Translator: Khun
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Editor: DragonFae
When the two crossed, Xiao Xun felt the movement of everything in the distance slow down and the sounds in his ears change from noisy to far away. The distant clock on the wall seemed to have stopped, with only the pendulum still unusually swaying slowly from left to right.
His sixth uncle Xiao Yang’s differentiation ability was “Speed Constriction,” full of greyhound characteristics. The ability could control the flow of time within a certain range around him.
His sixth uncle Xiao Yang was now working for the 109 Research Institute. He most likely made this visit especially because he heard something and wanted to ensure that the greyhound family’s factory could supply enough monocrylene on time. If he came, he must not have come alone.
When Xiao Xun thought of this, he immediately became vigilant. It seemed that he needed to inform the others immediately that the situation had changed and leave the greyhound family as soon as possible.
But the time flow in his current surroundings was much faster than that of the outside world. Although the information could be sent out from his side, he didn’t know if they could receive it.
“Xiao Yang is here.” Xiao Xun whispered to the invisible communicator, determined.
Xiao Yang sneered. “Playing little tricks right in front of me?”
Xiao Xun’s reaction speed was considered outstanding, but it was slowed in the presence of Xiao Yang’s ability. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yang was in front of him, grabbing Xiao Xun’s neck and slowly squeezing with his fingertips. Xiao Xun’s face turned red and struggled to pull away his fingers. His throat was clasped tight, and even his breathing was extremely constricted.
“Time is much faster around me than outside. If I strangle you to death now, how long will it take for someone to find your body?”
“Is the pegasus alpha seeing my nephew’s wife next door your boyfriend? Guess how much your body will rot when he finds you.” Xiao Yang narrowed his eyes and looked at him, “…Dating in secret. I haven’t approved it as your guardian.”
They were standing in front of a big crowd, and Xiao Xun was being grabbed by his neck, unable to struggle free. However, the people coming and going around him were still talking and walking slowly, as if their abnormality wasn’t noticed at all. Under his sixth uncle’s control, it wouldn’t help even if Xiao Xun shouted.
But as long as it was a differentiation ability, it would inevitably consume the energy of the gland when used. Such a powerful control ability must consume a huge amount of his sixth uncle’s gland. The longer this lasted, the greater the chance of escape.
“Sixth Uncle, you want to protect the factory and agents, so why didn’t you warn your father directly?” Xiao Xun asked, enduring the pain of being on the verge of suffocation and stubbornly feigning calmness.
Xiao Yang only raised his eyebrow and didn’t answer him.
Xiao Xun continued, “You don’t want to reveal your identity? You don’t want them to know you are working for the Research Institute? Or is it that…you and Aileen…have something?”
The look in Xiao Yang’s eyes underwent a minute change.
Xiao Xun was actually blurting out invented nonsense in a crisis, but his J1 ability Universal Dashboard could assist him in choosing the guess with the highest accuracy.
“You and Aileen…you guys…you are also a greyhound…you broke the rules of intermarriage within the species…so you…don’t acknowledge it…”
“Sixth Uncle… has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like someone?” Xiao Xun asked intermittently, “He’s also a doctor, about the same age as you, with an appearance that strikingly resembles yours…and also used to work in the 109 Research Institute…if Professor Lin Deng wasn’t already dead, people would’ve definitely mixed you two up. Have you seen him before?”
In the eyes of everyone, Professor Lin Deng had indeed disappeared for a long time; Xiao Xun didn’t want to reveal the fact that Lin Deng was still at the headquarters.
“Mn?” The strength in Xiao Yang’s hand lessened a bit, and he murmured, “…Deng?”
As soon as Xiao Xun heard this, he knew that his sixth uncle was not completely ignorant of Professor Lin Deng. He organized his words a little bit. As long as he can delay this until his sixth uncle couldn’t continue to constrict the flow of time, he could get away.
Xiao Yang was a little discontent and even slightly impatient. He narrowed his eyes, put Xiao Xun down with a faint smile, and asked slowly, “What do you know about Professor Lin Deng?”
