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In order to inquire about the teenager’s identity and to climb the ladder with the Imperial Marshal, Nan Qing and Jelam put Orr’s living supplies back in place so that he could continue to live in a double room. Zhou Yunsheng was tired of the two men reporting in every day, and as soon as he saw them, he hid in the studio to write a program and came back when the people were gone. He had the doctor check Orr’s body once a day, especially his head, before conducting various experiments based on the data given by the doctor. He even logged on to the StarNet once again and stole a bit of energy from the Queen and sent it into Orr while he was sleeping.

But none of these experiments were successful, every morning when he opened his eyes, Orr was still the same Orr, without any changes, except for his suddenly enhanced self-healing ability. As a special person whose mental power and physical quality were both S-class, his self-healing ability was higher than that of an ordinary person, but after being in a coma for seven months, he was able to return to his peak state in just five days, a situation that was extremely rare when looking at the entire interstellar world.

While the doctor was quite puzzled by this, Zhou Yunsheng knew that it was because he had absorbed the energy that originally belonged to his lover, and the energy had strengthened his cells as it flowed through his body. After a few medical checkups, the doctor announced that Orr could be discharged from the hospital, and he immediately reported to the military barracks, hoping to take part in the next salvation operation. Zhou Yunsheng also followed and moved there.

“What are you doing here?” Orr returned to his dormitory with a surprised expression when he saw the teenager sitting on the couch.

“I’m your new roommate.” Zhou Yunsheng’s head was not lifted as he fiddled~ with his computer.

“Are you a soldier too?” Auer looked the teenager’s thin figure up and down, his eyes filled with skepticism. If he remembered correctly, the other party’s medical record card labeled his age as 17, which was still underage, and in accordance with the laws of the Empire was absolutely not allowed to join the military.

“I’m not a soldier, but I’m in this salvage operation. I’m a technician.” Zhou Yunsheng glanced at him and asked as if he was not thinking, “How have you been recently? Is there any abnormality in your body?”

“Thanks for asking, I’ve been fine lately.” Orr thanked him courteously, then walked into the kitchen to pour a glass of juice for the teenager.

“I heard that you joined the Vanguard Army, how’s the hand-controlled mech practice going?” Zhou Yunsheng took the cup and took a small sip.

“I originally thought it would be difficult, but it’s actually very simple, as long as you memorize the code for each movement and practice it over and over again, you’ll be able to make the mech move smoothly. Hand speed is the most important thing, if the hand speed can keep up with the brain’s thinking speed, hand-controlled mechs can also exert the same combat power as brain-controlled mechs.” Talking about mechs, Orr became interested, his attitude not as detached as before.

“Yes? But no one’s hands can keep up with their brain, so hand-controlled mechs still leave a lot to be desired compared to brain-controlled mechs. You practice hard, but hopefully you’ll come back safely.” Zhou Yunsheng nodded slightly and went back to his room with his notebook in his arms. He took the time to talk to Orr every day, learning all the details of his life, and once he was sure that his lover showed no signs of awakening, he would immediately lose interest in talking.

Orr scratched his head, thinking that the teenager didn’t seem to like him as much as the marshal said he did; on the contrary, he could detect his occasional antipathy towards him. As a result, he would try to minimize the chances of meeting the teenager, heading to the barracks for training every day without waiting for him to wake up, and returning quietly only when he guessed that he had already gone to bed.

Zhou Yunsheng didn’t care whether Orr was close or distant to him. The current Orr was just a guinea pig to him, he observed him and made sure he didn’t die before the experiment was successful. As for this rescue operation, he wouldn’t stop him because he wanted to use the crisis-ridden battlefield to stimulate Orr’s potential, which might lead to the awakening of his lover. He was willing to try anything to bring his lover back.

That night, after writing a portion of the program and inputting Orr’s body data that the doctor had returned into the computer, Zhou Yunsheng wrapped up the covers and fell into a deep sleep. In the middle of the night, he felt thirsty and opened his eyes in a daze, only to see a tall figure standing beside his bed without a word. The man was Orr, and he was gazing at him with a burning, loving gaze.

Looking into these extremely familiar eyes, Zhou Yunsheng’s nose was so sore that he almost burst into tears. He unscrewed the desk lamp and asked excitedly, “You’re back?”

When the incandescent light came on, the burning love in Orr’s eyes evaporated like mist and turned back into the usual gentle detachment. He blinked with a confused expression, “Joe, why are you in my room?”

Zhou Yunsheng stared at him for a while, and his entire being fell from the clouds of happiness into the valley of disappointment. He suspected that the pair of eyes he had just seen was just an illusion caused by his own excessive thoughts.

“Look carefully, this is my room, and I’m going to ask you why you’re here.”

“I seem to be sleepwalking, I’m really sorry.” Auer looked around and realized that this really wasn’t his room. He pressed~rubbed his vaguely aching temples and apologized while pushing open the door to his room, and just after taking two steps, he fainted, startling Cho Yoon Sung.

He rushed to carry the man to the bed~ and set him up, then called the doctor. As he waited, he kept praying to God that when he opened his eyes again, this shell would carry the soul of his lover, not Orr. He was tired of this torment of repeated hope and repeated disappointment.

“He’s over-exerted himself physically and is off his game. It’s nothing, just sleep for a few hours, and you can take a leave of absence for tomorrow’s military training.” The doctor rushed in and gave the unconscious Orr a full body check.

