SDT 22

Chapter 22 Key Figure

The blackmailer sized up Lu Kongyun for a long time before slowly walking in. The room was filled with the scent of Lu Kongyun’s pheromones. Lu Kongyun saw the blackmailer bend down carefully to place the two coconuts on the table, and then he immediately reached back to touch his nape, confirming that his inhibitor patch was properly applied.

Seeing this action, Lu Kongyun suddenly recalled how confidently he had said at the blackmailer’s home for the first time, “In front of me, you do not need to wear such a thing.”

The dizziness intensified. He raised his arm to support himself on the nearby shelf, and his other hand was forced to lift up along with it.

“Are you ill?” The blackmailer turned around, removed the cap he had used to cover his face, and ruffled his flattened hair. His pale cheeks seemed to have gained a slight flush from carrying the coconuts and walking a long distance.

Lu Kongyun did not make a sound. He walked to the table and tried to pick up the glass of water. However, he had never been handcuffed in his life, so the glass slipped from his grasp and rapidly fell down.

The blackmailer quickly extended his hand and caught it before the glass hit the floor.

Lu Kongyun used a curse word in his mind once again.

He asked: “That countdown of yours just now.”

The blackmailer straightened up while holding the glass: “You already replied to my message, so I reset it. Do not worry.”

“Hm.” Lu Kongyun hummed.

The blackmailer furrowed his brows, silently leaned his body forward, and seriously examined Lu Kongyun; his light-colored eyes flickered under the light of his eyelashes.

…Lu Kongyun felt the damp hair draping over his brows and eyes, making his already unclear vision even more hazy. Thus, he blinked slowly, and with his head heavy and feet light, he drew closer to his target.

The blackmailer’s eyelids trembled twice, and he straightened his back. He tilted his head and said: “Hang, hangover? So severe? Did you not use cough, many products? Useless?”

Lu Kongyun thus turned and sat down on the sofa beside it. The blackmailer immediately sat beside him and handed him the glass in his hand. Lu Kongyun extended his fingers to hold the glass, and the blackmailer nimbly avoided the other’s fingers, instead supporting the bottom of the glass.

Then he said: “Drink… I will hold it for you.”

Lu Kongyun lowered his head to look at the two hands holding the glass from different angles.

Then he raised his eyes, stared at the blackmailer’s lips, and fed the straw from the water glass into the gap of the bite-blocker, sucking on it.

The two of them were silent for a while. Lu Kongyun spat out the straw and said: “I am about to turn into a mad dog.”

The blackmailer was stunned for a moment and asked: “What?”

Lu Kongyun: “Due to certain reasons, my rut is about to erupt. Very severely.”

He looked at the blackmailer whose eyes had slightly widened and hesitated for a moment before saying again: “I need help.”

The blackmailer still looked at him and nodded slightly, indicating for him to continue speaking.

The sensation inside his body gradually surged with his arrival; that tool that had been pouring oil at the bottom of Lu Kongyun’s heart changed from a spoon to a bucket. He had no time for roundabout talk and went straight to the point: “Simply put, an Alpha’s rut is going into heat and wanting to give birth to many, many puppies. A rut eruption is when the Alpha loses reason, goes mad wanting to give birth to many, many puppies, and must use an Omega’s body to resolve this bestial reproductive urge.”

“…” The blackmailer looked at him, and his other hand on his leg gradually clenched tighter.

“But I can deceive this physiological need through some methods. That will require extracting fluids from an Omega,” Lu Kongyun said. “Naturally, from the rut target is best.”

“…” The blackmailer released his fingers and examined him with a different gaze. Then he leaned back a bit.

His expression seemed to be pondering. Then, lifting his chin, he asked: “Then why did you come to me?”

