13.1

Mechs and starships have always been the military’s killer weapons, determining an empire’s military power to a certain extent. Now, however, both of these powerful weapons are under the control of the Empress and are being used to destroy humanity itself.

The military tried to destroy the Empress’s source code, but many hackers were unsuccessful in finding a way to do so, and they couldn’t even get into the first line of defense that the Empress had set up. The military had no choice but to disconnect the Queen’s energy system, hoping to cause it to shut down. But a strange thing happened, even after dismantling the energy system, the Empress was still running and becoming more and more aggressive.

Meanwhile, medical scientists have noticed that those who landed on the StarNet and fell into a coma have been showing symptoms of brain death. They ventured a guess as to whether the source of the Queen’s energy could be the spiritual energy, commonly known as the soul, of these people.

Although the speculation lacked scientific basis, the military attached great importance to it and transferred those patients who had survived to the protected area. After confirming the identities of these people, the military was surprised to find that they were all leaders in various fields, and their mental powers were all very strong, and one of them was even the first interstellar hacker, Zhou Yunsheng, who had once invaded the national defense system. Since the age of thirteen, he had been a wanted criminal by the military, but after three years of arrest, he froze and didn’t even touch his shadow.

Every empire’s defense systems were designed and built by the empress herself, and if Zhou Yoon Sung could easily take down even those systems, he should be able to smash the empress’s terminals as well. So they put Zhou Yoon Sung into the No. 1 repair pod and did their best to save him.

Getting the news of his awakening, the Reichsmarshal himself came to the hospital to visit.

The hospital is actually a bit of a misnomer, but it’s just a long-abandoned underground bomb shelter. Nowadays, in order to avoid the Queen’s surveillance and attack, many human beings have begun to move underground, and the army’s mobilization method has even regressed back to the ancient times of wireless telegraphy.

“…… Therefore, the Empire and even all of humanity now needs your help.” The marshal said sincerely after explaining the situation once.

Zhou Yunsheng did not respond in time. Honestly, there was no difference between illusion and reality for him. Nowadays, technology was so advanced that humans in the Star Network could also have five senses, such as smell, touch, and hearing, and would feel pain when injured and shed tears when sad. If it wasn’t for the fact that his lover had taken it upon himself to send him back, it’s unlikely that he would have completely fallen into the unreal and become brain dead by now.

He pondered for a moment and asked, ”Dr. Wilson had predicted the current situation when he created the Empress, it’s impossible for him to not take any safety measures at all. There should also be a set of self-destruct programs alongside the Empress, and once an abnormality is detected in the Empress, the self-destruct program will be activated. Didn’t your computer experts turn on this set of programs?”

The Marshal seemed surprised that he had hit the nail on the head with his question, and replied hastily, “No one but Dr. Wilson knew that StarNet had such a self-destruct program, and if it hadn’t suddenly activated on its own a month ago, we’d still have been kept in the dark.”

Zhou Yunsheng nodded, knowing that his guess about his lover’s identity was correct, and couldn’t wait to demand, “Take me to your server room, I want to crack how this program works.” Then he invaded in to find Zong Yi.

The marshal waved his hand grimly, “The program disappeared.”

Zhou Yunsheng’s movements froze, almost falling off the hospital bed, barely suppressing his panic before asking, “Disappeared? What do you mean?”

“We were all so happy when that program started working, we watched the progress bar go from zero percent to sixty percent and we all thought the Queen was about to be destroyed, but the Queen got word from somewhere and ordered the Mechs to find our server room and smash the computer that started that program. When the server room was rebuilt, we realized it had disappeared and all the databases couldn’t find it.”

Zhou Yunsheng pinched his palm and asked in a deep voice, “What about the Queen?”

“The Empress has also disappeared, but we’re sure it’s just hiding, because those mechs and starships are still protecting the engine room that housed its terminals and source code.”

Zhou Yunsheng spread out his palm, looked at the four nail prints that were drenched in blood, and said, “Give me the induction helmet, and I’ll go into the Star Network to help you find that program.”

