Translator: ThatLazyPotato
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: EllieKit
Beside the research area across from the PBB military base was a high-end residential area. The military base didn’t have a lot of workload recently, so Major Xia would usually go back to rest.
The classical duplex design was very spacious, and the decorations also had an antique charm. There was a Suzhou-style garden courtyard outside the balcony on the first floor, and the pavilion was surrounded by rockery and flowing water. All the guests who visited had praised the major for his taste.
There was a somewhat small room on the second floor which was furnished very differently compared to the other rooms; it seemed more like a child’s room. It had yellowish crystal checkered mosaic tiles pasted on the four walls, a soft wool rug was spread out beneath the bed, and a small wooden table was placed next to it, which was the right height for someone sitting on the rug. A finished jigsaw puzzle was placed neatly on the table.
A petite omega sat on the rug with a dry-erase marker in his hand and filled in numbers stroke by stroke on the crystal squares on the wall.
Xia Jingtian knocked on the door. “Xiaochong? Can I come in?”
Invisible Stalker immediately turned his head toward the door and stammered his reply, “Y-you can.” After he realized he had stammered, Invisible Stalker lowered his head, his tail curled up under his pajamas, and turned pink.
Xia Jingtian went inside and sat on the rug. “I just finished arranging the work and came over to rest. A child’s room is indeed bright, a bright room will make a person feel better.”
He wasn’t wearing his uniform today. The casual clothes he was wearing made him look a few years younger.
Invisible Stalker pursed his lips and nodded.
He knew that this was a room specially modified by the major for him, and he liked it very much, but was worried that the major had gone through too much trouble doing so.
“En. Are you doing sudoku?” Xia Jingtian looked at the number grids filled on the wall, each number was written beautifully as if it was printed.
“You’re really smart.” Xia Jingtian sincerely praised.
Invisible Stalker lowered his head, his fingers curled on the hem of his pajamas. “The researchers also said that. They said I could make counterfeit money, make fake cultural relics, and fake antiques.”
Xia Jingtian rubbed his head in comfort. “If you had grown up with me, you would have been a mathematician by now.”
Invisible Stalker carefully lifted his head. “I don’t want to be a mathematician.”
“Then what do you want to be?”
“I want to be a pianist, music is very enjoyable. When I hear it being played, I can see the color of the piece. Croatian Rhapsody is orange, while Ballade pour Adeline is pink.” Invisible Stalker became dispirited. “But I can only copy, not create.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Thank you… so amazing, you know how to do anything.”
“Hai, not really. I just started learning it out of boredom ten years ago.”
“Did you learn it for ?” Invisible Stalker looked up at Xia Jingtian with his big eyes wide open.
“… You could say that. But learning it can cultivate one’s sentiments and calm one’s mind, which is not a loss.” Xia Jingtian tousled his hair vigorously. “This child is only asking grown-up questions.”
Invisible Stalker’s soft hair was messed up, but he was not annoyed. He said softly and earnestly, “Music that is full of emotions has nothing to do with skills and has no distinction between superior and inferior. Please teach me.”
Xis Jingtian looked at his clear big eyes and smiled.
The phone rang, Xia Jingtian picked it up and glanced at the incoming call message. He answered the phone without shying away from Invisible Stalker.
Bai Chunian said on the other end, “Uhm, Major Xia, I’m having some issues over here. I’m really sorry about this. Such a rare training exchange and I’m absent every now and then.”
Xia Jingtian, “No worries. I know that the IOA has a lot of work to do and it’s also tough for you. You don’t have to worry about us over here. Today, I received an order from above, a suspicious submarine leaking waste has been detected, and Dr. Han has already brought people to investigate the situation.”
Bai Chunian chuckled. “It would be even better if you could lend me a few more people to use… and that Invisible Sta…um Xia Xiachong, I need his help.”
“You’re really getting ahead of yourself. You can talk to him yourself, then.” Xia Jingtian handed the phone to Invisible Stalker.
