Chapter 71 : Chapter 71

Chapter 71 : “Lu Anji is truly a hate warrior.”

While they were sizing each other up, Chu Zu thought for a while.

He said to the system: “There’s a high probability that it’s not an accidental connection.”

The system became alert: “Have humans already started probing?”

Chu Zu shook his head in the sea of consciousness: “That’s not what I mean.”

He had the system analyze the transformation the Mother Bug had done to him, including but not limited to.

A biological symbiosis system that continuously enhanced the cell's self-repair mechanism.

A semi-chimeric exoskeleton that counteracted space radiation.

Cas9 gene editing technology for resistance to vacuum and high and low temperatures.

Inducing adaptive mutations for the formation of an environmental perception mechanism.

***

Most importantly, implanting the Zerg's biological "nodes" in the brain.

These nodes were connected to the Mother Bug's spiritual network.

The transformed Azul had a special biological sensor made of a mixture of Zerg and human, with the authority only open to the Mother Bug.

But coincidentally, the half-human, half-Zerg biological sensor that Lu Anji now had was of the same model but a different type.

The distance between Earth and the sun is 1 astronomical unit, about 149.6 million kilometers.

Even if electromagnetic waves traveled at the speed of light of 300,000 kilometers per second, it would take 8.3 minutes for a signal sent from Earth to reach the sun.

The biological characteristics of the Zerg allowed Azul and Lu Anji to cross the distance of 149.6 million kilometers.

They crossed the 8.3 minutes required for the speed of light and met in a shared consciousness.

“This is not a wrong frequency. It’s like a new network has been established, and only half-human, half-Zerg things can join the chat group.”

Chu Zu paused, “It seems that my starting point for the setting was still too ‘human,’ and I clashed with the author’s creativity.”

The system looked through the original novel's settings for a long time, and it didn't say that it couldn't be changed like this.

It deduced the possible situations that could arise from the two of them meeting too early—it would not conflict with the main text.

“There’s no need to communicate with the author.”

The little yellow chicken breathed a sigh of relief.

It asked the host, “Do you need me to synchronize Lu Anji’s current information with you?”

Chu Zu: “No, I can pretty much guess the whole process from the look in his eyes.”

Lu Anji's gaze was very typical, scorching and self-immolating.

He always carried a suffocating tension, accumulated over the years.

This person was a small bomb.

Everywhere he saw was ruins.

He wanted to destroy everything, preferably himself along with it.

He wasn't like the Lu Anji in Azul's POV, but he did match the author's description of being "conflicted and crazy."

“I’ll go say hello to the hope of humanity.”

Chu Zu finally showed some interest.

The laziness from the 46 years of imprisonment and the vacation was finally shaken off.

The system recalled Azul's savage style on the sun and silently broke into a sweat for Lu Anji.

***

POV Lu Anji:

The man in the white coat effortlessly pressed Lu Anji onto the bed and skillfully put him in a straitjacket—a canvas of hemp fiber, plus more than a dozen thick leather straps.

When they tied the leather straps tightly, Lu Anji would always think that this kind of thing was probably invented to restrain the Zerg.

But it made no difference to restrain him either.

Because he was about to become a disgusting bug.

They tied Lu Anji to the operating table again, secured him, and stuffed a sterilized gag into his mouth, then retreated far away.

From Lu Anji’s perspective, he could see the doctor using tweezers to pick up the wriggling rotten flesh of a Zerg.

Lu Anji often felt that he was the one being picked up by the tweezers, but he would silently recite in his heart, if I become a bug, I will kill all of you.

This kind of thought usually didn't last for long.

When the doctor fiddled behind his ear, a sharp pain quickly spread throughout his body.

It was as if a needle as thick as a finger was being stabbed from behind his ear all the way into his brain.

Lu Anji’s whole body convulsed.

He struggled constantly, his head thrown back and then hitting the table.

The restraints tied him very tightly.

He wanted to kick his legs wildly and break the operating table under his hands, but he couldn't do anything.

“Give him a muscle relaxant. He’s too tense. This thing will be stressed and drill into his brain!”

The doctor shouted at the person next to him, “Are you deaf? I told you to inject him with a muscle relaxant!”

They passed something.

The man in the white coat came forward again and, like killing a fish, turned his head to the side and held it down firmly.