Xiao Xun held his throat and coughed for a while. Xiao Yang changed his aggressive expression from just before, put his hand on Xiao Shun’s shoulder warmly, and took out a piece of tangerine jelly drop from his pocket. “Talk to your sixth uncle?”
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Xiao Xun actually didn’t know much about Lin Deng, but it would be troublesome if he didn’t make up anything at this time. Fortunately, regarding Lin Deng’s personal matters, Bai Chunian had mentioned some of Lin Deng and Aileen’s love in university when sharing information in the discussion group, which was a great point to bring up.
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But Han Xingqian’s hearing ability was a product of being trained to listen to heartbeats, so small noises would be automatically analyzed in his mind.
Han Xingqian raised his head and found sister-in-law looking at him. Her line of sight was inclined to the left, as if she was staring at his ear.
The invisible communicator was pasted in the ear canal of his left ear. Han Xingqian was calm on the outside, but he worried that she saw something on the inside.
Hence, he opened the second interlayer of the medicine box and felt through it. There were disposable syringes and scalpels in it.
Sister-in-law’s expression immediately became a little nervous. She stroked her belly anxiously, frowned, and asked, “Doctor, am I seriously ill?”
“Don’t worry.” Han Xingqian closed the interlayer of the medicine box, “I’m just changing my rubber gloves.”
Sister-in-law relaxed a little.
“I’m sorry, Ms. Song, please rest for a little first, excuse me for a while,” Han Xingqian said as he stood up and bowed slightly. He walked out quickly to adjust the invisible communicator and conveniently took a look at Xiao Xun’s situation in the lobby.
“It’s okay, do your work, I don’t need you to hurry. I’m a little tired, you can go to my bedroom later.” Sister-in-law Song Feng looked at the back of the doctor leaving in a hurry, gently stroked her swollen abdomen, and sighed softly.
On the way to the lobby, Han Xingqian whispered to the communicator, “Xiao Bai, do you guys still have time to change the position of the sniper rifle case?”
At this moment, Bai Chunian was rushing towards the factory. The situation was urgent, so he simply couldn’t identify the small noise in the communicator. He didn’t even have time to listen to Han Xingqian, so he just hurriedly said, “No.”
“I suspect that Miss Song Feng has x-ray eyes.”
Bai Chunian was slightly taciturn. “It’s…greyhound glands. In the species, differentiation is directed toward speed and vision. An x-ray ability is possible, but we have no time to turn back. How about you guys find a way to reposition it yourselves? Xiao Xun hasn’t spoken in a long time, go see what his situation is.”
They were on their way to the factory to assist Lu Yan and Bi Lanxing. Those two little guys had already encountered Gargantuar, and now they lost contact again. Bai Chunian was uneasy.
“Rimbaud, stop pulling!” Bai Chunian suddenly shouted.
At some point, Rimbaud drew out a thin chain from the collar around Bai Chunian’s neck, grabbed it, and pulled it, causing Bai Chunian’s throat to be ruthlessly strangled.
Bai Chunian was thinking about a lot of things now, so he just gave Rimbaud a look to tell him not to make trouble and didn’t say anything.
Being glared at for no reason, Rimbaud was a little resentful and glared back. “Don’t get angry at me.”
Bai Chunian motioned at Rimbaud, walked around into the Japanese white birch forest, avoided other people’s eyes, and ran straight to the location of the factory that Lu Yan had sent.
But the area that the greyhound family occupied was astonishing. The straight-line distance from the Japanese white birch forest to the factory was 16 kilometers. Even by car, two or three minutes wasn’t enough to hurry over.
“Don’t talk.” Bai Chunian made a silencing gesture, then listened attentively to the slight signs of activity in the communicator.
A new signal was inserted into the communicator, which was the backup communication of Lu Yan’s side. The sound of gasping for breath was heavy and echoed.
It lasted for a long time before finally, someone inside spoke.
