Translator: Khun
Translation Checker: Anonymous
Editor: Agneya
The call was cut off. Rimbaud and Bai Chunian completely lost contact.
“What happened?”
Han Xingqian immediately closed his laptop, heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Xiao Xun’s face leaning over, and said softly, “The situation is very serious, but I can’t leave right now. There are still many untested samples. You’ll have to head back to the headquarters for me.”
“Ok.”
Xiao Xun returned to Greenfly City in Han Xingqian’s place. The IOA headquarters had already received the news that Bai Chunian and Rimbaud had run into danger. The secret service, technology department, and medical association were all conducting urgent investigations into this matter.
Xiao Xun brought back some liquid samples and tissue slices extracted by Han Xingqian, and the Medical Association began further analysis after receiving the samples. Search division members of the secret service were searching for clues near the Shaojin Mansion, while the technology department was relying on the weak signals of their communicators to find the two’s whereabouts.
Duan Yang, the chief of the network security section of the technology department, also came back temporarily from the PBB military base. The first thing he did was do maintenance on the IOA network and check if any overlooked security leaks appeared.
Because of the sudden disappearances of Bai Chunian and Rimbaud, all the work that should have belonged to Bai Chunian fell onto Bi Lanxing. While Bi Lanxing was busy tracking down Bai Chunian’s whereabouts, he also had to deal with miscellaneous work. Facing a computer, his fingers typed at lightning speed.
An email suddenly appeared on the screen with a very unusual cover. It had a crawling black worm symbol. All the electronic equipment they used were encrypted by the bosses of the technology department, and they would not receive any emails under normal circumstances. Bi Lanxing’s heart trembled with fear, feeling like something was very wrong.
He opened the email, and there was only one simple sentence inside. “Come to the F117 lounge, I have something to give you.”
The F117 lounge was inside the IOA headquarters building. Bi Lanxing stuffed the communicator into his ear, took his coat, felt for a gun under the chair, stuck it on the outside of his thigh, covered it with his coat, and went upstairs silently.
But the situation was not as serious as he imagined. When he arrived, Xiao Xun was also standing outside the lounge door.
“Looks like you also received the email.” Xiao Xun said indifferently.
“…” Bi Lanxing’s tense mind did not relax, keeping his hand steadily on the gun belt on the outside of his thigh.
The person who came to open the door was an omega youth with a lollipop in his mouth. Crawler’s hands were stuck in the pockets of his sweatshirt. His eyes swept over them. “You’re Divine Envoy’s chosen successor?”
Bi Lanxing was a bit startled. “What?”
Xiao Xun was not surprised and followed him in.
Since the Shaojin Mansion was attacked, the President took in several wounded and placed them in the lounges of the headquarters. Except for some restrictions on personal freedom, he did not treat them like he was guarding prisoners.
He was still a captive, yet he was unexpectedly rowdy. Bi Lanxing looked at the omega from bottom up. There was a worm printed on the back of his sweater, which was the same as the moving black worm on the email. It seemed like it was him who sent it.
This omega had a keen-witted and orderly personality; he didn’t waste any words. He turned the laptop screen around, and a silver gun barrel appeared on the screen with some brief introductions written beside it.
Weapon name: Silent Liquid Nitrogen Hunting Net
Made of: Pressurized liquid nitrogen and arctic shrimp gland extract
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Drawbacks: Small magazine, slow to reload, short range of fire, expensive to make, consumable, and if you fire two shots in a show within a short time, the gun barrel will become useless.
Bi Lanxing said, “Chu-ge and the others were sneak-attacked by this kind of weapon? Why did they not die?”
After he finished speaking, something clicked in his head.
When facing the Golden Silk Spider at M Harbor, Bai Chunian was also shot and injured but wasn’t affected by the special weapon that Golden Silk Spider had.
When Crawler saw the surprised look in his eyes, he unexpectedly sneered. “What? Didn’t Divine Envoy say you are his successor?”
Crawler turned his head and looked toward Xiao Xun. “You don’t seem surprised. Looks like you’re a bit more reliable. Come here, I’ll teach you how to use this program.”
“Vice captain.” Xiao Xun lightly elbowed Bi Lanxing and warned him not to make a fool out of himself with a discreet, cold, detached look.
Bi Lanxing took several deep breaths and leaned forward to Crawler’s side.
“I copied this program into the watch. Take one each and wear them. You can search the contents by shape, or you can directly scan it with the watch camera. All weapons that exist in the world can be queried for their functions and power. If someone develops a new weapon I will update the database.” Crawler spoke very fast, and so was the demonstration of how to use it. Fortunately, Bi Lanxing and Xiao Xun have both been trained by Bai Chunian’s monster training and were barely able to keep up.
“There’s also another program in there,” Crawler said. “A table to look up experimental subjects. Input a serial number, and you can find the corresponding experimental subject. I put the numbering rules in there, you can just search by picture.”
Dense numbering rules appeared on the watch’s electronic screen.
