Powerful Dragon Alpha Chapter 57: Cold War

Chapter 57: Cold War

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Mimosa

Ming Huan never had a moment to understand the reverse inhibitory effect of the genetic lock on the so-called ‘genetic lock’ of the dragon race.

The quiet and shy Xie Shuci.

The calm and restrained Yu Hanzhou.

In the case of a certain stimulation, they had become more or less different from their usual selves.

Yu Hanzhou’s fingers rubbed his brow, and he didn’t say anything. He went around to the bed to make sure that the inhibitor was still there. He first carried Ming Huan directly into the bathroom, and turned on the warm water, “You first take a shower.”

“…. What’s the point of taking a shower?” Ming Huan just put on his shirt, and resolutely buttoned the last button, “You really want to deeply mark me, ah.” The tone of his voice sounded skeptical as he surveyed the big dragon outside in his military uniform and cold eyes. He shook his head, “I do not agree, ah.”

“You have a little bit of another alpha on you.” Yu Hanzhou coughed lightly, “You wash up first.”

Ming Huan thought back and found that Yu Hanzhou’s body seemed to waft a little bit of the special effects inhibitor’s smell again.

It was as if it was an illusion.

The alpha’s signature cold fragrance smelled a bit fresh, like the smell of Yu Hanzhou’s bedroom.

He dissipated the little bit of the other alpha’s scent that he had gotten on his body.

His body was thrown in the warm tub.

Unexpectedly, he felt a little bit of novelty.

“Yu Hanzhou, am I your pet? Do you need to confirm the smell to know if it’s me?” When he asked this question, he didn’t feel angry, but rather a little amused as if he was measuring the other.

Yu Hanzhou said at the door, “No.”

There was a pause, as if he was deliberately swearing sovereignty.

“You’re my soon to be married husband.”

Ming Huan fiddled with the hot water, and his thin white ankles stretched out before they stepped on the polished floor.

He nearly slipped before he took a soft towel to wrap around his body to soak up the water, “Yes, my future husband.” He dried the wetness from his hair as well, and instead of going into the drying room, he just pulled on his new pajama top and pants before he walked straight out, “I need to go to the hospital.”

The message that Ming Huan had just sent to the hospital’s side had been answered.

A total of five shots were fired, three of which came up empty, and one hit the arm while the other grazed the lower abdomen.

Xie Shuci was seriously wounded in this unspeakable accident.

Xie Shuci’s family had prepared materials to directly take Ensign Lin to court for negligent operation and temporary arrest.

Due to the Military Department creating this new explosion and being involved in the Federation’s richest son’s serious injury, public opinion became extremely unfavorable towards the Military Department.

Although Yu Hanzhou suspended the execution of the arrest warrant on the grounds of mental energy damage, it was his intervention as a victim that allowed the Xie family to stop the pursuit of the people involved.

“I will solve the matter, you don’t go anywhere.”

Ming Huan wiped away the water mist on the mirror and pulled back a bit of his pajamas to look at the bruises on his body.

‘Solution? How did Yu Hanzhou intend to solve this issue?’

“Xie Jue Li holds 80% of the mining star’s rights, Shuci is his only son, and he was injured badly this time. There must be a handover to him.”

Ming Huan made a joke, “You conceal the matter from me again, do you want Ensign Lin to take the blame for me?”

Gently tapping the most severe wound with his fingertip, he casually remarked, “There’s no need to procrastinate. Whether early or late, we’re still going…”

The wound was indeed a bit deep. Even with the application of medicine, it still throbbed faintly.

“Because of the incident with the mining star last time, there might be a war at any time on the Imperial Border. Now is not a good time to reveal your identity,” Yu Hanzhou said. “I’ll transfer him back to Capital Star when the time is right.”

“…” Little dragon’s movements slightly froze, subtly turning his head. Glancing at the blurry figure outside the frosted sliding door, his voice turned colder. “What do you mean by this? Are you really going to let Lieutenant Lin take the blame for this?”

