He Qixing was taken aback, and then faintly smiled. “You’re right.”
Together with Nie Chuan, they hid and waited, and before long, reinforcements arrived. Among them, a colonel held the highest rank.
After He Qixing and Nie Chuan landed the mechas next to each other, the colonel saluted respectfully. “I’ve heard a lot about you, Major He, Lieutenant Nie. We are a reconnaissance team, ordered by General Mo Xiao to search for weaknesses in this monster together with you.”
He Qixing and Nie Chuan returned the salute while standing on the ground.
Nie Chuan urged, “Let’s get started.”
The colonel nodded, and the ten mecha soldiers, lying down on the edge of the giant pit, slid down and sprinted forward for hundreds of meters, finally reaching the base of the earthen pillar.
Looking up, the colonel saw that this pillar was much thicker than it appeared from a distance. Even with their combined strength, it was probably impossible to completely encircle such a thick pillar.
With such a terrifying diameter, if everyone stuck together to investigate, it would obviously miss the information behind this pillar.
So they had to split up to investigate.
“Let’s split up, five in the front and five in the back. We’ll fly up in stealth mode. What do you think?”
Because it was uncertain if there might be hidden dangers above, even though flying up stealthily wasted energy, it was safer for everyone.
The colonel naturally put He Qixing and Nie Chuan on the same team. Originally, he intended to assign one classmate to each side, but midway, he closed his mouth, gestured, and his team members understood his meaning.
“No problem.”
Five on each side, they simultaneously flew up stealthily. Through close observation, they finally saw the entire appearance of the earthen pillar.
In fact, this wasn’t a true earthen pillar. The surface sand wasn’t motionless. As the Interstellar Court Planet was all desert, the soil on top of this pillar was actually quicksand. However, this sand adhered to some black, slightly greenish mucus, making it look like a solid pillar.
“The inside should be its body.”
“If this is indeed a Zerg, it probably looks like a centipede or earthworm.”
If it really resembled a centipede, except for beheading, there would be no other way to harm it.
Centipedes were quite resilient.
The colonel flew directly to a place with concentrated energy and used the weapon on his arm to push away the soil to outside the pillar, stabbing towards the energy-concentrated area, and then pulling it out. Then, a Zerg larva appeared in front of everyone.
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But why wasn’t she moving?
Could it be that she hadn’t absorbed enough energy to act?
Not only was the colonel puzzled by this, but He Qixing and Nie Chuan were also puzzled.
He Qixing retracted his energy sword that pierced the Zerg egg, and jets of propellant gas surged from his feet as he continued to fly upward.
He flew straight to the top.
Nie Chuan also shook off the messy substance from his large sword and followed He Qixing.
He looked at He Qixing, who had a dark expression, and turned around to look at the person on top of the monster’s head. When he saw He Yunan’s condition, he cursed under his breath, “Damn.”
He Yunan’s body quickly withered, becoming completely different from before. He was now yellow and emaciated, almost no longer resembling a human.
His lower body stepped into the black mucus, and it was obviously not good to be immersed in that kind of mucus.
Nie Chuan opened the mecha’s loudspeaker function, tested some sounds, and shouted, “He Yunan!”
“He Yunan!”
“Xingxing’s father!”
“Wake up!”
He Qixing originally wanted to stop Nie Chuan’s foolish behavior, but unexpectedly, he saw his father blink. He rewound the scene to ten seconds ago in his mecha and watched it again. He wasn’t mistaken.
His father actually responded.
He Qixing approached and, like Nie Chuan, also acted a bit foolish.
“Father, I’m Xingxing. Answer me if you can hear me.”
“Father?”
He Yunan finally blinked his eyes and turned his head very, very slowly. “I… really have a son now?”
He had been daydreaming in this place for a long time. He didn’t know why he stayed here, or perhaps he knew, but he didn’t want to believe it because the past thirty years seemed blurred, as if he knew what had happened but found it too unbelievable.
He… How could he have done those things?
“You say this, and you don’t even know if Xingxing is your son… You, as a father, has really failed.”
He Yunan furrowed his brows lightly and picked out the voice of the boy who was mocking him in his long and blurry memories.
“You’re He Qixing’s friend, Nie Chuan… Nie Cen’s adopted son.”
He Yunan squinted his eyes, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
“Nie Cen.”
“Nie Cen is also dead.”
He Yunan seemed to fall into some kind of mental confusion, muttering to himself, supporting his head with one hand. “I killed… Nie Cen and everyone else.”
Although this old man has done a lot of bad things, didn’t he say that his parents’ deaths was a suicide? Why is he now taking responsibility for it again? Nie Chuan frowned tightly.
Seeing that this person seemed to be relatively clear-headed, Nie Chuan directly asked the question that stuck in his mind, “You told me before that my parents’ death was a suicide, right?”
He Qixing’s lips moved slightly.
He Yunan let out a bitter laugh. “No, they chose suicide because they were under control.”
Nie Chuan tightly pressed his lips together. “What do you mean?”
“The crystal that can control the Zerg is called the Zerg Crystal. It can not only control the Zerg but also control humans.”
“Human beings with C level psychic abilities or below, after being irradiated by the energy in the crystal, can be controlled. Once controlled by the Zerg Crystal, human desires are amplified, turning them into more extreme individuals, until the energy radiated by the crystal disappears.”
“When ‘I’ went to the Flower Planet, I carried a Zerg Crystal.” He Yunan’s golden eyes looked distant. “That Zerg Crystal… took effect.”
In his memories, he felt a strong sense of depression from Nie Cen’s writings.
He was sure that he didn’t need to kill Nie Cen with his own hands. Just bringing out the desire for suicide in Nie Cen was enough to kill him.
So, even if Nie Cen didn’t want to see the Zerg Crystal, he would definitely bring it out.
His son was right. From the beginning, he wanted to get rid of Nie Cen and his wife.
In the end, Nie Cen and the others… died by his hands.
“I deserve to die. Nie Chuan, you should kill me.” He Yunan stared at Nie Chuan.
Nie Chuan’s wrist trembled as he picked up the sword. Being so close, he could easily end the life of the enemy who killed his parents.
He Qixing asked with a complex expression, “So, all those things you did in the past were also because you were controlled by the Zerg Crystal?”
“Yes, but not entirely.”
He Yunan couldn’t see the face inside the mecha, so he could only converse with his son through the mecha.
“My situation should be different from theirs.”
“I guess there is no Zerg Crystal as a medium on my body.”
“The Zerg Queen has been parasitizing me for thirty years. Because I can feel the body buried in the soil, I can also feel the over ten thousand Zerg soldier’s army outside,”
“And her thoughts.”
At first, he just disliked the emperor. Later, mysteriously, a gentle female voice kept tempting him. Zergs and humans could coexist. As long as he could create a god, a world of true fairness and justice would be born.
The god she wanted to create had not yet appeared.
The Zergs outside were not surrounding the Zerg Planet to welcome him out but to welcome that person in.
He Yunan’s eyes flickered with determination, and his tone became serious.
“Even if I do nothing, my life has already a countdown. Kill me quickly while I am still connected to her brain.”
“Kill me!”
Whoa.. I’m just a little confused about the timeline jumping. But the story is really interesting
You’re almost done! thank you for your hard work. 👏
Interesting
thanks for the chapter!
also, just wanna add, so the crystal is like narcotics, right? the kind that amplified the feelings.