O Pretends To Be B for the Violent Admiral – Chapter 68: The Admiral and the Admiral

Lu Cheng swiftly and silently led Shen Xiluo around the military headquarters pathways.

Wang Qiuyang remained calm and stood guard nearby, not letting anyone approach.

The medical equipment and pharmaceuticals on the battleship were abundant, and Lucas was not in need of more major equipment, so Shen Xiluo only brought along a small medical bag.

Luo Ran stood by the bed, looking down at Lucas.

The big, tall man was lying unconscious at this moment, seeming no different from usual.

If someone else hadn’t mentioned it, he would not have noticed that Lucas was injured.

Luo Ran lowered his eyes and said: “What happened?”

Freeman, who had been traveling with Lucas, whispered: “We……didn’t fight at all in Te City in the Southeast. There was no win or loss. The star pirates took hostages and didn’t intend to negotiate with us at all.”

“Then the hostages held by the star pirates are……?”

“It was a declaration of war. A demonstration.”

Two days had passed, and Freeman still gritted his teeth when he spoke of it: “They directly……blew up Te City with a Meteor Shower when we arrived.”

Luo Ran was stunned.

The Meteor Shower was the star pirates’ ultimate weapon, and it was not frequently used.

— It was artillery.

Its power was such that the entire sky was covered by artillery fire after launch, as if a meteor shower was falling, and it was enough to destroy a small city.

It was only that it took a terrible amount of money, material, and time to construct such a weapon.

Luo Ran did not expect that the star pirates would use it here. This was not an important battle.

As it turned out, this wasn’t their only Meteor Shower.

Could it be……a test of its strength?

And while testing it, it could also serve as a warning to the Empire and Luobing?

Luo Ran’s palms were a little clammy.

“The Admiral had already half-entered the susceptibility period, but during the battle, Lion One was affected by the artillery fire. Lion One and the Admiral are fine, but the Admiral has a spiritual illness……”

“Te City was half-destroyed, and all the hostages were left with wreckage and broken bones. This matter…..has affected everyone’s moods and morale very much, so the matter of the Admiral’s fall must be kept secret. After two days, the Luobing unit will officially return and pretend that the Admiral came back with them.”

Freeman spoke in a clear and orderly manner, but there was still an uncontrollable waver in his tone.

For soldiers, no matter how strong their hearts were, seeing hundreds of people being blown up before their eyes, there was still……

Terror, disgust, anger, sadness……and even more powerlessness and self-blame.

And Lucas, as the Admiral who charged forward and took the lead, naturally saw this most clearly from the frontlines.

It was an Admiral’s failure to predict this catastrophe.

Luo Ran paused for a long time, then said in a low voice, “Adjutant Freeman.”

“En?”

“When was the last time a Meteor Shower appeared?”

Freeman said: “It was the Ravine Operation, and also……”

Freeman was taken aback.

It was also at the first battle of Admiral Alton’s unfortunate campaign.

“That……that……” Freeman stared at Lucas blankly.

“It’s okay, I’ll stay with him. You just got back, so go home and have a good few days’ rest.” Luo Ran stepped forward and gently patted Freeman’s shoulder. “Have the soldiers who participated in this battle go home and rest well. You can help me deal with that, can’t you?”

“Yes!”

Shen Xiluo stood to the side and injected Lucas with medicine while inspecting the equipment.

An Alpha’s rut could be relieved by an Omega of the same level or higher, but spiritual breakdowns also required medication.

Luo Ran kept out of the way, not daring to disturb him.

Shen Xiluo sent Luo Ran a glance and said: “The accompanying doctor did a good job. Since there was some uncertainty involved, he directly put the Admiral into a deep coma so that his body and mind could repair themselves.”

“That…….”

Shen Xiluo said in a calm tone: “It’s fine, if you use your pheromones and the Admiral regularly injects medicine, it will pass in a few weeks, similar to your previous situation. Both you and the Admiral are spiritually wounded people, so there is naturally more risk for injury, but at the same time, your bodies are used to it and know how to repair themselves.”

