His Match Is an Interstellar Monster

Chapter 05: Unexpected Marking

The moment their eyes met, Xiao Sa keenly sensed the shift in atmosphere. The sound of the door locking seemed like a command. The black lion he was holding down let out a growl and became increasingly restless.

Frowning, Xiao Sa watched the captain, Lan Dis, stepping closer. "Captain, is there something else you need?"

The corners of the blonde officer's eyes were flushed, and his pupils were darkened—clear signs that something was off.

"Captain? It's too late now; everyone should be resting. If you have anything to discuss, we can talk about it tomorrow."

It was unclear if it was due to the loss of his translator or something else, but Lan Dis seemed to hear nothing. His gaze was fixed intensely on Xiao Sa, with sweat trickling down his neck and onto his heaving chest. He continued to approach barefoot.

Xiao Sa cursed his bad luck. Why was it that the war beast went mad, and its owner followed suit? And of all people, they had to come find him...

In the moment Xiao Sa was distracted defending against Lan Dis, the black lion he had been suppressing suddenly erupted! With a roar, it flipped over and lunged!

Xiao Sa stumbled, but his hands still firmly gripped the lion's thick neck. However, his back suddenly pressed against a scorching chest.

A strong hand grabbed his shoulder and shoved him forcefully, sending Xiao Sa and the black lion crashing into the metal wall.

The disoriented black lion became a cushion between them. Xiao Sa was momentarily trapped between the man and the lion, unable to move easily.

His hot breath brushed against Xiao Sa's skin, and the cramped space felt as if a scorching iron had been thrown in, heating the surrounding air instantly.

Lan Dis lowered his head and pressed close to Xiao Sa's shoulder, greedily sniffing his scent. He couldn't identify the enticing scent, or perhaps there was no special scent at all.

But the desire from the spiritual entity was too strong. His mind spun, and rational thought was long abandoned. Every pore in his body opened in joyful anticipation of an impending spiritual rain.

Both the man and the lion were agitated, but Xiao Sa's temples throbbed, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. "I must say, people from your star system are really too rude!"

Gritting his teeth, he delivered a sharp elbow strike that landed solidly on Lan Dis's ribs.

In pain, Lan Dis instinctively bent over, and Xiao Sa immediately spun to counter, delivering a sweeping kick with lightning speed.

Lan Dis, being the third legion commander of the imperial military, had combat instincts ingrained in his bones. Even though his mental state was on the edge of frenzy, after being caught off guard and taking a few hits, his instincts kicked in, and he began to fight back.

Thud! Fists and arms collided with a dull thud. The two exchanged blows rapidly, then separated just as quickly. In just three minutes, they could no longer count how many moves they had exchanged.

The force from their punches and kicks swept through the narrow room, causing a chaotic mess with things falling everywhere.

The heavy breathing echoed in his ears as Xiao Sa attacked Landis while keeping an eye on the black lion that was waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Even outmatched, Xiao Sa didn’t fall behind in the slightest.

Xiao Sa’s eyes grew wider in surprise. This captain, despite not being an Alpha, was actually able to match him blow for blow, which was truly astounding. These two opponents were far superior, far more formidable than the people on the space pirate ship he had encountered before.

Xiao Sa glanced sideways. The black flame raised its long, strong tail high, its tongue constantly licking its nose. Its forequarters were lowered, its golden vertical pupils gleaming with dangerous light, as if it were extremely excited, ready to pounce on its prey for a feast.

A cold chuckle escaped Xiao Sa’s throat. It seemed this one preferred not to eat its prey when it was “dead.”

In front of him, Landis’s eyes had completely changed, gradually turning into the same vertical pupils as the black flame.

Suddenly, both Landis and the black flame moved simultaneously, with unparalleled coordination, utilizing the unique ability of mental entities to disappear and reappear out of thin air, and pounced on Xiao Sa, slamming him to the ground with a thud.

Landis’s darkened vertical pupils stared fixedly at Xiao Sa’s face, his vision blurred as if through a layer of damp fog.

In his perception, Xiao Sa exuded an overwhelmingly wonderful scent, like a starving person catching the aroma of a sumptuous feast, or like someone who hadn’t had a drop of water for days suddenly being submerged in a sweet, refreshing spring.

That unique, slightly intoxicating scent teased every nerve and cell in his body. A voice in his mental sea screamed frantically, urging him to embrace, kiss, or even bite, until the other was completely his!

Landis exhaled a hot, turbid breath, almost hypnotized, and slowly lowered his head to kiss Xiao Sa’s face—

“Buzz—” A frequency that couldn’t quite be captured flashed through his mental sea, and the surrounding air became viscous and oppressive.

At the same time, the black lion’s limbs and Landis’s lowering neck froze.

A hand clamped around his throat, the joints pronounced, displaying unshakable strength. With just a little more force, it could easily crush his fragile throat.

“Mm!” Landis’s pupils suddenly contracted, and a blush crept from his neck to his cheeks as he struggled to breathe.

