Intertwined: Two fates | Book:-1 | Jikook | ✔

62 - Hide and seek

Ruan slumped on the table, his breathing uneven. He had been feeling unwell for the past few hours — to be exact, ever since he woke up and found that his entire world had been turned upside down.

There was this knot of anxiety on his stomach, sending persistent waves of nausea throughout his whole body. His limbs felt weak and he kept breaking out in cold sweat. He thought that it was normal psychological reactions after being put in a highly-stressed environment and it would be fine if he endured it for some time. Hence, he had not even bothered with it.

But it was different now. Very different.

Not only did his limbs feel weak, the joints in his entire body grew extremely sore as if someone had poured acidic liquid on it. His heart had never raced so fast before, it was as if it was going to jump out of his ribcage. His teeth were chattering from the cold, yet he could somehow perceive an unfamiliar heat rising within him.

Ruan had gotten used to being beaten up and carrying injuries on his body all the time. Yet right now, the pain he was feeling was a totally different kind altogether. It was agonizing. Excruciating. The wild pulse on his heart was quickly spreading until his entire body became a huge ball of throbbing mess, causing his body to twitch and spasm. Hot and sharp pain stabbed into his head without mercy — no, to be exact, it was the back of his neck. It hurt so much...!!

He could fuzzily perceive the officer in front of him rising from his seat. The screech of the chair being dragged across the floor echoed harshly in his ears, it was like someone was scratching their sharp nails on a blackboard right beside him. With much difficulty, he cracked his eyes open and screamed out loud, "Help... Help me...!"

He felt like he had expended all of his strength just for that one shout. But in fact, his voice sounded so weak, so feeble that it might as well go unnoticed.

The officer went to the door to welcome the medical personnel. Yet as soon as he opened the door, a faint smoky scent drifted out and floated in the air. Utterly unaware, the officer was still shouting, "Where is the medical team?! I think he has gone into shock!"

The Alphas who passed through the hallway instantly halted in their tracks and sniffed around. Then they hollered angrily, "Hey, who is it? Keep your pheromones under control, for God's sake! Are you asking for a fight?!"

The door to the control room slammed open and Captain Rong charged out. He gave an order to the officer who interrogated Ruan with a booming voice, "Close the door! He is manifesting!"

"Wha―" The officer was dumbfounded for a split second before he hastily scampered out of the room and closed the door behind him. Immediately, the smoky scent was cut off. But it would not last long. As soon as the smell got stronger, it would definitely be noticed by the Alphas and Omegas around the perimeter. It was fortunate that the gender this place lacked the most was omega, otherwise the scale of chaos Ruan brought forth would be unimaginable!

The officer's heart was still thumping as he leaned his back against the door. "He... He is manifesting?" He asked Captain Rong, stunned. "Isn't he sixteen years old already? And he is just manifesting now? What a late bloomer!"

Captain Rong's face was gloomy. There was no problem with late manifestation. Indeed it was quite rare because normally youngsters would manifest during the age of eight to fourteen, but it was not like such cases had not happened before. But the main problem was... there were still traces of AX-03 in Ruan's body!

It was common knowledge that the manifestation period would last one to five days depending on which secondary gender that person would turn into — whether it was Alpha or Omega, weak or ordinary or superior.