TVLMS Chapter 65

Wen Yu actually showed him a video he had recorded on his communicator.

The transformation process was undoubtedly very painful, and even in his comatose state, Gu Xiyu kept struggling. Wen Yu had nothing else to do, and since there were only robots on the spaceship, he stayed by his side the whole time.

To describe his transformed ‘self’ in one word, Gu Xiyu could only think of the word “hypocrite.” It was as if all the emotions he had collected or suppressed over the years spilled out at once, and he was not satisfied no matter how much Wen Yu tried to appease him. Gu Xiyu watched as he clutched Wen Yu tightly in the video, and then he frowned at the latter’s proximity in reality, and his calm expression almost cracked.

It was as if another soul had taken over this body once again.

The Gu Xiyu in the video definitely wasn’t the normal him, and if he were more conscious, he would never do such explosive things.

The influence of this body’s nature was too great.

Gu Xiyu thought with a blank expression and continued to watch. He was wearing some cotton clothes when he transformed from a tiger rabbit to a human, but he seemed to have taken the clothes off subconsciously because he couldn’t stand the torture of the alternating heat and cold.

At first, Wen Yu stopped him, “Don’t, what if you catch a cold?”

Gu Xiyu saw himself sitting on the edge of the bed with his hands on his knees, looking as despondent as a child who had been restrained by an adult. Not only were his eyes red, but his voice was soft, and he sounded a bit aggrieved: “Ever since I was little, I could never do what I wanted to do.”

Gu Xiyu’s hand holding the communicator suddenly trembled a little, and the expression he was trying to maintain finally cracked at this moment.

“I didn’t do anything, so why was I born to be loathed by you all?”

“I hate you all.”

The boy in the video seemed quite calm, his tone sounded broken, but his eyes had a determined energy to them. Wen Yu, who was beside him, seemed stunned by his words. He stood still and stared at him for a long time before tentatively reaching out and patting the top of his head: “…… Okay, just do whatever you want, I won’t stop you.”

“You can hate other people, but don’t say those words to me.”

In any case, Wen Yu finally coaxed the consciousness dominated by nature, and he gradually calmed down. After that, there were all sorts of overwhelming images. The “coquettishness” that he swore he would never do was played to the fullest during that period of unconsciousness, and he couldn’t believe that the person in the video was him.

Aside from the time just after the transformation and just before he was truly awake and the afterglow of his body had not yet subsided, the video showed him pestering Wen Yu the whole time. But he didn’t say something like ‘I want’ so directly, he only said to Wen Yu, “It’s uncomfortable.”

Perhaps to an old rascal, it sounded like he wanted it. Gu Xiyu thought through clenched teeth.

Having been in this world for so many years, Wen Yu obviously knew more about what happened during the transformation than he did and immediately understood why he was feeling uncomfortable.

However, Wen Yu didn’t do anything right away and even brought him an ice pack for his forehead, telling him, “Just bear it, and it will pass.”

The person who couldn’t bear it was Gu Xiyu himself.

If he wasn’t watching the video Wen Yu recorded, he wouldn’t even know that he could do something like willfully throwing away the ice pack and asking Wen Yu for help with his fierce and forceful eyes.

The scary thing was that this didn’t happen today, he looked at the time at the bottom of the video and noticed that it started the day before yesterday.

So looking back, it was strange that Wen Yu hadn’t eaten him up while he was unconscious.

He put down Wen Yu’s communicator with mixed emotions and sat on the bed for a long time without speaking, Wen Yu was still staring at him from the side of the bed, the grievance of being wronged showing in his eyes.

The main system also sent him an automatic notification at this time.

[[Congratulations to the mission executor for completing the side task, the target’s risk value is now 20 points, please keep up the good work!]]

He had to admit that the database of the main system understood the Great Demon’s soul fragments. His “hypocritical” actions while he was unconscious had hit Wen Yu’s heart by mistake, and not only had the side task to act coquettish been fulfilled, leading to the 20-point reduction in the risk value as promised, he had even shaved off a few extra points as a reward.

