Chapter 89

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Chapter 89- ABO Interstellar (19)

**Trigger warnings: Description of abuse, child abuse, kidnapping, human experimentation, etc.

Ji Zijun woke up with a dizzy head, the tingling in his skull irritated him. Yesterday, he had watched as that unpleasant eyesore (Mu Qingli) received the applause of the crowd and even obtained resources that would help her grow explosively. So he had ordered a lot of wine and beauties to attend to him to get rid of the foul mood he was in. As for how long or how much he drank, even he didn’t know.

He patiently pushed away the leg pressing against him and stood up, but swayed as his eyes adjusted. He looked at the mess around him and the light in his confused eyes soon returned.

“This place is….?” Ji Zijun frowned and looked around. This is not his room! Although this place was decorated beautifully, compared to the gorgeous and lavish rooms of his manor, this place was more like a hotel of some sorts.

“Why am I here?”

Ji Zijun tried to recall the memories from last night, but his mind was so confused that he couldn’t remember a thing.

He frowned in disgust as he saw several beautiful-looking male betas lying on the ground around him. He has only ever played with women, and omega women only. He doesn’t even look twice at a beta woman, much less a man! With his status and identity, he could have all the beautiful women he wanted, so why bother playing with a man? He felt sick even looking at a male omega let alone a male beta.

“Once I find the person who put me in the same room as these things, I’ll throw them all out!!” Ji Zijun walked into the bathroom and began to fiercely wash his body.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

“Who is it! Don’t you know this lord is very busy right now!”

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be frightened by Ji Zijun’s attitude and stayed silent.

“What is it? You called me yet you can’t speak! You’re not a mute are you….” Ji Zijun, who was hurriedly putting on his clothes, began to curse when he saw the caller’s ID and immediately froze.

“Major General Ji has such a big temper!” A cold female voice came out, surprisingly the voice of the famous headmaster iceberg from the military academy.

“Tong…Tong, I’m so sorry, I just woke up.” Ji Zijun quickly realized his mistake and switched back to his regular self while cursing himself in his heart for not looking at the caller’s ID before picking up. Damn it.

“Heh….Major General Ji really knows how to play human…our school can’t afford to entertain such a big, important person like you. There is no need for you to show up at our military school anymore.” Then the headmaster hung up without another word.

Ji Zijun was stunned for a second seeing the ‘call ended’ notification in front of him, but then his face quickly turned green.

“Fu*k that horrible woman! Who are you trying to trample on! If it weren’t for your powerful parents, do you think you would have the title of lieutenant general in the first place!” Ji Zijun angrily threw the towel to the ground.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Another call, this time Ji Zijun looked clearly at the id and saw it was his subordinate before he immediately connected. Soon the subordinate’s anxious voice came from the other end.

“Major General, Major General, something has happened!”

“Zhao Cheng, who brought me into this room yesterday?” Ji Zijun asked calmly despite his subordinate’s panicked words.

“Major General, what are you talking about! Are you not in your room? Yesterday I saw you go in with my own eyes. You wouldn’t come out even when we knocked on the door so I could only call you.”

What? Then why was he here?

Ji Zijun was dumbfounded.

“Major General, Major General, you must quickly look at the news, it’s a disaster!” Ji Zijun listened to Zhao Cheng’s desperate cries and turned off his device as he muttered to himself,

“Something has happened…..what could have happened? Acting anxious for no good reason, he really is useless. It seems that I need a new right-hand man.”

Putting on his last piece of clothing, Ji Zijun opened the door and was faced with a series of flashing lights. Nearly a hundred people stood outside and every camera and microphone was trained onto him.

“Major General Ji Zijun, what do you think about the news that was revealed last night? Don’t you want to refute any of it?”

“Did you really sell mechas to other countries for huge profits?”

“Is it true that you got rid of subordinates who you considered a thorn in your side by placing them on the front lines?”

Ji Zijun was confused by the series of questions, but he had a bad premonition when he heard the contents, and did not answer the reporters’ question. Ji Zijun closed the door, and quickly opened his secret message channel. There were thousands of messages sent to him and the news were full of big red headlines, all about himself.

On the other end,

“Anran, do you want to take a break? You haven’t slept all night.” Mu Qingli worriedly looked at the other’s tired face with a heart full of distress.

“Don’t worry, I’m not tired.” After taking a sip of coffee to energize herself, Gu Anran smiled.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Anran, you post once an hour and each piece of news you reveal is more popular than the one before! The view count is off the charts!” Hong Qingyi exclaimed as she looked at the hundred of millions view counts and the tens of millions of reposts.

“The first one was just to plant the seeds of doubt in everyone’s mind. The reveal was small and looked similar to usual gossip so most would only take a look at it, but pass over it after a while. Of course, people will still share it or repost it out of boredom and as the severity of the news grows, like water and fertilizer, the doubt slowly begins to bloom. Now the people can no longer differentiate between fake and real, as long as there is enough evidence behind it, a charge will be established against Ji Zijun. Even if not everything was real, the people will still think he did everything that the news mentioned. Of course I never falsified any of the news as he indeed did everything I wrote and he has deserved every bit of the outcome.” Gu Anran leaned tiredly against Mu Qingli and played with the ends of her hair lazily.

