On Hengyun Star, the royal fleet was shuttling quickly towards the capital's palace.
In the medical room, Pei Changyun was lying on the bed, with large red spots on his face and neck. He was wearing an oxygen mask and an IV tube on the back of his left hand. But even so, he looked calm and was even reading the report sent by Zhou Jiuya seriously.
The report reported the current situation of Mingcheng: the main brain of the Central Temple had been repaired, so they could block the church's satellite detection. The location of the Holy White Tower had also been tracked back, but the defense barrier had not been dealt with yet. At present, the academicians were focusing on deciphering the internal mechanism of the church's space shuttle device...
Pei Changyun rubbed his eyebrows.
—This information is not enough.
Far from enough.
He didn't believe that the Illusion Cult kept Setlin just to contain him for a short period of time. If it were Pei Changyun, he would definitely make a big fuss about this matter, not just insulting him with his gender, or inciting some people to simply parade around. Instead, he would really magnify his collusion with the Zerg infinitely, or even accuse him of killing Huo Chao. In short, he would be nailed to the cross of the eternal sinner.
This is the most effective attack.
Pei Changyun tapped the document with his fingertips, thinking deeply.
despair…
despair…
There must be something else... something he hadn't noticed...
despair-
At this time, Secretary General Zhao He came in with medicine, looking worried.
"Your Majesty, your medicine."
"Um."
Pei Changyun came back to his senses. He took off his breathing mask, took the medicine and swallowed it. Zhao He finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching him swallow the medicine. Then he continued,
"Your Majesty, those comments on the Internet have been cleared up, and Major General Jiang Ci has also given us a new security defense wall patch, but the effect may not be very good outside the official star network of the empire."
Pei Changyun's eyes darkened and he sneered.
"This is one of the few things that old guy can use to attack me. He must be very careful to catch it. Everyone thinks that beta should be mediocre, but I became the emperor. It is inevitable that some people will be jealous in their hearts."
"Your Majesty, how can you be mediocre?! You are..."
The secretary general was excited, and the emperor raised his hand to stop him from continuing. Pei Changyun didn't want to hear those compliments, even though he knew they were sincere.
"Don't take it to heart. They are just some shady tricks that cannot be put on the table. Just deal with them according to the laws of the empire. Arrest those who should be arrested and sentence those who should be sentenced. If it really doesn't work, you can kill a few more people as a warning to others... Have you done a good job of evacuating and comforting the people?"
"It is already being carried out according to your instructions. I guarantee there will be no mistakes."
But the Secretary General stood there and did not leave. After a moment of silence, he finally spoke.
"Your Majesty, we just received news from the capital that this is the third parade today. Are you still going to ignore it?"
"Well, whatever. He's just an old man with half his body buried in the ground. The alliance is gone. He can't make any waves."
His Majesty the Emperor spoke in a calm tone. He was also flipping through the report, confirming some details.
Public opinion was indeed against him, but now he had found out several high-ranking officials who were in collusion with Setlin, and was following the clues to find out who was behind it. He was not prepared to start a fight right now, so he let the situation develop. In addition, the First Legion was still trapped in Mingcheng, so now was not a good time.
The familiar allergic reaction made Pei Changyun have a little difficulty breathing, so he took another breath with the oxygen mask. Secretary General Zhao He looked at him, stood still for more than ten seconds, and suddenly knelt on one knee to plead guilty.
boom!
The kneecaps hit the ground loudly.
"Your Majesty, it was my mistake today. I didn't expect someone would just..." directly brought a bouquet of flowers and passionately proposed to Pei Changyun on the spot.
"It's okay. No one is approaching."
His Majesty the Emperor rubbed his brows. In fact, he had expected that people would use his beta identity as an excuse when he concealed his gender. He just didn't expect it to happen in this way.
"It's not your problem."
In fact, the fanatical alpha was stopped by the guards when he appeared dozens of meters away. It was the wind that blew some pollen. The guards could stop people, but they could not stop the tiny particles brought by the wind. This was something no one could have predicted.
Zhao He gritted his teeth and said, "It was my mistake! This kind of thing will never happen again next time!"
"Um."
Pei Changyun glanced at the remaining infusion bags and said lightly,
"If you want to overthrow the founding emperor of a powerful empire, this alone is not enough."
The Secretary-General seemed to be inspired by his attitude of not taking the enemy seriously at all, and his expression was immediately excited.
"yes!"
He stood up, saluted subconsciously, and then walked out.
