Chapter 116

Chapter 116

"Starship..." Xu Zhiheng repeated.

Indeed, when everyone gathered together again, He Yunting just said lightly, "The central city has been cleared, and no one survived." The tragic conditions in other cities made everyone believe the commander's words, and after the starship returned, it also gave priority to sending non-staff personnel like himself back.

Not to mention that everyone stayed in their own mechas as ordered on the way back. No one could have imagined what was installed in the lower levels of the starship that could accommodate tens of thousands of people under the mecha formation.

Lin Han threw a bottle of hemostatic medicine to He Yunting from the mecha and waited patiently for Xu Zhiheng to react slowly.

"No." After the other party calmed down again, there was a hint of confidence in his voice, "Don't even mention the Central City. Xi Yuan didn't last long after arriving at the Proton Star Port. It's been a long time since he first came back from the Proton Star. How could the Central City not be affected at all?" Lin Han did not answer, but still bent the corners of his mouth and looked at Xu Zhiheng quietly.

The other party's tone seemed to be extremely confident: "Mr. Lin's jokes are really boring."

He Yunting took the hemostatic medicine, simply treated the bleeding wound, and said coldly: "I knew it a long time ago."

He really didn't think of Xu Zhiheng that way at first.

When in the border area, Lin Han said that he used to go to Xu Zhiheng's lectures frequently, which made him subconsciously pay more attention to Xu Zhiheng. When the two finally came back from the border area, Qi Jiamu begged He Yunting to save his brother, which made him quickly think of Xu Zhiheng.

What’s even more coincidental is that Professor Xu, who was rumored to not like socializing, took the initiative to greet them on the day they returned and even shook hands with Lin Han.

After that, he began to appear in their field of vision frequently. In addition, since Qi Jiaze needed treatment, He Yunting simply asked Lu Anhe to protect him.

The changes naturally started from the day when Lu Anhe lost contact for a short time.

At that time, Xu Zhiheng had a very regular lecture, but an accident happened during it.

It doesn't matter how the process went. In the end, the result that Xu Zhiheng presented to everyone was obvious - as a person directly related to the burning blood, Xi Yuan was pushed to the stage, and the radical Luo Qi's people appeared in the lecture, so it was natural for people to easily connect the two together.

He could completely remove himself, leaving a perfect and positive image in front of He Yunting.

"The problem was that when I first went to Proton Star, I was in my susceptible period and had a physiological aversion to people of my own kind—including you, Professor Xu, who was traveling with me at the time."

"I was wondering if it was because of my vigilance towards you," He Yunting stopped looking at Xu Zhiheng, "but later I found out that it wasn't the case. It was just the rejection of pheromones."

"You are obviously disgusted and repulsed by an 'omega'," He Yunting said. "I originally thought it was because of my impression of you. Later, I looked into it myself and unexpectedly learned something different."

Xu Zhiheng didn't expect that he would be noticed for this kind of issue, but he didn't think that this was a reason for the other party to bring him down: "If the admiral had already discovered that I was not an omega, he could have exposed me at that time."

"I want to see your reason for doing this." He Yunting said coldly, "So I don't completely believe everything you do and say afterwards. Sorry."

He apologized halfheartedly: "But I really thought for a moment that you could save Proton Star."

Xu Zhiheng smiled strangely: "I always wanted to hear what you were thinking, but I couldn't find a chance to contact you."

At that time, He Yunting had secretly told Chang Lin, the leader of Proton Star, that no matter what, no matter whether this crisis could be truly overcome, they should not easily open the door of the central city and accept compatriots who seemed to have "recovered" without any suspicion.

Chang Lin trusted He Yunting unconditionally, and while continuing to close the central city, he did not reveal any of this matter to the outside world.

He still loves his people, but he also knows how to make choices at critical moments.

It is better to leave the last city than to lose an entire planet.

Sure enough, not long after, the worrying thing happened.

