You Smelled Wrong Chapter 10: Marshal, be careful.

Chapter 10: Marshal, be careful.

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

“Marshal… Nowadays, ancient Chinese names do not usually leave out the surname and call a monosyllabic name.”

Heinrich lowered his eyes, frowned slightly in serious thought for a moment, looked up at Lin Xu with questioning eyes, and spoke again, “Lin?”

There were times when people would call Heinrich by his surname alone, Chu, but most of the time, the surname was followed by his Marshal title.

But Lin Xu said there was no need to call him sir, so perhaps, Dr. Lin?

Just as Heinrich tried to correct his choice of words for the third time, Lin Xu took a few deep breaths, calmed down and said to him, “Just call me Lin Xu.”

“Okay, Lin Xu,” Heinrich looked at Lin Xu for a moment for some reason, then quickly looked away when Lin Xu felt confused, his hand on the mecha lever, “The warehouse is not tall enough, Blizzard can only do a few simple maneuvers. You buckle up when you’re ready to go.”

Lin Xu bowed his head and used the X-shaped seat belt to secure himself in the pilot’s seat, the feeling of restraint and oppression made him feel a little suffocated. As Heinrich maneuvered Blizzard to rise, the loud sound of the machinery running was not cleanly blocked by the soundproofing, continuous and dull rushing into the ears.

The apocalypse base’s mechanized processing line for zombie corpses and the orthopedic surgical saws in the renovated operating room flashed through his mind.

Lin Xu’s throat tightened and he strained to close his eyes, letting his mind sink into darkness, but the intense weightlessness from the giant mecha’s rise caused him to reopen his eyes and hold on to the armrest of the driver’s seat.

Heinrich caught a glimpse of him and slowed the pull on the lever, the angle in the front view window shifting as Blizzard heaved and slowly changed from a seated position to one knee, the view now about ten meters higher than it had been at the start, the lighting in the warehouse just diagonally ahead, the blinding light illuminating everything in the cockpit, including Lin Xu’s pale face covered in cold sweat.

Blizzard stopped moving, and Heinrich’s hand withdrew from the joystick and reached for Lin Xu’s direction, but stopped halfway. He listened sideways for a moment and then opened the communication line with the bridge and asked, “Arnold, is S105 leaping?”

“General, S105 is preparing for the leap, the external force field has been turned on, the leap channel is expected to reach the passable level in 30 seconds!”

“Understood.” Heinrich hung up the communication and turned to Lin Xu, “Lin Xu, are you dizzy from the leap?”

Lin Xu coughed twice to suppress the nausea churning in his stomach and waved his hand, “It’s not serious, don’t worry.”

Heinrich looked at Lin Xu’s hands, with knuckles white as he gripped the armrests, and felt he should do something, but was a little hesitant.

Most of the soldiers in the Abyss Fleet were alphas, but there were also some betas and physically stronger than omegas. Those who couldn’t stand the intensity of the leap were eliminated during their training at the military school and would not appear before Heinrich at all.

Heinrich himself grew up on his mother’s starship, leapfrogging was a common occurrence, and he had absolutely no experience in dealing with becoming seasick from leaping.

If it was a civilian starship, let’s say the starship Natural Evolution that carried the expedition was much more gentle in its leap and basically would not have had a seasick feeling, but the intensity of the leap of a military starship far exceeded the level of a civilian starship, and S105 was still a speed ship with a much more violent leap.

The lighting continued to emit a strong white light as Heinrich got up and walked to the back side of the cockpit. After a slight rattle, he reentered, but instead of sitting back in his seat, he walked next to Lin Xu.

Heinrich was tall and upright, and Lin Xu was sitting at a height that barely reached his waist. Heinrich then half-crouched down like a Blizzard mecha, and now he was the one who needed to look up at Lin Xu.

Lin Xu’s eyes were half closed, his breathing was ragged and intermittent, apparently more serious than he had claimed. Heinrich looked into his gray eyes beneath the slits of his fluttering lashes, the glare almost making them transparent, but they did not respond to Heinrich, who withdrew his gaze, shoved a glass of water into Lin Xu’s hand, and whispered, “Have a sip of hot water.”

“Pff.”

Heinrich heard a muffled gasp from Lin Xu’s nostrils, something like a laugh, but not. It shouldn’t be; Lin Xu doesn’t laugh often, and there’s nothing to amuse him now.

Lin Xu took the glass of water, sipped the water to moisten his lips, and did not continue to lament the thousands of years of human continuity to drink some hot water from a straight steel man.

The dramatic change in the state of space-time during the starship jump poked Lin Xu’s sensitive nerves like a needle point, and memories of the difficulty and pain of relying on his powers and physical body to tear through space-time came flooding back to him in a flash, causing him to have a panic attack.

It was not a big problem, and he would be better after a while.

The leap passage itself was very quiet, but the time shift would cause a ringing in the ears, as if everything was standing still at the moment, and Lin Xu took a few more sips of water.

As he drank, Heinrich leaned forward to help him unbuckle his seatbelt. The stranger’s proximity made Lin Xu shake a little, but he quickly got himself under control. Heinrich said, “I need a seatbelt for mecha strenuous movement, but the starship leap is so gentle that you can unbuckle and catch your breath, cough- “

The sudden lurch of the starship, along with Blizzard, shook the ship violently, and Heinrich fell forward with nowhere to go, held by Lin Xu’s upper arm, but even so, he almost fell onto Lin Xu’s shoulder.

“Marshal, be careful.”

Lin Xu’s voice rang in his ears with a heat that the owner of the voice was not aware of. Heinrich tilted his head slightly and smelled a sweet fragrance mixed with the heat. Warm, sweet and moist, reminiscent of the golden sunlight sprinkled on mossy wood, far from the cold and austere aura Lin Xu displayed on the surface.

There it was again, the fragrance.

Heinrich had a moment of intoxication, but was quickly pulled back to reality by reason. He regained his feet, away from the embrace of the sweet heat, and moved very slightly stiffly back to his seat, where the AI-controlled robotic arm in the cockpit suddenly brought him a military jacket.

This one was a solid black trench coat style, and Heinrich changed into it with the hem hanging below his knees, covering the inner layer of the more flattering space combat suit.

Heinrich sat in his seat, his eyes straight ahead, his body upright and tense, but his eyes always glanced at the driver’s seat on the right. Lin Xu leaned back, holding a glass of water in both hands, looking relaxed, his eyes closed and resting.

But Heinrich did not relax at all.

The sweet scent of Lin Xu’s exposed neck remained faintly on the tip of his nose, and he wondered if it was a hallucination that Heinrich himself had not forgotten, or if the sweet scent was slowly filling the narrow cab.

The first time he met Lin Xu, the sweet scent permeated the entire space of the white maple bungalow, and until Heinrich took Lin Xu to the hospital, the faint scent still followed him, but it was not so strong as to make him lose his mind.

When he saw him afterward, Heinrich didn’t smell that sweet fragrance again, but it suddenly reappeared today.

He knew that Lin Xu’s body did not smell like skin care products, nor did he use perfume, the sweet scent would only come from Lin Xu herself, a charming aroma that Heinrich could not distinguish the name of, always made his mouth dry and a fire rise in his lower abdomen.

He put on another coat just to cover up… But Lin Xu was a beta… Did Lin Xu disguise his true gender? Was he an omega? Heinrich pondered this fateful question once again, his eyes obscure.

 

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