But this expression only lasted for a moment on Yu Xiao's face before quickly returning to its original form.
The boy snuggled into his arms, closed his eyes again, and said, "However, Master, you are by far the person who makes me the happiest."
"So please, please don't abandon me, okay?"
His voice was full of sincerity.
Hearing this, Yu Tang felt a pang of sympathy.
But he still asked Xiao Jin in his mind: Xiao Jin, what is his current level of affection?
Xiao Jin was lying on the ground when he heard Yu Tang's call, so he went to check on him.
Then his big eyes widened instantly, and his voice trembled: "His...his favorability rating has gone up..."
Upon hearing his tone, Yu Tang immediately perked up.
Just when he thought the system would give him a huge number, he heard the following.
[It increased by 0.0001.]
Yu Tang: Are you kidding me?
[Host, I swear on my Tiger Clan, I didn't misread it. Yu Xiao's total favorability rating is currently -9999.9999.]
With a sigh, Yu Tang gently patted Yu Xiao's shoulder and promised, "Okay, I will never abandon you."
Deep down, he knew that building up his favorability with her would be a long and arduous task.
This child has a lot on his mind, and we need to guide him slowly to help him lower his guard.
After Yu Xiao fell asleep, Yu Tang finally had time to discuss with Xiao Jin what the doctor had said earlier, as well as the crazy smile that Yu Xiao had shown.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Jin told Yu Tang: "[Host, if that's the case, I suspect that Yu Xiao has completely become a bloodthirsty psychopath.]"
He may have come to see pain as pleasure, and killing as pleasure.
For example, he would treat humans the way his former owner treated him.
Because his master did this, he was forced to feel only pleasure.
So over the years, he came to believe that by treating people this way, others would be happier, and he would be even happier...
Xiao Jin felt a chill run down his spine as he spoke: "And his negative 10,000 favorability rating shouldn't just be directed at you, but at all of humanity."
If that's really the case, then this time the main god is going to be incredibly difficult to defeat...
After all, he's fundamentally twisted; he can't like anyone or anything, he only finds pleasure in destruction...
Yu Tang frowned after hearing his guess.
But he quickly retorted: "Xiao Jin, your analysis isn't entirely correct. Xiao Xiao isn't a pervert."
Looking at the well-behaved sleeping boy beside him, Yu Tang continued: Since he is an artificial human created from most human cells, it means that he can think about problems in a human way.
He also possesses all the emotions that humans should have. For example, in addition to happiness, he can also feel sadness, anger, and hatred.
However, from the moment he was born, he was suppressed by the chip and programmed to have only one emotion: joy.
Later, because the damage he suffered accumulated to an extreme, he developed this erroneous emotional perception.
So I think that as long as I can help him sort out his emotions, he will get better someday.
Chapter 7
Died for the villain for the seventh time (07)
Yu Tang's trip this time was actually a secret operation.
On the surface, it was a cruise to Earth, but in reality, it was for the Queen to find a rare medicinal herb on Earth.
The empire's political scene has been turbulent in recent years because the queen has contracted a strange illness, and all the most famous doctors in the empire have been unable to cure her.
But the Queen herself had her own suspicions.
She suspected that she wasn't sick, but rather had been poisoned with a slow-acting drug.
He secretly spent a lot of money to bring in renowned doctors from other countries to verify his hypothesis.
The answer chilled her to the bone.
The doctor told her that the poison was colorless and odorless, and therefore undetectable.
They couldn't even find out who poisoned the person or how they did it.
Moreover, the antidote for this poison was even harder to find. Later, the Queen asked her confidants to secretly search through a large amount of information and learned that there might be antidote herbs on a distant planet.
Because Yu Tang was born a commoner, he did not belong to any noble family that might covet imperial power.
So the Queen had a private talk with him, hoping he could help her find the antidote.
Fortunately, the original owner found the medicinal herbs on Blue Star, and now the only task left is to safely bring these herbs back to the Oro Empire.
But Yu Tang knew that this mission had drawn the original owner into the empire's political power struggles.
Once he arrives in the Oro Empire and disembarks from the spaceship, countless schemes await him.
After talking with Xiao Jin, Yu Tang didn't rush to increase Yu Xiao's favorability.
Just interact with this boy normally, paying attention to every detail of Yu Xiao's words and actions.
