Do Aliens Also Have Arranged Marriages? - Chapter 8

Chapter 8 – Joining the Search Team

Talia didn’t dare to agree now.

She thought Jian Ning would have a good life in the base, but she didn’t expect that the military would take action on her first day.

Thinking of the terrifying young admiral, her regret for the Omega getting married overnight gradually turned into sympathy.

Over there, Jian Ning sent another message.

【Jane: Captain Talia, you know, he… is really scary… I don’t dare to talk to him at all. I just came to the base and I want to make some money on my own. Please.】

Talia felt a trace of pity in her heart. She could fully imagine the pitiful expression of the young man opposite her.

At this time, Talia didn’t know that the terrible admiral mentioned by the young man had transferred all his savings to him not long ago.

After hesitating for a while, Talia replied:

【Talia: Sorry, I can allow you to join, but the prerequisite is that you need Admiral Shen’s consent.】

After all, the two of them were already a certified partnership, and she was an Alpha. How could she take Admiral Shen’s man out without saying a word?

Jian Ning looked at the message from Xingnao, sighed silently, and asked Talia to wait for his news.

He planned to wait for Shen Yan to come back before discussing this matter. He would use the afternoon to familiarize himself with the area.

After changing into the clothes that he had washed yesterday, Jian Ning suddenly remembered the cool fragrance he smelled before falling asleep yesterday.

He bent down and smelled it, but there was only a faint scent of soapberry on the clothes.

‘It’s strange, why does the smell of this laundry detergent differ from that in the room?’

Jian Ning muttered to himself, changed his clothes and walked out the door.

•|•

At the entrance of the community.

An energetic security guard was sitting in the security booth reading a newspaper.

Jian Ning took a look inside as he passed by, and continued to walk out as if nothing had happened, but was suddenly stopped by the old man.

“Stop! When did you come? Have you registered?” The old man raised his eyelids and looked at him.

Jian Ning stopped and blinked: “There was no registration last night.”

The old man’s face darkened: “Why didn’t you register when you came last night? Isn’t the registration book hanging at the door?”

In addition to soldiers who already have families, military apartments are also home to many single soldiers and officers. They are all at an age of restlessness, so it is normal for lovers to stay overnight.

The old man is accustomed to this.

Since there is only one security guard, Mr. Wang, in the military apartment, he has to get off work on time at 6 p.m. every day. When the time comes, the lights in the community security booth will be turned off immediately.

Anyone who has been to the community two or three times knows his bad temper, and will voluntarily register their information when they come here at night.

Jian Ning looked in the direction the old man pointed.

The registration book with rolled-up white edges was hung in a corner of the security booth, with a small sign next to it:

【Working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00, other times please register by yourself!!!】

“…”

He came in directly yesterday and indeed did not notice the registration book hanging at the door.

However, in a military apartment where a pair of officers and soldiers live, there is also an authentication system downstairs in the unit. Why do they need to arrange an old man to guard the gate?

Jian Ning suddenly thought of something, and a hint of meaning appeared in his eyes- a person with connections, a position of nepotism.

He walked over and apologized sincerely: “Sorry, I didn’t notice yesterday…”

The old man snorted coldly and took down the registration book. “Be careful next time. What’s your name? Which building and which household are you going to?”

“Jian Ning, Building 1, 1302.”

“Building 1, Building 13…” The old man read and wrote at the same time, and his hand suddenly stopped halfway through.

The old man suddenly raised his head, looked up and down at the young man in front of him, and his eyes changed suddenly.

“You went to Admiral Shen’s house?”

Jian Ning nodded.

The old man’s face froze for a moment, and then his eyes revealed a sense of relief: “Good, good, Xiao Shen finally got it…”

The old man did not doubt Jian Ning’s words. No one in the entire base dared to spread rumors about Shen Yan so openly.

“…”

Jian Ning’s expression was hard to describe. He always felt that the old man in front of him had some complicated thoughts.

After registering, he asked, “Uncle, I’ve been staying here lately, so I don’t need to register every day, right?”

The old man looked even more relieved: “Living here recently? Then you don’t need to register after that.”

Jian Ning thanked him and was about to leave, but suddenly thought of something and turned around to ask, “By the way, uncle, excuse me, is there a place to buy groceries nearby?”

He had two meals after entering the base, all of which were prepared by Shen Yan. He had nothing to do now, so since he was out, he might as well buy some food for tonight.

“Go 300 meters ahead, then turn left and go 100 meters.”

