Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Thick smoke from the explosion rose from the top of the ballet theater, the ballet dancer statue was blown into pieces, and a huge hole was created on the top of the theater.
Rimbaud opened the window, climbed out and along the outer wall of the apartment building, slid along the high-voltage power lines, and finally jumped down near the theater. Buffered by electromagnetic levitation, he landed with a buzzing sound.
The ballet dancers and audience inside the theater ran out amidst the thick smoke. Rimbaud found a window to climb in through.
The phone in his hand was still connected. Bai Chunian told him through the phone, “I’m almost there. You go in and diffuse any other bombs and evacuate the people.”
After Rimbaud entered the theater, he saw a bomb stuck to the side of the stage and the countdown was about to reach 0, so he immediately went over there. He opened his sharp-toothed giant mouth and bit down on the entire stage, swallowing it into his stomach.
The bomb in Rimbaud’s stomach made a muffled booming sound. Rimbaud hiccuped, then continued to find other bombs. When he saw survivors, he would use his tail to wrap around them and throw them out the window.
“The ragdoll is not here.” Rimbaud lazily said, “Nor is there anybody else.”
When Bai Chunian heard this info, he immediately grabbed the equipment and drove to the theater with Han Xingqian. Han Xingqian drove while Bai Chunian was in the co-pilot seat issuing an order to the other agents of the Search Department to assist the police officers in rescuing and evacuating the people.
Bi Lanxing immediately grabbed his equipment after hearing his order and took Xiao Xun to the underground parking lot.
Since the IOA headquarters was located in Greenfly City, terrorist attacks rarely occur in its urban areas. The sudden attack had caused headquarters to be on high alert.
As soon as they left, a shadow flickered under the wall clock in the corridor of the silent medical ward area.
Specter Hourglass embraced a glass hourglass that appeared under the wall clock. His associated ability, Time Travel, allowed him to instantly move between clocks in numerical order according to the clock hand.
He slowly walked to the corridor of the ward area and turned the hourglass. He used his J1 ability, Polar Reversal, to disable all the alarms.
In an instant, the infrared detectors and alarms in the entire corridor were all damaged and lost their function.
Specter opened the window and Odd Bones slowly landed into the corridor. Putting away the peacock’s tail feathers behind her, she raised a plush fan to cover the corners of her lips and couldn’t help coughing.
They unhurriedly walked toward the ward, and met face to face with a nurse with a IOA Medical Association badge, who asked where they came from.
Odd Bones closed the fan, the six golden, green, and blue dots arranged in an inverted triangle between her eyebrows slowly lit up and turned white. The flesh and blood of the nurse in front of them faded away, silently turned into an upright skeleton, and finally the skeleton became brittle. It turned into a handful of white powder and dissipated with the wind.
Specter opened one of the ward doors; inside were three experimental subjects. Two nurses were playing games with them with literacy books.
Odd Bones coughed, and the two nurses turned into skeletons immediately, then were obliterated into white powder.
The three experimental subjects playing happily were all stupid, dazedly looking up at the two uninvited guests.
Odd Bones softly said, “Come home with this sister, okay? You guys don’t belong here.”
The three experimental subjects stared and looked at them suspiciously for a while. A chipmunk experimental subject from amongst them struggled to get off the bed. They held the white powder of the nurses who were killed by Odd Bones with their two small hands and wept sadly. Seeing their companions crying, the other two also started crying, and the room became extremely noisy.
“Directly, take them.” Specter hurriedly picked up one of them, but that experimental subject hit him in the head really hard, so he could only put them back down and rub his sore head.
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“…Forget it, let’s switch to another ward.” Odd Bones rubbed the edge of her forehead. “I have already told the Puppet Master before that I don’t like kids.”
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That maturity-staged experimental subject was a female omega. She held the cultivation-staged experimental subject who had been frightened and slowly looked at Odd Bones. “Where to?”
“A place that will protect us whether we do right or wrong.” Odd Bones said, “A strong puppet master is doing this without asking for anything in return. Don’t you like having complete freedom?”
The omega revealed a faint smile. “I want to stay.”
Odd Bones raised a brow, covered her face, and coughed a few times. “Why?”
“To witness some truths that even I don’t believe. Lady, what we want isn’t privileges. You should go before the patrol arrives.”
Odd Bones did not pester her any longer. They didn’t have enough time. There were people patrolling in the ward area every ten minutes, and each team member was equipped with explosion-proof weapons.
