Translator: KrisXian
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: DragonFae
Feng Yue escorted Rimbaud and Bai Chunian all the way back to the IOA headquarters, where the Medical Association’s ambulance was already waiting at the city entrance. As soon as their car entered the city, they were immediately surrounded by doctors, who moved Bai Chunian into the ambulance.
Rimbaud originally planned to accompany him, but the space in the ambulance was already occupied by equipment and doctors. Seeing that there was a familiar person inside, Passenger Pigeon from the laboratory department, only then Rimbaud did not insist on following and stayed in Feng Yue’s car.
Unlike ambulances that could use the emergency lane, they were slowed down by the congested traffic as they entered the city. Occasionally, they encountered minor traffic jams which wore out their patience and they could only wait impatiently.
Rimbaud sat on the passenger seat, leaning his head and looking out the window in a daze. There were so many vehicles on land—buses, SUVs, sedans, trucks, and jeeps, so many that it was annoying. They could also only drive in narrow lanes and move forward bit by bit. Rimbaud hates this system. He liked to knock over things in his way and move forward in a straight line.
However, this human world was different. Even though they knew that going in a straight line between two destinations was the shortest route, they still spent a lot of time going in circles, much to Rimbaud puzzlement.
Seeing his anxiety, Feng Yue turned on the car radio and looked for the music station she usually listened to, but it was currently broadcasting midday news.
“In local news: From early morning till noon today, numerous incidents of marine life mobs adversely impacting the fishing boats nearby coastal cities have been reported. Such incidents include a group of humpback whales stranding collectively in the shallow area of water along the coast of Greenfly City. Moreover, unknown creatures and strange noises have been reported from the bottom of the sea. Some witnesses claim that they encountered a pod of agitated killer whales capsizing a survey ship. Fortunately, no casualties have been reported. The cause of this phenomena is still under investigation by the relevant departments. Drivers and citizens alike are asked to temporarily stay away from coastal areas. The seaside highway has been closed, please wait for further announcement regarding its specific reopening time.”
Listening to this series of news reports, Rimbaud rubbed his temples in frustration and whispered to himself, “Gilen boliea (Leave me alone).”
The news update ended, and the music station continued to play European classic songs that were interrupted halfway through. The elegant and soothing music made Rimbaud feel a little more comfortable, and his expression was not as grave as before.
“Go to the beach,” Rimbaud said.
“Oh.” Feng Yue couldn’t help but look at him through her peripheral vision. This man was not only good-looking but also easily attracted second looks. He was flawless from his bones to his skin. His voice was also magnetic and pleasant, and his demeanor carried a kind of tranquility indicative of having lived in this world for a long time. He was probably indeed a mafia leader and a European aristocrat.
Feng Yue took a small candy plastic bag similar to cold medicine out of her hand and handed it to Rimbaud.
Rimbaud looked at the words on the packaging but couldn’t recognize them.
“Sour fruit candy.” Feng Yue bit open the packaging, poured the white powder into her mouth, lightly licked her lips, and sighed in satisfaction. “This brand is only sold in front of elementary schools, so it’s hard to find.”
Rimbaud picked up a pack of yogurt flavor, tore it open as Feng Yue had done, and poured the powder into his mouth.
It melted in his mouth and tasted sour, feeling like goosebumps would burst on his body.
It was delicious.
Feng Yue took out more popping candy and spicy strips from her inside her sleeve and handed it to him. Her sister was still in elementary school, therefore, she always bought a lot of snacks from the entrance stalls whenever she picked her up every weekend.
The car drove to the seaside of Greenfly City and stopped. Before getting out of the car, Rimbaud raised his hand and collected a water bead on his fingertips. A swimming blue jellyfish was encased in the water droplet. The water bead floated in front of Feng Yue and fell into her palm.
“I like what you’ve offered, therefore, this is the reward you deserve (Also, your tail is nice to touch).” Rimbaud got out of the car and closed the door. The white suit jacket draped over his shoulders was blown up and down by the wind as he walked towards the beach.
