Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Editor: DragonFae
IOA Headquarters Ramp.
Bai Chunian was wearing a hospital gown, with Rimbaud’s coat draped over him, and standing leisurely by the railing of the platform. He watched as armed helicopters painted with the PBB logo descended from the sky one by one. A dozen or so buses were parked in the parking lot in a strict order. PBB soldiers all wearing camouflage combat outfits got off the bus in an orderly manner while carrying their luggage. They lined up in a tight queue, waiting for their superiors’ orders.
The PBB Storm Special Forces and the Mad Sharks Marines had different uniforms. The Storm Forces wore black camouflage combat uniforms and had the PBBw logo on their chest. The Mad Shark Unit wore blue camouflage uniforms and an army green beret, and had the PBBs logo on their chest. Therefore, the soldiers who got off the bus were automatically divided into two rectangular-shaped teams with different colors.
“Very organized, I have never seen such an orderly team in my life.” Bai Chunian sincerely lamented.
“Hmph, you guys from the IOA should have changed your laxity long ago. Last time’s exchange training was effective. The kids you brought had made great progress. In the beginning, they couldn’t even do housework well and got punished for it every day. This is all because you set a bad example.” He Suowei put his hands on his waist and walked slowly back and forth on the platform, sometimes he would take out his walkie-talkie and reprimand the slow-moving group below.
“Where’s all these rules coming from… But it’s pretty nice when showing it off—unlike my mischievous kids.” Bai Chunian folded his arms and nodded thoughtfully.
The PBB army was gathering at IOA in the name of joint exercises. This meant that they were already preparing to suppress the Research Institute. Once the president’s proposal was passed, the search warrants and arrest warrants would be issued together, and the International Police Department would arrest all researchers. The possibility of Aileen being driven to a corner couldn’t be ruled out. The PBB army had gathered in advance just to make perfect preparations to prevent the institute from resisting and protecting the civilians.
“Your injury hasn’t completely healed yet? How serious is it?” He Suowei looked Bai Chunian up and down. His stomach and chest were bandaged. He was also wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, and he was quite different from his usual high-spirited and mean look.
Bai Chunian held onto the railing, looking a bit exhausted. He obviously still hadn’t recovered into tip-top shape yet. His complexion was as white as a paper, his eyelids and lips were unusually red, and he looked thinner than usual. He still had his wedding ring on, but it was loose and caught on his reddened knuckles.
He Suowei couldn’t really believe it; the Bai Chunian right now actually gave him an illusion of fragility. He was weak in spirit, and his entire being had an air of being sick.
“It couldn’t be that you have tuberculosis? Don’t pass it on to me.”
“Then you’ll be the first I’ll pass it on to.” Bai Chunian went beside He Suowei.
He Suowei furrowed his eyebrows and patted his shoulder. “Jokes aside, are you really alright?”
“I wouldn’t say I’m completely fine, I can only say that I’m almost at death’s door.” Bai Chunian lazily clasped his hands. “My good bro, I probably don’t have much time left. If I really am a goner, help me take care of my students. As for my wife, there’s no need to. Afterall, you don’t have a wife, nor do you have any experience. When you have nothing to do, just take your team members to the beach to pick up garbage and the likes.”
“Tch, pei.” He Suowei picked up a piece of grass and put it between his lips. He knew this kid couldn’t say anything serious.
The phone in Bai Chunian’s pocket vibrated. He took it out and glanced at the screen—it was a video call from Golden Silk Spider.
“Yo, he arrived so soon.” Bai Chunian answered the call.
Golden Silk Spider appeared on the screen, his pair of metallized spider eyes blinked twice in front of the camera, and he smiled shyly and said, “I’m at the Greenfly Training Base right now. The experimental subjects escorted by PBB also have arrived. Everyone is here now.”
Then, he handed a laptop to the mummy. The mummy held the laptop and slowly took a few steps back, and the camera slowly zoomed out.
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Yu Xiaocheng placed his arms around Huck’s neck (Experimental Subject 7115, Red-tailed Hawk) and squeezed into the camera. “Instructor… Oh oh, Chu-ge, is your injury getting better?”
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They were really timid. Due to their previous contact with Bai Chunian at PBB, it resulted in them being frightened at even the sight of his face. They would dive head first into the arms of the cats beside them, trembling, and almost stumbling over.
It was difficult for the weak experimental subjects to eliminate their fear of the strong ones of the same kind, especially under the suppression of extreme species like cats and mice. Fortunately, the cat students who take care of them can make them adapt to a certain extent.
“Ch-Chu-ge…I taught him how to use pinyin to type. I’ll have them demonstrate for you. Come, Big Pineapple, type my name.” Firefly pushed a huge African elephant experimental subject. Once he appeared, he almost filled the entire screen. The big guy was a bit shy; he kept covering his face and hiding behind Firefly.
“He’s just too shy.” Firefly scratched his head and had to give up.
