Chapter 674

Chapter 723: 13.24 – Missed Star – Always and Forever. [End]

The invasion failed as General Autumn took his stand and protected Dragon Cosmos on his own. When he returned to the Dragon Palace, he received a tight hug from his little brothers, Ye Wusheng and Tu Zise. He Ling had Long Xie’s life capsule moved from another laboratory and Ye Qiuji stayed by his side all the time. Currently, no one is able to convince him as he knew that they’ve failed him when that fake Chen Sian almost took the life of their King. If not for the defensive soul Artifact their lords share, they couldn’t think of the result that might have happened during that explosion.

With Tang Ruan’s explanation, He Ling and the other people who serve Long Xie learned that the reason Long Xie was unharmed during the explosion is that Ye Qiuji took all damage that Long Xie experienced during the accident which is why they saw Ye Qiuji’s figure coughing a huge mouthful of blood while Long Xie was unharmed. Learning that the people who serve Log Huangdi couldn’t help but feel guilty towards Ye Qiuji. After all, they’ve already been warned about the current Chen Sian’s possibility of being a puppet, but they didn’t listen to his advice which ended in that situation.

Together with Tang Ruan they watched and observed Ye Qiuji in silence. Taking every single movement and gesture he took and seeing if he suffered some injuries from the backlash of the artifact. Once they continued to watch him, they noticed that the usually healthy General Autumn would sometimes start coughing for no reason. He could see that his body got even weaker from the cold temperature.

Once they’ve secretly planned to check his current Physique by secretly drugging him to sleep. The result devastated them. General Autumn’s original 3S Full Physique degraded to a mere D Physique. They would never have expected someone who is the strongest and above everyone else to become someone weaker than even normal people. This is the result of his desire to keep the only person inside his heart safe.

Tang Ruan was shocked, “This is... Impossible. This can’t happen!? Check it again. Again!” He Yuu can only hug his lover to calm him down but even he couldn’t believe what just happened.

He Ling and Cao Jun gave the doctors a warning gaze. They knew that no one is supposed to know about this news. This is news that will cause chaos within the cosmos. General Autumn is enigmatic but only to those below him. Everyone who serves him, the empire’s royal family, and the government thought of him as a thorn. He is someone who controls the Empire in the shadows as well as the government’s sole enemy. Once they’ve heard of this news no one will know what will happen.

He Ling warned, “No one is to speak of the word outside this room. I will make sure you lose your life if you break this rule.” While looking at the doctors inside the room.

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What they didn’t expect is for the main person to suddenly wake up, “Hm~ so you know now. You should have just asked instead of drugging me. with my current physique, giving me that much sleeping pill will harm my current body. cough. cough...” said Ye Qiuji as he started coughing. “But this is something you can’t hide from the government nor to the throne after all they’ve put a tracking chip on me for surveillance purposes. Tomorrow the news of my falling will spread in the whole empire but it’s a good thing I came prepared. cough...” Ye Qiuji passed on something to Tang Ruan and He Ling’s terminal.

Tang Ruan and He Ling paled when they read through the official papers they received. Tang Ruan received a resignation letter saying that General Autumn would step down from his position as Major General returning this position from his predecessor, his Daddy Ye as well the authorizing Ye Wusheng as the official heir of Regal Ye Clan. On the other hand, He Ling received an official land ownership transfer of both Dragon Cosmos and Autumn Cosmos to Long Xie as well as official engagement papers to be void once Long Xie signed as Ye Qiuji already left his signature and crest.

Tang Ruan pleadingly looked at his lord. “My Lord! Please don’t do this! We can protect you. We are willing to protect you! At least I do!!”

Ye Qiuji spoke with a serious tone. “It was me who was not willing to put your lives in line. When I’ve saved your lives that time is only because of my whims. Now according to my whims as well I am giving you back your freedom. You no longer need to serve me.”

“No. no. no. My lord. Please do not like this! Our brothers will never accept this. Think it over please my lord!” begged Tang Ruan but Ye Qiuji turned deaf ears to his beseeching.

“Your Highness... I don’t think Your Majesty will accept this,” said He Ling.

Ye Qiuji smiled. “He doesn’t need to accept. Because once he wakes up, I will no longer be around.” He then whispered. “Yes, I’m leaving him. This time it will be me taking off as he left me in the Gene Laboratory that time.”

The three overhear him whispering and are startled by such a secret. Only the He Brothers showed signs of bafflement on their face. Tang Ruan was rendered speechless.

“Anyway, don’t look for me. I might be weaker but... no one else has been able to catch me if I wanted to hide., said Ye Qiuji as they saw him disappear from the bed leaving them in shock. They knew what just happened.

He Yuu in shock, “Teleportation! He can use such a Mythical Skill!”

Tang Ruan said in astonishment, “I-I... I never knew.”

He Ling shook his head, “No wonder he said no one can catch him. For now, I try to keep things in line. Major Tang you should inform Your Highness’ parents and siblings.”