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A total of 21 humpback whales were stranded on the beach. The smallest one was about 10 meters long and weighed more than 20 tons. These large, heavy-bodied whales almost never showed up in shallow waters. This time, they were even stranded in a group. Biologists remained calm and speculated that this heralded a large typhoon or other serious geological and climatic problems, but the fishermen had begun to spread various outrageous apocalyptic rumors among themselves.
In this case, the police were also having a hectic time. Although the whales had not yet died, it was difficult to haul such a large number back to the deep sea in a short time. If they delayed for too long, the whales would soon rot internally in these temperatures, and there was a high probability of explosions as a result of the buildup of gases in their body cavities.
Rimbaud stood in the distance with his hands in his pockets, looking at them from a distance.
Despite the whales did not make a sound, Rimbaud still received the waves they emitted—
“Quaun (Queen).”
In the news relayed on the big screen on the beach, the rioting schools of fish and the pod of orcas that collided with the survey ship were all emitting sound fluctuations of the same frequency, which Rimbaud could receive from different parts of the ocean.
“Quaun.”
“Quaun.”
Considering that Siren’s scale was in Bai Chunian’s body and he was the life partner that Rimbaud had openly introduced to the sea tribe, now that he’s been seriously injured, all the creatures in the ocean began to instinctively feel uneasy, but the intelligence of these sea creatures was not enough to allow them to differentiate between the “experimental subjects” and the “human beings.” Therefore, the way they expressed fear when threatened was to become aggressive and hostile to humans.
The fishermen affected by the temporary sea closure gathered outside the cordon. Meanwhile, the police officers maintained order while waiting for orders from their superiors regarding how to deal with the situation.
Rimbaud stood alone on the coast, which attracted the attention of the police. The policeman who was tying a tow rope to the beached whale ran over, pointed his baton at Rimbaud, and shouted to drive him away, “It’s dangerous here! Ordinary citizens must retreat outside the perimeter.”
Rimbaud calmly said, “Let your people move away.”
Some Alliance police officers recognized Rimbaud and knew that he worked at the IOA Headquarters, but they did not dare to leave easily without instructions from their superiors.
Rimbaud didn’t care. He faced the sea, his eyes flashing with dark blue light.
The sea spread over the beach in waves, soon crossing the high tide line and rising in just a few dozen seconds to reach under the whales, which struggled and slapped their tail flukes, splashing and wetting the officers’ clothes.
The police officers also noticed that the tide was rising faster than usual, so they untied the towing ropes and ran away from the coast to watch.
The seawater rose to the level of the whales’ pectoral fins, engulfing most of the beach. This allowed the whales to start to struggle to move.
Rimbaud gently raised his hand. Without apparent reason, waves rolled up more than 10 meters high and condensed into a giant hand of hydrated steel. The transparent arm made from surging water slowly descended from the sky—with fish, shrimp, and kelp swimming inside—and gently gathered the whales on the shore back into the sea. It was like a mother waking up from her sleep, raising her arms to bring the baby who crawled to the edge of the bed back into her arms, helpless but tolerant.
The whales went back to the sea and made long, undulating calls.
Rimbaud listened to their anxious calls and sighed. He moved his fingertips slightly and once again controlled the sea, turning the water into soft fingertips and caressing the head of a young whale, “Tell everyone else, don’t make any more trouble, my darling, I will naturally protect him.”
A number of bluish jellyfish floated up in the water. As they swam, they arranged themselves in an orderly fashion, gradually piecing together and utilizing their bodies to form an outline—a ghost draped in white cloth.
“Whoever sees him in the future and is able to kill him at any cost, I will give a reward, anyone who participates in the siege will also be blessed.” Rimbaud coldly threw down an order and turned to walk away.
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At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Rimbaud returned to the IOA Headquarters and took the elevator directly to the floor where the Medical Association was located.
