IRCDM Chapter 105

Chapter 105: Promise – How Exactly Do You Love?

Li Yao looked at him in shock: “Or what else?”

Liang Huan stared at the person in front of him with great interest, gently caressing his chin: “Tell this Emperor, how exactly have you loved this Emperor?”

“How I’ve loved?” Li Yao chuckled, grabbing a chair leg and violently lifting it up, “Then let me show you how I love!”

Liang Huan reacted quickly, dodging, completely unlike his previous weak appearance. Li Yao grabbed the chair leg and smashed it over. He raised his hand and grabbed the chair back, smiling at Li Yao: “Don’t be angry, this Emperor was wrong.”

Li Yao grabbed the chair and yanked it back hard. Liang Huan held onto the back without budging. A hint of anger flashed in Li Yao’s eyes, and he fiercely unleashed his mental power. Seeing this, Liang Huan directly gave up resisting, staggering half a step forward, succumbing to his violent force.

Just a hair’s breadth away from kissing the other person.

Warm breaths intertwined. Liang Huan habitually lowered his head, but Li Yao dodged to the side, and the kiss landed on his tightly pressed lips.

Li Yao’s Adam’s apple bobbed: “Has your brain been soaked in lake water?”

“Yeah, mental disorder.” Liang Huan nodded matter-of-factly, released the chair, and wrapped his arms around his waist, putting all his weight on him.

Li Yao probably wanted to curse him again, but somehow, he still reached out and hugged him, vigorously rubbing his cold back, with a strange curiosity mixed in his irritability: “Your Majesty, why do you think I would be so good to you?”

Liang Huan keenly sensed the danger of this topic. After all, if he hadn’t reacted quickly just now, Li Yao would probably have smashed the chair into his face. He picked and chose from various answers, but none were satisfactory. So, he lowered his head and kissed Li Yao’s neck, saying solemnly: “Naturally, because you love this Emperor.”

Li Yao sneered.

Liang Huan really wanted to warn him not to take his favor for granted, but considering Li Yao was currently in a fit of anger and might give him another chair, the Emperor cautiously closed his mouth, venting all his dissatisfaction through kissing.

Fortunately, there was no one else here besides Li Yao, so it didn’t matter if he was a little weak at the moment.

Li Yao probably wanted to stop him, but he held him even tighter. The two men’s mental power intertwined and merged, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Li Yao grabbed the back of his neck and pinned him against the wall, while Liang Huan grabbed his hand and placed it inside his shirt: “Since you love this Emperor so much, do you want to put the signal receiver back into your body?”

Li Yao narrowed his eyes unhappily: “I had no choice before. Now, I’m only one step away from the end, and you want me to seek death? Am I sick?”

Liang Huan understood.

“I’ll find a way to get it out for you,” Li Yao gritted his teeth. “Don’t be endless.”

Liang Huan said: “Su Murong said that the micro-matter of the signal receiver will slowly melt into the human body over time. Doesn’t that mean that these micro-matter are still entering your body in another way?”

It took Li Yao several seconds to realize what nonsense he was talking about, and he said in shock: “You’ve just been busy studying in the Eastern Third District, haven’t you?”

“After all, Su Murong said you also have some research into biological genes,” Liang Huan said seriously. “This Emperor must work hard.”

“Indeed…” Li Yao stared at him with a straight face, paused, “Work hard at what?”

The two men almost simultaneously couldn’t hold back their laughter. Li Yao gritted his teeth, trying to suppress his smile: “If you act like this again, I’ll kill you.”

Liang Huan lovingly touched his hair, then took out a translucent bottle from his arms, in which golden liquid floated with sparkling blue matter.

“What’s this?” Li Yao reached out and took it.

Liang Huan grabbed the bracelet on his wrist, fumbled for the buckle, opened the bottle, and poured everything inside onto it. The matter instantly disappeared into the surface of the bracelet.

Li Yao opened the detection interface: “The micro-metal signal of the signal receiver?”

“Enough for you to deal with the military,” Liang Huan said.

Li Yao’s expression changed: “Where did you get this?”

Liang Huan smiled: “Don’t overthink it, it’s not–”

“Spinal fluid?” This time Li Yao ignored his joke, tearing open his clothes and touching his spine, his voice filled with anger. “Is Su Murong crazy? You already have functional disorder, and he draws spinal fluid from you!”

