FT DR Chapter 73: Perfect Synesthesia

Chapter 73: Perfect Synesthesia

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

After a passionate encounter, Jin Xuan and Wu Chenghe held hands as they drifted off to sleep in the gravity-adjusted classroom.

This was the military zone of the outer ring, and the situation outside was unknown. Jin Xuan remained vigilant, so he woke up after only a short nap. Opening his eyes, he saw the clear starry sky outside the transparent spherical wall, with a thin atmosphere devoid of any clouds. Occasionally, a shooting star streaked by, like a brief fireworks display.

Their scattered clothes floated around them. Wu Chenghe’s belt had somehow wound around his thigh. Jin Xuan stretched his body, slowly floating above Wu Chenghe, facing him and admiring his serene sleeping face. Wu Chenghe seemed exhausted, probably from their intense activities last night. There were tiny droplets gathered on his eyelashes, some from sweat, some from tears, and some from the bodily fluids released during climax. After several hours of liquefaction, they had turned semi-transparent in color.

Jin Xuan lightly moved his legs to control his body’s vertical rotation, while simultaneously manipulating the magnetic bracelets on Wu Chenghe’s limbs to keep both of them in a parallel posture as they slowly rotated in the air. Their movements disturbed the air, creating a gentle vortex, causing the droplets around them to spin along, which was quite amusing.

After playing for a while, Jin Xuan stopped and floated around Wu Chenghe like a fish in water, constantly changing angles to admire his lover. The more he looked, the more he loved, thoroughly enjoying himself.

Wu Chenghe, who had been mentally strained for days and engaged in a fierce battle the previous night, was sleeping particularly soundly. Jin Xuan didn’t have the heart to wake him up, so he floated around him for a while, bored. He reached out his index finger and gently pushed the droplets floating around into a row, then extended his sense of smell to carefully taste them, discerning which droplet was his and which belonged to Wu Chenghe, before separating them into two lines.

To his surprise, it seemed that Wu Chenghe had produced slightly more droplets. Jin Xuan’s imagination ran wild, as he manipulated the droplets to merge with each other, gradually forming two slightly larger spheres. After a careful comparison, it was indeed confirmed that Wu Chenghe’s side had a bit more.

That’s not logical… Jin Xuan pondered for a moment before suddenly realizing: because most of his was still inside Wu Chenghe’s body…

And with that realization, he felt even happier.

Wu Chenghe slowly opened his eyes to witness this scene — his handsome boyfriend, completely naked, with his gorgeous long hair floating around him, pushing droplets around like a dung beetle, arranging them into rows, then dividing them into two rows, and then merging them into two… Was he insane?

“What are you doing?” Wu Chenghe couldn’t help but ask softly. After a night of transformation, his voice had returned to its previous clarity, with a hint of mature magnetism, very pleasant to the ear.

Jin Xuan leaned down beside him and, seeing him awake, gave him a Spider-Man-style upside-down kiss before saying, “Playing with your semen.”

Wu Chenghe felt he couldn’t play with him happily anymore…

From the corner of the room came a slight snoring sound, and the Barbary lion finally waited for its second master to wake up. It immediately paddled over, circling around them, occasionally nudging Wu Chenghe’s ears with its nose.

Eventually, a strong synesthetic connection was formed. Wu Chenghe could sense the thoughts of the Barbary lion through Jin Xuan’s consciousness from a close distance. He smiled at it and said, “It’s right beside you.”

As he spoke, there was a flash of orange light, and a butterfly the size of a ping-pong ball suddenly appeared in the air. Its wings were so thin they were almost transparent, with a faint orange fluorescent glow, adorned with intricate patterns outlined in bright orange lines, complex and beautiful.

An Icarus butterfly, a brilliantly colorful mimicry butterfly.

It fluttered lightly in the air, flying over the lion’s head and landing on Wu Chenghe’s round shoulder, folding its wings and gently shaking.

“It’s being haughty again,” Wu Chenghe mercilessly betrayed his little companion, saying to the lion, “It was just beside you, and even fluttered over your nose while you were asleep.”