The marshal was overjoyed, and before he could say thank you, he heard the teenager say, “But I have conditions, you must cancel the previous warrant for me, and give me a legal identity as well as a large sum of money.” If he could bring his lover back with him, he certainly had to plan for their future lives.

“That’s for sure, we’ve drawn up the contract, take a look at it.” The marshal took out a paper document and a pen. Without personal terminals, they could only use these ancient things now.

It only took Zhou Yunsheng half a minute to read through the thick pile of documents and sign his name.

The marshal immediately took him to the military’s secret base and gave him a sensor helmet that was connected to the star network. Everyone looked at him as if they were looking at a martyr, and no one knew if he would wake up after this sleep.

Zhou Yunsheng, however, didn’t put it on immediately, but took out his toolbox and remodeled the helmet. When he was in the Hao Tian world, 007 had been destroyed, he now needed an auxiliary tool like 007, that would help him retrieve all sorts of programs in the database of the Star Network in order to find his lover early. Fortunately, he had the foresight this time to quietly integrate a strand of his divine soul into his lover’s divine soul, which should be able to sense his presence.

After several busy days of modifying the helmet and with many firewalls built in to avoid detection by the Queen, he put on the helmet and laid into the repair pod.

When he opened his eyes again, he was sitting at a wide conference table, surrounded by many elites in formal attire, and a huge LED screen was installed on the opposite wall, playing some 3D animations. To Zhou Yunsheng’s eyes, these images could only be described in four words – crude, yet the people around him were mesmerized, their faces all showing a look of amazement.

After the animation finished, a woman in a blue suit with an innocent and lovely look walked to the front of the stage and explained in detail the pictures pasted on the display board. The pictures were of some characters and landscapes in a fantastical and colorful style that could be considered beautiful.

As she explained step by step down the line, the elites in the room all smiled, and a few couldn’t help but let out exclamations of admiration.

Sitting in the main seat, Zhou Yunsheng stared at the woman’s face, the words “whatthe**” constantly circulating in his mind. Who would tell him why he had returned to the world where he had gone on his first villainous mission after being controlled by the main god? That woman was the main female character of this world, the one he had once “frantically pursued”, and he knew the other person even if she had turned into dust.

It was probably because the main god was trying to make him fit into his environment faster, in this world, he used his real name. He was the sole heir of a certain listed IT company, Zhou’s, in Y City. This company was founded by his grandfather, Zhou Tang, and had accumulated hundreds of millions of assets in just a few decades, which wasn’t much in China, but was firmly at the top of the IT world in Y City.

However, while Zhou Tang’s career was successful, his life was not. His wife died early, leaving him with only a precious daughter. In order not to let his daughter suffer, he did not remarry, but also helped his daughter to find a son-in-law, which is Zhou Yunsheng’s father, Fang Kunpeng.

Fang Kunpeng teaches at the university and has an elegant look and gentle temperament, and is very much in love with Zhou’s mother. He has never liked to interfere in the affairs of Zhou’s business, when he has time, he writes poems and paints, goes out to pick green, is a true man of letters. Zhou Tang was very relieved about him, and before he died, he gave him five percent of Zhou’s shares as compensation, and the other shares were all given to his daughter and grandchildren.

Zhou Yunsheng, as the sole heir of Zhou’s enterprise, has just graduated from university and entered Zhou’s company in a key position. He has been pampered since he was a child, and coupled with his family’s good fortune, he has developed an arrogant and conceited character, and must get his hands on whatever he sees.

Of course, this was the persona that the main god had drawn up for this character, and no matter what Zhou Yunsheng’s own personality was, he would have to act according to it.

Under the control of the main god, he ‘fell madly in love’ with his schoolmate, Meng Wan, and used various means to pursue her. Meng Wan was a design major with very good art skills, and when he heard that Meng Wan was looking for a job after graduation, he got her to work at Zhou’s enterprise.

Meng Wan relied on her ability to enter the R&D room, responsible for producing the artwork portion of an online game that Zhou was preparing to relaunch at the end of the year. During her work, she frequently broke out in inspiration, allowing the game to slowly become fleshed out from a simple prototype.