Rimbaud was already familiar with the process of entering the Medical Association, and he quickly moved to the conference room. Several respected doctors of the Medical Association and the bosses of the Tech Department were inside. Dr. Zhong was standing in front of the screen and giving explanations to others.
Rimbaud opened the door and glanced around them coldly, “Where is Xiao Bai?”
Dr. Zhong saw him and beckoned him to go in and take a seat. Rimbaud reluctantly walked in with little patience and sat next to Crawler.
Crawler whispered, “Divine Envoy’s condition is relatively stable now. You should stay here for a while and listen to their report.”
Dr. Zhong gestured to Rimbaud and continued his explanation. The screen showed the pictures of Eternal Undead that Bai Chunian had taken with his miniature camera.
“After combining the results from the Laboratory Department and the Technology Department, we have completely investigated Experimental Subject Eternal Undead’s case.
“Experimental Subject Number 200, codenamed Eternal Undead, full name Pandora Eternal Undead. The first number 2 represents insect-type glands, the middle number 0 represents no mimicry, and the last number 0 represents guidance-type abilities.
“After genetic comparison, it was found that his gland species is a tardigrade, and his inherent ability is immortality.
“At this point, the Eternal Undead had already entered the deterioration phase. However, in contrast to Experiment Subject 218 Pattissier, Eternal Undead did not enter a state of complete loss of control when he entered deterioration, but rather, he was held back by a force that originated from the pearl he held in his hand.”
Dr. Zhong zoomed in and placed a close-up photo of Pearl on the screen.
Rimbaud closed his eyes.
“We have also captured this pearl’s data through the Experimental Subjects’ Identification System, Experimental Number 8107, codenamed Dark Envoy. The first number, 8, represents an aquatic-type gland, the middle number, 10, represents full mimicry, and the last number, 7, represents that its primary ability is matter-energy manipulation.
“Currently, there are only three fully mimicry envoy-type experimental subjects known to us, and this pearl is the fourth.
“There is a link between the Dark Envoy and the Eternal Undead that’s similar to a ‘controlling’ relationship. I say ‘similar’ here because I think it may not be a genuine ‘controlling’ link, but one forcibly established by relying on synthesis.”
Dr. Zhong took out a copy of the document stolen from the Greyhound Family’s data room from the folder and handed it to the professors to give out. The section about the synthesis booster was highlighted in red.
“This pearl can suppress the deteriorating and violent state of Eternal Undead, but there are many restrictions at present. First, the two must maintain a close enough distance, and second, the synthesis booster must be injected on time to maintain such a connection.
“If Eternal Undead goes into a deteriorating rampage, it will surely cause massive and uncontrollable destruction as well as consume his own life. In other words, assuming we let the destruction continue, Eternal Undead’s life will be depleted in a short period of time. Nevertheless, we just can’t estimate the extent and scale of the destruction as of yet.”
After Dr. Zhong introduced Eternal Undead’s case, he began to explain Bai Chunian’s current situation.
“Bai Chunian’s growth stage has reached the peak of maturity and is already at the tipping point of deterioration. Now he relies on a material called Dead Sea Heart Rock to restrain and suppress him. I hope that we can all open up our minds and link to the existing information we have at hand to find a way to curb the deterioration as soon as possible.”
Rimbaud listened patiently to the whole thing. Nonetheless, near the end, he was unable to sit still.
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After seeing off the professors, Dr. Zhong took Rimbaud to the observation room. On the way, he kept giving Rimbaud forewarning politely, “Xiao Bai’s current condition is not very stable. I put him in a closed isolated room for observation. Don’t worry, we didn’t use any medicine to make him uncomfortable, we just restrained him temporarily to avoid accidentally injuring the nurses who were cleaning and changing his dressing.”
He knew that Rimbaud had a bad temper, and only Xiao Bai could control him. If he wasn’t informed in advance, Rimabud might become so angry that he would overturn the table when he went in.
