In short, because of the few words they exchanged with the guards when entering the city, their outward relationship now became that of a young couple who had eloped due to a disagreement with their families.
Huo Xianfeng and Jiang Ci walked around the city for a while, getting a rough idea of the terrain. This small city looked very backward but had a strong classical style, with a similar population flow to the remote cities of the empire. However, the Gardenia Rose, forbidden in the empire, was found everywhere here. The snowy white buildings and blood-red flowers complemented each other, creating a vivid yet taboo architectural style.
However, most of the buildings in this city were only two or three stories high, far from the hundreds of floors common in the interstellar era. There were no maglev trains in the air, nor were there many advanced technological items like optical brains. However, one could often see large old-fashioned cargo ships shuttling in the sky, emitting a strong, decadent smell of Gardenia Roses.
Everything here seemed deliberately trapped in an era long gone.
However, in this city with almost all low-rise buildings, in the very center, a towering white dome tower was unexpectedly built. Huo Xianfeng knew it was a building with a style very similar to that of the Illusory God Church, and he stared at the tower fixedly for a long time. For some reason, he suddenly felt a strange familiarity, as if he had… jumped from it before.
Jiang Ci also saw the white tower, surrounded by thick, high walls and looking heavily guarded.
“It seems that this is indeed the territory of the Church.”
This tall tower resembled the headquarters of the Illusory God Church during the Alliance period, known as the Holy Relic White Tower. It just wasn’t as magnificent as the latter.
Meanwhile, within the huge white circular tower, countless white-robed disciples silently went back and forth, like diligent worker ants.
Bang!
Someone rushed in through the gate. The guards didn’t dare to stop them when they saw the golden patterns on their white robes, and the people around the respected officer all bowed their heads respectfully, trembling in fear.
“Your Excellency the Archbishop…”
Leinster ignored them, striding in with a gloomy face and fierce eyes, as if he were about to kill someone. He got on the elevator and went up, finally stopping at a higher floor.
Ding!
The elevator made a buzzing sound and gently opened its doors. Leinster hadn’t stepped out yet when he seemed to sense something, and his face changed drastically.
“Roar!” A huge black shadow suddenly pounced on him. Caught off guard, he was slammed against the wall behind him, emitting a dull thud. The gaping maw of the beast was inches away from him, and the foul breath made Leinster’s face turn ashen. Without hesitation, he drew his saber and aimed for the heart of the black gorilla.
Swoosh.
Something blocked this fatal blow, and the dark golden holy stigmata seemed like a snake growing from the beast’s chest, tightly biting down on Leinster’s blade.
This scene was like a reenactment of when Leinster blocked Huo Xianfeng’s attack before.
Clearly, being compared to a beast enraged Leinster. He released his saber and punched the other party, smashing several sharp teeth. His eyes suddenly closed, and when they opened again, his pupils were entirely white, with large golden patterns appearing under his skin.
Boom! The black gorilla was sent flying back by a punch to the chest. At first glance, it didn’t seem like much, but if you were to use an X-ray device, you’d see that in that instant, all its internal organs were shattered.
The next moment, Leinster swung his saber horizontally, and a giant beast’s head soared high into the air before crashing down with a bang. Blood sprayed out like a waterfall, drenching the man from head to toe.
Boom! The headless black beast fell like a mountain of flesh, convulsing wildly and blocking the elevator door, which couldn’t close properly for a while. At this moment, researchers from afar rushed over in panic.
“Lord Le… Leinster!”
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“Get out of the way!”
The researchers quickly made way, respectfully clearing a path.
The man exuded a fierce killing intent, striding forward and leaving a long trail of blood-red footprints on the snowy white and cold metal floor.
On both sides of the corridor, various rooms were separated by glass walls, revealing laboratories with various biochemical instruments inside.
Leinster, familiar with the layout, found the innermost laboratory and barged in.
Bang!
The laboratory door was violently kicked open, and Leinster only saw a slender back. The person inside had their back to the door, their left hand loosely tucked into the pocket of the white coat, while their right hand leisurely wrote down a complex genetic equation on the electronic board.
When they heard the sound, the person paused for a moment. But instead of immediately turning around, they glanced faintly at the blood-red figure reflected on the electronic board and said:
“How pathetic…”
He Zhun casually turned around, meeting Leinster’s furious gaze with a light smile.
“Leinster.”
“…”
Bam!
Almost the next second after this sentence, He Zhun was firmly grabbed by his throat and slammed against the cold electronic screen. An alpha in rage was indeed as terrifying as the most fearsome beast in the world.
“You little rascal,”
Leinster’s hoarse voice was full of ferocity.
“Who allowed you to speak to me like that?”