“Okay.”

Shen Xiluo said: “I’ll be staying in the next room. If something is wrong, don’t panic, just come to me.”

“Okay,” Luo Ran said gratefully. “Thank you.”

Shen Xiluo hesitated, then said: “I learned a little bit about the situation from Adjutant Freeman. Did the star pirates really create a Meteor Shower again?”

“Yes.”

“En.” Shen Xiluo said nothing more, and turned around to leave.

Luo Ran was subtly aware of Shen Xiluo’s low mood.

But Luo Ran had no mind to pay attention to Shen Xiluo. He only sat on the bed and gently held Lucas’s hand. 

Lucas’s hand was half flesh, half hard machinery.

Half warm and half cold.

Now that he had returned to the capital, Shen Xiluo was also there, so Lucas was not injected with sleeping medication and woke up in the middle of the night.

Luo Ran was sitting on the edge of the bed with his eyes closed, resting and still holding Lucas’s hand. He opened his eyes immediately after noticing movement.

Lucas looked at Luo Ran with a slight frown.

“The Admiral is awake……”

“Get out.”

Luo Ran was startled.

Lucas said hoarsely: “Ranran, get out.”

Lucas had a headache. It was extremely painful, and his mind wasn’t completely clear at the moment.

A spiritual disorder was different for an Alpha than for an Omega. Although it hurt the same, an Omega would experience hallucinations and weakness, while an Alpha would have an endless desire to destroy, attack, and go wild.

Luo Ran asked: “Why?”

“I said, get out,” Lucas said. “Believe it or not, I’ll do beastly things.”

“How beastly?” Luo Ran smiled and promptly climbed onto the bed, laid down beside Lucas, and hugged him gently. 

Lucas felt himself being tenderly enveloped in white tea pheromones, which relieved much of the pain and agitation that was driving him out of his mind.

“You can’t imagine.” Lucas gave a light gasp, not daring to move.

“Then don’t think about it. Just have a good rest, Admiral. The Admiral can’t beat me at the moment anyway, don’t worry.” Luo Ran looped his arms around Lucas’s neck, letting him lean against his chest.

“Luo Ran.” Lucas’s eyes were red, as if he was desperately enduring the howling anger and destructive desire. “You don’t know how much strength and out-of-control Alpha has.”

Lucas felt like a monster was living inside his body, clamoring to come out and destroy everything around him, and bully Luo Ran fiercely.

It was the ugliest possessive desire in his heart, stealing away his breath.

He felt like he was going insane.

“I understand.” Luo Ran said seriously, “Now that I’m here, and preparations have been made, the Admiral doesn’t have to endure.”

Luo Ran couldn’t imagine how painful a rut must be for an Alpha. He hadn’t experienced it, but he thought, at least his presence could ease Lucas’s pain and help him get better sooner.

“You bastard.” Lucas’s eyes went completely red, and he pressed Luo Ran down directly, then bit his gland.

It was so sudden.

“Ah…….!” Luo Ran trembled all over, physical tears dripping from his eyes because of the pain.

Lucas was indeed much stronger than usual at the moment. When he bit the back of Luo Ran’s neck, Luo Ran had the illusion that his neck was about to be bitten off.

The hands that grabbed his wrists were also very firm, the pain turning his fingers numb.

Luo Ran lay on the bed and bit the pillow to endure the pain, allowing Lucas to bite his neck as he suppressed his subconscious instinct to resist.

It really hurt.

Behind him, Lucas bit his gland and injected his own pheromones, while also frantically absorbing Luo Ran’s.

Like there was poison in his mouth, and he was absorbing the only antidote that could relieve his chaotic spiritual realm.

Luo Ran cooperated with Lucas, attempting to establish a spiritual connection with him.

Just like in the mecha before.

Firelight.

At the moment of spiritual connection, Luo Ran saw flames in the sky.

They were just like the images he saw when he occasionally had hallucinations before, and presumably completed a haphazard spiritual connection during the intimate pheromone blending.

