Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Editor: yuki_shuichi
Lu Yan used his M2 ability, Fourth-Dimension Split, to create another lop-eared rabbit omega entity in the future time axis. The entity came out of Lu Yan’s body and landed on the ground.
“Stay here to protect Lanxing, don’t mess up.” Lu Yan said to his doppelgänger.
“Got it,” the rabbit entity replied.
Lu Yan’s M2 ability, Fourth-Dimension Split, was a summoning-type ability. It could present one’s own self on the fourth-dimensional time axis in the three-dimensional world. Macroscopically, it looked like infinite doppelgängers, but each doppelgänger wasn’t a mirage used to confuse people’s eyes and ears—rather, they were entities that possessed the same attack power.
The downside of this ability was that once one of the entities got hurt, all the entities on the future time axis would also get hurt. In other words, if an entity protecting Bi Lanxing were to get injured, even if Lu Yan wasn’t there, the same injury would appear on his body immediately.
In order to avoid this situation, Lu Yan summoned a rabbit entity whose time was after his own. Summoning entities in the future time axis consumed more energy, but it had a great advantage. Namely, whether the rabbit entity summoned from the future time axis was injured or died, it would not affect the state of the main body.
The more physical clones there were, the greater the chance of injury and the shorter the ability maintenance time. If only one entity was summoned, Lu Yan’s gland energy should be able to hold up for an hour. If a rabbit entity in the past time axis was summoned, it would be reduced to a quarter, which was fifteen minutes.
The length and width of the vent were only 0.35 meters. Fortunately, Lu Yan had a small build, and the bones of the rabbit race were softer than others. They could crawl through extremely narrow vents. Bomb boxes, on the other hand, couldn’t. The width and height of bomb boxes were larger than the vents.
Lu Yan gritted his teeth, gently opened the bomb box, and hung the remote and bombs on his combat uniform one by one.
Right now, the temperature inside the vent was extremely high, and even a slight static spark might cause irreversible consequences. Lu Yan had taken biochemistry before; he knew exactly how powerful the explosive damage this type of bomb could do. Once detonated, it would wipe him out in a flash.
Lu Yan looked back at Bi Lanxing one last time. Bi Lanxing gently gave him a “You can do it” gesture. Lu Yan nodded back at him, turned around, and slowly crawled into the vent.
Bi Lanxing sat in the corner at a distance, slightly raising his head to watch Lu Yan’s movement, but didn’t make any sound to stop him. As the vice-captain, he was giving Lu Yan the order to continue the mission. So, if the mission failed and Lu Yan was injured or died in sacrifice, all the responsibility would fall on him. This was a crime with a severe punishment in the Alliance—those who disregard the orders of their superiors and exercise power without authorization, resulting in deaths of Alliance members, would be sentenced to death.
Lu Yan had always been simple-minded. He also had little knowledge of Alliance laws, but Bi Lanxing had studied each and every one of the relevant laws and regulations. He was very clear-headed.
There were a lot of ways to express affection; absolute trust was the hardest kind to achieve.
The rabbit entity guarding Bi Lanxing squatted obediently beside him, clinging to him.
Bi Lanxing’s wound had stopped bleeding, and color had finally returned to his face. He managed to raise his energy and asked lightly, “Which time period Lu Yan are you from?”
The rabbit entity standing beside him said truthfully, “15 minutes in the future.”
The body of the rabbit entity was very hot. His skin was a scalding red, his legs and hands seemed to be injured, and he was huddling into a ball and unwilling to move.
“If I hug you, will he be able to feel it?”
“N…no. I am the rabbit from after his timeline. He can only feel it when you hug the one before.”
“Mn, alright.” Bi Lanxing raised his hand with difficulty, touched the head of the rabbit entity, and said in comfort, “You are also awesome. After resting for ten minutes, we’ll rush out to support him outside the warehouse.”
“Okay.” The rabbit entity lowered its head, his rabbit ears moved, and his face flushed even more.
Inside the air vent, Lu Yan’s movements were very light, trying to shrink his body to the minimum size, but it was almost impossible to keep his clothes from touching the walls. He was able to crawl in because of the rabbit’s racial advantage. The steel wall of the vent was scorching hot. After crawling only a few meters, the hollows of Lu Yan’s palms were hot and painful.
As he continued to crawl further in, the air inside gradually became thinner. Lu Yan took a deep breath. The thin air was filled with the smell of rust, and the scalding hot air went from his nasal cavity to his lungs.
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According to the factory floor plan they studied, there was a distance of 73 meters from the insulation room to the drug preparation room, and there would be a warehouse in the middle.
