Chapter 612 Title
Chapter 612 Title
Speaking of it.
Chen Muze took a deep breath, as if trying hard to control his emotions.
However, he still clenched his teeth unconsciously, and a bit of suppressed pain appeared between his eyebrows. "I didn't guard against Cheng Yu. He came to our base several times, so he remembered all the patrol time and loopholes of the base."
“That’s why—”
"The base we built with great difficulty was burned down, and some of our companions were captured in the base of the Ghost Pirates. Now we can only hide in this deep mountain forest."
He blamed himself and felt guilty.
The five fingers on his knees were tightly clenched, and the knuckles were faintly white. His usually gentle voice sounded a little choked up, "It's because I'm too useless, so I still haven't been able to think of a way to save them."
"Back then..."
"Zhishu could have escaped, but in order to cover our retreat from the encirclement of the Ghost Pirates... he offered to cover our retreat, so he was caught by Chengyu and the others..."
His voice was staccato.
He seemed to feel that he had failed in his duty as a leader, so he lowered his head in embarrassment and did not dare to look up at Lu Chihuan in front of him, for fear of seeing disappointment in the other's eyes.
His eyes, which always wore a gentle smile, contained a hint of wateriness, and the corners of his eyes were slightly red.
Sora didn't agree with what he heard.
She shook her head in dissatisfaction. "Chief, how can you blame it all on you? If you want to blame someone, you can only blame that Cheng Yu for disguising himself so well. You should know that before he led the space pirates to besiege us, everyone in the base was praising him."
"Moreover."
"If it weren't for you, the leader, who risked your life to lead us out of the pirates' encirclement and then found this hidden valley, we wouldn't be able to sit here safely."
talking.
She turned to Lu Chihuan and said, "Captain, you don't know."
"The leader risked his life to lead us out. After we finally settled down, we discovered..."
"He had several wounds on his body. It was obviously very painful, but he just gritted his teeth and said nothing. The blood had soaked his clothes. I touched my hands and they were covered in blood. I was scared to death at the time, fearing that he would die here."
Lu Chihuan frowned.
From Sora's tone, one could tell that the situation must have been extremely dangerous.
He moved his lips.
Just as he was about to say something, he saw Chen Muze clench his fist against his lips and cough a few times. There was a bit of fatigue between his eyebrows, but he still managed to answer, "Ahem...
"It's not as serious as Sora said... and I'm... cough..."
This sentence has not yet been finished.
He seemed to be affected by his own wound, and began to cough heart-wrenchingly.
The back arched and began to tremble uncontrollably. The originally pale face turned red, and the whole person looked like a butterfly that was unable to break free from a white cocoon.
Lu Chihuan stopped the conversation.
He first picked up the coat that had slipped off Chen Muzhe, then put it back on him, and then took out a small therapeutic device from his storage ring.
And various repair potions.
"Stop talking yet."
He patted Chen Muze's back helplessly, then opened the lid of the medicine and handed it to the other person, "Take the medicine first, and then use the treatment device to treat your body."
"Don't punish yourself for other people's mistakes. This matter was just a conspiracy and trap set up by someone with ulterior motives from the beginning to the end. You can't hide from it no matter how hard you try."
"Even if there is no Cheng Yu..."
“There will be others, too.”
"If you really feel guilty, Brother Chen, why don't you take this opportunity to recover your health and cooperate with me to rescue everyone else. Mistakes need to be made up for proactively."
"Feeling sorry for yourself doesn't do anything except make you feel worse."
Chen Muzhe covered his lips and smiled bitterly.
Although I still feel depressed.
However, Lu Chihuan's words of comfort really made the dark cloud that had been lingering in his heart all day dissipate a little bit in an instant, and then a few rays of bright sunshine came through.
He didn't know where he got the strength from, and he took the potion and drank it in one gulp.
Lu Xing is right.
