Even though Yuan Yi was not easily moved, at this moment he also felt a tremble at the tip of his heart. He clearly knew it was only a holographic image, clearly knew he couldn’t touch him, but he still couldn’t help but gently rub his cheek against Li Heng’s palm.
The few people from Snow Wolf had already tactfully left the command room in advance; currently in the room there was only him and Li Mian, and the holographic image of Li Heng.
Li Heng touched his belly, “After I left, were they well-behaved or not?”
Yuan Yi smiled and said, “Not well-behaved, these past few days I could feel them moving.”
Li Heng said, “So naughty? Fetal movement already? And it just so happened to be after I left.”
Yuan Yi said, “Maybe it’s exactly because they knew you left that they started making a fuss. The feeling was quite obvious. But they’re still small, can’t see anything yet. I’ll record it for you to see when it becomes visible.”
When the babies are past six months and have grown bigger, and also have more strength, when they stretch their arms and kick their legs, the belly might bulge up.
Li Heng said, “Alright. Does your body still hurt?”
Yuan Yi realized what Li Heng was asking about, and his face and ears instantly turned red. He replied, “It hasn’t hurt for a long time.”
Only then did Li Heng feel relieved and said, “Next time I’ll definitely be gentler.”
Yuan Yi simply couldn’t listen anymore, and suddenly changed the subject, saying, “Li Mian is a bit unhappy about you making it wear a white vest.”
Li Mian: “???” Wait, Brother Yi, if you’re shy, just be shy, don’t drag me into it!
Li Heng snorted, “It’s already lucky I didn’t let it go bare-bottomed, and it still dares to have an opinion. Wife, you’re not allowed to make new clothes for it anymore—it’s tiring and strains your eyes. If you have time, get more rest. Also—”
“Hmm?”
“The current you is already good enough, don’t give yourself too much pressure. You’re already working hard just by carrying the children—your husband doesn’t want you to be too tired. You can try being a little salted fish, lie flat, and then wait for me to support you.”
“Okay. But the children and I eat a lot now. If you want to support us, you might have to win every battle.”
“No problem. Then I’ll accept my wife’s lucky words—win every battle.” Li Heng lightly made a gesture as if to embrace Yuan Yi, “We can’t keep talking, I need to go check on the quality of the newly trained mecha soldier unit and the robot soldiers. I’ll contact you again when I have time. Take good care of yourself.”
Yuan Yi nodded, “Be careful.”
Li Heng waved his hand, and the image soon disappeared from the command center.
Li Mian originally still wanted to complain, but as soon as it saw Yuan Yi’s expression, it immediately dove into his arms, “Wuwuwu, Brother Yi, Master bullied me.”
Yuan Yi grabbed this little drama king, “I secretly made you new clothes—he doesn’t know.”
Li Mian looked up, “Really?”
Yuan Yi smiled and said, “Fake.”
Li Mian: “!!!” What kind of demons are you two as a couple?!
At night, Li Mian grumbled, “Brother Yi, you’ve learned bad things from Master.”
Yuan Yi said, “How do you know I wasn’t like this to begin with?”
“You weren’t like this before. You were very kind and gentle, you’d never bully me like Master does.”
“Then maybe you just didn’t really understand me. This is nothing yet—I haven’t even started bullying you.”
Li Mian was worried that Yuan Yi had truly inherited some dark arts from Li Heng, and quickly floated over to see what Yuan Yi was doing—only to find that he was writing a line in his notebook—
Thank you for awakening my whole life.
It seemed like he was wrapping up a diary entry, but it didn’t see the content of the diary.
For many days after that, Li Mian kept wanting to take a look at that “diary,” but it never got to see it.
Yuan Yi had completely locked that notebook away.
Not long after, Sirius1T/N: I noticed that Sirius & Heavenly Wolf are used interchangeably. Both are the same had a head-on encounter with the orcs of Brutai Barbarian, and Li Heng also led a team to Gallich.