As soon as the patrol team arrived, they immediately sensed the faint hostile pheromone in the air, and then summoned a large number of security personnel. Odd Bones and Specter didn’t dare to confront them head-on in IOA territory, so they rushed to leave the building before they could confront the patrols.
When Han Xingqian drove to the downtown area, Bai Chunian suddenly pricked up his ears. “Wait, there’s the sound of a timer!”
But it was already too late; the glass of the nearby shopping building suddenly shattered, and the explosion shock wave that shook the ground caused the glass of the whole building to explode and shatter. The passersby on the street stopped their footsteps, raised their heads, took pictures and videos, and watched the scene. When the second loud explosion came from one of the street shops, people realized the seriousness of the situation and started shouting and running all over the street.
“These bombs are just meant to confuse and distract us.” Bai Chunian checked today’s schedule of the Search Department. “Today’s volunteer activities are in a church. They may be heading for the experimental subjects there. We’ll go to the church while the police officers, Lanxing, and Xiao Xun take charge here.”
Han Xingqian nodded, then stepped on the gas pedal and rushed forward.
However, the buildings that had been bombed had begun to collapse. The pedestrians on the street were also in disorder. The streets were blocked all at once.
The glass and rubble from the buildings rushed down. Bai Chunian glanced over casually and saw a child chasing a kitten right under a large piece of glass that was falling.
“Stop stop stop! What is that fucking kid doing?!” Bai Chunian didn’t wait for the car to stop before opening the door. The high speed made him unable to maintain his balance, and he rolled on the ground a few times. He got up and ran towards the child, pushed him down with a swoop, and wrapped the child tightly in his arms.
Bai Chunian’s back instantly tempered, and the glass slashed his back.
The glass cracked as soon as it touched Bai Chunian’s back and shattered into pieces.
This kind of large glass could produce tens of tons of impact when it falls from a high altitude. Bai Chunian’s limbs sank into the cement and the ground cracked. Although he could use Bone Armor, his internal organs shook severely. His throat felt hot, and he swallowed it back down with restraint.
He got back up with difficulty, pulled out the child from under him and pushed him away. “Look at you brat, get out of here. Your parents didn’t even watch over you carefully.”
Han Xingqian also got out of the car and walked over quickly, using Wings of the Divine Rider to relieve Bai Chunian’s internal organs.
“It would heal on its own in a minute. Han-ge, I’ll drive over there, you stay here to evacuate and do first-aid. You can come find me once the Medical Association’s car arrives.” Bai Chunian stood up from the ground and staggered over to the car parked on the side of the road.
Han Xingqian watched him leave with a crooked back.
As the doctor in charge of observing Bai Chunian, he paid close attention to Bai Chunian’s behavior all the time. Last time he observed him, he saw him ignoring Eris’ murderous conduct on the subway.
That time, the monitoring personnel had a dispute after witnessing Bai Chunian’s indifference to unfamiliar and innocent human beings. However, Han Xingqian, as his observing doctor, forbade any monitoring personnel from interfering with him—because from the moment he took over Bai Chunian’s case, he believed that he would change.
The lofty and quiet church was located in a quiet corner of the city. Many believers stayed here on Sundays. Looking up and seeing the repainted dome murals, they all smiled kindly. It was said that it was painted by an experimental subject named Turing Museum. Although he was only a child, he could do anything.
Choir children in neat white robes were singing in the church. A young pastor was wearing a Chinese-style pastor uniform and holding the Bible in his hands, waiting for their arrival. Everything seemed sacred and peaceful.
Golden Silk Spider and the mummy were sitting below the stage, looking at Dandelion and Corundum in the choir. Today, he was responsible for taking these two cultivation staged omega experimental subjects to the church to do volunteer work.
The two children were earnestly singing along with the other kids who looked like they were the same age as them. Dandelion was good at singing; her voice was sweet-sounding, she had soft light gray curly hair, and the choir teacher was very fond of her.
And the pastor who was preaching to the believers with a calm voice in front of him was Satan who was released from the Alliance Police Department. The horns on his head were tightly covered with a black hood.
Golden Silk Spider sat upright beneath the stage, while the mummy sat on his right side with hands on their knees. Suddenly, Golden Silk Spider turned to look at the stained glass window up above and blinked his metallic black eyes. The mummy followed after him and also looked up.
A black figure was approaching. Golden Silk Spider stood up at once. He took out his AK-74 rifle wrapped in spider silk from behind. The mummy also put his guard up, moving Golden Silk Spider behind him.
The praying crowd in the church screamed when they saw the rifle. Accompanied by the people’s ear-piercing screams, a hole was made on the stained glass window. Eris climbed in, holding his gothic-engraved short-barreled shotgun in his hand, and fired at the dispersed crowd.