A needle was inserted into the side of his neck.

The sharp pain behind his ear eased slightly, but a fine, lingering pain gradually spread from the injection site on the side of his neck to his limbs.

In this prolonged pain, Lu Anji’s tense muscles slowly relaxed.

The doctor wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes: “It’s almost a success, Anji. Just hold on a little longer.”

Two hours later, Lu Anji returned to his room, his steps unsteady.

“Did you succeed?”

A child asked.

He shook his head.

Another taller child stood in front of him.

“You’re almost dead anyway. If you’re not suitable, don’t keep occupying the position… What’s that behind your ear?”

“Get out of the way.”

Lu Anji said in a low voice.

“What can you do to me if I don’t? Complaint to the doctor? Complaint to the parents who sold you to the laboratory?”

All the children in the room laughed.

“Or, complain to that little bug behind your ear?”

The taller one shouted, “Oh, wow, Lu Anji is going to be a human traitor and have the Zerg help him get back at us!”

He pushed him.

Lu Anji lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground.

A throbbing, burning sensation came from behind his ear.

They all said that the Zerg were preparing for a general offensive against Earth, intending to take away the homeland that belonged to humans.

The TV also showed the same thing.

The doctor and those men in white coats played the UIF documentary over and over again.

The battles on the star ring were filled with death and fear.

Of course, there was also the courage of humanity.

When the hero Gabrielle Cohen commanded the backward human ships and charged straight at the Zerg fleet, and destroyed the enemy’s ships with twice the firepower in a chain reaction, an amazing cheer erupted in the documentary.

The children watching the documentary were silent.

Only the doctor or the men in white coats clenched their fists, as if they had also joined the battle and made a great contribution in the war.

The Zerg were repelled wave after wave, but their numbers only increased—when would they be able to reach Earth?

Lu Anji only cared about this.

Lu Anji felt that the medicine injected into his body had almost worn off, and his strength had returned.

It could also be that the thing sewn behind his ear had really turned him into a bug that hated humans.

When the taller one grew tired of bullying him and dispersed with the other children, Lu Anji suddenly flew into a rage.

He kicked the taller one in the chest.

The other person hit the foot of the bed and fell to the ground, motionless.

In these few minutes, the children in the room retreated one after another.

They looked at the person on the ground in horror, all thinking he must be dead.

Then they looked at Lu Anji, and the strange thing behind his ear that was constantly wriggling, trying to break through the stitches.

“Are you dead?”

Lu Anji walked up to the taller one.

It took him a long time to remember his name.

In the laboratory, the man in the white coat taught them basic knowledge and also taught them to be polite, so Lu Anji added his name and asked again.

“Liam, are you dead?”

Liam was still motionless.

Lu Anji kicked him hard in the stomach.

Liam let out a miserable cry and rolled under the bed.

He was tall and had long limbs.

The narrow space under the bed couldn’t fit his whole body.

Lu Anji grabbed his foot and, with an unknown strength, dragged him out and kicked him precisely in the ribs.

Liam was in so much pain that he couldn't even cry out.

He curled up and dry-heaved, tears streaming down his face.

“You bullied me one hundred and thirty-two times. I fought back once.”

Lu Anji said coldly, “As long as you’re not dead, Liam, this will happen one hundred and thirty-one more times. I mean what I say.”

The child by the wall screamed and pointed at the blood on the ground.

It wasn't Liam's.

Lu Anji touched his ear.

Besides the warm blood, there was also a black protrusion.

He rushed to the washroom.

The children in the room also took the opportunity to scream and run out of the room.

Lu Anji didn't care if these children would go to the man in the white coat.

At worst, it would be a few more weeks in the confinement room.

Staying in the confinement room meant he didn't have to do experiments, which was actually a good thing.

Now Lu Anji was more concerned about what was wrong behind his ear.

He turned on the faucet, washed off the blood, and looked at himself in the mirror with his head tilted to the side.

Under the ear cuff with the locator, two nearly triangular black rhombuses formed a rectangle.

Lu Anji recognized this.

A few hours ago, it had been held in tweezers, constantly twisting.

Now it was like a piece of gravel, without any movement, as if it was completely dead.

He tried to touch it with his fingers.

