Chapter 55
[Ahhh, this is so frustrating! Aliens have taken over another of our planets. Even though it's uninhabited, it's still a resource planet for us!]
[How dare the aliens, they're actually forming a coalition of several major civilizations? Pah, pah, pah, if you didn't know better, you'd think humans had some treasure to steal!]
Ah, they're not here for the little queen, are they?
[Don't spread rumors. Be careful not to make the young queen a disaster for the country and the people.]
[That's right. But is there really nothing we can do about aliens?]
[It's because the aliens have higher mental power than us. The only ones who can face the aliens head-on are the Red Water Army; their power is on another level.]
[It's been a year since the "New Birthday". I wonder how the Chishui Army has recovered.]
[Wow, can I dream of the Red Water Army going out to battle this time?]
[I have a little gossip: His Majesty left for Blue Star a few days ago.]
[Over the past year, the little queen has been traveling back and forth between the main planet and the blue planet. Is there anything strange about this, Your Majesty?]
[His Majesty isn't a love-sick person. With the alien coalition currently engaged in such an urgent military operation, how could he possibly go to Blue Planet just for the little queen?]
[You mean the Chishui Army is expected to go on the expedition?]
As soon as this news came out, it was quickly reposted and soon became a hot topic on StarNet.
"Is it okay?" Shi Buyi asked worriedly, looking at the information online. He remembered that important military operations were usually kept secret, weren't they?
"It's okay. We've already made plans to have them appear on camera." Zong Zhengqing chuckled at the child's frown. He stretched out his fingers and rubbed his brow. "Xiao Xi, I'll go on the expedition this time."
"Okay, I'll go too." Shi Bushi turned off the terminal, picked up the brush and continued to draw talismans, nonchalantly.
"It's very dangerous." This was not included in Zong Zhengqing's previous plan.
"We promised never to separate again. Are you going to go back on your word?" Shi Buyi held a brush, pretending to draw whiskers on the "traitor," but his hand was grabbed and pressed against the desk. The man with dark eyes leaned over, grasped his chin, and kissed him deeply.
After a long time, the two separated, panting.
"I can help." Shi Buxi's breath was weak, sounding a little pitiful.
"I know, I'm just afraid." Zong Zhengqing hugged the man in his arms, buried his head in his neck, and gently kissed the red mole on his collarbone. He had waited for his lover for more than ten years and was afraid that something might happen to him.
He couldn't be sure what conspiracy was behind the coalition forces of several major alien civilizations attacking the human galaxy. But as people said online, it might be targeting his little queen.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Shi Buyi patted his back, and felt him kissing the red mark on her collarbone, her face slightly red. She shifted her butt on his lap and pushed the man who was leaning on him like a cat, "Do you remember how this red mark came about?"
"Yeah! I bit him." Zong Zhengqing closed his eyes, thinking back to when Shi Buyi was about five years old. He'd bitten him like that when the corpse poison had taken effect. His heart ached. How could he bear to do that? But from that moment on, even when the corpse poison took effect, he could control himself and not hurt anyone.
It was then that he discovered Shi Buxi's unusualness. A normal person bitten like this would either die from the poison or become a zombie, but he was unharmed. The seeds of both relief and unease were planted, until his master traveled through time and space to this place and took him away.
"Hehe, back then you stayed up all night taking care of me for days, and even cried secretly at night, but you still insisted that sand had gotten into my stomach." Shi Buxi thought of the young Zong Zhengqing and felt a little regretful that she hadn't been able to experience his growth. When they met again, he had already grown up.
Zong Zhengqing looked up and saw Shi Buyi's sly smile. He couldn't help but pinch his face. At that time, he was really afraid that the child would die. He had no one to vent his pain and fear, so he could only stay by the child's bed at night and wipe away his tears.
Fortunately, fortunately his little boy grew up well.
“Bang, bang!”
There was a knock on the door, and Shi Buxi quickly dismounted from Zong Zhengqing's lap, sat down, and picked up his brush, seriously drawing a talisman. Last year, when he participated in the show, he had promised to draw talismans for the audience, but he'd been so focused on helping the zombies clear their poison over the past year that he'd almost forgotten. He had to settle this matter before Zong Zhengqing left for battle.
