The black-haired youth: “Why are you looking at me like that? I am an alien, not some teenage girl who sheds tears at the passing of seasons and thinks that even eating a chicken egg means that she is harming innocent lives…… However, you killed a lot of zergs and zerg kings when you were carrying out your missions. Don’t they recognise you?”
Huo Li: “I only manipulated the 27 pairs of zerg kings and queens in the royal city and made them think that I was also one of the zerg race. At present, only they and the personal guards beside them know my specific form. Those zergs and low level zerg kings on the battlefield frontier don’t know that the 28th zerg king is a human…… In addition, the zergs are an independent race and have their own culture. I don’t want to control them.” Huo Li looked around the villa. “I just wanted to leave myself a way out.”
The black-haired youth nodded: “The zergs are really different from what I expected. They’re simple, hardworking, and also basically vegetarians. I had thought that…… Forget it, it’s too silly. I won’t say it.”
Huo Li: “The zergs all reside on barren planets and gnaw on existing sources of food? Or they tear apart other weak animals with their teeth?”
The black-haired youth: “Haha.” He then pretended as if nothing had happened and said seriously again: “Alright, don’t think about trivial matters. Let’s get to work! We first need to find a method that can differentiate between parasites and humans on a large scale. In any case, it should at least allow me to tell them apart without dissecting them.”
Huo Li: “I can’t just control all 1200 planets one after another and then flip through their memories one by one, because besides the moment they break out of the bodies, the memories of the parasites and the human they’re in are not that different. It’s easy to control them, but to differentiate, it’s too much of a waste of time. Moreover……”
The black-haired youth: “You’re afraid that your true strength would be revealed. You also don’t want to invade and control that many people.”
Huo Li was quite surprised by the youth’s understanding of himself and silently nodded.
The black-haired youth: “Then there’s only one method: a viral infection! If there’s a slow acting virus that can cause a parasite body to have a completely different reaction to humanity……”
Huo Li: “What about directly killing them?”
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Then, after 2d14’s continuous transmission of the zerg language, the black-haired youth finally grasped all 27 languages to a certain degree after two weeks. This day, Huo Li brought the black-haired youth to an overhanging cliff, watching as the zergs with small baskets hanging on their bodies collect a kind of white berry from the cliff face.
Huo Li: “Because the dozens of planets in this area are all part of the royal city domain, those other 27 pairs of zerg kings and queens all built their nests on these planets. And because their subjects also live very close, in the end, the races simply mixed together.”
Looking at the zergs who were crawling about on the cliff face as though it were flat ground, the black-haired youth felt that it was very novel: “Did they weave those little baskets themselves?”
Huo Li: “I gave those to them, so even though 700 years have already passed since the war, with my status as the 28th zerg king, I am still above all other kings.”
The black-haired youth chuckled: “Relying on weaved baskets to seek power, you’re really tyrannical!”
Huo Li faintly blushed: “It’s not just that. I had also wanted to teach them even more advanced agricultural skills, but I was afraid that this would lead their population to sharply increase and threaten humanity. I also didn’t want to destroy their good natural environment, so I didn’t teach them.”
At this moment, a zerg who had picked a basket full of white berries beat its wings and flew down. When it passed by Huo Li, it also didn’t forget to stop and salute, using the zerg language to say: “Hello, my revered king.”
It then turned to the black-haired youth: “Hello, my revered queen.”
Afterwards, it opened its wings once again and flew away.
The black-haired youth: “!!!”
The youth pretended that he didn’t understand and looked at Huo Li: “What did it just say to me?”
Huo Li’s expression didn’t change: “It just said: Hello, revered guest.”
The black-haired youth also appeared calm: “Oh.” Ahhh! I was indirectly confessed to for the second time by a human who’s 1000 times older than me! What to do?! Anxiously waiting online!
After a short moment, the black-haired youth decided to skip this trivial problem: “I’m planning to go alone to the zerg territory’s border tomorrow, that is, I’m going to a human apocalyptic world. We’re practically cut off from the rest of the world here. We don’t know how the situation between the interstellar federation and the host system is going at all. I’m going to go find some saviours who are doing missions and pry some information from them.”
Huo Li immediately said: “I’ll go with you.”
The black-haired youth held his forehead: “I am now a law abiding citizen, zz2d14. A wanted criminal like you wants to follow me and cause trouble? Besides, if you go, who’s going to look after the experimental subjects?”
Huo Li: “Law abiding citizen? The current top three wanted criminals are an alien, 0193 and 099. Among them, two of them are you! Also, you can’t alter memories. If I’m not by your side and you get exposed, then the situation would be irreversible! As for the experimental subjects, you can just use your black strands to construct a body and I can remotely control it.”
Thus, two days later, having originally wanted to find an excuse to leave alone and relieve his boredom, the black-haired youth had no choice but to go together with Huo Li. They drove the small starship and arrived above an ash grey planet that looked like it had been completely roasted.
The black-haired youth looked out of the starship’s window at the bleak planet below: “It’s here right? No matter how you look at it, this place doesn’t look normal.”
Huo Li nodded in agreement and operated the starship to land in the city plaza. When they stepped out of the cabin door, he put the starship away. The black-haired youth turned his head and looked all around. There were only broken walls remaining of the city’s high rise buildings, filling the air with a thick layer of black clouds. It made the whole world seem like a rainstorm was about to arrive, full of death and an oppressive atmosphere.
“Can you perceive any humans in the surroundings?” The black-haired youth turned and asked.
“No humans within 10 kilometres.” Huo Li replied. His expression didn’t seem too good. “But there are other living organisms moving about. They’re not zergs. Xiao Yi, how many teleportation charms do you have left?”
“40 sheets.”
“Let’s learn about this world’s situation along the road first. The teleportation charms should be used sparingly.” Huo Li said. He then look the lead and walked along the dark road between the high rise buildings.
The black-haired youth followed behind him. Since he didn’t understand the basic situation of the world, he didn’t dare to rashly spread his black strands. The street was covered in a thick layer of dust. When the two of them walked, it made crunching sounds that echoed throughout the quiet ghost town. The black-haired youth seemed to have heard something from the office building on the right. He slowed down his steps and looked through the dirty translucent floor-to-ceiling windows into the shadowy building. But in front, Huo Li suddenly stopped, his expression filled with pain as he keeled over.
The black-haired youth promptly rushed to his side: “What’s wrong?!”
Huo Li wanted to speak, but he choked on something the moment he uttered the first syllable. After coughing twice, he spat out a big mouthful of blood! However, his coughs still didn’t stop. Instead, he continuously let out fits of choking coughs as blood filled his throat……
HUo Li: I’m dying
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Xiao Yi, being confessed to: …I do not see it
Poor Huo Li just never gets to look cool
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Thousand times older lol
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