Chapter 52
Gu Xiyu didn’t understand why Wen Yu’s risk value had suddenly dropped.
He just thought it was probably because Wen Yu had discovered that he was still in the palace and had not escaped. Isn’t that how people with a strong desire for control are?
But when Xie Mingan saw Wen Yu appear, the doubt in his eyes gradually turned to understanding, and he greeted the other party with a less than enthusiastic tone: “Admiral Caesar.”
Xie Mingan assumed that Wen Yu had brought him here.
In a way, this explanation was correct, only that it was not in the way Xie Mingan thought.
Wen Yu’s eyes were locked on Gu Xiyu, and he didn’t answer.
This blond boy was wearing something around his neck that was the same as the restraint he had put on his tiger rabbit. What was even more absurd was that the signal on the ring was the same one his communicator was tracking. The ring couldn’t have been taken off without his manipulation, so it was impossible that his tiger rabbit had removed it and put it on the boy.
So, this boy with the same eyes as his Tiger Rabbit, was his Tiger Rabbit?
Wen Yu was quite a stereotypical person; just like wine glasses can only be used for wine, naturally, pet rings can only be worn on pets.
But it seems like such thoughts were about to be shattered by the boy in front of him today.
Seeing the metal ring he controlled on the handsome boy’s beautiful neck gave him an eerie and morbid sense of satisfaction. It was as if he could physically feel the pulsations beneath the ring, strong and fragile, the most deadly of weaknesses.
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
He had never thought this thing could look so good on a human.
Wen Yu recognized this face, it was the boy on the tablet that the guards had handed him when they came to inform him that he had a “fiancé.”
Whether it was that picture or the tiger rabbit, none were as stirring as the feeling of looking at this boy right now. It wasn’t what people usually say about love at first sight; it was just a strange feeling of reuniting after a long time.
Wen Yu was amazed. His powers gave him a memory that surpassed that of most species, including how he was born, so he was certain that this boy had not appeared in his past during these long, silent years.
But the familiarity that came from the depths of his soul was real.
“Where did you go hide after the accident in the testing hall?” Wen Yu was still lost in thought, while Xie Mingan on the other side was already catching up with Gu Xiyu.
Gu Xiyu subconsciously looked in Wen Yu’s direction.
The latter quickly met his gaze and gently raised his eyebrow.
Just when he thought that Wen Yu would not help him with his difficulties, the admiral walked over and wrapped a hand around his waist, pulling him into his arms: “I was worried after your people came to inform me, so I went for a drive to the location of the incident and picked him up.”
Perhaps Wen Yu’s attitude and tone were too natural, Xie Mingan did not have the slightest suspicion and acquiesced that Gu Xiyu would accompany Wen Yu on this trip as his “fiancé.”
Gu Xiyu followed Wen Yu’s words, “Thank you for your concern, Lieutenant General.”
But Xie Mingan frowned a little: “No, I was just worried that you had another identity, it would have caused trouble if we didn’t keep an eye on you and let you slip into the main city.”
Today’s Xie Mingan was still unpleasantly straightforward.
Lieutenant General Xie’s eyes suddenly moved to his neck, and he asked in puzzlement, “And what is that?”
“It’s ugly.”
Before Gu Xiyu could reply, Wen Yu on the side spoke out first: “It’s just a kind of interest, it’s normal for Lieutenant General Xie not to understand.”
He took a turn to mock Xie Mingan for being a single dog.
Xie Mingan had never given Wen Yu a good look since they met, and even though there were three of them present, Gu Xiyu noticed that he didn’t even want to look at Wen Yu out of the corner of his eye. This time, being mocked by him like this, Xie Mingan’s expression became even more ugly, and his tone was hostile. “I don’t understand, but if I have a girlfriend in the future, I would never let her get lost from me easily, only for her to end up alone on a deserted planet with no way to seek help.”
With that, he put on his hat and brushed past them, his figure fading into the other corner of the walkway.
It was only when Gu Xiyu took his attention back from Xie Mingan that he realized that Wen Yu had already released the hand on his waist.
“Let’s go.” Even though there were only the two of them in the corridor, Wen Yu didn’t say anything to him immediately, but walked straight in the direction out of the royal palace.
It was not surprising that the Great Demon guessed his identity as the Tiger Rabbit.
It was only when they returned to the Admiral’s mansion and were alone that they began to talk about the events of the day.
Wen Yu elegantly crossed his legs on the spacious single sofa and gently raised his head, “Let’s see, should I ask you about the tiger rabbit first or your identity as my fiancé?”
Gu Xiyu pursed his lips for a moment and asked calmly in return, “If you can pretend to be Admiral Caesar, why can’t I switch between a tiger rabbit and human form?”
“Makes sense.” Wen Yu agreed: “Then what’s this fiancé they’re talking about?”
Gu Xiyu had to take out the brooch.
Wen Yu seemed to recognize it, and his eyes instantly went from puzzlement to ‘so that’s what happened’.
“This is Admiral Caesar’s thing, I never thought it would end up with you.” Wen Yu’s tone was a little surprised as he said with one hand on his cheek, “Caesar probably lost it during the fight before he died, that’s why I didn’t find it.”
Gu Xiyu asked, “Do you know what it is?”
“Apart from admirals, some generals in the empire, including the royal family, would have special brooches on them; each status has a different design; for example, the royal family is golden.”
