Chapter 178: Vanishing
Séville definitely has to punish Caesar, otherwise she's been spoiling him too much.
She knew that Anunu was soft-hearted, and these relatives were all very cunning. They knew Anunu's personality and wanted to take advantage of her soft heart to manipulate her.
The seven high-ranking attendants around Anunu were all chosen by her and Augsis, naturally the best ones selected for Anunu.
Although these seven members are still in the early stages of adulthood, their abilities are already outstanding. However, because they have not been guided by Anunu for a long time, their personalities are all too prominent.
She had to help Anunu keep them in check.
"Caesar acknowledges his mistake and is willing to accept any punishment from the Queen and His Highness."
Caesar lowered his head, looking as if he had sincerely admitted his mistake.
He knew the consequences before making this decision and was mentally prepared to accept the punishment.
Anno could sense her mother's determination and Caesar's stubbornness within the consciousness network.
After Caesar returned, she was wide awake. She knew that Caesar had deliberately stayed at the front line and not returned to the front-line base so that he and Secris could take over Beihe as soon as possible and prevent her from having any contact with anything related to Beihe.
"Mom, he is my family member. If he has done something wrong, let me punish him."
Anno knew that her mother was always ruthless and impartial when dealing with relatives who made mistakes, and the punishments were always very severe.
As a member of the Zerg, Caesar's subjective attempt to evade the King's orders and summons is a serious mistake in the Zerg race.
But she knew why Caesar did it, and she knew what he was thinking.
She would punish him, but she didn't want her mother to punish him too severely.
Upon hearing Anno's words, Caesar couldn't help but look up at her.
He looked up and met her calm blue eyes. Her gaze was soothing, as if she were comforting him, telling him not to be afraid, that she wouldn't punish him too severely.
Caesar felt that at this moment, His Highness's expression suddenly made him afraid to look directly at her. She should punish herself and punish him severely.
But His Highness could understand his actions.
He couldn't express the feelings in his heart at that moment; they were both sore and swollen, as if his whole heart was being soaked in warm water, filled with this sore and swollen emotion.
He knew all the pain in His Highness's heart because of his ability to create clones. In his search for His Highness, he placed countless clones throughout the universe.
These clones have experienced the same suffering as her. With hundreds of clones combined, they have felt countless hardships in this world and thus know that there are many unpleasant things in this world.
He is the one who can best empathize with His Highness.
Knowing her pain, her inner turmoil, and all the hardships she had endured, I felt even more compelled to bear it all for her.
He didn't just want to be a servant who only knew how to obey and follow orders; there were countless servants like that throughout the Zerg.
Although the Zerg possess a consciousness network and understand each other, with no secrets to speak of, even so, under this Zerg social model, only a few of them truly understand His Highness's heart.
He wanted to solve more of her problems; he was her vanguard. Besides clearing obstacles for her, he also wanted to make her truly happy.
If the problems of the Northern River system and her adoptive parents' family are not properly resolved, she will always have a knot in her heart.
During his days on the front lines, besides constantly pushing the battle line into the inner perimeter of the Northern River system, he also went to find Logan and Tang Ting.
After the outbreak of interstellar war, the North Star system split into several factions.
The Northern River Federation's legions are primarily on the front lines fighting against their Zerg allies.
Meanwhile, the villainous forces have been stirring up trouble, adopting a "what's the worst that could happen?" mentality, and using various genetic weapons to disrupt the already unstable genes of the North River system. Under this struggle, a large number of North River people mutated into the Fallen.
The legions now led by Helir and the governor of Canghai Star have given up fighting the Zerg.
He took the initiative to go to Hailier.
Once he entered the inner perimeter of the Northern River Star System, he could freely open spatial portals.
The shielding system of the Northern River system is mainly built on a front-line array of asteroids.
He originally intended to persuade Hailier to surrender. His clone, Huo Yin, had spent some time with Hailier and knew that Hailier was a very resolute person. From Beihe's perspective, he would rather die in battle than surrender, just like before when he strongly opposed Beihe Star System stealing the Zerg's Little Queen Insect. He was a person who truly possessed military spirit and fighting will.
