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The giant white lion was emitting a strong brandy pheromone. The smell of wine was as pungent as ten barrels leaking from an underground wine cellar. Just whiffing it could make a person dizzy.
Wei Lan, who was on the ship deck, grabbed Feng Lang and backed away. He said nervously, “That’s Bai Chunian?”
Feng Lang’s hands that were holding the rifle trembled. “He’s in deterioration. Captain, what should we do?”
Rimbaud stayed calm. He lowered his head, caressed the fur on the white lion’s large head, and said with determination, “Not yet.”
Eternal Undead, who was sitting on the ghost ship’s mast, suddenly flew into the air, his expression surprised. “Deterioration stage?”
The experimental subject would go through a period of initial deterioration from the maturity stage to the deterioration stage. During this period, the experimental subject had not yet entered the invincible state and was still in a controllable state. A large number of mimetic characteristics would appear. However, the energy from within would begin to accumulate, and their strength would greatly increase, preparing for the outbreak of the deterioration stage.
On the coast of Greenfly City, a small speedboat broke through the water. It was very fast and gradually approached the ship. When it was nearly thirty meters away from the ship, Han Xingqian grabbed the belt over Xiao Xun, who was driving the speedboat, and held the omega under his arm. He spread out his Pegasus wings and brought him onto the deck.
“Finally caught up.” Han Xingqian held onto the railing and caught his breath. “The Medical Association has produced a dissociative agent. It can maintain the deterioration stage for a long time. However, treating the symptom won’t cure the root cause, but it’s still enough for emergencies.”
These days, Dr. Zhong stayed in the laboratory day and night. Other than checking up on Bai Chunian, Han Xingqian spent the rest of his time accompanying Dr. Zhong to do research. They were able to develop the first-ever dissociative injection through the combination of an IN infection agent and a mimetic agent, which acted on the glands and spine to slowly release a medicinal effect and continuously kill off deterioration cells dividing endlessly.
An hour ago, Dr. Zhong gave a batch of dissociative agents that passed the preliminary testing to Xiao Xun and had him bring it over to meet up with Han Xingqian and Bai Chunian. At the time, it was already a matter of life or death; Bai Chunian’s heart suddenly trembled in the car. The soul connection between controller and envoy caused his consciousness to totally collapse, leaving him only a hair’s breadth away from deterioration.
Xiao Xun placed the tranquilizer gun on the railing, and a row of injections filled with dissociative agents were hanging from his waist. When he arrived, he had already injected Bai Chunian with one. Next, he just needed to see how long the dissociative agent’s effect would last, so he could give a follow-up shot in time.
The people talked in fear; this white lion seemed to be even more dangerous and frightening than Eternal Undead. A soldier nervously felt his way to the missile command platform. Xiao Xun turned around and coldly ordered, “Don’t move. Chu-ge won’t attack you guys, so calm down a little.”
Han Xingqian released two feathers—one floated on top of Eternal Undead’s head, and the other floated on top of Twilight Deer’s head. Pegasus’ A3 ability, Wings of the Divine Rider, was activated. The fog Twilight Deer released disappeared, and Eternal Undead’s associated ability, Pandora’s Magic Mirror, which was so large that it spread across the entire ocean, also vanished. The ship could finally move forward again.
“Protect the ship’s retreat.”
This was the order left by Bai Chunian before he lost consciousness.
As the ship picked up speed, it sailed away from the battlefield. Xiao Xun shouted at Rimbaud, “Rimbaud, catch!”
He pulled the trigger, firing a dissociative injection towards Rimbaud. Rimbaud raised his hands to catch the injection flying rapidly in the air and hid it in the white lion’s thick fur.
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“I thought you wouldn’t speak loudly.” Han Xingqian smiled. “What happened just now?”
Xiao Xun was slightly startled, his tail was clamped between his legs, and his voice was very low, as if he had done something wrong. “I don’t like them calling Chu-ge a monster.”
