Secrets in the conference room

Huo Chao‍⁠‌‍‍‍‌⁠⁠‍‍⁠‌‌‌​​‌​⁠‌⁠​⁠ and Pei Changyun kissed…

Kissed…

Kissed…

This sentence began to loop endlessly in Ye Shu’s mind.

Endlessly, infinitely.

He even started to imagine it happening!!!

No, no, no!!! 

No!!!! 

It was terrifying! 

Absolutely terrifying!!! 

It was even scarier than seeing Jiang Ci flirting  with Huo Xianfeng earlier.

After all, those two only held hands.

And while Ye Shu cared about Jiang Ci, they weren’t actually that close. But Huo Chao and Pei Changyun—he knew them!

He knew them very well!!!

Ye Shu was practically Huo Chao’s biggest fan. Completely and utterly. He viewed Huo Chao as a beloved older brother, as a grand marshal held in the highest regard, someone he had fully deified.

As for Pei Changyun, he was the person Ye Shu hated the most.

And now!!! 

Now!!!! 

These two kissed… kissed…

Oh right, Pei Changyun was a beta.

Ye Shu had only found out today that Pei Changyun was a beta. He had always assumed Pei Changyun was a weakling alpha. He even secretly made fun of Pei Changyun’s frail build behind his back.

Turns out, Pei Changyun wasn’t an alpha at all, but a beta!!!

Betas and alphas can be together, and betas can even get pregnant, though the chances are lower.

Because omegas are so rare, most families consist of a beta and an alpha pairing.

So, if Pei Changyun were truly with Huo Chao, it wouldn’t be unusual to…

No, no, no!!! 

No way!!! 

—Ye Shu felt like he’d been struck by lightning!

The more he thought about it, the clearer the image of the two kissing became in his mind.

It was too cruel.

That image was too cruel!!!

Ye Shu was almost pulling his hair out.

—He was too shocked.

—He was in agony.

But he still clung to one last shred of hope and turned to the silent Emperor.

“You… Pei Changyun… you and him… you and Huo Chao…”

At this moment, Ye Shu didn’t even know what he was saying.

But deep down, he still felt it was impossible.

After all, Pei Changyun—this man was insufferable, always with a stern face, cold and rigid temperament, always sticking to his strict rules. Who would like someone like that?!

From Ye Shu’s perspective, Pei Changyun and Huo Chao’s interactions were always strictly professional. There was never any sign of intimacy.

So how could it be… how could it be!!!

“You two, you two really… are you…”

Ye Shu’s pupils shook, his entire body wavering as if he were about to collapse.

“You…”

But the Emperor completely ignored him and instead turned to the equally stunned Commander, coldly calling out,

“Zhou Jiuya—”

“…Yes!”

The Commander, dazed as he was, responded immediately to the order. His body reflexively stood up straight and tall.

He knew that Huo Chao had done a lot for Pei Changyun, but he always thought Huo Chao did it for the greater good of humanity.

After all, Huo Chao treated everyone around him well. Zhou Jiuya had assumed that Huo Chao simply saw Pei Changyun’s potential and believed only he could establish a new nation… hence his actions…

Forget it—

Zhou Jiuya wasn’t even sure what he was thinking anymore. He simply followed the Emperor’s command by instinct, standing straight like a bewildered, oversized bear that had just been stung by a bee.

“…Your Majesty?”

“There’s something I need to talk to you about. Later, give me a private call.”

Pei Changyun deliberately emphasized the word private.

“Yes, sire.”

Before Zhou Jiuya could even finish saying “yes,” the Emperor’s projection vanished from the conference room.

From his sudden appearance to his abrupt exit, it took less than ten seconds.

Although the Emperor’s expression hadn’t changed much, it felt like he was fleeing.

“…”

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As for Huo Xianfeng, he didn’t seem to find anything awkward about the situation at all. He simply toyed with the omega’s hand, watching the entire scene unfold with great interest.

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Huo Xianfeng enjoyed this godlike feeling of manipulating a group of people like puppets. Even when he was imprisoned, he could still toy with the foolish young Huo Chao or use Huo Chao’s body to do things that would give the Church headaches.

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For instance, innocent lives.

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This time, Huo Chao took advantage from Huo Xianfeng being buried underground for three hundred years and losing his memory, leaving behind so many strange secrets.

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That guy just did it and died… without even clearly explaining things, leaving behind a huge pile of mysteries for him. So Huo Xianfeng deliberately exposed his secrets.

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So, Huo Xianfeng decided to reveal it in front of everyone, especially in front of his die-hard fans, and strip him bare.

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Ha!

If that idiot Huo Chao were still alive, it wouldn’t have ended so easily.

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“Huo Xianfeng, is what you’re saying really true?”

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Yeah, how did Huo Xianfeng know?

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But in fact, they didn’t know that before Huo Xianfeng fell into a deep sleep due to his degeneration, Huo Chao basically had no secrets in front of the other party, because Huo Xianfeng could invade his body one-way at any time and spy on his vision.

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This was something Huo Xianfeng could mock Huo Chao for the rest of his life.

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If there was no proof, Ye Shu wouldn’t believe it even if he died.

Because if this were true, then damn it… wouldn’t that make Pei Changyun Huo Chao’s widow?!!

Oh my god!!! 

His arch-nemesis is his idol’s widow!!!

This is terrifying!!!

It’s too horrifying!!!

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—Is simply the ultimate humiliation!!!

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He casually replied,

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Zhou Jiuya: “…”

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At this moment, Jiang Ci also started to piece things together, though he was still a bit dazed.

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So he immediately looked at Huo Xianfeng, urgently asking,

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Flashing red light on the projector.

