Villainous Scientist (5)
Song Xuyi quickly realized what Huang Fu meant—he was suggesting that she play dead.
The original owner had made too many enemies. As long as Song Xuyi was alive, she would be a thorn in someone’s side and would inevitably face endless attacks and ambushes.
And the best solution to this situation was to make it seem like Song Xuyi had “died”.
If Song Xuyi “died”, it would mean that everything was over. Her enemies would no longer pursue her, and for Song Xuyi herself, it would signify a new beginning.
“Thank you, Uncle Huang.” Song Xuyi expressed her gratitude to Huang Fu sincerely.
Song Xuyi initially thought that she would be accepted by the people of Blue Star only if she passed their assessments. Now it looks like that’s not the case. Huang Fu had everything planned out from the moment she boarded this spaceship…
No wonder the spaceship that was originally arranged suddenly turned out to be such a decrepit one, as it was fated to be blown up.
“You needn’t be polite,” Huang Fu accepted Song Xuyi’s thanks with ease, smiling as he handed her a cup of tea, clearly ready for a long heart-to-heart. “No matter what, you are your mother’s child. Your mother sacrificed her whole life for Blue Star. When you wish to return home, of course, Blue Star won’t abandon you—”
“But at the same time, you should thank yourself,” Huang Fu’s tone was filled with admiration. “We originally planned to pick an out-of-the-way place to confine you upon your arrival on Blue Star. Rumors had painted you as short-sighted, asocial, and brutally harsh, which might have brought disaster to Blue Star… However, upon getting to know you, we found you are nothing like the rumors. That’s why we assigned you an assessment task…”
“You seized the opportunity and even exhibited exceptional talent and wisdom. We have a military branch on Blue Star that seems to be tailor-made for you. Once you join, you’re certain to shine, perhaps even more so than before…”
In Song Xuyi’s memories, the original owner of the body was brutal, but her strength was indisputably fearsome. As a top-tier Alpha, she was virtually an impenetrable fortress on the battlefield, a one-woman army who could hold her own against thousands. Song Xuyi couldn’t think of any way she could outdo the original’s prowess…
Song Xuyi felt that Huang Fu’s words were a bit of an overstatement, but she was still very enticed: after all, her current mission was of immense difficulty, involving the layers upon layers of the imperial royalty and requiring powerful support as a backbone.
One was eager to recruit, the other in need of strength – their conversation hit it off well. During this exchange, Huang Fu also dropped a hint but didn’t reveal the nature of Blue Star’s secret weapon to Song Xuyi. He only suggested that she should see it for herself, promising that she would definitely sense the surprise once she arrived on Blue Star.
As they finished a pot of tea, their chat also came to an end. Huang Fu handed Song Xuyi a few seemingly ordinary black tokens, instructing her to distribute them to those she deemed trustworthy, and shared the purpose of these tokens:
There were spies on the ship, and Huang Fu had pinpointed these individuals. After passing through the wormhole, only those in possession of the tokens would be awakened by the system’s robots. Those people would have ten minutes to transfer to another spaceship. This ship, under system control, would carry the still-slumbering individuals back through the wormhole to crash into an asteroid…
Every spaceship has a special box that records its location. If a ship crashes into an asteroid, the box immediately sends the accident information back to the empire. Throughout history, no one who has encountered an accident in the wormhole has ever made it out alive — the entire ship’s crew is declared dead.
“It’s really strange, the suspicious Emperor actually didn’t send anyone to tail us…”
“Two of the old servants by your side have been spies for many years, while the origins of the rest of the people are relatively clean,” Huang Fu told Song Xuyi the names of these two individuals. After hesitating for a while, he gave Song Xuyi a token: “Also, that beloved Omega of yours, she actually married you as a substitute for someone else. Oddly enough, we can’t find any background information on her. She seems to have popped up out of nowhere, with the earliest sighting of her being in a sea area of the Imperial Star. She was rescued by an Omega named Zhou Sui from the beach. Later, when Zhou Sui was captured, the Emperor intended to bestow Zhou Sui to you, but she secretly let Zhou Sui go and married you in her place, like a scapegoat stepping in for another…”
Song Xuyi didn’t expect that Jiang Qianyu would actually know the male lead, Zhou Sui, and it seemed that their relationship was not shallow…
This was really beyond Song Xuyi’s expectations.
“Your Omega might be more formidable than you imagine,” Huang Fu chose his words carefully, observing Song Xuyi’s expression: “But we can’t meddle in your emotional affairs. Plus, you’re the one who has interacted with her the most. It’s up to you to decide what to do…”
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Song Xuyi carried the tokens and went downstairs.
First, she made up an excuse to see a few servants who were not problematic, gave them each tokens, which these servants, trained in military ways by the original owner, hid close to their bodies without needing an explanation from Song Xuyi, and they promised not to let anyone else see it.
Finally, with the remaining token, Song Xuyi returned to her room.
Song Xuyi came back early, Jiang Qianyu hadn’t gone to bed yet, she was wrapped in a blanket sitting in front of the window, silently gazing at the space outside.
Song Xuyi also didn’t understand why Jiang Qianyu liked to watch the space scenery so much and hadn’t gotten tired of it for so long.
She gripped the token in her hand, a small frown on her brow, uncertain how to pass the token to Jiang Qianyu.
The system suggested to Song Xuyi: “Why not give it to her as a gift?”
“What kind of gift is this token?” Song Xuyi frowned deeply: “Besides, the original owner already gave her many precious things, and Jiang Qianyu didn’t even glance at them…”
The system sighed with worry: “Then perhaps… just don’t give it to her!”
