Chapter 41
Feng Ran couldn't pinpoint exactly where she was feeling the pain. The lab only had basic pharmaceutical ingredients and couldn't concoct the psychotropic drug she wanted. She felt herself decaying little by little, and hallucinations began to appear before her eyes again.
Calling it an illusion wouldn't be accurate; it was a rotten frame-up by a vast empire. Viscount Sena, the lord of Franklin, was murdered by a rebel organization, and his rule over the entire sector temporarily fell into their hands. This was originally just a rectification of the darkness of class tyranny, a purge and freedom brought about by the will of the people.
However, in order to maintain the image of the nobility, the Empire swiftly purged the "rebels" and took control of the area, disposing of all witnesses and evidence. Before the situation could escalate further, the blame was shifted entirely onto the unrelated Feng Ran, who claimed that the pictures and texts on the Star Network were all fabricated by her, that Franklin Star was peaceful and there had been no uprisings or rebellions, and that Feng Ran was simply trying to use these rumors to cover up the truth about her murder of Viscount Sena.
It was only after that that she seemed to rediscover the world, finding it utterly absurd. The Empire was a willful giant baby, and at the same time, there were StarNet citizens who lacked judgment and blindly followed the crowd. They claimed to have different lofty beliefs but tacitly supported Shen Shiqian, who was being framed. They used stolen theories and technologies but were completely unaware of the approaching Academy of Sciences scholars of 4601. This world was so unreal that it was like a necrotic program that was gradually eliminating itself, full of deep-seated problems and wounds, relentlessly chasing after Feng Ran.
Unable to break free, unable to escape, exhausted and left with only despair, she felt that the world had dragged her down and trapped her here.
Recalling this, Feng Ran became even more upset. Even though Xing Tong calculated the proportion of sedative-like drugs that could be formulated from the existing pharmaceutical materials in the laboratory and displayed it on the central screen, she couldn't concentrate on reading a single word.
Feng Ran pondered slowly and blankly. If she was separated from the world because she possessed the wisdom of being Enigma, then would everything only become solvable once she was no longer Enigma?
In a daze, she immediately created a new project file, writing down all the possible ideas about gender de-emphasis, as if she were under a spell, until the door behind her opened.
Shen Shiqian's strong pheromone scent filled the space. Only then did she turn around and look at him and Xisen impatiently. Shen Shiqian's wounds had been simply bandaged, and the gauze wrapped around his neck seemed to remind Feng Ran of what had happened not long ago.
Ah, Shen Shiqian almost died.
But why didn't she feel happy or relieved at that moment? She was simply immersed in her emotions. Why do people have emotions? Wouldn't it be exhausting to experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness too frequently? Sometimes, it's even harder to control than artificial intelligence, just like Feng Ran doesn't understand why she's crying now.
Shen Shiqian quickly walked over and hugged her. "Ranran, don't cry, I'm fine..." He bent his knees slightly, his legs spread wide, pressing his waist and abdomen against Feng Ran's body. "Can you give me a mark?"
Feng Ran didn't know why she was bewitched by him for a moment. Her emotions were drained by the hot embrace. She straightened her body and began to accept Shen Shiqian's dependence on her. She tilted her head back and said obediently, "My neck... is wrapped around you."
Shen Shiqian quickly used brute force to tear off the gauze, and because the method was too violent, it even added new marks.
Feng Ran hugged him back, her fingers touching the skin where his glands were located. She felt a strange dampness. Enigma's marking teeth could be awakened on their own at any time without sexual arousal. She gently tapped her teeth there, feeling the body she was holding tremble uncontrollably in her arms.
The prey ensnared by a venomous snake, a falcon whose feathers are being plucked bit by bit.
Alpha glands have a thin layer of muscle on their surface, which should theoretically make them difficult to penetrate, but Feng Ran easily pierced through with a gentle thrust. The person beneath him let out a moan that suddenly rose in pitch, and trembled even more violently, straightening his back and swaying with obvious curves as if in a spasm.
Following his hunting instincts, Feng Ran held on tightly, his mouth filled with the bitter taste of blood. His pheromones flowed through his teeth and into the other's body, making him feel numb from the sour taste.
How much do I need to give him for him to completely become mine? If he is transformed by Enigma's mark and grows a gestation sac, will there be a place for her to form a knot inside her body for lifelong marking?
The more Fengran was injected, the weaker Shen Shiqian's struggles became, as if his whole body was numbed by the strong Bacardi rum. The sugar in the chocolate fermented in his body, producing an intoxicatingly pleasant numbness. The non-existent carbon dioxide dissolved into dense bubbles that impacted the sensitive acupoints all over his body. Finally, like popping a beer bottle cap, it exploded, leaving behind a mess and water stains.
Feng Ran seemed to sense something and let go, drool dripping onto her reddened glands, leaving a beautiful silver thread. Shen Shiqian could no longer support himself and leaned completely against her. Feng Ran helped him up and looked around. Xisen had disappeared without a trace.
Her thoughts slowly returned to normal within that minute, and the painful problem that had been troubling her was thrown to the back of her mind without making a ripple, because her first concern now was how to deal with the 28-year-old adult male who had wet his pants.
In the end, the task of dealing with the male owner's troubles was left to the robot. Xisen watched from the side with a rather complicated expression. He measured Shen Shiqian's body temperature and pheromone level and was shocked by the absurd deviation value of 93.5. This meant that half of Shen Shiqian's body was Feng Ran's pheromone, yet he was sleeping so soundly. He had just embarked on a path of no return.