Han Xingqian took the cut bandage roll from him, used it to bandage the bruise of a fisherman who was injured in violent shaking, and said quietly, “You are an employee of the IOA Search Division—what will you do if Xiao Bai deteriorates and lose control, and the higher-ups tell you to kill him?”
“Refuse, then accept punishment.”
“Then if you get punished and deported, won’t you be unable to see me ever again?”
Han Xingqian thought about it for a long time. After Han Xingqian bandaged three more injured people, he turned back to look at him and found that he still looked distressed. This kid had a one-track mind and was a stubborn puppy.
It wasn’t until Han Xingqian finished treating the fourth injured person that he spoke, “You’ve taught me how to sneak back in from abroad.”
It turned out he didn’t speak for a long time not because he was hesitating, but because he was recalling the method of smuggling back in. Han Xingqian chuckled. “Then I’ll have to eat and sleep in the laboratory these next few days and work hard so you don’t have to face such a choice. I hope that the president will bring back good news as soon as possible. As long as we obtain the synthesis booster, we can completely suppress Xiao Bai’s deterioration. Until then, nothing is certain.”
The wind blew on the sea surface. The two looked off into the distance at the shadow that had already disappeared into the sea.
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After the ship left, Han Xingqian was out of the control range of the Wings of the Divine Rider, and his control gradually weakened. Eternal Undead exerted strength to break free from the state where his buff was eliminated. A vast mirror reopened under his feet. Twilight Deer released mist, and the entire sea was covered in thick fog again.
Rimbaud sat on the white lion’s head, his palm caressing the snow-white, unsoiled fur. The white lion’s entire right hind leg was furless; instead, it was covered with a layer of blue scale. Rimbaud had once pulled out his own siren scale and inserted it under the skin of Xiao Bai’s hip bone, just so that when this day came, Xiao Bai could have an extra layer of confinement.
The scales sensed Rimbaud’s existence and formed an energy carrier. It served as a bridge to transfer the excess energy from the white lion’s body to Rimbaud’s body. Rimbaud accepted the envoy’s offering. His depleted gland was replenished with energy, his weariness faded from his face, and the wound on his chest slowly healed. It was just that the wound caused by the Dead Sea heart stone healed slowly, like a normal wound.
Rimbaud looked down at Pearl, his eyes fell on the colorful scale on his fish tail. “Since you have this scale, you’re the only successor qualified to challenge me in the past years. If you think this is the truth, then let’s do it. It’s a fair fight.”
Pearl raised his head. He was already enveloped by the huge figure in front of him. In front of the pure and holy giant creature, his own body was small and filthy.
The white lion had yet to grow into the body of a full-grown male lion, and a mane had not yet grown on his neck. He was tightly wrapped around a Dead Sea Heart Stone collar, but his blue eyes were elongated diagonally upward making him look young and fierce while also shocking people’s hearts. His lion’s tail swaying would make a clear bell sound from time to time. Every time this psychedelic and ethereal bell rang, Pearl would sober up a little bit.
“Hey, wake up. Don’t be bewitched by him.” Eternal Undead gently tapped the mast and released a shockwave from within.
The ripple touched Pearl, and he reloaded the gun. A tea millet flower scent bursts out from his glands, clouds gathered in the sky within seconds, and dark clouds formed.
In a split second, a circular crosshair formed below the white lion’s feet. The clouds burst with thunder, a purple lightning cut through the clouds and went straight down, striking down on the white lion.
The white lion carried Rimbaud on his back and escaped toward the sea. When his four claws landed on the ground, the sea surface under his claws immediately became tempered. Hydrated steel carried the white lion’s heavy body, allowing him to run at high speeds on the sea surface.
And the circular crosshair under his feet kept following after him. Purple lightning struck down, and the lion jumped with all his might and barely avoided the million-volt attack. The lightning caused a huge wave, and the white lion was swallowed by it. A few seconds later, he broke through the wave. His white fur was not wet, only a crystal drop of water hung on it, dripping down as he shook his body.
The white lion had just avoided an attack when another crosshair unexpectedly appeared under his feet. Purple lightning jumped out of the clouds, and nearly ten crosshairs appeared on the sea surface, chasing after the white lion.
