Chapter 76: The New Soldier, Soldier M
Xue Yu squatted down and wrapped her arms around the two children. “Why are you playing everywhere? You naughty ghosts. Daddy is looking for you.”
“That uncle is injured. We’re giving him something to eat,” Xue Xiaobei held up the small biscuit in her hand.
“Who’s injured?” Xue Yu asked.
The two children pulled her towards the innermost single cell. “It’s this uncle. He’s been bleeding.”
Xue Yu looked over. It was an open-minded marine corps officer. The crime on the electronic tag on his chest was: C-level war criminal, inciting riots.
He was severely wounded, covered in scars, all of which were gunshot wounds. There was a long bloody gash from his cheekbone to his cheek, probably from a stray bullet.
Xue Xiaobei held one of Xue Yu’s fingers and leaned against her leg, saying to the officer inside the iron bars, “This is my mommy. My mommy is the best person in the world, the gentlest person, the most amazing person!”
Xue Xiaonan echoed, “Yes, my mommy is the most amazing person in the world.”
The officer replied to them intermittently, “How is she amazing?”
Xue Xiaonan thought seriously and said reasonably, “My mommy can go out and get us formula, but you can only be locked up in here. My mommy is definitely more amazing than you.”
The corner of the officer’s mouth curled up slightly. “You’re so smart.”
Xue Xiaobei looked up at Xue Yu and said, “Mommy, this uncle said that no one loves him and no one respects him. Can you give him a little love so that he won’t hit the wall anymore?”
Xue Yu took out a hemostatic bandage from her pocket and handed it in. “Do you need me to help you with your wound?”
“Can you kill me?” the officer took the bandage and held it tightly in his palm.
Xue Yu covered the two children’s ears. “Children can’t hear this.”
The officer asked again, “Are these your children?”
Xue Yu pursed her lips and remained silent.
The officer squatted down and carefully examined the two children’s faces, then looked at Xue Yu. “They look exactly like you. They must be your children. Did you give birth to them?”
Xue Yu picked up the two children and said, “I’ll be in and out of here often. If you need anything, you can tell me.”
“Thank you. I don’t need anything for now.”
Xue Yu carried the two children back to the front of Feng Qizhou’s cell. Feng Qizhou had already mixed the formula with the water in the thermos and had stuffed the bottles into their arms.
The two children took a sip and handed it to Xue Yu. “Mommy, you eat too.”
Xue Yu sat cross-legged in front of the cell and touched their heads. “Mommy has already eaten. This is specially for you. Mommy won’t drink it.”
The children handed the bottles to Feng Qizhou. “Daddy, you eat too.”
Feng Qizhou’s face was full of relief. “Daddy will just eat biscuits. Formula is a special meal for babies. Daddy can’t eat it.”
Xue Xiaonan tilted her head and sucked on the milk, saying anxiously, “Then what about Xue Xiaohai? Xue Xiaohai is also a baby. Does she have food to eat?”
At that moment, a round little shadow rushed over. Xue Xiaohai ran towards them with her own bottle. “I’m here! Wow, Xiaobei and Xiaonan also have food to eat! Everyone has food to eat! That’s great!”
Feng Qizhou reached out and pinched Xue Xiaohai’s face through the iron bars. “You glutton. Are you starving?”
Xue Xiaohai leaned against Xue Yu and held her bottle with both hands, gobbling it down. She took a moment to reply, “I’m busy eating. I’m not talking to you.”
“Amazing,” Feng Qizhou gave her a thumbs up.
Blueberry came out of Xue Yu’s spiritual landscape and floated in the air. Xue Yu thought it was going to cause trouble again and gave it a stern warning. “Blueberry, you’d better behave yourself. You can’t mess around now. If you mess around, we’ll both be locked up.”
Blueberry arrogantly flicked its caudal fin, used its proboscis to dig into Xue Yu’s pocket, and took out three meteorite crystals.
It curled its caudal fin and rolled the little seahorse and the two little jellyfish to its side, feeding them the meteorite crystals.
After the children were born, Blueberry rarely took care of them.
This rare moment of warmth made the three little spirit bodies overjoyed. They all clung to their mother.
