Chapter 48 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 17 Susceptible Period...
048 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 17
Lin Miao disappeared.
The space passage that suddenly appeared left a tornado-like ruin on the ground, and then disappeared without a trace. No one knew where it led to.
The king beast died, and the remaining insect beasts were like a pile of scattered sand.
The source space channel in space gradually stopped releasing insect beasts and closed itself after an hour.
Another hour later, the battle officially ended.
The other fourteen cadets from Canxing Academy were all found; they were injured but not dead.
Lu Jiu was called to command the starship. He killed the king beast, witnessed the disappearance of Lin Miao, and needed to make a post-war report.
*
Lu Jiu followed a soldier and hurriedly walked in the corridor of the starship.
Chen Yu should still be on this starship - the figures of the generals who kept rushing to the starship conveyed this message.
Two hours ago, after the communication platform was interfered with, Lu Jiu completely lost contact with this man.
I wonder where Chen Yu is on this starship right now, but I should have heard the news that he is safe...
Lu Jiu calmed himself down.
The soldier walked forward and pushed open a door. In front of him was a large hall. The space was spacious and the floor was covered with crimson carpet. Many people were in the place, buzzing and talking about various things.
The soldier said to Lu Jiu, "Go a little further and you will reach the post-war report room. There are people inside now. Wait here and I will call you in when it's your turn."
"good."
Lu Jiu stayed in this lively hall.
There is a crystal chandelier hanging in the center of the hall, and the decoration is quite magnificent. It seems that it is usually used for post-war celebration banquets.
Portraits of famous generals are hung on the circular walls. Each general is dressed in military uniform, with eyes that are either firm or wolf-like.
The metal plate below the portrait is engraved with their names and dates of birth and death.
——These are all generals who have sacrificed their lives.
Lu Jiu walked along the wall absentmindedly, looking at the photos and lost in thought.
Now, Lin Miao’s matter can be put aside for now.
Now it’s time to think about the battle itself.
He felt that this battle was a little strange.
Insect beasts can wear human skins. This is a major discovery for humans, but it should be a killer weapon for the insect beast clan.
It seems that the killer move shouldn't be used so easily.
Admittedly, releasing a trump card in a battle that everyone thought would be a small one could catch them off guard, but then what?
Then the killing was still necessary. The fact that "insect beasts broke out of human bodies" seemed to have no other meaning except to scare them at the beginning.
111 popped his head out and said, "Maybe it has no meaning other than scaring you guys? This ability can't improve their combat effectiveness anyway!"
"No," Lu Jiu analyzed, "If they hide this matter and let these human-skinned beasts sneak into larger human cities, sneak into the central star, or even the military..."
——Wouldn’t it be possible to cause greater damage among the general population who have no combat capability and when the soldiers are also in a non-combat state?
111 was stunned for a moment: "Yes..."
But now, they have not received any news of similar raids, and humans have already learned their secrets.
The empire will surely begin a large-scale investigation immediately.
Aren’t these insects and beasts just using up a good knife and making it blunt?
Or is it that even the most intelligent among them can only plan to this extent?
Lu Jiu walked and walked along the wall.
Suddenly, he stopped.
He stared at the photo in front of him.
"Lu Jiu, you are here. Haven't you gone to make the post-war report yet?"
The instructor was also called to the command ship. As soon as he stepped into the hall, he saw Lu Jiu and walked over to say hello.
Seeing that Lu Jiu looked strange, he was a little confused: “What’s wrong? Why do you look like this?”
He then looked at the photo on the wall -
The man in the photo was probably in his fifties, with a scar running across his left cheek and many other wrinkles on his face.
His eyes were looking straight ahead, with a hint of smile in them, but his gaze was so sharp that people dared not look directly at him.
"Instructor..." Lu Jiu opened his lips, his voice a little dry, "How did this general die?"
"General Wang," the instructor sighed, "I told you on the way here that the military once sent a 10,000-man troop into the space channel at the source of the insect and beast tide. It was General Wang who took the initiative to step forward and receive the order."
"He was famous for his daring. He dared to do things that others didn't dare to do. He did all the things that others didn't dare to do or couldn't do. So when he led the team out that year, everyone thought he would return with a miracle like before..."
However, in the end, there was no return.
