Chapter 76 : Chapter 76

Chapter 76 : “I have to find a way to insert the key lines.”

Topic: Three Perspectives

Fifty Billion Years of Solitude has finally completed all its perspectives.

Lei Jingan, Cohen, Serrano and five others are in one group, Lu Anji and Azul are in another group, and Lin Qiuyi is in a group of her own.

I know some people will object, thinking that Lin Qiuyi’s POV involves the stories of other characters.

I don’t think so.

She has supported a cosmic romance that belongs exclusively to her.

The problem is that Lu Anji and Azul can’t support theirs.

Before the revision, Lei Jingan’s The Pro-Zerg, Cohen’s Ignite the Sun, Serrano’s The Penitent’s Manifesto…

Each chapter was very complete on its own, and the special genre of the ensemble intertwined and connected their storylines.

Several people focused on one thing, and had completely different attitudes.

People with the same attitude chose completely opposite paths.

It can be said to be very exciting.

Not to mention Lin Qiuyi, the freest child in the entire universe, the daughter that the comment section was howling to cloud-raise.

Every time I felt that the POVs of other characters were too heavy, I would look at Lin Qiuyi, and my mood would instantly turn from a thunderstorm to a sunny day.

She is the only character that the author consciously wants the readers to like, and it is indeed necessary.

Lu Anji and Azul are very much in the middle of nowhere.

They don’t have to be responsible for singing praises of glory, nor do they have to show struggle.

The other POVs have already done that to the extreme.

From the perspective of the completeness of the entire text, is the author trying to use them to tell the story of the chaos and differences under the human and Zerg orders during the period of stalemate in the war?

I can’t be sure either, because when I first started reading this book, I really treated their POVs as transitional chapters.

Lu Anji is an experimental subject.

Humans were not very good to him at first, but after he graduated from the academy, they were not too bad to him.

He is willing to risk his life on the front lines for humanity.

OK, no problem at all.

Azul is a spy planted by the Zerg.

He uses Lu Anji’s special status and kind heart to gradually make the war situation a stalemate.

Humanity is at a disadvantage.

OK, apart from the fact that I can’t figure out his motives, the existence of such a character is not a bomb.

But it’s just so boring.

Blind Leap｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:32:12

Agreed.

Looking at the other POVs, the ones fighting in the comments are all about standpoints (except for Lin Qiuyi).

When it comes to Lu Anji and Azul, it’s all just trivial matters.

It feels like the author himself was hit by a truck and went to another world, and the editor tried to turn the tide, but failed miserably.

I can only say that the writing style of interspersing POVs is correct.

If there were dozens of chapters of their nonsense in a row, I would rather find some trashy sci-fi movies to pass the time.

By the way, did I cut in line?

Sorry!

Heat Death Tomorrow｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:33:24

It doesn’t matter if you cut in line, I’m a slow typer hahaha.

Continuing on.

I thought about it for a long time, but it doesn’t make sense.

It really doesn’t make sense.

The author has the ability to write a Lei Jingan that is as much hated as she is loved, a Linton that makes people grit their teeth but can be reconciled with, and a Serrano that is sighed about from beginning to end…

How come when it comes to Lu Anji and Azul, they are so boring.

You can even flatten them and put labels on them, one a saint, one a green tea.

Racking my brains, the ultimate reading comprehension I can come up with is only:

Lu Anji is approximately a ultimate scale of humanity in technology, war, and humanities.

The scale will change with the changes in the plot.

Humanity needs a “new species” with a thinking mode that is infinitely close to the Zerg, but also requires him to abide by human morals and self-esteem.

Is he still human?

Don’t scold me, I know the author didn’t write this, and I didn’t see it either.

It’s all just my fantasy.

As for Azul, he is a POV that can’t even be used for reading comprehension.

So side, I’ve never seen a more marginal POV in an ensemble than him.

So much so that when I see readers scolding him, I would think, why don’t you just go and scold the author?

What’s there to scold about such a flat character who is only left with the name “Azul”?

Now!

I declare! No more scolding!