Feng Qizhou’s arctic fox was lying on the side, its eyes sparkling. My wifey is so loving.
Zhou Siyan’s black panther sensed Blueberry’s aura and also ran over, lying on the floor with the arctic fox to watch Blueberry.
Xue Yu and the three children had been gathered here for too long, which made it difficult for the guard.
The guard walked over according to the procedure and said coldly, “Xue Yu, didn’t you say you were here to apply to serve your sentence? Why haven’t you gone to the warden to apply yet?”
“Also, prisoners AF2011, SX8601, and SX8602, the three of you have already escaped twenty times. You are now being given a serious warning. Please return to your cells immediately.”
Xue Xiaohai asked Xue Yu, “Mommy, what is she saying?”
Xue Yu tidied her flying bangs. “She’s playing a game with you. Alright, you should go back to Daddy.”
“Alright.”
Xue Yu couldn’t stay for too long. She still had to guard the track. If she was away for too long, she would be considered a deserter. A common soldier like her would be executed for being a deserter.
“Feng Qizhou, I have to go now. I’ll find a way to bring the children’s clothes over again. If there’s anything you want, just let me know.”
Feng Qizhou rubbed the back of her hand. “I don’t need anything. You take care of yourself. If there’s a real fight outside, you should hide. Don’t rush up foolishly.”
He took her hand and quickly kissed the back of it. “Your home is that island, me and the children. Don’t risk your life for the White Tower.”
“I know. Everyone knows I’m a good-for-nothing. They won’t let me be on the front line.”
Xue Yu quickly left the cell and went out of the prison gate.
The guard at the gate asked, “Didn’t you say you were going in to apply to serve your sentence?”
Xue Yu looked very helpless. “I did apply, but the warden didn’t approve. What can I do?”
She shook her head and sighed as she walked away. “Sigh, it’s not easy to serve a sentence these days. I’ll come back and apply again next time.”
She ran without stopping, back to the levitation track, back to her position.
Lu Sen and Bai Qi were still there. They had found a piece of foam board from somewhere and were cutting it with a folding military knife, as if they were making a toy, and they were still chatting.
Lu Sen: “Don’t you think we’re so handsome and loving? After we get together with Xue Yu, won’t Xue Yu immediately divorce Meng Wu?”
Bai Qi: “Not just Meng Wu. She’ll kick out all those ex-boyfriends of hers, like Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou.”
Lu Sen: “I saw on the news that Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou both had children. They should be Xue Yu’s seeds, right?”
Bai Qi: “Of course they are. I’ve even seen pictures of the children. They look exactly like Xue Yu.”
Lu Sen stroked his chin in deep thought. “Then after we get together with Xue Yu, how many should we have?”
Bai Qi: “I plan to have eight.”
Lu Sen: “Eight is too many. Five is enough for me.”
Bai Qi’s tone was as if the children had already been born. “I plan to send my children to the kindergarten in Chicheng. What about you?”
Lu Sen: “Chicheng is a bit far. I plan to send them to the South Continent.”
Bai Qi shook his head. “No. I heard that the education level in the South Continent is very low, and the teaching staff is too weak.”
Lu Sen: “What kind of teaching staff do small children need? They can just go to kindergarten casually. We can consider these things when they’re in primary school.”
Xue Yu was hiding behind, listening to their conversation.
These two were talking so fantastically, from how many to have, to the children going to kindergarten, then to primary school, and they even talked about the children’s rebellious teenage years.
She walked over and cleared her throat. “What are you talking about, so engrossed?”
Bai Qi turned his head. “You’ve been in the bathroom for so long?”
Xue Yu sat down beside him. “I’m not feeling well.”
Lu Sen moved over and sat close to her. “Are you in heat?”
Xue Yu: “How could I be? Am I that kind of person?”
The two handsome men raised their eyebrows slightly, their expressions conveying the same message: Aren’t you?
Xue Yu’s small squad had been guarding the tracks. Occasionally, rebels would come and attack, trying to blow up the tracks.
But it was basically useless. The material of the tracks was very strong, and ordinary explosives could not blow them up.
During this time, Xue Yu tried to contact Youke’en, who was on the island, but the call couldn’t get through.