In an instant, Lu Anji's vision went completely white, just like the first time he was sent to the laboratory and the doctor shone a dazzlingly cold white light into his eyes.

He couldn't see anything, he was cold all over, and the gazes around him were constantly sizing him up, assessing whether he was worth the value of a common currency.

Then, the white light dispersed.

He had come to a strange place.

Lu Anji's vision was enveloped in a strong white light, not a dazzling one, but a pale and cold one.

The surrounding scenery was empty and silent.

There was no wind, no atmosphere.

Everything around him was still.

The sky was a deep black, without any starlight.

Only occasionally could one see distant galaxies and other stars twinkling in the endless void.

And between the white earth and the pitch-black sky, a thin, bony boy was staring at him with wide eyes, sizing him up and down.

Thinking back, Lu Anji found it incredible.

There were so many abnormalities about this person: his whole body was as pale as a sheet of paper, there was no cloth covering him, and his physique was unnaturally thin.

He also had a swaying black, jointed tail behind him.

But Lu Anji only saw his eyes.

Different from all the gazes he had received before, the black-haired boy’s gaze was very strange.

His pupils were constantly contracting and expanding.

His eyeballs were clearly not moving, but he could clearly feel himself being scanned, and finally, his gaze focused on a certain point.

The black, crystalline hard lump behind Lu Anji’s ear.

This only scarlet in the black and white universe was assessing him with an unsettling indifference and concentration.

After a short while, Lu Anji was lifted into the air.

Only then did he realize with astonishment the tail connected to the boy’s coccyx.

This sharp-edged tail wrapped around Lu Anji’s waist and easily lifted him up.

At the moment of contact, countless images flooded into Lu Anji’s mind.

The terrifyingly dark universe, the sun that was gradually turning into a white dwarf after its energy was drained, the countless human ships being dismantled on the sun, and the dense, ant-like Zerg army.

And the boy who was running agilely among them.

The boy’s name was Azul, and he was the Zerg Queen’s “child.”

Azul was an abandoned human infant who had been transformed.

Lu Anji thought that his waist must have been cut, but the scene he saw when he looked down was more real than he had imagined.

The force that was wrapped around him was actually lighter than the leather straps of the straitjacket.

The sharp edges of the bone tail were tightened around his waist in the form of barbs, but it didn't hurt.

Because the tips of these black bone joints were injecting liquid into Lu Anji’s body, just like the things injected in the doctor’s laboratory.

The doctor called that thing "muscle relaxant."

The specially made muscle relaxant for the experimental subjects had a more accurate name—neurotoxin secreted by the Zerg.

Lu Anji was almost crushed.

But the boy who was looking up at him with his head tilted back gave a very faint smile, just enough to show a canine tooth.

His mouth moved awkwardly and unfamiliarly, and his voice sounded in the black and white universe.

“Azul, me.”

Azul said, “Family, Lu Anji.”

He was using the universal language.

This was the first meeting between Lu Anji and Azul.

He was twisted into two pieces in his consciousness and fell into a pool of blood from the internal organs on the hard earth's crust.

Azul squatted in front of Lu Anji.

His tail snaked on the ground, and finally wrapped around his neck in layers, lifting him up.

This dangerous child gave Lu Anji a hug.

It seemed that from this moment on, Azul liked hugs.

He would make similar gestures many times in their future interactions.

“I’ll be careful next time.”

Azul said carefully.

His language adjusted very quickly and gradually became fluent, “I’ll come and pick you up to go home, Lu Anji.”

Lu Anji answered with his dying, paralyzed nerves: “I’ll kill you, you ugly bug.”

Fifty Billion Years of Solitude: The Agent Expelled by Blue Star

***

“Such a bad temper.”

After Lu Anji disappeared from his consciousness, Chu Zu slowly got up and returned to the deeper sea of consciousness.

System: “After all, you broke him into two pieces…”

“Don’t my mom and I usually play like this?”

Chu Zu felt that what he did was quite reasonable.

The Mother Bug was only gentle with Azul before the transformation.

After Azul got his tail, she had no more worries.

Although his skin was soft, his bones were incredibly hard.

Even if he was injured, his body’s recovery ability had also replicated the Zerg’s strength.

If it really didn’t work, he would just find a cocoon, dig out the unhatched larva, and crawl in himself.

After a short rest, he would be fine soon.

