Huo Li asked in fear: “You…… what did you post?”
The black-haired youth revealed a brilliant smile. He let 2d14 open the Salvation Alliance forum in his mind and then read the headlines one by one: “I posted quite a few just then! I’ll read them out for you:
<< Great God surnamed H recklessly threw away money for his little boyfriend! He purchased an extremely expensive gift! >>
<< Great God surnamed Huo’s ranking rapidly fell after falling in love! Has the former legendary God of the Alliance already fallen off his platform?! >>
<< Boss surnamed Huo is already past his prime. Will his newbie little boyfriend look for a new lover? >>”
Huo Li instantly exploded: “What?!!”
The black-haired youth was also quite baffled: “Huh? I didn’t post this headline ah? There’s more underneath:
<< Shocking coincidence! Has the ‘Li Yi cp‘ already announced their separation? >>
<< The newly formed ‘Li Yi husbands’ is having a love crisis! The ‘cloud raising cat’ pair remains as the number 1 cp of the Alliance! >>
Who is this ah? The same ID posted three times in a row. They even know my name?”
Huo Li quickly used his conscience to investigate. After a short while, he suddenly burst into anger: “That Xu Yun Cheng! He’s already raised Xiao Mao for more than 300 years into an old cat! And now he’s actually grumbling because we snatched his limelight?! He also dared to write a post cursing that we’ll divorce! He simply doesn’t know how to act his age! Divorce husbands, what kind of name is that?!”
The black-haired youth: “Isn’t he helping us create hype? Why are you so agitated? Anyway, we’re not real husbands. How can we get divorced when we’re not together in the first place?”
Huo Li: “……” Stabbed.
The black-haired youth: “Did you just hack the Alliance forum and investigate Xu Yun Cheng’s ID? Isn’t your mental power already useless now?”
Having once again been called ‘useless’ by his little boyfriend, Huo Li immediately explained: “There’s no problem with my mental power. If there were 40 billion people on D planet, then I would be able to control all of them within a few minutes. But now……
It’s like this. You can think of my brain as a signal transmission tower. The range of my spiritual perception is 10 kilometres. I can instantly control all conscious bodies within this range and make use of their brain. Meaning, I can use their brain to continue signalling towards the surroundings. When I’m in control of a hundred people, my mental power range would once again increase.
As for electronic products, I can only use my spiritual power to fight against them. I can’t directly control them. But with the current situation on D planet, I can only rely on my own brain. If the computing power of the D system is stronger than my brain capacity, then I won’t be able to hack it.”
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The black-haired youth: “That is to say, the reason for your current defective mental ability is because your brain capacity isn’t enough?”
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At this moment, a low rumble rescued Huo Li out of the embarrassing situation of being ‘inferior to his little boyfriend in both mind and body’. Rejoicing, he turned to look at the flock of black drones that had once again appeared from the horizon. These helicopters were likely drawn over because their two comrades didn’t return.
Huo Li chose to selectively forget the conversation they just had and pulled the black-haired youth behind him: “Wait here for me. You must be careful!”
Saying this, he directly used his level 10 wind ability and flew into the sky towards the armed helicopters! He made several sharp turns in the air, avoiding the laser cannons that were firing over the large area. Approaching the group of machines, he used his metal ability to control the two helicopters closest to him to crash into each other!
Boom! Amidst the huge explosion and flames burning in the sky, the other helicopters quickly changed directions to avoid Huo Li’s ability range and switched to using long range attacks! Huo Li gracefully turned around in the sky. Avoiding the flames, he manipulated the wreckage of the two helicopters to form a large metal shield and used it to block in front of his body! At the same time, a bolt of lightning appeared out of thin air and struck down on the drone that was leading the attack……
The black-haired youth stood on the desert, looking at the fierce battle several hundred metres away in the sky. Sparks were flying! Lightning flashed and thunder rolled! Huo Li gracefully drifted back and forth between the raining artillery shells and occasionally landed a blow. The drones that were hit spun around in circles and crashed onto the desert, bursting into flames……
20 minutes later, the fierce battle was still raging on! A little tired from watching the spectacle, the youth covered his mouth and yawned. Stretching his body, he no longer paid attention to the action on the battlefield. Instead, he walked to the 3 nutrition packs lying on the rocky desert and sat on the floor. Taking a rest, he picked up a pack and slowly started to drink it.
System 2d14 weakly asked: [Lord Host! Aren’t you worried about Big Boss Huo Li?]