In cities other than the central city, the infected aliens have revived. The central city has not been opened to the outside world since the first departure of the formation. No aliens have ever entered the central city before. The supply system that is different from other cities also makes this city the last hope of Proton Star, and it can hold on until He Yunting's second arrival.

"So Professor Xu still doesn't believe it?" Lin Han said, "You don't want the proton star to be completely wiped out, do you?"

The other party sneered: "It's just a planet where the experiment failed. Why should I care?"

"But this was definitely beyond your plan. Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked Xi Yuan to leave Wen Tianyao and come here to investigate the situation in person."

"As expected, you are an admiral. You can guess everything." Xu Zhiheng simply did not deny it. "The proton star is just a bargaining chip for me to communicate with the queen insect."

"I promised them that if we could transform the proton star's beta into a blood-burning effect, we would contact the queen insect to attack together."

"How could I have imagined that those betas were so useless. They were complete failures that could not be used."

At this point, Xu Zhiheng frowned in dissatisfaction.

"Of course I still want to try to improve it." Xu Zhiheng thought of the boy holding the cake, and he didn't know what he remembered. "That child looked very obedient and a good child. I think I should be able to cure him. It's true that I wanted to give it a try despite the order."

"I can't guarantee the effectiveness of the antagonist, but I didn't expect it to lose its effect so quickly." Xu Zhiheng sighed, "It was the queen insect that insisted on attacking. It's not my fault."

He has raised a group of larvae and blood-burning omegas who only obey him over the years: "My experiment has not been completely successful, and my children have not grown up yet. But the mother insects saw the situation on the proton star and were stupid enough to think that the infection of the entire planet was a sign of success - they did not listen to my advice and insisted on launching an attack immediately.

"I can't just tell them that these betas are useless. I'd better use their own tricks against them," Xu Zhiheng smiled. "I'll tell the queen insect that the Proton Star did not fail, and those betas were very successful, but they were all killed by you, Admiral."

"Do you think they will rise up and attack because their own kind was killed?" Xu Zhiheng's face was filled with a fanatical excitement again. "Insects are such impulsive creatures. It is reasonable for the queen insect to show up in person at the fortress after hearing this result."

"I know the Queen will come, and I know the Galaxy Eye will be activated. I also know that a talent like you, Admiral, will be able to defend the fortress. Mind reading is very useful. General Lu Huai's father happens to be an old acquaintance of my friend. It is easy to contact General Lu through him, and it is not difficult to know that there is a jump point here. I might as well wait for you here."

After Xu Zhiheng finished speaking, a smile reappeared on his face: "But Admiral, you are so smart, we can still have a good chat."

He Yunting seemed to think he was ridiculous. He pulled the trigger again and shot at Xu Zhiheng's forehead.

But just as the bullet left the barrel, the eyes of several people blurred, and the omega raised by Xu Zhiheng rushed in front of him at the absolute limit speed and blocked the bullet for him.

"Look, these are such good kids." Xu Zhiheng said slowly, "They don't have the recklessness and clumsiness of the Zerg, nor do they have the ridiculous and despicable thoughts of humans."

"If we join forces, the queen insect has disappeared now, and the larvae are still within my control. I know that Wen Zhao has given you supreme military power, so it is very easy for you to resist."

"Give it a try, Admiral. We should have opened up wider skies."

After Xu Zhiheng finished speaking, he finally smiled and looked up at He Yunting.

His tone and eyes were extremely sincere. He really felt that his suggestion was worth adopting, and he believed that He Yunting would seriously consider it and then come to his side.

Unfortunately, He Yunting just looked at him coldly.

Xu Zhiheng began to reveal a hint of genuine doubt. This was not what he had imagined.

Even if He Yunting knew his abilities and what he had done, they should still be able to cooperate.

He didn't know when his way of thinking changed, and he couldn't even realize that his own thinking had changed.

Gradually, the smile on Xu Zhiheng's lips disappeared.

He didn't need to be a mind reader to know that the meeting, negotiation and temptation he had been looking forward to for a long time were all lightly marked with a rejection.

