I Married A Degraded Alpha
Chapter 147: Level-six, Metal Enova

Chapter 147: Level-six, Metal Enova

As tears streamed down her face, Yuri felt as if she was shutting down.

She hadn’t even cried when she died in her past life. Now, a heat cycle had reduced her to tears... That was unbelievable.

Yuri laid on the bed, dazed, allowing wave after wave of heat and desire to engulf her. She could feel her body’s yearning continuously escalating, reaching a peak, then slowly subsiding. Her emotions followed suit, from intense to calm, then back to intense. The stark contrast and constant shifts were disorienting.

Anyone slightly weaker would probably fall into depression, even harbor suicidal thoughts—

Yuri didn’t know how long she’d been spacing out until a message came through, snapping her back to reality. She slowly opened the message, which read: "My pheromone is in the bedside drawer."

Yuri paused. His pheromone?

Seeing the word ’pheromone,’ her body, seemingly out of her control, quickly opened the drawer.

Then, she saw a row of small, test tube-like vials neatly arranged inside.

She unscrewed one of the vials and, in the next second, a strong, icy woodsy scent wafted out, filling every corner of the room in no time.

Surrounded by this pheromone, all her unease, anxiety, loneliness... all ebbed away like a receding tide.

The effect was immediate.

It was incredibly useful.

Once again, Yuri marveled at the wonders of the alpha and beta species.

As her emotions steadied, Yuri’s mind began to clear. She stared at the row of more than twenty pheromone vials and wondered, when had Tuss started preparing these?

Extracting this much pheromone must’ve taken at least a few weeks, right?

So, he must’ve planned his mission long ago, and without her.

A tightness formed in Yuri’s chest, a mix of frustration and restlessness.

Over the next few days, Yuri truly experienced the sensitivity, overthinking, and fragility of a beta heat cycle...

When the heat cycle ended, she even questioned if she’d been possessed during those few days.

Maybe that wasn’t really her.

Yuri tapped her head, suddenly remembering. While she was experiencing her heat cycle, Tuss was going through his heat period.

How is he doing? I could’ve been a better wife. Yuri self-reflected for three seconds, then texted Tuss: Are you still alive? Did you do anything impulsive?

Right after she sent the message, a reply came quickly: Still alive. Beat up a few level-five insectoids.

Yuri: Where did the insectoids come from?

Tuss: I’m at the border.

Yuri frowned. He’s already at the border?

This term’s break wasn’t long, just over a month. When Military Academy No. 1 started, Tuss still hadn’t returned.

Yuri didn’t know where he was. Their contact had been intermittent. The last time she received a message from him was six days ago.

Yuri first went to report to the Mecha Manufacturing department, then to the Mecha Combat department to report for Tuss.

When the teacher at the Mecha Combat department saw her, they cheerfully said, "Feel free to attend your husband’s class when you have the time. I’ll turn a blind eye and pretend not to see you."

Yuri: ".....Okay."

She’d been there a few times last semester, but as her course load increased and her to-do list lengthened, she’d stopped going. Now, busier than last semester, she likely wouldn’t have time to attend Tuss’s classes.

Since the teacher had prefaced the invite with "when you have the time," it wouldn’t be seen as breaking a promise if she didn’t show.

One week, two weeks into the new term, Tuss was still away. Every few days, Yuri would receive a message from him, reassuring her he was alive.

One afternoon after school, as she was eating in the cafeteria with Daleks, Ender, and others, a student suddenly shouted, "Quickly log into the Interstellarnet! There’s a live broadcast of the Alliance chasing human traffickers."

Hearing the words ’human traffickers’, Yuri instantly set down her chopsticks and turned on her opticomputer.

"Yuri, enlarge the screen so we can all watch," Daleks said.

At his request, Yuri increased the screen size and set it up at the head of their long table so everyone could see.

On the screen, a starship, something between a regular commercial starship and a battleship, was speeding through space. Behind it trailed a small battleship and a dozen mechas.

"That’s Tuz’s mecha," Daleks pointed at a red and green mecha. It was so noticeable, it was hard to ignore.

"Yuri, what mission did Tuz take?" Ender asked.

Thinking that everyone could now watch the live broadcast, Yuri figured there was no point in hiding it. "Investigating a case of beta trafficking."

"Dang, so the starship is filled with betas? No wonder a dozen mechas and a battleship can’t beat a single starship," Daleks exclaimed.

Kilana: "They’re handling it with kid gloves. They have no choice."

Ender: "Look at the purple ring over there."

Everyone at the table turned their attention in the direction Ender pointed, spotting a faint purple ring.

Suddenly, Daleks stood up, "Come on, shoot it down. If they don’t take action soon, it’ll reach the Empire’s territory."

As if they’d heard Daleks, the battleship and mechas on the screen collectively fired at the starship, all using lower-intensity fire.

However, the starship was no ordinary vessel. It dodged at incredible speeds, evading and counterattacking. The power of its cannon fire was definitely at least level five or six.

"Damn it, even if it kills the people on board, don’t let it get to the Empire."

"Maybe the traffickers are from the Empire."

"They deserve to die even more for snatching people from the Alliance. Destroy them."

"But the Alliance’s citizens are still on that starship."

"..."

The students in the cafeteria were so excited they were banging on the tables.

The purple ring was getting closer. The modified starship suddenly ramped up its speed to the max, shooting forward like a ray of light—

"Shoot it down."

"It’s too late."

"This is infuriating."

The front part of the starship had already entered the ring when, out of nowhere, a huge chunk of metal fell from the sky. It slammed into the front of the starship, knocking it out of the ring.

At the same moment, the red and green mecha leapt onto the starship, aiming a fierce punch at its energy unit.

What seemed like a simple punch shocked the starship, the fist breaking through the hull and directly destroying the energy unit.

Without energy, the starship began plummeting towards the space.

The green mecha still wasn’t satisfied, punching the starship over and over, reducing it to a tattered doll. In the end, it was caught in a net launched by the battleship and towed back into Alliance territory.

Is that it? The people in the cafeteria couldn’t believe it.

"Did anyone see where that massive piece of metal, weighing tons, came from?"

"I replayed it a few times and it seems to have come from the Empire’s direction."

"So the Empire denied the starship entry? Did I misunderstand the Empire?"

"Maybe."

"By the way, have you noticed the red and green mecha is getting more ruthless?"

With that comment, all eyes turned to Yuri. Yuri, however, didn’t seem to notice. She was furrowing her brows in deep thought. Has Tuss’s metal Enova leveled up again? Is it at level six now?