Translator: ThatLazyPotato
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Editor: yuki_shuichi
Invisible Stalker’s Mirror Domain Enhancement was an imitation ability that even Bai Chunian and Rimbaud had trouble with. In most cases, the opponent never thought about how to defend themselves and defeat them.
Something tugged on Eternal Undead that was stronger than the ghost hands he released. Dark hands came out from the Pandora’s Magic Mirror Invisible Stalker had replicated. Countless ghost hands gripped Eternal Undead’s wrists and ankles. They wrapped around his neck and covered his eyes, nose, and mouth, making it hard for him to breathe.
Those ghost hands let out a distorted cry, whispering like a mosquito in Eternal Undead’s ears, “Save me…Jin Xi… Save me…please save me…”
Eternal Undead was like a helpless drowned person, someone struggling desperately in the mud. Black water flowed out of his gray eyes as he screamed toward the sky, and waves of intense tremors spread out around him. The harsh buzzing made Invisible Stalker cover his ears.
Eternal Undead used his left hand to climb up to the ground. Most of his body had already been pulled into the mirror, but he gritted his teeth and fought against the power of the ghost hands wrapped around himself, unwilling to fall.
It was too difficult to imitate the abilities of an A3-grade experimental subject in the deterioration stage with M2-grade glands, so Invisible Stalker started to tremble, but Eternal Undead was finally trapped. Taking advantage of him being unable to fly to dodge, Golden Silk Spider raised his gun and shot him. A burst of black smoke exploded between Eternal Undead’s eyebrows, and gray smoke flowed outward from the hole. Golden Silk Spider looked at him solemnly and intently. He didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger, shattering his remaining left hand.
Eternal Undead lost balance and fell two inches deeper, but used his elbow to stay above ground. He raised his eyes, full of malice and unpleasantness. “Hehe, should I drag you guys down to death with me?”
He released another tremor from within himself, and Invisible Stalker and Golden Silk Spider closest to him were violently flung away. The mummy caught Golden Silk Spider in the air but was knocked out by the strong impact. Huck, who was hovering in the air with his wings, caught Invisible Stalker and gently put him down on the ground. His chameleon tail was unable to curl up anymore, lying tiredly.
Eternal Undead forcibly pulled his body out of the mirror, and the imitated mirror was instantly shattered. Invisible Stalker faced backlash from the impact, spitting out a mouthful of blood on the spot, he curled into a ball on the ground.
The Pandora’s Magic Mirror under Eternal Undead’s feet opened up. The ghost hands within the mirror quickly rushed out and toward Invisible Stalker; it grew upward like thorns on the ground.
Yu Xiaocheng, who was closest to Invisible Stalker, ran toward him. He laid on top of him, hugged him tightly, and rolled over. He summoned a gold sea anemone, and it tightly wrapped around himself and Invisible Stalker, who suffered a severe backlash.
“Firefly! Catch!” Yu Xiaocheng struggled to push Invisible Stalker out of the cordon. He wrapped himself tightly with a golden sea anemone into a ball that emitted golden orange light. Layer by layer of the golden sea anemone was torn off by the ghost hands. Everyone turned their guns to the ghost hands wrapped around the golden sea anemone, but there were so many ghost hands that if one broke, another one would come out.
The sudden turn of events led to a melee inside the cordon—the students holding weapons attacked Eternal Undead frenziedly.
The red-tailed buzzard hovering in the sky let out a distant and shrill roar. Huck folded his wings and dove straight down, knocking the golden sea anemone out of the ghost hands’ attack range. However, the ghost hands acted quickly and took the opportunity to grab his wings. Huck was like an eagle stuck in a swamp; his body was pulled deeper and deeper into the mirror. Yu Xiaocheng fell a few meters away, rolled, and crawled back to Huck in a fluster, then stretched out his hand to him.
“Hurry and come out! Don’t get dragged down!”