The border collie alpha was standing on the beach and controlling a drone to fly over the sea with the flying experimental subjects. He freed a hand to wave at Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian laughed. “Duan Ye, be more serious during this year’s end of the year assessment. Your brother is waiting for you to take over the Tech Department.”
The border collie gave an OK sign. “My brother hasn’t gone bald yet? It should be about time.”
After this period of observation and treatment—it was determined that the fourteen experimental subjects recovered by PBB from the International Prison, plus several experimental subjects that were originally captured by PBB, and some experimental subjects and larvae that were taken in by IOA a while ago—no longer had the desire to attack people, so they were all placed on Greenfly Island and tried to live with the children.
On the corner of the screen, Invisible Stalker was on the beach and drawing Mona Lisa on the sand with a finger. Turing Museum was sitting beside him reading a book. These two high IQ experimental subjects really play well with each other.
The dandelion experimental subject was crying and chasing after her hair that was blown away by the sea wind, the corundum experimental subject picked up shells on the coast and polished them into jewelry as smooth as gemstones to distribute to the students around him. The students were chattering and playing with the experimental subjects.
He Wenxiao and He Wenyi suddenly squeezed into the camera, with only two noses left on the screen.
“Captain, where’s the captain? We have escorted the experimental subjects.”
Bai Chunian grabbed He Suowei’s neck and pulled him beside him. “Right here. Lao He, come say a few words.”
He Suowei put on a stern expression and lectured, “You two don’t play around. Training can’t be abandoned, you hear me?”
“Yes. Captain, we missed you.” The little wolf cubs smiled thoughtlessly.
“Hmph, don’t make that face, it’s useless.” He Suowei put on a pair of sunglasses, coughed, and turned his head to the side.
Bai Chunian let He Suowei go. He lazily held up the mobile phone and went to a place where no one was around, and instructed the little ones before hanging up.
After hanging up, his phone alarm rang; it was time for his routine check-up. He’s been out for a long time today, it was time to return to his ward.
Two days after being hospitalized for observation, Bai Chunian’s physical examination results passed the indicators, and his body’s indexes in all aspects dropped, and he remained in a stable state for the time being. However, they hadn’t found a way to completely suppress his deterioration. The doctor forbade him to leave the IOA headquarters area, so as not to be stimulated by the outside world, and to strictly monitor his physical condition at any time.
Bai Chunian sat on the single bed, put his work laptop on his knees, and browsed the latest development of the 109 Research Institute. Due to the temporary shortage of monocrylene, and Uncle Jin secretly released the news that the Research Institute was short of medicine and the funding chain was broken, many collaborations with the experimental subjects fell through. It also looked like the institute’s reputation plummeted.
Last night, Uncle Jin and the president specially made a video call to check on his injury. Bai Chunian was a little embarrassed and kept telling them he was fine, so they could rest assured. The president was still in Westminster, and Uncle Jin had postponed his itinerary to go with him. Bai Chunian didn’t want them to worry about him over here when they were thousands of miles away.
Now it seems that as long as the 109 Research Institute maintains this current decline, even if the president’s proposal doesn’t get passed, it won’t be long before it will collapse on its own.
Duan Yang from the Tech Department said he received a hard disk from a doll this morning. Inside was information that only 109’s employees could browse on their internal network. Puppet Master directly tossed this material they stole from Warwick Pharmaceutical Factory in Red Fox City to IOA. Probably because they were severely injured from this operation to seize the experimental subjects, they don’t plan on facing the Research Institute head-on for a while.
The Tech Department checked the current location of Puppet Master, and found that his group was no longer within the territory. The doll shop opened in the narrow street had a store rental sign. The furniture inside was still there, but the dolls on the iron display racks were all gone. This morning, a member of the Search Department of the IOA North American branch sent a message saying that they found traces of Puppet Master’s activities in Canada, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. The reply from the IOA headquarters was to continue to observe.
Bai Chunian skimmed through the copy of information from Puppet Master. He found that the Institute didn’t entirely stop producing the agents, even in the absence of the monocrylene, so as to guarantee the fulfillment of their previous orders and minimize losses.
A knock came from the door of the ward. Han Xingqian pushed open the door and entered, in his hand was the check-up book.
“Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere today?” Han Xingqian walked to Bai Chunian’s bedside, bent down and raised Bai Chunian’s chin. He checked if his pupils were glowing blue, then opened his mouth to check if his teeth were growing toward the direction of an animal, then pressed his head to check if his nape had an abnormal redness.
There wasn’t any abnormal redness but a normal redness. Bai Chunian’s nape had two rows of teeth marks and still had a scent of musk rose. It was clearly done by that fish.
“No.” Bai Chunian obediently let him fiddle around.
“Although a proper sex life can make you recover faster, don’t overindulge in it.”
“My wife is clingy, I can’t do anything about that.” Bai Chunian lazily yawned and leaned against the reclined bed. “Why hasn’t Rimbaud returned yet? It’s just going to the canteen to buy food… It couldn’t be that he ate the big spoon from the canteen again?”
“He’s with my teacher. I saw him when I came over.”
“What is he looking for Dr. Zhong for?”
