Exclusive Possession – CH 062

Chapter 62.

I sat by the window, quietly watching the orderly base below. Mu Xian’s fighter jet was parked on the gray tarmac. Its fuselage, which was usually as shiny as iron, had many new scratches, showing that his journey here hadn’t been smooth.

Just looking at his plane seems to bring a sense of peace to one’s heart.

With a soft “thump,” the door opened. Mu Xian, having already removed his spacesuit and now wearing only a dark gray military uniform, strode in with a deep, dark gaze.

We hugged each other tightly.

“Who on earth orchestrated such a massive conspiracy?” Compared to when I was suddenly interrogated, I had regained my composure. “Could it be Yi Pucheng? Or Kenya? Did they erase all traces of my life on Earth to use me to strike at you?”

I looked at him with a puzzled expression.

He was slightly taken aback.

On her cool, jade-like face, her dark eyes seemed to be deep in thought.

Seeing his expression, my heart skipped a beat.

He paused for a moment, then stared at me and said, “Hua Yao, I just finished reviewing all the files, and I also had Mop replace them with a group of trustworthy people who re-examined all the details.”

My breath hitched, and then I heard him slowly say, “Hua Yao, the previous investigation results are true.”

I froze, grabbing his arm tightly: “What did you say? What did you say?”

He gripped my shoulders tighter, looked down at me, and said in a cool voice, “Before you were fifteen, you certainly hadn’t lived on Earth.”

I heard my breath catch in my throat. Never before had a chill swept over me so fiercely—simply because the one who was denying my existence and my memories once again was Mu Xian!

My first instinct was to shake off his hand and argue with him, but as soon as I moved, he held on even tighter, and I couldn’t move.

“You must have made a mistake too…” I looked at him expectantly and fearfully.

He stared at me without saying a word, his dark eyes sharp and cold. Seeing his expression, I felt even more terrified, but with a sudden pull, he drew me back into his arms.

My tears fell in large drops, and my hands, which were holding him, trembled slightly.

“Don’t be afraid.” His voice was a little cold. “I will find out the truth.”

But my heart felt even heavier.

If I really weren’t from Earth, what “truth” would Mu Xian uncover? Would it be even more terrifying than I imagined?

“Perhaps there are some clues you haven’t noticed. How could I not be from Earth?” I said, choking back tears. “There must be… There must be some mistake. Please check again, okay?”

Mu Xian was silent for a moment, then suddenly grabbed my chin, lowered his head, and kissed me deeply.

“Okay,” he said softly, “I will go check again.”

His hot, powerful lips and tongue enveloped me instantly. My parched, desperate heart felt soothed and nourished. I gripped his uniform tightly, kissing him with almost frenzied abandon. We entwined fiercely, as if trying to devour each other.

After a long time, he finally held me and sat me in the chair by the window. He didn’t speak, and my heart seemed to have calmed down a bit, but I was still confused and anxious. A gloomy haze shrouded my heart, seemingly impossible to clear away.

“Mu Xian, what if I’m really not from Earth?” I said, leaning against him. “Then what am I? Will I be a robot like Yi Pucheng?”

He didn’t say anything. This made my heart clench slowly.

But after a while, he answered softly, “No. The test results show that you’re 100% human.”

This reassured me a little, and I asked again, “I keep hearing people say ‘kill him’; could it be…?”

My heart clenched, and I slowly said, “Could it be that someone sent me to kill you…?”

A faint smile appeared on his face: “You want to kill me? With a combat strength close to zero?”

I forced a smile. He’s right. With his current mental and physical strength, I couldn’t possibly harm a single hair on his head!

but……

I looked up at him.

Everyone suspected and investigated me—his elder brother, his father, and high-ranking officials of the empire. Yet he remained aloof and arrogant, completely unmoved, simply telling me not to be afraid, that he was there for me.

It’s as if those doubts and dangers were things outside of our world, and they couldn’t shake us in the slightest.

A wave of warmth washed over me, and I instinctively hugged him tighter.

“My men have replaced you outside,” he said in a low voice. “Tarui assured me that you won’t be interrogated alone again.”

“Um.”

He released me and stood up, his dark eyes deep yet gentle: “I will go see my father now. I will come get you.”

***

The night was deep and dark.

The suburban fields were exceptionally quiet, with dark, shadowy mountains enveloping the base like ghosts. After nightfall, few soldiers were on the ground; only a few searchlights illuminated the night sky and the earth, creating an atmosphere of solemnity and desolation.

I was confined to a fairly comfortable and tidy room, and the food was quite exquisite, but I couldn’t go out. However, when Mu Xian left, I saw several familiar robot guards at the door, which made me feel much more at ease.

