Chapter 95

"You get extra points for cooking and playing cards and telling stories?" Bailey questioned.

"If it's so easy, then what did we work so hard to kill the Bugs for before?" You Xiang lamented, after resting for a while, his mental condition was much better than before, although he was still dazed, but compared to his previous half-dead appearance, his mental state now was like he had stayed up too late.

"We've also made worm meat for NPCs, and instead of adding points, our favoritism has been deducted." Gu Tunan, who was bandaged like a mummy, opened his mouth.

Qiu Yan showed a look of sympathy: "This I know, it's because you guys make it so bad, if you were an NPC and someone made shit flavored chocolate with their own hands and gave it to you, and graciously allowed you to eat it, would you have a crush on that person?"

"......" It's hard to argue with that.

Mo Zheng deflects the cringe-worthy topic, "Who discovered these methods?"

"Tang Bai." Qiu Yan said with honor.

When this answer was given, none of Ideal's three alpha's looked differently at it.

"His mind is turning quite fast." Bai Li complimented with a feigned casualness.

"No wonder then." Mo Zheng said with a hint of reminiscence, "Tang Bai cooks well--"

"Yes, so you guys are in for a treat today." Xie Ruhang approached like an insatiable lion as he interrupted Mo Zheng.

The crowd looked to Xie Ruhang, a susceptible alpha who had always exuded pheromones that were oppressive to the same sex, but Xie Ruhang was currently wearing the unmistakable scent of Milk Duds.

It's a sweetness that doesn't fit Xie Ruhang as a person, and it's like syrup on the blade of a knife, stabbing Tang Bai's adoring alpha in the heart.

Not only that, Lu Lv also voiced, "That's great, sister-in-law's popped bug meat is very delicious, delicious on earth."

The name "sister-in-law" is like rubbing salt into these alpha's bleeding hearts.

Xie Ruhang notices the stares he receives from the crowd, and he offers a reserved, polite smile to the ostensibly unperturbed group of alphas.

"Sugar he has more than just whimsy, he can operate a spaceship." Xie Ruhang said softly.

In front of the crowd, he didn't want to reveal his private intimacy with Tang Bai, but the name Sugar Sugar was enough to make a group of people around him tense up.

"Yes, yes, yes, the Exploration ship that rescued you this time was piloted by sister-in-law." Qiu Yan gave a thumbs up, "Sister-in-law's skill in piloting the ship is superb, strong enough to take us through the meteorite swarm!"

Xie Ruhang went on to add lightly, "Removing the various skills, Sugar is delightful in her own right."

"Yes yes yes, our sister-in-law has a super charismatic personality, just stop there and you can brush the NPC favorability, do you guys know what kind of benefits there will be if you brush the NPC favorability?"

"The npc will contribute to the petty cash!"

"We were able to arrive in time for this rescue thanks to the NPC's contribution of extremely high quality energy crystals, which are said to be the Captain's private stash, and Brother Xie's transformation materials for the mechs and weapons were also contributed by the Captain, but even less so by leaving his sister-in-law's mech transformation techniques."

Qiu Yan summarized, "Sister-in-law is awesome, Brother Xie is awesome, Brother Xie and sister-in-law are really a match made in heaven!"

Xie Ruhang nodded approvingly, looking at Qiu Yan with admiration in his eyes.

Gu Tunan: "......"

Bailey: "......"

Mo Zheng: "......"

On the other side, Lu En smiled diffidently and spoke to the Ideal deputy across the room, "It's nice to hear these guys kissing ass once in a while, isn't it?"

In the ears of NPCs, the harmonized dialogues of the players were full of lickspittles, such as "Can cooking, playing cards and telling stories express my admiration for your deputy?", "We've tried our best to cook and deliver worm meat to seniors, so why is senior still unhappy?", "Our rescue arrived in time thanks to the generosity of our seniors! "We were able to arrive in time for this rescue thanks to your generosity! A model for our generation!" ......

Yuhui nervously touched his goosebumps-ridden arm, a little unable to connect these fawning words with the ugly forces that had gathered to force him to eat worm meat.

"I'd just as soon die as jump off this place as not eat any more worm meat made by these newcomers." He thought indignantly.

"Grandpa Captain, Elder Lu En, I've made Explosive Stir-Fry Insect Meat, would you like to eat it?" Tang Bai walked over to the npc's with the aromatic bug meat in his hands.

Lu En took a deep breath and turned her head to look at Yuhui, "That smells really good, do you want some?"

"...... Hmmm."

After giving the npc the worm meat, Tang Bai walked over to the players, "What are you guys talking about?"

The strong scent of bug meat still couldn't mask the fresh, light green tea fragrance of Tang Bai's body; alphas were sensitive to homosexual pheromones, and the alphas in the room noticed almost instantly exactly where the pheromones were strongest-

Kissed?

Bai Li abruptly turned his head, clenched his hands into fists, and saw Mo Zheng's face that had completely lost its smirk.

Gu Tunan, sitting next to Mo Zheng, also has a somewhat worse look on his face.

