Chapter 198 Chapter 198 Vest King Dad 18
"Zhuozhuo, get up first, wash your face and eat. Once you're full, I'll tell you everything."
Zhuozhuo looked at Si Hao, pouting and thinking for a moment before saying seriously, "If you want to say something, say it. If you don't want to say it, don't say it. And if you do say it, tell the truth. Don't lie to Zhuozhuo anymore. Otherwise, Zhuozhuo will never trust you again. Zhuozhuo will wonder if everything you say is a lie."
After thinking for a moment, Zhuozhuo added emphatically, "Zhuozhuo would also lie to you!"
Si Hao hadn't expected a few lies to have such a serious impact on a child. He immediately promised, "Zhuozhuo, I will never tell a lie in front of you again."
"Oh." Zhuozhuo didn't say whether he believed it or not. He just said in a baby voice, "Lying is bad. Because you lie, you lose the dignity of an elder."
“…” Si Hao looked bitter.
Zhuozhuo saw it, but she didn't want to ask him to comfort him. She said to 003, "33, give all your body back to it."
【receive. 】
003 didn't dare to object and withdrew from jz198 before Si Hao's order was given. 9972 immediately took over the body again, smiling and reaching out to Zhuozhuo. "Baby, I'll hold you."
[Thank you, baby!]
Zhuozhuo asked 9972 to carry her to wash, asked 9972 to change her clothes, and asked 9972 to carry her to eat. She didn't even look at the two people following behind her, and was very cold.
003 and 004 were madly blaming Si Hao, blaming him for not being honest and causing them to be angry.
Si Hao was sorting through the information, trying to minimize his own guilt while providing a complete narrative, and he had no intention of responding to this childish attempt at shifting blame. But no matter how he thought about it, he felt his crime was unforgivable. If he were just imagining himself in Zhuozhuo's shoes, he would never trust a mysterious figure with so many identities, so many lies, and so many secrets.
Lunch was still prepared according to Zhuozhuo's taste. Ever since Si Hao rewarded him with energy stones, the chefs tried their best to cook every day. Every dish was so delicious that Zhuozhuo wanted to swallow his tongue. Even his habit of daydreaming while eating was gone.
After eating with big mouthfuls, Zhuozhuo burped and asked 9972 to take her down from the child seat. She touched and looked around in the small dining room, played for a while before climbing onto the sofa and sitting upright.
Si Hao wanted to sit next to her and rub her belly, but Zhuo Zhuo slapped his hand hard and pointed at the single sofa opposite and said, "Sit there."
Si Hao took one look and thought, isn't this the posture of interrogating a criminal? But he still sat down, with his legs together and his hands flat on his lap, like an elementary school student, and looked at Zhuozhuo somewhat obediently.
Zhuozhuo was very satisfied with Si Hao's attitude, and his voice softened a little, "Okay, you can talk now."
"What does Zhuozhuo want to hear first?"
Zhuozhuo pouted and said in a chilling voice, "I'll listen to whatever you say."
Okay, I'm angry again.
Si Hao secretly annoyed himself for asking such a question, or was it because he was hoping for a lucky break! Zhuozhuo was not an ordinary three-year-old child, so he should stop playing tricks. From now on, he was a blank slate in front of Zhuozhuo without any secrets!
"Zhuozhuo, I was wrong. Can you please listen to my confession before convicting me?" Si Hao leaned forward slightly, trying to impress Zhuozhuo with his sincere and pitiful eyes.
He succeeded.
Zhuozhuo said tolerantly, "Sure."
"So what did I say?"
"Go ahead."
Si Hao chuckled. "Zhuozhuo knows we're at war with the Zerg, right? The Zerg are an invading race in the universe. They have no civilization of their own, not even individual consciousness. All their actions are based on instinct and the command of the Zerg Queen. From birth to death, the Zerg's mission is to reproduce and survive. The Zerg reproduces extremely quickly and has an extremely short growth cycle. It only takes three weeks for an egg to grow into an adult capable of fighting on the battlefield. This means that the Zerg are almost impossible to kill."
He looked at Zhuo Zhuo. "After occupying a planet, the Zerg will devour and plunder all its resources at top speed. They can turn an S-class planet into a worthless wasteland in a week. The Zerg's body is the best weapon: hard, sharp, and highly malleable. Zerg can also survive in space without external aid. Zerg and the Zerg Queen communicate through telekinesis. Humans have observed that a Zerg Queen can issue orders to billions of Zerg in an instant, and this is far from her limit."
