The Fallen Merman Chapter 18

Published at 5th of August 2022 01:30:03 PM

The round simulated sun hung from the sky, rising from the east and setting to the west. As they waited until the sun shone again, the high bell tower in the center of the city rang. After nine slow beats, the electronic sound of the broadcast in the pitch-black sky sounded out along with a leisurely sound of music. “It’s halfway through the exam. For all surviving candidates, thank you for your hard work! The system has detected that only fewer than 5% of all candidates now survived on the field. It’s much lower than the previous passing rate of 12%. The settlement method will now be adjusted to the ranking of the team’s combat evaluation scores. The examination will end once there are only members of the same team left in the examination room. By the end of the examination, the top 30 teams will be considered as passing, while other rules will remain unchanged.” 

The real-time score ranking is as follows: 

No. 1 [Ghost Hunter Team]

No. 2 [Casually Playing]

No. 3 [Any Alphas Here?]

No. 4 [Empire’s Awakening]

No. 5 [BUG]

No. 6 [Moving Bricks at Construction Site]

No. 7 [Shrill Winds Rise]

No. 8 [How Dare You Hit Your Dad]

No. 9 [Mad Dog]

No. 10 [Four Dumbfounded Expressions]

……

“Candidates, please continue to make persistent efforts till the end.”

The Casually Playing team ranked second. Bai Chunian breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the Ghost Hunter Team for making their performance not too outstanding. 

“Shrill Winds Rise’s greyhound sniper isn’t dead yet.” Bai Chunian lowered his head and counted out the remaining anti-detonators and distributed them evenly to the three people. “Be careful, I underestimated him.” 

Bai Chunian didn’t make any other moves until the evening, and instead found a hotel for all of them to rest. 

The receptionist lady nodded with a smile and asked, “Do you have a reservation, Sir?”

“No.”

“All right, Sir. We have two double-bedroom rooms available. Is that okay with you?”

“No, are there people living in the examination rooms? Shouldn’t the rooms be empty?”

The receptionist lady only politely repeated a few useless answers according to the program set by the system. Bai Chunian didn’t want to talk any more, he turned back to distribute the rooms. “All three of you, in one room.”

Lu Yan frowned. “I don’t want three people squeezing together in such a small room.”

The crow omega tactfully expressed his concern that he might be strangled with Rimbaud’s tail in the middle of the night if he slept with him.

“Just ask her again if they have any more rooms? Then pay five times the room rate, let them find a room, and drive out the people inside.” Lu Yan had long been accustomed to being pampered. In his eyes, these requirements weren’t a difficult problem at all. 

“Young Master, don’t be ridiculous.” Bai Chunian patted one of the room cards in Lu Yan’s hand. “This location is remote, far from big supplies locations, and we’ve purged all the surrounding teams. No one should come to trouble us. And all of you, come out at four in the morning.”

The room was decorated in an elegant European style. There was a bed in the room facing the door on the first floor, and a wooden spiral staircase leading to the second bed in the attic.

Bai Chunian glanced at the wall clock. It was nine in the evening and he could rest for a full seven hours. Actually, in terms of their well-trained physical fitness, two consecutive days of high-intensity combat was nothing, but killing and rushing to the top wasn’t their priority. They’d already scored enough points, it was better to keep a low profile and seek stability.

But Bai Chunian’s thoughts inside were “what should I do if I run into short-sighted people again, then the total score exceeds the Ghost Hunter Team and we take first place? It’s so hard, always have to be careful not to take first place. I’ll see tomorrow if I can give a few kills to the little omegas in that team and let them suppress the rankings.”

As he thought inside, Bai Chunian yawned and laid down on the bed to relax, then quietly glanced at Rimbaud, who was still attached to the steel security door and didn’t move.

“Go upstairs and sleep.” Bai Chunian rolled over and laid on the bed with his back to Rimbaud.

“No.” Rimbaud glanced at the wooden spiral staircase. He couldn’t attach to non-conductive materials, so he couldn’t go up to the second floor.

“Then sleep downstairs, I’ll go up.” Bai Chunian became a little impatient. He sat up on the bed and prepared to change location, but a cold body quietly approached him from behind. Before he could move, a slender arm had already encircled his waist. Bai Chunian trembled and grabbed Rimbaud’s wrist and took off the arm from around his waist.

However, Rimbaud persistently clung to him from behind. His forehead gently pressed against Bai Chunian’s unconsciously tensing back. His long tail wrapped around one of his legs, and he whispered with a soothing voice, “Don’t move.”

“You’re hot.”

“I’ll… be hurt.”

Special Operations combat experimental subjects had extremely powerful learning abilities. Within less than two days of mixing among humans, he could learn some phrases to express his thoughts.

In the past, Bai Chunian hadn’t actually spoken to Rimbaud in the real sense. They used to communicate more through pheromones. This was his first time hearing Rimbaud speak in such a clear voice, which was a little cool and sounded more mature than Bai Chunian had imagined for countless nights.

“Don’t get too close.” Bai Chunian’s lips curled up a smile. “There’s no inhibitor here. Aren’t you afraid I won’t be able to stop myself from doing something to you?” 

“That’s right. After all, you’ve been in so many observation boxes besides mine.” Bai Chunian relaxed his body, pillowed his head on his hand, but still with his back to Rimbaud.

In the laboratory, excellent omegas were rarer than alphas. Therefore, when cultivating a new generation of experimental subjects, they’d share an omega because they couldn’t find matching resources. After a successful match, the omega would get about three months of rest before they’d be sent to the next observation box. If the matching failed, the omega would also be sent to the next observation box.

One day after training, when Bai Chunian returned to his observation box to rest, he found that the little fish who waited for his return in the observation box every day had disappeared. When he asked the researcher, they told him that the matching had failed so they moved Rimbaud away and that they’d bring him a new omega in a few days.

The long and complicated words were still too difficult for Rimbaud to understand. In such long words, he only caught a certain word. He fell dumbfounded, lowered his head, and touched his belly.

“But you were still in the cultivation stage, so squeamish, I’d have a pool of pearls on my bed the next day whenever I did anything. And then I’d go out to train and leave you alone for the whole day.” Bai Chunian slowly breathed out and hummed softly. “If I’d known you’d be like that afterwards, then I shouldn’t have stayed a gentleman back then.”

“How’s it going, your next Alpha? Does it hurts to have s3# with him?”

Chapter end