IRCDM Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Chains – No Escape

“Teacher Mu, Brother Liang has been very busy lately and doesn’t have time to see you.” Deng Meng, still holding the reagent he took from Su Murong’s lab, saw Mu Bo loitering outside the management office villa, with several people responsible for guarding him behind him looking miserable.

After all, no one could stand such a beautiful woman’s gentle pleas. More importantly, Mu Bo had kicked down Yu Wan Yao’s door with one foot, so they didn’t dare to stop him forcefully.

“He’s upstairs, I can feel it.” Mu Bo knew that Deng Meng was Liang Huan’s subordinate, and asked, “Have he and Li Yao been living together these past few days?”

“Ah?” Deng Meng instantly became vigilant. After Xu Yunyan’s example, he was very wary of these men trying to get close to Liang Huan, and said seriously, “Of course, they’re married, of course they live together every day, they’re always inseparable, their relationship is especially good.”

Mu Bo was barely satisfied and looked down at the reagent in his hand: “Is this for Li Yao?”

Deng Meng prevaricated: “Ah, yes, Teacher Mu, if you don’t have anything else, you should go back first, they’re busy.”

Deng Meng deliberately gave him an ambiguous look, trying to make this long-haired beauty back down.

“It doesn’t matter.” Mu Bo walked past him and upstairs, “Lovemaking is a very normal thing, maybe I can help.”

Deng Meng was so frightened that he almost smashed the diluent on his head, and earnestly chased after him: “Teacher Mu, this may not be very appropriate.”

Mu Bo turned his head and invited him: “Do you want to help too?”

“No, no, no!” Deng Meng was horrified and decisively grabbed his arm, “How about this, you wait here for a while, I’ll go tell Brother Liang and let him come out to see you.”

Mu Bo stopped. After all, he was a polite high-level heteromorph, and Liang Huan seemed to be very disciplined. For the sake of the unborn children, he was willing to respect human rules.

Deng Meng hurried off to find Liang Huan.

Time passed slowly, and Mu Bo was getting bored. Just as he was about to open a human chip to study it, he suddenly noticed an extremely subtle breath. His keen hearing made him subconsciously look up, and he met Li Yao’s eyes, who was clinging to the ceiling.

Li Yao: “…”

Mu Bo: “…”

“What are you doing?” Mu Bo looked at his limbs that were firmly attached to the ceiling and his tight, powerful muscles, and became more and more satisfied with Liang Huan’s human spouse.

“Walking.” Li Yao said calmly.

He had finally found a way to regain his strength and break those broken handcuffs, but he found that there were Liang Huan’s bodyguards and detectors everywhere outside. In order to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance, he was preparing to go out through the vents in the ceiling, but unfortunately the entrance was right in the center of the hall, and he ran into Mu Bo just as he was about to climb over.

That damn heteromorph even discovered him.

“Do all of you 3S-level humans walk like this?” Mu Bo asked, looking up at him.

“…We can also fly backwards and walk.” Li Yao sighed, jumped down from above, and patted the dust off his hands, “What are you here for?”

“To see if you and Liang Huan are lovemaking.” Mu Bo said bluntly, “It seems that Deng Meng lied to me. If you’re just fooling me, everyone in the Black Market will die.”

Li Yao crossed his arms and said: “There’s no need to lie to you about this kind of thing, you have no idea how enthusiastic humans are about lovemaking.”

Mu Bo smiled: “Is that so? Then why don’t you have much of Liang Huan’s scent on you at all?”

Li Yao’s eyebrows twitched, he scoffed, and tilted his neck to show him the purple-red bruises: “See that? He beat me. Your heteromorphs have such bad and explosive tempers, he almost beat me to death, I’m giving him the cold shoulder.”

Mu Bo frowned. Li Yao’s face and neck did have many injuries, especially on his neck. As a heteromorph who was good at learning, he knew how high human demands for morality were. Beating a spouse was a very bad thing.

“Indeed, he was wrong to do that.” Mu Bo said very responsibly, “I will make him apologize and compensate you, please don’t give up on lovemaking with him.”

“…Ah.” Li Yao cleared his throat, “I secretly came out for a walk, don’t tell him you saw me later, otherwise we won’t be able to make little heteromorphs, I’m leaving.”

He heard Deng Meng’s voice from upstairs, decisively turned around and went back to his room, and accidentally locked Jinbao, who was about to go in to clean, outside.