The island was too far from the White Tower. Xue Yu and Youke’en could only use a special satellite phone with a fixed line to contact each other. Now, it was probably because of the war that the White Tower’s signal tower equipment was malfunctioning.
They held their position on the track until the sun set in the afternoon.
Xue Yu continued to use the excuse of going to the bathroom to sneak back to the Manster Building. She went to Zhou Siyan’s apartment and Feng Qizhou’s apartment respectively, packed some of the children’s clothes into her bag, and also packed the few fruits in the fridge.
When she walked out of the corridor, she unexpectedly ran into the deputy director of the Security Division, the one who had reported Zhou Siyan.
He was wearing a formal military uniform, but he was too thin. The clothes and his body were like a barrel on a straw, very comical.
The moment he saw Xue Yu, the deputy director turned and ran. Not only were his clothes ill-fitting, but the leather shoes on his feet were also ill-fitting. After running a short distance, the hard leather shoes flew off.
He was also a fanatical conservative, so conservative that he was rigid. He didn’t dare to let Xue Yu see his feet, feeling that it was indecent and against the rules.
He fumbled to run back and pick up his shoes, put them on with trembling hands, and broke out in a cold sweat, not daring to make eye contact with Xue Yu.
Xue Yu found it very strange. She could clearly feel that the deputy director was afraid of her.
She didn’t understand. The deputy director was not weak. Although he couldn’t deal with Zhou Siyan, to be able to sit in the position of deputy director, his ruthlessness could not be underestimated.
And the deputy director was not a person who hid his thoughts. His sinister ruthlessness was written all over his face, with a grotesque humor.
A narrow, pointed face, thin and long eyes and eyebrows, too much white in his eyes and small pupils—all the details interpreted two words: sinister and ruthless.
It was as if he wanted to carve a line on his face: “I am a sinister and ruthless person. Don’t mess with me.”
Why would such a deputy director be afraid of her?
Xue Yu couldn’t figure it out.
Seeing her approach, the deputy director was like a shrimp placed under the sun. He prostrated himself on the ground, his back arched, his two hands, with their bulging veins from being too thin, constantly waving.
“Xue Yu, stay away from me! Please, please don’t do that to me.”
Xue Yu squatted down and took out a military knife with a cold gleam. “You’re quite bold, daring to report my ex-boyfriend.”
“I just wanted to get promoted. I didn’t offend you. It was you who did something wrong. You can’t blame me,” the deputy director almost pressed his face to the ground, not daring to make eye contact with Xue Yu.
Xue Yu continued to probe him. “You know, I’m not a good person. If you’ve offended me, you’ve really kicked an iron plate.”
The deputy director prostrated himself even lower. “Please, Xue Yu. Please don’t get me pregnant. I’ll do whatever you want. Just don’t get me pregnant. I really can’t accept that.”
His voice was very high-pitched. He continued, “I’ve worked so hard to get to this position. I’m an outstanding representative of the conservatives. If I get pregnant, I’ll have nothing. Please, Xue Yu.”
Xue Yu finally understood why the deputy director was afraid of her.
This guy must have already investigated the ability of the seahorse spirit body. But this person had also overestimated her reproductive ability.
No matter how powerful she was, she couldn’t possibly get a fanatical conservative who had undergone a complete castration surgery pregnant.
Xue Yu knew in her heart that her current ability could not kill the deputy director. She could only lure him like this for now.
She held the military knife and patted his head. “Don’t get any funny ideas. Otherwise, I’ll get you pregnant with a hundred and eighty.”
“I know. I’ve overheard your conversations. I heard Feng Qizhou say that whoever you glare at now will get pregnant,” the deputy director desperately moved to the side, afraid of getting pregnant if he got too close to Xue Yu.
His body trembled slightly. “I didn’t want to harm your child. There’s a war outside now. I’m reporting your child to be imprisoned at this time for their safety. The safest place in the White Tower is the underground prison.”
Xue Yu sneered. “You seem to have a lot of tricks up your sleeve. But all your tricks are written on your face. You’re still too superficial. You should practice more in the future.”
The deputy director kept kowtowing. “Yes, yes, yes. I will definitely practice more. Please don’t get me pregnant.”
