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Editor: DragonFae
Flower Girl’s head was bitten off by a flower on the vine, and a bunch of pink petals burst out from the severed neck. The spore babies smelled the blood and rushed forward in hunger. Using their hands and feet, they climbed on Flower Girl’s body and chewed her body.
Even so, the nutrients expelling by the spore babies were absorbed by the roots covered by Flower Girl’s skirt. The babies’ eating speed gradually couldn’t keep up with the girl’s regenerating speed. Her head started to restore to its former state.
Rimbaud came out of the wardrobe and drew out a dagger from Bai Chunian’s collar, he broke through the layers of petals and plunged the dagger into Flower Girl’s heart.
“Slenmei kimo (Rest in peace).” Rimbaud’s left hand touched the wound on her heart, his hand twisted the dagger with strength, completely crushed her heart and cut every major artery in her body at the same time.
Splatters of blood burst out from Flower Girl’s body. The wound was gnawed and devoured by the spore babies, and she was finally eaten completely.
Once the heart of the tree died, the trunk and vines wilted. The roots stopped absorbing the spore babies’ nutrients. The branches growing out from the specimen cabinet changed from a lush green to a withered yellow, and gradually withered along each branch that extended out of room.
Rimbaud went on the wall, shaking his body to shake off the spore babies that had crawled onto him and were licking his wounds. The wounds made by the petal knife weren’t deep so they healed quickly.
Bai Chunian let out a sigh of relief. He pulled off the baby on Rimbaud that wasn’t shaken off. “Newton? Hugging someone else’s wife and not letting go, huh. Get off now.”
Rimbaud licked the wound on his shoulder. “It’s not Newton. Newton has two little devil horns.”
Bai Chunian held the baby by the back of its neck and brought it over for a closer look. “You’re right. There’s a black dot on its face, is it Galileo?”
“It’s Mozart.”
“You can actually tell them apart? And you even named it?
“en。”
“En.”
Eris picked up the petri dish that Bai Chunian had thrown on the ground and rubbed his chin in confusion. He saw that the bottom of the petri dish had turned into a bright and smooth mirror, and his face was clearly visible in the mirror.
“Why can it change to a mirror?”
“The silver mirror reaction. I’ll explain it to you when we go back.” Puppet Master habitually arranged the reagent bottles neatly, then took off the rubber gloves and threw them in the medical waste bin. “Divine Envoy’s brain sure works fast.”
Eris stuffed the petri dish into his pocket, then glanced at Bai Chunian who was whispering to Rimbaud with their cheeks close together. He mumbled, “He’ll be stuck in an experimental subject bug. I won’t play with him anymore.”
“Are the things here really useful? We can take some back.” Eris thought it was the reagents in the medicine cabinet that were magical. He noticed the bucket of concentrated sulfuric acid stored at the bottom of the cabinet, so he picked up the steel container and stuffed it in Puppet Master’s apron pocket.
“Eris…”
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“All good now, I stuffed them in.”
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Bai Chunian stayed beside Rimbaud’s side, helping him lick the wound on the side of his neck, licking the blood off.
Rimbaud raised a hand and placed it on his head, then rubbed it vigorously.
“It seems like these spore babies don’t just eat corpses. As long as there are wounds, it will attract them to eat. There are also too many of them, it’s too dangerous.” Bai Chunian pulled Rimbaud toward the elevator blocked by the vines. “Let’s go, we need to hurry.”
The vines blocking the elevator became weak due to being wilted, making it much easier for the dagger to cut through them. But it was still time-consuming and labor-heavy due to the tremendous amount of them.
Bai Chunian looked at it with a flashlight. The vines were blocking the view, so he couldn’t see the deepest part. However, based on their own location and the building map, they’ll reach Aileen’s office by going down ten floors.
Eris pointed at the flamethrower on the floor. “How about burning it with fire.”
