Translator: ThatLazyPotato
Translation Checker: 7qqy
Editor: yuki_shuichi
Hearing from the president, Xiao Bai had already grown several tons and was very mischievous. He and Rimbaud had grown accustomed to living in the Greenfly Island Training Base. Thus, Han Xingqian wasn’t in a hurry to go see him. There were also highly skilled doctors stationed on the island; with them there, there wouldn’t be any issues with Xiao Bai.
Schools from all parts of the country were on vacation at the beginning of the year, and all the students were relaxing. Dr. Zhong, to prevent his son from hanging out with rich kids who didn’t study, arranged for him to do homework at Han Xingqian’s place every day.
There weren’t a lot of missions during the beginning of the year, nor sick cases, and there wasn’t much to do at work either. Han Xingqian would often sit at his desk and flip through magazines while helping his teacher watch his child do homework.
Xia Naichuan was sprawled out on the desk, biting the end of his pen, and silently figuring out how to balance the chemical equations. This child was studying at Ampheia Military Academy and was top of the class, and he was good at doing his homework. It was just that this child was too lazy, and his handwriting was really sloppy, writing all over the place and looking like a mess.
“Hey, this letter here,“ Han Xingqian lowered his head and looked over his writing a few times, “Write it properly, one stroke at a time. Don’t randomly scribble.”
“How do I write it?” Xia Naichuan raised his head and asked.
Han Xingqian originally was going to show off his writing skills. During his school days, he had excellent handwriting and even won an award for it. Unfortunately, after writing numerous medical cases, he had forgotten how to write properly and could only draw wavy lines now.
Xia Naichuan saw him hesitate, so he grabbed the medical report on the desk, flipped through it, and said mockingly, “This can’t be compared to mine, Uncle.”
“Uncle…? Call me ge.” Han Xingqian was left without any retort from being laughed at, so he could only push his golden-colored glasses leaning against the edge of the table and heave a sigh. “Kitties are all the same; you can’t say anything to them. You say one thing, and they can talk back tenfold. Puppies are a lot more obedient.”
“Who are you calling a kitten?” Xia Naichuan twirled the pen while crossing his legs. Unfortunately, the stool didn’t have a backrest for him to lean on. Otherwise, his arrogance would be exactly like his father, Xia Pingtian. A few short dark brown hairs stood up on the little alpha’s head in a rebellious manner, his raised-up cat eyes looked like they had eyeliner. At a glance, he looked like a noble person who couldn’t be messed with.
“I’m a mountain lion, a lion, got it?” Xia Naichuan spun the pen and retorted casually.
“No, no, no.” Han Xingqian rolled up the case file and tapped it against his palm. “The mountain lion, also known as the cougar, belongs to the Felidae family, Felinae subfamily, and the genus Puma. Have you heard of Bai Chunian? A white lion variant of the Southern African lion. Belongs to the Felidae family, the Pantherinae subfamily, and the genus Panthera. If I must say, he is a lion, while you are a cat.”
“When I—when I grow up, I’ll be a lion.” Xia Naichuan couldn’t win the argument, so he continued doing his homework while sulking.
In fact, Bai Chunian was his idol. He looked over last year’s aerial records of the joint forces besieging the Research Institute repeatedly; the enormous white lion roaring toward the sky created an immense impact on the teen’s psyche.
Hence, Xia Naichuan didn’t like others calling him a cougar—he wanted to be a lion. He often said lions were the coolest, most powerful, and domineering. Even his own dad, Xia Pingtian, praised him for being a filial son.
“See, people must study to gain knowledge. Otherwise, you won’t even know what you are.” Han Xingqian picked up the ballpoint pen on the desk, wedged it between his fingers, and twirled it. The pen spun around and passed through his five fingers, creating a blossoming image.
Xia Naichuan was fascinated by his nimble fingers, suddenly forgetting that they were arguing just now, turning to ask Han Xingqian to teach him how to spin pens.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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They have not seen each other for almost a year already. Xiao Xun was recovering at Greenfly Island, then he was caught up in the solidification of the sea surface, causing transportation obstruction, which delayed him from coming back. They were able to talk via phone and video call often, but he was only able to look and couldn’t touch, making him even more upset in his heart.
If it weren’t because of him, Xiao Xun wouldn’t have been seriously injured to the point that he needed to go to Greenfly Island to recuperate.
At the time, the siege on the Research Institute had just ended. The doctors spared no effort to rescue the soldiers, police officers, and injured researcher hostages on the scene—including Han Xingqian. However, during the evacuation, the rescue plane was overloaded, unable to accommodate a large number of doctors and wounded researchers. As a result, the doctors who weren’t injured took the initiative to give up their spot, dispersed in ambulances to return to Tongkou City, and waited for another rescue plane to take them back.
Han Xingqian used Strength Reset to reset and renew the damaged ambulance’s power unit and fuel capacity. After helping his respected seniors into the ambulance, he stepped back himself.
“Xiao Han, if we squeeze in a bit more, there will be room for you to sit. Hurry and get on.” The old professor extended his aged hand to bring him up too.