Wen Yu explained cooperatively, “They have symbolic status, and decoration is secondary; their main significance is that when an admiral no longer wears his brooch, it means that it has been given away. ”
And naturally, the only person to whom one could give such an important object was one’s spouse; its existence represented romance.
When Wen Yu first returned to the Empire as Caesar, the various media outlets that interviewed him and the viewers who saw him on the news speculated whether he already had his heart set on someone else, since the trinket he had long worn on his chest was no longer there.
Every time someone asked him about it, he just laughed it off without much of a response, so the people of the Empire still don’t know that he actually just neglected the brooch. He was still trying to find someone to secretly get him an identical one to save him from the questions, only for Gu Xiyu to suddenly show up with it.
Wen Yu smiled a little bit narrowly.
He had Gu Xiyu to cover up for him, which was perfect.
So, after Wen Yu finished examining it, he handed it to Gu Xiyu again and said, “Take it.”
Gu Xiyu didn’t refuse and put the item back into his pocket, then pointed at his neck and said, “Since I have regained my human form, can you take it off for me, I promise not to run away.” Why run before the mission is not yet done?
“No.” Wen Yu flatly refused, then patiently explained before Gu Xiyu got angry, “Your current identity is rather sensitive, and you’re unfamiliar with the city; I won’t be able to find you without it in case you get lost.”
Just like in the royal palace earlier. Wen Yu was able to find him so quickly with the help of the tracker.
Gu Xiyu thought it made sense, but he was still a bit torn: “I don’t want to walk in front of people with it on.” There was always an indescribable sense of shame.
At times like this, he had to be thankful that the people at the bureau couldn’t directly monitor his footage.
After a flash of reluctance in his eyes, Wen Yu got up and came in front of him. He had just returned from an outing and was still wearing his very formal silver-white admiral’s uniform, meticulously buttoned up with pale gold buttons from the cuffs to the collar, his clothes so exquisite that there wasn’t a single wrinkle or dirty stain.
When he leaned over and lowered his head to remove the metal ring around his neck, Gu Xiyu could smell the light fragrance wafting from him.
It was a scent very similar to violets.
He didn’t know what he was thinking, perhaps his mind was a bit blank, and he subconsciously spoke, “The smell on you is very similar to the one I smelled in the public toilet the other day.”
As the last word fell, a very soft ‘click’ came from his left wrist.
The air seemed to stand still for a second.
Wen Yu’s perfectly proportioned fingers gently cupped his wrist, which now had the metal ring. At his comment, the man merely raised his eyes and rubbed his fingers on his wrist a few times; the creamy white skin soon flushed with a slight redness.
It was clear that he was a ferocious tiger rabbit, but he was so fragile in human form, like a ceramic that would break if he squeezed it.
With this in mind, Wen Yu let go of Gu Xiyu’s hand and asked him casually, “I told you to stay by my side; where did you go today in the palace?”
Gu Xiyu was silent for a moment, then he just spoke the truth: “I actually wanted to go to the research base when I asked to go to the palace with you.”
“The bead that was reported in the news last time seems to be something that belongs to me.” After a pause, he added, “The Beast’s warship crashed, but it seems that the purpose of our trip was to see you and to bring you something.”
“As for what it is, I’ll have to get back the beads to find out.”
Wen Yu listened and asked rhetorically, “It seems to be?”
He paused and made up nonsense without changing his face, “I accidentally bumped my head during the crash, and I forgot about parts of what happened before I came to the main planet.”
If one thought about it carefully, one would find that it was a flawed excuse.
However, Wen Yu did not ask more questions and seemed to accept this explanation.
At this time in the Royal Palace, Xu Guizhong, who had left the underground base, arrived at the surveillance department, located in a high-rise building. This entire floor belonged to this department, and apart from the research base and the military unification center, they had monitors in every corner of the palace.
When Xu Guizhong left, he found that one of the doors leading to the underground base had been vandalized and the sensors had failed. Xu Guizhong, who had sensed something was wrong underground, alerted the surveillance department and asked for the footage from the corridor near that door for that period of time.
The staff checked the footage he wanted to investigate and said with an apologetic expression, “Sorry, Lieutenant General Xu, the surveillance signals on several floors of the palace were affected just now, and the records are missing. The one you wish to investigate happens to be one of the affected floors.”
Xu Guizhong’s brow was completely furrowed.
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In the study of the Admiral’s mansion, Gu Xiyu raised his hand, reluctantly accepting this tracker in the form of a bracelet.
He watched Wen Yu walk over to the desk and casually fiddle with the papers stacked on it. He was silent for a long time, but finally couldn’t hold back from asking directly, “The Second Prince wanted to meet you to ask you to dispose of His Highness the Crown Prince?”
He had just finished asking, and before he even received a reply from Wen Yu, the panel automatically popped up.
[[Side mission triggered: The main protagonist’s survival rate after this attack is 10 percent, which is eight times less than in the original plot. Please prevent the mission target from harming the main protagonist. The completion of this mission will reduce the target’s risk value by up to 20 points.]]
After being pitted by the side missions so many times, Gu Xiyu had learned to ignore the ‘up to ……’ addition that followed.
The 20 points never materialized anyway, and the stingy Great Demon’s risk value would only reduce by 1 point.
Gu Xiyu closed the panel, and after Wen Yu nodded, he asked calmly, “Can you not do that?”
Wen Yu looked into his eyes and replied with alacrity, “Okay.”
He was a little surprised, wondering why the Great Demon was so agreeable.
As expected, Wen Yu added in the next second, “As long as you can convince me.”