years of hard work with a word or two. He opened StarNet and checked on Barnett almost with hatred.

Barnett had grabbed the weakest medic and was trying to strangle the other. His face was twisted, his eyes were wild, and he had obviously lost his mind. In this case, the executive officer in charge of capturing him had the power to kill him.

So Osborne moved, he twisted Barnett’s arm and punched him directly through the heart, then faced the camera and spoke solemnly, “In order to protect the lives of all people, Brigadier General Osborne Matthew killed the suspect Barnett Aldrich in accordance with the provisions of Article 1209 of the Lenon Empire’s military law. All relevant evidence will be sealed at the first opportunity in order to be investigated by the military court.”

He methodically directed the soldiers to secure the scene and bowed to everyone on the other end of the screen.

No one blamed him, instead they screamed in approval, except for the Aldrich family who were red in the face. They knew Osborne did it on purpose, with his strength it wasn’t hard to subdue the frenzied Barnett, just a chop on the back of the neck would put Barnett in a coma and bring him back alive. But instead of doing that, he chose to just kill him.

He had made his position clear – the Matthews were unafraid to make an enemy of the Aldrichs and had already made their move.

His every move was in accordance with the law, and even though old Aldrich was mad as hell, there was still nothing he could do about it.

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The team members who had wandered off returned to the group, Zhou Yunsheng led them to fight monsters while keeping an eye on the outside world’s movements, and raised one eyebrow in surprise when he saw the news that Osborne had killed Barnett.

Can’t tell, that guy’s surface is upright, but he’s actually quite ruthless, completely inconsistent with his persona. He silently sighed and cast it away.

After surviving thirteen days without incident, they finally arrived near the rendezvous point.

“Full speed ahead, a comrade is surrounded by ghost spiders and needs to be rescued.” Zhou Yunsheng monitored the danger and ran towards the location of the accident without hesitation.

It had been said before that the Magic Flower Mantis was a very high ranked bug beast that had almost no natural enemies in CT073, but that was only almost, the only bug beast that could make them afraid was the Ghost Spider.

Ghost spiders feed on humans and all sorts of higher insects and beasts, and they can spray a kind of extremely sticky and tough spider web, so if you are unfortunate enough to be caught in it, you can only wait for death. The web will become tougher and tougher as the prey struggles, until the prey can’t even move a hair.

At this point, the Ghost Spider will slowly walk over to the prey, inject the corrosive venom into its body, and can’t wait to suck it clean when it melts into a pile of mush.

They always appear in groups, and their webs are sprayed all over the sky, even starships have been stuck and could not break free, not to mention human beings. Meeting them is like meeting the Grim Reaper.

Darren knew there was no way to get his companion out by rushing over there, he had to call in the rescue team. He took out his helper but couldn’t push it down, whoever pressed the light was automatically out. He’d gotten this far, why give up?

He gritted his teeth and put away his helper and headed after Cecil. Maybe the trapped person had already pressed the helper and a rescue team would be here soon. He thought with a sense of luck.

But unfortunately, those people had long been firmly stuck in the spider web, unable to move even a single finger much less take out their helpers. The viewers on the Star Network only felt their hearts burst when they saw a dozen or so Ghost Spiders slowly climbing down from the treetops, their mouthparts dripping venom and corroding the soil with a small pit.

They sent a spontaneous letter to the school authorities asking them to send a rescue in a hurry, and found that Cecil had actually run over there despite the danger, itching to put his hand in the screen and yank him out.

The only people who felt happy were probably the Aldrich family. They were doing everything they could to thwart the rescue team, just hoping that Cecil would have been eaten by the Ghost Spider by the time the rescue team arrived.

“Don’t come over, we’ve met the Ghost Spider, you guys run!” A certain candidate who was stuck to the spider’s web heard the footsteps and hurriedly shouted as hard as he could. His selfless action instead strengthened Zhou Yunsheng’s determination to save the others.

A dozen or so Ghost Spiders were not that difficult to deal with. He discarded the particle gun and held the two laser swords in his hands, and just as he entered the ambush range of the ghost spiders, the spider webs were sprayed down from the treetops in an overwhelming manner.

The audience on the Star Network covered their mouths in shock, however the expected gruesome scene did not happen, Cecil dodged the ubiquitous spider webs with unbelievable speed. He weaved in and out of the gaps in the webs, wielding his laser sword to slice them to pieces. He jumped up and down with such ease that he somehow managed to jump onto the spine of a ghost spider and plunged his laser sword into its head.

But the Ghost Spider was an extremely tenacious insect beast, even if its body was pierced by particle bullets and its head was cut off by a laser sword, it could still survive for several hours. During these hours, it relied on the fluffy hairs on its legs to identify the location of its prey, and no matter what, it would drag its prey down to hell with it.

