FT DR Chapter 6: The Shocking Truth

Chapter 6: The Shocking Truth

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

It took Wu Chenghe several hours to digest the information about the sentinels and guides.

It was too overwhelming. He had only seen gene fusion in some science fiction movies before—mad scientists implanting beast genes into the human DNA chain, creating cute girls with cat ears or strong men with lion heads. He never imagined that a thousand years later, humanity would indeed evolve into so many new and exotic species, and they were fused with aliens!

There were three-dimensional images of alien scorpions in the terminal, which looked like scorpions magnified tens of thousands of times. The penis was as big as a tricycle. It was outrageous that such fierce biological genes could actually merge with humans. It was simply insane!

Could I also be a hybrid? Otherwise, how could I have a halo of purity? Wu Chenghe suddenly shuddered, then comforted himself: No, that’s impossible. I’m already seventeen years old. It’s impossible for me to mutate so late. I must just have too noble sentiments, or maybe my party education is more thorough…

The timer rang, and Wu Chenghe set aside his unease, ready to inject Monica. The little girl had been running a high fever for five hours, and there were signs that it was getting worse. Occasionally, she opened her eyes, her deep blue eyeballs gradually contracting, becoming more and more like cat pupils.

After injecting her, Wu Chenghe heard a soft sound from the automatic door behind him. Thinking it was Ava returning, he said, “Are you done? Monica’s condition is not good. Her temperature is almost over forty degrees, and I feel it’s very dangerous to continue like this…” 

When he turned around, he realized that the person standing at the door was not Ava but a tall cavalryman.

“Sergeant, do you have something?” Wu Chenghe recognized his rank. “Doctor Ava went to see the squad captain. You can wait in the lounge for a while.”

The cavalryman’s eyes looked a bit strange. He bypassed Wu Chenghe and stared straight at the semi-conscious Monica. “Who is she?”

“A patient.” Wu Chenghe instinctively felt he was dangerous. He covered Monica with a blanket and stepped in front of him to block his approaching steps. “She has a fever, please don’t get too close, Sergeant.”

“She’s sweet,” the sergeant murmured, licking his lips and pushing Wu Chenghe aside. “I smell it. She’s sweet.”

“Sergeant!” Wu Chenghe blocked his hand, pushing him towards the door. “Please, leave.”

“Get away!” With a shove, the sergeant pushed Wu Chenghe to the ground, his eyes showing a greedy and infatuated look. His nostrils twitched, as if he had smelled an extremely wonderful taste, reaching out towards Monica.

A flash of lightning struck Wu Chenghe’s mind, and suddenly he understood what was going on—this sergeant was a sentinel, and he was compatible with Monica!

Monica was in her first estrus, emitting a large amount of pheromones that attracted similar beings. These pheromones could make compatible sentinels feel addicted, impulsive, and induce manic symptoms, making them crazy to possess this guide!

“She’s a guide, damn, she’s so beautiful…” The sergeant’s eyes quickly clouded with a layer of red mist. He carefully lifted the blanket covering Monica, chanting dreamily, “Baby, baby…” and leaned down to kiss her neck. This was the special “marking” method of sentinels on guides—infusing their saliva into the glands unique to their necks, establishing a temporary mate relationship with them to repel others from getting close.

“Don’t touch her!” Wu Chenghe quickly got up, hugged his waist, and tried to drag him away. 

The sergeant became furious, lifted him up, and slammed him against the wall. “Get lost! She’s mine!”

Wu Chenghe hit the metal wall, feeling a sharp pain in his spine. He saw the sergeant about to tear Monica’s collar. He climbed up and grabbed a syringe, rushing over, and with all his strength, stabbed it into the sergeant’s neck, injecting all the medicine in the syringe.

The sergeant turned around, his eyes glaring red as he pulled out the syringe and threw it away. He pressed Wu Chenghe against the wall, his thick fingers tightening little by little. “Are you looking for death, kid? She’s mine!”

