You Smelled Wrong Chapter 5: Abyss Fleet Sets Sail

Chapter 5: Abyss Fleet Sets Sail

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Lin Xu was also skeptical about the solution itself offered by Heinrich. Three thousand years had passed, how many human artifacts would remain on the planet? Especially books and electronic storage devices, which were difficult to preserve.

Arnold noticed the odd atmosphere between the two, immediately bitter in his heart and smiling on his face, he rounded up, “Mr. Lin, the expedition was organized by the Imperial Institute in the lead, they should have sent you an email, would you look at it?”

He had missed the conversation between Lin Xu and Marianna and was still a bit unsure, thinking it was because Lin Xu didn’t know that he was personally invited to join the mission by the Imperial Institute.

But Heinrich had just been there and listened to the whole conversation, he raised his arm and pressed his palm to silence Arnold, “If Mr. Lin Xu doesn’t want to go, the Institute can’t force him. I’m only inviting Mr. Lin Xu to join on my own behalf. The fleet doesn’t depart for another ten days, before then, if Mr. Lin Xu changes his mind, he can always contact me.”

“Thanks for the offer Marshal,” Lin Xu closed his eyes and lay back on his pillow in a non-violent, non-cooperative stance, and Heinrich made no violent or intimidating moves, “but I’m a sick man, what I need is rest.”

“Yes, I know.”

Arnold opened his mouth to try to persuade, but Heinrich didn’t continue to insist, just looked at Lin Xu and replied like this, “I won’t come back to disturb Mr. Lin Xu’s recuperation. There is just one last question, and it has to do with ancient Earth.”

“Go ahead.”

“I’ve read some ancient earth literature, and there are many stories of dragons and princesses. I want to know, did dragons and princesses have offspring? What is the situation of their offspring?”

Lin Xu opened his eyes at once, and for the first time he actively and carefully looked at Marshal Heinrich Chu’s face, trying to find even a half-hearted expression of displeasure or mockery in it, otherwise it was really hard for him to understand why Heinrich would ask such a childish and odd question.

But he failed, Heinrich looked very serious.

Lin Xu couldn’t restrain his displeasure and pulled the corner of his mouth, “It’s just a legend, the real situation is that there is a kind of hybrid offspring of donkey and horse on the ancient earth, called a mule. This kind of hybrid offspring has no reproductive ability due to the reproductive isolation of its parents.”

Arnold almost couldn’t hold back a breath when he heard it, covering his mouth in horror halfway through and looking cautiously at Heinrich.

Humans often lamented Heinrich’s inability to smell pheromones as a human-dragon hybrid. Lin Xu’s insinuating example was simply rubbing salt into his wounds, taking a shot at an alpha’s most important dignity concern.

Heinrich looked a little hesitant, but without any expression of indignation. He lowered his eyes in silence for a moment, as if thinking about Lin Xu’s answer, and then solemnly said goodbye to Lin Xu and left.

Arnold was torn by the fact that he was left behind to face Lin Xu, who in theory was offended by his words, especially since he was offending the powerful and domineering Marshal of the Marion Empire.

The last star pirate to mock Marshal with similar words had been blasted into a burning star by the Victoria. But Heinrich didn’t seem to mind Lin Xu’s insults, so Arnold didn’t know how to react, and said, “Mr. Lin, excuse me, you… Get some rest.”

Then he stumbled over his feet and left with great difficulty.

Heinrich’s next schedule was basically on the main planet of the Capital Star. After the two of them boarded the vehicle, Arnold entered the pilot’s seat and steered the vehicle into the air, turning on the intelligent navigation to fly towards the space elevator shaft connecting the main planet and Endymion.

As the wind whistled past and the portholes cut off the sound of the wind, Heinrich suddenly asked, “What did you say to him when you said goodbye?”

“Uh,” Arnold tensed, worried that he had used the wrong attitude, “Mr. Lin wasn’t feeling well, so I said ‘get some rest’?”

“Hmm.” Heinrich looked down through the porthole of the craft, the gray-green fields of the Endymion countryside tumbling with waves of grass. “What’s his comm number?”