An entire army of 10,000 people was wiped out in that mysterious space passage.
Lu Jiu's breathing became disordered.
"What's wrong with you?" The instructor frowned.
"The human-skinned beast that Lin Miao killed...the face that floated down," Lu Jiu's voice trembled, "is the face of General Wang."
The instructor was stunned.
At this time, the hall became noisy.
He and Lu Jiu were startled and looked sideways, only to see a team hurriedly walking through the hall, pushing open the door leading to the upstairs and entering in a line.
"Is it the First Force?"
"Is the troublemaker Ye Lai the one leading the team this time?"
"right!"
"I heard that they didn't even inform His Highness this time and rushed directly into the source space channel. But why are they all back now? Did I hear it wrong?"
"No, no, no, they really went in, and I thought they would never come back!"
"So, did they successfully get out of that space channel?!"
The noise suddenly became more intense.
"Did they discover something?"
"Ye Lai's expression just now was obviously not right. He must have seen something inside..."
Lu Jiu and the instructor suddenly turned around and looked at the smiling photo of General Wang on the wall. A chill went up their spine.
——What is at the end of the insect-beast space passage? Why did all the troops that went in never return?
If all the soldiers who had entered the place before had become human skins covered by insect beasts, and if the troops who entered later first encountered these former comrades...
...In that strange and mysterious space, under the emotions of surprise and excitement, they would of course be caught off guard and defeated in one fell swoop.
The next second, a light flashed through his mind, and Lu Jiu was struck by lightning.
"wrong!"
He turned around and ran in the direction where the team had just disappeared!
He alarmed everyone in the hall, and when he touched the door leading to the second floor, the door was opened from the inside and Bai Yunfei appeared behind the door.
Lu Jiu blurted out: "The team just now——"
"Hush," Bai Yunfei raised his index finger to his lips and lowered his voice, "Your Highness knows, don't worry, stay here well, Your Highness will contact you later."
Lu Jiu's chest heaved violently.
Bai Yunfei patted his shoulder, glanced around the hall, and closed the door again.
*
Lu Jiu completed the post-war report with an uneasy mind.
He should have left the battleship, but he didn't.
He sat in the corner of the hall, staring at the door leading to the second floor.
...Why would the insect beast clan let humans know the existence of human-skin beasts so easily?
Because in this way, the soldiers who enter the source space channel will no longer be deceived when they encounter their former comrades.
The first moment they see each other, they will realize that this person may not be their comrade, but a bug-beast in human skin.
They will strike back in time.
It seemed only natural that they would become the first team in history to "overcome difficulties" and "return triumphantly" from that mysterious space passage.
Not only could they "come back" naturally, but they could also bring back "astonishing news" naturally and request to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince naturally.
——Then, these warriors who have transformed into insect beasts can successfully kill Chen Yu there.
Lu Jiu's heartbeat was always fast.
Yes, the target of the insect beasts is desire.
They wanted to launch a surprise attack when no one could react. Whether it was killing the only outstanding heir to the empire or turning Chen Yu into a human-skin beast, they would cause heavy damage to the empire!
Time passes by every second.
No one in the hall realized anything.
There was no sound from upstairs, and it was so quiet that it made people feel uneasy.
Four hours later, it was time for dinner and the people here gradually dispersed. Lu Jiu was still sitting on the stool, staring at the door leading to the second floor. His eyes were so dry that they secreted irrational tears.
At some point, the door opened.
Bai Yunfei walked down and was stunned to see he was still there.
Lu Jiu immediately stood up, walked over and asked, "Where is Chen Yu?"
"…Your Highness is fine, the matter has been resolved," Bai Yunfei asked, "Why are you still here, have you eaten?"
Lu Jiu opened his mouth: "...He hasn't contacted me, I thought it wasn't over yet."
Bai Yunfei dodged a glance.
"Because there are still many things to deal with, His Highness is very busy now." He turned his eyes and spoke in a serious tone, "If he knew that you were waiting here like an idiot and didn't even eat, His Highness would be worried!"
Lu Jiu stared into Bai Yunfei's eyes.
After two or three seconds, he suddenly asked, "What about him? Has he eaten?"
Bai Yunfei choked: "Eat... Of course I ate!"
"What did he eat?"