To Azul, it was just a small squabble with Lu Anji.

And it was just consciousness, he wouldn’t die.

“It seems that humans only want Lu Anji to be able to synchronize with the Zerg’s consciousness and have not transformed his physical fitness. The experiment should only work on the nerves… It could also be that the materials are not enough, or there are other restrictions.”

“I estimate that they don’t want to connect to the Zerg’s collective consciousness. As long as he has a Zerg way of thinking and can simulate Zerg combat, it will be fine.”

“But that’s true. A shared consciousness is too dangerous for humans. They don’t know I exist. If they accidentally connect to my mom, they’ll be completely finished.”

What was more surprising was that when they were in contact in their consciousness, even their memories could be simply synchronized.

Chu Zu saw Lu Anji’s past.

He was sold to the laboratory by his parents and underwent experiments with countless children there.

The experiment was not a good thing in the first place, and many people died in it.

But the children who succeeded in the experiment would be sent to the military academy to study.

For the children in the laboratory, it was undoubtedly the only way to live.

Lu Anji was a relatively tolerant constitution, and the research on him was much more than that on the other children.

The other children knew what pain he was enduring, but they still hated him to death.

The experiment itself was anti-human, which contradicted the humanism that UIF advocated.

People could accept universal militarization, after all, the threat of the Zerg was imminent.

But if the experiment was really brought to the table, just arguing about whether it was ethical could take hundreds of years.

It might even lead to the formation of factions.

Not everyone thought that survival based on the suffering of others could be called survival.

It would be better to just be destroyed together—there would definitely be people who thought so.

So the experiment could not be mass-produced, at most a small team.

And they had to produce results to persuade the higher-ups to support the experiment despite the risks.

Lu Anji was the only result.

Chu Zu believed that Lu Anji had also seen his memories.

Chu Zu said he was no longer human.

He was a bug, the Zerg Queen’s good big son.

The system was holding his human compassion for him, still sighing for Lu Anji, and then heard the host say.

“According to the original timeline, in a few more years, I should be about to go and work for my mom among humans.”

Chu Zu calculated the time, and then chuckled.

“I might know why he’s being ‘partial’.”

System: “Because you and he have known each other since you were young? You could be considered old acquaintances…”

The system had done this problem before!

Although it wasn’t exactly the same, it was very similar!

“It was the same with Tang Qi before.

He felt that he and ‘Chu Zu’ were the same kind of people, so he was particularly persistent… the same kind, that’s what it’s called!”

Chu Zu: “No.”

System: “?”

“Logically speaking, before the experiment succeeded, those children were also his ‘same kind.’ How did they treat him?”

System: “They bullied him…”

“So Lu Anji doesn't have the consciousness of 'the same kind should work together'.”

The system wanted to say, but you didn’t bully him.

But then it remembered that the host had just twisted the person in half, like a horror movie.

This was much wilder than bullying.

Even if Azul’s intention was to play with him, it was a kind of "play" that Lu Anji couldn't bear.

“And the same kind also has different situations. He was miserable doing experiments, and I was running around naked like a savage on the sun. This kid can’t figure it out.”

Chu Zu stroked his chin and remembered Lu Anji’s final gaze.

“The happier I am, the more uncomfortable he is. The Zerg are the enemy of humanity, but humanity has made his situation very difficult. The Zerg not only let me survive in the universe, but also made me happy every day—it would be strange if he could figure it out.”

System: “...Why does it sound like it’s not going to develop into ‘partiality’? If he really sees you… won’t he just fight you?”

Seemingly very fond of deducing the plot development from the personalities of others, Chu Zu’s smile was always on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were also slightly curved.

“He won’t.”

He said, “I guess he won’t take the initiative to mention me to others. People who have done a lot of experiments naturally hate experiments. He can’t bet on whether his brain will be dug out.”

“If I meet him, he won’t report me. I will go to the laboratory with him…”

“To be precise, it should be that he goes to the laboratory. I can run away whenever I want. Don’t underestimate a small-sized Zerg with a human appearance. It’s a blessing if the base isn’t completely destroyed.”

The system understood a little: “He will… take the initiative to cover for you.”

Chu Zu nodded: “But I’ve only met him once. It’s just a simple guess. I’ll go and see him more often to find out more.”

