Chapter 68 Otherwise, tomorrow... send my wife's glands directly to me ^^...

Pei Jiqing gripped the rough stone so tightly that it hurt his palm.

A pistol lay in the dirt not far away. His shoulders trembled, and his voice was deliberately softened with tears: "I'm just an Omega from Chenhui Star. I know nothing..."

Tears flowed down his cheeks with just the right amount of force, making Pei Jiqing look extremely frightened. "I'll do anything you ask me to do, just don't kill me."

Teng Zhuo's shoes crushed the dead branches on the ground, making a crisp cracking sound. The shadows of the other two men fell on Pei Jiqing, Teng He's voice was deeper, Teng Yan's was thinner.

They exchanged a glance, Teng Zhuo's red lips curled into a curve, and her nails left a red mark on Pei Jiqing's chin.

She swiped quickly on the device, revealing Pei Jiqing's past social media updates.

"I found it," she suddenly scoffed, turning the screen to face her accomplice.

Those daily details, punctuated by heart symbols, were filled with Pei Jiqing's love-struck tales.

"She's truly a Lingshi officer Omega," Teng Yan commented. "She's got nothing else to do except take care of her husband."

Pei Jiqing: "I didn't want to come here in the first place. Who wants to suffer here? It's all Chen Huixing's fault. What should I do now? I really don't know."

"Then take him away?"

The black cloth was squeezed into the back of Pei Jiqing's head, the rough fibers rubbing against his eyelids.

He stumbled forward, his shoes digging into the damp mud. With every step, he could hear the splash of water around his feet.

The air was filled with the smell of moss and rotting plants, mixed with the sweat of the person in front of him.

When he regained his sight, Pei Jiqing squinted

for a moment to adjust. He paused for breath when Teng Zhuo's knife tip pressed against his back.

"You're not leaving?" She said with a smile, "Then I'll send you on your way right now."

"I'll go!" Pei Jiqing hurriedly took a step forward, the sharp corners of the stone in his palm digging a little deeper into his flesh. He groped his way forward, holding onto the slippery rock wall. Dark red blood mixed with mud and water flowed down his wrist and solidified into a sticky stain on his cuff.

The moss on the stone wall was rubbed out a vague mark, but it was too dark to make out anything.

When they arrived at the place.

Pei Jiqing's legs were shaking so much that he couldn't stand steadily. His whole body was covered with black mud, and even the ends of his hair were dripping with smelly sewage. The rebel camp was hidden in the deepest part of the dense forest. The thick treetops blocked the moonlight tightly. If he hadn't been escorted, this hidden stronghold would never have been discovered.

In the damp wooden house, Pei Jiqing curled up in a corner, twisting his fingers around the hem of his clothes that were so dirty that the color couldn't be seen.

"Can, can I take a shower?" He frowned at the stench on his body.

The whip in Teng Zhuo's hand "cracked" at his feet, raising a cloud of dust.

"If you make another sound, I'll cut off your tongue."

Pei Jiqing immediately covered his mouth, a few suppressed sobs leaking out from between his fingers. After a while, he spoke cautiously again: "You can use me... use me to threaten my husband, he will definitely agree to anything you say."

Teng Zhuo's whip was against Pei Jiqing's chin, with such force that it almost pierced the skin.

"What can he satisfy us?" She squinted her eyes, as if looking at a worthless commodity.

Pei Jiqing's Adam's apple rolled, and mud and water slid down his neck into his collar.

"Anything..." His voice was weak, "Don't you... want to escape?"

"Just you?" Teng Zhuo suddenly laughed, turned his head and winked at his companion, and the chain rattled and was put on Pei Jiqing's legs.

After the footsteps completely disappeared, Pei Jiqing spread out his bloody palm.

He gritted his teeth and tore off a corner of his shirt, the lining of which was still relatively clean, and gasped in pain as he bandaged the wound. The damp wall was covered with mold, and he stared at a stain in a trance.

Chen Huixing said that these desperadoes survived by reselling potions to black markets in various countries.

But the stench on their bodies made people's suns throb.

Pei Jiqing lowered his head and licked the wound on his palm, the smell of blood spreading on the tip of his tongue.

The pheromones on his body were indeed very weak, almost nothing left, and the gland function after washing away the marks had not yet fully recovered.

The place they just passed by should be a rock wall or something like that.

The next morning, he was roughly pushed into a group of civilians. Guards with guns walked back and forth around, shouting loudly.

Those civilians who were used as amulets by the rebels

trembled as they brought a basin of water, their fingers red from the cold.