"Why are you asking so many questions? Okay, hurry back to Base No. 3 and don't wait here. His Highness won't be able to come down in a short time!"
Lu Jiu was driven away.
As he left, he pursed his lips and looked back in the direction of the stairs.
Bai Yunfei stood there, not looking like he would let him pass.
*
When Lu Jiu returned to Base No. 3, it was five o'clock in the evening at this location on this planet.
He went to the cafeteria and forced himself to eat some food, but it was tasteless.
He returned to the room, sat down on the bed, and after a moment of silence, he turned on the holographic screen to edit a message for Shen Yu.
"How are you doing over there, are you okay?"
After editing, send.
The holographic screen displays "Sent Successfully".
Lu Jiu began to wait.
In the upper right corner of the screen, the time is 17:59.
I blinked twice and it became 18:00.
18:03, 18:05, 18:10…
Shen Yu did not respond.
111 said: "Jiujiu, don't worry. If something really happened to your husband, Bai Yunfei wouldn't be so calm!"
"But his expression doesn't look like he's okay at all," Lu Jiu said slowly, "Chen Yu might be injured."
111's mind was in a knot, and he said, "But you, the old attacker, knew that there was something wrong with that team. No matter what, they won't be seriously injured, right?"
"Jiujiu, look, that's why your old attacker doesn't want you to go to the battlefield. Now he's just facing a team of a dozen people and you're worried like this. He's still the crown prince, there must be soldiers guarding him!"
Lu Jiu fell silent.
That night, Shen Yu did not reply to his message.
The next morning, the weather was calm and the insect beasts did not seem to have any intention of launching a second wave of attack in the short term, so the instructor informed them that they could move freely.
Lu Jiu couldn't help it and called Chen Yu, but no one answered.
He contacted Bai Yunfei again, and Bai Yunfei just told him to "wait patiently."
Lu Jiu drove the mecha around the area, but saw no trace of the command ship.
——Something is obviously wrong.
Since Bai Yunfei told him yesterday that "His Highness will contact you later", he should have been certain that things would not be too troublesome. But now that Shen Yu is unable to contact him "in time", it must be that an unexpected accident occurred during the handling of yesterday's matter.
What's the accident?
have no idea.
When Shen Yu didn't want him to know, he had no choice.
In the evening, he watched the stars slowly sink into the horizon outside the base and sent another message to Bai Yunfei.
"I understand that you can't tell everyone about Shen Yu, even the closest people, but at least tell me if he's injured and how serious it is? If he doesn't want me to worry, then I'll be more worried if I can't get any news from him now.
If you really can’t let me know the extent of your injuries, I hope you can tell me clearly.”
Lu Jiu put away the holographic screen, returned to the base, and devoted himself to practice.
At eight o'clock in the evening, he received a reply from Bai Yunfei.
"I'm at the back door of your base, please come out for a moment."
Lu Jiu put down what he was doing and hurried there.
Outside the back door of the base, a flying car was parked in an open space.
Bai Yunfei stood in front of the speeding car, with his head down and his hands in his pockets.
Hearing the sound, he looked up.
Lu Jiu ran over.
When he ran to her, Bai Yunfei said with a complicated expression: "His Highness didn't reply to you, not because he didn't want to, but because he is in such a state that he can't reply at all. I don't know whether to tell you or not, I can't make my own decision."
Lu Jiu was stunned, and his heart sank: "What happened to him?"
"Get in the car first, I'll tell you after you get in."
Lu Jiu immediately climbed onto the back seat of the car, Bai Yunfei sat in the driver's seat, and they took off from the ground and drove towards the sky.
…
It's actually very simple.
That’s right, there was something wrong with the troop that returned from the source space channel, and Chen Yu had expected it.
——Since insects and beasts can wear human skin, why can't they wear the skin of soldiers?
The person in charge of the First Team this time is called Ye Lai. He is a troublemaker and often does not act according to orders, but he is very brave and dares to go to any dangerous place. He is brave and powerful, which is why his top superiors still like to use him.
But Shen Yu doesn't like to use this kind of people.
He doesn't like disobedient soldiers.
Normally speaking, if Shen Yulai were to command the battle, he would never send someone like Ye Lai to lead the first force.
But Chen Yu's main task this time was to instruct the cadets, not to be fully responsible for the battle.
