Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Editor: yuki_shuichi
Bai Chunian froze for a moment, then sat on the ground with his back against the door and chuckled lightly. “You finally gave yourself away. You impersonated Rimbaud so well that you even fooled me.”
Rimbaud, “What?”
20 minutes ago.
Bai Chunian slowly regained consciousness and found himself lying on the bathroom floor. The wallpaper was yellow, and the wall separating the shower and toilet was made of red tiles.
There was a door corresponding to each wall of the bathroom. One door needed to be opened with a fingerprint, and the other door needed to be opened with a passcode.
He slowly sat up and kneaded his sore neck, touching the ice-cold suppressor. The suppressor didn’t feel the same as the one he had worn before. Bai Chunian subconsciously stood up and wanted to go to the mirror to see what the suppressor looked like.
However, the square mirror in front of the sink was not a mirror but a surveillance display.
There were a total of three screens with numbers marked on them. Screen A showed the back figure of Bai Chunian standing with his hands in his pockets. After careful identification, Bai Chunian found a tag hanging on the suppressor on his nape, which read,
【Forcibly pulling it out and triggering the alarm five times will start the destruction process.】
Screen B showed Rimbaud just waking up in another room that looked like a restaurant. From the camera, Rimbaud could be seen crawling to the bar counter, sniffing, and taking a bite of the faucet. He looked around for a while, then crawled to the door with the fingerprint lock installed and muttered, “What the hell is this?” before putting his hand on the fingerprint scanner. The result was, of course, an input error, making Bai Chunian sweat in his stead.
Screen C showed the same restaurant, but Rimbaud was lying on the ground, unmoving.
At this moment, a sentence showed up on the screen, “Please touch the screen to choose who to call.”
What kind of trick is this? Bai Chunian was a little surprised.
What did it mean to choose a person to call? It probably meant that there was a fake Rimbaud on one of the screens.
He gave it some thought, then chose B. He muttered to himself, “To be so foolish, I can tell with one look that he’s my wife.”
After he made the decision, the surveillance screen disappeared and reverted to a normal mirror.
At the same time, the communicator in his ear sounded, which meant the call was connected.
Bai Chunian carefully took off the communicator in his ear and looked at it carefully. Although it was replicated very meticulously, he could still see the difference in some rough details. This communicator was not the original communicator distributed by the IOA, it had already been replaced by someone else.
He was worried that Rimbaud would press the fingerprint lock indiscriminately, so he immediately spoke up to stop him, “Don’t press it.”
Rimbaud replied very quickly in a happy tone, “Randi? Are you okay? Where are you?”
After hearing this voice, Bai Chunian relaxed a little. To be honest, there were too few people who could perfectly imitate Rimbaud, even Invisible Stalker couldn’t do it. This was because Rimbaud’s tactics could be summed up in one word, “reckless.” He does things according to his preferences, he doesn’t think about the consequences at all, and he would mess around first when encountering difficulties.
But thinking back on screen C from just now, the Rimbaud in it had yet to awaken. Bai Chunian asked himself what he knew of Rimbaud, but to be on the safe side, he didn’t dare to easily determine that the omega he was talking to right now was the real Rimbaud.
So he tried to answer in a natural tone, “I don’t know either, I just woke up and was here. Fuck this shit, I don’t wanna wear this ever again.”
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Bai Chunian tentatively said that it was written on his suppressor that forcibly pulling out and triggering the alarm has a chance to start the destruction process.
He emphasized the words, “has a chance” instead of explicitly saying that there were four chances of inputting the wrong code before the suppressor self-destruct sequence would activate on the fifth time.
Bai Chunian continued to test him out, so he seriously warned Rimbaud not to randomly press it again, reminding him that if he pressed wrongly, he might die.
He didn’t expect that Rimbaud would say, “Ah, but I already pressed it.”
Bai Chunian paused for a moment. “You figured out the passcode?”
Rimbaud, “I pressed it randomly.”
“…” Bai Chunian was suddenly more inclined to think that this was the real Rimbaud.
However, he heard a ding-dong sound coming from the communicator. Rimbaud had accidentally succeeded in pressing the combination lock open, which suddenly aroused Bai Chunian’s vigilance. But after thinking about it carefully, Rimbaud’s Koi Blessing was a passive ability and not controlled by the suppressor. He may have guessed it right by chance.
Bai Chunian’s doubts weren’t dispelled. He wanted to ask some private questions directly to verify the other party’s identity, but Rimbaud had called him randi as soon as he opened his mouth, which at least showed that “he” already had a good understanding of their relationship.
He couldn’t act rashly just yet.
He would also be worried about the Rimbaud he didn’t choose. If that was the real one, would he feel scared when he wakes up and finds himself alone? With Rimbaud’s temperament, what should he do if Rimbaud pressed the wrong passcode five times?
In any case, he must find a breakthrough as soon as possible and find out the real purpose of those who sneaked in with frozen bombs and brought them here.
