Translator: ThatLazyPotato
Editor: DragonFae
The sea clan withdrew from land, the water receded, revealing a cliff that was about to collapse. The Research Institute’s building foundation was damaged and there was a faint sign of tilting.
Lu Yan ran over to the edge of the cliff and looked around. Rimbaud had already disappeared with Xiao Bai’s marble as well as the pink and white marble.
“Don’t go… Did you bring your phone… When are you coming back…” Lu Yan was drained. He suddenly felt sore all over, his vision became blurry, and he fell down.
His body was caught by a lump of soft vines and gently raised him up. Lu Yan muddleheadly curled up, the little ball was held in the intertwined vines.
Bi Lanxing rushed over, carried the omega, and quietly sat down on the ground. He let Lu Yan lie on his shoulder, and released the soothing pheromones he had left.
“Chu-ge will be fine, I believe in him.” It wasn’t that Bi Lanxing didn’t accept the fact that Bai Chunian was annihilated. For such a long time, Bai Chunian’s stability had given him great trust, which gave him huge confidence, and convinced him that Chu-ge would not die so easily.
“How’s your injury?”
As the front assaulter, Lu Yan was the most vulnerable to injuries and physical exertion. In this battle, he faced more than a hundred elite A3 experimental subjects, and he hadn’t taken even one step back.
Lu Yan opened his eyes in a daze. He saw Bi Lanxing’s face leaning on the side of his own face, the rims of his eye sockets turned red immediately, and his voice was nasally.
“Chu-ge died in front of me… I didn’t catch him.”
“He won’t die.”
“Why?”
“There’s no reason, I just know.”
Bi Lanxing’s resolute tone made Lu Yan feel at ease, as if Chu-ge really was just going on a business trip like usual. His breathing became steady.
Bi Lanxing tried to check his injuries, blood unexpectedly rubbed on his hand. He looked for the wound in panic, and found that his combat uniform was ripped. There were a dozen wounds on his flesh, which exposed the dense bones.
“Don’t move, don’t shake me.” Lu Yan closed his eyes and groaned. “I get nauseous from the pain when you move me.”
“I’ll carry you to the rescue plane.”
“I can’t, I can’t move, don’t move…” Lu Yan used his left hand with the least injuries to hold Bi Lanxing’s lapel and pulled at it. “…Let go of me… I just saw my dad…”
Bi Lanxing couldn’t help but lower his head and gave a quick peck on the lips of Lu Yan’s pale face, then tried to change the subject to draw his attention, “I’ll just let Uncle Lu beat me up. I like you, I already asked the president for permission. Aren’t we dating now?”
“Hah…I still haven’t agreed…”
“Then can you give me an answer?” Bi Lanxing lightly pinched Lu Yan’s finger, “Don’t sleep.”
“Then…let’s try…let’s try for…three days first.”
“Okay.”
The battlefield was a mess. Lu Shangjin jumped out of the plane and anxiously looked for Lu Yan in the crowd. When several engineers separated and he squeezed over, he happened to see Bi Lanxing lowering his head and kissing Lu Yan.
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He quickened his steps and squatted, took Lu Yan into his arms, and released a great amount of soothing pheromones.
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Bi Lanxing was still worried about Ah Yan getting scolded, but when he heard this, he immediately stood straight. He gave Lu Shangjin a salute, and said in earnest, “Yes.”
Lu Shangjin was exasperated. After releasing the last of the soothing pheromones, Lu Yan was sent to the rescue plane and handed over to Han Xingqian.
The unconscious Jin Xi was also carried on the stretcher by the doctors, with a suppressor and handcuffs put on him, and also taken to the rescue plane to be resuscitated.
The advance troop had managed to enter deep into the Research Institute and found more than a hundred researchers taking refuge in the underground air raid shelters.
The troop left the refuge area with the researchers, and as the distraught researchers ran out of the building one by one, a rupture sound came from within.
The equipment inside started the self-destruct program, the bombs inside the equipment denoted one after another, and the series of explosions made the ground tremble.