Arnold sent his contact information to Heinrich with a confused expression, wondering what Marshal was planning to do, and in the afterglow he saw Heinrich open the terminal and send a message.

Heinrich didn’t know what to say when he said goodbye, other than a goodbye.

In fact, the moment he asked the legend of the dragon and the princess, he regretted it, it was too offensive to Lin Xu. Not only did Heinrich react when he smelled the sweet smell of Lin Xu’s body, but for the first time in decades, he even had the biological instinct of a dragon… The desire to lay eggs with another.

He restrained his reaction but failed to control his mouth and asked about the legend…

For the first time, Marshal Chu vaguely understood why those brainless alphas had trouble controlling themselves when they smelled pheromones.

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Lin Xu didn’t stay in the hospital for long. When he checked out, the doctor told him that Colonel Arnold had settled his medical bills and gave him a large bag of specially formulated supplements.

Lin Xu carried the bag in one hand and held Snowy in the other, with Blackie resting firmly on his neck. Public transportation was crowded, and Lin Xu didn’t like the feeling of being surrounded by people, so he walked all the way home.

The hospital was about ten kilometers from Cacamorra Plains, but it was still easy compared to the trek Lin Xu had experienced on foot during the apocalypse.

The Marshal took the unconscious man to the hospital with a bag of special nutrition now in his hand, and for the love of these things, Lin Xu just sighed and didn’t say anything when he found the kicked down door panel of his house.

The sky outside the window was dark, the Cacamorra plains were shrouded in a deep blue night. When his eyes were cast to the peaks, he was able to see behind the peaks, the brilliant lights of the main capital star lit up in the night.

Lin Xu fed Blackie and Snowy, who had been hungry all day, then lit the fireplace and found last night’s barbecue take-out on the island in the kitchen.

The food hadn’t gone bad in the recent cool weather, so Lin Xu heated it up and ate it hastily before going to the bathroom to clean up, wrapping up in his pajamas and falling into bed.

The inflammation was making Lin Xu dizzy and hot, and he couldn’t sleep completely, but lying down with his eyes closed was better. Probably sensing his master’s abnormality, the two rabbit-cats squeezed in through the door and jumped onto the bed to comfort Lin Xu in the crook of his knee.

By the end, Lin Xu didn’t know how much time had passed, and Blackie and Snowy seemed to have left a few times. They were smart enough to go through the cat food on their own, so Lin Xu didn’t have to worry about starving them if he passed out.

By the time Lin Xu finally woke up from his muddled state, the firewood in the downstairs fireplace had all burned to ashes, and there was no spark or heat at all.

Lin Xu pulled open the door to find an intelligent delivery robot. The wait time on the screen showed that the robot had arrived at Lin Xu’s door at 4 p.m. It had been waiting for five hours and had been knocking relentlessly for five hours. The robot’s eyes glowed blue as it handed Lin Xu the goods that had to be delivered to him, and Lin Xu signed for the goods with his terminal ID information.

It was a set of formal clothes from Marianna.

Marianna was an omega, but also the sole heir to a large fortune, gender did not bind her, she could be free to do what she wants to do, love who she wanted to love, or spend all of her money to fill Lin Xu’s closet full of exquisite clothing.

Before Lin Xu turned to enter the door, he somehow glanced at the sky. Today’s starry sky was different from the usual, with four bright stars with trailing flames in the twilight of the western sky, like glowing sapphires in a black velvet disk.

They were the bright lights of the engines of Heinrich’s flagship Victoria and the three flagship escorts.

The Abyss Fleet had dozens of starships under its command, but only the giant engines of these four large starships were visible to the naked eye as they set sail, three astronomical units apart from Endymion.

By the time the distant glow of the Mercedes reached Cacamorra Plains, the Abyss Fleet was already well away from the Crescent Sector, and a short distance further on, the fleet would enter the leap, spanning tens of light years.

Heinrich Chu had left the Capital.

Lin Xu did not realize he had slept for so long.

 

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