After the other party left, the emperor finally showed some fatigue between his brows. He tapped the documents lightly with one hand, while the other hand was still inserted with an infusion needle for drip.
In fact, this allergic reaction is not as serious as before. Pei Changyun has only been close to death twice in his life because of pollen.
The first time was when Huo Chao didn't know that he was allergic to pollen, so he directly pushed a bunch of flowers into his face. The second time was when Huo Chao lied to him, saying that Zhimei flowers could attract Zerg and were very important strategic materials, so he asked Pei Changyun to find someone to deliver them to him.
Pei Changyun felt something was wrong, so he decided to go and deliver it himself. He took defensive measures, but the residual power of the nuclear explosion shattered the outer shell of the mecha, and the broken debris scratched his protective clothing.
However, there won't be a third time.
The moment this thought flashed through his mind, a strong feeling of suffocation spread throughout his internal organs. Pei Changyun had to find the oxygen mask and put it on with trembling hands.
He lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and tried not to think about that person. Fortunately, the intravenous drip contained a tranquilizer, which made Pei Changyun feel a little sleepy.
—But I couldn’t escape it in my dreams.
Pei Changyun dreamed again that under the beautiful morning sun, he secretly kissed the boy he loved.
[Huo Chao…?]
He tried to wake the other person up quietly, but got no response.
But Pei Changyun knew that Huo Chao was pretending to sleep, so he immediately understood his answer.
—It’s a rejection.
That's right, an S-level alpha like Huo Chao, who is also the Son of God with a very high status in the Illusion God Cult, will naturally be matched with a beautiful and high-level omega in the future. But he is just a B-level beta.
No matter how you look at it, they don't match.
Pei Changyun looked towards the horizon. The scenes in his dream seemed even more exaggerated than his real memories, as if his entire world was left with only that blood-red rising sun.
It is so huge, majestic, vast and beautiful that you can almost touch it with your hand.
But that was not something he could possess, so Pei Changyun could only kneel on the grass, quietly looking up at the rising sun, little by little, until it reached the distant and untouchable horizon.
Huo Chao pretended not to know, and Pei Changyun also regarded it as a dream. Both sides consciously maintained a cautious distance that belonged to friends. As Huo Chao rose step by step in the army, Pei Changyun served as his governor, conscientiously handling all the needs of that person.
The images in the dream are like a rapidly spinning revolving lantern.
That person's joys and sorrows, and the ten years they spent side by side, all flashed before Pei Changyun's eyes.
Gradually, the picture in front of me became dim.
The Zerg appeared in the Milky Way. Humanity lost the first battle and the entire army was defeated, with countless casualties.
Because of this incident, Huo Chao finally took the initiative to return to the Illusionary God Sect after many years. Before leaving, he said to Pei Changyun,
[Changyun, I want to try harder.]
He didn't say what he was fighting for.
In the dream, Pei Changyun only remembered the man's smile that seemed like he was about to cry. For the first time, he reached out his hand and touched the man's face, saying to him -
[Okay, I'll wait for you to come back.]
Night.
Pei Changyun waited for Huo Chao to come back. He used his fingerprint to open the door of the Marshal's residence and walked in as usual, carrying a pile of thick documents.
Snapped-
The stack of papers fell to the floor.
Because the air was filled with the rich, omega-emitting pheromones, so rich that it was almost dripping with water. And entangled in it, even more rich, were the pheromones he was familiar with.
Huo Chao...
The next second, Pei Changyun heard a scream.
[ah!]
It was a strange female voice, like a scary female ghost in the night.
Pei Changyun saw Huo Chao rushing out like a wild beast.
He was drenched in sweat, his eyes were red, and his muscles bulged under his messy shirt. It was obvious that under the influence of the omega's pheromones, Huo Chao, as an alpha, was also starting to become aroused.
Pei Changyun’s first reaction was to find medicine and ask military doctor Wen Xubai to come over.
Until the next second—
Huo Chao pressed him against the wall and kissed him hard.
That kiss was different from the cautious one Pei Changyun gave ten years ago. It was passionate, crazy, and painful.
[Long Cloud… Long Cloud… ]
The man kept shouting his name, his tone was full of pain, shame and self-blame.
But his actions were extremely violent, brutal, and coercive, completely out of the alpha instinct that wanted to possess her.
[sorry Sorry sorry… ]
Huo Chao was crying.
Crying very sadly.
Because he knew... he was treating the person he loved the most, the person he wanted to cherish and protect the most, in the worst and most horrible way.
