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Orr removed the various medical instruments from his body and walked over to the restoration chamber, caressing the teenager’s handsome, extraordinary face through the clear, reinforced glass. His eyelashes were thick and covered with tiny bubbles, some of which didn’t move for a long time, while others floated upwards under the tugging of his hair, before slowly breaking and dissipating. To be honest, it was really boring to stare at these bubbles, but Orr couldn’t move his pace for some reason, and he even carefully reached out his hand and fit his palm against the glass, trying to caress the teenager’s pale cheeks through the ghostly blue liquid.

The young man must have suffered inhumane torture, otherwise he wouldn’t be so thin. However, even though he was already too thin to be human, he was still beautiful. Aoer got closer and closer, and when he saw that the tip of his nose was about to be pressed against the tip of the teenager’s nose through the glass, the teenager suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight at him.

Orr froze. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that there was such a beautiful pair of eyes in the world, in the depths of the tea-gold pupils floated a circle of iris similar to the orange-red sun wheel, with the change of angle mapping ~ bright light, both like a starry sky, but also like a black hole, can suck people’s souls into it. After a full three minutes, Orr felt a slight tingling coming from his chest before he suddenly realized that he had completely forgotten to breathe under the gaze of these eyes.

He backed away hastily, an apologetic look on his face.

Zhou Yunsheng locked eyes with the man through the restoration pod, his mood slowly changing from excitement to disappointment. There was an undisguised appreciation of beauty in the other man’s eyes, but other than that there was nothing, and he even wore an embarrassed expression because of his move to get too close to the restoration pod, like he felt it was very rude. It was a complete attitude towards strangers.

Zhou Yunsheng couldn’t see a trace of familiarity in his words and demeanor; there was no love, no infatuation, no wild dominance, only just the right amount of caution and politeness. He retained his lover’s memories intact during the energy conversion process, and he would never forget himself if he woke up.

But now, it was clear that Oralsay hadn’t recognized him, and every move was no different from the Oralsay he had once been, serious and stereotypical, cautious, and polite in the sense that he refused to let anyone know. Damn, had all that energy been used to heal Orr? And so the lover was absorbed like that, and from then on, one could never find him again, in reality or in fantasy?

One terrifying thought after another surfaced in his mind, overwhelming Cho Yoon Sung. If Orr’s resurrection was at the cost of his lover’s demise, he would have killed the other party with his own hands and then let the world be buried with him. What queen, what salvation, what new hope for mankind, to hell with all of them, there was nothing more despairing than killing one’s favorite person with one’s own hands. However, these violent thoughts were all restrained the moment he opened the hatch. He needed to observe for a while before drawing any conclusions. Orr was clearly brain dead, which meant that his soul had already been devoured by the Queen, and it was absolutely impossible for him to come back to life.

So it should be a mistake somewhere, find it out and correct it, and everything will be solved.

Orr noticed the teenager removing the fluid from the repair chamber and realized he wanted to get out, and hurriedly handed over the clothes he had laid out in the next hospital bed.

“Put it on, you’re in very bad shape and I’m afraid just five hours in there won’t be enough.”

“Thanks. Five hours is already enough, I still have a lot to do.” Zhou Yunsheng took the pure white hospital gown and put it on, then sat cross-legged on the bed~ and wiped his hair with the bath towel left by the nurse, with a seemingly careless attitude, but in fact, he kept observing Or Yasai out of the corner of his eye.

The other party was very gentle and courteous, yet subconsciously kept his distance from the others, seeing his naked body, he even turned his head to face the other way. This thoughtfulness made Zhou Yunsheng’s heart sink straight down. Unlike, too unlike, Or Yasai barely bore the slightest resemblance to his lover, and if the one awakening now was his lover, he would have been eager to pounce on him and give him a passionate, breathtaking kiss.

Zhou Yunsheng’s eyes burned red and he was obsessed with the dark thought that if he killed him, maybe his lover would be able to come back to life in this body.

Sensing danger, Ol’Arcee looked around warily. He obviously did not think that the seemingly weak teenager beside him possessed the ability to kill an Imperial Admiral with an S physique in seconds. He walked to the doorway and looked out through the tiny glass window, asking in a low voice, “Do you know where this is? Why are we being held here?”