Therefore, he is not responsible for the deployment of the team.
It was under such circumstances that Ye Lai became the leader of the first team.
Yesterday, after almost clearing out the insects and beasts around the space channel, Ye Lai picked out a dozen people and launched a charge towards the mysterious passage - without informing anyone.
"Actually, up to this point, what Ye Lai has done is in line with his character, but the problem is that none of the dozen or so soldiers raised any objections or tried to contact the command room. This is what's abnormal."
Lu Jiu listened with a frown.
"The military issued a death order five years ago, forbidding any more soldiers to enter those space passages. Those soldiers should have guessed yesterday that Ye Lai's rush into that passage was not the will of his superiors, but that he was sick. So why didn't anyone raise any objections? Why did they rush in so quietly?"
Lu Jiu's hair stood up.
"…That entire team is made up of rebels?"
"Yes," Bai Yunfei said, "After they came back, not all of them turned into insect beasts. There were a total of eighteen people in the team, and only five of them sacrificed themselves to become insect beasts. The other thirteen people are still in human form."
"They have planned with the insect beasts from the very beginning, and want to take this opportunity to kill His Highness."
Shen Yu expected it.
Although the battle was fast-paced and the changes did not leave much room for everyone to breathe, Shen Yu was very good at predicting things and he guessed it.
After finishing with Lu Jiu, he asked someone to arrange a room for him.
A room dedicated to welcoming that team.
——On the other side of all the walls in that room are large scanners.
"Your Highness asked General Lin to capture a live human-skinned beast, but the mission failed. As soon as the capture net was pulled open, the insect beasts broke out of the body, and they had no way of bringing the beast back alive."
"So that rebel group becomes very important. There must be human-skinned beasts hidden among them. Your Highness wants to lure them into that room and hold them until the scanner can clearly scan their internal physiological structures before starting the liquidation."
"This is also the reason why His Highness wants to go into battle personally. If His Highness does not show up, Ye Lai might realize that he has been exposed, and he will run away with this team."
"Things were going smoothly. There was a capture net installed in that room, so we could cover those insect beasts the moment they broke through our bodies. There was also a hidden glass wall in that room that could divide the room into two... But we didn't expect that they would send five 5S-level beasts this time!"
Lu Jiu tightened his hands instantly.
"Your Highness should have told you that the King Beast can cause confusion in the minds of soldiers on the battlefield. This kind of interference in consciousness is not actually caused by the insect beasts themselves. They need to deploy their soldiers. In this process, they release signals? Or some other factor will naturally interfere with the human brain."
"Experts have found that if insect beasts actively interfere with the human brain, it will consume a lot of their energy, so they generally don't take the initiative to do this. But yesterday, the five 5S beasts simultaneously launched a consciousness attack on Your Highness——"
Bai Yunfei has a deep voice.
5S beasts are extremely rare compared to insect beasts, but this time they did not hesitate to send out five of them at once, which shows that they have put in a lot of effort!
As for consciousness attack - Shen Yu had tested it in an actual battlefield - the consciousness interference of insect beasts would have different effects on different people. This interference has been proven to be ineffective against Shen Yu - but if five 5S beasts launched a consciousness attack on one person at the same time, that person would not be able to escape even if he was a god!
"Is there something wrong with Chen Yu's brain?" Lu Jiu's face changed slightly.
"In fact, when the consciousness attacked, Your Highness was just a little bit off, nothing serious happened... At that time, the five 5S beasts were separated on the other side of the room, and Your Highness didn't even come into contact with them... But later..."
The man who had personally executed the remaining thirteen human rebels at the other end of the room could no longer stop the bloodlust in his eyes.
His pheromones were released violently, and all the soldiers in the room fainted almost instantly.
Bai Yunfei was guarding outside the door at the time. When he smelled the leaked pheromones, he knew something was wrong. He immediately ordered people to seal off the entire floor, fetch protective masks, and put them on before daring to open the door and go in.
The scene in the room at that time will be unforgettable for him for the rest of his life——
Shen Yu stood alone in the middle of the room, blood splattered all over his body.
Thick blood dripped from his fingertips onto the ground. He turned sideways and swept his pair of dark grey eyes towards them, with only deep coldness in his eyes.
At that moment, Bai Yunfei felt a deep fear.