Zhuozhuo opened his eyes wide, vaguely aware of the Zerg's power.
"After the initial panic and hatred of the Zerg, some people began studying them. Some aimed to defeat them more quickly, some to benefit humanity, and some to profit. My original family belonged to the latter. They began as minions of the royal family, suddenly inspired to stitch together humans and Zerg, some with random combinations, others assembled according to myths. These exotic creations were extremely popular in the dark world, making them extremely wealthy in a short period of time."
Si Hao sneered, "As their greed grew, they began studying the Zerg's genes, hoping to combine them with human genes to create a more perfect monster from a genetic perspective. They also wanted to obtain the Zerg Queen's mental power to create the strongest superhuman warrior. After accidentally discovering that the Zerg Queen's mental power could control the gender differentiation of the Zerg, they were overjoyed and restarted their research on ABO gender. Research requires test subjects, and they need subjects with high physical fitness and mental strength."
He still had the energy to ask, "After nearly a thousand years of marriage alliances, 90% of the high-quality AO resources are concentrated within the upper class. They have high status and complex social connections, making them difficult to target. Zhuozhuo, do you know where they find ideal test subjects?"
Zhuozhuo's eyes widened, her gaze vacant. She hadn't yet fully grasped Si Hao's words. After a moment's thought, she pondered, her mind still blank. She slowly shook her head. She was still complaining to 9972 in her mind, "Is Si Hao making this so difficult to understand on purpose?"
[…Baby, I don’t know.]
"That shouldn't be the case." Zhuozhuo asked himself and answered, "It doesn't seem like it was intentional."
9972 stood in awe, [Baby, how did you figure that out?]
Zhuozhuo said in a baby voice, "I can't see it, but I can feel it."
[……]
Okay, the sixth sense is still a sense.
Si Hao stretched out his arm, rubbed Zhuo Zhuo's little head, and said with a smile: "They will be held accountable if they arrest other people's children, so they used their own children."
Hearing this, Zhuozhuo, who had been in a daze, suddenly had a premonition. She said childishly, "Is it you?"
Si Hao paused, and seeing the worry and sadness in Zhuozhuo's eyes, he nodded and said in a relaxed tone, "It's me."
Zhuozhuo vaguely realized that the experiments Si Hao had just described were all ones he had experienced. She tried to recall those terrifying experiments, but only fragments could come to mind, things she didn't understand. So she compared them with what she did understand. "Was splicing your genes more painful than splicing your body?"
"Yes, the gene hurts more."
Zhuozhuo's little face wrinkled up, full of heartache. She ran over and hugged Si Hao, looking up at him, "You've suffered a lot, blow on it and it will hurt." She blew air at Si Hao, not specifically at any place, but on his hands, arms, legs and waist, making him dizzy and bringing a gust of warm wind to Si Hao's cold and desolate heart.
"What are you doing, Zhuozhuo?"
Si Hao held up Zhuozhuo's little head with one hand, pinched her cheeks, and said with a smile: "What I'm talking about are all things in the past. They won't affect me anymore. Don't worry, Zhuozhuo."
"Worried!" Zhuozhuo heard this after she recovered from her dizziness for a while. She angrily retorted to Si Hao, "There's no past! You have to take revenge and make the bad guys suffer the same pain!"
Because she was too excited and spoke too loudly, and was also a little short of oxygen, Zhuozhuo fainted again, but she said firmly: "Besides genes, there are also experiments with insect mothers, and... there are many more. You can't forget. You must take revenge!"
9972 was in a delicate mood. Zhuozhuo had never felt such a strong desire for revenge before. This Si Hao... was really good at bewitching people.
"As a person, you can't be too kind!" Zhuozhuo racked his brains, searching through his three years of accumulated knowledge, and taught Si Hao earnestly, "People who are soft and have no temper will be bullied by bad people, and it will be very miserable. You have to be fierce, very fierce, so that bad people will be afraid of you, dare not bully you, and run away when they see you!"
As the little fellow spoke, he waved his little fists aggressively, like a kitten baring its fangs and claws.
Si Hao listened with a smile on his face. He had lived for nearly forty years, and this was the first time he had received care from his relatives.
Zhuozhuo suddenly raised his hands to cover Sihao's eyes and said softly, "Sihao, if you are sad, just cry. Zhuozhuo will not laugh at you, but wipe your tears."
