Translator: Bamboo & Kii
Editor: Agneya
The citizens in the seaside square had been evacuated and the police enforcement had cordoned off the entire coast of Greenfly City, so that no passerbys would be able to enter the dangerous area.
Lu Yan stood alone in the center of the deserted beach. The hurricane with the dark clouds approached the shoreline from the edge of the distant sea horizon. A pod of skeleton whales jumped out of the water, letting out whistles one after another. Waves of ethereal sounds crashed against the shore. Next to him, a strong pressure came down, forcing Lu Yan to take two steps back.
Two A3-grade experimental subjects were gradually approaching in front of them. The pressure coming from the seaside was frightening. Lu Yan looked back and saw that there was an ambulance from the Medical Association parked not far away from the cordon behind him. The doctors were rushing to rescue the injured, their feet not touching the ground from the amount of work, putting the injured whose condition weren’t critical in ambulances and transporting them to nearby hospitals.
Police officers and firefighters were still searching for trapped civilians in the ruins of collapsed buildings. People’s cries for help and the barking of police dogs reverberated in the background.
Lu Yan turned around, not daring to retreat any further, and temporarily recycled the rabbit entity that split from the fourth dimension to retain the gland energy.
He bit his lip and put a new magazine in the submachine gun. The communicator in his ear suddenly rang, “Don’t be afraid.”
Bi Lanxing’s voice gave him the greatest sense of security. There seemed to be no more space behind him, as if someone was standing with him.
“Are those two across from me A3-grade?” Lu Yan looked around. In order to provide the best entertainment environment for the citizens, there were almost no obstacles in the seaside plaza, so he had nowhere to hide at this time.
Bi Lanxing, “Yes, the merman with white hair, blue eyes and white tail is the A3-grade maturity stage fully mimetic experimental subject 8107 Underworld Envoy, while the other is the A3-grade deterioration stage experimental subject number 200, Pandora’s Eternal Undead.”
“…” Lu Yan smiled bitterly.
Bi Lanxing, “Reinforcements are on the way. The PBB special forces sent by the military are still clearing out Eternal Undead’s summons appearing in various districts of the city. Ah Yan, you have to hold them back for at least twenty minutes so that the citizens can survive.”
“…Mn.” Lu Yan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes became firm. “The coast is too empty, Lanxing, give me cover.”
Han Xingqian standing beside the ambulance was also observing the coast while rescuing the wounded. When he and Xiao Xun were responding to the ship of the Mad Sharks Unit, they had seen firsthand the destructive power of Eternal Undead controlling Pearl. Lu Yan, a seventeen-year-old M2 lop-eared rabbit, was no match for them at all.
He sent a voice message to Xiao Xun, “Come to my place to get the medicine box and tranquilizer gun.”
As soon as the message was sent, the communicator rang.
Bi Lanxing, “His position is on a TV tower 860 meters away from the coastline. The range of the tranquilizer gun is insufficient, so let’s put it aside for now.”
Han Xingqian was a little surprised, “Are you monitoring me? What should Lu Yan do then?”
Bi Lanxing, “I’m watching everyone, Han-ge.”
Han Xingqian looked at Lu Yan in the middle of the beach and saw that the sand on the beach was shaking slightly, as if there was some hidden creature walking underground, slowly crawling towards Lu Yan.
“Be careful. What is that?”
“They’re my seeds, Han-ge.”
Soon, the killer whales also rushed to the shore and the huge skeletons wailed, stranded on the beach.
Eternal Undead leapt off the head of the killer whale and floated in the air. Pearl also slid along the white bones of the killer whale to the shore, his fishtail transformed into legs and he stood up on the beach.
Soft and warm sand surged up from between his toes, snow-white waves washing over them, the sand slowly slipped away from the soles of his feet. Such a touch made Pearl feel dizzy.
He turned slightly, stared at the remnants of the killer whale stranded on the beach and subconsciously raised his hand to touch its skeleton. The killer whale twisted its body in pain to avoid the touch of Pearl. If the eyes in the empty sockets were still there, they would have been full of pain and disgust.
The killer whale looked at the sky and let out a wail, finally ceasing its struggle and died on the shore.
