Villain Rescue System (I)

One month later, Shang Li took leave and arrived at the pier on time according to the time on the letter, bringing his black card.

The weather had turned completely cold, and although the doll's body wouldn't feel the cold, he still put on a warm black coat over his shirt - a similar style to Cui Lan's.

Although it was a sunny day, I still couldn't feel much warmth standing in the sun. It was not a good time for a sea trip.

But my wife is also on the cruise ship, Shang Li thought.

During this time, he still maintained the status of working outside while staying at home with his wife.

Cui Lan's fondness for the doll he controls has obviously increased now, and it feels like her mother's love is bursting out. She always holds the little thing, which is only half the length of her leg, in her arms, and then mutters about Shang Li.

Sometimes the words uttered unintentionally could even make Shang Li, who was showing his love arrogantly all day long, blush.

...It can be considered that we have finally had a good half of our lives.

Until the night before yesterday, Cui Lan held him in her arms as usual and was about to start kneading him today, but suddenly she received a phone call.

"Hi, brother-in-law."

Hearing the deep male voice with a slightly arrogant tone coming from the other end of the phone, the puppet Shang Li, who was sitting on his wife's lap and enjoying the caress, immediately pricked up his ears.

What a bullshit title!

"Although I don't really want to see you, but in response to Yuyu's wish, I still sincerely invite you, an empty-nester, to board my private cruise ship and join Yuyu and I on our wedding anniversary trip."

Said the man with a familiar voice.

Cui Lan responded coldly, "I'm not interested in being a light bulb."

"I don't want to see light bulbs either."

Lu Yao said: "But this is Yuyu's request, you should not be ignorant of the good and the bad."

A faint word "get out" suddenly came into the microphone, followed by the noisy sound of people scrambling for the phone.

The quarrel ended with the sound of sticky lips smacking each other. The phone changed hands and a soft and tender voice came on the line, "Brother Lan, go out and relax. You'll ruin yourself if you keep staring at Brother Lili."

Hearing the real Jiang Mingyu's voice again, Shang Li felt as if he was in another world.

After all, in his memory, he and his brother had only been separated for a few months.

On that Sunday afternoon before the time travel, I rode my bike to take him to junior high school for evening self-study, and then watched the child walk away after saying goodbye.

The little doll seemed to have lost its strength and fell on my wife's legs with a "bang".

Cui Lan: “…”

Before he could figure out why the little pet suddenly died, he heard the man snatch the phone and say, "Well, it's more than just a commemorative trip."

"I guess you gained a lot from this trip to the field."

He said, "So, are you sure it's a time traveler or the real person?"

Cui Lan lowered her eyelids, tucked the side of her phone under her neck, and used her free hands to rub the doll in her arms, trying to make it stand up.

Time traveler?

Shang Li was surprised when he heard the key words.

This Lu Yao who belongs to reality actually knows the inside story?

How come he wasn't blocked?

"Don't worry, my prophecy tells me that your husband's consciousness is still in this world." Seeing no response, the person on the other end of the phone paused for two seconds and continued in a natural tone.

After that, Lu Yao changed the subject and said, "But it may not be the case in a few days."

"You invited him on this cruise?"

Cui Lan guessed what the other party had done almost instantly, "Did your prophecy tell you to do this?"

"There are prophecies, and some of my speculations."

The man said confidently, "The journey will take about seven days, and many guests will arrive by then."

"There will be a lot to gain from this operation."

"You said the same thing last time."

Cui Lan responded coldly: "And then it almost got me killed."

Lu Yao: "Isn't it a gain if we have reached a cooperation agreement with others?"

“…”

Cui Lan hung up the phone.

The memories ended here, and Shang Li exhaled a breath of white air.

"I have made a big step forward in my progress towards remarrying my wife and returning to my family. A better life is just around the corner, Lili."

After encouraging himself again in his heart, he prepared himself for the banquet and handed the black card to the waiter standing on the deck.

The receptionist, who was dressed in a smart suit, took the black card, checked it carefully, and returned the card to Shang Li.

"Have a nice trip." The receptionist smiled with his standard eight-toothed smile.

——

On the other hand, the pixelated little man who still stayed with his wife had already followed Cui Lan onto the luxury cruise ship.

The open area of ​​the cruise ship is divided into five floors. The bottom three floors are entertainment areas, and the top two floors are mostly guest rooms for guests to rest.

Shang Li quietly held Cui Lan's hair and entered the luxuriously decorated suite on the top floor of the cruise ship.

A young couple in suits and ties were sitting in the living room.

The shorter young man was wearing a slim-fitting white suit, with a pretty and well-behaved face. The tall and handsome man next to him was wearing a black suit, and his muscles could be vaguely seen hidden under the clothes.

It is Jiang Mingyu and Lu Yao who belong to reality.

It was at this moment that Shang Li finally met his younger brother, who was ten years older than him.

He looked at Jiang Mingyu carefully for a while.

The young man looked no different from the one in the domain, but his temperament was relatively more reserved, lacking the sharpness of a time traveler.

"Brother Lan, I haven't seen you dressed so casually in a long time."

Jiang Mingyu, who was in her twenties, stood up with Lu Yao's arm and said with a smile.

