Chapter 141: Little Rabbit x Archon

A dead silence fell upon both ends of the phone line.

Just as Secretary Li was beginning to contemplate the possibility of being silenced, Xiu finally spoke, ending the agonizing torment.

“Send me the details first. I’ll be right there.”

He hurriedly dropped these words and hung up.

Secretary Li stared at the disconnected phone, still in a daze.

If they are just preparing for pregnancy, why is it the Archon who can’t go out?

Could it be that the one preparing for pregnancy is actually the Archon…

Wait, no! Why would two men get pregnant!!

Technology hasn’t advanced to that point yet, has it?!

Meanwhile.

As soon as Xiu hung up the phone, he met Wen Chu’s eyes, which looked like he was about to cry.

“You can’t go,” Wen Chu insisted. “You’re pregnant right now; what if something happens? I can go solve it myself. As long as you’re here, they wouldn’t dare really do anything to me.”

Xiu, of course, couldn’t agree. The previous operation was possible because he could guarantee Wen Chu’s safety 100%. Now, he would be crazy to let Wen Chu out while he was still in his heat cycle.

He reached out and pinched Wen Chu’s cheek, opening the message sent by Secretary Li.

“Don’t worry yet, let me see what’s going on.”

Wen Chu quieted down reluctantly and leaned in to look.

The first thing Secretary Li sent was a video. It was the surveillance footage from the revolving restaurant on the top floor from last night.

In the footage, he and Wen Chu were dining at the table, and Wen Chu was battling the salad bowl in front of him.

Both knew what happened next.

The sniper ambush, Wen Chu pulling him out of the way of the bullets, and then subduing the other four.

However, from the high vantage point of the surveillance camera, the details of that moment were clearer.

Just as he saw Wen Chu casually picking up a fork to attack, Xiu suddenly pressed pause. He dragged the progress bar back a little, freezing it right before Wen Chu counterattacked, and then adjusted the speed to 0.1x.

The surveillance camera had night vision.

Xiu clearly saw a faint white light glow in Wen Chu’s palm.

Then, the tiny cuts on his body caused by the shattered glass disappeared instantly.

Secretary Li sent a message at the right time.

[Secretary Li: Yesterday, the hotel cooperated with the publicity and handed over the surveillance records. However, I discovered that the surveillance leaked Wen Chu’s ability, so I temporarily suppressed it. Unexpectedly, someone in the Upper District found out about it from somewhere. The news still leaked internally, and now they are using this to threaten us.]

[Secretary Li: They want to invite you to the Upper District for negotiations. If you refuse, they will make this matter public.]

Wen Chu finally remembered what had happened.

He looked guilty at Xiu, who hadn’t expressed his stance yet, and explained in a whisper, “I got a small injury at the time, and I was afraid you’d worry… I didn’t expect them to specifically check the surveillance.”

After returning home, he immediately rolled into bed with Xiu, and then seamlessly entered his heat cycle.

If he hadn’t seen the surveillance again, Wen Chu probably wouldn’t have remembered this incident until his heat cycle ended.

“It’s okay.” Xiu was unexpectedly calm, even relieved. “I thought some other information had leaked. If it’s just your ability, that’s easy to handle.”

Wen Chu focused on the wrong point: “What other information?”

Xiu: “…No other information.”

His relationship with Wen Chu, the fact that they slept together, the fact that Wen Chu was a lop-eared rabbit spirit… these things were much more gossip-worthy than Wen Chu having an ability.

However, it was understandable. In the eyes of those political creatures in the Upper District, a few tabloid scandals couldn’t compare to an ability that could genuinely increase power. That was why they were so certain he would panic because of this leak.

But Wen Chu was eighteen now. He had known Wen Chu possessed an ability for eight years.

He never intended for Wen Chu to live in hiding forever. Even if it wasn’t exposed this time, he would have gradually paved the way for Wen Chu.

Exposure was just a matter of time. In fact, now could be considered a good opportunity.

Xiu quickly replied to Secretary Li.

