Translator: Khun
Translation Checker: 7qqy
Editor: DragonFae
In a ward of the IOA Medical Association, Bai Chunian was staring at a computer screen intently and quickly typing on the keyboard to issue dispatch orders. He took out his mobile phone and called Han Xingqian.
“Han-ge, I’m applying to be discharged early. There’s a situation outside, and I’m afraid they won’t be able to handle it.
Han Xingqian immediately refused, “You have just stabilized, you may go berserk again if you use any ability, and the Medical Association will not allow you to be discharged from the hospital.”
“Then I’ll go to the Technology Department now.”
“I’ll go over to you.”
Bai Chunian hung up the phone, turned around, lay beside Rimbaud, and rubbed the hair of the still sleeping omega. “Go to sleep first.”
He hurried to change out of his hospital clothes. He found a black vest, pulled it over his head, put on the combat uniform trousers and short leather boots that Rimbaud had taken off, and walked towards the elevator entrance while buckling his belt.
He walked into the elevator, and when the elevator door was about to close, Dr. Han hurried over, pressed the door open button, and squeezed into the elevator.
Seeing his attire, Han Xingqian couldn’t help becoming serious. “I wasn’t joking with you. You’ve already tasted the pain of suppressing deterioration, and you want to experience it again?”
“I can’t help it.” Bai Chunian leaned on the elevator with his hands on his head, looking up at the floor numbers moving up on the display screen. “By the way, didn’t you say that you can suppress my deterioration if you find synthesis boosters? Did you find any?”
Han Xingqian shook his head. “The secret agents sent to the major cultivation bases to investigate came back one after another and reported that they didn’t find any evidence of there being synthesis boosters. It seems that this agent is too rare, and only a small amount of stock is available in the medicine warehouse of the Research Institute Headquarters.”
“The Headquarters…is too difficult to sneak in.” Bai Chunian touched his chin. During the many years of fighting against the 109 Research Institute, the Technology Department had already tried to investigate the loopholes in the Research Institute Headquarters. Unfortunately, the technicians in the institute were all very high-level, and it was very difficult for them to decipher the data in the Headquarters.
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“According to the time of the scheduled meeting, the results will be able to come out this week. Bai Chunian calculated the date and nodded, “Let’s go to the Technology Department first.”
The operatives in the Technology Department were all busy in front of the computers, and the technicians in the team were under even more pressure. The entire floor that the Technology Department was located in was busy.
Bai Chunian got off the elevator and went straight to Duan Yang’s office. Crawler was also beside him, doing some assistant work.
If it weren’t for Crawler wearing a bright yellow sweater that was quite garish, Bai Chunian wouldn’t have seen him at all. He hurriedly greeted him and approached the back of Duan Yang’s chair. “I just sent you six city centers. Look at them for me.”
“Communicator connected.” Duan Yang turned on eight display screens at the same time, which were the real-time surveillance of drones in different areas. In all of the surveillance footage, there were gray-white experimental subjects, wandering around without control.
Bai Chunian pressed the communication buttons one by one. “Feng Yue, Centipede is heading towards the city. The drone dropped a weapon box 300 meters away from you at one o’clock. There is a liquid nitrogen capture net inside.”
“Received.” Feng Yue’s communication signal was fluctuating, and the sound of electric currents was ear-piercing and interfering.
“Lanxing and Lu Yan, the weapon box was unloaded under the pine tree at the cliff. Lanxing, go evacuate the temple tourists. Lu Yan, go get the weapon box.”
“Yes.” After hearing the order, Bi Lanxing gave a set of Poison Ivy Armor to Lu Yan, and the two darted away in opposite directions.
“This Dragon Turtle experimental subject is too big!” Lu Yan’s voice was very urgent. In the real-time video, he was being chased and attacked by the giant Dragon Turtle’s snake head. Although he smoothly retrieved the airdropped weapon box under the pine tree with the lop-eared rabbit’s advantages of a petite and agile build and speed, but he couldn’t drag the heavy weapon box and quickly shuttle through the stone crevices and branches. He was almost bitten in two by the Dragon Turtle’s huge mouth full of stinky sharp teeth several times.