Blind Leap｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:37:18

I heard it was revised?

It’s not finished yet, I haven’t seen it.

The author said that he would not touch the original plot.

The original text was already very good for me before.

I just had to automatically ignore those two heaven-defying ones.

Asimov Said Let There Be Light｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:38:23

Those who haven’t seen the revised plot can exit the post!

There will be spoilers ahead!

There will be spoilers!

Leaving a very long dividing line.

There’s still time to leave now.

Preventing spoilers starts with me.

Simply put, the teacher who did the revision is not a human.

He left no room at all and completely radicalized the boring Azul in the boring plot.

His position is ambiguous?

Fine, then he’s just a Zerg.

Since humans can transform Lu Anji and make him simulate Zerg thinking, there’s no reason why the Zerg, who are more advanced in biotechnology, can’t.

The Mother Bug crazily transformed Azul, and a little Zerg with a long tail was born.

Is his motive ambiguous?

Fine, then let him experience enough events.

Under the Mother Bug's intentional "education," Azul simply understood war as the continuous death of both sides.

To Azul, war has no attributes.

It has nothing to do with the hatred of mutual destruction in the past, nothing to do with politics and procreation, and nothing to do with him.

But he just happened to be on the same frequency as Lu Anji.

On the same frequency as the young Lu Anji.

When their consciousness was shared, I shuddered in an instant.

I instantly recalled the plots that I had read through as a transition in the original text.

It’s very fatal.

I found that the subsequent direction has a completely different interpretation.

It’s not my reading comprehension.

There is obviously something new and sharp in them that is different from the previous generation.

So far, there are two keywords that have run through Azul’s life.

“Loneliness,” “exploration.”

In my understanding, this is exactly the most primitive thing about humanity after stripping away all social attributes.

On the sun, there was only him and the Mother Bug.

And no matter how good the Mother Bug was to him, the fact was that Azul could easily find his difference among the Zerg.

Their body size was obviously different, their physiological structure was vastly different, and the Mother Bug had not put him in the collective consciousness.

So after finding Lu Anji, Azul directly regarded him as family, a partner who was infinitely close to him in biological characteristics.

They both had independent thinking, both had Zerg characteristics, and could connect across time and space.

Azul would do anything to meet Lu Anji; there was no other explanation except for his subconscious "loneliness."

After leaving the sun, Azul came into contact with a lot of things besides the black and white sun.

It was only at this time that he began to think frequently.

He thought about various problems that were not important before.

When he first arrived on the star ring, Azul wanted to take Lu Anji home.

At this time, his thoughts were not mixed with any impurities.

He thought that the sun was a happy place.

Lu Anji kept him there.

Azul began to live among humans, but he could not see any merit in humans.

It seems that it can't be said that way.

He saw them, but he didn't care, didn't care.

In the original words of the POV:

For the sake of procreation, a group of people are left behind, and another group is arranged to die.

The living pay tribute to the dead, and the dead mourn for those who are going to their deaths.

This is a cruel method that the Zerg use to continue their civilization when they encounter a catastrophe.

Azul could not interpret it.

From the bottom of his heart, he did not regard humans as a creature that needed to be understood in depth.

This may sound very abstract.

A real-life example should be easy to understand.

Most of the time, our knowledge of marine life is only superficial.

Occasionally, we click on a marketing account video and hear that "humpback whales beat killer whales."

Few people go to verify it.

It's fine to just leave a superficial impression.

(P.S. The fact is that carnivorous killer whales beat humpback whales. Humpback whales are N times slower than killer whales. At most, they can interfere with killer whales' hunting.)

But the experiments in the laboratory forced Azul to understand humans.

Humans used his genes to do experiments, destroyed his cocoon, and made him very uncomfortable.

Just like a child who only knows that playing with water is very dangerous after being drowned.

The body will remember this feeling before the brain.

When the matter of the laboratory was exposed, Azul wanted to go home, which was obviously an escape.

The Mother Bug taught him a lot of knowledge, but she didn't teach him how to survive in the human world.