Jinbao patted the door with a small rag, but there was no response, and he lowered his head in frustration. He had no choice but to pick up the bucket and clean the corridor first.

Liang Huan smiled and looked at the visiting Mu Bo: “Why are you here? Have you been resting well lately?”

“Very good, the pollution radiation value here is higher than other places in the base.” Mu Bo was very happy to see him.

However, the Black Market manager, who had worked hard all night to investigate the source of the pollution, wasn’t so happy to hear this praise.

“Is there something you want from me?” Liang Huan smiled even more.

Mu Bo looked at him: “Liang Huan, since our current identity is human, we must abide by human rules.”

Liang Huan raised his eyebrows.

“You have to be gentle with your spouse, take care of him carefully, and love him, so that he will stay in your nest with peace of mind.” Mu Bo said earnestly, “I think it’s still necessary for me to move in and ease the conflicts in the family appropriately.”

Liang Huan was confused, but he still agreed: “Don’t worry, I will treat Li Yao well. But it’s a little inconvenient if you move in, there are laboratories here, many delicate instruments need stable radiation values and temperature, and your mental waves can’t be contained well.”

Mu Bo said: “But I don’t like living alone.”

“Don’t worry, I have a place that is more suitable for you.” Liang Huan smiled, “Not only is the pollution and radiation value high, but there are also many humans for you to manage. This place is crucial to our future development.”

He became more and more satisfied as he spoke, put his arm around Mu Bo’s shoulder, and led him down the stairs: “There is an evil laboratory on the eighth floor of the Black Market. The human researchers there arbitrarily slaughter our heteromorph compatriots for experiments. Behind them, there is an even larger interest group, and in the future, countless heteromorphs, even special-grade heteromorphs like you, may be harmed. I have never been able to find a suitable candidate to control them. Now it seems that there is no more suitable manager than you.”

Mu Bo was stunned for a moment: “Me?”

“I want to know what the humans behind them are doing, but I can’t startle them yet.” Liang Huan patted him on the shoulder and explained in detail the current handling plan for the underground laboratory, “We need to pretend that their experiments are still going on, but we must reduce the pollution value outside the laboratory, otherwise my humans will die and be unable to continue protecting us… Do you have a way to help clean up the pollutants in the Black Market?”

Mu Bo thought for a moment: “Yes, this is not a difficult task, but it may take a long time.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Liang Huan said happily, “It would be even better if you could control those researchers.”

“I can’t completely control human minds, but I can subtly influence their consciousness.” Mu Bo paused, “But you don’t let me use the heteromorph’s mental power.”

“Except for the underground laboratory.” Liang Huan said with a smile, “Just don’t let them die.”

Mu Bo said: “Okay.”

Deng Meng drove the hovercar and stopped at the door. Liang Huan personally opened the door for him: “Don’t affect the mental power of our own people.”

“Of course.” Mu Bo nodded, “I will try to treat them as my own children.”

“…Very good.” Liang Huan smiled slightly and closed the car door for him.

The hovercar quickly left. Yue Hang came out from behind the door. Liang Huan said: “Arrange more people to keep an eye on the area near the lower eighth floor. Is everything ready?”

“The capture net and the shielding instrument have been installed in place. Dr. Su’s anesthetic can knock down two to three special-grade heteromorphs. We can take action at any time. If necessary, the laboratory can be completely cleared.” Yue Hang said in a low voice, “Should we do it now?”

“No, at least it can handle the pollution source in the Black Market now.” Liang Huan turned around and entered the door, “If it exhibits any behavior that attacks humans, kill it immediately.”

“Understood.” Yue Hang paused, “Do I need to tell Dr. Su Mu Bo’s true identity?”

“No.” Liang Huan smiled, “She’s not like you, she’s not completely trustworthy yet, let’s observe further. Yue Hang, the only people I can truly trust by my side are you and Deng Meng and a few others. Even Li Yao will lie to me. It’s truly ‘the closest and most distant are husband and wife.'”

Yue Hang looked at him with a firm gaze: “I have lived in the Black Market for more than twenty years, and I never thought that the Black Market could become what it is today. The brothers all heard what you said to Ms. Ling that day. Liang Huan, the Black Market will definitely get better.”

Liang Huan looked at the lights in the distance: “Of course.”

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The blue tail flame of the hovercar drew a beautiful arc in the air. Li Yao endured the discomfort and turned the control stick, watching the lights of the seventh floor getting farther and farther away from the panoramic screen, and let out an arrogant snort.