When he was busy looking for clues, Rimbaud suddenly said that he had found a bottle of wine and even asked if he could drink it. Idiot, of course, you can’t drink it, who knows what’s wrong with it.
Bai Chunian even asked Rimbaud expectantly if he could find clues from the wine bottle, but Rimbaud’s answer made him feel like he was too real—how could someone pretending to be his wife act so cutely towards him?
Bai Chunian patted himself to concentrate; he discovered the passcode reflected in the mirror on the wall, and successfully entered the infirmary where the hospital beds and medicine cabinets were located. These rooms were relatively uniform in style, with bright yellow wallpapers. Otherwise, one would get depressed being trapped in such a narrow room with no windows.
As soon as he walked to the middle of the room, the door he came from closed, and then he heard Rimbaud say, “My door is open.”
According to Rimbaud’s description, he should have gone to the bathroom. There was a short period of silence after that.
Bai Chunian was very surprised.
From this point of view, there was only one door between Rimbaud and himself. It seemed like as long as the door on his side closed, the one on Rimbaud’s side would open.
He hurried back to the closed door, knocked on it with strength, and asked Rimbaud if he could hear it.
Rimbaud, “Can’t hear it, the door is sound-proof.”
Bai Chunian became suspicious. Did Rimbaud have the common sense that “doors are soundproof”?
His suspicion suddenly reached its peak, so he said with feigned ease, “No worries. I just went through that room. You just need to enter 74692.”
Rimbaud had always trusted him unconditionally, and Bai Chunian wanted to test whether he would listen. After all, the info he relayed to Rimbaud was, “If you enter the wrong passcode, you may die.”
In fact, if the passcode was correct, it would be fine. If it was wrong, he wouldn’t die anyway since the max number of times hadn’t been reached yet. Bai Chunian had it all planned out.
Unexpectedly, Rimbaud really tried it but it turned out to be wrong.
Counting that first time he casually pressed on the fingerprint lock, he had already made two mistakes, leaving only two chances for trial and error.
“… Looks like the passcode changes every time it opens… I was careless. Press carefully, I don’t want to be a widowed alpha.” Bai Chunian actually felt a bit sorry.
While looking through things, Bai Chunian thought of a problem. There were two doors in each room. If there were no fingerprints, you could only walk forward, but if you have fingerprints, you could go backward.
If he could obtain the fingerprints, Bai Chunian could directly open the door he came from and see for himself if Rimbaud was actually real or not.
He leaned over the cabinet and carefully looked to see if any fingerprints were left on the handle. There was definitely someone who used these rooms before, so it was impossible not to leave a trace.
Indeed, a lot of fingerprints were left on the handle of the cabinet. Bai Chunian found a band-aid from the common medicine cabinet and tried to stick the fingerprints off. He then wrapped it around his fingers, walked to the door with the fingerprint lock, and put his finger on it.
The lock lit up red, indicating it was wrong. It wasn’t that simple.
The fingerprints were jumbled up, and Bai Chunian was empty-handed; there was no professional equipment around, and there was not enough time and chances to try each finger, so he gave up for now.
Without any other choice, he put the suspicious medicine on the test tube rack into his pocket, ready to try his luck in the next room.
In contrast, the passcode for each room was easy to find. There were only fake flowers on the flower shelf, but there was a real spray bottle filled with water next to it. No matter how you think about it, it felt off. Bai Chunian easily used the spray bottle to find the passcode and the water revealed it on the calendar and entered the next room.
This time it was an average fitness room. The light yellow wallpaper made the room’s atmosphere very uplifting.
It seemed like all the rooms were connected in a row. If you think about it carefully, this building could only be a long strip in appearance. He could only praise the developer of this real estate for his brains.
Bai Chunian walked to the middle of the equipment, and the door he came from closed yet again. At the same time, Rimbaud said his door opened.
“You’re in the infirmary now, right? There are two hospital beds over there. Oh, and there’s a spray bottle on the flower shelf. If you use that and spray it on the calendar, then you can see the passcode. I think this passcode changes once a day and not every time it opens. It should be the same as the one I used when I entered.” This time Bai Chunian didn’t lie, and he was more cautious, not letting Rimbaud make mistakes easily.
Rimbaud didn’t say anything on the other side, though.
Bai Chunian was a bit unsettled, asking softly, “What’s wrong?”
Rimbaud asked, “The test tube rack is empty. Did you take the injection?”
“Ah, yeah. I took it.” Bai Chunian admitted honestly. In any case, Rimbaud was right behind him so there was no point in lying for show.
Rimbaud’s tone became doubtful. “What else did you see?”
Bai Chunian wondered why he would suddenly ask this, but he still answered, “Fake flowers, cold medicine, and an IV pole.” He did in fact see these things.
Rimbaud suddenly stopped talking again.
Bai Chunian was worried he was in danger, so he leaned on the wall and put his ears against it to listen carefully. He couldn’t help but ask, “Baby, what’s wrong?”
