Chapter 43: Go to War, or Be a Deserter to Accompany Feng Qizhou for Childbirth?
Xue Yu felt very strange. Her body was seeping a lot of water. It wasn’t sweat, but water.
This seemed to be a characteristic of water-type warriors.
When a water-type warrior was injured, greatly stimulated, or in their estrus period, their skin pores would automatically seep water.
She remembered that when she had relations with Mo Li, the bed was completely soaked. She had almost thought she had wet the bed, but then she thought that was impossible. She couldn’t have peed that much.
Later, she found out that it was the water seeping from Mo Li. There was a lot of it. The bedding was completely soaked, and there was a pool of water under the iron-frame bed.
Feng Qizhou touched Xue Yu’s clothes and then her pants.
Soaked, completely soaked. It had even wet the sterile bed sheet on the operating table.
He was secretly surprised and sighed. He knew that when a water-type person was stimulated, their body would seep water, but he hadn’t expected there to be so much.
He rubbed Xue Yu’s mouth with his thumb, stuck his index finger in, and stirred. The sound of water was obvious.
He lowered his head and kissed Xue Yu, drinking the water from her mouth. It was very fresh, very cool, like the taste of a deep lake.
“Will I get dehydrated?” Xue Yu was in no mood to deal with Feng Qizhou’s advances. She felt like a fish, all wet.
“Probably not,” Feng Qizhou was not very sure. “Do you feel any discomfort?”
“No.”
Feng Qizhou stopped what he was doing, checked some information on the screen on the side, and was relieved to confirm that this was a normal phenomenon.
Xue Yu’s water-drenched face leaned over, quite concerned about her life. “Is it okay? Should I find a water-type doctor to take a look at me? I’m so scared.”
“What are you afraid of?” Feng Qizhou held her face and kissed her again.
He loved Xue Yu at this moment. She was all wet, and her lips felt like jelly when he kissed them. It was very fun.
Xue Yu said anxiously, “I’m afraid that if something happens to me, you’ll become a single father.”
“I won’t be a single father.”
Feng Qizhou continued to kiss her earlobe, half-serious, half-joking. “If something happens to you, I’ll just throw the child to Zhou Siyan and then die for love.”
“Don’t say such unlucky things. We all have to be well. We still have to watch the child grow up,” Xue Yu touched Feng Qizhou’s chest, leaving a string of wet handprints.
“I’ll give you a good time with my mouth, Xue Yu,” Feng Qizhou said.
Xue Yu looked around at the surgical equipment. “This is an operating room. What if someone comes in?”
“Wouldn’t that be even more exciting?” Feng Qizhou let out a soft laugh and continued to kiss her. “I’m here. Don’t be afraid.”
***
Zhou Siyan took the children to the lounge in his office.
Both children needed to be fed. Xue Xiaobei had grown a lot recently and had also learned to crawl everywhere. She didn’t drink milk properly and always liked to chase after Xue Xiaohai. The two sisters had learned to fight over toys.
Zhou Siyan’s heart naturally leaned towards his own daughter.
But when he saw Xue Xiaobei crying, he also felt soft-hearted. Xue Xiaobei was a premature baby and had a pitiful air about her from the womb. When she cried, it always made people surrender.
There was only one turtle plush toy. If he gave it to one, the other would cry, and he couldn’t comfort her no matter what.
After the two children finished crying, they were hungry again and had to be fed.
After they were fed, they peed again, and he had to change their diapers and pants.
Zhou Siyan also had to deal with work matters. He was so busy that his head was spinning. He sent messages to Feng Qizhou and Xue Yu, but neither of them replied.
He realized that they really needed a nanny to help with the kids.
At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
Zhou Siyan pretended not to hear, but the knocking continued.
He had no choice but to put the two children in the playpen, stuff a bottle in each of their hands, and let them drink by themselves.
He quickly went to the bathroom, tidied himself up, and sprayed on some deodorant to get rid of the milky smell on his body.
He went to the office and opened the door.
Two men were standing at the door, the deputy director and the commander of the naval combat team—Meng Wu.
“Is there something I can help you with?” Zhou Siyan asked.
The deputy director couldn’t help but glance into the room and said, “Director, the naval combat team has a new mission. Major Meng is here to check the combat plan with you. You haven’t been opening the door. Is something wrong?”
Zhou Siyan stepped aside and let the deputy director see clearly. “What do you think is wrong?”
The deputy director: “Then why haven’t you been opening the door?”
Zhou Siyan: “Do I have to answer that question?”
The deputy director: “Sorry.”
After the deputy director left, Meng Wu entered the office.
He sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs, and threw the tablet in his hand onto Zhou Siyan’s desk.