But at that moment, the Marshal was tortured by his instincts to the point of collapse, and he couldn't stop.
Big tears fell from the alpha's eyes, hitting Pei Changyun... and then soaked the military uniform that he had torn into pieces.
[I’m sorry… I’m sorry Changyun… I can’t control myself…]
Pei Changyun heard the man crying and apologizing in his ear over and over again.
Just like when Huo Chao found out that he almost killed him with a bouquet of flowers, he felt guilty and painful.
[Run away…Run away…]
The forbidden abyss changed from a ring to a shackle, locking Huo Chao's wrist, then crossing his teeth like a bitch, and then locking the ankle joint, tightly restraining the mad and crazy alpha.
In the end, Huo Chao had to kneel on the ground, in a humiliating posture like a bound beast.
Huo Chao was speechless, but his bloodshot eyes were still sad, trying to tell him—
Run away from me!
Get away from me!
Also, don't look at me... don't look at me looking so miserable and scary.
[Don't cry, Huo Chao.]
Pei Changyun also knelt on the ground and hugged him.
Embrace his body controlled by instinct, and also embrace his painful and trembling soul.
[Please... open the cockpit for a moment, Jinyuan.]
This is probably the most urgent situation.
Jin Yuan had no objection.
The huge figure suddenly expanded in the dazzling light, directly collapsing half of the marshal's villa.
It rose from the ground, turned into a fighter plane, soared into the sky, and then flew rapidly into the deep night of the earth.
That night, the sky was filled with stars and was extremely beautiful, no less gorgeous than the sunrise that year.
That day, Huo Chao used the Forbidden Abyss to catch the falling Pei Changyun.
This time, it was his turn to catch the man.
[It's okay, Huo Chao.]
That night, the 27-year-old Pei Changyun finally made the confession that he had been unable to make when he was 17 years old.
[I like you.]
From seventeen to twenty-seven, ten years.
Even for a very long time into the future, Pei Changyun will still like Huo Chao.
So I don’t feel insulted or sad.
On the contrary, Pei Changyun felt fortunate.
But Huo Chao didn't feel that way. He felt... very, very painful, angry, ashamed, and sad.
It was as if my heart was being gripped by a hand, which kept squeezing it harder and harder, until it was finally twisted into a pool of hideous, bloody flesh.
So in the end, Pei Changyun still didn't get a response from that person.
All Huo Chao could give was an apology.
Betas will not be marked, so they will be done. They will not have the kind of genetic bond that AOs must bind to. So as long as they eliminate the pheromones in their bodies and clean up all traces, they will not be discovered.
Pei Changyun always helped Huo Chao with the aftermath, but he never thought that one day he would become one of them.
But they had no time to deal with personal relationships anymore, as if everything that happened that night was just a dream.
Ten years ago, that stolen kiss under the rising sun was just a dream.
Ten years later, the forced union under the starry sky is also a dream.
At that time, the crazy Zerg were approaching the earth. Pei Changyun was busy arguing with a group of senior officials of the Alliance, trying to get military funds, supplies and support for the upcoming war, while Huo Chao was concentrating on investigating the source of the omega.
That omega is pregnant, it's the work of the Phantom God Cult.
Huo Chao killed her and the child with his own hands, and with hatred in his eyes, he swore that he would never leave any offspring. Pei Changyun was at the scene, he heard it, wanted to say something, but swallowed it in the end.
That night, Huo Chao attacked the Phantom God Cult alone.
The next day, the Marshal returned covered in blood, and without consulting anyone, he announced to the entire alliance that the Seventh Army of the Alliance would be changed to the Marshal's direct army and renamed the Dawn Legion.
He informed the entire alliance of the impending Zerg invasion and immediately led the entire Dawn Legion to migrate to Hengyun Star.
This was equivalent to directly abandoning the alliance and establishing one's own faction, which caused the entire top leadership of the alliance to be furious and also destroyed all the political foundations that Pei Changyun had originally laid.
At this time, the Phantom God Cult came forward, saying that God would protect the world, and began to build Skynet.
They sent the Dawn Legion out to stop the Zerg, saying that it was to buy time for the establishment of Skynet.
Pei Changyun felt that this might be a conspiracy, but Huo Chao and Jiang Jinsheng both said that Skynet's defense value could indeed withstand it. But two weeks later, the Dawn Legion failed miserably in blocking the Zerg, and the Illusion Cult took the opportunity to sneak attack them using the space shuttle device. The legion suffered heavy losses, and Ye Shu also lost an arm.