Liang Huan grabbed his hand: “It was taken multiple times in batches. After all, alien spinal fluid is also needed to treat functional disorders, and it also needs to be diluted… Li Yao.”

Li Yao stared at him, the red in his eyes that he had hastily concealed before reappearing with a fierce color. He pointed at Liang Huan, signaling him to shut up, and opened a secret passage under the chair: “Follow me.”

Liang Huan had no choice but to follow honestly, but his mouth wouldn’t stop: “Since your initial intention wasn’t to betray this Emperor, that’s why this Emperor gave you a third choice. But this Emperor doesn’t regret what happened tonight.”

Li Yao ignored him, but the hand holding his wrist tightened even more.

“Li Yao, you’re crying because you love this Emperor.” Liang Huan considerately came to the conclusion. “There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. This Emperor can hold you.”

Through the mental link, he could clearly feel the other person’s emotional fluctuations. Compared to himself, Li Yao seemed to care more about the issue of his short lifespan.

Liang Huan tried to analyze it from his point of view. He saved Li Yao back then because he liked Li Yao and wanted to obtain Li Yao, a person from Dawn Star Corporation. After all, he had only encountered such a unique person once in his past life and this life, so of course, he would use any means to keep this last bit of enjoyment. Perhaps Li Yao felt the same way.

He lowered his eyes to look at Li Yao’s hand. The back of his hand and arms had small cuts from the fragments of the protective shield. The protective shield had been shattered to pieces, and many fragments still remained on his clothes, but Li Yao had held him very tightly just now.

It was still slightly different, Liang Huan suddenly realized, and took the opportunity to interlock his fingers with his.

Li Yao turned his head and looked at him suspiciously but didn’t refuse.

Liang Huan was in a great mood and couldn’t help but sigh: “This Emperor feels that this negotiation was very fruitful.”

Although he didn’t manage to bring Li Yao back as he wished, Li Yao seemed to have completely belonged to him long ago.

“After working so hard to return the equipment, you almost got blown to death, and you spent 50 billion just for a mine that you may not even be able to enter.” Li Yao commented immorally, “Heh.”

“But someone is taking the initiative to treat this Emperor’s genetic defects.” Liang Huan said with a smile, “This Emperor’s life is much more valuable than 50 billion.”

Li Yao: “…”

Tsk.

—

Yi Hengbai was salvaged from the bottom of the lake by a mecha.

Someone hurriedly draped a cloak over him, and someone else was equipping him with a treatment device. He pushed away the people in front of him and said: “Have you found Liang Huan?”

“Not yet, Commander. Low-yield nuclear bombs are especially powerful in water. Both mechas have been blown to pieces. We’re currently trying to salvage them, but we haven’t detected any signs of life yet.”

Yi Hengbai paused: “I remember that Lu Lian was piloting the other mecha?”

“Yes, we are doing our best to rescue Secretary-General Lu…”

Yi Hengbai slowly frowned.

With Lu Lian’s skills, he shouldn’t be unable to escape.

Lu Lian did escape on his own when the explosion occurred—but there was a slight accident.

Transparent tentacles seemed to be everywhere, wrapping him airtight. The mental power control belonging to a special-grade alien species, without the mecha’s resistance, was especially fierce and terrifying. While he tried to resist, he almost had his mental source crushed several times.

Like some kind of silent warning.

He didn’t know how long had passed, but the wriggling tentacles finally stopped moving. Then, a feeling of weightlessness came, and he fell heavily on the cold, hard ground.

The huge monster transformed into a human, silver-white hair falling behind him. Mu Bo looked at the male human’s disheveled appearance and said in Liang Huan’s tone, “Your level is too low.”

Lu Lian stared at him coldly: “Humans, of course, can’t compare to alien monsters.”

Mu Bo said: “You are not as strong as Li Yao.”

Lu Lian almost choked. He hated it the most when people compared him to Li Yao. Suppressing his anger, he said: “What do you want to do by bringing me here?”

This seemed to be a huge underground garage, filled with heavy off-road vehicles and outdoor equipment. There were even a few scrapped mecha shells. And they seemed to be in the center of the garage, where a huge sphere made of mechanical parts occupied most of the view.

