The Fallen Merman

Translator: ThatLazyPotato

Translation Checker: Carolin 

Editor: unedited

Proofreader: babymew

The alpha was so angry that his face turned red, and he pointed at Bai Chunian with feigned ferociousness. “Who doesn’t know how to bluff ah. You say it’s ten stars so it’s ten stars? I can also say that I have a hundred stars.”

“Fuck, even 10 stars is worth being doubted on all of a sudden? Do you think it’s amazing to have 10 stars? Just hurry and drop out ba. Save some educational resources for children who can’t afford to go to school. Your contribution to the country is really not as great as others’ cutting back on their farts as a contribution to alleviating the greenhouse effect.” 

Bai Chunian fiddled with the ID in his palm, “If you want evidence, let’s first come to an agreement. If I can take out the evidence, whether you want to kneel down and call me daddy or go to the broadcasting room and apologize in front of the whole school, we must bet on something. If I do whatever you tell me to do then that would be too humiliating for me.”

The alpha hesitated. Although 10-stars examinees were rare, judging from Bai Chunian’s confident attitude, he didn’t seem like he was speaking nonsense. The alpha also wasn’t sure, so he didn’t dare to rashly agree to the bet.

“What a coward. Your age makes no sense. If my students were to have your kind of behavior, I would sort them out every day until they’re crawling all over the ground.” Bai Chunian put away his ID into his pants pocket, brushed past the alpha, and easily swiped out a bunch of keys from the unsuspecting guy’s pocket. He casually tossed them up and caught them several times, “You still want Laozi to take out the evidence for you to see, are you even worthy?”

When the keys fell into Bai Chunian’s palm, it was gently squeezed into a lump of iron paste. He raised his hand and lazily tossed the scrap of iron into the shocked alpha’s hand.

“Go get new keys made. They will tell you that you don't fucking deserve it.”

Lu Yan was gaping and standing there watching from the sideline until Bai Chunian turned around and called him, “Don’t stand together with the idiot, it’s beneath you. Come over to me.” Only then did he snap out of it and follow behind Bai Chunian.

Combat was the last subject of the advancement exam. The rest of the time allowed the students to have free time. Lu Yan trotted the entire way to catch up with Bai Chunian. “That, that…”

Bai Chunian walked while Lu Yan chased, his rabbit ears bouncing. “Chu… Chu-ge… I’ll treat you to desserts…” 

“You’re still calling me? You couldn’t even win in a quarrel, what can I count on you for?”

“I-I’ll definitely win next time! I have learned it now!”

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“Yt, uba la.” 

In the coffee shop, Lu Yan was holding a strawberry cake, his ears drooping. He asked quietly, “How’s Lanxing doing with you?”

Bai Chunian: “He’s doing fine. If I let him come back now, he can dominate the entire Ampheia Military Academy.”

Lu Yan was surprised. “So awesome…I…”

Bai Chunian: “What do you think of this school?” 

Lu Yan shook his head, “I don’t know. My dad said this is the best military school in the country, which is why I went here. After coming here, I didn’t think it was anything special. Management is strict—there is basically no chance of there being cheating and bribery in the exam—but because there are many children of nobility in the school, they often form cliques and compare luxury cars or villas to each other. Outside of school, influential families would bully lower-class families. In school, kids from influential families bully kids of lower-class families. The teachers won’t do anything about it because they can’t afford to offend them.”

“Ugh.” Lu Yan held his face in frustration, “In fact, I’m more miserable than they think. My dad only top-up my meal card every month and helps me buy all my clothes. Besides the cafeteria meals and the stuff from the school store, I have to earn my own money if I want to buy a new phone, computer, or camera. Because of this, there were people saying that I was a poser.”

Bai Chunian was surprised by this, “I can understand the boss being so strict, but Uncle Jin doesn’t give you money?”

“He will secretly give some to me. However, if it gets found out by dad, then we’re both doomed. Randomly buying a sports car is even more impossible.” Lu Yan stirred the cream on the cake with the fork. “It doesn’t matter that those people at school are eccentric, in any case, they’re not as rich as my family. But I can’t stand them saying that I cheated on the exam, that I don’t have any strength, and that I’m entirely relying on others yielding to me.” 

“Of course, there are a lot of people who are eager to suck up to me, but in fact, they are not much better than those people.”

“I asked my tang-di to investigate you a few days ago.” Lu Yan sighed, “My dad bought you a house, bought you a sports car, and gave you a lot of pocket money. Actually, you are their real son.”

Bai Chunian: “Stop spouting nonsense. Except for the limited-edition cars in the garage, which were given by Uncle Jin, I bought the rest with my own salary.”

Lu Yan: “You aren’t even a president. What job can have such a high salary?” 

Bai Chunian: “I work for the Alliance Secret Service, are you interested?”

Lu Yan: “….How can I join?”

Bai Chunian: “First go to Greenfly Island training base, pass the assessment and become an official member, then choose from one of the four paths to join—the Search Division, the Inspection Division, the Armaments Division, and the Psychology Division.”

Lu Yan was confused. “Training base? Didn’t you just kick me out?” 

Bai Chunian: “Sigh, it’s up to you. In fact, I don’t think that place is suitable for you, but at least I can guarantee you that strength proves everything over there. Those who gossip, you just need to beat them up until they shut up.”

Lu Yan’s eyes lit up.

“Let’s stop here, I still have to go back to the island tonight.” Bai Chunian went to the counter and packed a milk pudding.

When Rimbaud came home from the police station, there was a milk pudding on the table. A purple Baby’s Breath was inserted into the pastry box, and there was a thin ribbon tied into a bow on the stem. A note was even left on the table. 