However, the current state of the Northern River system is just like it was three hundred years ago. He cannot persuade most of the top leaders of the Northern River system, nor can he influence the decisions of any of the top leaders.
He was supposed to be there to resist the Zerg's attack on Beihe, but in just two months, before Beihe could even break in, their own star system was already in chaos.
Only after the outbreak of interstellar war did he realize with shock that the rebels had become so powerful. He also realized that besides the rebels, there was another organization that had given up all resistance and wanted the Zerg to invade the North River system.
These people are also a large organization, a branch of the relatives of the fallen race who split off from the rebels.
They had lost faith in the Northern River system. Even without the Zerg, the Northern River would have fallen apart sooner or later due to this civil war.
The core of the Little King Worm's plan was simply to allow them to delay the onset of the disease in the Northern River for another three hundred years.
The rebels and corrupted groups don't just expect the Zerg to invade North River; for them, any race in the galaxy will do, as long as it can destroy North River, it makes no difference to them.
“I’m getting old, and the name of the Hailier family will probably end with me forever.”
Hailier looked at Caesar, who had appeared before him.
"You don't need to try to persuade me to surrender. If I can fight, I will fight to the last man. The word 'surrender' doesn't exist in my vocabulary."
"But now, given the current situation in Beihe, I don't know where to point my sword."
The flame that had burned for hundreds of years in Hailier's eyes gradually died out.
What chilled him to the bone was the current state of the North River system.
He had long known that the Northern River system was rotten to the core, but he hadn't expected it to be so bad that there was almost no way to salvage it.
He went to the front-line base and saw that the asteroids used as exile sites were full of corrupted beings, and even many of them were just half-beasts.
In their eyes, there was the ferocity of wild beasts, resentment towards fate, and numbness to suffering.
He was the commander of the legion, and his thoughts were always on how to fight. He rarely interfered in other matters, and his position did not involve those matters.
But when you see the entire asteroid, with its mountains and valleys filled with fallen creatures, the shock is indescribable.
"The Zerg do not fight those who surrender."
Caesar said to Hailier, "We only asked you to surrender to save more time. We Zerg are warlike, but we don't like war."
In the past, they only knew how to defend themselves and firmly protect their star system.
However, the Alliance repeatedly dragged the Zerg into conflict, and the war even affected their little prince.
It was only then that they realized that only by securing a place in the current alliance and standing at the highest position could they withstand the covetous eyes of those who desired their Zerg race.
In the past, they always looked down on other races, and they have now tasted the consequences of this arrogance.
Hailier sighed heavily, his gaze towards space losing its light.
Caesar had only been away from him for two months, and he had aged considerably.
Although he is already over four hundred years old, according to the aging trajectory of the Northern River Star people, he has not yet reached old age.
He looked at Caesar with an all-knowing expression: "You came to me not just to persuade me to surrender, did you?"
Caesar said coldly, "Persuading them to surrender was just a side thing. I came here to ask you about the current situation of Lockin and his family."
Hailier's expression turned grave upon hearing this. "I can't contact them either. Their family went missing during the last rebel uprising."
After saying that, he paused slightly, and then said, "Shortly after the cubs went back with you, Tangting and Logan were dismissed by Dennis, and Hicks also resigned voluntarily. But soon after, Tangting mutated into a Fallen, and Logan left the children with his parents and went to find Tangting."
After hearing what he said, Caesar opened a spatial portal and turned to leave.
Hailier called out to him from behind: "Huoyin."
Upon hearing the name, Caesar paused and slowly turned to look at him.
Hailier chuckled. "You brat, you know to come to me first when you're in trouble."
Caesar: "You are not my father; I was born from an egg."
Hailier waved to him, "Go on, I'll take good care of your body. If you ever want to come back as Huo Yin, just come back and take a look. Your mother misses you very much."
"I will come back to use this body, but I am not Huo Yin. Don't have any illusions or expectations about me. I am a Zerg, and we are enemies."
After saying that, he stepped into the spatial portal without looking back.
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