Chapter 101: “I Hope You Will Inherit the Throne, Shen Zhuo.”
Chu Baixian frowned impatiently:
“He just woke up; what’s the rush?”
Feng Ming looked down at Shen Zhuo lying on the dissection table, sneering as he reached out to touch the boy’s face.
His vocal cords had been damaged by Du Xun’s gunshot, making his voice extremely raspy and unpleasant:
“Of course, I can’t wait to fuck my fiancĂ©e, the Empire’s top Omega.”
Feng Ming hadn’t faced judgment.
And Du Xun hadn’t received any information…
It seemed that Chu Baixian had been standing on the opposite side of Du Xun for a long time.
Such a long-standing life-and-death friendship.
Such trust.
It was as fragile as a bubble, bursting at the slightest touchâmerely a mirage.
Shen Zhuo turned his head away before Feng Ming’s fingers could land on his face:
“Touch me again, and I’ll kill you.”
The boy’s cold and hard attitude only made Feng Ming feel incredibly amused.
“Heh.” Feng Ming scoffed. “Are you still unclear about your situation, Xiao Zhuo?”
He patted Shen Zhuo’s face, not with much force, like teasing a small animal:
“The one who decides life and death now is me.”
A long-lost sense of pleasure surged through his chest.
Watching an S5 Omega at his mercy, his hatred was finally unleashed, leaving only endless satisfaction in his heart.
What a pity.
He couldn’t move on Shen Zhuo just yet.
Otherwise…
“!” Feng Ming raised an eyebrow. “What are you doing?”
Before Shen Zhuo could speak, Chu Baixian grabbed Feng Ming’s wrist and threw it heavily aside.
“Put away your personal lusts; don’t disrupt the plan.”
Chu Baixian looked at Feng Ming coldly: “His body hasn’t recovered yet. He hasn’t reached the optimal state.”
“Tch.” Feng Ming sneered, but he clearly didn’t dare to clash head-on with an S4. “How much longer do we have to wait?”
Chu Baixian glanced at the instrument beside him:
“At least one day.”
Feng Ming turned back to look at Shen Zhuo, his smile full of malice and greed:
“One day. Even Du Xun won’t be able to save you.”
“Oh, right, you probably don’t know.”
“Du Xun is commanding the final assault right now.”
This sentence made Shen Zhuo’s fingertips clench violently.
Did they capture him to threaten Du Xun?
No, he absolutely could not let himself become a bargaining chip that hindered Du Xun.
But Shen Zhuo couldn’t even use [Listening Heart] right now.
Betrayed by someone trustedâthis was the second time.
Chu Baixian felt the boy’s gaze, calmly looked away, and fiddled with the surrounding instruments.
“Make a guess…”
“If Du Xun finds out something happened to you, will his command falter? Your fathers are both on the battlefield.”
“Tell me… will they die?”
Shen Zhuo clenched his hands abruptly, his eyes reddening:
“If you dare disturb them, I will definitely kill you.”
Feng Ming cast a condescending glance from above, smiling contemptuously:
“Relying on the current you?”
Feng Ming methodically increased his oppressive pheromones.
Shen Zhuo took a deep breath to suppress a groan of pain, blood trickling from the corner of his lips.
“You can’t even withstand A3 attack pheromones.”
“What can you possibly do?”
Feng Ming laughed as he spoke, sounding manic and crazed:
“Don’t worry, your Du Xun will have someone to keep him company too.”
Feng Ming picked up a remote control from the side and turned on the projector.
The real-time surveillance of the battlefield command center was immediately displayed clearly on the white screen.
In the windowless ward, day and night were indistinguishable; Shen Zhuo only realized now that it was the second day after the auction.
In the center of the lens was Du Xun’s silhouette.
The man was dressed in a black military uniform, his gaze sharp and deep, looking straight ahead from under the brim of his hat.
In front of Du Xun were real-time battlefield broadcasts composed of countless screens, as well as all detachment communication channels.
Between the man and the screens, there was a light blue transparent virtual sand table, slowly rotating clockwise to display the terrain.
“Team One, two thousand meters ahead, split left and right wings. Right wing attack, Strategy A.”
The Alpha’s voice also came through the surveillance.
Feng Ming, however, blocked Shen Zhuo’s view:
“You can take a last look at your Alpha here. Starting tomorrow…”
Feng Ming bent down, speaking softly, word by word:
“You will be my Omega, until I fuck you enough to carry my child.”
“A low-rank Alpha, a useless piece of trash.”
The boy curled the corners of his mouth, his eyes dark and hostile: “Are you worthy?”
Veins popped on Feng Ming’s forehead: “You!”
Because of the overly bright shadowless lamp overhead, Shen Zhuo’s vision began to darken, so he simply narrowed his eyes.
“Kill me now.”
The boy’s face was calm, his half-closed eyes even more provocative:
“Or wait for me to kill you.”
Even with a dormant gland, an S5 is not a fragile vase.
Everything Shen Zhuo had came from himself.
After his rebirth, he had no system cheat codes.
All his confidence and strength came from within.
He wouldn’t wait for Du Xun to save him.
He didn’t want to be Du Xun’s burden.
So Shen Zhuo wouldn’t pin his hopes on anyone else.
Saving himself was the only way.
Feng Ming pressed the corners of his mouth down, forcibly suppressing his anger.
After a moment of hideous expression, he thought of something and calmed down.
“Sharp tongue. Don’t forget your current situation.”
Feng Ming seemed to already imagine Shen Zhuo in a wretched state.
Pleasure made his voice even more raspy:
“I really wonder if your mouth will be this tough when I’m fucking you tomorrow.”
Just then, Chu Baixian, who had taken a call on the side, stepped forward:
“Her Majesty has arrived.”
