Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 52

Chapter 52

The mercenary team drove the rescue speedboat to an unnoticed shore. Ji Xingyuan jumped on the shore first, turned around and handed his right hand to Qi Feiluan.

The rising sun in the distance had already risen to the sea level. Qi Feiluan stood in front of him with the light behind his back. Ji Xingyuan knew that he didn’t need his help, but he still extended his hand.

He had not wanted to talk to Qi Feiluan about his gland replacement on the boat before. On the one hand, it was because there were other people on the boat, and it was inconvenient to see so many people. On the other hand, it was out of his own selfishness.

If Qi Feiluan was still a little bit curious and cared about him, they could see each other at least once on the shore.

When Qi Feiluan faced Ji Xingyuan’s extended hand, he did not take it immediately.

Qi Feiluan’s eyes were fixed on Ji Xingyuan’s neck. During the brief pause of a few seconds, he seemed to be thinking about nothing, but also seemed to be thinking a lot. In the end, Qi Feiluan took his hand and followed him to the shore.

From the time when he was deceived into the hospital, to now, forty years, no, almost five years, he seems not to understand what Ji Xingyuan is thinking, and it’s the same this time.

So, why.

He wanted to hear Ji Xingyuan’s explanation.

After Ji Xingyuan and Qi Feiluan reached the shore, they walked through a green belt to the road on the other side, where several cars were parked.

Ji Xingyuan opened the car door and sat in with Qi Feiluan.

Ji Xingyuan said to Qi Feiluan: “Give me some time. After I finish dealing with the explosion at the dock, we will sit down and talk.”

…

The explosion at the pier at night almost woke up the whole country. Not long after Ji Xingyuan and Qi Feiluan left by boat, fire fighters, special police, and reporters rushed to the pier, and the sky was filled with drones circling and taking pictures.

As soon as Ji Xingyuan sat in the car, his subordinates handed over the latest information on relevant incidents.

Since Grantham mentioned the possibility of an explosion when he called Ji Xingyuan at that time, none of the Ji family men brought by Ji Xingyuan to the dock got out of the car. The parking place was also far away, and they urgently reversed the car at the first moment when the gunfire rang out.

However, the bombs that Grantham frantically placed in the surrounding containers were not only numerous, but also relatively scattered, and the explosions covered a large area. There were still many casualties among the Ji family’s men. As for the men that Grantham brought with him, they were almost certain to die, and even their bodies were probably not found.

Qi Feiluan also took over the electronic equipment and looked online. No matter which channel or website it was on, the dock explosion was the headline.

Since Ji Xingyuan adjusted the helicopter late at night and happened to be flying to the dock, he had begun to continuously talk to all parties and respond to their questions.

Qi Feiluan also received the message from his parents immediately. After they returned from the banquet, they found that Qi Feiluan was not at home and could not contact him. Coupled with the news of the explosion at the dock and the dispatch of Ji’s family, they were frightened.

Therefore, Qi Feiluan did not go back to Ji’s house with Ji Xingyuan, but went home to accompany and appease his parents.

Later, Qi Feiluan saw the preliminary investigation report of the dock explosion on the Internet.

The report attributed the cause of the explosion to the fact that a ship carrying chemical substances had unloaded cargo here before the dock was abandoned. As a result, the containers full of chemical substances were simply forgotten there as the dock was gradually abandoned.Then due to the wind and sun, the chemicals gradually reacted, causing the explosion.

The fire caused by the explosion has been put out. Because the dock has been abandoned for a long time and the surrounding area is very desolate, there were no casualties in this incident.

This investigation result naturally aroused widespread doubts, but after all, the fire has been extinguished, and the investigation report also stated that no casualties were caused. The heat of this incident will soon be replaced by other incidents.

Qi Feiluan knew that the aftermath of the dock explosion was far from over.

