DDT - Chapter 123
Chapter 123: Interstellar ABO (8)
A love rival?
Chi Junluo never expected to get an answer like that. The air was instantly filled with awkwardness.
Of course, Chi Junluo was the only one who felt awkward. She scratched her head, feeling she shouldn't have written those words in the first place. Thinking back on it, she agreed it was a bit inappropriate, but she hadn't connected their status as love rivals to herself.
She decided to change the subject. Reaching out, she tapped the clear button on the light screen. The sentences she had written vanished instantly, and the screen returned to a pristine white, as if their strange exchange had never happened.
Chi Junluo thought for a moment. This world definitely had something like the internet. She had just arrived and didn't have a deep understanding of this world. She couldn't just keep asking this girl named Yi Huai about everything, could she?
So, Chi Junluo used her finger to write on the light screen again, "Excuse me, could you please teach me how to get online?"
Online? Yi Shuhan looked at the words and figured Chi Junluo probably meant the Star Network.
Chi Junluo added another sentence, "I want to look up some information to understand this world."
Yi Shuhan understood now. Chi Junluo had amnesia. Based on her behavior, it was very likely that Chi Junluo had forgotten even the most basic common knowledge. Fortunately, she hadn't forgotten how to read, write, or speak, so basic communication between them wasn't a major issue.
Yi Shuhan scooted closer to Chi Junluo and guided her hands, teaching her how to operate the light screen.
Luckily, there was nothing wrong with Chi Junluo's intelligence; she learned how to use the light screen in one go. After Yi Shuhan showed her how to find the entrance to the Star Network, she moved to the other side of the sofa. Whatever Chi Junluo wanted to search for was her personal privacy. Yi Shuhan wouldn't interfere or be overly curious. If Chi Junluo wanted her to see, she would look. If not, she wouldn't press the issue.
Seeing Yi Shuhan move away, Chi Junluo breathed a small sigh of relief. She felt that the things she was about to search for were too idiotic. If Yi Shuhan saw them, tsk, it would be a bit embarrassing.
She mentally cursed the unreliable Heavenly Dao, whom she had nearly forgotten, over and over again. Wasn't it just toying with her? It brought her here, threw her into a nearly crippled body, and then disappeared. She was finally rescued by a friend of the original owner, only to find out that this friend was a love rival of the heroine she was supposed to find.
What kind of mess was this!
Chi Junluo looked at the magnificent interface of the Star Network. A vast cosmic river of stars, with celestial bodies and galaxies emitting different colored lights, was displayed on the not-so-large screen, yet it felt incredibly three-dimensional and realistic. Forgive her for her limited experience; she really couldn't find the right words to describe the feeling.
She reached out and swiped at the Star Network's interface. Different planets scrolled under her hand, each offering a unique view.
After carefully reading the labels on the planets, she tapped on a deep blue planet with a ring around it. It was labeled "Star Network Omni-Search."
It should function similarly to a browser. The light screen's interface changed, and a long bar resembling a search box appeared in the center. To the far right was a small hand icon. Chi Junluo tapped the search box, and an interface that looked like a keyboard popped up below. Seeing the strange symbols on the keyboard, she tried pressing a few keys, which produced a bizarre sentence. It seemed she was behind the times. After studying the interface for a moment, Chi Junluo successfully found the toggle for handwriting and voice input. She happily switched to the handwriting interface and entered her first search query: "World History."
She tapped the small hand icon to search. The page entered an intelligent search mode, and a prompt popped up: Are you looking for the "Alliance Development History"?
Without much thought, Chi Junluo tapped yes. The interface jumped, and a very long passage of text appeared. Chi Junluo rubbed her eyes and began to read carefully.
The more she read, the more shocked she became. The human society now known as the Alliance had traveled here over a thousand years ago from a planet very similar to Earth called Blue Star, journeying across a great distance in an Ark. This was the first time Chi Junluo had encountered such a worldview and history, and she marveled inwardly. Then, she read about the Zerg invasion, humanity's resistance, and how the Yi Family had played a major role in promoting all these events…
The text was simply too long. After scrolling a few times without reaching the end, Chi Junluo gave up reading. She could take her time learning these things later. For now, she had a basic understanding of this world.