Lu Yan’s voice was very hoarse, as if he had just gone through a chasing fight. “Chu-ge, we have been forced into the insulation room. It’s really hot here, and Gargantuar’s monsters are afraid of the heat, so they can’t get in. Lanxing is seriously injured right now, the bomb is still on me, and I’m about to climb the ventilation pipe to plant it.”
Bai Chunian’s expression changed. “No, withdraw. Damn rabbit, who allowed you to act without permission?”
Lu Yan insisted, “The insulation room is very close to the storage room and the monocrylene manufacturing room. I just need to climb to the center.”
“Have you guys already fought Gargantuar seriously? Can the ventilation pipe of the insulation room be climbed as you wish? If some sparks are produced, the bomb on your body will explode with you. Get out. Also, seriously injured? How serious? Did Hong Xie not teach you how to report your conditions? You still want to do the mission with this level of actual combat? Get out of here!”
Although Lu Yan’s J1 ability Cunning Rabbit’s Cave was indeed suitable for planting bombs, Bai Chunian had always been very uneasy about his ability, and out of a complicated mentality, he did not want Lu Yan and Bi Lanxing to be injured in any way.
Now that the experimental subject Gargantuar appeared, it meant that the members of the 109 Research Institute have arrived at the greyhound family to guard the factory and raw materials. While Bai Chunian gave instructions to Lu Yan, he applied for help to the headquarters. The rest of the dispatched members of the Secret Service Team’s Search Division executing the mission would gather nearby to assist in the mission to blow up the greyhound family.
This task was more difficult than expected. Bai Chunian felt like he shouldn’t have brought three (just fully-fledged) trainees to participate. Once his team members were dispersed, Bai Chunian couldn’t protect everyone.
What Lu Yan said next was very indistinct, and Bai Chunian couldn’t hear clearly; it seemed that the communicator had malfunctioned again.
“How hot is it over there…the communicator can be burned…fuck, let’s hurry up.”
The invisible communicator was just a tiny chip pasted in the ear canal. It was waterproof but not heat-proof, and it was difficult to use in harsh environments. This time, in order to avoid being noticed, everyone packed lightly to go into battle and did not bring any equipment that might be scanned.
At this moment, Bai Chunian’s neck was suddenly tightened again. Rimbaud had tugged on the collar again to warn him.
Bai Chunian was perturbed at this moment and said impatiently, “Stop pulling, you’re going to strangle me to death.”
“If I don’t control you, who can pull you back when you go crazy?”
Bai Chunian took a deep breath, “I know I won’t.”
“That pearl is very serious and affects your mentality. I think you seeing that photo of Pearl…wasn’t accidental. Don’t you care about these human beings very much? You will be sad if this little team is completely wiped out in the greyhound family, right? So don’t think about anything else and properly think of a way to do this.”
Bai Chunian forced a smile. It turned out that as long as he was in a slightly bad state, Rimbaud would be able to detect it immediately with his sharpness.
After he thought about it carefully, it was true that the photo of Eternal Undead appeared very strangely, as if deliberately messing with his mentality, appearing in an obvious place.
Bai Chunian calmed down, pursed his lips, and thought.
“It’s forcing you into deterioration,” Rimbaud said flatly.
Bai Chunian’s body shook a bit.
The Research Institute was the clearest about the physical condition of each experimental subject. Bai Chunian had reached level nine of maturity stage, and even a slight mood swing might make him enter the deterioration stage. He had personally witnessed how Patissier deteriorated from a low-level bee into an unstoppable and terrifying experimental subject in the International Prison. Once the Research Institute was made to worry, this kind of thing could definitely be done. If Divine Envoy deteriorated, the whole world would shift to deal with him. If he endangered the sea, then even Rimbaud would have to personally kill him.
The photo of Pearl was a warning.
Rimbaud rolled the tip of his tail onto Bai Chunian’s calf and rubbed it gently. “You are not old enough to be a father. When you grow a bit more, you will have everything.”