A month later, three days before the Zerg officially invaded the Earth, Pei Changyun received an order from Huo Chao to garrison Hengyun Star.
[Skynet won't be completed in time, so if we can't resist the Zerg invasion of Earth, we can only implement the final plan.]
[Jiang Jinsheng has prepared enough lifeboats and has begun to evacuate the people. Zhou Jiuya will go with him.]
[There are millions of nuclear bombs buried on the earth. I will stay until most of the human race has moved away and then come back after the last nuclear bomb is detonated.]
Pei Changyun had a bad feeling, but in the projection, Huo Chao's tone was very steady and firm, as if he had a plan in mind.
[Don't worry, I have the best plan. The Zerg will be attracted to the Zhimei flowers. I have secretly bred a lot of them on Hengyun Star. They should bloom in the next two days. Changyun, keep an eye on them and have someone send them to me in time. I will use those flowers to lure them away, and I will be able to escape successfully.]
After a pause, he emphasized again,
[I and they are all on Earth. You are the only one on Hengyun Star. You are responsible for the safety, order, and transfer of the survivors on Hengyun Star. So Changyun, you can't leave. And since you are allergic to pollen, just let someone else take you there.]
Under the circumstances at the time, the consul really could not leave Hengyun Star, and Huo Chao never did anything without confidence, and would not lie to him.
So Pei Changyun nodded seriously.
[Okay, I'll arrange for someone to deliver it as soon as possible.]
After everything was explained, he should have hung up the projection communication at this time, but in this emergency, Huo Chao did not hang up quickly to do his work as he did before, but just stood there and looked at him.
[… Huo Chao?]
Pei Changyun was confused.
[Nothing, I just saw that you were too nervous.]
The man in the projection smiled and shook his head, then looked at him tenderly.
[It's okay, Changyun. All the difficulties will pass. Even if the Earth is gone, we can still build a new home on Hengyun Star. Everything will be fine in the future.]
His voice was soft, yet firm, as if he was swearing.
[—Our dreams will come true.]
This sounds just ordinary and is not a very inspiring and inspiring speech.
But Pei Changyun was still much more relaxed. He nodded and agreed seriously.
[good.]
After a few seconds of silence, Pei Changyun clenched his finger bones and spoke nervously and hesitantly.
[Huo Chao, there is one more thing...]
But at that time Huo Chao seemed to have something urgent to do. He turned around and said something to someone. When he turned back to look at Pei Changyun, he could only reply hurriedly.
[Sorry, I have to hang up. Is there anything urgent?]
[…It’s not particularly important.]
Pei Changyun shook his head.
[Go ahead, I'll wait for you to come back.]
The communication was disconnected.
Later, the Archon worked hard to protect Hengyun Star and also tried his best to do all the work well.
He found the best carrier ship operator, loaded all the Zhimei flowers, and prepared to send them to Earth for Huo Chao.
[—Our dreams will all come true.]
But at the last second, for some reason, Pei Changyun's mind flashed with Huo Chao's last words.
What is that person's dream
His dream is different from Pei Changyun's. It is not to build a beautiful country.
—He wants to become the wind.
Break free from all shackles and fetters and become the free wind.
A bad premonition came to Pei Changyun's mind, so he temporarily changed his plan and followed the transportation.
Later, the transport ship was discovered by the Zerg because of its large size. The crazy vengeful monsters immediately began to attack. The escort team led the Zerg away and sent Pei Changyun away.
So, in the end, Pei Changyun could only use the mecha to give the Zhimei flower to Huo Chaoyun alone.
A few hours later, the residual force of the nuclear explosion hit the mecha, and he was directly smashed into countless clusters of blooming roses.
Then, Pei Changyun witnessed Huo Chao's death with his own eyes.
[Huo Chao… ]
[Huo Chao!!!]
·
[… Huo Chao?]
At the same time, Huo Xianfeng was also calling this name, but unlike Pei Changyun's dream, he was calling his best friend who should have died through the Zerg's neural network.
But there was no response.
The light spot was very, very dim, almost buried in the brilliant stars around it, but there was indeed light.
The presence of light means the presence of life, the presence of being alive.
The king can connect to any Zerg and give them orders. However, Huo Xianfeng's connection with Huo Chao is similar to that of the Zerg, but different from that of the Zerg.