Ming Huan adjusted his sleeping robe. Barefoot, he hurriedly opened the bathroom door. Seeing Yu Hanzhou’s angular jawline, he murmured, “…”

Yu Hanzhou, looking at the dripping little dragon, said, “Why don’t you go dry yourself?”

Just as he took a few steps, Yu Hanzhou pulled him back, carrying him horizontally into the drying room. He directly turned on the hot air. Hot air blew from all sides, and the humming sound broke the silence between the two.

“…?”

The hotter than usual wind blew on his cheeks as it blew the hair on top of his head, creating confusion in the little dragon’s eyes.

Yu Hanzhou’s methodical hug seemed to be a bit more forceful than usual without sending any refusal.

“Yu Hanzhou! What are you doing, I said I have to make a trip to the hospital for injury identification, you are now holding me-“

Yu Hanzhou’s brow furrowed tightly, and he seemed to still have palpitations from what happened in the daytime, “You are an omega, until this war period passes, you can not be known. This is my decision. It’s a military order.”

If he went for injury identification, his identity as an omega would have to be made public.

This was an extraordinary time. Yu Hanzhou was obviously trying to hide him.

“If war does break out, you go and fight your war, I’m not saying you can’t go and fight. I’m not discussing the Xie family with you right now. Ore stars and rare metals are important resources to repair starships and warplanes, this matter is not clear, do you really want the Shuci family to take the lawsuit to the interstellar court?”

“Shuci’s condition is not very good, and he has been sent to the isolation ward….”

Ming Huan frowned, “If he wakes up, the Xie family will know sooner or later.”

“He won’t wake up.”

“…?”

Ming Huan was startled by these words and suddenly froze for a moment before his fingertips went cold, “What, what…?”

Yu Hanzhou seemed to have realized that he had wrongly expressed himself, “He is not seriously injured. I’ve given the order to temporarily put him into a cryogenic hibernation chamber.”

Ming Huan could not believe what he had heard.

It was like a knot was created in his head.

“This is a sensitive time. The Xie family is also at fault, they concealed Xie Shuci’s differentiation probability, I do not need your injury identification, nor do I need any truth. I divided another five points of mining rights to the Xie family, they have no objections and have signed the consent form.”

When he thought clearly, his qi and blood suddenly surged upward, making his breathing a little unstable.

“Where is Officer Lin?”

“Demoted and exiled.”

Ming Huan’s eyelids fluttered.

His head burst and started to hurt.

“Yu Hanzhou, did you take a husband, or did you find a lover who is not allowed to be seen?” Ming Huan’s chest also felt a little tight, “All things are arranged by you, it’s all your decision. What do you take me for?”

“What do you want?”

“Reveal my identity, directly do the injury identification, and pursue Xie Jue for concealing the differentiation, this is the result I want!”

“Ming Huan….”

He jumped down from Yu Hanzhou’s arms at once, and his anger surged, “If Xie Jue didn’t conceal Xie Shuci’s differentiation, Shuci would not be this bad. Why did you put Shuci in a cryogenic hibernation chamber – what did he do wrong? You still spared Xie Jue, and you even go put everything on Ensign Lin, do you have any feelings in your heart or not?!”

“”Xie Shuci’s situation is very complicated. If he wakes up now, who would be able to  suppress his mental energy? He has already polarized, and I have no time to care about him now. Ming Huan, my decision in the case is based on the least amount of losses under comprehensive consideration, you must trust my judgment….”

Yu Hanzhou frowned.

“No, Shuci, he is not such a person. You let him wake up and I’ll reason with him. He’ll listen….”

“He won’t listen.”

“Yu Hanzhou!”

“No.”

Yu Hanzhou unceremoniously pulled him out of the bathroom door and placed him in the bedroom while double-pressing his shoulders, “Things are pretty messed up now. Behave yourself, we’ll get married next month and everything will be fine. I promise you, when the right time comes, I will release him again….”

