The Fallen Merman

This was the only method available at the moment.

Professor Zhong immediately temporarily assigned Han Xingqian to transport the AC enhancer to the scene on behalf of the Medical Association, for which he readily took the responsibility. JIYZ 2

Han Xingqian put the syringe into a small suitcase, quickly left the ward, and drove to the location Xiao Xun had sent him.

He had contacted Xiao Xun spontaneously but got no response.

Due to their current predicament, they simply had neither the extra energy nor the leisure to reply.

Xiao Xun crouched on top of a high wall. He had already retreated dozens of meters from the battlefield, yet the scorching air still made him sweat like rain, not to mention Rimbaud, who was only ten or so meters away from the bombardier beetle alpha.

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Rimbaud angrily climbed onto the barbed wire, waved his fiery red fishtail, and roared sharply at his opponent.

The other party wasn’t alone. In a short period of time, a dozen or so bombardier beetle alphas had come together; they had similarities in glands and heat abilities. Although only the lead alpha had reached M2 differentiation, they jointly used their abilities to release a hot poisonous gas, which exerted great pressure on Rimbaud.

The once smooth and gorgeous fishtail was in tatters. Shimmering blue fish scales were falling all over the place, and Rimbaud’s hands, which were clinging to the barbed wire, were severely burned by the excessive heat. There was no water source here, and he was unable to cool down, replenish himself, or even make use of his associated ability, Steel Hydration—the M2 differentiation ability that relied on moisture to form a weapon in order to activate.

Rimbaud looked up at the clouds lighting up in the east as minutes continued to tick by. He had his own calculations, and by the time the sun leapt out of the clouds, Xiao Bai would start showing signs of infection. oBIM7L

In fact, he could have rolled into a ball and used the protection mechanism of his associated ability to retreat in one piece without any problems. However, his opponent seemingly had made up his mind to not back down and released heat with abandon, closing in on Rimbaud again and again, torturing him with the blazing air.

As those bombardier beetles once again released blasts of hot air and approached him, Rimbaud did not retreat but instead greeted them. His powerful fishtail volleyed in the air and slammed against the barbed wire fence around him as dazzling electric sparks soared into the sky. Blue electric light instantly crawled along the wire, which was connected to the outer wall of the household, and quickly absorbed the power from the surrounding high-voltage electricity box. The powerful high-voltage electricity instantly spread out with Rimbaud as the source. A huge spider web-like grid exploded.

In a flash, the three closest to him vanished in a puff of smoke. The rest of the alphas, who saw the grave situation, maintained a safe distance from Rimbaud.

The opponents hadn’t expected that the disadvantaged merman could instantly reduce/deprive their force of three men at once. Nonetheless, Rimbaud was also enveloped in the smoldering air so deeply for a moment that his skin broke out in blisters. He retreated and whimpered in pain. Climbing onto the high wall, he gently licked the scorching blisters on the backs of his hands. S4RQrj

Xiao Xun had been using his J1 Ability Universal Dashboard to monitor the situation on both sides. A data panel configured in his mind; all the data that could be monitored was displayed on it.

Rimbaud’s life stats were decreasing, but they never fell below the safe range of 60%.

56% remaining physical strength.

65% remaining gland strength. HAnx4E

Emotions: 0% joy, 92% wrath, 8% sorrow, 0% gluttony.

During the monitoring process, Xiao Xun discovered that Rimbaud’s data was different from ordinary humans’. Particularly, one of them was a value he had never seen before—

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97% food intake.

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Rimbaud climbed the high wall with the severed head in his mouth and hung the limp body over the wall. He pressed one hand to the corpse’s chest as blood trickled wildly from his lips. His indifferent eyes looked coldly at his remaining enemies.

The leader of the bombardier beetle alphas finally realized who had been giving the merman exact location reports. His eyes searched every corner of the neighborhood and suddenly locked on Xiao Xun, who was hiding along the wall and relying on the leaves to hide his figure.

Xiao Xun knew his position was exposed, but this was a good opportunity for Rimbaud to destroy the stalemate. Instead of going to hide in another place, he calculated the next most suitable position to attack and reported it to Rimbaud. NlMTQn

It was these brief few seconds of hesitation that put Xiao Xun in a crisis. The enemies cooperated well and changed the target of their attacks the moment the leader gave the order to focus on killing Xiao Xun.

Xiao Xun was fast and agile as he scaled the high wall, anticipating the trajectory of these fiery poisonous gas attacks. Nevertheless, the attacks were so dense that they almost formed a web of fire. Even though he was nimble, it was impossible to dodge all of them.

Intense, searing pain assaulted him from his outer thighs and back. He withdrew to tend to his wound and evacuated the place where he had just been.

He stumbled to escape after leaving the enemy’s sight and shakily fumbled for his phone to call Han Xingqian. ANdDPV

Suddenly, he slammed into the arms of a man wearing a familiar long white coat with the Alliance Medical Association badge and IOA Red Cross logo pinned to his chest.

