Chapter 5
Yin Mingzheng: “…..”
Yin Mingzheng: “…..”
His mouth opened and closed, but he didn’t know what to say.
Before even considering the fact that they were of two different races at war, the youthful appearance of the other person made Yin Mingzheng feel like he was going to be thrown in jail.
He lied back down on the floor and asked the question that was burning in his mind. “Are you an adult?”
Shi Qing: “What’s an adult?”
“Like how old are you this year?” Yin Mingzheng tried his best to shift backwards. He luckily gained some strength from being crushed by Mount Tai so many times. He still couldn’t throw off Shi Qing, but he could at least move around.
He was only free to move for a few seconds before the youth adjusted his weight to be heavier again.
Then Shi Qing’s clear voice rang out. “It’s been 50,000 years since I was born.” He looked like he wanted to be praised.
Yin Mingzheng: “……I thought you said you were just born.”
“Yeah, I was just born.” Shi Qing sat on the man with an ‘I’m innocent and telling the truth’ look on his face while spitting lies.
“Time isn’t really a concept for the Mechanical race. I’ve been searching for a new planet with my army since I was born. I only started to move after finding Earth.”
The protagonist quickly found a loophole. He asked Shi Qing, “How many years have you been on this planet?”
“According to how you humans count time, almost a week.”
Yin Mingzheng’s hand relaxed and he let his head hit the floor with a thud.
“That won’t do.”
“On Earth, we calculate age based on the first day every person arrives on this planet. You’ve only been here a week, so you’re still a baby.
Shi Qing’s face appeared confused like he had hoped. He tilted his head. “I’m a baby on your planet?”
Yin Mingzheng’s eyes were complicated as he met the youth’s clear ones. He wasn’t sure if he felt more guilty at bullying a kid or more relieved at finding a way to escape.
He didn’t technically lie.
Weren’t the ages of Earth’s children counted from the first day they arrived in the world?
Anyways, Yin Mingzheng had a complicated expression while he said, “Yep. Human only ** with those that are 18 years or older only, not children.”
“So it was like that.”
“Okay. I’ll listen to you since you’re my companion.”
Before Yin Mingzheng could relax, Shi Qing pressed on his chest through his clothes. There was a self-righteous look on his face. “If we can’t **, we can still combine our small parts like in your planet’s traditions.”
“I won’t complain about your small part, so you’re not allowed to dislike mine either.”
Yin Mingzheng widened his eyes at the decisive tone of the youth. He tried to push him away. “No……Mmmph!”
He fought valiantly but his efforts were futile.
Two minutes later, Shi Qing got up with a satisfied look on his face.
Yin Mingzheng just laid on the ground like he didn’t know what just happened. The youth bent down to pat his wet lips. “No wonder your planet requires this ritual, it’s very comfortable.”
The 10,000 year old Baby Qing leaned closer with a happy expression and suggested to the befuddled Yin Mingzheng:
“Let’s do this everyday until I turn eighteen here!”
The man who had lived his whole life without being kissed until now stared at the other person that seemed pretty pleased with himself.
Men tended to treat those that they had been intimate with differently. It was only after being kissed that Yin Mingzheng realised how outstanding Shi Qing’s looks were.
He had seen several young men with similar delicate features on the base. Although they weren’t as eye-catching as Shi Qing, they could still become an idol in the world before the apocalypse.
But due to their slender bodies, they were useless against the invaders and unsuited to manual labour, so they could only rely on others. Their fates were to be displayed like a pet canary.
There were people who offered to gift Yin Mingzheng a canary before, but he straight-out refused using the excuse that he had no time for them.
And now, he had been pressed down against the floorboards by this seemingly weak youth and experienced their small parts intertwining.
A radiant blush rose on his handsome face.
[Ding! Yin Mingzheng’s animosity value: 97/100]
After being forced to watch Ying Mingzheng try to trick the Host only to be tricked himself, the System calmly activated the censorship program it had bought. It informed the Host that this program could automatically filter out any scene unsuitable for children under three and would cover the offending items in a mosaic blur.
The marketplace back at HQ also sent a complimentary copy of ‘Guide to getting along with your Host’.
It opened up the book with excitement.
Shi Qing asked: [What did you buy this for?]
The System immediately put what it had learned to use. [Today, a pure System died a painful death. I bought this to save its soul.]
[If the Host comforts me now, I’ll still be the little System that loves you!]
Shi Qing felt that the IQ of his System was dropping.
He hesitated before trying to be rea.s.suring:
[What a shame. Do you need me to buy a wreath for the grave?]
The System looked at the part in the guide that said ‘The Host will be very worried and ask its System if it is feeling fine and comfort it’: …….
It silently deleted the guide.
No problem.
There’s no need to sweat the details.
It’ll be fine as long as the Host completes the tasks like a boss (I’m not sad at all.jpg).
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Yin Mingzheng discovered that Shi Qing began behaving like a leopard cub that had its first taste of meat since that first day. He was always eyeing him like he was prey.
Before Ying Mingzheng could eat, they had to b.u.mp parts.
Before Ying Mingzheng could sleep, they had to b.u.mp parts.
Before Ying Mingzheng could enjoy a moment without any androids around, they had to b.u.mp parts.
