The Fallen Merman

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Too bad he’s a young omega.
For close combat, you need to be an alpha.
An omega wouldn’t have the strength.
You might as well send him to me to learn war tactics.” 

Dai Ning shot him a glance.
“Enough is enough ah.”

Actually, Dai Ning was also not too optimistic about an omega learning to fight.
Even though he himself was an omega, the kangaroo gland was clearly stronger biologically than that of a lop-eared rabbit.
Lop-eared rabbits were the weakest ones among the rabbits.
They were very easy to frighten or injure them.

“15-years-old is too young.” Dai Ning squeezed Lu Yan’s bones.
“Have you trained before?”

Lu Yan nodded.
“I think I’m pretty good at it.” 

Dai Ning hesitated for a moment.
He picked up a pair of new protective fighting gloves and handed them to Lu Yan.
“Let’s give it a try.
I won’t hit hard.
You don’t need to be scared.”

Bai Chunian sat down in Dai Ning’s seat and watched the show.
He asked the waiter to push a glass of whiskey on the rocks over.
He said to Lu Yan, “Go all out.
This is a good teacher.”

Lu Yan agreed.

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The two of them put some distance between each other.
Dai Ning curled his hand in his direction, indicating that they could start. 

Since Bai Chunian said he should go all out, Lu Yan didn’t hesitate.
He took the initiative to launch an offensive.

He had a very dainty figure and was also soft and flexible.
What was even more astonishing was his speed.
He definitely inherited the rabbit gland’s superior running.
In less than a second, he was in front of Instructor Dai Ning.

Dai Ning was an experienced fighter.
Just as Lu Yan was going to hit his vitals, he deftly blocked.
However, Lu Yan’s fist didn’t land on the arm he used to block, but vanished.

Even Lu Yan’s entire body disappeared. 

He was very fast.
Even Dai Ning didn’t see where he went.

The second he disappeared; a black hole silently appeared behind Dai Ning.
Lu Yan got out of the hole and lightly touched Dai Ning’s shoulder with his fingertips.
“You don’t have to go easy on me.
I really am good at this.”

Bai Chunian let out a whistle.
“Ning-ge, show him what you’re made of.”

Hong Xie’s attention was also drawn to the nimble little rabbit.
He turned to lean on the bar, and they watched the show together. 

A gleam appeared in Dai Ning’s eye.
He tightly wrapped on a hand wrap and prepared for the second round.
He grew serious, and felt his blood faintly heat up.

Lu Yan knew how to assess his opponent’s strength, so he didn’t use the blitzkrieg strategy they used at school.
When Dai Ning threw a punch, he quickly flashed left and right.
Dai Ning’s punches were quick and crafty.
Ordinary students wouldn’t be able to last even 15 seconds in the face of Instructor Dai’s onslaught.
Even when Bi Lanxing first faced Instructor Dai, he wasn’t able to make three moves.

 

Time passed and Lu Yan didn’t have a scratch on him.

The audience saw clearly; Lu Yan accurately dodged each punch.
His figure was constantly flashing around Dai Ning but hadn’t been hit yet. 

Hong Xie put down the glass, body leaning forward, and focused on observing the teenager.
“Damn, all this kid’s skill points went into dodging.
That kind of play can exhaust someone.”

Lop-eared Rabbit gland’s associated ability, “Supersonic:” Could accelerate to 100 kilometers instantly.
It would only take 3.2 seconds to accelerate to the speed of sound and only 6 seconds to go supersonic.
The effective range was within a radius of 9 meters, centered around where the ability was activated.
If the range was exceeded, the user would have to accelerate once again.
If the acceleration process was interrupted, the user would have to start over again.

Bai Chunian had never paid attention to Lu Yan.
During the ATWL exam, he behaved so much like an average young master who was trying to avoid doing something clumsy that even Bai Chunian misjudged him.

Lu Yan endured Dai Ning’s most powerful first round attacks entirely by dodging.
When Dai Ning paused to take a breath, Lu Yan launched a fierce offensive. 

He was never greedy with his punches.
As soon as he hit Dai Ning, he immediately switched positions to not give him a chance to retaliate.

