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Chapter 69: Extra: Shuci (Part 2)

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Mimosa

After the Xie family disappeared after the court martial three years ago, Xie Shuci also asked for a transfer to a key technology field far away from the capital star, where he recuperated while working on the design of a new leapfrog fighter.

One by one, their crop of young dragons was finally growing up successfully, and gradually, they were becoming mature.

The technical institute was also working on the problem of how to break the genetic lock.

with the birth of high-quality inhibitors and soothing agents, the newborn baby dragons are subject to the shackles of the genetic lock to a minimum.

Fifty years ago, Yu Hanzhou directly repealed the right of forced betrothal in the Marriage Law.

Then about five years later, the internal decree of the dragon clan was issued: [prediction of differentiation] is no longer a compulsory option for every dragon family, except for those dragon eggs with the mental energy at SS-level and above [prediction of differentiation]. The rest of the new shell-breaking dragon cubs with a lower risk factor can wait until the day of differentiation to meet this little surprise.

Thirty years ago, [pre-matching] also became a non-essential option.

At the same time, underage alpha and omega courses were banned outright.

The Technical Institute was still working on a new [common curriculum], so that alpha and omega can go to school together to receive the same education, and they would no longer be guided by their education.

the technical institute thought that they should join hands with the identification department to conduct research on genetic locks first, otherwise it would be impossible to compile a new unified textbook.

‘That’s it.’

‘It’s been almost a week now.’

‘But, this is a good thing.’

‘It means… that the newly broken shells of baby dragons will usher in a new future.’

The finalized plan was celebrated outside the Admiral’s residence, with a huge crowd of alphas, omegas, and betas.

Ming Huan and his friends drank a little wine and got a little tipsy.

Shu Yun, who did not drink because of his pregnancy, sat on the side and ate two spoons of sweet cake before he asked carelessly, “Ten years have passed, and Xie Shuci will be transferred back to the capital star, serving as the acting director of the new star field technology. This makes his official position even higher than the director of our technical institute.”

“You’re right, he’s a good kid with ideals.”

“Yes, he is too idealistic.”

Ming Huan was obviously a bit resentful, “He hasn’t returned to the Capital Star once in fifty years.”

“This is not to put us old friends in his eyes!”

“He’s alone with the General Administration of Science and Technology and our Technical Institute dealings, I have not met with him very often. I even had a drink with him once six months ago. He just hasn’t seen you before.”

“…?”

‘Then I can’t fucking understand it even more!’

Ming Huan drank another half glass and muttered, “He has no conscience, no conscience! This is not the way to treat me as a friend! When I was studying, ah, you all met, that more than 50 years ago, he and I have a good relationship….” Ming Huan was a bit stifled. “At that time, he was my… best friend.”

Shu Yun pushed his glasses.

His eyes slanted away a little.

Ming Huan reached out and touched Shu Yun’s stomach very gently, “So, good friends or something else, only I think so. Xie Shuci is also too much trouble for me. He doesn’t want to be friends with me at all. I’m laughing to death.”

Ming Huan drank one cup at a time.

Shu Yun suddenly opened his mouth to mention another matter.

“I heard that for the genetic lock problem, there is a major scientific research result in the identification section, and it is expected that the first attempt of genetic modification will be made this year, and all the genetic defects of all dragons will fix them back to normal.”

“!!!”

The wine glass in his hand smashed on the table, “Really?! Great, great!”

Fifty years, this day has finally come.

“There will never be any genetic defects again.”

Ming Huan swept away his bitterness and smiled happily, touching Shu Yun’s belly more gently, “Little dragon cub, you are so lucky, by the time you are born, all dragons will no longer be affected by the genetic lock.”

“Do you know what is written in that latest confidential material?” Shu Yun used his permission to unlock it directly, and sent the report that was organized into a book directly to Ming Huan.

“The Induced Differentiation Hypothesis….” Ming Huan’s drunken eyes were hazy as he looked at the document name and then at Shu Yun’s silent eyes, “This is what?”

After reading this latest authoritative hypothesis from the medical world, the drunkenness in Ming Huan’s eyes disappeared a little.