“No need, you just need to take care of yourself. If anything happens to you guys on the road, I can’t afford to take responsibility; I’ll be a sinner in the medical world.” Han Xingqian helped them close the door. “I’ll drive that Jeep back on my own. You guys go back to the city first and wait for me. Let’s get in touch later.”
There was a jeep in the grassland near the Research Institute. It was left by Bai Chunian and Rimbaud when they were there. After the hostage in the trunk was taken out, the Jeep was left there unattended.
Han Xingqian found the car. Just clearing away the overgrown grass exhausted what little energy he had left.
He narrowly escaped death in this battle, and as a doctor, he bore the heavy responsibility of helping the dying and healing the injured. Although he wasn’t involved in the frontline battle, the physical toll was no less than that of the soldiers charging into battle.
After being chosen by Bai Chunian’s A3 ability, God Sent Me, Han Xingqian’s A3 ability temporarily underwent an S4-like evolution. Even though the amount of energy spent didn’t change, using the ability often in such a short period would cause his gland to be seriously injured.
When he made contact with the car door, his fingers were already shaking and his complexion was pale and haggard; it was almost like he was on the verge of collapsing.
He opened the door and his expression suddenly turned stunned.
“Why didn’t you go back with the other student group?”
Xiao Xun unexpectedly sat in the driver seat, pursed his lips, and said softly, “…I left the group secretly because I didn’t see you get on the rescue plane. Get on.”
Han Xingqian restrained his joy on the corner of his lips. He went around to the passenger seat and put on the seat belt.
Xiao Xun took the spare key that Bai Chunian had left at home to start the car, turned the car around, and drove away from the battlefield, which had been tightly blocked by the police.
Han Xingqian took off his golden glasses and closed his eyes to rest. As soon as he relaxed his mind, his entire body was filled with exhaustion, and he slumped in his seat. He was swollen and aching all over.
“Xun Xun, did you get hurt?”
“It’s just a scrape.”
“That’s good…” Han Xingqian wanted to release some soothing pheromones to him, but his gland was already burning hot and swollen. He could only squeeze out the little remaining larkspur scent.
Xiao Xun noticed that the soothing pheromone was mixed with the slight scent of blood from forcing oneself. He removed his hand from the steering wheel and put it on Han Xingqian’s nape, using his cold palm to cool and sooth it. He even released his own soothing pheromone to comfort him in return.
“Han-ge, I’m fine. Rest for a bit.”
“Today, I treated more than 200 wounded…but I can’t release even a bit of soothing pheromones for my own boyfriend…” Han Xingqian was indeed exhausted to the extreme; he couldn’t even open his own eyes. He raised his arm with difficulty and brought Xiao Xun’s hand from his nape to in front of him, rubbing it. “Your palm is scraped this badly, yet you didn’t even say it hurt.”
“I…it doesn’t hurt that much.” Xiao Xun’s face heated up.
Han Xingqian swept away the hair on his forehead, and a white horn extended from his forehead. He had Xiao Xun’s hand lightly grasp the spiral pattern of his horn. A warm current flowed into Xiao Xun’s palm, and the abrasion on it gradually healed.
Xiao Xun bit his lips and looked at him from the corner of his eyes. He couldn’t help but use the tip of his thumb to rub the horn. Han Xingqian sighed deeply, half-opened his eyes, and smiled. “I told you before not to tease me here; this is a dangerous area.”
“I just measured fatigue and pain as the biggest percentage; now, your sexual desire has increased to 51%, Han-ge.”
“You’re measuring me again.” Han Xingqian propped his head and leaned against the window. “Then, when we get back home to work, I’ll also read your mind.”
“Han-ge!” Xiao Xun’s face turned flush from holding back, his tail unconsciously clamped between his legs.
Before entering the city, they would pass through a section of wild shrubbery. Dirt suddenly rose on the opposite side of the bumpy dirt road. Two gray pick-up trucks drove over, with two people standing on the truck compartment, respectively, and they wore white combat uniforms with an Otter logo printed on them. The four people held rifles in their arms.
From their appearance, they definitely weren’t regular soldiers, but rather, a terrorist organization. Judging from their route, it seemed they were taking advantage of the chaos to go to the other affiliated cultivation bases of the Research Institute for personal gain.
Xiao Xun was still calm, changing direction to evade them while also turning on the communicator to notify headquarters of the situation. “We have discovered the Baymorley Terrorist Organization’s members; their motives are unclear. I have sent over the location.”
However, since few obstacles in the wilderness could block their view, when they saw the terrorist group, the other party also saw them and fired shots at their Jeep to stop it.
Xiao Xun coldly looked at the other party, but in fact, his heart was beating out of his chest. They were surrounded by a dozen fugitives armed with automatic rifles, while he only had a sniper rifle, and Han-ge’s body couldn’t last another life-and-death fight.
A dozen pitch-black muzzles were directed at them, so they could only slowly raise their hands and get out of the car.
