Translator: ThatLazyPotato
Editor: DragonFae
Crawler quickly became familiar with his upgraded ability. The “Parallel Plane Crack Version” was indeed strong, but there were restrictions. Although he could choose a certain part of the building to delete, he could only pick one at a time, and he also needed to make sure that the deleted part was not a load-bearing structure. Otherwise, the building may fall apart if not careful.
He used the mouse to select and delete some obstacles blocking the path, as well as fill in the collapse. He also repaired the malfunctioned fire extinguishing system in the building, using a brush to patch up the missing parts of broken wires and deformed water pipes. He then reconnected and modified the fire extinguishing program, and turned on the main switch.
Crawler created and rendered a mobile indoor environment table, which was placed inside the building to detect the temperature and oxygen density. Only when the values reached appropriate targets could the troops dispatched beforehand be notified to break in.
“There’s still living people inside, they’re hiding in underground air raid shelters and taking refuge together.” Crawler said, “It could be the surviving researchers.”
A large number of elite experimental subjects crawled out from the corner of the collapsed building. Like ants whose nest had been filled with water, they came swarming out in a dense group, and dispersed on the surface of the building.
The airborne radar on the PBB helicopter detected the grade and strong attack intention of these dangerous experimental subjects. He Suowei raised his walkie-talkie and ordered, “All the experimental subjects have already left the building. A3 Storm Elite Squad, protect the advance troops as they enter the Research Institute. Everyone else maintains the encirclement and suppression formation. No experimental subjects are allowed to break through the defense line. IOA agents have joined the battle. Pay attention to the coordination of the two parties.”
After giving the order, He Suowei looked back anxiously at Bai Chunian who was sitting on the high platform. His eyes were empty and his face was expressionless, he couldn’t help but sweat for him. He Suowei missed the man’s former meanness and liveliness. He had witnessed with his own eyes Bai Chunian’s change from energetic to weak and pale, and then to the walking corpse he was now. He regretted it a little, blaming himself for not giving him a little more help.
“Go, you guys go help cover,” He Suowei said.
“Okay.”
The He brothers put on the communication equipment, carried the parachutes, lept forward and jumped in unison.
Since human weapons were unable to easily inflict a fatal blow on experimental subjects, the battle situation slowly leaned toward the experimental subjects, with the soldiers’ casualties increasing.
He Wenxiao was the first to notice the sea wave icicles under Bai Chunian’s feet. Several experimental subjects that slipped through the net discovered that Bai Chunian was controlling the entire battle and started to climb upward defiantly.
“Be careful.” He Wenxiao turned his gun and raised the scope, the experimental subject closest to Bai Chunian appeared in the crosshair, and he accurately shot it down with three bullets at it. It fell down with its head thrown back, the solidified spike pierced its body and nailed it deeply. No matter how hard it struggled, it couldn’t break free. It could only lay helplessly as blood spilled out of its body.
However, a bat experimental subject behind He Wenxiao took advantage of his defenseless back, and leaped out to rush over. It bit into He Wenxiao’s shoulder, and left several bloody scratch marks on his back with its sharp claws.
“Wenxiao!” He Wenyi turned around when he heard the scream of pain behind him. He kicked the vampire bat away, lied down on He Wenxiao, using his body to cover him. The bat’s sharp claws grabbed the back of He Wenyi’s neck, and he retaliated by shooting the bat’s head with a backhand shot. While the bat was delayed for a moment, He Wenyi lowered his head and touched He Wenxiao’s forehead.
The North American gray wolf’s twin glands instantly fused, activating Hellhound Garm’s J1 ability, “Fire in the Pit.”
A purple flame shot to the sky, and the bat fled to a higher place, but it was still inevitably tainted with a trace of purple flames. The purple flame was as viscous as glue and could not be extinguished. It quickly swept over the bat’s body, causing it to roll all over the ground.
Bai Chunian sat firmly on the high platform, his cold blue pupils moved slightly to the right. After noticing them, a blue ring appeared under the He brothers.
As a result, the North American gray wolf glands, which were fused together once to form the Hellhound Garm’s glands, fused again to evolve into the Cerberus’ glands with the M2 ability, “Gate to the Underworld.”