The note read:

“If only my pheromone is a kind of flower scent, then I could order a bunch to be delivered to the house every day to hold you in place of me.”

Rimbaud held up the card to examine it, then licked the back, sticking it to the outer wall of the fish tank. There was a bottle of brandy in the wine cabinet, Rimbaud followed the smell and took it out and put it by the pillow, covered it with a blanket, and patted it.

At 10 p.m, the speedboat arrived at Greenfly Island. Bai Chunian landed amidst the anguish cries of the special trainees. 

Everyone thought that the military instructor would definitely not come back tonight. So if the tactical exam gets pushed back another day, then they can be lazy for another day. But this Lao Ne didn’t want to let them live even one day comfortably.

In the training base, a tactical exam will be held in the middle of every month to check whether the special trainees meet the standards, but after Bai Chunian returns, it will be a weekly test. Special trainees that did not do well on the exam will be pulled into doing particularly grueling extra training at the end of the month.

Each exam lasts for 12 hours. 96 special trainees will be randomly arranged into teams of six. At that time, the entire Greenfly Island will become the exam room. The instructors will observe the performance of the special trainees on monitors placed in every corner of the island. And finally, a comprehensive score will be made according to the number of kills, tactical thinking, teamwork, survival time, support performance, mountain driving skills, etc.

After 12 hours, the instructors had finished evaluating the special trainees’ performance and handed the report and video clips to Bai Chunian. 

Next was the long-time post-exam analysis meeting.

The special trainees were sitting neatly on the outdoor beach. A huge screen was propped up on the beach, and the clips of the sixteen teams were projected onto the screen in sequence. The clips were edited from the surveillance footage, and every trainees’ footage was shown. This also meant that whoever was being a lazy slacker will be publicly condemned.

Bai Chunian clicked on a captain’s name. A mandrill alpha stood up trembling with fear, not daring to raise his head.

Bai Chunian’s leather boots stepped on the edge of the chair next to him and made a squeaking sound. “How are you in command? Such good terrain you didn’t take advantage of but instead got destroyed by the other party. What did I teach you?” 

The mandrill straightened up and answered loudly, “You said that after occupying the high ground, one should check for ambush on the edge of the high ground, then advance from high to low! And always occupy a higher viewpoint than the enemy!”

Bai Chunian hummed with a cold smile, “And what did you do?”

Mandrill: “I lead the team to raid without cover!”

Bai Chunian was so angry that he picked up the waste paper on the ground and fanned himself to cool down. “Such a huge field, the other party was leaning behind the rocks, and the muzzle was almost in you guys’ mouths. Why don’t you at least drive a car? Is there some water in your head?! A 400 meters big plain yet you choose to emperor dry-pull! Look at it, look at the screen! You guys wore ghillie suits and rushed stupidly. Are you going over to them to do a cross-talk?” 

Under his eyes, an omega captain covered his mouth and snickered. Bai Chunian lightly kicked his knees. “What are you laughing at? I just didn’t call your name yet. Those bunch of idiots has been pulled down from high ground, yet you guys threw feather smoke grenades from behind the bunker? Grenades are too expensive so you weren’t willing to use them? The tactic is to choke the enemy to death without bloodshed, isn’t it?”

After scolding the 16 teams one by one, Bai Chunian rubbed his temples. “Next week, if the exam is this shitty again, I will send you all to Ampheia Military Academy. I don’t think you are much better than them.”

The special trainees below sighed. In their eyes, the country’s top Ampheia Military Academy was just kindergarten level to them.

However, Bai Chunian has always been clear when it comes to reward and punishment. After criticizing those who should be criticized, he played clips that were worth learning from each team in turn. He broadcast them one by one for each special trainee to observe. 

“Watch and learn. Maybe your teammates will be replaced with these people next time you take the exam. How to adapt your tactics and enter the mindset as soon as possible, think about it carefully by yourself.”

“Firefly’s flash grenade is very well-timed. It was just when the enemy was closed in on in both directions, making the enemy temporarily lose their vision while also giving your teammates the opportunity to blockade without sustaining injuries. An impeccable assist.”

Then he played the Nile crocodile alpha’s footage. “This sneak attack in the sand is quite wonderful. The opponent party that competes with him should remember, to counter him, you have to make every second count by rushing ahead to throw him off. His J1 ability is not an instantaneous type but a store-up type. If you wait for him to speed up to the surface doing the death roll, even your head will be twisted off and sent flying. An M2-grade also wouldn’t be able to stand his brainless and violent rolling.”

“Bi Lanxing’s parts are not bad.” Bai Chunian attentively watched the playback several times. The timing of several of Bi Lanxing’s Poison Ivy Armour releases was very precise. His senses seemed to be sharper compared to the average person, so he was able to observe the situation of each teammate. Bai Chunian counted it carefully—the five teammates around him escaped at least 26 critical kills due to the protection of the poison ivy armour. Although the team Bi Lanxing was in was not ranked high enough, Bi Lanxing’s performance in this entire exam was counted as absolutely amazing. 

After thinking about it for a long time, Bai Chunian chose the firefly omega, the Nile crocodile alpha, the mongoose alpha, and the clownfish omega to escort the medical department members along with the Alliance Anti-Explosives Squad to Enxi City to rescue the trapped citizens. Although Bi Lanxing performed well, his training time was too short to be sent out at the moment.

When sending the four special trainees onto the ferry, Bai Chunian stood on the shore and watched them.

He repeatedly instructed, “Your mission is only to rescue the trapped citizens, don’t go beyond this mission. Closely follow the seniors who lead the team. You guys are just special trainees, not superman. The ultimate goal is not to make a name out there, but to return safely, got it?”

“Got it! Don’t worry, Instructor.”