With his current sick body, he is powerless even if he wants to rescue his companions, so it is better for him to take the medicine quickly to heal his wounds, so that he can do the following things.
"Lu Xing, you are younger than me, but... you are more reliable than me."
After he swallowed the medicine.
He took the initiative to unbutton his clothes, revealing the wounds on his waist and abdomen, so that Lu Chihuan could treat them with the therapeutic device. His gentle eyes slowly curved, and he regained some vitality.
"As soon as you come back."
"I feel like my heart has settled down. If I had known earlier, I would have let you be the leader of the rebel army. Maybe you could have developed it better..."
Lu Chihuan refused without even looking up.
"No."
"You built up the Rebellion little by little. It is thanks to your hard work that it has grown to such a large scale. I think it can basically be regarded as your child who was raised by your own hands."
"Now that you don't want to raise the child, you plan to just throw it to me."
He was joking on purpose.
The black jade-like eyes blinked a few times, with a bit of smartness and mischief, "Could it be... you want me to be its stepfather?"
As soon as the words were spoken.
Chen Muzhe choked a few times.
He subconsciously clenched the armrests of the chair in his hands, and his ears and neck turned light red. Now he stared at Lu Chihuan nervously and helplessly, as if he didn't know how to answer.
after all.
No one had ever played such a joke on him.
After a moment, he moved his lips, and then squeezed out a dry word from his throat, "...Don't tease me."
otherwise.
He could easily take it seriously.
Lu Chihuan couldn't help laughing. Seeing that Chen Muze's wounds had been almost healed, he stood up and put the treatment device on the table next to him, "Brother Chen."
"Why are you so shy?"
"I was just teasing you, but your face turned red like this. If I do something excessive again..."
"Aren't you going to be cooked?"
Chen Muzhe could hardly maintain the gentle mask on his face. His mind was in a mess, and he was basically thinking about what was the more outrageous thing that Lu Xing had said.
Think about it this way.
He was like a steamed crab, with steam coming out of his whole body.
If Lu Xing really wanted to do something...
He, he will never resist.
However, Lu Chihuan did not intend to really do anything, as he was not a pervert like Zhou Zhi.
I said those words just now because I saw that Chen Muzhe was showing signs of being depressed again, so I deliberately made a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere.
Now he patted Chen Muze on the shoulder and said, "Get up again from where you fell. Brother Chen, don't deny all your previous efforts because of a temporary failure."
"and--"
"To be honest, I still have the mission of saving the world. I have so many responsibilities and titles that I basically don't have time to help you manage the rebels."
Sora was fiddling with the potion on the table out of boredom. After hearing this, he looked at Lu Chihuan curiously.
"title?"
Lu Chihuan replied in a joking tone, "Yes, for example, the fiancé of His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, the owner of the Mechanical City Jinwu, and the new leader of the Ghost Pirates..."
Upon hearing this.
Sora couldn't help but laugh. "Although we give ourselves the identities when we go out, you are too bold to think so. These are big shots who are very different from us. We can't even touch their clothes on weekdays."
"You can think what you want."
"Don't tell anyone else about this. If anyone hears it, they might arrest you, Captain."
Lu Chihuan tilted his head.
Then he replied with a smile, "Isn't it an exaggeration to describe the difference between us as huge as a chasm? Although they are big shots, they are not much different from us."
"Besides, who said we can't even touch the edge of their clothes? Maybe they will disguise themselves as other people and get in with us."
"You may have not only touched the other person's clothes, but also eaten at the same table with the other person and even gossiped with him or her."
Sora looked skeptical.
She held her chin and muttered, "It's impossible. Do these big shots really have so much free time?"
Lu Chihuan couldn't help but think in his heart, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire really has so much free time. Didn't he previously join their team under the pseudonym Cheng Bo Cang and spend some time with them day and night?
Unfortunately.
Except for him, this matter——
Nobody knows.
