"The Reane family…" Shou Ji muttered as he looked away to avoid their gazes. "En. Doctor Myer Reane, my paternal aunt, is famous." He answered.

  "Woah… she's very famous?!" Shi Jiu exclaimed as his eyes widened in shock. "So that's why those participants recognized her name…" he said.

  "Yes." Shou Ji nodded as he turned to him. "But she gained her fame through her skills and not just because of her… family." He said in a low voice.

  "Her family? The Reane family?" Shi Jiu muttered when he recalled the conversations in the registration area earlier.

  "Yes." Shou Ji answered as he faintly smiled. "The Reane family… is the royal family." He told them.

  Although Yi Bing and Huo Ling have already guessed that the Reane family must be an influential family, but they didn't expect for them to be this influential.

  "The royal family?!" they exclaimed as they looked at Shou Ji in surprise.

  Shou Ji nodded. "Yes. The royal family's surname is the Reane family." He spoke.

  "Wait, chief… didn't you say that doctor Myer is your paternal aunt?" Shi Jiu spoke as his brows knitted. "So, that makes you – " his eyes narrowed as he looked at Shou Ji. " – a prince?!" he exclaimed.

  Shou Ji pursed his lips. "So what? You're looking down on princes?" he asked as he glared at Shi Jiu.

  "I don't dare! I don't dare to! I'm not!" Shi Jiu answered as he waved his hands while shaking his head.

  Shou Ji heaved a sigh. "Although I am a prince, but that was before." He said, reminding them that he is already dead.

  Shi Jiu nodded indicating that he remembers. "So… chief, you… your family name is Reane…" he said as he looked at Shou Ji.

  "Why? You want to marry into my family?" Shou Ji asked. "You like my family's surname?" he asked with a smile.

  "Ahahahaha…" Shi Jiu hollowly laughed. "Chief, so what's your real name?" he asked changing the topic. "And… and your occupation?" he added when he remembered that Shou Ji was an alpha, and has S mental strength, SS spiritual strength and S physique before.

  "… I wanted to tell you this before but you refused. Never mind." Shou Ji smiled as he shook his head when he remembered the time that Shi Jiu returned from Normal World 341 along with Yi Bing and Huo Ling and he brought him one of his Soul Fragments to the City of the Dead for Ruan Yu to repair his soul, which made him stronger, and strong enough to cross worlds which brings him here now.

  "Hehe…" Shi Jiu scratched his cheek when he remembered it, too.

  "My prince name is Erich Reane, the fourth prince." Shou Ji spoke. "My other name is Wei Qi, the Wei surname from my maternal family." He looked at them. "My father and mother had a political marriage, and I was born. My father is the third in line of succession so he became a military man while his second elder brother became the prince regent. Although I was the fourth prince, the eldest born in the new generation of the royal family, but I already know my eldest uncle won't hand the throne to me since he wishes for his own son to inherit the throne. Thus, I – " he smiled when he saw them attentively listening.

  "So, you…?" Shi Jiu asked and nervously gulped, waiting for Shou Ji to continue.

  "I followed my father in the military." Shou Ji continued. "My father is the marshal, and through my own efforts, I finally became the general after he retired." He told them.

  Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu. "…" well, fck. They thought as a long silence fell upon them. "You were once the general?!?!" they asked, shocked, as they looked at Shou Ji with widened eyes.

  Shou Ji nodded. "I was." He calmly answered.

  Their faces were covered in dark lines as they looked at the smile on Shou Ji's face. "… you never told us." They said as they resentfully looked at him.

  Shou Ji innocently blinked. "But you never asked." He said.

  Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu. "…" well, he has a point. We really never did. They thought. But that's because they assumed that Shou Ji is just an ordinary person! Who would expect that he is the most not-very-ordinary person?! Not only was he a prince, but he also was the general – the highest official in the military! Can they guess this? Can they?! Even if Huo Ling's brain hole is as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but he definitely could never guess Shou Ji's identity, could he?