Bai Chunian finally calmed down completely. He turned around, hugged Rimbaud, and gently breathed in the soothing pheromones on his nape. “I see, even the Research Institute has moved, but Puppet Master has not moved at all. I think they are also involved. I’ll take care of it one by one later, and no one can get out of it. Let’s go.”
Pharmaceutical factory insulation room.
The survival of certain raw material bacteria depended on high temperature, so the factory had to set up an insulation room. The indoor temperature could be as high as 100 degrees Celsius to preserve specific raw materials.
Lu Yan helped Bi Lanxing to a corner, then went to the temperature control board to adjust the temperature up.
“You rest, I’ll check on the situation.” Lu Yan kept jumping to the iron door of the insulation room, peeking outside through the tempered glass.
There were more than 20 people standing crowded together outside the door. They were all wearing the work clothes of a pharmaceutical factory, their faces were stiff and cyan, their fingernails were extremely long, and they were trying to grab the iron door with force. Their strength was so great that the wall shook with the door. Very soon there was a crack in the wall, which was abruptly slammed open by them.
Lu Yan was flung upside down by this powerful force, and those rigid people swarmed up indiscriminately. Lu Yan could dodge one but not the other. His right arm and one leg were grabbed by the rigid people. Their strength had already surpassed the scope of human beings, but in just a few seconds, Lu Yan felt the pain of the base of his leg and underarm tearing–they wanted to tear off his arm and leg.
Bi Lanxing was injured too seriously and had excessive blood loss. Leaning against the corner, he was almost passed out. Lu Yan tried his best to crawl away from Bi Lanxing and take these dangerous things away from him.
The temperature in the room rose rapidly, reaching fifty-three degrees Celsius within a few minutes. The top layer of skin of the two zombies closest to the heating board began to melt, and their movements became sluggish.
Bi Lanxing had checked the detailed information. No. 436 Experimental Subject Gargantuar. The last number 6 represented a summoning-type ability. He could assimilate some ordinary people within his range into zombies with viruses and make them obey his orders. This ability was irreversible.
However, these summoned objects have a weakness: they were weak to high temperatures. The virus would lose its infectivity at 53 degrees Celsius, and its external manifestation was the top layer of the skin of the zombie melting. When the temperature reached 65 degrees Celsius, the protein would denature, the virus would be completely ineffective, and the infected person would die.
Lu Yan endured the pain and suddenly rushed towards the heating board, the rest of the zombies trailing behind, sticking together. A wave of heat hit, and his tightly grasped hand and foot finally regained their freedom.
Without looking at the back of his hand that was burned by the heating board, Lu Yan made sure that these people had lost their aggressiveness, then ran back to the corner, staggering. He knelt beside Bi Lanxing and quickly took off his clothes.
A nearly nine centimeter wound had appeared on Bi Lanxing’s chest. They had encountered Gargantuar head-on. The gigantic guy was holding a large, broad iron knife in his hand. When the iron knife was swung, Bi Lanxing only had time to send the Poison Ivy Armor to Lu Yan once.
Bi Lanxing’s breathing was weaker than just before.
“Hurry up and wake up, stop sleeping.” Lu Yan patted his face, nimbly took off his clothes, and tore his interior camouflage vest into strips to wrap around Bi Lanxing’s body and stop the bleeding.
Bi Lanxing half-opened his eyes. The upper body of the little rabbit in front of him was naked, his hair was soaked in sweat and stuck to his face, and the fur on the rabbit’s ears had stuck into clusters. His skin was very fair and clear. He originally thought the clear and fair-skinned delicate little rabbit’s body was as smooth as milk, but he didn’t expect the two symmetrical layers of thick calluses under his shoulders and chest, which were where he cushioned the butt of his uzi gun.
Lu Yan’s bandaging technique was very skilled. It seemed that he was not secretly lazy during Han Xingqian’s first aid class and took notes seriously.
Realizing that Bi Lanxing was staring at him, Lu Yan blushed. “What are you looking at, I’m not wearing any clothes.”
