“Is there a trace of Du Lu’s presence?!” When Mo’er received this news, he was dealing with several military females from the pro-male faction.
In his ruled Zerg star, there was no need to elevate male Zergs to high status, and he certainly didn’t need those pro-male factions that only cared about the well-being of male Zergs. He wanted to tear off their wings, crush their information sacs, and reduce them to the lowest-ranking females.
He wanted every female to know the fate of the pro-male factions.
But upon hearing news about Du Lu, Mo’er’s mood improved greatly. He was even willing to spare those military females who defied him, merely stripping them of their ranks and expelling them from the military.
Mo’er’s entire focus was on Du Lu.
Unable to wait for a car, he directly unfurled his massive bone wings and flew into the air, holding a military-grade terminal in his hand. “What’s the situation?”
“Your Majesty?” The military female who was reporting the situation did not expect the Emperor himself to answer the call, and he felt a bit nervous. “We, we saw a high-level male Zerg, who bears a strong resemblance to Your Majesty. The scent of his pheromone is of top quality. We only caught a whiff of it, and we…”
Mo’er applied pressure with his hand, and the terminal screen cracked slightly.
Luckily, the military equipment was of high quality, and the reporting military female didn’t notice anything unusual. He continued, “We have already deployed troops to surround the area, but to avoid alarming His Majesty, we have not started a large-scale search yet.”
Mo’er’s iridescent eyes dimmed slightly. He gave an order, “Stay in place and wait for me to arrive.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
When Mo’er arrived at the location where Du Lu was suspected to have been seen, it was already surrounded by military females.
Upon hearing that the Empress had been found, the military females gathered tidbits of information from those who had glimpsed him. Each one of them eagerly awaited his presence, and some even sniffed the air, trying to capture the rumored “fresh and pleasant, invigorating” scent of his pheromone.
“What’s the situation?” Mo’er folded his massive bone wings and asked as soon as he landed.
The leader of the stationed military females stepped forward and replied, “We haven’t started the operation yet, but as soon as we detected the presence of His Majesty, we immediately sealed off all the passages to ensure no Zerg could leave the area.”
Mo’er’s features relaxed further, and he casually waved his hand forward. “Begin the search.”
After a few seconds of contemplation, he added, “Be discreet, don’t startle him.”
The military female leader couldn’t help but silently marvel at how deeply the Emperor was infatuated with the male Zerg. He immediately unfolded his bone wings and led his subordinates in the search, just slightly slower than Mo’er.
Another military female, who was usually vigilant, now approached cautiously, not daring to disturb Mo’er’s intense focus. He carefully folded his bone wings and landed behind him.
Mo’er, who was usually alert, didn’t notice or perhaps didn’t care. His gaze remained fixed ahead, and if one observed closely, one could detect a trace of anxiety and worry in his eyes.
Somehow, his confidants had a sense of foreboding, feeling that things wouldn’t progress so smoothly.
However, seeing Mo’er’s unusually calm demeanor, they consoled themselves: Du Lu was just a young male Zerg who had recently matured. He had managed to evade capture for so long; now that the Emperor himself had come, he wouldn’t escape.
“[Chuanchuan, they’re here!”] 001 had hijacked the network surveillance system and constantly relayed information to Lin Hanchuan.
Hearing this, Lin Hanchuan remained composed. He looked in the direction away from the imperial capital. In this tense and perilous situation where the enemy was closing in, he suddenly thought of Lin Jianshen.
He wondered if Lin Jianshen had left the imperial capital with the male Zergs.
He wondered if… Lin Jianshen was worried. A hint of icy determination in his eyes melted away, replaced with a spring-like tenderness.
“[Chuanchuan! They’re getting close to your location!”] In this critical moment, his own host was daydreaming, which exasperated 001. [“I can only block technological devices; if they see you with their naked eyes, they will truly discover you!”]
At that time, his host might end up just like in the original text, trapped in the Emperor’s harem, experiencing jealousy and quarrels.
Returning to his senses, Lin Hanchuan’s ears, not as keen as those of the military females, also caught the movement. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he closed them, enveloping himself in his psychic power. In the next moment, two military females holding weapons entered his field of view.
Under the gentle and ethereal shroud of his psychic power, the two military females remained oblivious to the presence of the male Zerg just within arm’s reach. They casually glanced around and exchanged a few words.
“I wonder how tempting a top-tier male Zerg must be to drive the Emperor so crazy, mobilizing the entire imperial capital to search for a single male.”
“Are you curious about the taste of a top-tier male Zerg?” The other military female raised an eyebrow, his expression secretive.
The one who brought up the topic was taken aback and hastily interjected, “Don’t talk nonsense; if the Emperor hears, we’ll both be dead!”
“I’m not talking about His Majesty; have you heard that there’s a top-tier male Zerg in the imperial palace…” He leaned closer to the other military female, lowering his voice, “That male Zerg offended His Majesty the Emperor, so he was punished and locked in a side hall. All high-ranking female Zergs can go to him…”
The other military female gasped, “How is that any different from being thrown into the military camp to be shared by all?! And he’s a top-tier male Zerg!”
“So, as long as you work hard and get promoted a few more times, when you can enter the imperial palace, you’ll know the taste of a top-tier male Zerg,” he concluded, sighing. “That’s the Emperor’s male Zerg.”
Listening to their conversation, Lin Hanchuan pondered for a moment and deduced the identity of the so-called ‘top-tier male Zerg.’
