Chapter 34: Lin Xu’s canines bite the tip of his tongue
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Karai
Black Stone was a mineral unique to Dragon Planet, and the radiation emitted when the atoms that made up the mineral decayed would leave the powerful races that had thrived on the planet for generations in a state of relative weakness. Even the hard dragon scales would become soft under the influence of the radiation.
As the history of Dragon Planet changed, the Black Stone Mine was seen as a trial ground for dragon adulthood, and each young dragon had to exercise its wings and endurance until it could safely fly through the Black Stone Mines before it was considered adult.
Because of this cruel trial of adulthood, the Black Stone Mine had the largest number of dragon corpses, huge decaying skeletons exposed under the eternal night and day.
There were extraterrestrials who detected the Black Stone Mine from space and tried to get the remains of the dragons and this special mineral, and were attacked by the dragons, and even the home planet was almost slaughtered into scorched earth by the crazy dragons.
Most of the leftover black stone ore was retrieved by the dragons, maybe some collectors in the universe still hold a few pieces of black stone ore, but the quantity is really rare and expensive, almost impossible for Garier to own. Garier was the name of the attacker.
Garier was confirmed through the list as a member of the expedition on the Nature’s Evolution, engaged in planetary research, a beta civilian, and currently teaching at Haven University.
Haven again.
Simply controlling the previous tailor and Garier was no longer enough, and Heinrich requested that each Nature’s Evolution passenger from Haven be vetted individually.
He considered whether to confine them to the Nature’s Evolution or bring them on board of the Victoria, but Carl Hill intervened, saying that the case had occurred in his own jurisdiction, apologizing to Heinrich, and promising to take responsibility for it.
He promised that he would take responsibility for the case. He secretly wanted to compete with Heinrich for the right to investigate.
Garier’s attack slapped the Hill family in the face. How could they be trusted to guard the Imperial frontier after such an incident in their own heavily guarded airfield?
As a vote of confidence, Carl Hill ordered the airfield to be closed to all aircraft entering or leaving the airfield.
Heinrich reluctantly agreed to allow Carl Hill to arrange accommodation for the passengers from Haven, but the patrol soldiers were deployed and managed by the Abyss Fleet.
It was hard to argue that Carl Hill was not so brain-dead as to allow outside troops to enter his district, but he was subdued by Heinrich’s cold air and the ruthlessness with which he dragged his arm, which was dripping blood, as if it didn’t feel any pain, and continued to conduct the investigation himself.
The airfield medical center admitted Garier, the assailant who had been severely injured by a kick from Lin Xu and who lost consciousness while being dragged away due to lack of oxygen and pain. An interrogation awaited him once the medical bay had restored him to a level where he could think and speak.
The interrogation and search of the tailor, who had previously been under mere surveillance control, was in full swing. Heinrich was finally able to find a gap, stop, and return to the Victoria to allow Zhou Pingbo to treat the wound on his arm.
Silvery-white dragon scales emerged from the oxidized, dark red blood scabs, and Zhou Pingbo pulled them out with tweezers, still carrying a small knot of flesh at the end.
“After the treatment, a few more stitches are needed.” Zhou Pingbo let out a long sigh, “How did I, the principal of Deep Blue Military Academy, become your family doctor?”
Heinrich didn’t answer. He didn’t need anesthetic, and staring at his wound would only hurt more.
“What’s going on with you and Lin Xu?”
After the accident at the banquet, Lin Xu held Heinrich, who was swaying because of the black stone radiation movement, but let go of his hand before and after Heinrich’s own soldiers came on, and even took a few steps back.
Heinrich and Carl Hill then negotiated with each other, and he didn’t care about Lin Xu for a while, and as a result, he couldn’t find him in a flash. Heinrich almost had his own soldiers turn the Hill family estate upside down, scaring Carl Hill into a panic.
Considering the current situation, Heinrich told Lin Xu to return to the Victoria first to ensure safety. Lin Xu did not reply to the message, only Ryan said everything was fine.
Ika, who had been busy next to the ship reinforcing Ruth’s security systems, looked up to hear Heinrich’s answer.
“I don’t know.” I don’t know if it was because he had been busy for too long, Heinrich’s voice was sibilant.
Zhou Pingbo was about to laugh, “What do you mean you don’t know?”
He plucked the red Chinese roses on Heinrich’s chest with the other end of the tweezers, and Heinrich used his uninjured hand to unhook the Chinese roses from the medallion and hung his head to examine it.
The Chinese roses were deep red, like a hydrogen-filled emission nebula in the spectrum of the red halo, as if illuminated by the primordial fire of the misty mist, curled petals folded out of the sharp corner, looks sharp, but in fact soft and gentle. The Chinese rose was lightly scented with blood.
Heinrich briefly told Zhou Pingbo what happened in the garden, and Ika blinked at it.
Zhou Pingbo frowned, “Hm… that’s not right, if, and I mean if, Lin Xu had any kind of fondness for you, he wouldn’t be mad at you for saying he didn’t like Katherine, unless…”
“Unless what?”
Zhou Pingbo’s expression was torn, his features were squeezed together, “You didn’t find any signs of Lin Xu being an omega, did you?”
“No.”
“Hmm. Then as a beta, he is free to choose alpha, beta, and omega as a mate. Aren’t we forgetting to consider what if he likes an omega, or even happens to be an omega like Katherine Hill again?”
