Faced with his darling's sharp questioning, Bo Jichen's alarm bells went off. His skin tightened, his heart leaped into his throat, and his mind raced: "Your...Your...Your Majesty, this is a long story. You should go back first, and I'll explain it to you in detail later..."
"Tell him the details later?" Shu Xubai grabbed Agares by the collar and pulled him in front of Leilos. His words were sharp and cutting: "General Bo Jichen, Marshal Agares, you dare to do it but not admit it. How are you going to explain this to your Emperor?"
"Are you saying that you bullied and humiliated my Jiang Jiang because she had no one to rely on and was all alone? Or are you saying that the Marshal of the Troya Empire, as her husband, attacked her, attacked a pregnant woman who was in constant fear and anxiety!"
Upon hearing this, Leilos's legs went weak, and he staggered backward.
Bo Jichen quickly reached out to steady him: "Be careful, darling..."
"Let go!" Relos flung Bo Jichen's hand away, barely managing to stand. He looked at Agares, whose collar was being grabbed by Shu Xubai, and asked in a trembling voice, "Agares, is what Lord Shu Xubai said true?"
"Jiang Jiang is the expectant mother who conceived naturally. You deliberately attacked her today. Do you not believe the child in her belly is yours, or..."
Agares, his lip bleeding, eyes red and heavy, interrupted Relos with a hoarse voice: "I believe you, I've never doubted that the child in her womb isn't mine..."
“Yes, you didn’t suspect anything, yet you attacked her.” Shu Xubai, fueled by hatred, poured a large bucket of oil onto the fire, relentlessly reminding Agares: “In your live court hearing, you cut off her willow branch.”
"Marshal Agares, I don't believe that you, as her husband, would not know that Yanliu and she are symbiotically related. I don't believe that you, as her husband, would not know that by cutting Yanliu and tearing it apart, you are cutting off her life and taking the life of the child in her womb."
Agares felt as if his heart was being torn apart. After Shu Xubai reminded him once again, he was so anxious that he coughed up another mouthful of blood.
Before dodging, Shu Xubai didn't forget to punch him hard, slamming him to the ground, then turned around and stomped on his stomach.
Shu Xubai's immense strength and powerful mental fortitude severely injured Agares, causing the ground beneath him to crack and split open.
Agares kept spitting out crimson blood.
Bo Jichen wanted to step forward to save Agares, but was stopped by Leilos.
Bo Jichen's heart pounded: "Your Majesty..."
"Don't stop him!" Leilos, though not angry, exuded an air of authority, his chest heaving as he breathed heavily, his eyes filled with heartache: "General Bo Jichen must not be stopped. He deserves to be beaten, he deserves to be beaten!"
Bo Jichen: "!!!!"
It's all over, it's all over, it's all over.
It's completely over.
We're really going to be destroyed together.
Shu Xu rolled his eyes and looked at Relos of the Troya Empire, his voice cold and sarcastic: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Troya Empire, my Jiang Jiang said that you treat her very well. I used to believe it, but I don't now."
"If you really cared about her, how could you let your brother hurt her, take her life, and take the life of the child in her womb? Is it just because she is the first naturally conceived expectant mother in the Abel Galaxy in 200 years?"
"Or perhaps, your own brother, the Imperial Marshal, and her husband, Agares, are planning to send her into a laboratory for dissection, blood sampling, and biopsy in order to benefit your Troia Empire?"
"Yes, the first naturally conceived body in the Abel Galaxy in over 200 years. She possesses immense spiritual power and formidable physical strength. What an excellent experimental subject! We can harm her at will without fear of her death, right?"
Leilos blurted out firmly, "No, Jiang Jiang is the little princess of the empire, I personally bestowed the title upon her. With me here, no one would dare to send her into the laboratory."
"Experimental subjects, slides, blood draws, dissections—none of that exists. She may not have children with me, but she will always be the little princess I have appointed. I can protect her with the entire empire."
"Heh!" Shu Xubai chuckled, his tone becoming increasingly sarcastic: "You used the entire empire to protect her, but she's already dead, she's already self-destructed."
"See that? See that? There should be a huge building here, an enormous building." Shu Xubai pointed ahead: "Now this huge building is weathering. The self-destruction of a powerful superhuman caused the weathering."