The Phantom Ship arrived at Planet Aysdiya, and Yuan Yi saw the real He Yanwu—whose appearance was almost no different from the “He Yanwu” he had seen back then.
Tall, confident, handsome, and a bit unruly—no different in appearance from the “Li Heng” of that time—but Yuan Yi still instantly sensed the difference between the two.
This real Senior Yanwu gave off a particularly carefree and unruly feeling. Back then, Li Heng also wore big shorts and T-shirts at school, but never with prints. This person in front of him dressed very flamboyantly—the clothes and pants were covered in bright floral patterns, red, pink, purple, green. Standing by the sea, he looked like a moving humanoid garden, and he even wore ruby earrings.
“Yo, little Junior Yuan, stunned just by looking?” He Yanwu tilted his head, looking at Yuan Yi who stood at the Phantom Ship’s hatch watching him. He held a big white goose in his hand, glanced down at his own outfit, “Sure enough, this outfit of mine is pretty stylish, right?”
“…Hello, Senior Yanwu.” Yuan Yi lightly nodded, not commenting on the word “stylish.” To be fair, it was indeed handsome—but he preferred the tenderness and steadiness hidden behind Li Heng’s frankness.
“When you call him, it’s ‘Senior He,’ but when you call me, you use ‘Senior Yanwu’ like everyone else—seems like he really is different in your heart. So, how is it? Compared to what you imagined—better or worse?”
“Hard to say for now. More novel, I’d say.”
He looked at the photos Li Heng had found for him. Back when he was looking at the photos, he thought that Planet Aysdiya had an especially abundant supply of water—it seemed like there were seas, rivers, and lakes everywhere, with very little land area. And on the sea there were those very tall trees, whose leaves were blue, and some creatures he had never seen before lived in those trees.
He had hardly seen any human-made structures in the photos. At first glance, it didn’t look like a place people could live in—unless they lived on the sea year-round. But he also hadn’t seen any ships apart from the Phantom Ship.
The Phantom Ship could fly, float on the water’s surface, and also dive—it was a multifunctional, small stealth warship. After they arrived at Planet Aysdiya, the Phantom Ship got stuck between the branches of two sea trees, which showed just how huge those sea trees were. From the ground, you basically couldn’t see the tops—they disappeared into the clouds.
And the distance between the two trees looked as if it had been designed exactly for the Phantom Ship. The Phantom Ship had descended invisibly—nothing could be clearly seen with the naked eye.
As for He Yanwu, he seemed to be standing barefoot on the sea, and only the goose he was holding was floating on the surface of the water—you could see its two little blue webbed feet paddling now and then.
The Phantom Ship lowered its staircase, and Yuan Yi began to step down. He had also gone barefoot in advance.
Yang Mei supported him, “You don’t have to be nervous. It looks like all seawater, but it’s actually not quite the same. And under Captain He’s feet, there’s something there—you’ll feel it when you step on it.”
Only then did Yuan Yi dare to put his foot down solidly—and discovered there really was something there. It was very hard, like a deck? But it was as transparent as seawater—very magical.
Only one guard team was left on the Phantom Ship, the rest all disembarked. Once Yuan Yi stood firmly, the thing beneath his feet slowly began to descend.
That “seawater” first surged to both sides, leaving enough breathing space. Once they had fully descended below the surface, it gathered again above them, forming an arched space.
Then the light grew dimmer and dimmer—dim to the point of resembling evening. When Yuan Yi looked up again, it seemed as if the seawater was right above his head. Strangely, it didn’t fall down, as if they had completely entered an undersea tunnel, yet no blocking structure could be seen.
He Yanwu said, “This water isn’t from here. You haven’t been to Marlaidol, right?”
Marlaidol was the scientific name for Blue Gel Star, and Yuan Yi indeed hadn’t been there.