Fifty years ago, the huge genetic data from the ancient empire provided information on that ancient technological star that was a little difficult to digest because of the low level of technology. It took nearly fifty years to finally make a breakthrough.

Ming Huan concentrated on the long report, and read it faster and faster.

“Human character formation is probably in the adolescent period of 12-18 years, and even after adulthood, they will also undergo subtle and dramatic changes. But dragons are different.”

“The root character formation of dragons is actually in the period of about a hundred years in dragon eggs. For the destined partner is out of soul compatibility, in the hundreds of thousands of years in the dragon egg period, they will reach each other’s induction, three years after breaking the shell, they will reach the rapid growth of adults, and the growth of each other’s dragon body will also be affected by the dragon soul compatibility – this is the fundamental reason why the match of our dragons can be predicted.”

“A human’s match will not be known until the moment of differentiation. But dragons are different. Before it breaks its shell, a dragon will know that there is a destined mate in this world and will need to spend its life searching for him.”

“I don’t know why. You have a 99.9% probability of predicting differentiation into A during the time in the dragon egg or even when you just broke your shell, and the incoming genetic prediction program obviously matched you with an omega as well. But when it comes time to differentiate, you can accidentally differentiate into an omega and the match changes with it, even….”

Ming Huan’s eyes slowly widened.

This reason – Is not that he transmigrated into a book.

After breaking the shell, he transmigrated into a book ah, and the soul inside this body changed ah.

It turns out that the direction of the growth and development of the dragon body will change with the dragon soul, so in the original text, he should clearly differentiate into an alpha. he came through after somehow differentiating into an omega, and the taste of pheromones had completely changed.

“What I can only be sure of is that your differentiation must have been influenced by Admiral Yu.”

“The dragon soul during the dragon egg period was influenced by the adult dragon soul and induced differentiation on its own. Therefore, you who should have differentiated into an alpha, but differentiated into an omega, and the pheromones match with Admiral Yu at up to 98%. This is all hundreds and hundreds of years of dragon genes constantly telling you….”

‘It’s him, it’s him!’

‘My dragon companion, it’s him.’

‘Don’t miss him.’

Ming Huan’s cheeks suddenly reddened a little, yet it wasn’t just because of the wine.

‘Is it surprising that his bond with Yu Hanzhou was formed so early?’

“That’s the real reason, the dragon will have a small probability of divergence.”

“Then you….”

Shu Yun nodded slightly, “I was differentiated at the age of four, a year after Commander Xue was born, I differentiated into an omega…. We hadn’t met yet though.Or even, never knew each other. But, his dragon soul was subliminally influencing me to differentiate into an omega…. Well….”

Shu Yun’s mouth was suddenly gagged, and Ming Huan smelled Yu Hanzhou’s pheromones. Sure enough, footsteps from farther to nearer, and a familiar low laugh came, “Xiao Huan, what are you talking about?”

Ming Huan’s cheeks flushed, and he gave Shu Yun a look before he said, “Nothing.”

Yu Hanzhou looked at Ming Huan’s drunkenness and reached out to take the small one in his arms, “Drinking so much.”

“Dr. Shu, that’s it for today, I’ll send someone to take you….”

Yu Hanzhou’s shoulders and chest felt roughed up and pinched, and Ming Huan’s face on his shoulder blades was painfully as he used his sharp chin to hammer against his back twice: “I can still drink…. Blegh….”

He vomited all over the floor.

Luckily Shu Yun walked fast and didn’t see him in this mess.

“How can I match with you?”

Ming Huan was still muttering as he was carried into the bathroom to clean up after being dosed with a bottle of sobriety pills, “How come it’s you, how come it’s you?! It’s all your fault. Without you…. I’m just alpha.”

He had too much to drink.

Ming Huan held on to the bathtub and threw up once more.

Yu Hanzhou patiently tidied up and then followed him to take a bath.

The smell of the Omega inhaler was also on Yu Hanzhou’s body.

Mixed with his cold pheromones, there was an indescribable sense of dissonance.

“You want to…. Marry me, you…. Your dragon soul sensed me, so, so why don’t you differentiate into omega, ah….” Ming Huan was not too clear-headed and he pointed, “Why am I the omega, why?! Yu Hanzhou! Did you hear that? I was really an alpha!”