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Lu Yan’s vision was a little blurred, crawling onwards, relying entirely on an unexplained perseverance.
After crawling for an unknown amount of time, the sound of bent elbows knocking on the walls of the air duct became empty. It seemed that he had reached the warehouse. At this moment, he only needed to use his J1 ability, Cunning Rabbit’s Cave, once, and he would easily fall into the warehouse through the black hole of space. There was no need to rush in from the front and trigger the alarm.
After falling into the warehouse, Lu Yan was finally able to breathe deeply. He couldn’t care about anything else. He groped around in the dark until he reached the center, removed a bomb from his body, and stuck it in a hidden place at the bottom of a shelf.
Lu Yan planted a total of three bombs in this warehouse full of different drugs, putting them in three different places where it would be hard to find them.
But the communicator had completely malfunctioned, and he couldn’t get in contact with others. Lu Yan was in a very passive situation, he couldn’t make a single wrong move.
When Lu Yan was planting the third bomb, he suddenly heard the sound of rough and heavy breathing.
“…” Lu Yan’s movements immediately became lighter, his fingertips trembling slightly as he attached the bomb.
The rough and heavy breathing sound did not go away but was separated from Lu Yan by a wall, then slowly stopped.
Lu Yan swallowed, gently landed on his toes and silently moved away from the position he was just in. He then quickly and skillfully kicked his legs and climbed up to the edge of the Cunning Rabbit’s Cave he had made before.
With a loud banging sound, a stiff green arm as thick as a bucket punched through the outer wall of the warehouse. The huge arm swept toward the shelves full of drugs and grabbed hold of Lu Yan’s leg with overwhelming power.
Gargantuar was waiting outside the warehouse.
There was a sharp pain, as if a bone had been cracked. Lu Yan struggled and kicked like crazy, climbing into the Cunning Rabbit’s Cave unheedingly. However, that veined arm easily held him like catching a rabbit, and he was slowly dragged out of the cave.
In desperation, Lu Yan took out the silencer pistol from the holster on his thigh and fired several shots at the large hand on his leg. The large hand felt the pain and loosened its hold. Lu Yan took the opportunity to crawl back into the Cunning Rabbit’s Cave and closed the black hole.
Entering the vent once again, Lu Yan desperately crawled onward. Another loud sound came from behind him; Gargantuar’s hand punched through the wall and the vent and felt its way in. With only a few centimeters away from Lu Yan’s butt, the dirty fingers poked at the furry round tail sticking outside of Lu Yan’s combat pants.
Lu Yan suddenly scurried away, finally crawled to a place where Gargantuar couldn’t reach, and fled forward, battered and exhausted.
Lu Yan turned his head to look. There was a hole in the vent, but Gargantuar’s arm wasn’t there anymore. Having temporarily escaped from danger, Lu Yan panted harshly while lying in the vent. His cheek was completely buried in the crook of his arm, and his left leg was hurt badly; he didn’t know if it was broken.
Not long after, Lu Yan raised his head, his eyes bloodshot. He roughly wiped his nose. Because of the burns, when tears flowed down his face, they caused severe pain to his skin, like salt water was splashed on it. He had no choice but to choke in his sobs while continuing forward, carrying the bombs. In front was the monocrylene preparation room, which was their main bombing target this time.
He estimated the distance in his head—10 meters, 9 meters, 5 meters, 3 meters—and then he arrived. Lu Yan slowly came to a halt.
Through the vent, Lu Yan heard the familiar heavy breathing again.
“How persistent… Blocking me in the preparation room…” Lu Yan had crawled for too long and couldn’t get up; his body had become numb. This monster was too terrifying, even his name was scary. Lu Yan didn’t dare play Plants vs. Zombies ever again.
“I’ll wait and see if he’ll go away… Worst comes worst, we’ll just die together. I can still handle you, big idiot…” Lu Yan muttered while holding the denotation remote, “In any case, if these bombs go off, the whole factory will go along with it…hold up, why should I die? What Chu-ge can do, I can do too. What’s the difference between us? There isn’t much difference between a little white rabbit and a big white lion, yep, no difference.”
Lu Yan’s hand holding the remote control was so stiff that it kept trembling, and his legs shook along with it.
“Don’t be scared, Lu Yan. Lanxing is waiting for me. He will die if he loses too much blood, so I must go back to save him. Right, I can’t die. What will happen to Lanxing if I die? There will be no one to accompany him to classes. A lot of little omegas want to be his deskmate, but that can’t happen.”
