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Yan Yi sat in front of the wide white-painted wooden window lattice, lifted a corner of the curtain, and glanced at the soldiers standing upright in front of the embassy who were holding weapons in their arms. The sky was still glaring brightly at noon.
“The results will be out tomorrow, please make the arrangements over there.”
Lu Shangjin sat at the round table, holding a petal pot and filling a tea cup with black tea. The double-breasted suit and vest with a peaked lapel elegantly and firmly outlined the alpha’s well-maintained waist and abdominal lines. He had just come back from outside and put his coat on the back of the chair casually, waiting for someone to take it away.
“Don’t worry. Those old bastards who only care about profits still think the same this year. After all, the 109 Research Institute’s disappointing data this year has left them disheartened. They no longer regard experimental subjects as a profitable arms business.” Lu Shangjin unbuttoned the buttons under his vest and loosened his tie, relaxing next to Yan Yi without any defense. “Speaking of which, our biggest obstacle last year was not entirely them. There was a popularity vote at the meeting. If you proposed to halt the production of experimental subjects last year, 95% of ordinary people would vote against it.”
Yan Yi sighed. “You can’t blame them. Last year, the Institute’s stock price was still soaring, and its marketing was vigorous. Several artificial intelligence products were used as a shield for the experimental subject business. Many people had bought the institute’s stocks in the early years and have received hundreds of times more in return. Ordinary people have followed the trend, completely unaware of the dangers of the experimental subjects. They just feel that it has nothing to do with them and only cares about the money. The discontinuation of the experimental subjects would cause retail investors to lose all their money, of course, they wouldn’t support it.”
“Aileen is actually quite good at playing,” Lu Shangjin said. “They have attracted a lot of retail investors in order to stabilize the experimental subject industry during the annual public vote. In addition, countries that have purchased experimental subjects do not want the secret weapons they have paid a high purchase price and long-term maintenance costs to lose value, so they will inevitably strongly oppose it. This time the institute’s true face has been exposed one after another and its reputation has deteriorated. In addition, it can no longer deliver the goods when it is due and the capital chain is on the verge of breaking. It’s difficult for them to gain support, but it’s hard to say if many people still don’t know what’s going on and continue to hold out hope for the institute’s stock price to rebound. This group of people are still unwilling to support the suspension of production.”
“The number of people will not be too large. As long as the proposal to stop the production of experimental subjects is passed, it is enough, the rest can be developed slowly.”
Because of the discontinuation of experimental subjects, it would not harm the interests of organizations and countries that have purchased experimental subjects. On the contrary, because these biological weapons were out of print, the experimental subjects they currently hold would soar in value. However, if the human rights of existing experimental subjects were required to be recognized, it would require more time for precipitation and observation. On one hand, it was necessary to screen out harmless experimental subjects. On the other hand, the experimental subjects in the national arsenal have an employment relationship with the government. The experimental subjects had their own ideas and some did not want to fight at all. It was not impossible to quit their job and start a small business or become a street artist, but that would be equivalent to tens of billions of property being wasted. Pushing forward too hastily would only be counterproductive.
Yan Yi closed the curtains, walked behind Lu Shanjin, and put the hand with the wedding ring on the alpha’s shoulder. “You’ve worked hard.”
Lu Shangjin held Yan Yi’s hand and smiled. “My dearest wife, are you telling me this with our relationship? You are the one who works the hardest. After this is over, we will find a time to go on vacation. I have arranged the place and itinerary.”
“I’m not in the mood… yesterday Cai Bing said that Xiao Bai had entered the deterioration stage. Although he was controlled with dissociative agents, he was still close to deteriorating.” Yan Yi shook his head worriedly. “He’s a good boy, but he has been living in fear. I was originally relieved that Rimbaud was by his side, but Rimbaud is not omnipotent. Now I can only hope that the proposal will be passed tomorrow and that the Institute’s synthesis booster will be brought out to treat Xiao Bai.”
“Okay, once the results come out tomorrow, the Institute will be raided directly and seized. There is always a way, so don’t think too much about it.”
“Ah, yes, I always worry about the children’s matters.” Yan Yi swept his hair. “I called Qiuqiu at noon. His face was red and he hung up the phone quickly. Seems like he’s together with Lanxing now.”
Lu Shangjin perked up. “Oh?” He put the black teacup on the table. “Where are they?”