So, in this world, she was no longer on Earth. She was gradually beginning to realize how limited her previous thinking had been. Humanity in this world had developed to the point where they could travel freely through the universe on their own. There was also the threat of the ugly and strange Zerg, as well as various mecha, cars, and other modes of transport that flew in ways her knowledge couldn't explain. Recalling her behavior today, she blushed and covered her forehead with her hand. If only she had watched a few more sci-fi movies in her original world, she wouldn't have acted so foolishly today!
Sob!
She really missed that whiny Heavenly Dao. She felt a bit overwhelmed by this world!
Closing the search results for the Alliance history, she returned to the search page. After a moment of thought, she entered the word "Alpha."
She tapped search, and soon, many related results appeared. #Alpha Compatibility Test! Let Your Omega Birth the Strongest Offspring!#
#The Complete List of Alpha Names for 1325!#
#Those Years: The Untold Stories Between Alphas (First Prize, Angsty Teen Literature)#
Chi Junluo's head was full of question marks. She had thought the "Alpha" label in the gender field was a mark of constitution or some special status. What was with all this weird stuff she was finding?
Chi Junluo scrolled down a few entries and finally found a relevant professional explanation.
"Alpha: A symbol from ancient Blue Star civilization, meaning 'the best.' After the Alliance's gender differentiation, it was used to refer to the strongest of the genders.
Alphas possess extremely high mental power and physical constitution. The Alliance's frontline military is mostly composed of outstanding Alphas with excellent abilities. Besides Alphas, the other two major genders are Beta and Omega. Note: Within the three major genders, there are two sub-genders, male and female."
Chi Junluo worked hard to digest this strange new knowledge, then tapped for more details and continued reading, carefully finishing the descriptions of the other two genders as well.
From that moment on, a new door opened in Chi Junluo's world. She thought again of the unidentified creature that called itself the Heavenly Dao—its heaven-defying ability to lead her through different worlds, its powerful Heavenly Dao energy, and something even stranger. The Heavenly Dao had told her about a power within her own body, a golden power that felt completely different from using the Heavenly Dao's energy. The golden energy felt as if it grew from her very soul, as easy to command as her own limbs, even more so than the Heavenly Dao's power.
She understood that the Heavenly Dao definitely knew something. When it returned, she would have to ask it for a clear explanation!
After absorbing the distinctions between the three genders, Chi Junluo had a rough idea of her own gender. The entry for Omega stated that due to physical limitations, Omegas could not pilot mecha. When she arrived in this world, she had escaped from a crashed mecha. The cockpit could only hold one person, so it was obvious the original owner had been piloting it. Therefore, she determined she was definitely not an Omega. As for Beta and Alpha, the distinction lay in their scent glands. Betas had almost no glands, their marking ability was weak, and their fertility was low. In contrast, an Alpha's glands were extremely developed, their pheromones had a strong scent, and their "territorial ability" was extremely potent. Alphas could clearly sense each other's pheromones, and most Alphas resisted getting close to their own kind because their pheromones were mutually invasive, making it uncomfortable to be together, let alone do anything intimate.
Chi Junluo recalled the angsty teen literature prize winner she had just seen: Those Years: The Untold Stories Between Alphas.
A thought suddenly occurred to her. If she needed to collect the Power of the Heavenly Dao, she would inevitably have to interact with the heroine. The ID of this girl named Yi Huai listed her as an Alpha, and she had said she and Yi Shuhan were love rivals.
In that case, the heroine, Yi Shuhan, was very likely an Alpha! Given the situation in this world, if the heroine were just a Beta, the term "love rival" wouldn't make sense. After all, between a Beta and an Alpha, an Omega would almost always choose the Alpha. This was a conclusion she had just drawn from her search results.
Question: Assuming she and the heroine were both Alphas, how was she supposed to hold hands and sleep in the same bed with her?
This world was too unfriendly to her!
As Chi Junluo pondered, her right index finger began to habitually tap on the light screen.