"Jiang Jiang and the children in her womb, gone, all gone, all thanks to your own brother. Gone, dead, and you still tell me you'll use the entire empire to protect her? Protect what? Ashes? Air?"
"Children?" Relos felt as if struck by lightning, his entire body turning cold. He slowly turned his head to look at Bo Jichen beside him, repeating what he had just said: "Children, children...more than one child?"
Bo Jichen closed his eyes, steeled his resolve, and nodded: "Yes, not just one, not just one child..."
Leilos's eyes reddened and moistened instantly, his chest heaving. After a long while, he found his voice and questioned Bo Jichen and Agares: "More than one, more than one child. Bo Jichen, Agares, what have you two done?"
“Jiang Jiang is still so young, she’s still a child herself, and she has children, more than one. And you treat her like this? Do you think she has strong mental and physical strength, that she won’t feel pain or cry out, so one of you hits her and the other doesn’t even know how to protect her?”
"Kiss..."
Leilos's voice was hoarse, and he interrupted Bo Jichen, "Shut up, General Bo Jichen, please shut up. I don't want to talk to you. Don't call me."
“Marshal Agares!” Relos bent down, showing none of the demeanor of an imperial emperor, and grabbed Agares, who was pale and had blood all over his mouth: “Marshal Agares, she is your wife, the wife you chose for me.”
"She's so young, without parents, all alone. She has no sense of security. As her husband and guardian, it's one thing to not give her enough security, but you also hurt her?"
“You have more than one child. Come, Marshal Agares, tell me how many children you have. Tell me, tell me, you killed your wife with your own hands, and how many of your children you killed!”
Agares' heart was riddled with holes, as if it were being ripped apart and stabbed with a knife. The pain made him tremble all over, his reddened eyes filled with tears, and blood dripped from the corner of his mouth: "I don't know, brother, I don't know how many children I have."
“I never thought I would have children, never thought it, but they came, and they moved on their own under my control… Jiang Jiang…”
“Agares, you…” Relos raised his hand to hit him, but couldn’t bring himself to do it. He let go of the hand that was holding him and said with exasperation, “Wife, wife, wife, you can only have children if you have a wife.”
"Marshal Agares, you have disappointed me greatly. She has children. You can feel the children moving. The children are at least 4 to 5 months old."
"For four to five months, she didn't tell you directly, but hinted at it indirectly. What does this mean? It means she doesn't trust you, and that you are not a good enough husband for her."
"Of course, I'm not qualified either. I'm not a qualified older brother either. If I were qualified, she would tell me, 'You deserve it. You deserve it, Agares, you deserve it too!'"
"Marshal Agares, I don't feel sorry for you at all. I feel sorry for Jiang Jiang and the children in her belly!"
Shu Xubai, who was standing to the side, flicked his hand, his long fingernails disappeared, but the hem of his coat, which had been flat, moved slightly. He narrowed his eyes and looked down at the slightly moving hem of his coat.
"Alright, alright, stop being hypocritical." Shu Xubai was extremely impatient. He took out his sword from his spatial storage and pointed it at Agares: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Troia Empire, please step aside. Whoever owes a life or a debt must pay it back."
Seeing this, Bo Jichen gathered his spiritual power in his hand and looked at Shu Xubai warily.
Relos took a deep breath, slowly stood up, and stood in front of Agares. The emperor, who ruled over 3 billion people of the empire and the ten star systems, lowered his head slightly to Shu Xubai: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Shu Xubai, all the mistakes are my fault."
“Agares is someone I raised myself. It’s my fault for not teaching him well. I’m glad you’ve come here today to stand up for Jiang Jiang. She has someone backing her up.”
"If you're happy, then step aside." Shu Xubai showed no mercy and said coldly, "Your own brother killed Jiang Jiang and the child in her womb. He owes me a life for a life."
“Yes, he owes you a life for a life.” Leilos said in a calm, hoarse voice, “I, as the older brother, am responsible for the deaths of Jiang Jiang and the children.”
"Therefore, Your Excellency Shu Xubai, I implore you to show mercy. I will pay for it with my life..."
Bo Jichen was shocked: "Darling..."
Agares: "Your Majesty..."