Dai Ning quickly discovered the limitation of Lu Yan’s associated ability.
As they grappled, he deliberately dragged Lu Yan out of position.
Suddenly, they exceeded the range of his speed-up effect and Lu Yan immediately slowed down.
When it did, he suffered a ferocious punch to the stomach.

Lu Yan fell and took the opportunity to roll away and dodge Dai Ning’s next vicious leg sweep.
6 seconds was very short.
Lu Yan quickly sped up again until he was as fast as a blink.
Dai Ning repeated the same trick to suppress Lu Yan.

All the surrounding students were drawn to the fighting arena they were in and came over to watch. 

Bai Chunian glanced at his watch.
Almost three minutes had passed.

Lu Yan gradually seemed to lose strength.
He lacked endurance, so each time he would prioritize finishing as quickly as possible.
It was only when facing a strong opponent that he would choose to grapple.
But he hadn’t met many strong opponents.
Both his fathers were very powerful, but they were very busy and often tired, so Lu Yan never asked them to help him train.

Moreover, during practice time at school with his classmates, he would restrain himself.
Usually, he didn’t do anything but would still be targeted by a group of people.
If he injured anyone, it would be troublesome.

At the moment when Lu Yan halted, he was pinned to the ground, and held in a headlock by Instructor Dai.
He was exhausted, paralyzed, and panting on the ground. 

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Lu Yan’s eyes were red.
He gasped and laughed dumbly.
“I’m really happy, Teacher.”

Bai Chunian clapped, “Well done.”

Instructor Dai pulled Lu Yan up, held him by the shoulders, and said, “Not bad.”

Actually, he really wanted to stick Lu Yan in his family registry, for fear of the other instructors snatching him away. 

Dai Ning held Lu Yan’s shoulder again and released soothing pheromones to restore his strength.
He was on guard when he said to Bai Chunian, “What bad news do you have? I’ll say upfront that there’s no way I’ll be letting this child go.”

“I didn’t ask you to.” Bai Chunian finished the remainder of his whiskey.
“I just wanted to say that this kid is Lanxing’s little boyfriend.”

 

Hong Xie spit out his cocktail and laughed so hard he spit bubbles.
“Yo, in the end, he’s still our family.”

Lu Yan refused in a low voice, “I’m not….” 

Dai Ning went around him and gently touched Bai Chunian, asking softly, “You really want me to teach him?”

“Don’t worry.
Make some arrangements for him.
I have something to do so I’ll leave first.” Bai Chunian said some things to Lu Yan before pushing open the doors and leaving.”

Actually, he wanted to go back to his residence and rest a while ago, but he had to finish his work first.
He finally returned to the instructors’ dormitory in the evening.
He nestled into his leather sofa, picked up his laptop, and watched the playback of the midday news multiple times.

He picked up a pen and spelled out what the merfolks were saying using pinyin.
He noted it down in his notebook.
On the TV, there was a part where the scientists translated and another where he relied on his experience communicating with Rimbaud to understand a few words.
He also used what resources he was able to get to roughly translate. 

“Aband… banda… a….” Bai Chunian rubbed his hair with the pen cap.
“What? What is that snapper rattling on about? He’s so close to my Rimbaud, he really deserves death.”

There were a few sentences he still couldn’t make sense of.

Bai Chunian twirled his pen and thought for a long time.
Suddenly, he called the profiling instructor, Zheng Yue.
Zheng Yue answered, “Chu-ge, I’m in class.”

“Continue with your teaching.
Have that clownfish in your class come out.” 

“What clownfish… Ah, you’re talking about Yu Xiaocheng.
Alright, where are you? I’ll have him go over.”

“Just have him come out.
I’ll go over myself.”

Bai Chunian hung up, rolled up his notebook, and prepared to leave.
Suddenly, he received a reply from the President.

“Special Operations Experimental Subject No.
809, Kraken, has entered the western Atlantic Ocean.
We’ve detected a tendency to land.
Give me a reasonable investigation plan by tomorrow evening.” 

[Staff Corner]

Hello! I once again apologize for the delay in [gets_down_on_my_knees.jpg]

As I said before, some of our members are busy with RL/going through some personal issues, hence our updates might be slow, unfortunately.
We’ll try our best to get back on top of things(hopefully;;;).

Again, I’m really sorry for the delays. 

—Potato