Human society is much more complex than Zerg society, and he couldn't adapt.

At this time, standpoint became a very magical thing.

If Azul had belonged to the human standpoint from the beginning, even if he faced the same things as Lu Anji, it was still the same thing, and he might not have struggled as he did now.

When he couldn't handle this terrible emotion, he began to subtly hate the source of everything Lu Anji.

Up to this point, Azul has become a very difficult creature to summarize.

Zerg would not be shocked by the splendid nebula.

At most, they would only consider how many tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of years it would take for the nebula to become a star.

Zerg also don't decide the life and death of other lives based on their preferences.

Humans rarely do that either, but Azul does.

He would directly attack those he didn't like.

If Lu Anji hadn't stopped him, the academy would have been cleaned out long ago.

His POV always gives me a very clean feeling.

The perspective is the most subjective of all the POVs, but the amount of information is also very sufficient.

Blind Leap｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:43:52

An aside.

Lu Anji is so hateful now, and I can’t even say he’s gone astray.

That’s just how humans are to him, and he has Azul as a reference.

Azul is in pain because he is not a complete Zerg.

The Mother Bug did not put him in the collective consciousness, only taught him human knowledge.

Now Lu Anji is teaching him what hate is.

Sigh.

If Azul and Lu Anji’s treatment were swapped, the plot might have ended when their consciousness connected.

How is the Southern Reach Trilogy not sci-fi｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:44:32

I haven’t seen the revised main text, but just looking at LZ’s analysis, I suddenly feel pity.

Definitely not because my XP is a small tail with an exoskeleton.

You listen to me weave relativity｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:44:58

Here comes the key point.

Lu Anji wants everything to die, and he can go to the front lines, and even climb to the position of commander-in-chief.

Azul, he can connect to the Mother Bug.

Humans want to kill all the Zerg.

The Mother Bug has always only extinguished dangerous embers and has not engaged in a full-scale war.

Now think about the subsequent plot.

Originally, it was because Lu Anji was too good at fighting and was about to reach the sun, that the Mother Bug had to destroy the entire fleet, and Azul continuously sent intelligence to the Mother Bug.

Not surprisingly, Lu Anji is still very good at fighting now, but his goal is not just the Zerg.

He has become an extreme representative of the drawbacks of military authoritarianism, even crazier than the previous commander-in-chief.

You can see an out-of-control government pushing the madman they cultivated to the top of humanity…

So were those dead comrades because of Mother Bug’s will, or Lu Anji’s arrangement?

To take a step back, Lu Anji did not intentionally kill his teammates.

But he completely knew the connection between the Mother Bug and Azul.

After a few times, he should have figured out the whole story.

During World War II, Alan Mathison Turing’s team cracked the German “Enigma” system.

Britain thus mastered a large number of German military commands, one of which was the “Moonlight Sonata” plan.

The “Moonlight Sonata” plan was Hitler’s “special revenge” on Britain.

He wanted to bomb Coventry, one of Britain’s main arsenals.

Churchill had received this intelligence at least forty-eight hours in advance.

In order not to reveal that his side had already mastered the cracking of the “Enigma” system, he gave up Coventry.

Would Lu Anji deliberately give up his teammates for a greater, more comprehensive purpose?

The war between humans and the Zerg has evolved into an ideological confrontation of four parties.

Why four parties?

Because there is also Azul.

To reiterate, he is a lonely, proactive, and gradually aware of the one-sided truth of humanity, thus producing a hateful Zerg.

At the same time, Azul is the only intelligent life that can connect humans and the Zerg since Lei Jingan.

Previously, Lei Jingan was purely gambling, gambling whether the Mother Bug could understand her meaning.

Azul is simpler, a pure biological connection.

If Azul wants to cause trouble in the war, it couldn't be more convenient.

If we just look at the genes, he and Lu Anji can already become a new ethnic group.

There are only the two of them in the group, and they still hate each other.

Where should his sense of belonging and self-identity belong?

The original text has not been revised here yet, but no matter what Lu Anji and Azul are thinking, even if the plot direction has long been determined, I know, but the whole story is alive!!!