“Those damn frogs actually crossed the Wulian Mountains and have reached Pinglan Lake. Your Security Division hasn’t even sent out a notice?”
Zhou Siyan calmly checked the combat plan on the tablet. “This is the Security Division, not the War Information Bureau. We don’t have to intervene in matters on the front line immediately.”
“It’s all the same. You’re all just freeloaders,” Meng Wu rubbed the scales on his arm with his fingertips. “Anyway, you just sit in the office and talk. It’s not you who are bleeding on the front line.”
Zhou Siyan ignored his sarcasm.
He was used to it. He, Meng Wu, and Guan Xun were childhood friends.
The three of them had grown up in the same nursery, went to school together, and entered the military academy together. Their relationship had always been good.
Meng Wu picked up a cigar, held it between his two long fingers, and said vaguely, “By the way, that stupid ex-girlfriend of yours is now my soldier. I’m personally guiding her…”
Zhou Siyan raised an eyebrow. “Don’t smoke in here.”
“This isn’t a cigarette. I don’t smoke.”
Meng Wu shook the cigar. “I mixed a libido suppressant and a physical supplement together to make this new type of cigar. It’s very flavorful. Do you want to try it?”
Zhou Siyan showed a look of contempt. “No need.”
Meng Wu bit on the cigar and went back to what he was saying. “That stupid ex-girlfriend of yours, Xue Yu, is now my student. She was originally going to be under Ke Yi, but I took her. Do you know why?”
Zhou Siyan didn’t answer.
Meng Wu continued on his own, “I think this is a challenge for me. Life is always so boring. I can’t die, and there’s nothing to look forward to in life. I don’t have a wife, I don’t have children, and I don’t know who to spend my money on.”
“So I recently found a new hobby. I want to challenge myself to train Xue Yu, the number one good-for-nothing in the White Tower, into a king of soldiers. If I can really make her a king of soldiers, my life will be worth it.”
Zhou Siyan finally looked up. “Is that interesting?”
“It’s very interesting. That ex-girlfriend of yours is so funny. I want to laugh every time I see her walk. And that spirit body of hers is also very funny.”
As Meng Wu spoke, he laughed exaggeratedly. “You don’t know, do you? Her spirit body is a seahorse called Blueberry. It’s so funny. I’ve never seen anyone with a seahorse spirit body. What’s the use of it?”
“Are you sick?” Zhou Siyan frowned.
Meng Wu: “I just think she’s very fun and funny.”
“You and I are really like brothers,” Zhou Siyan snorted coldly and sarcastically.
“Can’t I? She and I are both open-minded. You’ve already joined the conservatives. Even if we want to develop something, you can’t control it.”
Zhou Siyan couldn’t be bothered to argue with him. After reading the combat plan, he opened the desktop system and entered the data center to check the information.
“Pinglan Lake is 8.6 kilometers, with a water storage capacity of 1.84 billion cubic meters and a maximum water depth of 312 meters.”
“The armory can at most give you 50,000 rounds of ammunition, fifty armed helicopters, five mini-submarines, and 1,000 mines and torpedoes.”
“If you want to add more weapons, you have to pay for them yourself.”
Meng Wu leaned back on the sofa and tugged at the electric shock collar around his neck:
“What kind of damn system is this? Soldiers have to buy their own personal equipment.”
“The army goes to war, and the officers have to pay for weapons and ammunition. If they can’t win, they will be held accountable. What a bunch of mad dogs.”
Zhou Siyan finished supplementing the data for the combat plan and accurately threw the tablet into his lap. “Is Xue Yu going on this mission?”
“Of course she is. I’m personally taking her.”
Meng Wu took a puff of his self-made cigar and gave Zhou Siyan a provocative look. “When she was with you, everyone called her a good-for-nothing. Now that she’s with me, I’m going to make everyone call her a king of soldiers.”
“Good luck to you.”
***
After Meng Wu left, Zhou Siyan received a call from Xue Yu, who was in a panic. “Zhou Siyan, come quickly! Feng Qizhou seems to have had a miscarriage!”
“What did you two do?”
Xue Yu: “I can’t explain it. Can you come over?”
“Don’t worry. I’ll be right there.”
Zhou Siyan first went to the lounge to check on the children. The two children were probably tired from playing and were lying on the foam mat, fast asleep.
He adjusted the sleeping positions of the two children and then left the office.
When he arrived in front of the operating room, he sent a message to Xue Yu, and Xue Yu opened the door from the inside.
When he went in, he saw Xue Yu standing there, all wet, with several love bites on her neck. Feng Qizhou was lying on the operating table, clutching his stomach, his face pained.