The two of them were wrapped in a sticky purple flame. The purple flame did not emit any heat, but melted the ground around them into purple magma. The magma spread into the shape of an entrance to hell. The experimental subjects closest to them accidentally fell into the magma. They were immediately absorbed by the sticky flames and pulled deeper, screaming in pain as they tried to claw their way up the edge, but slowly turned into ashes.
Although the twin glands were useless when separated, once fused together, it was many times more powerful compared to ordinary glands of the same grade.
Bai Chunian also noticed the experimental subjects approaching his feet. They found the commander of the battle, so they climbed up recklessly.
Bai Chunian parted his lips, the sapphire blue eye in his mouth swirled against the bright red tongue. His gaze stared fixedly at the experimental subjects crawling at his feet.
“Back off,” Bai Chunian said.
The experimental subjects all stopped moving, it was as if they were at mercy of an invisible command.
Bai Chunian raised his hand, and thousands of ice spikes shot up from the platform, ripping apart the experimental subjects close to him.
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The Storm Forces commandos’ shooting accuracy was calibrated by Xiao Xun’s ten rings; the bullets fired always hit the targets.
But even so, the strength of A3-grade humans was not enough to single-handedly defeat experimental subjects of the same grade. The A3-grade experimental subjects have acquired intelligence and have begun to cooperate and collaborate, which dramatically increased the humans’ casualties.
The number of rabbit entities had also dropped drastically, and the wounds on Lu Yan’s body left from his fight with Eternal Undead reopened. He staggered forward, half-knelt on the ground, but didn’t fall. Instead, he fought to hold himself up. He tightened the bloody bandage around his waist, and struggled to his feet by pulling on the vines beside his hands.
Bai Chunian had a panoramic view of every unexpected situation on the field. The roll call continued.
Han Xingqian and Dr. Zhong arrived outside the Research Institute on the same plane as the Thunder Support Team. They first rescued the hostage Bai Chunian had hid in the trunk of the jeep.
The hostage was the father of the student Zhen Li, who was responsible for the falling incident at Red Fox No. 1 Middle School. He was tied up in the trunk for nearly thirty hours relying on only a nutrient supplement to preserve his life. At this time, he was severely hypoxic. The doctors quickly moved their instruments for temporary rescue.
Before the plane had even landed, Han Xingqian saw Xiao Bai sitting at the highest place, his cold and apathetic look was unfamiliar to him.
When Lu Shangjin picked him up in the past, he was seriously injured and on the verge of death, but even so, Xiao Bai longed to live. He had endured the severe pain and tried his best to show his kindness and harmlessness to the doctors and nurses around him. He wanted to be saved, wanted to keep living.
Han Xingqian also vaguely remembered long ago that he used his horn to read Bai Chunian’s mind when he was unprepared. At the time, Bai Chunian was pleading in his heart, “I don’t want to die.”
He once had a strong will to live, but now, Han Xingqian couldn’t find even a trace of desire to live on his face. It was as if someone had shattered his faith in front of the believers, leaving him wandering in place with nothing but despair.
“Did you see the growth stage on the anomaly device? He has entered the freeform stage.” Dr. Zhong was also observing Xiao Bai’s condition. “Accidentally entering the next stage before reaching level ten in the maturity stage will lead to deterioration. If they reach level ten in the maturity stage and then enter the next stage, they’ll be in the freeform state. Xiao Bai had already reached the peak of level nine, so there must be some sort of opportunity that prompted him to level up to ten.”
“It’s Rimbaud.” Han Xingqian discovered the sapphire blue eye spinning flexibly on Bai Chunian’s tongue. His intuition told him that the white lion had already devoured Rimbaud and turned him into nourishment for his growth. And while Bai Chunian was on the boundary between deterioration and freeform, he used his own power to push himself.
While conversing, Dr. Zhong discovered a blue ring under his feet. Bai Chunian upgraded his M2 ability, “Healing,” to the A3 “Angel’s Bow.”
Han Xingqian, “Lu Yan can’t go on anymore, treat him first. Xiao Bai is definitely watching everyone.”
Dr, Zhong tried to use his ability; Qing Feng Teng grew around his fingertips, a tender green bud grew on the ground, and a white flower bloomed at Lu Yan’s feet.