He Yanwu pointed upward and said, “This kind of water isn’t regular seawater, but sea gel water. It’s produced on Marlaidol, has a certain stickiness, and can, under specific environmental conditions, be controlled in terms of hardness and form at any time. What you just saw—this entire area—was all something your husband spent a lot of effort transporting here. Just by looking at the surface, you can’t tell it apart from seawater, but when you touch it, it’s completely different.”
Yuan Yi asked, “Can I touch it?”
He Yanwu said, “Of course.”
Yuan Yi lightly touched it with his hand and found that it was a bit like the transparent soft clay kids used to play with in his past life, but its fluidity seemed much better than that.
And this kind of sea gel water had propped up a downward tunnel at least fifty meters long.
At this moment, He Yanwu said, “Eh? I just realized the most valuable thing in the whole world is right in front of me. Little Junior Yuan, if I kidnapped you and asked Li Heng for money, I’d become the richest man in the galaxy for sure.”
Yuan Yi steadily walked downward as he said, “Wouldn’t be worth it, would it, Senior? For Li Heng to let me come to see you at a time like this—that means it’s the kind of friendship where wealth can be shared. Now there are going to be new changes again, maybe he’ll be even richer in the future, and you want to kidnap me this early?”
He Yanwu burst out laughing at those words, “You’ve actually got quite the guts.”
Yuan Yi said, “It’s not that I’m bold, I just trust him.”
Yang Mei smiled and said, “If the General heard that, he’d definitely be overjoyed.”
Yuan Yi imagined the scene in his head and also thought it likely, so he said, “Then the next time we get in contact, I’ll leave it to you to tell him that.”
Yang Mei said, “No problem. Madam, watch your step.”
At the end of the sea gel tunnel, there were new stairs, also going down. After that, they were met by two thick metal doors. The doors were seamlessly connected with the sea gel, tightly sealed.
When the group reached the doors, He Yanwu took out a small spray bottle. He first sprayed Flight Wolf and Yang Mei, and finally sprayed Yuan Yi. “Don’t worry—it’s nothing harmful, won’t affect the babies. It’s just to make the upcoming path safer to pass through.”
Yang Mei reminded, “What you’re about to see isn’t very pleasant—might even be a bit uncomfortable. If you feel it’s too much to look at, you can close your eyes. I’ll be holding onto you the whole time.”
Yuan Yi asked, “Sea monsters?”
Inside the submarine, it seemed to go quiet for a moment. Then He Yanwu said, “You could say that. They’re some sea beasts unique to Planet Aysdiya—look a bit fierce, and they’re pretty big.”
Behind the metal doors was a submarine. After entering the submarine, the path ahead truly became a sea route—but this sea was also different from the sea on Huamei Star; the viscosity of the water seemed to be higher.
The submarine’s windows were clearly very thick and highly transparent. Yuan Yi quickly saw the sea beasts that He Yanwu had mentioned. If you didn’t look at their faces, they somewhat resembled giant lizards starved down to skin and bones, and they were flesh-pink in color. But the moment you looked at their faces, it did make people feel a bit uncomfortable—because their faces had some features similar to humans, and yet were covered in rough, lizard-like skin.
As for those eyes—Yuan Yi felt that looking into them gave a kind of indescribable discomfort.
Perhaps it was because they looked too much like human eyes—though large, he kept feeling that within them he could see some kind of vague, familiar emotion that couldn’t be explained.
The submarine grew quiet.
Yuan Yi didn’t speak either.
He noticed that those sea beasts didn’t approach at first; at most, they would only swim up to around three meters from the submarine. He didn’t know whether it was because of that spray He Yanwu mentioned, but they always kept a certain distance.
And after watching for a while, he also realized—not all of them looked like lizards. Some looked more like sea turtles, or seals. But without exception, all of them had human-like faces and eyes.
They didn’t approach much, but from the look of them, Yuan Yi estimated each one to be at least three meters long.
At this moment, a small one suddenly swam over. Only about the length of an adult’s forearm, it looked like a flesh-pink, furry little seal.
