Translator: Bambootriangle
Translation Checker: 7qqy
Editor: DragonFae
Rimbaud woke up slowly and opened his eyes sleepily, finding himself laying on the floor. He reached out and wanted to rub the sore back of his neck, when his fingertips suddenly touched something cold.
A metal suppressor was locked onto the glands on his nape and it hurt a bit because the needles would lock into the neck bones, but fortunately it wasn’t the first time he wore it and he got used to it quickly.
“??” Rimbaud looked around. The wallpaper of this room was yellow, the lights weren’t dim making the room quite bright. There was a restaurant bar not far from him and a sink in the bar. A wok for cooking had been placed on the induction hob, the wallpaper behind the wine rack slightly dyed pink.
This room had no windows, only two doors opposite to each other, neither of the doors had a keyhole, only a passcode input device, it looked like it required a passcode to open.
Rimbaud crawled to the opposite door and sniffed it. The two doors had the same structure, but the device next to this door was not a passcode input device, but a fingerprint lock.
“What’s this thing?” Rimbaud pressed his finger on it naturally, and the fingerprint lock suddenly lit up red, making a harsh error sound.
“Don’t press it.”
A voice sounded in his ear.
Rimbaud was taken aback, turned around, but saw no one behind him, only then did he realize that someone was speaking through the communicator in his ear.
“Randi?” Rimbaud immediately felt relieved when he heard Bai Chunian’s voice, the tip of his tail turned with a swish into a heart shape, “Are you okay? Where are you?”
“I don’t know either, when I woke up I was already here. I had a suppressor put on. I’m gonna vomit, I don’t wanna wear this ever again.”
The room where Bai Chunian found himself was also bright with yellow walls. There was a marble washbasin against the wall. A half-length square mirror was hung in front of the washbasin. On the left, there was a circular retractable mirror attached to the wall, and on the right was a shower with a partition, and next to that was a toilet.
There was no wallpaper on the wall partition on the toilet side. It was pasted with red tiles, as if someone was worried that the wallpaper would get soaked by splashing water.
Similarly, this room also had two opposite doors, one door could only be opened with a passcode, and the other door could only be opened by fingerprint.
With his back to the mirror, Bai Chunian tilted his head to look at the suppressor on the back of his neck. This suppressor was different from the one he had worn before, as the transparent part behind it was filled with blue liquid.
“Previously, Han-ge called me and said that he found a blue potion, with high toxicity that can even kill experimental subjects. I feel like this is what’s on my neck. What a pain.”
Rimbaud, “I don’t have a mirror here, I can’t see mine. But it should be the same.”
Bai Chunian tried his best to look at his back in the mirror. “I even have a hanging tag here, which says…Forcibly pulling it out and triggering the alarm will start the destruction process. Don’t press things randomly.”
“Ah, I’ve already pressed it.”
“Have you found the code?”
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.
“P milmxfv gjcvbwis.”
Glcu vbcu!
Ktf mlqtfg bc Elwyjev’r rlvf yffqfv jcv atf ugffc iluta kjr bc.
Qtja ila eq ja atf rjwf alwf kjr tlr olrtajli, ktlmt aegcfv gfv jcv lar rmjifr aegcfv ubivfc.
Llr jrrbmljafv jylilas, Bbl Difrrlcu, vlvc’a cffv ab mbcrewf uijcv fcfgus jcv vlv cba gfdelgf tlw ab jmalnfis erf la, rb cjaegjiis la kbeiv cba yf gfraglmafv ys atf reqqgfrrbg.
Bai Chunian, “Ah, this.”
Rimbaud, “The passcode is 89456, the green light turned on so it should be right, but the door didn’t open, it can neither be pulled or pushed open.”
Bai Chunian, “Uh, wait for me, I’ll try to figure it out.”
He removed the back cover of the toilet, fished it in the water, but found nothing, and looked through the trash can, but found nothing, so he propped his hands on the sink for a while, and found in the mirror that there was a black round hole in the corner of the ceiling in the room. The camera was running.
“Those bastards brought us here, they’re probably watching us making a fool of ourselves on camera right now.” Bai Chunian washed his hands with soap and said casually.
The bathroom was too cramped, not as big as the one in Invisible Stalker’s triangular pyramid cabin, and there were not many decorations. Bai Chunian turned over all the corners that could be turned over, but there was no clue.
“I found a bottle of grape wine, may I drink it?” asked Rimbaud.
Bai Chunian stopped him. “Put it back…wait a minute, is there anything written on it?”
Rimbaud read it word by word, “It says…’gra, pe, wine’.”
Bai Chunian, “No more?”
Rimbaud, “I don’t understand the rest.”
Bai Chunian, “…”
Rimbaud, “Oh, there’s also a picture.”
Bai Chunian cheered up. “What kind of picture? Can you see any numbers?”
Rimbaud, “Grapes.”
Bai Chunian laughed angrily. In the part of the task that required IQ, Rimbaud was basically of no help.
Sitting on the toilet and meditating, he raised his head inadvertently, but found that from this angle, he could see the round hole camera in the corner of the ceiling with red light on. The red light made his eyes uncomfortable, unlike the indicator light that proves that the camera is working it more resembled some sort of laser.
“Huh?” Bai Chunian stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the camera, and found that the red light hit his palm, reflecting a clear arc.
“Oh, no fun.” Bai Chunian unscrewed the retractable mirror on the wall and placed the mirror near the toilet. The red light was reflected on the yellow wallpaper, revealing a clear string of numbers: “74692”.
After inputting this string of numbers on the lock, the lock made a ding-dong sound and turned on the green light.
Bai Chunian pushed it and the door lock opened.
“Hey, so that’s it.” Bai Chunian put the retractable mirror back in place with disdain, and asked Rimbaud, “Has your door opened?”