“But what if there is no evidence to be found?” Chi Mengyan asked worriedly.

“Don’t worry, the drugs yesterday was more than enough. Ji Zijun has not moved the entire night and because of his arrogance and distrust in his subordinates’ intelligence, his people were not sure whether to get rid of the evidence or not. By now, it is too late for him to delete it even if he wants to. Any evidence that was scattered over the internet has been gathered by me and now I just need to wait for the people my brother and sister sent to find his secret trading bases and laboratories.” Gu Anran pointed at a folder on her device.

After some investigation, Ji Zijun’s dark side was exposed. All of his deeds would cause anyone to become speechless. Not only was he smuggling mechas and selling them to merchants, he was also organizing his own private army for himself. Furthermore, he directly suppressed any disobedient or disapproving subordinates of his, from sending them to the front lines to being sentenced to the mines no matter how old the alpha was. And those were just alphas, the omegas and betas that crossed him faced an even worse fate as many were captured and became playthings for some dirty nobles.

With just this, the people were beyond angry, but what was even worse was that in order to expand his funds, Ji Zijun actually started to do human experiments. He made people mate with animals or genetically modified them, wanting to make some catgirls or other beast-type people that could be sold as playthings to the nobles or merchants with special hobbies. Of course, the failed experiments, the flawed beast-type people were kept in the dark and never able to see the light of day.

And not only were the experiments used to increase his capital, but also the combat effectiveness of his own troops. Of course, he was not the only one as experiments to increase the mental power of soldiers have been carried out before. The empire had relatively backward areas where they could ‘recruit’ some willing subjects to carry their experiments on. But the data has shown that there have been no successful cases. Mental power is almost impossible to decrease through artificial means, save for some miracle. Instead, all these experiences would damage the body and reduce one’s lifespan. If such experiments truly succeeded, the entire empire would be in uproar. After all, everyone pursued for more strength.

Of course, the experiments were not isolated to these two types. There were even more brutal and inhumane experiments carried out. The records and pictures shown made one nauseous and disgusted. The bloody bodies and the anguished screams revealed the suffering behind these experiments and there were even some newborns who were forced into the experimentation.

The innocent children in the videos and photos had no chance of living a normal life as many died early. They died due to a twisted human’s wicked desire. And the way they died was quite painful. Their agony and suffering appearances before death took them would forever linger in the people’s minds.

These people….no, these criminals, cannot be pardoned for the sake of those who died!

Di-Di-Di—-

Gu Anran looked at the caller id and saw it was Gu Anxin.

“Anran, we’ve found the laboratory. We believe this is no normal laboratory and can be said to be the headquarters of the laboratories. From the information we found here, we have already sent people to the other small laboratories scattered in the empire.” Gu Anxin’s face was not happy when she found the evidence. Her eyes were bursting with flames and after relaying the name with Anran, she stuffed the commuter into Huang Linfan’s hand.

“Little Ran…Sorry about that….” Huang Linfan smiled bitterly. Not too far away from her, a child’s crying could be heard.

“Huang-jie, what’s going on?” Gu Anran asked.

“When we got here, we found children that the staff were going to do experiments on. The youngest is only 5 months old and the oldest is only 5 years old. Every single one of them have yellowed and thin faces. They had their blood drawn in unsafe amounts, their bodies suffered from electric shocks and so on. Some of the weaker ones were breathing their last breaths when we found them.” Huang Lifan said bitterly.

They had originally thought that Anran was exaggerating the data when they had read it, but they finally understood what hell on earth really looked like when they arrived. The scientists here have no sympathy for their subjects. Even if the subject is a child, they don’t seem eto show any emotions. In their eyes, these children were mere test subjects and to be treated like objects. Do objects need to be respected? Of course not! Furthermore, even if these children died, they could always catch some more. After all, no one cared if a few people from the slums were to disappear or die, right?

In the basement of the laboratory, there were many people dressing in tattered clothes and locked up in iron cages. They were put into the cages regardless of gender and there were at least 20 people per cage with less than a half a meter’s space per person.

All of their faces were also yellowed and thin with no expression on them. Their eyes were hollow and they seemed to have given up as they had no will to survive. They only knew how to obediently take the medicine they were given everyday and accept the drugs injected into their bodies. Those who could endure it were on death’s door and those who couldn’t were already dead. They all seemed to be used to it and were quietly waiting for their death.

“This really…” Gu Anran lowered her eyes and turned off the hologram. The impact from seeing it with her own eyes is different from the impact of reading it on a piece of paper. Gu Anran could only sigh. Human desire is such a scary thing….

“Anran, don’t think about it anymore. You should take a good rest.” Mu Qingli hugged her arms around Gu Anran and smoothed her furrowed brows as she gently persuaded the other to sleep.

“Alright…..” The outcome was set in stone, Ji Zijun couldn’t do anything at this point so it was better to rest first….

So Gu Anran lay in Mu Qingli’s arms and fell asleep surrounded by a reassuring scent.

T/N:

End of ABO arc. Move into the “cultivation” arc next chapter. After that, we have three more arcs before we reach the ending/extra episodes/side stories.

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