Rimbaud resented his nagging and was just about to tell him to shut up when he saw Dr. Zhong turn the real-time monitoring screen of the confined observation room around to face him.
Bai Chunian was lying on a single hospital bed inside, his hands and feet were handcuffed to the railings of the bed. The Dead Sea Heart Rock collar was constricting his throat, preventing him from breathing smoothly, and his mouth was shackled, locking his jaw and teeth and causing him to be unable to speak. In addition, he was wearing thick black eye masks and ear plugs, and had pheromone sealing patches on his glands.
The poor alpha looked restless. He was not asleep, and looked vigilant amidst the silence and darkness.
Rimbaud leaned on the monitoring screen, his heart aching for his beloved.
Dr. Zhong said softly, “After we brought him back, he accidentally hit a nurse’s arm and obliterated her while he was unconscious. Although he kept apologizing after waking up, we could only control him first to be on the safe side before proceeding with the follow-up treatment. Why don’t you go and take a look at him? Maintaining a state of sensory deprivation for a long time will be harmful to his body and mental state.”
Rimbaud couldn’t be bothered to listen to his ramblings and hurriedly went inside the confined observation room.
The airtight observation room was completely soundproofed and without any light. It was completely dark.
Rimbaud gently sat next to Bai Chunian, but since Bai Chunian could not see, hear, or reach out to touch, he could only feel someone sunkening his mattress. Nevertheless, he could not tell who it was.
Rimbaud reached out and gently touched his alpha’s cheek with his fingertips.
Bai Chunian jerked violently; his nerves tightening up fiercely. Rimbaud clearly sensed the extreme panic and fear conveyed back to his heart through Bai Chunian’s earring, even if the alpha didn’t seem to be in that bad of a state on the surface.
The familiar warmth against the skin of his cheek. Bai Chunian gently moved his head, his body slowly relaxing.
Rimbaud removed his earplugs first and leaned over to whisper in his ear, “Randi, I’m the one taking over your body now. Don’t be afraid of hurting me, you can rest assured.”
His voice naturally carried a soothing power. Bai Chunian’s tense body relaxed a little, pressing his cheek lightly against Rimbaud’s.
Rimbaud took off his muzzle. His jaw was so sore from the long period of confinement that Bai Chunian couldn’t help but lick his lips.
Rimbaud lowered his head, licked his lips, hooked the tip of his tongue between his teeth, and slowly conquered into his mouth. He soothed his numb tongue for him and licked the small inverted barbs on the alpha’s tongue.
Bai Chunian’s body trembled. His eyes couldn’t see, so he didn’t know that his Annihilation ability was spreading without him realizing it. He longed for this tenderness and chased Rimbaud for his slippery touch.
The brandy pressure pheromones seeped out from the sealing patch, and began to condense and annihilate Rimbaud’s fingertips, forming glass and corroding his skin.
Rimbaud said nothing about the pain coming from his fingertips and continued to kiss Bai Chunian’s lips, nose, and forehead carefully as he softly chuckled, “Do you really think of me as a big cat? You want to lick my fur so much?”
Bai Chunian sobered up a bit and raised his head, revealing a strangled neck and an inch of cold white skin. He put away all of his oppressive pheromones and released soothing pheromones instead. The wounds on Rimbaud’s fingertips began to heal.
Bai Chunian’s face turned from pale to rosy, and he finally heaved a sigh of relief. He raised the corners of his lips and revealed the tips of his canine teeth.
“Ah. Tell me what a little wife should say. Don’t be so domineering all the time. What’s wrong with wanting to lick your fur? It’s only natural. Meow.”
[Staff’s Corner]
Kris Xian: (wiping away tears) Meow.
Thank You for the new chapter (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
I’m so worried for the entire Bai family 😭😭😭 and I never wanted an experimental subject to die more than Eternal Undead 😡😡😡
Thank you for your amazing work guys, this quickly became one of my favorite danmeis thanks to you 😭😭