"Aunt Lin, Aunt Lin, wait! You forgot to take your cell phone!"
"Aunt Lin! Your phone!"
A 20-year-old lame young man shouted while he chased a middle aged woman across the road under the scorching sun.
However, the woman appeared to be in a hurry, and didn't seem to hear his voice at all. She got on the bus and disappeared into the distance in a flash.
The young man couldn't catch up. He gasped for air, and stopped at the side of the road. He stared at the cell phone that didn't belong to him. Sigh. He used it as a fan and flapped it several times to cool himself. Then, he went back to the Buddhist shop across the road.
His limp right leg seemed a bit heavy when he walked, so when a truck that broke the traffic rules suddenly rushed towards him, he failed to avoid it in time. He only heard a loud "bang" sound, and the noise around him disappeared, as if he had pressed the pause key.
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Le Yao suddenly woke up.
He was surrounded by darkness. There were no street lights, no buildings, no cars and no people. He felt some wetness under his buttocks, it seemed like he was sitting on grass. It was quiet, cold, and the rustle of leaves driven by the wind made him feel disorientated, as he discovered himself plunged into this thick forest. He was alone, like a dying old man hanging on with his last breath.
All the hair on Le Yao's body suddenly stood up. He quickly touched his pocket, trying to find something to light his surroundings.
But he found nothing.
He had always been brave enough to avoid being afraid of strange things. He wanted to shout for help, but not far away from him, he heard a 'whine' of an unknown beast, which tensed his nerves to the extreme.
Cold sweat trickled down his forehead. He tried hard to calm down, whilst biting his fingers.
A few drops of blood appeared from the bite, when suddenly there was a shout in front, "I smell it! Over there!"
Then, someone said, "Alphas, stand by! Let's go and have a look!"
"Yes!" a group of people shouted back.
It was a strange language, yet Le Yao could understand it. This unknown familiarity raised the tension in his heart.
But what was an Alpha?
Hearing the footsteps come closer, Le Yao suddenly felt a needle-sharp pain in his brain. Because of this pain, many unfamiliar memories flooded into his mind. He couldn't help but squat down with his head in his arms. His mind was about to explode.
"Third Young Master, you can really run away." At this time, a pair of army boots appeared in front of him. The owner of the boots pointed a flashlight at his face, and with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, he said, "You know that you can't escape, so aren't you tired of running?"
"You…" Le Yao looked up. "What did you just call me?"
"I said, Third Young Master, why are you pretending? Did you forget the trouble you have caused?" The man said, "Tsk, we have been looking for you all night!"
"…" Le Yao subconsciously got up and took a few steps back.
This is not right. Even if his head feels so hurt right now he felt something was really wrong.How could he become their third young master? Moreover, he was born disabled, and now he doesn't even walk limp. Why he has a stranger's body and memory!
The original owner of the body was also called Le Yao, who was an Omega boy and the son of General Le Feishan of the Tarot Empire. In order to escape his marriage arrangement, he had run away overnight. Unexpectedly, he had lost his life within these deep woods.
"Reporting to the General, the Third Young Master has been found." Le Yao saw the tallest man in the crowd talking through his communicator and said calmly, "Yes, General, he's in the broad-leaved forest five miles away from the northern slope. Yes, it doesn't look like a big problem. We'll bring him back as soon as possible."
"You, come here!" The man added, "Bandage the Third Young Master's wound!" He put down his communication device and after he glanced coldly at Le Yao, turned around and left.
"Third Young Master, where is your wound?" A medical staff came to ask Le Yao.
"My hand," Le Yao held up his broken finger and showed it to the medical staff. He said nothing more.
Now that he had the memory of the original body, he understood what Alpha, Beta and Omega were. Moreover, he saw the medical staff put a sealant on such a small wound, which was not only out of concern, but to cover the smell of pheromones in his blood which would affect the soldiers who had come out to search.
The medical staff put away his equipment and said, "Third Young Master, please."
Le Yao followed these people into a hover car in silence, and found that there were indeed many people that had come to search for him. This smart hover car did not need a pilot. After all the passengers had boarded, there were twenty-one of them. At this time, everyone's expression except his looked very hateful.
These people's dissatisfaction with him was not explicitly shown, but it had been written all over their faces.
Le Yao felt this was like a dream. His new memory told him that it was year 2555 by the Perpetual Calendar. In 2261, there had been a natural disaster on Earth which human beings were unable to resist. They were thus forced to migrate and drift away from the Earth for fifteen long years. When they arrived at Planet Tarot, they combined their genes with the people of Tarot, and started a new civilization.