Huck reached his hand over, tightly holding the clownfish’s hand, whose eyes were so red they were bleeding. Defying all odds, he climbed up, and finally, his body suddenly lightened. Huck threw himself in Yu Xiaocheng’s arms and knocked him over.
He revealed a smile after having a close brush with death, but all he could see was Yu Xiaocheng’s narrow pupils and blank gaze.
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Only then did Huck see himself in the reflection of his eyes; the ghost hands had torn off his left wing, along with the left side of his body. The severed left chest and lower body fell into the mirror together. Blood splattered everywhere, like a cup of milk tea dropped on the ground.
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Huck opened his eyes, wanting to imprint in his mind the little omega’s funny and ugly face that was crying in front of him. The blood in his body drained out before healing, so his memory stopped at this moment, as expected.
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Affected by the tremors sent by Eternal Undead, Pearl, who was standing under Rimbaud’s statue, came to his senses. He walked away from the wishing fountain and crossed between Eternal Undead and Greenfly Island’s students guarding the cordon.
Pearl shook his right hand, and a Tang knife made of Dead Sea heart rock stretched from the palm of his hand. His cold eyes scanned the youths in front of him.
Lu Yan struggled to hold his body up with the gun, breathing heavily. He faced the boy with white hair and blue eyes in front of him. The boy’s body exuded a tea millet flower fragrance, which gave him an illusion of déjà vu.
“He looks…he looks like…” Lu Yan mumbled to himself. “He looks like Rimbaud, as well as Bai Chunian.”
Bi Lanxing said urgently to the communicator, “Ah Yan, get away!”
But Lu Yan didn’t. Pearl turned into purple lightning and came in front of him. The tip of the long knife in his hand was only a centimeter away from Lu Yan’s throat.
The Tang knife was cast from the Dead Sea heart rock; once a human touched it, their life force would be sucked away in an instant, and they’d become a withered corpse with only skin and bones left.
Lu Yan didn’t dare move. He raised his jaw slightly, not even daring to swallow hard. He asked with a trembling voice, “Do y-you know Rimbaud?”
Pearl went into a daze.
The skeletal seabird flapped its wings and hovered in the air with its remaining bloody skeleton, bringing over a crown made of withered aquatic plants and putting it on Pearl’s head, chirping in praise of the Siren.
He and Eternal Undead flew across the sea from Westminster, sinking ships and detonating submarine mines and volcanoes along the way. The number of skeletal fish following Pearl drastically increased and gradually spread from the sea.
Pearl turned back to look at the coast; several stranded killer whale skeletons attracted many flies. The flies were mating, and they laid their eggs on the remaining carrion of the skeletons. The clear, light blue water was infected with the flesh and blood on the whale skeletons, making it murky and black.
The city outside the cordon had been burning with raging flames for some time now. The high-rise buildings were toppling over one after another, while black smoke gathered upward into the sky. The flames replaced the sun, illuminating the dark clouds with a bright red, and a strong burnt smell permeated the air.
The scuffle on the sand continued. Although Eternal Undead suffered injuries, and it was indeed difficult to face a concentrated fire charge of nearly a hundred people at the same time, he had the combat power to defeat a thousand. A mere human power couldn’t eradicate him.
The teenagers were also injured, but some unknown courage made them get back up on their feet every time—as if they were as tenacious as Eternal Undead and couldn’t be defeated.
The beach was covered with blood; even the rising waves couldn’t wash them away.
Pearl looked at the city that was spiraling out of control under the gunfire smoke. It seemed that all this happened because he aided and abetted in the destruction.
Rimbaud’s voice echoed in his ears again, “Is this what you think is the right thing to do?”
Eternal Undead called out to Pearl, supporting his body with the elbow of his missing arm, and half-knelt on the ground. He looked up and grinned. “Big Bubble, hurry and kill them.”
Pearl suddenly turned around as if simulated. He raised a hand, and the sharp blade in his hand flashed a dark purple reflection under the approaching flames. The hidden light drew an arc, the tip of the blade turned, and it cut Eternal Undead into the two from the waist.