He and Huo Chao were contemporaries, and although He Zhun was six years older than Jiang Ci, to this fierce and sinister archbishop, he was still just a young rascal.
Leinster was extremely tall, almost two meters tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular, a typical powerful alpha. He Zhun, on the other hand, was only about 1.76 meters tall, with a slender and lean body, fitting the characteristics of a beta researcher.
The stark contrast in size made it look like an angry wolf grabbing a weak lamb.
Leinster’s fingers tightened, making a cracking sound and almost breaking the slender neck of the beta young man. It wasn’t until he saw the handsome face turning slightly purple from near suffocation that Leinster reluctantly let go.
Clasp!
He Zhun tightly grasped the corner of the electronic screen behind him, his fingers almost turning white with force, preventing himself from immediately collapsing to the ground.
Surrounded by the threatening pheromones of an angry alpha, a beta’s instinct would be to feel immense fear and tremble. However, He Zhun didn’t show any other expression on the surface. He just breathed quickly, as if he had gotten used to it and managed to suppress any coughs.
“Why didn’t you report it earlier?!”
Leinster’s large hand, like a hawk’s claw, firmly grabbed the hair at the back of He Zhun’s head, forcing him to look up at him in a submissive posture.
“You knew about the guy around Jiang Ci who resembled Huo Chao. Why didn’t you report it?!!”
“Heh…”
He Zhun let out a difficult chuckle.
“When Marshal Huo Chao died, I… hadn’t even been born yet.”
Leinster understood the implication of his retort, but he had no intention of letting him off because of it. His fierce gray eyes stared fixedly at He Zhun, reflecting the beta’s suppressed gasps.
Behind the glasses, He Zhun’s eyelashes were soaked with physiological tears. After the suffocating purple faded away, his beautiful cheeks showed a hot and swollen flush.
Leinster gave a meaningful smile, then suddenly lowered his head and kissed him.
—That was a kiss filled with a sense of sadism.
He bit and nibbled on the lips of the young beta doctor, his actions full of violence, humiliation, and punishment, as if venting on the other. He only withdrew when the other person was almost suffocating.
“…Don’t try to play tricks in front of me, rascal,” he cruelly uttered humiliating words. “How quickly have you forgotten how you begged me in bed to bring you to the Church back then?”
“The Gardenia roses appearing in the Winter Day Planet’s black market, that’s all your doing, isn’t it? Using such a method to give a warning, how clever.”
Since Pei Changyun overthrew the Alliance and established the Empire, he wrote the Gardenia Roses’ ban into law. Whether it was kept or planted, it was punishable by death. So at that time, Jiang Ci, out of selfishness, chose not to report immediately but to go to Winter Day Planet to find the Gardenia Roses while seeking clues to the mastermind behind, attempting to mitigate He Zhun’s punishment.
However, such harsh laws made everyone feel that Gardenia Roses had become extinct. Under such circumstances, the Church could only cultivate those flowers secretly. Moreover, Gardenia Roses only attracted the Zergs, so their economic value was not high. Coupled with Ye Shu’s hatred, Gardenia Roses would never appear in the normal transactions of Winter Day Planet.
—Yet they appeared.
This was simply an unmistakable warning signal.
“A warning?” He Zhun breathed hoarsely, clear bite marks visible on his lips. “Leinster, what makes you think I would use such a foolish method to warn my enemies?”
He stared directly into the alpha’s fierce gray eyes, completely fearless. “Is your brain only filled with sperm? Once something happens to Jiang Jinsheng’s son on Winter Day Planet, you won’t even need to act; Zhou Jiuya and Ye Shu will fight by themselves.”
“Haven’t you already used this method before? You should know the result very well.”
Doctor He wiped the blood from the other’s face, and his movements could even be considered gentle. “It’s just a waste for me to expose myself. I deliberately lured Jiang Ci with Gardenia Roses, and weakened his strength with special hormones. And what did you do?”
He mocked, “You used Cruzi as a cannon fodder, deployed the Holy Color Aircraft, the new Zerg Mecha, using even your so-called secret weapon and personally intervening… But in the end, all you have recovered was a wreckage,”
He Zhun curled his lips sarcastically. “How about that? Can’t even that be considered incompetence?”
He patted Leinster’s chest, sneering. “Instead of humiliating a beta that cannot be marked with sex, why don’t you hurry to think about how to apologize to the Pope?”
Leinster stared coldly at the young man for a while, then suddenly let out a meaningful chuckle.
“He Zhun, after all these years, I have underestimated you.”
He said, then let go of the beta, turning around and walking out in large strides.
