Chapter 4: Isn’t that love at first sight?

Wen XiaoYun returned to the communication array. Using the

components that he collected from the garbage pile, he

assembled and fixed, spending an entire night to finally replace

all of the broken installations of the original communication array.

At this moment, the sky was bright. However, the trash planet

still remained enveloped by a grey fog.

“ZzhhZZzZhzzhhz.”

The communication array rebooted. Like an old ventilator, it

seemed like it was about to lose connection at any time.

A drop of blood flowed out of Wen XiaoYun’s nose. His skin has

been exposed under the radiation for a long period of time

already and has started to peel. Later on, it’d start to fester.

Wen XiaoYun expressionlessly wiped away the blood from his

nose and continued to adjust the communication array, entering

in his battleship’s frequency signal.

His AI was damaged completely during the battle. Therefore, he

can only enter the frequency using the communication device.

The sound of the electronic static was very ear-piercing. Wen

XiaoYun patiently waited, his handsome face continued to remain

calm and composed.

Finally, a dozen or more minutes later, he received a reply.

A familiar voice transmitted from the uniquely installed

communication receiver. The voice carried a tone of exhaustion:

“We have acquired a portion of your signal. A search and rescue

team will analyze this signal and figure out your exact location.

Next time, I suggest you contact a nearby patrol ship. Our

battleship……”

Wen XiaoYun interrupted him: “Vice-admiral Cheng.”

On the other side, it abruptly silenced for a moment. Then,

exhaustion swept away, the voice shouted excitedly: “Boss!”

Vice-admiral Cheng JinXue was extremely emotional: “Boss, is it

really you? Where are you right now? Your signal is too weak!

Wait a second, I will strengthen the connection immediately!”

The connection of the communication was increased. This faint

signal finally stabilized.

Wen XiaoYun didn’t waste his breath. After saying his location, he

reported the trash planet B-324’s coordinates: “The intergalactic

port has records of B-324’s location. You can find an old travel

route from the intergalactic port.”

“Hurry up!! Verify B-324’s position immediately and set a new

navigation route!” Cheng JinXue hastily delegated the task

downward.

When he returned again, Cheng JinXue’s voice was choked with

emotion: “Boss, I can’t even believe it. It’s really you. How are

you right now? Are you injured? Is it bad? After your incident,

we’ve never given up searching for you. The military has been

suppressing the news this entire time as well. However, you

should know as well, this can’t be hidden for too long……”

During this battle with the Alien Insects, because of the physical

appearance of the Alien Insects Empress, the Capital Planet, and

pretty much the entire Empire as well, were all paying close

attention to this military campaign. The news of Admiral Wen

XiaoYun and the Alien Insect Empress perishing together really

couldn’t be concealed.

All of the citizens of the Empire were praying for Wen XiaoYun

over the internet, including everyone within the 3rd legion that

was under the Admiral’s command. Everyone had a ‘Not dead

unless we see a corpse’ attitude. Unable to find the remains of

Wen XiaoYun’s mecha, they can comfort themselves by saying

the Admiral must still be alive.

However, 8 days has already passed. Hope was growing more

and more uncertain. There were even some other nations fanning

the flame with ill intent, posting declarations of grief for Wen

XiaoYun on the galactic internet, practically jinxing the battle god

Wen XiaoYun to die asap. Cheng JinXue and the others almost

died of anger

Wen XiaoYun maintained his usual calm, as if he wasn’t the one

being mourned by everyone online. He asked indifferently:

“How’s mother?”

Cheng JinXue said: “Madam is terribly sad. The guard transmitted

a message from the Madam saying she wanted us to find you and

bring you back no matter what.”

Even if they had to bring back only remains.

Acknowledging with an ‘en’, Wen XiaoYun asked: “Do you have

the navigation route?”

Cheng JinXue just happened to receive the map only a few

seconds after his Admiral asked the question.

Pausing briefly, Cheng JinXue realized that the boss must have

been listening to his nonsense all this time, perhaps because he

was waiting for this navigation map……

Not because he had missed them very much.

Cheng JinXue hastily said: “I just got it. Boss, I discovered that

the closest warp point to B-324 is already closed down. We need

to warp to a nearby stop first and restart the warp point to reach

B-324.”

Wen XiaoYun asked: “How many days?”

Cheng JinXue said: “Four days at least.”

Wen XiaoYun said: “En.”