“We don’t know where the vines are growing, hastily burning them down can cause a fire in the entire building.” Bai Chunian considered it, thinking about whether there was a better option. He was worried that it could cause the equipment to explode, causing a chain reaction and an even greater trouble.
But when they were thinking, a spore baby on the ceiling suddenly dropped down and stuck on the flamethrower’s power switch
Raging flames spurted out. Eris and Bai Chunian jumped up and quickly retreated into the distance. The dry hollow vines were flammable, they caught fire and quickly burned down the elevator passage. The vines burned to ashes and flew gently in the air. An ash smell with a faint grassy scent permeated around them.
Although the elevator access was cleared, the vines had completely damaged the elevator and it couldn’t be used any longer. Only a bottomless vertical passage was left behind the elevator door.
“Damn! Fire extinguisher! Grab a fire extinguisher and go down.” Bai Chunian quickly held the extinguisher in the corner, jumped down with the flames, and climbed down the elevator cable. Eris followed after him, wrapped the cursed golden thread around his waist to make a zipline, and slid down.
The building was covered with holes due to the vines. After they went down, they could only see the machine remains ignited by the dry vines and burning with the raging fire.
Bai Chunian emptied a bottle of fire extinguisher, but it was just a drop in the bucket. He stretched out his hands toward the elevator entrance, then yelled at Rimbaud, “Come here, I’ll take you over there.”
Rimbaud jumped down without a second thought, throwing himself into Bai Chunian’s embrace. He curled into a ball, and activated his associated ability, Rupert’s Tear, to protect himself. Bai Chunian took off his bulletproof vest and wrapped it around the fish ball. He quickly passed through the gaps in the flames, avoiding every scorched and falling piece of ceiling.
The vines burned much faster than he imagined. The white spore babies kept appearing on the wall after being burned and stung by the flames, and then were swallowed up by it. Bai Chunian’s ears were filled with the cries of the babies, the crackling of the flames, and the loud sounds of unknown machines exploding. He could only avoid all the exits blocked by the fire, and ran at full speed toward a closed-off corridor.
The room lock screen at the end of the hallway was lit up. Bai Chunian took out the ID cards from his pocket. Swiping Albedo’s card didn’t give him access, but swiping Reynold’s card gave him access, and the door slowly opened.
Bai Chunian ran inside, and the flames touched the doorway behind him, but the closed metal door kept it outside.
He looked at the surrounding furnishing; a curved white desk was placed in the middle of the spacious room, there was a desktop on the table, with manuscripts spread out on the table.
There were various signs indicating that this was Aileen’s office.
According to the map, Pharmaceutical Warehouse No. 1 and Aileen’s office were only separated by a wall. In addition, there was a special elevator on the wall on the right side, which could only be opened with an iris scan, so he didn’t need to worry about it right now.
Rimbaud uncurled his body and crawled on the wall looking for any secret doors. Bai Chunian sat in front of Aileen’s desk. Reynold’s ID card wasn’t able to open Aileen’s computer, so he took out the decoder Instructor K gave him to decipher the encrypted computer.
“I found it.” Rimbaud stayed at the lower right corner of the left-hand wall, the tip of his tail lightly tapped on the wall. “There’s empty space here.”
“Wait a minute. The decoder progress bar is almost done.”
“No rush.” Rimbaud raised a hand and punched the wall. The wall vibrated and rumbled, and spider web-like cracks were created from the point where his fist landed. Then he punched again—the metal wall broke from his two punches. The heavy load-bearing wall was cracked by another punch from him.
Bai Chunian stared at the progress bar. There was a banging sound all around him, as if a construction team hired by a neighbor was working. The ceiling fell apart piece by piece, and Bai Chunian naturally tilted his head to avoid it, and raised a hand to avoid another piece.
Before the password had been deciphered, Rimbaud had already broken through the wall. He created a large hole between the office and Pharmaceutical Warehouse No. 1, then crawled in.
