Those Years When the Son of Destiny Was Severely Scammed [Quick Transmigration] CHAPTER 25
Chapter 25: The Male Lead with X-Ray Vision VS Five Female Leads (Complete)
Hearing the self-deprecating words from the unbelievably handsome “god” before him, Huo Xian twitched the corner of his mouth but didn’t relax his guard; in fact, he became even more vigilant.
The “god” continued to mutter, “What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? This is such a huge blunder for my first assignment! I’ll definitely be punished when I get back. Being punished isn’t the worst part; the key is that I can’t manipulate time, I can’t send people back before the accident happens!”
Huo Xian: “…”
Seeing the “god” pacing anxiously, Huo Xian finally couldn’t help but say, “Excuse me…”
The “god” jumped, his startled expression surprisingly charming, even a little cute. Huo Xian’s thoughts wandered for a moment before he cleared his throat.
The “god” seemed to notice him then, calming down slightly and asking cautiously, “You… can see me?”
Huo Xian couldn’t help but twitch his mouth again, nodding and asking, “Who are you?”
“Me?” The “god” paused, quickly saying, “I’m Yuan, a newly appointed employee of the Time-Space Management Bureau. My ID number is 100200300. This is my ID card.” He gestured in mid-air, and a translucent light-blue screen appeared. As he moved closer, the screen became visible to Huo Xian.
Although Yuan, the “god,” seemed non-threatening, Huo Xian remained wary. Seeming to sense his attitude, Yuan stopped two meters away and said sincerely, “Please rest assured, I won’t harm you.”
Huo Xian remained skeptical but glanced at the screen. It indeed displayed Yuan’s personal information, but with a few extra details:
Work Unit: Time-Space Management Bureau Name: Yuan Employee ID: 100200300 Employee Level: Level 0 Employee Points: -2000 [This is an officially certified document from the Time-Space Management Bureau. Employees must show this to their chosen host.]
Seeing the special note at the bottom, Huo Xian raised an eyebrow.
The Time-Space Management Bureau? Official?
Huo Xian looked up at Yuan, his jaw dropping in astonishment.
The golden light enveloping Yuan had disappeared at some point. Without the near-hundred layers of filter, Yuan’s true appearance was revealed. He was nearly six feet tall, with a well-proportioned physique, long legs, long black hair, violet eyes, porcelain skin, and features that seemed meticulously carved by a master craftsman, each detail perfect.
Huo Xian couldn’t help but look again and again.
Only after countless glances did he ask, “You shouldn’t belong to my dimensional space, right? Why can we communicate?”
“Because the Bureau collects all languages from other time-spaces, and language learning is mandatory during our pre-employment training. So, unless I go to a world that no Bureau employee has ever been to, I can communicate.” Yuan’s attitude was sincere. His eyes, like purple gemstones, should have been mysterious, but they were clear and pure, making one’s heart soften involuntarily.
Huo Xian: “…” Seems pretty impressive.
Yuan’s eyes shone as he looked at him, continuing sincerely, “I was injured while crossing the time-space barrier, and while in self-preservation mode, I was captured by a rogue mechanical lifeform. It kept absorbing my energy, putting me in a passive state. Thank you for destroying it, thank you for saving me!”
Huo Xian: “…You’re welcome.”
After confirming (but still doubting) Yuan’s identity, Huo Xian inquired about the Time-Space Management Bureau.
“The Time-Space Management Bureau is a department created by higher-civilization time-spaces to restore order to chaotic time-space worlds.”
“36 million years ago in the Cosmic Calendar, the explosion of the Godly Space caused the entire universe to fall into turmoil. Higher-dimensional spaces were fine, their space barriers were thick and less affected, but some lower-dimensional spaces had weak space barriers. Fragments from the Godly Space explosion pierced the barriers of lower-dimensional spaces, causing spatial instability. World laws were destroyed, and cosmic wanderers and mechanical lifeforms took advantage of this to enter lower-dimensional spaces, absorbing energy, causing some world lines to deviate from their orbits, the protagonist’s luck collapsing and impacting the laws, resulting in increasingly larger loopholes in the laws. Unrestrained worlds had different outcomes, but the most serious one would lead to the destruction of the world.”