Pearl felt an inexplicable pain in his heart. He put his hand on his chest, looked up, and immediately saw the statue of Rimbaud standing in the center of the plaza. The merman statue about ten meters high looked majestic and sacred. In his right hand, he held a trident symbolizing the noble status of Poseidon. A wishing pool was built under the fishtail and the water in the pool was connected to the sea water.
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Pearl unconsciously touched the pink scales on his outer thigh with his fingertips. He also had a Siren scale and the power to rule the ocean. However, Pearl once again felt the difference between the cloud up in the heavens and the mud at the bottom. The other party’s divine aura and indifferent fraternity always made him feel ashamed.
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Lu Yan held the uzi with both hands, with the butt of the gun pressed under the hollows of his shoulder. He was not even wearing a combat uniform; he only had on a black short-sleeved shirt with a cartoon carrot pattern and white sports shorts. His furry tail was squeezed out of the trouser hole. The small person stood with his back to the cordon line behind him, only this one person stopped them outside the city.
A police officer with a gun crossed the cordon and wanted to run over to support him, but Lu Yan turned around and stopped him. The police officer hesitated and stopped, then slowly retreated.
“You dare stand here.” Eternal Undead flew forward, floating to and fro. He smelled the honey pheromones emitted from Lu Yan’s body. This little rabbit was an M2 at most, and yet he had the guts to stop him.
“Hehe, then I’ll give it to you painlessly.” Eternal Undead laughed shrilly and swooped down. He easily passed by Lu Yan’s body and brushed against him. Time stood still for a few seconds, and Lu Yan’s throat spurted blood, and he slowly fell to the ground.
“You’re weak, so weak.” Eternal Undead ridiculed, and flew toward the cordon blocking his path.
When he flew in front of it, he suddenly felt something cold on the back of his neck; a dagger flashed past his gland. Eternal Undead narrowly dodged. He turned back and his eyes met with Lu Yan’s focused gaze.
The corpse of the rabbit who was slit on the throat and killed, shattered into pieces and disappeared. Lu Yan jumped in the air and disappeared in an instant. Eternal Undead followed him by smell. He suddenly stretched out his hands and held Lu Yan’s neck in a death grip.
The little rabbit wriggled and struggled in his grasp, the cold light of the dagger flashed from the back of Eternal Undead’s neck again—another Lu Yan came from behind him. This strike was unexpected, so it left a deep bloody cut on Eternal Undead’s gland.
After successfully slashing him, Lu Yan quickly distanced himself from Eternal Undead, switching to his submachine gun and shooting while walking backward, and his body landed on the beach ten meters away.
Eternal Undead then realized that this little rabbit had the ability to split himself. Killing his clone wouldn’t hurt Lu Yan at all, and he couldn’t figure out where his main body was.
But even so, there was an overwhelming gap between the strength of an M2 grade human and a A3 deterioration stage experimental subject. It was a gap that no amount of skills could bridge.
“Die.” Eternal Undead was enraged, landing angrily. Pandora’s Magic Mirror spread out beneath his feet, covering the entire circular beach with himself in the middle of it.
Lu Yan could only use his associated ability, Supersonic Speed, to run faster so that the hands in the mirror wouldn’t be able to catch him, because once caught, he would be dragged into a bottomless abyss and never be able to climb out again.
The mirror stretched endlessly, there wasn’t even a rock around it. Without any cover, Lu Yan was in a great peril of being crushed.
“Still not tired from running? Let me see how long you can take me on. Let’s play a game, hehe. As long as you don’t die, I won’t cross the cordon and spare those people’s lives. What do you think of that?” Eternal Undead raised the corner of his lips, and followed Lu Yan.
Lu Yan jumped and turned around to shout, “Let’s play, then! Keep your word!”
He suddenly slid away from the smooth magic mirror, the creature that had been squirming and lurking underground rose up from the ground all of a sudden. Black thick vines broke through the mirror, thorns came out of the main stem, and grew rapidly under Lu Yan’s feet.
The beach was temporarily occupied by the black vines. Like a desert covered by primitive flora, dense pitch-black vines grew and intertwined, providing Lu Yan with enough cover and a place to hide.
Bi Lanxing’s ability to control plants could be activated remotely. As long as there were seeds around, they could be stimulated by him to grow and turn the place into a harsh environment. There were many seabirds in the seaside plaza. The seabirds that have eaten the seeds bring the seeds to the beach, and then leave the seeds on the shore through excretion, becoming the main subject of Bi Lanxing’s manipulation.
