Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 21

Chapter 21

It can be said that Qi Feiluan’s current code of conduct was learned from Ji Xingyuan.

As a Beta, he couldn’t smell Ji Xingyuan’s pheromones, nor could he tell what it smelled like. He had asked some classmates before to know what it smelled like.

Bai Hanxu said that the smell was like standing on a cold snowfield and taking a deep breath. It was a pure cold breath.

Ji Xingyuan is the top Alpha, and his pheromones can often overwhelm those of other Alphas. His cold breath washes away all other smells, just like the majesty that makes everything go dormant when winter comes.

Even though Alphas themselves are very resistant to each other’s pheromones, Ji Xingyuan’s pheromones are also the kind that Alpha hates the most.

Qi Feiluan once tried to find this smell. He tried various imitation pheromone perfumes, but none of them were similar to what Bai Hanxu and the others described.

He stupidly stood in the snow and tried to take a deep breath when winter came, but after all, the cold in the city was mixed with too many other factors, and after all, it was not similar to what Bai Hanxu described.

It wasn’t until Qi Feiluan set foot on the planet again this time and recalled his previous experiences and stupid things he had done that he realized that the smell on this desolate planet might be the smell closest to Ji Xingyuan’s pheromones.

Only here…he was so close to Ji Xingyuan’s heart.

Qi Feiluan recovered his thoughts.

Soon, there was a commotion on the other side of the spaceport. A group of people wearing black-eyed uniforms surrounded the spacecraft that Qi Feiluan and the others took when they arrived.

After a while, the staff on the ship came over and said to Qi Feiluan: “It seems that someone took that spaceship and landed on the planet and stole important items from the base. Therefore, we need to temporarily postpone the takeoff of the spacecraft and conduct a thorough search of the spacecraft.”

“That’s good.” Qi Feiluan nodded.

The base’s senior officials had obviously found out that they had arrived at the planet on that spacecraft, but since they were only searching that spacecraft, it proved that the top officials were not capable of blocking and searching every spacecraft in the space port.

This is good news for Qi Feiluan and the others.

Qi Feiluan turned around and boarded the spacecraft. As the hatch behind him closed, the endless snowfield was also isolated.

After all, Black Eyes was unable to completely interrupt the operation of the spaceport. The spacecraft took off and returned to Earth on time.

After the discomfort of taking off disappeared, Qi Feiluan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, he is finally safe, and he will return to Earth through a continuous flight.

…

On Earth, when Qi Feiluan took off and left, Ji Xingyuan was locking himself in a room in Ji’s manor.

He was almost at the susceptible stage, and Qi Feiluan left secretly. He couldn’t appear in public for at least seven days, so he couldn’t see Qi Feiluan off either.

But the moment Qi Feiluan took off, Ji Xingyuan knew it.

It wasn’t because of some fantasy telepathy, but because the signal from the positioning system built into Qi Feiluan’s neck was blocked after taking off.

The period of time when Qi Feiluan left the earth was, for Ji Xingyuan, a period of time when he was completely separated from him.

He couldn’t receive Qi Feiluan’s position, couldn’t hear him or the sounds around him, and couldn’t see his person.

Ji Xingyuan unconsciously clenched his left hand, and placed a device to monitor Qi Feiluan in his left hand. He once thought that he could easily hold Qi Feiluan in his palm, but the facts proved that his wishful thinking was just wishful thinking.

But if you let him go like this, he will never let go.

Just such a brief feeling of “loss” made him unbearable. He didn’t even want to think about the hypotheses of whether Qi Feiluan would have an accident or die on the planet.

He had to admit that he had already begun to regret it the moment the spacecraft took off and he lost contact with Qi Feiluan.

Ji Xingyuan picked up the pheromone inhibitor from the tray on the table, injected it into himself skillfully, threw the empty syringe back on the tray, and then leaned against the back of the chair and waited quietly for the inhibitor to take effect.