Because Huo Chao is a human, the reason why he can contact Huo Xianfeng is because he is the only human who can withstand the king insect's neural fluid.
Therefore, what Huo Xianfeng was connected to was not actually Huo Chao, but his own neural fluid that was injected into Huo Chao's body and merged with him.
Therefore, he can control Huo Chao's body unilaterally, just like using his own body.
[Huo Chao... Huo Chao?]
Still no response.
Then, Huo Xianfeng took over the familiar yet strange body. A few minutes later, he opened his eyes again in the hateful cage.
The sticky blue nutrient solution, the cold white laboratory, the people in lab coats shuttling back and forth, and the masked, hunchbacked old man.
Bernard.
Huo Xianfeng remembered this name.
Because every time, whether it was when he was extracting neural fluid or when Huo Chao was injected with neural fluid, this person was present.
The moment Huo Xianfeng took over this body, a shrill alarm sounded throughout the laboratory—
"Warning! Warning! An abnormal surge in the clone's mental threshold has been detected!"
"Warning! Warning! An abnormal surge in the clone's mental threshold has been detected!"
"Warning! Warning! An abnormal surge in the clone's mental threshold has been detected!"
Clone...
It’s not Huo Chao, it’s Huo Chao’s clone.
Huo Xianfeng was stunned. He looked down at the body.
This is Huo Chao's body, or to be more precise, this is Huo Chao's body when he was young.
There were tubes piercing his body, and on his chest was a dark red stigmata. Unlike the black and gold stigmata on Huo Chao's body before, this thing seemed to grow on his chest, bulging out like a crushed heart, or a crushed flower.
pain…
It hurts...
Huo Xianfeng suddenly held onto the glass in front of him, trembling uncontrollably.
Why does it hurt so much
Not just the brain, but this body.
Every part of this body was in intense pain. It was the kind of pain that was forced to grow desperately, and every cell was forced to divide crazily.
"What's going on? Why did the experiment wake up?"
"Check the ratio of nerve fluid and growth hormone and find out what went wrong?"
"Mr. Bernard, his mental strength threshold is soaring and has exceeded the limit of our detection!"
"This is impossible. Even Huo Chao's original body has never reached this value. It's just... just like that..."
"… "
Huo Xianfeng heard hurried and chaotic footsteps approaching from all directions, and also heard them talking at once. This scene was very familiar, he was simply... too familiar with it.
Huo Xianfeng slowly clenched his finger bones.
This is Huo Chao's clone, and he can connect with it because it was injected with the king insect's neural fluid.
But this is not Huo Chao. Huo Chao is dead, and they are going to make a fake one...
This is an insult.
The ultimate insult.
Huo Xianfeng felt angry, and the suppressed hatred filled his chest again at this moment like surging magma.
He clenched his fingertips, and then the next second—
boom!!!
The incubator shook violently, with a loud bang that even sounded above the piercing alarm.
Everyone was startled by the sound. They stood there in a daze, and saw that the experimental subject not only opened his eyes, but also punched the glass surface.
Click!
A crack appeared on the glass surface where the fist touched.
The young man raised his eyes coldly, his dark black pupils revealing undisguised murderous intent.
Bernard took a step back, his old voice suddenly becoming solemn.
"Immediately! Immediately inject the tranquilizer, open the blockade wall, and then notify the security team..."
boom!
At the same time, the ceiling suddenly opened, and a huge special defense wall fell from it, separating the two sides. Two researchers were too close to the incubator and did not have time to escape to the other side, so they were separated from him in the same area.
"wait wait wait!!!"
They panicked and pounded on the wall.
"We, we haven't gone out yet!!!"
But no one cared about them at this time. Bernard had already walked into the safe passage and left quickly, surrounded by countless people.
boom!
BANG BANG BANG!!!
Huo Xianfeng endured the severe pain and hit the cracked area frantically. This was not his own body, and he didn't have enough strength. After a few seconds, he closed his eyes, and the bloody stigmata quickly spread from his heart to the surroundings, covering his side face like a growing bloody thorn.
Huo Chao knew how to use the Holy Mark, so Huo Xianfeng naturally knew how to use it in order to understand it.
A strange yet familiar power surged out from there. Huo Xianfeng raised his eyes with a cold look.
The next second—
boom!!!
The loud shattering sound directly overwhelmed all other sounds, and a large amount of nutrient solution gushed out like a flood, mixed with a large amount of special glass fragments.
Then, a naked boy strode out of the broken incubator.
(End of this chapter)