Chen Muzhe originally thought that Lu Xing was just joking, but when he looked up and saw the bright light in the other's black eyes, his heart inexplicably skipped a beat.
He rubbed his chest.
A strange intuition arose in his mind, as if the words Lu Xing had just said were not lies, but rather the truth that was deliberately spoken under the guise of a joke.
should……
impossible.
His intuition can't always be correct, there will always be mistakes.
Originally, Chen Muzhe was planning to think about it carefully again, but the ingredients in the potion might have some sleep-inducing effect, so his eyelids drooped unconsciously.
A strong sense of sleepiness came over me.
He couldn't help but yawn, and his consciousness became a little unclear.
Lu Chihuan noticed this and reached out to support his shoulders, then softened his voice and said, "If you're sleepy, why don't you go to bed and rest? There's no rush to rescue Zhishu and the others."
after all.
They haven't yet extracted any useful information from the pirates, so it would be risky to go there just like that.
Chen Muze rubbed his eyebrows.
This time he did not refuse. Instead, he obediently grasped Lu Chihuan's hand, and then stood up with the help of the other's hand.
He was helped to lie down on the bed.
The slender arm was pressing down on a corner of the quilt, and his sleeping posture was extremely proper.
"correct."
Just when Lu Chihuan was about to leave the room, he suddenly remembered something and grabbed Lu Chihuan's white wrist again.
Although he was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyes, he still managed to make a weak and vague sound from his throat, "If you want to do anything, you must wake me up."
"You can't put yourself in danger alone."
"And I didn't mean to not reply to your message before, it's just that my communicator was broken when I was running away..."
Lu Chihuan was helpless.
"understood."
He grabbed Chen Muze's hand and shook it gently for a few times, then stuffed his hand back into the quilt, "You're so sleepy... why are you still so worried? Go to sleep."
"don’t worry."
After getting Lu Chihuan's affirmative answer, Chen Muzhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did he slowly fall into sleep.
Lu Chihuan and Sora left the room quietly. After he carefully closed the door, he gestured to Sora beside him, "Let's go, call someone you trust, and we'll go interrogate those pirates."
Sora naturally wouldn't refuse.
The pirates had forced them into this situation, and she wanted to retaliate, so in just a few minutes, she had quickly gathered all the people.
Not only that.
She even picked out a few ruthless men to make the pirates suffer more during the interrogation.
In fact.
Those pirates are not tough guys.
Sora had only used two of the torture methods he had seen on the Starnet and had specially saved in his favorites, but the pirates were already crying out in pain, and then they told him everything they knew with tears streaming down their faces.
It is said.
They followed the orders of the so-called Lord Patu and locked up all the captured rebel members in the prison of the Ghost Pirates' base, intending to torture them severely afterwards.
Then ask the other party about the hiding places of the rest of the people.
However, ever since the leader led the elite troops to deal with the wormhole, the deputy leader has targeted Patu several times for some unknown reason.
even.
Martial law was tightened everywhere.
Patou was so busy that he focused on his own affairs and ignored other members of the rebel army for a while.
However, these pirates were worried that if the deputy leader knew about the torture of the rebels, they would be in trouble, so the matter was gradually shelved.
As a result, the members of the rebel army were basically safe except that they were a little thinner due to hunger.
"You mean-"
Lu Chihuan bent his fingers and tapped his arms a few times. His dark eyes darkened and his voice sounded a little tense.
"You mean."
"I... the leader is not in the Ghost Pirates now?"
After hearing Lu Chihuan's voice, the star pirate trembled a few times reflexively and felt a piercing pain in his wound.
He answered carefully, "Yes, a wormhole that kept expanding appeared near the Star Pirates not long ago, and the Zerg seemed to use the wormhole to open passages on both sides, and then wanted to invade other small planets in the universe."
"The leader left with his elite troops to deal with this matter."
Lu Chihuan's heart sank.
His brother...
Not in the Pirates now?
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