The little omega was not stupid and did not continue to provoke the man.
With great situational awareness, he kept his quiet.
Under the man’s beastly gaze, he swallowed hard.
His throat burned with pain.
Hoarsely, he cut straight to the point. “Mu Yuanshan is my older brother.”
Mu Yuanshan?
Who did not know him?
The man sneered. “That is someone from the Mu family. You?”
His sweeping gaze was filled with disdain and contempt.
“Which of those great families does not have a few trainee soldier slots in their hands? Why bother participating in the selection with people like us?”
“If you are going to lie, at least use some skill. Do you expect me to be a fool and believe that?”
The little omega was speechless. What a fool, truly a fool!
“Mu Yuanshan really is my older brother!” the little omega said. “He would not agree to let me join the selection, so I sneaked out on my own!”
“My tag has my name on it, Mu Yunshan! This cannot be fake!”
“Besides, ‘Far mountains long, cloud mountains chaotic, clear mountains at dawn’! We belong to the ‘mountain’ generation, and our three names were taken from that line of poetry!”
“If you let me go now, I guarantee I will pretend this never happened.”
“If you do not believe me, I can write you an IOU!”
“Oh, scared to death,” Sun Haolong said, flipping him over while maintaining his posture. “Then I will finish quickly.”
The little omega was on the verge of tears. “Mu Yuanshan really is my older brother! What will it take for you to believe me?!”
The omega lying on the floor did not notice the terrifying look in that alpha’s eyes.
He did not believe it entirely, but he could not afford to gamble on even a one percent possibility.
That was someone from the Mu family!
This delicate-skinned omega really had the air of a young master about him.
Yet, he was now caught in a dilemma.
Even if he stopped right now, Mu Yuanshan would not let him off easily.
What kind of person was Mu Yuanshan?
Having differentiated into an alpha early on and being vigorously nurtured by the Mu family, he was destined to become the future head of the Mu family.
He acted boldly and was vindictive.
In this main branch of the Mu family, there were only him and a pair of younger siblings.
Those younger siblings were both destined to enter political marriages with major families in the future.
Who would have the gall to touch his younger brother or sister?
The more Sun Haolong thought about it, the more alarmed he became, his hands shaking uncontrollably.
Whether due to a guilty conscience or not, he actually began to see the shadow of Mu Yuanshan in this little omega.
This brief suspicion almost frightened him out of his wits.
He never could have imagined that Mu Yuanshan’s younger brother would come to participate in this ordinary selection trial.
If Mu Yuanshan found out that he was the one who had violated his brother, death was already the best outcome he could imagine.
Sun Haolong swallowed hard, picked up a piece of cloth at random from the supermarket floor, and stuffed it into the little omega’s mouth.
The little omega lost his previous fighting spirit, his skin flushed pink as he breathed lightly.
The omega’s pheromones had already been released, permeating the small supermarket.
Yet, Sun Haolong completely lost his lust from earlier, managing to suppress the urge to mark him, not even daring to release a single thread of his own pheromones.
At that exact moment, footsteps sounded outside.
Sun Haolong’s heart tightened, the strength in his hands involuntarily increasing a bit.
“Hurry up, they plan to head toward the exit area, and time is running out.”
It was Ding Quan returning.
A crude and bold idea sprouted from the bottom of Sun Haolong’s heart.
With a few quick movements, he tied the little omega up tightly.
“Come here, help me.”
Ding Quan had always been indecisive, and he still had not figured out how to persuade Sun Haolong.
Yet Sun Haolong was already trying to drag him down into the water.
Unaware of Sun Haolong’s hidden agenda, Ding Quan asked, “Is he not already tied up?”
Sun Haolong forced a bitter smile. “I am a bit slow in that regard and have not gotten hard yet. You go first.”
“Ah, me?” Ding Quan’s face turned beet red as he waved his hands repeatedly.
His rear foot, which had not yet stepped inside, stopped right at the threshold.
Sun Haolong did not give him a chance to hesitate, pulling him straight inside. “Just hurry up, watching me will make it work.”
“This is too much. Stop joking around.” Ding Quan’s expression changed.
However, upon catching sight of the other man’s bloodshot eyes, a subconscious sense of dread washed over him.
The next second, a sharp dagger pressed against his neck, shifting just slightly to leave a thin line of blood on his skin.
The blade was dark in color, resembling a very narrow triangular piece of iron.
Ironically, Sun Haolong had polished this piece of iron himself and pasted a strip of cloth at the base.
Prompted by Sun Haolong, this weapon had originally been given to the person with the highest combat power between the two of them.
Now, the hand-polished blade was aimed right at his own throat.
“Brother Long,” Ding Quan trembled, having no idea where this disaster had stemmed from. “Do not kill me, I will give you all my identification tags.”
Sun Haolong shook his head. “Go on, you do it!”
“Brother, Brother Long, I like women! Omegas will not work either!”
“What a coward, you are an alpha after all!” Sun Haolong roared.
Ding Quan tried to persuade him further, but Sun Haolong’s finger had already pressed down against his gland.
First came a scorching pain like fire, followed by a rapid spreading of that heat until his entire body felt feverish and restless.
His finger was stained with the pheromones of an omega in heat!
This was meant to induce him into rut!
A jolt of panic surged through Ding Quan, and tears instantly welled up in his eyes.
“Brother Long, what on earth is going on with this omega? Why would you go so far as to kill me over him?”
“We will talk after it is over.”
Hearing this exchange, Mu Yunshan felt an intense wave of anxiety.
His heat, delayed for many days, struck with overwhelming force, almost shattering his rationality.
The cravings, numbness, and itching accompanying the heat were also nearly unbearable.
