Chapter 29 Are you in your fever period?

Qin Yong'an carefully looked Si Yun up and down from a distance, then nodded and said, "Hmm."

"Is there?"

Qin Yongyi: "...Never mind, you can go."

She seriously doubted whether her brother, with his terrible eyesight, would be able to distinguish friend from foe on the battlefield.

Qin Yong'an walked into the crowd and headed towards Si Yun.

Qin Yongyi looked away and showed his sister to the Omega next to him, asking, "Isn't my sister cute?"

The boy blushed and said, "The little princess is just as beautiful as His Highness."

She replied casually, "I'm not an Omega, I don't need to be pretty."

Do you want to hug her?

When the emperor changed out of his formal attire and made his way from the banquet hall to the council hall, he saw his second daughter using her younger sister as a social tool, surrounded by a group of beautifully dressed Omegas.

The Omegas vied to pin sparkly diamond hair clips on the little girl's head and took out cute dolls from their spatial storage for her to play with. Judging from the little girl's squinting expression, she was thoroughly enjoying herself.

Whether it's the second daughter's selfless act of turning her back on her own family, or the youngest daughter's way of getting by on her looks, they both have a similar charm to their younger selves, making them clearly their biological children.

She patted the black panther's head beside her, "Go and play with them."

The black panther nuzzled her hand with its head, then walked away with graceful steps.

The chief eunuch nodded to Yixiu Jie, who was standing by the window. Yixiu Jie quickly walked over and followed the emperor side by side with her.

The emperor turned her head and saw her eldest son standing awkwardly in front of Siyun. His fragmented words reached her ears.

It's nothing more than New Year's greetings, the same every year.

Sigh, this silly boy is so unlike me.

Si Yun had her back to her, so the emperor couldn't see her expression.

However, Si Yun seems to have gained some weight and gotten shorter?

Watching her retreating figure, the emperor seemed lost in thought, but said nothing.

Gaining weight is understandable, but losing height is a bit strange.

The three arrived at the council hall, where the emperor sat at the head of the table.

Yi Xiujie sent the newly received video from his terminal to the display screen in the council chamber.

He said cautiously, "Your Majesty, during the banquet, the Security Department received a video sent from an anonymous account..."

The chief palace steward served the emperor a steaming cup of black tea. She picked up the cup, took a small sip, and said, "Put it down quickly, don't waste time."

Yi Xiujie: "Yes."

He pressed the start button, the screen went from white to dark, the background was a dark universe, the camera moved closer to the glowing planet in front of him, and then flew close to the planet's surface.

The view glides over the forest and stops at a small river that divides the woods and meadows, then the camera descends, gradually zooming in on the meadows.

"What's that in the bottom right corner of the video?" The emperor, with his sharp eyes, spotted the blind spot, put down his teacup, and his expression became more serious.

As soon as he finished speaking, two black tentacles pierced the grass, and a black insect-like beast slowly emerged from the ground.

Then, the camera began to move away from the planet at high speed. When the planet shrank to the size of a palm, it exploded, and after a blinding flash, everything in sight vanished into nothingness.

“We immediately asked the communications department to help investigate the location of this terminal.” Yixiu Jie retrieved the terminal data. “It’s near the planet Keze, which exploded ten years ago.”

"Then, our people just rushed to the site in a spaceship to check and found that the planet had indeed disappeared. Professionals also explained that there were no signs of editing in the video."

"This video is real."

“This is the anonymous terminal account,” he showed to the emperor.

The emperor felt the account looked familiar, but that wasn't the point.

The key point is,

"Didn't the people from the research institute check it several times a few years ago and say it was all cleaned up?"

She rubbed her eyes and asked the palace steward to call the director of the research institute.

Ten minutes later, the director of the research institute and the chief minister of the Ministry of Resources arrived at the council chamber.

The emperor watched the video with them again, then rested his chin on his hand and watched their reactions.

The chief minister of the Ministry of Resources said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, do you remember the illegal mining site that was reported on the mining planet a month ago?"

"The Ministry of Resources detected millions of tons of black crystal ore there."

Ink crystal is a top-tier material used in mecha, typically found in military mecha.

Imperial Ink Crystal reserves are limited, therefore private mining is prohibited.

"Dr. Xiao from the research institute took the giant scale insects he had captured to the mineral planet for experiments and discovered that the black crystal has a natural and powerful attraction to the giant scale insects," he continued, sending a video to the display screen.

The emperor squinted at the display screen on the wall.

The giant scale insect in the video is digging a hole downwards. After digging for two days without eating or drinking, it successfully reaches the black crystal mine, which is 500 meters below the surface.

After the video ended, the dean cut out the insects and beasts from the two videos for comparison.

It is obvious that

The black insect-like creature emerging from the grass in the first video is a giant scale insect.

“Therefore, we suspect that there may be a large amount of dark crystals near the planet’s core,” the dean said.

The Empire was already short of Ink Crystals, especially after losing a large amount of Ink Crystals and energy in order to wipe out the invading Zerg.

Nowadays, the neighboring Donlin Empire is always stirring up trouble on the border between the two countries, and there are constant minor frictions between them.

If this continues, war will be inevitable, whether for the sake of retaliation or to protect the dignity of the empire.

The Empire needs more Ink Crystals and more high-level combat mechs.