“She doesn’t belong to anyone!” Wu Chenghe struggled to say, trying to pry his fingers away, but he couldn’t move his iron-like grip. Gradually, the air in his chest became less and less, more and more stifling.

“Let go!” Wu Chenghe opened his eyes wide, his pupils contracting gradually, staring directly into the sergeant’s blood-red eyes. Perhaps due to suffocation, his brain felt a bit confused. It seemed that something was flooding out like a tide, wanting to engulf everything, including the person choking him.

The sergeant didn’t let go, but there was no further action. Miraculously, the red mist in his eyes slowly dissipated, and a bewildered expression appeared on his face. He gazed into Wu Chenghe’s eyes, hesitated, and loosened his grip slightly. His thumb gently rubbed against Wu Chenghe’s Adam’s apple, and then suddenly leaned in for a kiss.

Yes, he leaned in for a kiss, but Wu Chenghe didn’t realize it was a kiss because his thoughts were confused due to suffocation, and his vision was not very clear. Vaguely, he saw a gaping mouth rushing towards his trachea. Immediately suspecting that he had encountered a zombie, without thinking, he threw a punch.

With a loud “thud,” his fist struck like hitting a steel plate, making a crisp sound. Wu Chenghe felt his joints ache, almost thinking his hand was broken. Fortunately, the hand choking his neck finally loosened, and he broke free, falling to the ground.

“Hiss—” Wu Chenghe gasped in pain, holding his right hand and inhaling sharply. Suddenly, he felt a shadow looming overhead. He looked up to see the sergeant bending down, looking at him, his eyes a bit dull but faintly flickering with fiery flames.

“You, you’re also…” he hesitated, his eyes starting to redden again.

Wu Chenghe lay on the ground, oppressed by his strong aura, and hearing his half-sentence sent chills down his spine—I am too? What am I?

Something flashed through his mind, and Wu Chenghe’s intuition told him he couldn’t let him say that sentence. He didn’t know where he got the strength from, but he crawled up and grabbed his collar, concentrating on hypnotizing him, “I’m nothing, you’re feverish, you’re manic, you don’t understand anything… I’m ordinary, I’m nothing!”

The sergeant’s eyes were firmly locked by him, and he seemed petrified, not even blinking. After a long while, his pupils suddenly shrank, the red mist in his eyes receded, revealing a bewildered expression. At that moment, there was a muffled sound from behind, and the sergeant collapsed with a bang, his head tilted and he fainted. Wu Chenghe was startled, and when he looked back, he saw Ava had returned, using the stun gun in her hand to hit the sergeant’s neck.

“Are you okay?” Ava was scared, sweating coldly. If something happened to Wu Chenghe here, Commander Hannibal would probably execute her for negligence.

“I-I’m fine.” Wu Chenghe was too nervous, his lips trembling slightly.

“I’m sorry, it’s my negligence. I should have isolated all the sentinels on the ship.” Ava apologized guiltily, “I’m sorry, Mr. Charlie. I’ve never dealt with such an incident before, and it’s the first time I’ve seen a live guide. I didn’t know that the scent of her first estrus would have such a big impact on compatible sentinels.”

“I’m fine.” Wu Chenghe took a deep breath, dispelling the shadows in his mind, and said, “I stabbed him with a tranquilizer needle, he didn’t hurt me.”

“This kind of tranquilizer needle doesn’t work on sentinels.” Ava was puzzled, picked up the fallen tranquilizer needle, shook her head, and threw it into the trash can. “Fortunately, you were here. If something happened to Monica, I would definitely be charged with dereliction of duty and sent to a military court.” She looked at the sergeant on the ground with lingering fear, then contacted squad captain Ivanov, “Squad captain, please gather all the sentinels on the ship to the compartment far from the medical cabin immediately and seal them at level one airtightness. Monica’s scent of estrus is too strong. One sergeant has already been induced into mania. If there are other compatible sentinels, the consequences would be unimaginable.”