‘It’s ridiculous, right? Why would Xie Jue agree to such a thing? Isn’t Xie Shuci his son? Is the right to develop the mining star of five points so important? The cryogenic hibernation chamber would freeze him as well as implant him with a drug. It was a very painful process. And, when Yu Hanzhou said the appropriate time, when was it? Will it be long? Shuci could make sense of it, he just, just temporarily experienced the terrible ‘genetic lock’ instincts that took hold -Yu Hanzhou and Xie Jue, are they both going to give up on him?’

“Xie Shuci’s mental energy, I’ll help.”

Ming Huan grabbed Yu Hanzhou’s hand, “If he riots again, I’ll watch him for you.”

He suddenly realized what Yu Hanzhou’s decision meant. A slight shiver started, and he very lightly scratched his fingertips, “Don’t confine him to the low-temperature hibernation pod, please.”

Little dragon rarely made such a straightforward request. But for this, he couldn’t promise.

Yu Hanzhou pursed his lips, pulling him into the nest, adjusting the bedding a bit higher. “You can’t suppress him; he’s a differentiation probability…”

“I’m also a differentiation probability!” Ming Huan widened his eyes. “I did suppress him just now!”

“Ming Huan, calm down.”

“Is it because he didn’t differentiate into an omega? He differentiated into an alpha, so for Xie Jue, for you, he’s useless. That’s why you both don’t want him, right?”

The pain of abandonment, felt as if it was crawling up his throat once again. “But differentiation is random. Just like I could differentiate into an omega, and Shuci differentiated into an alpha. It’s not something we choose. Why, just because he didn’t differentiate the way you expected, are you all abandoning him like this?”

Noticing Ming Huan’s unusual mood swings, Yu Hanzhou’s eyes gradually darkened.

“We didn’t lose him.”

“It’s just that right now, Xie Shuci’s destructive power is too great and more dangerous than all existing destructive genotype weapons. So this is the next best thing. Wait until your pheromone is in the storage, maybe the generic inhibitor can have a whole new effect, in which case….”

“Wait until when? It’s been four hundred years. Yu Hanzhou, for four hundred years, you still haven’t found a solution for this.”

Yu Hanzhou had been grappling with this issue for four centuries. He was waiting for the genetic lock problem to be resolved, but what if it never got resolved? There would be matching predictions, differentiation predictions, two completely different education systems – all because they feared the uncontrollable mental energy after differentiation.

During his classes, the teachers mentioned that among differentiation probabilities, alphas differentiating into omegas were prone to death due to mental energy riots during differentiation. On the other hand, omegas differentiating into alphas were likely to develop extreme personalities with strong destructive tendencies. It was terrible.

Why would Shuci differentiate into an alpha? How did it develop in the original text?

Ming Huan carefully recalled, in the original story, Xie Shuci differentiated into an omega. After being forced into a relationship with the protagonist, the protagonist’s forced marking almost killed him. Later, the protagonist lit up a hidden technological backbone star and overturned the empire, while Xie Shuci became an excellent mecha designer. The original story mostly unfolded on the imperial border, and there was no mention of the concept of ‘genetic lock.’

Why would a dragon have such strange genetic defects? Yu Hanzhou had said. This so-called ‘defect’ was far from normal. Shuci was the first friend he made when he arrived in this world. He had the most elegant profile and a cool demeanor. Sitting in the last row by the window in the classroom, Ming Huan still remembered the first time he saw him. The boy had a charming smile in his eyes when he looked at him.

How could such a child be a devastatingly powerful weapon? In this messed-up world, what the hell was going on?

“Ming Huan, believe me. If we wake up Xie Shuci now, not only will you be at risk, but he might also die. Haven’t I told you? On the fishing star where I hatched, I was the only one who survived in the end. Trust me, this is the best way.”

“Yu Hanzhou…” The little dragon sadly hugged his knees, suddenly arguing no longer. He just wiped away the tears. His mental energy was still not very stable.

