LABMY CH80.1

The kiss ended, and Jian Yuanbai sneakily tried to withdraw the tail that had somehow wrapped around Lu Qianyun’s waist. Just as it was slowly sliding away, a hand caught it right on the spot.

The tip of the tail: !

It instantly stiffened and swayed nervously from side to side.

Lu Qianyun stared at the tail that had suddenly appeared from Jian Yuanbai, curiously reaching out to touch it. “What’s with this tail?”

The snake tail was covered in shiny scales, and although it lay quietly without moving, faint glimmers of light seemed to flow across it. The pitch-black tail didn’t look frightening at all; instead, it carried an unusual allure.

It was like an abyss, mysterious and unknown, drawing people in.

Jian Yuanbai felt guilty when he heard the question. The tip of his tail swayed anxiously, yet part of the tail was still being stroked by Lu Qianyun’s hand.

Soft fingers glided over the cold, hard scales, and the warm touch followed the movement of Lu Qianyun’s fingers, spreading a faint itch that made Jian Yuanbai feel a strange stimulation on top of his guilty conscience.

“My spirit beast is a snake. When I overuse my mental power, which is essentially my pheromones, my body can’t handle it, so I partially merge with my spirit beast to relieve the pressure.”

Jian Yuanbai added, “If my mental sea is an ocean, then what my body can control is just a river. But my spirit beast can control the entire sea.”

It was strange, as if his body wasn’t his true self, but his spirit beast was the real Jian Yuanbai.

No one else in the entire empire was like him, yet Jian Yuanbai was the exception.

Lu Qianyun’s eyes flickered. This might be related to Jian Yuanbai himself. Although he didn’t understand the details, it didn’t seem like a bad thing.

A person whose true form was a snake, with great luck and immense strength. Lu Qianyun thought about those from the Upper Realm, but couldn’t find anyone who fit these conditions.

The only match would be the ancient divine beast, the Candle Dragon, but that species had gone extinct in a great calamity long ago.

He wanted to tell Jian Yuanbai about the meteorite that carried the power of the Upper Realm and accidentally struck him.

And also the reason why Jian Yuanbai didn’t lose his memory in the previous world but did in this one. However, since Jian Yuanbai had forgotten everything, even if Lu Qianyun wanted to explain, he wouldn’t get any answers.

Moreover, Lu Qianyun couldn’t reveal even the slightest trace that he wasn’t from this small world or that he possessed memories beyond this world.

Here, he was Lu Qianyun, and only Lu Qianyun — the future invincible protagonist.

While Lu Qianyun’s mind was filled with complex thoughts, Jian Yuanbai had other concerns.

His tail, which he couldn’t retract, obediently lay there. The tip of the tail curled and relaxed nervously as its owner stared longingly at the deep-in-thought Lu Qianyun, wanting to ask something but not knowing how.

Finally, that burning gaze, so intense it felt like it had actual heat, pulled Lu Qianyun out of his thoughts. “What’s wrong?”

Jian Yuanbai hesitated for a rare moment and stammered, “When are we… having the second class?”

This reminded Lu Qianyun. He got off the stone bed and asked, “Do you have water?”

Three minutes later, Lu Qianyun squatted by the river, brushing his teeth with a strange-looking toothbrush and some plant juice.

Jian Yuanbai wore a bitter “abandoned kitten” expression. “I help you rinse your mouth every day. Are you disgusted with me now?”

Kissing him and then brushing his teeth right after… it really hurt the fragile heart of an innocent virgin.

Lu Qianyun glanced at him with a complicated expression. “Try closing your mouth. What does it taste like?”

Moments later, the two of them silently brushed their teeth side by side.

With this distraction, Jian Yuanbai couldn’t bring himself to ask the question from earlier. He stared at the fish in the river with increasingly complex emotions.

From today on, he hated fish.

In his 23 years of life, Jian Yuanbai never thought he would kiss an alpha. To him, that was absolutely impossible.

But… he secretly glanced at Lu Qianyun.

