TOFWFD Ch18 - Silence - Chrysanthemum Garden

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Editor: Decembery

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[Is this for real? Did he actually go into heat during the game?]

[This Omega is so annoying, who knows if the entire Eagle Riders training room will be filled with his scent.]

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[Can Mu Feibai stand it? Would he mark him on the spot?]

[Who knows… but he did force quit and didn’t turn on his live broadcast afterwards hhh…] l4XZ0T

That night, some good-Samaritan uploaded a recording of Mu Feibai’s broadcast to the net and very soon, the topic “Eagle Riders Omega going into heat” appeared on the social platform’s hot searches, quickly climbing into the top twenty due to the subject’s gossip-worthy nature. 

The netizens really loved looking at this kind of exciting content. Moreover, the recent debates sparked by an Omega playing professionally also drew passerby netizens into the subject. The discussions shifted more and more off-topic, eventually turning into a battlefield for equal rights advocates.

Mu Feibai was scrolling on his social media, but his anger mounted with every swipe. So he turned off his bracelet, changed into exercise clothes, and went to the gym next to the training room to exercise.

Surprisingly, despite it being past ten o’clock at night, the lights in the fitness room were still on.

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Du Chen was punching and kicking the sandbag.

He turned around after hearing footsteps at the door. Seeing Mu Feibai, he humphed coldly.

Mu Feibai wrapped his fists and spoke, “What are you laughing at, be a little more respectful to your captain, would you?”

He usually liked to tease his team members like this instead of putting on the superiority of a captain. mZbVB6

“This is what happens when you sign an Omega into the team.” Du Chen stopped his movements, his voice full of anger, “He can’t even persevere through training, and the competition might affect him as well. I really don’t know what the boss was thinking.”

Mu Feibai gazed with lowered eyes at the fraying threads in his boxing gloves. After a moment, he spoke in a low voice, “He is very strong.”

Especially after switching from a gaming helmet to a cabin, he became practically invincible.

Fighting against such a person, Mu Feibai once again experienced the exhilaration he hadn’t felt in a long time. Hence, he couldn’t help challenging Qiu Yu again and again in rank. iyPzjH

Mu Feibai didn’t know why an Omega like Qiu Yu would have such a well-developed killing intent. He wanted to repeatedly look death in the eye, and carefully engrave the other’s cold and deathly silent killing intent in his mind, to assimilate it and turn it into his own growth.

“However strong he is, he’s still an Omega.” Du Chen spoke apathetically, “And he’s almost 25, so he’s only two years away from the average age of retirement from the competitive scene. He’s so old he might as well find an Alpha to marry, what is he even doing in the competition!”

Mu Feibai glanced at Du Chen from the corner of his eye and didn’t say anything else.

He arrived before the sandbag and recalled Qiu Yu’s almost mindless attacks earlier during the ranked match. n69aB3

The Qiu Yu then was in a barely conscious state, yet he brought Mu Feibai an even more pressing sense of danger and suppression. He could feel that at that time, Qiu Yu did not leave himself the slightest path of retreat. If Mu Feibai had any chance to retaliate, Qiu Yu would have been killed on the spot. 

That was a desperate, end-of-the-line attack, trading a life for a life. 

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Yet, Mu Feibai wasn’t able to grasp a chance to retaliate, only holding out until Qiu Yu had no more energy to continue.

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Seeing Mu Feibai ignoring him, Du Chen also continued his training silently.

However, the more he thought about it, the more his anger mounted, “But you saw it as well. I don’t care if that bunch of assholes online were laughing at misfortune, but they even said he was brought into the team as a plaything for you! He’s just a normal Omega minding his own business, yet his reputation is being smeared like this—so the more I think about it, the less I understand. Why did we have to sign an Omega? And even after we did, we didn’t protect him properly and just let everyone walk all over him!”

He felled the sandbag with one kick, “I’m so mad, I gotta go scold them back!” ksA2dE

Du Chen was prepared to do what he said and immediately turned on his bracelet to start yelling back.

However, Mu Feibai firmly gripped his wrist and slammed him onto the floor.

“If you scold back, that’s giving people an opening.” Mu Feibai looked down towards Du Chen from above, “You think I don’t want to swear back at them? What about afterwards? If you scold them, wouldn’t those publicity accounts take the chance to accuse him of seducing you to speak up for him? If you scold back, isn’t that just giving those brain-dead people ‘damning evidence’ of him being trouble?”

Du Chen gritted his teeth. y1boBh

“The League only cares about strength,” Mu Feibai continued, “Before he has some actual accomplishments, nothing anyone says will be of any use. Even if he solo killed me three times in rank, many people will say I was purposefully going easy on him.”

He paused for a moment, before he stared Du Chen in the eyes, “Only on the competition field can he prove himself. So, what you should do isn’t scold people in his place, but rather improve yourself, and don’t hold him back in competitions.”

Outside the door of the fitness room, He Jingxing watched from a distance as Mu Feibai reached out a hand to pull Du Chen up from the ground. The two bumped their fists and returned to hammer away at their own sandbags.

Thinking of Mu Feibai’s words earlier, the corners of Coach He’s lips pulled upwards, and he smilingly shook his head. MRYXpN

He raised his bracelet to send Li Tingzhen a message. [Don’t worry, they didn’t end up fighting.]

Li Tingzhen: [They didn’t end up fighting even with Xiao Du’s temper?]

He Jingxing: [What are you thinking, how good is our captain? A couple of sentences from him sent that kid from having his blood boiling in anger to going back to training melee combat.]

Li Tingzhen: [……] ZNC7ge

Li Tingzhen: [Then how are you planning to comfort Xiao Qiu?]

He Jingxing thought for a moment: [Won’t comfort him right now, I’ll wait a bit.]