Chu Zu's "see" was a real see.

Lu Anji didn’t know how to connect consciousness.

Chu Zu and the Mother Bug played together every day and had a lot of experience in finding the “signal source” that had been connected.

And there was also the system to assist.

In the vast universe, it was both difficult and easy to find a person who was on the same frequency as oneself.

When he entered the fused consciousness again, Lu Anji’s condition was very bad.

A person’s condition would be reflected in their consciousness.

For example, Azul was a seemingly frail, but physically strong, ten-thousand-year-old six-year-old humanoid little Zerg.

But Lu Anji was leaning against the laboratory table to rest, his hands and feet hanging limply on the floor.

Next to his fingers were countless empty syringes, and the TV was playing a military propaganda film on a loop.

The last time they met was on the sun, in Azul’s perception.

Now they were in Lu Anji’s “home,” the laboratory that occupied the longest time in his life besides sleeping.

The smell of disinfectant filled the air.

Azul didn’t get close.

It took Lu Anji a long time to realize that this was not reality.

The experience from last time made him full of hostility towards Azul.

He raised his head dyingly, his eyelids not even opening, and the few black pupils that were exposed were full of vigilance.

Azul pulled open the experiment bed with his tail, and Lu Anji fell on the syringes all over the floor.

Azul swept away the syringes on the floor with his foot, walked up to Lu Anji, and squatted down.

Lu Anji struggled to sit up.

Sweat dripped from his hair onto the floor, and his wet eyelashes fluttered upwards with effort.

He looked at Azul, and Azul looked at the drop of sweat on the ground.

Azul did not have obvious sweat drops.

Although the sun was about to become a white dwarf, the surface temperature was still surprisingly high.

The Mother Bug would not often stay on the surface.

Only the new generation of Zerg that had adapted to the high temperature would be stationed on the surface of the sun.

The Zerg genes that Azul had fused with were perfected by the Mother Bug, allowing Azul to maintain sufficient moisture in his body even after high-intensity exercise.

Azul had never seen large drops of sweat.

When he looked up, he found that Lu Anji’s eyes were also sweating.

He controlled his strength and reached out to touch them.

Lu Anji wanted to retreat, but was pulled back by the black tail.

Azul simply sat on the ground and looked at the propaganda film on the TV with his head tilted.

“Welcome to the Allied Military Academy, a cradle far from Earth.”

“Your only purpose here is to resist the destruction of humanity.”

“...”

“The Zerg have extinguished the sun. Humanity was first forced to move underground, but this is not the path to survival.”

“It only took one hundred and thirty-five years for the sun to evolve from a red giant to a white dwarf.”

“According to scientists’ estimates, it will only take a few hundred years for the white dwarf to completely cool down into a black dwarf.”

“At that time, the temperature of all the planets in the solar system will drop significantly, becoming cold and desolate.”

“Our solar system will gradually become silent and lifeless.”

“Then, the planets will disintegrate.”

“Due to the gravitational interference from the external interstellar space, the planets will be captured by the gravitational fields of other star systems and be expelled from the solar system.”

“The world we live in will eventually disintegrate, and the corpses of the planets will float in the Milky Way, becoming lonely celestial bodies.”

“...”

“The Zerg will not wait for extinction. They have their eyes on Earth.”

“Our Earth.”

“...”

“Earth.”

Azul said to Lu Anji, “You are on your Earth.”

Lu Anji was still struggling to get free from this tail.

At the end of the tail was a rhombic spike, which swayed left and right with Azul’s mood.

He could hear the faint crisp sound of the bone joints fitting together, right next to his ear.

That palm-sized terrifying spike was also constantly scraping against the crystal behind his ear, as if it would pierce his neck through the gap in the crystal at any moment.

Azul would do that, as long as he found it interesting.

In his long life, Lu Anji had only glimpsed one thing:

Azul was a strange thing with a Zerg way of thinking constructed by the Zerg Queen.

The Zerg Queen’s body covered the entire cave.

The metallic luster on her exoskeleton swallowed the surrounding light, and her multiple legs were deeply embedded in the earth's crust.

Under this mountain-like huge black body, the pale Azul was curled up on her "fingernail."

Decay and death were Azul’s hotbeds.

The worker bees brought human ships, and he survived on the remaining nutrient solution on them, no different from the homeless people who scavenged on Earth.