When he arrived, Jian Ning found that this place was no different from the vegetable markets of the 21st century, with neatly divided areas and all kinds of common vegetables and meats.

The only strange thing is that this place is not like the vegetable markets in the past which were filled with lively hawking sounds. The stall owners don’t bother to pay attention to people passing by, and they look like they’re telling you to buy if you want, or get out.

He walked to a stall and picked up two brightly colored tomatoes: “Hello, how much?”

The lady boss of the stall glanced at what he was holding and said without even looking up, “One hundred.”

“……How many?!”

Is there a consumer hotline here? He wants to complain about a dishonest businessman!

The proprietress was already extremely sleepy and was about to take a nap, but when she heard the surprised tone from the opposite side, she looked up impatiently, ready to see which blind guy was deliberately disturbing her sleep.

When she looked up, the proprietress was suddenly stunned.

The young man in front of him had delicate and harmless features and a thin body. At this moment, his long black eyelashes trembled slightly uncontrollably, and his face showed a fragile expression as if the sky was falling.

The proprietress opened her mouth, looked at the face, and couldn’t say anything unpleasant for a moment.

The lady boss opened her mouth, swallowed back the curse words that were about to come out, and kindly explained: “Is this your first time buying vegetables? The prices are all set by the base! And the money doesn’t go into my pocket.”

She pushed the cash register on the table forward. There was a code on the top of the machine – West E064 sales point.

“Look, these are all from the base, and the money is collected by the base. I am just a salaried worker!”

The central base was established on the basis of the capital city.

In the early stages of construction, the base did not have these luxurious fresh meats and vegetables. There were only nutritional supplements of various flavors that could only meet the daily nutritional energy needs of the human body.

Not until the base is fully constructed and safety is temporarily guaranteed will the base have time to consider the survivors’ thirst for food.

Humans are the first choice of alien prey, but with the establishment of survivor bases in various places, the difficulty of prey has greatly increased, and the hungry aliens have begun to prey on other animals on a large scale.

When the first troop sent out from the base, there was almost no sign of life outside the base. Under the guidance of the researchers, the soldiers collected seeds of various plants everywhere, and for nearly extinct animals, they extracted genetic information from the remains that had been eaten by alien species.

With these hard-earned important samples, the institute re-bred and produced various poultry animals using genetic information, and then put them into mass breeding, gradually expanding the planting and livestock areas.

But this is not enough to supply the needs of the entire base’s millions of people, so the price of fresh food will be much higher than nutritional supplements.

In order to maintain the stable operation of the base, the base has set up many jobs. These simple sales jobs are usually done by ordinary people who do not have any special skills.

Jian Ning opened the Star Brain and gritted his teeth to pay.

Two tomatoes cost one hundred yuan, which made a poor college student very sad.

After simply selecting some dishes, Jian Ning took a stroll around the neighborhood.

The military apartment was not in the center of the base, but the area nearby was still very lively, with office buildings, convenience stores, restaurants, etc. He saw a department store not far away and walked straight over.

Jian Ning bought two sets of clothes.

One set of pajamas and one set for regular clothes.

After all, he couldn’t always wear Shen Yan’s bathrobe at home. The loose neckline of the large bathrobe on him kept sliding down, making him look very indecent.

Thinking of asking for help, Jian Ning bought something for Shen Yan as a gift.

After doing all this, Jian Ning, already carrying a bunch of things in his hands, chose to go home first.

•|•

The injured alien species urgently needs a large amount of fresh blood and flesh to replenish its energy.

As if smelling the scent of human beings, a rustling sound came from deep within the ruins of the collapsed building.

After a while, a creature with a human head staggered out from the gap, followed by a thin neck, like the torso of some kind of snake. As it crawled on the ground, it left a winding, wet black and red mucus.

The alien was frantically sniffing the human scent that was so close to it, and suddenly, it felt something stepping on its neck.

The alien’s head quickly turned 180 degrees and looked behind him——

Above the ruins it had just crawled out of, stood a man in black combat uniform. The zipper of the uniform was carefully pulled up to the top, and a pair of military boots with a metallic luster casually stepped on it firmly.

The man’s amber pupils exuded a sinister chill.

“Hiss–”

The alien twisted its neck, but couldn’t escape even an inch from under the military boot.

The hungry alien was completely unaware of the danger. Facing the provocative behavior of the human, it raised its head, revealing a mouthful of terrifying fangs. Smelly saliva dripped from the corners of its mouth. It opened its mouth wide, with the corners of its mouth cracked all the way to its ears, and swooped down towards the man quickly, ready to bite off the man’s head.

