Although the little slave acted nonchalant, Audrose still couldn't bear to continue. He coaxed the person into taking a bath together first, and Su Duan also nervously brushed his teeth.

He brushed them twice.

After brushing his teeth, he was dragged into the bath by Audrose who had already rinsed once. He was washed inside and out, until his whole body turned pink and soft.

Su Duan was wrapped in a towel and carried out. As soon as he was put on the bed, he rolled out of the towel like a peeled poria.

— To be precise, that's exactly what it was like.

Audrose was a little better off, still wearing a loose dark bathrobe.

Looking at the little slave curled up like a shrimp, half his cheek buried in the pillow looking at him, a hint of darkness flashed in Audrose' eyes. He sat sideways on the edge of the bed, one arm propped on the bed, bending down deeply, accurately biting the little slave's lips, like a wolf that had been hungry for a long time and could finally sink its teeth into food.

After the bath, Audrose' slightly long golden hair was not tied up, but casually scattered on his forehead. The soft hair brushed against Su Duan's face, making his cheeks flush with a hot itch.

......

Audrose had originally wanted to completely devour the person today, but the little slave had served him wholeheartedly. Although the corners of his mouth were not torn, they were slightly red and swollen. Seeing him obediently let himself be manipulated, Audrose vaguely felt distressed and was reluctant to do anything more excessive to him.

Let's wait a bit more.

The little slave was tired enough today.

As a result, this wait led to an incident.

At three o'clock in the morning, a sharp alarm representing an enemy attack sounded on the defense line. Audrose instantly opened his eyes, waking from his sleep, taking less than a minute to roll out of bed and get dressed.

Su Duan was also startled awake. Realizing that something had happened, he was afraid of delaying Audrose, so he didn't ask, just opened his eyes and stared unblinkingly at the man whose aura had become as sharp as a blade after putting on his military uniform.

Instead, after getting dressed, Audrose returned to the bedside and briefly instructed him, "Try to stay in the room. Mosi will bring you breakfast at eight o'clock tomorrow. If something happens, call me on the communicator. If I don't answer, call Avid and Mosi."

Slaves were not allowed to be equipped with personal terminals, but Audrose had Avid get a communicator with adjusted parameters from the research institute for Su Duan to use temporarily.

There were only three contact numbers stored on the communicator: him, Avid, and Mosi, his most trusted deputy.

Although Avid sometimes seemed a bit unrestrained, Audrose knew he was essentially reliable. And Mosi had been his deputy since he joined the army. If he had to pick the one he trusted most in the army, it would undoubtedly be this deputy.

The personal terminals of the three of them all had the location of this communicator to ensure Su Duan's safety at all times.

Su Duan nodded hurriedly, "Mm-hmm."

Audrose touched his cheek with his gloved hand and left quickly.

Although it was still early, his lover had left and might even be in danger. Su Duan couldn't sleep anyway.

He sat up from the bed and moved to the place where Audrose had just been lying, still retaining his warm body temperature. He had the system play Audrose's real-time projection for him.

Although the system said that Audrose's original destiny trajectory was to live a smooth life and that although he would be injured on the battlefield, it would not endanger his life, Su Duan was still uneasy.

Because—with his arrival, Audrose' destiny had already undergone some small changes. When he lived on the edge of the city, he once heard a passing albatross talk about many famous books and movies in human society, including the "butterfly effect".

Audrose went straight to the main control room of the defense line base. As a marshal, his more important duty was to command the army. Not every battle required him to take the field personally. Most of the time, he stayed in the rear.

The enemy attack occurred in the A14 area of the defense line, not close to the center of the base. The scale of the attack was not large, with only two groups of beasts, but based on the abnormal behavior of the beast groups on the B01 defense line last time, Audrose still transferred a large number of personnel to the A14 defense line and was ready to set off personally at any time.

The war could not end in an instant, especially when facing beast groups that relied on numbers to win. It was normal for a small-scale battle to last more than a day.

Audrose stayed in the main control room for a long time. After more than half an hour of watching the man's sharp profile, Su Duan gradually became drowsy.

Getting up at three o'clock in the morning, his body couldn't hold out.

Su Duan rubbed his eyes, yawned a little, and said to the system, "If Audrose is in danger, please wake me up."

The system said, "Okay, host, don't worry, the system will always help you monitor."

Su Duan's somewhat uneasy mood gradually sank into dreamland. He lay where Audrose had slept, pulling the quilt up to cover his mouth, breathing in the man's cold scent, only then feeling a little more at ease.

After sleeping for who knows how long, Su Duan was awakened by a series of electronic prompts.

Without even opening his eyes, he asked the system anxiously, "Is Audrose in danger?!"