Mu Yunshan fell into utter despair, unable to think of any way to escape.
Had he not been in heat, he could have relied on his own martial skills to break free.
Yet right now, catching the scent of an alpha’s pheromones made his entire body want to bow down and submit.
So this was what it meant to be an omega.
Tears spun out of control, streaming down in a string.
His older brother was right, omegas were useless, how could they ever become trainee soldiers?
It was his own self-will, his own disobedience, his own fault!
He truly knew he was wrong.
Would someone please come and save him!
The lofty young master experienced for the first time what it meant to lose his dignity.
In front of these two people, he was neither the young master of the Mu family nor a contestant in the selection, merely an omega at the mercy of others.
This taste made his heart ache as if gnawed by ants.
“Brother Long, we have pulled through together to this point. I have listened to you in everything and never betrayed you, and now you are going to treat me like this for the sake of some stranger of an omega?”
Sun Haolong’s breathing was also unstable, as the omega’s pheromones grew thicker in this space.
He had to get away quickly in order to clear the scent and traces from his body before the selection ended.
“This time, your brother has failed you.”
Without saying anything more, Sun Haolong moved swiftly and knocked the man unconscious with a strike!
He needed to stage a plausible scene where both perished together.
That was the only solution his fear-stricken mind could conjure right now!
The blade that had once pressed against Ding Quan’s neck was now pressed against the young master’s neck.
Cold and chilling.
Mu Yunshan’s heart trembled along with it.
He did not want to die!
“No, no!”
“Do not worry,” Sun Haolong curled his lips. “Before you two finish up, I will not kill you.”
The alpha forced into a rut remained in his previous posture even after passing out.
Stacking the two bodies together, Sun Haolong irritably attempted to pull off the omega’s pants.
Thud.
A muffled sound echoed.
Mu Yunshan opened his despairing, tightly closed eyes.
It did not hurt.
“Ah!”
Sun Haolong let out a miserable scream, gripping his bleeding palm.
A dagger had pierced the back of his hand, passing straight through and exposing a bloody, cold tip in his palm.
Someone had arrived.
“Who are you?!”
Though Sun Haolong shouted this, he thought to himself that he would just have to kill one more person.
If he could make it look like two alphas fought over an omega and both tragically died, that would work too!
“Just passing by.”
The young man’s voice was cold and detached.
Lying flat on the floor, Mu Yunshan could only see a pair of slender, sturdy calves.
Someone had come.
Hope for rescue!
Mu Yunshan struggled hard to wiggle himself upward.
“Do not move!”
Sun Haolong stomped his foot onto Ding Quan, pinning the two of them in place.
“Did your mother not teach you not to stick your nose into other people’s business?”
“Hh.”
The young man let out a cold laugh, his long legs taking a two-step stride right up in front of Sun Haolong.
Those two steps were as nimble and athletic as flight!
Following that, a powerful elbow thrust smashed straight into Sun Haolong’s face.
Sun Haolong reacted quite quickly, but the young man was even faster.
Before he could dodge the upper strike, a knee had already slammed directly into his abdomen.
Sun Haolong threw up his arms to block, but his entire body slammed backward into the storage shelves behind him as if hit by a car!
The shelves collapsed with a crash, dust scattering everywhere!
Pain wracked every inch of Sun Haolong’s body!
It was over.
He had no room to fight back.
This fierce movement left no room for anyone to harbor thoughts of resistance.
If he had even a fighting chance, he might have considered desperate measures.
But right now, the gap in strength between them was like an insurmountable chasm.
He simply could not win.
Panicked to begin with, Sun Haolong’s heart and soul were now shattered.
Forget raising thoughts of resistance, even the tiny spark of murderous intent he had managed to squeeze out moments before was scared completely out of him.
His limited brain capacity could no longer process anything.
Watching that person continue to walk toward him, Sun Haolong wept bitterly, smashing his head through a window and scrambling away in a panic.
The young man paused slightly before crouching down in front of the two piled figures.
“Are you alright?”
Mu Yunshan’s heart was still suspended in his chest as the bindings on his body were finally unwrapped.
He had never realized freedom could be so precious!
Even this voice sounded like heavenly music to his ears.
With tear-filled eyes, Mu Yunshan nodded lightly, feeling slightly dazed.
How could an alpha look this astonishingly good?
His handsome brows and eyes softened his sharp aggressiveness, even making him look somewhat gentle.
Most importantly, those clear eyes.
Like a pool of clear spring water, devoid of superfluous emotions.
Cold and pure, reflecting his silhouette almost perfectly.
Mu Yunshan’s internal thought of giving money and points instantly rolled far away.
Making such an offer felt like an insult.
“As long as you are unhurt.”
After saying this, the young alpha turned his gaze to the unconscious man. “Is this your companion?”
“I do not know him!” Mu Yunshan cleared his throat, his voice growing softer and more delicate. “He was with that man just now.”
“Mm.”
His savior was taciturn, making him look even cooler!
Mu Yunshan hurriedly rummaged through the unconscious man, fished out the identification tags he found along with his own, and handed them over. “Benefactor, take these.”
The young alpha did not take them, simply asking, “Do you need me to call a rescue team?”
This was asking whether he wanted to give up on the selection.
After this ordeal, Mu Yunshan’s desire to prove himself had completely faded away.
However, he still needed to consider his options.
“Let me think about it.”
He tried to stand up as he spoke, but his legs turned to jelly.
Instead of the anticipated warm embrace like a swallow returning to the forest, his hands ended up grasping a cold iron pole.
A trace of resentment lingered in the little omega’s heart. Truly, his savior’s heart was as cold as iron!
However, Mu Yunshan’s heart stirred, his face turning even redder.