  (Huo Ling who was shot while lying down: … ouch. -_-)

  Yi Bing, as the one in charge of their group, coughed as he regained his composure. He never knew that Shou Ji is such an important person in this world… well, before. "We have now finished the registration. When will the competition start?" he asked.

  "Tomorrow at nine." Shou Ji answered. "The battle royale will start at nine and is expected to last for a whole day. Then, in the evening, the awarding ceremony will be held to announce the winners." He spoke. "Then, the second stage will be held the next day at also nine in the morning, and also expected to last for a whole day. For the last stage, it will be held the day after tomorrow. The fifth day will then be the announcement of the winners who will be admitted to the military academy." He told them.

  They nodded in understanding. Just as they were about to speak, they suddenly heard a loud commotion from afar.

  "Not good! An omega is in heat!" they heard somebody cried.

  "What the hell?! How can an omega be in here?! This is the Chel Military Academy's premises!" someone said as the crowd hurriedly scattered, leaving a man with delicate features and frail-looking body writhing on the ground with a flushed face across the street.

  "Doctor?! Is there a doctor here?!" someone asked.

  "A beta! Anyone will do! Search him up if he has an inhibitor with him!" someone said as they looked around. "Quick! Before an alpha appears and would be affected! It will be an irreversible damage for sure!" they added.

  Yi Bing, Huo Ling, Shou Ji and Shi Jiu looked at each other and nodded and they immediately ran across the street. It still wasn't a red light but since it is an emergency situation, the four of them leapt across the cars on the road, their figures like dragonflies touching the surface of the water. The drivers of the cars that passed by didn't even hear the roof of their cars has been touched and they continued driving unaware.

  Meanwhile, the passersby who still hasn't noticed the male omega in heat saw the four 'people'. Before any of them could react, they saw Yi Bing, Huo Ling, Shou Ji and Shi Jiu crossed the wide road in less than a minute. Then, they immediately went to the male omega in the middle of the crowd.

  "Make way! We are betas!" Shou Ji spoke and immediately searched up the male omega's clothes with his hands barely touching the other's skin. Meanwhile, Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu blocked the crowd, slightly pushing them away from the male omega in heat and waited until the street officers or police arrive.

  "Huh? Isn't he…?" Huo Ling muttered when he caught a glimpse of the face of the male omega.

  Yi Bing heard Huo Ling's voice and turned, but only for his face to darken. Why is Hao Baiyun here?!?! He exclaimed in his mind. Wait, if this guy is here, then…


  As soon as he thought about it, the crowd heard a man yelling. "Make way! I am his family!" a voice familiar to Yi Bing spoke.

  Everyone turned, including Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu. Yi Bing's face couldn't get any darker while Huo Ling gasped in surprise when the crowd parted and they saw Gu Xingfeng.

  "He's…" Huo Ling muttered.

  "Ah! Isn't he lieutenant colonel Gu Xingfeng?" someone from the crowd spoke.

  Lieutenant colonel? Huo Ling thought and stared at Gu Xingfeng.

  "He's fine now." Shou Ji spoke, turning everyone's attention on him. He immediately threw the syringe and, in a parabolic arc, it fell accurately to the trash bin.

  "Thank you." Gu Xingfeng spoke as he approached Hao Baiyun and carried the other in his arms. Hao Baiyun trembled and his brows are tightly knit because of discomfort. "If you need anything, just tell me." He said and handed Shou Ji his business card.

  Shou Ji politely smiled. "Thank you, lieutenant colonel Gu." He spoke and slightly nodded. Though he said that, but his face says that he didn't' intend to contact him.

  Gu Xingfeng was about to speak when he saw that the students from the Chel Military Academy came out, along with the participants registering.

  "Ah! Aren't they those four crazily strong?!" someone exclaimed as they pointed at Yi Bing, Huo Ling, Shou Ji and Shi Jiu .