Hearing the "tap, tap, tap" sound, Yi Shuhan shifted her gaze over. She saw Chi Junluo's long, slender fingers tapping rhythmically and subconsciously. Her eyes darkened slightly. A person's habits are ingrained in their bones; even with amnesia, it's hard to completely shake them. Chi Chi had never realized that whenever she was deep in thought, her right fingers would start tapping on a desk or some other surface. Chi Chi was still Chi Chi, just not the same Chi Chi as before.
For some reason, perhaps because it was drier on Moon Star, Yi Shuhan felt the air was a bit hot. She wanted to open a window but then remembered that people were still monitoring them from the building across the way, so she gave up the idea.
Her gaze swept over the various facilities in the room, and she found the temperature control system. She lowered the room temperature a bit and sat back down on the sofa. After the temperature dropped, she felt a little more comfortable. She felt like she had forgotten something important. She'd had this feeling ever since leaving the Main Star, but at the time, she believed nothing was more important than rescuing Chi Chi, so she had temporarily pushed it to the back of her mind. Now that Chi Chi was found and they were temporarily settled, it was time to think hard about what important thing she had forgotten.
Chi Junluo sat on the sofa, poking and prodding at the light screen, learning a lot of basic knowledge about this world. She sighed with emotion. Through the positioning information on the light screen, she learned that the planet they were currently on was called Moon Star, an ordinary Class 2 planet in the Western Star Region. It had no special features, not even a military garrison. It was as ordinary as a small village in China back on Earth. Combining this with what the girl named Yi Huai had said earlier—that her identity could not be revealed—did this mean she had fled to this backwater to lie low or reinvent herself?
She thought about it and felt something was still off. Based on the information she had just looked up, humanity now had only one Blue Star Alliance, with no national divisions or extra armed organizations. At least from the information she found, humanity's Blue Star Alliance was peaceful, and all military forces were used to fight against the Zerg. So, as a mecha pilot, why did she need to hide her identity?
Could she be a spy sent by the Zerg?
Chi Junluo felt she might have too much time on her hands. Shaking off the unrealistic fantasy, she reached up and tugged at her collar. She had changed into a patient's gown back in the comprehensive examination room. She didn't know if the gown was a bit thick, but after sitting on the sofa for so long, she felt a little hot.
Chi Junluo felt the inside of the gown. It didn't feel fluffy or anything; in fact, it felt quite thin.
Chi Junluo was a little puzzled. Faintly, she seemed to smell a light floral scent. Chi Junluo turned her head to look at Yi Shuhan. As soon as she turned, the scent grew stronger. The girl named Yi Huai seemed to be thinking about something, or perhaps she was just dazed. There was a blush on her face. Chi Junluo vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Before she could use the light screen to ask Yi Huai what was going on, the fragrance became even more intense. She felt her head spin, as if her senses had been magnified many times over. She could even hear her own beating heart and the blood pulsing in the veins of her head.
Her mouth and throat felt dry.
Chi Junluo looked at the empty coffee table, then at the room's facilities. She really didn't know where to get water, so she had to exit the Star Network and write on the light screen.
Chi Junluo moved next to Yi Shuhan and handed the light screen over.
Yi Shuhan was startled by the light screen appearing before her eyes. With Chi Chi sitting right beside her, a strange palpitation suddenly arose in her heart. Seeing that Chi Junluo was thirsty, Yi Shuhan quickly got a cup and filled it with warm water. Chi Junluo felt increasingly thirsty. As she reached for the cup, her fingers brushed against Yi Shuhan's. Yi Shuhan felt as if she had been electrocuted, a strong, tingling numbness striking her and causing her to take half a step back. Fortunately, Chi Junluo had already taken the cup, and not a single drop was spilled. Chi Junluo was in a hurry to drink and didn't notice Yi Shuhan's strange reaction.
A cup of water went down, but it had no effect at all. Chi Junluo placed the cup on the coffee table, only to feel her hands trembling slightly.
