Chapter 99: Hormones
"No, how could I get angry over something so utterly ridiculous!" Bai Mo, realizing this, immediately released his grip and turned to face the nun. He sensed that the woman before him was not as simple as she seemed. "Had she used some form of mental manipulation?"
He recalled every detail of what had just happened, attempting to unearth the truth.
The nun, meanwhile, stood to the side, gazing at Bai Mo with a piteous gaze, looking as if she had been thoroughly frightened.
The white-armored knight, who had once again scrambled to his feet, acted as if injected with chicken blood, completely ignoring the fact that he had just been instantly dispatched, and continued stubbornly trying to drive Bai Mo away.
"Quickly, leave her, you... discourteous person!" The knight, likely wanting to maintain an image of high breeding before the nun, forcibly swapped out a swear word he almost uttered for a relatively polite term. Yet, as he gazed at Bai Mo's tattered clothes, a look of undisguised disgust was about to break forth on his face.
"Perhaps I should conjure some wind?" After casually flicking the knight aside once more, Bai Mo conjured a moderate breeze around himself.
"He found out?!" Chris Ding saw Bai Mo making the surrounding air flow at high speed, and a bad premonition arose in her heart.
Seeing the other party suddenly become flustered, his suspicions were further confirmed.
"Mental manipulation combined with a large amount of pheromones... interesting." Once Bai Mo understood her methods, he immediately flashed forward, intent on capturing Chris Ding without the slightest hesitation.
"Go!" Another female voice emerged from the bracelet.
"More and more interesting..."
The white light erupted, aiming to make the enemy in front of him hesitate, but Bai Mo, instead of retreating, advanced, still intending to charge into the core of the white light and seize the talking bracelet.
In his eyes, that bracelet was undoubtedly a very interesting item.
Unfortunately, he lunged at empty air. The bracelet, along with Chris Ding, seemed to have vanished within the white light.
Unable to retain the bracelet, he could only watch the white light dissipate. And once the source of the mental manipulation was gone, the white-armored knight beside him no longer had the courage to step forward and obstruct the other party.
"The ability to control hormone secretion, coupled with mental manipulation, and her own peak beauty... it would be a waste for her not to be Daji." He chuckled, then walked out of the church, seemingly unconcerned that his earlier strike had failed to achieve its purpose.
After Bai Mo departed, the knight watched his receding figure, a flame igniting in his eyes—a flame of unknown ambition, fighting spirit, or perhaps desire. Chris Ding's invisible influence on him seemed to persist.
Tens of kilometers away in a wilderness, after a flash of white light, a stunned Chris Ding reappeared on the ground.
"I told you long ago not to play with fire, but you just wouldn't listen," the listless voice from the bracelet sharply criticized.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to see if it worked on every man," Chris Ding explained, tears streaming down her face like pear blossoms laden with rain.
"Don't try that routine on me; it has no effect. I told you before that man is dangerous and to avoid contact with him as much as possible."
"That last palm strike earlier—if I hadn't brought you away, you'd be in the hospital for at least three months. That madman, he had no intention of holding back at all! If I hadn't used up my life-saving teleportation..."
"Didn't you also see that he has personally killed thousands of people? How could you still think of playing tricks on such a devil?"
The voice from the bracelet, after whisking Chris Ding away, rattled off a long string of words with almost no pause.
"Was it really that terrifying? I hadn't even reacted yet..."
"Don't explain any of this to me. This unnecessary teleportation spell consumed almost all my power. For the next two or three months, I'll likely fall into a deep slumber. If you have anything to ask, do it now while you can."
"If you fall asleep, how am I supposed to handle the tests from headquarters! Ever since they researched so many spells, most of the internal assessments have become spell tests; even classic Holy Light research has been relegated to second place. Without your guidance, my reputation as a genius—despite being an idiot—will be ruined!" Chris Ding said anxiously.
"Handle it yourself. Don't always think of relying on me. This is purely you reaping what you sow. No, I can't hold on. I need to sleep..."
"Wu Zhi! Sister Wu Zhi! Granny Wu Zhi! Please, I beg you..." Chris Ding shouted at the bracelet, but there was no longer any reply.
"Hmph! Don't let me find out who you are. I hold a grudge!" Chris Ding gritted her teeth, then, all alone, began walking back toward the city.
"Captain Bai is back? No need to change clothes first?" Liang Gong, sitting nearby, chuckled as he looked at Bai Mo's tattered clothes, ruined even further by the recent battle.
"Mhm, please hand me my case."
"Here you go."
Ten minutes later, the fully-laden convoy set off, traveling through the night towards Florence.
"Captain Bai, how about you tell us about the battle against that old man?" Liang Gong, sharing a car with Bai Mo, began to prod him into telling the story.
"I merely provided support. It was Chen Bo and Ye Zi, working together, who used prolonged, high-frequency changes in temperature to denature and strip away the liquid metal composing the enemy's body, thus breaking his immortal form." Bai Mo explained the battle in just a few words.
"So, Captain Bai, do you have any plans after returning?"
"After returning... there will be many things to do. I likely won't have much time to spend at the Dao Academy. The experimental materials collected this time should keep me in the research institute for a long while."
"Captain Bai, do you know that this time the rewards will be issued in the form of Contribution Points?"
"The Contribution Point system is ready?"
"For this operation, each of us will receive a thousand Contribution Points. Captain Chen and Captain Ye will get three thousand, and you, as the information provider, will receive a reward of five thousand."
"They're too lazy to even print money. The higher-ups are getting lazier and lazier. The system I proposed just made it easier for them to line their pockets."
"What's wrong?"
"Think about it, how are Contribution Points issued?"
As Bai Mo spoke, the others in the car also caught on.
At seven o'clock the next morning, the convoy arrived back in Florence, directly linking up with Commissioner Liu's motorcade at the airport.
"Congratulations on completing the mission." Commissioner Liu first cordially greeted Bai Mo and his group, even patting his shoulder lightly.
"Wait a moment." Guessing Commissioner Liu's underlying meaning, he unhurriedly retrieved a test tube containing a small amount of dark red liquid from the material compartment of his luggage.
"This is a sample; you can try it first."
"Excellent." Commissioner Liu first had his subordinates put away the test tube, then, smiling, patted Bai Mo's shoulder once more, looking just like a gratified old leader observing a promising junior.
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