"It seems that Professor Xu is still too confident." Lin Han finally felt that he didn't need to say too much to someone like him. "Do you still remember that when we just came back from the Proton Star, the starship did not return along the normal route?"

He threw something at Xu Zhiheng, a small video communicator: "You can take a look and see what those betas who you thought had become a pile of dirt are doing now."

Xu Zhiheng knew this thing, and he used it to communicate with Xi Yuan at that time.

Through the small light screen, he saw the people of the central city integrating into the civilian area in batches, even though their living environment was somewhat different from before and even though they had no glands or pheromones in their bodies.

But everyone is living seriously, trying to find the meaning of existence through themselves, rather than having their life or death determined by a tube of antagonists.

He could pretend that the previous inferences were all lies to him by the two people, but he could not show the vivid lives and pictures.

"Everyone is doing well now, and Chang Lin has temporarily entered the base." Lin Han said in a relaxed voice, "Professor Xu, do you still want to cooperate now?"

There was obvious pity in his eyes.

This look seemed to have touched a dark corner of Xu Zhiheng's heart. The calmness on his face fell apart. He grabbed the larva crawling at his feet and threw it to the ground: "Excellent, really wonderful."

He could not accept his sudden failure, and he could not accept that he had been outmaneuvered by the opponent at such an early stage.

He still couldn't fully understand it.

He knew that He Yunting was not easy to approach, and he even used his own reputation to help explain for him when he was misunderstood by the public in order to win favor. He did not expect the admiral to cooperate with him immediately, but at least he could gain a little trust. However, he did not expect...

Xu Zhiheng gritted his teeth unwillingly.

"Then why did you speak for me then?"

"It's a courtesy to return the favor."

Xu Zhiheng thought of something: "That news that discredits me...?"

"That's me too. It will be more effective if you look for small newspapers first and then official media."

“But you asked Qi Jiamu to protect me at that time, and there was nothing wrong with his feelings.”

"Even Lu Anhe doesn't know about this." Perhaps his expression was too wonderful, He Yunting explained patiently, "The fewer people who know about it, the more real it seems."

"so……"

"It was not His Majesty who took the initiative to summon you. It was me who suggested to him that he take you to the side hall."

Xu Zhiheng then realized that he had been fooled for so long, and a nameless anger surged up: "He Yunting, you——"

"boom!"

m2742 accurately released a heavy armor-piercing bullet directly at the larva beside him, and the larva's brain exploded. The palace, which had been destroyed beyond recognition, now collapsed in a large area. The omegas and larvae that surrounded Xu Zhiheng to protect him screamed, wanting to protect the person in the center.

It was at this moment that Xu Zhiheng was stopped by the general who suddenly appeared in front of him before he could say the next word.

He Yunting had already taken advantage of the time when the others were talking to gradually figure out the most convenient route to approach him. Throwing aside his previous pretended hesitation, he suddenly rushed towards Xu Zhiheng, and used him as a threat to prevent the aliens from approaching. The mecha fired one heavy bullet with fire after another, but it relied on the operator's absolutely excellent mental strength to accurately avoid him every time, and then fiercely attacked the other species.

He Yunting used the man's cloak to cover his mouth and quickly boarded the mecha: "Let's go to the berth."

Lin Han understood, and when the mecha started its engine and took off, he turned around and said to He Yunting: "I searched when I came here, and there is no one else here."

After He Yunting nodded, Lin Han simply opened the armory, pulled the joystick to the bottom, and faced the densely packed data jumping on the screen, and fired the laser cannon without hesitation - after a loud bang, the palace and those unformed larvae turned into powder, raising dust all over the sky.

He Yunting threw Xu Zhiheng into a corner. The other party's mouth was blocked and he could only make a series of whimpering sounds. Perhaps he was annoyed by his noise, so he simply knocked him out with a slap. After wiping his hands, he held Lin Han's face, which was wet with sweat as she just walked out of the cockpit, and kissed her with heartache, saying "hard work".

There was obvious fatigue on Lin Han's face, but his smile was still clear and gentle.