Leucistic Manta Ray’s A3 differentiation ability, Brilliant Electric Arc Lightning: A tracking-type ability. Locks onto a target and then triggers a lightning bolt to deliver a precise and destructive blow. The lightning was formed from the electrons in the clouds, expending minimal gland energy.
Purple lightning meandered down one after another, and the white lion dodged and ran from the blazing lightning to avoid being locked on.
Pearl held the Dead Sea Heart Stone pistol in his hands and aimed at Rimbaud, sitting on the white lion. Under the lightning chase, the white lion still had the energy left to divide his attention and protect Rimbaud from getting shot by the bullets.
A white lion’s running endurance was just so-so. Moreover, Xiao Bai felt a little overwhelmed from constantly sprinting. He opened his mouth and gasped, making a huffing and puffing panting sound.
Rimbaud laid on his back, one hand grabbed onto the Dead Sea Heart Stone collar to steady himself, and the other hand lightly petted him. “Don’t be afraid, I’ll block them for you.”
The white lion was locked on by the circular crosshair, and when ten lightning bolts struck together, Rimbaud suddenly arched his back. Long spikes protruded out from his spine, and a blue dorsal fin unfurled. The lightning entered Rimbaud’s body along the pointy fin like a lightning rod. It hissed and crawled along his bones, flowing and gathering in his translucent tail.
It was like Rimbaud was charging, the accumulation of electricity inside his fishtail went from less to more. It gradually built up as it flowed around the bones and through the veins.
He slightly moved his fingertip, and the seawater slowly rose step by step. The white lion tread on the solid, hydrated steel stairs and jumped toward the deck of the ghost ship. The cold blue lion eyes drew two sharp blue strips of light on the thundering sea surface.
When the white lion leaped to the highest point, Rimbaud jumped off his back and pulled out a small stream of Dead Sea Heart Stone from his collar. The dark, flowing crystals intertwined and were cast in Rimbaud’s hands. From his clenched palms, it extended to both sides and formed a bow. Rimbaud aimed an arrow in the air. Six suns suddenly appeared in the sky behind him, and six bright reflections appeared on the sea surface at the same time. The night sky was as brilliant as the day, and the twelve suns and their reflections complemented each other. A hurricane arose from the sea surface for no reason, the clouds storing electricity were dispersed by the strong wind, and the surging ocean currents stirred up stormy waves.
Manta Ray’s A3 ability, Magic Sunlight Road. The extreme weather within the six suns could be controlled by him.
The electric current amassed in Rimbaud’s tail was being introduced to the Dead Sea Heart Stone arrow. The sea waves surged and formed into hydrated steel, forcing Pearl to have nowhere to run.
Rimbaud squinted one eye. His gaze was cold—no different from looking at a traitor usurping the throne and no different from looking at civilians worshiping. He was calm and compassionate, treated all things as stupid dogs, and treated everyone equally.
“This is the last thing I’ll teach you—always be in awe.”
Pearl originally wanted to run away, but inadvertently met Rimbaud’s eyes reflected in the hydrated steel.
A lightning arrow pierced Pearl’s body from the back of his heart. Pearl’s body stiffened, and the pupils of his eyes shrank suddenly. The powerful current poured back into his body, and his young body couldn’t bear it at all. He cried out in pain and his body turned into a wisp of black. The smoke was drawn together by the Undead Cloak and condensed into a pearl again.
The pearl looked like it was damaged; it wasn’t as smooth and bright as before. The trauma this time was obviously much more serious than before.
The huge white lion landed on the transparent ghost ship’s deck. Such a heavy body landed on the ground silently from a high place. He raised his head and roared. His Annihilate overflowed from within. The gray-white fishes in the entire ship condensed into marbles, all different colors, and fell into the water like rain.
The deterioration stage of Divine Envoy’s M2 ability, Annihilate, turned into Annihilation Overflow. It no longer targeted just one person and there was no limit to needing to know the name of the target. All living beings below A3 would be instantly annihilated and turned into marbles. While living beings of the same grade would receive double damage.
