CH 55

The muzzle of the gun was caught in a roll by three to five pitch black vines and was yanked out of Lu Shangjin’s hand. 

Bi Ruijing took the sniper rifle in his hand and pointed the muzzle at Lu Shangjin’s collarbones, pushing him hard, “Shut up, shut your eyes, take two breaths to catch your breath and then talk to me.”

Lu Shangjin didn’t do so. His hands hung helplessly by his sides; clenching his teeth and loosening up a little, his gums hurt. His eyes were red and swollen. 

“He only has one week left.” A thin layer of sweat seeped from Lu Shangjin’s forehead as he asked hoarsely, “Who would save him if I don’t?”

Xia Jingtian interjected at the right time, “What about his parents? They might match his glandular type.”

At the mention of Yan Yi’s parents, Lu Shangjin’s clenched fists loosened weakly.

“He doesn’t have parents. He is just an experimental subject produced by cloning and differentiation of lop-eared rabbit cells.”

Under the command of Lu Lin, the PBB lab mass-produced living fighting machines and screened out the strong from the batches of failed experiments, abbreviated as a Pyramid Scheme. 

When Lu Shangjin was ten years old, he mistakenly entered the underground laboratory of the old Lu family residence. 

At a glance, he recognized the little rabbit who was eavesdropping outside the piano room.

The lab was filled with a pungent, fishy stench. The little rabbit trembled as he climbed down from the mountain of cloned experimental corpses, his body stained with blood. Eyes quivering in fear, he extended his hands towards Lu Shangjin. 

Lu Shangjin ran to pick him up and carried the young lop-eared rabbit out of the bloody laboratory, not minding the dirty, smelly blood on his body as he squeezed him under a blanket. He huddled together with the little rabbit, their heads covered, only then did they remember that they were afraid. 

The two children trembled in each other’s arms, not daring to make a sound as they cried, tears running down their faces silently in the dark. 

He was three years older than the little rabbit. Forcing himself to appear like an older brother, he caressed Yan Yi’s shrinking body with his small hands, “I got your back.”

Yan Yi squeezed desperately into Lu Shangjin’s arms, crying with hiccups as he said thank you gege repeatedly. His thin, weak arms wrapped tightly around him, as though grabbing onto him was like grabbing onto the sun. 

“The underground freezer at PBB has a high-grade stem cell bank. All PBB members above the M2 grade have been sampled.” Lu Shangjin clutched the muzzle of the gun, his dry and cracked lips opened and closed, “Help me take care of Yan Yi for a few days.”

Bi Ruijing and Xia Pingtian were both members of PBB and had serial numbers on their bodies. Invading the base without permission would be automatically stamped as a defection, and their serial numbers would enter the assassination elimination blacklist. 

Xia Jingtian raised his chin slightly, as if deep in thought.

Dr. Zhong came over to let Lu Shangjin leave his contact information so he could contact him to visit when the patient’s condition was stable. 

Lu Shangjin spent an hour outside the ICU and asked for a pen and paper to write seven notes, dated for the next seven days. He folded them up and gave them to his assistant. If Yan Yi didn’t wake up, then read one to him every day.

He wanted to let the little rabbit know that he was not abandoned.

Lu Shangjin left his assistant to take care of him before driving back to the villa. The streets were dimly lit along the way, the wind at dawn becoming an ear-piercing noise. 

Yan Yi’s notebook was inserted in his front chest pocket, pressed close to his heart, so as to engrave the little rabbit’s complaints and emotions into his heart. 

After returning to the villa, Lu Shangjin walked into the deepest part of the underground garage and opened the iris-access lock, then entered a row of passwords. 

Mechanical sounds came from inside the enclosed space as the ​​automatic weapon filling system activated. 

Lu Shangjin took the elevator up to the workroom on the third floor where sixteen computers were running in the computer room. 

He typed out a line of passwords and knocked on the mic. 

The sixteen computers projected 3D images one after another in the workroom. Several company executives wearing the Flying Eagle group logo on their chests were fully dressed to accept Lu Shangjin’s meeting request from different locations.

“President Lu.”

“Good morning, president Lu.”

……

It took nearly an hour to check and delegate the authorization of all aspects of the company’s matters. After the meeting ended, Lu Shangjin sent an email to the board of directors and then destroyed the confidential information in the computers. He then locked the copied version into an underground safe and finally, cut off the power supply to the workroom.

After the weapons auto-fill was completed, the lifting platform automatically sent the ammunition and firearms to the rooftop of the top floor. Lu Shangjin changed into a camouflage armed suit and loaded the guns and ammunition onto the helicopter.

It was better not to use these things. Once engaged in a fight with PBB, it would not end well. If worst comes to worst, so what if he becomes blacklisted from going to rob them. 

If he could change the circumstances to Yan Yi waking up, it’d be better for the little rabbit to forget him and not remember anything. He was willing to lead a vagrant life for him as compensation for the years of wasted time.

A helicopter painted with the peregrine family emblem roared into the air, the powerful air currents blowing the garden shrubs in all directions.

With the helicopter on autopilot, Lu Shangjin loosened the tense strings in his head as he occasionally glanced at Yan Yi’s notebook. 

He flipped through page by page. A point was reduced one at a time with his broken heart, but several points were added back when he was happy but trivial things of note.

A piece of printed paper was stuck inside; he was perhaps afraid of losing it if it was stored in his phone. It was a densely compacted reprint of chat records. 

A whole page of trivial sweet talk.

Reading down the dates, the first one was sent when Yan Yi was lying on the bed and trying to send a message to Lu Shangjin after he bought the first cell phone in his life.

Yan Yi: I love Jin ge. 

