Black fog shrouds

In early March, Wei Shao began to think about how to celebrate Fei Luo's birthday. For this purpose, he even went to consult Ji Peiyan.

However, after Ji Peiyan heard what he said, his expression became strange.

Wei Shao thought that his plan was too old-fashioned, which made him have a different opinion, so he quickly asked humbly: "Teacher Ji, what are your opinions?"

When there is something going on, it’s Teacher Ji; when there is nothing going on, it’s Ji Pei Yan; when there is something going on, it’s the angry old fox - Ji Pei Yan rolled his eyes.

"Don't ask me what I think yet," he gestured to Wei Shao, "First, tell me where you got the fake news that his birthday is on March 21st?"

Fake news?

Wei Shao frowned and retorted: "He told me this himself, how can it be fake news?"

Ji Peiyan was silent for two seconds: "I haven't written it." I haven't even set it up.

Wei Shao: “…”

Good, he is almost suffering from PTSD from this sentence.

But when Ji Peiyan said this, he instantly realized that something was wrong——

Filo grew up on an abandoned planet. He never knew his female father's name, so how could he know his birthday?

Wei Shao vaguely realized that he seemed to have been fooled by his wife again.

Ji Peiyan thought about it and helped him analyze: "Since he told you this, this date must be very important to him. Can you ask indirectly what it is?"

After a long while, Wei Shao said, "Maybe not."

Ji Peiyan looked at him in confusion.

Wei Shao: "That's my birthday."

The date on his ID card is the day he came to Emperor Star, and only Philo knows his real birthday.

Ji Peiyan's thoughts were interrupted by this sentence, and his originally serious expression turned speechless: "Are you here to talk nonsense with me and show off your love?"

Wei Shao coughed lightly and said seriously: "It's really not true. When he told me that, I thought it was a coincidence..."

Some even thought that it was this coincidence that caused him to travel through time.

After accepting this setting, I no longer had any doubts.

Wei Shao thought about it seriously and felt that it was very likely that he and Philo had made some agreement together back then - for example, when he heard that Philo didn't know his birthday, he shamelessly suggested using his birthday as their common birthday.

He touched his nose and said to Ji Peiyan: "It doesn't matter. We can still live like this. Where were we just talking about?"

The more Ji Peiyan listened, the more he felt that there was something fishy.

Even if Wei Shao really thought it was a coincidence before, what does "it can be celebrated" mean? How can you use your own birthday as someone else's birthday?

He asked suspiciously, "Why do I feel like something is wrong with you? It's not just today, it's been like this for the past month, like you're full of energy. What on earth happened between you two last month?"

Last month, the two had a fight, and the progress bar shrunk by half overnight. He was so scared that he couldn't sleep. He sent more than a dozen messages to Wei Shao, but received no response. He thought the two of them had broken up.

Later, the progress bar not only went back down, but also increased a lot. Ji Peiyan intuitively felt that something unusual had happened.

Unfortunately, he asked Wei Shao for a long time but couldn't get any answer. The other party just vaguely said it was just an ordinary quarrel.

This time, Wei Shao replied, "No, don't guess blindly."

He still didn't seem to want to say anything, just sat there calmly, making people hate him to the core.

Ji Peiyan gritted his teeth and made a huge investment: "Tell me what happened that day, and I'll tell you a story about Philo's childhood."

Wei Shao: "...cough."

He admits it's tempting.

But Ji Peiyan had too many criminal records, so he asked cautiously: "How do I know if you are just making it up to deceive me?"

Ji Peiyan rolled his eyes at him and said, "I made up this world - don't worry, it was written in the extra chapter of the novel."

Wei Shao immediately and respectfully offered the drink to Ji Peiyan: "Teacher Ji, drink while you talk."

It was actually a very short clip, occupying only a few small paragraphs in the 6,000-word extra story.

Philo had a dream about his childhood.

It was winter then, and little Philo was lucky enough to pick up half a bag of compressed biscuits, but unfortunately he was discovered by other stray kids.

He has never been good at socializing with others and is the most solitary one among all the stray cubs. Although the fierce fighting power of the S-level female insects can be seen when he is young, he is still powerless to fight back against a large group of them.

So, in the midst of hunger and cold, he not only lost the half bag of compressed biscuits that he was reluctant to eat, but was also severely beaten.

He leaned against the wall and once again had the thought of dying.

Maybe the author suddenly remembered that this was a sweet extra chapter, or maybe he suddenly had a change of heart and promptly cut off this tragic past and stopped the killing spree.

The author wrote the following paragraph at the end of the dream:

““Pah—”

A bag of biscuits fell from the sky and landed at little Philo's feet. Philo saw the outline of the biscuits through his blurry eyes, then turned around and looked up blankly.

A shadow flashed past the wall, and little Philo could not see anything clearly. "

"Actually, I wanted to write something more tragic, but I was afraid that the readers would scold me, so I ended my dream here." Ji Peiyan glanced at Wei Shao's face, worried that he would go crazy on the spot like his readers.