But the next second, it saw the man raise his hand, and the dark muzzle of the gun was pointed at its open mouth.

The aliens didn’t care about it at all.

With a gunshot, the alien was hit by the bullet and fell heavily to the ground.

The alien shook its head and was about to raise its head to attack, but found that the man who had just stepped on it suddenly raised his foot and then retreated a distance.

Before there was time to wonder, the alien’s body had already frozen.

The grayish-white skin revealed a red glow as if it was burning in flames, and its slender neck began to swell unnaturally. The alien’s face twitched, and its scarlet eyes stared at the indifferent man in the distance, but it was too late to do anything. After expanding to its limit, the alien’s body exploded with a loud bang.

Flames shot up into the sky, and the alien species quickly burned to ashes in the flames.

Shen Yan raised his eyes and looked at a piece of meat that had accidentally splashed out not far away. There seemed to be something black wriggling inside it.

Shen Yan did not approach, but raised his hand with a cold expression, aiming the gun at the bloody mass——

“Bang–”

After a sticky explosion, the alien was more dead than just dead.

Shen Yan opened the Star Brain and reported the progress:

【The alien species invading the safe zone have been cleared】

This is a B-level alien that broke into the safe zone yesterday. After being injured by the search team’s weapons, it is likely hiding nearby and needs a mopping-up force to come and clean it up.

Today, the command center gave Shen Yan a “wedding leave” under the pretext that the entire clearing and extermination troops had a day off and did not go out on any missions.

For a small emergency task like this of clearing out a B-class alien, it could be handled by just two team members, and there was no need for Shen Yan, the commander of the extermination force, to come out in person. However, Shen Yan really didn’t know how to get along with an Omega, so he temporarily took on this task outside the base.

He looked at the ashes left after the burning alien and fell into deep thought.

It was very rare for a single B-level alien to appear in the safe zone without any warning. Shen Yan felt like he seemed to have overlooked something.

He stood there, waited until the sporadic flames were completely extinguished, then looked up at the sky.

There is still a long time before dark.

The round trip took more than two hours, but it only took five minutes to deal with the alien.

Shen Yan thought belatedly:

It seemed that he had acted too quickly.

Considering the Omega’s fear of the smell of blood on his body yesterday, Shen Yan did not use alien limbs to eliminate the aliens today. The gun is their most commonly used weapon of elimination, which can effectively destroy the “seeds” in the aliens’ bodies.

He stood there in silence for a moment, and when he realized there was no way to waste any more time, he turned around and got in the car.

•|•

When Shen Yan arrived home, Jian Ning came in just a few minutes before him.

The two looked at each other and there was silence for a moment.

Jian Ning looked away guiltily and attempted to make a small talk: “You’re back.”

Shen Yan: “Yeah.”

Jian Ning: “…”

Jian Ning suddenly remembered a purpose of hers. He pursed his lips, with a hint of melancholy in his eyes: “Sorry, Admiral Shen, I went out this afternoon and used some of your money to buy some food and clothes.”

“You don’t need to report these to me.” Shen Yan said, realizing that his voice was a little too cold, he raised his eyes and glanced at the young man.

The young man was hanging his head, looking a little sad.

He paused, then added: “What I mean is that those are all common assets of the couple. You can use them as you like without telling me.”

Jian Ning was filled with emotion.

If Shen Yan wasn’t the scary “Butcher” who could kill him at any time, in a sense, such a partner with broad shoulders, narrow hips, long legs, who could cook, was generous with money, and was also good-looking –

It’s really quite touching.

His eyes moved slightly, and he whispered tentatively, “Admiral Shen, can I join the search team? I… I want to make some money on my own.”

Omega can freely use all the resources of its Alpha partner. Even though Shen Yan has not had much contact with Omega, he knows that this is an unspoken rule in the base.

But the young man in front of him had a strong sense of self-esteem and didn’t want to use his money even for some insignificant expenses.

His act of transferring money directly during the day might have hurt the Omega’s self-esteem.

He thought for a while and agreed: “Okay.”

“But can you use a gun?”

Jian Ning answered honestly: “No.”

When the search team members go out, the military will uniformly issue guns to them in case of accidents. If young people want to join the search team, they must first learn how to use a gun so that they can at least have a certain ability to protect themselves outside the base.

Shen Yan glanced at the time——

It’s three o’clock in the afternoon, still early.

He reopened the door, looked up at the young man, and said in a cold voice: “Change your shoes. I’ll teach you.”