“Don’t get any funny ideas, and don’t think about dealing with Zhou Siyan,” Xue Yu brandished the knife in front of him. “Hehe, otherwise, you can just wait for your belly to get big.”
“I know.”
Xue Yu didn’t waste any more time with him and rushed to the underground prison again.
Under the strange gaze of the guard, she used the same old trick and took out her sentence archive card. “I’m going to the warden to apply to serve my sentence.”
The guard’s brow furrowed. “Do you think I look like a fool?”
“How could I?” Xue Yu smiled. “Then can I still go in?”
The guard stood up straight, his eyes on his nose, his nose on his heart, as cold and hard as a gun, not saying a word.
Xue Yu pressed down the brim of her helmet and ran in.
She first went to Zhou Siyan’s cell, stuffed all of Xue Xiaohai’s clothes in, and then handed in a few tomatoes. “I got these from your fridge. Keep them for the child to eat.”
“Do you have anything to eat?” Zhou Siyan asked.
Xue Yu: “You don’t have to worry about me. I’m the last person to mistreat myself. You can rest assured.”
She looked around but didn’t see Xue Xiaohai. “Where’s the child? Where did the child go?”
Zhou Siyan: “She was taken away by the guards. They said they were going to interrogate her. I don’t know what they’re going to interrogate her about.”
Xue Yu stood up. “I’ll go and find out.”
She walked back and forth in the corridor between the cells, constantly asking the prisoners inside. They pointed her to the location of the interrogation area.
When she reached the interrogation area, it was an open, temporary small court.
Through the glass door, Xue Yu saw several officers sitting in the front row. From their epaulets, each of them had a high rank. Yan Wantang was also in the line.
Many of the officers had serious expressions. In front of them was a pile of materials, which was the pile of report materials that the deputy director had collected.
At the back of the small court, there were several reporters. The entire trial was being broadcast live.
The cameras were always running, aimed at the three small criminals sitting in the stainless steel chairs in the middle.
These three small criminals were Xue Xiaohai, Xue Xiaobei, and Xue Xiaonan.
They were holding their bottles and talking together. Xue Xiaohai pointed to the officer’s water cup in front, which had an apple pattern on it. “Do you want to eat an apple? There’s an apple there. I really want to eat it.”
Xue Xiaobei: “That’s not an apple. It’s a fake.”
Xue Xiaohai: “The apple is in the cup. It’s real.”
She jumped off the chair, ran to the front, and stood on her tiptoes to look at the water cup. “Is there an apple hidden in here?”
The officer slammed the table. “Prisoner AF2011, please return to your seat and remain quiet during the trial.”
Xue Xiaohai kept asking, “Then is there an apple in your cup or not?”
The officer: “No.”
“Oh,” Xue Xiaohai had no choice but to go back.
Xue Xiaobei said, “I told you there was no apple.”
Yan Wantang coughed hard. “Everyone, be quiet. We will now begin the interrogation of prisoners AF2011, SX8601, and SX8602. First, state your names.”
The three children looked at each other. Xue Xiaonan said, “What should we say?”
Xue Xiaohai: “Say your name. My proper name is Xue Lanshan, and my nickname is Xue Xiaohai.”
Xue Xiaobei: “My name is Xue Xiaobei. Mommy hasn’t given me and my sister a proper name yet.”
Xue Xiaonan: “My name is Xue Xiaonan.”
Yan Wantang: “Why did you violate the regulations and be born? Please answer one by one, starting with Xue Xiaohai.”
Xue Xiaohai looked around. “Because… because I’m a baby.”
Xue Xiaobei: “I’m also a baby.”
Xue Xiaonan: “I’m the same as my sister.”
Yan Wantang looked at the officer beside her. “Do you have any questions?”
Officer A: “Please state who your parents are.”
Xue Xiaohai: “I know. My mommy is Xue Yu, and my daddy is Zhou Siyan.”
Xue Xiaobei: “My mommy is Xue Yu, and my daddy is Feng Qizhou.”
Xue Xiaonan: “Me too.”
Officer B: “Can you describe how you were born?”
Xue Xiaohai: “I was a baby when I was born.”