It’s harder to deal with than the Magic Flower Mantis.

Zhou Yunsheng quickly jumped away after only a moment’s trial and quickly attacked towards a Ghost Spider that was preparing to absorb the candidates.

The viewers on the Star Network were so shocked by his sharp hands and horrified by the perverted vitality of the Ghost Spider that they hugged the screen and shook it frantically, praying for Cecil to hurry up and run away. They loved him too much, he was like a beam of light, so dazzling and unrestrained that he made the world a wonderful place for it.

They wanted to accompany him all the way and witness his growth and splendor. He should never have died here, at a time when his life was just beginning to take off.

“Where’s the crew? Where did Cecil’s crew go? Damn, a bunch of alpha and beta, but the running speed was thrown out by Cecil by dozens of kilometers, are you guys not ashamed of yourselves!” An omega whose personality was originally very docile was now pounding the table and cursing.

He had just finished cursing when Darren appeared, holding up his particle gun and firing a burst of shots. But the ghost spiders weren’t afraid of particle bullets at all, their body surface was covered with a layer of very pliable fluff, which was able to remove most of the damage, and even if they were pierced through, it wouldn’t affect their movements at all.

They all surrounded Zhou Yunsheng, leaving a thick layer of cobwebs where he ran, but not even a single thread of the cobwebs touched the teenager’s body. He was as fast as a gust of wind, invisible and hard to catch. This was definitely the most difficult prey they had ever met.

The ground was covered with cobwebs, there was hardly any place to get down, and there were quite a few hanging between the branches of the trees, so that if you weren’t careful, you would get stuck. If it dragged on, sooner or later, this place would turn into a world of snow-white cobwebs, making it difficult to escape. Zhou Yunsheng had a plan in mind, wielding his laser sword and jumped onto the spine of a ghost spider, plunging in from the most vulnerable joints, quickly removing one of its legs, then switching to the back of the other one, as he did.

Thanks to the Ghost Spider’s strong sense of group attack, they pounced one after another, allowing Zhou Yunsheng to not have to touch the ground at all. He quickly rolled and jumped on the back of each Ghost Spider, patiently dislodging their articulated limbs, and in the confusion, there were even Ghost Spiders that accidentally seriously injured their own companions, weakening their fighting strength even more.

Darren was blocked by layers of cobwebs in the periphery of the battle circle, at first, he frequently fired particle bombs to cover for his teammates, but later, when he saw the way, he even put down his gun in a relaxed mood and waited for his teammates to triumph. Then arrived a few team members with fascinated eyes watching the white circle in the non-stop prancing and jumping in the hands of the dazzling young man.

For the first time, they realized that violence and mutilation could be as beautiful as art. The teenager dismembered the spectral spiders with a speed so fast that it was eerie, passing by his trapped comrades without forgetting to slice through the spider silk that was tightly wrapped around them, so that they wouldn’t suffocate.

The men were able to move a little, and hastily peeled away the cobwebs covering their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, and stared at the teenager with unblinking eyes.

Zhou Yunsheng worked for more than an hour, finally chopping off the last segmented limb, standing on the back of the ghost spider and asking, “Have you ever pressed the helper?”

“No, as soon as we walked over, we were ambushed, it was too late.” A burly looking handsome alpha spoke indistinctly. His lips were stuck and he had some difficulty speaking, and he was the one who reminded Zhou Yunsheng not to come over just now.

“The sap of the sepia plant can melt spider webs, I’ll have my team members gather sepia plants to get you guys out of there, then we’ll go to the meeting place together.” Zhou Yunsheng waved at Darren. There were spider webs everywhere on the ground and in the treetops, and he had no choice but to stay on the back of the Ghost Spider.

Darren agreed and led the team in search of the sepia plant.

The dozen or so Ghost Spiders were still alive, but they were unable to move and could only slightly wriggle their abdomens. Zhou Yunsheng was shaken and immediately chipped off the heads of these spiders before sitting down to rest.

The personal terminal emitted a faint dripping sound, showing the number of bug beasts he had hunted and killed – 6857, a few dozen more than Osborne Matthew at the time, which definitely set the latest record of Chelman Military School.

The alpha looked at the terminal and sighed, “Cecil, you have the best fighting skills and combat awareness of anyone I’ve ever seen, you are the deserving king of the newcomers.”

Zhou Yunsheng smiled brightly and accepted his praise.

It was only then that the viewers on StarNet snapped out of Cecil’s incredibly cool stance and clutched the screen as if they were on their knees in ecstasy. How could such a beautiful and powerful creature exist in the world? It was unrealistic!