The sound of Gargantuar’s breathing didn’t go away. He seemed to be still waiting in the preparation room. As long as Lu Yan went out, he might clash with him directly. Lu Yan still had a way to escape, but if he also had to plant a bomb, it would be really hard to achieve.
Time passed slowly. Lu Yan looked at his watch; it was already 8 in the evening. It was probably already dark outside. According to the data, Gargantuar’s eyesight was very bad. If he could use the darkness to hide, he should be able to find a chance.
Lu Yan closed his eyes and turned over. A Cunning Rabbit’s Cave’s black hole appeared on the side of the vent. Lu Yan took a bomb and held it. He quickly entered the hole, and the moment he came out the other end, he planted the bomb under a work table. He then rolled on the ground, leaving his original position, squatted on the ground, and held his breath.
There was only a faint yellow light in the preparation room. Gargantuar saw Lu Yan emerging from the black hole, and he immediately started chasing after him. Every time his heavy footsteps landed on the ground, the ground would tremble.
Lu Yan covered his own mouth, trying his best to retract his body into the work table’s shadow.
Gargantuar dragged his huge iron blade, turning with fumbling heavy steps, and he hunched over to slowly look.
The iron blade dragging onto the floor made a screeching sound, the sound getting closer and closer to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan didn’t dare let out a single breath. He didn’t dare make a single sound, even though he was suffocating.
A huge green foot landed beside Lu Yan, exuding a rotting corpse smell.
Gargantuar passed by the work table Lu Yan was hiding under, checking another machine.
It was only when the shadow was far away that Lu Yan dared to breathe. After taking a few small breaths, he slightly turned over. He took out another bomb from his pocket and stuck it at the bottom of the center of the work table.
Basically, if these devices were blown up, it would be difficult to keep the monocrylene intact. At this moment, Lu Yan still had two spare bombs on his body. If there was a chance, they could be placed on other machines and blown up together.
Lu Yan slowly backed out from under the table.
When he was backing out, an uncapped ballpoint pen on the record book on the table suddenly rolled down and fell to the ground with a clang.
Lu Yan froze. He saw the shadow of the huge guy reflecting on the wall not far away move, then he let out a roar like an elephant snorting out of its trunk.
“He heard me!” Lu Yan ran off after crawling out from under the table. He only had two choices right now—one was to return to the Cunning Rabbit’s Cave that he came from then go back to the insulation room using the same way he took; the other was to run out of the hole Gargantuar made to enter the preparation room.
“If it were Lanxing…he would pick me up outside.” Lu Yan charged toward the hole in the wall without looking back.
Bi Lanxing, who was waiting in the insulation room, glanced at the time, then patted the rabbit entity resting next to him. “Calculating the time, Lu Yan should be in the preparation room. Let’s go now.”
The rabbit entity glanced at the zombified infected people guarding the door, driven away due to the high temperature inside and unable to enter, and bit his lips. “There are at least 40 to 50 of them blocking the door… Let’s go.”
Bi Lanxing regained some strength. He covered the wound on his chest, stood up, and walked quickly towards the door of the insulation room.
He was just about to release poisonous vines to open up the path when Lu Yan’s rabbit entity suddenly caught up to him, went to his left side, and squeezed Bi Lanxing into the rightmost position near the door.
“Save your energy.” The rabbit entity held his hand. “We still need to provide support to Lu Yan… when we rush out, you go right while I go left to disperse them.”
“Alright.” Bi Lanxing nodded. This tactic was exactly what he was thinking of doing. The infected zombies assimilated by Gargantuar were very mobile, but they had no thinking ability. Running left and right would make them temporarily confused, and it would be easier to get away when the time came.
“We’ll rush out on the count of three.” The rabbit entity jumped twice in place to make sure he could still run.
“1, 2, 3, go!”
Bi Lanxing used Poison Ivy Armor on himself and the rabbit entity, and he went out with a gun in his hand. Poison Ivy Armor could offset the physical damage regardless of its strength. The action of squeezing out the door wouldn’t take a lot of time.
The zombies followed the smell of blood and desperately bit on the Poison Ivy Armor surrounding his body. Bi Lanxing grew vines out of his fingers, grabbed the wall, and pulled himself out of the room.
There was a sudden weightlessness, and Bi Lanxing felt a hard push from behind. Due to inertia, he flew several meters away with his vines.
Bi Lanxing took advantage of the inertia to retreat to a distance. He looked back to see if the rabbit entity had escaped from their pursuers.
But the situation was different from what he had imagined.
The rabbit entity didn’t actually run off but took off the Poison Ivy Armor and held it in his arms. How could the all-pervasive zombie let go of this tender meat? Dozens of mouths bit the rabbit entity, and he was covered in blood in just a few seconds.