[Xiu: Edit the surveillance footage and release it publicly. Proceed according to the original publicity plan. I’m going to the Upper District now.]

After sending the message, he stood up quickly and instructed Wen Chu, “Stay home obediently. The adjutant and the doctor will arrive soon. Don’t trust any strangers except them. I’ll be back soon.”

Wen Chu hadn’t figured out what Xiu wanted to do yet. He stood up anxiously and grabbed Xiu’s shirt tightly. “No, you can’t go. What if you get hurt outside?”

Wen Chu had even thought of the consequences of Xiu having a miscarriage. Anxious tears fell. “You can take me with you. I can heal you. I can protect—”

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a pain in the back of his neck, and then everything went black.

Xiu withdrew his hand from the back of Wen Chu’s neck and caught the unconscious person in time.

He helplessly wiped the tears from Wen Chu’s cheeks and carried him back to the bedroom.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want Wen Chu to participate; it was just that Wen Chu’s current condition was really unsuitable for going out.

Xiu couldn’t help but imagine the scene if he brought Wen Chu along:

At the negotiation table, before the other side even spoke, Wen Chu would support his waist and scold them about the conference room air conditioning being set to twenty-six degrees. Did no one know that such cold air conditioning would affect the baby’s development?

The conference room would also fall into dead silence.

Then, all news headlines and newspaper front pages would change within ten minutes.

[Father-Son Affair! Archon Pregnant for Love, Why?]

Xiu: “…”

Xiu shuddered at his own imagination. After covering Wen Chu with the quilt, he quickly changed his clothes, greeted the adjutant and doctor who entered the door, and left.

Click.

The door closed. Xiu took one last look at the master bedroom on the second floor where Wen Chu was sleeping.

He had to come back quickly, or Wen Chu would really explode with anger.

Secretary Li was very efficient. By the time Xiu sat at the negotiation table, the news outside was already flying everywhere.

[Archon’s Adopted Son is Actually the Only High-Level Ability User!]

[Good and Evil Will Be Rewarded! Upper District’s Evolution Research Failed, Netizens Rumor Wen Chu Evolved into an Ability User Due to Experimental Drugs at Age Ten.]

[Next Archon Election About to Begin…]

As soon as the news came out, there was heated discussion from the Upper District to the Lower District.

However, due to Xiu’s advance preparation, the focus of their discussion completely shifted. Not only did they not suspect whether Xiu and Wen Chu also participated in human experiments because of Wen Chu’s identity, but they also began to excitedly discuss what it would be like if Wen Chu became the next Archon.

Upper District, conference room.

Everyone also received the news from their subordinates and instantly realized that Xiu had probably been prepared.

The people who had originally come aggressively to condemn him fell silent.

Xiu swept his gaze over the people across the table whose faces didn’t look good, and the corners of his mouth curled into a faint smile. “Weren’t you looking for me urgently for something? Why aren’t you talking now that I’m sitting here?”

“You!” Someone on the opposite side lost his cool and was about to curse Xiu for being shameless, but was quickly stopped by the person next to him.

The one who stopped him was a white-haired old man.

The old man looked at Xiu, his tone gentle. “Xiu, we know you’ve had grievances in the Lower District all these years, but the cause of evolution concerns all mankind. No matter what, we hope you can persuade Wen Chu to provide us with professional data.”

Xiu lowered his eyes, looking uninterested. “Then go find Wen Chu. I’m not an ability user. I’m just his adoptive father. We don’t even have a formal written adoption relationship. He’s an adult now; I can’t control his affairs. If he agrees, I consent.”

The old man opposite was speechless.

What Xiu said made sense.

But the problem was that they couldn’t see Wen Chu at all.

Xiu treasured him like the apple of his eye. Even at school, countless people were planted to be Wen Chu’s classmates.

Their people had been lurking for so many years, yet not only did they fail to exchange a single word with Wen Chu, but several of their bases were single-handedly wiped out by Wen Chu, becoming nothing but Wen Chu’s achievements in vain.