"Shut up, both of you!" Relos interrupted Bo Jichen, who had called him. Agares said, "Both of you shut up! Your lives are precious, but aren't Jiang Jiang and the children's lives precious too?"
"I am royalty, and it is true that I am the emperor of the empire, but Jiang Jiang is also my personally appointed little princess, a member of the royal family, and the child in her belly is also royalty."
“She grows vegetables and fruits to benefit ordinary people with superpowers in the empire, and she treats me and you. These acts of kindness and kindness cannot be taken for granted just because we are royalty.”
"No need!" Agares got up from the ground, his wounds still bleeding, blood trickling from his mouth. He walked unsteadily toward Shu Xubai: "Lord Shu Xubai, I killed my wife, I killed my child. I should join them. Do it!"
Shu Xu's white robes twitched again. He felt a surge of anger, gripped his sword tightly, and with a backhand thrust, plunged it into Agares's shoulder.
"Agares!" Relos called out, raising his foot to step forward, but Bo Jichen grabbed his wrist with lightning speed, his face calm and solemn, preventing him from moving forward even an inch.
Agares paused in his tracks.
Shu Xubai suddenly drew his sword, and blood splattered everywhere.
Agares, oblivious to pain, raised his hand, pointed to his heart, his eyes filled with death: "Lord Shu Xubai, stab him in the heart!"
Shu Xubai's lips curled into a smile, and he thrust his long sword toward Shu Xubai's heart, but instead of piercing his heart, he stabbed it away from it.
Shu Xubai leaned closer to Agares and chuckled, "Marshal Agares, did you really think I would kill you? No, I won't!"
As Shu Xubai spoke, he drew his sword, then swung it again, piercing Agares' heart once more. "Marshal Agares, I won't kill you. I want you to live well, to live a beautiful and long life."
"I want you to live so that every time you wake up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep or startled, you will remember that you killed your wife and your children with your own hands!"
"Want to die? Dying is so easy. Once you're dead, it's all over. You have nothing left, you don't have to think about anything anymore. Why should I give you something so good?"
"So you better live well, live to see your hands stained with the blood of your wife and your children."
Agares retreated hastily, the longsword at his chest slipping from his body as he retreated. He clutched his chest, blood dripping from between his fingers, and beneath him lay a pool of crimson blood…
With a clang.
Shu Xubai sheathed his longsword and glanced at Leilos: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Troya Empire, you guessed right, my Jiang Jiang is four months pregnant today. Because she has more than one child, she has gained weight and has a belly."
“I could have come and taken her away sooner, but she couldn’t bear to part with Agares. She told me she loved him and wanted to give him a chance. I called her silly, and she argued with me. But what did she get in return?”
Killing someone is just a matter of beheading them; one stab and it's all over.
But... attacking the heart is a different story.
The pain of being cut repeatedly was excruciating, worse than death.
Agares was being sliced again and again, the pain not only to his body and blood, but even to his bones. His trembling, blood-stained lips parted, and he silently cried out, "Jiang Jiang..."
"I really regret not coming to take her away sooner." Shu Xubai said through gritted teeth, filled with resentment and self-blame: "If I had taken her away sooner, she would be lying in a big bed now, basking in the sun during the day and watching the stars at night, without having to worry every day about whether her husband would send her to the laboratory."
"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Troia Empire, Marshal Agares, it is true that my Jiang Jiang is an orphan, without parents, but she has me. I am her family. You are really bullying her."
"However, you have received your retribution. Jiang Jiang is dead, and the child in her womb is dead. This is retribution for your royal family, and it is your retribution."
Relos's mouth moved slightly: "Sorry!"
Shu Xubai exhaled a deep breath, wiped away non-existent tears, concealed the sorrow in his eyes, and transformed into the elegant, noble vampire lord, devoid of any anger: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Troia Empire, thank you for your hospitality today. We will regret this forever. Farewell!"
After Shu Xubai finished speaking, he raised his left foot and kicked to the side, then lifted his foot and walked away, his steps looking extremely heavy, towards the aircraft.
Shu Xu rolled his eyes as he was about to walk to the aircraft, but unexpectedly, Zuo Jin finished looking at the personal terminal and said, "Your Majesty, the General, Marshal Agares, the Princess's parents and His Majesty He Yan of the Zerg have arrived. Shall we receive them?"
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