Right now, due to the lack of production funds, she was making her final presentation, hoping that Zhou’s executives would see the potential of the game.

Zhou Yunsheng is precisely at this time across, do not need to listen to Meng Wan analysis, experienced a live he naturally knows that this game will be hot to what extent, a year to absorb more than a billion dollars, enough to buy several Zhou.

After Meng Wan finished her narration, she bowed off the stage amidst everyone’s warm applause and looked towards the youth on the main seat with a hopeful gaze. The young man was wearing a black suit, his face was breathtakingly handsome, and he exuded an elegant and noble demeanor. Several executive secretaries peeped at him frequently, their gazes very provocative.

But only Meng Wan knew what kind of selfish and overbearing character was hidden under this man’s shiny shell. She didn’t like him at all, and could even say she loathed him.

Of course Zhou Yunsheng knew that Meng Wan loathed himself, and this time, without 007’s jurisdiction, it would be strange that he would still hitchhike with Meng Wan. Not only would he not take care of her, he would also make the hero and heroine of this world pay a heavy price. The villain never has a good ending, so in this world, he died a very miserable death, using three idioms to describe that is – the family is separated, the name is broken, and the death is not a whole body.

I thought that the stifling past had become history, how could I have expected that there would be a chance to start over again. Zhou Yunsheng pondered for a moment and realized that this phenomenon must have something to do with his lover. He intended to destroy the Empress, the Empress tried her best to resist, after which they both lost, one disappeared, and the other hid to silently recover data.

Since personal terminals were outlawed across the stars, the Empress had no new energy to inject, and the incomplete data recovery produced this data regression.

Where exactly is the love of his life now, can he be traumatized? Zhou Yunsheng thought with a disturbed mind.

“Mr. Zhou, do you have something to say?” Seeing that everyone was waiting for the BOSS to make a statement, the assistant could only speak out to remind him.

Zhou Yunsheng instantly returned to his senses and closed the business plan and said, “Have the R&D department make a budget and send it to my office, the meeting is dismissed.” In his last life, he approved ten million dollars in funding for this project, and later approved another ten million dollars, although Zhou’s ended up going bankrupt and collapsing because of this project, in this life, he still had to make this project work.

The members of the Research and Development Department let out cheers, and Meng Wan even walked up to thank Zhou Yunsheng, but with a very reserved and haughty stance, as if taking the initiative to say a word to Zhou Yunsheng was a gift to him.

Zhou Yunsheng, however, did not even look at her squarely and directly walked out.

A few secretaries from the Administration Department pointed at Meng Wan’s embarrassed back and exchanged words and snickers, causing Meng Wan’s greenish-white face to turn into a rising purple color.

Zhou Yunsheng returned to his office and touched the sensor that changed into a black earring. He called the sensor 008 and hoped that it would work better than 007.

Activating 008 with his mental powers, he hacked into the Queen’s database and began searching for his lover. It was a big project, and there was no telling when it would end. But he believed that his lover wouldn’t be too far away from him, as long as he appeared within a five hundred meter radius of him, he would be able to pinpoint him accurately.

Will he be in this world? Perhaps.

But no matter what, he would turn this world all over before leaving, so he still needed to hurry up to remove these eyesores and get a fortune enough to travel around the world. Although this was a virtual world, it wasn’t any different from the real world, he was just a person with strong spiritual power here, not an omnipotent god, and he couldn’t do anything without the necessity of money.

The energy he had gained to protect his soul while traveling through the data turbulence had long since worn off, and the vast majority of it came from Zong Yi. Could it be that it was the lack of this part of energy that caused Zong Yi to inexplicably disappear without defeating the Empress?

Thinking about this, Zhou Yunsheng’s heart was so hard that he couldn’t wait to go to his lover’s side immediately. Just as he was distracted, the door to his room was knocked on and his assistant brought over the budget for the R&D room.

Like last time, they asked for ten million dollars. Zhou Yunsheng roughly scanned twice and added an additional ten million dollars at the bottom of the form. With this twenty million dollars, it was enough for them to develop the game half a year ahead of schedule.