The petals wrapped the little rabbit, and then released. The wounds on Lu Yan’s body healed quickly, and the remaining healing power decreased in a splashing manner and was spread to the injured around him.
“What a strong ability.” Dr. Zhong was shocked by the unprecedentedly powerful healing ability he had shown. He furrowed his brows and raised his hand to block the flying leaves and dirt. “It’ll become dangerous if this continues any longer, we need to stop Xiao Bai.”
Han Xingqian pursed his lips in deep thought. “It seems that the person he chooses will get a temporary boost in abilities, but accordingly there must be a huge consumption. Is a freeform’s energy infinite?”
“That’s definitely impossible. There must be an upper limit. His ability comes at the cost of collapsing the world’s existing power system, so I’m sure the side effect will be terrifying.” Dr. Zhong shook his head repeatedly. “Look, most of the people he chose to enhance are only M2-grade, this is the most optimal solution for energy consumption. Enhancing J1-grade ones will cause a waste of energy, while enhancing A3-grade ones will cause his energy to drain too fast.”
“Does he not want to live anymore? What will happen to him if all his energy gets exhausted?” Han Xingqian couldn’t help but step forward, but was pulled back. “I can feel it, he’s in extreme pain.”
The brandy pheromones enveloped the entire Research Institute, the sorrow pervading the scent gradually influenced everyone’s mood.
Although Dr. Zhong’s treatment saved the wounded on the field, the number of soldiers’ casualties still kept increasing, there were even faint signs of being ostracized by the experimental subjects.
Bai Chunian slowly stood up, his body was a little thin due to a long period of severe illness, and he swayed in the wind.
Lu Shangjin had the helicopter try to get close to Bai Chunian, trying to get him down from the freezing cold altitude of 100 meters. He was also an A3, so he knew how powerful the ability to activate such a large-area increase would be to one’s body.
However, Bai Chunian saw him first, moved to face Lu Shangjin, and forced a smile.
Lu Shangjin was surprised to realize that there was a blue ring at his feet.
His A3 ability, “Enhanced Transient Film,” had been upgraded to the S4 “Enhanced Seal.”
Lu Shangjin’s ability was directly hastened, and when he spread his falcon wings, all experimental subjects were controlled on the spot and weren’t able to fully use their abilities. The target expanded from a single target to an entire range, and the time was extended from an instant to a full thirty seconds.
Han Xingqian and Dr. Zhong’s complexion immediately changed. “The situation is unfavorable, is he starting to enhance A3 now?!”
“Xiao Bai! Stop it!” Han Xingqian yelled toward the sky, but it was already too late—a blue ring had also appeared under his feet. His A3 ability, “Wings of the Divine Rider,” enhanced into the S4 “The Holy Beast Glory.”
The losing situation immediately turned around. The experimental subjects’ abilities were sealed, the soldiers took this brief opportunity to initiate a counterattack. They attacked quickly and decisively, swiftly killing the experimental subjects who lost their ability to fight.
Lu Yan jumped up and hugged an experimental subject’s head from behind with his legs. He thrust the dagger into the back of the big man’s neck and pulled hard with both hands. The experimental subject’s neck bones were cut off along with the glands, and warm blood sprayed out. The big body slowly fell backwards, and Lu Yan crashed to the ground along with it.
He laid on the ground and his mind blanked, the sky was spinning in front of him, and the clouds were dripping blood.
“Please, everything, just end it all.” Lu Yan gasped violently, he watched the sky in a daze, sweat mixed with tears and blood dripped from the corners of his eyes.
He endured the pain and turned his head with difficulty, looking toward Bai Chunian. The experimental subjects who still had the ability to fight, rushed to the high platform where Bai Chunian was like there was no turning back, and howled mournfully as if demanding his life.
A force prompted Lu Yan to stand up and run in that direction desperately, spreading out his hand to block them. The little rabbit held the tactical dagger between his teeth, picked up the uzi with two remaining magazines in it with both hands, and his petite body blocked the experimental subjects’ path to attack Bai Chunian.
A vine crept up—Bi Lanxing hung in the air with the vine wrapped around one of his legs, he held a rifle to block the gap.
