"Actually, it's not that there aren't any."

Barbara had come downstairs at some point. After ending her conversation with Mingmei, Barbara overheard Garen and Louis talking as soon as she came downstairs.

The more I listened, the more I felt that he should give his opinion at this moment.

"Um?"

Upon hearing Barbara's words, both of them looked at her. Barbara readily admitted it, looking at Garen and saying, "My student, don't you remember?"

Barbara abandoned her Imperial rank and honor to follow Garen to the Federation, and her reputation was not particularly good between the Empire and the Federation.

Although he had taught at the Federal Military Academy for several years because of Garen's influence, very few of his students could truly be considered his students.

Therefore, Garen quickly realized who the other person was referring to.

Because that was the student Barbara had personally taught, and at the time his presence in the Federation was rather awkward, so after the student graduated, he wanted to take good care of his students in the future by using Garen's student as an opportunity.

After all, his unfortunate student didn't have any powerful backers, and given the prevailing atmosphere in the Federation before Louis came to power, it would have been quite difficult for him to get started.

What was unexpected was that not long after, almost all of Garen's last class of students died on the battlefield, or rather, they died in the political struggles within the Federation at that time.

The two who survived also resolutely left the military and entered politics.

As a result, his student never met Louis and his group from beginning to end.

Not to mention receiving any covert support.

"Your student?" Louis's eyes lit up, but then he seemed to remember something and asked cautiously, "He is now..."

"Yes, as your son saw, he's probably dead." Barbara let out a disgruntled snort as she mentioned her student, seemingly unwilling to bring him up. She then paused, thinking for a moment, and said, "Your son saw—he was still wearing your old combat uniform, right?"

"Yes."

His combat uniform was quite distinctive, and under normal circumstances, he wouldn't be recognized.

"I wonder what the other person's name is..." Louis knew that someone who could gain Barbara's favor and become her student must not be an unknown person.

"Him..." Mentioning her student, Barbara's thoughts were drawn back to a long time ago, to the two boys who escaped from the underground slave farm, one of whom was a thin boy whose eyes were filled with hope and longing when he looked at her.

"You should indeed know him, Colonel Mo Wenshumo, who claimed to be missing but actually perished along with the insect queen, leaving no trace of his body."

"It's him?!"

Louis certainly remembered that man, the one who had become famous in his early years and single-handedly held off an army of Thousand-Eyed Insects containing a queen before he disappeared.

That time, when the Federation's reinforcements arrived, the place was littered with Zerg corpses and shattered mech fragments.

Although many people speculated that he was dead, the federal military had always listed him as missing in the identification section.

When people talk about StarCraft being able to kill the Queen of the Zerg, everyone mentions Mei Qiu, but few people know that someone accomplished this feat many years earlier than Mei Qiu.

“If he had survived that incident, perhaps he would be a Field Marshal now…” Louis’s tone held a hint of regret, but then he remembered where the other man was in the game, and his eyes lit up. “Actually, he could…”

“No, he can’t. He’s been able to exist until now…” Barbara immediately shattered Louis’s hopes, her eyes turning icy as she looked at him and said, “The Marshal of the Federation, regardless of strength, at least he’s doing this for the people of the Federation… He’s different.”

“He went all that way, all for revenge, all to rebuild his planet.” Barbara looked at Louis and continued, “He’s done anything for revenge, to rebuild the home he loves…”

Barbara reminded Louis that such a self-serving person might not be as good as he thought.

Even though it was her student, Barbara still didn't say anything nice about him.

"That's true, Xiao Shu does have her strengths. Back then, you said that with your sharp tongue and those training methods, who could withstand you?"

Even though the person was dead, Garen was still willing to praise his student for Barbara. Even though he had just said that the other person was so terrible, Barbara, who had been secretly watching him since Mo Wenshu first entered the military and quickly rose to the rank of colonel based on his military achievements, hadn't stopped smiling for a while.

"You're making it sound like you have bad taste."

"Ha, if I had good judgment, I wouldn't have ended up teaching two students who were just like that."

...

"Achoo!"

Meanwhile, Mei Shi, who was traveling on an unknown planet, was chatting with Ming Mei.

Mingmei herself didn't expect that she would receive two video calls while she was out soaking her feet on her day off.

"Mom, are you alright? Have you caught a cold?"

Looking at the lush greenery behind Mei Shi's projection, Mingmei realized she had asked the wrong question.

"I didn't catch a cold, but my nose suddenly got itchy. I'm sure someone will yell at me!" Mingmei rubbed her nose with a tissue. Looking at Mingmei, she said, "You're off today, so I specially timed this video call for you. Even if you sleep in, you should be awake by now."

"I didn't sleep in."

Mingmei shook her head; in their whole family, only a handful of people liked to sleep in late.

Her mother counts as one, her sister counts as one, her godfather counts as one, and it seems like there are no others.

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