It was March 2, year 279 of the new Astronomic Calendar, 536 years since he had left the Earth.
This conclusion sounded crazy. Le Yao couldn't help clenching his fists tightly in his pants pocket.
Just then, the general's residence came into view after a long time of flying. As the hover car slowly descended, the medical staff and Wang Hao, the Special Services Captain, who had been staring at Le Yao, took Le Yao out of the hover car.
Le Yao walked into the hall of the building, but before he could stand still and understand his surroundings, Le Feishan had quickly walked over and raised his hand with the intention to slap Le Yao.
"Pa!" Not good! Le Yao quickly blocked the other side with his small hands and faced the angry middle-aged uncle. He pressed down his uneasiness and said, "Don't casually hit people! We can talk about it first!"
"You damn kid!" Le Feishan angrily looked at his pale, but still breathtakingly beautiful oldest son, "You still have the face to come home?"
"I…" Why would I be ashamed to come home?
Le Yao wanted to argue back, but when he thought of what the original owner had done, he was speechless for a while.
There was an unwritten rule in the Tarot Empire that an Omega with prominent genes, no matter male or female, must follow the arrangement of the Marriage Center and marry the designated highest genetic match as long as they hadn't married before they reached the age of 20. The fundamental reason for this was to breed as many genetically superior humans as possible.
Most Omegas would accept such an arrangement. If they hadn't found the right person, they would marry the person with the highest genetic match. But the original body didn't like this rule. So, in order to escape the marriage arrangement designated for him from the Marriage Center, he had tossed his old father in the opposite direction.
This time, the original owner had taken illegal drugs that were said to destroy the Omega glands, and had fled at night.
Well, then he was caught.
Jiang Xinduo, his stepmother, got up from the sofa and came to hold Le Feishan back, "Ok, don't be angry. The child may not have understood before. Now he's back, don't be mad anymore." Then she grabbed Le Yao's arm and said, "Le Yao, why don't you apologize to your father?"
Le Yao realised at that time that the man who was angry in front of him, whose face and eyebrows were all wrinkled, was his father, and he would only get more mad if he talked back. He murmured a "Sorry" with his teeth clenched, before staring at the woman who looked so concerned for him. He then turned to go upstairs to his room.
He was afraid that if he said or did something extra, it would make people suspicious of him.
Le Feishan gasped for breath and shouted, "I'll tell you, Le Yao! You have to register the marriage tomorrow! If you don't go, I'll break my relationship with you!"
"Bang!" The loud sound of a door banging shut came from upstairs.
Le Feishan stared at Jiang Xinduo, "Look at his attitude! It's all because you spoiled him too much!"
Jiang Xinduo said with a smile, "Yes, I'm responsible for it. You need to calm down first."
As soon as Le Yao had locked the door, he heard this sentence. He couldn't help but roll his eyes. He then found a place to sit and forced himself to calm down.
Jiang Xinduo was his stepmother.
The birth mother of the original body had died when he was two years old. Later, Le Feishan met Jiang Xinduo, who was widowed with a child, and they formed a new family. The death of the original body was directly related to Jiang Xinduo. Knowing that the original body didn't want to accept the marriage arrangement, Jiang Xinduo told him that there was a drug that could destroy an Omega's glands. The original body went to the doctor in a hurry to find this medicine. After taking it, he escaped at night and died in the deep forest.
Le Yao looked around his bedroom, it was not bad. Upon thinking of Jiang Xinduo's white lotus act from before, he puffed up his cheeks like a puffer fish. But at the same time, he was also a little flustered.
When you come to a strange environment, you needed to calm down first, you shouldn't have to be afraid at all. He heard dogs barking outside the window and the footsteps of guards. He knew that unless he died here tonight, he would have to register for the marriage with someone he had never seen before by tomorrow. Although he was aware from the beginning that he liked men, he didn't want to marry a stranger so casually.
What should I do?
Le Yao stood up and rushed into the bathroom. He closed the bathroom door and covered the gap at the bottom as much as he could with a towel. After doing this, he hesitated a little, then bit his finger again. He squatted on the floor and endured the pain. He drew a long and thin rune on the beige coloured tile quickly. He chanted, "The land is the most spiritual of the gods. It can reach the heaven and the earth. It can go out of seclusion and into hell. With my blood, I sincerely worship you. If you hear this sacrifice, come gather quickly!"