Han Xingqian looked over at Xiao Xun, but when their eyes met, Xiao Xun understood what he meant.
The alphas in white clothes got off the pick-up trucks, the muzzle of their rifle directed at them, and they came over to search through their bodies.
They both carried the IOA Alliance ID and once they were found, both of them might be shot dead on the spot.
Han Xingqian released larkspur suppression pheromones. The terrorists smelled the pheromones and whispered warily, “A3? Be careful, they could be the police. Our whereabouts have been exposed, let’s hurry and take care of them.”
The two instantly went into action; Han Xingqian turned around and covered Xiao Xun, the wings behind his back fluttered open and blocked the other party’s vision as well as the flying bullets.
Han Xingqian’s horn gently touched the space between Xiao Xun’s eyebrows; the battle plan was exchanged at that moment of contact, and a miniature pistol was taken out from the inner side of Xiao Xun’s thigh. Han Xingqian turned around and fired at the person closest to him. The bullet cracked the alpha’s skull, and blood instantly splashed everywhere.
Under the cover of the Pegasus wings, Xiao Xun jumped up onto the Jeep’s roof, used his elbow to break the rear window, and took out the sniper rifle from the back seat. He grasped it firmly in his hands, aimed it coldly at the target that posed the greatest threat to Han Xingqian, and killed the person as the gunshot went off.
Multi-target sniping at ultra-short distances was a great test of a sniper’s adaptability. Although there wasn’t a need to calculate ballistic descent and wind speed, since a single-shot sniper needed to reload the sniper’s ammunition every time it was fired, it was necessary to kill in one blow to ensure one’s own safety.
When Xiao Xun’s five bullets had all been fired, an additional five more corpses laid on the ground.
When he was training at the Greenfly Island Training Base, his classmates even gave him the nickname “Assault Sniper.”
These five bullets shocked the other party, and the leader spat out, “They’re definitely IOA agents. Destroy them.”
“Get in the car, let’s go.” Han Xingqian turned around and grabbed the upper part of the Jeep window. He swung through the window and into the driver’s seat. He turned the wheel sharply, turning the car sideways to block a bunch of bullets for Xiao Xun. Xiao Xun took the opportunity to get in the car, replace the magazine, leaned out halfway, and fired behind them.
The terrorists also got in their car and persistently chased after them. Shots were fired hitting the Jeep. Xiao Xun turned to look at the damage to the fuel tank; if the fuel tank exploded, neither of them would come out alive.
“Sit back down; we can still keep going.” Han Xingqian steeled himself. “Their car is going fast, but the terrain is bumpy. They may not be able to catch up to us.”
“Han-ge, I have calculated it just now—the probability of the fuel tank exploding is 89%.” Xiao Xun bowed his head and pulled the trigger, and an empty shell casing flew out of the window. He looked at the rearview mirror to calculate the other party’s position and said in a deep voice, “But my chance of getting shot is 50%. I’ll take the gamble.”
“Xun Xun, stop!”
Xiao Xun raised his foot and kicked the steering wheel—the Jeep spun and drifted while driving at an extremely fast speed. Xiao Xun leaned out from the side opposite to the fuel tank and fired at the head of the driver in the car behind them, causing the driver to die on the spot. The pick-up truck lost control and crashed into a rock pit.
Han Xingqian took the chance to turn into a small path and sped off, leaving the terrorists behind.
After confirming that it was safe, Han Xingqian finally let out a sigh of relief. However, in the rearview mirror, he saw Xiao Xun’s face and lips lose their color, as well as his hands pressed against his bleeding abdomen.
“Don’t move; keep pressing on it. Let me have a look.” Han Xingqian hurriedly stopped the Jeep, lifted Xiao Xun’s clothes, and performed first aid. The bandaging and hemostatic techniques he clearly knew by heart seemed to become clumsy and slow at this moment.
The communicator flashed and headquarters responded, “We have dispatched agents to provide support.”
Two eye-catching green supercars drove up at the end of the road with a total of four people. Red Fox Feng Yue was driving, while Leopard Girl was holding a heavy machine gun, half-kneeling in the front passenger seat, and chewing a piece of gum, her braids swaying in the wind. The sports car drove past them at high speed, and Leopard Girl turned back proudly, making a throat-slitting gesture at them. “They dare get in the way of the doctor’s path; their base is done for.”
The driver of the car behind them was a vulture alpha. The snow tiger omega in the front passenger seat took out a bottle of epinephrine from her handbag, left a bright red lipstick mark on it before tossing it to them, then left.
After Han Xingqian stopped Xiao Xun’s bleeding abdomen, he carried him to the back seat of the car. They were currently ten minutes away from the city, so there shouldn’t be any more problems.
Xiao Xun was still conscious when he was being carried, and he remained silent during the entire bandaging process. His arms wrapped around Han Xingqian’s neck, and he kept looking at him. The small black eyes had a little white area to them; they were as clear as a puppy’s eyes.
Han Xingqian lowered his head and looked at him. Xiao Xun was still looking at him; the tail clamped between his legs was raised up and trembled because of the pain.
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