"Your Majesty." Jian Mingyuan walked in, handed Zong Zhengqing a document, and said, "The Ministry of National Supervision sent someone back with a message. It seems the aliens are targeting the corpse poison and the little queen."
The formation that purified living beings a year ago not only shocked humans, but also attracted the attention of aliens.
It's not the first time aliens have been investigating zombies, and some humans are even assisting them for their own benefit. Last year, Zong Zhengqing entered Blue Planet to investigate this matter, and ultimately cleared it up. This time, their large-scale invasion likely stems from the knowledge that the Red Water Army is actually zombies, fueling their greed.
As for his little queen...
Zong Zhengqing's eyes fell on Shi Buyi, who was conscientiously drawing the talisman. His eyes were slightly cold. Who dared to peek at him...
"Are your eyes so terrifying?" Shi Buyi smiled and looked at Zong Zhengqing. Feeling that he had withdrawn his killing intent, he said, "Don't worry, I will make them regret targeting me."
"Hmm." Zong Zhengqing suppressed his chill and smiled gently. Turning to look at Jian Mingyuan, he said, "Continue to investigate further to confirm whether there are any other humans involved in the case."
Jian Mingyuan took the order and left.
Two days later, a spaceship docked at Blue Star. The Chishui warship, which had been in storage for nine years, set sail again, flying from Kunlun Peak into the hangar. Emblazoned with the Chishui flag, the ship took off from Blue Star, pierced the clouds, and entered space.
Five days later, humans and the alien coalition officially went to war. The Red Water Army, using their own warships, approached the enemy's main ship and successfully destroyed it.
The dazzling light illuminated the space, as if welcoming the return of the Red Water Army.
At the same time as the military released a video of the Chishui Army successfully annihilating the enemy, the military and the royal official account simultaneously announced that His Majesty Zong Zhengqing and Queen Shi Buyi would personally lead the army to fight.
[Ahhh, the Chishui Army is so handsome, so handsome, so handsome.]
[The Red Water Army truly exists from another dimension. Their micromanipulation, aside from Your Majesty, no one else could possibly pull it off!]
[The higher the spiritual power, the higher the level of biological mecha and biological warships that can be controlled. It's not that we humans don't have high-tech warships, but our spiritual power is not enough to match them, so we can't exert their power.]
[Our Chishui Army's spiritual power is at least 2S level!]
[You're not saying enough about the ones in front of me. Our army also has 2S fighters. I've never seen such beautiful technology before.]
[Wait, the Little Queen is very powerful, but this is a battlefield, it's the vastness of space, how can she be effective?]
[I laugh at those who are still questioning the young queen. Putting aside the incident of Blue Star purifying the corpse poison a year ago, just watching the video of him fighting a vampire one-on-one earlier in the show shows that his fighting ability isn't necessarily inferior to your majesty.]
Who says it's useless? I drew the Little Queen's Talisman. The day before yesterday, a car hit me while I was out. I thought I was going to die, but the car veered off and headed towards the green belt.
[Ahhh, I got one too. It's really powerful. My heart has always been a bit weak, and I've been carrying the talisman with me for the past few days, and I feel so much more relaxed. I went for a checkup yesterday, and the doctor was amazed.]
[I admit that the Little Queen is very powerful, but in space combat, either warships or mechas are used, so the Little Queen's talismans may not be effective.]
[What a joke! Academician Liang has long said that the Little Queen's power is terrifying, and that humanity will undoubtedly experience a qualitative leap in technology because of it. What are you still questioning?]
[Haha, why are you in such a hurry? Wait a little longer, maybe the little queen will show you something big.]
The debate raged online, with no immediate resolution. Five days later, the military and royal family's official accounts released another battlefield video:
Our soldiers were launching a general assault on the enemy fleet, only to find they had a trick up their sleeve, encircling us from behind. Countless enemy shells blazed down, engulfing our bio-warships and bio-mechs. Just when everyone expected utter annihilation, they discovered that the shells were either duds, falling, or errant. There were even instances where shells clearly struck our warships, only to see them emerge safely through a patch of red light.
