The Fallen Merman

The passenger pigeon omega hung up Bai Chunian’s phone call. He was a little hesitant. No matter what, Rimbaud was only an experimental subject, and it wasn’t worth hurting their three-year partnership over an experimental subject. Since it was only a matter of getting the document and leaving, for him, it was something easy to be done and it wasn’t bad to take the opportunity and do Bai Chunian a favor.

A week later, he calculated the time when Rimbaud would go to work at the Alliance Police Department and found an opportunity to enter Bai Chunian’s apartment. 

With little mental burden, he opened the apartment door nonchalantly and rummaged through the rooms.

He was totally shocked when he got caught by Rimbaud, who was hanging upside down from a clothesline on the bedroom balcony.

Cold, wet hands clutched his upper arm, and the passenger pigeon omega vaguely feared that he would shatter his bones.

Rimbaud came down from the hidden balcony drying rack and stood before the passenger pigeon. He supported his body with his fishtail, standing a head taller than the omega, and looked down at him condescendingly.

The passenger pigeon was also a member of the Alliance Secret Service and had seen a lot of the world in three years with Bai Chunian, but he was still somewhat nervous under the watchful gaze of these deep, blue eyes. At this moment, this pair of eyes didn’t exude a dark luster, so it was difficult to tell where he was looking.

Rimbaud’s webbed hand lifted the omega’s chin and asked expressionlessly, “What are you looking for?”

The passenger pigeon replied calmly, “Chu-ge asked me to help him get a document and send it back to him in a couple of days.”

Rimbaud raised an eyebrow, “Why, not let me send it?” 

The passenger pigeon frantically looked for a reason. He couldn’t just say that Chu-ge wanted to secretly withhold your deed of sale in order to destroy your thoughts of going home.

However, before he had time to answer, Rimbaud was drawn to something else on his body.

Rimbaud leaned close to his neck and sniffed lightly, his sharp fingernails gently scratched his glands, and a stream of oppressive pheromones that made his soul shudder swept through his body.

The passenger pigeon was struck by the extremely aggressive pressure of Rimbaud’s pheromones and fell helplessly to his knees. Rimbaud followed and lowered his body, wrapping his fishtail around the passenger pigeon’s hands to keep him from moving, and whispered, “You and, Xiao Bai, are very close, why?” 

“? Xiao Bai?” Despite Chu-ge’s young age, there really weren’t many people in their league who would call him Xiao Bai other than the President. It took a moment for the passenger pigeon to realize who Rimbaud was addressing.

“We’re colleagues and often partner up to do things.” The passenger pigeon sniffed his clothes, “I smell like him? That’s impossible? I do laundry every day.” They really didn’t have much physical contact other than their uniforms being washed together often. Plus he was married.

“Partner.” Rimbaud couldn’t understand the word. He frowned and asked, “Sleeping in, the same, observation box?”

The passenger pigeon couldn’t understand what an observation box was. It wasn’t easy to fool him, so he simply told the truth, “If the task’s conditions don’t allow us to sleep separately, we might sleep in the same tent. But I swear, we didn’t do anything else! I have no special thoughts towards Chu-ge. I’m also already married, so don’t think too much about it.” 

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“Heihei, let me show you this.” The passenger pigeon took out his phone and flipped open a picture of his little baby to show Rimbaud, “Look, he’s cute, isn’t he?”

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“Ah, this.” The passenger pigeon scratched his head.

It appeared that the invoice and certificates certainly couldn’t be taken away today. Coming out from the apartment, the passenger pigeon recalled Rimbaud’s appearance—an omega could actually grow so handsome. What a waste of resources, ah. He also thought of Bai Chunian and once again felt a sense of balance. After all, a handsome guy should only be engaged to someone similarly handsome, not to a mere mortal.

He suddenly remembered Bai Chunian mentioning that he had driven the president’s son away and felt that it was really necessary to visit the school. That petulant and domineering little rabbit would definitely make a fuss once he returned. Besides, everyone was more than willing to kiss the president’s ass. Let’s first go to school.

Ampheia Military Academy was one of the best combat schools in the country. It was a preparatory class for sending agents and special forces to various organizations, with a tight and difficult curriculum, strict arrangements from theoretical knowledge to various physical training, and a last-place elimination system, in which the last hundred trainees ranked in the final competition of each academic year would be required to repeat. Two repetitions equated to being kicked out of the school and the student would then be transferred to a normal school. 

