In the flying snow, he kissed his…
Yi itself had not expected to hit its target, and after pausing for a second, it immediately turned to run.
However, it was already too late.
Yan Jiu materialized behind him like an evil ghost, and the moment he pressed down on the youth’s shoulder, he shattered his bones.
A wave of excruciating pain instantly swept through the entire body, and cold sweat broke out in a rush. Gritting his teeth until they nearly fractured without making a sound, the youth deftly rolled his shoulder, leveraged a clever technique to break free from Yan Jiu’s grip, and sprinted unhesitatingly toward the doorway.
Yet the moment he took a step forward, his wrist was seized by Yan Jiu, whose strength, akin to refined steel, made escape utterly impossible.
His acute sensitivity to death over the years prompted his most instinctive reaction. Bending his entire body into the arc of a fully drawn bow, he narrowly dodged the hand Yan Jiu had prepared to snap his neck.
Even so, with his arm immobilized, he was entirely unable to create distance. The Yan Jiu before him was simply a lunatic bent on killing him.
Yi quickly swept his gaze around the surroundings, searching for a way to break free.
His panicked expression thoroughly pleased the completely unreasoning Yan Jiu, whose smile was chillingly cold. “Want to run? I will grant your wish.”
Before Yi could recover his senses, he saw Yan Jiu pressing one hand against his wrist while the other clamped onto his shoulder.
“Ah!”
A piercing, miserable scream pierced through the building, startling Liu Fenghua and the police officers who were climbing the stairs to find them so violently that their hair stood on end.
“Not good!” The moment Liu Fenghua caught the scent of fiery pheromones, he realized Yan Jiu was also there.
That meant the greatest danger had to be Yan Jiu!
Resisting the mutual repulsion between alphas, he sensed Yan Jiu’s location.
“On the fourth floor! Boss Yan might have entered a manic phase. Have the anesthetic needles ready.” Liu Fenghua reminded them with a dark expression.
The group rushed toward the fourth floor.
The fourth floor was already drenched in blood.
With a look of bloodthirsty pleasure, Yan Jiu casually tossed aside the bloody, torn arm in his hand, stepping closer and closer to the battered, blood-soaked youth.
The other party stared at him in utter terror, retreating step by step, feeling that the alpha before him was simply an inhumane beast eager to tear him apart bite by bite.
Such a resilient omega. If only Shen Hui were like him.
This thought severed the very last thread of sanity left in his heart. Grabbing the youth by the collar with a single hand, he hurled him against a wall several meters away with a punch that shook the entire fourth floor.
Before the youth could recover from the agonizing pain, Yan Jiu’s second punch directly shattered his ribs.
That was a strength no human being should possess. Having lost his beloved, the alpha was completely devoid of sanity, desiring only to kill the person before him and consecrate the moment with blood.
Amidst the violent storm of heavy blows, the youth felt as though he had already died.
Through the blurred sea of red, he vaguely recalled the brutal combat when he had fought to secure the codename Yi.
Back then, he was still a beta, fighting his way out among hundreds of people leaving a trail of the defeated in his wake. Dragging his exhausted, heavily injured body before Chen Shenzhi, his eyes brimmed with a desperate yearning for recognition.
“You did well.” The master had praised him, personally wiping the blood from his face and taking him by the hand as they left.
Looking back with a shred of reluctance, he asked, “Are we not going to treat their injuries?”
Yet Chen Shenzhi didn’t even turn his head, responding indifferently, “Useless people are simply trash to be discarded.”
He had once believed he was different from those people. As it turned out, he was no different at all.
To his master, was he also just trash that could be discarded at any moment?
Unreconciled, he wanted to demand an answer, but by now he couldn’t even lift a finger, and his consciousness grew increasingly hazy.
Just as he was about to give up entirely, he vaguely heard a shout to halt.
“Stop! Hit him anymore and he’s going to die!”
Struggling hard to open his eyes, the youth tried to catch a glimpse of that person, clutching a final shred of hope in his heart.
Is it Master?
Yet before he could see clearly, he plunged completely into darkness.
What he did not know was that at this very moment, Chen Shenzhi was sitting in a spacious, brightly lit office, watching the bloody scene on the surveillance monitor with elegant poise, and even taking a leisurely sip of coffee.
Behind him, his assistant wore a hesitant expression. “Should I arrange for people in the country to rescue Yi?”