It's alive!

It's not boring anymore!

I can watch it for three more days and three more nights!

Blind Leap｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:55:12

By the way, the Zerg are generally considered a level two civilizations in science fiction, while Earth is at most a level 0.7 civilization.

After this revision, won't it feel like the Zerg and humans are about the same?

I can’t quite get the feeling of the difference in civilization and dimension in science fiction.

Fostering Gods｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:55:54

I can answer this.

Many authors handle it the same way as Fifty Billion Years of Solitude, only writing about the parts that humans can understand.

So there is no real POV belonging to the Mother Bug in all these POVs.

Before, we could only guess its thoughts from its behavior.

Now Azul can be considered a representative of the Zerg, but he is not pure, and the Mother Bug’s attitude towards him is so ambiguous.

By the way, exoskeleton tails, good civilization, I suggest promoting them!

Is your singer authentic?｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:56:12

The Mother Bug didn’t build a Dyson sphere to cover the sun.

Cohen deserves a lot of credit.

If I were to say, Lu Anji wants to kill everything.

He should have been a scientist.

At least in this novel, the scientists are all more capable than the last, and their methods are also wild.

Who cares about NASA or the UIF?

Infiltrate, infiltrate hard!

Rebirth: I'm Wiping Glass at ST｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:57:32

See, it’s not boring after the revision.

Even if these two POVs are still very controversial and not necessarily likable, no one is scolding them anymore!

Right!

Right!

Can the revision teacher hurry up?

I’m so anxious.

Blind Leap｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:58:12

Laughing my ass off.

I took a look.

They’re all back to scolding Lei Jingan and Cohen.

Azul is just a cat-bug.jpg

Lu Anji is just a little madman.jpg

But Lei Jingan and Cohen are the real troublemakers.avi

Report Again｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:58:12

Here we go again, scolding at every opportunity.

What did Lei Jingan and Cohen do to you?

Without them, Earth would have been finished long ago.

Pacific Rim has no 2｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:58:56

Haha, guess why a trash government like the UIF can get better and better?

Without their achievements, the UIF would have been gone long ago.

Could they still use fighting the Zerg as a means of diverting internal conflicts?

Report Again｜Commented on 2018-12-21 14:59:45

“And then they started arguing.”

The system said, “They even tried to drag you and Lu Anji into the fight, saying that without Lei Jingan, there would be no you, and without you, Lu Anji would still be a saintly big brother.”

Chu Zu: “Stop.”

System: “?”

“I’ve been heavily spoiled.”

Chu Zu said, “Be honest with me. Did you choose a HOT post with the most spoilers?”

System: “Where are the spoilers?”

Chu Zu: “Are you questioning my intelligence?”

He picked up the little yellow chicken in the sea of consciousness and squeezed its little face, “The Pro-Zerg, Ignite the Sun, The Penitent’s Manifesto. Aren’t these three enough for me to deduce the entire process?”

The little yellow chicken didn’t dare to struggle and took the opportunity to rub against him:

“This is already the post with the fewest spoilers, Host.”

Fifty Billion Years of Solitude did not follow a chronological order.

All the POVs progressed simultaneously.

When they first started reading, the readers didn’t even realize that these were events happening in different eras.

And because the host had revised Azul’s setting before, unless the protagonist’s perspective was forcibly occupied, the background story of a side character would not be included in the main text.

Although Azul was also a side, he was at least a noble POV.

All the supplementary content would directly appear in the main text.

Many readers were discussing the overall change in perception brought about by the difference in progress, and they would inevitably list the plots of various eras for comparison.

The system remembered that the host had said not to spoil, and had even carefully selected the posts.

“Will this affect your work?”

The little yellow chicken asked cautiously.

“It would have happened before, but not now.”

Chu Zu sighed and said, “I estimate that when I wake up, I’ll be dragged to be a mascot at a military tribunal. It’s not impossible that the dean will protect him, but I still have to go with him.”

“When there’s nothing to do, you can just give me a few POVs to pass the time—who is Lin Qiuyi?”

