Title: 顶级掠食者 (Alpha Predator)
Author：水千丞 (ShuiQianCheng)
Translator: 月野 見事 (TsukinoMigoto @ kin0monogatari)
Protagonists ：沈岱 (Shen Dai -MC), 瞿末予 (Qu Moyu -ML)
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Shen Dai devotes all his energy to preparing for the speech. These days, his diet, sleep, and energy are not very good. He gets tired easily and doesn’t really want to eat. Anxiety… because these symptoms are familiar to every adult omega – it’s like a precursor to getting into an estrus period.
The normal omega estrus period is relatively regular, once every three or four months, the time is not accurate, but it is not bad, the body will start to adjust itself in advance, for example, anorexia is to empty the reproductive cavity to prepare for conception. Insomnia, mental anxiety is the performance of pheromone fluctuations. Shen Dai’s estrus only occurs once or twice a year, mostly when the climate is warm, and all omegas hardly come into estrus when it is very cold, unless they are induced by external stimuli, such as alpha pheromone induction, which is also very animal-like genetic expression – pups born in winter are not easy to survive. But it’s just winter now, and it’s not too cold. It’s possible for him to be in heat at this time.
Shen Dai was frightened by this possibility. Although he would have these reactions when he was under heavy work pressure, he did not dare to take this risk. He went to the pharmacy to buy medicine to suppress and delay the estrus period. This medicine directly acts on the glands. It is not good for metabolism and hurts the body. But it is only taken during emergencies.
Sure enough, after taking the medicine, those symptoms were relieved a lot on the same day, but after a few days, the symptoms would fight back. Shen Dai asked for leave in advance and decided to go home the day after the speech.
The night before the speech, he remembered that he had not prepared the right clothes. Fortunately, Uncle Heng ordered several suits for him at that time. He held a three-piece suit wrapped in a dust bag and waited for the taxi reservation at the door. The wind was strong today, which made his eyes dry and astringent.
Just as he was rubbing his eyes, a car slowly stopped in front of him, and when he opened his eyes, it was Qu Moyu’s car.
The driver, Lao Wu, got out of the car and opened the rear door for him: “Mr. Shen, we are going to the company now, and the young master is letting you ride in the car.”
“Oh, thank you.” After Shen Dai got into the car, he hung up his suit, “Thank you, Mr. Qu, I should have taken the suit in advance, I forgot about it.”
“It’s fine.” Qu Moyu was reading some briefing. “The solvent extraction method that your group broke through this year has a good effect on the separation of light rare earths, but there is no substantial progress in heavy rare earths.”
“Yes, mainly heavy rare earths are particularly difficult to control in the process of graded precipitation and crystallisation, which is also one of our main directions in the future.”
“Shareholders will definitely ask questions in this regard, but for the market application of technology, which involves profit returns, you can avoid it. At the same time, they are very interested in the South African mine, which the company has newly invested in this year.”
“Okay, I have prepared this part. After the teacher went to South Africa, she also sent a lot of valuable information.”
“Professor Liu is so relaxed to hand over the laboratory to you, it seems that she values you the most.”
“I can’t talk about some of the most important things.” Shen Dai said frankly, “The mines in Gansu are currently the main source of profit for the company’s rare earth sector. My brothers and sisters are in the research institute there, and their personal achievements are higher than mine. But the teacher is willing to train me, and I will try my best to live up to her expectations.”
Qu Moyu glanced at Shen Dai with admiration: “It’s not easy for you to do this. Let me remind you, one is that today Qu Chengchen will represent my uncle to attend the meeting, and the other is that most of the people present today are Alphas. It’s good if they are not aware of your gender.”
Shen Dai secretly sighed in his heart: “I understand.” Qu Moyu’s reminder is very realistic. As an omega with a weak personality, low physical fitness, easy pregnancy, and estrus four times a year for seven days, he is at the bottom of the labour market. For large and medium-sized enterprises, the labour law has strict requirements on the ratio of omega entry, and they can help companies avoid taxes, so Xingzhou has quite few omegas working with them, even less holding important positions. In short, omega is struggling in the workplace. In the field of scientific research, it is even rarer, and he relied on his achievements to be where he is. Some alphas have high self-esteem, with prejudice and discrimination in their bones, and they are likely to question his professionalism. He is already psychologically prepared for this.
Qu Moyu’s car was parked in the exclusive parking space that could go directly to his office from the internal elevator, while Shen Dai went through half the parking lot to take the staff elevator, looking around for fear of being seen.
He arrived at the dormitory, changed into his suit, turned to the mirror and looked at the back of his neck. The pheromone stickers were all skin-colored, and they could only be seen from a close distance. It just happened that he didn’t have time to cut his hair recently. So it is well-hidden. He nodded to himself in the mirror, took the computer and materials and went out.
The meeting officially started at 9:30. There are currently five groups in the institute, and his turn is the third so he can go through his PPT a few more times.
Walking into the conference hall, his junior brothers and junior sisters roared in unison: “Wow, Senior Brother Shen is so handsome today.”
