Chapter 69#
World 3: Everything You Snatch Is What I Don’t Want#
Yin Bozhou lost control, completely and utterly.
Like Qin Qing, he supported himself against the doorframe with both hands, but he placed them higher up, so the two of them were pressed tightly together.
His excessively high body temperature penetrated the thin training uniform, transmitting fiercely to Qin Qing like burning charcoal, causing Qin Qing to look up in astonishment.
“Commander, what’s wrong with you?” Qin Qing opened his mouth to ask.
At the same moment, a drop of hot sweat slowly slid down the tip of Yin Bozhou’s nose, landing precisely on Qin Qing’s slightly reddened, full, and rounded lip bead.
The sweat evaporated the scent of male hormones, as intense as a handful of gunpowder smoke. Yet, what Qin Qing’s thin lips exhaled was a rich fragrance as fragrant as flowers and as sweet as honey fruits.
The combination of the two scents was more irresistible than the most seductive pheromones in the world.
Qin Qing blushed; he seemed to have also smelled this overly romantic scent. His snowy cheeks were covered with a bright crimson flush. In Yin Bozhou’s memory, there was actually nothing that could compare to it.
Even the clouds on the horizon did not have such colorful magnificence.
What was more fatal was that Qin Qing actually extended the tip of his pink tongue and gently licked that drop of sweat, which contained endless heat and desire, into his fragrant mouth.
What would it taste like to him right now?
Was it an uncontrollable fishiness, a scalding heat about to erupt, or a greedy spiciness that wanted to swallow him whole? Yin Bozhou’s frenzied brain couldn’t help but imagine these things that were enough to turn him into a beast.
His eyes turned red.
If the last thread of reason snapped, he would really turn into a beast.
Qin Qing had absolutely no idea what kind of danger he was facing. Clearly without pheromones, he had turned an Alpha into a mad beast for him.
996 watched, dumbfounded.
“Qin Qing, what you just licked off was Yin Bozhou’s sweat! Spit it out quickly, it’s too dirty!”
Qin Qing still looked up at Yin Bozhou, supporting the doorframe with both hands, pressed against this person’s scorching body, like two leaves that had unintentionally grown on the same stalk and had to embrace tightly.
His face was full of worry and confusion, but in his heart, he was smiling slowly and lazily, “I know that’s his sweat. I am a flower; flowers need such irrigation.”
He had licked the sweat beads secreted by this person countless times, in the most crazy moments.
996: “…Alright, no wonder I always feel out of place with you; it turns out I’m not perverted enough.”
996 ran away with the soy-braised pig trotter in its mouth, out of sight, out of mind.
“So salty, what is it?” Qin Qing pretended to be ignorant and licked his full lip bead.
His confused soft murmurs, his moist and delicate lips, and the innocent expression on his snow-white face were all the most potent pheromones to Yin Bozhou.
Hot sweat fell like raindrops, dripping from the tip of Yin Bozhou’s nose, forehead, and hair ends. Falling on Qin Qing’s upturned small face.
Qin Qing blinked, finally understanding what the liquid he had just licked off was, and then his snow-white cheeks were dyed with an even more brilliant color.
Yin Bozhou’s crimson eyes looked unblinkingly at this face as magnificent as the sunset glow. At such an unbearable moment, on the verge of going berserk, he inexplicably thought of a rose.
Qin Qing, receiving his sweat drops, was like a rose blooming in the faint dawn light, covered with dew condensed in the thick fog.
But he himself was more delicate and charming than a rose covered in dew. His fragrance was like the scent of nature melting in the thick fog, omnipresent.
Yin Bozhou’s reason was on the verge of snapping, and several thick blood vessels throbbed bulgingly on his temples. If the blood vessels burst, blood hotter than lava would spray out.
However, even though it was so unbearable, he could actually reach out and wipe away all the sweat drops on Qin Qing’s face extremely gently and slowly.
“Sorry, I’m going to handle some small matters, I’ll be back shortly.” He gritted his teeth and said this sentence, then walked around Qin Qing and left with large strides.
This time, Qin Qing did not stop him, but while stroking his scorching thin lips, he smiled gently and softly.
“What is the hardest secret to hide in the world?” He looked at Yin Bozhou’s hastily retreating back and murmured to himself, then chuckled softly and answered himself: “It’s love.”
Yin Bozhou didn’t come back for a long time, but Qin Qing wasn’t anxious at all. He knew his deity would never break a promise.
