Chapter 45: The Secret
Tang Ting said, "Evna also found it strange, so she asked you to translate it so that the final version could be uploaded to Skynet."
Lokin looked up from the document at Tang Ting. "I translated it. If it wasn't written like this on purpose, this name..."
She paused, tapped her hand twice, and the metallic wristband on her hand shimmered with light, enveloping the two of them in a soundproof shield.
Seeing how cautious Luo Jin was, Tang Ting confirmed her suspicions: "It's Zerg script, isn't it?"
Lokin nodded, and the two of them looked at the little cub in the room at the same time, their eyes filled with the same worry.
Tang Ting looked at the line of text left by Luo Jin and asked, "What does it mean when translated?"
Login wrote the Northern River system's script below the Zerg script, "Translated into our language, it's Aloo Seville. I don't know much about the Zerg script either, but Aloo is what the Zerg call 'baby.' If it's unnamed, a more accurate colloquial translation would be 'Anono' or 'Anunu.'"
Although Lokin didn't know much about the insectoid script, she had studied some of their habits and culture. They usually had single names and wouldn't use many different ones because they were born with a strict hierarchy. Even if they could rise through the ranks later on through their abilities, there were still differences in their status, and non-royal members could not use the same name.
However, the royal family, in the entire Zerg race, will never exceed two: the current king and his successor.
Naming the cub Aloo may seem casual, but it is actually full of the parents' love for the child.
Because the Zerg's offspring are the Zerg's hope and their most cherished possession.
Especially if it's a name with repeated characters...
The more Locke thought about it, the more absurd and unbelievable it seemed, so he quickly stopped himself from thinking about it.
She looked at Tang Ting and said, "Did you already have some guesses about the baby's identity?"
Tang Ting opened the personal terminal and showed Luo Jin another genetic code. "This is the baby's genetic code. The one I uploaded to the gene bank is a different one. I only changed one of the gene points. It won't have any impact."
Lokin looked at the genetic code, which was almost identical to the one on the signed document, except that the color of one of the gene dots in the middle was much darker.
Tang Ting circled this gene point, "This is the Zerg gene."
Seeing Luo Jin's astonished expression, Tang Ting explained to her, "This gene point is actually present in every Spark, but it's not in the genes of the Northern River Star people. It's a characteristic of the Spark. However, I've studied the genes of the Zerg, and this gene in the Spark belongs to the Zerg."
“I searched through the archives for the long history of the Fireseed. One page explained that the Fireseed and the Zerg were related, perhaps because the Fireseed had incorporated Zerg genes. As for the reason, it is now impossible to know. The Zerg genes in the Fireseed are very faint now, but Baby’s gene is too obvious. To avoid some unnecessary trouble, I made her gene point less noticeable.”
Tang Ting did this not to cover up anything, but because he understood that the cub's identity was not so simple. When he was researching the Fireseed gene, the Skynet of the Northern River Star System prohibited research on their gene related to the Zerg, and did not allow the uploading of any files related to discussion and research.
His former mentors had also explicitly and implicitly warned him not to delve too deeply into the research, as this was an inviolable bottom line for the Northern River System.
Looking at the handwritten name on the signed document, Lokin said, "I'm afraid our Grand Consul knows some inside information that we don't."
Tang Ting said, "Since His Majesty showed us the documents, it is a tacit approval on our part."
Luo Jin's eyes flickered: "Tacit approval?"
Tang Ting smiled, put her hand on Luo Jin's shoulder, and whispered in her ear, "He tacitly allows us to know some secrets, but these are secrets that we can't tell anyone. He also knows that we will keep this secret because the baby will be ours."
Lokin was first surprised, then frowned: "Is this using the baby as a bargaining chip?"
Tang Ting looked at Luo Jin, who had become sensitive, and gave her a reassuring squeeze on the shoulder: "His Majesty said that he will give the baby everything she wants, and we are what the baby wants."
They were both high-ranking military officers in the Northern River System. There were some things they would keep quiet about without the Chief Administrator's prompting. It was just that this particular incident happened, which is why they entrusted the baby to them.
Lokin's expression softened a bit. The Chief Consul had just mentioned wanting to make amends to the little cub. He knew the little cub was very dependent on them, and if they were to make amends, they would naturally not hand her over to another family.
"What about tomorrow's online lottery?"
Tang Ting: "Of course I will participate."
Lokin focused his gaze on the signed document in front of him, marked the translated name on it, and sent a message to Eve, asking her to write only Sevier in the cub's name column when drafting the document to create a file for the cub.
Although the name Aloo seems fine at first glance, it's hard to guarantee that someone with ulterior motives won't translate it to mean "Aloo".
In the government office of the capital city of Tianhe Star, Chief Executive Aled sat alone, looking at a message on his personal terminal, and slowly exhaled.
This is a message from the Zerg, containing only one sentence: My Aloo has a name, remember it, I'm watching it.
This is a warning, sent by the Zerg King.
It means that you will raise the child, but no matter how you raise him, he is still my child.
This statement also implies that what they did before has been discovered.
The Zerg king didn't publicize it widely, partly because he was afraid that the little queen's identity would be discovered by the people of the North River system, which would be detrimental to her. But telling him, the governor, was a warning that this secret was currently known only to a few of them, and that if they didn't raise the child properly, he had plenty of ways to deal with them.
The Zerg want to wage war against the Northern River system, but they are no match for them.
The Zerg's willingness to die for the Overlord alone was enough to sweep through the Northern River system.
Aled gave a bitter smile. Only he and a few old ministers knew about the theft of the Zerg Queen. That happened more than three hundred years ago, and those who knew about it either died in the war or passed away peacefully in their old age.
He was also old, and originally thought he could keep this secret until he went to his grave, but he never expected that one day he would actually be able to find the little king insect while he was still alive.
This is indeed the biggest secret that the Northern River system finds hard to talk about, and it is also the bottom line that the Northern River system cannot reveal.
More than three hundred years ago, what troubled the Northern River system was not the turbulent wars of the Interstellar Alliance, but the collective weakening of their spark energy.
Because the core of the soul that sustains the energy of the spark has been extinguished.
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