Chapter 54 - Fear Of The Unknown

Mu Liang finally started looking around him. The room was in shades of blue, white, and salmon-colored. The bed was large and could accommodate at least four adult men, the room seemed a little empty, but there were many small appliances attached to the walls.

"Each device has a use. This device in the form of a small wardrobe is a dimensional item for non-living things. It serves to put your clothes there, next to it there is an item of automatic cleaner. If you have dirty clothes or an unpleasant odor, this item will be cleaned in a few seconds "said Alessandra-066 explaining each item in the room.

The floor was covered with a heated, sterile white carpet, when Mu Liang got out of bed, he saw that the bed floated above the floor. There was stable magnetic energy that kept the bed suspended that he couldn't even feel.

"Next door there is a bathroom, with shower, toilet, shower, and bathtub," said Alessandra when she saw Mu Liang looking at the door that was in a royal blue tone.

"If we have items that can automatically clean clothes, why do we shower in the traditional way?" asked Mu Liang confused.

"Well, only the rich take a bath in the traditional way. Ordinary people use quick-clean items. The bath is a luxury" Alessandra-066 said as if it were obvious.

Mu Liang was surprised by this fact said by his system, the people of the future were strange because he felt that cleaning himself automatically was much better than a long bathing process.

"There is also an item in the bedroom for quick cleaning. So, when you train you will not generate future suspicions of the Zergs "said Alessandra-066 as if she were reading Mu Liang's mind.

For 30 minutes Mu Liang and Alessandra-066 spent exploring the bedroom, the bathroom, and the balcony. The room was really sumptuous, but not too ostentatious.

"This is a guest room. This isn't the room that you will be sharing with your fiancé in the future. For now, you must live here, until your wedding is official or until General Gyasi takes you to his palace so you can start training as a prince consort" said Alessandra-066 explaining about the room being a little different than a couple would use.

"Oh, so am I going to have this room all to myself?" asked Mu Liang, feeling a little relieved, because he can train without generating suspicions, but also disappointment for some unspeakable reason.

"Well, for now, yes. Then you will enter your husband's palace, there will be many people looking at you from your followers and your husband's followers, the imperial zerg guards, the nobles, the imperial family, in short, enjoy the rest time in privacy. In the palace of Prince Gyasi, there should be a special training room, if you show improvements in your health, then you can ask for permission to train there. You don't need to train in secret, this will be even more suspicious than training openly "

Alessandra-066 sighed with a mind full of old Mu Liang schemes, he still behaved as if he needed to pretend to be a pig that is going to eat the tiger. When, in fact, Mu Liang was a real lamb, and the tiger wasn't a tiger but an entire gang of fierce dragons.

"I just thought it would be better not to reveal my secrets," Mu Liang said a little embarrassed, as he thought his training was super secret.

"What secret? You will only train openly to have a healthy body like a normal Recessive Omega. The secret techniques and internal cultivation ... I will teach this in your Palace of Nirvana, it isn't as if it would summon rain or snow in the outside world. Here is the era of the greatest technology, the training is done in virtual reality, summoning rain is nothing much in this type of world. So, don't do things in secret, it makes everything a lot more suspicious and the people here are going to use it against you in the future "

Alessandra-066 tried to put some futuristic knowledge in Mu Liang's old mind. The martial cultivation that Mu Liang aims to recover is nothing when compared to the flashy Cosmic Energy, the Energy of Order, and the Energy of Chaos. So there was no reason to keep it hidden, the others would barely notice Mu Liang's changes besides seeing him healthy.

That was where the secret lay, no one would notice how strong Mu Liang would become that way he could take the enemy by surprise. Alessandra-066 sighed again, thinking that she should teach the half-elf a few things about how to remain confidential.

"I get it," Mu Liang said bleakly. He had to change his mindset to act like a martial cultivator who had to keep the tricks hidden, he now had a system that already did that for him and had more plans and schemes better than his.

Ah, he was losing to a machine.

"Now you must reassure your followers. There is a lot you have to do, study the rules of the Diablo Empire and the memories of the original owner. You just worry about life in the present, "said Alessandra-066, reminding Mu Liang that he had slept for a long time, which must have made his followers and Zatrara's guards concerned about his health.

"Live in the present?" Mu Liang thought suddenly without realizing that he spoke his thoughts "out loud".

"I know I can't ask you to stop thinking as you did in the Age of Martial Cultivation, but I can ask you to focus on the now. Right now, you are an omega recessive, engaged to a military general, a half-elf prince, who must now only concern himself with recovering health and experiencing this new environment "

"Alessandra, are you trying to tell me not to focus on future martial training, but to recover completely?" Mu Liang said trying to understand the point of the system.

"Yes, this is what I want you to do. You must trust me more since the goddess LanLan sent you to me. For now focus on your recovery, yes, that includes basic physical exercises, even if you don't like the idea. Only then think about going back to the martial path. There are so many things you still have to do in this new world "

"I know, but it's hard to think that all of my previous years of training ... Everything was thrown away. I'm going to have to do basic exercises again and my body sucks ... I hate it all! My body just reacts in a strange way ... I want to become strong soon, I feel helpless and it scares me ... "

Mu Liang kept talking until finally, he said everything that bothered him, how unfair his death and the current situation was, how he had no choice at all and that his body was dependent on Gyasi and that bothered him since he had not been dependent on anyone since he was a child.

"Unfortunately, this was the best arrangement possible. You cannot imagine the number of problems that your original world is facing right now. A foreign force that is an enemy of the gods is trying to destroy your world ... Well, it won't help if I talk about these abstract things. What matters is that you have a new life, a new identity, you can do what you want. Isn't it the important thing to be alive?"

Mu Liang was curious to know about the "foreign force" that was the enemy of the gods, but he understood that knowing about it would only make him worried about his otherworldly family.

"I don't want to fall in love with Gyasi, I don't want to believe him ... Of course I'm scared, because I can only depend on him even if I don't want to!"

"Is being afraid going to do anything? We have no choice. His body is still weak. What's wrong with falling in love? If he hurts you, go and teach him a lesson and make him regret one way or another. If he makes you angry, make it clear ... If you don't want to be with him in the future, we'll just have to run. By then, you'll be strong enough for that "

Alessandra-066 tried to comfort Mu Liang, the young half-elf looked like an upset teenager throwing a tantrum with inevitable things. If you fall in love, so what? If the other doesn't deserve you, you should just leave! A broken heart? There are several men and women in the universe to heal a broken heart.

Of course, how could a system, even a divine system, understand the feelings of a mortal, if it were easy to fall out of love as the system points out, wouldn't the world be easier and more beautiful?

"No more complaining! I already called your subordinates. Just think about recovering and nothing more. With your health restored you can make plans to become stronger and if you want to run like a fool because you are in love, at least you will have the strength to do it "Alessandra-066 ended the conversation. She could have sworn she had a headache with all the complaints from her new host.

Mu Liang was surprised by the outburst of the system's bad mood, so he swallowed the complaints once again.

"Calm down ... It's not like 'I'm going to give my heart to that shameless zerg" Mu Liang repeated this over and over in his mind. Without realizing that he was probably already giving some space in his heart to Gyasi.