He was instilled with human knowledge, like a little Zerg, incomparably free on the sun.

Lu Anji pretended not to hear, but Azul was persistent.

He crawled closer, his face almost touching his, just like he usually did with the Zerg Queen.

“Mother said that Earth is very close, and she will take me to see it.”

Lu Anji found it ridiculous.

The catastrophe of humanity was just a simple "take me to see" in his mouth.

Apart from the procreation and alternation between the Mother Bugs, the entire Zerg had no second consciousness, let alone a mother-child relationship.

Even humans could have no mother-child relationship.

For example, Lu Anji.

Thinking of himself, Lu Anji uncontrollably fell into Azul’s memory.

The Zerg Queen did not restrict Azul from doing anything.

The collective consciousness watched his words and actions, and would only impose restrictions in extremely dangerous situations.

Forty-six years were not enough for Azul to set foot on the entire sun, and he didn't need to run to every corner.

The white dwarf was much smaller than when it was a sun.

The horizon was very low.

Standing on it, you could clearly see the curved surface in the distance, knowing that you were standing on a huge white sphere.

But that was still better than the laboratory.

The sun was Azul’s sun, but the Earth was not Lu Anji’s Earth.

Azul was still saying: “When I get to Earth, you show me your Earth, and I’ll take you back to our sun. Mother will be happy.”

“Shut up!”

Lu Anji began to struggle more violently.

He waved his hand to push him away, but Azul was too close, and he brushed against Azul’s face when he made his move.

It looked like he had slapped him.

Lu Anji was stunned.

He saw that Azul was also stunned, staring at him with a bewildered and innocent look.

The Zerg Queen hadn't taught him these things.

Expressing grievances seemed to be human nature.

Azul’s face alternated repeatedly with the huge Zerg that was repeatedly played in the documentary.

“They are mastering human strategies, human weaknesses.”

The TV said.

Lu Anji felt utter disgust.

The Zerg were disgusting, humans were disgusting, he himself was disgusting, and Azul was also disgusting.

“Fine, if you want to come to Earth, then come quickly. Kill all these people, and then I will kill you and your stinking bug mother!”

Lu Anji frantically tore at the tail wrapped around his throat.

The tail, which had restrained its strength, cut his hand and also made his neck bloody.

He didn't care.

If he could, he even wanted to stuff this tail into Azul’s mouth.

“If it weren’t for you, why would I be like this?Why can you still look at me with that kind of look! Why?!”

Azul made no move, his scarlet eyes reflecting Lu Anji’s loss of control.

***

“I was thinking about whether to slap him back.” Chu Zu said.

The system said reluctantly: “He didn't have much strength when he accidentally hit you, but if you slap him lightly, this connection might end again, with you slapping him to death.”

“It has nothing to do with me if I fight him.”

Chu Zu pondered, “Did he just call my mom a stinking bug?”

System: “?”

“Although I was raised according to the habits of the Zerg, my mom also taught me a lot of human knowledge. I should be able to understand insults.”

Chu Zu said, “It doesn’t matter if we fight and play. He insulted my mom. Isn’t it too much for me to slap him?”

System: “...”

In the end, Chu Zu did not get his wish.

Because Lu Anji found that he couldn't break free, he simply grabbed the tip of Azul’s tail and stabbed it directly into his own throat.

Chu Zu pulled out the tail, and the splattered blood sprayed all over his face.

His consciousness collapsed.

He returned to his sea of consciousness, and the blood also disappeared.

“He is indeed quite crazy.”

Chu Zu commented, “Now I can be sure. Lu Anji is truly a hate warrior.”

“He hates everyone and wishes the universe would just have a big bang. But this person can’t do the whole universe. After his experiment succeeded, humans gave him honor, status, and dignity, so he simply turned his head and focused on fighting the Zerg.”

“Lu Anji doesn’t have much sense of justice in his heart. It’s all personal grudges. He just puts on a good-looking shell, and that’s it.”

System: “...If you just look at his actions… It's consistent with the original work. He is indeed very ruthless towards the Zerg.”

“Then his life will be even harder.”

Chu Zu sighed with genuine emotion, “I already have to cover up my abnormality, and I still like to show up in front of him.”