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[This child is extremely strong, yet as an Omega, he would unavoidably be influenced by heats. For now, he can’t attain the worship Feibai has. No matter how great his achievements are, public opinion will always use his gender to make a fuss.]

[This is only the beginning, and there are many battles of opinion yet to come. He has to get used to this rhythm or else it will definitely impact his competition performance.] mBsZ6Y

Li Tingzhen: [Wouldn’t this be too cruel to him? He is an omega after all.]

He Jingxing was a bit exasperated: [When we first forcefully signed him over, we were already playing the bad guys. Might as well keep up the act until the end.]

[And I believe my instincts.]

[He isn’t an ordinary Omega—he is enjoying combat.] FSouLx

……

In the next three days, Qiu Yu stayed in his dorm and even his three meals were brought to his room by Yuan Lu. Occasionally, he put on a helmet to play for a while, doing some shooting and battlefield tactics training against AI.  2mgtwC

He couldn’t return to team training until his heat period ended and he obtained Doctor Qi’s positive evaluation.

During these days, Coach He had already formulated Qiu Yu’s personalised training plan that targeted his physique. Each week, he had three extra physical training sessions in reality that temporarily replaced melee combat and shooting training to reduce the pressure brought on by the gaming cabin as much as possible. 

Qiu Yu was very satisfied with this arrangement.

Today was coincidentally a Saturday, the first day of the District One “Century’s Finale” League competitions. Although it was a transition season and there weren’t any professional matches, teams would organise a formal match or two among themselves to maintain the team’s competitive state. TkdOe2

“Play at your best tonight, it’s said Tang Weiran is on the lineup.”

Mu Feibai announced the news at breakfast and ordered his teammates with a sly smile, “Play properly for me, got it? If you dare to lose, hmph, whoever makes a mistake is treating the entire team to hotpot!”

Winning wasn’t that important in training matches and sometimes would even be used to assimilate new members into the team. So everyone wasn’t too nervous and joked with each other.

Zhou Shu suddenly asked, “Is Qiu Yu going to play?” pTf7VM

“Yes,” Mu Feibai said, “We accepted Su Se’s invitation in order to practice playing as a team, we can’t keep hiding him forever… Oh right, where is Qiu Yu?”

Yuan Lu went out early in the morning to deal with some business so Qiu Yu should have come to the cafeteria for breakfast.

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Lu Cun put down his chopsticks, “He ate already.”

Zhou Shu laughed, “He has physical training this morning so he woke up really early. By the time I got to the cafeteria, he was already gone… Why? You haven’t seen him for three days, do you miss him?” TrhU2u

Qiu Yu wasn’t keeping out Betas in those three days, so Zhou Shu and Lu Cun were reminded by the coach that they could go find him for a chat. However, the Alphas Mu Feibai and Du Chen were forbidden from approaching Qiu Yu’s dorm, so they hadn’t seen each other at all.

Of course, Mu Feibai couldn’t admit whether he missed him or not so he laughingly scolded Zhou Shu and gave him a kick on the leg. 

Other than the practice match on Saturday, there was still half a day of training.

These young team members were quite relaxed after training and chatted happily about where to hang out for a while, such as heading to a cat cafe to rub some cats, or to find the team next door to play a round of ball games or something.  udG1hs

They passed by the fitness room on the way to the cafeteria and Mu Feibai casually said, “I’ll go call Qiu Yu to eat.”

He didn’t anticipate Zhou Shu grabbing Du Chen and Lin Jingxi, crowding up behind him, and saying, “We’ll go with you!”

…… hNIZqU

Qiu Yu’s first fitness training progressed pretty smoothly. 

The training content was supposedly formed after negotiations between Coach He and Doctor Qi, so although it exceeded Omegas’ physical abilities by a little, it was still to the degree that Qiu Yu could maintain. Before the training began, Coach He, who was still a little concerned, emphasised to Qiu Yu that if he felt any discomfort at all, he had to stop immediately.

However, Qiu Yu was long used to harsh training content.  fc1SoR

Since age five, he had been crushed by training day after day, from the moment he opened his eyes till they closed again. It lasted more than ten hours a day, without any holidays.

However weak and delicate his present body was, it was still stronger than that of a five-year-old kid.

After following the training schedule for an entire morning, Qiu Yu was soaked in sweat, but he felt more comfortable in his body.

He walked off of the machine and raised his chin to down half a bottle of water. However, he hadn’t fully adjusted his breathing and accidentally choked a little so some water spilled on his body. A rivulet of water followed his neck down the collar of his shirt. Habitually, Qiu Yu tore off his sweat-soaked t-shirt and balled it up in his hands to wipe it.  Bw8cUY

The sounds of his teammates’ chatter and laughter sounded from the corridor—it seems their training was also finished.

The next moment, Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu appeared at the door of the fitness room, arms slung around each other.

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Suddenly seeing the scene inside the fitness room, Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu simultaneously froze, their footsteps abruptly stopping.

Those following behind them didn’t have a chance to react before they slammed into their backs. Zhou Shu’s foot was held in place by Mu Feibai’s, so after someone ran into him from behind, he fell onto his knees with an “aiyo”. Subconsciously, he held onto Mu Feibai, but he didn’t think the other would also trip with him. KSwmrk

Mu Feibai’s entire person fell onto Zhou Shu, almost quashing him to the point of spewing blood.

Two parties regarded each other from inside and outside the door.

Dead silence.

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The author has something to say:

Mu Feibai: !!! Oi! All of you, turn around, no looking!!! m8A0Z5

nagisa: apologies for the late chap! I had camp over the weekend so I’m staying up late to finish this hehe… Putting it up unedited for now (so if you see bad grammar that’s on me, not Decembery), but will definitely update it later :)))) Thanks for all your support!

(update: edited now!)

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