Zhou Yunsheng walked over to him without a word, scanning his neck, which would snap once it was broken, with an obscure and inscrutable gaze, and only after a few minutes straight did he speak slowly, “This is an underground air-raid shelter, and we are not being imprisoned, but rather undergoing treatment. This door can be opened at will, you’re being overly cautious.” He finally unloaded the massive energy that had coalesced within his palm and turned to push the door.

The moment he laid his hands on the killer, he hesitated. He had personally sent his lover’s energy body into this skin, if he died, it would mean that his lover died as well, the only way for his lover to have any hope of awakening was if he lived. Whatever had gone wrong, he would find it and fix it. The proposition of converting machine intelligence into ~humanity, a proposition which Dr. Wilson had also studied, was suddenly discontinued by him, and Congress was urged to enact the appropriate injunctions to seal the subject permanently in the form of a law. In his daily handwritten notes, he referred to this research as “the devil’s field,” and predicted the insurrection of artificial intelligence and the subsequent demise of mankind.

Zhou Yunsheng found a way to resurrect his beloved with only the five words “Devil’s Domain” and the scattered remnants of information that 008 had gathered. Taking over a human body was indeed the devil’s work, but as long as he could be reunited with his lover, he was willing to try any means.

Pulling open the door to his room, he pointed to the dimly lit hallway and said, “Would you like to go out and get some air? But I suggest you call the doctor over first to check out the ~body~, as far as I know, you’ve been in a coma for almost seven months, and it’s a miracle you’ve survived this long.” In order to save those who still had slight activity in their brain fields, the hospital had initially arranged repair pods for each of them, but then as the Queen’s purging activities became more frequent and the human environment became more and more hostile, the repair pods were mostly removed by the military, and the patients could only take turns to use them, often only being able to soak in them once every one or two months.

As a result, Orr’s current physical condition wasn’t much better than Zhou Yunsheng’s, and they were equally wasting away horribly.

“I was in a coma for seven months?” Orr was very shocked.

“Yes.” Zhou Yunsheng walked over to the hospital bed and pressed the help button.

A group of doctors rushed in and racked Orr onto the bed~ for various tests. Zhou Yunsheng kept asking questions in between the tests.

“Do you have a headache?”

“Did you wake up with any memory lapses?”

“Misremembering is suddenly realizing that there are a lot more memories in your mind that didn’t belong to you. Do you have any? Think about it.”

Aoer shook his head one by one, indicating that he felt good. Zhou Yunsheng stopped talking and took out the laptop sent by the marshal and began to fiddle~with it. He first wrote an observation diary, listing several conjectures about his lover’s inability to awaken, and then searched for a solution based on these conjectures within 008’s vast database. This was destined to be a rather long process, but even if it took the rest of his life, Zhou Yunsheng would not shy away from it.

The doctors were very busy, making sure that the patients didn’t have any abnormalities and left one after another. Auer had a lot of words stuck in his mouth that he couldn’t ask, so he had to disturb the busy teenager, “Why is the hospital set up in an underground air raid shelter? The conditions here look very simple, and many of the instruments are antiques that have been obsolete for hundreds of years. Did something big happen recently? Like a war between the Empire and the Alliance, or a terrorist attack?”

Zhou Yunsheng mumbled perfunctorily, not listening to him at all. He couldn’t find a trace of familiarity from him, even if he knew that his lover might be inside him he couldn’t get close. Obviously the soul had disappeared, why did it come back? That was all he could think about now.

A little embarrassed, Orr asked a few questions and then stopped and started rummaging around the room for his personal terminal.

“You’re awake, brother? Thank God, I thought I was dreaming when I got the call from the hospital!” Jerram stood in the doorway with red eyes, as if he was very excited. A slender man stood behind him and was looking down ~fiddling~ with a smartphone. This thing was phased out thousands of years ago, and I didn’t realize that I would have to rely on it to get in touch with the outside world now. The riot of machine intelligence had set back the development process of human society by at least a thousand years.