His voice fell, and a small whirlwind slowly blew around the bathroom. Le Yao's eyes burst with ecstasy, as he hoped to chat with his friends from Earth's underworld. However, after the wind blew, nothing happened, and everything was restored to its original state.
Le Yao: "???"
What happened?
Looking down at the rune, there was no mistake! This rune had been studied by his father, who taught him how to draw it! It should work!
Because of his disabled leg and walking problems, not long after he was born, he was thrown at the door of a Buddhist shop. The owner of the shop picked him up and raised him. He also taught him many things that he could not learn outside, especially metaphysics. In the past, he had never made a mistake while doing this summoning on Earth. Was it because he had left Earth that he couldn't call the dead in the earth now?
Or had Ji Fengyu already reincarnated? After all, many years had passed…
Le Yao tried again, refusing to give up. Anyway, the blood was already flowing. He repeated the summoning again. But it still turned out to be the same. There was nothing after a gust of wind.
Suddenly there was a noise outside.
"Bang!"
When he kicked the door, Le Feishan almost roared, "Le Yao! Tell me, what are you doing inside?"
Le Yao was startled. He subconsciously covered his bleeding fingers and turned on the shower to let the water wash away the rune. The second time he drew the rune, the blood hadn't flowed as easily. He had bitten it again, but it turned out that he had bitten too hard, and the bleeding still hadn't stopped. The room was full of the smell of his pheromones.
The suppressant the original owner had taken before had already passed its effective period, and coupled with his bleeding, the smell of pheromones released was as potent as the taste of an Omega in their heat period.
Le Feishan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. When he smelled blood coming from his son's bathroom, he thought his son was going to commit suicide. He quickly ordered the people outside of his family to leave the house. Then he said, "I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll break the door!"
As soon as Le Yao saw that the rune had been scattered and there was no trace of blood left on the floor, he quickly opened the door.
When Jiang Xinduo saw him coming out, she touched her chest with relief, "You scared us to death, you child! What are you doing? Are you alright?"
Le Yao didn't answer.
His stepbrother, Le Tianyu, had also came upstairs to his bedroom. He said weakly, "Brother, please don't hurt yourself any more. It's not just you who is suffering, we, as your family, and the guards outside, also feel the same as you. Why did you do that?"
Under the instruction of Jiang Xinduo, the medical staff came to bandage Le Yao's hand again. Upon hearing that, they looked at Le Tianyu and seemed to agree with him.
Jiang Xinduo also said at this time, "Yes, Le Yao, don't be willful any more. After you get married, you will go to General Xu Yao's residence, and I heard that the environment on Planet Huaxia is a little tough. Outsiders have also said that General Xu Yao is a bit fierce. But you are his future wife. He should treat you better than others, so don't worry, and don't anger your father anymore."
Le Yao didn't want to confront Jiang Xinduo and Le Tianyu at all, but at this comment he couldn't help turning his head and asking, "Which planet did you just say he was stationed at?"
Le Feishan frowned and said, "Planet Huaxia. What do you want to do?"
Le Yao murmured in a low voice, "Planet Huaxia, isn't that what these people call Earth?" Then his eyes brightened, "No! I won't do anything! I'll register the marriage tomorrow!"
Le Feishan looked at his son suspiciously, "Are you sure?"
Le Yao said, "Sure!"
If he didn't agree to marry now, he would still be forcibly married to someone. If he didn't take this chance to marry, there would be another arrangement in the future. Moreover, an Omega using suppressants during their heat period was too miserable. It was better to marry first. What if he could find a way to return to his original world after he went to Planet Huaxia? Even if 500 years have passed, Earth was still Earth! No matter how developed it was on Planet Tarot, it was not the environment he was familiar with!
Le Yao repeatedly promised that he would not do something reckless again. Finally, he got the approval from Le Feishan who took all the guards out, without ordering them to watch him in the room. Finally, it became quiet. He took a bath and sat on the soft bed.
His master, the adoptive father who had opened the Buddhist shop, had two sons, and both of them were not bad. So, even if he died and that world was still going on, he didn't have to worry about the future of his master. So the most important thing for him now was to think about what to do next.
Le Yao looked into the memories of the original body, picked up the light brain, a device similar to a smartphone or tablet, and searched on the internet for 'Xu Yao'. A minute later, the light brain fell beside the bed with a bang.
He looked down at the picture on the floor. Looking at the big man with a bloody scar between his eyebrows, a pair of fierce eyes and a sinister face, he was dumbfounded. What the hell!!!
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