After all, Yi was the omega Chen Shenzhi cared about most and the most successfully cultivated one in the base. To lose him just like that felt somewhat regrettable.
“Ahuai is unique. Every substitute attempting to erase the true principal deserves to be punished.” Without a shred of pity in his eyes, Chen Shenzhi instead curled his lips into a meaningful smile. “Besides, he still has his uses.”
Slightly taken aback, the assistant wondered what use someone on the verge of death could possibly have, but he never questioned his boss’s decisions, bowing his head in compliance.
Thus, the youth’s expectations were destined to fall through. The person who arrived was not Chen Shenzhi, but Liu Fenghua, panting like a dog.
Behind him were several armed police officers.
Everyone was struck dumb by the pools of blood and the pungent scent of carnage.
Shen Hui lay unconscious in a chair, the blood at his neck staining a large portion of his clothes, while on the other side, Yan Jiu was also covered in blood, and his subordinate little omega was on the verge of drawing his last breath.
Liu Fenghua’s heart leaped straight into his throat. Rushing frantically to Shen Hui’s side, he hurried to untie the remaining ropes.
The police officers quickly surrounded Yan Jiu, training their stun guns and live-fire weapons directly upon him.
“Mr. Yan, let go of the person and back away against the wall!”
Hearing the threatening words, Yan Jiu narrowed his eyes to inspect the four surrounding police officers. All of them were alphas, and their pheromones carried an exceptionally aggressive profile.
To an alpha in a manic phase, this was the ultimate provocation. The aura of raging fire instantly swept across the officers like a tidal wave.
The policemen were instantly suppressed to the point of immobility, the top-tier alpha pheromones driving like steel needles into their temples and forcing them to clutch their heads.
The very second they stirred, Yan Jiu moved with lightning speed to snatch the weapons from their hands, tossing them to the ground and crushing them underfoot.
Anything that had ever harmed Shen Hui deserved to be erased from this world, these people included.
Having never witnessed an alpha with such tyrannical pheromones in all their years, the officers instantly prepared to retreat and call for backup.
Yet Yan Jiu moved a step faster, grabbing one of the officers by the throat and lifting him entirely off the ground.
His tightly clenched fingers continually tightened. The officer struggled with a reddening face, but his strength grew progressively weaker.
Far across the ocean, Chen Shenzhi wore a satisfied smile. “As expected, he has already entered the severe manic phase. In Country N, attacking a police officer resulting in death carries the death penalty, which incites nationwide public fury.”
Just as Yan Jiu was on the verge of going completely berserk, he caught sight of Liu Fenghua beside Shen Hui pulling out a small personal dagger to lunge at Shen Hui.
Dropping the officer instantly, Yan Jiu seized Liu Fenghua’s wrist in the blink of an eye.
Liu Fenghua, who had just cut the final rope binding Shen Hui, stared in utter bewilderment at the enraged Yan Jiu.
The fiery pheromones and murderous gaze swept over him simultaneously. Liu Fenghua realized in an instant that Yan Jiu was currently in a completely unreasoning, berserk state and probably couldn’t even recognize Shen Hui.
He instantly tried to retreat, but it was already too late. Yan Jiu counter-attacked by snatching his dagger and thrusting it straight toward his throat.
Although Liu Fenghua was an alpha, anyone familiar with him knew that his degree of physical delicacy was comparable to that of an omega. A direct strike would undoubtedly prove fatal on the spot!
Just when Liu Fenghua assumed his time was up,
A pale yet slender and powerful hand caught Yan Jiu’s wrist.
Both of them froze simultaneously, turning to look at the owner of that hand.
Shen Hui half-opened his eyes weakly, his voice dropping until it was almost imperceptible. “Go.”
It was only then that Liu Fenghua noticed the wound on Shen Hui’s neck, though terrifying in appearance, was not fatal; the loss of consciousness had likely been caused by excessive blood loss just moments ago.
However, there was no longer time for contemplation. Utilizing the fastest speed of his entire lifetime, he scrambled away from under Yan Jiu’s reach in a single roll, dashed over to the police officers, and fled outward together with them.
Yan Jiu instinctively wanted to pursue Liu Fenghua, but noticing Shen Hui staggering and struggling to stand, he immediately turned back to catch him in his arms.
Shen Hui’s body was both cold and limp. The moment Yan Jiu supported him, he slipped downward, prompting Yan Jiu to drop to a half-kneel so the other could lie more comfortably in his embrace.