After about an hour or so, Yin Bozhou returned. He had taken a shower and changed into a brand-new set of clothes.
He looked very good in his military uniform. His straight posture was like an unsheathed sharp sword. Under the military cap hid a pair of extremely sharp black eyes. Walking slowly step by step, he was like a beast approaching in a wilderness with nowhere to escape.
Qin Qing, who was leaning against the lab bench, immediately straightened up and went up to meet him.
“Let’s go, do the test.” Yin Bozhou said in a deep voice.
“Okay, Commander.” Qin Qing immediately led the person to the physical examination area at the back.
“Commander, I am researching a potion to soothe spiritual power. If I succeed, all Alphas will have their lives guaranteed, and all Omegas will have freedom of marriage.” Qin Qing said seemingly unintentionally while sticking sensors to Yin Bozhou’s temples.
Yin Bozhou lowered his eyes to look at him, his gaze very focused.
“You will definitely succeed.” He said words of firm belief in a cold tone.
He didn’t know how to express love; “cold on the outside, hot on the inside” was a term tailor-made for him, right? Qin Qing thought with a secret smile.
“Okay, we can test now.” Qin Qing stepped back two steps.
Yin Bozhou looked at the spiritual power tester placed in front of him. It looked very much like a drum. The thin drum skin could absorb spiritual power, and the round belly could contain spiritual power, then perform precise calculations to obtain the value and stability of the spiritual power.
If both the value and stability showed abnormalities, this drum would emit a piercing alarm sound.
Yin Bozhou placed his palm on the drum surface and paused for a minute or two without releasing spiritual power.
Qin Qing looked at the two blank data displayed on the tester and asked in confusion: “Commander, is there any problem?”
“Sorry, I might have to offend you.” Yin Bozhou apologized in a deep voice while reaching out to pull Qin Qing into his arms.
Qin Qing was stunned, but still habitually hugged his lean waist and buried his face in his broad chest.
Then came an earth-shattering loud noise.
That spiritual power tester actually exploded just from being lightly touched by Yin Bozhou’s palm. It could test spiritual power with energy levels as high as millions, yet it was destroyed by a trace of Yin Bozhou’s spiritual power in an instant.
Then how terrifying a level had Yin Bozhou’s true spiritual power reached?
No wonder others said he was a human-shaped weapon. No wonder there were rumors on the internet saying that even without piloting the Eye of Thunder, he could kill the Insect Emperor with his bare hands.
Qin Qing raised his head and looked at Yin Bozhou in great astonishment.
Yin Bozhou protected him firmly in his arms, using an energy shield formed by spiritual power to block the strong shockwave and metal fragments shooting like arrows produced after the machine exploded for him.
Smoke and dust spread around the two, while they embraced each other, exchanging scorching body temperature and breath, like an inseparable whole.
Qin Qing was still in a daze when Yin Bozhou released him with extreme restraint.
“Sorry for the offense.” He apologized again.
Clearly a weapon as sharp as a blade, in front of Qin Qing, he was as open as the wind and as soft as water.
He reached out, wanting to brush away the dust on Qin Qing’s shoulder, but his pitch-black eyes suddenly froze, a glimmer of fear trembling in his pupils.
He was a weapon, but he was afraid.
Qin Qing followed his gaze and looked down, only to discover that his sleeve had been cut by a sharp edge, and a thin cut was branded on his forearm, slowly oozing bright red blood beads.
The thing that cut him was too sharp, so he didn’t feel any pain at all.
He rolled up his sleeve, raised his forearm, and looked at it indifferently.
“It’s fine, a cut of this degree will heal immediately with a spray of potion.”
While observing the wound, Qin Qing didn’t notice that Yin Bozhou was slowly backing away, his handsome face shrouded in fear and self-blame that were hard to dispel.
He knew what caused this wound. It wasn’t the metal fragments of the tester, but his momentarily out-of-control spiritual power.
He thought that as long as he held Qin Qing in his arms, he could block all dangers for the other party. However, looking back, he realized that the biggest threat to Qin Qing was actually himself.
How can a sharpened knife touch a delicate flower? The sharp edge will always cut the fresh flower at the moment of light touch.
This was the fate of him and Qin Qing. This was the most helpless thing for an Alpha who couldn’t control his spiritual power.