…
"Your Highness would have been susceptible to the disease in four days!" Bai Yunfei said hoarsely, "Your Highness has been receiving inhibitor injections almost every five hours recently. He should not have lost control like that!"
"At that time, we could only move all the unconscious people out of the room while he was still. I went in and injected His Highness with a strong inhibitor, but it was useless. It was completely useless..."
"It's not that it's completely useless, but the effect is minimal. The injections can only restore his sanity for a moment."
"His Highness told me not to bring you here, and also asked us to handcuff him and leave the room... Of course we couldn't just abandon him like that... But no matter how many times we injected him with inhibitors, he never regained consciousness..."
"Later, we found a way to transfer him to his private starship..."
A black private starship, different from the command ship, was hovering ahead.
At the rear end of the starship, the hatch slowly opened.
The flying car flew in, the hatch closed, and oxygen was filled in.
The flying car slid forward along the passage and finally slid into the parking area. Lu Jiu and Bai Yunfei got off the flying car.
They took the elevator to the 20th floor, walked along the carpeted corridor, and came to the door of a room.
Standing at the door, Bai Yunfei turned to face Lu Jiu and said in a complicated tone: "Bringing you here is my personal decision."
"The medical team thinks that the 'companion' cannot be brought in at this time. Although there is a space divider in this room, you and His Highness can be on either side of the room, with a layer of special glass in the middle as a barrier. His Highness cannot move easily now, and you will not be attacked... But the appearance of the 'companion' may not have a soothing effect on His Highness now, but will only arouse his stronger desire to kill."
Bai Yunfei lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice, "But there is really no other way. A day and a half has passed, and His Highness is still like this. The inhibitor can't be injected anymore. It's already an overdose! If it continues, I don't know if His Highness can return to normal..."
"I understand." At this moment, Lu Jiu calmed down. "I'll go in and see him."
Bai Yunfei controlled his emotions and said, "There is a door on the left side of the glass wall. The key is on the cabinet on the right hand side of the door... but don't open the door easily. As long as you think His Highness hasn't recognized you... don't go over there."
"clear."
"If you have any questions, press the call button on the wall and we will come in right away."
"good."
"...Thank you, Lu Jiu."
"Thank me?" Lu Jiu pulled the corner of her lips, "The man inside is my man."
He turned around, pressed the door handle, turned it quickly, and pushed the door open.
*
There was no light on in the room.
Perhaps they were afraid that the light would stimulate the ferocious beast in the dark.
Lu Jiu walked in, closed the door, and waited quietly in the darkness for a moment. He didn't hear any movement, not even the sound of breathing.
He reached out to the right wall and felt something that looked like a switch.
Press down.
Ahead, a dim ceiling light came on.
It illuminates the area on this side of the glass wall and also casts a little light on the other side.
Lu Jiu slowly turned his head and looked over.
…Separated by a wall, in a large, empty room, a chair was placed in the middle.
There were two very thick ground nails nailed into the ground on the left and right ends of the chair, and heavy metal chains were wrapped around the nails.
The two chains extended upward, and at the end were two pairs of very solid-looking metal handcuffs that handcuffed the man's hands.
The man sat quietly in the chair, his hands hanging at his sides.
He was wearing a pair of combat boots, and his black military pants were gathered into the boots, going all the way up, wrapping around the man's slender legs.
The military jacket was missing, the buttons of his white shirt were not buttoned as neatly as usual, the collar was roughly torn open, and the sleeves were rolled up.
The blood was splattered all over the man's body, which was shocking.
And he was staring at Lu Jiu straightly and quietly.
His messy black hair pressed down on his forehead, and the look in his narrow dark grey eyes had long been replaced by inorganic matter; there was not a trace of humanity in these eyes.
It was a complete wild beast, staring at its prey in extreme hunger.
The black bite guard covered most of his face, and the leather straps passed over both sides of his cheeks, restricting his breathing.
Lu Jiu was unable to move for a moment.
The man sat on the chair in a more decadent and dangerous posture than ever before, his chest rising and falling slowly, as if he was taking a few breaths.
Then he raised his hands.
The chains shook and made noises.
The man turned his head lazily, his gaze like that of a prey lingering on Lu Jiu's face.
He seemed to smile.
Then, take action yourself.
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