“Fuck!” The butterfly protested through the synesthetic connection. Wu Chenghe comforted and apologized to it for a while before finally gaining its forgiveness, then he placed his index finger beside it, signaling it to come up.

After hesitating for a moment, the butterfly finally flew onto his finger. Wu Chenghe handed it to Jin Xuan and said, “I call it Little Lightbulb because it was originally an egg that glowed, just like a lightbulb. I didn’t know it would turn into a butterfly; otherwise, I would have given it a better name.”

“Little Lightbulb is so cute, with all those ‘bling bling’ details,” Jin Xuan praised in a low voice, as if speaking any louder might scare away the delicate Morpho butterfly. His Barbary lion, on the other hand, was completely stunned, staring at the butterfly on Wu Chenghe’s finger with a mesmerized expression. Its mane stood on end at a shocking rate, as if turning into stone fossils in mid-air.

Jin Xuan extended his index finger towards Wu Chenghe, and Little Lightbulb was greatly pleased by his previous compliments. It crawled onto his finger with its tiny legs, fluttering its wings to create a gentle breeze. Jin Xuan noticed a very fine gray line on its right wing, running vertically across the entire surface like a thread of silk. He asked curiously, “What’s this? Why is there a gray line?”

Wu Chenghe’s eyes dimmed. The first time he was thrown into the interference room by Hannibal, his cocoon was shattered by Yin Bo. At that time, Little Lightbulb hadn’t fully metamorphosed yet, so the crack left behind this fine scar.

“I don’t know, probably born with it,” Wu Chenghe replied casually, not wanting to tell Jin Xuan about it, knowing that Jin Xuan would surely regret and feel sorry for it. He was a man himself and didn’t want to be treated like a woman by his mate. Besides, he had already avenged himself — the scar on Hannibal’s face wasn’t as light as the one on Little Lightbulb’s body. Even if he underwent skin grafting in the future, it would probably leave a mark.

Jin Xuan was skeptical but watched Little Lightbulb for a while longer before handing it over to his Barbary lion. The foolish lion was still petrified, staring at the butterfly without any reaction for a long time. Little Lightbulb felt a bit aggrieved, opened its wings and fluttered over to the lion’s head. The lion reacted immediately, its immense happiness causing it to spring up like a wound-up toy, and then it ran to the side with its beloved butterfly, playing together.

Humans can bond through physical contact, while quantum beasts can only bond through mental connections. Creation is truly miraculous — it deprived quantum beasts of sexual desire but gave them the ability to mentally merge across species. Whether this was fortunate or unfortunate, nobody knew.

“Feeling better now?” Jin Xuan floated around for a while before asking Wu Chenghe.

Wu Chenghe stretched lazily and replied, “Much better.”

“Still groggy?”

“No, I’m feeling very energetic.” After reaching adulthood, he felt like he had been awakened, with every cell in his body brimming with vitality. The drowsiness that had previously enveloped him completely disappeared, even after just an hour’s nap following the “battle,” he felt a hundred times more energetic.

“We need to leave here.” Jin Xuan collected their clothes and helped Wu Chenghe get dressed, buttoning up his shirt and even meticulously fastening each button for him, as if taking care of his boyfriend was the most enjoyable thing in the world. “The entire area outside is under martial law, with half of the elite guards conducting a carpet search in the outer ring. They will find us sooner or later, so we better leave before that happens.”

Unable to resist Jin Xuan’s insistence, Wu Chenghe let him take care of him. He ran his fingers through his messy hair and asked, “How do we leave? Are we still going to use your flying wings? But that thing can’t go into space, right? We need to find a way to get into the inner ring, but the spacetime gate has been sealed off.”

“I’ve prepared a retrieval tool.” Jin Xuan finished dressing his boyfriend, gave Wu Chenghe a more stylish hairstyle, and then dressed himself, tying up his long hair. “I’ve hidden a mecha near the port. We can use it to fly into space. NTU has a starship parked not far from Gabriel’s orbit.”