Huo Xian understood only half of it. “So, the ultimate goal of the Time-Space Management Bureau is to eliminate cosmic wanderers and mechanical lifeforms and then repair the world laws?”
Yuan thought for a moment and said, “Not entirely. The most important thing is the restoration of laws. After the laws are repaired, cosmic wanderers will be repelled from the world by the laws, and mechanical lifeforms will not dare to do evil under the constraints of the laws, and the safety of lifeforms living under the laws will also be guaranteed.” After a pause, he added, “But I heard from my colleagues who have returned that missions in lower-dimensional spaces are extremely difficult, it scared me off from coming.”
“Then why did you come?” Not only did he come, he almost lost himself in the process. Huo Xian curiously asked.
Yuan answered seriously, “Because the Bureau requires every citizen in every space to participate in compulsory service. I don’t know what the consequences are in other spaces for not participating, but in our space, if you don’t participate, you’ll go to jail, for many, many years.”
Huo Xian: “…” I’ve learned something new.
After a while, Huo Xian continued, “So, the ‘system’ that said it wanted to bind itself to me after I died is the mechanical lifeform you mentioned that enters lower-dimensional spaces?”
At this mention, Yuan’s entire face collapsed. But even a collapsed beauty was still pleasing to the eye.
“…I’m sorry.” Yuan’s expression was conflicted.
Huo Xian snapped out of his appreciation of the beauty: “Hmm?”
“…I said I was captured and had my energy absorbed by a rogue mechanical lifeform when I was injured.” Yuan shrank his neck, somewhat afraid to face Huo Xian.
Huo Xian patiently said, “Hmm, and then?”
Yuan pursed his lips and said cautiously, “When I reversed time, I found out… that rogue mechanical lifeform used the energy it got from me to kill you… I’m so sorry, I’m really sorry. I wasn’t cautious enough, and… I still don’t have the ability to send you back. I’m sorry.” QAQ
Huo Xian: “…”
Huo Xian put his hand to his forehead. It wasn’t a headache, but seeing such an overwhelmingly handsome man make such a puppy-like expression made him want to laugh. Strangely, the puppy-like expression didn’t clash with Yuan at all.
“Are you angry?” Yuan hesitantly asked again.
Looking at his pitiful expression, Huo Xian had no doubt that if he were more mischievous, he could swallow this little bunny whole in a second, not even spitting out the bones. No, the little bunny doesn’t have a physical body right now.
Thinking this, Huo Xian asked his question.
“My points are currently negative, and I can’t appear in physical form.” Yuan answered honestly.
“Why are your points negative?” Huo Xian asked.
Yuan’s handsome brows furrowed slightly, his eyes filled with guilt as he looked at him, “The rogue mechanical lifeform used my energy to create a car accident, killing you and another person. Although it wasn’t my intention, the manager still partly blamed me.”
“Oh? Does the Time-Space Management Bureau strictly forbid employees from harming lifeforms in other spaces?” Huo Xian asked with a smirk.
“Not exactly…” Yuan considered for a moment before saying, “It’s okay if it aligns with the world line’s trajectory, but you can’t arbitrarily harm people. You and the other person were innocent, especially you. You have strong luck; if nothing unexpected happened, you could have lived to old age, with all your teeth falling out.”
Old age, with all his teeth falling out…
Huo Xian’s mouth twitched slightly, refusing to imagine that scene. He raised an eyebrow and asked, “So, what’s the form of your mission?”
Yuan answered honestly again, “You can go to the mission world yourself to do the mission, or you can find a host like a mechanical lifeform and have the host help complete the mission.”
“Is there a difference between the two?” Huo Xian asked.
“The difference is that if I go to the mission world myself, I’ll lack the knowledge and understanding of lower-dimensional space beings, which will prolong the mission time, and some problems I can’t solve might occur during this period, so I might fail the mission repeatedly at the beginning; if I find a host from the same dimensional space, it might be easier to accept and integrate with their consciousness and thinking. However, finding a host requires binding with the host’s consciousness.” Yuan replied.