Han Xingqian was carrying a silver suitcase in his hand as he held Xiao Xun’s shoulder. At the same time, a simple and warm soothing pheromone was injected into his glands. Han Xingqian caught a glimpse of the damaged clothes and burns on Xiao Xun’s body and slightly frowned.

“Take me there.”

Xiao Xun gradually calmed down, “Okay, but there are simply too many of them.” l9Bk4a

Han Xingqian handed him the agent in his suitcase, “Inject this tube of agent… into him, can you?”

Xiao Xun nodded.

Because of the breakthrough Xiao Xun opened at the end of his escape, Rimbaud found an opportunity to attack. His sharp claws flashed a cold light as they ruthlessly struck at every artery of the corpse under him.

The blood that hadn’t yet solidified spurted around wildly, while Rimbaud used it to activate his associated ability, Steel Hydration. oV71Hu

The viscous blood gradually took shape in his hand, and a scarlet Mini-14 rifle made of the blood converged in his hand. The streaks of blood were visible in the blood crimson gun.

Bullets made of blood were fired one after another. The marksman rifle performed accurately and excellently at medium and long distances. Rimbaud no longer chose to fight melee, but instead, crawled around tall buildings with the blood gun on his back.

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There would come a time when the gun formed with blood from the corpse would run out. Rimbaud squeezed every bit of strength from his gland in exchange for more speed, quickly set up on a high point, sucked the corpse’s blood to its last drops, and created a quad rifle scope, skillfully mounting it on the marksman rifle. He took a person down with two headshots and then immediately switched his position, so that the enemy couldn’t lock onto his exact position.

Every time he shot a target, more blood was drawn to his side, and unlimited bullets were at his disposal. ipIktN

Selective special operations experimental subjects were implanted with loads of combat data when they were modified; they were born as weapons, and fighting was their innate instinct.

Han Xingqian and Xiao Xun rushed back quickly with Xiao Xun clutching the syringe in his hand. However, police officers on duty had arrived with them. Several police cars surrounded the scene. Police officers armed with guns got out of the car one after another and pointed their guns at Rimbaud, who had lost his mind as he frantically ripped to shreds the corpse on the ground.

“Oops.” Han Xingqian’s heart trembled with apprehensiveness.

If it had been the Alliance Police Department that had come, it wouldn’t have mattered, but the officers on duty belonged to the International Prison. If they were to see experimental subjects committing murder on the streets, it would be a huge problem. SJUhzX

Xiao Xun stood beside him, in silent thought for a moment.

“The probability that someone operates behind this incident is 97%.”

“I calculated that there’d still be a turnaround. There’s an 89% probability of success if Rimbaud is given an AC enhancer, and a 24% probability succeeding without it.”

Han Xingqian looked in surprise at the greyhound omega beside him, who was focused on calculations. f4nAMb

Xiao Xun climbed up a high wall with an injection gun and shot the agent through a gap in the moving crowd just before the on-duty officer took advantage of Rimbaud’s exhausted gland strength to drag him to the police car.

The reeded hypodermic needle lodged in the center of Rimbaud’s neck. The drug automatically advanced into his artery and then fell off.

Exhausted and bruised, Rimbaud fell into a coma and was taken away by the on-duty police officers.

Sitting in the plain black Bentley parked on the far side of the road were a pair of alpha and omega. pEPctm

The omega, wearing a hood, leaned over the window of the car. His hat fell off, and two antennae cocked between his unkempt curls. He watched the police car take Rimbaud away and whispered, “Welp, sure enough, we got completely blindsided, ah. The International Prison is indeed nasty. They snatch away priceless experimental subjects that others can’t hope to afford just for a mere criminal charge.”

The alpha in a black trenchcoat was silent. His index finger with a sapphire ring tapped the leather sheath on the steering wheel.

Domino’s antennae gently tapped the glass, still lying by the car window, chattering, “On the surface, the target was Divine Envoy. However, it turned out that they ultimately took away Electro-optic Phantom… It’s a golden opportunity. Let’s show off some goodness to Divine Envoy while we’re at it. He’ll surely be grateful to us.”

The alpha lit a cigarette and exhaled softly, “International Prison isn’t easy to talk to.” Rr4OBx

“That’s for sure. Leave it to me, sir.” The omega wiggled his antennae, “There’s a saying, ‘adding flowers on brocade is not as good as offering charcoal to someone in the snow.’ The human language makes sense at times.”

The moment when Rimbaud killed the last of the bombardier beetle alphas, Bai Chunian’s body temperature immediately stopped rising. The values on the monitoring instruments attached to his body slowly decreased, and his body indicators began to return to normal.

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When the values dropped to the normal range, Bai Chunian’s body tissues began to restore, the dead cells were quickly replaced by newly grown cells, and his self-healing function returned to normal.

Several professors from the Alliance Medical Association gathered around Bai Chunian and sighed in relief. Bai Chunian was not only the pillar of the Alliance’s secret agent group, but he was the only living observer of the Medical Association and the key to understanding other such experimental subjects. For these scientists who were committed to changing the murderous nature of the experimental subjects, Bai Chunian’s importance could not be measured with money. Were he to have an accident, the entire Alliance Medical Association’s research regarding this field would be abandoned. NoETI2

The burned cells in his body were replaced by new ones, and Bai Chunian moved with difficulty and held his head as he tried to sit up.

