Adversity

XIV

Phayu follows Rain who was attentively taking photos and notes of everything that he finds interesting. They weren’t too far away from others but others still kept a distance from them.

“Phayu! Can you pluck the flower bud for me? Use gloves and put it in his container..” Rain turned around and pointed at tree branches.

“P’Phayu…” Phayu spoke as he folded his hands in front of chest and looked at Rain.

“… P’Phayu…please?” Rain asked shyly, Phayu nodded in satisfaction before going to pluck the bud.

“Anything else?” Phayu asked politely, Rain shook his head and walked around.

A few minutes passed suddenly and an omega cried in pain and fell on her knees, a sweet smell of omega in heat slowly started spreading. Everyone started to panic, all the alpha quickly stepped back to avoid the temptation while the military teams quickly surrounded her, forming a Barrier.

“Quickly inject the inhibitor!” Phayu ordered but everyone stares at each other nervously instead

“What’s the issue!?! Inject her inhibitor! Now!” Phayu shouted in anger

“Reporting general! We forgot to bring the inhibitor…” One the beta teammate responded embarrassingly. Rain shook his head in disbelief and rushed to the omega’s side.

He took out the inhibitor he was carrying and injected it into the girl. The pheromones subsided a little but the heat wasn't suppressed. Rain looks towards Phayu in panic who throws his bag towards Rain, “I have a few inhibitors inside! Use it..”

It took 3 inhibitors to suppress the heat, everyone finally sighs in relief but then Phayu shouted in anger, “The 1st and most important rule of our army is always carry inhibitors with you! How can you forget about it?!”

“Sir, we..”

“Don’t give me an excuse! One of you takes the student back to the aircraft and brings the inhibitor while coming back!” Phayu ordered in anger.

“Yes! Sir!” One of the Beta quickly supported the student while Phayu gathered the rest of the soldiers to scold them.

“Take these with you, in case her heat returns…” Rain offered Phayu’s back to Beta who thanked Rain before leaving.

“So should we continue or return back to the ship?” One of the professors asked in curiosity.

“Everything is under control now so no need to return, please continue your research…” Phayu assured the professor and left the soldiers with a warning.

Meanwhile, Rain returned to Phayu’s side, both decided to go further into the jungle while others went towards the river bank.

“This is why I warned you earlier, the earth is unpredictable especially since our body isn’t built according to earth’s gravity and rotation…” Phayu started speaking while Rain rolled his eyes.

“Khrup! Teacher Phayu…” Rain said in monotone which made Phayu frown.

“So what are we looking for?” Phayu asked Rain out of curiosity, Rain took out the list and handed it to Phayu. Phayu looks at list and then at Rain in disbelief

“….These are all illegal things sold at very high price…” Phayu pointed out

“P’Tine wants it..” Rain replies as he starts looking around for things in the list.

“And why does he need it?” Phayu asked in curiosity, Rain turned stiff before he looked at Phayu with a guilty look on his face, “Some experiment..”