◇ Chapter 56: The Exposed

For half a month after ascending the throne, Lin You was very busy.

The mess left by the eldest prince needs to be cleaned up, and the old Insect King's funeral needs to be taken care of. Due to this delay, Lin You hasn't been online to play games for a long time.

His female lord, Lan, is equally busy. Lan has returned to the Third Army. With his achievements, if nothing unexpected happens, he will be promoted to general next time and will be in charge of the military together with Admiral Hoyle.

As a result, the newly married Insect King and his female monarch spent less and less time together, and only had a little time to spend together before going to bed every day.

But now, even that little bit of time is becoming less and less.

Lin You discovered that every time he came out of the shower, Lan En had no intention of inviting him to spend the night together. Instead, he sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the laptop with a serious face, writing and drawing on the draft from time to time, and seemed to be thinking about something.

The screen on the computer flashed, and it seemed to be a video. Based on the color of the screen, Lin You could tell that Lan En watched the same video every night.

——I don’t know what the hell this video is, but it’s even more attractive than the hero.

Lin You pressed him from behind with dissatisfaction and reached out to unbutton the major general's uniform: "What are you researching at this late hour, instead of sleeping?"

Lan En then put down the laptop and tilted his head to kiss him. Ever since they had a heart-to-heart talk, Lan En was particularly easily aroused. Although he had never injected an addictive drug, he seemed to be addicted to Lin You's pheromones. The action of rubbing Lin You was like sucking a cat. Soon, there was a little water in his eyes.

They lay on their backs on the bed. Lin You had already unbuttoned the last button and was about to slide his fingers along the gap when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the computer screen.

“…”

He stared at the screen blankly and instantly entered sage mode.

"What's wrong?" Lan En noticed Lin You's change instantly and propped up his upper body. His cold white skin still had kiss marks and dots on his collarbone. "What happened?"

Lin You had a blank expression on his face.

Lann hesitated for a moment, then reached out to hold his clothes: "Are you not in a good mood?"

This is not a good phenomenon.

He wondered if things had been a little boring these days and was thinking about trying something new, but he saw Lin You looking somewhere.

Lan followed his gaze and looked at the computer screen.

It was a video record of an interstellar voyage. The voyage was extremely dangerous. Meteorites brushed past the edge of the spacecraft and almost hit the side of the ship several times. Large amounts of artillery fire chased after it and exploded behind it. The high-energy rays emitted by the explosion seriously interfered with the indications on the dashboard. In this situation, even the most experienced pilots in the military would break out in a cold sweat.

But the driver in the video was obviously an expert. The ship rushed left and right, and was on the verge of crashing several times, but was forcibly pulled back, and finally broke out of the meteorite matrix barely.

Lin You: “…”

Lann picked up the optical computer and said, "Well, this is the footage recorded by the aircraft when I returned from Area 23."

Seeing Lin You's pale face, he thought that Lin You had been raised in the imperial capital since he was a child and had never seen such a scene of flying gravel, so he was worried and scared, so he held his laptop and said, "Don't worry, your majesty, this is not a dangerous thing."

Lann intentionally changed the subject and said something interesting: "Speaking of which, when I came back from District 23, I encountered a strange thing."

Lin Youji: "What's the matter?"

Lann: "In fact, when I was returning to Area 23, I was already unconscious and prepared to crash, but the aircraft seemed to be conscious. The operation you just saw was performed by the aircraft on its own."

Lin Youbang read: “…Ahahaha, is that so?”

Lann: "Yes, it's hard to explain. Such an operation is definitely not something that an autopilot system can do, but my aircraft shows no signs of being hacked. It's as if a ghost has taken up residence in the cockpit."

Lin You: “…”

Of course there would be no signs of intrusion. 66 is the most advanced system in the high-dimensional world. The moment the aircraft landed smoothly, it wiped out all traces.

As he spoke, Lann showed a thoughtful look again: "But this 'driver's' driving style seems familiar. I seem to have seen it before."

Lin You was confused and asked, "Driving style?"

Lann sat up straight. "Yes, every pilot has a unique style, just like every painter has a unique brushstroke. Some pilots are used to turning left to avoid meteorites, while others prefer to turn right after horizontal movement. This pilot's style is similar to mine, but slightly different. I feel familiar with him. His operation is not sophisticated and seems a little immature, but... um!"