After the dock explosion, Grantham’s death was made public. The reason given by the Grantham Group was that he died due to illness. After all, he had been in poor health since the wedding and had not appeared in public for a while. The group was in shock due to the sudden death of its leader.

After Ji Xingyuan worked day and night, he finally communicated with all parties, removed himself from the incident, minimized the impact, and had a short period of free time and rest.

Therefore, Qi Feiluan received a message from Ji Xingyuan: [Is it okay to come to Ji’s Manor?I’ll pick you up.】

Qi Feiluan moved his fingers and replied with one word: “Okay.”】

Qi Feiluan changed his clothes for going out and opened the door when he heard a knock on the door.

Ji Xingyuan stood outside the door. He was wearing a black coat and black velvet gloves on his left hand. However, neither the coat nor the bottoming shirt was wearing a turtleneck or a scarf. The silver metal on his neck was exposed.

Qi Feiluan was startled for a moment when he saw it, then recovered and said, “Let’s go.”

It was too cold outside, and neither of them were used to wearing too bulky clothes. When they got into the car, Qi Feiluan turned his head and glanced out the window.

The sky was full of thin clouds on the night of the kidnapping, and in the morning the sea was still full of morning glow. The weather in the capital has been bad for the past two days, and the thin clouds in the sky have become thicker and thicker, casting a leaden gray gloom between the sky and the earth.

Neither of them spoke while sitting in the car, and the car drove automatically to Ji’s Manor.

Qi Feiluan and Ji Xingyuan stepped into the Ji family manor together. There were no major changes in the decoration of the manor. The housekeeper was still housekeeper Ji, and the servants were all familiar faces. It was as if he had never left.

Qi Feiluan and Ji Xingyuan sat down on the sofa in the living room. Butler Ji personally brought the freshly brewed black tea and placed a cup each in front of them.

The warm room, the piping hot black tea, and the two people finally sitting opposite each other, this was the perfect time to talk.

Qi Feiluan picked up the black tea and took a sip. The long-suppressed question in his heart could finally be asked: “Where are your glands? Have you removed the glands?”

“Removed.” Ji Xingyuan said this, because he was afraid that Qi Feiluan would misunderstand, and then explained, “But it is not to coerce you or force you to come back to me. It is because the doctor said that I have shown signs of pheromone disorder. If I don’t combine with Omega, it will definitely further cause pheromone disorder.”

“And I will never combine with Omega.”

After listening to Ji Xingyuan’s words, Qi Feiluan felt shocked in his heart.

What they say is not to coerce him or force him, what they say is that they don’t want to cause pheromone disorder, what they say is because they don’t want to combine with Omega…

It sounded as if Ji Xingyuan made the decision to remove the glands entirely for his own body, but Qi Feiluan still understood that the reason why Ji Xingyuan did this was just because he loved Qi Feiluan, and Qi Feiluan was a Beta.

Ji Xingyuan, as the top Alpha and the helmsman of the Ji family, even if they are not combined, Omega is simply used to relieve pheromones or desires. For him, it is not as much as he needs.

Qi Feiluan had always believed that Ji Xingyuan could not be with him forever because he was an Alpha and he was a Beta. Alpha and Omega were biologically destined to attract and need each other. If they forcibly violated their physiological needs, they would inevitably further damage their health and cause diseases.

But Qi Feiluan never thought that Ji Xingyuan would tell him in such a decisive way that he “will never combine with Omega” – he directly removed the glands.

An Alpha who loses his glands not only means that he will become a being similar to Bata, but also means that he will lose his strong body, strong energy, and the huge hidden benefits that social consciousness provides him. Even an ordinary Alpha will hardly remove the glands, let alone an Alpha like Ji Xingyuan.

But Ji Xingyuan did just that.

Ji Xingyuan seemed to be telling him with his actions: “Since the person I love is a Beta, then I will also become a Beta.”

