TVLMS Chapter 47

[[The automatic program for System W-XH3771 has been launched early and is loading data from this world…. failed to load.]]

[[Re-Downloading…]]

There was silence all around, and the voice of the main system was particularly clear in Gu Xiyu’s head.

[[Host’s soul status is confirmed as stable.]]

[[Health status: good.]]

Gu Xiyu regained consciousness amidst the system’s various announcements, and with a gentle grasp of his fingers, he felt a pile of sand and stones.

As far as the eye could see, there was a vast sandy plain, all in a monotonous gray color, which contrasted greatly with the deep, starry sky above. He was dressed in a dark blue body suit, with a hard, smooth, armor-like layer covering much of it.

This body must have had quite a few injuries before he came over, and several places on the suit were worn out with several scratches and deep cuts.

A few meters away rested a small, single-person spaceship, its fuselage badly battered and a large section of its tail broken off.

The original owner must have come out of it. Seeing the strange place it had landed, it must have been an emergency landing of some kind, the original owner suffered serious injuries in the process and ultimately couldn’t survive.

[[…… data loading failed.]]

“?” He had heard the system loading data repeatedly since he woke up, and this was the first time he had encountered such an abnormal situation.

[[It has been detected that the energy fluctuations in this world are too strong, which may have affected the link between the central system and the intelligent system to some extent, so the data could not be fully loaded.]]

The intelligent system was not yet online, but his communication with the main system was still smooth: “Meaning I can still get a little of the data information?”

The main system did not answer him, but simply threw the data it could provide at him.

[[Welcome to the third mission world. This world is set in an intergalactic future. The mission target is called Wen Yu, a higher being from a billion light years away. He has no specific physical appearance and can transform into any creature he wishes.]

[[The human empire is growing in power and is constantly expanding the territory it occupies in the galaxy. With the expansion of the territory, they are also coming into contact with more cosmic species, most of which have become their enemies. There are species outside the realm that see them purely as enemies who would pose a threat to them: those that covet the Human genes, and those that share the Human’s thoughts and want to expand the realm they rule, unwilling to submit to the Human forces.]]

[[Three years ago, a spatial portal suddenly appeared in the vicinity of the Imperial realm, connecting the human territory to a place a billion light years away, causing species they had not encountered before to intrude into their lives. The target can be considered a leader among those species, and in his eyes, humans are just ants trying to hold their place, which aroused a great deal of interest in him. With the mentality of playing cat and mouse, he plans to destroy their defenses step by step so that the human alliance will disintegrate and fall.]

[[ The mission executor should stop this from happening. The target’s risk value is now 70 points, please work hard.]]

Gu Xiyu understood what happened once he heard this background data. Since the Great Demon in this world possessed the ability to change form, he would definitely disguise himself as a human to infiltrate the Empire. Knowing what identity he turned into was the key to helping him carry out his mission, and it was probably because of this that this part of the data was directly affected and he had no way of knowing.

He didn’t feel nervous or out of place, and he immediately asked, “What about the male and female protagonists?”

[[The main protagonist in this world is called Lu, the Crown Prince of the Empire, and the female protagonist’s data is currently unknown.]]

There was a moment of silence before he asked again, “…… What about me?”

[[Your current name is Gu Xiyu, and you were on your way to find the mission target with an important item for him.]]

Looking at this, he wasn’t sure if he should be glad that the data on the Great Demon was complete. There was very little when it came to him and the male and female protagonists.

But the original owner and the Great Demon of this world knew each other?

After listening to the main system’s explanation, Gu Xiyu searched his body for a while and didn’t find any special items. The only thing he could dig out was a silver flying eagle brooch with a blue gemstone for the eagle’s eye. A thin silver chain with small silver pieces of feather design hangs at the very end of the chain.

Did this belong to the original owner? Or was it a token he wanted to give to the Great Demon?

He was still slightly unsure of his identity, and judging by his appearance, he should be human. But if he had a connection with the Great Demon, doesn’t that mean he might be an alien species that was going to work with the Great Demon to exterminate the human race? The world consciousness wouldn’t be so cruel as to have him transmigrate as such a character, right?

Perhaps it was because the previous world’s mission was completed with relative ease that he came over this time and the mission immediately turned on hell mode.

In order to find the so-called special item, Gu Xiyu even ran into the broken shuttle and searched through it, but to no avail. The functions of the console were all disabled, and there was a line engraved at the very top. He reached out and touched it, discovering that it was a line of numbers.

SZHT01-938VT09.

In addition, he found black weapons from the shuttle, probably as long as one of his arms. He came out and tried it on the open space, accidentally blowing a large rock that was four or five stories high to pieces.

…… It seemed the basic operation was similar to the one he remembered using.

