"Baby, I Was Strong to Begin With."

Lu Mi left the Sky Prison Cell and returned to the warden's rest cabin.

The moment he opened the cabin door, 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 iron tongue as it rapidly approached him.

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.

Dong!

"Black Shadow, enough!"

Lu Mi's face darkened.

"Did you forget that you're my black panther mech, not an idiot?"

Black Shadow looked up at Lu Mi and panted.

It wasn't sad. Not sad at all.

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

Lu Mi's mouth twitched. "Look at you. 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 little bounce in its step.

Hah, man, you're jealous.

"Me? Jealous?"

Lu Mi laughed.

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

His leg still limped a little, but it didn't affect his performance.

He took off his leather gloves and set them on the entry cabinet, 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 before Black Shadow and pushed his long neck right in front of it.

There were large red spots on his neck, clustered together.

He had deliberately left these here.

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 Yu Tu planted. 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 freezing for three seconds, Black Shadow went emo!

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

"Awwoo! Awwoo!"

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

"Awwoo! Awwoo!"

Lu Mi turned toward the bathroom. "Time to get nice and clean. Yu Tu's going to kiss me again tomorrow and plant more strawberries. Ah, how troubling. Why is my charm so great?"

"Awwoo! Awwoo!!!!!!"

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

Lu Mi took a 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 advanced pharmacist.

For the next day's four interrogations, Lu Mi took ten milliliters of the purple potion before each one. The effect was incredible!

Startled, the Bean Sprout atop Yu Tu's head alternated between spinning in circles, turning into waves, and becoming tiny hearts.

Even Yu Tu himself became a little dazed. He clung to Lu Mi like a little koala, his red eyes glistening, and asked curiously,

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

Hah.

Men could take medicine.

But they couldn't tell their partners.

Lu Mi tilted his head up at a forty-five-degree angle, leaving Yu Tu with nothing but his cold, proud jawline.

"Baby, don't you know?"

"Know what?"

The Bean Sprout gave a soulful "?"

The corner of Lu Mi's mouth lifted. "I was strong to begin with."

"Huh?"

The Bean Sprout's "?" flipped over.

Lu Mi: "..."

Lu Mi secretly took another ten milliliters.

That was the limit of what he could take today.

Energy rose from his lower abdomen, and he knew he was frighteningly strong right now.

He wrapped an arm around Yu Tu's waist. "Baby, you actually dared question 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 invigorated.

At the door, Rete was dozing like a dog.

"What's wrong?"

Rete subconsciously 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 understood each other instantly.

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 for 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 prized possessions: a waist brace, energy boosters, and medicine for injuries. I wouldn't give them to just anyone."

"Medicine for injuries?"

Lu Mi opened the box and indeed 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 are instructions inside. Warden Lu, you've already used it, right?"

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

"I heard you, I heard you. Warden Lu is the one on top. Warden Lu, there are dietary restrictions after using it, so you need to be careful. Also... as a doctor, I must remind you that, for your health, you need to practice restraint."

Lu Mi closed his eyes.

He almost died on the spot.

Fine. He said one thing, and Rete understood another, right?

Forget it.

He didn't want to explain.

It was a waste of time.

Besides, Rete was the only one who had misunderstood.

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

"You're welcome, you're welcome. Warden Lu, you must be exhausted from overexertion. Hurry back and rest. Commander Yu Tu really is something—how could he put you through that 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 had had enough. "I asked Lord Lan for a potion. Today, I'm very strong."

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

Advanced potions made by advanced pharmacists were difficult to obtain even on the market.

Asking an advanced pharmacist to make 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 were practically colleagues in the broad sense, and every ordinary doctor deeply respected pharmacists.

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

Now, Rete looked at Lu Mi with pained regret, just short of writing "what a spendthrift" 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 in a week, I'll use the prescription you gave me."

Lu Mi looked away.

"I'll be going now. No matter what, Rete, thank you for today."

Rete watched Lu Mi leave, his feelings complicated.

Putting on a brave face, stubbornly refusing to admit it, losing his temper.

And in the end?

See? Didn't he still take the things Rete gave him?