TVLMS Chapter 60

Wen Yu was clearly a little embarrassed after Gu Xiyu noticed the changes in his body. Although he was not human, he was aware of the reactions from a certain part of his body, and he immediately understood exactly what this meant. But just because he was having beastly thoughts didn’t mean he would behave like a beast and give in to his urges on the spot.

Wen Yu silently put down his wine glass and got up. The hem of his clothes slid down with his movements, covering a certain part.

“Eat your food while it’s still hot, I have some business to attend to, so I’ll leave you to it.”

Until Wen Yu walked out of the room, Gu Xiyu remained in the same position in his chair, his thoughts blank for a moment.

The look in Wen Yu’s eyes still lingered in his mind. It was like the look of a man with his life door in a vise, like a beast with its sharp claws around the neck of its prey, and the prey could only helplessly become a plaything in his hands.

Gu Xiyu suddenly had some hesitation.

The world is still a good place to be, and the strategy used on Ji Chen should be forgotten; otherwise, he will be played to death and his body will not be able to hold up.

He looked very fierce!

Wen Yu, who had assumed the identity of Admiral Caesar, had just returned with the credit for wiping out the zerg menace, so there were a bunch of interviews and shelved matters to attend to afterward. After leaving Gu Xiyu’s room, he sat at his desk, flipping through papers for a while. Small 3D characters were projected on the screen floating in front of him and were speaking to him.

Today’s meeting was with several generals in the military and also the generals stationed on the other planets, who were going to redraft their plans in response to the alien invasion. The Unification Center was originally handed over to Xu Guizhong by Lu Yan, but because the underground experiments were exposed, Xu Guizhong, who was involved in controlling this plan, was also pushed into the limelight.

After all, Lu Yan had handed over most matters to him, and when some of the films and evidence were unearthed by the public, he could only come forward and say, “I’m sorry; I’m ashamed to stand before the people of the Empire.” He admitted the matter, but claimed that Lu Feng blackmailed him to do inhumane experiments that would endanger the empire.

Of course, the one who had really threatened him and his family was Lu Yan.

“…… So now the Unification Center has decided that for the next few days, the Admiral will first focus on stationing a garrison in the main city, after all, there could be some alien races that were missed. When the situation is confirmed as safe, we intend to re-blockade the main city and conduct a three-phase exfiltration …… Admiral Caesar?”

It took a few seconds before Wen Yu blinked and said, in a cool tone, “Okay, I understand. Let’s stop here for today’s meeting. I don’t feel so well right now, probably because I’ve been running around too much these past few days, so it affected my rest. You can continue if there is anything else you want to discuss, you can just send me an email if there’s anything I’ve missed.”

With that said, he hung up the video call regardless of how the others were reacting. But with his status, the others probably wouldn’t have any objections.

He was unable to concentrate after returning from Gu Xiyu’s room.

His mind wavered because of Gu Xiyu, the boy he had only spent a short time with.

Wen Yu thought of the system again, but no matter how many times he tried, he couldn’t contact that ‘person’ he was communicating with again.

He left his desk in irritation and finally went into the bathroom to take a cold shower.

He took a long shower, but as the current owner of the house, no one would care how long it took him. He could stay in there for hours if he wanted to.

Wen Yu didn’t see Gu Xiyu again until bedtime.

Tonight, a thunderstorm suddenly started in the main city, and before he closed the curtains in his bedroom, Wen Yu saw the dark clouds and the lightning that struck the open space outside. The streets were deserted. The streets would get particularly dangerous during such weather, and it was easy to be struck by lightning, so no one would go out at such times. Only the countless lightning bolts could be seen striking the lightning rods.

He swiftly drew the curtains and was about to rest when the light in his room suddenly flickered and went out.

The power was probably affected by the weather.

‘Knock, knock’.

There was a sudden knock on the door of his room, and he thought it was a staff member coming over to inform him about the power outage. The words he planned to say in reply were suddenly swallowed when he saw the person standing outside the door.

