Now that the fighting on the front lines isn't so intense, the soldiers have time to follow the news, chat on the phone with their families, and research various ways to cook insect meat after they've left the battlefield...
When Di Xiu had nothing to do, he paid attention to the matter of the mad scientist. After 001's condemnation of the main system failed again, he became depressed for a while and also started to wait for the follow-up.
The main problem was that the mad scientist was protecting himself from hackers, and the desolate planet where he was hiding wasn't connected to the StarNet. 001 wasn't powerful enough to obtain the data that was out of reach when the medium was disconnected.
Twelve years later, under human control, the Zerg were left with only six planets.
The parasitic species has never been found. In terms of various abilities, it is far stronger than its offspring, after all, it is capable of parasitizing the female protagonist.
Since no one else was openly parasitized, the emergency procedures were effectively deferred, and the search for it was temporarily postponed.
At the same time, and most importantly, before the mad scientist could even become the second-generation villain, he and everyone behind him were wiped out, causing turmoil within both the Alpha Empire and the Star Alliance.
Immediately afterwards, the question arose about what to do with the experimental subjects left behind by the madman.
001 saw those "new species" through the StarNet, and his mood visibly dropped. When Di Xiu asked about it, he pointed to an octopus on the test list and said to Di Xiu, "It looks a bit like Sister Zhang."
According to the information he intercepted, this octopus had a human brain transplanted into it, and its mental field had devoured the original octopus's mental power. In other words, it was a human mind in an octopus body.
It's like a high-tech dog-skin man.
Di Xiu zoomed in on the screen for a couple of seconds, then reached out and patted 001's head. He then called Marshal Wood and offered to adopt the octopus, but he couldn't go back for the time being and had to keep it at Wood's manor first.
The follow-up tracking of the parasitic mother was handed over to the eldest prince. He would often fight with Mark over Ling Qiushui, which annoyed the king, but he couldn't find fault with Mark, so he simply packed up his good-for-nothing eldest son and threw him out.
Wood finally ended his long mission chain that started with the parasites and had no desire to raise octopuses anymore; he just wanted to return to the battlefield.
He tossed the octopus to Lieutenant General Mo, who was on his honeymoon, and then tricked Di Xiu into returning to the capital planet by threatening to abdicate and hand over the position of marshal. That very night, he couldn't wait to run away.
Emperor Xiu: "..."
001 looked bewildered: "The mission is complete just like that?"
Faced with the endless swarms of admirers, Emperor Xiu led his selected elite troops to suppress the space pirates early the next morning.
But before that, he first took the little girl who looked like an octopus from Lieutenant General Mo.
As the newly appointed marshal, Di Xiu also acquired a manor, sponsored by the empire, which was located next to Marshal Wood's estate.
After the octopus was taken back, it was released into the lake on the estate. There was a river outside the estate, so if it longed for the sea and yearned for the vastness of the ocean, it could simply swim out to sea.
She is intelligent, but cannot speak, probably because octopuses do not have vocal cords, and of course, they also have no hearing.
After communicating with her through divine sense and confirming that she could live on her own, Di Xiu left behind a pile of nutrient solutions and departed.
Watching his retreating figure, the octopus clung to the shore with its two tentacles, its large head resting on them, drool dripping from its mouth. Once it could no longer see him, it disgustedly rummaged through the nutrient solution and plunged headfirst into the water.
001 began to doubt whether this was Miss Octopus from the transit station. She had the same human heart and octopus body, and she was drooling over him, the mission taker. Moreover, he always felt that she glanced at him when he appeared.
"Little Xiuxiu, could she be Sister Zhang?"
"Not familiar with it."
001 thought about it and then felt it was unlikely. Shen Yun's face was good-looking, but not outstanding. At most, it would be a 60 or 70 out of 100, which wouldn't meet Sister Zhang's standards... right?
...
Mark Adams was actively involved in fighting space pirates after graduation, perhaps because he wanted to prove something, but most of the time he was excluded from such operations.
Di Xiu didn't have these worries. Seeing that he was quite capable, he brought his men along. In addition, there was also Mor, who volunteered.
After a while, the space pirates became terrified and eventually gave up. For a time, things were calm, and the number of merchant ships hijacked on all routes decreased. Occasionally, those who dared to defy the trend would either be reduced to interstellar dust or imprisoned in temporary prisons within their starships within a few days.
At this moment, they captured a group of space pirates who had surrendered in time and all of them survived. Mark, who was usually calm and patient, suddenly lost his composure when he saw the leader of the space pirates. He rushed up and punched the man in the face, causing him to bleed.
As soon as Di Xiu raised his hand, soldiers stopped him.
He turned his head to look at 001, who imported the face of the beaten-up space pirate into the system, and immediately got the result.
"The one who's connected to Duke Noah is called Dog... Dog? Why does everything have to be associated with cute dogs?"
This explains why Mark had a fit.
Emperor Xiu gave Mark a few words of admonishment and then let the matter drop. He instructed two other soldiers to interrogate Dog while he listened in. The main purpose of the interrogation was to find out the whereabouts of the other groups of space pirates, but they could also chat about other things along the way.
Upon hearing that Mark was Duke Noah's son, Dogg spilled everything, and at the end, he begged for witness protection, presumably fearing that Duke Noah and his son would kill him.
Mark wasn't keen on revealing his inner thoughts, but from then on, whenever Di Xiu appeared, he would unconsciously follow him with his eyes. Whenever Di Xiu glanced at him, he could always see his admiring gaze and straight military bearing.
Di Xiu ignored his gaze and usually looked at the top of his head.
"His luck has become even stronger."
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