After Rebirth, Married to a Deadly Enemy - Chapter 46

Until the end of the battle, the members of the Interstellar Guard did not appear, just as the space pirates had anticipated—they had even neglected their patrols. After finishing off their enemies, the Flame Team didn’t bother with the three scrapped warships anymore. They just took the only survivor and returned to their own warship, planning to dock near Star K.

Shi Zhen flew directly to the blue warship where Bai Xiangxing was located on Bai Xiangxing’s request, and Wang Ping opened the hatch to let him in.

When Shi Zhen entered, his face was still covered with a breathing mask, a necessity for soldiers in vacuum combat situations. So Bai Xiangxing couldn’t see Shi Zhen’s expression, only the crimson bloodstains on his dark-colored mech suit, and the aura of solemnity surrounding him.

Bai Xiangxing recognized this suit of armor—it was a gift he had bought for Shi Zhen just over a month ago. Knowing that Shi Zhen’s previous armor was black, he specifically chose the same color. Yet, despite being brand new, after just over a month and a single mission, it was already covered in scars. This mission must have been very dangerous.

While Bai Xiangxing was sizing up Shi Zhen, Shi Zhen was also observing Bai Xiangxing. Bai Xiangxing seemed relatively calm, not visibly shaken. Of course, Bai Xiangxing had always been brave since childhood, always provoking him despite being less skilled. Even when he got angry, Shi Zhen couldn’t bring himself to lay a hand on Bai Xiangxing, feeling that such a beautiful face shouldn’t bear any scars. But now, there were bruises on his own face, bruises he couldn’t bear to inflict on Bai Xiangxing.

On his forehead, at the corner of his eye, and on his cheek…

“Are you hurt?” Bai Xiangxing saw Shi Zhen enter the cabin without saying a word, standing there looking at him with fresh blood yet to dry, and noticing that only Shi Zhen seemed to be on the ship he flew out from earlier.

Bai Xiangxing walked over, worried, wanting to help Shi Zhen take off the armor covering his body, but not knowing where to start.

At this moment, Shi Zhen snapped out of his trance, retracted the warship, and the jet-black armor disappeared into the space button on his waist, revealing Shi Zhen in a combat suit.

Bai Xiangxing immediately looked at Shi Zhen’s right hand. When he was examining the armor earlier, he had noticed that the right arm was the most severely damaged. Sure enough, he saw a layer of bloody bandages on Shi Zhen’s right arm. “You’re injured,” he remarked.

Shi Zhen glanced at his right arm indifferently. “It’s just a reopened wound.”

Those space pirates couldn’t have caused him harm, but he exerted too much force earlier, causing the wound to reopen.

“Let me re-bandage it for you,” Bai Xiangxing said, wanting to find the medical kit, but then realized that this wasn’t his own warship and hesitated for a moment.

“I’ll get it,” Shi Zhen said, bypassing Bai Xiangxing and going to the back to retrieve a medical kit from a metal partition.

“How did you know there was a medical kit there?” Bai Xiangxing asked in surprise.

“The layout of warships is mostly similar,” Shi Zhen replied, flipping through the contents of the kit with one hand, then furrowing his brows tightly. “It’s not here.”

“What’s not there?”

“The ointment for swelling and bruises.”

“Why do you need that? What you need now is anti-inflammatory and hemostatic medicine,” Bai Xiangxing said, rummaging through the medical kit himself and taking out the necessary medications. “Here, let me help you reapply the medicine.”

Shi Zhen glanced at the bruises on Bai Xiangxing’s face and grunted in agreement, not saying anything.

Wang Ping, who was not far away, silently piloted the warship. He tried to minimize his presence, but lowering his visibility didn’t mean he couldn’t see what was going on. Just from the mutual concern between the two, he was already finding it difficult to bear.