Bai Chunian, “Gotcha.”
Invisible Stalker answered the phone, gently picking on the buttons of his pajamas with his fingertips. After hearing what Bai Chunian said, he quietly raised his eyelids to look at Xia Jingtian. “Can I go?”
Xia Jingtian straightened Invisible Stalker’s collar that had been titled to one side of his shoulder. “Sure. But you have to be obedient and don’t disappoint me.”
“I’ll keep my suppressor on.”
“You don’t need to wear it, I trust you.”
Regarding the discovery of suspicious submarines dumping waste in the Pacific Ocean, it was first discovered by fishermen who went fishing. Because many of the fish they dredged up recently were deformed fish, and even the fish that had just been caught didn’t look fresh. The fishermen complained to the local government, and the higher-ups hoped to solve it as soon as possible, so they asked the army to come forward to get it resolved as soon as possible.
The risk factor of this operation was relatively low, and it was a good opportunity to bring new team members to practice combat. Dr. Han took several IOA trainees and several PBB team members to the coast for a field investigation.
Before arriving, Han Xingqian and several experts from the Thunder Support Team speculated that it might be related to radiation, so they had the students wear hazmat suits to be on the safe side. They used detectors to check the air and water quality while walking on the rocky beach along the coast.
The water here was slightly more acidic than normal.
Han Xingqian walked forward holding the detector. Xiao Xun followed closely behind him with a notebook to take notes.
The divers sent by PBB surfaced and gave Han Xingqian the residue sample taken from the malfunctioning submarine underwater.
Han Xingqian raised the transparent zip lock bag to examine it. Based on his extensive experience, he determined that these were some skeletal remains left after cremation.
Tan Yang came over. “What is it?”
Han Xingqian lightly replied, “In short, it’s bone ashes.”
Tan Yang, “Oh…”
Han Xingqian pinched out a little of the sample and called Tan Qing over. “Help me take a look.”
The M2 ability of the alpha boy who had the hydrogen gland of the hydrogen-oxygen twins was Restore. It could restore some residues and ashes to their original appearance, but the range of action was limited; it could only restore inorganic substances measuring less than one cubic meter and organic substances measuring less than one cubic decimeter.
The bone ashes in Han Xingqian’s hand were restored to a piece of flesh with a size of one cubic decimeter. Han Xingqian could tell by looking at the section that it was part of a human leg, and a layer of blisters had formed on the skin.
“Ah, were they scalded?” Tan Yang stared wide-eyed and guessed with his hand on his chin, “It should have been caused from when they were being cremated.”
At this moment, Xiao Xun who had been silent suddenly spoke up, “It’s frostbite.”
“Correct.” Han Xingqian nodded. “Liquid nitrogen frostbite. This person was incinerated into ashes after being frostbitten by liquid nitrogen, then he was loaded onto the submarine and dumped out.”
“Oh.” Tan Yang was a bit ashamed. “Xiao Xun is so amazing, you even know this.”
Xiao Xun was expressionless. “It was talked about in biochemistry class on Greenfly Island. It was shown on the ppt.”
“Ah, right.” Tan Yang came to a sudden realization. “Now that you mention it, every time you take biochemistry class, you listen very carefully. We would all doze off but only you stare intently at Instructor Han until the end of class, which is why you have such good grades in biochemistry.”
Xiao Xun was momentarily speechless. He wanted to cover Tan Yang’s chatterbox mouth but it was too late to do so.
Han Xingqian leaned over slightly and asked, “Really?”
Xiao Xun, “…Er… Because I thought biochemistry knowledge would come in handy…”
Han Xingqian’ eyebrows arched. “Good child.”
Xiao Xun pursed his lips and looked at Dr. Han who had turned around and continued to investigate and test. His own tail was raised and swayed violently, which made Tan Yang’s, who was standing behind him, hands hurt from being swatted by it.
Han Xingqian put the residue sample, flesh, and some water samples into an isolation box. After taking the students back, he and the experts from the support team buried themselves in the lab and didn’t come out until nighttime.
