Chapter 128: The Magic Box
The room was dimly lit, and Huo Yin's golden eyes gleamed faintly. Anuo couldn't help but reach out and cover his eyes.
Perhaps because she had experienced too much coldness in people's hearts in the past, hearing these touching words now left her somewhat at a loss.
She thought that Huo Yin was still young, and it was normal for him to be soothed by her energy in that kind of environment and to rely on her all the time. Perhaps when he grows up, he will no longer rely on her so much.
Children are naturally innocent; they will be kind to whoever is kind to them.
Huo Yin is surrounded by people who are kind to him, but he still only stays by her side.
Moreover, what he just said added another layer of doubt to her mind.
He said he was born to find her. Why her?
These days, she keeps having dreams. In her dreams, there is an enormous dome that shimmers with light, as if starlight has been sprinkled on it. It is incredibly beautiful.
There are also tall palaces and towering mountains, which are not made of flowers, trees, or stone, but are like obsidian. There is no sun in the sky, and the world is always in darkness, but a soft moonlight will illuminate the world.
In her dream, she was walking on a smooth, mirror-like surface, surrounded by luminous objects, like ribbons of light extending from the ground.
Beneath the ground, there were even more luminous objects, clusters of them like fireflies.
Around her were glowing minerals of various colors, radiating an exhilarating energy that gave her an indescribable sense of comfort.
She felt as if she had entered a strange yet magnificent world, a world completely different from the world she had ever lived in, yet she did not feel unfamiliar with it at all.
But every time she wakes up, her dream becomes blurry.
As she watched Huo Yin, she gradually fell asleep. Every time Huo Yin saw her fall asleep, he would also fall asleep immediately.
As soon as he falls asleep, Caesar will wake up.
Caesar sat up abruptly in bed. His consciousness had been disconnected from Huo Yin's for a while because too many protective devices had been activated in the North River system recently, causing some magnetic field disturbances and making the connection between his consciousness and Huo Yin unstable.
He took the shielding device that Mingxiao had made and opened a spatial portal to Anuo's room. He needed to connect his energy with Huo Yin's body.
He emerged from the portal, cautiously approached Huo Yin, knelt down beside the bed, and took Huo Yin's hand, preparing to connect his consciousness and energy with Huo Yin's.
As soon as he released his energy, he saw a small head peek over.
Their eyes met.
Anno: "...What are you doing squatting by my bed?"
Caesar smiled and said, "Your Highness, I have come to see you."
Anno rubbed her eyes, sat up, and yawned. This claw-like alien always came over around this time when she was almost asleep at night.
Caesar scooped Huo Yin out of bed and put him on the floor, blocking his way from talking to His Highness, which was a bit of an eyesore.
Anno: "Don't wake him up."
Otherwise, given Huo Yin's temper, if a stranger walked into her house, even if she didn't fight him, she would still ask who this person was.
She herself still doesn't understand what Caesar really is; his behavior is too strange, yet deep down she finds it surprisingly reasonable.
"Your Highness, rest assured, he will not wake up."
Anno: "You drugged him?"
Huo Yin is very easy to wake up; even the slightest movement will wake him.
Caesar: "No, I just put him to sleep in my own way."
Anno understood; it was probably another ability from their Claw Star.
Seeing Anno's tired expression, Caesar cursed himself inwardly for rushing here. He looked guilty and said, "Your Highness, if you're sleepy, go to sleep. I'll stay by your side."
Anno hummed in agreement and lay back down on the bed, but with Caesar's energy swirling around her, she couldn't fall asleep again.
She turned to look at Caesar. "Do you have the ability to teleport?"
Previously, he always appeared in her room, and it was always a sudden appearance, so she guessed that he might have the ability to teleport.
Caesar: "Yes, Your Highness, I can open a portal; you can go wherever you wish."
Anno sat up again. "Where is your Claw Planet? I want to go and see it."