The first numbering rule [biological gland archetypes]:
0: Plant-type gland
1: Snake-type gland
2: Insect-type gland
3: Dragon lizard-type gland
4: Virus-type gland
5: Hoofed-type gland
6: Inanimate gland
7: Bird-type gland
8: Sea fish-type gland
9: Beast-type gland
Rules for middle position numbers [mimicry level]:
0: No mimicry
1: 10% mimicry, eye or skin mimicry
2: 20% mimicry, tail or ear mimicry
3: 30% mimicry, horn or tail and ear mimicry
4: 40% mimicry, wing mimicry
5: 50% mimicry, half body mimicry
10: 100% mimicry, nearing whole body mimicry
Rules for end numbers [main ability]:
0: Navigation
1: Restriction
2: Energy Surge
3: Tampering
4: Stealth
5: Spacial
6: Summon
7: Material Manipulation
8: Plague
9: Transformation
10: Internet Reliant
11: Silence
12: Luck Change
13: Attribute Transformation
14: Defense
15: Hunt and Search
16: Combat
17: Group Attack
18: Aerial Attack
19: Support
“Thanks.” Bi Lanxing was amazed at the completeness of the data and was also unavoidably a bit more on guard against Crawler. “There probably isn’t Internet here.”
Crawler had a sardonic expression. “My associated ability is unlimited wifi. There hasn’t been one system in the world I couldn’t invade so far…err, except for the IOA technology department’s equipment. Who is your guys’ tech security person? I’m very interested in getting to know them.”
“…It’s senior Duan Yang.” This wasn’t a secret. Every hacker had heard of Duan Yang’s name. The younger generation would be honored to break through the defense system of senior Duan Yang, but it’s a pity that no one had ever accomplished it. It’s said that Duan Yang was a student of Instructor K, and after Instructor K retired, he took over the technology department.
“I meant that when you have time, help and recommend me. What’s with that face of vigilance?” Crawler shrugged and ridiculed, “I voluntarily stayed here. Do you think I can’t get out? If you casually resell these two programs, it’s value will go up to 100 million, but I wrote them for you free of charge. If it weren’t for the President and Divine Envoy, I definitely wouldn’t want to stay here and teach you two kindergarten children.”
“Apologies, it was me who offended you.” Bi Lanxing gave a slight nod in apology, but his communicator’s eavesdropping sound recording function was still on, cautious from beginning to end.
Of course, Crawler could sense that the equipment on him was still operating but didn’t feel like fussing about it much. He just wrinkled his nose in contempt.
The Medical Association’s tests went very fast because Dr. Lin Deng had taken the initiative to hand over a piece of information recording his previous research and development or proposed medical ideas.
A type of infection agent was included in there, and its abbreviation was In—infection agent. It was a special agent that Lin Deng had prepared to plan and develop before he left the research institute.
The information showed that the In agent was blue, the main ingredient was hydrogen cyanide and indigo pigment extract. If this agent was injected into an experimental subject’s gland, it would initiate a whole body infection and lead to subsequent death within 10 minutes.
Because the head warden of the International Prison stepped down, the research institute was forced to accept inspections. Many experimental subjects that didn’t fit the safety requirements needed to be destroyed as quickly as possible to avoid inspections. Now, probably even Aileen was overwhelmed. Apparently, Aileen had found a better way to destroy useless experimental subjects rather than incinerating them.
After fully understanding the situation, Bi Lanxing and Xiao Xun left the headquarters building and leaned against a corner of the remote flower garden. They talked in whispers.
Bi Lanxing rested his head in his hand and leaned against the wall, examining the watch Crawler gave. Xiao Xun was sitting on the case of his sniper rifle, which he kept on his person.
“Divine Envoy…” Bi Lanxing muttered this code name, trying to input the code name into the watch.
A sheet of detailed information was displayed on the watch’s electronic screen.
Special operations weapon 9100-Divine Envoy. Bai Chunian’s photo appeared under his name as well as some ability introductions. But as Crawler said, the watch could only display known data, so it couldn’t be entirely treated and used as an encyclopedia.
“Of course, there were actually clues before.” Bi Lanxing put the watch into his pocket and used both his hands to support his head. “It’s also not unexpected. He’s so strong, a level that humans cannot achieve.”
Xiao Xun gently stroked the rifle case and said with an indifferent face, ”Maybe the hard work he put into training also exceeds us by a hundred times. His current strength is just what he deserves, that’s all.”
“You already knew?”
“Universal Dashboard can discern the grades of experimental subjects. Chu-ge is a grade nine experimental subject. Rimbaud is a grade eight.”
“Are you scared?”
“Before, yes. I’m not anymore,” Xiao Xun said. “Fundamentally, we’re no different. Being scared comes from weakness of oneself. It doesn’t have anything to do with Chu-ge.”
Bi Lanxing laughed. “I was just thinking about how to convince you. Now I just need to think about how to convince Ah Yan.”
Xiao Xun raised his eyes. “What do you think the situation is right now?”
“According to the clues we have learned so far, Chu-ge and Rimbaud were taken away after being captured by the liquid nitrogen net. If the other party wants them to die, they can just inject the In infection agent directly; there is no need to risk taking them away.” Bi Lanxing rested his chin in his hand and thought deeply, “They are probably planning to have Chu-ge do things for them.”
“The surveillance of the entire Greenfly City did not capture any clues. Most likely, they traveled by water. However, after going out to sea, all the returning ships of any size were stopped and inspected. The numbers check out, and there is no suspicious cargo.”
Suddenly, the two looked at each other like they had reached a consensus.
“Go, go and take a look.” Vines from both of Bi Lanxing’s hands wrapped around the high wall and took him over it. Xiao Xun followed closely behind, going after him while carrying his sniper rifle case. Both their communicators carried tracking functions; the technology department could get their locations at any time.
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