"I want to refute what my teachers said when I was in school." Lin Han said, "I don't know if playing tactics is evil or not, but it's still pretty fun."

-Xu Zhiheng was still immersed in the conversation just now while he was drowsy, which inevitably made him recall many things.

For example, his students, his Xiao Meng, and "Aze".

Many years ago, after opening the insect egg, he was confused for a long time.

He seemed to have gotten what he wanted, but also seemed not to have.

It's too easy for an alpha to get a soft omega.

When Xu Zhiheng hid his true gender in the past, he just thought that it would be more convenient in some aspects, and never thought of using pheromones to suppress or force others.

But after the egg was cut open, he began to feel that it was natural.

He will use his ever-warm and gentle appearance to bring back all the things he loves - perhaps these things should have belonged to him.

He ignored her struggles and tears in her dreams at midnight, and the names she murmured when she was unconscious. He just wanted to bite the back of her neck and leave his mark on her body completely.

The long-awaited scent of lily of the valley filled his blood. Although the flower language of lily of the valley is the return of happiness, he could only feel sadness in the pheromones remaining in his body.

He could not forget the look that student gave him for the last time.

She destroyed her marked glands with her own hands, cruelly and decisively, unlike an omega who always smiled gently.

There was no anger in her eyes. Instead, there was a hint of pity, except for a look of weariness that no longer showed any fear. Why should she pity herself?

Just like before, that skinny omega also looked at himself in the same way.

Exactly the same.

At that time, Xu Zhiheng hugged her very gently, absorbing the gradually disappearing lily of the valley scent from her body and caressing her ankles that were rubbed by the chains.

"Why are you so stupid as to smash your own glands with your own hands? It must hurt." He kissed her bloody neck. "I'll find the best doctor for you. I know a lot myself and I can definitely fix it for you."

"I checked, our pheromones are highly compatible, I won't let it disappear." Xu Zhiheng said as he gently took out the sampling tool and pointed it at the woman's gland, "Don't be afraid, it won't hurt, I will collect everything from you, and it will belong to me forever."

"Xu Zhiheng," the other person let him hold his hand, "you don't even deserve to be called a lunatic."

"——You are just a poor creature."

Xu Zhiheng didn't sound angry at all. He disdained to use violence to force the other party to surrender. He just smiled and released strong pheromones.

Even if the gland is destroyed, the omega's natural submission to the alpha is always difficult to reverse, not to mention that the pheromones Xu Zhiheng released were specifically used for suppression.

The woman began to tremble all over and fell to her knees on the ground, shedding unbearable physiological tears in pain, but she gritted her teeth tightly and showed no intention of weakness.

Xu Zhiheng waited until she was covered in sweat and didn't even have the strength to kneel. She could only lie lifeless on the ground, her breathing so weak that it was almost inaudible.

"Why are you still so willful?" Xu Zhiheng called her name, "Just say something soft and I will love you well."

Perhaps because he saw that she was almost not angry anymore, Xu Zhiheng showed kindness for once and touched her face: "Then I won't lock you up today."

He untied the bracelets and anklets on the woman, bent down to kiss her trembling neck, and licked off the blood with the scent of lily of the valley: "I'll buy you a bouquet of flowers and be back soon."

He still locked the door of his room and prepared to go buy a bunch of eustoma not far from his home.

This only takes a quarter of an hour.

I hope that when he comes back this time, the woman will finally show her weak side and compromise quietly, just as I imagined.

madman? He didn't mind at all when people called him crazy, and even thought it should be a compliment.

Unfortunately, his beloved student said that he was not even a madman.

Xu Zhiheng was a little distracted. These past few days he always felt as if he had done nothing wrong, except for the rare times when he suddenly felt empty in his heart.

When he put on a smile again and was about to say something nice to appease the gland-destroying omega in the room, all the expressions on his face froze the moment he opened the door - the woman disappeared.

The room was filled with the scent of lily of the valley, with horrific bright red bloodstains winding all the way to the violently destroyed window. It was hard to imagine how the other person had managed to do all this with his last breath, and it was even unknown whether he could survive after escaping.