Qi Feiluan stared at Ji Xingyuan with burning eyes and asked: “What about the prosthetic limbs? After removing the glands, why did the neck be replaced with a prosthetic limb?”

Ji Xingyuan faced Qi Feiluan’s bright eyes and said frankly: “Because I love you, and also because I can’t control myself.”

“Aluan, I’m sorry, I still can’t stop loving you. I want to see you, hug you, and be together forever. I simply can’t control my instinct.”

“Love does include equality, respect and trust, but it also includes lust, possessiveness and control. I admit my despicability. I can’t restrain my desire for you. I think I will never be able to love like other people.”

“A thousand people have a thousand kinds of love, and Ji Xingyuan’s love is like this.”

Ji Xingyuan stood up, walked in front of Qi Feiluan, stepped back and knelt down on one knee, stretched out his left hand that was replaced by a prosthetic leg, took Qi Feiluan’s right hand, and placed it on his neck that was replaced by a prosthetic leg.

“I don’t know how to make up for the harm I did to you before, and I don’t know if I can ask for your forgiveness, but I want to say-”

“Others can exchange rings, we can exchange nooses.”

“We can be each other’s possessions.”

Ji Xingyuan’s cold mechanical hand pressed against his hand, and the same cold metal was pressed under his hand. Qi Feiluan struggled to squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth: “You are just…a madman.”

Ji Xingyuan laughed and said, “Yes, I always have been.”

“I don’t want any results now. I just want to prove to you that I can be on the same level as you. I want to get a chance to start over.”

“Aluan, we have spent twenty years together, but after only being separated for half a year, I already feel like we have been separated for half a lifetime. I am still young and there is still a long life to spend together. The longer we are separated, the more time we will spend together in the future.”

“What’s more, there are many accidents in life, and I simply can’t tolerate those accidents. For example, what happened to Grantham this time. I can’t imagine what would happen if you really died in the explosion. I would probably be buried in the fire at the dock with you.”

“You know, when I saw the rhythm of your fingers sending me a code at the dock, I realized that the young Ji Xingyuan had been having sex all along. I have never, never forgotten it.”

“We are in love and we could have been happy. I really can’t accept any accidents or the possibility of missing out.”

“So, let’s at least start by monitoring each other, locating each other, okay?”

Qi Feiluan took his hand out of Ji Xingyuan’s hand little by little, and Ji Xingyuan’s heart sank little by little.

In the end, Qi Feiluan stood up and left the Ji family manor without saying a word. Ji Xingyuan did not stop him and did not dare to stop him at all.

Ji Xingyuan was actually prepared to be rejected, but he didn’t expect that he didn’t get a response…

There was no answer or rejection, just a figure leaving without a word.

What if…he can no longer impress Qi Feiluan?

Ji Xingyuan froze in place, as if he had been frozen in this long and gloomy winter forever.

…

Ji Xingyuan didn’t realize that Qi Feiluan could almost be described as running away when he left Ji’s manor.

After returning to his home, he kept repeating Ji Xingyuan’s words that day in his mind. Even his parents noticed that his mind was not right, but neither of them said anything to tell the truth.

Time passed little by little, and soon New Year’s Eve arrived.

The weather in the capital has been very bad during this period. The accumulated clouds in the sky have blocked most of the sunlight, making it particularly dark even during the day.

The world was extremely oppressive, as if even the wind had frozen.

Only the lights of thousands of houses on New Year’s Eve diluted some of the depressing weather.

Qi Feiluan looked out the window and suddenly noticed that little stars were falling under the light outside.

It’s snowing.

He looked at the falling snow outside the window and thought of Ji Xingyuan’s interview he just saw online.

It was an interview about the new bill that Ji Xingyuan accepted near the New Year. Qi Feiluan didn’t listen to what he said at all. All his attention was focused on Ji Xingyuan’s exposed left metal prosthetic leg and neck.