“Oh no, the main load-bearing structure has been blown up.” Crawler observed the floor plan on the computer. His upgraded Parallel Plane Crack Version was degraded after Bai Chunian’s annihilation, so he could no longer repair the building remotely.
Domino flapped his butterfly wings and took Crawler away from the explosion range, and he said bitterly, “Blowing up the evidence, destroying the corpses, eliminating all traces—Aileen had already prepared for this. Will there be a resurgence? I’m terrified.”
Crawler suddenly noticed that there was a change in the collapsed area on the map; someone was crawling out of it.
At this moment, the member responsible for monitoring the anomaly device shouted, “Two A3 experimental subject survivors have been discovered!”
“Two?” Crawler’s nerves that had just relaxed tensed up again, and he inadvertently raised his head. A tall black figure appeared in the distance on the top of the building, almost blending with the night sky in the background.
The inside of the building had already exploded into a honeycomb by the bombs, and the load-bearing structures started to collapse. The main load-bearing structure finally couldn’t bear the heavy weight and broke down from the center. The towering building collapsed in an instant, and the smoke from the explosion filled the air at once. The soldiers put on gas masks and searched inside.
He Suowei saw things even more clearly from the helicopter. He saw someone crawl out of the ruins; it was a ball-jointed doll with tattered clothes coming out unsteadily. He carried a human alpha on his back and crawled out with difficulty.
The doll’s clothes were ripped into tattered pieces by the explosion, the strips hanging on his body. The sleek ceramic body had a redback spider mark on his lower back.
The out-of-print dolls made by Puppet Master would be marked with this brand logo. This was the inevitable mark left when using the ability, “Hand of God.”
“It’s Eris and Puppet Master!” He Suowei prepared to issue a siege order and shoot Eris to death on sight. However, when he picked up the walkie-talkie, his mouth seemed to have been sealed, his voice was stuck in his throat, and he couldn’t speak.
He looked down and searched vigilantly, and discovered the black figure on the top of the building.
The person was wearing a trench coat, their gold cat eyes stared at He Suowei. They raised their index finger and pressed it against their lips, the sapphire ring at the base of their index finger flashed a cold light.
He Suowei couldn’t speak at the moment, so he immediately raised his hand and used hand gestures to convey commands to the members beside him.
The elite team member closest to Eris received the order, activated their differentiation ability and went after Eris.
Eris was currently in poor condition. He was physically exhausted and also needed to carry a tall human alpha on his back. Facing the pursuit of elite team members, he may not be able to escape unscathed. This was the best chance to kill Eris.
Black Panther, who was standing at the top, turned around. He raised his index finger at the pursuers, placed it on his lips, and his eyes glowed a dark gold in the night.
“The Devil’s Whisper.”
The members’ differentiation ability was immediately blocked, their speed slowed down abruptly, and they pulled away from Eris.
Eris took the chance to release a cursed golden thread, and used the power to escape the elite team members’ siege with Puppet Master.
Black Panther indifferently retracted his finger, and nimbly jumped down from the tall building, and disappeared into the night.
Deep in the night, the police dogs sniff through the rubble to locate bombs and search for evidence. The police officers were collecting evidence in the ruins, and some soldiers were cleaning the battlefield.
The smoke coming from the collapsed building dispersed, but the air was still filled with the pungent smell of burning gunpowder and the smell of blood.
Lu Shangjin sat alone on the gravel beach under the cliff, grabbed a handful of stones and threw them in the ocean.
His phone vibrated. Someone was calling him, and he answered it.
It was a call from Yan Yi, but he didn’t say anything, he just stayed with him quietly for a long time with the sound of his breathing.
“Yan Yan, the last time I felt this powerless was seventeen years ago.” Lu Shangjin gently rubbed the edge of the pebble in his hand. “If only my children were ordinary people.”
“Jin-ge, come to me. I’m near the ruins of the Red Fox Cultivation Base.”