Xiao Xun, who was lying on the elevated platform, gave up sniping at the experimental subjects that posed the greatest threat, and aimed the scope at the target at Bai Chunian’s feet.
The advanced troop successfully infiltrated the Research Institute, and the experimental subjects outside lost their ability to resist.
Lu Yan had forgotten how many magazines he had emptied, the recoil of the submachine gun made his hands tremble, and they finally became numb. He lost his perception and could only aim and shoot mechanically.
His ears were numb from the gunfire, and the sound seemed to be separated by a layer of mist. In a daze, he didn’t know who shouted, “Xiao Bai—”
Lu Yan subconsciously glanced back and caught a glimpse of a falling white light.
“Chu-ge! Ge—!”
Lu Yan’s heartbreaking scream became the last sound Bai Chunian heard before he lost consciousness.
He finally couldn’t hold on any longer, the gland on the back of neck bursted with boiling blood, and he fell from the hundred meters platform as if God had casually thrown away a discarded gun.
The sky had long been replaced by a silent gray-blue and time became drawn out. In the first hour since Rimbaud left, Bai Chunian had missed him thirty-six thousand times.
The falling body suddenly stopped before landing. Bai Chunian’s body was penetrated by seven or eight spikes. The spikes penetrated from behind, the red-stained tips piercing his chest, thighs, side waist, and lower abdomen. Blood flowed downwards along the spikes.
Bai Chunian lifted his head, stiffly raised his hand, and indulged in admiring the wedding ring on his left ring finger.
He originally thought Rimbaud was immortal and would stay by his side forever, so he didn’t cherish him enough. Was his possessive love too light compared to Rimbaud’s deep love?
The icicles slowly melted, releasing Bai Chunian from the spikes. The water gathered into a pair of hands and gently held him, letting him float on the water.
Bai Chunian smelled Rimbaud’s scent and was eager to embrace the body of seawater, but it was shapeless and couldn’t fit into his arms.
“I’m grateful to Uncle Jin and the president for taking me in, to the doctors for their hard work to save me, to the students and friends for trusting me, and to you for loving me. Can I repay these gratitudes while I’m alive?”
“I don’t dare shout right now. I’m afraid that my teeth will crush you to pieces by accident, afraid that everyone will forget you, making you lose face in front of other gods… I will not allow God to be forgotten.”
A blue ring appeared below Bai Chunian’s body.
“I’ve paid off everything now, but I still owe you too much. I made you stay away from your home and accompany me in an unfamiliar place, made you give up your leisurely life and accompany me through life and death, and made you voluntarily disappear and be embedded in me. I still can’t pay off these debts, so I can only trade this tattered body of mine with your immortality.”
He picked himself, making his own M2 ability, “Annihilation,” evolve into the A3 “Revive.”
The sapphire blue eye on the tip of his tongue fell off and merged with the giant transparent hands holding him up. The seawater flowed into the shape of a human fish, starting from transparency and taking shape. The waves washed over the blue scales on his fish tail, and the hard and sharp scales took on shape and color one by one.
In the turbulent sea water, the blond merman stood upright despite the waves, water dripping from his wet hair. He lowered his head, held Xiao Bai whose skin was drained of color, and pressed his lips against his cold forehead. “Randi… You disobeyed my order?”
“Annihilation” was promoted to the retroactive A3 ability, “Revive,” exchanging life and death, bringing back a soul at the cost of one’s own obliteration. It repaired Rimbaud’s body, removed his painful wounds, and let him awaken with a body in good condition as before.
Bai Chunian was suddenly compressed into a snow-white marble. It dropped from the sky, slipped through Rimbaud’s fingers, and dropped into the sea.
“Nono, nowa.” Rimbaud hurriedly jumped into the water and groped around in the shallow area in a panic. The water was stirred by him, the sand stuck to his shoulders and face. Broken shells and water plants got stuck in the gaps between his gaunt and messy scales.
The Research Institute building was blown up in many places due to the battle, causing a large amount of fuel and chemicals to leak out and burst into the sea along the cliff. The ocean became turbid, and a layer of colored oil film floated on the surface.