"They threatened me with my mother..." Her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.

Pei Jiqing looked at the girl's red eyes, reached out and rubbed her messy hair, without saying a word. After a while, someone threw over a set of neatly folded clean clothes, the fabric still had the musty smell of the warehouse.

"Where's your mother?"

Xiao Ling said, "They used her as an experimental subject."

The first day was strangely quiet. No one came to interrogate, only people came to deliver food, and only the footsteps of the guards changing shifts echoed. Pei Jiqing curled up in the corner, counting the ants crawling through the cracks in the wall to pass the time.

The next day he was dragged into a temporarily converted laboratory. The man in the white coat pushed his glasses, and the eyes behind the lenses swept over Pei Jiqing's body like an X-ray.

"A suitable partner for an S-class Alpha?"

Teng Zhuo leaned against the doorframe, arms folded. "Aren't we in need of test subjects for the new drug?"

She raised her chin towards Pei Jiqing. "This one's perfect."

Pei Jiqing immediately covered the back of his neck and stepped back. "I can't do it. My glands can't even secrete pheromones right now. An S-class Alpha like Chen Huixing... I'm just an ordinary Omega, and I can't even admit it. He'd ruined me long ago."

The man in the white coat pressed his glands with his rubber-gloved fingers. The examination lasted only a few minutes, and finally the man nodded at Teng Zhuo.

Teng Zhuo studied Pei Jiqing's pale face. "What should I trade you for?"

She seemed to be pondering the price of a commodity, the tip of the whip brushing against Pei Jiqing's Adam's apple, intentionally or unintentionally.

Pei Jiqing: "You...are you going to kill him?"

His voice was shaking: "In fact, I want him to die more than you do. He is not a human being at all. I already had a lover, but he took me away just because of our compatibility. I even gave birth to my child with him...but he still wouldn't let me go..."

On the other side, Chen Huixing's command center was in chaos.

When his subordinates put the gun covered with mud on the table, Chen Huixing stared at it for a long time, and finally slowly closed his eyes, but those who knew him knew that he was suppressing some emotions.

The air in the command room seemed to freeze in an instant, and everyone held their breath.

Chen Huixing's fingertips knocked heavily on the battle map, and a dent was pressed into the mark in the southwest corner.

"How did these bastards get in?" He lowered his voice very low, like the muffled thunder before a storm.

The subordinates' reports were tense: "The southwest gap...has not been replenished since the last sneak attack."

The red circle of that area on the map was particularly eye-catching, and the number of troops marked next to it was pitifully small. He paused, then added: "There was also a girl who disappeared with my wife."

The light in the command room cast a shadow on Shen Huixing's face, and he stared at the gap for a long time.

The buzzing sound of the drone broke the silence above the command center. When it was shot down, a micro terminal fell out of it. When the video played automatically, the first sound was Pei Jiqing's intermittent sobbing. In the picture, he was tied up with thick ropes and could not move, and his wrists were rubbed red.

"Husband... save me..." Pei Jiqing's voice was hoarse, and he tried his best to shrink into the corner, as if to embed himself in the crack of the wall, "It's dark here... It hurts so much."

The command center was so quiet that you could hear the sound of a pin drop.

Shen Huixing stared at the frozen picture: "The conditions for releasing the people."

His voice was terrifyingly calm.

The subordinate's Adam's apple rolled. "The rebels demand... a safe passage out of Linhe within forty-eight hours."

"Otherwise... send Madam's glands directly to us tomorrow."

The air froze. Chen Huixing said, "Talk to them. One week." The

subordinate said, "This..."

Chen Huixing said, "Tell them, within one week, if one of my Omegas loses a hair, I'll raze their rat holes to the ground."

News spread like wildfire throughout the Asian Alliance. In the corridors of the military headquarters, staff officers hurriedly clutched documents, exchanging the latest intelligence in hushed tones. General Shen had compromised with the rebels for an Omega. This news ignited public outrage, with many accusing Chen Huixing of neglecting the greater good.

The General Affairs Office's red hotline rang seventeen times in half an hour. Each time it was answered, a different senior voice spoke, but the message was remarkably consistent: Chen Huixing must remain calm and not act without authorization.

"That's my Omega. I'd go crazy without him. Cen Yuean, stop being so naive. I'll let you take this position."

Cen Yuean, feeling inexplicably scolded, rubbed his chin as he hung up the phone.

The secretary asked cautiously, "Is Chen Huixing...crazy?"

Cen Yuean suddenly laughed and said, "I've persuaded him as much as I should. This time, let's see which he chooses, his wife or power."