The system stammered: “Please don’t ask. You really shouldn’t ask about this, otherwise you will definitely blame me for spoiling after I answer. She is the type who plays on her own and has no impact on the entire story.”

It said, “Can you just pretend she doesn’t exist?”

“Fine.”

Chu Zu agreed readily.

“Has little Lu submitted his early enlistment application?”

He said, “Sort out the key lines for me to persuade Lu Anji to get to the front lines through connections.”

Based on the current situation, Lu Anji would definitely bring Azul along.

It was related to the mission evaluation, so he had to find a way to insert the key lines.

The system had already sorted it out and directly projected it into the host’s sea of consciousness.

I must go to the front lines.

This is my responsibility.

I can’t just wait to be protected.

I also want to do my best to protect those who saved me from the universe.

This is the first thing I learned at the academy: gratitude.

Chu Zu: “...”

The character design correction was going smoothly, and the reader reviews were not bad.

The difficulty of this job was actually in the key lines?

The system was also very worried: “This style is very un-Azul. It’s more like something Lu Anji would say.”

Chu Zu: “I can search for similar sentences online, find a random reason to knock little Lu out, and recite them to him.”

“It will appear in the main text…”

The system was a little troubled.

“It can be explained.”

Chu Zu said flatly, “The readers on the forum are currently in a wait-and-see state regarding Azul. I’ll say it first and get this plot over with. The rest will be left to the future me.”

System: “...Okay.”

***

Lu Anji’s application for early graduation and the military’s summons notice were placed on the headmaster’s desk together.

On the star ring, the explosion of the laboratory was no small matter.

It was also related to the Zerg.

It had only been less than three years since the last "Star Ring Day of Silence," and this matter quickly attracted the attention of the higher-ups.

The headmaster summoned the dean of the command and staff department, wanting him to forward the summons notice.

“He can’t go to a military tribunal.”

The dean was very firm and refused to back down at all.

“Neither can Azul. I only agree to an internal investigation by the academy. The list of investigators needs to be discussed separately by us.”

The dean gave the headmaster a reason he couldn't refuse.

After investigating the wreckage of the research institute, the academy found a large amount of human remains with obvious Zerg structures.

The DNA could not be matched to any information.

It was highly likely that they were smuggled onto the star ring.

The person in charge immediately sent someone to find the doctor.

The academy had never known that the research institute was actually conducting human research other than Lu Anji.

When they found the doctor, he was already dead.

He had fallen to his death.

The window was wide open, and no biological information was found in the room.

The surrounding surveillance had also been destroyed.

The dean had contacted Lu Anji that night, hoping to figure things out before the situation completely escalated.

Lu Anji was not surprised at all by the doctor’s death.

On the other end of the communication, there was even an unusual hint of mockery.

“The doctor asked me to take Azul to the laboratory, and I did.”

“Azul was very curious about Azul Serrano. His photo was hanging in the corridor, so he went to see it.”

“He asked me what was in the room behind the corridor. I thought, if it was content I couldn’t see, the doctor wouldn’t have given me the authority. I tried to swipe the access card.”

“It was full of experimental subjects.”

Lu Anji said in a hoarse voice, “Azul screamed on the spot. He didn’t know anything and wanted to contact the instructor with his bracelet. I tried to stop him, and we got into a dispute. I accidentally touched the equipment in the room. I don’t know what the equipment was for…”

“Later, the doctor came and told me and Azul not to say anything, that's what happened.”

If you laid out the known clues.

The doctor’s experiment must have been supported by someone behind the scenes.

An ordinary high-level official would not have the guts.

It had to be at least a vice-captain level.

Azul had just offended Bennett not long ago.

The doctor had Lu Anji take Azul to the laboratory late at night.

Lu Anji’s access card had authority it shouldn’t have.

The doctor was dead.

It was a standard development of a high-level official trying to carry out a vicious revenge on a war orphan in private and killing the witness after an accident.

The dean also could not investigate.

No matter from what angle he went in, the things he would get involved in would cause a huge turmoil.

