Surrender

Many translations for the title

Upon hearing this, Gu Huan suddenly realized something. If things were indeed as Chu Fengyuan described, then… wouldn’t Nie Chuan and He Qixing have a grudge against each other?

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In the control room, He Yunan turned around and saw his son standing at the door. This was not unexpected; he had been waiting for him.

He Yunan sighed. “I know that… I couldn’t hide it from you.”

“You’re so brilliant.”

He Qixing shrugged. “This is the first time in your twenty years… that you’ve taken the initiative to praise me.”

He Yunan walked past the chairs in the control room, and reached He Qixing, placing both hands on his shoulders and giving him a hearty pat.

“Although I haven’t said it out loud, you’ve always been the child I’m proud of.”

He Qixing walked around his father, glancing at the scene inside the control room. The police officers and the captain he had seen before were all unconscious on the ground.

He didn’t know how his father had managed it, but the countdown for the self-destruction on the security system screen was still ongoing, but the time had been extended.

He heard that the Crown Prince had borrowed another backup system from the Interstellar Court and was attempting to infiltrate this system. If he could change the permissions, the self-destruction system could be deactivated.

So, even if he couldn’t persuade his father to surrender, as long as he could delay time for the Crown Prince’s people to infiltrate the system, he could still get away with it.

He Qixing’s gaze fell on his father’s shoulders; their heights were almost identical.

“Father, based on the current facts, your words are completely unconvincing.”

“If I am really the child you are proud of, how could I know so little about you?”

“Even you don’t know what you’re doing.”

He Qixing’s usually calm voice hesitated for a moment, peering through his farsighted glasses at his father.

“Obviously, I’m not qualified nor capable enough. You don’t treat me as your real son at all.”

For so many years, in order to prove himself excellent and hoping to receive a word of praise from his father, he made so much effort. Did his father see it? He didn’t need to admit how outstanding he was; he just wanted his father to notice.

“Why would you think like that?”

He Yunan let go of his hand on He Qixing’s shoulder. Perhaps because of He Qixing’s words, his expression became somewhat solemn.

“After your mother left, we depended on each other. You are my dearest person, no one else. I didn’t tell you anything to protect you.”

“If I didn’t consider you my son, why would I think of bringing you back?”

He Qixing pursed his lips slightly.

This was also the reason why he dared to come alone to persuade He Yunan. Nie Chuan was also blocked outside the control room because he felt that He Yunan still cared about him.

“Then tell me, what’s the deal with helping General Gu Huan escape?”

In fact, He Qixing had felt that whether it was entering or escaping from prison, General Gu Huan’s actions were somewhat sudden.

There might be someone intervening inside, and the purpose was to take General Gu Huan away.

General Gu Huan’s significance to the entire empire was self-evident. If General Gu Huan was taken away, it wouldn’t just be a loss of a major general for the military region. It would also disturb the people’s hearts. After all, if even General Gu Huan was a traitor, the trust in the upper echelons would be weakened, and no one could guarantee that others were not traitors.

It could be described as hitting two birds with one stone.

If General Gu Huan was not a traitor, and his father was under Duke Chu Fengyuan, then he helped Duke Chu Fengyuan plan everything… He Qixing felt that even if his father was not sentenced to death, he might spend the rest of his life in prison.

He Qixing offered a glimmer of hope, hoping that his father had a reason and wasn’t the mastermind behind all this.

“Just as you think.”

“I put him in prison and personally took him away.”

Since planet ln001 was abandoned, it had become his father’s backyard.

Discovering the abnormal behavior of the twins, he naturally laid a trap, allowing Gu Huan to find his own diary inside ln001, leading him to recall the memories of his past life there. Making Gu Huan lose the trust of others, then personally taking him away.

He Qixing never expected that things would develop in the direction he least wanted, and his fists were tightly clenched as he asked.

“Why are you doing this?”

He had never thought that his father would be involved in treason. In his mind, his father had always been a noble scholar, somewhat aloof, and detached from power struggles. What dissatisfaction could he have when he had already reached the pinnacle of the research institute? Perhaps he had changed, or maybe He Qixing had never truly understood him.

“Everything I’ve done is for Lord Gu Huan… He shouldn’t be confined to this empire.”

“This, even if he doesn’t understand it yet, or even if he betrays me, I won’t change.”

He Yunan looked outside the control room, seemingly implying that he already knew Gu Huan wasn’t truly willing to go with him.

He Qixing didn’t understand what his father was talking about – for General Gu Huan? Not for someone else, like Duke Chu Fengyuan?

“Regardless of who you’re doing this for, surrender yourself as soon as possible before it’s too late,”

“You still have a way out.” He Qixing advised.

Upon hearing his son talk about surrendering, He Yunan chuckled, his eyes still calm and unwavering.

“You know too little about my affairs. If I stay, according to the laws of the empire, I will definitely be sentenced to death. The option of surrender you mentioned doesn’t exist.”

“Qixing, do you really want to personally send your father to the guillotine?”

He Qixing felt like a lump in his throat.

While he struggled to remain silent, He Yunan reached out to He Qixing, his voice filled with piety.

“Let’s go. As my son, you have the qualification to go to the new world.”

“New world?”

He Qixing heard this term from his father for the first time, looking unfamiliar and confused.

But before he could comprehend, they were interrupted by someone rushing in – Nie Chuan, holding an energy gun, pointing it at He Yunan’s forehead.

“Xingxing, what are you still talking to him for! I get it now, this old bastard is the mastermind behind making General a super SSS-class fugitive. There’s nothing more to say; quickly shut down the system in your hands! Otherwise, don’t blame us for using force.”

“Still talking about a new world?! I haven’t had a chuunibyou disillusion in so many years. Don’t compete with me at your older age!”

Watching Nie Chuan rush in, He Yunan looked at Nie Chuan.

“Xingxing, your ability to find friends still need improvement.”

He Qixing closed his eyes lightly, pinching his brow.

“Making friends depends on fate.”

What could he do? He just met him.

The timing of Nie Chuan’s arrival was actually quite good. Confronting his father, the tension in his heart had always been taut. The atmosphere had become too oppressive, and his mind easily became sluggish. With Nie Chuan there to ease things, he could be a bit more composed and think of a solution.

Nie Chuan was just a little worried that He Qixing might have been fooled away by his father and couldn’t wait, so he rushed in.

Standing beside He Qixing, Nie Chuan looked at his father, and He Yunan put away his hand.

“I understand. You’re reluctant to sever your original connections. Even I, your father, am not as important as a friend.”

This was not a matter of reluctance.

If Nie Chuan committed a crime today, he would also advise him to surrender.

The only problem now is… his father said that if he surrenders, he will definitely be sentenced to death. This makes him enter a rare state of hesitation.

He lost his mother early, and he doesn’t want to lose his father.

But why is it his father?

Why?

This is the struggle between reason and emotion, pulling him in opposite directions. His rapidly functioning brain was for the first time stuck in a dilemma and he held his aching head in pain, but his father’s next words plunge him into an even more thorough mental freeze.

He Yunan was obviously not as conflicted as He Qixing, as he never considered surrendering or thought about being captured.

“It’s also fate.”

“I’ve come up with a way to get the best of both world.”

He looked at Nie Chuan.

“Would you not join us?”

“You are an artificial human. Except for lacking power… you are a relatively perfect creation.”

“This is also the reason I let you go more than a decade ago.”

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When Mo Xiao arrived at the Interstellar Court Planet, she witnessed a shocking scene.

The Interstellar Court Star was surrounded by a dense swarm of Zerg.

“Gener… General.”

“Zerg, it’s all Zerg, a dense swarm of Zergs-“