“Soul binding?” Huo Xian narrowed his eyes, a hint of danger in them.
Yuan recalled seeing his exchange with the “system” when he reversed time, quickly saying, “Our binding requires signing a contract established by the Bureau through official channels. The binding relationship only takes effect if both parties voluntarily sign the contract, and either party can apply for unbinding if dissatisfied with the other party. However, hosts are mostly consciousnesses after a lifeform’s death, and the Bureau can’t reverse the host’s original time and send them back to their original world. As compensation, the Bureau will send the host to a parallel world most similar to their original world.” He displayed a binding contract on the screen in front of Huo Xian, repeatedly assuring, “We at the Bureau are really not like those rogue mechanical lifeforms!”
Huo Xian skimmed the binding contract and casually asked, “So, do you want to bind with me?”
“Ah?” Yuan looked a little silly, honestly saying, “But I didn’t want to find a host.”
Huo Xian: “…” Hmm?
Yuan was a little embarrassed, “Because of the Bureau’s strict requirements, every citizen must work for the Bureau for a period of time. I don’t want to spend that much time in jail, so I have to work. Although there is punishment for mission failure, it’s much lighter than jail, so…”
So, mission failure doesn’t matter; getting back early is the truth.
“…Isn’t the Bureau’s existence to maintain the order of the time-space world? Isn’t your approach of evasion and perfunctoriness really good?” Huo Xian casually asked.
Yuan felt guilty when he was told this.
Huo Xian continued, “Also, I should have had a long life and future, but now I can only stay in this world where even the laws of the world are incomplete.”
“I’m sorry…” Yuan lowered his head guiltily.
Huo Xian sighed with a feigned sadness, “So you still don’t want to bind with me to do the mission?”
“Ah?” Yuan looked up at him, hesitantly saying, “But the rogue system wanted to bind with you, and promised you many benefits, and you didn’t want to bind with it?”
To this, Huo Xian only asked one question, “Will it harm me? Will you?”
Yuan patted his chest and answered, “Of course not!” After answering, he remembered the rogue system’s various evil deeds and angrily said, “The ultimate fate of such rogue mechanical lifeforms is destruction!”
Huo Xian smiled, “Good boy, if we meet them in the future, we’ll destroy them all.”
Yuan thought that Huo Xian’s smile and words were a little strange, but he couldn’t tell where it was strange. He concluded that it was because he had just arrived and didn’t know much about human beings in lower-dimensional spaces.
“You don’t have to destroy them all. Some mechanical lifeforms can still guide their hosts in a positive direction,” Yuan said.
Then Huo Xian asked about this world, a man-made world. What is the essence of this world?
Yuan used one word to describe it: Gray World.
“A Gray World is formed by a creator’s work infused with strong willpower. The creator nourishes this world with his own luck and consciousness, but the luck of lower-dimensional beings is limited, and their consciousness is also fragile. Therefore, the laws of a Gray World are difficult to form. When the energy supplied by the creator’s luck and consciousness is exhausted, and the laws have not yet formed, this world will disappear along with the creator.” Yuan told Huo Xian about the nature of this novel’s world.
Huo Xian asked, “Is it possible that the creator doesn’t know that he has created a world based on his work, and doesn’t know that it is his own luck and consciousness energy that sustains the world’s existence?”
Yuan didn’t answer but said, “Although Gray Worlds are small, they are difficult to form. The creator needs to invest a lot of energy and have a deep obsession with the characters in his work to turn it into willpower. Willpower needs to be accumulated for a long time before it can possibly form a world.”
In other words, the author’s obsession with money and women has reached a point of mania.
Huo Xian thought of the author’s lecherous expression when he saw Anna and Liu Xu Xue in a critical moment, and felt nauseous.
“If the creator’s luck and consciousness energy are completely consumed by the world and the world disappears, what will happen to the other lifeforms in this world?” Huo Xian asked again.