He Zhun looked expressionlessly at the man’s back disappearing at the door, and a chaotic storm seemed to be brewing in his eyes. A few minutes later, several researchers with anxious expressions tremblingly appeared outside his door.
“Lord He Zhun, the experimental material just now… was used by the Archbishop…”
“It’s okay,” He Zhun waved his hand. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his usual friendly smile appeared on his face.
“—Just replace it with another one.”
a translator’s ramblings about the new relationship
please don’t think Leinster is an old man 💀💀
he is blond and has those sharp, hawk-like eyes. He may be a psycho but he ain’t an old fogy
while I was reading PRD I imagined him as the ML from Villains Are Destined to Die
He Zhun is more like a freaky doctor. He always seems to smile at you but when things get rough, his true face shows up. Imo he seems like Tengoku from Oni to Tengoku but imagine some glasses XD
and fyi, the Author does not consider their relationship as a side-couple
jjwxc’s comments
Netizen 1:
w(?Д?)w, my guess was actually correct!!! The doctor is indeed related to the Church! But I never thought he joined the church by selling his body (O_o)?? Although, well… my thoughts are: I can’t refute the possibility that the doctor’s true nature might just be that of a villain’s setup (actually, I can’t find the right words… everyone can interpret it by themselves【facepalm.jpg】). Because a person’s character can be seen from the smallest details, like when the doctor said “just replace it” and Xiao Huo’s impression of the doctor. But I’m also willing to believe that the doctor’s attitude towards the major general is genuine, I’m willing to believe that the doctor really treats the major general as his friend. I also hope that the doctor’s treatment of the major general is sincere… But the “enemy” setup is hard to say, we don’t know too much yet, so I decided to wait and analyze it, maybe… there are hidden motives?
I still think Xiao Huo is a recombination of Marshal and the Zerg King genes… because Xiao Huo’s full name is “Xianfeng,” “the wind outside the window follows the ways of the world, while the friend in the pot is fragrant” (I made this up! Don’t believe it!!!). And also, the Marshal said “I want to become like the wind,” free and unrestrained, carefree and leisurely wind. So, if given another chance at life, changing his name to something he likes… wouldn’t be excessive, right? (dog-head.jpg)
The Marshal probably suppressed his true nature in his past life, and in this life, he completely indulges himself. Because he had more important things to do at that time (resisting the Church and all), which forced him to become a serious and steady person, but you can still see traces of it, like throwing Xiao Ye out of the window…
The Emperor should be a good character, especially the line “Just knowing this was an order from Huo Chao is enough” and “He even lied to me… he even lied to me…” It feels full of bitterness…
the other comments are early readers hating on leinster and readers who finished the story and are laughing at the early readers
I’m speechless. Seems like this novel’s got even more layers to unravel o.O pero es muy interesante
Also, for some reason this chapter isn’t showing up on the table of contents; i only found this update because it was in my notifications
Jajaja had a bit of a whiplash with the language change in your comment, pero me dió mucha risa
EWWWWW you’re right it does it seem very p….. To use brat in that context disgusting both of them
Thanks for the chapters
I agree with the jjwc comment, that the sm relationship isn’t considered a side couple also makes sense, and readers who finished the story laughing at early readers is funny — because as you can guess, how could it be so simple? This is an onion story; it has countless layers of secrets and intrigue. To get the full picture, i’ll probably have to reread this story once it’s fully translated.
Thank you for the chapter~
Oh damn he zhun… Something tells me he’s not just a simple betrayer.. What if he’s a spy sent by pei changyun? But oof, selling his body to achieve all that. He definitely has a greater scheme on things.
NOT ME ACTUALLY THINKING LEINSTER WAS AN OLD MAN 💀💀
But also the way I gasped– First my eyebrows rose up at the mention of He Zhun, then I physically covered my mouth reading Leinster kiss him!
I didn’t think he was an old man, just…gross. All of the church members seem so greasy. 🤢 Thanks for the chapter!
Ohhhhh this story is so intriguing, en español diría intrigosa just for the giggles
༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽ Bro you better not betray, I still have faith in you
He Zhun is working for the Church – plot is becoming more interesting. Once again, side characters are also intriguing..
Thanks for the chapter 💞
it’s truly wonderful when author makes each character layered and 3D, and WITH PURPOSE! Even canon fodders like Yulia or that bishop who was kidnapped by the baby zergs were given decent characterizations! The mystery is also layered and enjoyable, feeling like author should’ve planned everything from the start and didn’t go blindly, with careful placements of hints and callbacks! And there’s never too much info dump, it’s all revealed slowly without any sense of abruptness! It’s so nice! Again, it’s rare to see this degree of writing in this kind of genre! >////<)♡