“He probably finds it very disgusting to see me. It has nothing to do with my position. Just my existence makes him uncomfortable. I don’t understand his thoughts. The more bewildered I am, the more disgusted he is.”

“He curses me eight hundred times in his heart, but he still has to say to his fleet members: Azul didn’t mean it, he also had good intentions.”

The system imagined the scene.

“So conflicted.”

It said sincerely, “Such a conflicted Lu Anji.”

“Looking at the situation in the laboratory, I estimate he’s about to enroll.”

Chu Zu said, “I also have to pack up and get ready for school. I’ll go and talk to my mom.”

However, neither Chu Zu nor the system expected that the Mother Bug had no intention of sending Azul away at all.

She ignored Chu Zu’s hints.

When he mentioned Earth, she would at most just say, "don't make a fuss, I'll take you to see it when I have time," and nothing more.

In the propaganda film played in Lu Anji’s laboratory, the Zerg were already preparing for a second full-scale invasion, and humanity’s situation was precarious.

But the Mother Bug was acting like she was retired on the sun.

Apart from procreating to replenish the Zerg who had died in the war, she made no extra moves.

Chu Zu was very melancholic.

When he was melancholic, he liked to go and find Lu Anji.

Lu Anji was not doing well at all.

But human adaptability is very strong.

From the beginning when he would cut his own throat in protest as soon as he saw him, to now when he would just ignore him no matter where he was, only Lu Anji himself could understand the mental journey in between.

Chu Zu also couldn't say directly, my mom won't let me go and play with you.

Every time, he would just keep a certain distance from Lu Anji, his tail sweeping back and forth, and stare at him with a look that Lu Anji couldn't understand.

“Don’t you have anyone else to bother!” Lu Anji lost his temper at him.

The black tail carefully wrapped around Lu Anji’s wrist, and the sharp edges on it retracted like a cat’s claws, leaving only the cold touch of the hard shell.

“Besides mother, you are the only family.”

Chu Zu suspected that Lu Anji was about to be choked to death by the vomit in his own throat.

Chu Zu and the system had also carefully analyzed where the problem was.

In the original work, the Mother Bug was very decisive in firing at Azul, timing it perfectly without any delay.

But his mom was extremely good to him now, very good.

The kind of good that if you went and told Lu Anji, it would make him vomit blood on the spot.

Logically speaking, the Zerg had no human kinship, and even the Mother Bug's succession was just a change of consciousness.

It couldn't be that in order to know oneself and the enemy, and to win a hundred battles, she had gone too deep into understanding humans and had gotten trapped, right?

That shouldn't be the case.

Zerg society and human society were completely different structures.

They should not be able to understand what kinship was.

There was only procreation and survival.

It would seem naive to try to imagine it with human thoughts.

The system was so anxious that its little chicken beak was bubbling.

Chu Zu pondered for a long time and said, “How about I go and learn mechanical engineering myself.”

System: “?”

“The Zerg’s ships are biological ships. I can pilot them, but my mom will know immediately. I won’t be able to escape the gravitational circle before I’m caught.”

“Help me scan the human ships that the worker bees have dragged here to see if they can be used after some patching up.”

The system was dumbfounded: “This… does this make sense?”

“It makes sense. I treat Lu Anji as family, and we’re familiar now. I like to play with him, and he likes to use my tail to cut his throat. He even knows how many bone joints my tail has. Even biological brothers are not as close as us.”

Chu Zu said, “This time I’m going to see my family, and I’ll also catch him and bring him back to give our mom a surprise, to make a happy family of three.”

The system thought about it and it made sense.

And there was no other way to advance the plot.

“I’ll go and download the advanced mechanical engineer plugin right away!”

It said, “You just have to pretend to learn. As long as you understand it logically, I’ll fly the ship!”

Chu Zu’s move was very secretive.

He also dug out an empty cocoon from under the earth’s crust, avoided the collective consciousness, and secretly put it into the small, tattered ship.

The knowledge instilled by the Mother Bug did not include mechanical theory.

Chu Zu used his tail to grab the ship’s parts and calmly made a video call to the Mother Bug, asking one by one, what is this, what is it for.

The Mother Bug did not realize that this forty-something-year-old little brat was planning to run away and satisfied his curiosity as usual.

After going through the motions, the system began to load his "advanced mechanical engineer" plugin.