Feng Ran stood not far away, watching quietly, his eyes innocent and pure as if he had done nothing.
Sissen: "How about we talk? I have some questions for you."
Feng Ran blinked at him, "Okay."
Upon entering the living room, Feng Ran saw the dim lights outside the French windows and realized that it was already quite late. Having missed dinner, she suddenly felt hungry after her exhaustion, having only had a Coke at the mall. She thought she should buy a hamburger to try.
Xiao Fen brewed tea for them, and as soon as she put it on the tea table, Feng Ran picked it up and held it in her arms. She looked at Xi Sen quietly and reservedly, thinking that if Shen Shiqian hadn't woken up by the time Xi Sen left, she would order takeout.
Xisen: "What happened to the injury on Shen Shiqian's neck? Although the help message the robot sent me gave me a rough outline, I still want to hear your explanation in person."
Fengran reacted somewhat slowly, his fingers gripping the weld seam on the robot's head shell. "I'm sorry... I wasn't in good condition at that time."
Sissen stared intently at her: "Has it deteriorated to this extent? Didn't you have any awareness of what you were doing for that entire minute?"
That damn gray-haired girl is still as aggressive as ever, as if it were someone else who helped her conceal the pheromone test results at the hospital.
Feng Ran bit her lip and slowly replied, "Probably... but I'm very emotional, I can't control myself..."
Of course, Xisen knew that Feng Ran couldn't be entirely blamed for this. After all, it was just a tattered tie. Shen Shiqian could have easily broken free in that situation. However, he probably lost his mind for a minute due to his fertile period and the effects of pheromones. His cunning and shrewdness was reduced to stubbornness and inflexibility. Being led around by a young girl like that, he wondered if she was even having any fun. Just thinking about it made him feel annoyed.
Feng Ran looked remorseful, his eyes red with tears: "Could you... prescribe some medicine for me...?"
Xisen: "We'll talk about this later. We need to do some specific tests before we can prescribe the right treatment. You haven't taken any other medications on your own since you were discharged, have you?"
Feng Ran rested his chin on the robot's head, his head bowed low, curled up in a ball, "Not yet."
Nishimura quickly picked up on the words: "It doesn't mean they intend to use it yet?"
Feng Ran didn't directly admit it, "In the lab, there weren't the necessary ingredients and materials for the formula, and I... felt very uncomfortable..."
Sissen: "What's this about the gender weakening experiment?"
Feng Ran tensed up: "You saw it?"
Yes, such a large integrated light screen, she thought numbly, next time I'll just set all the light screens to anti-peeping refraction light.
Feng Ran: "Literally, I don't want to be Enigma."
Xisen frowned and looked at her: "This is not a matter of whether you want to or not. Putting aside the fact that you are disrupting the gender balance of ABO, even if you don't want to, have you thought about Shen Shiqian, who was marked by you?"
"This isn't a matter of whether you want it or not. The Sleica family is offering a 'bride price' of twenty energy stars, and they also have a noble title. They won't skimp on your food, clothing, or other necessities. What could you possibly be dissatisfied with?"
Feng Ran's stomach started to hurt. Instinctively, she felt a foreign object blocking her airway, and she coughed violently. Her chest was tight, her lungs hurt, and her heart ached. She couldn't hear what Xisen said after that. Tears streamed down her face like beads from a broken string.
She felt like she was going to die if she kept suffocating like this. Feng Ran got up from the sofa and saw Xisen approaching her. Although she knew he wasn't the one, the fear in her blood intensified. She ran away in a panic, stumbling and running away without looking back.
It wasn't until the cold winter wind on the street felt like a razor on her face and her ears were frozen stiff that she gradually recovered. Her breathing was still heavy with chest pain, and she was still holding the robot in her arms, processing data on the current situation. The CPU was running so hard that it was probably the only warm thing on Feng Ran's body.
She was in a terrible state, but she didn't really want to go back.
After the first snow festival, the weather will snow more often. A light snow falls at night, but because of the city's underfloor heating, it melts before it can accumulate on the ground.
Feng Ran hailed a hovercar and went to Fengting after a long absence.
After arriving at the new location, the robot was put down and wandered around in the living room. The original robot in the villa had been taken away by Fran, and without routine maintenance, a thin layer of dust had accumulated everywhere. So the cleaning task was assigned to the newcomer, Xiao Fen, and Feng Ran went straight to the laboratory upstairs.
Fortunately, there was enough stuff in the lab, so Fran didn't actually move it all for her. She only glanced at it before lying down on the sofa next to her.
There was a faint peach scent. Feng Ran closed her eyes wearily, feeling as if she could sleep forever and never wake up, and no one would ever find her.
It seems she thought the same way in her past life. When Luo Le sent her away from Qilia, he secretly stuffed a lot of things into her hands, including several habitable planets for tourism. Xing Tong said that there was a private high-end sanatorium on one of the blue planets. Luo Le wanted to send her there to recuperate and relax, but she forgot why they didn't go.
It was only in my final moments of exhaustion that I remembered there was a vast lavender field on Azure Star, and a beautiful wooden windmill tower, located on the outer edge of the star, where the days passed very, very slowly.
Before receiving the intravenous injection of the toxin, she told Xing Tong that she wanted to rest there.
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