"Complimenting you." Xie Ruhang reached out and took Tang Bai's plate.

Tang Bai glanced warily at Gu Tunan, who looked at him with a complicated expression, as if he had something to say to him.

Tang Bai sat down next to Xie Ruhang in a declaration of sovereignty, "What did you compliment me on?"

"Kudos to my sister-in-law for making her popped bug meat a delicacy on earth."

"Spaceship piloting skills rival those of military professionals!"

"The little man who can brush npc favor."

"......"

The crowd chattered.

Tang Bai smiled, revealing two sweet dimples, and it was at this moment that he suddenly heard Gu Tunan's slightly muffled voice: "Complimenting you for being a multi-talented omega who can fly a spaceship, cook, build mechs and still be likable."

Tang Bai froze.

He looked at Gu Tunan a bit incredulously; such a normal, comforting sounding rainbow fart actually coming from Gu Tunan's mouth?

That's even more outrageous than Xie Ruhang saying "chirp" to him.

Everyone fell silent, and Xie Ruhang looked to Gu Tunan with a slightly raised eyebrow.

Gu Tunan was sitting upright, wrapped in bandages and looking a bit funny, but the look he gave Tang Bai was solemn.

Xie Ruhang recalled remembering what he had just told Tang Bai about the difference in the eyes when trying to kiss someone.

Xie Ruhang couldn't describe exactly how it was different, but in this moment, he read a different flavor in those gray-blue eyes.

In fact, if you think about it, it seems like Gu Tunan never told him he liked him, but just saw him as a rival.

His perception that "Gu Tunan might like me" was largely influenced by Tang Bai.

Is it possible that "Gu Tunan likes Xie Ruhang" is just as much a misinformation for Tang Bai as "Xie Ruhang is omega"?

Because when you really like someone, your eyes can't be fooled.

The gray-blue eyes were like the sea irrigated by pouring rain, turbulent but silent.

Gu Tunan just gazed at Tang Bai, and then he softly said, "This time when I fought with the Mutant Bug Race, I thought that I would die, and there were so many things in my heart that I wanted to say in that moment, and I realized that if I don't say some things out loud, I will hold them for the rest of my life."

Tang Bai blankly stared at Gu Tunan.

"Our first meeting wasn't pleasant, and that shouldn't be a good memory for you."

Gu Tunan's mind goes back to the first time they met at the hotel, when he made a lot of smug remarks to Tang Bai, who had a glass of warm milk in front of her.

For a moment, he thought Tang Bai was going to throw milk in his face.

But no, Tang Bai retaliated with a rapid-fire, articulate list of his harsh criteria for choosing a spouse, and when he was done, Tang Bai took a big gulp from his cup, a milk mustache on his lips.

It was really strange that he had remembered this image until now, remembering that the omega with a milk mustache had a scornful and disdainful look on his face, and his voice was soft and milky when he retorted to him.

"I'm here to formally apologize for judging you on our first meeting." Gu Tunan said word for word, "I'm sorry."

Tang Bai blinked sluggishly, suspecting he was dreaming, and what he heard next was even more dreamlike.

"I made my own rice this time, fried worm meat, it tastes awful." Gu Tunan smiled to himself, he seldom smiled, he always had a stern face, during the time he was dating Tang Bai Mrs. Gu often told him, you need to smile more when you see Sugar Candy, Sugar Candy's character is so lively, he doesn't like too serious alpha.

What was he thinking at that time?

It's hard to talk, let alone laugh, to a vase omega.

"It dawned on me that even an omega who is popularly considered a 'trophy' is amazing; they can make great food and I can't."

Gu Tunan tries to give Tang Bai a sardonic smile, but it's something that's incredibly difficult for him at the moment.

He watched Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang sitting intimately together, one a vase he once despised, the other a pauper he used to despise.

"My little dad has been working on poverty alleviation for a while now, and I've been to the slums before for graffiti campaigns and to the mines ......" Gu Tunan thinks about the people at the bottom who are struggling to make ends meet.

"As I've gotten to know them over the days, I'm slowly realizing that there are a lot of good, hard-working people in the slums who have a lot of goodness, hard work, and possess glimmers of light in addition to those who are lazy and burn and loot."

"I used to look down on the vast majority of people, and now I look down on who I used to be."

"Not everyone has superior conditions, that's something I didn't realize until recently. I'm sorry for ever letting you down, and in lieu of tea, I'll drink to you." Gu Tunan raised his teacup with one hand and drank it.

Tea and wine are different, the more wine you drink, the more you paralyze yourself, but the more tea you drink, the more bitter, the more sober.

-- "I want a gentle and considerate alpha, not to be angry at me, not to say a word to me, not to let me do the dirty work, not to leave me alone, what good food and fun and good-looking things to leave me, a lifetime of pampering me and loving me and protecting me."

Tang Bai, whom I met for the first time, spoke to him in a sweet, soft tone.

What a shame that by the time I could have turned into such an alpha, you had already found the one who would spoil you and love you and protect you.