Bi Lanxing raised his hand and touched the calluses under his shoulder, as if he had caught a glimpse of the other side of Lu Yan. He carefully explored it, slightly surprised.
He knew that Lu Yan was best at using dual submachine guns, and he often held the uzi with both hands, because the uzi had a fast firing rate, a small magazine, and was very good in close battle. Also, when the bullets were used up, there was no time for his teammates to support him, so Lu Yan must first protect himself. Once he neared the opponent’s back, he must kill the other with a single shot. His short-distance shooting accuracy rate was as high as 100%, and behind this accuracy rate was daily training. The recoil of the submachine gun was much more powerful than a pistol, so it would leave long-lasting marks on the body.
Lu Yan was the most hardworking one. He always knew that the glory of his parents put great pressure on Lu Yan, and he desperately wanted to get out of the shadowing halos of Yan Yi and Lu Shangjin. This little rabbit was really truly ambitious.
“It’s so hot…” After Lu Yan bandaged Bi Lanxing, he put back the black combat uniform jacket and went to adjust the temperature in the insulation room. Once the temperature was lower than 53 degrees Celsius, the restless infected rigid people outside the door would charge inside, but they wouldn’t last long at such a temperature because they would be dehydrated.
“The invisible communicator has been melted, so we can only rely on Chu-ge following the location to find us.” Lu Yan hugged Bi Lanxing to wrap the cloth strip around his waist, tied a knot at the side, and released faint honey-scented soothing pheromones to heal him. Lu Yan comforted him gently, “They won’t be able to come in for a while, and I’m here, don’t be afraid.”
Bi Lanxing’s body was still warm, and the slight chill of plants was appearing.
“Give me your hand.” Lu Yan wrapped up the wound on his chest and then wrapped his palm. The center of Bi Lanxing’s palm was cut by a blunt blade, and the white bones of the hand could already be seen. He didn’t know if there was any injury to the muscles.
“I’m going to plant a bomb after wrapping you up. Don’t nag me.” Lu Yan urged softly, but there was no impatience in his eyes.
“Chu-ge told us to withdraw.”
“He is thinking about our safety. If we don’t withdraw, we will cause trouble for our other teammates. I will definitely withdraw, but he’s only asking me to withdraw because he is afraid that I will be injured. Then our trip will be in vain, beginning from when Chu-ge asked people to buy agents to use up their raw materials, everything will go to waste… So why? If the last-minute failure is only because of me…I will feel worse than death.”
“But you are going without authorization. If something happens, Chu-ge will take full responsibility.”
“I…” Lu Yan endured it for a long time, and the rims of his eyes turned red, “I will definitely succeed. You guys all don’t believe in me. Do I really look that much like a stupid rabbit? Chu-ge, Bai Chunian is the one who doesn’t believe in me the most.”
“Don’t cry.” Bi Lanxing raised his hand that had just been bandaged with camouflage cloth strips and slowly grew a few dark green vine buds from the wound. The vine buds grew coiled and matured, formed flower buds, and then bloomed a bundle of red flowers.
Lu Yan ate two big flowers with tears in his eyes.
“Don’t eat them…these are the roses that grow on the bones of my hand. I’ve always wanted to give them to you.” Bi Lanxing struggled to place his hand on Lu Yan’s knee, put his other hand on the Freedom Bird badge on his chest, and said hoarsely, “Contact with the captain has been broken off. I will order you as the vice-captain to carry out the mission.”
Lu Yan was stunned, hugged him hard, turned around, picked up the bomb box, and ran towards the vent.
“I’ll support you.” Bi Lanxing raised his hand, and the vines grew wildly, sending Lu Yan into the window.
If BLX kicks the bucket, I’m going to cry so hard. Please don’t let it happen 🙏🏻
Thanks for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank You for the new chapter (´,,•ω•,,)♡
I see we have entered the “everything goes to shit” step of the plan. Also, Lu Yan, if your boyfriend dies because you disobeyed orders trying to prove yourself you’re going to regret it for the rest of your life.