“It’s the first time I saw Senior Brother Shen in a suit. He’s so temperamental, he doesn’t look like a digger at all.”
They mocked themselves as ‘diggers’, because their daily work is to work with various minerals and chemical reagents, and it is very common to get dirty.
Cheng Zimei applauded exaggeratedly: “Ah Dai, you look so good in a suit, this waist, this leg, tch tch.”
Shen Dai was embarrassed by their praises: “Thank you for giving me a face. I will go up in a while, and I will make you all applaud so hard.” Sure enough, people depend on clothes. This suit is very valuable and tailor-made. Of course it looks good when it is worn. He thought of today’s speech, in his time, everyone’s eyes will fall on him, including Qu Moyu who rarely looks at him, Qu Moyu may look at him for a long time, more than all of their past encounters. It will take a long time to add up, so would he think he is good-looking too?
“Senior Brother Shen, sit down.” His alpha junior brother Zhou Lan got up and gave him the middle seat.
“No, I’ll sit on the side. I’ll go out later anyway.” Shen Dai turned on the computer after taking his seat.
Zhou Lan unscrewed the mineral water and put it next to Shen Dai: “Brother, drink some water, have you had breakfast yet? Do you want me to buy some for you?”
“I have eaten, how about you?” Shen Dai asked casually.
“I’ve eaten. The canteen has a new cloud leg pie, but it’s delicious.”
Shen Dai nodded, but kept his eyes on the screen: “Okay, I’ll try it some other day.”
Zhou Lan’s diligence towards him is not for a day or two. As an engineering man, the way he showed his favour is somewhat clumsy, but Shen Dai can still see his intentions and feel a little headache about it. In the past, he didn’t accept anyone’s explicit hints because he owed so much money that he couldn’t fall in love at all. Now it’s even more impossible. Unfortunately, this junior brother is too young to understand his silent rejection.
He will ask Cheng Zimei to help him deal with it in two more days.
Other scientific research groups, leaders and shareholders arrived one after another, and soon the huge conference hall was packed with people.
Shen Dai saw many company executives, but his eyes always followed Qu Moyu. Qu Moyu wore a three-piece suit and a black trench coat. When walking, his clothes swayed. He was talking to the shareholders around him the whole time, and he didn’t look over.
Qu Chengchen also arrived. He was also in a suit and leather shoes, carrying a grey briefcase. He was talking on the phone while walking. It was completely different from the cynical appearance when they met last time, and he looked very serious.
“Yo, it’s rare for the crown prince and the other prince to appear at the same time.” Cheng Zimei was possessed by the gossip soul again, she bumped Shen Dai with her elbow, “We should get to know some colleagues in the chemical department, so that we can hear the gossip about the other prince. He is much more interesting than our crown prince.”
“Don’t bother me, I have to go through the manuscript again.” Shen Dai said, staring at the computer screen.
“Don’t be nervous, well, the teacher said that this meeting will not affect our budget, you can just present whatever you have casually.”
“How can I do things ‘casually’?”
“You really… wow!” Cheng Zimei grabbed Shen Dai’s arm excitedly, and Shen Dai was pinched to the point of pain.
There was a small commotion in the conference hall, everyone’s eyes were turned to the door, an extremely handsome Alpha walked in, and many high-level executives who had already sat up stood up to greet him.
“Yan Mingxiu!” a junior sister said excitedly, “Why is he here?”
“Longke Heavy Industry is our company’s strategic partner. He should also hold a little share.”
Shen Dai was also curious, and stretched his neck to see Yan Mingxiu’s style. Yan Mingxiu is the heir of Longke Heavy Industry, which is not unusual. What is unusual is that when he was in his early twenties, he suddenly ran into the entertainment industry. Suddenly disappearing from the public eye, it is clear that the son and brother went to the exaggerated Vanity Fair when he was young and frivolous, and finally had to go back to inherit the family business.
Yan Mingxiu is a typical S-class Alpha with top level appearance, and the shock of seeing a real person is better than seeing him on the big screen.
“The alpha concentration here is too high.” Cheng Zimei shrugged. “Fortunately, I can’t smell it. I’ll just look at the handsome guy. Ah Dai, do you feel uncomfortable?”
Beta, which has the largest population gender base and creates the most social value, is indeed the most stable and convenient gender. Although they cannot withstand the pheromone suppression of alpha, they also cannot smell the pheromone and are rarely affected in everyday situations. For example, at this time, when three S-class alphas and a bunch of other alphas appeared in the indoor space at the same time, pheromones were flying around the whole room, which was very depressing for omegas.
Shen Dai was of course uncomfortable. He felt the air was thin, his chest was tight and felt short of breath, and even his eyes were smoky. The gender of omega is pitiful, and it is no wonder that it is not easy for them to get a job. He nodded and said, “I’ll go out in a while, and you’ll let me know when it’s my time.”
Not long after the first group started, he used the excuse of going to the toilet, sneaked out with his notebook, took a breath of fresh air in the coffee break area, and continued to revise his PPT.
It wasn’t until Cheng Zimei called him that he returned to the conference hall, and after getting ready, he stepped onto the podium.
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