After a few minutes of silence, Wen Yu took the lead and asked, “…… Since I’ve already helped you halfway, do you want me to continue?”

Gu Xiyu: “……”

He grabbed the blanket and buried his entire body under it, looking like he was very upset, didn’t want to talk to Wen Yu, and wanted to live in a different world.

Wen Yu wasn’t angered by this attitude. He started packing up the things around him to give him space to calm down, and was just about to leave when he suddenly heard a hoarse and irritated voice coming from under the blanket: “What are you waiting for? Why don’t you hurry up?”

Wen Yu froze. He looked at the lump on the bed that had shrunk into a ball of shyness and anger, not wanting to see anyone. Wen Yu’s eyes curved slightly, a slightly sly smile slipping under his eyes.

It was as if everything was developing according to his calculations.

Gu Xiyu was indeed in a slightly irritable mood.

He should have refused, but he didn’t want to.

After Wen Yu “helped” him, he fell asleep next to him and woke up to find that the person next to him was gone. The residual discomfort had finally disappeared, and his body had been cleaned and changed into clean clothes.

Wen Yu was sitting quietly on the only single sofa in the room, holding a glowing bead in his hand, his eyes seemed a little dull.

Gu Xiyu realized he was holding the bead full of energy and information. It was supposed to be on him, but it was probably taken away during his unconsciousness. Although only he could activate the bead, Wen Yu could easily see its contents since he was not far away from the bed.

As expected, the person in the chair calmly asked him once he got up, “So, is this the way to close the portal?”

Wen Yu’s tone sounded much colder than usual, and his sentence was more like a remark than a question.

Gu Xiyu did not reply immediately.

There was more to the method of closing the portal, and the core point was him.

To be accurate, it was this body. The main reason the original owner’s father still kept him was because his heart was different from other tiger rabbits. He was born not long after the portal was opened. When the conflict between humans and aliens started escalating, the beast race started looking for a way to close the portal. Later, the physicians of the beast race discovered from historical sites that the situation had also occurred in the past. They used their ancestral tree to produce a tiger rabbit with a special heart, raised it to adulthood, and then used it to close the portal.

The tiger rabbit contains a special electric power that most species do not have, and the structure of its heart is different from that of ordinary beasts. In addition, the body bred by the ancestral tree is like a shell for the compressed energy stone, it’s comparable to a supernova after death. By using this explosive power and the energy in the bead, the portal could be closed.

The original owner was a tiger rabbit born through the ancestral tree, born to become a sacrifice to close the migration point. His mother was affected by the reason for his birth, and she passed away soon after giving birth to him. He was not favored by his father while growing up, only getting the basic royal treatment he deserved. There wasn’t much affection put into him because he would die later.

The urgency to get him married was also to squeeze out the value of his lineage—a few children could be conceived before he died, they’d be cubs with royal blood after all.

Any way you look at it, closing the portal meant Gu Xiyu would have to die. According to the original plot, the original owner, who was used as cannon fodder, should have died not long after the beast warship crashed. Later, the humans obtaining his remains to close the portal was the most important main line. He happened to transmigrate into this body, which affected the original plot.

He told Lu Feng about it early on, and after some agonizing, Lu Feng agreed to give him half a year.

He also had to reduce the Great Demon’s risk value before he left.

“Yes.” Gu Xiyu graciously admitted. Wen Yu walked up to him with the bead and gazed at him, “It’s the only way now, isn’t it?”

“Unless you can restrain the aliens from ever invading the realm of the human empire,” he spoke calmly.

This was an impossible task. While Wen Yu, the so-called “leader,” had suppression power over the aliens, there was no guarantee that some would sneak past or rebel.

The best thing to do was to close the portal.

Gu Xiyu thought that Wen Yu would be angry, but after listening to him, he only asked, “When do you plan to implement it?”

Gu Xiyu silently glanced at the panel and said softly, “I have to wait… for when you’re happy.”

Wen Yu raised his eyebrows gently and tossed the bead in his hand up a few times, “Do you think I’ll be happy after such a piece of news hits me?”