“[Xue Lai]?” 001 was also surprised. “[In the original text, he shouldn’t have ended up like this.]”
Lin Hanchuan was a bit puzzled as well, but he didn’t feel curious. He simply watched as the two military females passed by him and gradually disappeared.
From the relics of the male Zerg association leader, Lin Hanchuan learned the method of cultivating psychic power. Now, he was much more proficient in using his psychic abilities, but he had limited time to practice, and some of the more powerful techniques were still unfamiliar to him.
However, concealing his presence with psychic power and deceiving others’ vision, he had already mastered.
It was precisely because of this skill that Lin Jianshen had agreed to let Lin Hanchuan act as bait to divert the military females’ attention.
The military females searched carefully for several hours, almost digging up every inch of the ground, but they found no trace of any male Zergs. As time passed, Mo’er’s complexion grew worse.
All the Zergs trembled in fear, not daring to utter a sound. The leader of the military females carried the few who had originally reported the sighting and approached Mo’er. “Your Majesty, it was they who claimed to have seen the presence of His Highness.”
These military females could hardly believe they were directly conversing with the Emperor himself, trembling as they recounted the situation. When they finished, no one dared to look at Mo’er’s expression.
It’s just a recently matured male Zerg. With so many military females surrounding and blocking this place, if they still can’t find him, it’s either because the male Zerg is too formidable, or they are all useless.
The conclusion was self-evident.
Mo’er’s deep red pupils flickered with a sinister light, like a beast ready to pounce on its prey in the gradually darkening sky. “Continue to seal off the area, keep searching!”
“If you don’t find him, there’s no need for any of you to live.”
In an instant, all the females felt a chill down their spines.
Mo’er’s trusted confidant couldn’t bear to stay silent and softly advised, “Your Majesty, maybe they just mistook someone else for His Highness. The Empress might not be here…”
Before he could finish his words, he was struck hard in the chest and flew out in a sorry state. Instinctively, the wings on his back sprung open, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, kneeling on the ground, afraid to speak further.
“If he’s not here, then where could he be?” Mo’er tried to maintain a calm expression, even though he had just kicked his confidant away in front of the entire group of military females. He stubbornly wanted to find his male Zerg. “You useless bunch, you’ve searched for so long and still found no trace. If you can’t find him this time…”
He looked around with a cold sneer, not bothering to hide the bloodthirst and madness in his eyes. The Zerg pattern on his neck was faintly visible. “Those who are useless shouldn’t occupy the resources of this Zerg Star.”
This newly appointed Zerg Emperor was incredibly ruthless!
This time, no Zergs dared to speak up. The military females spread their wings, even revealing their Zerg forms, overturning the walls along the road… It was a grand and intense search, lasting for three days.
During those three days, the group of females finally confirmed that their Empress, Du Lu, was indeed within their encirclement.
Massive demolitions and excavations left nowhere for Lin Hanchuan, who could hide his presence, to hide. He was almost caught several times, but fortunately, the spiritual power of these females was much lower than that of males, allowing him to escape each time.
However, as time passed, the encirclement became smaller, and Lin Hanchuan’s situation grew increasingly dangerous.
[This lunatic, why won’t he give up on you?] Even the system was on the verge of breaking down, wailing in agony, [Wait, there are military females coming from all sides!]
Lin Hanchuan had no time to talk to 001. He swiftly concealed himself in the open space, using his spiritual power to shield himself. But after using his spiritual power so frequently in the past few days, even he, as a male Zerg, would have collapsed long ago.
Feeling helpless, he was on the brink of desperation when suddenly a fleet of warships appeared in the sky!
Lin Hanchuan and the military females looked up to see the warship rapidly approaching the Imperial City. Eventually, it stopped nearby, and a group of… male Zergs came down from the ship?
“What’s going on? Why are there so many male Zergs?”
“Why have we never seen this type of warship before?”
In the next moment, Mo’er spread his massive bone wings and flew to the opposite side of the warship. The other military females also acted swiftly, surrounding the warship in no time.
The male Zerg at the forefront looked very young, judging by his pheromone scent, he hadn’t even reached maturity. Under the watchful gazes of the Zerg Emperor and the military females, the young male Zerg nervously swallowed his saliva and said, “Hello.”
“Are you from the Male Zerg Rebel Alliance?” Mo’er sneered, disdainfully questioning, “How did you weak male Zergs get a warship?”
While all the Zergs were focused on the sky, Lin Hanchuan sensed someone approaching him. Recognizing the familiar spiritual wave, he voluntarily revealed himself.
“Why did you come back? Didn’t I tell you to leave the Zerg Star immediately?” Lin Hanchuan couldn’t hide his concern.
Lin Jianshen smiled at Lin Hanchuan, but he couldn’t speak. There was no time to type out the message either, so he could only shake his head and extend his hand, gesturing for Lin Hanchuan to leave with him.
Lin Hanchuan paused for a moment, then smiled and placed his hand in Lin Jianshen’s.
Their fingers intertwined, and the remaining words didn’t need to be spoken.
As Mo’er confronted the male Zergs in the sky, he felt an emptiness in his heart, as if something was rapidly slipping away. He clutched his chest, and the Zerg pattern on his neck began to spread and climb upwards.
With his head lowered, his eyes suddenly widened with anger. The Emperor’s pressure was unleashed without restraint, causing all the surrounding females to fall from the sky. Yet, he paid no attention, roaring, “Du Lu! It’s you! You all are not allowed to leave!”
“Stop them!”