Bang—

A loud noise suddenly came from far away. This loud sound broke the tranquility of this barren domain, and from there on, there was a constant sound of gunshots or energy collisions, as if someone was in a fierce battle and only after a few minutes did calm return.

Gu Xiyu did not go over to where the commotion was taking place, but it was not long before he saw a black dot slowly moving in his direction from afar. He gripped the weapon in his hand tightly, leaned against the remnants of the shuttle’s body, and waited.

This body seemed to have superior eyesight, and although the moving object was still a long way off, he quickly saw that it was a rather tall man. He had short, flaxen hair and a special black combat outfit. His complexion didn’t look good, and there was a deep red blood stain on one of his cheeks.

He was not walking fast, his pace was light and heavy, presumably from a leg injury. His right arm hung at his side, held by his left hand, and fluid could be seen dripping down his arm from time to time, leaving a visible trail where he walked.

When he was a few hundred meters from him, the other man stopped his advance. His grip on the silver-white gun tightened, ready to face an unexpected attack at any moment.

Gu Xiyu stared at him for a long time and finally took the initiative to drop the weapon he was holding, indicating that he had no intention of attacking.

The other party didn’t look like a bad guy and was wounded, so in case he made a wrong judgment, he was sure he could escape.

In the worst-case scenario, it would just be a matter of finding another body, the mission hadn’t even started yet anyway, so it wouldn’t be a loss.

Fortunately, the man was sensible. Although he looked wary, he did not attack him directly but stopped when he was still about ten meters away from him and asked, “Who are you? Why are you here?”

Gu Xiyu was silent for half a second before he replied, “I don’t know, I woke up in this place alone.”

The two men, who had never met before, stared at each other without saying a word, the wind whistling in their ears for a few moments. It was only when Gu Xiyu heard the sound of something dripping that he moved his eyes to the other man’s injured hand: “Do you need help?”

The man wasn’t too polite: “If you can.”

Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any first aid tools when he searched around the spaceship, and came out again in a huff: “Sorry.”

“That’s okay.” The blonde young man in front of Xie Mingan looked gentle and had a calm aura about him, not as aggressive as the aliens he had encountered earlier, so he eased his tone and said, “A little further south, there should be a crashed starship, you can look there.”

Gu Xiyu froze slightly at his words, and seeing that the man no longer said anything more but was headed south in a straight line, he had to pick up the weapon he had tossed aside and follow him. As he was adjusting the weapon, he accidentally clicked a button on the side, and it turned into a black bracelet that could be put on his wrist.

He maintained a calm expression on his face and didn’t let the man in front of him notice anything unusual about him.

The young man he met after this transmigration was as quiet as he was, and the two of them managed to walk a long distance together without speaking.

Then the notification from the main system suddenly came over.

[[Xie Mingan, the second male protagonist in this world. He is one of the Imperial Lieutenant Generals and has extremely strong combat abilities.]]

The introduction couldn’t have been more concise.

They walked south for some time before they found a large warship. The warship had been completely blown up. Except for the very center, which was relatively complete, the rest of it was torn apart and scattered in various corners. It had also created a huge crater in the ground when it crashed, and one had to go down a steep slope to find resources.

Xie Mingan’s vigilance was high, and apart from having to guard against the survivors in the warship, he was also constantly on guard against sneak attacks. Gu Xiyu also did not take the initiative to open his mouth to explain anything, saying more might make him more suspicious, so he simply let him speculate.

“It’s the beast race’s warship.” Xie Mingan was the first to see the corpse at the entrance of the warship, where a huge rat was lying. The teeth around this rat’s mouth were particularly sharp, as if it could bite a human’s head off when it opened its mouth.

After saying that, he even looked back at him, Gu Xiyu was stunned by his stare and blinked subconsciously.

He didn’t know what Xie Mingan was thinking; he stared at him for a while before turning and walking into the damaged warship without a word. The scene inside was beyond imagination, with corpses lying all over the place, mostly in animal form, some half-human, and half-beast.

Most of them bore shocking wounds, less like the effects of the ship’s destruction and more like the result of a brawl. Perhaps it was because of the fight that had taken place inside that no one had been able to maneuver the warship well enough in the end, causing it to crash.

Xie Mingan skillfully found the medical equipment and carried everything he needed onto the operating table. He uses his long legs to hook a round chair next to him and sit on it to start dressing the wound.

Gu Xiyu ignored him and walked to other corners of the interior, searching around to see if there was anything he could pick up. He was unfamiliar with the warship until he unintentionally walked over to the console and saw the familiar number on it.

SZHT01-938.

He stood still and pondered.

That little spaceship was launched from this warship? If that were so, did that mean he was one of the Beast race?