“Your military didn’t keep its word and broke the agreement first.” Mu Bo looked at him disappointedly, “You’re helping a tyrant. Liang Huan said that there’s no need to be soft on you cunning humans in the military. There’s even less need to be soft on someone you like who has betrayed you. Just take them home and lock them up.”

A bad premonition instantly welled up in Lu Lian’s heart.

Mu Bo used his mental link to cut off his last hope of escape, pointing to the door behind him: “Are you going in yourself, or do you want me to carry you in?”

Lu Lian gritted his teeth, his mind racing. Finally, he forced a smile: “Mu Bo, I think we should talk.”

Mu Bo tilted his head: “Talk about what?”

“The military breaking the agreement was Yi Hengbai’s decision. Someone leaked the news to him that the signal receiver wasn’t on Li Yao’s body. He made this decision on his own, and it has nothing to do with me.” The more Lu Lian spoke, the colder his expression became. “You can’t blame me, especially since you still want the mining rights for the Western Mines. Why make the scene like this?”

“What does making the scene like this have to do with you? You’re not the boss in the military. Although you’re morally bankrupt, I’m only capturing you to breed and reproduce.” Mu Bo smiled slightly. “Shuangta said that reproducing is a very happy thing. Liang Huan and Li Yao don’t want to have children, so you’ll just have to have more.”

Lu Lian said in disbelief, “I’m a man!”

“I’m a special-grade alien species.” Mu Bo patted his shoulder kindly, imitating Liang Huan. “Originally, I was planning to give birth myself, but you made me very angry. This is your punishment, Lu Lian. Do you like the nest I made for you?”

Lu Lian followed his gaze to the huge black sphere behind him, his face turning gloomy, and reached for the gun on his back.

—

Li Yao brought people to the deepest part of the science and technology park. The huge underground square was filled with black, round experimental pods. Liang Huan looked at them and felt they were somewhat familiar, but couldn’t remember where he had seen them.

“Before the Dawn Project started, the members of the vanguard team were sent here for genetic modification.” Li Yao wiped away the thick dust from the outside of the experimental pod. “But later, the Dawn Project failed, and these experimental pods were left here. I just had Lao Du find this place a couple of days ago. The equipment inside was originally for genetic modification, and you can get started by modifying the program a bit.”

Not hearing Liang Huan speak, he turned his head to look at him: “Are you not feeling well?”

Liang Huan shook his head: “I always feel like I’ve seen these things before.”

“Have you been here?” Li Yao asked.

Liang Huan said: “I shouldn’t have.”

“Don’t worry about those things. Du She’s access rights have a time limit. I’ll inject you with the alien gene activity inhibitor first.” Li Yao opened the panel and quickly adjusted the parameters inside. “The human body can’t completely fuse with the matter inside the signal receiver. When it was in my body, I used many methods to suppress it. Mental power boosters also have some effect, but you don’t like drinking these potions…”

Liang Huan watched him talk eloquently, mentioning many plans to suppress the signal receiver. Judging from the meticulousness, he knew that he had been thinking about it seriously for a long time, and perhaps had experimented many times.

Knowing the death date of the person beside you is a very torturous thing. When the imperial physician told him that Cui Qi’s days were numbered, he would subconsciously pay attention to every look and every word Cui Qi said. Even arguments and cold words, until the end, he didn’t want to see Cui Qi again.

Liang Huan grabbed his slightly trembling hand when he was debugging the data, gave him his mental power, and said in a deep voice: “When I was young, someone said that this Emperor was destined to die young, but this Emperor lived to be thirty-nine years old. Later, someone predicted that this Emperor would be a king of a fallen country, but this Emperor unified the four countries. This Emperor doesn’t believe these things.”

He lowered his eyes and adjusted those precise instruments, and when he heard this, he smiled: “Then you’re really amazing.”

“Naturally.” Liang Huan seriously watched him operate the instruments. “This Emperor has already died once, so there’s nothing to be afraid of. But this Emperor has promised you to live, and I won’t go back on my word, nor will I follow in the footsteps of the vanguard team.”

Li Yao’s movements paused slightly.

“Don’t be afraid, this Emperor is with you.”

A familiar embrace enveloped his back, and a steady stream of mental power was injected into his depleted mental source. His hands gradually stabilized, and Li Yao’s restless mood settled.

The coldness in the basement of the science and technology park suddenly dissipated.