Lin You couldn't bear it any longer and kissed her directly.

I am a student of Lan En, but due to time constraints, I did not learn thoroughly and had to figure out most of the operations on my own, so I am a little immature.

If Lann continues to analyze it, he will be stripped of his underwear!

Lin You pressed the major general's shoulders and forced him down on the bed. Countless kisses fell on him. Lan En had no time to care about the aircraft. The cockpit was ghosted. His eyes lost focus. Finally, he was exhausted, threw away his weapons, and fell into a deep sleep.

Lin You opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling, wondering what to do with his game cabin.

When he moved from the Third Prince's residence to the Imperial Palace, this thing was also recorded and put into the warehouse. Whenever Lan En counted it, he could immediately find the clue.

This thing is not cheap, and it would be a pity to throw it away. After thinking it over, Lin You decided to return it to Admiral Hoyle.

He specifically picked a date when Lann was working in the military and ordered the waiter to move the game cabin away, but when his fingers touched the silver-white metal hatch, he still felt reluctant.

There are no more games to play QAQ.

As a teenager with severe internet addiction, this is simply an unbearable pain in life.

66 encouraged him: "It's okay, my encryption system is very reliable and it won't be discovered that easily."

Lin You looked at the sky and saw that there was still a lot of time before Lan En got off work, so he held the waiter down and coughed, "I'll have another one."

Another billion!

Lin You lay down in the cabin.

He skillfully selected his character and entered the lobby. A picture of Yuzujun lit up, and only then did he realize that he had received hundreds of private messages.

Half a year has passed since I was last online.

The training warehouse belongs to the military department, and those who are online are non-commissioned officers or military academy students from various military regions. If someone is not online for a long time, there are only two possibilities: one is that he is performing a secret mission and is away from the main planet for a long time; the second is that he is dead.

Half a year ago, he was a rising star in the training system and many people were paying close attention to him. But he suddenly disappeared like a shooting star, which made people sigh with regret.

Lann actually sent him a private message.

It was probably a week or two after Lann woke up. The major general had made an agreement with Grapefruit to teach him how to fly, but then the major general slept for five months and of course could not fulfill the agreement.

In a private message, Lann apologized for his missed appointment and said that he could make up for the teaching, and asked Yuzu-kun when he would be free to go online.

Lin You closed the private message guiltily.

...Probably he will never be online again. Even if he wants to be online, Lin You will have to change his identity.

He entered the matching interface and selected the multiplayer mode. It was working hours now, and there were not many people matching, so he needed to wait for some time. Lin Youan sat quietly aside, waiting for the game to start.

While waiting, he slid back and forth, admiring the model figures.

66 walked around the little man and exclaimed in amazement: "He really looks 80% like your wife."

Same tall body, same handsome face, same long silver hair, and even the same pure white uniform.

Lin You: "It looks good, right? I spent almost a month on it."

This little man was Lin You's masterpiece. He happily admired it for a long time. Suddenly, 66 said, "Host, I'm going to interrupt your appreciation of beauty. I have something to tell you."

Lin You continued to admire: "You say."

66: "Your wife is online."

Lin You: “!”

He hurriedly switched back to the matching hall, and sure enough, a figure appeared not far away. He was wearing a pure white uniform, long silver hair, and an iris medal. His posture was as tall and straight as a pine or cypress - it was Lan.

The hall suddenly became lively.

Lann is now a hot figure in the military. Originally, everyone was waiting for a match, but as soon as he came online, people started talking, and chat messages flew over in the lower right corner of the screen.

"Fuck, what day is today?"

"It's an appointment, right? How come two people who haven't been online for six or seven months are online now?"

Lann apparently saw the message as well.

Iris: "Who else?"

Lin You: “…”

He was about to click to log off when the message had already been sent.

"A grapefruit-kun is here too!"

"Major General, come and have a go. I have wrapped the video of your previous battle."

Lin You: “…”

He was about to pretend he didn't see it when a private message popped up in his mailbox.

Iris: "Are you online?"

Lin You said timidly: “Yes.”

He called out to the system in silence: "66! 66!"

The interface of the little man of Yuzu is still the uniform that served as a template for wedding dress.

66: “Here it comes.”