If it weren’t for Mr. Bai still present, Wang Ping thought, trying to save face for Shi Zhen, he would have burst out laughing and mocked: Captain Shi, are you kidding me? Looking for an ointment for swelling and bruises on a warship, which Alpha would need the kind of ointment that only Omegas need? People like us, if we don’t bleed, it’s not considered an injury, okay?

Halfway through the journey, they encountered the Interstellar Guard. After verifying each other’s identities and providing information about the location of the recently destroyed warships, they parted ways. One group went to deal with the aftermath while the other continued flying towards Star K.

Before landing, the Star K Interstellar Management received a notification, so as soon as Shi Zhen and his team landed, they were taken back by the Star K management personnel. The Star K management personnel initially wanted to take the captured survivor with them, but Shi Zhen stopped them.

“I have something to ask him,” Shi Zhen said.

“Sure, I’ll arrange a room for you.” The person in charge led them to a meeting room.

Shi Zhen glanced at his team, thinking about how they had just come to rescue Bai Xiangxing right after finishing their mission, fighting and jumping through space along the way, without even having a meal. He then instructed Liang Chen, “Take them downstairs to rest.”

“Yes,” Liang Chen responded, then led the Flame Team out.

Wang Ping, benefiting from Bai Xiangxing’s intervention, also left. After all, with Shi Zhen around, Bai wouldn’t encounter any problems.

After everyone had left, Shi Zhen realized Bai Xiangxing was still there. “Aren’t you going to rest?” he asked.

“I also have something to ask him,” Bai Xiangxing replied.

Shi Zhen thought for a moment and let Bai Xiangxing stay.

The captive taken by the Flame Team was the second-in-command of the space pirate group. He was currently locked up, restrained and pressed down on a chair in the room, looking at Shi Zhen with fear in his eyes. When Shi Zhen stormed into the space pirate group’s flagship, their communication hadn’t been cut off yet, and he witnessed the scene of Shi Zhen swiftly wiping out the entire cockpit through the video feed. The power, the speed, the cruelty—it was like a demon descending.

“Who ordered you to kidnap Bai Xiangxing?” Shi Zhen asked in a low voice.

Shi Zhen’s sudden approach made the man tremble involuntarily, shrinking back and unable to speak.

“Answer me!” Shi Zhen frowned.

“I’ll talk, I’ll tell you everything, just don’t kill me,” the man was almost scared out of his wits, “It was the head of the Bai family, the chairman of the Bai Group, who contacted my elder brother and asked us to join forces to intercept Bai Xiangxing.”

Shi Zhen was taken aback, then turned to look at Bai Xiangxing.

However, Bai Xiangxing appeared much calmer than Shi Zhen, feeling somewhat chilled but not particularly surprised. “What did he offer you?” he asked.

“Ten million star coins,” the man replied.

“Just ten million star coins, and you dared to hijack a starship with three thousand people?” Bai Xiangxing didn’t believe it.

“The ten million star coins were just the superficial reward. The reason we targeted you is because of the new transport company established by your group. The chairman said that your new transport company had just been established, yet it had already wiped out two space pirate groups, had a month-long trial run with more orders than you could handle, and if this growth continued, your transport fleet would soon become the largest in the alliance. When you expand, your transport ships will be able to reach any star system in the alliance.”

Bai Xiangxing initially didn’t quite understand, but at this point, he suddenly understood something. And the pirate’s response confirmed his suspicion: “By that time, there will be Xinshi’s security teams all over the alliance, leaving no space for us pirates to survive.”

Yes, Xinshi’s security teams were all retired soldiers from the Storm Legion, each with extensive combat experience. Dealing with special missions from the military might be challenging, but dealing with a group of untrained space pirates was effortless. Even if they expanded in the future and recruited retired soldiers who were not as elite as before, Xinshi was a unified entity. Once one of their routes was robbed by space pirates, Du Pengjing, as the person in charge, would definitely bring the strongest forces of the security team to directly wipe out the pirates on that route.