But if this alpha was Lu Qianyun… he actually didn’t mind. In fact, he even felt… tempted to try again.

Just then, Lu Qianyun turned to him. “I want to take a bath. Can you step aside?”

“You…” Lu Qianyun paused, his ears turning slightly red. “Did you change my clothes?”

He was wearing Jian Yuanbai’s clothes now. Even the pants…

Jian Yuanbai replied, “Your clothes were torn and soaked in blood. My legs turned back into a snake tail, so I figured I might as well change your pants too.”

Now, Jian Yuanbai was wearing his only remaining coat while his black snake tail dragged behind him. Whenever he moved, his waist and abdomen would be exposed, revealing defined abs and the soft scales that transitioned from skin to snake tail. The boundary between flesh and scales was blurred and strangely seductive.

Lu Qianyun pondered for a moment and said, “In that case… you don’t need to avoid me, right?”

He blinked, his expression pure and sincere. “After all, you’ve already seen everything.”

!!!

Jian Yuanbai quickly explained, “At that time, you were covered in wounds. I was just changing your bandages.”

“Don’t overthink it. I didn’t see anything.”

To reassure Lu Qianyun, he solemnly added, “It was all blood and injuries. Nothing worth looking at.”

Lu Qianyun: …..

“What am I overthinking? We’re both alphas. In the military, everyone bathes together. Seeing each other’s bodies is perfectly normal.”

Jian Yuanbai froze. “Oh… right.”

“We’re both alphas.”

A strange sense of disappointment welled up inside him, though he didn’t know why.

He quickly brushed off the inexplicable feeling and said, “I’ll keep watch for you then.”

“There are many strange beasts on this planet. It’s not safe for you to bathe alone in the river.”

Lu Qianyun replied, “No need. I’ve already undergone second differentiation.”

“Nothing here can hurt me anymore.”

Hearing this, Jian Yuanbai hesitated and looked at him cautiously, as if afraid of upsetting him. He racked his brain for a more tactful way to express his thoughts.

After a long struggle, Jian Yuanbai finally blurted out with genuine concern, “Did you hit your head or something?”

He remembered seeing a wound on Lu Qianyun’s forehead when he first found him.

The two of them stared at each other. One was full of careful tenderness, while the other remained expressionless.

First, he was told that his body didn’t look good, and then he was asked if his brain wasn’t working properly.

Lu Qianyun asked expressionlessly, “What do you want to say?”

His eyebrows furrowed slightly, but before Jian Yuanbai could answer, he quickly reacted. He reached out to touch the back of his neck, where it felt smooth, with only a small bump.

The flower seed was still inside, but it hadn’t become his gland.

Lu Qianyun sighed. Seriously, he had just woken up and only saw Jian Yuanbai, completely missing such an important detail.

He touched the small bump again. It was probably an immature flower seed that only burst out for a moment when it was first embedded.

Now that it was buried in the back of his neck, if it withered inside, he might have to dig it out.

Jian Yuanbai saw his movement and spoke more cautiously, racking his brain for words of comfort. But before he could speak, Lu Qianyun covered his mouth and said, “Don’t talk. Listen to me.”

“I found a flower that looked like a heart at the place where we fell. When I saw it, I felt my neck burning, as if it was attracting me.”

“I dug out the flower seed and embedded it in the position of my gland,” Lu Qianyun couldn’t reveal that he knew the plot, so he half-truthfully explained, “Then I felt myself undergoing secondary differentiation, which is how I managed to survive in the swarm of those human-faced arthropods.”

Jian Yuanbai’s expression grew darker as he listened. All his little emotions and confusion were thrown to the back of his mind, leaving only pure anger.

He felt uncontrollable rage for being unconscious.

If he had been awake, Lu Qianyun wouldn’t have gone through all this.

He wouldn’t have been bitten all over, nor would he have embedded an unknown creature from an unfamiliar planet into his body without knowing the danger.

Jian Yuanbai said nothing. He simply turned Lu Qianyun around and looked at the back of his neck.