Annihilation Overflow accompanied the lion’s roar toward Eternal Undead. Half of Eternal Undead’s body was covered with glass. A searing pain made him scream, and he lifted his hands to take back the pearl and Undead Cloak. After draping the white cloth over his head, it isolated him from the white lion’s Annihilation Overflow.
“Hmph, in deterioration. Let me see how long you could be proud of yourself. I’m not playing anymore, I still have something to do. I’m leaving.” Eternal Undead flew up to the sky, but the wave surged when he flew. The wave rose several meters high and was shaped by hydrated steel. The white lion stepped on the top of the wave and chased after him. His sharp claws unsheathed and hooked on the rough outer wall of the water column to jump and climb upward.
Eternal Undead looked back. The simply drawn expression on the white cloth frowned. The sea surface changed into a mirror surface. Tens of millions of ghost hands stretched out from within the mirror. Like vines, they twine and claw along the hydrated steel water column that the white lion stepped on. The powerful and numerous ghost hands broke the water column with their grip. The white lion lost his foothold and fell down from up high.
Just as he was about to crash into Eternal Undead’s mirror, Rimbaud, who was far away, raised a hand. The wave made a splash and formed into a pair of hydrated steel fins on the white lion’s back. His huge body glided close to the water for several meters before softening into the water and disappearing. He quickly climbed up into the sky again along the rugged, hydrated steel pillars, jumped forward, and his huge mouth bit Eternal Undead’s right arm. He picked him and flung him around wildly.
Eternal Undead’s right arm was severed by the white lion, and black smoke came out of the cross-section. He screamed sharply and flew away.
Eternal Undead had a strong regeneration ability—not only could his wounds heal quickly, but his limbs could also regenerate instantly. The premise was that his limbs were destroyed and couldn’t return to his body.
Eternal Undead thought he had easily gotten away. It was just a broken arm, it wasn’t a big deal to him. In any case, his hand would come back on its own anyway.
However, very soon, he wasn’t able to laugh. The torn-off cross-section of his arm hadn’t regenerated a new limb in a while.
The white lion held the bloody and struggling forearm and landed back on the sea surface. He raised his head and swallowed the severed hand completely.
Eternal Undead mournful sneers and curses echoed in the air. “You’re ruthless… I’m going back to finish up my matters first, then come back to play with you.”
Eternal Undead had a flying ability, but both the white lion and Rimbaud didn’t; chasing after him was impossible.
The white lion looked up at the sky, where Eternal Undead disappeared and stood for a while. He lowered his head and wandered around, looking for Pearl’s scent. He took a few breaths in disappointment, then turned around and ran to Rimbaud.
Rimbaud sat on the drifting, hydrated steel. He lifted a hand to rub the white lion’s chin.
The white lion sat down and lowered his head to let him caress him. He made a loud, purring sound and gently used his furry head to rub against Rimbaud. He carefully licked the bleeding wound on Rimbaud’s chest with the tip of his tongue.
“Can you speak?” Rimbaud scratched his chin.
The white lion shook his head. He squatted down on all fours and exposed his belly. He retracted his claws, the backs of the snow-white paws were clean, and soft pink paw pads. It seemed that he wanted to be petted like a spoiled child. However, he was too big, so Rimbaud couldn’t reach his belly.
It seemed that those in the deterioration stage would lose their ability to speak and their human thinking. Once his strength was used up, he would return to human form. It was unknown if his body could become smaller or not. Because of his current body size, he wouldn’t be able to even fit the IOA Headquarters’ door, so how could he get treated?”
“Let’s go home first.” Rimbaud patted his face as a reward.
The white lion flipped over, gently picked up Rimbaud in his mouth, and tossed him on his back. He ran toward the shore under the night sky, his huge claws lightly treading on the hydrated steel formed one by one on the sea surface without making a sound.
Rimbaud sat on the white lion’s back sideways, and the fishtail was dragged in the wind. The remaining electricity left dots of stars on the sea surface.
Under the sea, the annihilated marble Pearl was buried in the white sand.
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