ALSACW – Chapter 33

Before Xie Xiaoxiao could decide who to save first, Yun Chuji propped herself up from the sofa, her face pale. “Save that young lady first. I can have Ai’er help me.”

Miles away, Tang Jianxi completely forgot that Yun Chuji couldn’t hear her and yelled at the screen, “Do you have any idea how badly you’re hurt? And you want Ai’er to help you!”

The sole victim, Xie Xiaoxiao, covered her ears and sighed deeply. She first checked the woman’s condition and had Yun Chuji order Ai’er to move her back to the room. Then, Xie Xiaoxiao approached Yun Chuji.

“Pull open your clothes,” she said.

The absent Miss Tang clenched her fists.

Yun Chuji’s eyes widened in shock as she desperately defended her honor. “Doctor, I can’t. It is improper for alphas and omegas to be so familiar. Please, just save that young lady first.”

Xie Xiaoxiao was speechless, equally so with both this alpha and this omega. She operated her comms directly, broadcasting the video and audio for all to see and hear.

“Alright, can you pull it open now?”

Before Yun Chuji could resolutely defend her honor again, Tang Jianxi spoke. “Miss Yun, let Xiaoxiao look at your wound.”

Yun Chuji pressed her lips together, the tips of her ears turning red. She lay prone on the sofa and slowly, bit by bit, used her index finger to pull her clothes open. Once the wound was just barely exposed, she clamped her hand down on the fabric, refusing to reveal an inch more.

Just as Xie Xiaoxiao was about to say the wound wasn’t that bad, she heard Tang Jianxi’s sharp intake of breath from the air.

Xie Xiaoxiao: …

Did Tang Jianxi have any idea that this person before her was an alpha? For them, a wound like this that didn’t damage any internal organs was truly just a minor injury. They barely even felt much pain. After all, alphas were creatures practically designed to be war machines. Their fine tradition in a fight was ‘if it doesn’t kill me, I’ll beat you to death.’ They could only be so audacious because of their naturally dull pain receptors and excellent healing abilities.

Xie Xiaoxiao could only think of four words: Worry had clouded her judgment.

“I’m going to save the one inside first. I think she’s the one in mortal danger.”

With that, Xie Xiaoxiao went into the room.

Tang Jianxi’s large, projected face followed her, her eyes still fixed on the wound, her fists clenched tight.

“Miss Tang, it’s really nothing. I just lost a little blood.”

Tang Jianxi’s face finally stopped at the doorway. Since the camera could only capture the scene within a three-meter radius of the comms’ owner, Tang Jianxi could no longer see Yun Chuji. Her screen was now completely dark.

But the audio was still on, and she could hear her voice.

Tang Jianxi replied, “I’ll come see you tomorrow afternoon.”

Ai’er was already treating Yun Chuji’s wound. She let out muffled groans from time to time. After it was done, Yun Chuji wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, “Alright. That’s perfect. Miss Tang can see how to settle this young lady.”

Hearing this, Tang Jianxi let out a laugh that was tinged with anger. “I said I’m coming to see you. Yun Chuji, can you please take a good look at the state you’re in?”

“I… I’m fine,” said the person who was now wrapped in bandages in three different places.

Tang Jianxi couldn’t be bothered with her platitudes. “Fine? What’s fine about it? You’re injured, and that’s that.”

Yun Chuji was still lying on the sofa. She couldn’t see where Tang Jianxi was, but she didn’t know if Tang Jianxi could see her. So, she buried her reddened eyes in the crook of her arm and said softly, “It’ll get better.”

There was already a hint of coquettishness in her tone.

“Tell me, should I send you to learn how to fight?” After thinking it over, Tang Jianxi came up with this simple and direct solution.

Yun Chuji’s head shot up, and she refused with unusual firmness. “No! How can a woman be so crude!”

“Yun Chuji, I’m telling you, can you please read some other books? Just learn something useful for once.”

“The Four Books and Five Classics are very useful. And I’m also reading the books Teacher Chu recommended to me.”

“…Although I don’t quite understand them yet, I’m slowly starting to!”

“Oh? And what have you read?”

Just then, Xie Xiaoxiao’s voice cut in. She was still holding surgical instruments in her hand as she ground her back teeth. “Excuse me, have you two realized you’re having this conversation on my comms?”

She had been in a hurry to save the patient earlier and hadn’t paid it any mind, assuming Tang Jianxi would hang up.

But instead, they were actually chatting!

With Xie Xiaoxiao’s interruption, Tang Jianxi naturally didn’t have the face to continue the conversation. She hung up the call on her end and then reconnected from the other side.

By the time Xie Xiaoxiao finished the surgery, the two were still talking.

She had no idea what they had to talk about.

Hmph. Xie Xiaoxiao stomped heavily over to Yun Chuji, who was wearing a strangely gentle smile. The loud noise didn’t seem to affect her in the slightest. She just heard Yun Chuji laugh again and say, “Miss Tang, I have been out of the house a few times before, you know.”

“Hey!”

“Shouldn’t you two be a little more concerned about the dangerous person in there!”

Yun Chuji sat up in a hurry, accidentally pulling at her wound and letting out a soft hiss.

Tang Jianxi must have said something concerned.