Yu Hanzhou gently hugged him and patted his back to comfort him.

“Don’t throw him into the dormant bin…. Okay?”

Yu Hanzhou said, “Sorry.”

This little dragon of his grew up fierce and stubborn. At times, he was too good to be true, and his mouth was very rough, but his heart was the softest.

The decision to place Xie Shuci into the low-temperature hibernation pod seemed to have dealt Ming Huan an unprecedented blow, causing him to slump into an unprecedented state of despondency. The order for the hibernation pod to take effect loomed over them.

A silent Cold War appeared to have begun between him and Yu Hanzhou. Ming Huan knew it wasn’t Yu Hanzhou’s fault. Yes, he felt utterly miserable. He stayed curled up in his small room all day, not coming out. Still, he obediently finished his meals, so Yu Hanzhou didn’t trouble him about it.

In fact, since the day of the argument, Ming Huan understood – Yu Hanzhou had no choice. As an arbiter, he had made the decision that caused the least harm to the situation. Ming Huan was useless, preoccupied with his own uncomfortable emotions throughout the period. He only cared about buying agricultural planets and failed to notice the subtle signs that Xie Shuci left – bit by bit.

These days, the traces of those actions replayed in his mind incessantly. He spent days on missions.

On Xie Shuci’s differentiation day. Shuci also broke one of his vials of alpha universal inhibitor. Turns out, it wasn’t broken; Shuci had secretly used it.

Shuci entered the hibernation pod, and when would he come out again? In half a year, a year, ten years. Fifty years, a hundred years. Ming Huan did not know how many words Yu Hanzhou said to coax him and how many words were true. He only learned in time that Shuci was not the first young alpha to be forced to perform a dormant operation due to differentiation probability, but he was the one with the strongest mental energy.

The young alpha, who was already in a crumbling riot of mental energy due to the differentiation probability. ‘Was there really a chance to release it?’

‘How was the technical institute’s research going, was there any progress?’

It turned out that he, as a differentiation probability, was able to complete the differentiation so smoothly–

It’s really Bai Li. Still not married. It seems like, suddenly, too exhausted to speak. It has been like this for half a month in a row. And sure enough, half a month later, it was consistent with his and Yu Hanzhou’s previous judgment.

There was a new outbreak of war in the border star region, the situation was deadlocked, and Yu Hanzhou had to put aside the matters of the Military Department to go to the front line. This was after the differentiation, the last farewell between Ming Huan and Yu Hanzhou.

Yu Hanzhou left for the sky. Ming Huan stayed in his nest, not even giving him a farewell kiss that every omega would give.

After that, for a full seventeen days, Yu Hanzhou did not come back. Ming Huan hugged the small teddy bear Yu Hanzhou gave him but didn’t return to his own room. He slept in Yu Hanzhou’s room, curled up every night, his little tail draped over the teddy bear’s belly.

He used to fall asleep quickly, but recently, he became more and more uneasy. The house felt empty, with only him and the AI butler. In theory, he had gotten used to separations over the past three years. Only now did he realize that he had been with Yu Hanzhou for only two months, and they hadn’t even been married for a month. For some reason, he seemed to miss him a little bit.

Late at night, the terminal once again flashed with information, causing Ming Huan to wake up. In the darkness, the golden skeleton interface popped up. It was not Yu Hanzhou.

It actually was Officer Lin, who had been forcibly exiled more than half a month ago, [Madam, taking the liberty to interrupt. Requesting emergency communication permission.]

Since Officer Lin did not add his terminal, he only had permission for ten private messages, each of which could not exceed fifteen words.

Ming Huan hesitated for a moment, and after opening the emergency call, the side immediately activated his only communication opportunity.

“Madam, General Zhou urgently asked me to contact you. Luckily, you haven’t slept yet.” 

Seeing the text was one thing, but hearing himself being addressed this way, Ming Huan suddenly felt an indescribable sense of shyness.

“Mn. What’s the matter? Go ahead,” Ming Huan responded.