The black-haired youth: “There’s no need to worry about him. Even if all he has left is scattered pieces of flesh, I can still piece him back together again. It’s just that if he loses too much organic matter during the fight, then I might not be able to piece him together into his currently 1.85 metre tall appearance. But I can shrink down his body! A height of 1.5 metres or 1.3 metres is very economical and saves raw material. Even if he’s blown up and completely annihilated, I will kindly give him my left hand to use as raw materials and synthesise a palm sized carbon copy of Huo Li. How cute is that?”
System 2d14: [Really?!]
The black-haired youth: “Yes! Ah, but wouldn’t his brain capacity become even less……” Xiao Yi ate small mouthfuls of the paste-like nutrition pack while worrying that Huo Li’s IQ might also decrease with his size.
Several hundred metres away in the sky, Huo Li didn’t know of his little boyfriend’s wild imagination. Instead, he skilfully manipulated the nine metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, lightning, wind and power abilities to fight solo against the group of drones! One of the robots inside the drones issued a message to the D system in a monotonous voice:
“Mechanical soldier 2424 is sending a request for help to the mother system: A human ability user has been discovered on xx continent, coordinates xxxxxx. That human displays extremely strong aggression. His potential harm towards our machine world is 99.9%. He is classified as a Category 1 dangerous organism. Mechanical soldier 2424 requests the mother system to issue a level 3 alert! Dispatch the human suppressing squad as soon as possible and completely annihilate him!”
After Huo Li used his conscience to detect the signal that was continuously being sent out, he attacked the drone group even more fiercely while ignoring the flying pieces of shrapnel piercing into his chest, stomach and back. Blood dripped from midair and fell onto the desert rocks below……
15 minutes later, the heroic blood-soaked Huo Li finally shot down the 8th helicopter in the flock. The situation could finally be turned around! The remaining seven drones could not longer form an effective encirclement or suppression with firepower. Within 3 minutes, Huo Li shot them all down and they exploded on the desert floor, turning into a pile of scorched black debris.
In the glow of the sunset, Huo Li endured the sharp pain of his body and couldn’t wait to fly towards his ‘little boyfriend’ with the joy of success.
After flying closer, he saw that the black-haired youth was sitting on the ground and hugging his knees. He was looking in another direction, and his right hand seemed to be covering his mouth. Huo Li was a little disappointed that his ‘little boyfriend’ didn’t see his triumphant return, but he soon thought: Perhaps Xiao Yi thought that the battle was too gruesome? Was he worried that something might happen to him and hence didn’t dare to watch?
When he was about 30 metres away, Huo Li slowed down and gently flew towards the youth. He deliberately took off the suit that had already been torn into pieces and casually through it onto the ground, revealing the white blood-soaked shirt underneath.
“Xiao Yi, you don’t need to worry. I will protect you. Those armed helicopters and mechanical soldiers have already been wiped out. You……”
The black-haired youth was squeezing the last bit of the nutrition pack into his mouth. Hearing Huo Li arrive, he quickly turned around and swallowed that mouthful of paste before secretly wiping his mouth.
He then pretended as though nothing had happened and looked at Huo Li with a ‘face of concern’. Automatically ignoring the colour of his shirt, he checked that all his limbs were complete before letting out a sigh of relief: For the time being, he wouldn’t need to face a 1.2 metre tall Boss Huo Li. So good!
Huo Li looked at the black-haired youth who had just eaten all three of the nutrition packs and completely ignored the state of his injuries. The remaining affectionate and comforting words he had ended up getting stuck in his throat. He could only edge closer to the youth and pretend to inadvertently say:
“I’m back. Those machines only gave me some minor injuries.” Saying this, he moved around with his blood red shirt in front of the youth to try and catch his attention.
An ordinary person would definitely be shocked and incredibly distressed if they saw such a scene, but the black-haired youth was someone who could fish bullets out of his stomach without changing his expression. So regarding this kind of small injury, it was unlikely that he would have any drastic reactions.
“Come over here. Let me repair you.” The black-haired youth tried his best to be amiable towards his teammate who had just fought a battle.
Huo Li was stunned by this unexpected favour. He only regretted that he didn’t get injured even more seriously. It was foolish of him to show such non-fatal superficial wounds to his ‘little boyfriend’.
The black haired youth simply sat on the desert floor and straightened his legs. He pointed at his lap and said: “Lie down here! You’ll be fine in a moment.”
Huo Li happily laid down on the youth’s lap and looked up at the youth’s exquisite face. He looked forward to the meticulous care that the black-haired youth was going to give him. And then……
The black-haired youth directly alienated himself into black strands and wrapped around Huo Li.
Huo Li, with his eyes covered in darkness: “……” Why is this completely different from what I imagined?
5 minutes later, the black-haired youth released a fully repaired but dizzy Huo Li and changed back into human form. He then said to Huo Li:
“En, you should be fully repaired now! Stand up, I want to take a look.”