“What about Dean? Will it be dangerous for him to stay at the terminal?” Wu Chenghe didn’t have much confidence in Jin Xuan’s taste. He opened his unlocked personal terminal into mirror mode and indeed found his hair sticking up all over the place, too stylish to look at directly, so he smoothed it down silently.

“He has an NTU pass and is a specially appointed advisor by the cabinet. Hannibal wouldn’t dare to touch him. At most, he’ll be sent into the inner ring and put under surveillance,” Jin Xuan said. “Don’t worry, my brother watches over him like a guard dog. Even I have to stand back and let him take care of everything. He won’t be in any danger.”

As he spoke, he wanted to come over and fix Wu Chenghe’s cool hairstyle, but Wu Chenghe blocked him, saying, “Just let me take care of myself in the future. I’d rather live a bit more low-key.” 

Jin Xuan reluctantly backed off, but then thought to himself: the more inconspicuous he was, the less likely he would be to be taken away by someone else, so he felt happy again, allowing himself to have a messy hairstyle.

Even so, he’s still particularly cute!

“Why is the President so good to Dean?” Wu Chenghe asked somewhat puzzled. “Do they know each other from before?”

“They’ve never met before,” Jin Xuan said. “My brother went to the Saint Martin Research Center to see you, and that was their first meeting. I didn’t notice anything wrong at the time; their reactions were all very normal.”

“Then why is he so nervous about Dean’s safety?”

Jin Xuan thought for a moment, unable to come up with an explanation, and simply summed it up, “He’s got a screw loose in his head, got zapped.”

“…,” Wu Chenghe was speechless.

The two of them tidied up their clothes. Jin Xuan utilized his personal terminal to connect to the classroom’s main control system, ventilating and filtering the air, removing the stains and odors they left behind. He strapped the flying wing onto his back and said, “Let’s go.” 

The Barbary lion responded to his call through telepathy, drifting over. Little light bulb also floated lightly over, landing on Wu Chenghe’s ear as usual, turning invisible.

As Jin Xuan just opened the top exit, his expression suddenly changed. “There’s someone!” 

Having gone through adolescence and the final marking, Wu Chenghe’s consciousness cloud became very stable and sharp. He almost simultaneously sensed the approaching “dots of light,” stepping back and whispering, “Let’s hide a little longer and wait for them to leave before we go out.”

“Okay.” Jin Xuan stepped back, closed the door, and once again connected to the gravity adjustment classroom’s control system. After a while, he said, “They are searching bubble by bubble. The outer wall here can change transparency. Once they search to the highest point, they’ll see us.”

“There are six people on the second and a half floor.” Wu Chenghe closed his eyes, extending his consciousness. The honeycomb-shaped gravity adjustment classroom turned into a gray frame in his mind. Six bright spots were moving up from the bottom. Those were the searchers, checking the “bubble” classrooms one by one.

“Let’s play guerrilla warfare with them.” Jin Xuan quickly came up with a plan, opened the building model, and pointed out a vertical route, saying, “Let’s play hide and seek with them. Follow this route and sneak into the ‘bubbles’ they have already checked. It will be safe once they leave.” 

These bubble classrooms were adjacent to each other, with doors connecting at the joints. They could shuttle inside the building, avoiding the searchers.

“Okay.” Wu Chenghe could feel the “dots of light” from those six people. Jin Xuan and he had telepathy, so they could instantly know each other’s positions. Thus, they easily floated along the planned route to a large “bubble” on the bottom floor, successfully avoiding the searchers.

“They’ve set up aerial blockade.” Jin Xuan started monitoring the internal communication of the guards in real-time again while floating along. By the time they reached the bottom floor, he said to Wu Chenghe, “They know I have the ‘flying wing,’ so they’ve set up an aerial blockade from five to fifty meters above the ground, which happens to be the flight altitude threshold of the ‘flying wing.'”

“What should we do then?” Wu Chenghe frowned. “How far is it from here to where you hid the mecha?”