“Don’t be afraid, run towards my target point.” Bai Chunian was facing eight different real-time images at the same time, but he didn’t show any panic at all and ordered every agent of the Search Division methodically either by voice or by text.
Lu Yan’s watch map received the target location marked by Bai Chunian. He checked the map and glanced at a large stone tablet on the side of the mountain. There were corrosion pits inside the collapsed stone tablet, forming a slope against the edge. It was an excellent place to counterattack.
Dragon Turtle was not much slower than him. The snake head instantly chased after Lu Yan, and its forked tongue licked Lu Yan’s tail ball.
Lu Yan had been running away and panting nervously. “It has caught up with me, I can’t run anymore, it’s too late…”
“Run straight ahead, I’ll support you. It wouldn’t be able to bite you.” Bai Chunian pulled up the corresponding drone operation panel, and his fingertips swept across the keyboard.
Under Bai Chunian’s control, the drone shuttled between the tree branches of the mountain forest. Its lower cabin was opened, and a series of shock bombs were thrown down. The precise landing points were all distributed on the attack route of the Dragon Turtle’s snake head. The noise of the shock bombs made it bend its neck to dodge, but the last bomb landed on the loose stone surface. The stone surface exploded, the soil under the stone became loose, and collapsed after being trampled by the Dragon Turtle’s legs that were as thick as city pillars. The moment the snake head filled with sharp teeth was about to touch Lu Yan, it was dragged out of the attack range by its falling body.
The ground collapsed one section after another. Lu Yan jumped, grabbed the edge of the stone tablet with both hands, flipped into the corrosion pits, opened the weapon box, took out the howitzer from inside, skillfully reloaded, and fired several shots at the Dragon Turtle, who had one foot stuck in the mud.
Dragon Turtle was riddled with holes, and black smoke came out of the wounds that flew up against the wind.
Bai Chunian was not only commanding this pair of agents (Lu Yan and Bi Lanxing); he also had a panoramic view of the different crisis situations on the eight monitors. While driving the bombing drone with both hands, he turned on the microphones of other teams, methodically and continuously issuing operation instructions for them without missing a single one.
Duan Yang was dumbfounded as he stared at Bai Chunian’s fingers moving fast on the keyboard. Although Bai Chunian knew little about computer technology, his ability to manipulate weapons could be said to be unmatched. He had only taught Bai Chunian how to use the auxiliary combat drone once or twice.
Duan Yang was also one of the IOA’s higher-ups. He knew Bai Chunian’s true identity very well, and he couldn’t help but lament that this creature was really born for battle. Fortunately, this guy was not a member of the enemy faction. If their opponent had such a commander, perhaps the Technology Department will only be able to barely resist if the elite members join the confrontation. Not to mention that Bai Chunian was still a computer idiot, so he might have a way to beat him by using his own strengths to attack the other’s weaknesses.
Crawler stood by the wall, holding a laptop in one hand, and lightly tapping the keyboard with the other. “It seems that Eternal Undead is on the verge of losing control. It should be because it has been too long since the injection of a synthesis booster. Pearl’s suppression of his deterioration is getting weaker and weaker. Eternal Undead’s ability is too powerful, and the place affected by his breath will flood with the summoned bodies of the undead.”
Bai Chunian turned around and asked, “Do you have his detailed information?”
Crawler turned the computer over. “I only have these. Right now I only know that the design concept of the Eternal Undead is the ‘Grim Reaper.’ The white cloth on his body is the dominator object, called the Cloak of the Undead. The Cloak of the Undead can only be used on Pearl. It summons Pearl’s soul fragment to form an entity, the ‘Messenger of the Underworld.’”
“Can he really live forever? How can he be killed?”
“…I don’t know. According to the information, the ‘Eternal Undead’ is indelible and can be reborn even after being turned into ashes. The archetype of his gland is a tardigrade. This kind of creature has very tenacious vitality, and it’s not rare for it to be immortal after being transformed.” Crawler explained calmly, “You can probably understand that the common feature of the dominated is full mimicry, and the common feature of dominators is immortality, just like how the operation of any program depends on certain laws.”
Bai Chunian rested his chin in his hand and pondered for a while. “Duan Yang, investigate student Jin Xi, Class 1, Grade 2, No. 1 Middle School in Red Fox City for me. Also send me his home address, former addresses, parents’ information, and student status files.”