“It’s…a trap…” Despite his still weak body, Bai Chunian pulled off the tubes from his body, stumbled out of the ward, limped downstairs, and ran to the president’s office.

His condition was not yet deemed fully recovered. He took a few deep breaths while holding the door of the president’s office. It was still too early. There were almost no people in the Alliance Building, and the door was still locked.

From the moment he realized that he was being set up, he had anticipated the opponents’ intention. Moreover, they were well aware that an M2 alpha could not kill him, but they went ahead with it deliberately, which further solidified the fact that the target of those people was not him in the first place. Wr9b3S

He dizzily contacted the president, but before the call could go through, Han Xingqian’s call came in first.

“Rimbaud was taken away by the officers on duty and is now in the detention facility. They have forbidden us to visit or even learn about the situation, only saying that he will be sent to the International Prison for trial today, which is not in accordance with the regulations at all.”

“The reason they stated for the arrest was Rimbaud’s indiscriminate killing of civilians. It’s hard to believe that the identities of those bombardier beetle alphas were actually civilians, and that they were unarmed and defenseless.”

“All of them are in cahoots. Someone’s onto us,” Bai Chunian didn’t hold back, uttering a string of curses. vxWI5y

He sat down with his back against the door. He clutched his throbbing temples and sat in silence for a moment, allowing himself to think calmly.

The International Prison was heavily guarded, and their trials were extremely strict—it was difficult to come out once someone went in. Even if Rimbaud was brought out through the president’s connections, it would take at least half a month. It wouldn’t matter if it was just an ordinary human. However, an experimental subject carried too many unstable variables. He couldn’t take the risk.

His only saving grace now was to steal Rimbaud out of custody and forcibly destroy the evidence so that the Alliance had every right to reject the unwarranted arrest by the International Prison.

Han Xingqian, “You haven’t recovered yet. There are also a few powerful police officers stationed at the detention facility. Are you really going now?” 5PkUr

Bai Chunian held onto the wall and headed for the elevator as quickly as possible, “Any later and he’ll be whisked away. I’m fine, it’s just a matter of a few cops.”

“I’ll help you get in.”

“En.”

He stepped out of the Alliance Building, where a black Bentley was parked around the corner. Though his mind was still a little numb, it didn’t affect his keen observation. He stared at the Bentley, straightened his back, and tried to make himself appear better. pDJ3jh

The Bentley’s door slowly opened, and a hooded omega jumped out of it.

The omega took off his hat that covered most of his face, revealing a mop of disheveled curly hair, and waved at Bai Chunian with narrowed eyes, “Hey, you can catch a ride with us to the detention facility.”

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Bai Chunian had a sharp memory. He would never forget those he had met even once. In the pyramid cabin, he had crossed paths with this omega, the writer who used notes to leave clues.

Bai Chunian’s gaze landed on the face of the alpha dressed in a black trenchcoat occupying the driver’s seat. He smiled indifferently as he got into the passenger seat. x5M X0

The security level of the detention facility was actually a notch lower than that of International Prison and Alliance Prison’s.

Wearing the uniform he’d stripped from the knocked-out officer, Bai Chunian lowered the brim of his hat and stepped into an ice pool in the deepest part of the detention facility.

The sound of chains rubbing against each other echoed from within the dark, icy pool. Bai Chunian did not make a rash move and slowly opened the door, walking in.

Ice floated above the pool water as a way to hinder the movement of the creature in the pool. A thick chain was fastened around his neck, the end of which was fixed to the mottled stone pillar next to him. yoDgBq

The beauty leaned back against the edge of the pool, and his blonde hair hanging over his shoulders. He boredly stirred the ice cubes in the water, and the bubbles turned into blue jellyfish, reflecting the prison pool water into a ghost-inhabited shore.

Hearing footsteps approaching, the merman in the pool slowly turned back. A pair of sapphire eyes gazed up at him.

For a moment, Bai Chunian forgot what was supposed to do.

The merman had an extra wound on his cheek that had not yet healed. The blue scales of his fish tail were broken, and the burned flesh had turned red, but it added an additional touch to his persona of a languished beauty. a7ujXJ

Rimbaud brandished his pretty tail at him, and the frosty blue reflection of his fish tail poked out of the dim pool, its tip picking up the brim of his hat. The alpha’s handsome contour of his face revealed a stunned expression.

Rimbaud recognized him and turned to hold on to the edge of the pool. The wet tip of his tail gently caressed Bai Chunian’s cheek, gradually moving downwards, hooking onto the collar button of the police officer uniform he was wearing. He rested his cheek in his hand and teased, “Alpha, you look so young. How long have you been in this business?”

The magnetic voice, which could arouse desire, was sexy and resonant, perfectly demonstrating its capability to bewitch people’s souls.