“Looking at the furnishings in Xiao Bai’s office.”
“That brat! My Tuqiu is only sixteen years old and he dares kidnap him into their room. He wasn’t taught well, and the elder behaves badly, causing the younger one to too…” Lu Shangjin picked up his phone and dialed Lu Yan. While waiting for him to pick up, he said to Yan Yi, “Let me tell you, Lao Bi was not a good person when he was younger. Their family tradition was to spoil the younger ones. Look at how old Tan Meng is… I have to educate this boy who’s overestimating himself.”
Yan Yi couldn’t help but laugh. “They were helping the Tech Department move equipment at that time, and they had just returned to the office after moving.”
Lu Shangjin paused, hung up the phone again, grabbed one of Yan Yi’s rabbit ears, and gently pulled it in front of him. “Is it fun to tease me, no?”
Yan Yi half-bent over and raised his eyes. “I find it funny every time I see you nervous.”
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“I think you worry about Xiao Bai, too.”
“Oh, don’t even mention it. The person Xiao Bai found for himself has already pissed me off. Forget it, I can’t expect him to be the head of the family. It’s fine as long as he doesn’t get bullied.”
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“It doesn’t matter whether I like him or not. He doesn’t regard me as a person in the first place. The main reason is that Xiao Bai is obsessed with Rimbaud. A while ago, we were chatting about me testing his business talent. I asked him what he would do if he were given ten million.”
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Lu Shangjin picked up the teacup and took a sip. “He would go to the aquarium to buy some large scallops for Rimbaud.”
Yan Yi laughed. “It seems there is no hope for you to retire.”
The cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang. It was a long-distance call from Xiao Bai.
His voice was a little urgent, “Boss, Eternal Undead has gone to your side. He wants to take revenge on a student. I have sent you the specific information. I have notified the agents scattered in Europe and the IOA Paris branch search section to make preparations in advance, but they are still a little far away from you, and it will take some time to arrive at the scene. You and Uncle Jin should be careful…um…cough, I’m a little uncomfortable… I’ll hang up first…”
“Xiao Bai,” Yan Yi tightened his grip on the phone, “Are you okay?”
There was a painful gasp from the other end of the phone, and then Rimbaud took over from Bai Chunian, and a low and cold voice came from the receiver, “Get out of there, now.”
Rimbaud hung up the phone first. Yan Yi put down the phone, glanced at Lu Shangjin, and hurriedly picked up the laptop on the table. Lu Shangjin, who was sitting in front of him, suddenly straightened up alertly, with a layer of translucent light blue falcon nictitating membrane appearing on the surface of his eyes. It covered his eyes and retracted as they closed.
“Yanyan, come here!” He grabbed Yan Yi’s belt, pulled him, and broke the window lattice and glass, rushing out of the room.
The moment they rushed out of the high-rise building and fell from the height, the room they were in exploded. After a deafening bang, dense and thick smoke flew out from the gap in the high-rise building. The smoke was mixed with spores.
Lu Shangjin pressed Yan Yi into his arms, and the moment he was about to land, he spread out his peregrine falcon wings covered with brown spots, the flapping wing brought up the cold wind, which flew past the ground and glided a long distance in the air.
There was no panic on Yan Yi’s face. Under Lu Shangjin’s protection, he turned on the laptop and simultaneously sent over the scene of the explosion to the Tech Department.
A gray-white mushroom outline was vaguely visible in the thick smoke. The Tech Department sent back the comparison results. Eternal Undead’s summoned body of Experimental Subject 602, “Puffball Bomb,” was a puffball mushroom. Its J1 ability was Spore Explosion, and its M2 ability was Timed Spores.
When the bodyguards and guards heard the noise, they immediately rushed to them and formed a tight protective circle. Yan Yi pointed to the other rooms. “Go and help the police evacuate the people inside.”
The two found their car. Lu Shangjin got into the driver’s seat neatly. Yan Yi got in from the back seat and hit the secret compartment under the seat twice with his heel. The small hole in the secret compartment reflected upwards a holographic code disk that emitted red light. After scanning his irises, the vertical door popped open, revealing a heavy silver portable sniper rifle case.
In addition to a high-precision sniper, there were two UZI submachine guns without butts and two ammunition belts in the gun case.
“Where are we going?” Lu Shanjin started the car and turned around to ask.
