Sacrifice

He Qixing already had an estimate of this weakness.

He made a mental decision in his heart.

The person on top of this monster’s head. . . . . . He can no longer be considered his father.

He can no longer be counted as his father.

He is not his father, so when he must be killed, he must not be lenient.

He Qixing clenched his fists.

At worst, after all the dust falls, he will go down with him.

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His memory was problematic.

Could someone implant memories into him?

Gu Huan supported his forehead and walked out of the training device; Chu Xinglin immediately supported him.

“Gu Huan, are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Gu Huan replied indifferently.

Although Gu Huan said so, Chu Xinglin didn’t believe it because his mental state didn’t seem very okay.

The general waved his hand, frowning slightly, and he looked towards Chu Fengyuan, who was sitting on the side.

“You’ve been working with He Yunan for so long. Can he alter other people’s memories?”

Chu Fengyuan shook his head. “I’ve never heard of that.”

Since they were still working together, Chu Fengyuan’s words should be about seventy to eighty percent trustworthy. If He Yunan could master such psychological technology, the current situation would probably be worse.

Then who could alter his memory?

While Gu Huan was thinking hard, his golden eyes suddenly flickered with a golden shine.

He clutched his head with both hands and let out a low roar of struggle.

The recent mental training was still effective, and he successfully stabilized his mental power. But his eyes became vacant as he looked towards a certain direction, then froze. His pale lips trembled slightly, “Desert?”

“What desert?” Chu Xinglin asked.

Gu Huan’s pupils moved left and right. “The image appearing before me right now is a desert.”

“In the sky, there is our starship.”

“Oh my god,” Chen Weiwei, who was standing nearby, exclaimed immediately. “Could it be the Interstellar Court Planet?”

Chu Xinglin also thought of the Interstellar Court Planet.

Because Gu Huan mentioned a desert, and about ninety percent of the Interstellar Court Planet was a desert. As for the starship… General Mo Xiao’s starship had just rushed into the encirclement of the Zerg Race around the Interstellar Court Planet.

These two pieces of information matched perfectly.

Suspecting that he might have seen the battlefield just now, Gu Huan concentrated even harder and he indeed saw the shadows of two Jialin training mechas.

But just as he was ready to continue looking, everything suddenly turned gray, with his head and eyes simultaneously experiencing severe pain.

Chu Xinglin immediately hugged him. “If you can’t see it, then don’t force yourself.”

Gu Huan shook his head and spat out a mouthful of blood that slid across the corner of his mouth.

“I want to control that line of sight and continue looking down.”

“As soon as I saw a deep pit, I was pushed out.”

Gu Huan coughed a couple of times and took a handkerchief from Chu Xinglin, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. He then turned to Chen Weiwei, “Is there a deep pit on the Interstellar Court Planet?”

Knowing where the pit was would help determine what he had just seen.

Chen Weiwei immediately opened his optical brain for comparison, and his expression became somewhat strange. “Yes, there is.”

Initially, Gu Huan and Chu Xinglin didn’t understand why his expression suddenly changed. But after Chen Weiwei shared the images from the optical brain, even Chu Xinglin couldn’t maintain his composure.

Chen Weiwei smiled bitterly. “If what you said is true, you may have used that creature’s perspective to see around.”

In such a tense moment, Chu Fengyuan, who was tied up on the side, suddenly laughed and attracted everyone’s attention.

“I told you.”

“It doesn’t make sense.”

“It makes no sense that you can control the Zerg and humans with mental power below level C, but the Zerg Queen cannot.”

Chu Xinglin asked, “Imperial Uncle, what do you mean?”

“The Zerg Queen has always been just a symbol in our minds. We don’t understand her, and we don’t even know if she has intelligence.”

Chu Fengyuan tilted his head back, and a few golden strands of hair slid down his cheek. The smile at the corner of his mouth showed his interest. “If she has intelligence, then she has understood us for thousands of years, continuously learning and evolving, becoming a better enemy.”

“Your mental power is similar to the Zerg Queen’s. You two should be able to resonate with each other.”

“Just like just now, you could see the world through that creature’s eyes. Perhaps the creature can also use your vision to see the world as well.”

Chu Fengyuan chuckled darkly a few times. “We were all wrong. We were too self-righteous.”

“In this world… it’s not just you, Gu Huan, who can use the Zerg Crystals to control Zergs and lower levels of mental power.”

“But also, the Zerg Queen herself.”

If all this was caused by… the Zerg Queen.

Then what about He Yunan?

He was created in the first place because He Yunan thought the Chu Empire’s surname was inappropriate, right? Gu Huan lightly furrowed his brows.

The scene fell into a deep silence for a moment.

Chu Xinglin placed his finger on his chin and suddenly broke the silence.

“What is He Yunan’s mental power level?”

Chen Weiwei said, “D level…”

He was just an outstanding research scholar, not a military person. Having low mental power didn’t affect much. But this level of mental power could be easily controlled by others.

“Sure enough,” Chu Xinglin said.

If the Zerg Queen can control humans the same way they can use the Zerg Crystal to control ordinary people…

Then… He Yunan might have been controlled from the beginning. He just didn’t realize that he had been influenced.

“Controlled humans will have certain desires magnified at a specific time, and the controller can manipulate their behavior through these desires,” Chu Xinglin pondered.

After being demoted from his job, the most likely desire for him would be…

“He hopes that this empire does not belong to His Majesty and that His Majesty will not continue to be the emperor.” Gu Huan continued.

Before the experiment began, this dissenter was demoted.

But after being controlled, he still found a reason to come back and sowed the seeds.

Therefore, thirty years ago, He Yunan had already been controlled.

After he was created…

He also became the target that the Zerg Queen wanted to control because of resonance… And he saw the fabricated memories given by the Zerg Queen. She certainly had memories from the early days of the founding, and it only needed to change a few small scenes to confuse his memory.

It’s just that Gu Huan didn’t know how he originally got rid of that segment of memory, and then how he lost his memory again.

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After realizing what He Qixing intended to do, Nie Chuan desperately tried to stop him.

“Xingxing!”

“Why are you more impulsive than me this time?!”

As they were about to fly up to the central slope of the giant pit, Nie Chuan grabbed He Qixing, pulling him back and making him lie on the ground.

“Let’s wait a bit more.”

“I just contacted General Mo Xiao. She has sent a mecha squadron over. You can’t be too hasty. We’d better stay here and observe.”

“Your father may not necessarily have a weakness. Who’d blatantly expose their weakness as a target?” Nie Chuan knew that He Qixing probably wanted to sacrifice himself along with his father.

But it really wasn’t necessary.

Not to mention that whether He Yunan was a weakness was just a speculation.

If the two of them went up like this, he felt like they would just be cannon fodder.

For this monster, their two mechas were like two small flies that could be swatted away with a wave of its hand.

Nie Chuan also had a hero complex, but it was better to avoid the scene were the two of them bravely fought against the Zerg Queen and heroically died. He wanted to be the protagonist who survived until the end, not a cannon fodder.

In a two-person coordinated battle, they also needed to see if the situation was suitable.

Right now, most of the monster was buried in the ground, and they didn’t even know how many legs it had.

“If we hesitate like this, when the outside Zergs rush in, we’ll die anyway.”

“To solve him, I can only sacrifice my life.” He Qixing chuckled softly. “I sacrifice myself, and you take the credit. Maybe you can really become your idol’s successor, a lucky guy who hit the jackpot.”

“No. No way.” Nie Chuan furrowed his brows tightly, resolute.

“When we were in military training, we learned to not abandon anyone.”

“Even if you want to give up on yourself, you do not have permission!”