“You’re too fast.” Bai Chunian immediately followed after him.
As they entered the pharmaceutical warehouse, Eris also squeezed in from the small window, then switched places with Puppet Master, bringing in Puppet Master while he climbed in through the window again.
The hem of Puppet Master’s trench coat caught fire, and was put out after he shook it twice.
Inside the pharmaceutical warehouse was completely different from how they imagined it to be. The refrigerated cabinets used to store medicines were empty; they had all been taken out, and only a few scattered medicine bottles remained.
They searched the medicine cabinet, and finally, they were able to find a box of injection needles containing red synthesis boosters. There were six in total.
The four of them observed each other with the corner of their eyes, all with different thoughts, and eyes flashing.
Rimbaud and Puppet Master looked at each other, stretched out their hands at the same time, both holding the injection box firmly. Rimbaud raised his eyes, his long and narrow eyes stared at Puppet Master fiercely, and his sapphire eyes moved slightly upward. “Aren’t you looking for a combat chip, why are you fighting for this?”
Puppet Master was calm, but he didn’t loosen his hand at all. “And didn’t you guys need to rescue the undercover IOA agent?”
The medicine box was pressed down on the table and pulled back and forth in their hands. Bai Chunian flipped onto the table, his lion’s tail stretched out and raised high to maintain balance, and the bell at the tip jingled. He quickly went over the table to grab the medicine box, but was entangled in a ball of cursed golden thread falling from the sky. Eris tried his best to grab the golden thread and pull it back, dragging Bai Chunian away from Puppet Master. Bai Chunian crawled forward with both hands clinging onto the floor, but he was unable to break free from the materialized cursed golden thread. He was pulled backwards by Eris little by little, leaving six long claw marks on the floor.
“What do you want this for…” Bai Chunian gritted his teeth, struggling with the cursed golden thread wrapped around him.
Eris gritted his teeth and dragged him with all his strength. “I…don’t know… Knicks said it’s useful…so I need to get it…”
Puppet Master stared at the collar around Bai Chunian’s neck, suddenly came to a realization, and raised the corners of his lips. “Bai Chunian, you’re in the deterioration stage, aren’t you? You’ve been injected with the synthesis booster and need medicine to retain your sanity, so you don’t dare take off your collar.”
Bai Chunian’s gaze slightly changed. Although he immediately realized his change in expression and retracted it, he still got caught by Puppet Master who coldly smiled. “Eris, kill him.”
“Does he dare?” Rimbaud got angry, his fishtail suddenly turned red. He grabbed Puppet Master by the neck and knocked him to the ground. His fishtail tightly wrapped around the artery of leg, and his sharp claws clawed at his gland. Puppet Master tried his best to grab Rimbaud’s arm, pressing against his long pointed nails that were about to dig into the depths of his neck.
Rimbaud looked back and threatened Eris, “Let go of him, or else this human’s artery will burst.”
Eris hesitantly stepped back as expected.
“Haha…hahahaha…”
A woman’s ear-piercing laugh came from the computer in the next room.
Bai Chunian lifted his head, he discovered that there was a surveillance camera above Pharmaceutical Warehouse No. 1, and the camera was on them. The dimly lit red light showed that it was working.
It was unknown when the computer on the office table had started to turn in the opposite direction, the screen facing them.
On the screen, Aileen was sitting in a swivel chair and holding a glass of red wine. Her dark red-colored lips made her look even more charming and gorgeous. She smiled as she closely watched the four of them, as if she witnessed the whole fight.
“Tsk tsk tsk.” Aileen put down the glass of red wine and applauded gently. “How virtuous and capable. Making the envoys and controllers perform this comedy for me. It’s a pity that Devil Envoy isn’t here, otherwise it would’ve been much more exciting. Perhaps he’s smarter than you guys.”