“WS School in London.”
Yan Yi put the laptop on his lap and briefly browsed the information sent by Bai Chunian, which included a brief introduction to Eternal Undead. In addition, the investigation results on Jin Xi and the Hongli No. 1 Middle School incident were also sent over.
In the Hongli No. 1 Middle School fall incident, the student responsible was named Zhen Li. He transferred to WS School in London, England, a year ago to attend middle school. Zhen Li’s father was the police chief of the Hongli Branch of the International Police Department, and his mother was a well-known local gang leader and was in charge of more than a dozen real estate and lumber companies. There was evidence that Zhen Li’s parents once kidnapped their son’s classmate Jin Xi and used his differentiation ability to revive the child who fell when Zhen Li accidentally pushed him down. After the death of the student, the two families reconciled, and Zhen Li was exempted from criminal punishment. His parents transferred him to WS School in the United Kingdom to study abroad. Afterward, Zhen Li’s parents also gave Jin Xi a bank card with a million yuan in gratitude.
“Eternal Undead, an A3-grade tardigrade alpha. Associated ability is Pandora’s Magic Mirror, J1 ability is Angel Under the Ship, and his M2 ability is Angel of Death Summoning.” Yan Yi closed the computer. “Jin-ge, we have to hurry up.”
“Should we make a detour to the weapons depot?”
“No, abandon the car when we get to the water. Let’s go straight there.” Yan Yi inserted the magazine and pushed hard, and there was a click. “Ordinary weapons are useless against experimental subjects. These bullets are enough.”
A drizzle fell from the sky, and the fog in the air became thicker. Some raindrops fell on the windshield. Lu Shangjin turned on the wipers and handed Yan Yi an umbrella.
When he arrived at the school, Yan Yi put on a trench coat and hat, climbed over the wall, and sneaked in. He walked around the steeple building of the school, looking for suspicious smells in the air.
Students in groups walked by the shade of the trees, looking at Yan Yi with some curiosity as he turned up the collar of his trench coat and covered half of his face as he walked on the path.
A scream tore through the tranquility of the campus. Yan Yi’s ears suddenly stood up under his hat. He heard a distant cry for help. He followed the sound and looked up. At the farthest point of his sight, at the pointed top of the bell tower, a student fell from the top, screaming.
There was a dull crash, and the body was smashed into a soft puddle on the masonry floor. Thick blood slowly seeped out from under the body. A bank card was deeply inserted into the broken skull.
The air seemed to freeze.
After a brief silence, a girl closest to the body screamed hysterically. The students on campus dispersed like scared animals, shouting to call the police.
No one noticed that on the rooftop of the bell tower, an alpha boy with a white cloth over his head was lying leisurely on the railing, admiring the bloody spray of corpses dozens of meters below his feet.
Only half of his upper right arm was left and black smoke was rising from the broken section. He raised his remaining left hand and stretched out his index finger to write in the air. He controlled the blood on the ground and slowly wrote a row of scrawled letters on the ground, which wrote, “Happy Birthday ^_^”
Eternal Undead laid on the ground, rolling excitedly, letting out a terrifying and ethereal laugh. He raised the pearl with his remaining left hand and said happily, “Big Bubble, I drew a birthday gift for you. Why don’t you come out and take a look?”
The color of the pearl had become much darker, and the soul fragments wrapped in the pearl were also depleted. It didn’t want to pay attention to him.
Eternal Undead didn’t care, humming a twisted tune, holding the big pearl in his hand and tossing it up and down.
Suddenly, he stopped humming. The smile on his face faded. He stood up from the high platform of the bell tower and turned to look at the ajar door of the rooftop attic.
Eternal Undead grimaced and stared at the iron door that was still dozens of meters away from him. A sweet and soft pheromone scent floated vaguely in the air. What was inconsistent with this sweet scent was the strong oppression it made him feel.
He was already in the deterioration stage. Even if an A3-grade Rimbaud could exert species suppression, he would not feel it at all, so where did this invisible pressure came from?
While Eternal Undead was stunned, the iron door in the distance seemed to shake illusorily, and a gray shadow appeared out of thin air on the rooftop.
Yan Yi put his hands in his trench coat pockets and walked slowly towards him.
Eternal Undead just blinked, and Yan Yi had already approached him by more than ten meters, even though he seemed to be walking with a normal gait.