“Old Master also said that Xinshi was originally on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was you who saved Xinshi in the past. So as long as they kill you, Xinshi will fall apart without you, and it won’t take long for it to disintegrate on its own, naturally there won’t be any transport companies left.”

“Hmph,” Bai Xiangxing chuckled, “Old Master seems to have quite a high opinion of me.”

“Right, right, he thinks highly of you.”

“Is that so-called Mellen Corporation also part of your group?” Bai Xiangxing asked.

“I don’t know about that. Old Master Bai just told us that you would be going from the capital star to the S Star System to negotiate a deal, and during the time period you set off, the security team would be escorting the cargo, and you wouldn’t have anyone with you.”

“He really knows me well, knowing that I would definitely personally go to negotiate this deal,” Bai Xiangxing chuckled with a touch of melancholy.

Although he had already been disappointed with the Bai family and vowed to destroy Bai Corporation, he had never thought of killing anyone from the Bai family. In the previous life, he had suffered a lot from them, and after returning to the capital star to complete his revenge, he had merely sent Old Master Bai to a nursing home and Bai Cang and his son to a garbage planet. At that time, he was full of hatred, thinking that if he found Bai Cang and his son, he would use the banned medicine to let them taste what it was like to become Omegas.

At that time, Old Master begged him bitterly, saying that destroying Bai Corporation was already the greatest punishment for them. Bai Cang and his son were not strong-minded and were unlikely to withstand the injection of the banned medicine, with a high chance of death. He also said that he had become an Omega and could no longer leave anything for Bai Corporation, begging him to spare Bai Cang and his son.

He was reluctant in his heart, but the old man who begged him with tears streaming down his face was the one who raised him, his grandfather. In the end, he let Bai Cang and his son go, just exiling them to the garbage planet, letting them live out the rest of their lives as lowly peasants, driven by greed.

Now, thinking back, if he hadn’t already been powerful when he returned to the capital star and Old Master had no way to deal with him, would he also have tried to kill him like he did today? Or did he try to kill him before, but just didn’t find the opportunity?

Lost in thought, he suddenly felt a warmth on his wrist. Bai Xiangxing looked up and realized that only he and Shi Zhen were left in the room at some point.

“You have nothing to do with them anymore,” Shi Zhen said calmly.

“Yeah, I’ve been sold to your family,” Bai Xiangxing said.

“It’s our family, and you’re not sold,” Shi Zhen corrected.

Bai Xiangxing chuckled lightly and didn’t continue the topic: “I’m a bit tired and want to rest.”

“I’ll walk you there.” The two of them left the room, and Shi Zhen asked Liang Chen about the room arranged by the Interstellar Management for them, then silently escorted Bai Xiangxing there. After dropping him off, Shi Zhen went to the management office and then to Liang Chen’s room.

“Boss, why are you here with us?” The room arranged for them by the Interstellar Management was a double room, and Liang Chen and Lin Qing were staying in this room.

“Yeah, with such a good opportunity, why did you come to sleep here with us?” Lin Qing added.

In a room with two beds, they left it to the captain and the young master. After surviving a disaster and saving the beauty, there would inevitably be passion afterwards.

Shi Zhen glanced coldly at them, walked over, and kicked Liang Chen off the bed with one foot. “This room belongs to me now.”

Liang Chen: …

On the other side, Bai Xiangxing had just taken off his clothes and lay down on the bed when there was a knock on the door. He walked over and opened it, only to see a female Beta handing him a tube of ointment. “The ointment you wanted.”

After speaking, the woman left.

Bai Xiangxing was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the efficacy of the ointment: reduces swelling and bruises.

Bai Xiangxing subconsciously touched his forehead, feeling a bit sore. Was it swollen?

“How come there wasn’t any?”

Bai Xiangxing’s mind involuntarily flashed an image of Shi Zhen solemnly searching for the ointment in the medicine box. So he had found it for himself?

“Silly~”