The person who had been stopped earlier was flushed with anger at Xiu’s shameless behavior. “Xiu, do you not want to come back?! The Aflund family has held on bitterly for eight years for you. Are you really going to break with us?”

Xiu looked puzzled. “What break? It’s you who have been making unreasonable trouble with me.”

He raised his hand and pointed to the city below the French windows.

“Everyone is looking forward to the next Archon taking office. When the time comes, you can have normal political dealings with him.”

Xiu was completely feigning ignorance.

The people present had never thought about normal political dealings. They came so aggressively simply because they wanted him to hand Wen Chu over to become an experimental subject again.

After Wen Chu became the Archon, they wouldn’t dare to act rashly.

The leading old man looked deeply at Xiu, his tone containing a hidden threat. “Are you really going to protect him like this? Without the identity of the Archon of the Lower District, returning to the Upper District won’t be as easy as when you were the all-powerful Archon before.”

“Oh,” Xiu responded indifferently, already taking out his phone to play.

The adjutant had sent him a message ten minutes ago saying that Wen Chu showed signs of waking up. Xiu estimated it was still early, but fearing anesthesia would harm Wen Chu’s body, he had the adjutant order takeout in advance to take care of Wen Chu first.

Now that ten minutes had passed and the adjutant hadn’t replied, Xiu couldn’t help but worry a little and typed again to ask.

[Xiu: How is Wen Chu? Did he lose his temper when he woke up?]

The adjutant still didn’t reply.

But Xiu’s indifferent attitude had already angered the group of people across the negotiation table.

The old man, who had maintained a kindly expression, finally couldn’t hold it anymore, and a look of malice appeared on his face. “Xiu Aflund, you’d better think clearly.”

“You are already twenty-eight years old. You wasted eight full years in the Lower District. Now you are handing everything over to someone else. It won’t be easy to get it back. You have your entire family behind you. Are you really going to force yourself into destitution for an orphan?”

Xiu raised an eyebrow.

He placed his phone face down on the table and looked at the person opposite. “First of all, Patriarch of the Edward family, sixty-seven years of age, barring any accidents, you should die decades before me. You don’t need to worry about how my future will be, because you definitely won’t see it.”

“And then—”

Xiu flipped his phone over and pushed it forward.

Displayed on the phone was a map of the distribution of all research institutes in the Upper District.

Every research institute was circled in red, and the dotted lines under the red circles corresponded to a certain wilderness in the Lower District.

This was clearly a missile distribution map covering the entire Upper District.

Xiu propped his chin up with a smile, looking at the people opposite whose faces were ashen. “After I step down as Archon, I can still be considered Wen Chu’s adoptive father. Do you think I have the authority to press the missile launch button?”

For a moment, not even the sound of breathing could be heard in the conference room.

The people who had just tried to threaten, ridicule, and provoke him into handing over Wen Chu seemed to have lost their voices in unison, staring dumbfounded at Xiu’s phone.

Fake, right?

This was the thought of everyone present except Xiu.

Xiu answered thoughtfully, “It’s real.”

The conditions in the Lower District weren’t bad; otherwise, it wouldn’t have survived the tossing of the previous Archon for so long without collapsing completely.

With the population advantage plus vast undeveloped land, and Xiu’s vigorous governance after bringing his trusted aides to the Lower District, in just five short years, the industry in the Lower District could already rival that of the Upper District.

Meanwhile, the Upper District was still obsessed with evolution experiments and drug abuse, capturing children everywhere.

Even basic sciences had stagnated for a time, with all equipment resources poured into evolution experiments.

Corrupt and incompetent from top to bottom, the Upper District was no longer the Upper District of the past.

The sound of papers rustling rang out in the silent conference room.

It was Xiu organizing the documents in front of him. He pushed off the table, stood up, and prepared to leave. “Since everyone has nothing to say, I’ll be going first.”

Wen Chu was still waiting for him at home. If he went back any later, he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to coax him.

Just as Xiu was thinking about whether to bring some gifts back to coax the child, the roar of a helicopter suddenly came to his ears.

Xiu paused.