Wu Chenghe’s throat was burning, and he looked in the mirror to find five bruises on both sides of his Adam’s apple, with a spot where the skin was scraped off. Just as he was about to find some alcohol to disinfect it, he suddenly heard a faint “meow.”

Looking down, a snow-white ragdoll cat was curled up at his feet. It looked like it had just been born, very thin and small, with a lilac-colored spot in an inverted V shape on its face, extremely cute.

“Meow…” The ragdoll cat seemed very attached to him, lifting its front paws to cling to his trouser legs, looking up at him pitifully with its deep blue vertical pupils, emitting a weak meow from its throat.

“We need to get him to the sealed compartment.” After finishing her call, Ava planned to put the unconscious sergeant on a stretcher bed. She looked at Wu Chenghe and said, “Can you help? He’s too heavy, probably around three hundred pounds.”

Wu Chenghe felt a bit strange. Didn’t she see the cat under his feet? He looked down, and the little cat was still clinging to his shoe, its front paws wrapped around his ankle, its white paws contrasting sharply against his black pants.

“What’s wrong?” Ava followed his gaze and looked at his feet, asking, “Is your foot injured? Did you fall just now?”

“You… You can’t see that cat?” Wu Chenghe was about to ask her, but the ragdoll cat suddenly jumped up as if startled by Ava’s gaze, and ran under the hospital bed, only showing a bit of its nose.

“It’s nothing, I’m fine.” Wu Chenghe realized that Ava really couldn’t see the cat. His heart suddenly jumped, he helped her move the unconscious sergeant onto the stretcher bed, and didn’t say anything more.

Ava pushed the stretcher bed away, Wu Chenghe closed the cabin door, and returned to the bedside. Just as he was about to bend down to look under the bed, a snow-white ball of fur suddenly crawled out from under the blanket. It was the ragdoll cat from earlier, staggering to the edge of the bed, waving its front paws as if wanting to touch him.

“Meow.” The little cat meowed tenderly. Wu Chenghe hesitated and reached out to gently touch it. Its fur was very soft, its body warm, and it didn’t seem like a hallucination at all.

“Brother.” At some point, Monica woke up, her dazed eyes looking at Wu Chenghe and murmured, “I saw a cat.”

Wu Chenghe looked at Monica and then at the cat. He realized their eyes were so similar—both had the same deep blue color, the same eerie vertical pupils, even the pitiful look in their eyes was identical.

“What is this?” Wu Chenghe heard his voice trembling.

“That’s me.” Monica said drowsily, apparently not fully awake yet, “That’s me.”

With that, she closed her eyes tiredly and slowly fell asleep again. The ragdoll cat yawned, curled up on the edge of the bed near Wu Chenghe, and fell asleep too.

Wu Chenghe stepped back, then back again, and finally sat down on a chair.

That was a quantum beast…

Sentinels and guides were the result of massive genetic fusion. In addition to human and alien scorpion genes, there were fragments of various animals in their genes. Therefore, when they were born, they would have a companion beast in the form of an animal. Most guides were gentle small animals, while sentinels were mostly aggressive predators.

Companion beasts existed in a higher-dimensional space invisible to ordinary humans. Only sentinels and guides could observe each other. Because humans were three-dimensional beings, studying higher-dimensional space was very difficult, so many scientists initially believed that these companion beasts were unstable quantum states. Therefore, they were also called quantum beasts. Although later research proved this conclusion to be unscientific, this term has been used for hundreds of years.

Wu Chenghe could almost be sure that the ragdoll cat was Monica’s quantum beast. What’s ridiculous was that he could see it! Could it be that I’m a guide?!

Author’s note:

Author: Are you ready for Aunt Flo, young man?

Doctor Wu: Are you insane?

Author: Can’t you see?

Doctor Wu: Why are you so fucking annoying?! QAQ