Yin Bozhou stood stiffly at the place furthest from Qin Qing, the light in his eyes changing rapidly, extremely complicated. An invisible pressure fell heavily on his shoulders, making him almost unable to support himself.
“Go apply medicine.” He urged hoarsely.
Actually, he wanted to walk up, hold Qin Qing’s slender wrist, and take the other party to apply medicine. But reason told him he couldn’t. The spiritual power bursting from his body was invisible sharp blades that would cut Qin Qing all over.
No, they would even shred Qin Qing!
“I have something else to do, I’m leaving first.” Yin Bozhou strode towards the outside, his attitude becoming completely distant.
Qin Qing was stunned for a moment, then chased out and asked somewhat angrily: “Did you break the tester on purpose? You cheated.”
“You blew on my eyes, you also cheated.” Yin Bozhou said without looking back.
Qin Qing was speechless and could only chase quickly to the door, watching Yin Bozhou leave.
“Go back and apply medicine.” Yin Bozhou stepped out of the infirmary, walked five meters away, and said in a strict tone.
“This little injury doesn’t need—”
Yin Bozhou interrupted this nonchalant sentence: “Go apply medicine quickly!” His tone became a bit stricter, just like treating his soldiers.
A dark tide rolled in his pitch-black eyes. If his order wasn’t followed, this dark tide would turn into a fierce storm that even he himself couldn’t control.
Qin Qing sensed danger and hurriedly ran back to the infirmary, spraying some potion on the wound. In just a few seconds, under the bonding of the potion, the thread-like wound healed. Wiping away the blood with a disinfectant cotton pad, the skin was smooth and fair, as good as new.
Yin Bozhou watched all this unblinkingly.
“Done.” Qin Qing raised his arm and waved it.
Yin Bozhou nodded, then turned around and left with large strides.
His back was like a giant tower, majestic and solid. But watching this receding back, Qin Qing felt he was somewhat overburdened.
“Is it a spiritual power riot?” Qin Qing murmured worriedly, stroking the wound that no longer existed on his forearm with his fingertips back and forth.
Yin Bozhou entered the confinement room.
Seeing the red light of the confinement room light up, the soldiers all showed worried expressions.
Only Alphas whose spiritual domain was about to collapse and couldn’t get the comfort of compatible pheromones needed to enter this airtight space made of super-strong alloy. In this space, Alphas who lost control like beasts could release their spiritual power unscrupulously, thereby obtaining a certain degree of catharsis.
If this catharsis happened in the outside world, then the spiritual power released by a top Alpha could cut the surrounding people into bloody corpses.
If an SSS-level Alpha like Yin Bozhou completely lost control, his spiritual power would probably burn the soldiers of the entire military department to ashes.
No one could stop him unless it was the Eye of Thunder piloted by himself. Saying he was a human-shaped weapon was not an exaggeration at all.
“Should we bring Qin Gantang over?” A soldier asked worriedly.
“Without the Commander’s order, who dares to go pick him up?” Another soldier said with a pale face.
“The Commander’s spiritual power will probably destroy the confinement room completely, right?”
A group of soldiers waited outside the confinement room as if facing a formidable enemy.
However, the crazy catharsis they imagined did not happen.
Yin Bozhou’s spiritual power did lose control. Invisible sharp blades lingered around him, emitting purple electric arcs when rubbing against each other, vibrating with loud noises like whip cracks.
He was wrapped in thunder, powerful like a deity, and also violent like a monster.
But in his palm, he held a bright red rose, trying to make those invisible sharp blades avoid this tiny flower amidst the spiritual power riot.
But he failed. The rose was cut into pieces by the sharp blades, scattering into fluttering petals, which were burned to ashes by the purple electric arcs before they could fall to the ground.
Yin Bozhou looked down at these ashes, a trace of despair actually overflowing in his pitch-black eyes.
If he couldn’t control this spiritual power that killed invisibly, he could never touch the flower blooming in his heart.
“Give me a flower.” He looked up at the control panel on the ceiling of the confinement room, his eyes burned red by anxiety, mania, anger, and despair.
However, these frantic emotions soon turned into indomitable determination.
He wanted to make the impossible possible. He wanted a sharp blade to turn into the softest pair of hands when touching his little flower.
A mechanical hand reached down from the ceiling, holding a rose blooming brightly.
Yin Bozhou wanted to take this rose, but suddenly stopped his movement.
