Interstellar Matchmaker System Crash: Falling in Love with Your Spirit
The smell of disinfectant in the interstellar medical cabin was mixed with the aroma of nuts. Xiaodou lay on the head of Ling Yuan's bed, staring at the bandage on his arm in a daze - it was to protect himself from being scratched by lasers. Golden lines were faintly visible around the wound, like osmanthus sprinkled with a layer of gold powder.
"Major General, it's time to conduct the 'spiritual resonance test.'" Communications Officer Su Tang walked in, her mechanical prosthetic eyes gleaming. "The AI matchmaker says our resonance has increased to 95%."
Xiaodou's ears twitched, and his treasure-hunting radar suddenly vibrated wildly. He jumped onto Su Tang's shoulder, his claws touching her communicator. A scene flashed before his eyes: Su Tang rescued a wounded hamster from the ruins, the hamster clutching half a piece of ice crystal osmanthus in its paw, and her sleeves were embroidered with the same fox crest as Bai Yan's.
"So you've known Bai Yan for a long time!" Xiaodou exclaimed, and the fluorescent claw marks in his spirit form swayed across Su Tang's face.
Ling Yuan sat up suddenly, his bandages tearing open. "Who are you talking about?"
Su Tang's pupils suddenly shrank, and his fingertips pressed on the pistol at his waist: "I don't know what you are talking about..."
"Stop pretending!" Xiaodou jumped between the two of them. "Your hamster is called 'Xiaobai', right? It always loved chewing on your lab reports, and later Bai Yan took it back to the demon world to heal its injuries!"
Su Tang's gun clanged to the ground, and a look of relief flashed across his face. "So you really are a concept rat... Three hundred years ago, Lord Bai Yan asked me to protect the interstellar fragments, saying that one day you would come to retrieve them."
She lifted her sleeves, revealing the same star pattern as Ling Yuan's: "This is the mark of the guardian. We are all Lord Bai Yan..."
"Wait!" Ling Yuan suddenly held her hand, his ears red. "What are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Xiaodou then remembered that Ling Yuan had lost his memory of the night of the dance. He shook his paw and asked Su Tang in a voice that only a spirit could hear: "Why did Bai Yan split his soul into three?"
"Because the awakening of the Concept Rat requires a 'time anchor,'" Su Tang whispered. "Bai Yan of the demon world guards the past, Lin Shen of the modern world guards the present, and Ling Yuan of the interstellar world guards the future... and you are the key that connects everything."
"Ding!" The AI matchmaker's notification sound suddenly sounded, "Detecting that the host has not completed the 'blind date live broadcast', the 'mental body heartbeat monitoring' will be automatically activated!"
Before Xiaodou could react, he felt his brain waves being pulled out of his body by a force, forming a transparent barrage in the medical cabin:
"It turns out Ling Yuan's blood smells like osmanthus!"
"The fox pattern on Su Tang's cuffs is exactly the same as Bai Yan's tail!"
"What's hidden on Ling Yuan's bedside table isn't a tactical manual, it's a guide to raising hamsters!"
The whole audience was silent.
The tips of Ling Yuan's ears turned from pink to deep red, and he suddenly grabbed the pillow to cover Xiao Dou's head: "Enough! Stop talking!"
Su Tang looked at the same red color on the tips of their ears and suddenly laughed out loud: "Major General, your spirit is much more honest than you are - in fact, you have known your identity for a long time, but you just didn't dare to admit it, right?"
Xiaodou took the opportunity to bite open Ling Yuan's tactical bracelet, and more scenes flashed:
- Bai Yan dripped blood in front of the demon world's altar: "If I disappear, please scatter the fragments of my soul into different time and space."
- Lin Shen assembles a mechanical cat in a modern laboratory: "Xiaobai, this time it's my turn to protect him."
- Ling Yuan awakens the deer-shaped pattern in the interstellar battlefield: "Xiaodou, don't be afraid, I'm here."
"So you two really are the same soul..." Xiaodou choked and touched Ling Yuan's face with his claws, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Ling Yuan turned his face away, his voice muffled as if stuffed with cotton: "Because I'm afraid... I'm afraid that you like Bai Yan or Lin Shen, and not me who only knows how to fight."
"Idiot!" Xiaodou patted his shoulder with his tail. "Whether you are Bai Yan, Lin Shen, or Ling Yuan, you are the one who baked osmanthus cake for me!"
The AI matchmaker suddenly issued a shrill alarm: "Warning! Multiple soul resonance detected, system is about to crash!"
The lights in the medical bay began to flicker, and Su Tang's mechanical prosthetic eye sparked, revealing a star fragment hidden within. Xiaodou rushed over to gnaw at the fragment, but the moment he touched it, he saw Bai Yan (the interstellar pirate version) standing in the space-time rift, holding a blackboard covered with formulas:
"Want to unite the three souls? Next time, be gentle when you bite me, don't damage my brain~"
Ling Yuan grabbed Xiaodou's claws, but felt his body fading—a sign that his soul fragments were about to merge. Xiaodou looked at his wrist, which was gradually becoming transparent, and suddenly remembered Su Tang's words: "The tears of the concept rat can stabilize the rift in space and time."
"Ling Yuan, close your eyes." Xiaodou said softly.
Ling Yuan did as he was told, but felt a warm liquid falling on his palm - it was Xiaodou's tears, shining with faint starlight, and it was actually beating into a miniature Heaven-Swallowing Pattern in his palm.
"This is……"
"This is your betrothal gift." Xiaodou shook his tail. "When the three souls become one, I want you to propose again with your real body."
Ling Yuan opened his eyes, and the fluorescent outline of Xiaodou was reflected in his eyes. He suddenly smiled - this was the first time since he became a major general that he smiled so gently, like Bai Yan from the demon world, and also like Lin Shen in modern times.
Before the AI matchmaker completely collapsed, it played an encrypted video: Bai Yan, Lin Shen, and Ling Yuan stood in front of the concept rat clan totem at the same time. The star patterns on the three of them formed a complete deer shape, and Xiaodou stood in the center. The outline of the human figure gradually became clear, and the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye completely overlapped with the "Concept Rat King" on the totem.
Su Tang picked up the fallen star fragments, and new coordinates appeared on the fragments - it was the production team's granary in the 1960s.
Ling Yuan clenched Xiaodou's claws, and a ring-shaped light pattern suddenly appeared at the base of his ring finger, which perfectly matched the fragment of Bai Yan's marriage certificate in the Demon World chapter.
On the interstellar pirates' flagship, Bai Yan (the Pirate King) chewed on a chocolate gold coin and chuckled as he watched the footage on the surveillance camera: "Finally crying? My little crybaby concept rat, next stop...see you at the 1960s granary~"
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