Even though inhibitors have been improved over many generations, they are still forcibly suppressing pheromones to the daily levels of A or O, which goes against the body’s own physiological mechanism, so the experience of using inhibitors is not good at all.

It feels like an airtight glass shell is being forcibly placed against the skin of the human body, and the surge of pheromones is poured into the glass bottle, forcibly giving a calm and stable appearance.

Ji Xingyuan kept thinking about what Jian Junshuang and Bai Hanxu had said, trying to convince himself that he was doing this to improve the relationship between him and Qi Feiluan, and at the same time felt those chaotic thoughts being suppressed along with the pheromones.

Ji Xingyuan stayed in the manor for a day, not only to calm down his body, but also to numb the outside world, making the outside world think that his susceptible period had begun.

Then he secretly left the Jijia Manor and came to the Jijia Hospital again.

It was still the same room, still the same window. When Ji Xingyuan sat in that position again and looked out the window, he felt as if it was the other day.

In fact, only three years and one month passed from December 2240 to January 2244.

The doctor who came to receive Ji Xingyuan was even the same one as before.

Unfortunately, it didn’t snow today.

On the contrary, the sky was clear outside, and not a single white cloud could be seen from the window.

God will never snow specifically for anyone, just like time will never turn back because of someone’s will.

Ji Xingyuan looked away and told the doctor his purpose.

The doctor, who was calm and steady, once again showed Ji Xingyuan’s familiar look of surprise after listening to his words.

Then everything happened again just like three years ago. The doctor had no choice but to implement his idea again after his persuasion failed.

…

On the spaceship, Qi Feiluan was awakened from his dormant state and prepared to land at the space port on Earth.

This spaceship itself belongs to the Zhao family and is used to transport important supplies directly to the capital, so it will land closest to the capital.

When the spacecraft landed, Xu Ruifeng, who was still waiting at the spaceport, immediately drove over to meet him.

The explosion-proof vehicle used by Xu Ruifeng to escort important supplies was parked outside the hatch. The hatch opened and a slide was thrown down.

Qi Feiluan did not rush down, but leaned against the cabin wall, stretched out his hand through his collar and pressed the button on his neck.

The piece of metal that stored important data was connected to the prosthesis on his neck, and there was a direct connection between his neck and the device inserted in Ji Xingyuan’s left hand. This was a ready-made one-to-one encrypted channel.

After returning to Earth and reconnecting, he can transfer the data directly to Ji Xingyuan.

When the sound of data transmission being completed sounded, Qi Feiluan finally relaxed physically and mentally, leaned down and slid down the slide, then jumped onto Xu Ruifeng’s car without stopping and said, “Let’s go back to the capital.”

Although he didn’t know how the investigation on the planet was going, during the time he flew back to Earth, he was afraid that the planet had contacted Ji Taizhen and transmitted information about the theft of important data to the Earth.

Ji Taizhen is very cunning. If he reacts and asks someone to investigate, they will soon find out that he may be on the Zhao family’s spaceship.

If Ji Taizhen was sober, he would have known that killing him was useless, but he was afraid that he would jump over the wall and cause an “accident” on the way back.

Qi Feiluan’s mobile phone was left at Ji’s Manor to prevent it from being located. He asked Xu Ruifeng directly: “What day and time is it now?”

“February 4th, New Year’s Eve, 16:43.” Xu Ruifeng switched the car to autonomous driving, then looked at his phone and replied, “I can still go back to celebrate the New Year.”

“Boss, someone will not have a good New Year this time.”

Qi Feiluan nodded and did not reply. The more than ten days of space travel and actions on the planet made him exhausted. He took the time to close his eyes and rest.

It would take at least three hours to get from the nearest spaceport to the capital. He should be able to see Ji Xingyuan to report to him before eight o’clock in the evening, provided there were no accidents on the way.

…

At almost the same time, there was deathly silence in the conference room of Jijia Building.

Ji Xingyuan notified the person in charge and the shareholders to come to this meeting at short notice. Those who could not come were directly connected via video. Almost most of the participants were confused, and only a small part understood that… things were going to change.