But she just left like that, with that final look of pity.

Xu Zhiheng was sure that she would not go far, but he did not expect that he would never hear from her again after that day.

He finally began to regret, to get angry, to panic. He had done nothing wrong. He loved her so much. He would feed her, give her hugs, and give her a bouquet of lisianthus every day. They had already been marked, so why did he have to leave?

-But it's okay.

He also had her pheromones and a genetic sample taken from a gland in the back of her neck.

Then just tie yourself to her, there's nothing wrong with that.

——He injected those things into his body.

In a change that he himself could not explain, a few years after he lost this student, Xu Zhiheng finally felt some other changes, and finally understood why the other party could see through everything he was thinking.

Gradually, over the years, he began to be able to hear what other people were thinking.

Of course he still couldn't understand the meaning of pity in that look.

So, Xu Zhiheng thought, he had tied the person to his side for so long when the other person could hear his thoughts.

Over the years, he would still buy a bunch of lisianthus from time to time and let them wither at home.

He felt that he had done nothing wrong to her. Even if she could hear his inner voice, she would definitely hear how much he loved her.

Apart from his shallow private research, Xu Zhiheng's life seemed no different from before.

Xi Yuan was a student he personally cultivated. Xu Zhiheng always did a good job in showing favors to others, and Xi Yuan soon became his most capable and trusted assistant.

But Xu Zhiheng often thought that the female student back then was better.

He once picked up a child in a civilian area. The child was clean and cute, and would hold on to his legs and refuse to let go.

He really couldn't refuse beautiful things - Xu Zhiheng took him back.

Xu Zhiheng does not think that mind reading is a burden. On the contrary, he is always curious about humans. The more curious he is, the more he wants to know what the other person is really thinking.

He began to feel that most people around him were noisy and dishonest. However, he could accept Xi Yuan's occasional harmless lies, and had no intention of exposing his colleagues' various thoughts.

He fantasized about living with Lily of the Valley forever, that she would accept his love, and that they would have a child who would never lie to him.

Unfortunately, the lily of the valley has withered and disappeared.

Fortunately, the child he picked up by accident was the cleanest and most innocent he had ever seen.

His thoughts were all written on his face. He trusted him completely, called him dad, and was well-behaved and sensible.

The most important thing is that he never lies and his mind is clear and transparent.

Xu Zhiheng felt that he had never raised a child so carefully, even though he had no blood relationship with him - but it didn't matter, Xiao Meng was always honest with him, and was the most obedient child, a good child.

More than ten years passed like this, and everything remained the same.

Finally, a few years ago, he discovered a special type of omega with extremely strong mental power, which he named Burning Blood.

He began to be ecstatic about his discovery, but he would not be reckless in studying it openly.

He first used his peace-loving friends to take the initiative to oppose this discovery, and then asked Xi Yuan to support him secretly. In this way, no matter who it was, even if they felt suspicious, they would not blame him.

He met a crazy guy named Gu Miao who was just like him. Gu Miao was even more fanatical than him. He took the initiative to collect various omegas for him, and then numbered them and sent them to him one by one. The numbers contained the omegas' data, genes, and other characteristics.

Three years ago, Gu Miao excitedly told him that he had found an incomparable good seedling, and he even wanted to start experiments immediately.

But Xu Zhiheng saw a familiar string of specific genes in the data information sent by Gu Miao.

Gu Miao even considerately included the appearance of the mother of this "good seedling" whom he found from the civilian area.

——It’s his lily of the valley.

It turned out that his lily of the valley had withered several years ago, but she actually had a child.

Xu Zhiheng didn't know whether to be happy or surprised. Not only did Linglan have a child, but the child even had the same gene as her, which allowed her to read minds.

In the past, he always followed Gu Miao, but this time he went crazy and started to stop Gu Miao.

For the first time, the two had a serious disagreement. Gu Miao was unwilling and said that this omega was an excellent experimental subject and would not agree with Xu Zhiheng no matter what.