“What happened?”
Xue Yu’s round face was wrinkled, and tears kept falling.
“Feng Qizhou was electrocuted by the chip in his body. It was very severe, and it seems to have caused a fetal arrest.”
“He said you can solve it and asked you to come and help.”
Feng Qizhou’s face was pale as he looked at Zhou Siyan. “The electric current from the chip was too strong and affected the child. Help me take out the chip.”
Zhou Siyan had never tried to take out a chip before.
There was a rule in the conservatives that removing a chip without permission would result in a demotion and severe punishment.
Feng Qizhou said, “Take it out first. I’ll put it back in when I’ve recovered. We have to save the child. Nothing can happen to the child.”
Zhou Siyan’s eyes were dark. He glanced at Xue Yu. “You’ve gone too far, haven’t you? Do you dare to do it again?”
“I don’t dare,” Xue Yu pouted.
Feng Qizhou: “It’s not Xue Yu’s fault. It’s my own. She didn’t want to do it, but I insisted.”
“Shut up,” Zhou Siyan took out a pair of rubber gloves from the equipment on the side and put them on. He then took out some anesthetic and asked, “How much anesthetic should I use?”
“That blue glass tube. One tube is enough.”
Zhou Siyan: “So little?”
“I can’t take too much. I’m afraid it will affect the child.”
Zhou Siyan said to Xue Yu, “Have him lie on his side with his back to me. Hold him down and don’t let him move.”
“Okay,” Xue Yu hurriedly went to support Feng Qizhou.
The chip was in the middle of his spine. It was only the size of a fingernail, but it was placed very deep. Zhou Siyan made a small incision and used a long, thin pair of forceps to successfully remove the chip.
The chip was still constantly releasing electricity. The current was transmitted to his hand through the surgical forceps.
“What did you two do? The current is so strong?”
Xue Yu was too embarrassed to speak.
Feng Qizhou: “I’m just too sensitive.”
After taking out the chip, Xue Yu placed the probe of the detector on Feng Qizhou’s belly and gradually heard a fetal heartbeat. “There it is! There’s a fetal heartbeat!”
Feng Qizhou’s smile was pale. He touched Xue Yu’s hand. “Thank goodness. We can still save it. If the child was gone, I don’t know how I would face you.”
Xue Yu was relieved. “What are you talking about? Your body is the most important thing.”
After Feng Qizhou had recovered, Zhou Siyan put the chip back in, quickly sutured the wound, and injected a special healing agent into the wound.
The farce was over.
Zhou Siyan went to the sink on the side to wash his hands. “Meng Wu said that he’s taking Xue Yu to the front line in a few days.”
“To which front line? I’m about to give birth, and she’s going to the front line?” Feng Qizhou was in a panic.
Xue Yu was also stunned.
Zhou Siyan turned around. “When are you giving birth?”
“I’m not sure. It should be within half a month,” Feng Qizhou sat up and held Xue Yu’s hand. “You have to be with me. I hope you’re by my side when I give birth.”
“This is Xue Yu’s first battle in the naval combat team.”
Zhou Siyan looked at Xue Yu calmly. “Go to war, or be a deserter to accompany Feng Qizhou for childbirth? You decide.”
Xue Yu asked cautiously, “What happens if I’m a deserter?”
Zhou Siyan: “Death penalty.”
Xue Yu’s heart almost skipped a beat. She stood by the operating table and held Feng Qizhou, then asked Zhou Siyan, “How long will the battle last? Can I make it back in time to accompany him for childbirth after the battle?”
Zhou Siyan: “You can’t say for sure what will happen on the battlefield.”
Feng Qizhou sighed and squeezed Xue Yu’s waist. “Forget it. You go. Giving birth is not a big deal. I gave birth to Xiaobei by myself last time.”
“There must be a way,” Xue Yu held his hand tightly. “There’s always a way. If we think about it carefully, there must be a way to have the best of both worlds!”
Feng Qizhou licked his back teeth in frustration. “Isn’t Meng Wu your good brother? Can’t you discuss it with him and have Xue Yu transferred to logistics?”
“I will do my best to arrange it, but it may not be successful.”
Zhou Siyan was very calm. His gaze shifted to Xue Yu’s face. “Giving birth is no big deal. The first time is raw, the second time is familiar. It’s Feng Qizhou’s second time. You don’t have to be with him.”
Feng Qizhou sneered. “You’re so capable. Why did you go to Xue Yu as soon as your belly got big and have her accompany you through childbirth? You’re so amazing. Why didn’t you give birth in the toilet by yourself?”
Zhou Siyan realized his attitude was not very good. “Sorry, I misspoke.”