After Being Transmigrated into a Cannon Fodder Scum Alpha - Chapter 34

“Coo, coo…” A subtle sound drifted from outside the door, interspersed with the fragmented noise of a beak pecking at the wood.

Yun Qi was the first to be roused by the noise. She glanced at the Omega in her arms, who was curled into a small, well-behaved ball, sleeping soundly.

She slowly withdrew her arm, got out of bed, tidied herself slightly, and opened the door. Sure enough, it was the dissatisfied little snowy owl. Seeing the “cooing chicken” open its beak as if to let out a loud cry, she caught its beak first, then picked up the fussing creature with her other hand and headed to the study.

“Did you wake Xi’er up just to have her open the door for you?”

“Coo, coo.” Even without the system’s translation, Yun Qi could hear the guilt in its voice.

“Coo-coo!” However, thinking of its Snowball Fruit, the owl’s cry grew defiant again.

[Snowball Fruit!] The online translation assistant went live.

“I know, I know. I’ll get them for you once we reach the study.” Uncharitable debt collector!

Glancing at the top-left corner of the mall, fortunately, her Scum Value was sufficient. Yun Qi exchanged 160 points for two Snowball Fruits for the little owl.

Without any special effects, two snow-white, translucent fruits appeared in Yun Qi’s hand, emitting a faint, delicate fragrance. The fussing owl stopped instantly, staring at Yun Qi with beady eyes full of anticipation.

Yun Qi turned the Snowball Fruits around to observe them for a moment before handing them over. To her surprise, the owl didn’t eat them both at once. It quickly devoured the first one, then tucked the second one under its body, “incubating” it like an egg.

Yun Qi didn’t expect that she would see Yi Fei again at the military headquarters.

She had planned to visit that company—the one nearly identical to her firm from her past life—but received a call halfway. Seeing it was from the military, she initially hung up, but then her uncle called. He said they had caught an Omega suspect involved in harming Alphas, and the suspect insisted on seeing her.

The Omega was tight-lipped; they had tried many methods but couldn’t get her to talk.

Yun Qi was initially puzzled. She assumed it was some “romantic debt” from the original host’s past and she was being called to bail someone out. In the original host’s memory, similar things had happened a few times—always during the “honeymoon phase” of an acquaintance, when the original host was exceptionally lenient toward Omegas.

When she arrived at the facility, an Alpha in military uniform explained the situation.

An Alpha named Du Jing from the military was handling a case a few days ago at the “Little White Building” regarding a customer’s sudden death. The preliminary investigation suggested an overdose leading to a pheromone imbalance, similar to several previous cases. They were ready to treat it as an accident and leave, but the deceased Alpha’s partner refused to accept the result. She cried and threatened them at the scene; the deceased Alpha was a cousin of the Emperor’s favorite concubine, and if a culprit wasn’t found, no one present would escape blame.

Du Jing’s place in the military wasn’t due to superior physical strength but his sense of smell. He possessed a regressive trait, with an olfactory sense close to that of the first-generation differentiated Alphas.

After sniffing carefully, he detected a minute scent of an Omega on the deceased Alpha. After sealing the building, they found the suspect. They brought her in for questioning and discovered she was a pheromone researcher who had appeared at several Alpha “sudden death” scenes. They subsequently detained her.

“I heard the Grand Duke once sent people to look for this Omega as well.” A smiling Alpha in uniform walked over. It was the one Yun Qi had seen at the banquet—the person who had dragged Kong Ying and the other man away.

“Private business.” The Grand Duke never wasted breath on the military, except to humiliate them.

The uniformed Alpha smiled and asked no further questions, leading Yun Qi to the interrogation room.

The Omega in the interrogation room looked haggard. Bathed in the glare of intense lights, she clearly hadn’t slept for many days. She looked a far cry from the spirited genius pharmacist in Yun Qi’s memory, yet Yun Qi recognized her immediately.

“Long time no see,” Yi Fei said to Yun Qi with a smile, acting as if they were close friends.

“I don’t recall us meeting.” The Grand Duke scrutinized the Omega for a moment, recognizing her as the person who had framed her partner and made her lose face, though in her memory, the two had never actually met face-to-face.

“But I’ve seen you, more than once.” Yi Fei had not only seen Yun Qi in photos but had personally observed her at the venues she frequented.

An idle playboy who knew only pleasure, a low-class Alpha who used her status to mock others, a domestic abuser who bullied her wife and daughter—these were her first impressions of Yun Qi.

Seeing the injuries on Lin Chen, she was filled with rage every time. She had even suggested to Lin Chen that they poison Yun Qi. She knew Lin Chen was the same type of person as herself: a mad soul beneath a calm exterior. It was public knowledge that Yun Qi loved to play around; a death from overdose wouldn’t be hard to accept. Moreover, her style of conduct had left many people resentful but silent; her death might have been joyful news to others.

