Ch14 – Protagonist’s aura.

Editor: LotusEater

“You wish!!!” 

The black-haired, green-eyed male was almost furious when he stood up with a slap to the table.

The calm on his face was gone.
He stared fiercely at Song Jianshu and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: “Song Jianshu, you dare?”

 

 

A thin band-aid had been pressed to the eye of the needle wound on his right arm.
And at that moment, the wound that had only just stopped bleeding, bled again, soaking through the thin cotton.

Blood oozed from the edges of the bandage and flowed down his arm.
It looked terrible. 

Seeing that, Song Jianshu breathed a sigh of relief.

 

Sure enough.

Sure enough, that confident look just then was simply feigned in order to deceive him.
If he was deceived by such tricks, he would have fallen to the empty city trick!

Once you poked the opponent’s weakness, such a trick would fall apart.

 

He sneered: “What, are you afraid?”

The green-eyed male was taken aback, as if he had finally noticed his gaffe.
He quickly suppressed the anger on his face and pretended to be calm: “How could that be? I’m simply afraid you wouldn’t be able to afford it…”

Lu Mo spoke with a smile: “You should consider this, the permit for a residence in the Imperial Star is not something you can get just by having money ah.
Why do you need to take this kind of thing out and joke around with it just because you’re angry with me?”

Song Jianshu leaned back on the wide chair, relaxed, like a winner about to reach the podium. 

He looked at Lu Mo’s expression carefully.

This poor D-grade male, he was still trying to keep calm.
But whether it was a stiff smile or a nervous frown, his nervousness was completely highlighted.

Song Jianshu was almost enjoying the uneasiness of the poor bastard.

Like leopards preying on prey, the dying cry was always the best seasoning. 

“I agree to your bet.”

The wounds on his body didn’t seem to hurt so much, Song Jianshu could finally feel his feet.
He smiled and said to the sub-female doctor, “Doctor, go ahead and do your work.”

The doctor blushed slightly, trotting into the laboratory with the needed equipment.

And the live broadcast that recorded all of that faithfully- the barrage of comments was already a battle of words; so very lively. 

The live broadcast had been inexplicably broken, it had made the audience crazy.
Some zergs that were good with information technology had tried to hack into the system, wanting to find out the IP address of the live broadcast.

However, that mysterious live broadcast——

 

When it appeared, it was silent.
And when it disappeared, there was no trace.
Those that had hacked into the system could not find even a crumb.

Simply ridiculous. 

Fortunately, after three hours, the live broadcast had reconnected to the signal.

At the moment, there were 'censored and beeped words simultaneously flying across the screen; the keyboards were probably being fused together with spittle'.

[Fuck!! Sure enough, there was a problem!!]

[Song Jianshu is so handsome! So bold!] 

[Who said that? I still support the low-grade male.
I’m afraid that Song Jianshu’s rumors were all made up!]

[←You’re a male zerg, right? Your eyes must be bleeding.
If you’re jealous of Song Jianshu, just say it.
Don’t put that weird look on your face.]

[The doctor is out!!]

There was a moment of silence in the comments. 

The doctor on the screen lowered his head.
His slightly longer bangs covered his eyes, and his expression couldn’t be seen clearly.

He took out the report and whispered, “The test results have come out.”

After saying that, he walked towards Lu Mo, wanting to hand the report directly to him.

“Wait.” 

Song Jianshu sat up straight and smiled softly, “Doctor, this gentleman is a good friend of mine.
I am very concerned about his health.
Could you please read the results out loud for me?”

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection.
If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

How could one simply gobble up such a meal? It should be savored.

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“……” 

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Vbcu Aljcrte: “Lww? Qtja’r kgbcu?”

 

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C qijsoei rwlif jqqfjgfv ja atf mbgcfg bo Oe Zb’r wbeat: “Gbmabg, pera ilrafc ab tlw.” 

The doctor couldn’t do anything, so he followed the instructions of the two males and opened the test results.

“Our Mr.
Song, he was quite concerned about me…”

“Diagnosis: hormone level, standard.

“Interference experiment: no target drug detected. 

