"Baby, I Was Strong to Begin With."

Lu Mi left the Sky Prison Cell and returned to the Warden's Rest Cabin.

The cabin door had barely opened when the wind howled behind him.

Lu Mi turned around and got a mouthful of yellow sand.

Through his hazy vision, a pitch-black Silly Two was wildly flinging its metal tongue as it rushed toward him at top speed.

Lu Mi fell silent for a moment. When Silly Two reached him, he still couldn't resist raising a hand and rapping it on the head.

Duang!

"Black Shadow, enough!"

Lu Mi's face turned cold.

"Did you forget that you're my Black Panther Mecha, not an idiot?"

Black Shadow looked up at Lu Mi, panting happily.

It wasn't sad. Not sad at all.

Compared to the petting that human named Yu Tu had given it, what was one scolding from its master?

Lu Mi's mouth twitched. "Pathetic. He only touched you once, that's all. Hah!"

Black Shadow turned its head away, nudged Lu Mi aside with its head, then strutted into the rest cabin with a faint bounce in its steps.

Hah, man, you're jealous.

"I'm jealous?"

Lu Mi laughed.

After Black Shadow went inside, Lu Mi leisurely shut the door.

His leg still had a slight limp, but it didn't affect his performance.

He took off his leather gloves and set them on the cabinet by the entrance, removed his uniform jacket, and unbuttoned his shirt one button at a time.

Then he took it off.

There were no injuries on his lean upper body.

Before the special interrogation had fully ended, Yu Tu had already healed Lu Mi.

But!

Lu Mi crouched down in front of Black Shadow and pushed his long neck right in front of it.

There were large red spots clustered all over his neck.

He had deliberately left these there.

Lu Mi asked Black Shadow, "Do you know what these are?"

Black Shadow tilted its head, its eyes clear and innocent.

This question was beyond Panther's knowledge.

Lu Mi grinned. "These are strawberries. Strawberries planted by Yu Tu. Strawberries Yu Tu planted with kisses—hard kisses—with his mouth."

Lu Mi stood up. "You'll never have any in your life. Hah!"

After Black Shadow froze for three seconds, it became emo!

It flopped onto the floor, rolled over, and began kicking its legs wildly in the air.

"Awoo, awoo!"

Lu Mi sneered. "Showing off in front of me? You picked the wrong person!"

"Awoo, awoo!"

Lu Mi turned toward the bathroom. "Time to get nice and clean. Yu Tu still has to kiss me tomorrow, still has to plant strawberries on me. Ah, how troubling. Why is my charm so overwhelming?"

"Awoo, awoo!!!!!!"

The bathroom door closed. Lu Mi cut off his connection with Black Shadow and finally stopped pretending.

Lu Mi took out the purple potion from his pants pocket and stared at it solemnly.

"Brother, tomorrow depends on you."

Sob, please, please!

Lan Su truly deserved to be Calamity Planet's only senior pharmacist.

During the next day's four interrogations, Lu Mi took ten milliliters of the purple potion before each session, and the effect was incredible!

The Bean Sprout atop Yu Tu's head was so shocked that it spun in circles one moment, turned into waves the next, then became little hearts.

Even Yu Tu himself felt a little dazed. He clung to Lu Mi like a little koala, his red eyes shimmering with moisture as he asked curiously,

"Warden Lu, why are you so different today? Did you take some miraculous medicine?"

Hah.

A man could take medicine.

But he couldn't tell his lover.

Lu Mi tilted his head up at a forty-five-degree angle, presenting Yu Tu with a cold, proud jawline.

"Baby, don't you know?"

"Know what?"

The Bean Sprout gave a soulful question mark.

Lu Mi curled his lips. "I was strong to begin with."

"Huh?"

The Bean Sprout's question mark flipped over.

Lu Mi: "..."

Lu Mi secretly took another ten milliliters.

This was the limit for today.

Energy surged up from his lower abdomen. He knew he was terrifyingly strong right now.

He wrapped an arm around Yu Tu's waist. "Baby, you actually dared to doubt me. It's fine. I'll clear up your doubts."

After the final special interrogation ended, Lu Mi let Yu Tu leave first as usual.

Only after Yu Tu had left with the prison officer did he open the door and walk out.

Today, he was refreshed and full of energy.

At the door, Rete was dozing like a dog.

"What is it?"

Rete instinctively glanced at the prison officer beside him.

Yesterday, the prison officer had come to the infirmary and asked him to bring some medicine to Warden Lu.

Their eyes met, and they instantly understood each other.

Rete looked away. He absolutely couldn't expose the prison officer's concern for Warden Lu.

"Hehe, Warden Lu, come with me for a moment. I have something to give you."

Lu Mi didn't suspect anything and followed Rete to the infirmary. Rete directly handed him a small box. "Warden Lu, these are all my best-kept supplies: a waist brace, energy boosters, and injury medicine. I wouldn't give them to just anyone."

"Injury medicine?"

Lu Mi opened the box and sure enough, saw the same ointment as last time.

"Rete, I'm not the one on the bottom!"

Rete chuckled. "I know, I know. Warden Lu definitely isn't the one on the bottom... There's an instruction manual inside. Warden Lu, you've used it already, right?"

"...Did you hear what I said?"

"I heard you, I heard you. Warden Lu is the one on top. Warden Lu, you need to watch your diet after using it. Please be careful. And... as a doctor, I must remind you that for your own health, you need to restrain yourself."

Lu Mi closed his eyes.

He nearly died on the spot.

Very well. He said what he said, and Rete understood whatever Rete wanted to understand, right?

Forget it.

He didn't want to explain.

It was a waste of time.

Besides, Rete was the only one misunderstanding anyway.

Lu Mi opened his eyes. "Then thank you, Doctor Rete."

"You're welcome, you're welcome. Warden Lu, you must be exhausted from overexertion, right? Hurry back and rest. Commander Yu Tu really should know better. How could he make trouble with you four times in one day?"

"...I'm not tired!"

"Hehe, Warden Lu, take care on your way out. Watch your step and don't fall."

"I'm not tired!" Lu Mi couldn't take it anymore. "I asked Lord Lan for a potion. Today, I'm very strong."

Rete repeated Lu Mi's words three times in his heart, then his eyes widened. "What? Warden Lu, you actually asked a senior pharmacist to make... that kind of medicine? You, you, you, you are wasting such a precious resource!"

Advanced potions brewed by senior pharmacists were hard to come by on the market.

Having a senior pharmacist brew this kind of potion was like asking a Diamond Energy Master to crush an ant to death.

Rete could no longer bear to look directly at Lu Mi.

Pharmacists and doctors could be considered colleagues in a broad sense, and every ordinary doctor deeply respected pharmacists.

On Calamity Planet, the person Rete respected most was Lan Su.

The look Rete gave Lu Mi was one of deep grief and regret, as though the words what a prodigal wastrel were written across his forehead.

Lu Mi: "..."

He felt a little guilty.

"Don't worry, Rete. Lord Lan only gave me enough potion for one week. Once the medicinal ingredients I ordered through an agent arrive after a week, I'll use the prescription you gave me."

Lu Mi looked away.

"I'm leaving now. No matter what, Rete, thank you for today."

Rete watched Lu Mi leave, his feelings complicated.

Putting on a brave front, talking tough, losing his temper.

But what happened in the end?

See? He still took the things Rete gave him, didn't he?