Luo Ran’s pheromones made Lucas increasingly satisfied, and the restlessness and rage in his body lessened. After completing the temporary mark, Lucas took a few breaths and then bit Luo Ran’s ear again.

Lucas turned Luo Ran over and bit down on his lip.

“Ranran…..”

“En.” Luo Ran’s hand was injured, and he couldn’t move for the time being. He just raised his head slightly in cooperation.

Luo Ran’s cooperation satisfied the lion inside him even more, and Luo Ran said faintly: “Admiral……make a spiritual connection with me.”

As long as the spirit was temporarily bound to an Omega, the Alpha in his susceptible period could get more relief.

It was unknown if Lucas heard him or not, but he was indeed controlling his spiritual power, trying to combine it with Luo Ran’s.

The Alpha’s door was wide open, and the Omega could easily find the way.

The lights in the room were not turned on. Lucas felt around in the dark and held Luo Ran’s cheeks, pressing him down to deepen the kiss.

“Mm……hah…….”

Luo Ran could feel that the spiritual connection was complete, and their pheromones in the air became more intense, as if they had been fused together.

Perhaps it was because Lucas’s thoughts were confused now, but Luo Ran felt he had even gone a little overboard.

Luo Ran was shaking all over.

He saw the flames, he saw the wreckage, he saw……

Admiral Alton.

. . . . . .

Seven years ago, the Ravine.

“Advance! Continue to advance!”

A tall and stalwart man piloted the mecha and led his troops to rush forward through the narrow ravine.

There were stone walls on both sides, and light only spilled down through a small area above.

Lucas squeezed the communication device in the mecha and shouted: “Admiral, the enemy is only six hundred meters away from us!”

They had fallen into a trap.

They had originally wanted to go around the ravine and surprise the star pirate headquarters, which they had finally located, but their movement was noticed by the star pirates, and then they were forced into this place where it was easy to attack and hard to defend…..or in other words, they could only passively endure the attacks.

There was no geographical advantage at all.

“Advance! We can only advance! We can’t fight here!” Alton snapped, “Advance to victory!”

Large and small artillery fire fell from the sky, testing the control of the mecha and aircraft.

Lucas twisted the control level vigorously, dodging the fireballs coming from the front left.

All eyes were fixed on the opening of the canyon in front of them, a place shining with sunlight.

Boom!

At this moment, a Meteor Shower suddenly fell from the sky.

“Abandon the mechas!” Alton could tell at a glance that the mechas could not withstand such a bombardment.

Everyone abandoned the mechas and had them cover the ships underneath.

Bang—

As expected, the mechas were blown into pieces. If anyone was inside of them, they would surely be dead.

Alton shouted hoarsely: “Continue to advance out!”

“Everything but the feet on that mecha is gone!”

But at this moment, an unusual light once again came from overhead.

The Second Meteor shower rained down, larger and more violent.

. . . . . .

When the army brought Shen Xiluo, Xia Zhi, and their medical team to the scene, no one could speak.

Mecha wreckage and human limbs were strewn everywhere in the ravine, small mountains of corpses everywhere, and the ravine was soaked in blood.

The military officer steadied his emotions and voice, giving an order, “Search……search to see if anyone survived……try…….”

“Try to splice the severed limbs together to verify identities.”

. . . . . .

“I found the Admiral and the Junior Admiral!” 

In the foremost mountain of corpses, the ‘people’ whose flesh, organs, and bones were fused together were pushed aside to reveal Admiral Alton.

Perhaps because so many soldiers had been piled on top of him, although the state of his body was horrifying and his facial features could not be seen clearly, he still had breath.

In Alton’s arms was his little nephew Lucas, who had been well protected by him.

Lucas didn’t have too many injuries except for his exposed hand, which was covered in blood.

It was…..a miracle.

When the Meteor Shower landed, this layer upon layer of protection was a miracle.

“Doctor Shen, Doctor Xia…..hurry up! Hurry!”