“Don’t use that thing to surf the internet.” Zhou Yunsheng was a Level 3S Spiritualist before entering the Main God System, and after practicing in the virtual world, his spiritual power had reached a rather terrifying value. As long as there was a faint to weak signal floating in the air, it could be captured by his mental power or shielded.

The man should be using his cell phone for the first time and surprisingly tapped on the mobile data and WLAN functions. Although Zhou Yunsheng had installed several shielding devices in the hospital, as long as the man stepped out of the shielded range, he would definitely be searched by the Empress. It was said that the Empress had gone mad, and the means of exterminating humans was heartless, as long as she found the slightest sign of human activity, she would send an army of machines to encircle and annihilate.

“Huh? You’re talking to me?” The man raised his head, revealing a face that was handsome to the extreme, a clueless expression paired with clear eyes, a look that was indescribably charming. Orr looked calm, but in reality, his blood began to boil, and a hint of deeply hidden love flowed out of his pitch-black eyes~, even forgetting about searching for his personal terminal.

Zhou Yunsheng keenly captured the change in Orr’s mood. When selecting a skin for his lover, he had once investigated Or Yasai’s biography and learned that he had a very simple emotional experience and did not have a male or female friend in a close relationship. But now it seemed that he had overlooked a more important point, not having a boyfriend or girlfriend did not mean that there were no admirers, and judging from his current reaction, he was 100% crushing on men.

Zhou Yunsheng wiped his face, his eyes darkening when he looked at the man again. He recognized the other party, and it should be said that everyone in Asa knew the other party. His name was Nan Qing, he was a movie, TV and song superstar, with fans all over Asa Interstellar, and was known as the “Perfect Lover”. As the world’s top hacker, Zhou Yunsheng could find out the details of any person within a second, and he had investigated Nan Qing’s background out of curiosity for the world’s most popular idol.

He has one-half Chinese ancestry, his real name is Phoebe Selayan, from the military industry giant Selayan family, with a strong background and unique looks, the speed of popularity is very fast, for the sake of the family’s reputation, the behavior ~ things are also very cautious, there is almost no black history. In the eyes of the outside world, he is a very gentle and elegant person, can be called a quality idol.

The Serayan family was close to the Yasai family, so it was said that Nan Qing and Orr had been very close friends since they were young. I’m afraid that only Orr himself could say when this friendship had changed in quality.

Zhou Yunsheng once again rose the urge to kill. The love of his life was within Orr’s shell, Orr was secretly in love with Nan Qing, and he always had the feeling that he was being betrayed. What the fuck was all this about! He cursed in his heart.

Nan Qing obviously did not expect that there were people in the world who looked even more outstanding than himself. Other aside, the single teenager’s pair of tea-golden, embellished with a circle of bright sun wheel of heavy pupils, will be able to attract everyone, only a quick touch with this pair of eyes, he felt that the soul are shaken.

Nan Qing smiled gently and courteously on his face, but disgust rose in his heart. Such a person should not appear in the same place as him, it would take away his luster.

Zhou Yunsheng saw through his self-professed perfect disguise with a single glance, but still reminded, “If you don’t want the Empress to find you, please turn off your mobile data and WLAN.” If this person was blocked by the Empress’ army near the hospital, the base would be exposed and many people would be implicated.

Nan Qing is not a fool, immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, panicked and tapped on the phone’s settings page, looked for half a day but could not find where the mobile data and WLAN.

“Phoebe, I got this.” Orr waved at him, his expression serious but his ears a little red.

Jerram hurriedly pulled Nan Qing into the hospital room, handed the hot potato-like cell phone to his elder brother, and asked with a smile, “Brother, are you feeling okay? Is there anything that’s uncomfortable? Before, the marshal forbade anyone to visit you, I was really shocked and thought something had happened to you.” He was curious as to why the marshal was protecting Orr so closely, although the Yasai family was a military and political family, they had little friendship with the imperial marshal.

“The marshal doesn’t allow anyone to visit me?” Aoer himself also found it strange, but he didn’t have the time to think about it too much, and took Nan Qing’s cell phone and fiddled with it carefully~ for a moment before invitingly handing it over, smiling, “Alright, from now on, just make calls and answer them, and don’t touch the other buttons casually. By the way, why use a cell phone and not a personal terminal? What happened in the outside world during my coma? Speaking of the Queen just now, what happened to the Queen?”