“No suspected drugs were detected in the interference experiment.

“Interference experiment, all is standard.

“Blood composition test, no abnormality.

“Blood separation test…” 

As the doctor read each similar line one by one, Song Jianshu’s face changed little by little.

From the certainty at the beginning, to the doubt afterwards, to consternation, surprise, and disbelief.
In the end, it was like the sky before a storm: gloomy enough to wring water out.

“…the final result… ”

The sub-female doctor took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice: “Everything is normal, Mr.
Lu Mo had never used any prohibited drugs.
” 

“You’re lying!”

Song Jianshu stood up in disbelief, pushed the sub-female aside, grabbed the test report from his hand, and quickly looked it up and down with trembling eyes.

However, the test results were clearly written in black and white. Even if he read them a thousand times over, the results wouldn’t change in any way.

Lu Mo had not used prohibited drugs. 

He stood there blankly, as if a storm was howling in his mind.

“Have you confirmed it yet, Mr.
Song?”

 

Song Jianshu turned his head mechanically, his eyes red: “You did it on purpose.”

“That’s really bending me over.” 

Lu Mo sat on the chair, smiling: “If you have finished confirming it, shouldn’t you abide by the bet, as well as pay the costs you promised to before?”

He snapped his fingers one by one and said, “First of all, it’s is my car.
Your female attendant has really caused great damage to it.
Even if it’s repaired, it may not be able to be restored to its original appearance.

“Second, the compensation to make up for my mental loss.
After all, I raised it as my wife.

“Of course, you can’t forget Ling’s car.
You said that the car was destroyed, right? So please compensate for a new car—car insurance also can’t be forgotten oh. 

“—I almost forgot, there are still freight costs.
There are no repair shops that can do work on that kind of car on this barren star.
You’ll have to bear the round-trip freight.”

Lu Mo put his fingers away: “Roughly estimated, that will cost 381.2 million and 38 million union coins.
Merchants pay attention to good luck.
I will spare you a fraction—“

He smiled and stretched his eyebrows: “381.2 million, cash and digital banking will be accepted.
Thank you, thank you.”

Wenge widened his eyes: “380 million??” 

“……”

Lu Mo sighed: “You can’t deduct 1.2 million without permission ah.”

Wenge looked at Song Jianshu hesitantly: “Master…”

381.2 million. 

After so many years on the battlefield, Wenge’s accumulated savings were only enough to pay the 81.2 million.

Song Jianshu closed his eyes, his chest rising and falling violently.

A flame called humiliation was burning fiercely in his heart.
At the same time, a venom called revenge flowed through the air, pouring in through his mouth and nose, and slowly settled into his internal organs.

The earth split a wide gap around his feet, pulling his shadow down and dragging it into the abyss of eternal darkness. 

His property.

His dignity.

 

This world had given him so much warmth and beauty, and he had wanted to return that same beauty back to it.

But that villain named Lu Mo appeared, shredding apart all the beauty in front of him, and even took away the dignity that he was so unwilling to give up, even after he died in his previous life. 

Song Jianshu opened his eyes again and said, “I will always remember this day.”

This time it was him who lost.
He would carve today’s shame into his heart, and then—

Use it as motivation to gain more and more power.

When the time came, he would trample that male zerg – who destroyed his dignity – under his feet mercilessly. 

381.2 million was transferred into Lu Mo’s account.

Song Jianshu unpinned a golden badge from his arm.
It was the residence permit of Imperial Star.
Lu Mo stretched out his hand, but Song Jianshu squeezed his hand around the badge tightly.

Lu Mo: “What do you mean by this?”

Song Jianshu glanced at him bitterly, eventually letting go. 

Finally having everything he wanted in his hands, Lu Mo was in an extraordinarily comfortable mood.
Even his steps were lighter.

It was then that Wenge suddenly moved sideways to stand before him.

Lu Mo: “You want to back out?”

The system was in high spirits: [Fight, fight, fight!!] 

Lu Mo: “……”

But Wenge shook his head and talked about something else: “The legion commander…”

Lu Mo raised his eyebrows: “Huh?”