She was very curious about Caesar, the Claw Star, and she couldn't find any matching descriptions of their race on the Skynet.
When Caesar heard Anno's request, he cursed himself in his heart again, thinking that he shouldn't have told His Highness so quickly, since His Highness couldn't return to the Zerg yet.
He could only apologize and say, "Your Highness, my spatial gate requires a special energy reaction to open. Our Claw Planet is in a very special position in the universe, and my spatial gate cannot open on Claw Planet for the time being."
Anno: "Like a signal? You need to receive the correct signal to turn it on?"
A hint of admiration flashed in Caesar's eyes: "Your Highness is truly intelligent."
Anno had no choice but to lie back down. "Fine, when can you open the space gate to Claw Star and take me there?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
Caesar breathed a sigh of relief. His Highness was so adorable; he automatically covered up his lie for him.
Oh, damn it, how could I lie to His Highness!
Every time Caesar was by Anor's side, he wished he could take her back to the Zerg immediately.
Damn the Northern River Federation, once they find His Highness's core, none of them will escape!
Anno looked at him: "How long are you going to stay?"
Caesar looked at her tenderly: "I will leave after Your Highness falls asleep."
As he spoke, he lowered his head, took Anno's hand, and pressed it against his face.
This was a completely subconscious action, the kind of action Huo Yin liked to do to her the most.
Huo Yin doesn't have his memories, but he has Huo Yin's memories and will be influenced by Huo Yin to some extent.
Fortunately, Anno was already very sleepy and didn't have the energy to think too much about his actions.
Looking at the young princess in front of him, Caesar's whip unconsciously extended from his back and rested on the back of her hand.
He could sense that His Highness's energy had been somewhat restless lately because the Zerg's genes were extremely domineering. No matter how much genetic modification and fusion occurred with other races, they would eventually be completely devoured by the Zerg's genes and become a complete Zerg.
So when he and Secris learned from the King that the spark of the North River system was created by fusing the genes of their insectoid race, they didn't know whether to laugh or say that the North River system was bold.
They even dared to fuse with the genes of the Zerg; their audacity is extraordinary.
Any race that dares to fuse their Zerg genes will eventually be devoured by the Zerg genes and become their subjects.
It just needs an activation process.
The procedure is simple: the Zerg always revere the Overlord, and all Zerg are subservient to the Overlord.
The Zerg's unique consciousness network means that if the Overlord's consciousness connects to one of its nodes, it will fall like dominoes; once one node is pushed down, all the others will collapse.
By stealing the young prince from the Northern River system, they were practically handing the spark of revolution to the Zerg.
With Your Highness present, the Zerg fragment in the Fireseed gene has probably already been activated, and it's only a matter of time before they become members of the Zerg race.
Her Highness is a King Insect, with even stronger genes, so the Northern River genes won't stay in her body for long.
Once she has fully restored her identity as the Queen Insect, all the sparks in the Northern River System will belong to her and become her followers.
The Northern River system is indeed very powerful, possessing advanced genetic technology. Other star systems have also considered targeting their insectoid race, but they lack the technology.
Because the Zerg are naturally strong in combat and have a special magnetic field connection with each other, any planet they occupy will be assimilated by this magnetic field if they stay there for a long time. The planet's environment will become suitable only for the Zerg to survive, and unsuitable for other races.
For other races, the Zerg are too domineering and frightening.
But in reality, the Zerg are not very interested in invading other races. Their Sivitro system is large enough, with many planets still empty, and they are highly adaptable to their environment, so they don't need to find so-called energy planets.
What makes their race special is that they can provide each other with energy.
Many races want to extract substances from the Zerg genes that can make them stronger. The Zerg genes do indeed make other races stronger and give them different abilities, but once they are infected with the Zerg genes, the race will automatically fall without them even having to attack.
Their descendants will all be insectoids.
Now, the Northern River system has opened Pandora's box.
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