Yuan tilted his head, then stood up and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window. After a moment, he turned around and beckoned him, “Come and have a look.”
Huo Xian didn’t understand but went over anyway.
What he saw was a gray expanse.
Yuan said, “The creator of this world doesn’t have high luck, and his consciousness is also weak. He was previously robbed of his remaining consciousness by a rogue system, and now he can no longer maintain the operation of this world. All lifeforms are rapidly disappearing. Soon, everything in this world will completely turn gray and become gray garbage in the universe.”
“So, if I don’t bind with you, my fate will be to become garbage among gray garbage?” Huo Xian tilted his head, his tone casual.
Yuan was stunned, then panicked, quickly waving his hands and shaking his head: “No, no, no, absolutely not. I will definitely take you out of this world first!”
Huo Xian expressed his doubts.
“Really, believe me, I won’t lie to you.” Yuan anxiously assured him.
However, Huo Xian didn’t respond, shifting his gaze. Yuan was like a little puppy about to be abandoned by its owner, whining and showing off his merits.
But Yuan didn’t know that the reason Huo Xian shifted his gaze was because this face’s lethality was too great, and he himself was completely unaware of it.
If I weren’t so strong-willed, anyone else might throw away their principles and devour this little bunny clean, leaving not a single bone behind, Huo Xian thought.
Seeing that Huo Xian was still unmoved and angry (he wasn’t), Yuan circled a few times, and his eyes suddenly lit up, “We can bind now, and after binding, I can immediately take you away to the mission world!”
“…Are you sure?” The mischievous Huo Xian still looked doubtful.
“Sure, sure, very sure. Come, take another look at the binding contract prepared by our Bureau. If you don’t understand anything, I can explain it to you.” Yuan brought up the screen again, still the previous binding contract.
Huo Xian glanced at it casually and casually asked, “Do you know my name?”
Yuan was stunned, then nodded, “Yes, I reversed time, learned how you got here, and know your name.”
“Is that so…” Huo Xian looked at him meaningfully and suddenly said, “My world isn’t used to calling other people by a single name. Names are usually a combination of surname and given name.”
“Surname? Given name?” Yuan was a little confused.
For aliens, no, high-dimensional space consciousnesses, things like names are something that might take forever to explain. Pre-employment training didn’t teach him about the origin of surnames.
But Huo Xian had time, and he was very interested in this man named Yuan. He patiently explained the origin of surnames in Huaguo, a nation with a 5000-year history, to Yuan.
Yuan was a very qualified listener. Even though Huo Xian didn’t think his explanation was particularly good, Yuan unexpectedly showed great enthusiasm and listened attentively.
When Huo Xian finally finished, Yuan was still not satisfied. He sighed, “Having a surname and a given name is really nice.”
A cunning gleam flashed in Huo Xian’s eyes. He smiled, “Why don’t you add a surname before your name? It will be more convenient for me to call you.”
The simple and truly naive Yuan from another time-space only hesitated for half a second before agreeing. He had heard from his senior colleagues who had returned to the Bureau that it was best to follow local customs when going to lower-dimensional spaces. But what surname should he add before his name?
“Huo Xian, I don’t know what surname to take. Can you help me think of one?” He asked Huo Xian for help.
Huo Xian smiled harmlessly, “I can’t think of other surnames for now. Otherwise, use my surname?”
“Is that okay?” The truly naive Yuan was surprised.
Huo Xian smiled gently, “Of course.”
Yuan smiled brightly, “Then I’ll be called Huo Yuan from now on!”
At this moment, Yuan didn’t know that there was a term called “husband’s surname.”
Author’s Note: One update~ Leave a comment for red packets~
Big Fish: Huo Xian, the truly scheming Gong (male lead)
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Thank you to the little fairies “Wang Xiao de Suo Yue” for watering the nutrient solution +2, “Ting Yu Chui Feng” for watering the nutrient solution +1, “EMMM” for watering the nutrient solution +20, “Fo Xi Sui Yuan” for watering the nutrient solution +2, I love you, Mwah =3=