Huo Li complied and crawled up from the ground. He stretched his limbs and looked down at his shirt that had once again become white and spotless, but he kept feeling that something was off.
Huo Li then heard the youth say: “There shouldn’t be any problems. You pretty much didn’t lose any body tissue, but you lost quite a lot of blood. There’s currently no excess organic matter to replenish it, so I had to trim down your entire body. You might be a little shorter than before, but it’s also not too short. You’re the same height as me…… Hm? What’s this?” The black-haired youth spotted the discarded pile of suit rags in the distance. He quickly walked over and picked it up. Putting it into his space, he then turned to Huo Li and said:
“Why didn’t you bring this blood-stained suit over? This is all organic matter ah! If I also had this suit to use as raw materials, then your height would still be able to reach 1.8 metres.”
Huo Li, who suddenly became 1.78 metres tall: “……” Why did I deliberately throw away the clothes to look cool?! My showing off was struck down!
The black-haired youth: “In the future, don’t feel burdened when you need to fight. Even if you’re missing an arm or a leg, I can take from your height and piece you back together again.”
Huo Li: “Thank you?” Fortunately, he didn’t intentionally sustain more injuries. Imagining himself as a 1.5 metre tall person looking up at his ‘little boyfriend’……
Huo Li didn’t want to think about his height anymore, so he quickly changed the topic: “Those mechanical soldiers just sent our coordinates to the mother system. We should hurry up and leave here.”
The black-haired youth: “I’m too lazy to run…… That time in the zombie world, how did you directly cross almost 4000 kilometres from the transmission point and suddenly appear behind me?”
Recalling that meeting, Huo Li felt a little ashamed, but he quickly explained: “I used the system store’s teleportation seal. It’s original function is to instantly move someone within the range that they can perceive. For others, it is as far as their eyes can see, but as for me……”
“For your current situation, it is a tool that came move 10 kilometres at a time?” The black-haired youth understood his meaning. “Can you bring someone with you?”
“Uh……” Huo Li was a little hesitant. “Besides a person, I can bring anything so long as I can carry it.”
The youth instantly understood and transformed into a little alien, plunging into Huo Li’s arms. 20 or so teleports later, they broke away from the machines’ tracking range and appeared in the middle of a stretch of sand dunes.
Xiao Yi jumped down from Huo Li’s arms and changed back into human form. He yawned: “I’m so tired today. This morning, I was still in the zombie world attacking the virus system’s base camp. And then I came to D planet in the afternoon. Good night.”
Hearing this, Huo Li considerately used his earth ability to turn the area of sand into two semi-underground earth beds separated by only half a metre. These small earth beds each had a cover, so that when they were sleeping, their heads would be outside taking in fresh air while their bodies remained warm.
The black-haired youth was quite satisfied with this. He drill into the earth bed in his clothes and fell asleep in less than a minute. Huo Li carefully laid down in the bed next to the youth. Staring at the youth’s face, he also gradually fell asleep.
Early the next morning, having always been a light sleeper, Huo Li opened his eyes in the middle of the desert and saw a lush green thing occupying his entire field of vision — A chinese cabbage!
Having just woken up, Huo Li blinked several times, but that lush green cabbage that suddenly emerged didn’t disappear. Seeming like he wanted to clarify its authenticity, Huo Li subconsciously reached out and gently pulled off a tender leaf to put into his mouth……
Hahaha Huo Li ‘ate’ Xiao Yi
I… I’m actually starting to feel bad for Huo Li now lol ^^;
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
ey, F’s the Chat for Hou Li.
He might try to look like the typical overbearing, competent and reliable ML, but in reality he’s just a dude trying to sneak tofu from his alien crush, that is more competent than him.
I really hope he and the MC will get closer soon, because right now Xiao Yi has now clue what interpersonal relationships are and how they work and it’s really sad to watch Hou Li and his attempts.
*Huo Li
Although it’s probably possible for Huo Li to eat Xiao Yi’s ‘tofu’ some day, at least he got to taste Xiao Yi’s “leaf” today XDDD
Thank you for the chapter (:3」z)
So Xiao Ya stored a lot of vegetables hidden enough to survive somewhat?
Did MC turn himself into a plant to photosynthesise or what?
RIP HL’s pride.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Looks like a certain alien truly decided to perform some photosynthesis…
Many thanks for the update!
😂😂😂😂 my reaction after every chapter
Well…. that IS one way to eat him😅
Thx for the chapter
Why is Huo Li so dumb 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Wait, the machines have voices? Can’t they just use — — .-. … . -.-. — -.. . or 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 or something?
Also, to brag a little, I only had to google the Binary and not the Morse Code.
nvm just learned letters in binary
so easy
oh the morse code isn’t even legible