The emperor tapped his fingers lightly on the table. "Dean Liu, I asked you to investigate the origin of the insect beasts ten years ago. Haven't you found out yet?"

Ten years ago, the empire first saw the appearance of giant scale insects, which made the emperor very suspicious of where the insect plague came from.

Dean: "We have sent hundreds of researchers to neighboring countries to investigate, and we have narrowed down the source of the insects and beasts to this area. We should have more accurate results soon."

He displayed a star map on the screen.

The circled area is located right within the territory of the Dunlin Empire.

*

The palace steward found Si Yun by the dance floor. She was awkwardly chatting with the eldest prince, her fingers gripping the thin heel of her wine glass tightly.

"Marshal Si, His Majesty needs to speak with you."

"Alright, I'll go right away. Your Highness, I'll be going now."

Si Yun left with the palace steward and immediately felt refreshed. Just now, the eldest prince had been passionately chatting with her about the military academy's practical assessment.

Help! She couldn't understand what he was saying.

When she was in military school, she spent most of her time faking illness to take leave and then went to the neighboring planet to have fun and drink. Otherwise, she wouldn't have done something as ridiculous as faking her death and deserting in the first week on the battlefield.

"Marshal Si, you are in very good condition."

On the way, the palace steward chatted with her with a smile, his attitude very casual, as if it were just a casual conversation.

"When I'm physically better, I'm in a better mood too." Si Yun's attitude was equally casual.

In her memory, the emperor was gentle and always looked at people with a smile; she had never seen him lose his temper.

Therefore, she preferred to face the Emperor rather than the incessantly chattering and nonsensical First Prince.

"Your Majesty." Si Yun bowed to the emperor, then turned to find the conference table quite full.

"Sit," the emperor said with a smile, as gentle as her high school music teacher.

Marshal Wen Shuijun and General Hong Jingjun were both there. They turned their heads and stared straight at her without saying a word.

Si Yun felt uneasy under their gazes and thought they were acting strangely. She walked over and sat down in the chair that the chief steward of palace affairs had pulled out for her.

Help! Why isn't her father here? What's going on?

"Marshal Siyun, I have a new mission for you. Have Wanshuangjun take the doctors from the research institute to re-examine the planets near Keze Star to see if any Zerg are still hiding there," the Emperor said.

Si Yun showed no outward expression, but his fingers were tightly gripping his trousers under the conference table.

She can't even pilot a military mech.

I don't want to go.

Sitting next to her, Dean Liu noticed her hand under the table out of the corner of his eye.

I couldn't help but think to myself, no wonder he could become a marshal.

He gets this excited just from hearing that there might be insects or beasts fighting.

*

At 11 p.m., Hengxing turned on the first episode of "Dr. Shen".

At 1 p.m. the next day, Hengxing watched the entire season of "Dr. Chen" at double speed, stood up from his chair, and comfortably stretched.

It really looks good.

She was even a little unsatisfied; the horror, gore, and suspense, combined with the theme of "good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished," perfectly hit her aesthetic sweet spot.

She opened a bottle of nutritional supplement, intending to soothe her empty stomach.

Looking at the nutrient solution cap in my hand, I realized that I hadn't seen Mr. Yu all morning.

Hengxing found it strange, so he got out of the driver's seat and prepared to go to the guest room to find him.

As soon as she stepped out of the driver's seat, she smelled a rich minty scent, a familiar aroma.

The closer you get to the guest rooms, the stronger the fragrance becomes; the wisps of ethereal aroma combine to form a giant net.

She quickly went back to the driver's seat to check the air circulation system.

strangeness,

It's not broken; it's still working normally.

Mr. Yu

Did they spill a ton of perfume?

Surprisingly, the scent is quite pleasant, and the slight grogginess caused by staying up late has disappeared.

Hengxing wanted to lie down and sleep right there.

As she approached the room door, smelling the fragrance wafting from the crack in the door, she was certain that the source was Mr. Yu.

Heng Xing knocked on the door, "Mr. Yu, are you alright?"

Inside the room, Yu Nianqing lay helplessly on the bed, her face flushed, the beauty mark at the corner of her eye alluring and captivating.

When he woke up in the morning and found that his body was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to stand up, he immediately realized that this was the prelude to his heat.

While he was still conscious, he immediately searched for the suppression patch and inhibitor in his spatial storage, but he couldn't find them no matter how hard he looked. He was so anxious that he was about to cry when he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have put them in a drawer in his room and forgot to bring them out.

“Captain Heng…” came a trembling voice from inside the room.

"What's wrong?" Hengxing asked.

Do you have any Omega suppressants?

Omega inhibitors?

"Let me check, nothing's there," Hengxing suddenly realized, "Are you having a fever?"

She asked in shock, "So, is this minty scent your pheromones?"

Yu Nianqing's voice was faint, "Mmm."

Then why didn't she react at all when she smelled this scent?

No, there is a reaction.

She's a little sleepy right now.

[Current research indicates that the primary cause of gender identity disorder is pheromone recognition impairment.]

[Can you correctly identify pheromones of different genders?]

No way.

Insomnia, headaches, and extreme emotions, coupled with pheromone recognition disorder.

How did she get through those ten years?

How can someone wake up one day to find themselves covered in illnesses?

Author's note: Captain Heng's pheromone problem will be cured in the future.

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