He was teleporting.
Eternal Undead stood up with a cold face, picked up the schoolbag on the ground, and put it on his back. “Who are you?”
“I haven’t finished my work yet and I don’t want to fight.” Eternal Undead raised his remaining left hand and waved it playfully and contemptuously. “Rabbit? I’m not in your way, am I?”
When Yan Yi didn’t answer, Eternal Undead turned around and left. He had the ability to float into the air, as he stepped on the railing of the bell tower and flew lightly into the air.
Unexpectedly, when he flew into the air, he turned back to look at the high platform. Yan Yi had disappeared. Eternal Undead was startled and turned his head hurriedly. Yan Yi was actually in front of him. When combined with his high-speed jumping and teleportation abilities, it was equivalent to staying in the air for a short period of time.
Yan Yi’s long legs swept swiftly and hit Eternal Undead’s abdomen in the air. The sharp energy directly kicked Eternal Undead back to the high platform and made a deep pit on the ground.
Eternal Undead rolled out of the pit, avoiding Yan Yi’s teleportation and the weight of his whole body falling heavily. Looking at Yan Yi, whose clothes were being blown and his collar was still intact, Eternal Undead finally realized the danger from the scent and became vigilant.
“S4… you’re IOA…” Eternal Undead laughed. “I have never fought against an S4 human being. I am so honored.”
An endless mirror immediately spread out under his feet, and the ghost hands from within the mirror greedily crawled toward Yan Yi.
Eternal Undead’s associated ability, Pandora’s Mirror, had a similar mechanism to Rimbaud’s Steel Hydration. All subsequent abilities need to be used on the basis of Pandora’s Mirror in order to show its maximum power.
Just when Eternal Undead was about to approach Yan Yi, there was a faint sound of something piercing through the air from a distance. Eternal Undead turned his head and glanced, his body drifting slightly to avoid, but the silenced sniper bullet grazed his cheek, leaving a wound emitting black smoke, which slowly healed.
The sniper bullet hit the mirror at Eternal Undead’s feet and was silently swallowed by the ghostly hand in the mirror.
Eternal Undead looked in the direction of the sniper bullet. In the shadow of the spire building nearly a thousand meters away, Lu Shangjin was hiding there, closing one eye and preparing to shoot for Yan Yi.
“An A3 peregrine falcon, it’s not that unusual. Come out and play.” Eternal Undead raised his chin slightly and smiled sharply.
Suddenly, the Pandora’s Magic Mirror at Eternal Undead’s feet became blurry and after a few seconds, it shattered and disappeared.
Eternal Undead frowned, gritted his teeth, and glanced back at Lu Shangjin. The pegasus he met last time had the disgusting ability to remove enhancements. Why was there another A3 with the enhancement elimination ability this time?
Yan Yi approached him with calm steps and asked coldly, “The news I got is that Xiao Bai’s deterioration was caused by you, right?”
Eternal Undead tilted his head and smiled. “Yes.”
“You have a synthesis booster in your hand, right?”
“Yes, come and get it if you have the ability.” Eternal Undead shook the schoolbag.
He flew towards Yan Yi, and suddenly his body froze as if he were imprisoned by an invisible force. A feeling of weakness rose from his glands and hit his brain directly.
Lu Shangjin laid quietly at the sniper point, observing their movements through the sniper scope, his eyes covered by a layer of a falcon’s nictitating membrane.
The Peregrine Falcon’s A3 ability, Enhanced Transient Film: Instantly invalidates all abilities of targets with a grade lower than itself, instantly weakens all abilities of targets with the same grade as itself by 30%, and instantly weakens all abilities of targets with a grade higher than itself by 50%. Any grade target’s associated abilities were held temporarily invalid.
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Yan Yi and Lu Shangjin kicking Eternal Undead’s ass is so refreshing ! The seniors are still at the top…
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Wow, I used to think the A3 was the most powerful, but it turns out there is an S4. Yan Yi is really very cool
If I remember well the prequel about Yan Yi and Lu Shangjin, Yan Yi is the only S4 known and that explains why even if he’s an omega and a rabbit everybody respect and fear him. And why he avoid fighting most of time. He’s so strong and Lu Shangjin is almost as strong as him that even an experimental subject isn’t assured to win against them and that what happened here.
I want to read the novel about them but the ratings are really low :/