“Haha, be tried you bunch of imbeciles that want this and that with their eyes closed.” Eris grinned in mid-air, the black and red cross marks on his face were distorted by his exaggerated smile.
The damage range of the shotgun was wide. Golden Silk Spider threw the rifle to the mummy, and with one hand, controlled it to intercept Eris in the air. He immediately released spider silk, used his J1 ability, Pharaoh’s Cocoon, and wrapped the people closest to the firing range. The silk was extremely durable, which was enough to withstand the damage of one shot.
He immediately withdrew the spider cocoon after dodging the bullet, lest these ordinary people be melted by Pharaoh’s Cocoon.
With the rifle, the mummy shot at Eris who was suspended in the air with his cursed golden thread. Golden Silk Spider’s associated ability, Distraction Control, was enough to manipulate the mummy to attack and intercept Eris while being able to solve the crisis on his own.
Eris leaped and dodged in the air nimbly while sticking out his tongue at Golden Silk Spider from time to time. “Traitor, you actually started to become the humans’ underling?”
Golden Silk Spider tilted his head. “I’m Shao Wenchi, I was originally a human. I’m starting to like how things are right now, I can protect my family.”
The deafening gunshots echoed terrifyingly in the church.
Golden Silk Spider turned on the communicator to contact headquarters. “The church is being attacked by Cursemaker, we need back up.”
The mummy chased Eris and shot at him with the rifle, but Eris was a grade higher than him, being at a grade of A3. Even with the addition of his Silk Explosion Magazine, he still wouldn’t be able to stand against Cursemaker.
Eris was the first to land, his gun pressed onto Golden Silk Spider’s forehead. The mummy behind Eris also raised its rifle with one hand, the muzzle directed at Eris.
Eris laughed. “Do you dare to shoot? Your bullet can shoot through the both of us. Do you like dying together?”
Golden Silk Spider pursed his lips.
Facing the trembling people hiding behind the overturned chairs and tables, Eris laughed loudly. “They don’t know, right? Him, and them—” Eris pointed at the choir and pastor. “They are all experimental subjects. They can kill you guys at any time. The IOA lied to you guys; these experimental subjects want to blend in amongst the humans. You guys won’t tolerate this, am I right?”
No one dared to answer. Eris questioned a man loudly, “I asked if I was right.”
However, the people’s fear and screams after learning the truth did not appear as he imagined. The trembling man raised his hands above his head and tremblingly said, “We know that they are experimental subjects…they all wear badges… And they told us on the first day they arrived.”
“?” Eris turned his head at Golden Silk Spider. Sure enough, there was a refined work badge hanging on his chest. He rubbed his chin, reading each word out loud, “Mhm… Experimental Subject 211, Golden Silk Spider… Has the pleasure to participate in the volunteer service of Greenfly City… IOA.”
Eris scratched his head.
When he had jumped down earlier, the gust of wind blew Dandelion’s newly grown hair away again, so Dandelion sat on the ground and cried grievously.
Golden Silk Spider stopped his confrontation with Eris and ran over to comfort her.
Eris raised his voice once more, this time pointing at the pastor in the black robe, and said loudly to the crowd, “Haha, get a load of this—he’s Satan. He’s actually a devil incarnate with goat horns. Look clearly at what your pastor’s real appearance is.” He went past the mess and yanked off Satan’s hood.
But there was still another hood under the hood.
Eris froze for a moment, then pulled down the other hood. As a result, there was once again another hood.
Satan’s ability could reproduce the past; as long as he wanted to, the hood would always remain as it was just put on. Eris wanted to continue to pull, but Satan grabbed his hand.
Holding the bible, Satan said to him indifferently, “This is a place of tolerance and compassion, where people come with devotion.”
Eris stared wide-eyed and pointed at the Bible Satan was holding. “Have you read this book? What’s written inside are people cursing at you and killing you. Where’s the compassion and tolerance?”
Satan took his gunpowder-smelling hand away from the Bible and stared at him coldly. “No, Satan accused man before God. Satan is a name that humans force upon me. They created my body out of the filth in their hearts. I have already grown out of such low-level taste. I enjoy such a holy place—listening to people’s wishes and confessions, and using my ability to guide them to their future.”
Eris’ mouth was wide-open. He turned his head and jumped over the stairs, landing in front of the choir. The other children were already huddled in the corner in fright. Dandelion was sobbing in Golden Silk Spider’s embrace. Whereas Corundum stared at Eris in bewilderment.