“Orr you’re amazing, even using this old stuff. A lot of things have happened lately, it’s horrible!” Nan Qing naturally sat on the edge of the bed, took one of his arms, and told him all about the recent changes in succession. After years of mixing in the dyed-in-the-wool entertainment industry, how could he not see Auer’s infatuation with himself? He didn’t like the serious and silent Orr at all, but he enjoyed manipulating him. It was fun to think of such a powerful man being played with.

Zhou Yunsheng watched the interaction between the two clearly, and his fingertips twitched~twitch nervously. He was now struggling violently against the murderous thoughts within him.

Phoebe seemed to sense the danger and suggested, “Orr, let’s switch to a single room. With your status you should have been in a single room without having to squeeze in with others.”

“Good.” Still reeling from the shock that the end of the world had come, it was several minutes before Orr spoke in response.

Zhou Yunsheng clenched his fist hard, his knuckles made a clicking sound, and he thought Go, go and live in a single room, if not for my old man getting you into a double room, you would have been killed a few hundred times a fucking long time ago! These two people, one with a honeyed tongue and the other sinister and poisonous, keeping them around is like keeping two poisonous snakes, sooner or later they will get you killed. How the hell did you become a general? You don’t even have that kind of eye for people?

He suddenly recalled that a soldier had once said that General Orr was a very charismatic person, who appeared cold on the surface but was actually very soft inside, and would give one hundred percent trust to those he valued. This allowed him to gain the loyalty of the soldiers under his command, and also attracted a group of conspirators who had evil intentions and were good at disguising themselves.

If he had extraordinary eyesight, this character could help him climb higher, but if he lacked the ability to see into the hearts of people, this character would only allow him to be sought after for a while, and sooner or later, he would plummet one day due to his inability to recognize people. It turned out that the so-called bright star of the empire was a person who was so red-blooded yet so single-mindedly stupid. Zhou Yunsheng had to admit that he was very disappointed, but it didn’t matter, his lover’s energy body had already been input into the other person’s brain, so he just had to accept the reality even if he was more diabolical.

The most important issue at the moment was not to let Orr die, followed by observing his state and finding a way to wake up his lover, so living together would be more convenient. Regardless of which single room Orr switched to, Zhou Yunsheng had a way to make it turn into a double room in a second, so he wasn’t in a hurry at all and watched the trio pack up their things in an old-fashioned manner.

Just then the old marshal came striding in.

Jerram, Orr, and Nan Qing, immediately stood up straight and saluted the de facto helmsman of the Empire.

The old marshal waved his hand slightly at the trio and quickly walked over to the hospital bed, bending down to inquire, “Mr. Zhou, how are you resting?” His respectful and deliberate attitude caused Nan Qing and the others to look sideways, originally thinking that the teenager was just an insignificant little person, but judging from the current situation, the truth was the complete opposite of what they had guessed.

“I’m hungry, let me eat first, we’ll talk afterward.” Zhou Yunsheng touched his parched belly.

The old marshal was prepared for this, and hastened to have the orderlies bring in the dining car, and soup and soup piled up on the table.

Zhou Yunsheng picked up the spoon and drank the congee, thinking that Orr’s body was at least storing his own old attacker, so he should still take care of it, and should still feed it, so he beckoned and called out, “General Orr, come over and eat some too.”

Orr was about to refuse, but the old marshal laughed, “Come over Orr, Mr. Zhou is your brainchild and I’m sure he’s looking forward to dining with you. He had even asked me to take good care of you while you were in a coma, you must show something now that you are awake.”

Auer quickly glanced at Nan Qing with an awkward expression, then resumed looking at the teenager and thanked him in a sincere tone.

“You’re welcome, come and sit down. The two of you, please sit as well.” Zhou Yunsheng patted the empty seat beside him.