It was smooth, without a single wound. Even the scar left from having his gland removed had disappeared, leaving only a small bump.

Jian Yuanbai released his pheromones and precisely guided them toward the bump.

“Don’t…” Lu Qianyun tried to resist, but his hand was caught, and his waist was firmly held in Jian Yuanbai’s embrace. A trembling sound escaped him.

His body shivered in Jian Yuanbai’s arms as he tilted his head to avoid him.

The cold bamboo scent belonging to Jian Yuanbai grew stronger, and Lu Qianyun felt the back of his neck burning. It was as if he was completely submerged in Jian Yuanbai’s pheromones.

A person who had lost their gland could only sense pheromones faintly. He wasn’t an alpha, who would feel agitated and aggressive when surrounded by another alpha’s pheromones, nor was he an omega, who would go into heat because of an alpha’s pheromones.

Yet, he wasn’t a beta who was entirely immune to pheromones either. Lu Qianyun could feel them, but it was dull and slow.

He couldn’t describe his current feeling, like ripples stirred on a calm lake but unable to experience the crashing waves that would bring relief.

Lu Qianyun’s face turned red, his beautiful eyes shimmering with light. But the man behind him, completely unaware of his situation, continued releasing more pheromones after failing to detect any response.

The cold and sharp bamboo scent gradually became warmer and more intense as it flowed through Lu Qianyun’s breath.

Scorching and burning.

Lu Qianyun panted softly, his lips slightly parted, revealing a hint of white teeth.

Jian Yuanbai stood behind him, focused on the small bump on the back of Lu Qianyun’s neck. He closed his eyes and concentrated all his attention on the feedback from his pheromones, attempting to inject them into the bump.

Lu Qianyun immediately sensed something was wrong when he heard the word “strange,” but before he could stop him, he felt a large amount of pheromones flooding into the immature flower seed in his neck.

The cold bamboo scent wrapped around his entire body.

The next moment, his eyes widened in shock. No way… Impossible…

He must be dreaming, right?

“Jian Yuanbai!”

The name he called out in shame and anger was soft and seductive, carrying a hint of moisture, completely lacking any threat.

Lu Qianyun struggled desperately to break free from Jian Yuanbai’s grip, but suddenly, all the strength holding him vanished. Lu Qianyun’s legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground in embarrassment.

He was already humiliated to the extreme, but he couldn’t even turn around and glare at the culprit immediately. He lowered his head, took a few minutes to calm himself, and slowly turned around.

And then… he met eyes with a large snake that was biting its own tail, trying to hide itself.

The snake was stunning. Light shimmered across its black scales, resembling dragon scales without a single flaw. It bit its own tail, and somehow, Lu Qianyun could see a hint of innocence and foolishness in its eyes.

It was truly beautiful, and Lu Qianyun was truly speechless.

All the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat.

The long, awkward silence was broken by a cautious voice, “Can you help me untangle myself?”

“I seem to have tied myself into a dead knot…”

Under Lu Qianyun’s stunned gaze, the snake nervously bit its own tail again and mumbled, “If you’re still angry, I can wait a bit longer.”

It said softly and pitifully, “Even though I don’t know why you’re angry.”

Lu Qianyun’s face darkened. What could he even say?

Say that he was stimulated by Jian Yuanbai’s pheromones and… experienced a dry orgasm?

He couldn’t say it.

With a dark expression, Lu Qianyun reached out to help Jian Yuanbai untangle himself from the knot.

Now, he was probably labeled as someone who got mad for no reason and acted ungrateful, and he couldn’t even explain why he was angry.

The snake felt wronged, but Lu Qianyun felt even more wronged. He wanted to cry.

Frustrated and humiliated, after untying Jian Yuanbai, Lu Qianyun didn’t forget to viciously tug at the tip of the snake’s tail in revenge. So annoying!

Jian Yuanbai secretly hid his pitiful tail under his body. Although he didn’t understand why Lu Qianyun was angry, he was actually in a pretty good mood.

“I’ve already checked. You’re now in the pre-differentiation stage.”