【……】
[I'm watching a fantasy drama? ]
[@Military Department @Royal Star Network, did you post this by mistake? Which TV show/movie fantasy clip did you post?]
[No, look, our warships and mechas are glowing faintly.]
[Have our weapons reached a new level? ]
[Oh shit, it’s real, there’s light.]
When the crowd looked confused, the camera pulled back and everyone's eyes lit up instantly.
On the deck of our star destroyer fleet's main ship, a young man in Taoist robes, holding a sword in one hand and a talisman in the other, stood at the center of a faint starlit formation. He gazed forward, chanting an incantation with a stern gaze. The light around him shone with the distant stars, making him look like an immortal strolling through space.
[Ahhh, the little queen is performing a ritual to protect our warship.]
[So handsome, so handsome, I say it ten thousand times, so handsome. 】
[Is no one paying attention? This is the enemy galaxy border!]
"This is a bulldozer, right? In just a few days, we've not only recovered the planet we lost, but we've also pushed it to the enemy's border."
【Hahaha, cheer up.】
[Wow, I'm crying. Even aliens have such a day. Hahahaha, I'm laughing and crying at the same time. I'm going crazy.]
[This is so funny! Aliens must be questioning their lives right now. Bah! They're not human.]
[Let them see what it means to turn a war of aggression into a war of defense.]
In the year 3365 of the Star Era, after entering the interstellar age, humanity, having suffered for millennia of invasion, finally achieved its greatest victory under the leadership of Emperor Zong Zhengqing and Empress Shi Buxi. They transformed the enemy's invasion into a defensive war, advancing directly on the enemy's home planet and forcing several major alien civilizations to sign treaties never to invade humanity, in exchange for two resource-rich star systems and a vast sum of star coins.
Ten days later, the army returned victorious.
His Majesty stood in front of the camera in military uniform, and beside him was his queen, also wearing a green robe, which was different from others, but no one said anything. Military uniform is the battle robe of soldiers, and green robe is the battle robe of queens.
"Long live the warriors, long live the Red Water Army, long live your majesty the queen."
The cheers of the audience resounded through the sky, one louder than the other, reaching the sky.
"Long live humanity." The human king stood before the camera, his resolute gaze fixed on every human being. "I declare this battle a resounding victory for humanity."
“Victory, victory, victory!”
This speech was broadcast live across the entire human planet. Some watched from home, while others gathered in community squares to participate in the event with family and friends. Like the people on the main planet shown on camera, they all cheered loudly.
They wanted to cheer loudly enough for Her Majesty the Queen, who was far away on the main planet, to hear them. They also wanted to cheer loudly enough for the soldiers who had sacrificed their lives resisting invasion over the past three thousand years to hear them.
They won, humanity won big.
"Bang!"
The main star was shining brightly, and waves of fireworks lit up the night sky. The streets were filled with people coming out to celebrate the victory, and everyone's face was filled with brilliant smiles, for the victory and for the future.
"For thousands of years, humanity has been living in a constant state of uncertainty about the outcome of wars. It's quite unbearable." Shi Buxi leaned over the railing on the top floor, looking at the people below beating drums and gongs, and couldn't help but laugh. I didn't expect such an ancient thing to still exist in the interstellar age.
"Xiao Xi, thank you." Zong Zhengqing hugged the boy, kissed his temples, and whispered softly.
Five years ago, the corpse poison began to intensify its attack on the bodies of Kunlun zombies, and zombies died from time to time.
A year ago, the average number of zombie deaths in Kunlun reached two per day.
Everyone is watching their friends and relatives die, and they don’t know when it will be their turn.
The general of the Sang army found him and pleaded, "Your Majesty, please let us die on the battlefield. Let us fight one more time."
Zong Zhengqing agreed. But he thought, he would let them go before humans and tell them that they were heroes. He would lead them in one final battle and commemorate them as heroes.
All the Kunlun zombies are prepared to die.
Until his boy appeared and changed everyone's fate.
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