“I mean… the legion commander, he said you said something to him.” Wenge looked at Lu Mo fixedly: “Excuse me, but what exactly did you say to him?” 

He may have looked away.
This male was definitely not as weak as he showed, but Wenge still couldn’t understand how he could make the legion commander so obsessed with him.

Lu Mo: “……”

 

The female’s expression was very serious, and reminded Lu Mo of something that was recorded in the brief information he was given about Ling.

Song Jianshu’s first female attendant, Wenge, was Ling’s loyal subordinate, which made Ling feel worse than he already felt. 

Lu Mo’s eyes widened.

He got it!

He understood!

Such a loyal subordinate must be afraid of Ling being mistreated under his hands, so he came to test himself! 

System: [Host, I’d like to kindly remind you that when it comes to the main characters of the plot, the scum value obtained from them will be more generous—this will be a good opportunity to brush up on scum value!]

Lu Mo was also very excited, he hadn’t felt that way in a long time!

He nodded: “Now or never!”

System: [If missed, it will never come again!] 

The black-haired and green-eyed male glanced at Wenge arrogantly, his scornful face showed undisguised malice.

“Does he love Song Jianshu that much?

“When he fell into my hands, he told me to go away.” A nostalgic smile appeared on the male’s face.
“His defensive, prickly appearance was really cute.

“But so what?” The male zerg licked his lower lip and said, “What’s the use of a female who are occupied by another male? 

“He’ll never be able to return to Song Jianshu’s side again, and—”

The male zerg’s expression was cruel, like an evil spirit gnawing on a living creature: “When I will have made a blood contract with him, even if he resists – under the effects of the blood contract –  he will fall in love with me, the demon who ruined his life!”

……

Even Wenge’s body trembled and could only repeat: “Blood contract?” 

The male laughed and walked away.

Wenge, however, remained in place.
He was so shocked that tears almost flowed from his eyes.

 

He had never seen such strong emotions before.

The male’s eyes were full of paranoia about the legion commander, as if he was his eternal belief in his life and was no longer able to tolerate the insertion of others. 

No wonder….

His body trembled.

No wonder the legion commander didn’t have the slightest nostalgia for Song Jianshu.

That was completely different from the education Wenge received during childhood.
He couldn’t think of that as the so-called love.
It was absolutely not. 

But—

It made him yearn for more than love.

Wenge closed his eyes, and in the quiet room he could only hear the sound of his own violently beating heart hitting against his chest.

Legion commander, I sincerely wish you, Wenge thought,  You have found a male worthy of your lifelong protection. 

Just then, Wenge heard a clear, crisp sound.

It was like the sound of crystals shattering.
But when he opened his eyes, he found nothing.

————

Lu Mo left the room, facing the brilliant sunlight, and gave himself a one-hundred percent score for today’s actions. 

He stretched out his hand toward the sun, his surging mood was agitating in his chest, and he really wanted to express his feelings.

However, it was only when it became time to apply knowledge that one regretted not acquiring enough of it.
And in the end, you could only say fuck.

After holding back for as long as he could, Lu Mo shook his hand and sang, “Ah—I am so great.”

He thought gleefully, I must have earned a lot of scum value today!! 

[Ding!]

Accompanied by the sound of broken crystals, the system’s prompt sounded:

 

[Song Jianshu’s protagonist’s aura has been recovered.]

[Current recovery progress: 5%.] 

“What?” Lu Mo was taken aback, “Aura?”

The next moment his expression changed drastically: “Take it away, take it away, take it away!”

It was already hard enough for him to earn scum value! If the protagonist’s aura was given to him, he would never earn any in his life!

System: […Tsk.] 

Have you become smarter.

It reluctantly said: [Open the collection system and get the one titled: Protagonist Aura Fragment X1]

Lu Mo was greatly relieved.

And at that same time, Song Jianshu felt his heart jumping.
He couldn’t help but put his hand over it. 

……There it  was again, the feeling that something was going out of control.

“Master?” Wenge looked at him with concern.

Song Jianshu shook his head: “It’s okay, let’s go back.”