“You don’t have to worry about this matter.”

After the dean finished speaking seriously, he softened his tone towards Lu Anji, “Don’t worry. I won’t let a second doctor set foot on the star ring. As for Azul… he’d better forget about tonight, for his own good.”

After hearing this, the headmaster’s chest heaved a few times.

It took him some time to make a decision.

In terms of seniority, he was actually far inferior to the dean of the command and staff department.

He was purely an academic and had never been to the front lines.

The UIF needed a sufficiently gentle and obedient person as a buffer, which was why they had given him a military rank and made him the headmaster of the Allied Military Academy.

Gentleness and obedience also had their degrees.

He was a soldier, so he would do what a soldier should do.

“I will order the arrest of all members of the research institute. The affiliated research institute of the Allied Military Academy will be completely shut down. If they want to research celestial bodies or the military industry, they can go to other star rings.”

The headmaster got up from his chair and put on his stiff military uniform.

“You and I will go to the military tribunal.”

The dean nodded and walked out with him side by side.

***

As Chu Zu had estimated, the dean wanted to protect Lu Anji, and the matter gradually evolved into a standoff between the Allied Military Academy and the military higher-ups.

As a member of the academy, Azul also became the object of the academy’s protection.

Early in the morning, Lu Anji dragged him out of bed, skillfully wrapped his tail twice and hid it in his clothes, and then put a jacket on him.

Seeing that he was still not awake, Lu Anji grabbed his shoulders and shook him ruthlessly.

After a few shakes, the hidden tail shot out, wrapped around his arm, and lifted him up.

“Are you awake?”

Lu Anji, who was hanging in mid-air, looked at him with a blank expression.

“I’m awake.”

“Then put me down.”

“Oh.”

“And tuck your tail back in.”

Lu Anji’s attitude was much better.

Before, he would have already dragged the person to the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face.

“The dean is holding an internal investigation meeting. Don’t say anything, and don’t fall asleep.”

Lu Anji chattered on and on, and only after they left did he perform a change of face, greeting and chatting with the classmates he met.

He was eighty percent cheerful and twenty percent sorrow perfectly in control.

The system and the host enjoyed his performance for a while.

Chu Zu even had the system record all of Lu Anji’s micro-expressions and small movements as a reference for his acting.

In the acting class, choosing the right teacher was very important.

The little yellow chicken was recording on one side and sorting through the massive amount of POV that was waking it up on the other.

It had been planned well.

An internal investigation, just to understand the specific cause and effect in more detail, for the convenience of writing a report and filing it away.

All the thinking would be thrown at Lu Anji.

He would be the director and actor of his own show, and Azul would just be a little pendant.

But as soon as the investigation meeting began, the headmaster directly called out Azul.

The lights in the circular room suddenly went out.

The projections all around turned on.

The deep blue light was pale, and Chu Zu was surrounded in the center.

“No impression.”

The person in the projection was holding a helmet.

His upper body was a simple T-shirt, and his lower body was a spacesuit.

He scratched his head with his free hand.

“He’s not from our squad. I can be sure. I’ve been working for so many years, and I’ve never seen a living thing in the wreckage.”

“Azul?”

The projection switched.

This time, it was the tester in charge of the academy’s qualification review.

His shirt had an ID card on it.

“This is a very common name. Many Spaniards believe that a name is a symbol of culture, just like how Chinese people still choose difficult-to-pronounce syllables to name their children. You ask me if I remember Azul? I can only tell you that I don’t, but his name is on the list.”

The projection flashed and switched again.

“I admit that Azul’s quality is not enough for him to go to the command and staff department.”

The instructor said coldly, “I was just carrying out my mission according to the list. Evaluation is not part of my duties.”

The headmaster raised his voice: “I need you to give an explanation, Azul.”

The little yellow chicken was still holding the POV and subconsciously looked at the host.

Faced with the unexpected situation, Chu Zu was very calm.

On the contrary, his body was slightly tense.

His posture was no different from before, and his back under the wide coat was slightly hunched.

He looked at Lu Anji, as if for confirmation.