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Ever since that night, no one else had seen Ye Qiuji personally. If not for the fact of his clandestine visits to Long Xie’s life capsule in the middle of the night and seeing his figure recorded in surveillance they wouldn’t know his current state. Since that night they can only see Ye Qiuji’s figure within the recording. No one knew how he was able to sneak inside the highly secured wall of the new Laboratory and the guards were always found asleep and unharmed during his visits. Once Ye Daddy and Ye Father were informed about Ye Qiuji’s current state these two former generals took the seats of Marshals instead and held the reins that control the Empire Royalty and the government. Scaring the two sides makes them realize that these two Marshal were that Enigmatic Former General Autumn.

There is no way a tiger son will have a pair of dog parents. Ye Wusheng who received the title as the heir of Ye Clan officially started taking family business seriously with his little official fiancée, Tu Zise. These pair of young couples say goodbye to Moonlight and end their career as players. Lin Lan and Lou Ye stepped down once again as they decided to return to being soldiers, becoming the subordinates that serve Ye Wusheng and Tu Zise. Though they were completely disappointed when they heard about Mo Feng. Real name: Feng Mo. Being a spy sent by the Space bandit White Death. Witnessing his and Long Wan’s death, Team Silent Night felt that it served him right.

Both Team Autumn Dragon and Team Silent Night were considered myths in the gaming society of Virtual Game Shows especially when they learned that Team Autumn Dragon was filled up by prestigious people like General Autumn and Long Huangdi.

Two Weeks had gone by. The night before, Long Xie was scheduled to wake up. Ye Qiuji visited Long Xie’s Life Capsule for the last time. This time he didn’t put anyone to sleep but everyone else left him alone to see Long Xie. He Ling escorted him personally towards the entrance of the Laboratory. In He Ling’s eyes, he could see the changes in Ye Qiuji’s body. His former healthy complexion is so pale at this moment. He almost no longer has a color as if he will fall from a slight push. He Ling opened the door for him.

He Ling saluted, “Please Your Highness.”

Hehe~...

Ye Qiuji chuckled for a moment before he started coughing once again.

Cough. Cough.

“I’m fine. So, you’re still going to call me your highness?”

“In my heart, General Autumn will always be Your Highness while Long Huangdi will always be Your Majesty.” Replied He Ling.

“Haha,~ don’t you know that with such a straight-laced and stern personality you fit to lead the military more than A’Xie? Why do you think he trained you to become one? Think of this carefully~” said Ye Qiuji with a teasing tone before entering the laboratory leaving, He Ling was bewildered. “No need to wait outside. I won’t use the door to leave and turn off the surveillance camera inside the laboratory for tonight.”

He Ling, in confusion, still followed his highness’ command and left the laboratory and asked the surveillance team to turn off the cameras inside the laboratory where their lords were. When morning arrived everyone within the castle was awakened by the loud sound of an explosion from underground. It was coming from the laboratory where Long Xie is supposed to be asleep. Arriving in the laboratory what welcomed them is wreckage beyond repair. They didn’t know if it was intentional or coincidentally that the palace architecture foundation pillars were not destroyed by Long Xie who woke up from his slumber.

Seeing the video message his beloved left him anger filled his heart once he saw the news about his love’s tainted name. Checking through he learned that the ones who splashed mud on his wife’s reputation are those old men from the military and government, but the Empire Royalty unexpectedly took a silent stance during the whole event. As soon as those greedy old men from the Military and Government learned of Long Xie’s reaction to their actions against the fallen General Autumn, they started to feel fear.

As their fear became reality, the current strongest man in the whole cosmos, Long Huangdi, used all means to clean up both the military and the government. He abdicated all those old bastards that put his wife down and replaced them with the younger generation with amiable backgrounds but talented. He also started seriously training He Ling as his successor and Cao Jun as his confidant. Dragon Cosmos, despite having the strongest authority when General Autumn had fallen, never invaded the Empire but instead gave Regal Ye Clan their whole support, cementing the relationship between the familiar as Long Xie never signed the voiding of his engagement with the missing General Autumn. General Autumn suddenly disappeared the day Long Huangdi woke up and no one knew where he went even Long Huangdi didn’t know. Long Huangdi upon passing his throne to He Ling disappeared one day as well.

Within the Regal Ye Clan. The Ye Marshal Couple retired when Ye Wusheng and Tu Zise reached adulthood, letting them take the reins of the whole empire and Autumn Cosmos within their control. Tang Ruan and He Yuu who guided the little team under Ye Wusheng’s lead also suddenly disappeared the moment they sat at the position as the youngest Generals in history. He ling took the lead and sat at the lone throne as Marshal beside him is his wife, Cao Jun, who stopped working as his confidant the moment their first baby was born through Artificial Genes Amalgamation. It was a boy and the future leader of the cosmos.

Once the Ye Marshal Couple retired. The Empire’s former Emperor had passed his throne to his crown prince which he trained personally. This boy is a childhood friend of Ye Wusheng and Tu Zise. Because of the close relationship between the three empires Royalty is no longer controlled by the Regal Ye from the shadows and instead worked together. After all, when the king stepped down those whining ministries that served him had also left their position to the new generation. Once the new generation solidified the unifying of powers within the Cosmos, the star was renamed Mystic Cosmos whose authority is only in control of strict governance by a sole Marshal, two Major Generals, and a single family of Royal blood.

