Chapter 134 Top Alpha: He was once a crippled Omega. 44. You…
What kind of feeling is this?
Even Qi Pingye, who was working on his first Alpha, couldn't describe it accurately.
All he knew was that, in his hazy perception, the scent of the thorny grass was too overwhelming, too chaotic, and too frantic.
It erupted from his body like ignited gasoline, overwhelming everything in an instant—the sweet, the rotten, the bloody—all were swept away and vanished.
Only it.
Like an avalanche, like a tsunami, roaring and unleashing the most primal violence within humanity.
The air on all sides seemed to be distorted and wailing.
Representative Peng and bodyguard Jack swayed and twisted. They were both Betas and should not have been able to sense any pheromones, but they still seemed to be suffocated and oppressed by something, their movements were frozen, and their faces were pale and horrified.
"How is this possible! He... is an S-rank..."
"We can't sense pheromones, but... it's uncomfortable... we're slowing down..."
"He... will become more aggressive... it's best to retreat... ranged attacks..."
Qi Pingye saw their mouths opening and closing, like wriggling, deforming worms, spitting out words.
He tried to discern, but his mind was a complete blank. An uncontrollable frenzy and unease rose rapidly, like a virus, accompanied by an uncontrolled surge of pheromones, devouring his reason and clarity.
His blood was boiling wildly, his senses so acute that he could almost taste the scent of every single snowflake. His legs were sprinting, his arms were swinging, and the pain from his wounds seemed to vanish, replaced by an inexhaustible burning heat and destructive urge.
He abandoned defense and instinctively launched a frenzied attack.
Bullets, lasers, blades.
He seemed oblivious to anything passing through his body, like a berserk machine that had lost its central control.
"retreat!"
As Councilor Peng listened to the cracking sound of his hand bones, his teeth ached, and then his eyes darkened as he gave the order.
He genuinely hadn't expected that a pheromone bomb, which should have been a sure thing, would backfire so badly. Who would have thought that an S-rank Alpha, extremely rare throughout the entire White Night Federation, would inexplicably appear in this place and risk such a mission?
Even a regular-level Alpha, even an A-rank one, can still be uncontrollable when it erupts during its vulnerable period and goes out of control. In fact, it is usually weaker than aggressive. But an S-rank Alpha is a completely different story.
Councilor Peng thought he could pick a soft persimmon, but unexpectedly, he froze the persimmon until it was rock hard, turning it into a deadly block of iron!
Of course, given some time, he could kill everyone and take the map, but while ordinary commotion was manageable, he didn't think he had enough time for such an uncontrolled S-level pheromone outburst.
This is a place very close to the first-class area.
For the first time, Representative Peng's face showed a look of loss of composure. "Retreat! Escort team, prepare! Snipers, miniature targeting missiles..."
He gave up on seizing the map, but the fake Black Deer's life had to be spared. If he couldn't get the map, then no other faction could.
The AI activated, and Councilor Peng retreated quickly. Jack dodged and blocked Qi Pingye, who instinctively wanted to give chase.
In the distance, on high-rise buildings and on hovering drones, the red dots for positioning and aiming gradually light up.
Qi Pingye's senses were confused and his mind was muddled, but he intuitively sensed danger.
He seemed to exist, yet he also seemed to have collapsed, a sliver of reason piercing through him.
He grabbed Jack, swaying and trying to shake him off, and ran towards the nearby aircraft, both to escape and to find cover.
But Jack changed his attack style from before, no longer fighting, but only trying to entangle and delay, like a quagmire or weeds.
"You can't escape... Just go and die!"
Jack growled.
He received instructions from Representative Peng and knew he had absolutely no chance of survival.
From the day he became a guard officer, he knew what kind of death awaited him.
But when that moment truly arrived, when he faced those flying micro-missiles and armor-piercing sniper rounds, he was still filled with fear, pain, and despair. And beyond that, there was even more anger.
Anger directed at no one.
"Die, Black Deer...die!"
Flames surged and billowed.
The explosion was deafening.
In his daze, the thick glass separating Qi Pingye from the world was suddenly shattered.
He took flight.
The buzzing and whooshing of miniature missiles echoed in my ears, red dots flashing incessantly like a torrential red rain. The snowflakes were stained crimson; the blood came from the outside world, and also from within myself.
Bang!
The continuous sound of bones cracking!
Qi Pingye crashed to the ground, his mouth opening involuntarily, spitting out blood foam and what appeared to be fragments of internal organs—a crimson substance.
The helmet part of his armor was stained. Qi Pingye's fingers trembled as he tried to get up, but he couldn't muster any strength. The violent pheromones, combined with the severe damage from the explosion, had completely shattered his mental state.
In the last instant before the torrential red rain began to fall, the only thought left in his mind was how fortunate he was that Shen Wu was not there.
Even if I die, he can still live.
Perhaps it was a hallucination before his death, or perhaps something else, but at the moment Qi Pingye's thoughts took shape, he suddenly heard Chen Wu's voice.
The AI armor was incredibly strong, but it couldn't withstand the bombardment of micro-missiles. He tried desperately to dodge, but he was hit by many of them and was already in pieces. Only his ears remained to assist him, and they were still functioning amidst the roar.
It produced the sound of the dense fog.
The voice called out: "Qi Pingye! Qi Pingye!"
But why did the fog come?
How could the fog come!
Qi Pingye opened his mouth wide, his veins bulging, wanting to shout, wanting to roar, "Leave...leave...away..."