If he didn’t want to b.u.mp, this 10,000 year old baby would press him onto the nearest floor/wall/bed/window until a big man like Yin Mingzheng satisfied him with a blush on his face.
Yin Mingzheng has also occasionally mentioned that he wanted Shi Qing to help repel the Insects, but he was promptly shut down.
The alien teen said with conviction: “The Mechanical race would never help others.”
Afterwards, no matter what Yin Mingzheng tried to say, he pretended like he couldn’t hear him. His suspicions were also aroused by this suggestion, and he began to confine his man to the room. He could have anything he asked for but he wasn’t allowed to leave.
The third day that Shi Qing had finished ‘watching’ the drama series, he went into Yin Mingzheng’s room very early in the morning and squirmed his way under the blanket.
He knew from the moment he walked in that Yin Mingzheng was pretending to be asleep.
Before when he was fighting the Insect race, he was a hero that needed to be available at any moment. He had already mastered the art of rapidly waking up after hearing suspicious noises. How could he not react when Shi Qing arrived?
Shi Qing didn’t mind him pretending. He climbed into Yin Mingzheng’s lap and raised his head to look at his small part.
When Yin Mingzheng continued to fake sleep, he stared at his long eyelashes and gave a rating to the System: [Great hand feel, makes people feel emotional and bouncy. With such long eyelashes, pah, he almost looks like a girl.]
[Look, he’s getting embarra.s.sed. I just happen to like it when he plays hard to get.]
Shi Qing laughed childishly as he nuzzled the man’s face.
All the System could see with the censorship program on was a mosaic. It calmly downloaded ‘300 Children’s Songs’.
Shi Qing felt very satisfied by the soft and bouncy skin beneath his hands. He was like a vicious but sticky little leopard. Even if his little part met its companion, his body continued to try and get closer to Yin Mingzheng until the man had no choice but to open his eyes.
Due to his inexperience, he felt more uncomfortable and shy each time the youth clung to him and requested to b.u.mp parts.
Truthfully, Shi Qing was just satisfying his own desires. But seeing as Yin Mingzheng’s animosity value only dropped five points in three days, he decided to go easy on him.
So while the man was blushing like a tomato while letting Shi Qing do whatever he wants, he suddenly stopped and asked with an unhappy tone: “Why do you never take part in the sequence with me? Why am I always doing all the work?”
Yin Mingzheng could fearlessly face an Insect as tall as a skysc.r.a.per.
He could also charge towards an Insect with 78 heads.
He was even fine alone in front of millions of low-level enemies.
But he just couldn’t look into the dissatisfied eyes of this youth.
Maybe it was the first time he had captured someone since he was born 10,000 years ago, but the little leopard in front of him was eager to roar and bite into his prey with his milk teeth.
These bites didn’t hurt the prey. It felt more like the little leopard was licking him. Now the cub wanted his prey to play with him the same way.
Yin Mingzheng felt like he couldn’t do it.
It was already wrong to be enjoying the contact. How could he possibly initiate it?
What kind of person would do that?
Shi Qing immediately picked up on his refusal.
So he went to pull Yin Mingzheng’s hand and tried to lure this moral man with conditions: “Don’t you want to explore the ship? If you go through the sequence with me, I’ll let you out.”
“Once is fine, just once.” The youth pulled his hand this way and that, acting spoiled: “Just once, okay?”
Yin Mingzheng thought that Shi Qing rather resembled a peac.o.c.k confidently waving its tail while waiting for his prey to fall into his trap.
Although it has been rough these past few days, he did gather valuable intel. He knew that the master of this ship was Shi Qing, and he had a pretty good idea of his personality.
Innocent but not naive, ignorant but quick to learn. While he was easy to coax, he also knew how to act spoiled to get his way. The more time he spent with him, the more Yin Mingzheng felt like he might actually develop feelings for Shi Qing if it wasn’t for their different races.
But in the end he was a human.
No matter how good Shi Qing was to him, or how innocent he was, Shi Qing was planning on imprisoning him for life on this ship.
Yin Mingzheng forced himself to forsake his righteousness and guilt as he encircled the youth into his arms. He felt his slightly cool skin and lowered his eyes. He smiled slightly.
The other person’s dependence made his heart ache.
He knew he was a liar.
One day, he would leave Shi Qing and this s.p.a.ceship behind.
Will the youth be sad then? Will tears fall from his pretty and clear silver eyes?
Yin Mingzheng finally let go of the teen bonelessly leaning on him. He stared into Shi Qing’s glistening silver eyes, and his mood became darker.
He lied to Shi Qing, the trusting and cute alien child.
“Done. Let’s go tour the ship.”
Shi Qing blinked his eyes and tried to act cute: “What do you mean?”
Yin Mingzheng: “……You just said that if I did it once then you would let me out.”
The alien youth raised his chin: “I did not!”
“I said ten times! Ten times!”
He showed off all ten of his fingers and bent one. His face was smug as if his prey had fallen into his trap: “You just did it once. There’s nine more to go.”
“Okay, now you can do it nine more times.”
Yin Mingzheng looked at him silently. His lips twitched up in a reluctant smile. He hugged the youth and lowered his head to his ear, saying lowly in an amused voice:
“Little liar.”
[Ding! Yin Mingzheng’s animosity value: 90/100]