Then... he noticed that Yu Xiao's gaze at him would sometimes suddenly become particularly eerie.
Especially when the kitchen prepares Western food and the two of them eat face to face with knives and forks, Yu Xiao, holding the knife in his hand, will suddenly fall into deep thought. If you look closely, you can see that his fingers are trembling slightly, and then look at his simple and innocent face.
A surge of frenzied excitement would instantly wash over him. When Yu Tang looked up at the boy again, he even felt that the kid might suddenly stand up and stab him to death with the knife in his hand.
But this emotion often only exists for a fleeting moment on Yu Xiao's face.
If he hadn't been observant enough, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Furthermore, Yu Xiao's wounds were treated with the best medicine, yet they showed no signs of healing.
Every time he changed the dressing, Yu Tang frowned as he looked at the blood-soaked gauze and the exposed flesh of the wound.
My heart aches too.
He remembered what the doctor had said earlier.
Given Yu Xiao's cellular activity, his wounds should heal quickly if he wants to recover.
Now the wound hasn't scabbed over for several days. Even a fool could guess that he did it on purpose.
After the medic left the room, Yu Tang sat down on the edge of the bed, facing Yu Xiao.
I asked him, "Xiaoxiao, can you tell me how your previous owner treated you?"
Fearing that Yu Xiao might be hesitant to speak, he took out a tablet and handed it to her, saying, "If you don't want to talk about it, write it down. I want to know about your past."
Looking at Yu Tang's sincere expression, Yu Xiao tilted his head, his eyes crinkling into crescent moons with laughter, and asked Yu Tang, "If I told them, would you treat me the same way they did?"
Yu Tang was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Them?"
"Do you have more than one master?"
Yu smiled and nodded, then continued, "I have had three owners."
"I was only five years old when I was created and was bought by a couple who lost their son in a traffic accident."
They took great care of me, even helping me get dressed and take a bath.
But later they started preventing me from leaving the house. At first, they just kept me inside, but later they locked me in a cage where I couldn't stretch my arms and legs, and told me to be good and wait for them to come back.
Later, as I grew up, they felt I no longer resembled their son, so they sold me to their friends.
"Their friend, my second master, was a drug addict. After he injected himself, he would become a different person. He would make me wear women's clothes, whip me, and say that I was a shameless whore who betrayed him and fell in love with another man."
I fainted a few times, and when I woke up, he would hold me and cry, saying I looked like his ex-girlfriend, and he would cry and ask why I had abandoned him, what he lacked compared to that man.
"This continued until he ran out of money for injections. So he sold me to his third owner."
"My third owner was a surgeon who tied me up in the basement and cut me up with a scalpel."
He said it was like a knife dancing with blood and bones, and he let me enjoy that pleasure.
"This kind of life continued until I was eighteen years old, when he was taken away by the police for allegedly committing a medical malpractice.
The police searched his house, put my dismembered head and limbs into a garbage truck, and sent it to a recycling center.
Yu Tang was horrified, but he remembered that when he found Yu Xiao, Yu Xiao's body was perfectly intact...
How could limbs and head be dismembered...?
He looked up and happened to meet Yu Xiao's gaze. He saw the boy looking at him with a smile, uttering an extremely cruel sentence in a very ordinary tone.
"Then I was pushed into the meat grinder along with my dead companions."
Yu Tang was shaken to his core as he looked at Yu Xiao, who was still smiling.
I wanted to say something, but I couldn't find anything to say at all.
My nose and eyes felt sore and I couldn't stop them from catching a soreness.
He quickly got up and turned around, not wanting Yu Xiao to see that he had inexplicably started crying.
But Yu Xiao still found out.
He reached out and grabbed Yu Tang's sleeve, asking him a question.
"Master, why are you crying?"
Just as Yu Xiao couldn't understand why, when he treated those people the way his former master had treated him, they didn't feel happy, but instead cried and begged for mercy.
He couldn't understand why Yu Tang started crying just from hearing about what happened between him and his former master.
Through his observations over the past few days, he has learned about Yu Tang's identity.
He was a highly respected imperial general whom he had never met before.
Everyone on the spaceship treated the man with utmost respect.
The man always maintained a serious expression in front of those people, and he would never cry.
So he doesn't understand why Yu Tang is crying now?
Why... do I only cry to him?