As soon as this little guy appeared, the other big ones followed and swam over as well. Everyone inside the submarine instantly drew a sharp breath and became alert.
Flight Wolf and Snow Wolf instinctively moved a bit closer to Yuan Yi—as a result, that “little seal” immediately let out a “awoo” cry. The other “parents” then all swam toward the submarine, getting as close as half a palm’s distance.
Flight Wolf lowered his voice, “Captain He, what’s going on?”
He Yanwu said, “Hard to say. This kind of situation has never happened before.”
Yuan Yi asked, “What kind of situation?”
He Yanwu said, “These sea beasts treasure their young very much. They don’t let them get close to the submarine, because the submarine might activate defense mode—emit repelling sound waves, or repelling light beams—which could hurt the young ones. There’s only one person they’re completely unguarded against.”
Yuan Yi instinctively guessed, “Li Heng?”
He Yanwu said, “Exactly. Could it be because you’re carrying Li Heng’s children?”
That “little seal” kept following the submarine. Since the submarine wasn’t moving too fast, it was able to keep up entirely.
Yuan Yi looked at that “little seal.” When he placed his hand on the window, the little creature slapped its scallop-shaped flipper against the glass.
Pa pa pa—Yuan Yi had the feeling it was trying to express something, but he couldn’t understand it at all.
The little one outside was clearly getting a bit anxious. At this point, more and more sea beasts swam over, and there were more and more young ones too—almost completely surrounding the submarine.
Yang Mei asked, “Captain He, what should we do?”
He Yanwu looked at Yuan Yi with a bit of puzzlement, “Maybe it’s because Yuan Yi carries Li Heng’s pheromones. Let’s head to the ‘Immortal Mountain’ first—we definitely can’t stop here. Use sonic waves to drive them off.”
Yuan Yi stopped him, “Wait—didn’t you say that might hurt the young ones?”
He Yanwu said, “It would have some effect, but we can’t not move.”
Yuan Yi asked, “Then if we don’t drive them off and just keep going at the current slow speed toward our destination, how long would it take?”
He Yanwu said, “About twenty-five minutes.”
Yuan Yi suggested, “Then can we go slowly? If we hurt the little ones, and the big ones retaliate, it could be even more dangerous. Besides, we don’t know what their true intention is in coming close. I have a feeling—they probably don’t mean any harm.”
Snow Wolf said, “I agree with Madam. Slow is fine—we’re not in a hurry anyway.”
He Yanwu thought it over and agreed to Yuan Yi’s suggestion. It was just that now, they were moving so slowly it was like an old ox pulling a cart—taking a long while just to move one meter.
Fortunately, in the end, none of the sea beasts made any aggressive move. They just kept following along. Especially those little ones—each one of them gazed eagerly at Yuan Yi inside the window.
Yuan Yi heard them calling “awoo awoo”—their voices didn’t sound as fierce as their parents’, and even had a bit of a babyish tone. He didn’t know why, but he felt a little sad in his heart.
But in the end, the submarine still reached the docking port.
It was something that looked entirely like seawater, but as long as the position was correct, it could align with the submarine’s exit—also made of sea gel.
And passing through from here, walking through an ascending passage, led to a whole different world—what He Yanwu had referred to earlier as the “Immortal Mountain.”
It was called “Immortal Mountain” not because there were really immortals, of course, but because at first glance, it truly looked like a fairyland.
Yuan Yi felt that he had only ever seen such a scene in movies or TV dramas.
It was like an island, with strange jagged rocks, yet floating. On the rocks, vegetation grew abundantly. Massive waterfalls cascaded down cliffs, and countless unknown birds and beasts moved among the stones and trees.
Yuan Yi looked upward—there was no sun, yet it was unusually bright. The air was also exceptionally good.
The birds and beasts here were completely carefree—he could feel their ease and contentment. But this instead made him think of the little “seal pups” he had seen earlier when passing through the seabed.
He still didn’t know what exactly they had wanted to tell him.
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