It modifies the source code at the speed of light, forcibly replacing the villain with the original costume.

Lin You then walked to the center of the matching hall.

Lan En's gaze fell on him. He nodded politely at first, then his brows jumped and frowned slightly, but relaxed in a very short time. His gaze fell on Lin You, as if nothing had happened.

Lin You was nervous: "Major General?"

Lan En looked at Lin You and smiled: "Hello, Yuzu-kun."

He extended his hand to Lin You: "May I have the honor to invite you to play a match?"

Lin You: “…”

Although he knew that this was a common accent of the nobility, he still felt uncomfortable and just nodded randomly: "Let's get started."

They were matched to the ruins copy.

Lin You remembered this copy. He was shot in the head by Lann here and got the "good result" of surviving for ten minutes.

His competitive spirit was aroused a little.

After several months of training, Lin You is now a completely different person. He controls his character to move skillfully among the broken walls, his body as light as a swallow. He uses various types of cover and shoots through the gaps with incredibly good accuracy.

Lan was stunned for a moment when he rushed out and was almost shot, but he quickly found the feeling. This huge copy was like their hunting ground, and Iris and Yuzu were the only two predators on the field.

At the beginning, Lin Youyi deliberately chose the opposite direction of Lan En.

At first, Lan En was chasing relentlessly, as if he wanted to catch up with Lin You and be shoulder to shoulder with him. Lin You was scared so much that he ran for his life, and the little man left an afterimage, but at some point, the little dot representing Lan En stopped, paused for a moment, and went in the opposite direction.

He moved very slowly, and it seemed more like he was walking with his head down than fighting - he was feeling depressed and walking with his head down, with heavy steps.

Lin You stared at Xiaodian and actually saw some distraught look in him.

As the battle intensified, the distance between them quickly widened, with each of them dominating different areas.

The broadcast kept echoing in their ears.

"'Iris' killed 'Lovestruck'"

"'A Grapefruit Man' killed 'Sunset Afterglow'"

"'Iris' kills 'Tomato Scrambled Eggs'"

"'A Grapefruit Man' killed 'Severed Tail to Survive'"

“…”

Lin You was not surprised at Lan En's performance. On the contrary, Lan En had been stunned countless times during one game.

Every time a kill message came from "A Grapefruit Man", he would be stunned for two seconds.

The countdown on the upper right corner kept decreasing, and in the end, there were only three people left.

They met in a dilapidated church.

Lan was behind the statue in the church, Lin You was beside the hymn organ, and the last one was in the prayer seat.

The three of them were in a triangle confrontation.

A person can only aim in one direction, and once he shoots in one direction, it is difficult to prevent bullets from the other side.

Lin You and Lan En raised their guns at the same time and faced each other.

The other one of the three is a nobody. 'Iris' and 'A Grapefruit Man' pose the greatest threat to each other. According to common logic, they will decide the winner first and then deal with the other one last.

Lin You's hands were slightly sweaty.

This is likely to be his last time entering the matchmaking system and his last chance to defeat Lane.

The other one had completely given up resistance and was watching the show in the audience, quietly waiting for the two bosses to decide the winner.

But Lane moved the gun away.

With an expressionless face, he pointed the gun at the audience and pulled the trigger.

Passerby: “?”

He was offline innocently.

At the same time, there was a sudden sound from the gun barrel. Lin You seized the opportunity and hit Lann with a bullet.

The announcement sounded: "'A Grapefruit Man' killed 'Iris'".

"'A Grapefruit Man' won the final victory."

Lin You was full of doubts and was teleported back to the hall.

He always felt that Lann was letting him off the hook, but he had no evidence. Before he could come to his senses, the major general's message came.

Iris manipulated the little man and said politely, "Perhaps I would have the honor to invite you to play another game?"

"No, no, no." Lin You flatly refused, "My clothes are confiscated. I'm offline."

He logged off at lightning speed.

Lin You came out of the training room, ordered the waiter to carry him away quickly, and then lay on the big bed, and said guiltily: "He didn't find it?"

66: "No, we covered it up pretty well."

In the next few days, Lin You kept observing Lan En carefully.

The major general looked as usual. He still went in and out of the military headquarters every day and still exchanged good morning kisses and good night kisses with Lin You, as if he hadn't noticed anything.