How could I sleep when I thought back on everything that had happened in recent days? It’s already past midnight, and I was lying in bed staring at the night, my mind in turmoil.

I didn’t know how much time had passed.

Suddenly, a jumble of heavy, chaotic sounds came from outside the door, like the sounds of fighting or heavy objects falling to the ground. There were also muffled gasps from people.

Something had changed!

I sat up abruptly.

After a while, the door slowly opened a crack, and the dim light from the corridor shone in.

It was Lin Luo.

He stood at the doorway, dressed in a neat military uniform, his hands behind his back. Beside him stood Su Yuhua, the head of the military law department. Both men wore calm expressions, revealing nothing. Behind them, several fully armed soldiers stood silently.

“Your Highness, we are ordered to move you to the palace,” Lin Luo said in a deep voice. “Please come with us.”

I was taken aback.

Transferred to the palace? Was it because Mu Xian had already gone to see the emperor? So they were taking me to the palace?

I stood up, put on my coat, and walked anxiously toward the door. When I looked up, I saw that the corridor was full of armed soldiers, and the robot that Mu Xian had left behind was nowhere to be found.

My heart skipped a beat, and I stopped to ask, “What about the robot Nuo’er left behind?”

Su Yuhua replied, “I let them leave. Since you’re going to the palace, your safety will be taken over by the Royal Guard.”

The reason seemed reasonable, but I didn’t feel relieved at all; instead, I felt something was wrong.

Why did they come to move me in the middle of the night? The people Mu Xian left behind were gone again. And I just heard those strange noises outside the door—could it be that the robots had been subdued?

A chill ran down my spine—what were they planning to do? Such a sudden, covert operation…

I looked at them and slowly took two steps back.

They exchanged a glance, seemingly having already seen through my suspicions. Lin Luo said in a low voice, “Excuse me, Your Highness. Take him away!” Two soldiers rushed over and grabbed my shoulders.

***

I was put on a medium-sized spaceship.

The spaceship didn’t head towards the capital but instead flew directly out of the atmosphere.

I sat in an empty cabin, surrounded by about a dozen soldiers with guns on guard. Outside the window, space was dark and quiet.

Where were they taking me?

I became increasingly uneasy and afraid.

About ten minutes later, the spaceship came to a stop. Soldiers forced me at gunpoint to walk out of the cabin. I stumbled through the narrow corridor, across the deserted tarmac, and finally stopped in front of a tightly closed hatch.

I saw a sign next to the hatch—decompression chamber.

I stared blankly at those three words, hardly believing my eyes.

A decompression chamber, a transitional cabin between space and spacecraft.

It was also the cabin of an Air Force execution plane—open the hatch, and you would be in space. Within seconds, the human body would depressurize, and the first thing to rupture would be the eyeball, followed by the alveoli and blood vessels throughout the body.

“You want to execute me?” I grabbed a soldier. “You are insane! I’m innocent! Mu Xian! I want to see Mu Xian! This is a conspiracy!”

The soldier remained standing motionless, his face grim, as I continued to punch him. Then another soldier opened the hatch, and they pushed me inside. I stumbled and fell to the ground, and when I got up, the hatch slammed shut in front of me.

I lunged at the hatch and pounded on it, but there was no further sound from outside.

It was cold around me, and I shivered, turning around blankly to look around. The decompression chamber was long and dark, empty except for the cold air floating in the dark gray walls.

I simply couldn’t believe what I had been through—they actually wanted to execute me while Mu Xian was away?

This was a conspiracy! It must be a conspiracy!

I was breathing tremblingly when I suddenly felt a bright light behind me. Turning around, I saw that there was another glass chamber inside.

Lin Luo and Su Yuhua stood behind the glass, quietly watching me.

A sudden surge of resentment rose in my heart.

“You want to kill me? You really dare?” I glared at them and said fiercely, “This cannot be hidden from Mu Xian at all; he will never let you go!”

They remained silent, their expressions showing no sign of wavering.

“Hua Yao, this is the military court’s verdict against you, along with the Emperor’s handwritten decree.” Lin Luo opened a white scroll and showed it to me through the glass case. “You are accused of endangering the Empire’s security and are a prime suspect. According to the Imperial Constitution, you are sentenced to death, to be carried out immediately.”

I was furious and retorted angrily, “Impossible! Mu Xian has already gone to see the Emperor; how could he possibly execute me?”

Su Yuhua looked at me and slowly replied, “This is the instruction His Majesty gave us after His Highness Nuo’er consulted with him.”

I was startled, but I didn’t have time to think about it, because Lin Luo’s hand slowly fell and pressed on the control panel inside the glass cabin. I heard a series of rapid beeps, and the red lights on the cabin wall began to flash glaringly.