Attracted by the strong smell of blood, these monsters’ interest in Bi Lanxing suddenly weakened.
A leg of the rabbit entity was ripped off, a part of his forearm was torn off, and the rabbit ears in between his hair were dripping with blood. But as if he couldn’t feel any pain, he looked at Bi Lanxing serenely.
“I only exist for 15 minutes, don’t be sad. There are innumerable Lu Yan on the time axis. All of us…rabbits, whether we’re 1, 2, 10, 40, or 50 years old…all like you.”
“I heard from the 25-year-old rabbit that…we got married. That day, you wore a white suit and held flowers you grew from your palms. I…really wanted to see it.”
“Ah Yan.” Bi Lanxing’s eyes were wide.
“Hurry and go find him!” The rabbit entity cried out in a muffled voice.
Bi Lanxing took a few steps back with difficulty. He turned and ran toward the preparation room, where Lu Yan was.
Only when he saw him leave did the rabbit entity felt relieved. He closed his eyes while holding the Poison Ivy Armor. It was currently less than a minute before the clone disappeared.
The vines woven into the Poison Ivy Armor slowly grew around him, wrapped around him, withstanding the gnawing of those zombies with its tough bark. Fine and small flowers slowly bloomed among the scattered vine nets.
Bi Lanxing relied on the vines to climb between the high walls of the factory and followed the roaring sound he was approaching to locate Gargantuar and Lu Yan’s position.
Going over to the wall of the preparation room, Gargantuar’s huge body appeared in sight. Gargantuar held Lu Yan by a leg, suspending him in the air.
Lu Yan used all his strength to lift his body up from the upside-down hanging position and held Gargantuar’s fist. He took out the pistol and fired several shots at Gargantuar’s eyes.
Gargantuar held his eyes and roared in pain. Lu Yan took the opportunity to get on his nape and stuck a spare bomb on his plump glands.
At this time, Lu Yan’s expression was almost crazy; his murderous red eyes had lost their sanity. At this moment, he had one thought in his mind—to kill this guy.
But his pistol couldn’t deal a devastating blow to an A3-grade experimental subject at all. Gargantuar quickly recovered his eyesight and touched the back of the neck with his big hand.
Lu Yan saw Bi Lanxing in the distance. After planting the bomb, he jumped down in the direction of Bi Lanxing.
Bi Lanxing immediately released vines to catch him.
But a huge hand cut between them and pulled Lu Yan back from mid-air.
Gargantuar tightly held Lu Yan’s waist. Lu Yan’s ribs were in severe pain from being squeezed, and it was like his internal organs were about to be squeezed out of his mouth.
“Lu Yan!” Bi Lanxing’s vines wrapped around Gargantuar’s arm, and he pulled it down hard. However, the mere strength of an M2-grade alpha couldn’t compete with that of an A3. Gargantuar struggled free and snapped the vines. His mouth slowly widened, and a pungent stench spread from his mouth, which gradually expanded to be wider than the width of his face. Lu Yan was then thrown into his mouth.
Lu Yan held the detonator in his hand, stuck his body between Gargantuar’s upper and lower teeth, and yelled at Bi Lanxing, “Lanxing, when you go back, tell my dad that I killed an A3 experimental subject. It was me who did it!”
The moment he was about to press the detonator, a vine wrapped around his wrist, and a set of Poison Ivy Armor appeared on him.
Gargantuar used strength to bite down, but he only felt something extremely tough between his teeth.
As soon as the Poison Ivy Armor on his body shattered, Lu Yan took the opportunity to escape from his mouth. Bi Lanxing jumped up, caught him, and pressed him down on the ground with his body. The vines wrapped around them.
“How courageous of you. Lu Yan, I had underestimated you.” Bi Lanxing kneeled on the ground, using his back to support the vines above. Although he knew that his vines couldn’t stop Gargantuar’s blunt blade, when the blade came down, Bi Lanxing himself would be the first to be cut in half.
Blood was stuck in Lu Yan’s throat. He coughed for a long time, panting weakly, and laughed in anger. “It’s a pity…that Bai Chunian didn’t see… If I die, he will definitely write on my tombstone: This was an idiot rabbit. He was killed due to his stupidity. He just won’t admit that I’m the eldest in the family. He’s really annoying.”
“You’re about to die, stop muttering.” Bi Lanxing lowered his head and covered by layers of vines, he bit Lu Yan’s lips.
The two’s fingers were interlocked, pressing the detonator with their palms.
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I’m really glad Tan Meng educated Lancing so well. So glad Qiuqiu has a nice alpha from the very beginning 🥲