“The Admiral and the Junior Admiral are still alive!”

The doctors carefully pulled them out.

Lucas grabbed Xia Zhi’s sleeve with his few remaining fingers.

“Doctor Xia……”

The pale-faced Xia Zhi nodded and said: “En.”

“The Admiral……”

“En, don’t worry. We will do our best to save Admiral Alton.”

“En.” Having received this promise, Lucas seemed to have reached his limit, and lost consciousness.

. . . . . .

The hospital.

Lucas stood outside the glass isolation window. Alton was lying on the hospital bed inside, his body covered in wounds and gouges. His facial features were indistinguishable, and not half of his former grandeur and appearance could be seen.

Lucas’s hand was wrapped in thick bandages, and his quiet demeanor was in sharp contrast to the noisy dispute between the two doctors not far away.

“Euthanasia is the only way now.” Shen Xiluo pushed up the frame of his glasses and said: “This will quickly end Admiral Alton’s suffering.”

“Why not try surgery to save him?” Xia Zhi almost collapsed, and said with red eyes: “We can try again!”

“There’s no need, this will only prolong the pain.”

“We can still try, we really can try again…..I did a test report and checked it, it’s really okay…..”

“It’s not necessary.” Shen Xiluo said: “It really doesn’t make sense to try to bring him back.”

“Why doesn’t it make sense?!”

Xia Zhi couldn’t hold back his tears anymore, and shouted: “Are you emotionless? Do you have no feelings?!”

“Xia Zhi, Doctor Xia, as a partner and direct supervisor, I warn you, please do not let emotions affect your good judgment.”

Xia Zhi was stunned.

He just stared at Shen Xiluo in a daze.

“In the end…..” Xia Zhi said shakily: “Even if I object, it won’t work, right?”

“Yes.”

Xia Zhi was trembling all over.

He had promised Lucas.

He was a doctor.

Doctors were there to save lives.

That was Alton, the admiral who had been with them through thick and thin.

The boss who promoted him, who protected him as a doctor on the battlefield, the comrade who drank with him.

Why couldn’t they try again?

“Stop arguing.” Lucas had been listening without their knowledge. “Euthanize him.”

He knew his own uncle.

Xia Zhi stared blankly at him.

Lucas lowered his eyes and said: “I’ll do it.”

. . . . . .

Xia Zhi was emotionally broken. He had already lost the professional qualities a doctor should have, and was taken away by Shen Xiluo.

Inside the ward, Lucas stood beside the bed and took the needle from Shen Xiluo.

Shen Xiluo maintained a perpetually calm appearance, and as Xia Zhi had said, he didn’t show the slightest emotion.

Lucas inadvertently touched Shen Xiluo’s hand when he took the needle.

He withdrew his hand subconsciously and turned his head, wanting to vomit.

He couldn’t bear to be touched by others.

Shen Xiluo was taken aback.

He remembered how Lucas was pulled out of the sea of corpses—covered in the flesh and blood of his comrades and uncle.

It took the medical staff a long time to wash it all off. Even so, there was still some filth that couldn’t be removed. Lucas had still had a strong smell.

Lucas took the needle and looked at Alton.

Alton noticed something, and raised his eyelids with difficulty.

Then Alton gave Lucas a smile.

Of course, this was mostly in Lucas’s imagination, as all he could see was flesh being pulled.

Then Lucas took Alton’s hand.

Two hands were clasped together, one bloody and one mutilated.

“Lucas.” Alton spoke in a breathy voice.

Lucas bowed his head to listen, he faintly heard something.

“Proud.”

“Don’t fall.”

—I’m proud of you.

—Don’t fall down, go forward bravely.

Lucas nodded solemnly, said “En,” and injected the needle into Alton’s wrist.

Shen Xiluo turned around and left, leaving space for the two of them. Those guarding outside the ward could see that his footsteps were disordered, as if he had lost his direction and senses.

The peaks and dips of the heart monitor eventually trended to a straight line.

Lucas stood in front of the hospital bed and gave a firm military salute.