Although Liang Huan knew some weird kung fu and second-rate tricks, it was far from enough to trap him. The military didn’t release him from prison out of kindness. It was simply a fantasy to make him honestly sit in prison.

Passionate rock music was playing in the car. Li Yao happily lit a cigarette, finally no longer needing to mind that there was another person in the car, and recklessly exhaled smoke. Since marrying Liang Huan, he had been forced to “quit” smoking whether he was in the dormitory or in the car, and he could only find a place where no one was around to smoke. He had even been laughed at by those mercenaries for being henpecked when he smoked in the corridor before, it was simply humiliating.

Marriage really only brings misfortune to humans, even more so to mercenaries.

When he was first salvaged by the space salvage team, he was unconscious for a long time, and then symptoms of memory loss appeared after he woke up. However, he acted as usual. The military didn’t discover it at first until they did a test on him during interrogation. The military had tried many ways to try to restore his memory, but it never succeeded.

In the past few years of being a mercenary, he had gradually recalled some memories, but they were all within his control. The scene he recalled in the underground laboratory this time was somewhat unexpected – he didn’t know why his military chip card was pinned behind the identification system of the Chuanwu Laboratory. He also had no impression of the person sitting in the wheelchair, but it could be inferred from the memory fragments that he had been in this laboratory, lying on the operating table, and those people also mentioned the black box, and knew that his genes had been extensively polluted by heteromorphs…

The time on the military chip stopped on March 2, 130, but he clearly remembered that he woke up on May 2, 130. Only he himself could enable and stop the military chip. If he had woken up long ago, why would he leave the chip at the entrance of Chuanwu’s laboratory? And how could he guarantee that he would definitely come back to find it?

“Tsk.” He scratched his hair irritably, and suddenly recalled the temperature of Liang Huan’s lips.

It was evident that having too good a memory was not a good thing either. He even remembered the shock and stiffness in Liang Huan’s eyes, the abruptly held breath and the concentration of the smell of tobacco, as well as the rotten smell in the laboratory and the sound of friction between the worn sofa and the fabric under him.

This was a romantic and handsome farewell, and he had also left his first kiss in this world, which was unforgettable for anyone – if he hadn’t been caught by Liang Huan.

Now it was good, everyone was just awkward.

Could it be that he had contacted this Chuanwu after waking up? He always felt like he had seen the black snake tattoo somewhere… Poor Kunwu was still waiting for him to repair it. He didn’t know if the mercenary base’s bonus and salary this month would be enough to buy a skin for Kunwu.

Li Yao let his thoughts wander and relaxed his nerves, humming a tune along with the manic drum beats, and quickly checking the news from the recent period.

The East District Administrative Court cancels the chip purchase restriction order… A riot suddenly broke out in the Black Market… The mecha competition will enter the S-round single combat… The Dawn Laboratory releases the latest research report on base radiation values… The number of deaths at the mercenary base is increasing, and the base suspends all training activities…

He skimmed through the news, trying to divert his over-concentrated mental power. The speed of the hovercar reached its maximum, and the exit of the Black Market was already in sight.

Bang!

After a loud noise, the control stick in his hand suddenly slipped uncontrollably, and the front of the car was violently hit to the side. The warning sounds in the car sounded one after another.

“Crap?” Li Yao turned his head to look at the hovercar that had suddenly crashed over.

The opposite car window slowly lowered, revealing Liang Huan’s handsome face. When he looked over, he was somewhat indifferent and alienated, but the excitement that emerged in his eyes completely changed the taste of this face. The corners of his mouth curled up with a gentle smile, like the magnificent starry sky in space that could annihilate countless spaceships at any time.

“Is the walk over?” Liang Huan politely asked aloud.

The rock music in the car was deafening. Li Yao suddenly turned the car head and laughed arrogantly: “It’s still early.”

The silver hovercar took off almost vertically and circled around the intertwined lanes in the air in the blink of an eye, causing a chorus of angry horns. The black hovercar followed closely behind. Liang Huan looked at the beautiful tail flame in front, weighed the bracelet in his hand, and with a light flick, it turned into a chain in the shape of a hook. The owner of the silver hovercar reached out of the car window and raised an arrogant middle finger at him.

Liang Huan stepped on the accelerator to the end, pushing the control stick to the maximum speed. The engine ran to the extreme. In the deafening roar, the black hovercar forcibly caught up with the silver hovercar. At the moment of the explosion, the black hook firmly grabbed the roof of the silver car. The next second, Liang Huan was brought out of the car by a huge force, and using that force, he pounced on the window of the silver hovercar.