Another possibility was that he infiltrated the beast race’s warship as a representative of the human race and took advantage of the chaos to steal one of their shuttles to escape after causing a commotion inside, but unfortunately crashed together with the warship.

When Gu Xiyu turned around and returned to where he had just been, the chair next to the operating table was empty, and Xie Mingan was nowhere to be seen.

He soon found the other party in the food storage area. Xie Mingan had a keen sense of smell and found the food left behind on the warship. He was already unwrapping a packet of something that looked very much like a sandwich, frowning as he chewed and fiddled with the disc-shaped communicator in his hand.

When he heard the movement, Xie Mingan only glanced at him and wordlessly tossed him a similar sandwich.

Gu Xiyu squeezed the food in his hand, but didn’t open it immediately, taking the initiative to ask, “What were you doing before you came over?”

He remembered that he heard the sound of a fight.

Xie Mingan stopped studying his communicator and replied, “Fighting an alien race.”

He was on a mission with his team when a strange, soft-bodied creature slipped into the warship. It was quite good at hiding, and by the time they became aware of its presence, nearly half of them had been killed by it, including the spaceship’s launch system, and they fought it until they crashed.

As the only survivor, Xie Mingan escaped from the spaceship, but it slipped out and tried to kill him. The sounds Gu Xuyu heard were him fighting back.

Judging from the circumstances, it was clear that Xie Mingan had won the fight.

Gu Xiyu didn’t ask any more questions, but calmly asked, “So, do you have a way to leave this place?”

This planet, which didn’t even have water or plants, was obviously unsuitable to live on. All the existing flying machines were unusable, and if the two of them were trapped here for a long time, they would starve to death even if no alien race killed them.

Probably ruling him out as a threat for the time being, Xie Mingan quickly replied, “As long as I can get this communicator fixed, I can contact the people of the Empire, and we’ll have a chance to leave.”

When Xie Mingan said this, it was obvious that he did not know how to fix it.

Gu Xiyu once again fell into silence.

It was unfortunate that he might actually know how to get this thing fixed.

“Show it to me.”

Xie Mingan pondered for a moment, but still handed the communicator to him.

He searched around the warship again, found some tools to unlock the communicator’s shell, and did an inspection. He then went to the control room to remove some electrical boards and other wire items inside, tinkered with it for a while, and finally managed to get the broken communicator to light up yellow again.

Xie Mingan looked at him differently, or at least lowered his guard a little bit.

Gu Xiyu stood in front of him and watched him fiddle with his communicator. After some static, a voice finally came from inside: “Signal 388, this is the base control center; we are glad to regain contact.”

Xie Mingan briefly explained the situation to the other party and asked them to send help to the place where the communicator was located.

“The base has received it, we are dispatching a rescue team immediately. How many survivors does the Lieutenant General have there?”

Xie Mingan pressed his thumb on the button and did not answer immediately, instead looking up at Gu Xiyu in front of him. His gaze flickered slightly and moved down to the coat pocket at his waist.

Xie Mingan moved extremely quickly to take out the flying eagle brooch he had put away. His eyes looked startled, and then he looked at him with a complicated expression for a moment before replying, “Including me, two.”

Only when Xie Mingan had hung up the communication did he ask him out loud, “What is your relationship with Admiral Caesar?”

Who?

He didn’t know the man called Caesar, but always felt that Xie Mingan had counted him on the list of those who needed to be rescued for the other man’s sake.

He took the brooch back calmly, turned around after putting it away, and said in a low voice, “It’s none of your business.”

Thankfully, Xie Mingan did not pursue the matter further.

The rescue team soon arrived and picked him up along with Xie Mingan. He was unable to submit his identification and had no memory before his accident, so he became the subject of supervision all the way.

Until they returned to the Empire.

Because a large number of aliens had appeared and continued to attack the human realm, including groups that could take on human form or blend in with the population in the form of boarders, all those who wanted to enter the main city had to go through a special screening process, which basically screened out 99% of the alien race.

Gu Xiyu was quite worried about this screening, as he was still unsure of his identity.

The testing center was like a checkpoint. There were many people inside, and even he and Xie Mingan needed to queue up for testing, as well as provide proof of identity.

Yet Gu Xiyu had no proof on him at all.

Xie Mingan, who was with him, saw him with his head slightly bowed as if he were in deep thought and said to him, “Take that thing out.”

Gu Xiyu paused and took out the exquisitely crafted, noble-looking brooch in his pocket. “This?”

The expression of the employee of the testing center instantly turned serious after seeing the brooch: “This is ……”

He then saw Xie Mingan calmly say to that staff member, “It could be Admiral Caesar’s fiancé; after the test is done to confirm he is safe, send him to the Admiral to confirm his identity.”

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Fiancé? Who?