That indicated that the communication line was still open.

Pei Changyun had just turned off the projection but left the audio on.

This meant the Emperor was just pretending to leave, while actually staying connected to listen in.

Huo Xianfeng raised an eyebrow and, without a second thought, stripped his stupid friend’s last shred of dignity clean off.

“I don’t know if it’s true in the end, but I do know it was Huo Chao who pursued Pei Changyun first. Oh, and Pei Changyun was only seventeen at the time, a minor. The first time Huo Chao got rejected, he came back crying to me. Later, he wasn’t willing to give up, so he chased after him for more than half a year with a love manual.”

Ye Shu: “…”

Well, now not only has the house collapsed, but it’s been grounded to dust and scattered to the wind.

The great Marshal he idolized turned out to be a creep who chased after a minor, and even cried after being rejected…

Is this really the same Marshal who, driving the Forbidden Abyss, was invincible in the midst of thousands of troops?

Jiang Ci was also stunned, unable even to focus on Huo Xianfeng’s flirtatious actions in front of his elders. He murmured to himself, “So, Marshal Huo Chao was actually like this…”

Ye Shu was in a daze and tormented by the continuous blows that made him feel as if ten thousand ants were crawling all over him. In short, he was in extreme discomfort. He had always assumed that if Huo Chao and Pei Changyun were together, it would have been Pei Changyun who took the initiative. After all, Pei Changyun seemed to be the one who was always following.

But now—

But now!!!

No wonder Huo Chao said he didn’t like omegas.

Because Pei Changyun is a Beta!!!

Ye Shu felt like the world had gone mad.

This world was far too cruel to him.

…His faith had crumbled.

At this point, after Huo Xianfeng had stripped his foolish friend of his last dignity and shattered the die-hard fan’s idealized image of Huo Chao, he finally felt a bit better.

But clearly, that wasn’t the main point of this meeting. The gossip ended here; Huo Xianfeng still had more important questions to ask.

There were only two things he hadn’t figured out yet: first, how Huo Chao managed to reverse the Zerg corruption, and second, what exactly happened during that nuclear explosion.

The first question was probably known only to Huo Chao himself and perhaps a few within the Illusory God Church, so Huo Xianfeng could only ask Zhou Jiuya the second question now.

“Did you investigate afterward? Where did those millions of nuclear bombs come from?”

“……”

Jiang Ci was momentarily stunned, but he quickly understood what Huo Xianfeng meant.

“Are you saying those nuclear bombs weren’t arranged by Marshal Huo Chao?”

Without waiting for Huo Xianfeng to respond, Jiang Ci answered the question himself.

“Of course, they couldn’t have been arranged by the Marshal. At that time, the Dawn Legion didn’t have the capability… Even with the initial construction of the weapons factories and basic industrial system on Eternal Cloud Planet, they wouldn’t have been able to manufacture millions of nuclear bombs in such a short time…”

From the time humans discovered the Zergs in the Milky Way to the moment they invaded Earth, it was only a matter of months, but millions of nuclear bombs couldn’t be produced in such a short period.

So, it should have been accumulated over a very long time.

Jiang Ci felt a chill run through his body and his voice slowed down as he gave a very firm answer.

“…This was premeditated.”

“Their makers had long planned to make Earth the site of a nuclear detonation, regardless of whether the one who triggered it was Marshal Huo Chao or not. There might not even need to be a trigger. As long as the Zergs arrived, Earth would become their burial ground.”

So, did Huo Chao truly perish along with the Zergs?

 Was the Zergs truly the killers who took Huo Chao’s life?

Then what was the meaning behind his apology and restitution to Huo Xianfeng?

 Was there another reason?

Did he really do it for humanity, to kill the Zergs?

 Or did he want to stop it and save both sides, but ultimately failed?

If the nuclear bombs were Huo Chao’s doing, Huo Xianfeng would have known long ago.

So it had to be the work of the Alliance. That terrifying number could only be achieved by mobilizing the entire Alliance’s resources over a long period.

In fact, Huo Xianfeng doubted the figure of millions. He was too familiar with the Zergs’ formidable defense capabilities and knew that the basic unit of measurement for the Zerg army was in the billions.

“Millions of them…”

He let out a cold laugh,

“——Not enough.”

There might be even more.

Huo Xianfeng always felt that he had forgotten some crucial memory. At the very least, he shouldn’t be completely ignorant of the situation back then.

“……”

Zhou Jiuya was stunned.

He had never thought about it this way before.

After all, everyone assumed that the Zergs were invaders, and they had all experienced firsthand the horrors of those terrifying creatures—enemies that humanity couldn’t hope to defeat.

So, no one ever doubted Huo Chao’s decision to detonate the nuclear bombs and perish alongside the Zergs to save humanity.

Everyone was too busy being relieved that those monsters were finally dead, too occupied mourning the loss of their homes, and too preoccupied with grieving over the loss of a great savior.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Jiuya responded,

“I will arrange for someone to investigate this matter as soon as possible.”

“Oh, and about the so-called Skynet on Earth, everyone says it was personally designed by the Marshal…”

Huo Xianfeng’s expression turned complicated,

“——Nonsense!”

“That fool Huo Chao might have been good at fighting, but if you ask him to look at high-tech blueprints and even participate in design, forget it.”

When Huo Chao first joined the military, he had to go through military school to gain some credentials, so that when he entered the military, he would start as a junior officer instead of a mere soldier. But to get into military school, he had to pass a simple exam, and one of the subjects was mechanical theory, and Huo Xianfeng was so annoyed by his incompetence he had to take the test for him.