In just a mere few seconds, the flat beach turned into a primeval forest. Lu Yan’s figure was looming within it. Dense thorns blocked Eternal Undead’s sight, making Lu Yan’s position hard to determine.
But a few vines wouldn’t be able to stop him. He reached out and touched the vines, the ink-colored vines instantly turning gray and brittle. Eternal Undead traveled through it this way and searched for traces of the little rabbit.
Time passed minute by minute, Eternal Undead began to lose his patience and opted to rampage through the dense forest of intertwined vines.
“I’m done playing.” Eternal Undead stopped, his expression extremely upset. He slowly landed on the ground, and gray smoke came out of his body.
Pandora’s Magic Mirror quickly spread out from under his feet. The ghost hands from within the mirror climbed up the vines and ripped them apart, devouring the entire vine forest inch by inch.
As the vines fell down, Lu Yan’s hiding space became smaller, and he was forced out of the gap. Eternal Undead locked on to his spot, breaking through layers of vines and flew over.
As Eternal Undead was flying, a strange flower bud appeared in his peripheral vision, growing out of the branches of the vine. He looked around. The more these buds grew, the more they bloomed. In an instant, the buds were in full bloom. Lu Yan jumped out from the center of a bright red flower. From the center of every blooming poisonous flower flew out a little rabbit holding a gun in both hands. Each clone was connected to a hollow plant stem, and the hollow stem was connected to the main stem of the vine, which was like an umbilical cord that continuously delivered energy to each rabbit entity.
Han Xingqian, who was nervously observing the battle situation from a distance, was the first to discover the clues. “Symbiotic relationship? He can actually go against Eternal Undead for so long?”
Dr. Zhong’s article, “Research On the Association, Fusion, Symbiosis, and Dominant Relationship Between Glands,” said that as long as there existed one of four relationships between glands, the possibility of 1 plus 1 being greater than 2 could be achieved. The power exerted would be far greater than two ordinary people working together.
Bi Lanxing and Lu Yan’s glands had high compatibility and species correlation. With age, the glands gradually developed and matured, and a rare symbiotic relationship emerged.
Lu Yan’s M2 ability, Fourth-Dimensional Split, could pull himself on the time axis into the three-dimensional real world. The more clones that were pulled in, the faster the energy was consumed. At this moment, the rabbit entities no longer only consumed Lu Yan’s own energy, but at the same time, there were vines supplying energy. Sixty rabbit entities had the same strength, which was equivalent to sixty M2-grade agents with a high degree of coordination and tacit understanding attacking at the same time.
Facing dozens of people with the same appearance and same smell made it hard to tell the difference. Eternal Undead was stunned for a long time, then realized he had been surrounded.
The sixty Lu Yans fired at Eternal Undead at the same time, the sparks of submachine guns flashing like stars. Continuous gunshots rang out intensively, like a whole stormtrooper team.
Eternal Undead faced it head-on, and his shrill laughter echoed in the air. “Who would’ve thought that you could stay alive in front of me for this long. Rabbits are really strong these days.”
In the Search Division office of the IOA headquarters building at this moment, Bi Lanxing observed the entire situation nervously in front of the computer screen. He stared intently at the twenty-four drone feeds separated on the screen.
PBB Storm Special Forces were advancing toward the seaside plaza from the north sixth district. It would take them five minutes at the earliest to reach there.
Being able to stay standing in front of an experimental subject in the deterioration stage for fifteen minutes was already pushing the limit for a M2-grade human.
Bi Lanxing watched the omega fighting fiercely with Eternal Undead. The number of rabbit entities dropped sharply, and the injuries on Lu Yan’s body increased rapidly.
There were several times when he wanted to rush to Lu Yan’s side instead of sitting in front of the screen and give him cover, but reason brought him back to reality. He knew very well that only by sitting in this position could he find a way to save the situation.
“Ah Yan, he’s going to lose it soon so watch your timing.”
Lu Yan’s speed had slowed down significantly as compared to the beginning. His physical strength was also almost exhausted.
Eternal Undead killed the last rabbit entity, took the tactical dagger from his hand, and flew toward Lu Yan’s main body. At that moment, a black hole suddenly appeared where Lu Yan was situated, and he jumped into the hole. Murderous intent was evident in Eternal Undead’s gaze, and he thrusted the tactical dagger in the hole.
