Hey! Control Yourself! - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Bite Deep, Bite Through

“No.” He rejected him flatly.

Due to the aggressive and unique possessiveness of the Enigma gender, once they bite an Omega, it inevitably renders that Omega unable to accept anyone else’s pheromones. Shen Ji assumed Sheng Lu was simply acting out under the trauma of the situation.

“Fine… then put me up there…” Sheng Lu pointed toward the long experimental table.

This request startled Shen Ji. Logically, the experimental table should be a volcanic hellscape to a mermaid. Yet, as Sheng Lu spoke, he was as calm as still water, without a trace of readable emotion.

He placed him on the table regardless. The mermaid’s tail left a trail of water on the surface. Sheng Lu reached into a tool cabinet and found a pair of hooked surgical scissors.

“Help me… dig out… the gland.” His voice was incredibly rusty, clearly from a long period of silence.

Shen Ji watched him and did not move. Sheng Lu pulled back his hair, exposing the gland at the nape of his neck.

“Dig it out…”

Shen Ji saw the slight protrusion beneath the skin; it looked more swollen than a normal person’s gland, with a reddish hue. Seeing Shen Ji standing there motionless, a flash of ruthlessness crossed Sheng Lu’s eyes, and he thrust the scissors toward his own gland.

By the time Shen Ji grabbed his hand, the gland was already streaming with blood.

“Sheng Lu! What on earth are you doing?”

The wound at the back of his neck was deep, but the bleeding stopped almost instantly. His self-healing ability caused the injury to knit back together before their very eyes. Sheng Lu pushed him away; Shen Ji was surprised by his extraordinary strength. Mermaids were indeed physically superior to humans.

“I’ll dig it out myself.”

The handsome and beautiful mermaid sat on the experimental table, frantically attacking his own gland with the scissors, covered in blood. The scene was bloody and frenzied, mournful and grim.

Shen Ji caught his hand. “I’ll help you.”

He understood why Sheng Lu was doing this. They had cultivated his healing, his gland, and his pheromones for no other reason than to mold him into a sex slave to cater to the dark fetishes of certain humans. With pure mermaid blood and a perfected gland, even if Shen Ji could take him out, without mental abilities or means of self-defense, the world would remain a giant cage.

But Sheng Lu’s eyes were filled with determination and ferocity; he would never fall into human hands again. After experiencing so much pain and hardship, at least he hadn’t thought of dying. Removing the gland was the only act of defiance he could manage.

Shen Ji took the specialized scissors meant for gland removal. He saw that the wound had already healed again.

A scent of pheromones wafted into the air. Shen Ji’s heart tightened.

D*mn.

It was the pheromones emanating from the blood of the mermaid gland. Before he could react, the blood vessels surging beneath his skin were ensnared by the scent. The fatal fragrance carried an irresistible temptation, brilliantly kissing every cell.

It struck his heart directly. Skin shivered, breathing quickened—it was as if lightning had struck the sky, brewing a massive rainstorm within his body.

Truly the King of Pheromones…

Although Shen Ji had smelled Sheng Lu’s pheromones before, the two scents were in entirely different dimensions. This was a gland meticulously cultivated by the laboratory for decades—untouched pheromones, so pure they made the blood vibrate, the scalp tingle, and the heart surge with turbulence.

A pure, lethal white dove spread its wings and flew through Shen Ji’s heart, plucking the strings of fate.

Shen Ji’s hand trembled, and the scissors fell to the floor with a loud metallic clang. He lowered his head, staring at his shaking hand, his heart racing wildly. The Omega pheromones left him scorched and restless; he struggled to calm himself. He couldn’t believe a mermaid’s pheromones could drive a person to lose their reason to this extent.

At that moment, a hand lifted his chin. Through his blurred vision, Shen Ji saw Sheng Lu’s triumphant smile and pathological eyes.

“Enigma pheromones… give them to me.”

He wrapped both hands around Shen Ji’s shoulders and kissed Shen Ji’s lips, like a mermaid kissing the ocean. This kiss was saturated with the Omega’s most beautiful mating pheromones.

It triggered the violent storm in Shen Ji’s heart. Like a sky overflowing with water, the rain poured down—from damp mud to wanton madness. Splashing droplets fell into his palms, spreading to his arms, chest, and heart, burning completely.

His teetering soul and swaying mind soared higher with the kiss, igniting the Enigma’s internal fire.

Sheng Lu’s lips pulled slightly away from the corner of his mouth, curving into an arc: “Let your pheromones become a part of me.” His smile was profound.

Mermaids are highly sensitive to surrounding pheromones; he knew Shen Ji was an Enigma with extremely high mental energy. He needed those pheromones to occupy this pathetic gland. His tongue, moist and glistening, offered itself into the other’s mouth like a tender fruit heavy with dew, unafraid of being completely submerged by the storm.

His fingertips caressed the gland at the back of Shen Ji’s neck—the only exit to salvation, the legendary untouchable heartbeat.

Shen Ji broke the kiss and grabbed his wrist: “Don’t move.” But he didn’t pull away forcefully.

So Sheng Lu kissed him back, desperately continuing the kiss; he couldn’t let him stop. He had to make this young human Enigma submit. This was a frantic courtship, but in reality, it was a redemption of life.

The heat of the kiss had surpassed the craving for pheromones. Suddenly, Sheng Lu’s heart constricted, and his eyes flickered. It was Shen Ji’s pheromones—the Enigma’s pheromones.