Eternal Undead froze in shock. He slowly moved his gaze from Pearl’s face to his own severed body in disbelief. Black mist exploded from his wound and flowed all around.
He still couldn’t believe the truth before him. He raised his head, and his eyes met with Pearl’s hostile sapphire eyes.
The students, whose eyes were filled with killing intent, gradually stopped. The coast became extremely quiet. Only the sound of the rising waves and the mournful chirping of the seabirds could be heard.
Lu Yan was shocked by the sudden turn of events. He asked quietly, “What’s going on?”
Bi Lanxing, “The drug that was just injected into Eternal Undead is the de-synthesis produced by the Medical Association, which is based on the synthesis booster and combined with the dissociative agent. It can temporarily dissolve the dominant relationship between the dominator and the envoy. Eternal Undead had never replenished the synthesis booster to maintain the dominant relationship with Underworld Envoy, so the manipulative link between them was already very fragile.”
“You want to escape from me? But we are the same kind.” Eternal Undead attempted to continue releasing the manipulative tremor. Pearl was shaken up by the buzzing tremor and had a headache. He seized this brief moment of clarity, carrying the shock that struck him again and again, as well as the pain that broke out in his limbs due to resisting the dominant’s order, and resolutely turned his back to Eternal Undead. He walked to the Rimbaud statue with heavy steps.
The sky-reaching flames in the city burned the accumulated clouds, turning the sky a dark red. Night had arrived, a hurricane was about to make landfall, and dark clouds and raindrops were coming.
Pearl inserted the Dead Sea heart rock knife into the ground, bent his knees, and kneeled in front of the Rimbaud statue.
The statue was erected here by a joint petition of fishermen. The most famous sculptor took the initiative to take over the job without taking any money. They carved Rimbaud’s face into the image of a compassionate and maternal sea god in their pious imagination, bowing his head slightly and looking at all living beings with compassion.
Always be in awe—this was Rimbaud’s last warning to him.
Pearl touched the pinkish white scale on the side of his thigh. He suddenly lifted it, gritted his teeth, and pulled it hard, and the scale was pulled out.
The severe pain made him curl up; he leaned weakly against the fish tail of the statue, and he gasped for breath.
The bloody scale fell to the ground from his hand. Pearl propped up his body, pulled out the Dead Sea Heart rock knife that was inserted upside down in front of him, raised the handle of the knife behind his back with both hands and ruthlessly stabbed downward. The blade penetrated the scale, the translucent scale fell apart, and the pieces landed on the ground, its glow completely diminished.
The weak Pearl lowered his head in front of the Rimbaud statue. He piously and solemnly said, “I voluntarily give up my identity as Siren, give up the throne, and become your believer. My spirit will be loyal to the gods and my body will be loyal to the ocean. I will not be controlled by Eternal Undead.”
Eternal Undead was so shocked that he swayed.
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There was a knock on the door of the Search Division’s door. Bi Lanxing was staring intently at the screen and was startled by the high tension. The person who came in was Crawler.
Crawler placed a USB beside Bi Lanxing’s hand. “Bai Chunian left this for me for safekeeping before he left. He said if Eternal Undead attacks and you guys have already tried your best, there will be heavy casualties if the stalemate continues, so just show the contents of the flash drive to Eternal Undead.”
Bi Lanxing carefully took the USB. “What’s in it?”
Crawler shook his head. “He said you can only choose to show it to him or not show it to him. We’re already at the end of our ropes, what choice do you have? If we keep dragging it out, those students, the soldiers, and the officers won’t make it.”
Bi Lanxing closed his eyes. “You’re right. We tried our best, but Eternal Undead can’t be defeated with our current strength.”
“Play it.” Crawler inserted the USB into the computer, connected it to the drone’s projection device, and played the only video file high above the seaside square.
The people looked up one after another, staring at the screen in the sky. Eternal Undead also looked over.
It was a video recording, but the camera was shaky. Suddenly, an alpha appeared in the video, and the camera only captured them from the neck down. However, Bi Lanxing definitely recognized that this alpha was Bai Chunian.