“Shu Yun’s confidentiality agreement was really for nothing.”

From Ming Huan’s trivial words, Yu Hanzhou guessed that he knew about the induced differentiation.

“It’s not fair…. It’s because…. Hiccup, because you were born four hundred years before me?! Just, just you as alpha and me as omega?! It’s not fair!!!”

The little dragon was righteously indignant.

“If we were divided at the same time, it must be me as an alpha, and you as an omega! You’re so good at cooking, you, you’re so gentle, you…. you look like an omega… if we’re differentiated at the same time, if we were born around the same time….”

Ming Huan suddenly choked on his words.

The head tilted slightly.

Suddenly, he realized the reason why Shu Yun was saying these words to him today.

“Fifty years ago…. …Xie Shuci…. A small probability of divergence also occurred.”

‘Wait a minute, who was he induced to differentiate into alpha?’

Ming Huan’s originally red and flushed face suddenly turned pale.

Yu Hanzhou’s eyes steeply deepened.

“Xiao Huan.”

“Hmm, hmm?” Ming Huan couldn’t even come back to his senses for a while.

He watched Yu Hanzhou lean closer and closer before he lifted his chin up, and a somewhat forceful kiss was imprinted on his lips.

Fifty years ago, the words of Yu Hanzhou once again echoed in his mind.

”My fondness for you is just, an illusion brought about by a genetic defect.”

The other side.

Shu Yun sighed as the flying machine he was riding gradually drove into the clouds. Half a year ago, Shu Yun asked Xie Shuci if he knew that the induced differentiation hypothesis was about to be confirmed at a high-level reception of the Science and Technology Agency.

Unexpectedly, Xie Shuci said that when that hypothesis was first proposed ten years ago, he knew that it was true.

To be precise, that was fifty years ago.

He found out when he graduated then.

“My liking.”

“Maybe it was under the influence of a genetic defect that caused him a lot of harm.”

‘’But.’’

“…. It was not an illusion brought on by the genetic lock. When I first saw him three years ago, I felt it too. Including, when the differentiation was predicted, I also had a premonition.’’

”At that time, I was also convinced that he and I could be matched.”

At that time, Xie Shuci also drank glass after glass, just like Ming Huan today.

In the end, he was drunk.

”Those premonitions are not illusions.”

With Xie Shuci’s quiet and introverted nature, there were some words he would never say again in his life without the added influence of the alpha genetic defect.

There are many old matters of the heart that were long buried in the fifty years of time, and no one knew anything about it as they were untraceable.

The craft disappeared into a black dot in the sky.

There was no trace of it.

The admiral’s residence.

The lingering kiss deepened, but at this moment, his thoughts were still flying around no matter how much Yu Hanzhou nibbled.

Ming Huan finally understood the reason why Xie Shuci had been hiding from him for fifty years.

Fifty years ago, he was ignorant, and had so many misunderstandings between Yu Hanzou and the situation. It was so bad, but he still continued to approach him and trust him. This seemed to be this instinctive general intuition.

The intuition between him and Yu Hanzhou was a two-way street.

Xie Shuci, on the other hand, was a one-way street.

As a result of Xie Shuci, he encountered one of the worst and rarest situations in small probability differentiation.

He was induced by a ‘dragon soul that was being induced to differentiate’.

He was induced from an omega that differentiated into an alpha.

The one who induced him to differentiate had another destiny, and had already made a dragon contract in the underworld.

When Xie Shuci attacked him, it was not simply because of a genetic defect!

‘Ah….’

‘Yu Hanzhou, why did he keep kissing him? From the lack of oxygen…. His brain is all mixed up….’

The little dragon in the bathtub gradually fluttered up.

Yu Hanzhou was able to detect that the little dragon was getting distracted and wrapped his arms around his waist without letting go of him.

The tip of his tail wrapped around one of his legs and lifted it slightly before he slammed into it.

“Oooh…. Yu Hanzhou, you….”

“Don’t even think about it.”

Waves of water roiled out of the huge bathtub in the white-fogged bathroom.

“You would have… known.”