However, Wei Shao's performance was relatively normal. His eyes were filled with heartache, but also with a hint of... anxiety?

Wei Shao asked hurriedly: "Who was that person who threw the biscuits to Philo?"

"You asked that too," Ji Peiyan blinked his eyes slyly and said happily, "I don't know."

"Some people guessed it was Kweiyi when he was a child, some people guessed it was a kind-hearted bug, and some people even had conspiracy theories that the cookies were poisoned."

Ji Peiyan shrugged and continued, "It's all possible. This is the charm of blank space."

This time, Wei Shao did not criticize him for setting traps, but nodded in approval.

Ji Peiyan glanced at him curiously: "It's your turn. What happened to you last month?"

Wei Shao hooked his finger at him.

Ji Peiyan became even more excited when he saw this - it must be a shocking piece of news.

He moved closer and heard Wei Shao say mysteriously, "The person you wrote about... is very likely me."

Ji Peiyan: “…”

Damn, you kid had a dream in broad daylight, right?

-

The plan was good, but it failed to keep up with reality.

In mid-March, the emperor ordered Philo to lead his troops to the South Liberal League for negotiations with the Deputy Speaker.

It is called negotiation, but it is hard to say what it actually is.

The Southern Free Alliance is the only one among several alliances surrounding the empire that does not practice slavery or monarchy. Citizens there have great rights, and the history of the development of the democratic system is almost as long as that of Satyad. However, the Southern Free Alliance is not very friendly to male insects. Male insects can only be regarded as half of the citizens there. In addition, the population is naturally scarce, so male insects there are almost at the bottom and are insect-shaped massagers.

The Southern Freedom League is also the only one that is not dependent on the empire, and even has the potential to compete with the empire. Regarding the envoys' trip south, public opinion within the empire was very positive, especially among the male insects who dominated public opinion, who applauded unanimously.

A few days before departure, Wei Shao asked Philo for his opinion, and Philo simply said, "The military women of the empire have no political views."

Military women are just a knife in the hands of the rulers.

Wei Shao didn't say much, but just stroked his neck and said: "If one day you don't want to join the army, I can also cover for you."

Philo responded with a kiss.

Today is the sixth day since Philo went south. Wei Shao was sitting in the living room, with the Empire Daily News playing in the shadow pool, describing the negotiation process as going very smoothly.

But Wei Shao knew that not everything in the news was true. Talia and Shen He both sent him the latest negotiation situation yesterday. The Southern Freedom Alliance was very resistant to the political culture of the empire. There were frequent frictions in the negotiations and a fight might break out.

Wei Shao rubbed his temples tiredly and was about to send a question to Chu Ersen, but the terminal vibrated at a peculiar frequency.

It was Philo.

These days he was afraid that his rash interruption would distract Philo, so he had been restraining himself and only sent Philo a few greetings at regular times and in fixed quantities every day. He didn't expect that Philo contacted him first today.

Wei Shao went over all the possibilities in his mind, but was stunned when he opened the terminal and saw the message.

[Happy birthday, brother.] 】

[I can’t make it back in time, I’m sorry. 】

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Wei Shao clicked on the attachment and saw a heart drawn on a sand table, signed by Lolo.

His eyes were sore: [Baby, you should be happy too, I love you. 】

It took a long time for the other side to reply: [I love you too. 】

Wei Shao opened the military dependents system.

It showed that his partner was on a mission, and it would take another twenty-four days before he could go to the mission site to provide spiritual comfort to his partner.

He closed his eyes and turned off the terminal.

The negotiations produced preliminary results on the thirteenth day.

The other party proposed to sign a friendly contract, in which the Free Alliance would pay a certain amount of "freedom fees" to the Empire every year in exchange for free rights.

But this was obviously far from what the emperor wanted, and the negotiations continued.

Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, a big chaos broke out on the Imperial Star.

An unknown organization broke through the Imperial Star's air defense system and launched thermal weapons at schools, palaces, commercial buildings and other places, causing power outages in many areas of the Imperial Star and serious damage to buildings.

Wei Shao was in the school library at the time. In the silence, there was suddenly a loud noise outside, followed by a violent shaking and the buzzing of glass windows.

Amid the sirens and the terrified cries of the surrounding students, black smoke billowed outside.

The mechanical sound of emergency evacuation on the radio struck everyone's heart, and then stopped abruptly in an instant.

Frightened and panicked.

The survival passage was crowded with students in a mess. A few male insects had fallen to the ground, their limbs weak and unable to get up. At this time, no one remembered the Male Insect Protection Act.

Wei Shao's heart almost jumped out of his throat, but he still shouted: "Don't panic, the school has a backup power supply, everyone quickly move to the air defense zone below, be careful and don't step on other bugs!"

As if to confirm his words, the dead radio came back to life with a crackling sound, and the corridor was filled with lights.

While Wei Shao was escaping, he glanced through the skylight in the corridor and saw several black fighter planes circling in the sky, as well as military aircraft that quickly arrived after the alarm was triggered.