The system said, "Don't panic, host! The system did not issue a warning. What woke you up was—"

Su Duan belatedly realized that the sound that woke him up was not the system's usual "ding", but another relatively unfamiliar electronic sound.

"—The communicator on your hand." The system added.

Su Duan looked down and saw the screen of the communicator on his wrist emitting a faint light.

"Sorry for disturbing you." Su Duan was stunned for a moment, apologizing to the system while opening the unread message on the communicator.

[Avid]: Your anti-radiation medicine should be finished. Remember to come to the infirmary to get new ones~

The atmospheric layer of the planet where the defense line was stationed was much thinner than that of the capital star, so more cosmic rays leaked to the surface and produced more radiation. Although this level did not cause any damage to the evolved population, it still posed a certain threat to the unevolved population.

Fortunately, the problem wasn't too serious. As long as he took an anti-radiation drug regularly, the impact of the radiation could be reduced to about the same level as when he was on the capital planet.

Su Duan got out of bed and rummaged through the medicine bottle, only to find that there were indeed only two pills left, enough for just one more day. These medicines had always been brought to him by Audrose, and Su Duan had never paid attention.

So Su Duan replied, "Okay, thank you."

Holding the medicine bottle, Su Duan glanced at the 7 a.m. time displayed on the communicator and asked the system, "How are things going with Audrose?"

The system dutifully reported the latest progress to him.

The beast horde outside the defensive line was almost completely defeated at the beginning, but for some reason, when they were about to be wiped out at dawn, a large number of reinforcements arrived, with a total of four or five large tribes gathered outside the A14 defensive line.

Although these tribes were not yet enough to break through the solid defensive line, the situation was unusual. Fearing that new reinforcements would arrive next, Audrose dispatched as many personnel as possible to A14 while ensuring the safety of the other defensive lines, and had already set out for A14 himself.

He had already left?

Su Duan washed up in the bathroom a bit listlessly, then sent a message to [Mosi] in his contact list telling him not to bring him breakfast. He took out the nutrient solution left for him by Audrose, randomly picked one, and gulped down almost half of it.

To prevent any unexpected situations, Audrose had stuffed a large amount of nutrient solution into his spatial twist.

Previously, Audrose had supervised him to eat vegetables every day. Now that he could finally have the nutrient solution he had been longing for, Su Duan felt it wasn't as delicious as he remembered.

He sat on the bed and watched Audrose, who was still on the road, for a while, then decided to go to the infirmary to get his anti-radiation medicine.

The infirmary was not far from Audrose' bedroom. Su Duan studied the map on the communicator for a long time, determined the route, and then walked out the door.

As a result, he had only taken a few steps when Audrose' dutiful deputy sent an inquiry:

[Mosi]: Hello, I received a message that you left the room. May I ask what happened?

[Su Duan]: It's okay, I'm going to the infirmary to find Avid.

Hearing that Su Duan was going to see Avid, Mosi was not so nervous. Avid's infirmary was located in the heavily guarded rear and was one of the safest places in the entire defensive line.

[Mosi]: Please keep in touch at all times and be careful on the road.

With that said, he pulled up the surveillance, found the small black-haired figure in the corridor, and made sure that Su Duan's every move was within sight, so that he could manipulate the devices inside the walls to ensure his safety in case of an emergency.

In the monitoring room, the staff next to him saw the senior deputy's actions, which were comparable to those of a nanny, and couldn't help but show a trace of complexity in their eyes.

This man was a favorite in front of the Marshal, and usually followed the Marshal all the time. How come he was sent to the monitoring room today to help the Marshal take care of a slave?

Could it be that he had lost the Marshal's trust?

Mosi noticed the complex look in his eyes, but did not offer much explanation.

How could the Marshal ever tire of him?

It was precisely because he trusted him the most that he entrusted the most important person to him.

Perhaps the soldiers who couldn't get close to the Marshal didn't feel it deeply, but he was by the Marshal's side almost every moment and could see clearly the Marshal's love for that slave, which almost reached his bones and blood.

Maybe the Marshal would speed up the policy of abolishing the slave system because of this... Mosi's mind wandered for a second.

He stared intently at the figure on the surveillance, watching him brush shoulders with patrolling soldiers from time to time, until Su Duan arrived at the door of the infirmary and reached out to push the door open. Only then did Mosi relax a little.

But before he could finish exhaling, a person walking out of the infirmary stopped in front of Su Duan and showed him an unfriendly look.

Mosi frowned and pulled up the identity of this person.

This person was a squad leader, born of nobility, who seemed to like their Marshal and showed it quite obviously. Many people in the army knew about it.