Ampheia Military Academy’s high school was divided into three grades, which were high, middle, and low. September was the time for the advancement exam, which would be included in the final total on a weighted basis.

In the afternoon, the pistol close combat examination was underway. Lu Yan and the other students stood at the table behind their respective bunkers. After hearing the broadcast signaling the beginning of the exam, they immediately picked up the pistol parts on the table and quickly assembled them.

Lu Yan took the lead in assembling, pushing the magazine, loading the empty bullet container, and flipping over the bunker nearby. He shot five times in a row, lighting up the red warning light on the nearest candidate’s bulletproof vest.

The bulletproof vest was equipped with a sensor device. An ‘on’ red light indicated the elimination of the candidate. 

Lu Yan didn’t rush to change the ammunition as the Beretta 92F magazine he drew had a capacity of fifteen rounds and there were still ten rounds left in the magazine.

At this time, most of the candidates’ firearms had been assembled, and an alpha candidate ten meters away gave a meaningful look to another omega behind Lu Yan. The two of them simultaneously encircled Lu Yan.

The allocations in exams were randomly selected by the system. However, the number of people in the grade was limited and it was common for acquaintances to be assigned to the same examination fields. This alpha and omega created a 180-degree gun line to besiege Lu Yan, obviously targeting him. Nonetheless, Lu Yan took the lead in aiming at the alpha’s heart. Two shots hit the heart, and then Lu Yan immediately turned around and got down, dodging a shuttle of bullets from the omega behind him while aiming the gun at the omega’s heart and firing.

The pair’s bulletproof vests lit up red and they were forced to be eliminated. 

Each location of the bulletproof vest had a different number of required hits. It would only take two shots on the heart to be eliminated.

Lu Yan raised his ears and listened to the movement of the surrounding bunker. Due to his nature of being a lop-eared rabbit omega, his hearing surpassed other glands. As a result, he inherited rabbits’ sensitive reaction speed, which infinitely enhanced Lu Yan’s melee advantage.

The combat ended quickly with Lu Yan surviving until the end with 12 kills and a perfect score.

Lu Yan blew the muzzle of his gun and exited the scene with ease. 

Close combat was no problem for him. His biggest worry was the sniping examination later on, which he always failed, having not inherited his father’s genes at all.

“I wonder how Lanxing is doing at the training base… Forget it, he graduated this year anyway and won’t take the advancement exam.” Lu Yan walked to the sink to wash his face and fished out a carrot clip from his pocket to pin his two rabbit ears on top of his head lest his fur get wet. He took a look at his phone’s chat interface. All the recent messages were sent by him. Bi Lanxing didn’t reply even once. Maybe his phone was confiscated.

Suddenly, someone on his left deliberately clutched the faucet, dousing Lu Yan with cold water from head to toe.

The fur on Lu Yan’s ears were all wet and pitifully drooped down. He swept the water off his face and stared to his left. He saw the alpha he had just eliminated from the field standing by the sink looking at him with schadenfreude along with the omega standing on the side watching the show. 

“Fuck, you motherfucker needs a beating.” Lu Yan shook his head, brushed off the water from his ears, and scornfully mocked the alpha, “What do you mean by this? Can’t accept that you lost? Your head just got blown off, didn’t it?”

The alpha crossed his arms and laughed, “I was just going easy on you. Who doesn’t know how capable Young Master Lu’s father is? Who among us dares to mess with him?”

Lu Yan was fuming so mad that he could only laugh, “If it’s related to my father, how come I didn’t see how you went easy on me? Also, I didn’t kill just you two in the earlier match. Does that also mean everyone present went easy on me?”

The alpha coldly snorted, “Who in the whole academy didn’t know Young Master Lu’s name? Didn’t you just rely on your father to get in? Haih, what can we do? In case we win, you might go home crying to find your father. Who among us can endure your father’s wrath? Well, blame us for not having that life — of having such a good father.” 

“Do you actually believe what you’re saying? Okay, fine. I have no strength. I rely all on you going easy on me.” Lu Yan gradually gritted his teeth, fished out a pen and paper from his backpack, and with rustling sounds, he wrote two lines. He then slapped it on the sink, “I wrote a waiver. Let’s fight one-on-one. No matter how you break my bones, no one will blame you. Dare to fight in the battle arena?”