He couldn’t bear to shred this flower, just as he couldn’t bear to hurt Qin Qing. The scene of petals withering would definitely make Qin Qing very sad.
“Give me a bubble.” He said hoarsely.
The mechanical hand retracted the rose, and a bubble was spat out from its fingertip.
Yin Bozhou wrapped this bubble with violent spiritual power, yet had to ensure it wouldn’t be shattered. This was millions of times harder than protecting a flower. But if he didn’t train himself like this, he could never approach his little flower.
What kind of caution is needed to approach Qin Qing? Yin Bozhou had once pondered this question, and now he understood.
Use all mental effort, all will, to pave the flattest and softest road.
Time passed second by second. One bubble broke, and Yin Bozhou would immediately wrap another bubble with spiritual power. He could train a million times, or ten billion times…
The night was already deep. Ren Zehuai crawled out of the restoration pod, didn’t see Qin Qing, so he had to put on his clothes and leave first.
Qin Qing didn’t wait for him to wake up, showing that although he had some admiration for him, the feelings were not deep enough. Should use a fierce move, otherwise dragging on too long might lead to changes.
Qin Gantang didn’t know when he would marry his guardian. Must take down Qin Qing as soon as possible to stimulate the other party. Thinking like this, Ren Zehuai’s steps became much more hurried.
Not long after he left, Yan Yufei arrived. Seeing no one in the infirmary, he opened the door of the cold storage, wanting to do a biological experiment.
“Why haven’t you gone home yet?” Seeing Qin Qing staying in the cold storage wearing a thermal suit, Yan Yufei was quite surprised.
“I have a few drug experiments to do, pulling an all-nighter tonight.” Qin Qing shook a test tube.
Yan Yufei nodded and also put on a thermal suit.
“Did Su Su contact you?” He asked, pretending to be casual.
“I called him; he went home.” Qin Qing put down the test tube and input a string of data into the optical computer.
“Is he okay?” Yan Yufei put on goggles, covering his anxious eyes.
“He’s fine. The police station indeed just verbally educated him for an hour and let him go.”
Yan Yufei naturally knew these circumstances. He was quite influential in the Empire; this bit of information was clear with a little check. But he still felt uneasy, always wanting to corroborate Su Su’s safety from others.
While the two were chatting sporadically, Qin Qing’s optical computer suddenly rang. It was a video call from Su Su.
Qin Qing immediately connected the call, and Su Su’s holographic image was projected into the air. He was wearing a high-necked sweater, smiling softly, his hair ends a bit wet, his skin a bit red, as if he had just taken a shower.
Yan Yufei immediately looked towards this illusory image, his eyes full of greed that could no longer be suppressed.
“Qin Qing, I’m not feeling well, I need to take a long leave. Please take care of the small potted plant on my desk. Water it three times a day, ten milliliters each time is enough. Also, please finish the snacks I hid in the cabinet. They’ll go bad if left there. Ren Zehuai is a bad guy, I didn’t lie to you. I beg you not to like him, and even more not to be with him. I’m really worried about you.”
As he spoke, Su Su’s soft smile disappeared, and a trace of tears overflowed in his slightly red eyes, as if he was about to cry in the next second.
He gazed deeply at Qin Qing, his gaze attached and gentle, as if just this one look, and he would never see again.
Qin Qing was listening seriously at first, but by the end, his whole heart was trembling.
Su Su’s expression was wrong, his state was wrong, his tone was also wrong! This was not a chat, but a farewell! What happened to him?
Qin Qing immediately stood up, took off the thermal suit, and said hurriedly: “Su Su, are you at home? I’m coming to find you right away.”
Yan Yufei also took off his goggles with a pale face and pulled the door of the cold storage with trembling hands.
The door handle seemed to be coated with lubricant, making him unable to grip it. He pulled once, twice, three times, but failed to open the door.
Qin Qing squeezed past him, quickly opened the door, and ran out. The holographic image of Su Su projected by the optical computer always hovered before his eyes, as if he could touch this person if he kept running, kept running.
But that was impossible.
Su Su was always three meters away from Qin Qing. This distance seemed short, but could never be closed.
“Goodbye Qin Qing, I’m leaving.” Su Su smiled and waved his hand, but shed two lines of tears.
“Su Su, what’s wrong with you? Don’t go, I’ll be there right away!” Qin Qing’s eyes were red with anxiety.
“Promise me, don’t be with Ren Zehuai, I don’t want you to get hurt.” Su Su cried and said.