The conference room was on the twenty-first floor, neither high nor low, and there was no helipad nearby.

There shouldn’t be a helicopter at this height, right?

His first reaction was that these people in the Upper District were furious and wanted to silence him once and for all, but after looking up and seeing the equally bewildered gazes of everyone, he ruled out this option.

Terrorist organization? Revenge on society?

Heavy speculation flashed through Xiu’s mind, but his movements were not sloppy at all. He quickly got up, hid in the blind spot of the French windows, and moved rapidly towards the door.

However, upon seeing the appearance of the helicopter, Xiu stopped in his tracks halfway.

It was a helicopter from the Lower District.

Because only helicopters from the Lower District had missiles installed underneath—this was something Xiu had reinforced after Wen Chu was abducted at age ten.

Behind the cockpit glass of the helicopter were the adjutant, who looked like he wanted to cry but had no tears, and a familiar white figure.

The white-haired boy had obviously just cried. He had changed into a black tactical suit, looking very sharp.

But the rims of his eyes were red, there were still undried tear stains on his cheeks, and the ears hanging on both sides of his cheeks had turned into wet, absorbent towels.

Xiu watched helplessly as Wen Chu, sniffing and with drooping ears, lifted a machine gun with one hand from his feet.

The helicopter fired a laser, cutting a square entrance in the French windows of the conference room in less than two or three seconds.

“Attack!”

Chaos erupted in the conference room, and everyone subconsciously fled towards the door.

Xiu was closest to the door. He took a step forward, stood in front of the door, and locked it from the inside right in front of everyone.

“Don’t be in such a hurry to leave.” Xiu leaned back against the door panel, crossed his arms, and looked with a light smile at the people he had blocked.

“The person you wanted to find is here. Don’t you want to chat with him?”

Crash—

While speaking, Wen Chu had already jumped down from the helicopter with a safety rope, kicked the cut glass into the room, entered with the momentum, and then quickly cut the rope.

Shattered glass inevitably flew everywhere. People close by were cut and bled, causing another round of screaming and chaos.

Wen Chu was also cut.

A small cut appeared on his cheek, and bright red blood slid down the side of the boy’s beautiful face.

This pitiable face that had just cried was now adorned with a dazzling red, as if applying the first stroke of bright color to the black-and-white Wen Chu.

Dangerous, beautiful.

Even though he wore such an aggrieved and pitiable expression, no one present dared to underestimate him.

Wen Chu lowered his eyes and dragged the machine gun in.

As he walked in step by step, a soft white light lit up on his cheek, and the tiny cut disappeared completely under everyone’s gaze.

It was Wen Chu’s ability.

The gazes of everyone present instantly became fanatical and fearful. Only Xiu, guarding the door, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it’s just a small injury.

This is too dangerous. How could the adjutant let Wen Chu run wild like this…

“Wen, Wen Chu,” someone in the conference room emboldened himself to speak.

Wen Chu stopped and turned to look at that person.

Because Wen Chu stopped, the man gained the courage to continue, “We were just thinking of finding you. We heard that the ability you awakened is very powerful. I am the head of diplomacy for the Research Institute. I want to invite you to join the Research Institute as our technical consultant…”

“Research Institute?” Wen Chu repeated slowly.

He wasn’t actually very lucid right now.

After waking up from the coma and learning that Xiu had left, Wen Chu immediately held the adjutant at gunpoint to find Xiu.

The Upper District is full of bad people. Xiu is still pregnant. Coming to such a dangerous place, he will definitely be bullied.

He has to find Xiu. He can’t let Xiu be bullied.

From the moment he woke up until now, only these thoughts were in Wen Chu’s mind.

At this moment, smelling Xiu’s pheromones from afar, his restless emotions were slightly soothed, and Wen Chu could barely spare a little attention for others.

The person in charge thought Wen Chu was interested and spoke endlessly, “That’s right. You may not remember, but when you were still a little rabbit, we were responsible for your research. You gained your ability because of us. Cooperate with us, and not only can you continue to gain powerful abilities, but we can also—Ah!”