"Stop saving! Quick! Barrier!"
"That old bastard, do you think miniature missiles are free?!"
"Squad Three, advance! Take out their launch site within ten seconds!"
"Hey kid, this is none of your business. Take this little bastard and get on the flying vehicle!"
"He can't hold on any longer... You guys go first!"
More chaotic sounds followed.
A pair of hands gently yet firmly lifted him up.
He saw a thin, armored back and a familiar face filled with anger and fear, followed by footsteps, the sound of omnics deploying, the sound of gunfire, and roars.
At the edge of the blurred, blood-red vision, someone's clothes brushed past, and the black lilies on the combat uniform fluttered.
The pale snow turned scalding hot.
“Qi Pingye, hold on…we’re almost there, we’ll be in the medical pod soon, Qi Pingye…no, don’t close your eyes! Qi Pingye…”
Shen Wu carried the mangled body on his back, running wildly through the ever-increasing snow, his voice and spine trembling.
Black Lily's aircraft was parked a few hundred meters away, which wasn't actually that far thanks to the AI. But Shen Wu felt that the distance was unbelievably long, and every step wasted too much time.
His hands and back were extremely stiff.
He dared not move.
It was as if the slightest movement would cause the blood flowing down his arm and back to suddenly accelerate, cool, and take the life of the person behind him. He had never been so afraid.
When he was a few years old, he was fighting with a child from the slums for food when the other child suddenly yelled and pulled out a rusty knife. When it was closest to him, it was stuck two centimeters from his eyeball.
Around ten years old, he differentiated into an Omega. Just a door away, his disgusting, greedy neighbor, an F-class Alpha, seemed to sense something, constantly knocking on the door and saying words of concern, while his nauseating pheromones poured in wildly from the cracks in the door and windows.
At twenty, his hidden gender was discovered. The city lord of Ganlu City smiled, pressed a gun against his head, and with a snap, bent his finger and pulled the trigger...
Time and time again.
Shen Wu had experienced too many terrifying moments, but never before had he felt so bewildered as this time.
So bewildered that everything I saw was darkness, an illusion, and all I could do was run stiffly.
He dared not look back at Qi Pingye again, lest he witness the scene that would shatter his heart and soul. He could only hear his breathing, weak and low, yet present. The swift wind, the violent bombing, and the fierce roars could not erase this presence.
He gripped it tightly, uttering words he couldn't even understand himself.
"You can't die, Qi Pingye, I love you, please... please, live, Qi Pingye..."
Shen Wu's face was icy cold, and his eyes stung painfully from something stinging them.
He was breathing heavily, his lungs were filled with a tearing pain, and it felt as if blood was gushing out of his chest and his bones were shattering.
He didn't know how long it took him to get onto the aircraft, or how long it took to put Qi Pingye, who had no intact skin except for most of his face, into the medical pod. All he knew was that the feeling of his knees hitting the metal floor was very painful, heavy, and clear.
But none of this was as striking as Qi Pingye's suddenly amplified panting.
"Are you... are you alright, Xiao Shen...?"
The doctor left behind by Black Lily on the aircraft hesitated, a hint of fear in his expression.
It wasn't that he was naive; rather, the young man's appearance was truly frightening.
He knelt there, utterly exhausted, trembling violently, his eyes bloodshot, wide open, tears mingling with blood, gushing out in large drops.
He had no expression, yet an indescribable sadness and horror, like a demon, pressed down on his back, crumpled his face, and made him feel as if he were about to die, filled with a strange sense of terror.
This one also seems to need to be placed in the medical pod...
The doctor thought to himself.
"No... I'm fine... How about him? How is he?"
Shen Wu seemed to be startled back to reality by the doctor's voice. She turned her head stiffly and asked in a hurried voice.
The doctor prepared the medication while adjusting the medical pod and observing the scan results.
"He was badly injured. If he had arrived any later, he would have been in a vegetative state, if not dead. But thankfully, we arrived in time... The team just got some new healing potions. I'll give him two injections, and he'll be able to open his eyes and speak in less than ten minutes. Don't worry..."
The doctor's words entered my ears in a daze.
Shen Wu closed his eyes heavily, swallowing the metallic taste in his throat. His stiff, kneeling body collapsed, and his forehead slammed against the glass dome of the medical pod.
It's good that you're alright... as long as you're alive, that's good.
After administering the medication, the doctor activated the medical pod's cleaning and disinfection functions to initially treat the dirt and wounds on Qi Pingye's body. Hesitantly, he turned to look at Shen Wu, "However..."
Shen Wu's shoulders trembled, and she suddenly raised her head, her scarlet, blood-stained lips trembling slightly. "But... what?"
Seeing his expression, the doctor's heart tightened, and he quickly said, "No, no, it's not a matter of life or death, it's just... you're an Omega, you should be able to sense it, right? His pheromones are out of control. The initial examination shows that his fertile period was about to begin, and then he suffered an unexpected shock, so the problem is a bit complicated. Also, his pheromone level is S-grade, which is almost non-existent in the entire White Night Federation. Suppressants may not work, so..."
Shen Wu met the doctor's gaze.
His body stiffened, and his breathing and heartbeat trembled together.
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Author's Note: [Laughing and crying while covering face] I revised it again before posting, and moved the vulnerable period part to the next chapter. It was a last-minute revision, not an intentional lie. I bow to my little angels!
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