This small ship was a frigate, used for anti-submarine and escort.

Its size was even smaller than the Mother Bug.

The sun’s density was high, and its gravity was many times that of Earth.

The energy required for a ship to take off was enormous.

Fortunately, this was a near-white dwarf.

For some reason, although they were biological ships, the Zerg’s nuclear fusion reactor technology was quite mature.

They didn’t use it, and now it was all to Chu Zu’s advantage.

The frigate slowly lifted off from the surface of the sun.

The instantly ignited engine sent out sound waves.

In this environment with almost no air, the surroundings were endlessly silent, and the sound was suppressed into nothingness.

The engine ignited and emitted a blue-white light.

This cold hue passed through the engine nozzle, forming a bright light band that illuminated the surrounding cold star surface.

Chu Zu looked out.

The countless black Zerg crawling on the sun all raised their heads.

The Mother Bug did not leave the nest, nor did she have the Zerg destroy this small spaceship.

There was no connection between him and the Mother Bug, only a gaze that could not be distinguished by the naked eye.

It was not until the system prompted him to hurry that Chu Zu retracted his gaze.

They had to try to break free from the gravity in one go.

The frigate gradually moved away from the cold and lonely surface.

In their vision, the silent and pale planet gradually blurred and finally disappeared into the endless darkness.

While the system was searching the universe for the wreckage of the battlefield where Azul was picked up, Lu Anji took the initiative to connect with Azul for the first time.

Leaving the sun’s gravitational field for the first time, Azul had a hard time adapting to the sudden change in environment.

Gravity, temperature, radiation level… The body’s self-adaptation made him dizzy and painful.

He vomited many times, vomited himself unconscious, and fell in the cabin in a disheveled state.

He had to rely on his tail to hang on to the side railing to stabilize himself.

The side railing disappeared.

In Lu Anji’s consciousness, it was normal Earth gravity.

Azul fell heavily to the ground and woke up.

He opened his eyes in a daze.

When he saw Lu Anji, he was clearly a little happy.

His canine tooth pressed against his lower lip, and he got up from the ground and rubbed his eyes.

Lu Anji was much taller than when they had first met.

Only Azul was still six years old.

“I’ll be able to kill all of you Zerg soon.”

Lu Anji was going through puberty.

His voice was lower than before, with a hoarseness.

He didn't seem to be able to control it well.

There was a not-so-pleasant tremor in it, which actually had a hint of excitement.

“When I graduate from that pile of fools at the academy, your time will be up, Azul.”

***

“He reminded me.”

Chu Zu said to the system, “I'll learn from the Spine Lasher, break my bones, and go lie in the stolen cocoon for a while.”

“You help me adjust the bone spacing and keep an eye on them as they grow. I want to look about the same size as Lu Anji.”

“As for the tail… I’ll think about how to hide the tail. I remember the Devourer can temporarily hide its biological features…”

The system reluctantly agreed to the host’s extremely bloody request.

***

Lu Anji had already passed the UIF’s recruitment selection.

According to the regulations, unlike other ordinary soldiers who could not refuse, military officers had to enlist voluntarily.

Lu Anji was the type who had no choice, but even if he could choose, he would not refuse.

From the moment he was sold to the laboratory, Lu Anji’s life had no other path.

He seemed destined to become a weapon of humanity, to completely eliminate the threat of the Zerg.

The Allied Military Academy was the only path he could take.

The moment he learned the news, Lu Anji heard the desperate gasps of the children around him.

Liam’s face was pale as he lay on the bed.

The only chance in the entire laboratory was taken by Lu Anji.

The fate of the other children was still unknown.

At that time, Lu Anji thought of Azul.

He couldn't find any expression related to despair on Azul’s face.

This fool was indulging in the nursery created by the Zerg Queen.

Lu Anji would destroy everything Azul had.

He meant what he said.

And when Lu Anji notified Azul of this with full malice, Azul blinked his eyes and looked him up and down.

The larva’s smile deepened, its eyes curved, and its dimples and canine teeth were equally obvious.

Its tail also swayed back and forth in the air.

“Mhm, I’ll find you soon!”

Across 149.6 million kilometers, across the 8.3 minutes required for the speed of light.

You come to find me with killing intent, and I will come to take you home.

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