The message Gu Miao gave him did not contain any photo of the omega himself. Xu Zhiheng kept imagining what his child would look like and whether he would also have the gentle scent of lily of the valley.

He had a lecture that day that he couldn't get away from. Xu Zhiheng was extremely anxious and just wanted to find Gu Miao and the omega as soon as the lecture was over.

But Gu Miao finally did not listen to him and brought the omega into the laboratory without permission. He was discovered by someone and nothing was left of either Gu Miao or the omega.

This blow caused Xu Zhiheng's research to stagnate for a long time. When he returned home, he would always stare at Xiao Meng in a daze, wondering if the omega would be like Xiao Meng if he was still alive.

What he didn't expect was that Lian Ji Meng also began to change.

Ji Meng's biological parents came to see him. Xu Zhiheng held his hand and asked gently, "Xiao Meng, do you want to go back?"

Ji Meng said "no", but the voice in her heart was a little hesitant.

Xiao Meng started to lie to him.

Xu Zhiheng felt that he could endure it, and he could support Ji Meng in going to military school as long as he was always sincere to him.

It’s best not to have any other thoughts, as I should be his only father.

But after Xiao Meng entered school, she stopped telling the truth to herself.

He often heard a name he had never heard of pop up in Ji Meng's mind, as if it was his roommate.

Xiao Meng thought it was terrible to fall in love with an alpha, so she kept it to herself and didn't tell anyone.

Don’t even tell yourself.

No matter how gentle Xu Zhiheng was and wanted the child to be honest with him, Xiao Meng would not tell him anything.

Falling in love with an alpha is not a big deal, Xu Zhiheng thought.

Why didn't Xiao Meng tell herself?

He tolerated his attachment to his biological parents, but Xiao Meng still refused to tell him what was in her heart.

How pure and clean the original Xiao Meng was.

He is not a good boy anymore.

He is a bad boy who lies to himself.

Xu Zhiheng hates bad kids.

It just so happened that the queen insect extended an olive branch to him, wanting him to do something during his training at the edge of the base.

Xi Yuan is still Wen Tianyao's deputy, so it is not difficult to replace weapons.

Then who will be the scapegoat?

Ordinary soldiers can’t do this because their position is too high and inconvenient.

That can only be a bad kid.

But when he heard that the bad boy would never be able to open his eyes again, Xu Zhiheng still felt distressed.

-After helping the queen insect do all this, when Xu Zhiheng saw Lin Han for the first time after He Yunting came back from the border area, he felt that his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to lily of the valley.

He couldn't wait to go up and shake Lin Han's hand, but he couldn't hear any other sound.

This omega doesn't have the ability to read minds.

Fortunately, his identity allows him to come into contact with other omegas.

Lu Anhe said that the child named Aze was injured a few years ago and his glands were destroyed, and the time coincided exactly with three years ago.

Xu Zhiheng secretly asked someone to check and found out that he and his brother did not have the same mother.

So could he be...

Hope rekindled in Xu Zhiheng's heart.

He frequently held Qi Jiaze's hand. If he was cured, would he be able to hear what he was thinking again? Would he have his lily of the valley?

"Aze..." Xu Zhiheng murmured, gradually waking up from his stupor.

Soon he remembered that he had been tricked. The queen insect had been killed and his children had not yet grown up. This should have been a perfect cooperation, but now he was in this situation.

A sharp pain came from his fingertips, and he subconsciously tried to shake it off, but the pain became more and more intense.

"Awake?" Lin Han's voice came from above his head.

Xu Zhiheng gritted his teeth and looked at his hand, and found that he was bitten tightly by a black ball, with the teeth deeply embedded in the flesh and bleeding profusely.

"The Kuger people have a very strong bite force, so it might be a bit painful." Lin Han added casually.

He suppressed his dizziness and silently recited the name of the person who caused this situation: "He Yunting..."

"Shut up." The young man's tone was a little cold. "Do you think you can call the general by his full name?"

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