Lu Kongyun was stunned for an instant by what he said, then he tightened the corners of his mouth, and his eyes narrowed as well. The blackmailer looked at his expression and laughed, seeming to mock: “Because I produce a lot of fluids? Or you are reluctant to find… Urgh!…”

Lu Kongyun had not even reacted himself before he had already seized the other’s neck and pinned him down on the sofa. The handcuff chain made a light sound, and he instantly came back to his senses, lowering his head to look at the blackmailer. The blackmailer’s eye corner had already reddened.

He silently released the other and exhaled lightly: “Sorry. I am having a very hard time controlling myself right now. Do not deliberately provoke me.”

He wiped the blackmailer’s eye corner, rubbed it between his fingertips, and licked his canine tooth: “This is not the time for you to play. I am serious. If you are willing, help; if not, leave my home immediately.”

“Now, immediately, make a decision,” he said while regulating his breathing. “Help me, or hurry and go.”

The blackmailer placed his arm over his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking.

After a while, the blackmailer lowered his arm and blinked his still reddened eyes: “How to help?”

“…” Lu Kongyun had not expected it to go so smoothly; he paused for a moment and first said: “Thank you.”

“…Thank nothing. You are really damn heavy; hurry and get up.”

The blackmailer’s lips trembled a few times, then raised his tone a bit: “If you keep lying on me, I will misunderstand that you want to directly use me to give birth to your puppies.”

Lu Kongyun immediately bit his mouth and climbed off him, then sat to the side with his legs pressed together. Then, he stood up, pushed over the prepared prop box, and sat down again.

He picked up a test tube wrapped in packaging and explained: “This is for extracting the front fluids. You should be familiar with it.”

He took out two short and thick ones like small measuring cups: “This is for auxiliary fluids. Collect them depending on your condition.”

“This is for extracting the rear fluids,” he took out the longest test tube. “This one is the most important.”

He held his fingers suspended over the blackmailer’s abdomen, indicating and explaining: “This is the reproductive cavity. The closer to the reproductive cavity the fluids are extracted, the more effective the pheromone concentration.” He slid his fingers down a bit further, indicating: “So the test tube must at least go in to here to be effective.”

He looked at the blackmailer and said again: “If the reproductive cavity passage is narrow, then up to here is fine; no need to go deeper. I am afraid you will feel pain.”

Hearing this sentence from him, the blackmailer was surprised; he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but Lu Kongyun said again: “If you are willing to help me, I will not let you suffer a loss. You can tell me in advance what reward you want.”

In truth, he had been pushed to this state entirely because of the blackmailer; this was something the blackmailer should do.

If the blackmailer wanted to take advantage of the situation, Lu Kongyun had even considered using some tit-for-tat methods to coerce this guy who specialized in pitting him into cooperating. But the blackmailer had agreed to his request so naturally that Lu Kongyun’s self-esteem instead made him say such polite pleasantries.

The blackmailer’s gaze fixed for two seconds, and he exhaled: “…Doctor Lu, with you in this visiting doctor appearance, are you really about to have a rut eruption?”

Lu Kongyun nodded: “Yes. If not handled, I will definitely go mad. Otherwise, I would not have called you over.”

The blackmailer continued to size him up and ultimately chose to believe him, probably because of his excessively abnormal appearance. Then he picked up the test tube packaging and knocked it against his head.

“Does Doctor Lu want to do it directly with me?” The blackmailer suddenly said. “Would that not be more effective?”

Lu Kongyun: “…”

Puppies puppies puppies. Giving birth to many puppies.

“No,” Lu Kongyun’s handcuffs made a tugging sound. “I am not a mad dog.”

The blackmailer, upon hearing this, was stunned, then laughed out loud, though there was some sadness in his eyes. It might also have been an illusion produced by Lu Kongyun’s mentally dazed state.

“But you are worthy of being the Doctor Lu I like,” the blackmailer removed the inhibitor patch from his nape and breathed.

Lu Kongyun: “What are you doing?”

The blackmailer: “Without smelling your pheromones, I will not produce that much fluid for you. My sweetheart.”

Lu Kongyun’s fluffy handcuffs made a sound again. He raised his hand and tugged at the bite-blocker.