In truth, Shen Hui had been shocked awake by the scorching heat of the glands. The resonance between him and Yan Jiu was far too strong, dragging his unstable rut out with it. Yet his body lingered on the verge of shock, his vision speckled with black, rendering him incapable of even twitching a finger.
Even so, he could sense Yan Jiu’s completely uncontrollable pheromones, as well as his own gland burning hot at the nape of his neck.
“Yan Jiu.”
Yan Jiu was incapable of responding to him. An alpha in a manic phase craved slaughter and bloodshed, yet toward his designated omega, he would only harbor an obsession to entwine unto death.
He wanted Shen Hui, right now, immediately, this instant.
Yet Shen Hui was so fragile that a mere touch could shatter him. That meager, fragile sliver of returning sanity, thin as a spider silk, maintained his final shred of restraint with only a single thought echoing in his mind.
He must never harm Shen Hui.
His body remained rigid; bulging veins strained across his arms and neck as his entire form stiffened into stone.
Liu Fenghua and the others, who had retreated outside the doorway, reined in their pheromones and held their breath. Seeing no movement within the room, they peeked around the doorframe one by one like a stack of curious cat-and-dog heads scouting out the situation.
The moment they poked their heads out, however, a chill froze them to the bone.
Following that, a scattering of tiny snowflakes drifted past their eyes. Liu Fenghua instinctively reached out a hand to catch one.
“Snow?”
The snowflake melted the instant it touched his palm, carrying a faint, distant, ethereal fragrance.
This was Qinghai, where temperatures hovered around thirty-eight degrees year-round! How could it possibly snow?
Stunned, he looked up, only to discover that the entire room was engulfed in falling snow, rapidly escalating from sparse flakes into thick, goose-down snow capable of obstructing vision.
The pure, soft snowflakes evaporated directly into water vapor the moment they entered Yan Jiu’s immediate vicinity due to the scorching heat, shrouding the two figures in a blurry haze that rendered them indistinct.
With a complex expression, Liu Fenghua stared fixedly at their backs. “Materialized pheromones.”
A phenomenon that existed only as a theory within the field of gland research was actually being performed by Shen Hui.
The stubborn snowflakes grew increasingly dense and concentrated around the two figures.
“What on earth is this?” exclaimed the police officer behind him in a low whisper.
“Shen Hui is using his own pheromones to soothe him, trying to suppress his manic phase.” But with his nearly broken glands, doing this was essentially tantamount to suicide!
It resembled an exquisite yet dangerous duel of probing and slaughter.
The heavy snow fell for a full ten minutes, yet it could only manage to draw close by a fraction; suppression remained impossible, and Shen Hui was clearly reaching his physical limit.
The snowfall grew increasingly sparse.
“Not good.” Liu Fenghua’s nerves instantly tightened. “If he fails to suppress him completely, the alpha’s primal nature will never let Shen Hui go, and then he’s finished! Do we still have anesthetic needles?”
Several stun guns immediately locked onto Yan Jiu. That dosage would at best slow him down, but they had no choice left except to gamble.
Just as several individuals were about to pull their triggers, they spotted Shen Hui move.
Gathering his remaining strength, he wrapped his arms around Yan Jiu’s neck, pulled him downward, and kissed his lips amidst the swirling snow.
The enraged alpha froze in place instantly, all fury and hostility replaced by an incredulous, overwhelming joy.
The scorching flames dissipated instantly, and the heavy snow blanketed them both in white.
Sanity gradually returned within the kiss, while the soul found a boundless, untethered satisfaction.
“Shen Hui?”
Instinctively chasing after his lips to deepen the kiss, Yan Jiu caught sight of a cold flash of light in Shen Hui’s hand out of the corner of his eye.
The next instant, a searing pain tore through his abdomen. Incredulous, he lowered his gaze.
Without a shred of lingering attachment, Shen Hui pulled out the short dagger, warm blood gushing out to stain the surrounding white snow.
Collapsing in disbelief, Yan Jiu kept his arms locked tightly around Shen Hui even as unconsciousness claimed him.
Shen Hui was dragged down alongside him as well. Only after confirming that Yan Jiu had completely passed out did he finally close his eyes.
“Holy shit!”
Liu Fenghua immediately rushed forward. “What are you people doing? Are you committing double suicide?”