In any case, all Xie Xiaoxiao heard was her reply: “It’s nothing, Miss Tang. It was my own carelessness.”

Dr. Xie said with a deadpan expression, “Put it on speaker.”

So Yun Chuji hurriedly switched to speaker mode.

Xie Xiaoxiao sat down on another sofa, sullenly opened a tube of nutrient solution from the table, and chugged it down. After finishing, she ignored the tissue Yun Chuji offered and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand in a very gallant manner.

“That omega is not simple,” Xie Xiaoxiao said, getting straight to the point, her expression serious. “She’s probably not from around here.”

“What do you mean?” Tang Jianxi asked.

“Her nutritional state is terrible. I’ve never seen a case like this.”

“So, she was smuggled up from below?”

Xie Xiaoxiao nodded. “I don’t know what method she used, but I don’t think this is a simple matter.”

“And this person is ruthless enough. When her heat started, she just dug out her own gland. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have lasted until your alpha came to save her.”

—“What are you talking about!”

—“Miss Tang and I are perfectly innocent!”

Xie Xiaoxiao rubbed her tormented ears, her patience at its limit. She, a renowned young genius scientist of the Empire, was busy running around in the middle of the night, which was one thing. Having to listen to their flirting while she worked was another.

But what was with the two of them acting as if she had wrongly accused them?

She sneered and pointed at Yun Chuji. “You haven’t marked her?”

Then she pointed at Tang Jianxi. “You haven’t been marked by her?”

Both fell silent.

“Then what are you refuting!”

After her aggressive outburst, Xie Xiaoxiao sighed inwardly. Forget it. She wouldn’t be the one to poke through this paper window.

That Tang Jianxi probably had some self-awareness.

But that Yun Chuji creature probably had no clue at all. That little expression of hers was so pure and innocent it was infuriating.

After some probing, Xie Xiaoxiao found Yun Chuji more and more displeasing to the eye. People were always so contradictory. She was angry that the pig was eating the cabbage, and she was also angry that the pig was ignoring the cabbage.

“Alright, back to the topic at hand. How do you plan to handle her?”

Yun Chuji could tell the woman was in a bad state, but she hadn’t realized just how bad it was.

She said, “I’ll talk to her, get her to lower her guard. It’s not a solution for her to keep on like this.”

Tang Jianxi glanced at the bandages on her body and said, “Don’t you talk to her yet. Wait until I get there tomorrow.”

“Oh… alright, Miss Tang.”

But could Miss Tang really arrive by tomorrow afternoon?

The original owner of this body was from A-District, so Yun Chuji knew from her memories that even the fastest train from A-District to S-District couldn’t possibly arrive by the next afternoon.

“Miss Tang, are you already on the train?”

Tang Jianxi explained nonchalantly, “No, I’ll take my private spacecraft over later.”

“Wow!” Yun Chuji exclaimed in amazement. In this world, one could truly reach for the moon in the heavens.

To the side, the completely ignored Dr. Xie wore a numb expression and opened another tube of nutrient solution.

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The next afternoon, Tang Jianxi knocked on Yun Chuji’s door at two o’clock. Xie Xiaoxiao opened it. Seeing Tang Jianxi’s questioning gaze, she rolled her eyes and pointed to the figure still lying on the sofa inside. “Not awake yet.”

Tang Jianxi frowned. “It’s so late.”

“She went to bed late.”

“Hm?”

Xie Xiaoxiao let out a breath and led Tang Jianxi and her AI bodyguard into the room where the omega was staying.

Sheets of paper were taped to the wall, with words written on them in brush calligraphy:

【We mean you no harm】

【Miss, you can talk to us】

【Please do not resort to violence, Miss. You will only get hurt again】

【You are in a very dangerous condition right now. Please believe that we will help you】

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The omega who had wielded a knife the night before was now lying quietly on the bed. When she saw Tang Jianxi and the others enter, she said, “I need to leave.”

“I don’t care about the cost.”

Tang Jianxi pulled a chair over and sat by the bed. “You have to tell me where you came from first.”

The omega didn’t speak. The atmosphere was silent as the two remained at a stalemate for a long time.

Tang Jianxi said, “I don’t know how you were smuggled up from below, but you have to believe me, your methods aren’t enough to let you walk freely out there.”

The omega raised her head and looked directly at Tang Jianxi. She had Aryan features: a head of pure blonde hair—not the brilliant gold of the royal family, but closer to a platinum shade—and emerald green eyes. Her features were delicate, but she was too gaunt, so she didn’t look particularly beautiful.

“Can you help me?”

“What do I have to give in return?”

Tang Jianxi leaned back in her chair. “First, you need to thank the person who saved you.”

She pointed at Xie Xiaoxiao.

“Second, you need to apologize to the person who saved you, yet whom you injured.”

She pointed toward Yun Chuji outside the room.

“Of course, that’s after she wakes up.”

The omega lowered her lashes and said softly, “I will not apologize to an alpha.”

Tang Jianxi found this fascinating; she even felt like she was seeing a past version of herself in this woman.

“Why?”

“Because they’re all beasts.” The omega raised her eyes, revealing a terrifying, bloodshot red.

“No, at least she isn’t.” Tang Jianxi stood up, a layer of gentleness appearing in her eyes as she faced the wall of papers. “At least, the alpha who saved you is not.”

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