“When we got married, I warned you.”

Ming Huan’s mind grew dizzy and his body gradually rolled, but he could still recall what Yu Hanzhou had said fifty years ago.

“– Have you ever thought that maybe it’s just the opposite.”

“–It’s not because of the match that you like, but because of the like that you match.”

The white hand clutched the edge of the bathtub, and the knuckles were red as they were soaked by the warm water like the color of moist peach blossoms.

Ming Huan whimpered and completely collapsed on the edge of the bathtub, allowing the person behind him to toss and turn.

The brain seemed to be crushed, and he was unable to think again.

In a blur, he bit his lips, and his murmurs were crushed, “So, we are the ones who should be sorry to him.”

Yu Hanzhou fished Ming Huan out of a vat of hot water, “What’s the hurry?”

“It’s only fifty years.”

Ming Huan’s nasally voice gave a very rough “hmm?” sound.

“I’ve been waiting for an [absolute match] for four hundred years. Xie Shuci, it won’t take longer than me.”

Ming Huan woke up like he was in a dream.

‘Yeah, his match with Xie Shuci wasn’t that high, only 67%.’

‘It might take a long time though.’

‘But, Shuci is as good as a person.’

‘One day, he will definitely meet his [absolute match].’

***

Later on, it was the day that Shu Yun gave birth. He finally, once again, met Xie Shuci – his best friend from his cub days. He looked very spiritual. He was tall and broad-backed, and his eyebrows were gentle and soft. He looked different from when he was awakened from the hibernation chamber fifty years ago.

After all, fifty years had passed.

Ming Huan didn’t know if he should greet him, but Xie Shuci called out to him first, “Ming Huan.”

It was a familiar voice.

“Why are you still hiding when you see me?”

The word “also” was drawn out long enough to bring back the time when they were matched, and he was avoiding him because of embarrassment.

Xie Shuci was very quiet as always, with his office-style glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his thin white fingers pushed them upwards slightly.

“Shu Yun has told you.”

Ming Huan: “No.”

After saying it, he hated to bite his tongue.

“You don’t know about the genetic lock problem that will soon be completely solved.”

“Shuci, I….”

After seeing him panic as if he wanted to say something, Xie Shuci silently put away the documents on the terminal. When he got up, the white coat on his body hung down. He was obviously a research worker and now looked like a doctor.

He noticed his gaze, and he explained, “I just came from the energy quality control department.”

“Ah, so that’s how it is.”

The atmosphere eased a bit with their back and forth conversation.

“You should be very happy.” Xie Shuci’s polished shoes were on the hospital floor, and the outside sun shone on him through the transparent glass. The two were separated by a little bit of distance, “That time, the same small probability of divergence.”

“But you see the world, and me completely different from how it was back then.”

“The Federation is now in the kind of future that you want.”

Ming Huan nodded and said very firmly, “Yes.”

“That’s good.”

Xie Shuci raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

“Fifty years ago, me and you.”

“It was the last batch, the young dragons that had a small probability of divergence under the genetic lock confinement.”

Now, everything was fine.

The terminal received a beep from the hospital, saying that Shu Yun had laid a baby dragon egg.

As soon as Ming Huan felt happy, he had just gained permission to push open the door to enter the family ward. He took half a step in, and then backed out.

“Thank you, Administrator.”

“Although I do not know how long it will take, you will meet the [absolute match] .”

Xie Shuci faintly stared.

“When that time comes, you’ll have to come and thank me. After all, it was us working together so that they, after all, could be born into a better world.”

Xie Shuci nodded meekly and smiled.

After fifty years, Ming Huan seemed to be able to see that the little smile was not like the bitterness that was caught in it when he graduated.

The elegant-looking alpha had thin lips, and his eyebrows were calm. It seemed more like a relieved expression.

“Okay.”

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Solis
March 9, 2024 12:58 pm

I hope Shu Yu’s egg is Shuci’s perfect match. Thanks for the chapter!!!

WangXian31
March 10, 2024 9:30 am

What a mess; thank goodness things will be different for their babies.
XS is a favourite character and I hope we get him finding his perfect match.
Thank you both for the chapter.

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