His hands instinctively tried to pry the other’s fingers away, but no matter how much he struggled, Xiao Sa’s grip remained immovable, just like his ink-black, intense gaze:

“Captain, breaking into someone’s bedroom in the middle of the night with your pet and acting rudely isn’t the behavior of a gentleman.”

“You’d better get your facts straight.” Xiao Sa straightened up, dragging Landis closer by the neck. “I am neither your prisoner nor your prey.”

His narrow, pitch-black eyes exuded a domineering Alpha presence that brooked no resistance. At this moment, it was directed at the nearby Landis and the black flame.

In a low, cold voice, he said, “I don’t mind teaching you the meaning of manners.”

Under the dual pressures of mental stress and suffocation, Landis's eyes began to become unfocused, but the nerves of perception connected to his mental entity were experiencing an unprecedented thrill of intense excitement.

His forehead was drenched in sweat, and his military jacket had long been torn off, now dangling loosely from his elbows. His muscular chest heaved heavily, exposing three deep scars on his chest, with fine sweat continuously trickling down his abs.

Xiao Sa noticed that the man's body was alarmingly hot and, after a quick glance, couldn't help but let out a sarcastic tsking sound, a cold laugh escaping him. "What kind of kink is this?!"

For goodness' sake, he really was a proper Alpha!

"Roar!" The black lion, completely subdued by Xiao Sa's pheromones, managed to grip his waist with its front paws, its tail persistently wrapping around him, tightening further, all while whimpering in discomfort.

The two men and the lion awkwardly stopped their chaotic struggle, falling into a deadlock.

"It's so hot..." Xiao Sa panted heavily, sweat pouring down as the black lion clinging to him felt like a black flame, its fur like burning tongues, scorching his back.

A small black flame suddenly flared up at the tip of the lion's tail, filling the air with the smell of something burning.

Xiao Sa was at a loss. Seriously? It has a special ability?

How was he supposed to calm these two frenzied individuals down? He had no intention of getting burned to death, nor could he single-handedly challenge an entire legion from a super battleship.

However, the black lion wasn't really trying to burn him to death. It had simply lost control of its tail, which, after absorbing Xiao Sa's pheromones, acted like it was drunk, now loosely wrapping and unwrapping, staggering side to side.

"Wait... what's that smell?"

As Xiao Sa struggled desperately to pull free from the two clinging to him like glue, a faint, crisp scent subtly drifted into his nose amidst the burning smell.

The scent was extremely faint, even fainter than a Beta's, and if not for Xiao Sa’s heightened Alpha sensitivity to pheromones, thanks to the gland at the back of his neck, he would never have noticed it.

Before Xiao Sa could even figure out what that smell meant, the black lion had completely lost control, its wet tongue slobbering all over his face, almost giving him a wash.

Xiao Sa was taken completely by surprise.

At that very moment, Landis, as if triggered by an immense stimulus, tensed his muscles to the extreme, breaking free in an instant, and lunged at Xiao Sa's lips in a fierce bite.

There was no time to react. In that split second, Xiao Sa was kissed—or rather, bitten—square on the mouth.

It was less a kiss and more a beast tearing at its prey. The bite quickly broke the skin, drawing a few drops of blood, and the highly concentrated pheromones instantly filled the air—sweet, intoxicating, enough to make one lose their senses.

The surrounding air seemed to ignite with the smell of blood, and Landis's fierce assault only poured more fuel on the fire, fully igniting Xiao Sa's rage.

The dignity of an S-grade Alpha could not be desecrated by anyone!

Frequently activating mental fields in a short span of time also has severe side effects, but at this moment, Xiao Sa couldn't be concerned about that.

"You brought this upon yourself!"

His brows, like swords, furrowed, and his gaze turned terrifyingly dark. He plunged his fingers into Landis' sweat-drenched golden hair and forcefully yanked his head back, exposing a patch of skin on the neck where the veins bulged.

Without checking if the other had an Omega's gland, Xiao Sa bared his sharp canines, aimed at Landis' neck, and sank his teeth in.

In an instant, Xiao Sa's distinctive pheromones surged through Landis' narrow veins like a tidal wave. Landis' already dilated pupils expanded to their fullest extent, every cell in his body trembling with frenzied stimulation.

Amidst a blinding white light, the black lion retreated into the mental sea and vanished completely. Landis could only discern a vague silhouette before finally losing consciousness...

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In the confined room, a thick, almost syrupy aroma of tequila permeated the entire space. Chairs and tables were haphazardly scattered on the carpet.

A tall figure lay motionless on the sofa, barely covered by a wrinkled black military uniform.

Thanks to Landis, the guards had been dismissed long ago, and no one dared to interrupt General Landis as he personally "questioned" Xiao Sa.

No one could have anticipated that the revered general, safeguarded by an S-grade mental entity, would stumble and be defeated by a "gravely injured and weakened" refugee.

After what felt like an eternity, the scent in the room slowly faded, and the figure under the clothing stirred.