“The flower seed embedded in your neck is merging with your body. Once you fully differentiate, it will become your gland.”

As he spoke, Jian Yuanbai was still amazed, “I only tried injecting my pheromones to see if it would work, but it actually did.”

It was absolutely impossible for an alpha to inject their pheromones into another alpha’s gland. The receiving alpha would instinctively reject it, and in severe cases, even go into shock.

Even between an alpha and an omega, it could only happen when the alpha bit the omega’s gland, and if they were knotted at the time, it would become a permanent mark.

Jian Yuanbai hadn’t expected anything when he tried it, but somehow, there was no resistance at all.

“Maybe it’s because you don’t have a gland right now?” Jian Yuanbai guessed.

Lu Qianyun remained silent, so Jian Yuanbai summarized it for himself. Then he cautiously asked, “Why are you mad?”

“Isn’t secondary differentiation a good thing?”

Blushing with shame and anger, Lu Qianyun glared at him, “Say one more word, and I’ll make snake soup tonight.”

What else could be the reason? It wasn’t because he didn’t have a gland. It was because his body was completely defenseless against Jian Yuanbai.

And losing his gland was what caused him to lose control in this humiliating situation.

After all, in a sense, a gland was an alpha or omega’s… private organ.

As an alpha who lost his gland, and having pheromones injected into his immature gland by the person he liked, Lu Qianyun completely lost control and suffered silently.

Jian Yuanbai quietly bit his own tail again. So… why exactly was Lu Qianyun angry? He really couldn’t figure it out.

By the silent river, where not even the sound of cicadas or birds could be heard, a blushing boy in ill-fitting clothes sat there, looking like a newly transformed spirit wearing stolen robes.

Beside him was a friend who hadn’t yet taken human form.

A creature that resembled a tiger, with purple fur, four eyes on its face, and sharp horns on its head, silently approached from behind, driven by hunting instincts and staring at the boy with hungry eyes.

The distance grew closer and closer.

“Roar!!”

It roared and pounced forward, then, with a heavy thud of a massive object hitting the ground, it forever closed its eyes.

A pitch-black snake tail slowly withdrew from its forehead, with fresh blood dripping drop by drop from the dark tail.

With just a gentle flick of the tail, the blood droplets were cleanly shaken off, and it returned to its beautiful snake form.

It even dipped the tip of its tail into the river ahead, lazily stirring the water to wash itself.

Jian Yuanbai found a topic and asked, “Shall we eat meat tonight?”

He stretched his neck to glance at the tiger-like but not quite tiger-like beast and added, “A four-eyed tiger should be quite nourishing.”

“Your body is weak right now, you need to replenish your strength.”

His words softened Lu Qianyun’s heart. After calming down for a while, Lu Qianyun looked at him and sighed inwardly. He shouldn’t have been angry at Jian Yuanbai. Jian Yuanbai knew nothing.

“I shouldn’t have yelled at you earlier.” Lu Qianyun pressed his lips together and lowered his eyes slightly, “I’m sorry.”

The big snake tilted its head, and the tip of its tail swayed happily from side to side as it replied light-heartedly, “It’s fine as long as you’re not mad.”

“By the way, can you tell me why? I’ll remember to be more careful next time.”

Enough, this was really enough.

Lu Qianyun thought numbly. Sometimes, you couldn’t blame him for getting angry, right?

Jian Yuanbai had absolutely no skill in reading the room.

“It’s nothing.” Lu Qianyun sighed as he patted the tail that was sneakily wrapping around him. “Is it really okay for you to be like this?”

Being cared for meant that Lu Longlong really wasn’t mad anymore. The tip of the snake’s tail slipped out of his hand and flicked lightly from side to side. “It’s fine. I just exhausted the pheromones I can mobilize in human form.”

“I’ll be fine after resting for a day.”

Seeing the snake tail swinging around like a windshield wiper, Lu Qianyun’s worry vanished without a trace.

With that much energy, he really didn’t seem like he was in trouble.