From the original owner’s memories, Yun Yang found the answer.
If the contamination level fluctuated past the critical threshold of 80 several times within a short period, it would trigger the smart terminal’s alarm.
If it exceeded the critical threshold of 95 several times within a short period, the smart terminal would directly upload the data to the terminal, which would then notify the Male Management Center and dispatch personnel to restrain the male in question in time.
Hadn’t she just purified Qin Mo that evening? How had his contamination level exceeded 80 again so quickly?
Could it be that she had used the wrong method to purify him?
Yun Yang fastened the last button of her shirt, then opened her smart terminal to look up what could cause this situation as she made her way toward Qin Mo’s room.
In the bathroom, Qin Mo had injected a second dose of suppressant and no longer dared to let his thoughts run wild.
He filled the bathtub with water and submerged himself completely in the cold water.
But the moment he got in, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.
There was no one else in the villa besides him and the Female Master. The Female Master must have come looking for him.
Qin Mo quickly got up, grabbed a bath towel from his spatial button, roughly dried himself off, then wrapped the towel around himself and went over to open the door.
He had learned one thing back when he attended the Interstellar Male Academy: females liked males with good physiques the most.
His father had also told him that showing off his physique appropriately would help increase a female’s favorable impression of him.
To successfully form a bond with Yun Yang, Qin Mo had been rigorously following the One Hundred and Eight Ways to Please Your Female Master his father had taught him.
While Yun Yang waited outside the door, she did not forget to look through the information she had found on her smart terminal.
The information showed that there were many possible causes for this situation. She had not even finished reading it when the door opened.
Qin Mo appeared before her with nothing but a bath towel wrapped around his lower body.
His hair had not yet been dried, and droplets of water trickled down, sliding over his skin before following the contours of his abdominal muscles and disappearing beneath the towel.
Despite his military background, Qin Mo did not have overly developed muscles. Instead, his physique was aesthetically balanced, with not an ounce too much or too little.
It was exactly the degree Yun Yang liked best.
She swallowed, and the sharpness of Qin Mo’s brows and eyes, which had been so striking a moment ago, suddenly seemed inexplicably seductive to her.
The male’s pleasant voice sounded at that moment. “Female Master, did something happen?”
Yun Yang coughed awkwardly, closing the light screen she had just opened and forcing herself to tear her gaze away from Qin Mo’s abdominal muscles.
If she kept looking, she was afraid she would stop being a decent person.
“Um, I heard the alarm. Has your contamination level risen again?”
“Is Female Master worried about me?” Qin Mo suddenly smiled, his amber eyes glimmering with scattered light. “Don’t worry, Female Master. I’ve already got it under control.”
So when he said he had it under control, that meant it really had risen.
Yun Yang was puzzled. “Did I do something wrong when I purified you today?”
This was her first time purifying a male’s contamination level. Although she had followed the instructions on her smart terminal to the letter, there might have been some details that the smart terminal had not mentioned where she had gone wrong.
Qin Mo fell silent for a moment. How was he supposed to explain a male’s rut to his Female Master?
Especially since his rut had come early this time because he had just been fantasizing about his Female Master.
Meeting Yun Yang’s beautiful eyes, Qin Mo did not dare tell her the real reason. “No, Female Master, you did a great job. After you purified me, my contamination level dropped to 48. What’s happening now is just normal.”
What did he mean by normal?
A look of confusion appeared on Yun Yang’s face. “Will it affect you? Do you need me to purify you again?”
The obvious concern in her voice nearly made Qin Mo lose control again.
The male silently took a deep breath before saying, “No, I won’t be affected. It’s late. I’ll escort you back to your room to rest.”
Since he had said he was fine, Yun Yang did not press the matter. She nodded and headed toward her room.
Qin Mo followed closely behind her, keeping half a step of distance between them.
Even so, Yun Yang’s scent continued to challenge his self-control.
Fortunately, the two rooms were very close. Yun Yang soon reached her room, then turned around and smiled at him.
She secretly stole two more glances at Qin Mo’s abs before saying, “Good night, Qin Mo.”
“Good night, Female Master.”
The door closed, and Qin Mo stared intently at the door in front of him, his gaze burning as though he could see through it and into the room beyond to the female inside.
His Female Master really did like his physique.
Yun Yang thought she had been discreet, but in reality, there was no way she could hide it from Qin Mo.
And that overly heated gaze had successfully made his contamination level rise a little more.
Qin Mo raised his hand and glanced at the reading on his smart terminal. Even after injecting two doses of suppressant, it was still as high as 75.
‘Damn this rut.’
To prevent himself from losing control again, Qin Mo quickly turned around and returned to his room, switching the soundproofing system back on.
In the room next door, Yun Yang curled up on the bed and brought up the light screen again, continuing to browse the information she had not finished reading.
Qin Mo had just said that his contamination level repeatedly fluctuating past the critical threshold of 80 was a normal phenomenon, so it probably was not any of the first few causes.
She would have to study it some more.
The information scrolled upward automatically as Yun Yang’s gaze moved down, quickly revealing a line of text that had not appeared on the first page:
“Repeated fluctuations in contamination levels without the use of an ability, especially when they exceed the critical threshold of 80, are one of the obvious signs that a male’s rut has arrived.”
Yun Yang: “……”
She knew what a rut was. It was similar to the period of heightened reproductive activity that most animals experienced every spring.
In other words, Qin Mo’s rut had arrived?
Yun Yang continued reading. The information stated that during a rut, a male’s contamination level would fluctuate continuously, keeping him in an extremely dangerous range. During this period, a female’s mental strength could not purify the contamination, so the only options were suppressants or forming a bond with a female.
In front of the light screen, Yun Yang’s eyes suddenly widened.
‘This, this, this… Is this really something they can just write outright?’
There weren’t even any restricted words in the interstellar era?
Even though Yun Yang’s own mind was full of impure thoughts, she was still stunned by the interstellar world’s sheer bluntness. She abruptly closed the information page and started browsing StarNet to distract herself.
It was only then that she received a reply from Yun Conglan.
【S-rank? Yangyang, you’re really Mommy’s good daughter!】
【My darling daughter, these beast husbands of yours all look pretty good. But didn’t you say before that you only wanted that boy from the Wei family as your one beast husband? How come you suddenly had the Federal Marriage Center match you with five beast husbands?】
Speaking of this, Yun Conglan was quite puzzled.
She and Wei Zhuo’s mother, Wei Yashi, had been childhood friends, so when they were having their children, the two of them had agreed that if their two babies turned out to be one female and one male, they would arrange a marriage between them.
At the time, they had only been joking. After all, everyone in the Federation knew how difficult it was to produce a daughter.
Who would have thought that the two babies that emerged from the incubation pods really would be one female and one male? The two families were already close, so the engagement was settled just like that.
After the two children came of age, before Yun Conglan went traveling around the galaxy with her beast husbands, she applied to the Federal Marriage Center to establish the engagement between the two children.
Who would have thought that something had gone wrong in that Wei family’s boy’s head later? He insisted that the marriage was interfering with his pursuit of some so-called true love and made a fuss about breaking off the engagement.
Her daughter had complained to her about it several times. Eventually, she got annoyed and advised her daughter to just end the engagement.
But then her own daughter seemed to have something wrong with her head too, insisting that she liked that boy from the Wei family and would only ever have him as her one beast husband in this lifetime.
Yun Conglan simply could not understand.
She wasn’t exactly the devoted type herself, so how had she ended up with such a single-minded daughter?