“No—” I managed to utter just one word before my voice was drowned out by an explosive roar.

A powerful force suddenly struck my back, and a strong gust of air grabbed my body, tossing me up and pulling me into the air, violently dragging me backward! I saw the dark bulkhead rushing past like lightning, and I saw Lin Luo and the others’ faces suddenly disappear from view.

With a “whoosh,” I saw my body fly out of the flat cabin gate and instantly eject more than ten meters away.

Then that overwhelming force suddenly vanished.

I was floating in space, my mind went blank for a moment, and then I felt my eyeballs throbbing and my eye sockets starting to tear. And not far away, the hatch was slowly closing.

Am I going to die?

I was actually going to die.

In a daze, I seemed to see a row of black dots rising from the surface of Stan Star in the distance, rapidly approaching this way. What were they? Were they airplanes? Were they Mu Xian?

But it was too late. There were only a dozen seconds left. Mu Xian, it was too late.

A tearing pain shot through my chest, and my breathing suddenly stopped. It felt like a huge, hard lump was filling my chest cavity, my lungs, my trachea, and my throat. I looked down at myself, standing in a deep, bottomless void. I felt my lips move, but no sound came out. Then everything went black, and I lost consciousness.

Suddenly, I opened my eyes again with a start.

I saw myself still floating in the air, and the hatch not far away was just half-closed. I actually regained consciousness; I had only been unconscious for a moment.

But……

I stared blankly at my hands and my body. Suddenly, a faint, pure white light enveloped my entire body. The discomfort disappeared, my breathing became smooth, and I felt as if I had been brought back to life from the brink of death.

What… was going on?

Is it Mu Xian’s spiritual power?

But why did it turn white?

I hovered shakily in the air and instinctively wanted to move closer to the still-open hatch.

A miracle… had happened again.

As if driven by a will, I slowly and deliberately floated towards the cabin door. The white light, like a gentle hand, carried me softly into the cabin. The cabin door closed behind me with a soft click.

I landed smoothly inside the cabin, and the light faded away.

A surge of joy welled up inside me—it must be Mu Xian’s mental power protecting me! He must be nearby!

But……

I slowly raised my head and looked at the glass hatch. Lin Luo and Su Yuhua were still standing there but turned to the side, facing me. The hatchway where I was standing was very dark, and they didn’t seem to realize that I had returned.

“This is murder.” Su Yuhua’s voice sounded surprisingly sad. “We will be punished by the true God. Everyone saw that she was once blessed by divine light.”

I was stunned—were they talking about me? They actually felt remorse after “killing” me? I felt a surge of anger and stood motionless in the corner.

At this moment, Lin Luo slowly replied, “We had no choice. She and her grandmother were clearly brainwashed, and she certainly wasn’t an ordinary human. Yet we couldn’t detect any clues. This can only mean that their technological level far surpasses Stan’s. Stan’s already the greatest civilization in the galaxy, but they have surpassed us. You understand what that means.”

Su Yuhua remained silent, and I was terrified.

Then Su Yuhua replied, “It means that the other party is either an advanced civilization outside the Milky Way, or… their technological level doesn’t belong to this era.”

Lin Luo nodded and replied, “Based on the extremely rare appearances of the Time Clan in history, His Majesty and I believe that, according to various signs, Hua Yao is very likely a member of the Time Clan, which explains her sudden appearance on Earth. That mysterious and terrifying race can control time. Their secret delivery of Hua Yao to Nuo’er was definitely not out of kindness. We have no choice but to strike first and kill her—all for the sake of the Empire.”

“…Everything for the empire,” Su Yuhua repeated slowly.

I was stunned.

The Time Clan? How could they think that?

My palms were sweating profusely.

When they announced the execution just now, I was almost certain it was a conspiracy. But now, hearing their words, it seems that’s not the case?

Do they really see me as a threat to the empire and want to eliminate me?

Just then, the lights ahead suddenly flashed, and the two of them turned around, seemingly intending to leave the decompression chamber. I looked up abruptly and met their gaze; it was too late to look away.

Shock, fear, and anger flashed across their faces.

Lin Luo froze for only a second before slamming his hand down on the control panel. An alarm blared, and the red light flashed again. The hatch reopened, and turbulent air currents surged around me.

My heart clenched, and I instinctively hugged my arms.

At the same instant, a pure white light enveloped me again, and my body slowly floated up, as if wrapped in soft cotton. The surrounding chaos couldn’t touch even the hem of my clothes.

I slowly looked up and saw that their expressions had become even more terrified. My heart suddenly felt blank, blank, and… fearful.

