Chapter 126 Epilogue (4) Fu Li was wearing a black mask, ...

Fu Li wore a black mask and a gray trench coat she had picked up from a donation box, making her look like a hibernating hamster. She was so bulky and large that it was almost impossible to tell her figure from her clothes, but she walked briskly through the Star Harbor at dusk.

At this moment, he felt incredibly happy. What could be more important than freedom?

He had been planning this day ever since the day Vitele brought him back.

Back in military school, I always felt that this roommate, who looked tall and serious, was actually a naive young master who could be easily fooled with a few nice words. I never expected it to be the same now.

They're so easily fooled. They actually left a space pirate alone in their house, with the only way to keep him under control being the lousy tracking device the labor camp installed.

If that kind of thing were truly effective, there wouldn't be so many repeat offenses.

After muttering these thoughts to himself, Fu Li's figure, like a ghost, slipped into a small, moored starship right in front of two or three patrolmen, without anyone outside noticing.

"Although he's been inside for a while, his skills haven't changed. Not bad." Fu Li muttered to himself with satisfaction in the darkness.

Two minutes later, a few eerie green lights flickered a few times in the previously pitch-black space, and then the room was brightly lit.

Fu Li stood in front of the engine drive, squinting as he surveyed his surroundings. Several neatly stacked crates of goods lay on the ground, their labels indicating they had been transported from a resource-rich planet hundreds of light-years away.

"There's still food! Looks like we won't run out of food on this trip. Lucky us."

Fu Li walked through the cargo box and used the sensors he had assembled to open the intercom door leading to the cockpit. In a short while, he successfully took control of the small cargo starship.

Fu Li was very satisfied with his speed; it seemed his abilities hadn't diminished despite the centuries or millennia spent in the small world. Next, all he needed to do was get the starship away and onto a usable warp trajectory before the port personnel discovered it…

"Sizzle"

A crisp sound mingled with the sound of an electromagnetic gun forcibly breaking through the door's locking mechanism. A warning sign indicating that the hatch had been damaged appeared on the main screen in the control room. Fu Li was stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered and used all his strength to manually pull the brake lever, trying to manually start the starship.

He cursed inwardly, "That damned Vitter, ruining my plans again. I finally escaped, how did he even track me down?!"

Fu Li didn't even need to think to know that it was Vitley outside the door. No one else would be so eager to meddle in his business.

He just didn't understand why Vitley had arrived so quickly. He had clearly avoided all surveillance equipment along the way, and had even changed all his clothes...

The roar of the engine came from deep within the ship, but before it could fully charge up, the vibration suddenly stopped.

Before Fu Li could even process her shock, the cabin had already been breached. The leader, dressed in a general's uniform, stormed in with a menacing aura.

This scene looked so familiar that Fu Li jumped up from the driver's seat with a start, instinctively reaching for the electromagnetic gun hanging on the wall. However, when he turned it on, he found that it was not charged at all.

……

Is this the work ethic of the current imperial foreign trade personnel?

Before he could grumble further, he pressed the eject button, but Vitter was faster. The high-energy gun blasted a large hole in the intermediary's door, and the man quickly crawled in, shoving Fu Li into the driver's seat in a few swift movements. At the last moment, Fu Li's hand just touched the eject button, but he could no longer reach it.

"Vitley! You bastard! You're allowed to imprison me, but I'm not allowed to escape, is that it?! You really enjoy imprisonment play that much? Why don't you find a dark room and play by yourself?! Have you no shame?!"

Seeing that his escape attempt had failed, Fu Li decisively launched a rogue offensive, indiscriminately accusing people of all sorts of things.

Vitley gripped Fu Li's arms with both hands, pinning him down in a way that was neither an escape nor a threat. Even after hearing Fu Li's slanderous words, his expression remained unchanged.

Those who followed in felt somewhat embarrassed upon witnessing this scene.

This matter was not originally under the jurisdiction of the military, but the general insisted on coming in person, so as his subordinates, we had no choice but to follow.

Fortunately, Vitterle glanced at them and said, "Get out."

The subordinates all wisely withdrew from the cargo hold.

Seeing that escape was hopeless, Fu Li's heart sank to the bottom. He shut his mouth and said no more.

Vitley turned the man over, loosening his grip slightly so that he faced him directly, and asked:

"You just said I really enjoy captivity play? Have I been captivity you these past few days?"

Fu Li pouted in dissatisfaction.

Vitley's eyes darkened slightly, a hint of scrutiny creeping into them as he gazed at the young space pirate's defiant face, seemingly lost in thought.

Finally, he said, "Ah Li, you know."

The soft yet weighty "Ah Li" concealed countless thoughts.

Fu Li shuddered, seemingly disgusted by the intimate address. But at the same time, something flashed quickly in her eyes, which the man caught.

“So you knew all along,” Vitterle said calmly.

The sharpness in his eyes has faded, replaced by an overflowing cup, overflowing with emotions accumulated over countless years.

In this small world, although the body hadn't experienced much time, the consciousness had truly gone through thousands of years. Countless suppressed and accumulated emotions surged forth like a rolling tide.

Fu Li looked at him, swallowing back the words of denial he had intended to say. Perhaps the emotions in the other's eyes were too intense, for he ultimately turned his head away, no longer looking at him, and said firmly:

"You've made it so obvious, how could I not notice?"