Eris spread his hands and spoke in an impassioned voice, “Quickly, come with me and you guys will be free. You guys can kill all humans so no one can control us anymore. Or we can make them into our slaves, have them do our bidding. We can do whatever we want. Little thing, just think about it—what do you want to do after gaining freedom?”
Corundum put a finger in his mouth. “With the choir…with friends…together…sing hymns.”
“What else?” Eris scowled.
Corundum thought long and hard. “Listen…to teacher…tell story. Learn…origami.”
Eris bent down and gestured with his hands in front of him. “Oh my God, what has IOA’s brainwashing done to you guys?! They actually want to…um…want to…ah yes, they want you guys to work for humans. They want to lock you guys up, give you injections from time to time, cut off your fingers and toes to satisfy their desire for experimenting. Is the Medical Association any better than the Research Institute? I don’t believe it. You have no freedom, mhm, and no food.”
Corundum was stunned. “I ate…just now… Two…big bowls of rice and…pan-fried yellow croakers.”
“The price of bribing you is too cheap, this is a pyramid scheme. You idiot.” Eris completely gave up on convincing Corundum. He walked up to the crying Dandelion. “Hey, Knicks can give you as much hair as you want. Let’s leave this shitty place. The air in this city has been polluted by human breath.”
The pitiful little girl only had one strand of seed-like hair left on her head, which was then pulled off by Eris.
After Dandelion’s last hair was pulled out, her big eyes gathered with tears. She took a deep breath, and cried out loudly.
Eris didn’t have time to react—a burst of strong air coming from Dandelion charged at him head-on. Special Operations Experimental Subject Dandelion’s J1 ability, Fluttering: Does not cause any direct damage. Blows away enemies within the fan-shaped range regardless of their grade. It has miraculous effects against aerial combat weapons such as helicopters and drones.
A gust of wind blew, flipping Eris over, and his back firmly hit the church wall. A hole was created out of the sturdy brick wall, causing the wall to collapse, and burying Eris under the rubble.
The first to arrive at the church as back-up was Bai Chunian. The police cars from the police station were also on their way at top-speed.
Bai Chunian kicked open the church door, panting heavily with his chest heaving. He was wearing the IOA bullet-proof vest, holding a gun in his left hand, and a certificate in his right. He said in a deep voice, “The Secret Service Search Division is on an assignment. Everyone get down and don’t move!”
Bai Chunian’s sharp eyes searched every inch of the area as well as every single person. The situation inside the church wasn’t actually that bad. Apart from the tables and chairs being overturned, two pieces of stained glass being shattered, and there being some bullet holes in the wall, only the wall on the right had collapsed.
The pile of bricks loosened and Eris crawled out from it. Although he didn’t get injured, he was covered in dust, and the hair on his forehead was blown back due to the strong wind. He was in such an embarrassing state.
The muzzle of Bai Chunian’s gun was pointed at him. Once the Cursemaker used the Puppet Master’s controller, The Sacred Wind-up Key, his strength would grow by two-folds. And if a fight were to break out, it would very likely hurt the surrounding innocent people. He needed to find a way to evacuate these people.
He whispered to Golden Silk Spider, who was across from him, through the communicator, “Go and evacuate the irrelevant personnel.”
At the same time, Bai Chunian watched as Eris approached him step by step. With his muscles tensed, he was ready to intercept Eris’ sudden attacks at any moment. He whispered to Rimbaud through the communicator, “Wife, I’m in the church.”
But Eris didn’t seem aggressive right now, passing by Bai Chunian with his head down.
Bai Chunian looked back in doubt. “We’re not gonna fight?”
Eris didn’t raise his head. “Am I that pathetic? I can leave on my own.”
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LMAO 😂 Eris actually got destroyed by a child 😂😂😂
Thanks for the chapter ❤
Thank you for the amazing chaos 🥰
This is officially one of my favorite chapters, the fact that NONE of the experimental subjects taken in by IOA wanted to go back with the terrorist subjects 😅🤣
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Its very ironic that Eris is having a bad luck streak right now. Like how did he manage to get bodied by a child?!
DAMMIT I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD ABOUT SATAN’S HOOD, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY FROM LAUGHING! IT WAS SO FUNNY!
🤣 😂 Still laughing at Eris complaining about BCN and his wife bullying him in the previous chapters. After hearing BCN call Rimbaud, there’s no way Eris will stay to fight 😆 😂
He can only complain how Xiao Bai doesnt have any psychological barrier (shameless) of calling out to his wife to help beat him up.