Darling: Silly, we’re now less than half a meter apart

Yan Yi: Can you send me more texts in the future.

Darling: I’ll send when I can’t see you, now come here and give me a kiss

Yan Yi: haha. 

Later, Yan Yi learned to use emojis, which made him act cute even more. 

The little rabbit was originally a cute little thing, and a little more cuteness simply melted his heart.

Afterwards, his own notes changed from “darling” to “Jin ge”, and the chat records were not followed up from 2016. 

Perhaps the rabbit had also been looking forward to receiving a message that would make his heart palpitate with excitement.

The score on the notebook was calculated to have nearly six hundred points. The last time he had added points, he wrote “Jin ge is really good looking in the video call. + 10 points.” 

There was no content after, probably because he brought Yan Yi back home and he didn’t have this notebook with him.

He suddenly grabbed his own collar and pulled hard, feeling a sense of panic stuck in his heart that he couldn’t swallow or spit out. 

In Yan Yi’s heart, how many points did he lose from personally forcing him to deal with the fake pregnancy?

Reduced to zero?

Or a negative?

Or an unforgivable negative infinite number? 

He held on to a glimmer of hope that when Yan Yi woke up, he would be able to give him a chance to make up for his mistakes.

Lu Shangjin put the photos and chat records in the notebook before putting it back in his inner pocket and zipping it up.

He suddenly caught a slight sound and snapped his head around. 

He saw Xia Jingtian sitting on the folding board, putting on a bulletproof vest as he said, “You look just as calm facing death as they do in the movies.”

Lu Shangjin didn’t cover up the expression of seeing a fly in his eyes, his eyebrows slightly raised, “How did you come up?”

“Gravity manipulation, my J1 ability is very practical.” Xia Jingtian crossed his legs and loaded the camouflage M16 in his arms before putting on his headset, “I guess you must have been concentrating on the notebook when I was picking my way under the helicopter.”

Lu Shangjin turned his head, “Get lost at the next landing point.”

Xia Jingtian frowned, “If you die, I’ll get the sample back for you, I’ll take care of Yan Yi for you and I’ll stop arguing with you if you come back alive, you dare to bet?”

Lu Shangjin asked, “Does your brother know?”

“Hmm…” Xia Jingtian leaned his hands against the vertical wall, “He knows.”

Bullshit.

Near the landing point, Lu Shangjin swung in another direction, trying to get Xia Jingtian down.

Xia Jingtian snapped his fingers. His direction of his own force of gravity had always been perpendicular to the helicopter, and with a centrifugal force returning to zero, he sat firmly on the folding board. 

Lu Shangjin already did not have enough heart to give to someone else’s child anymore. 

“What are you going to do? How will the two of us single out the PBB elite armed force? If you run into an A3 alpha, it’s game over, is there any A3 alpha in PBB?” Xia Jingtian opened a PBB map that he got through his brother’s authority, “I heard that Lu Lin is in the PBB lab. If you ask him directly, will he give it? “

Lu Shangjin had also thought about it.

However, A3 glandular stem cell samples are precious. For Lu Lin, the experiments with damaged glands have already completely lost their value. The probability was that he would not waste samples to save a lop-eared rabbit omega that may not be saved. 

On the contrary, he would guard all the samples closely in order to guard against Lu Shangjin. 

The best way was to sneak in and steal the sample. Even if they exchanged fire with a small number of people, as long as they evacuate in time before being surrounded by security forces, it would be enough to get out. 

It had been a day since the helicopter hovered over the vast ocean.

Lu Shangjin checked the equipment and took a look at the lion cub who was itching to go. If this was not Xia Pingtian’s own little brother, who was precious in his eyes, he wouldn’t say a single word more of nonsense. 

Bulletproof and waterproof glass barriers raised around the helicopter as it hollowed out, the propellers moved back along the track. The front end elongated and thinned, and was inserted straight into the water.

The transformed submarine quickly approached the submarine base and hovered behind the reef several meters away from the entrance of the submarine channel.

Xia Jingtian picked up an oxygen mask and was suddenly strangled by Lu Shangjin from behind, stabbing a tube of anesthetic into his neck.

Lu Shangjin loosened his grip and Xia Jingtian fell unconscious at his feet.

This kid must have run out without parental permission. If he brought him back with one finger missing, his brother would tear down his house and destroy his company, and would kill every one surnamed Lu that he meets in the future. 

It’s really worrying. It’d be better to have an omega for a son or daughter in the future. If such a worrying little alpha is born, he would die from anger if not from illness. 

Besides, he didn’t need a young rival as a partner. 

Lu Shangjin gently put his hand on his chest. The notebook in the inner water barrier bag was pressed against his heart. His gaze was gentle and longing, hiding the sorrowful grief deep in the pupils of his eyes.

Yan Yan.

Our future child will look a lot like you, right.

He collected his train of thoughts and squeezed out of the transformed submarine.

Lu Shangjin had some external authority rights, so opening the entrance was easily done and no alarms were triggered. 

After he passed through the three water barriers, he followed the spiral staircase to find a suitable commanding height.

Xia Jingtian suddenly laid beside him and carefully scouted all directions.

Lu Shangjin glanced at him sideways in bewilderment, his expression cold and complicated. 

“Gravity manipulation can control the blood pressure, the anesthetic can’t enter.” Xia Jingtian asked in a low voice as he detected, “There’s a patrol ahead, can you bird of prey alphas fly?”

“There’s a chance that this accompanying ability will appear when you upgrade to A3 differentiation.” Meaning it can’t.

Lu Shangjin squinted his eyes, and the patrol team was evenly positioned in his view. He quickly drew a three-dimensional map of the region in his mind. 

Xia Jingtian shook his wrist:

“I’ll take care of the left side.”