The fragrance grew stronger and stronger, as if the entire room was filled with this scent. Chi Junluo's mind was already a bit fuzzy. She struggled to draw a conclusion from the current situation: there was something wrong with this scent!
An Omega's heat came on with a ferocious rush. By the time Yi Shuhan finally realized what was wrong, it was already too late.
An intense, scorching heat and an irrepressible emptiness assaulted her in waves. She no longer had the strength to stand properly. Her whole body went limp on the sofa, continuously emitting alluring pheromones. She leaned against the sofa, the only thought she could muster being that she should have brought her inhibitors with her!
For an Omega with a regular heat cycle, if they didn't have a permanent partner to protect them, inhibitors were extremely important. When an Omega went into heat, their strong pheromones would spread far and wide. These pheromones were a fatal attraction to Alphas; almost no Alpha could maintain their sanity and control themselves when exposed to an Omega's wildly diffusing pheromones.
Inhibitors were useful when an Omega first noticed their pheromones starting to leak, signaling the onset of heat. But once the heat truly began and the optimal window for using inhibitors had passed, they were useless. In fact, they could even harm the Omega's body. A mild case might result in being bedridden for a few weeks, while a severe case could lead to infertility or even death.
As an Omega who loved scientific research, Yi Shuhan had used the inhibitors she had prepared at the research institute since her first sign of heat at the age of twenty. She had also strictly recorded her heat cycle. For the past two years, a robot in the lab had been responsible for tracking her cycle and delivering the inhibitors to her the day before it began. All she had to do was take two minutes to use them. Therefore, she had never given her heat much thought, only remembering it when the robot reminded her. Because she spent most of her time on research, she had never missed a dose. This was the first time in her life she had tasted what a heat felt like.
Yi Shuhan's heart felt like it was being scratched by a cat, an unbearable itch. A hot, wet feeling spread between her legs. She could hear her own panting, which she couldn't control. It was her carelessness. She should have brought some inhibitors with her! Moreover, she should have realized it when her body first started to heat up. If she had noticed something was wrong then, she could have called the hospital staff to bring her inhibitors in time. Now that her pheromones had fully spread, inhibitors were useless. An Omega's heat couldn't be suppressed by just a cold shower. Once in this state, only an Alpha's temporary or deep marking could end it. Otherwise, the Omega would enter a continuous heat lasting for days, until their body was completely depleted and they fell into a state of weakness close to death, or until they were found and marked by an Alpha. It wouldn't stop otherwise.
This was also one of the reasons Yi Shuhan so strongly resisted her Omega gender. In her view, only beasts without thought, reason, or anything but instinct would be unable to control their urges and be led by desire. She always felt that modern humans were becoming more and more bestial.
Yi Shuhan's mind was in turmoil. She didn't think she had ever wanted to find an Alpha to live with. Her pride was extremely strong; she was unwilling to submit herself beneath an Alpha. Even with her only and best friend, Chi Chi, she had never thought in that direction. In her eyes, an outstanding Alpha like Chi Chi wouldn't be interested in an unconventional, off-the-beaten-path Omega like herself.
Yi Shuhan's thoughts grew more and more chaotic until she had less and less energy to think. She only felt that a scorching flame was about to consume her whole. The gland on her neck throbbed, aching and swollen. She turned her head with some difficulty to look at the other end of the sofa. Her vision was a bit blurry, and she couldn't see clearly. She thought, if the Alpha who marked her was Chi Chi, it wouldn't be so hard to accept…
Chi Junluo's heart pounded. An indescribable tingling ache shot up from her lower abdomen, and her entire being became incredibly agitated. It felt as if a strange power was crashing through her body, making her tremble slightly. Suddenly, she heard a soft female voice calling her name, "Chi Chi…"
Chi Junluo stood up and walked over, almost impatiently. The pain from her wounds seemed to have vanished. The closer she got to the person half-lying on the sofa, the stronger the clamor in her mind became. The fragrance was so rich that she thought she was in a sea of flowers. The person on the sofa looked incredibly alluring.
She felt she had lost the ability to think. Right now, she only wanted to do something to the sweet-smelling beauty on the sofa.
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