Ji Taizhen, who was sitting next to Ji Xingyuan, had the ugliest expression on his face. He could hardly maintain his usual kind expression.

Because Ji Taizhen had just received a message from the planet two days ago that someone had broken into the associated crystal mine and stolen the data. The planet had detained a spaceship without people, but the search of the ship never found anyone.

The person on the planet who suspected of stealing the data had already boarded the spacecraft returning to Earth and proposed to investigate from the Earth.

When Ji Taizhen received the news, he angrily swept the files on his desk to the floor.

With his status, reselling the crystal ore was no big deal, but reselling it to Grantham was a big problem.

He had long seen that his newly appointed nephew was not willing to share power with anyone, so he was waiting for the opportunity to remove himself from the core of the Ji family.

Now that the tyrant has sent someone to obtain the sharp sword that can give him a fatal blow, he must not wait to die.

There’s still a chance… there’s still a chance!

Counting the time, even if the person who stole the data kept boarding the spacecraft and returning to Earth, the spacecraft should not have landed yet.

If he could find out which spacecraft it was and blast him into pieces when he landed and exited the cabin, then he would still have a chance!

Ji Taizhen didn’t care about anything else and quickly started asking people to investigate.

Qi Feiluan, who had disappeared for more than 10 days, Xu Ruifeng of the Red Eyes Team 2, and the Zhao family’s spacecraft that was about to land, all the clues that were once inconspicuous led the investigators to report to Ji Taizhen a conclusion:

Qi Feiluan took advantage of his free time to fly to the planet, quickly obtained the data, and was about to return to Earth.

Ji Taizhen’s face was clouded. He knew that it was too late to kill Qi Feiluan. Even if the data was encrypted and had special identification methods, it would be tracked and intercepted once it was transmitted to the Internet.

Others don’t know the relationship between Ji Xingyuan and Qi Feiluan, but he is Ji Xingyuan’s uncle, and he knows that Qi Feiluan is actually the most trusted and closest person to Ji Xingyuan.

This is to say at best, at worst, Qi Feiluan is Ji Xingyuan’s most loyal and admired dog. There is no guarantee that Qi Feiluan will not have any special contact method with Ji Xingyuan to transmit data.

Ji Taizhen calmed down quickly. He was no longer one of those impulsive and revengeful young men.

Killing Qi Feiluan now would at best make him angry. Even if Ji Xingyuan got evidence of his cooperation with Grantham, it would at most force him to let go and retire.

He was Ji Xingyuan’s uncle after all. If Ji Xingyuan wanted to kill him because of such business matters, the other elders and leaders of the Ji family would not agree.

But if he goes to intercept and kill Qi Feiluan now, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat a dog. If Ji Xingyuan grabs the tail of his hand to cause trouble, and with the evidence of his cooperation with Grantham, he may really be killed by Ji Xingyuan.

After all, Ji Taizhen knew very well that Ji Xingyuan was Ji Tailin’s son, and he was an out-and-out lunatic. Who knew how crazy he would become because the dog was killed.

Ji Xingyuan didn’t think that he might kill Qi Feiluan, so he sent the dog out to complete the task. If the dog died, he would have reason to go crazy.

When he thought that Qi Feiluan might be a bait to catch him, Ji Taizhen, who was already at a disadvantage, gave up the idea of ​​intercepting and killing Qi Feiluan.

This time it was just a bad move and Ji Xingyuan was caught off guard. As long as he didn’t die, there was always a chance to make a comeback, and he still had more than one card in his hand that could be used…

After this time, he would never let Ji Xingyuan have an easy time.

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The author has something to say: There was a bug in the previous time, so I calculated the time, because the hospital operation happened on December 21, 2240, and the current timeline is January 21, 2244. It is only three years and one month, but using only 2244-2240, it can be said that four years have passed.

After thinking about it, except for the expressions that are accurate to the year, month and day, the article uniformly changes three years ago to four years ago, and calculates it directly according to the year, so that the expression is clearer.