Feng Ming’s expression changed: “Didn’t Mother say she would come tomorrow?”
Chu Baixian put his phone in his pocket, pushed the door open, and left:
“I have some business. Call me when you’re done talking. I’m leaving first.”
Feng Ming shouted at Chu Baixian’s retreating back: “Hey! Chu Baixian!”
After Chu Baixian left, Feng Ming also wanted to leave.
Obviously, he wasn’t very close to his mother.
On the contrary, he was very fearful.
But the moment he opened the door, the woman stepped into the room.
“…Mother.” Feng Ming immediately became submissive.
The woman didn’t answer but walked towards Shen Zhuo first.
Seeing the boy tied to the dissection table, the woman looked back at Feng Ming indifferently:
“Who allowed you to tie him up? Untie him.”
“But…!”
Feng Ming clearly wanted to argue something.
But the second he met the woman’s gaze, he immediately fell silent, went to the side of the dissection table, and pressed the button to release the shackles.
All the metal shackles retracted. Shen Zhuo used all his strength to slowly sit up from the dissection table.
The woman turned her head: “You go out first. I’ll have a chat with Xiao Zhuo.”
Feng Ming understood, immediately quickened his pace to leave the room, and closed the door.
Only then did the woman look at Shen Zhuo.
She took a chair and sat down opposite Shen Zhuo.
Her long, smooth hair curled slightly at the ends, her gray pupils cold and dim:
“You are a smart child, just like Du Xun. Let’s skip the meaningless pleasantries.”
“Let’s discuss a partnership.”
“If you are willing, I can let Du Xun and your fathers return safely.”
Shen Zhuo slowly moved his wrists and ankles, his long eyelashes drooping, eyes half-lidded, lips pressed tight in silence.
After a long while, he looked up and said expressionlessly:
“Sounds like it won’t be an easy task.”
The woman smiled. There were no traces of age on her face, only a sharp, aggressive beauty, like a venomous snake.
“It’s very simple. I want you to inherit the throne in one year.”
Shen Zhuo’s brow twitched.
He hadn’t expected the woman to say this.
The throne could only be inherited by someone of royal blood.
There must be a catch.
“If I guess correctly, is it related to the Humanoid Zergs?”
The Zerg race is ranked by order, and apart from Du Xun, the royal family had no better candidate.
But Du Xun was an Alpha.
To lead the Zerg race, one must be an Omega.
No fluctuation could be seen on Shen Zhuo’s face; it was clearly a question, but spoken with the tone of a statement.
The Queen paused imperceptibly, and in the next second, raised an incredible smile of admiration:
“There are many times I wish you were truly my child.”
“You are too smart; it makes everyone else seem exceptionally stupid.”
Shen Zhuo didn’t speak, gently stroking the red marks on his wrist, his expression indifferent.
“The Zerg race divides status by rank. Xiao Zhuo, if you are willing, you can lead all the Zergs.”
“You will be the King of humans, and the King of the Zergs.”
“The entire world will be ruled by you.”
Shen Zhuo grinned and chuckled lightly.
With a hint of sorrow, but mostly mockery.
He had thought the Queen was related to the Zergs.
But he didn’t expect her to lay everything out so early.
Did Du Xun leave the royal family so resolutely because he knew about these things long ago and didn’t want to participate?
“Sounds very beneficial to me, but you wouldn’t do something that only benefits me.”
The boy raised his head, his pitch-black pupils like an abyss.
A gaze that could pierce through people didn’t even need [Listening Heart] to understand.
“And how do I know that after I ascend the throne, you won’t use some technology to modify my body to make me obey your orders…”
“Just like how you modified Queen Mingya.”
As soon as the words fell, the Queen’s look changed.
Her originally calm gaze turned cold in an instant.
Her lips, bright red like flower petals, opened and closed:
“You saw it, right?”
That day on the beach, the figure on the highest building commanding all the Humanoid Zergs.
The smooth long black hair.
Those blue-gray eyes.
It could only belong to one personâ
Queen Mingya, who had been dead for nearly twenty years.
Although the idea of body modification was Shen Zhuo’s guess.
He should have bet correctly.
The Queen must have used some method to turn Queen Mingya into a walking corpse that only listened to orders.
During that brief eye contact, Shen Zhuo could already tell.
Queen Mingya absolutely had no consciousness; she was just an empty shell commanding the Zergs, and someone must be controlling her from behind.
If it wasn’t modifying the corpse after death to control it.
Then there was only one answerâ
Queen Mingya was fused with the Mother Zerg by some method while she was still alive.
This explains why the Humanoid Zergs have more and more human genes and are evolving faster and faster.
Because the Mother Zerg is a human.
…
The crisp sound of applause rang out in the empty, narrow room.
The woman even stood up, clapping for Shen Zhuo.
“Shen Zhuo, I have to admire your intelligence.”
“Indeed, it would be a pity to modify you.”
The woman proposed another plan with great interest and pity:
“If you do it voluntarily, we don’t have to wipe your consciousness.”
“As long as you are obedient, I can let you live like a normal person, and you can still be with your Du Xun.”
Every movement Shen Zhuo made, even just moving his wrist, consumed a huge amount of energy.
He cast a covert glance at the scalpels scattered around.
Calculating his body’s energy consumption, he found that there was a high probability he couldn’t cause any harm to the Queen.
The Queen was an S4 Alpha.
For him, with a dormant gland and paralyzed limbs, she was an opponent he couldn’t possibly defeat.
So Shen Zhuo raised his head and showed the woman a smile.
Just like when he was young, studying and living in the palace.
An identical smile, intimate and dependent.
“Alright,” Shen Zhuo said. “I accept.”
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