As he dismissed his assistant, he explained, “Have the R&D department send up all the information on the game, including the data.”

The assistant nodded in response.

A few minutes later, Meng Wan brought up a flash drive, wanting to speak.

Zhou Yunsheng took the flash drive and plugged it – into the computer, tuned in the game’s source code and started modifying it, then set his modified source code into a hidden state and covered it with the original code. His technology was more than a few thousand years ahead of the employees in the technology department, even if the top hackers from Star Era came, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to find out.

After spending a minute getting this done, he raised his eyes towards Meng Wan who was standing still. He knew that Meng Wan was planning to borrow money from herself, and that she was also borrowing three million dollars just to treat her sister who had leukemia. They were orphans, their parents had died a long time ago, and they had been dependent on each other all these years.

Meng Wan loathed Zhou Yunsheng, but did not explicitly reject him, seeing Zhou Yunsheng’s generosity.

Sure enough, Meng Wan sensed his slightly concerned look and spoke hesitantly, “Mr. Zhou, can I get an advance on this year’s salary?”

Zhou Yunsheng took very good care of Meng Wan and gave her an annual salary of three hundred thousand dollars, which was considered top treatment for a college student starting out in society. As soon as she opened her mouth, it was three hundred thousand dollars, no matter who would be curious to ask.

Meng Wan then waited for Zhou Yunsheng to ask.

Zhou Yunsheng followed her lead and asked in surprise, “Why do you need so much money? Did something happen at home?”

Meng Wan’s eyes reddened as she pitifully told the story of her sister’s illness.

Zhou Yunsheng listened to the eyes also red, without saying a word to her to open a check of three million, but also said to her sister to contact the best doctors in China, words frequently implied that they want to adopt her.

Meng Wan’s face went white, looking at Zhou Yunsheng’s gaze full of hatred, but this life-saving money could not be refused, hesitated for a long time before nodding, grabbed the check and slammed the door.

Zhou Yunsheng’s face immediately grimaced as he considered how to make the male and female main characters live a life worse than death in this life.

In fact, Meng Wan has a boyfriend, the other named Fang Zhi Fei, the male lead of this world, but also Zhou Yunsheng that does not stain the smell of copper in the slightest, and Zhou mother’s affectionate literati father Fang Kunpeng outside to raise the illegitimate son of the true love for him to give birth to the baby.

Fang Zhi Fei has always wanted to start his own business, but Fang Kunpeng’s property was held very tightly by Zhou’s mother, after decades of saving only saved two million, all of which were given to Fang Zhi Fei to do the start-up capital. Fang Zhifei is a student of IT, has a high level of technology comparable to hackers, and a few classmates joint venture to open a small, only a dozen employees of the IT company.

He put the money into the company on the front foot, and then Meng Wan’s sister got sick on the back foot, so he had no choice but to let Meng Wan go to Zhou Yunsheng. Don’t get me wrong, he didn’t mean to instigate his girlfriend to sell her flesh, but set a trap for Zhou Yunsheng.

Sure enough, just after Zhou Yunsheng stepped out of the company after work, he was pestered by an actress who specialized in erotic films, making many ambiguous and unsettling gestures. A tabloid reporter took pictures of the two entangled, and posted them on the internet at the first opportunity, saying that Zhou’s young boss had a rotten private life.

Mother Zhou’s discipline of her son was so strict that she immediately recalled her son to the old mansion and scolded him, and also did not allow him to live in an outside apartment any longer, and sent two bodyguards to keep an eye on him when he went to work and left work.

Zhou Yunsheng was unable to do so, and could only temporarily stop his thoughts of dominating Meng Wan. Moreover, he was ‘truly in love’ with Meng Wan and wanted to get her heart more than her person, so for a while it was quiet.

It was the stimulus of this life-saving money that made Fang Zhi Fei realize that he had to be strong with the fastest speed possible, otherwise he could not protect anything. His mind was extraordinary, his methods were ruthless, and he was the son of this world’s qi, the Zhou’s that were targeted by him could be imagined.