“…… What’s wrong?” The person knocking on the door was Gu Xiyu.

It was as if he had grasped the timing, coming to him just when no one else was passing in the corridor. He was wearing khaki-colored cotton pajamas, and his whole body looked particularly delicate and soft, yet his expression carried a bit of coldness and indifference.

Gu Xiyu asked him, “Can I come in and talk?”

Wen Yu obediently moved aside and closed the door behind him after he walked into the room.

Then he saw Gu Xiyu ask him with an expressionless face, “Can I sleep with you?”

“……?” Wen Yu was bewildered for a moment. He first examined the not-so-happy expression on Gu Xiyu’s face and then combined it with the plea from his mouth, almost thinking he had misheard the question.

Perhaps Gu Xiyu was asking, ‘Can you please get out of the room and give me the place?’ This was more reasonable than his question, which sounded like a sign of weakness but it was not very polite.

Gu Xiyu pursed his lips for a moment, and the dimly lit room hid his somewhat reddened ears, “I, I’m afraid of the dark and thunder, so I don’t dare sleep alone tonight.”

Although he was trying very hard to be coquettish, the tone that came out was still a little dry.

After a few seconds of silence, Wen Yu asked him, “You’re a tiger rabbit that can discharge electricity, and you’re afraid of thunder?”

Gu Xiyu: “……” His ears got even redder, mostly from shame.

In fact, he had no intention of coming over. Perhaps the intelligent system of this world might be too Buddhist, so the main system had to take over in issuing missions, seeing as there was no progress in the mission.

He tried to pretend that he didn’t see the earlier mission, but as a result, the main system monitored tonight’s weather and triggered a special task by force.

[[The target is empty and lonely. The mission executor should go sleep with him on the grounds that he is afraid of lightning. If the mission is completed, the risk value will be reduced by up to 20 points.]]

‘[[Please pay attention, mission executor; refusing to complete the tasks will be treated as a rebellion and you will be punished.]]

Gu Xiyu: “……”

Unable to fight the system’s punitive measures, Commander Gu had no choice but to come to Wen Yu, and so this situation arose.

Unlike the soul fragments of the previous two worlds, Wen Yu did not understand the situation and threw serious doubts at him.

Gu Xiyu’s heart stuttered for a moment. It was already very difficult to act coquettish or whatever, so he took a deep breath and said back, “You’re right, I shouldn’t be afraid of these vague and insignificant things. Thank you, Lord Admiral, for your advice, I will now go back and try to overcome my fears.”

Although Wen Yu didn’t know about the opportunity the main system had given him, his body was still honest enough to pull Gu Xiyu back before he left and calmly say, “You’ve come all the way here, so don’t leave.”

After a pause, he added in a low voice, “I get insomnia when you’re not here.”

He wasn’t lying, it wasn’t until Gu Xiyu ‘broke’ off their engagement and the two of them rested separately and he woke up in the middle of the night that he realized that the days he and Gu Xiyu slept together on the same pillow were one of the most peaceful nights of his life. Even that feeling of loss was gone.

All in all, Gu Xiyu ended up staying without incident. There was no tension, it was as if we were just going back to the everyday routine, and the attitude of both parties was quite natural.

Wen Yu took something out of the drawer. It was a round, thin ring that looked like the pet ring he had used on Gu Xiyu before. Only, it was much finer and more elegant than the last one.

“What is this?” Gu Xiyu asked out loud when he saw Wen Yu holding the item in front of him but not rushing to put it on for him.

The fine silver-blue ring glowed a bit, and Wen Yu was silent for a while before saying, “A communicator.”

“I know I don’t have the right, but you don’t have to use Lu Feng’s.”

Gu Xiyu raised an eyebrow in the darkness, and through the faint light reflected by the luminous furnishings in the room, he could only faintly see the outline of Wen Yu’s face.

He asked, “Is it the kind with a tracker downloaded on it?”

