The male worm wants to be a variety show

Arnold hadn't woken up yet.He half sat up and struggled to shake his head, but finally gave up and let himself slip back into Qiao Ruiqing's arms like a puddle of mud.He insisted on burying his head on Qiao Ruiqing's shoulder.

"You came back so late today," A Nuo muttered, "I just said you can't be too nice to those shameless worms, each one of them is going to make an inch... You must be forced to not let the door close, Yes or no?"

Qiao Ruiqing reached out and pressed A Nuo's shoulder: "Don't worry about it, go to sleep. I don't know who will get up early tomorrow?"

"It's already today, okay?" Arnold complained.

While chatting with A Nuo, Qiao Ruiqing brushed A Nuo's hair once and for all.

Suddenly he smelled a faint smell of blood.He pressed down all the way along the back of Arnold's neck, and felt something wrong with the flesh.

Probably where the scapula is.Qiao Ruiqing pushed down with a little more force, and sure enough, he heard Arnold grunt.

"It's hurt again," Qiao Ruiqing said affirmatively, "and I guess you didn't bandage it well."

After speaking, Qiao Ruiqing got up to get bandages and wound medicine, completely ignoring A Nuo's flattering moans behind his back.

"Take off your shirt—what a coquettish, don't act like you're young. Take care of your wounds, and you'll cry if your wounds get infected," Qiao Ruiqing said.

Under Qiao Ruiqing's gaze, A Nuo obediently tore off his short-sleeved T-shirt, and turned around with his bare back.Qiao Ruiqing took a closer look. Arnold's wound was not deep, but it was very long, from the shoulder blade to the ribs, almost parallel to the depression formed by the spine.

Qiao Ruiqing carefully cleaned A Nuo's wound with alcohol.During this period, Arnold kept talking about his glorious record today, from how many females he won to how many resources he grabbed.

"In the end, I made that critter who dared to stab me in the back pay the price!" Arno said triumphantly.

The atmosphere in the cabin was too warm.Warm yellow lights, half-truths and half-fake complaints, aimless chatting... are the human fireworks that make Qiao Ruiqing nostalgic.Uh, fireworks among insects.

Maybe this kind of life will not last long.Qiao Ruiqing thought of the news he heard in the tavern today, and his mood dropped to the bottom.

He lowered his eyes: "Arnold, have you heard the news of the empire's incorporation?"

A Nuo let out a long "ah": "Yes, there are, and the rumors don't know whether they are true or not. There are also gang leaders who have been very quiet recently, and they may be secretly thinking about running away."

"Then what are your plans?" Qiao Ruiqing asked after cutting off a section of bandage.

"I don't care. I'll go wherever you go." Arnold picked up the scissors and played with them nonchalantly. "Why, doesn't Joe want to be recruited?"

A Nuo got serious and put the scissors away neatly: "If you really want to run, I'll take you away without saying a word. But to be honest, those who want to run at this moment are basically fugitives with criminal convictions—haha , although there are more fugitives than rats on this broken planet. You and I have clean resumes, maybe being recruited by the empire is a better way out?"

Why do you want to run?Of course it's because Qiao Ruiqing is a male shell.Everyone on Garbage Star is a gangster, and he can still be happy if he pretends to be a female. Once he is taken back to the empire, Qiao Ruiqing's male identity cannot be hidden no matter what.

At that time, it would be a trivial matter to separate from Arnold, and then a lot of female servants and slaves would be forced, and the matter would explode.

Qiao Ruiqing has a slight emotional obsession, and can't accept one-to-many relationships at all.Papa Rich used to knock him on the head and call him "male worm disease", saying that males always use all kinds of excuses to avoid mating obligations.

But now it's not easy to shake off the fact that he is a male bug to Arnold.Fortunately, Qiao Ruiqing still had other excuses:

"Rupert told me today that the empire's large-scale collection of garbage stars this time is to prepare for war."

Arnold frowned: "What? Rupert? Damn, what the intelligence dealer said should be reliable."

He sat up straight and quickly analyzed: "Then we have to run. We have to run—just kidding, how can a female be able to go to the battlefield. Not to mention your thin and small body..."

Qiao Ruiqing was still hesitating.He absolutely doesn't want to stay here and wait to be included, but if he wants to run away, where can he go?

Seeing that A Nuo was so agitated that he stood up and turned around, Qiao Ruiqing comforted him dumbfounded: "Stop, sit down and talk slowly. I should think about whether to run away, but you are different from me, A Nuo. The war is to you It's an opportunity, you should stay, it's likely—"

In the middle of the conversation, Arnold interrupted him sharply: "What stupid words are you talking about!"

Qiao Ruiqing stared into Anuo's eyes, and softly completed the second half of the sentence: "You can realize your childhood dream of being a general."

"Arnuo, you are a genius, don't think I don't know. You are the one who shouldn't be confined to a garbage star—a worm that should be confined next to a subfemale." Qiao Ruiqing blinked jokingly, "You don't Curious? Military exploits, glory, maybe even a beautiful male."

A Nuo's eyes slowly turned red, he gasped for breath, and said stubbornly: "Nothing is more important than you."

He shook his head and repeated it louder: "Nothing is more important than you!"

After shouting, Arnold threw himself on the bed, turned around and refused to communicate to express his dissatisfaction.

Seeing the bulge on A Nuo's bed, Qiao Ruiqing couldn't laugh or cry, and felt a little moved in his heart.He stood there in a daze for a while, and finally went to turn off the light, and lay down on his own bed.

Lie down and lie down, the two worms have their own thoughts, and neither of them fell asleep.