One’s inherent ability would not be imprisoned by the suppressor; Bai Chunian’s hearing was still sensitive. It seemed that there was a sound, which proved that Rimbaud was indeed in the infirmary he just passed by, but to be honest, he couldn’t hear clearly. The sound insulation was very good.
Just as he was lost in thought, Rimbaud’s voice through the communicator seemed to have become indifferent, even asking him a bit angrily, “You’re deceiving me. Do you think you can get away with this? You lied and gave me the wrong passcode. You want to kill me. Who are you?”
A series of questions bombarded him, causing Bai Chunian to be stunned.
Bai Chunian, “??? What? What’s going on over there?”
Rimbaud ignored him.
In fact, when Rimbaud entered the bathroom, he exchanged a few words with Bai Chunian before the communication was suddenly cut off.
The square hanging mirror above the sink becomes a surveillance display.
Rimbaud also saw three screens and a line of words, however, he directly skipped the text part because he couldn’t read.
Screen A was of him using his fishtail to support his body as he stood in front of the sink.
Screen B was of Bai Chunian rummaging through things in the infirmary.
Screen C was of Bai Chunian facing the camera, very close, and with an eager expression on his face. On the screen, Bai Chunian said anxiously to him, “Can Rimbaud hear me? I wasn’t the one who communicated with you just now. There can only be one person who can get out of here alive. He just wanted to kill you, don’t believe him. Don’t worry, as long as the surveillance display lights up, the communication will be interrupted. The door is soundproof, he shouldn’t be able to hear me. Don’t be afraid, wait for me to save you.”
Rimbaud was frightened by the sudden appearance of two randi. He stood stunned in front of the screen.
Soon, the surveillance display turned off, the glass returned to its mirror appearance, and the communication returned to normal.
He could hear Bai Chunian speaking again from the communicator, asking, “Rimbaud? We are separated by a door right now, can you hear me knocking on the door?”
He couldn’t hear it.
Rimbaud answered, “Can’t hear it, the door is soundproof.”
Bai Chunian said, “No worries. I just went through that room. You just need to enter 74692.”
Rimbaud hesitated.
He was puzzled, this was Xiao Bai’s voice, how could Xiao Bai lie to him?
He still listened to Bai Chunian and tried entering 74692.
The passcode device lit red, and an alarm sounded. Rimbaud’s heart sank.
Rimbaud dully told him the result, “It’s wrong.”
It sounded like “that” Bai Chunian pretended to be surprised. “I’m not wrong, did you press the wrong buttons?”
Rimbaud really wanted to kill this guy who pretended to be his precious little baby kitty in one bite, so he slammed the door harshly twice in anger, but the door didn’t budge. Because he was wearing a suppressor, his power was completely limited.
At this moment, Bai Chunian told him how to check the passcode. Rimbaud endured his anger, got the correct passcode, and opened the lock. The bathroom passcode was actually 96472.
After the door on Bai Chunian’s side opened, Rimbaud pushed it open and entered the infirmary he was talking about.
Unexpectedly, the first thing that caught his eye was the corpse lying on the side of the cabinet wearing a researcher’s uniform. The test tube rake was indeed empty. It seemed like that guy took the injection when he passed by here.
Rimbaud coldly chuckled. It looked like the imposter had mistaken the researcher as him. It was only after killing him that he realized he had killed the wrong person. Relying on the fact that he couldn’t catch him, he dared to pretend to be innocent.
At this moment, Bai Chunian told him how to solve the infirmary passcode, but Rimbaud couldn’t trust him anymore. He swiftly tore off that person’s guise, asking him, “You’re deceiving me. Do you think you can get away with this? You lied and gave me the wrong passcode. You want to kill me. Who are you?”
Unexpectedly, Bai Chunian also chuckled lightly. “You finally gave yourself away. You impersonated Rimbaud so well that you even fooled me.”
Rimbaud didn’t expect that he would turn the tables on him. “What?”
Bai Chunian sneered. “When you were able to correctly guess the passcode by randomly pressing the buttons in the restaurant, I did believe that Rimbaud had the ability to do so, but in fact, you knew what the passcode was in advance. Sometimes too good of an acting skill can become a flaw. My wife is obviously an idiot. Boy, you screwed up your acting.”
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Maybe the body was placed there a few moments before Rimbuad’s door opened after Bai Chunian’s door shut? The people who orchestrated it are most likely doing this to get each other to kill the other; however , I think there’s a flaw. Bai Chunian’s earring: I doubt they could know that his earring is part of Rimbuad’s heart or that they can feel each other’s heartbeats through it. And even if they did know, they can’t possibly replicate it. So the easiest way to tell if one of them is real is to try and feel it, maybe by speeding up their heart rates!
So they are communicating with each other but get cut of in the middle and someone replaces the other. It took all of my two braincells to understand this. Phew! 😌
So, there is no other person. Just they talking to the future and past them.
Holds face in hands Why did lord kitty turn dumb? I can understand our King being dumb, but seriously. Bai Chunian! The second Rimbaud didn’t even move while on camera. Use that brain of yours!