Several people gathered around the table to eat, during which Orr did not say a word, while Jerram kept climbing with the old marshal, asking if there could be a way to contain the empress. Because the hacking operation was the highest military secret of the empire, the old marshal didn’t answer truthfully, only saying that he was still trying to figure out how to do it. Nan Qing was worthy of being an interstellar superstar, his social skills were top notch, and even though the old marshal was in a ten thousand percent impatient mood, he was amused by him several times. Zhou Yunsheng ignored no one, including Orr, and just buried his head in his food, his indifferent behavior completely unlike a brainwashed fan. What he was fanning was his own old attacker, and it didn’t have a dime’s worth of relationship with Orr Yassai.

Orr had been worried about being pestered by the teenager and couldn’t help but feel relieved at the sight.

The old marshal put down his knife and fork after two bites and stared blearily at the teenager.

“No more food, let’s go.” Zhou Yunsheng’s appetite was completely gone, putting down the bowl and walking towards the studio. At this meeting, in addition to the Imperial Marshal, there were four generals involved, Zhou Yunsheng took the chip out and explained, “Implant this chip containing a virus within the Empress’s terminal system, and she will completely collapse, and the army of robots under her control will be paralyzed as well.”

“It’s that simple? Then why don’t you hurry up and implant it?” The old marshal slammed his palm on the table, thus showing how excited he was.

Zhou Yunsheng emphasized, ”Listen carefully, it’s a terminal system, not the kind of system that casually logs into the Star Network. In other words, your army must first attack the Queen’s lair, find her mainframe, and insert this chip into her recognizer. While a virus cast on a random landing on the Star Network would also harm her, the Empress would have enough time to parse out the code that restrains the virus as it breaks through layer after layer of defenses. The virus that took me four months to make took her about four minutes to parse through, and the only way to get it to work quickly is to put it directly into the terminal.”

The old marshal regained his composure and nodded his head, “I see, just like how poisoning a person must be done by injecting the poison~medicine directly into his body instead of sprinkling it on the surface of the body.”

“That’s the point.” Zhou Yunsheng pushed the chip to the center of the table, and the ghostly blue light flickering on it really did resemble some kind of highly toxic item.

A great general spoke with a million worries, ”The outer perimeter of the Queen’s engine room is guarded by countless robot armies, it’s not easy to attack it. We need time to formulate a battle plan. As you know, the mechs can’t be used anymore, so our warriors can only rely on their physical strength to fight against the robots, and the casualties will be very heavy when the time comes!”

“Since I can grasp the Queen’s source code, I naturally have the ability to interfere with her. I can remotely cut off her connection with the robot army, but there’s only half an hour left, so you guys need to hurry. Also, since you guys know how to use cell phones from thousands of years ago, why don’t you let the warriors use hand-controlled mechs from hundreds of years ago?”

“Because there are only a few hundred hand-controlled mechs kept in the entire empire, it’s simply not enough. We can’t take them out until the critical moment.”

“Now is the critical moment. You choose a group of warriors with excellent physique, let them become skilled in the operation of hand-controlled mechs as soon as possible, and let them be the vanguard when the time comes. You guys give the chip to the most capable person in the vanguard, let him be in charge of implanting it, and the rest will be in charge of protecting it. Remember, it absolutely has to be inserted~ into the mainframe’s recognizer, not any other computer. Once this virus is cracked by the Queen, it will take me months or even years to create another copy. You guys think about whether humans can afford to spend it or not.”

Several people shook their heads in unison, their expressions grave.

Zhou Yunsheng clapped his hands and said, “Alright, you guys can go and formulate a battle plan, I still need two more MYS099 computers here, remember, just the 099, no other models will do. The condition that I was promised at first must now be added, that is, the elimination of the Queeness cannot damage her database.” He didn’t want those interdimensional worlds to collapse with the Queen’s disappearance. Perhaps to others it was meaningless and false, but to him it was a place more worth staying in than the real world. The beings in the virtual worlds didn’t realize that they were just a string of data, but they had been working hard to stay alive, so they had the right to survive.

The old marshal originally did not want to destroy the empress’s database, which stored the crystallized wisdom of all the races in the entire interstellar world, and the loss of any piece of information could cause technological regression. He nodded coyly, after the meeting was adjourned with a few subordinates slightly together, how to feel that this brat is more like an imperial marshal than himself, the whole time to let him lead by the nose.