Lu Anji gave him an encouraging smile.

“Little Lu is sweating profusely.”

Chu Zu said to the system in the sea of consciousness, “He didn’t know much about the military back then, and he was also sloppy in his work. Now the military is using this as a pre-enlistment inquiry, and he’s also at a loss.”

“Huh? A pre-enlistment review?”

The little yellow chicken was confused, “Isn’t this an internal investigation meeting?”

“They won’t ask me anything related to the research institute. They wish I would just go to sleep and lose my memory.”

Chu Zu explained, “The academy’s instructors are on a rotation system, and they’ve gone to the front lines in the morning. The background in the projection is not the academy, it’s obviously on a ship.”

“In such a short time, to both go against the military higher-ups and contact all the connections is impossible.”

“This information was not prepared on the spot. They should have started formulating the relevant inquiry content based on the students’ situations a long time ago.”

The system became nervous: “Wait, Host. If you pass the inquiry now, there’s no reason to go to Lu Anji for a back door in the future.”

“Both the headmaster and the dean are here now. If I don’t pass, Lu Anji’s face won’t work either.”

Chu Zu said: “It doesn’t matter.”

He looked around.

Apart from Lu Anji, the headmaster, the dean, the evaluators, and countless instructors were all staring at his every move.

They did not suspect Azul’s identity, otherwise they would have already carried out an arrest, or an execution.

Lu Anji’s favoritism towards him was excessive, and he would also be implicated.

Although the military had long since abolished humiliating training, high-pressure tests still existed.

They would pop up out of nowhere and were particularly effective on formal occasions.

Chu Zu retracted his gaze and asked the system in the sea of consciousness: “Are there any rules that say the key lines must be said to the original character?”

Little Yellow Chicken: “Huh?”

If it wasn’t said to the original character… who else could it be said to?

“The forum was right about one thing. After leaving the sun, I basically only learned things from Lu Anji, because I saw him as family… now as a friend.”

Chu Zu said, “I am a smart bug, but I have never cared about humans. Now they have disgusted me. I have started to pay attention and learn to treat them in the same way as my friends. Will it work?”

The system skillfully flipped through the manual, fully learning the host’s adventurous spirit of skirting the rules without breaking them.

The key lines all seemed to be the essence that Lu Anji could come up with off the top of his head.

They were quite high-sounding, but all nonsense.

The key leaders also liked to hear them, which was very suitable for the current occasion.

“There are no explicit violations!”

The system said quickly, “If the superior comes looking, I’ll just say that Lu Anji was also at the scene. Rounding up, it’s as if you said it to him!”

Azul’s state was not right.

Lu Anji could tell.

His back was slightly hunched, his eyes darting around.

This was clearly a prelude to an attack.

Lu Anji did not know enough about the military.

He never would have thought that this internal investigation would turn into an examination of Azul.

He began to regret mentioning Azul in the application.

He should have taken it step by step, let Azul submit the application himself, and also control the time and teach him how to face the review.

His mind was already in a mess, but Lu Anji still maintained a calm expression on the surface.

Only he himself knew how difficult it was to force out an "encouraging" smile.

If Azul made a move, no one here would survive.

The headmaster and dean of the Allied Military Academy died in an internal investigation?

What kind of joke was that?!

Time passed minute by minute, and Azul still hadn’t spoken.

Even the headmaster, who was waiting for a reaction, began to frown slightly.

“What explanation?”

Azul finally spoke.

He looked at the headmaster with a slightly innocent look.

Lu Anji remembered this look.

Before, in the sea of consciousness, when he had wanted to push Azul away but had accidentally slapped his face, Azul had looked at him with this same look.

It was exactly the same, with no difference, and could instantly bring back the memory for Lu Anji.

Lu Anji’s heart skipped a beat.

He wasn't sure what Azul was doing.

This stupid bug's mind was usually empty, except for the sun, his mother, and "family."

During his time at the academy, whether it was the instructors or the classmates, it was always Lu Anji who smoothed things over for him.

What was Azul… doing now?

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