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Early in the morning, the people of Red Fox City were still fast asleep. The traffic on the road was light, the dim light lined the roadside, and the surrounding was silent.
The Red Fox Cultivation Base was abandoned after Bai Chunian had looted it. From a distance, it looked gray and old. No one paid attention to a dilapidated building that no one cared about.
Lu Shangjin folded his wings and lightly landed on the street light. He shook his wings and retracted it until it was gone.
Yan Yi was wandering under the streetlight holding his military cap. The dim light reflected his side face. There were a pair of bloodshot eyes embedded in the reddish eye sockets. There were several cracked and sunken fist marks on the wall beside Yan Yi, and his right fist was scratched.
He heard the sound of wings flapping and managed to calm down. He put on the military cap, turned around to face the dilapidated entrance of the cultivation base. “I have the police and the army on standby one kilometer away. We’ll go in by ourselves.”
Yan Yi took off the communicator in his ear and threw it under his feet, then lightly stepped on it and crushed it, cutting off communication with the monitoring personnel.
Lu Shangjin jumped down from the streetlight, and landed beside Yan Yi. He put on a pair of black gloves, took a pistol, and loaded it.
“Okay.”
The inside of the cultivation base was burned to ruins by lightning. The tables and chairs were burned, and the walls were covered in charcoal black.
Water dripped down from the cracked ceiling, and in the darkness, all that could be heard was the quiet sound of dripping water.
Yan Yi walked all the way to the deepest part, until he saw a glimmer of light coming from the crack of the door at the end of the corridor. The two of them picked up their pace and kicked open the door.
Strong light came out from inside the door, and Yan Yi raised his hand to block it. The room was brightly lit, and the furniture and furnishings were all brand new and clean. There was a large silver curved desk in the center. Alieen was sitting behind the computer, while empty wine bottles were scattered all over the desk and floor.
Her red hair was dry and disheveled, her cheeks deeply sunken in, and she was so thin she lost her appearance. She lifted a leg and turned the swivel chair to face the two uninvited guests standing at the door. She had nowhere to run, yet her posture was still graceful.
“Mr. President.” Aileen spoke first, and observed Yan Yi’s demeanor. “All I did was destroy a few goods, why do you look so heart-broken?”
“Is that so? To you, those experimental subjects with thoughts and feelings are just goods?”
“My original intention was just to make weapons, just like ordinary munitions. It’s their fault for having their own thoughts, the pain they feel will be much more prominent.” Aileen poured two glasses of red wine and pushed them to them. “Come, drink this first before taking me away. Bring me to the International Court of Justice, I will answer all your questions.”
Aileen already knew that the 109 Research Institute was completely destroyed, and all the secrets inside would be buried underground forever. There was no evidence to accuse her of illegal human experimentation, so she had nothing to fear.
Yan Yi took the wine glass, tilted it to check the quality. “There’s no need to rush, aren’t you curious how I knew you were here?”
Aileen sneered. “You have a hundred agents under your command, is there anything you don’t know?”
“I didn’t use the agents.” Yan Yi said, “Someone told me that this is the first project base you guys established together. The only happy and carefree time you had was spent here.”
Aileen’s face suddenly changed, she put down the wine glass, and coldly questioned, “Who, who told you.”
“You should know very well.”
“Lin Deng.” Aileen gripped the glass tightly, gritted her teeth, then slowly calmed down. “I let him go and he betrayed me again. It seems breaking up was the right decision. I hate unfaithful men, I’ll kill him the next time I see him.”
Yan Yi carefully watched her reaction, it seemed she wasn’t surprised by the news that Lin Deng was still alive.
“Also,” Yan Yi tossed a disposable USB to her, “you can look at it yourself.”
Aileen gave a doubtful look at Yan Yi, took the USB, and inserted it into the computer to look at the content.
She placed her full attention on the file that popped up on her computer, her calm expression gradually changed to that of disbelief.