Xue Xiaobei: “I was also a baby when I was born.”
Xue Xiaonan: “Me too.”
Xue Yu had been watching from outside the trial. She didn’t know what this trial was about.
Yan Wantang looked left and right. “I have no more questions. Does anyone else have any questions? If not, we will now vote on the three criminals.”
“For the crime of illegal birth, the first option is the death penalty; the second option is life imprisonment; the third option is a sentence of ten to twenty years; the fourth option is a deduction of 10,000 combat points.”
“Alright, everyone can start voting now.”
Xue Yu broke into a sweat at the door.
There were more than twenty officers in total. Everyone voted by name.
Five minutes later, Yan Wantang stood up and announced the results.
“Prisoners AF2011, SX8601, and SX8602, please listen carefully. After the judgment of the highest military court of the White Tower, Xue Xiaohai, Xue Xiaobei, and Xue Xiaonan are now sentenced to a deduction of 10,000 combat points.”
“The three of you originally had 0 combat points. After the deduction, you now have -10,000 points. Do you have any objections?”
Xue Yu was so ashamed she couldn’t show her face. The three babies were really better than their mother. They had completely lost at the starting line.
She remembered that before she had awakened her spirit body, she was the last in the White Tower Military Academy, the worst student in the history of the White Tower.
In the combat scoreboard of the White Tower, her score had always been 0.
A score of 0 was the lowest score on the scoreboard. No one had ever had a negative score.
Alright, now a miracle had happened. Her three babies were already in debt before they had even grown up, with a score of -10,000.
The trial was over.
The guards brought the three children out. They all rushed to Xue Yu. “Mommy, why are you here!”
“Mommy is here to see you,” Xue Yu hugged the three of them.
Yan Wantang also came out. Xue Yu asked in a low voice, “Sis, I’m the child’s mother. Is this matter completely public?”
Yan Wantang: “What else?”
Xue Yu: “Is the fact that I can get men pregnant also public?”
Yan Wantang: “Yes, it should be because of your seahorse spirit body. As for your crime, we’ll have to deal with it slowly later. We’ll probably have to wait until the war is over to investigate it in detail.”
The three children were each sent to their fathers.
Xue Yu didn’t quite understand the current situation. The military court had not tried Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou, nor had they arrested her.
She squatted in front of Zhou Siyan’s cell. “Do I need to prepare for a prison break?”
Zhou Siyan: “Not for now. It’s okay.”
Xue Yu asked again, “Then how long will you and Feng Qizhou be locked up before you can get out?”
“Yan Wantang didn’t say it clearly, just that it will be a detailed trial after the war,” Zhou Siyan reached out and held her hand. “I’ve been dismissed from my post and my military rank has been revoked. But don’t worry. I still have a chance to start over.”
“How do you start over?”
Just as Xue Yu had asked, a guard came over and urged her, “Xue Yu, you should get out. Don’t stay here. I’ve already reminded you several times.”
Zhou Siyan squeezed her palm. “Alright, you go out first. The child and I are fine.”
Xue Yu left the prison and returned to her track position.
Lu Sen and Bai Qi were not there. She didn’t know where those two had gone.
The captain came over and asked her, “I told you to hold your position. Why do you keep going out?”
Xue Yu: “I just went to the bathroom. I didn’t delay anything.”
The captain: “The rebels might attack tonight. You hold your position and don’t run around anymore.”
Xue Yu gave her a military salute. “Roger, captain!”
The moonlight was bright tonight, and a layer of light was sprinkled on the entire track.
Xue Yu held a light submachine gun in place. After waiting for more than an hour, the rebels did indeed attack.
She opened fire and shot back the rebels who were rushing up.
At some point, a person appeared beside her. The person was wearing black equipment, a metal mask on his face, no military rank on his shoulders, and no name on the nameplate on his chest, only a mark: M.
“Who are you?” Xue Yu asked.
The person’s voice was mechanical, as if it had been processed. “Soldier M.”
Xue Yu didn’t understand. She quickly checked and found out that Soldier M was a high-level criminal in the White Tower prison.
To atone for their crimes, they needed to fight anonymously, and their voice and appearance could not be revealed.