"Really?"

Cui Lan took off the mask covering her face and looked down at herself.

She was wearing an ordinary black fleece sweatshirt with a white turtleneck sweater underneath, a red heart-shaped crystal necklace around her neck, dark grey jeans and white sneakers.

She wore a baseball cap on her head and her long hair was tied into a low ponytail behind her body. She looked casual and unrestrained, not like a madman who had been at large for ten years, but rather like a college student in his early twenties.

"Brother Lan looks good in whatever he wears~"

Before Cui Lan could see the result, Jiang Mingyu let go of the person and took his arm instead, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Let's go cruise ship." He said in a sticky voice, and one could tell from whose tone he inherited it.

"This is my first time on this cruise ship as well. Brother Yao said there are a lot of things to do on the ship. Why don't we play the video games first!" Jiang Mingyu happily pulled Cui Lan out.

“…”

Cui Lan silently turned around and glanced at his brother.

Lu Yao put his hands behind his back and nodded calmly, but in fact he was gritting his teeth.

He pretended to be relaxed and said, "You guys go and have fun first. I still have some work to do. I'll come find you later."

Cui Lan retracted her gaze and followed Jiang Mingyu out of the box.

After the two figures disappeared, Lu Yao put away his expression and came to the balcony illuminated by the faint sunlight.

He leaned against the railing. The sea breeze blew by, bringing with it a slight chill, but it couldn't shake his neatly combed back hair with gel.

"Are you there, guest?"

Lu Yao picked up his phone and asked through the screen, his deep, magnetic voice carrying the oppression that only belongs to those in high positions.

【Good morning, prophet. 】

A pixelated man with red eyes appeared on the phone.

Shang Li stood in the center of the screen, with a pixel-style dialogue box appearing above his head:

[I just boarded the cruise ship, so it's not convenient for me to come here right away. I can only show up like this for now. Sorry for the embarrassment.]

The pixel man's eyes turned into the shape of "Ren Ren".

Last month in the domain, he had learned from Cui Lan that this Prince of Yan City was the guy who provided Cui Lan with the prophecy in the "original work".

There is no need to think too much about his identity, he must be a member of the supernatural organization "Undercurrent".

“…”

Shang Li felt that he seemed to have known who were the members of this illegal organization.

Xiao Jiang...is probably in there too.

The whole family has turned into outlaws and won’t play with me?

"I can understand."

Lu Yao nodded, took out a cigarette from the box on the small table next to him, lit it with a lighter, and put it in his mouth.

"So who are you?"

He slowly blew out a smoke ring and held it between his fingers, his eyes full of wildness and dominance, "Is it the time traveler who took over the body, or... Shang Li?"

A huge drop of sweat appeared on the pixel man's head.

[Even if I say I am Shang Li, will you believe it? ]

"Whether you believe it or not is not up to me, but Cui Lan."

Lu Yao poked the sweat drop with his hand and got the prompt "Favorability -100".

Seeing this, he shrugged his shoulders and continued helplessly: "For actions related to you, he is the decision maker."

After talking about the objective determining factors, Lu Yao immediately expressed his own subjective thoughts, with a tone like an ancient lord recruiting useful people, "But I think you are genuine."

【Because of prophecy? 】

"Because of intuition."

He pressed the half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray. "My prediction can only give a general outline, or one or two clues, but the specific identification still needs Cui Lan."

Speaking of this, Lu Yao couldn't help but be curious, "He has a method that no one else can use, which belongs only to him to identify time travelers."

"And it's very accurate. We have never made any mistakes in his judgment."

The man's voice flowed into the pixel man's ears through the radio of his mobile phone, "So, big brother, I can't help you in this regard. I can only wish you a good time these few days."

【Thank you very much. 】

The pixel man bowed and continued: [I am very curious, why do you also know about the time travelers. ]

[Did Cui Lan tell you? ]

When Lu Yao saw this, he uttered a short "tsk". "He told me? It would be better if I go and inform him."

Shang Li: [……]

"Besides, isn't it only natural that I won't be blocked?" he said.

【？ 】

"The system is on you, not on me, so of course no one can stop me from saying whatever I want."

"I am a person with the power of prophecy. I can't hear what you are saying, but can't I guess it?"

【……】

Seeing that the pixel man seemed speechless, Lu Yao curled his lips and smiled evilly, "By the way, there will be a grand dinner on the cruise ship tonight, and all the guests will arrive."

"Don't miss this opportunity."

【……knew.】

After the subtitles were printed, the pixel man disintegrated and disappeared from the screen.

Lu Yao chuckled at this somewhat disapproving attitude, put away his phone arrogantly, and said to himself: "In order for Yu Yu and I to live in a world of two without being disturbed as soon as possible, you'd better be of some use."

"Honey - are you still talking about work?"

Hearing the soft voice coming from far away, Lu Yao's expression changed, and he instantly put on a gentle and reliable look. He lowered his head and said to Jiang Mingyu who was standing on the lower terrace and looking at him: "It's over. I'll come to you now, baby."

Cui Lan, who was next to Jiang Mingyu, tilted his head silently and pulled down his baseball cap.

Tsk, so corny.