Aileen suddenly stood up and overturned the computer and desk. The desk full of red wine bottles fell to the ground, crashed with a bang, and the red wine spattered on Aileen’s white suit pants, staining a large area of it red.
Aileen lost her rationality, she pulled out the USB drive and shattered it into pieces in her palm.
The content of the USB was a complete replica of the 109 Research Institute’s special combat weapon plan. Only the closest talents around Aileen could obtain such comprehensive evidence. This tiny little USB drive would become the conclusive evidence that would make it impossible for Aileen to turn the tables around.
Yan Yi pulled out another identical USB from his fingers. “Go ahead and smash it, I have a lot of copies.”
Aileen held the tilted and broken desk to stand firm—she really didn’t expect that before she lost everything, Xiao Yang, whom she spent all her efforts to protect, would stab her in the back with the fatalist blow.
“I’ve…only been soft hearted twice in my life; once was when I let Lin Deng go, the other time…was when I let Xiao Yang go.” Aileen grabbed the wine glass on the floor and broke it, her palm dripped with blood. “How are they so similar?”
“Go and tell Lin Deng,” Aileen glared fiercely at Yan Yi, “tell him I bribed the little hospital where he had his gland replacement surgery; his gland surgery was done by me. I made a sample of the replaced Immortal Jellyfish gland and put it in the chocolate box under the bed of the villa. He didn’t escape from me, I was the one who let him go.”
When Aileen was saying this, she reached her hand in her pocket and quickly took out a pink agent. She tried to inject it in the artery of her neck.
Lu Shangjin’s reaction speed exceeded that of Aileen’s hand speed, he shot Aileen’s right hand, and the agent flew out of her hand.
Aileen kicked the desk over to block Yan Yi, the blue rose pheromones bursted out of her nape, and a pair of emerald-colored feathered wings broke out of her back. She hovered in the air, exhibiting her A3 ability, Soul Siphon.
Hummingbird A3 differentiation ability, “Soul Siphon,” an energy extraction-type ability. Siphoning would be triggered when a target within range uses their differentiation ability. The closer they were to Aileen, the faster the energy would be sucked out of them. The absorbed energy would be continuously supplied to Aileen herself.
Once pricked by Soul Siphon, the target’s ability and physical strength would be sucked dry, and they would collapse from weakness.
However, Yan Yi didn’t collapse. His ability was sucked into Aileen’s body, yet his complexion remained the same. Instead, Aileen’s blood flow became extremely fast, and her veins swelled to the point where they protruded from her skin.
“You absorbed an S4 ability, can you withstand it?” Yan Yi’s voice did not falter, his figure disappeared from where he originally stood, and he instantly appeared in mid-air. He grabbed Aileen’s arm, and used his J1 ability, High-speed Bounce, on her belly.
This powerful impact broke the side of Aileen’s ribs, her back smashed a deep dent into the metal wall, and she spewed out blood.
Aileen’s eyes were glazed over, and she struggled to reach over for the gun on the desk.
Yan Yi’s body teleported in an instant and appeared in front of her, the muzzle of his gun pressed against the space between her eyebrows, and the tassel on the chest of his military uniform swayed slightly.
“The age of special-type weapons is over, don’t resist anymore. You should hope that you’ll receive the death sentence. You’re wanted by the leader of the sea clan, do you know what will happen to you if you fall in the Siren’s hands? Need I envision it for you?”
Aileen still wanted to try escaping. She used the fingertips of her left hand to hook onto the pointed screws on the wall. Lu Shangjin raised his hand and fired, breaking the first knuckle of her ring finger.
Lin Deng and Xiao Yang need to start an “Escaped Being Aileen’s Boyfriend” support group, but God how do you fall in love with a lady that has so many red flags?
I guess “love” blinded them. I really don’t understand either, because she is the most despicable and worthless being alive. She can go to hell for making Rimbaud and BCN go through all that suffering, along with literally the thousands of people she harmed (directly or indirectly).
Thank You for the new chapter (๑˙❥˙๑)