"When did you ever cook at military school? And the food tastes exactly like Luo Ran's cooking. Do you think I'm stupid? Even if I'm slow on the uptake, I can tell something's wrong, okay?"

"Vitley, you never intended to hide anything, how could I not avoid you?!"

In the end, Fu Li also became more assertive.

He would certainly find similarities between Vitre and the men he encountered in the small world, and not just one, but even the shadow of every man he had physical intimacy with in the small world could be seen in the Imperial General.

After swallowing that familiar mouthful of food, Fu Li finally decided---run, run fast!

"The labor reform bureau even told me to follow the plot of the small world and become a stepping stone for some so-called protagonist. But those are not the three thousand parallel universes at all. You all conspired to deceive me, just to make me suffer physically and mentally, especially you, you pervert!"

Fu Li could no longer hold back and began to accuse the other party of being a pervert.

"Whose little world is full of gay protagonists whose minds are only filled with that kind of stuff, and who has a particular fondness for imprisonment play? You may be shameless, but I still have some shame!"

Hearing his angry curses, Vitterle loosened his restrictions on him, since Fu Li had nowhere else to run.

He stood in front of Fu Li, looking at him as an equal.

“Ah Li, that wasn’t my intention. I can explain.”

Fu Li rubbed her slightly sore arm and said irritably, "Explain your ass!"

"Tell me, when did it start?"

"It's been twenty-eight days since I entered the school and we became roommates," Vitley clearly stated the time.

Fu Li was taken aback, then blushed and said angrily, "I'm asking when you started interfering with the mission world!"

Vitter paused, then said, "From the very beginning."

Back then, Fu Li took advantage of a military academy's training exercise to leave in his own starship. Vitley was the first to discover his disappearance and searched for him for many months in the exercise area. Later, an investigation revealed that Fu Li had entered the military academy under a false name, and his parents and background were also investigated.

He was also labeled a defector by the school and placed on an interstellar wanted list.

But Vitley still believed in him. He felt that the boy who loved to sneak snacks in the dormitory and blushed when caught, asking to share some with him, and the boy who excitedly touched the mecha in practical class with shining eyes, could not possibly be a space pirate, but a defector.

Upon graduating from military academy, he had already attained the rank of captain, and whether he stayed in the imperial political arena or went to the front lines to earn military merit, he had a promising future. However, Vitley volunteered for his first mission—to find Fu Li and bring him back.

His father, also an imperial officer, found him unreasonable but was powerless to stop him.

For many years afterward, Vitley traversed the stars, searching for a thief whose whereabouts were elusive. During this time, he completed numerous missions assigned by his organization, won a brilliant battle on the front lines, and rose through the ranks, but he never gave up his search for Fu Li.

Finally, fate led him to a thread in the boundless universe. By unraveling the mystery and tracing the clues, he finally found the person he had been longing for day and night.

But Fu Li had changed. He was no longer naive and innocent. In the dock, he boldly admitted that he had impersonated a military academy student and defected from the organization by taking a starship.

His words were harsh and his tone was full of sarcasm.

He said in court, "Your Honor, while you imperial nobles enjoy the protection of the army and indulge in wealth and luxury, who remembers how many civilians on remote garbage planets are suffering from famine and war? Even your proud and self-proclaimed disciplined imperial soldiers come to plunder, they are worse than robbers!"

"If you had such an experience, would you resign yourself to death or fight back?"

"I don't want to be associated with you. I don't want anything else but to live freely."

His words were sarcastic to everyone present. The judge immediately recommended that he be sentenced to a military court.

When Fu Li was taken away, the arrogant and disdainful look on her delicate and beautiful doll-like face was deeply etched into Vitterle's heart.

He used all his connections and lobbied repeatedly. The judge, unwilling to offend this newly powerful general, changed the sentence to Fu Lijin for labor reform.

“At least five hundred years. His condition cannot be tolerated any longer. If he can truly repent in his suffering, that would be a good thing.”

"Thank you. I will go in myself and teach him to correct his thinking."

The judge was shocked by the young soldier's obsession.

"General, are you going in too? Once your consciousness is synchronized with the small world, it will merge with the people inside, and you might not be able to remain intact, and different personalities might split out. Moreover, since consciousness is synchronized with the world, it will take at least five hundred years to come out."

Vitterle, however, didn't care: "I'll find a different way to completely change him," he said firmly.

Therefore, when Fu Li's consciousness was thrown into the small world, he did not go to the three thousand small worlds connected by the Cosmic Labor Reform Bureau, but directly entered the world woven by Vitley's consciousness.

Originally, everyone was happy to see him personally trained and brought suffering by the general's consciousness, but who knew that deviations would occur from the very first small world.

The protagonist, formed by Vitley's consciousness, falls in love again and again. Love and desire completely envelop Fu Li, holding him tightly and preventing him from breaking free. Each time, Fu Li has to expend a great deal of effort to leave and go to the next world of consciousness, only to have the previous tumultuous love affair repeat itself after each new beginning.

Even in the fourth small world, Vitley's consciousness split into two complete halves, each wanting to possess Fu Li. Although this had happened before, the protagonist represents the main personality, and if it splits out uncontrollably, it might truly become impossible to reunite.

The labor reform bureau immediately halted the experiment.

When Fu Li woke up, Vitley was being resuscitated on the other side. Fu Li was completely unaware of all of this.

Author's Note: This book is nearing its end. My next book will discuss how a typical straight man can save himself. Stay tuned!