Zhou Yunsheng dumped the starlet and was really scolded by Zhou’s mother when she called him back home. In his last life, he didn’t want to lend money to Meng Wan at all, much less adopt the other person. He’s a gay, what’s the point of adopting a woman? Posing as a diaphragm? If it wasn’t for the system releasing the tasks of lending money and adopting one after another, it wouldn’t have led to all the bad things that followed.

To put it bluntly, the villain is just a tool to advance the plot to fulfill the hero and heroine, and to be cannon-foddered by the hero and heroine when necessary.

The system let him pursue Meng Wan while also letting him sleep with other women, and if he couldn’t get hard he would also control his body to act on its own. Those humiliating images are still engraved in Zhou Yunsheng’s mind until now.

Now, this body is his own, the face that has followed him for sixteen years since birth, how could he not recognize it? The original Zhou Yunsheng’s looks had followed his mother, and could only be considered ordinary, not as elegant and handsome as Fang Zhifei’s elegant and handsome face that he had inherited from Fang Kunpeng. But now, this extremely handsome, a glance at the past can capture the heart of the face, but only belongs to Zhou Yunsheng.

It was his looks and body, so it must be kept clean. Thinking like this, he immediately took out his cell phone and said break up with those cannon -friends of the original owner, and only slept peacefully when he was done.

The next day, he didn’t go to the office, but diverted to the hospital, and the bouncer who registered for him frequently scanned his crotch with a weird gaze. Why did he need to register for the fertility department in the first place? Could it be that the young master had a venereal disease, or something wrong in that area?

Zhou Yunsheng knew what he was thinking but wasn’t embarrassed at all, going in for most of an hour before being sent out by the doctor himself, his eyes full of sympathy.

“Mr. Zhou, you mustn’t have mental baggage when you have this disease, try to relax, maybe it’s because of too much stress, you’ll recover after a while.”

“Okay, I’ll come by for regular reviews. This matter also please help me keep my secret.”

“Definitely, definitely.” Knowing Zhou Yunsheng’s identity, the doctor nodded his head busily, his heart sympathizing with him even more. So handsome looking and so rich, how did he get this kind of disease, simply losing his greatest joy of life.

The bodyguard was so dedicated that he had long ago shooed away the patients waiting at the door so as not to reveal his employer’s privacy, and when he heard the doctor’s words, he instantly confirmed his suspicions, but pretended to know nothing.

“No telling my mother.” Zhou Yunsheng put on his sunglasses to hide his eye-catching looks.

The two bodyguards nodded in unison.

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The company’s top management showed considerable admiration for the new game, and Mr. Zhou even approved 20 million dollars in one breath, which encouraged the people in the R&D department. They wasted their sleep and food on their work, and slowly made a rough prototype.

Looking at the dreamy game scenes and the novel and ahead-of-its-time player settings, Meng Wan knew that this game would surely catch fire. Even she, a student of art and design, knew that, let alone an IT elite like Fang Zhifei.

He lamented why this game was not developed by his own company, pondered for a few days, and laid a trap against Zhou Yunsheng and Zhou in an attempt to swallow this cake that was destined to make a lot of money.

In these six months, Zhou Yunsheng got rid of Mother Zhou’s control and lived a truly rotten life. While he stepped up his efforts to force Meng Wan and indirectly Fang Zhi Fei, he entangled himself with many actresses and had the newspaper take many explicit photos.

On this day, he brought a third-tier starlet into the suite of a five-star hotel, and after the two of them sat dryly against each other for an hour, he gave the actress a check with a face value of one hundred thousand dollars.

Sitting for an hour to earn one hundred thousand, for the third line of small stars has been the price of the sky, the other party smiled and accepted the check, and said a lot of flattery, thoughtfully glanced at his crotch, which left, just out of the door of the hotel, as usual, was a certain small newspaper to shoot.

The two bodyguards placed the set meal delivered by the waiter on the coffee table and silently sighed for their employer: in order to cover up the fact that they can’t make a bad reputation of being a womanizer, the employer is also quite desperate.