The alpha’s expression stiffened for a moment. He hurriedly took two steps back and scoffed, “It’s useless for you to write this. Why would your father care about a piece of paper when he wants to do something?”

“It has nothing to do with my father!” Lu Yan was so angry that there was a buzz in his head. He cursed till his voice cracked, “According to what you said, it was my fault for taking the first place? Is it so hard to admit that you’re such a noob? My standard has indeed always been better than yours.”

“Ah, isn’t that also a gene inherited from my father?” 

“You…” He started to scold but choked up. In fact, he didn’t want to cry at all. He just couldn’t control his physiological choking and it seemed that the momentum suddenly weakened.

A few small omegas in the same class as Lu Yan saw the scene and ran over to pull him away and comfort him. The alpha by the sink was still chattering from behind, “There must be benefits from fawning over Lu Yan. Quickly coax him well.”

Lu Yan walked away in silence, his rabbit ears drooping.

“None of them really went easy on me,” Lu Yan whispered to himself, “I get up every morning at five to practice guns, I get scolded by teachers for dozing off in class, I stay up late at night to practice overcoming obstacles, and I get leg cramps in the middle of the night, and my father just scolded me for dragging Lanxing down. He’s not going to get back at the other trainees just because I didn’t do well on the exam…” 

As he passed by the school gate, Lu Yan looked up and saw the passenger pigeon omega waving at him outside the gate.

The passenger pigeon shook the small cake in his hand, “I was just about to call your homeroom teacher, come and get it.”

Lu Yan wasn’t even in the mood when he saw the small cake. He dejectedly walked over and took the cake box, “I’m fine.”

Passenger Pigeon, “I can see it, your face has joy written all over it.” 

Lu Yan squatted tiredly on the ground and buried his face in the crook of his arms, “It’s so pointless to live. Everyone thinks I rely on my father, yet my father thinks I’m stupid.”

Passenger Pigeon, “How could it be? The president and Mr. Lu both love you very much.”

Lu Yan’s voice sounded down, “Ugh, it’s annoying, I’d rather they weren’t that great.”

The passenger pigeon comforted Lu Yan for a while. He then called Bai Chunian to report today’s events. 

Bai Chunian was teaching Bi Lanxing the overall situation in the Tactical Drill Hall and was a little distracted when he answered the phone.

Passenger Pigeon, “I didn’t get the invoice. Rimbaud caught me. Fortunately, I was smart enough and didn’t sell you out.”

Bai Chunian lay lazily at the table, supporting his head and smiling, “I forgot, he’s very alert. It’s not easy to take things under his nose. Forget it, I… will find a chance to ask him directly for it.”

Passenger Pigeon, “I also went to school to see Lu Yan. He’s been in a bad mood lately. I guess it’s because he hasn’t been separated from Lanxing for so long since he was a kid. He’s a bit unaccustomed.” 

Bai Chunian’s impression of Lu Yan was average. Although Lu Yan’s talent was also good, it paled in comparison to Bi Lanxing. Moreover, Bai Chunian liked to spend his energy on more promising people.

“Okay, let’s take a break.” Bai Chunian threw away his phone and called Bi Lanxing over to rehydrate.

Bi Lanxing took off his contact Vr glasses, picked up a towel to wipe his sweat, sat down next to Bai Chunian, and took a sip of water.

Bai Chunian lowered his head, he couldn’t get tired looking at the picture on his screen. Bi Lanxing called him several times before he came back to his senses. 

“Instructor, can I borrow your cell phone to call Ah Yan?”

“Why, missed him very much?” Bai Chunian said perfunctorily, “He’s fine, he’s taking his advancement exams recently, you’d better not distract him.”

Bi Lanxing was a little disappointed, thought about it and asked, “By the way, why did you want Lu Yan to leave?” ”

Bai Chunian lazily raised his eyes at him, “Do you know why I kept you?” 

Bi Lanxing, “I don’t know.”

“For so long, I’ve been trying to build a good team for the president, similar to PBB’s Storm Special Forces, with a small number of people, but each one is a killer and is loyal enough to cooperate with tacit cooperation. That would lessen the president’s burden a lot.” Bai Chunian bluntly said, “It’s rare to reach M2 differentiation at the age of 17. I want you.”

Bi Lanxing, “Ah, but Ah Yan also M2 differentiated. He just turned fifteen.”

A few seconds of silence. 

Bai Chunian sat up straight, “Even him?”