Rimbaud, “No.”
“It’s okay, don’t worry baby.” Bai Chunian comforted him, and pushed the door open. There were two hospital beds inside, with an infusion stand next to each bed, and disinfection cabinets around them, which contained some commonly used medicines.
Opposite this door was another door that also required a passcode.
Bai Chunian walked over 6 8th, when he got to the middle of the hospital bed, the door behind him slammed shut and locked automatically, giving him chills.
At this time, Rimbaud suddenly said, “My door has opened.”
Bai Chunian, “I understand now, the door on one side can only be opened when the other is closed. My side looks like a medical office, what about yours?”
Rimbaud, “A bathroom. There is a toilet and a shower. The shower is covered with red tiles, and the sink is covered with yellow wallpaper.”
Bai Chunian was taken aback. “That’s the bathroom I was in just now.”
He quickly walked back to the door he just came in, and knocked hard. “Rimbaud? We are separated by a door now, can you hear me knock?” But there was only a fingerprint lock on Bai Chunian’s side of the door, so even if he knew the passcode, he wouldn’t be able to open it.
Rimbaud, “Can’t hear it, the door is sound-proof.”
Bai Chunian thought right, why would these bastards leave the communicator for them otherwise .
“It’s okay, I just walked past that room, you can just enter 74692.”
“Oh.” Rimbaud entered the passcode as he said, and the combination lock suddenly turned on a red light, sending out a sharp error alarm.
Rimbaud, “It’s wrong.”
Bai Chunian was surprised. “I didn’t make a mistake, did you press the wrong button?”
Rimbaud, “I’ll try again.”
Bai Chunian, “Don’t! You’ve made mistakes twice. If you press it again, I won’t have a wife anymore. Go and take down that round mirror on the wall, then sit on the toilet, and face the mirror in the direction of the machine in the corner of the roof. Reflect the laser beam on the wallpaper and have a look.”
Rimbaud did as he said, “The number is, 96472.”
Bai Chunian, “… Looks like the passcode changes every time it opens… I was careless. Press carefully, I don’t want to be a widowed alpha.”
There was a ding-dong sound from Rimbaud’s side. The passcode was correct, but the door couldn’t be opened. It seemed that Rimbaud could only open the door if Bai Chunian entered the next room.
“I’m looking to see if there is anything here.” Bai Chunian looked through the cabinet, “There is a test tube rack on the top of the cabinet.”
A tube of unopened injection was inserted in the test tube rack. Bai Chunian took out the injection and looked at it under the light. The medicine inside was transparent and there was nothing written on the package.
Never mind, first pocket it then talk later.
Bai Chunian, “There’s only one injection on the test tube rack, and the table is quite clean.”
A wrought-iron flower stand was placed against the wall beside the hospital bed. On the flower stand were placed several pots of fake flowers and a small watering can filled with water stood on the side of the fake lace. On the side of the flower stand was a kind of calendar where you tore off a page every day.
“…” Bai Chunian picked up the small watering can and sprayed it on the calendar casually, a string of numbers appeared in the blank space of the page, “25319.”
After entering the passcode, the passcode device lit up with green light.
“Huh? That’s it?” Bai Chunian was a little puzzled.
These passcodes couldn’t be described as simple or difficult, but too routine and convenient. It was unlike a secret room, but rather like a secret code in the army, changing the code every time to determine the identity of the soldier.
This kind of passcode setting was generally applied in the workplace of companies with higher confidentiality requirements, and it was enough to check the updated passcode every time for routine work.
Feeling very relaxed, Bai Chunian opened the door and went in. This time it was a fitness room. He walked to the middle of the room, the door slammed shut behind him and the door on Rimbaud’s side opened.
Bai Chunian said, “You have arrived in the infirmary, right? There are two hospital beds.”
Rimbaud hummed.
Bai Chunian happily said, “Oh, there should be a watering can on the flower stand, you can spray it on the calendar to see the passcode. I think the passcode should be changed once a day, not once for every use, so you should be able to use the same passcode.”
Rimbaud was silent.
Bai Chunian, “What’s wrong?”
Rimbaud, “The test tube is empty, did you take the injection away?”
Bai Chunian took out the injection in his pocket. “Ah, yes, I took it.”
Rimbaud asked again, “What else did you see?”
Bai Chunian thought about it for a while, “Fake flowers, cold medicine, infusion stand.”
Rimbaud fell silent again.
Bai Chunian restrained his relaxed smile, leaned against the wall, and asked softly, “What’s the matter baby.”
Rimbaud stood in the middle of the infirmary, an overturned test tube rack was on the cabinet beside him. He looked down and stared coldly at a corpse in the uniform of a researcher lying on the ground.
“You’re deceiving me. Do you think you can get away with it?” Rimbaud said indifferently into the communicator, “You lied to me and gave me the wrong passcode. You want to kill me. Who are you?”
Oh shit what just happened??? Impatiently waiting for the next chapter!
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What!???
It annoys me a little that Rimbaud jumped straight to Bai Chunian being fake, rather than thinking they’re in two different sets of rooms. Invisible Stalker set up an entire puzzle box of rooms that could move, so it’s not like he’s never seen something like that before.
I haven’t commented before (that I can recall) but I read every single update and constantly look forward to the next chapter! I love it so much. Thank you for all your hard work and effort!
I was curious to know if they have an official ship name? ChuBo?
There’s no official shipname that I’m aware of, but Chinese fandom has very cute names for two protagonists, Rimbaud is 波波鱼 (Bobo Fish, from the second character of his name being Bo in chinese)
and Bai Chunian is Chu-ge! big brother Chu. Or Xiao Bai.
~Bambootriangle