In the shaky camera, Bai Chunian jumped off from the hood of a car, went around to the trunk, and lifted the trunk lid—a man was lying inside.
The man’s hands and feet were tied up, and his lips were taped to prevent him from speaking. Bi Lanxing’s complexion turned pale when he saw the man’s face.
These past few days, the IOA has been investigating this man; he was a high-ranking member of Red Fox City’s police station. However, when he learned that his son had fallen to his death at the British school and that the murderer had inserted a bank card into his corpse, he immediately disappeared. Even the IOA Secret Service wasn’t able to find him.
He was the father of Zhen Li, the student responsible for the incident at Red Fox No.1 Middle School. He had pushed Jin Xi off the roof of the building to make him save the fallen student so that his son could be exonerated, then threw a bank card at Jin Xi as payment afterward.
Eternal Undead had been looking for him.
In the video, Bai Chunian inserted a needle into the man to give him nutrients, then moved the camera from the man to the Science and Technology building in the background, which was the 109 Research Institute.
Bi Lanxing could clearly see from the monitor that, after Eternal Undead watched the video broadcast projected by the drone, his eyes turned paranoid and crazy. He floated into the air and headed in the direction of the 109 Research Institute.
“Did Chu-ge…go crazy? He lures Eternal Undead over, and then not only do they have to find the synthesis booster in the crisis-ridden institute, but they also have to deal with a deteriorating experimental subject?” Bi Lanxing immediately pulled out the USB drive and came to a realization. “No wonder he stepped down from his position and severed ties with the IOA… He kidnapped Zhen Li’s father just so he could use him as a bargaining chip and lure Eternal Undead away when he invaded the city.”
“It couldn’t be that…” Bi Lanxing’s voice was slightly choked up. “Chu-ge never planned on coming back from the start.”
The phone beside his phone rang. Bi Lanxing picked it up and answered it; it was the president’s voice.
“I’ll be at the seaside plaza soon. The team leader said you took over the command position on your own. What’s going on?”
After many days, he finally heard a reassuring voice. A big stone in Bi Lanxing’s heart finally fell to the ground; he was relieved. “I…I’ll accept the punishment. The residents are still safe, and Eternal Undead have gone to the Research Institute.”
Yan Yi, “The International Conference passed the proposal to crack down on the 109 Research Institute. The army had already dispatched special troops to their headquarters to assist in the crack-down process. I have come back with a search warrant.”
Bi Lanxing’s eyes lightened up.
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A helicopter with the IOA freedom bird logo painted on it pulled up in the sky above the seaside plaza, and the rumbling of the propeller resounded in the thunderous dark light. Yan Yi was holding onto the handrail, leaning half of his body out of the helicopter, and his eyebrows furrowed as he looked down at the burning city.
He was surprised to see that outside the cordon that stretched across the coast, the students were holding out in the rain while their uniforms were drenched with rainwater and blood. One of them recognized the president on the helicopter. They put the gun behind their back, straightened their body, and put the palm of their right hand close to their left chest. They saluted the president on the helicopter and mouthed, “For freedom.”
The students raised their heads, put away their guns, and stood at attention. They saluted the president with the agent salute they had practiced thousands of times, and their shouts of “For freedom,” intertwined with the heavy rain.
Yan Yi watched them. The teenagers’ figures overlapped with his memory of Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai once carefully hid in the corner outside the window, raised his hand in front of his chest, and saluted him, and his clear eyes silently said, “I am unarmed, and my heart is loyal.”
They were the loyalty Xiao Bai had left for the IOA.
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Just hope Invisible Stalker is fine. I really like this little one.
I’m a little sad that Huck die. Even if he was ambigous and not very kind at first I was hoping he could be able to live a good life after being a human weapon for long time.
And I hope Pearl isn’t dead. It don’t seem so but I’m not sure. But what will happen to him ? Prison maybe ?
I really had hoped we are done with that nuisance, but good to see Pearl come to his senes in severed the ties with him.