“Over a hundred kilometers.” Jin Xuan sighed. “The security level within the perimeter of the guards is too high for me to penetrate. I can only hide in places with lower security levels. But the mecha is too big. It’s hard to hide!”

Wu Chenghe also felt a bit dumbfounded. Over a hundred kilometers, even at their fastest walking speed, it would still take four or five hours. The guards were currently wanted throughout the outer perimeter. How could they openly run outside for so long?

As he was pondering, the little light bulb on his ear suddenly flashed. Wu Chenghe’s face changed slightly. “There’s a guide!” 

A very bright spot appeared in his mental “field of view.” It was an extremely powerful guide, almost on par with Mu!

This person must have been specially recruited by Hannibal to deal with him. Apart from Jin Xuan, only Hannibal and Lilith knew he was a guide in Gabriel! But who was he? Wu Chenghe couldn’t think of any guide in Gabriel who was so powerful.

“He’s too strong. You’re not his match. Even if you establish a mental barrier, he’ll break through it.” Jin Xuan also felt the fluctuations in the consciousness cloud, pulling Wu Chenghe behind him and pulling out a strangely shaped ray gun, saying, “You stay here, I’ll go out and kill him. Then we’ll leave.”

“It’s too late.” Wu Chenghe’s heart sank. The guide’s movements were too fast. He had already begun extending mental tendrils to sweep through the building. Jin Xuan was a strong sentinel, and his consciousness cloud was very powerful, but he could easily be detected by him. It was too dangerous to go out like this.

After a quick deliberation, Wu Chenghe decided to take a risk, grabbing Jin Xuan’s hand to signal him not to go and quickly unzipping his pants.

Jin Xuan was slightly petrified. “What are you doing?” 

Weren’t we just… a few hours ago? Weren’t you crying from being… excited? Why now… Morning wood?

Although Wu Chenghe had already experienced some intimate moments, actively doing something like this was still very embarrassing. His face turned red as if it was about to bleed, trembling a bit as he undid his belt quickly, communicating with him through telepathy, [Let’s make a “well.”]

 He was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

[“A well”? What’s that?] Jin Xuan didn’t expect to encounter such a romantic encounter at such a critical moment, feeling a bit out of place but getting slightly turned on.

[Exactly! A “well”!] Wu Chenghe reached into his own pants while holding his hand, feeling too embarrassed to communicate telepathically with him after this action. If Jin Xuan didn’t understand what he was trying to do by now, then he might as well be clueless. He cooperatively pulled down his pants to his knees and turned him around, saying [Like this? Does it hurt?]

In the limited time, even Wu Chenghe, as a man, found it somewhat difficult to adjust. His hands and feet trembled slightly. In the world of consciousness, the number of bright spots within the gray frame doubled, indicating another team of searchers joining the search for them. He was highly nervous, constantly worried that the classroom where they were hiding would be discovered by the other side, making his body tense. Jin Xuan, who wasn’t particularly excited initially, became quickly aroused being tightly embraced by him. The warm breath he exhaled sprayed onto his ear, hot and scalding.

[“Just like this.”] Wu Chenghe maintained a semi-climax state and slowly extended a pair of mental tendrils, piercing into Jin Xuan’s consciousness cloud. The marking process made their compatibility exceptionally perfect. Jin Xuan felt no discomfort and readily adapted to his intervention. Wu Chenghe closed his eyes, turning his own mental tendrils into two hollow “pipes,” one end connected to Jin Xuan and the other to himself. Then, he injected his own consciousness cloud into Jin Xuan’s interior through the “pipes,” synchronizing and merging with him rapidly, gradually forming a huge “telepathic consciousness cloud.”

A gentle vortex quickly formed at the center of their telepathic consciousness cloud, spinning faster and faster like a giant funnel, absorbing all the dispersed clouds around it, gradually forming a black hole—the “well.” Only when a highly compatible guide and sentinel pair maintained the final marking state could such a “well” be formed.