Li Yao looked at the man kneeling halfway outside the windshield, his pupils contracted slightly, and immediately a shudder of excitement rose from his blood.

They almost smashed into the windshield at the same time, one facing inward and the other facing outward. The knuckle dusters formed by the two bracelets intersected for a moment, bursting out with scorching sparks. Amid the shattering glass and the whistling wind, Li Yao directly abandoned the car and jumped out. Liang Huan was a step slower, and his palm barely brushed against the corner of his clothes.

At the moment when their eyes met, Li Yao gave him an ambiguous smile.

The next second, his bent elbow slammed hard into his side neck. Liang Huan narrowly tilted his head to dodge, but was caught off guard by someone reaching into his clothes and groping his waist. He raised his leg and kicked sideways, his boots barely brushing past Li Yao’s nose. Li Yao raised his head, and the purple and blue scars on his neck flashed clearly before his eyes.

Liang Huan’s gaze paused slightly, and the palm that was about to hit his heart deviated slightly. Li Yao didn’t retreat but advanced, bending his knees and fiercely hitting his lower abdomen, and quickly spun around and backed away. Liang Huan coughed, grabbed the broken window of the hovercar, and forcefully twisted the coat he was holding in his hand, pulling the person who was about to slide down up.

Both of them were breathing unsteadily. Li Yao’s eyes were fixed on him: “Not bad, you’ve got some skills.”

“Come back with me.” Liang Huan said in a deep voice, “You haven’t finished drinking your medicine yet.”

“I’ve recovered to C-level, the agreement is completed in advance.” Li Yao’s gaze slid over his lips, past the tip of his nose that was reddened by the cold wind, and landed in his eyes.

Liang Huan’s Adam’s apple moved slightly, the knuckles of his fingers holding his coat were faintly white, and he said lightly: “Three months is just for that fall, you were so frivolous with me in the laboratory, it should be at least three years.”

Li Yao was shocked by his thick skin: “Why don’t you say thirty years? Is your mouth plated with gold?”

Liang Huan’s face remained unchanged: “Yes.”

“…” Li Yao laughed and suddenly leaned over.

Liang Huan’s breathing paused slightly, but who knew that Li Yao twisted his body and directly took off his coat and jumped off the hovercar.

“Wife – remember to sign the divorce agreement -” Li Yao raised his hand and smiled sweetly at him, making a heart gesture, while falling rapidly.

Liang Huan lowered his eyes and watched him disappear into the towering buildings, and coldly tugged at the corners of his mouth.

Li Yao was hit several times by the clothes-drying poles before he used the hammer hook to hook the window sill next to him, and looked at the height under his feet with lingering fear, struggling to climb onto the window sill.

A teasing whistle came from inside the window.

“Handsome guy, what a good figure.” The man, wearing only a suspender skirt, threw away his thin coat and came over to kiss his abs, “Come and play.”

Li Yao pressed his head and pushed him back, and said dryly: “No, I’m just passing by.”

The coquettish man knelt in front of the window, lifted his skirt and licked his bright red lips: “I won’t charge you.”

Li Yao simply closed the window decisively and jumped down without hesitation.

“Hey, handsome guy~”

A resentful and tactful call came from overhead, and Li Yao rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and breathed a sigh of relief.

He really couldn’t accept men after all –

“You’re planning to find another man after I’m gone for a few minutes?” A familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

Li Yao turned his head sharply and looked at the alley next to him.

Leather shoes stepped over the mossy puddles, and the man in the white shirt walked out slowly from the shadows. He had a damaged suit jacket draped over his arm, and a little bit of glass fragments fell on his messy hair. The short-circuited sign lights next to him made the clear and cold face look a little blurry, and the usually gentle and beautiful eyes were full of grimness and displeasure.

Li Yao’s expression was as if he had seen a ghost.

Liang Huan patted the dust off his collar, raised his eyes and swept over the lipstick mark on his arm, and said unhurriedly: “I said, you can’t escape.”

Li Yao was incredulous: “How did you catch up?”

“I naturally have my ways.” Liang Huan walked up to him and smiled slightly, “Do you still want to run, Li Yao?”

Li Yao stared at him, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper: “Damn, have you gotten taller?”

“…” Liang Huan was almost led astray by him, “Come back with me.”