“What else, he’s worried about you.”
“Oh.” Bai Chunian secretly approached Han Xingqian and asked, “What did you guys talk about behind my back? A lot of things have happened recently, I’m afraid he’ll be sad.”
“Rest assured, he’s much more mature than you. He lived for so long, what hasn’t he seen? He has a tough personality and is proud, he will not show it to us even if he is sad.” Han Xingqian took out a ballpoint pen from his breast pocket, then lowered his head and recorded Bai Chunian’s situation in the check-up book. He rang the bell for the nurse to come in and attached a bottle of tranquilizer to Bai Chunian’s IV drip.
“Han-ge, look at this?” Bai Chunian turned the laptop screen toward Han Xingqian. “The Research Institute is biting the bullet to produce the agent. Without the monocrylene, won’t it affect the effect? Then everything we did was in vain.”
“We have researched the monocrylene, the role played by this raw material in pharmaceuticals has been confirmed.” Han Xingqian said, “This is a highly addictive tranquilizer that can greatly improve the experimental subject’s obedience.”
Han Xingqian carefully browsed the section on the laptop about the continued production of the agents by the Research Institute, thought for a while and said, “The agents without monocrylene will have the same essential effect, but the obedience of the subjects will soon deteriorate. The subjects are ferocious. The experimental subjects they sell to various countries and organizations were elites selected from among thousands. Is Aileen planning to make a wave of quick money then run off?”
Bai Chunian furrowed his eyebrows. He had the Tech Department send a message to the IOA branches located in various countries, asking them to be vigilant and pay attention to those organizations and countries that have purchased experimental subjects.
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109 Research Institute.
Aileen was sitting in front of her desk holding a cup of coffee, watching an experimental subject’s video on the computer.
A series of videos were the training records of Eternal Undead. He was her greatest creation; no matter who the opponent was, he would kill them in one hit. Even an A3-grade experimental subject wasn’t his opponent.
But no matter how strong an experimental subject was, they all have a weakness.
In the videos, Eternal Undead, who has always been docile and obedient, suddenly tried to break the incubator. However, the four corners of the incubator were equipped with liquid nitrogen freezing nets specially designed to deal with experimental subjects. A liquid nitrogen bomb froze him, and it wasn’t until his body thawed that he was able to move again.
The liquid nitrogen net was the masterpiece of a weapon researcher under Aileen, made from using a northern prawn’s glands, even Divine Envoy and Electro-Optic Phantom would be frozen by the liquid nitrogen bomb. This proved that the liquid nitrogen bomb was the most effective weapon in controlling all experimental subjects. The researchers who invented the liquid nitrogen bomb were also promoted and had their salaries raised, Aileen would never treat her talented scientists shabbily.
The smart AI “Deng” emitted a sound. “Puppet Master’s entire team took a huge blow. Eris’ mechanical core has been damaged, Odd Bones was seriously injured, and Sarcosuchus received internal injuries. They have fled to Canada.”
Aileen used her fingertip to wipe the lipstick stain on her mug. “Hmph… We’ll just give those useless experimental subjects to them.”
Deng said, “We lost four of the five ace A3 experimental subjects we sent out. Velociraptor, Athena Shield, and Cotton Erosion were killed by Eris. Twilight Deer was killed by Eternal Undead.”
Aileen frowned. “Eternal Undead killed his own people?”
Deng answered, “I already issued for him to come back but he refused.”
Aileen lightly snorted. “He’s indeed playful. You should know what to do.”
Deng, “Got it. A liquid nitrogen capture net has been launched.”
Aileen watched the real-time monitoring from the computer. Eternal Undead’s figure showed up on the screen, floating aimlessly in the air. Suddenly, a drone appeared and fired a liquid nitrogen bomb at him.
Undead was wearing the Research Institute’s locating ring. His location could be tracked at any time, so he couldn’t escape from their monitoring at all.
Undead froze instantly, fell from the sky, and hit the ground. Both his hands and legs broke and flew several meters away.
Aileen coldly laughed as she watched the scene on screen. “Send people to bring him back.”
“Got it.”
“Since there are no other issues, I’ll go back and check on Xiao Yang. It’s been days yet he’s still sulking and going on a hunger strike. Men are really hard to coax.”
Aileen left the office. The AI was responsible for turning off the electricity in the office and locking the doors and windows.
Before the computer on the desk was turned off, it was still on the real-time monitoring screen. A helicopter slowly drew near in the sky. Several researchers in protective suits descended from a rope and locked the frozen Eternal Undead in a glass container. The helicopter was prepared to take them back.
And in the unremarkable weeds, Eternal Undead’s frozen severed hand that was left out among the messy grass, his fingers moved slightly.
The severed hand quickly thawed, the fingers were as flexible as the limbs of an insect. When the researchers were retracting the ramp, the hand jumped and held onto the beam at the end of the ramp.
“Hehe.”
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡
Please big cat, get well soon and go kick their ass to all those vilains…😭
This arc is so sad why can’t all my faves be happy??!!