Aileen laughed out loud. “Divine Envoy, Cursemaker, you are the children I created with my own hands. After going through twists and turns, you guys still came back to me. I only regret not inputting a resignation program into your combat chips, then you guys won’t end up in the desperate situation that you are in today.”
“Let me show you guys something good.” Aileen’s image became blurry and the window closed, then another window opened.
In the images captured by the drone, the Snow White Castle was being invaded by a large number of undead summons. Odd Bones led the experimental subjects and guard puppets in the castle to fight back.
Before they came, Puppet Master entrusted the castle to Odd Bones. The arrogant woman rolled her eyes, waved her hands, and said she wouldn’t take care of it.
In the cruel shot, the woman’s skirt had been torn into pieces, and she was lying on the ground with one hand supporting her body. She raised her bloody right hand, gripped the gun tightly, and shot at the undead summons in front. Her gorgeous golden and blue tail feathers spread out, guarding the city gate behind her.
Another video opened, which was an aerial view of Greenfly. Countless undead summons were walking around and destroying the city. The civilians were fleeing in the lanes, serial car accidents occurred one after another, and the army and police cars were opening fire to resist and evacuate the citizens. The entire city was immersed in gunfire and smoke.
The videos suddenly closed and Aileen appeared on the screen again.
“Gentlemen, my lifelong wish is to have the rich and powerful all over the world go crazy for my masterpieces—it has now been fulfilled. Now everyone is going wild about my products, including you guys who want to get rid of me.” Aileen lightly smiled. “I dedicated myself to science for the earth and for mankind to a degree you guys can’t fathom. Why don’t you guys go back and be the savior quickly?”
Puppet Master’s expression was calm, but his breathing became heavy, and his eyes increasingly darkened.
Bai Chunian tightly clenched his fists. He grabbed the medicine box, there were six in total, and he put three of them in his pocket. Then he threw the box to Puppet Master.
“Enough, pull Aileen out.”
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A day before.
In Bai Chunian’s apartment.
Lu Yan woke up from the drowsiness caused by the sleeping gas, rubbed his drowsy eyes, and got up unsteadily. He only saw Bi Lanxing’s lonely back by the coffee table.
Lu Yan looked around. The windows had all been opened for ventilation, but Bai Chunian and Rimbaud were nowhere in sight. He became anxious all of a sudden. He ran over and grabbed Bi Lanxing’s shoulders, and asked in panic, “Where are they?”
Bi Lanxing picked up the empty synthesis booster on the ground and placed it in front of Lu Yan. “They left. They have been gone for a long time.”
Lu Yan widened his eyes. “You said so, you said that you won’t let them leave. They’re going to go to the Research Institute Headquarters. You said you’ll find a way to let us go with them, didn’t you? Let’s go, if we go after them now, we should be able to catch up!”
Bi Lanxing shook his head. He handed a flatten-out note to Lu Yan. “Chu-ge knew I was conscious.”
On the note was Bai Chunian’s handwriting. Every stroke was clear and neat.
“Kiddos, I know what you guys are thinking. Don’t think my words are harsh—reality won’t be like hot-blooded comics where miracles can happen if you just have the courage to move forward. If you are below A3 grade and go to the Institute with us, you will die. If you want to help me, stay in Greenfly City and do what you have to do.”
“Lanxing, I have already resigned from the position as chief of the Search Division, there will be a new senior to take my place. However, I have already written to the team leader to recommend you as deputy. My badge is attached at the end of this note.”
“You guy’s mission is much more important than my life. While we are away, there will definitely be someone to take advantage of the situation; it could be Aileen, or perhaps Eternal Undead, or maybe Puppet Master, or even some other force. Please be sure to protect the city and residents on behalf of the president while I am away until the president comes back.”
“Oh, or maybe I have overestimated you guys. If you’ve only woken up and seen this note three days after we left, then just forget I said anything. I’ve wasted snacks and years of teaching for nothing. It was all fucking useless, damn it.”
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