Four days can’t be considered particularly long. The universe was

enormous. The distance between galaxies was huge. To reach

some planets that even had warp points, it’d still take half a

month.

Four days was already short.

In order to gain a more accurate pinpoint of Wen XiaoYun’s

location, Cheng JinXue kept the connection open instead of

cutting it off.

When Wen XiaoYun returned to the escape pod, he didn’t see

Zhuang Zhou. However, the Divine Image was still on the wall.

Wen XiaoYun gave a look at this statue. He had to say, this

statue really looked very similar to Zhuang Zhou. No one would

doubt these two were father and son. Some people might even

believe that this was Zhuang Zhou himself.

Wen XiaoYun and his war god father, Wen Tian, also looked very

much alike. For a period just after his father died in battle, his

mother would always feel uncontrollable sadness whenever she

saw his face. It was so bad that around that time, he pretty much

didn’t dare to appear in front of his mother.

Zhuang Zhou was sleeping in his Divine Image.

After sensing Wen XiaoYun’s return, he woke up.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Wen XiaoYun staring at

his Divine Image.

Zhuang Zhou became somewhat excited.

Is he about to worship me?

Worship me! I can make you rich!

Under Zhuang Zhou’s immense anticipation, Wen XiaoYun made a

customary gesture that the galactic people used to mourn for

elders. Then he laid on the makeshift bed and started to write.

Zhuang Zhou: “.......”

Why was it so hard to gain a follower!

He lowered his head and glanced at the little round ball hanging

on his neck.

This little round, marble-like ball looked small, but it had an

enormous space inside.

This was a faith collection device.

During the training period, an intern God of Wealth needed to fill

up the faith collection device in order to become a proper god.

However, right now, his faith collection device was so empty,

there’s not even a piece of dust!

Wen XiaoYun suddenly raised his head and looked directly at the

Divine Image.

Was it his misconception?

He faintly felt a pair of eyes watching him attentively.

Wen XiaoYun examined the Divine Image for a while. Not finding

any issues, he slowly withdrew his gaze and continued to take

notes.

Forcibly landing on the trash planet B-324: Day 9.

The communication array has already been fixed. Connection

established with the 3rd legion vice-admiral, Cheng JinXue.

Number of nutritional supplements remaining in the escape pod:

3 bottles.

Apparent physical symptoms have appeared due to radiation.

Ruled out the possibility of ‘Zhuang Zhou’ being a native of the

trash planet B-324.

The likelihood of other natives existing on the trash planet B-324:

Extremely low.

Suspicious point: ‘Zhuang Zhou’ is not affected by radiation.

Origins: ?

Strength: ?

Personality: Innocent and naive

Danger level: Extremely low.

Wen XiaoYun had written ‘Zhuang Zhou’ in the galactic writing

according to the youth’s pronunciation.

Done recording, Wen XiaoYun was about to put away the journal

when he suddenly thought of something else.

If this little friend left B-324 in the future, he would attract a lot

of trouble if people found out that his body wasn’t affected by

radiation.

After hesitating for a moment, Wen XiaoYun opened the journal

again and completely blocked over the words ‘Zhang Zhou is not

affected by radiation’, covering it up completely.

Done recording, Wen XiaoYun, who didn’t sleep all night, laid

down to rest. After enduring the effect of high radiation, he

needed ample rest so his body doesn’t deteriorate as quickly.

Wen XiaoYun very quickly fell asleep.

In the midst of disorientation, a clean good-looking youth

suddenly appeared unwittingly in front of him again.

Wen XiaoYun composed himself. As the only person in Empire’s

history with a SSS level psychic ability, Wen XiaoYun only needed

a few seconds to figure out.

He seemed to be dreaming again.

However, this dream was very strange. Under normal

circumstances, people would only realize they were dreaming

after waking up.

Yet he had already discovered that he was dreaming while still in

the dream.

Mysteriously and inexplicably, he had a feeling that with his level

of psychic ability, he can even control this dream.

Wen XiaoYun stood where he was, unmoving and staring

unblinkingly at the youth, wanting to see what exactly the other

planned to do.

Zhuang Zhou called out to him: “Wen XiaoYun.” His voice was

sulky and aggrieved.

He used the pronunciation that Wen XiaoYun had taught him.

These words were also the only words that he said most

coherently.

Wen XiaoYun looked at him in silence.

Zhuang Zhou stammered; “You, you sit.”

Wen XiaoYun was too tall. Zhuang Zhou needed to raise his head

to look at him in the eyes.