This scent arrived late, but it was exceptionally violent. In just a few moments, it had overwhelmed Sheng Lu’s pheromones, intensely occupying the laboratory and enveloping the Omega’s every sense. Sheng Lu’s body and mind trembled; he nearly grew faint. Clearly, such powerful pheromones were beyond his expectations.

However…

Sheng Lu wrapped his arms completely around the young Enigma, the pathological obsession fully visible in his eyes. He needed these pheromones to mark his gland. When an Enigma’s mating pheromones emerged, it meant they had fallen into the depths of desire.

Sheng Lu broke the kiss slightly, looking at the man before him with heated breath and lowered eyes. Shen Ji’s dark eyes looked back.

The moment their gazes locked, a sudden storm in their pulses swept through their souls, piercing them both without hesitation. Sheng Lu tilted his head back and pulled Shen Ji’s head down, forcing him to kiss his neck and shoulders.

Shen Ji’s kiss was far from gentle; it was undeniably passionate and wild, like a summer storm lashing against a forest. It was natural and unrefined, carrying a vast sense of security within its wildness.

This was exactly what Sheng Lu enjoyed most, what he needed most. How could there be such a wondrous feeling in this world? He loved it to death. He couldn’t restrain the sound of his heartbeat, couldn’t suppress the surge of emotion in his throat, couldn’t calm the trembling in his eyes.

Fantastic! If only I could own him completely.

At the thought, Sheng Lu’s heart felt like it was exploding, and he couldn’t control his pathological soft moans.

“Ah~ more… it feels so good…”

Shen Ji paused upon hearing this. Although the voice sounded a bit perverted, the content was still within a normal range; it seemed the current Sheng Lu was not yet a fully-formed deviant.

Seeing him get distracted, Sheng Lu cupped his face with both hands, nearly on the verge of tears: “Continue, baby. Bite deep, bite through, I beg you!”

The Enigma pheromones had completely seized his reason. His pomegranate-red eyes shone with a brilliant light, looking entirely different from how they had in the water.

“I like it so much…”

His fingertips toyed with the hair at the back of the Enigma’s head, a deep form of encouragement. The mating pheromones in the mermaid’s blood were fully released, sweeping like a gale through the Enigma’s heartbeat. No one could endure such a bone-deep aura of courtship.

He kissed the other’s jaw sweetly with his lips, then brushed his neck skin against his lips almost imperceptibly. This was a mermaid begging for his gland to be bitten.

Shen Ji’s eyes were dark and void of light, seemingly covered by some hidden emotion. His fingers pressed against Sheng Lu’s neck, his thumb caressing that thin, delicate skin. Without any scrutiny in his gaze, he finally bit down on the long-awaited gland.

The gland, though fully healed, still held the mermaid’s purest pheromones. The pleasure brought by the breaking of the skin sharply impacted his entire sensory system.

Sheng Lu’s pupils lost focus for a moment, immediately welling with moist tears. The Enigma pheromones surged into his blood, bringing an unspeakable ecstasy—a feeling bordering on suffocation that traveled minutely along his veins to the core of his heart.

Thump! Thump! Thump-thump-thump…

For a second, it felt like dying, yet it brought the cozy relief of complete rebirth. He opened his mouth to scream, but he had no strength; his whole body felt as soft as melting water. Weak and powerless, he collapsed into the Enigma’s arms without a shred of psychological burden.

Shen Ji reached out to hold him. Although there was no permanent mark yet, the pheromones of both parties had already completed their fusion within the mermaid’s gland. Even with Sheng Lu’s god-tier healing ability, the Enigma’s pheromones would affect the Omega’s body for a short period.

Sheng Lu’s arms tightened around his waist and shoulders, wishing he could intertwine his body with the other’s forever.

At that moment, the laboratory’s outer door opened. Several scientists stared at them in shock. The pheromones in the air explained everything.

“This bastard…”

Before the furious words could be uttered, their bodily instincts were suppressed by the powerful pheromones, leaving them utterly defeated. Whether it was the mermaid’s or the Enigma’s pheromones, they were unbearable for these ordinary Alphas.

Only a Beta spat blood in anger: “This bastard destroyed the gland we’ve been cultivating for decades!”

Shen Ji carried the mermaid in his arms, walking past the researchers. Mental threads extended and pulled through the air at will. With a few flashes of obscure light, everyone’s bodies were neatly sliced; a moment later, the bodies fell to the floor in disconnected parts.

One scientist at the outer perimeter saw Shen Ji kill several people soundlessly and involuntarily stepped back in shock. After being cut into pieces, the red button he had already pressed in his pocket lit up.

“Subject 0001… has been taken… by an… Enigma…”

Static crackled from the other end, followed by a voice: “Useless trash.”

By now, Lei Yi and the others had finished clearing the outer tunnels, and they met in the perimeter corridor.

“Uh… is this Sheng Lu?” Lei Yi looked at the mermaid in Shen Ji’s arms with horror and unease.

“You… you… he… he…” Sha Mo pointed at the two, stuttering in fright.

Royce was surprised but managed to stay much calmer: “Are you taking him out?”

Meaning: Weren’t you supposed to kill him?

Sheng Lu lowered his eyes and glanced outward, then buried his head deep into Shen Ji’s shoulder, playing the part of an innocent mermaid. Only Shen Ji knew how cunning he was.

“I bit him,” he said.