It was getting slightly brighter, and one or two beams of sunlight came in through the curtains.Occasionally there are a few birdsong.

After a moment of silence, Arnold's voice came out muffled from under the quilt. "...Joe, I don't really want to fight with you. I just," he sniffed, "I'm just mad at you for trying to leave me."

A Nuo turned around with the quilt rolled up, his eyes were still a little red: "We have lived together for decades, it's really hard to imagine a future without you. Sigh - let's not separate anyway, Joe? I beg you."

Right in the heart.Qiao Ruiqing will never be able to resist the cuteness of the strong man.

A Nuo is strong and capable of fighting, and always likes to pretend to be a caregiver, but in fact, Qiao Ruiqing also has a lot of concerns for A Nuo.They have maintained this mutual dependence for many years, like two candy bars that have melted together.

Forget it, Qiao Ruiqing thought with his arms resting on his pillow, he and Arnold really cannot be separated.

Qiao Ruiqing sighed and said, "Okay, just don't regret it."

Receiving an affirmative answer, Arnold rolled the quilt twice with a smile.The two worms said goodnight to each other and went to sleep.

This sleep was extremely heavy, and it was almost evening when Qiao Ruiqing opened his eyes again.

Arnold's bed on the opposite side was already empty, and the sheets and quilt were crumpled and spread out randomly.Qiao Ruiqing resigned to his orders and got out of bed to help him tidy up, not bothering to say anything to him.Anyway, don't listen.

Arnold's routine is completely opposite to Qiao Ruiqing's.After opening the tavern, Qiao Ruiqing got used to the life of being a nocturnal lurker; and Arnold, like most females on Garbage Star, was mainly engaged in fighting and fighting for territory, and the main business hours were before sunset.

So the time they can chat is basically squeezed out of sleep time.

Such a small amount of time for chatting can't satisfy the chatterbox A Nuo at all, so he will leave a letter to Qiao Ruiqing every morning before going to "work", and he has persisted every day for decades, and he can't be shaken.

After Qiao Ruiqing tidied up the house, the first thing she did was pick up Arnold's daily good morning letter and read it.Arnold's letter today is not long——

dear joe,

The first big thing: don't allow yourself to sneak away, don't allow yourself to sneak away, don't allow yourself to sneak away.Did you hear that?Remember what you promised me yesterday.It's best that you don't open the store today, just stay at home and wait for me to come back—oh, forget it, I'm dreaming.Call it a day, okay?I am waiting for you.I definitely won't fall asleep early today.

Arnold who is still a little angry, written in the early morning when you are sleeping soundly

After reading the letter, Qiao Ruiqing put it away in the drawer, completely unaware of the smile on his lips.

But A Nuo guessed wrong, Qiao Ruiqing really didn't plan to open a shop today.Seeing that it was getting late, he simply stayed at home and waited for A Nuo to come back.

Qiao Ruiqing slowly moved to the stove to light a fire and cook.His cooking skills can only be regarded as passing the test, so he stewed the rice and fried a few light dishes at random.

By the time he was about to finish his work, the sun had completely set.Arnold's footsteps sounded outside the door as expected.

"Wow! I'm so touched, did you really not open a store today?" Anuo Chong's voice came in before he entered the door.Qiao Ruiqing put down the spatula and turned around. Before he could speak, A Nuo threw himself into his arms.

A Nuo took over the spatula naturally, and said with a smile, "Go and sit down, I'll do the rest. How about I add another barbecue, isn't it your favorite?"

His culinary skills are really immeasurable, and the grilled Chiyan beast meat is even more outstanding.The outer skin is burnt, and the inner is still tender red, and it is oily after a bite.Arnold's fire control is also top-notch, completely retaining the meat quality and fragrance of the red flame beast itself, and the cubs next door are crying.

When A Nuo put the plates on the table, Qiao Ruiqing had already waited at the table, with expectations written on his face.Arnold couldn't stop laughing.

Arnold washed his hands and sat down to start.While eating, he mentioned the business: "I talked to Bald Billy when I went out today, and he was willing to rent us a tattered airship at a low price—with a navigator and enough fuel."

"That old bald man is very difficult to deal with, I was almost threatened with a knife. Do you know how he let go in the end?" A Nuo raised his eyebrows jokingly, "I took advantage of you to get rid of him, Joe."

He shook his head and said, "Ah, our Joey is so charming... young and old can take it all..."

Qiao Ruiqing couldn't help rolling her eyes: "Fuck you."

Arnold is an intuitive animal. Once he made up his mind, he would act swiftly and quickly circle several alternative destinations on the map.Qiao Ruiqing has no objection to Arnold's plan.They summed up the details a little, and quickly completed the deal with Billy.

Next is packing your bags.They don't have many personal belongings, just some clothes and dry food on the left and right, and the sum of the odds and zeros can only fill two backpacks.It is worth mentioning that Qiao Ruiqing also found a beautifully crafted necklace.

The necklace is made of silver, the chain is thin, and it hangs a pigeon's blood gemstone, and the simple "S" emblem is engraved on the border-it is a relic of Papa Rich.The necklace did not match his tall and stocky figure, but no matter how hard life was, Rich never even thought of selling it.

Qiao Ruiqing hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to take the necklace away.Probably because he couldn't bear to leave this well-maintained necklace in the wilderness.

Everything was packed, and it wasn't even time for bed.They chatted idly for a while, and finally decided to go to bed early and leave early tomorrow morning.

Qiao Ruiqing lay on the bed, feeling very light for no reason.

It seems that Interstellar Exile has also become something worth looking forward to.