But Lin Chen had refused every time, even warning her not to act against Yun Qi. Perhaps because they knew each other so well, she sensed Lin Chen had observed her for a few days after her suggestion. These actions didn’t make her happy, but she endured it, thinking that once the Empire was overthrown, Yun Qi wouldn’t meet a good end anyway.

Who would have thought the friend would suddenly start hesitating? Seemingly due to the change in Yun Qi’s attitude, Yi Fei had acted as she did, wanting her friend to steady her heart and not be deceived by an Alpha’s temporary, superficial kindness.

Thinking of Lin Chen’s change, the smile on Yi Fei’s face slowly faded. She stared intently at the Alpha before her. This person was still the same as before: arrogant, conceited, with eyes revealing disdain for Omegas. These traits had never changed, yet her friend had betrayed their common faith for such a piece of trash.

In her eyes, even hesitation was a form of betrayal.

Yun Qi felt somewhat baffled. In an instant, the Omega before her had shifted from a face full of smiles to this distorted look. But she hadn’t said anything?

The Alphas who accompanied Yun Qi and those who had been guarding Yi Fei also saw this Omega—who had been uncooperative for days—undergo a violent emotional shift upon seeing Yun Qi. To them, this was good news; an emotional change meant a vulnerability had appeared.

“Could I have a few words alone with your noble Grand Duke?” Yi Fei asked the guards. “I promise, if you grant this tiny request, I will tell you everything you want to know during the subsequent questioning.”

Coincidentally, Yun Qi also wanted to ask why she had framed her own Omega, and these topics were best not discussed in front of others. She nodded in agreement.

Yi Fei was currently restrained to the chair and lacked the ability to cause harm, so the military personnel agreed.

“We will be watching from the monitoring room,” they said before leaving.

“Speak. Why did you frame Lin Chen?” The Grand Duke looked at the Omega before her with an expression of loathing, as if her presence contaminated the very air in the room.

“What is so good about you, anyway?” Yi Fei muttered to herself, appearing somewhat mentally unstable—at least, so Yun Qi thought.

“Why did you frame Lin Chen?” Yun Qi repeated. The dazed look on the Omega’s face gave her an uneasy feeling.

“I was saving her. To keep her will firm so she wouldn’t be destroyed by you.”

She considered Lin Chen one of her own. She didn’t want Lin Chen to fake herself or hide her true nature for an Alpha—especially one as trashy as this. To break the cocoon and become a butterfly, to be reborn through fire, Lin Chen had to be completely hopeless regarding Yun Qi to truly find happiness.

When Lin Chen shared the joy of the Alpha’s change with her, she only felt it was pathetic. Her friend, who once had a fanatical pursuit of their faith, had ultimately been deceived by this fake happiness. She believed that when her friend woke up in the future, she would surely regret it. Thus, she felt she was helping her friend. Perhaps she would be hated for a period after the event, but once Lin Chen was clear-headed, she would surely be grateful.

While evading Yun Qi’s pursuit, she had encountered a few incidents. When she worked in the lab, she only heard of the Alphas’ wretchedness from others. The greatest malice she felt was that group of Alphas not treating her as an equal, acting as if she were an appendage, and even becoming jealous of her achievements, accusing her of using her body to earn them.

Those were mental injuries.

Later, while hiding from Yun Qi, she met up with Mu Huo and witnessed even more incomprehensible phenomena. That group of “second-generation” Alphas actually used drugs to force Omegas into their special periods. Rage flooded her brain. Hatred for Yun Qi and the pain of seeing her friend deceived occupied her mind. She tried to use drugs to cause those beasts to die suddenly. She was nervous when she killed the first one, but seeing no ripples afterward, she started on the second, the third…

She treated those people as Yun Qi, venting her emotions.

Originally, she wanted to target Yun Qi as well, but lately, this Alpha had been sticking to her friend constantly, giving her no chance to strike.

Heaven is so unfair to let this kind of person live until now.

“Saving?” Yun Qi doubted she heard correctly. Otherwise, why would she hear that word?

Either she heard wrong, or the Omega before her was insane. Yun Qi recalled the plot; in the later stages, Yi Fei’s personality was indeed somewhat frenzied, enjoying the torture of captured noble Alphas.

“…” Yi Fei said something, but her voice was too low for Yun Qi to hear.

She instinctively leaned closer. At that moment, Yi Fei suddenly broke out, snapped her shackles, and plunged a mysterious syringe into her.

The moment she was stuck, Yun Qi pulled the syringe out and threw it aside, her hand catching Yi Fei’s neck. However, she was slowly slipping into a stupor, and then she blacked out.

Before hitting the ground, she saw Yi Fei’s satisfied smile and the military personnel arriving.

This was not the strength an Omega should have. Logically, an Omega shouldn’t be able to break free from the restraints on that chair. And that mysterious syringe—she hadn’t seen where Yi Fei pulled it from just now.

‘I suspect I’ve been set up by the military and Yi Fei at the same time.’ This was her final thought before fainting.