Sure enough, at the end of the interview, even the reporter couldn’t help but ask an out-of-the-box question that had nothing to do with the new bill:

“Your neck…did Mr. Ji have the glands removed?”

Ji Xingyuan admitted frankly and calmly: “I had my glands removed, and now I can be regarded as a Beta.”

The reporter was completely shocked and even hesitated to answer the questions he asked.

“Then…then…why did you do this?”

Ji Xingyuan did not answer the question directly, but said: “Why not do this? The development of technology and the concept of the times are constantly innovating. Beta may not be able to become a leader, Alpha will not always be the strongest, and Omega will not be someone’s vassal.”

Ji Xingyuan’s words almost immediately triggered widespread discussion. Compared with a top Alpha voluntarily becoming a Beta, the new bill on prosthetic replacement guarantees was almost forgotten by the public. Conservatives who originally wanted to oppose it were busy blaming Ji Xingyuan.

Qi Feiluan was not surprised. When Ji Xingyuan appeared in front of his house without any disguise, Qi Feiluan had expected his behavior.

But when Ji Xingyuan really showed off his prosthetic limbs in public and admitted to the camera that he was now a Beta, Qi Feiluan still had mixed emotions.

Ji Xingyuan’s words in the manor once again stirred Qi Feiluan’s mind.

A few days had passed since that conversation. Qi Feiluan left without saying a word because he was afraid that if his mind was shaken, he would blurt out his promise when Ji Xingyuan looked at him.

If Ji Xingyuan said some flattering words to Qi Feiluan, Qi Feiluan would definitely remain unmoved.

But Ji Xingyuan admitted to him that his love was just like that. It was not as perfect as other people’s love. It was sick and twisted, but it was indeed Ji Xingyuan’s love.

Qi Feiluan had been thinking before that it would be better if they were still on the planet, it would be better if they were the same two teenagers, so that there would be no pyramid-shaped universal rules between them.

But they can’t stay on the planet forever, let alone be that boy forever.

After all, they walked into this pyramid-shaped world together.

Just like Adam leaving the Garden of Eden, Suirenshi lit the first ray of fire.

Qi Feiluan always believed that Ji Xingyuan would combine with Omega from both physiological and universal perspectives. The more clearly he realized it, the more hopeless he became.

But Ji Xingyuan told him that he could give up his glands and everything he had as an Alpha.

Let this pyramid-shaped world hang upside down for him alone.

Qi Feiluan’s phone suddenly lit up. He took a look and found that it was a message from Ji Xingyuan.

The message was short, only four words.

Qi Feiluan stared at those four words for a long time, thinking about the last time he met Ji Xingyuan outside the venue, thinking about what Ji Xingyuan said last New Year’s Eve to stay up together, thinking about the snow falling outside… Finally, he moved his fingers.

…

On the other side, Ji Xingyuan was sitting alone at the dining table again, just like it was his birthday, knowing that the wait was hopeless, but he couldn’t help but have expectations.

Ji Xingyuan clicked on his phone, hesitated for a long time at the screen, and then sent a message.

【Happy New Year.】

Last time at Ji’s Manor, he failed to get a reply from Qi Feiluan. After hesitating for a while, he didn’t dare to ask him what he thought. In the end, he only sent a blessing, which was the blessing he had told Qi Feiluan in advance.

This is simply a repetitive nonsense.

He knew that there would be no answer at all, but he still couldn’t help but look forward to it.

Ji Xingyuan stared at the dialog box until the screen went off because there was no action.

Sure enough, there would be no reply.

However, just the next second, the screen lit up again, displaying a reply from Qi Feiluan:

[Ji Xingyuan, it’s snowing.】

—End—

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The author has something to say: For the two of them, starting from Xueluo will also start again from Xueluo.

Thank you to the readers who have read this. In fact, there are still some small plots that I want to write, but after thinking about it, I still feel that it is best to end the main text here. There are still some things that need to be explained and I decided to put them in the extra chapter.