The person’s words came to an abrupt halt.

Because Wen Chu appeared behind him like a ghost and directly smashed his leg with the gun butt.

“I remember,” Wen Chu lowered his eyes, looking coldly at the wailing person in charge.

“You broke my bones, put me in the gas chamber, made me sick… Being sick hurts so much.”

Wen Chu fell into memories, murmuring in a low voice.

At that time, he didn’t even know what pain was. He just desperately wanted to survive, living barely on the instinct to survive.

Everyone present, including Xiu, was stunned.

No one expected Wen Chu to actually attack, and in such a brutal way.

Everyone was desperately moving towards Xiu. The old man who had been sarcastic at the beginning wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and tried to dissuade him tremblingly, “Let’s talk nicely… We can talk properly. After all, they also gave you abilities…”

Wen Chu raised his eyes and glanced at him.

“Abilities?” he asked back.

He reached out, and a white light fell on the wailing person in charge on the ground. The person’s twisted leg healed under everyone’s gaze.

“Are you talking about this?” Wen Chu said.

The person in charge turned pale and couldn’t say a word, looking at Wen Chu as if looking at a demon.

Wen Chu didn’t get a reply but laughed to himself.

“But, my ability was given by Father.”

As he spoke, he broke the person’s leg again.

The person in charge could no longer scream. His eyes rolled back and he fainted completely. Wen Chu stepped on his leg and chuckled low, “Do you call the process of repeatedly pushing me to the brink of death giving me abilities? Then I can give them to you too.”

“I got nothing. After coming out of the Research Institute, I was already dying. Except for pain, you gave me nothing.”

“My life was given by Father. Father saved me back.”

“Without Father, I wouldn’t have lived long enough to awaken my ability.”

Wen Chu chuckled low and snapped the person’s other leg, causing the unconscious man to wake up from the pain, letting out a hoarse wail.

Regarding his ability, Xiu had never had a clue either.

Research progress in the Upper District had stagnated, and doctors in the Lower District couldn’t explain it either. He was like an unreplicable coincidence. No one could explain why he possessed such a powerful ability.

It might be the countless experiments plus various new drugs tested on him that caused a special reaction at a certain moment, or the hormonal changes after smelling Xiu’s pheromones, or the strong will to survive at a critical moment.

No one could say clearly, but Wen Chu wishfully attributed everything to Xiu.

Without Xiu, he would have just been a little rabbit who died of illness. Xiu was the beginning of all stories, the starting point of his countless possibilities.

Xiu…

Wen Chu bypassed the fearful crowd and looked at the blonde man standing at the door.

The man was wearing a well-tailored black suit, looking at him with concern, his gaze occasionally stopping at his trouser leg.

Wen Chu then realized his pants had a small tear.

He wanted to laugh a little.

When everyone was afraid of him, only Xiu was worried that his clothes had a scratch.

Wen Chu kicked away the wailing person in charge, dragged the machine gun, walked quickly to Xiu, and threw himself directly into Xiu’s arms like a swallow returning to its nest.

“Father…” Wen Chu’s voice suddenly became aggrieved and clingy.

“Why did you come to such a dangerous place alone? Did they bully you? Are you hurt? Why did you leave me behind?”

Xiu caught Wen Chu, helplessly touched his hot forehead, and attempted to take the heavy machine gun from the little lop-eared rabbit’s hand. “I’m not hurt.”

Wen Chu wouldn’t let go, holding the gun and Xiu tightly, touching Xiu’s flat lower abdomen. “What about the little rabbits? Did they make you angry? Did the fluctuation in hormone levels affect your body? You also rushed here for the meeting; there are so many bacteria on the road…”

The more Wen Chu spoke, the more distressed he felt.

He buried himself deep in Xiu’s arms, gripping the gun tighter and tighter.

“Father, don’t leave me behind in the future,” Wen Chu whispered.

“Outside, they all bully you and the children. I hate them… I’ll kill them all for you, okay?”

The entire conference room: “?”

Xiu: “…”