The “well” was like a black hole in a higher-dimensional space, capable of absorbing and hiding all information about them, including consciousness clouds, mental tendrils, and their quantum beast. Unlike barriers established with mental tendrils, the “well” was a natural high-dimensional existence that even the strongest guide couldn’t perceive.

As for how long this “well” could last, it would depend on the endurance of the sentinel. Jin Xuan expressed that maintaining it for over twenty-four hours might be a bit challenging…

The two of them intimately connected, floating in the spacious gravity adjustment classroom located at the bottom of the building, where not even starlight could penetrate, surrounded by darkness. Wu Chenghe constantly monitored the movements of the searchers and the powerful guide. Due to excessive nervousness and slight pain, fine sweat appeared on his back. Jin Xuan embraced his waist, resting his chin on his shoulder, humming a simple tune through telepathy.

It was “Sea of Sperm Whales,” the ethereal and melodious melody echoing in the deep “well,” bringing subtle vibrations. Wu Chenghe couldn’t help but recall the time they floated in the weightless universe at the Grasshopper Space Station…

Gradually, he relaxed, involuntarily humming along with Jin Xuan. Their consciousnesses intertwined and undulated in the “well,” creating a wonderful ripple, comforting each other.

Wu Chenghe accidentally touched the sperm whale ring on Jin Xuan’s left ring finger and suddenly felt that this gift was unexpectedly romantic and amusing.

“They’re gone,” Jin Xuan communicated through telepathy half an hour later. “Can I…”

“Get out!” Wu Chenghe knew what he wanted to do and immediately sternly stopped him. “I don’t have time to clean up. Think about that hundred kilometers!”

“Okay.” Jin Xuan was somewhat excited, squeezing his chest a few times before withdrawing, tidying up his pants for him and asking, “Can we talk now?”

Wu Chenghe, with his back to him, didn’t have the courage to turn his head, quietly wiping his feverish cheeks and murmuring softly.

Jin Xuan knew he was extremely shy and embarrassed. Last night’s encounter was due to the heat of the moment, combined with bonding heat, so he was relatively calm. But this time just now was completely against his nature. He knew that psychologically, Wu Chenghe wouldn’t be able to overcome it for a while, so he quietly floated a little away, leaving space for him to alleviate the embarrassment.

As the Barbary lion, being a shameless quantum beast, foolishly wanted to come over to praise the second master’s fearless spirit of initiative, he was forcibly dragged back by Jin Xuan through telepathy.

The lion expressed great dissatisfaction, growling softly. The Icarus butterfly manifested halfway in the air, flapping its wings arrogantly. It conveyed a mocking message to it through telepathy. “Idiot!”

The lion: “Oh!”

With time pressing, although Wu Chenghe was still mentally conflicted, rationality triumphed over embarrassment, and he quickly turned to face Jin Xuan, saying, “Let’s go.” 

His gaze was somewhat evasive, a trait Jin Xuan adored. Suppressing a smile, he replied, “Let’s go.” 

Taking his hand, they floated towards the exit. Jin Xuan muttered to himself, “We need to find transportation to the port. Over a hundred kilometers, walking is too slow, and there are too few shelters along the way.”

Remaining composed, Jin Xuan’s calm demeanor helped Wu Chenghe relax a bit. Considering their survival situation, Wu Chenghe suddenly remarked, “There’s a military museum at the new recruits training camp.”

“A military museum? What good is that?” Jin Xuan opened the exit, carefully scanning their surroundings to ensure there were no searchers, signaling him to follow. “We need to find an airship or mecha… This place is a training camp, so there should be instructional mecha, right?”

“No, it’s off-season now. The mecha have been transported to other military stations.” Wu Chenghe recalled the explanations given by the tour guide when the school organized a visit here, familiarizing them with the operational mechanisms of the new recruits training camp. “But the items in the military museum won’t move. There are many old-fashioned transportation vehicles and weapons inside, all real, and some are said to be functional.”

Jin Xuan studied the map of the new recruits training camp. The museum was very close to the gravity adjustment classroom, just about ten meters away. After a moment of thought, he agreed, “Then let’s go take a look.”

 

 

 

 

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