Lin You breathed a sigh of relief.

+——Until his birthday.

Lin You has the same birthday as the original third prince. In his previous life, he celebrated his birthday casually, usually starting with a birthday live broadcast and eating a few bites of cake. But now, as the emperor of the empire, his birthday is one of the most important festivals in the empire.

Lin You put on a complicated dress and went on stage to give a speech, babble on and on about some irrelevant things. After finishing the process, he went back home to look through the gift brochure.

On the emperor's birthday, many nobles would present gifts, mostly rare jewelry decorations. Lin You glanced past them quickly and then set his eyes on Lan En's gift.

He wondered: "What is this Frost K754?"

Lan: "I put it in the bedroom, you can go and have a look."

Lin You returned to the bedroom as he was told, and saw the big thing in the middle at a glance. It had a streamlined hull, was painted silver, and glowed with a cold light.

It is the most advanced training cabin in the military.

Lin You panicked for a moment, and then his eyes wandered: "When did you...find out?"

Lann: "The moment I saw 'A Grapefruit Man'."

The familiar aircraft control technology, the familiar wedding dress, and even Lin You's name and the "柚子" in "柚子君"...

Lin You sat down on the edge of the bed, feeling a little guilty. He looked left and right, but Lan En suddenly half-knelt in front of him in a knight-like posture.

He took Lin You's hand and placed it on his cheek, rubbing it: "Is it you?"

Lin You: “What?”

Lann's blue eyes stared at him: "The ghost in the cab, the one who brought me back from the graveyard."

Lin You was dejected: "It's me."

66's existence is a secret. He doesn't know how to explain to Lan that his life, his hatred, and everything about him originated from an absurd novel, so he chooses to hide.

But Lan En did not ask further questions. He was not curious about how Lin You did it. He just slightly curved his eyes and said, "It is you."

Lann's luck has not been so good. Compared with other major generals who have had smooth sailing, his experience has been too tortuous, and fate seems to have never favored him, but Lann has long been accustomed to it.

But from a certain moment on, he was suddenly favored by fate.

From the indulgence and protection of the young prince, to the miraculous return, to the kindness and treatment of old friends, to the names being engraved and remembered...

It turns out that it was not fate that favored him, but only the little prince.

The heart in his chest was throbbing, and it felt as comfortable as if half of his body was immersed in hot water. He couldn't help but want to get closer to the heat source and bury himself inside.

Lin You was not used to such explicit expressions. He curled his fingers slightly and tried to move them away: "What's wrong?"

But Lann held his hand, and he remained in a half-kneeling position, and suddenly said, "You can do anything to me."

He repeated very seriously: "Anything."

Lan En desperately wanted to do something, or offer something, like a knight offering loyalty to his king, like a priest offering steadfastness to the gods, but the Colette family had been handed over to Lin You, and Lan En didn't know what else he could offer.

Lin You: “…What?”

What he didn't know was that this sentence was actually a common love phrase used by many female insects, a cliché that was as easy to say as eating and drinking, and was used to please the arrogant and willful male masters in exchange for pheromones.

But Lann never said.

Whether he was in the novel or in front of Lin You, he never said this love word, and he never called Lin Youxiong Master. From beginning to end, he was always Little Prince and Little Majesty.

Perhaps the major general of the Third Army felt from the bottom of his heart that no male insect could dominate him from body to mind and was worthy of his complete devotion. Inside his docile and beautiful shell was the most unruly soul. The body could surrender, but the soul never would.

But now, he said it so naturally, so naturally that even Lann himself was shocked.

Lin You repeated: "Can I do anything to you?"

"Yes." Lann smiled.

In fact, there are many ways to play with the Zerg, some excessive and some not excessive. In the eyes of the male Zergs, Lin You's style is probably as rigid as the old pedantic male Zergs in the ancient era, who hardly play any tricks.

Lan En wasn't sure whether Lin You didn't like to play or he simply felt sorry for him and didn't want to let him play.

But now, he told Lin You that he could choose other ways.

Lin You took a breath of cold air.

As a 2D anchor, although Lin You occasionally drives, he only talks about it. In essence, he is still a pure and innocent child. He hesitated for a moment, and the most extreme way he could think of was -

"When we do that, can you wear a uniform?"

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