Wen Yu didn’t deny it and explained to him, “I’m not tracking you because I want to restrict your movements; I just want to be the first to know where you are when something happens to you, like last time.”

“Why?” Gu Xiyu asked, “Whether I’m dead or alive shouldn’t have much of an impact on you, should it?”

Wen Yu felt that he had a point but didn’t know how to go about making sense of his now-confused thoughts. He had thought about it a lot in the afternoon while taking a shower. His mind was filled with Gu Xiyu, and after thinking about it, he felt that this person was special to him.

He even suspected that the system had sent Gu Xiyu to him on purpose, why else would it stop him from hurting Gu Xiyu? Could this have anything to do with the dream he could never remember all these years?

Gu Xiyu held out his hand for him to put on the new communicator, but he didn’t take off the one Lu Feng gave him either.

“You know I have things to do; I have to help Lu Feng guard the empire.”

Gu Xiyu asked him, “Most of the aliens seem to listen to you, if you stop supporting them, will they leave?”

There was a pause before Wen Yu replied, “They are just worried that I will influence them and cause the destruction of the alien races. For the aliens, reproduction and the transmission of genes are what matter most.”

And as a non-replicable, genetic-free consciousness, he had a deep connection with the energy of the universe. He had the means to disrupt this systematic legacy of theirs whenever he wanted to. The aliens might not understand deeply, but they are able to sense this potential threat.

Wen Yu still did not relent in saying that he would agree to leave the human race alone, he still had a certain amount of resentment toward them. He hid well, but Wen Ruo, who was more active and loved to move around, was the first to be discovered by the humans. She was attacked to the point where she almost lost her life and was taken away for experimentation. It was Wen Yu who saved her.

Even though he had no sense of belonging to this place, there was a bond between him and Wen Ruo. At that time, he had already built up resentment towards the human race, and after Wen Ruo was captured by the human race for experiments, his will to destroy them deepened.

In addition, he later discovered that by destroying the empire and the human race, he might have a chance of being free –

His eyes coalesced on Gu Xiyu again, on one hand, he wanted to compromise with him, but on the other, there was the desire to be free.

Wen Yu was silent and didn’t give another response, trying to suppress the wavering in his heart. Gu Xiyu didn’t press him further either, and he quietly laid back down on the bed.

Everything seemed to be back to the way it was at the beginning.

The difference was that now that the person was sleeping beside himself, Wen Yu’s mind was no longer at peace. He even suspected that Gu Xiyu had done it on purpose by wearing pajamas with such a large neckline and personally asking to sleep in his bed.

But was such an indifferent Gu Xiyu really seducing him? Moreover, with such a reluctant expression as if he were being coerced?

Gu Xiyu really did it on purpose, but of course, it was all the main system’s fault. The main system had tempted him with the possibility of progress in the mission, so he believed it. But the original owner wasn’t an adult yet, so it was unlikely that anything would happen even if he was sleeping in the same bed as Wen Yu. The main system was overthinking things.

Later, he realized that the one who thought too little was him.

While his thoughts were in a state of confusion between waking up and slumbering, Gu Xiyu felt someone gently hold him. He met Wen Yu’s clear blue eyes in a daze and heard him ask him in a solemn tone, “Gu Xiyu, I took you in, can you do me a favor?”

“What is it?” Probably because he was in a sleepy state, Gu Xiyu’s voice was much softer.

Wen Yu didn’t answer immediately. Gu Xiyu’s hand under the blanket was held and then moved all the way to a certain place, and his head suddenly cleared when he touched something familiar.

He stared at Wen Yu incredulously, his eyes looking like they were looking at an old rascal, but the latter had a troubled look on his face. “I tried many times but couldn’t calm it down. I was thinking that since it was caused by you, maybe only you can calm it down.”

Gu Xiyu’s mind went blank for a long time.

A good sentence about it being caused by him.

I’ve seen a lot of hooligans, but I’ve never seen one so blunt and thick-skinned.