On the missing person notice he picked up in Red Fox City, he saw Eternal Undead’s appearance before he was transformed into an experimental subject, but there was not much relevant information on the missing person notice. Before that, Bai Chunian had also investigated this student’s information, but he hadn’t had time to delve into it yet. Besides, basically nothing could’ve been dug up from a student who hadn’t graduated from high school.
After Duan Yang heard this, he sent the work to the technicians under him and waited for the data to be collected and consolidated. “Student Jin Xi was…a good student, and his grades are not bad. I will sort it out and send it to you later, oh, he has gone to this tattoo shop before, the kids now are really wild.”
“I’m going to visit his school.” Bai Chunian took the printed materials and flipped through them. “I’m going to visit his home on the way too.”
He glanced at Dr. Han. “Han-ge, if you’re worried, just go with me. I don’t think it’s going to work without going. Bring more placating medicine and tranquilizers. I’ll try not to get physical, it’ll probably work.”
Han Xingqian frowned and thought for a while. Then he finally nodded. “I’ll report it to the Medical Association first. Call Rimbaud, he can suppress you.”
“He’s too tired, let’s have him sleep for a while, and then call him when we arrive. He’ll swim over really fast anyway.”
After the two left, the door of Duan Yang’s office was pushed open again.
“Fuck, who is it?” Duan Yang was most annoyed when people entered his office without knocking. He looked back and found Rimbaud leaning against the door frame with half of his head sticking out, observing secretly with his sapphire blue eyes.
Bai Chunian had worn his pants. When Rimbaud woke up, he had no pants to wear, so he could only transform back into his fishtail and claw at the wall with both hands to fasten his body until the wall was cracked.
“I’m looking for Xiao Bai,” he said coldly.
What kind of wind brought Mrs. Chu here? Duan Yang hurriedly compensated with a smile.
Crawler showed Rimbaud the location. “They’re going to the Red Fox City. Bai Chunian said to go find them after you wake up.”
“Mn.” Rimbaud turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly heard an alert from Duan Yang’s computer. He looked back and saw that the images on the screens embedded in the wall had switched to coasts, islands, and some boundless distant seas.
A long neck suddenly protruded from the sea surface. An ashy snake neck protruded from the water surface, shook the sea water on its head, opened its mouth with sharp teeth, and roared towards the sky.
Crawler quickly intercepted the screen and loaded the analysis data. “Experimental subject 302 Plesiosaur, paleo-organism gene restoration body, another entity summoned by the Undead. It was destroyed by the Research Institute in year K031 because of its large size and need to live in water, which excessively raised the cost of breeding. The research of the Research Institute was not all successful. Before the experimental subject technology had matured, a large number of experimental subjects with strong abilities and large size that were difficult to control were destroyed. Later, they invented the mimicry technology. It seems that these large experimental subjects were all stepping stones of mimicry technology. The Research Institute destroyed them and threw the corpses into the sea.”
Duan Yang turned on the communicator and divided up groups to command. “Group one, contact the Mad Sharks Unit to evacuate the fishing boats. There is more than one threat. The positioning has been shared with all equipment. Group two, notify the Alliance Police Department to evacuate the residents of the coastal cities and block the entrances, exits, and highways around the city. Group three, issue documents to let the major media outlets focus on publishing news to maintain stability. Group four, delete remarks and videos that caused panic.”
The image displayed on one of the screens was the underwater situation in a faraway sea. In the dim light of the twilight zone, there were figures of merfolks swimming away in a hurry.
It wasn’t just one merfolk that appeared in the camera. More than a hundred merfolk were scattered and jostling chaotically, as if they were being chased by a terrifying creature. Soon, the shadow of a giant appeared from the deep sea, and a large number of water bubbles blocked the view of the camera. The camera shook violently, and soon, the sea water in the camera was dyed bright red, and the black shadow disappeared. In the scarlet sea water, half of a fishtail that had been bitten off slowly fell in the sea water with numerous bones of the dead.
Rimbaud’s pupils gradually stretched into a thin line, and he stared at the blood-soaked screen with a grave expression.
Inappropriate to the situation, Crawler warned, “King, you have to choose a side now.”
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