Chapter 237 - 5.47 Off-Limits
Lu Yizhou had prepared for Terra to blow his top but to his surprise, the guide was taking everything in much better than he had expected. Terra showed no other reaction other than a thoughtful hum and Lu Yizhou couldn’t sense anything from their bond. He trailed the line of the scar on Terra’s belly with his fingertips, waiting until Terra finished digesting whatever was in his complex, beautiful mind.
Lu Yizhou couldn’t help but wonder, how would Terra react if he knew that the world he had been living in was conjured up by a series of complicated codes? That he was the villain who was fated to doom every single time?
"Come to think of it, I remembered something else when I was still a demonic cultivator." Terra suddenly said. "It was almost a decade after you...left."
Lu Yizhou subconsciously tightened his hold on Terra, sighing. He knew it, something was off with the simulator. 666 had repeatedly told him that the world would restart by itself as soon as he left. But what did he just hear? He had left his lover, alone. In a world without him for ten years. Anger, sorrow and pain flooded his chest, rendering him breathless. Damn it! He wouldn’t... even if they had to tear his soul apart, Lu Yizhou wouldn’t leave without him again!
Terra continued with a faraway gaze, his mind wandering. "I sought for the Kunlun Mirror and it brought me to you. I had a glimpse of... the truth of the universe. It’s unlike any other place I have seen before. Rows of numbers made up the sky, and the space was limitless with thousands of glowing orbs. There are countless lives, countless different civilizations..."
[666: N—No way, he passed through the information kernel of the main server?! Oh my Admin God, how is this possible?! 666 must be dreaming! And what the heck is this Kunlun Mirror he was talking about?! How could there be such a huge bug in the previous simulation?!!]
Terra’s gaze instantly turned sharp. "Who are you? What simulation are you talking about?"
[666: *choke* A—Are you talking to 666?!]
"What is this?" Terra looked at Lu Yizhou, bewildered. "Why do I sense another presence in you?"
"It’s okay, calm down." Lu Yizhou hushed softly as he kneaded Terra’s shoulders, massaging the tension out of his body. So Terra could really hear 666, Lu Yizhou filed the information to the back of his mind. He poured all of his attention on soothing his confused lover, pressing kisses all over his face. "This will be a bit...overwhelming to hear but please, hear me out first." Slowly, Lu Yizhou proceeded to tell Terra about his mission to save the villain, how he always had the system, the original plot as well as the system store planted inside his mind.
Terra was visibly shaken after Lu Yizhou confessed the truth. "So that’s why... you have always appeared at the right time to rescue me, and then you have always guessed everyone’s motive clearly and thought ten steps ahead. That’s also the reason you knew my name when we first met, right...?" Lu Yizhou startled when Terra abruptly grabbed his arm so tight that his nails almost drew blood, his eyes searching for Lu Yizhou’s. The water sloshed between them due to the sudden movement and Lu Yizhou had to hold Terra’s waist tightly so he wouldn’t slip. "You— You haven’t told me everything." He demanded. "You told me about your... your mission to save me and a fucking bizarre machine that talks in your head but you never told me how you landed in this situation in the first place. Are you a willing party? Did you choose to do this yourself? What do you get from all of this?"