“We hope you can stop Admiral from continuing to use the special inhibitor. In the past half month, this is already the sixth one he has pushed. His mental energy condition has not been good, and we…”

“Not good? How could it not be good?” Ming Huan touched his own neck, instantly alert, “I—”

I bit him once!

Just over half a month ago, a temporary marking. Yu Hanzhou’s mental energy was excellent at that time, restored to an optimal level.

“You’re not aware, are you? Over half a month ago, in an explosion initiated by the Military Department, you suppressed mental energy severely to protect the heir of the Xie family, causing a serious mental energy riot. At that time, he forcibly suppressed it for you. Since then, his mental energy condition has been very poor… and in the last three days, mental energy riots have been frequent, especially due to the Emperor’s border attack. So, we hope you can persuade Admiral…”

Ming Huan’s head buzzed.

In an instant, he seemed to have lost track of what Lieutenant Lin said afterward.

Poor.

After helping Xie Shuci suppress his mental energy, he woke up in just an hour. Moreover, he felt perfectly fine, with a very healthy mental energy. Surprisingly, it was Yu Hanzhou who experienced a condition he had never had before, severe genetic defects disturbing him. There was also a faint smell of a special inhibitor on him. At that time, Ming Huan realized that Yu Hanzhou’s mental energy was severely damaged. Why didn’t he tell him?

“Where is he now?” Ming Huan asked.

“I’m currently outside the mansion. I’ll take you there. The battle is in a stalemate, but it’s temporarily safe tonight. You must promise me that after a brief persuasion with the admiral tonight, you’ll come back directly. We also have an obligation to ensure your safety.”

Lieutenant Lin initially didn’t want to inform the admiral’s wife about this; it was his personal decision. Having heard about the previous incident, he felt that this omega was not like others, he needed careful protection. Since the admiral chose to marry him, and this omega was so different, perhaps informing him would lead to a better resolution.

Ming Huan pushed open the door, hastily putting on a military jacket over his sleepwear. He didn’t even have time to change his shoes. “Alright, let’s go quickly.”

Ensign Lin was also a Junior commander.

He skillfully operated the piloting technology, and after making a leap to the twenty-third star area, he had just leaped over to see wreckage floating in the darkness near at hand. The surrounding planet was turned into scorched black pits, and not far from there were scattered dust clouds from the blast.

‘This space station had completely blown up, ah!’

‘Is the war this serious?!’

Ming Huan’s heart suddenly tightened, “What’s going on?!”

“Sorry, take it easy, this is the old space station.”

Ensign Lin once again adjusted the positioning, but was a little embarrassed to hold the operating lever. His heart estimated the remaining energy which was a little weak, “Is my positioning slightly off?”

Ming Huan watched him shake and continue the positioning operation. This time, he was obviously a little more hesitant as he was close to the edge line. He was afraid to accidentally set them on the Empire’s side by mistake.

“You let go.”

Ming Huan took the lever from him and pressed a button, “I’ll do it.”

“…?”

“Ma’am, this, this is, I’m afraid-” Ensign Lin suddenly remembered that although Ming Huan was young, he indeed also successfully piloted a mecha before differentiation.

‘Yes, there was a difference between a mecha and a warplane, after all.’

‘If the models were different, the operation was also very different.’

Ming Huan pulled out his alternate Junior commander certification from the terminal privacy system, “This fighter is running low on energy and can only support one last leap before energy replenishment. You can rest assured….”

With one word, a leap fissure ripped open in front of him.

Although Ming Huan asked him to be rest assured, it was Ensign Lin who glanced at Ming Huan, who was still wearing his pajama pants and slippers. He suddenly became particularly uneasy.

In an instant, they crashed into the rift and leapt steadily onto the large starport.

‘So accurate!’

“Officer Lin, where is the Admiral?”

“Madam, I am no longer an Ensign, I am just an ordinary corporal….”

Ming Huan’s tone rose with a particular impatience.

“Where is he?”