Is it really Mu Xian’s spiritual power?

But his spiritual energy was light blue, while the light emanating from me was pure white and translucent, completely different from his.

If it wasn’t him, then what was it?

Just then, Lin Luo and Su Yuhua drew their guns. Lin Luo shouted, “Guards!” As soon as he finished speaking, the hatch slammed shut behind me with a “bang,” but the entrance to the decompression chamber in front of me suddenly opened, and more than a dozen soldiers in black rushed in with guns at the ready.

“Fire!” Lin Luo shouted.

My mind went blank for a moment, and then I saw several lines of fire rushing towards me like shooting stars.

“No!” I crouched down abruptly, raising my hand to cover my head! A surge of immense fear and rage overwhelmed me. I screamed, “I’m not! You cannot kill me, you cannot!”

Just then, I saw the white light around my body suddenly become incredibly dazzling and intensely bright! I saw beams of golden fire crashing swiftly and densely into the white light, and then… like dust, they vanished into the light.

The expected pain and death didn’t come; instead, my whole body was enveloped in that white light, warm and gentle.

I looked up suddenly—they couldn’t hurt me. This light would protect me!

As if driven by my movement of looking up, I saw a dazzling white light in my chest cavity, shooting forward at an incredible speed like a shock wave!

Time and space seemed to stand still at that moment.

The soldiers, guns raised, watched the white light pass through their bodies, their faces filled with bewilderment and fear. Lin Luo and Su Yuhua were still firing fiercely at me, but the bullets were once again obliterated by the white light, and then the tip of the white light gently grazed their necks.

“Swoosh—” I heard several soft sounds. In the blink of an eye, a bright white light, like a scimitar, had passed through their bodies over a large area, struck the wall, and vanished instantly.

The shooting had long since stopped; they stood motionless, while I was even more bewildered.

“Time…” Lin Luo uttered a hoarse sound, his eyes wide with anger. Just then, his head fell cleanly off his neck, revealing a bloody and terrifying severed end, and his tall body suddenly fell backward.

My body suddenly stiffened, and I watched helplessly as they fell to the ground one after another in front of me, crying out in pain.

Some were severed in two at the waist, gushing blood, half their bodies still struggling in agony on the ground; others were cut off at the chest, blood gushing out; still others had only a severed leg, their faces contorted in horror as they fell to the ground, staring at me in terror…

The scene before them resembled hell, and more than a dozen people were instantly killed or wounded.

I stared at them, dumbfounded. How could this be? How could this be…?

Is this truly Mu Xian’s power?

No, impossible. Mu Xian’s power would only protect me. How could I possibly use his power to hurt others?

The stench of blood filled the air, and my heart felt like it was submerged in blood, trembling with fear. Everything before me felt like a nightmare. I had killed people—had I killed them all? So many people?

But why was it that the warm, soft feeling of power, which seemed to come from nowhere, filled my body, limbs, and fingertips and lingered for a long time?

I stared blankly down at my hands. When my gaze settled on my fingertips, a faint white light appeared there. I looked up at the ceiling and suddenly swung my hand—

A beam of white light gathered in my palm, like a bayonet, and pierced the cabin ceiling. I heard several loud cracking sounds from the fuselage above me. I withdrew my hand, the white light faded, and a narrow, deep crack appeared in the cabin wall.

It was me; it really was me.

Was this power unleashed because I was just thrown out of the plane and was on the verge of death?

Could it be… that I wasn’t really human?

Am I really a dangerous member of the Time Tribe?

No! I didn’t want this!

I felt as if I had fallen into an invisible, heavy swamp.

What should I do? What should I do? Where was Mu Xian? In this state, would he still believe me? He was so loyal to the empire, but I…

The sound of an engine, a deep, rumbling engine sound.

I suddenly felt a stiffness in my back.

This sound, this feeling…

I felt as if my whole body had fallen into hell.

My gaze swept blankly over the corpses and pools of blood before me, over the shattered state of the aircraft cabin. I slowly turned back.

The hatch had been opened sometime earlier, and against the dark backdrop of space, at least a dozen fighter jets were densely packed outside, their dark, hard fuselages reflecting the starlight like silent steel eagles. More fighter jets continued to tumble and land from the sky, their numbers constantly increasing—as if they had just arrived from afar, completely surrounding the spaceship.

In the lead fighter jet, a tall, familiar figure sat quietly in the pilot’s seat.

Through the glass cabin and the oxygen mask, his fair and handsome face appeared somewhat blurry. But his dark and cold eyes, like stagnant water exuding coldness, stared at me silently and sharply. I didn’t know how long he had been watching me.