Wen XiaoYun silently sat down.

Zhuang Zhou was still not too accustomed to use the galactic

language. Unconsciously, he started to use Mandarin again and

said sulkily: “How come you don’t worship me?”

Wen XiaoYun said: “Use the galactic language.”

Zhuang Zhou didn’t seem to hear him and continued to chatter:

“You gave me the beverage to drink. I already drank it…… thank

you. However, you shouldn’t buy this beverage in the future. It’s

not tasty……”

“Tomorrow after you wake up, you will forget everything about

how I burned the spiritual talisman. You’ll also forget how I had

made an offering…….”

“You…… en. You’re a good person. The High God always says that

everyone has their own ambitions. Some people have ambitions

elsewhere. If you only want to pick up garbage, then I… I will

bless you to become the leader of this garbage dump……”

“There’s so much garbage here. If you become the leader of this

facility, you can also get rich.”

“Alright, you can go back to sleep.” Saying this, Zhuang Zhou

patted Wen XiaoYun’s shoulder. His palm was so soft that Wen

XiaoYun couldn’t feel a hint of force at all.

Wen XiaoYun suddenly reached out and grabbed that delicate and

fragile looking wrist.

Zhuang Zhou jumped in fright and wanted to pull back his hand:

“What, what’s the matter?”

Wen XiaoYun released his hand and faintly furrowed his brows.

The sensation he felt from the touch was so real it didn’t seem

like a dream.

After Zhuang Zhou was released, he gave Wen XiaoYun a strange

look. However, Zhuang Zhou didn’t say anything other than

goodbye before pulling out of Wen XiaoYun’s dream.

He had bestowed Wen XiaoYun a dream just for the sake of

making Wen XiaoYun forget what he had done previously. At the

same time, he also gave Wen XiaoYun a mental suggestion so

that Wen XiaoYun can start worshipping him soon.

Wen XiaoYun can even invite his Divine Wealth God Image into

his home and enshrine it!

In anycase, Wen XiaoYun would completely forget the content of

his dream after waking up anyways. At the same time, the

mental suggestion that Zhuang Zhou left would take effect. What

should be forgotten will be forgotten. It was impossible for him to

remember seeing Zhuang Zhou in his dream!

However, what Zhuang Zhou didn’t know was that Wen XiaoYun

wasn’t an average person. He, who possessed an extremely high

psychic ability, wouldn’t be affected by this kind of mental

suggestion at all.

Zhuang Zhou’s dream this time was destined to fail, just like the

first dream he had bestowed upon Wen XiaoYun.

With Zhuang Zhou’s exit, Wen XiaoYun immediately woke up

from his dream.

Wen XiaoYun looked around in his surroundings. He was still

inside the escape pod. Zhuang Zhou wasn’t anywhere nearby.

Sure enough, it was only another dream.

Wen XiaoYun pressed his lips together and looked at the time. He

slept four hours.

Getting up and leaving the escape pod, he returned to the

communication array.

In order to continuously locate Wen XiaoYun’s position, the signal

to the 3rd Legion’s battleship, Wyvern, was never disconnected.

Hearing the sound of Wen XiaoYun’s return, Cheng JinXue

immediately opened his mouth and asked: “Boss, how was your

rest? I already sent people to report news of your survival to

Madam. If B-324’s signal weren’t so weak, I would have

transmitted your frequency directly to Madam. She is very

worried about your health……”

Wen XiaoYun said nonchalantly: “It’s not bad, just some

side-effects from the radiation.”

Hearing this, Cheng JinXue felt even more worried. The side

effects of radiation on the body wasn’t any trivial matter!

He still wanted to ask something when he heard Wen XiaoYun

inquire: “Under what situation, would someone dream about the

same person continuously for two nights straight? A person they

just met.”

Cheng JinXue froze and said reflexively: “Ah? Boss, you saw them

in your dreams? A person you just met? Isn’t that love at first

sight?”

Saying this, Cheng JinXue thought of something and abruptly

closed his mouth.

Wen XiaoYun: “.......”

There was an entire 10 seconds of silence that fell between them.

Finally, Wen XiaoYun expressionlessly said: “How can that be.”

Cheng JinXue hastily agreed: “Exactly. That’s impossible!”

The Admiral’s wife. Is. Only. His. Mecha!

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The author has something to say-- ps

Zhuang Zhou: I will bless you to become the leader of this

garbage dump!

Wen XiaoYun: …… I thank you.