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A few years later. A certain commotion hit the Mystic Cosmos upper society. This is because of a single video that was uploaded to Mystic System. The live streaming video is about two couples playing around in the newly built enormous amusement park at the center of Mystic Cosmos. The Amusement Park was called Wonderland. It was unexpected that Crossover Variety Show is doing a Live CP Show and the location is the said park. While one of the old cameramen of Moonlight is running after his designated pair of players to be played, his camera was able to capture a group with heavenly features. The two couples were both beautiful. The first couple is a dark-skinned silent beauty hiding his golden orbs behind his glasses. Hugging his waist is a tall man with golden hair and irises. This pair is wearing a couple of clothes of white hoodies with a caption of Queen and King. The Dark Beauty as the Queen while the Blonde Man as the King.

The Dark Beauty pinches the waist of his silly lover who is distracting his aims while using the sniping rifle toy gun. “Pinches... Darling~ Stop disturbing me. I want to win a pair of huge gold and black rabbit plushies.”

The handsome blonde man is currently twisting his body in pain. “H-Honey~ hurts! I’ll help you win the rabbits instead~ Owie~” as he took over the shooting game his wife is playing with.

Standing beside them the other pair wearing an Emperor and Empress crown while sharing ice cream looks like gods descending on earth. A dangerous but captivating man with obsidian hair and crimson eyes. Face perfectly sculpted by gods. This man is wearing an emperor crown on his head. There’s a lit cigarette between his thin lips. Beside him, a scarlet-eyed fairy-like silver-haired exquisite beauty is eating huge scoops of ice cream on an ice cream bowl taking a scoop one after another. This gorgeous man is wearing an Empress crown on his head. Pairing with the captivating man who just finished his stick of cigarettes.

The black-haired God spoke, “Baby~ eat slowly you’ll have a stomachache.” He said while rubbing the silver-haired beauty’s tummy with a worried expression on his face.

The silver-haired fairy slowly ate his ice cream and started sharing it with the one rubbing his tummy, “Help me finish it then, My love.”

The black-haired God naturally shared the spoon as his beloved fed him ice cream. His arms were wrapped around his waist from behind as if protecting the silver-haired fairy from anything that may harm him. They looked so loving together.

Within Regal Ye Palace, the Old Ye Couple were eating fruits together with their son-in-law, Tu Zise when the live stream of the two couples was shown on screen. Tu Zise jumped off the sofa and ran towards his husband.

Tu Zise yelled, “Husband!!! On the TV. Look at the TV!!” and left to pull over his husband from the kitchen.

Ye Father feeding his wife grapes, “They looked healthy. Good!”

Munching on grapes... “They said they will be home for the new year this time,” said Ye Daddy.

Ye Father said, “Just when are these brats going to give us grandchildren? Sigh~”

Ye Daddy used his terminal to contact them. Once the call is connected. “Hey! When are you going to give us old men our grandchildren?”

Ye Wusheng, who was pulled over by his wife, was surprised to see his elder brothers on screen. “Why are they playing around in Wonderland?”

Tu Zise pouting, “Right~ they should invite us too~”

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At the Marshal’s Palace, Cao Jun is playing with his good son, his hair currently being pulled over. “Ack! Your Majesty! Your Highness! Even your brother and his wife are on screen,” said Cao Jun who saw the Livestream of the Crossover CP Show.

He Ling coaxed his little son to let go of his mommy’s hair, “Before his Majesty disappeared, I knew he was doing things to clear the lanes for the new generation. Once he left without saying anything leaving everything behind then retired out of nowhere, I knew he wanted to spend his remaining life with his Highness. Xiao Ru and Xiao Yuu disappeared to look for them. Seems like they’ve successfully found them. His highness’s degrading event was a ploy. There is no one else who is able to control his own physique that accurately except for him. His Majesty was informed which is why he didn’t go crazy when he woke up not seeing his highness. They wanted to retire without problems.”

Cao Jun murmured, “No wonder you weren’t surprised to be given the Marshal position when his Majesty retired.”

“Why do you think I’ve pulled you over to my side after they’ve all left? They can all leave except for you. You are mine, Jun~” said He Ling who kissed his wife and his son, hugging them both to his embrace.

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At the Empire’s Castle.

The former emperor was playing mahjong with his former ministers when they saw the live stream of wonderland. They were not surprised to see these two runaway couples.

Old Emperor, “See~ I told you they’ve run away~”

Current Emperor, “Father Emperor, you’re losing tiles.”

Minister in the game, put down his tiles and shouted, “RON!”

“Ah! Wait. Time out!” said the old emperor.

“Dear Former Emperor, you can’t time out in Mahjong you know~ Hehehe~,” another minister said.

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In the Amusement Park called Wonderland. The Moonlight cameraman approached the two couples and interviewed them. Once the close-up of these couples appeared on screen the Live Stream instantly froze as usual. They live happily in this world. Free from work and able to do anything they want until the end of their lifespan which they also spent together as a team. This is Team Autumn Dragon. Always and Forever.