Li Yao was thrown around a few times when he fell, and his back still hurt. He raised his hand to support Liang Huan’s shoulder and said lazily: “Let’s stop fighting first, I’ll take a rest.”

He didn’t care about Liang Huan and directly sat on the curb stone next to him, hunching his back and coughing.

Liang Huan looked down at him. Li Yao was only wearing a black combat vest on his upper body. The fabric on his chest and abdomen was torn by something, and his wheat-colored skin was covered in bloodstains and abrasions. There was unknown wall ash on his pants, which looked mottled and messy.

He opened his legs in such a relaxed posture, with his arms resting on his knees, and coughed with his head drooping. The dragon pattern on the back of his neck was looming. Because of the severe cough, the skin on the back of his neck and ears was faintly red.

Liang Huan threw him a small bottle of nutritional supplement.

Li Yao picked it up and looked at it curiously: “You even carry this thing with you?”

“Just in case.” Liang Huan said, “You always have a strong reaction every time you drive a hovercar.”

“…” Li Yao shook the bottle, “Did you add something?”

“No.” Liang Huan’s voice was slightly cold.

Li Yao drank it all in two mouthfuls, and threw the bottle into the garbage robot next to him.

Seeing that he had no intention of getting up for a while, Liang Huan glanced at the chair next to him, raised his foot and was about to sit down when Li Yao suddenly coughed hard.

Liang Huan lowered his eyes to look at him.

“This is the Red Light District, the trash cans over there are cleaner than the chairs on the roadside.” Li Yao coughed in a somewhat hoarse voice and sighed deeply, “Ancestor, you’ve chased me here, can’t you stop chasing me?”

“What are you doing in this brothel?” Liang Huan glanced at the lipstick on his arm and raised his eyebrows, “Seeing a lover? So you’re in a hurry to divorce me?”

“Tsk.” Li Yao caught a glimpse of the lipstick on his arm, rubbed it hard, and said fiercely, “That’s right, I have no less than ten or eight little lovers, you better hurry up and run away with your tail between your legs, otherwise they’ll scratch you to death.”

Liang Huan threw the coat on his head.

Li Yao quickly pulled it down, arched his back and looked at him. It was a very alert posture, ready to attack at any time, but there was not much intention to attack in his eyes.

Especially after seeing the shirt sleeves on Liang Huan’s forearm full of blood.

“What’s wrong here?” Li Yao pointed to his arm.

“I accidentally bumped into it when I jumped down.” Liang Huan sat down next to him.

Li Yao stiffened subconsciously, and Liang Huan handed over the arm full of blood: “My wrist seems to be dislocated.”

Li Yao said with a wooden face: “So it’s dislocated, why are you handing it to me?”

Liang Huan said calmly: “If it wasn’t for coming out to chase you, I should be sitting comfortably in the office reading documents now, fix it for me.”

“Heh.” Li Yao sneered, grabbed Liang Huan’s wrist and prepared to break it directly, but who knew that the next second, Liang Huan’s bracelet turned into a lock, tightly buckled on his wrist, and the other end of the chain was wrapped around Liang Huan’s freely moving hand.

“War is deception.” Liang Huan tugged at the chain and looked at Li Yao’s arm moving with his strength with satisfaction, “Where are your little lovers? I can kill them one by one for you, until you are willing to come back with me.”

“Are you sick?” Li Yao didn’t expect that he would use such insidious tricks.

Liang Huan looked at him with a smile.

Li Yao shook his wrist: “How did you find me in the end?”

Liang Huan said: “It’s unspeakable.”

Li Yao got up and left, and Liang Huan didn’t stop him forcefully, loosely pulling the chain behind him. From the window grilles next to him came whistles and invitations one after another, and the pedestrians on the roadside turned their heads one after another.

Liang Huan’s expression was as usual. A few minutes later, Li Yao couldn’t bear it any longer, grabbed the coat on his body and wrapped it around the chain, rudely pulling Liang Huan, who was following unhurriedly, over and gritted his teeth: “Have some shame.”

Liang Huan smiled openly.

Li Yao could only drag people forward.

Liang Huan handed him the clipped chip: “I’m here to find Ling Zao, maybe we’re going the same way?”

Li Yao squinted at his military chip and raised his hand to grab it.

Liang Huan dodged quickly, and shook the clipped chip arrogantly.

Li Yao met his gaze and grinned: “Indeed, we’re going the same way.”

Liang Huan put the chip into his pocket with satisfaction.

“You better keep a close eye on it.”

“Don’t worry, I will.”