“Thank you for helping. You can tell me anything you want.”

“Do not thank anymore,” the blackmailer said. “It is just using the waste I produce to treat illness, and it is not like I’m giving you a kidney.”

“Besides, I am the blackmailer who holds your family’s handles,” the blackmailer picked up the prop box and spoke in his still sticky and full-of-teasing tone. “Doctor Lu has to listen to everything I say. What more can you give me?”

Right. Correct. That was the logic.

Why thank the blackmailer?

It was he who had messed up both his life and body.

The blackmailer left the living room and went into the bathroom, locking the door behind him.

Lu Kongyun also stood up and watched the tightly closed bathroom door from the corner.

Tick. Tock. Time was passing.

…The sound of the wall clock gradually, gradually amplified in his ears that were constantly filling with blood capillaries.

He combed up his damp hair, pulled out the hem of his shirt that had been soaked through under his belt, walked over, stood at the door, and said: “Yu Xiaowen.”

After a very long time, a very low reply came from inside: “…Hm.”

“…” He said: “It is not me ‘using you’ to give birth to ‘my’ puppies; it is puppies we ‘give birth to together’.”

A period of silence.

“Ha… Surnamed Lu, your rut has no desire but causes intellectual decline, does it? Making me exert myself in here to produce fluids for you, and you give me equality lessons outside? Do not fucking disturb me working.” The person inside said angrily. “You are a fool…”

The latter words became even smaller, replaced by exhalations.

Lu Kongyun stood outside the door. He did not speak anymore.

His fingers stood on the door, and his nails and palm scratched across the door panel. Then he lowered them.

He walked back to the sofa and half-lay down, using the cool surface of the sofa to apply to his face. He tugged his hands to both sides, particularly wanting to snap the chain between the two handcuff rings that kept making light sounds.

There were several crescent marks dug out by his nails in his palm. He applied these nail marks to the sofa leather, scratching out some itch-relieving sounds.

…

Yu Xiaowen was working hard to place the long test tube at the position where the more “standard” fluids were located.

He tried several positions and finally knelt on the ground, lay over the toilet lid with his rear raised. He supported his head with his other hand and looked at his blurry reflection on the smooth porcelain tile wall beside him. That gray figure on the wall surface was twisting in posture, holding the “tail” behind his buttocks and wriggling, like a monster revealing its true form.

He was being influenced by the pheromones, and seeing that the tail in front of him was also gradually taking shape… Thus, he turned his head away and did not look anymore.

Fuck. Yu Xiaowen, an outstanding criminal police officer. How was he doing this? Truly damn black history.

But he could not refuse the victim’s request. This had nothing to do with love or hate; actually, it was a kind of loyalty.

He was repaying a favor in return.

A long time ago, one day in middle school. Yu Xiaowen had been caught by those little punks again and ended up being chased down several streets in the rain. He did not know how, but he inexplicably circled back and ran to the school equipment room, where he found a mat and lay down to rest.

This place had the warm and faint scent from the body of the person he secretly loved, which made him feel very comfortable. After the hot summer rain, it could influence Yu Xiaowen’s emotions, making him feel relaxed and happy.

He lay there for a while, and his damp body became strange, scorching hot. He fell asleep. Until he heard the sound of leather shoes behind him, then the sound of pulling a stool, and the voice of a young man speaking.

“What is it? Insisting on calling me here.”

“You take him to the hospital. His body seems to have a problem.” This was the voice of the young Lu Kongyun.

Accompanied by the treading sounds of two pairs of footsteps approaching, the young man’s voice asked: “Who is this? Did you do something to him?”

“…No. I don’t know him,” Lu Kongyun answered. “Classmate.”

The young man said with a laugh: “Xiao Yun, the scent in this room… Hm, I even thought you had just done him and called me to clean up the mess.”

There was a silence for a while. The youth spoke in a very low voice, almost only audible at arm’s length, and said: “I think. This scent… is very disgusting. You take him away.”