Xiao Xun was leaning outside the lab waiting for him. He held a packed dinner from the cafeteria and a thermos cup filled with warm water. When he saw Dr. Han come out, he called out to him.
“Wait for me first.” Han Xingqian hastily pressed on his shoulder. He didn’t bother drinking a sip of water, licked his dry lips and found a place to squat down while holding the laptop. His eyebrows were slightly furrowed as he urgently contacted Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian answered the video call and his face appeared on the screen. There were a lot of people over on his side, many officers were busy behind him. The remains of the Shaojin Mansion that was destroyed by the explosion stood not too far away.
“Hey, Han-ge? I’m with Rimbaud right now. Look at what’s going on over here at the mansion. It’s too chaotic, there are still many reporters crowded here.” The background noise was too loud so Bai Chunian put on earphones. “Let me go find a quieter place before you say anything.”
Han Xingqian looked at him with an unusual seriousness. “Long story short, we detected dangerous substances in the sample from a submarine under the sea. It’s a blue agent with a strong volatilizing property. It contains hydrogen cyanide and a certain mutated virus that can cause a severe infection in individuals. The preliminary judgment is that it’s a drug made for experimental subjects. There are many incinerated corpses of experimental subjects in there, the common point is that they were all frostbitten by liquid nitrogen before they died. The situation is still unclear right now, the results may not be available until tomorrow. Be careful…”
Han Xingqian’s voice stopped abruptly.
He saw with his own eyes that Bai Chunian, who was beaming with delight, froze in the camera. A layer of white mist and frost spread rapidly from his head. His hair and eyelashes were frosted and the white frost engulfed his entire body. Within seconds, Bai Chunian was frozen into a stiff snow sculpture before Han Xingqian’s very eyes.
In the next second, the call screen turned black.
Han Xingqian was stunned. He immediately contacted Rimbaud.
Rimbaud was also near Shaojin Mansion. He and Bai Chunian came together. They had agreed to eat supper together after finishing work, but Bai Chunian disappeared after answering the phone.
Suddenly, there was a strong throbbing in his heart, a soul-connected tremor that made Rimbaud extremely uneasy. He pressed the communicator on his ear to call Bai Chunian, but he never got a response.
“Randi…” Rimbaud frowned, climbed down the exploded beam of Shaojin Mansion and sniffed to find Bai Chunian.
The phone that was tucked in his bandage rang. Rimbaud took it out and answered it, then put the phone in his mouth. He followed the clues and went along the high-voltage cable to a remote area.
Han Xingqian’s anxious voice sounded from the phone. “Don’t go over there Rimbaud, it’s dangerous.”
“Xiao Bai is gone.” Rimbaud suddenly noticed that there was a strange thing with a diameter of half a meter in the shape of a circular tube directly below him, which was installed on the wall covered by branches.
Soon enough, as if sensing Rimbaud’s presence, the cylinder turned around silently and aimed at Rimbaud.
“What weapon is this… It’s useless.” Rimbaud parted his lips, his fierce canines grew, and he glared at the thing. There were still no human weapons that could actually harm him. Rimbaud was not afraid of it at all.
“Get out of there!” Han Xingqian shouted.
But it was already too late. The barrel quickly fired a silent grenade, the grenade dispersed around Rimbaud, and the frost swiftly froze him on the high-voltage cable. Suddenly, the surrounding power went off and everything went pitch black.
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡
Ahhh noooooooo!!!!The main characters are in danger! Dr. Han please save them soon and have dinner with xioa xun (i was kinda waiting for them to be together but it can wait T-T)
hehehehe thnks fr the new update admin 🍀
Wow who could be so powerful to take out two of the strongest players of the ioa?!
MY BABY XIAOCHONG BETTER NOT GET HURT.
Or I’m gonna cry 😢
I’m still hoping that Rimbaud has some good plot armor and golden finger to save his Randi.