But another Cunning Rabbit’s Cave hole appeared behind Eternal Undead’s neck. Lu Yan jumped out of the hole. Eternal Undead’s hand holding the dagger also chased after him and came out of the hole from behind him. The knife slashed across Lu Yan’s waist and eye, and at the same time, it stabbed hard into the glands on his own nape.
With a severely wounded gland, Eternal Undead wailed and flailed in the sky, and cursed in a shrill voice, “Very good, you’ve been dragging it out until now, are you waiting for someone to come rescue you…I’ve made it impossible for them to come. Slippery little rabbit, I will personally grind you to death.”
A buzzing tremor shook outward from his body, the Angel of Death Summoning echoed eerily in every corner of the city.
In front of the computer, Bi Lanxing frowned. In the twenty-four drone surveillance images on the screen, a giant gray python suddenly appeared on a tall building. Giant lizards crawled out from underneath highway bridge piers, and a swarm of gray wasps flew out from between the buildings. The number of undead summoning in the city increased drastically. The PBB Special Forces and the IOA agents who were rushing to the seaside plaza were all held back and unable to move forward.
“Feng Yue, Leopard Girl, another undead summoning has appeared in the new second district, pay attention to protect the hospital.” Bi Lanxing issued dispatch orders to the agents in each district one by one, and at the same time, devoted the most energy to observing Lu Yan’s situation.
Lu Yan’s lower back had a deep cut. He fell heavily on the ground and couldn’t get back up.
Bi Lanxing watched him on the screen, cold sweat seeped out of his forehead, and his Adam’s apple bobbed nervously.
“Ah Yan, hurry and get up.” The vines grew to Lu Yan’s cheek, using the curled little bud to push his face.
“Ah Yan, wake up. Hurry and get back up.”
“Ah Yan…it’s fine now. You already did really well.”
Lu Yan laid on the ground, his clothes and pants soaked with blood, and it dripped on the sand beneath him, which was all caked up. The blood oozing from the wound on his forehead flowed into his eyes, making his vision red.
The vines moved to him, the curled branches and leaves wrapped around him, and dragged him outside the cordon.
When they were ten meters away from it, Lu Yan’s fingers moved slightly, and he hooked a hand onto the sand. He struggled to slowly raise his head, his other hand raised the muzzle of the gun with difficulty, and he aimed at Eternal Undead opposite of him with blurry vision.
“As long as I…your daddy…can…still move…I won’t…let you…go past…”
Eternal Undead laughed. He drifted in front of Lu Yan, leaned down slightly, and teased, “Using such foul language, you’re a bad student.”
Within the communicator, Bi Lanxing suddenly spoke. “He’s in position, Xiao Xun!”
After he finished speaking, a sniper bullet tore through the air and sunk into Eternal Undead’s neck like lightning. Then, a crosshair appeared on Eternal Undead’s neck. Xiao Xun had used his M2 ability, Hunt Back Lock On.
Han Xingqian, who was waiting next to the ambulance, finally found an opportunity—he took out the injection gun from the medicine box and threw it at Eternal Undead.
Targets shot by Xiao Xun would get locked on, and their location would be shared between allies. The shooting of surrounding allies would be corrected by Universal Dashboard, and the hit rate would drastically increase.
The thrown injection gun went through course correction, swirling at an impossible angle and hit Eternal Undead’s nape, injecting all its contents into his body.
“What’s this?!” Only then did Eternal Undead realize that he had fallen into their trap and gotten too close. His expression changed. He pulled off the injection gun, turned around, and flew in the air. He turned around and shouted to Pearl, who was standing in a daze under Rimbaud’s statue. “Hurry and come back!”
Lu Yan strained himself to get back up. A ship seemed to have appeared in the sea, but his vision was too blurry, so he couldn’t see clearly.
The vines wrapped around his body and protected him. It curled around his waist, sealed his wounds to stop the bleeding, and released a slight toxin to relieve his pain.
“Ah Yan, back-up has arrived. You can rest for a while.”
A flare gun was fired from a distant ship, the PBB Mad Sharks Marines arrived first. A dozen medium-sized speed boats were lowered from the deck, and the Mad Sharks Unit rode the wind and waves towards the coast with their equipment and firearms on their backs.
However, it wasn’t just the Mad Sharks Unit that had arrived.