Si Hao felt a pang of pain inside. The little guy couldn't even remember what he said, and certainly didn't understand the content of the research. But she was so indignant, and she emphasized twice that he should retaliate and gave him some advice on how to behave in society. It was because she sensed his anger, felt for him, and stood up for him.
"Zhuozhuo, don't be angry. I said 'it's over' because I have already taken revenge. I didn't let any bad guy go." Si Hao smiled and spoke softly.
"Do the bad guys feel as much pain as you do?" Zhuozhuo cared about this very much.
Si Hao thought of the expressions on the faces of those who died after losing everything they cared about, and said with certainty, "It was even more painful than mine."
"Okay."
Zhuozhuo clapped his hands, looked at Si Hao and said, "Forget about the bad guy. Zhuozhuo is also your family. Zhuozhuo will not use you for experiments."
"Okay, I'll listen to Zhuozhuo." Si Hao smiled cheerfully and picked up Zhuozhuo and placed her on his lap. Seeing that she didn't react, he felt even better and quickly said, "After escaping from the lab, I used several fake identities to avoid being hunted down and to expand my power more quickly."
Finally getting to the point, Si Hao didn't dare pause, fearing Zhuo Zhuo would mistakenly think he was stalling again. He spoke in one breath, "Including my original identity, I have five identities in total. Sun Sirui is the third, Si Hao is the fourth, and the other three are mecha maker, space pirate, and wealthy businessman."
Si Hao smiled, "Zhuozhuo, let's play a game. Guess who my other three identities are, okay? They will appear around you within the next week. When they appear, Zhuozhuo, you point them out, okay?" This was an idea that came to him on a flash of inspiration. If Zhuozhuo agreed, this should be the most exciting hide-and-seek game she had ever played, and she would remember it for the rest of her life.
Zhuozhuo's eyes lit up, she thought this game was fun, but she didn't agree immediately, wondering if this was Si Hao's new way of delaying.
Si Hao smiled bitterly. This was the price of deceiving a child. He projected three photos onto his computer and pointed at them, saying, "This is mecha builder Wood. This is Star Pirate Number Two, also known as Mr. Tu. This is wealthy businessman Yi Fangzhou. Zhuozhu, watch carefully. Don't mistake them for the wrong person..."
“Don’t look!”
Zhuozhuo covered his eyes and said loudly: "Even without looking at the photo, Zhuozhuo can recognize it."
"Are you looking at the spirit body? Zhuozhuo, look above my head now, is there still a spirit body?"
Zhuozhuo carefully peeked out from between her fingers, and put her hand down when she didn't see the virtual screen. She looked above Si Hao's head and was shocked to find a shapeless object there that looked like sea water filled with stars. The five spiritual bodies were nowhere to be seen.
"Are the cats lost?" Zhuozhuo asked sadly and worriedly.
Si Hao raised his eyebrows: "It's not lost, but what you see now should be a sea of spiritual power. I can truly control the form of spiritual power."
He manipulated his mental power to condense into shapes like a black cat, and even into shapes never before seen, such as butterflies, flowers, and lions. Hearing Zhuozhuo's repeated exclamations, he teased, "Zhuozhuo, my mental power has camouflage. This way, you won't be able to find me by looking overhead."
9972: [……]Why do I feel that Si Hao is even more powerful than in the plot and evolution?
Zhuozhuo was not discouraged at all and became even more determined. "Even if I don't look, I can still find it!"
"Okay, I'll wait for Zhuozhuo to find me." Si Hao fed Zhuozhuo half a bottle of water. Seeing that she didn't seem to want to take a nap, he pondered for a moment and continued, "Zhuozhuo, do you still remember Teacher Beatrice?"
Zhuozhuo nodded. She still remembered Beatrice going with them to the Qiuhuaxing-3 satellite, but Sun Sirui said she hadn't been captured by space pirates and was safe. At first, Zhuozhuo missed her, but these days, she'd been so preoccupied with Si Hao and Sun Sirui that she hadn't thought much about Beatrice. She wondered what Si Hao meant by mentioning Teacher Beatrice. Could she be one of his identities?
Si Hao then said, "Her father is Speaker Louis of the Federation, the mastermind behind the Remiel pirates. In order to capture Remiel with minimal casualties, I used Beatrice to invite him over as well. But I promise that Miss Beatrice is safe, and she should be home by now."
"Oh, I see." Zhuozhuo moved his eyes away from Si Hao's chest with a little guilt, and forgot to worry about whether Beatrice was willing to be used, making Si Hao feel lucky to have escaped a disaster.
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