The young man inhaled very deeply, then exhaled, as if he were savoring it. Then he laughed and said, with his voice drawing even closer to Yu Xiaowen’s side: “Hm, your feeling is not wrong.”

Yu Xiaowen lay as still as if he had stopped breathing.

Lu Kongyun also did not speak.

The young man: “Can’t you just find your school staff? I am very busy.”

“No. That person has a record,” the youth immediately rejected. “This Omega is in heat; you are not allowed to hand him over to others.”

The young man deliberately drawled his tone leisurely: “Oh, then why do you not go yourself? Is finding me this safe?”

The youth’s voice was a bit impatient: “Your level is high, so you will not be influenced by him; I do not trust others. Thank you. Leave now. Hurry.”

The young man: “Tsk…”

When Yu Xiaowen was scooped up, tears ran out from the jolting. But he could not reach up to wipe them, because he was pretending to sleep. If Lu Kongyun knew he had overheard him say his scent was very disgusting, the scene would become very awkward, thereby wasting the other person’s such careful intention to help him.

Yu Xiaowen only scrunched up his nose and hid his face well.

The youth who had lifted him up naturally saw that embarrassing cat tear of his; his actions paused, then he laughed.

“Truly awful. Right?” The youth said softly.

“What?” Lu Kongyun did not understand, so he answered this young man’s words from far behind him.

The youth did not respond but instead removed his wristband and put it on Yu Xiaowen’s hand: “An inferior Omega who cannot even afford a wristband, dreaming of approaching a S-class Alpha, can only get tears.”

“…” His physical condition improved because of the inhibitor wristband, accompanied by another kind of worsening like falling into an ice pit. The young Yu Xiaowen felt a tearing sensation he had never experienced before.

The youth picked him up, lifted him a bit higher, leaned his head down close, and whispered into his ear: “Lowly little pitiful, do not waste your effort. He will not top you.”

Top your…

Who the hell are you?

If it were not for your father pretending to sleep… Damn it!

“Lu Qifeng, he is underage,” the youth suppressed his voice and said.

Lu Qifeng. Also surnamed Lu.

Yu Xiaowen withdrew the curses in his mind against this man’s ancestral grave.

“You trusted me just now, and it crumbles this fast?” The youth turned his head and said. “Relax, for his kind, even when he is of age, I will not make a move. You called me precisely because you know this, right?”

Thus.

The victim had kindly helped him before, so this time he should also help him. This was a very ordinary principle for being a person.

Yu Xiaowen had smelled too many pheromones and was a bit out of control, continuously producing fluids without knowing the time or place. He felt his wrist being seized, forcibly stopping his actions: “Enough, Yu Xiaowen. That is sufficient; it is fine.”

Then he was fitted with a wristband: “Fine, stop, sober up a bit.”

This item made Yu Xiaowen subconsciously say the character from his memory who had just flashed through his mind: “Lu Qi…”

But he quickly distinguished reality from memory and opened his eyes. He saw that there was indeed an extra wristband on his wrist; this was not imagination. And the victim Lu Kongyun was still wearing the cat-eared little handcuffs, with the chain between his two wrists gleaming and swaying.

The warm light in the bathroom illuminated the victim’s face. The victim’s hairline and eyes were both very damp at this time, and the heat emanating from his whole body had soaked through his clothes. It seemed he had not yet used what he had produced for him.

Yu Xiaowen quickly released the other’s wrist and waved his hand to shoo him away: “I am fine… Hurry and go use the nectar and jade dew bestowed by this immortal to refine the great restorative pill.”

The victim did not move.

His gaze made Yu Xiaowen shudder; Yu Xiaowen subconsciously measured the distance between himself and the door with his eyes. Only then did the victim move. He raised his cuffed wrists, his voice calm: “Fine. You help me open it. I cannot open it myself.”

Yu Xiaowen looked at his wrists, then at his face.

He stepped forward and opened one of the handcuff rings on his hand.