The shadow of an eagle hovered in the sky. Yu Xiaocheng hung in the air holding Huck, the red-tailed hawk experimental subject. When Huck flew close enough to the ground, Yu Xiaocheng let go and landed, crossing the gap between Lu Yan and Eternal Undead. He held rifles in both hands and fired, forcing Eternal Undead away from Lu Yan.
“Joint explosion!” Tan Qing and Tan Yang were the first to land. They clasped each other’s hands, hydrogen and oxygen combined and exploded. There was a sudden detonation in the air, and a series of explosions hit Eternal Undead, forcing him to fly into the air.
Firefly rode across the water on the head of a tall and burly African elephant experimental subject. Two circular caves appeared on the beach on the coast. Two hamster experimental subjects dug up from the ground, and Ragdoll and Siamese jumped out from the cave holding submachine guns.
Lu Yan’s felt weightless. A pair of cold hands held him up, and he opened his eyes. He saw a mummy’s face wrapped in snow white spider silk.
Golden Silk Spider had the mummy hold him and retreat, while he himself held an AK74 with the explosive magazine wrapped in silk. He aimed the gun at Eternal Undead’s head and fired. Eternal Undead scampered around the air to dodge, but still got shot in his thigh. The wound also took a while to heal.
The PBB Marines landed and rushed to the coast under the command of Captain Whale Shark to form an encirclement. The students wearing the Greenfly Island’s special training uniforms also rushed ashore one after another, charging to the end of the beach, and automatically lined up along the cordon. They held weapons in their hands, their backs turned against the city. They protected the officers who were searching and rescuing people from the rubble and the doctors who were resuscitating next to the ambulance.
Firefly shouted to the communicator, “Orders from headquarters—stick to the coastline, protect the civilians and evacuate the doctors!”
A series of “Roger,” were shouted one after another from the students guarding the cordon.
Lu Yan stood up with his gun propping his body. He stood with his former classmates, wiping away the blood on his face and lips. He grabbed the torn cordon line and wrapped it around his waist, gritted his teeth, and looked up.
The dark clouds sweeping across the sky opened a wound, and golden honey-colored light fell on Lu Yan’s raised cheeks, the sunlight shining brightly in his eyes.
“You can’t pass…”
Eternal Undead struggled to fly forward against the strong wind blown by the dandelion experimental subject. With his strength in the deterioration stage and his immortality, it would be easy to kill these young students one by one.
But how dare they? How dare they stand there and use their weak and fragile bodies to block him?
Golden Silk Spider came forward, standing in front of the injured Lu Yan, and raised his hand to pull Lu Yan behind him. Eternal Undead was a bit afraid of the AK74 in his hand. His magazine was very special, with unlimited bullets, and it could cause serious damage to experimental subjects that was difficult to heal.
However, this wasn’t considered a devastating threat. Eternal Undead didn’t cower.
From the defense line formed by the students’ bodies, Invisible Stalker slowly walked out of the line, stood in the very front, and faced Eternal Undead.
“324.” Eternal Undead raised a brow and sneered. “I saw you on the destroyed list, but I couldn’t summon your soul; turns out you weren’t dead. There sure are a lot of traitors, hehe.”
Invisible Stalker didn’t respond to him, he only walked step by step toward Eternal Undead, as if walking through an invisible mirror. When he stepped out, his appearance imitated that of Eternal Undead from head to toe, except for the rolled up chameleon tail trailing behind him.
He flew to the sky, and a magic mirror spread out below his feet. The ghost hands from within the mirror caught Eternal Undead’s legs, gripping them tightly and dragging him down.
Invisible Stalker M2 ability, Mirror Domain Enhancement, imitated the target’s ability, Angel Under the Ship. The power increased by 200%, while duration was determined by gland energy.
“The major told me that you cannot be allowed to stay here alive.” Invisible Stalker’s voice sounded obedient, but he showed Eternal Undead a gray smile exactly like his, with narrowed pupils, and a morbidly crazy grin that was the same as Eternal Undead’s.
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Oooh the young ones are in the battle ! Go Invisible Stalker and kick this bastard’s ass ! Make him pay all the evil things he did ! I hope Pearl gonna turn his back to him too, he seems so desesperate and sad that breaks my heart. I wish he could something which can pacify his mind and help him reconcile with Rimbaud and BaiChunian and really be at peace.