“I don’t promise! I want you to tell me face to face!” Qin Qing knew he absolutely could not agree to any of Su Su’s requests at this time.
If he satisfied him, he would leave without hesitation!
But such a strategy no longer worked. Su Su shook his head helplessly and turned off the video call. The holographic image disappeared, leaving only the pitch-black night covering the panicked and helpless Qin Qing.
When he looked around blankly, about to shed tears, Yan Yufei drove a flying car speeding over, opening the door in mid-air: “Get in quickly!”
Qin Qing immediately jumped onto the flying car, rushing towards the depths of the night.
The two still arrived too late.
Su Su was wearing a high-necked sweater and a pair of jeans, lying in the bathtub, sleeves rolled up, revealing a wrist with a fiercely cut bloody opening. Bright red hot water kept overflowing, spreading the smell of death.
That sweet caramel condensed milk scent disappeared forever.
“Su Su!” Qin Qing knelt by the bathtub and pulled Su Su’s body into his arms.
His palm touched the back of Su Su’s neck, where the blood flowing out was actually more than from the wrist. Qin Qing hurriedly pulled down the collar, turned Su Su’s head to check carefully, then his face turned pale.
Su Su’s glands were actually… actually dug out forcefully! From the neck hollow to the tailbone, a whole piece of flesh was stripped off. He already treasured his faint pheromones extremely, because from the day he was born, the whole world told him every day that pheromones were his entire value.
Now, even this only value was taken away from his body by thugs.
He lost the meaning of existence, so he chose to disappear.
When did this happen? And who did it? Qin Qing carried Su Su out of the bathtub, put him on the bed, covered him well with the quilt, and then began to rummage through the room.
A settlement agreement was placed on the coffee table in the living room, pressed with Su Su’s bright red fingerprint.
It turned out that after he was taken to the Imperial Police Station, no police officer verbally educated him. Instead, he was locked into a detention cell, told that he would be released in an hour. However, a few minutes later, several drunk Alphas were also locked in.
What would happen when a group of irrational Alphas and a delicate Omega were detained in a closed space?
Qin Qing closed his eyes, almost daring not to read the record about this part in the settlement agreement.
Yan Yufei, who stood at the bathroom door almost stiffened into a stone, came behind him at some point, staring at this settlement agreement with a pair of crimson eyes.
The content Qin Qing dared not read, he read completely.
Those beasts waved sharp blades and cut Su Su open! They took away Su Su’s most precious thing!
Omegas must be detained separately; this is an iron rule. However, the Imperial Police Station did not follow this iron rule!
After the disaster happened, those police officers did not uphold justice for Su Su. Instead, they forced him to sign the settlement agreement and then released those beasts. Because only in this way could they cover up their dereliction of duty and keep their official positions! They were no longer warriors maintaining legal principles, but a group of hawks and dogs kept by the royal family.
They gave Su Su a huge sum of money as compensation, thinking this could buy everything of Su Su.
Su Su was just an ordinary person; he had no ability to resist these hawks and dogs.
After others destroyed him, he also chose to destroy himself.
Qin Qing opened his eyes, finished reading this settlement agreement with gritted teeth, and then smashed it fiercely onto Yan Yufei’s face.
“I wanted to keep him, but you told him to go! You know he listens to you the most! You even told him nothing would happen. Is this the ’nothing would happen’ you spoke of? You killed him, Yan Yufei! You killed him with your own hands!” Qin Qing had never spoken to anyone in such a hateful tone.
But he also knew very clearly that the person who truly killed Su Su was not Yan Yufei, but Qin Gantang!
How could such a big blunder happen in the police station! Could the police in the detention center not hear when those Alphas were committing violence? Without someone arranging behind the scenes, such an absurd thing could absolutely not happen!
Yan Yufei did not dodge the settlement agreement smashed on his face. He silently bore Qin Qing’s anger, then walked into the bedroom, held Su Su’s cold body in his arms, and cried silently.
The word “love” had been hidden in his heart for a long, long time, but until the end, he couldn’t say it out loud.
“Su Su, I love you.” Yan Yufei pressed his trembling lips to Su Su’s cold ear, whispering slowly word by word.
Then, he covered Su Su’s ears, as if afraid of dirtying Su Su, and with a tone of gnashing hatred stained with blood, he recited a name extremely ruthlessly: “Qin Gantang!”