“One has to try.” Gu Xiyu said, “If you have a way to assure Lu Feng and the others that no aliens will attack the empire within a certain period of time, then we might be able to have a longer period of time to find something that will make you happy.”

Six months was a deadline, but if Wen Yu could assure Lu Feng that the deadline could be delayed a little further, maybe he could stay in this world a little longer.

Wen Yu did not continue to say more on this topic, but temporarily took possession of the bead. They flew through the universe for a long time, during which he also took the ship back to a place near the imperial domain and asked him for his communicator, saying that he (Wen Yu) wanted to talk to Lu Feng.

Gu Xiyu obediently handed over the communicator, leaving Wen Yu to negotiate with Lu Feng alone. He somehow managed to convince Lu Feng, but when he handed the communicator back to him, he simply said, “It’s done.”

“?”

“Lu Feng agreed, as long as the Empire doesn’t face a big threat. He said that should a strong attack happen, both of us will be tied to the portal to complete the original mission.” He laughed as he said that and narrowed his eyes, saying, “Look at that, humans are so cruel.”

Gu Xiyu pursed his lips and didn’t answer.

Afterward, the two lived in a two-person world for a long time, probably several years. The conversion of years and days here was so complicated that he didn’t even bother to remember. Wen Yu also took him on many trips to different planets, and since neither of them was a proper human, they were not afraid of other aliens and had a very peaceful life.

As for the so-called “estrus period,” it came not long after he finished his transformation, and he had to go through this ordeal every autumn. Although Wen Yu was there, they did not do that kind of thing regularly, but it was different in the autumn because he would have a period when his thoughts were fuzzy and he would pester Wen Yu to do that kind of thing.

Because of this, Wen Yu was in a particularly good mood every year just before autumn.

Like a sven scum, he said, “I just love to see you being nice and begging me for it.”

After his initial shame, anger, and discomfort, Commander Gu finally gave up on his ego. Anyway, he could live a life without shame and discomfort, and a few worlds down the line, he had learned how to enjoy the thing for what it was.

Wen Yu’s risk value had dropped to 5 points a long time ago.

What exactly was the difference between these 5 points? Gu Xiyu didn’t figure it out even after it became 0. He woke up one day and saw Wen Yu, who had woken up much earlier than him, standing by the side of his bed, looking at him with eyes as bright as stars, as if he had realized something.

Then he heard Wen Yu say to him in a serious tone, “I’m ready, let’s go and close up the portal.”

He was just about to make an excuse to refuse when he clicked on the panel and found that the risk value had changed to 0.

[[Congratulations to the mission executor for completing the mission, feel free to notify the system to leave the world.]]

“Okay.” Gu Xiyu closed up the panel and did not pursue the reason.

The mission was completed anyway.

—

Ever since he had Gu Xiyu’s company, Wen Yu did not have strange dreams again.

On this day, he woke up from his sleep after having the long-forgotten dreams; only this time, he finally remembered their content.

He sat up in bed for a few minutes to calm his mind, turned his head, and reached out to touch the sleeping Gu Xiyu on the head, his movements light and gentle.

“So that’s what happened.” He murmured in a low voice.

He finally knew why Gu Xiyu had appeared in this place, and he even remembered who he really was, including the fact that he didn’t belong to this world originally and was now nothing more than a soul fragment boarding in this shell.

In addition, the young man beside him, was his obsession.

It was because he finally understood the truth of everything that he wanted to leave this world, which they did not belong to, with Gu Xiyu as soon as possible and reunite with him as his true self sooner.

Destroying the empire was not the right way to leave this world; being with Gu Xiyu was.

He was actually in a very emotional mood, but he did not intend to tell Gu Xiyu the truth about what had happened, including the fact that his true self had probably tampered with the system.

Wen Yu accidentally thought back a little too far, and a faint throbbing pain began in the area of his heart.

He gazed at Gu Xiyu, his eyes suffused with some sadness: “You don’t seem to remember anything.”

After looking at Gu Xiyu with such fondness for a long time, Wen Yu lowered his head and kissed the latter’s forehead before he woke up, and murmured another sentence.

“It’s okay, as long as you’re still alive.”

We’ve come to the end of this arc.