“If she’s gone, there’ll be no one to overthrow the emperor, and the female lead Zhao Man won’t fall in battle, maybe then your mission will be complete…”
“How could it be that simple?” Song Xuyi said softly with her head down: “If one Jiang Qianyu falls, countless more Jiang Qianyus will rise. The ones overthrowing the emperor are not just Jiang Qianyu but the thousands upon thousands of Omegas and Betas behind her…”
The system didn’t fully grasp the concept but understood that Song Xuyi still wanted to spare Jiang Qianyu’s life: “So, what do you plan to do?”
Song Xuyi pursed her lips and looked towards the hibernation pod where Jiang Qianyu rested at night, her eyes narrowing.
“All cabins please note, all cabins please note, the spacecraft will reach the wormhole in half an hour, please enter your hibernation pods as soon as possible…”
The robotic voice of the announcement echoed in every room of the spacecraft.
Song Xuyi crawled into the hibernation pod and just before she closed the door, she took one last glance outside. Jiang Qianyu had already entered her pod, and its door was slowly closing…
Song Xuyi breathed a sigh of relief, remembering the token she had tucked into Jiang Qianyu’s pillow, and closed her eyes with peace of mind…
Huang Fu’s plan was complicated, and Song Xuyi couldn’t tell Jiang Qianyu about it, so she had to resort to this method.
But what she didn’t know was that shortly after she closed her eyes, just as the door of Jiang Qianyu’s hibernation pod was about to close, Jiang Qianyu suddenly opened her eyes, drew a frown, and pulled something out from under her pillow. With an unfathomable look, she glanced at Song Xuyi’s pod, hesitated for a moment, and ultimately threw that object outside the cabin…
Staying dormant in the hibernation pod could lessen the consumption of the body’s functions. During the two days of travel through the wormhole, Song Xuyi had a long dream: it seemed… she had dreamed of her own memories once again.
That was a memory both happy and painful.
Song Xuyi saw a little girl. The girl had once a harmonious and beautiful family, with parents who loved her deeply, but everything stopped suddenly when she was nine years old…
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Her parents died in a car accident, her grandfather couldn’t withstand the shock and suffered a heart attack, lingered in sickness until the family’s savings were exhausted and then passed away. After that, only her grandmother was left to take care of Song Xuyi.
Every year, Song Xuyi’s grandmother would take her to the cliff where her parents’ accident happened to pay tribute. When Song Xuyi was 15, her grandmother fell ill, so Song Xuyi went to the cliff alone. The weather was gloomy as if a heavy rain was about to fall. Song Xuyi finished burning the paper money and was about to head home when she noticed a blood-stained hand reaching up over the edge of the cliff…
The dream ended abruptly there.
It was like being suddenly shocked; Song Xuyi felt a rush of pain all over her body, accompanied by the system’s voice, “Hatch opening, please exit the spacecraft promptly…” Song Xuyi’s eyes snapped open, the hibernation pod hatch above her was gradually opening…
Remembering she had only ten minutes, Song Xuyi quickly climbed out of the hibernation pod, ready to dash through the door, but abruptly stopped in her tracks…
— Jiang Qianyu’s pod was still closed.
What had happened?
Frowning, Song Xuyi ran to Jiang Qianyu’s pod and peered through the semi-transparent glass. Inside, Jiang Qianyu was sleeping peacefully, like a princess from a fairy tale…
And there, next to the hibernation pod, lay a black token on the ground…
A chill went through Song Xuyi’s heart, and she hurriedly ran over to manually release the hibernation pod’s latch.
The hatch slowly opened, yet despite Song Xuyi calling her name several times, Jiang Qianyu didn’t wake up…
As time was running out, Song Xuyi gritted her teeth, decisively hoisted Jiang Qianyu onto her back, and ran towards the deck—
Jiang Qianyu wasn’t heavy; if it were her original owner, she could’ve lifted Jiang Qianyu effortlessly with one hand, but now, Song Xuyi had transitioned to an Omega…
The corridor connecting the two spaceships was on the first floor; everyone had already moved to the opposite ship, leaving only Song Xuyi awake on this side.
The “tick-tock” sound overhead was like a death knell, and Song Xuyi, drenched in sweat, ran desperately forward, the pounding of her footsteps, “thud, thud,” the only sound filling the space.
These “thud, thud” sounds were like trembling drum beats, striking heavily against the eardrum, piercing through the persistent sound of waves that lingered in dreams, awakening the slumbering Jiang Qianyu…
Jiang Qianyu opened her eyes: In the distance, the bright star radiated its ancient light, its orange-yellow glow shining on the black hair of the person in front, the hair tips tickling the face a bit, surrounded by a faint scent of citrus– a fragrance she had grown accustomed to these days…
Looking at the towering and beautiful new spaceship not far ahead, Jiang Qianyu in an instant understood the whole situation, the before and after.
She originally thought the token placed in the hibernation pod was a trap set by Song Xuyi against her…
Jiang Qianyu’s gaze was complex as she looked at the sweat on Song Xuyi’s cheeks, pursing her lips.
Nobody knew that Jiang Qianyu actually really liked the scent of Song Xuyi’s pheromones, which smelled like citrus.
This was a joy completely different from conducting research.
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But she knew that Song Xuyi was unhappy when being somewhat forced to undertake research and observation.
Why would Song Xuyi save her?
……
And in a moment of distraction, Song Xuyi finally ran through the corridor.
With ‘whooshing’ breaths, Song Xuyi rushed onto the new spaceship, and almost at the moment she stepped on the deck, a loud boom behind her— the corridor broke in the middle, the abandoned ship carrying the broken pathway and all the people about to ‘die’ on it, like a bird with only one wing, hurried towards the depths of the wormhole, soon to clash and create a dazzling display of sparks…
And with these bright sparks celebrating, a new chapter of life unfolded…
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LP: Re-translated on February 04, 2024