D-level males reached the pinnacle of life by living off women.

Rhine was examining the ring on his hand when suddenly he looked up, his eyes filled with vigilance. He had sensed an insect approaching.

Rhine stood up, and as he did so, the wounds on his body that had just stopped bleeding began to bleed again, and his clothes were stained with blood once more. However, because his military uniform was black, it was not noticeable unless you looked closely.

With a blank expression, Rhine pulled the lightsaber out of the brain worm's eye. In the previous battle against the Araqi insectoids, almost all the weapons he brought had run out of energy, and only this lightsaber was still usable.

Rhine gripped his lightsaber tightly, staring in the direction from which the insects were approaching.

"Commander, Commander!"

Upon hearing the voice, Rhine slightly relaxed his grip on the lightsaber. He recognized the voice; it was Fred's voice.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Fred appeared in Rhine's field of vision with a dozen or so insects.

Upon seeing Rhine, Fred immediately rushed over excitedly.

"Commander, are you alright?"

"I'm fine. How's the battle going?"

Fred grinned as he said this.

"The Araqi insectoids' attack has been completely defeated. An hour ago, these monsters suddenly started moving around like headless flies. The soldiers seized this opportunity and launched a fierce attack, wiping out most of their forces. Now the soldiers are chasing after the remaining deserters."

An hour ago, Rhine killed the brain worm.

Because the other four brain worms had already been eliminated before Rhine made her move, the one Rhine killed was the last commander.

Rhine patted Fred on the shoulder approvingly, handing over command to Fred before heading off to assassinate the brain worm.

Fred's astute judgment was indispensable in quickly seizing the opportunity after successfully assassinating the Brain Bug and commanding his troops to launch a major counterattack against the Arachnids.

"Well done," Rhine praised.

"This is all thanks to you, Commander. Without your successful killing of the brain worm, we wouldn't have had such a good opportunity to counterattack."

Fred continued to ramble on, expressing his admiration for Rhine, and the soldiers who had come with him also looked at Rhine with adoring eyes.

"Alright, enough with the praise. Let's head back to base. Fred, have the Zerg take all the bodies of our comrades back. As for the bodies of the Araqi Zerg, burn them all on the spot. Oh, and take the body of that Brain Bug back for research."

"Yes, Commander."

Back at the camp, Rhine ignored his injuries and went straight to his room.

As soon as he entered the room, Rhine took out his communicator, and as soon as he turned it on, the communicator kept sending message notification sounds.

The person who sent him the most messages was Lu Yuan.

Every night at nine o'clock, which is the time when the two of them usually talk on the phone, Lu Yuan would send a message to Rhine.

In the messages, Lu Yuan would share with Rhine all the interesting things that happened on his side that day, and at the end of each message, Lu Yuan would leave such a sentence.

My dear, you must come back safely. Don't forget, I'm still waiting for you.

Rhein felt as if his heart was being soaked in a hot spring, gently swaying and rising. He glanced at the messages quickly and then immediately dialed Lu Yuan's number.

......

On the other side, Lu Yuan was lying on the hotel bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Suddenly, the communicator rang. Lu Yuan glanced at it, then immediately sat up with a jolt.

He hurriedly got out of bed to grab the communicator, but he ran too fast and accidentally kicked the bed leg, sending a sharp pain through his toe.

However, Lu Yuan didn't care about his toes at all. He continued running forward and immediately connected the call as soon as he picked up the communicator.

Rhine's projection appeared in mid-air. After so long, Lu Yuan finally saw Rhine again, and he felt his eyes welling up with tears.

When he was unable to contact Rhine, Lu Yuan had imagined many scenarios of his next conversation with Rhine, including what he would say. He had already updated five versions of what he would say.

But when this scene actually happened, Lu Yuan found himself unable to utter a single word.

However, Rhine wasn't much better off; he couldn't utter a word either, and the two insects just stared at each other blankly.

After a long time, Lu Yuan finally spoke first.

"Rhine, you're injured."

"I don't."

"You have."

Although Rhine would pretend to be fine whenever she was injured or uncomfortable, Lu Yuan knew that Rhine's face would tighten a little more than usual at such times, and she would occasionally frown slightly.

Although these changes are very subtle, Lu Yuan can still see them.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, Rhine simply stopped being stubborn.

"It's just a minor injury, nothing serious."

"I don't believe you unless you take your clothes off and show them to me."

As soon as Lu Yuan finished speaking, he felt the atmosphere become strange, and the touching atmosphere of the long-awaited reunion vanished.

Rhine's gaze also became ambiguous.

Just as Lu Yuan was trying to think of something to say to make amends, he heard Rhine say, "Yes, my lord."

Oh no, this makes the atmosphere even weirder!

Rhine began to take off her clothes, but her actions looked rather improper. In order to prevent this serious conversation from going in the direction of adult content, Lu Yuan quickly spoke up and told Rhine to be serious. He just wanted to check Rhine's injuries.

Seeing that Lu Yuan was so embarrassed he was about to explode, Rhine chuckled and stopped what he was doing, no longer teasing him.

Next, as Lu Yuan requested, Rhein solemnly and properly took off his clothes to show Lu Yuan his wounds.

Rhine had many wounds, some in fatal locations and some so deep that the bone was visible. However, thanks to Rhine's extraordinary self-healing ability, all of these wounds had stopped bleeding and did not look as terrible as when they were first injured.

However, Lu Yuan still looked very sad.

"My lord, don't be like that. I'm on the battlefield, so it's normal to get these injuries. I'll recover soon," Rhine comforted me.

Lu Yuan nodded without saying anything, and silently directed Rhine to apply the medicine to him.

Only after watching Rhine apply medicine and bandage all the wounds did Lu Yuan's complexion return to normal.

"Your body is injured like this, your mental state must be in pretty bad shape too. When can you take a vacation and go back to Golan Star? I'll come and soothe your mental state," Lu Yuan said.

Speaking of mental soothing, Rhine remembered the ring's unusual behavior earlier, so he asked.

"My lord, when you commissioned this ring, was there anything unusual about the origin of that silver crystal?"