Rimbaud was drenched in the dirty and greasy oil, desperately searching for the glass marble buried in the sand. His skin was mottled by the oil and colorful chemicals.
The people on the shore were shocked into silence by the sudden change of events. Han Xingqian suddenly discovered something unusual. “What’s going on? Rimbaud’s purification ability is gone.”
A white marble rolled out of the sand, and Rimbaud grabbed it. He washed it in the filthy sea water, held it up in front and looked at it.
The white marble was spotless. He shook it, and it emitted a “meow” sound.
A blue siren scale was frozen inside the marble, glimmering like amber.
Rimbaud tightly gripped the marble, curled up his body in pain, and buried his cheek in his arm.
The filthy water stained his blond hair dirty. He had once imagined the sad farewell when Xiao Bai’s life was approaching its end, but when the day really came, he had never felt so lost.
Did he really lose him? Rimbaud had a hard time digesting this fact. He opened his eyes in the water. The floating sand danced in front of his eyes, then slowly landed, merged with the sand, and couldn’t be seen anymore—like Xiao Bai’s life.
An ethereal laugh came from the horizon. Eternal Undead, with a severed left arm and right hand, descended as night fell.
Eternal Undead had already become even crazier and out of control. He flew toward the jeep that stopped in the grass, and blew the jeep into pieces. However, he didn’t see the hostage inside.
“Where is he? Hand over that man, hand him over!” The shrill, pitch-shifted voice spread outward with a tremor. Eternal Undead flew over to the medical plane of the rescue team. The experimental subjects that had been killed received the Angel of Death Summoning, the gray undead summons slowly climbed up from the corpses, and suddenly the scene looked like a zombie siege. However, neither the PBB army nor the IOA agents or the International Police officers have the strength to fight against the undead summons anymore.
There were some that started to pray, and even scrawled a few last words on paper and stuffed it into their helmet.
“So noisy, don’t bother me.” Rimbaud popped his head out of the water, his eyes had returned to the wild, hollow blue eyes he had when he was first caught ashore. There was a long sound coming from his throat, which resounded across the ocean.
The ocean waves behind him began to surge violently. The huge wave surged from ten meters to thirty meters.
The huge wave behind Rimbaud became a dark blue background that connected to the sky. A whale’s humongous face loomed in the waves, it suddenly opened its big mouth and let out a whale cry that could penetrate the sky.
A nine-thousand-year old blue whale hidden deep in the ocean jumped out of the sea surface for the first time. When this huge whale lept out, the water level visibly dropped. It fell back into the ocean, and a huge wave slammed into the Research Institute. When the water flowed back, the building was moved by the tide, and it began to tilt and collapse.
The tip of Rimbaud’s tail beated rhythmically on the sea surface, the frequency was much like Morse’s Code.
The vibration of the fish’s tail hitting the water resonated with the sea. Rimbaud said angrily, “White lion! (Clear everything and end the mess)”
The merfolks in the sea gathered over, the number of them surpassed tens of thousands, and they came up to the surface with sharp nails. Merfolks with scaly wings hovered in the sky, ready to use their claws to crush the undead summons’ neck at any time.
The sea clan had arrived, invading the land. The seemingly gentle water that carried everything contained a terrifying power that could destroy everything. The sea level continued to drop, which revealed nine sections of dark, raised islands.
The islands were unexpectedly moving, and suddenly, one of them arched out of the water. A large scaly claw with a diameter of 10 meters broke out of the water and gripped a rock. The heavy rock looked miniscule in its sharp claws. After a moment, an enormous head with corals and spikes growing all over came out of the water. It opened its golden eyes, and a tear rolled down its face and into the ocean, solidifying into a night-shining pearl. It lit the pitch-black ocean brightly.
Rimbaud pressed his cheek against the scale of the nine-clawed sea dragon that was ten times his size and softly complained, “Ermo, kile ofnoyi boliea quan (Grandma, someone took my queen).”
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Holy shit ! What’s going on ? No, no,no. Just noooooooo ! 😭😭😭😭
Can Eternally Annoying just stop? THIS IS NOT THE TIME 😊 In fact there is never a good time for him to arrive, how about he pack himself into a marble already hmm??
Xiao Bai?? Please no??But also GRANDMA??