Heinrich’s frown could kill a fly and Zhou Pingbo coughed awkwardly, “I’m talking nonsense. Lin Xu doesn’t seem to like anyone, your chances should be equal with others.”
When Andreas pursued Heinrich’s mother, looking for countless ways to finally transform from a dragon into human form, Zhou Pingbo was a little worried that Heinrich would be as single-minded as Andreas.
Marshal Chu has gone on a sex change to become an omega?
Imperial is going to die, right?
“Why don’t you meet him more often?” Ika suddenly spoke up, “At least, if Professor Zhou’s premise is true, from a probabilistic point of view, the probability of him wanting to like you will become greater if you meet him more often.”
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Lin Xu returned to room 004, cleaned himself up, and changed his clothes. He should have been asleep at this time, but his brain was overactive from all that had happened today and he wasn’t half asleep when Heinrich sent a communication asking him to come to his office.
Lin Xu didn’t really want to see him at this time. As the black stone cut through Heinrich’s arm, watching the blood gurgle out and darken the color of his black uniform, Lin Xu’s tongue traced the tips of his restless teeth, and he had to clench his fingers to restrain himself.
With the heat of the blood, the smell of vetiver wrapped in wetness gushed out freely, but no one but Lin Xu was affected by the pheromone in Heinrich’s blood.
The leaping energy breath mixed in the vetiver lured Lin Xu’s will, and when Heinrich stood unsteadily, close to his shoulder, Lin Xu’s canine teeth bit through his tongue.
Blood rushing up his chest, he decided he couldn’t stay at the scene any longer and found a moment to escape through the cover of the crowd, trotting into the bathroom and drenching his forehead with a cold stream of water, trying to calm his thoughts of always wanting to bite down on something and seize life. Only a few hours had passed, and Heinrich wanted to see him again.
“Lin Xu, I need to discuss with you about the background of where the attackers came from.”
Heinrich wrote this in a communication message that hit Lin Xu where he needed it most, and he couldn’t refuse for a personal psychological glitch.
Lin Xu rolled out of bed, smoothed his black hair, which tended to get messy because of its softness, and opened the door to walk out of the room.
The white rabbit-cat followed him and squeezed through the narrow gap like a liquid when the door was about to close. It ran forward for a while, then suddenly turned its head and saw that its master was not following it, so it sat obediently in the same place, and when Lin Xu reached it, it fell to the ground with a snap, exposing its belly to the sky.
Lin Xu attached to scratch Snowy’s belly, “You play by yourself.”
In addition to 003 room that was closed by intelligent maintenance machinery maintenance, area H would no longer have others, Snowy did not want to be bored in the room when Lin Xu put it into the corridor to run for a while, so as not to be an idle rabbit-cat destroying home like an energetic dog.
The rabbit-cats were the most athletic runners and dexterous hunters in the Cacarramo wilderness, and on Endymion they could run to their heart’s content in the prairie outside Lin Xu’s house and return home after dark in the warm light from the white maple windows.
But there’s hardly any place for them to run wild on a starship. The planet in the distance rotated as fast as the naked eye could see, and shadows filtered through the portholes as Snowy pounced and played under them.
Lin Xu followed a familiar route to Heinrich’s office, and before he could knock on the door, Ruth’s gentle electronic voice rang out, “Mr. Lin, Marshal is waiting for you, please come in.”
The door opened and a strong smell of vetiver poured out through the crack, like a furious wave pouring down on his head, almost knocking Lin Xu back a few steps. He let out a slow breath and steadied himself as he entered.
He was in a position with his back to the door, and Zhou Pingbo, who was treating his wounds across the room, noticed the footsteps between the door sliding forward for a moment before entering the office, and began to worry for Heinrich.
Lin Xu nodded hello to the three people in the office, and Zhou Pingbo smiled elegantly as he continued to sew up Heinrich.
Zhou Pingbo was not a full-time doctor, and the only place he usually used his needle and thread was to sew up the disemboweled Zerg research bodies and send them to the incinerator.
Today it was a rare occasion that he picked up a needle and sewed the wound on Heinrich’s arm like a black centipede.
Zhou Pingbo saw Lin Xu’s subtle expression when he swept over Heinrich’s wound and immediately explained, “It’s a protein surgical thread, it won’t leave a scar after it grows back, don’t worry.”
Lin Xu felt strange, why did Zhou Pingbo think he cared about this? But Lin Xu was used to silence, and with vetiver and surge-like energy lingering in the room, he had to expend a lot of energy to control himself, and did not dwell on this issue with Zhou Pingbo. He familiarly found his own glass of water, and asked Ruth to pour water in.
After pulling over the usual chair and sitting down, he realized he was already so familiar with Heinrich’s office. “Marshal, any new news?”
Heinrich quietly glanced at Lin Xu, and found that the other party’s body was tense and seemed to be a bit uncomfortable. His heart dropped a few more points, and his speech was also a bit sullen and slow, “Not really new news, mainly want to explain something to you, about Imperial New Life faction.
“The person who attacked Marianna at the banquet should belong to the New Life faction.”
Lin Xu leaned forward, his voice suppressed and amplified, staring at Heinrich, “You know who it is?”
Because of the high sharp brow bones, Heinrich’s eyebrows and eyes look close together, a shadow cast in the deep eye sockets when he slightly drops his head, as if there is a restrained look, or a struggling helplessness.
“Barely. The capital star is the home base of the New Life faction.”
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