“Got it, thanks doctor.” Zhou Yunsheng sent the doctor away and turned back to his room to continue staring at Orr.

A few hours later, Orr woke up from his stupor, and his heart warmed slightly when he saw the drowsy teenager lying on the edge of the bed. He reached out his hand and was about to stroke the teenager’s soft hair when he saw him jerk his head up, staring at himself with an indescribably excited expression, and asked sharply, “You’re awake? Do you still remember me?”

“Of course I remember you, Joe. what just happened to me?”

The man’s gentle and courteous attitude doubled Zhou Yunsheng’s disappointment. The radiant light in his eyes quickly became dim, waving his hand, “The doctor said you’re too tired and need to rest. Go back to your room and sleep, I’ve asked for your vacation.” He tugged at the sheet, signaling the man to leave his room. The sudden coldness of the teenager’s attitude made Orr feel uncomfortable, but he said nothing, repeatedly thanking him and going out, canceling his leave for himself and hurrying to the training ground.

Zhou Yunsheng took down the sheets, quilt covers, pillowcases and other things he had slept on and threw them into the washing machine, washing them three times in succession before giving up.

———-

Two months later, with everything ready, the Imperial allied forces finally decided to launch an attack on the Empress’ lair. Auer, who was physically strong and extremely skilled in the operation of hand-controlled mechs, was assigned by the Marshal to be a member of the vanguard. However, his best friend, Carniselayan, is even better than him, and after a few maneuvers, he is chosen by the Marshal to be the “Savior”. The so-called “Savior” is the soldier who inserted the virus chip into the Queen’s terminal system, and once his operation is successful, he will be able to destroy the Queen and paralyze her robot army.

Whether from a practical point of view, or from a symbolic point of view, the person who inserts the virus chip will become a real savior, this honor is hot, but also need to bear great responsibility and pressure, not just anyone can be competent.

Carniselayan, like Orr, is also a special person with S-class physique, when the Empress ingested the human souls he was on a mission and did not log on to the Star Network, so he was lucky to escape. Because before there is Orr suppression, he is not really outstanding in the army, promotion speed is also slow, Orr after the coma he gets many opportunities, bright performance soon attracted the attention of the marshal. After a month of repeated maneuvers, the marshal finally decided to give him the task of implanting the chip to complete.

“Remember, be sure to plug~in within the Queen’s terminal system, or the operation will be undone.” The marshal cautiously urged.

“Promise to complete the mission.” Carnai gave a military salute.

“See this communicator? When its indicator light turns green it means that I have cut off the Queen’s contact with the robot army, you have half an hour to attack her lair and find the mainframe. When the indicator light turns yellow, it means that you only have ten minutes left, and you must retreat as soon as possible, whether the mission is completed or not.” Zhou Yunsheng pointed to the wireless communicators that the soldiers pinned to their waists.

Nodding his head in understanding, Carnai jumped into his mech and led his army to follow the underground pipes as they slowly approached the Queen’s lair. When the indicator light turned green, they quickly ran to the surface and saw that the droid army was paralyzed. Not daring to delay, they flew as fast as they could towards the Imperial Information Center, where the Empress’ terminal systems were stored.

Carnai pulled up a map and searched for a machine room buried in the deepest part of the basement. Orr and a few soldiers maneuvered their mechs to follow him around, ready to cover him at a moment’s notice. Unable to reach the robot army, the Queen nevertheless still possessed the ability to fight back. She mobilized the various defensive and offensive systems of the information center to create obstacles to the approach of Carnai and his party. When they broke through the barriers and blasted open the door of the machine room with particle bombs, the Empress’s demonic~enchanting figure suddenly appeared in front of their eyes through four-dimensional imaging technology, screaming like mad.

Obviously furious, she spat at the invaders in the language of every race known and kept transmitting commands to the army of robots. The outside world was silent, and all the robots had gone dormant, unable to listen to her summons, which made her feel terrible.

“I don’t understand why the Marshal gave me this thing. It’s obvious that all it takes is a pellet of bullets to destroy the Queen’s terminal, so why go through the trouble of developing a virus. People in research always like to complicate simple problems.” Carnai jumped out of the mech, old-fashioned and admiring the Queen’s exasperated appearance, constantly tossing and catching the virus chip, catching and tossing it, with a scatterbrained attitude. In fact, he would have preferred to blast the Empress to pieces with a cannonball, it would have felt great.

Aoer also jumped out of the mech and was about to say something when he heard a teenager’s voice full of mockery coming from the communicator, “Do you know how much important information is stored in the Queen’s database? The history and civilization, technological achievements, racial cultures, and military secrets of the Asa Interstellar for 15 billion years up and down are all included in it, and what you’ve blown up isn’t the Empress, but the entire past and future of the Asa Interstellar. If you really do that, you will cause the scientific and social development process of the Asa Interstellar to regress by more than a thousand years. At that time, when you return victorious, we will charge you with the crime of hindering social development, and you will face a maximum sentence of five hundred years and a minimum of two hundred and fifty years. And didn’t I tell you? The Empress is a string of data that flows, able to escape to any part of the world through the network, if I hadn’t used magnetic field jamming technology to confine her inside the information center, even if you guys blew up her mainframe, she would have been able to command the robots to build herself a more advanced one soon after she escaped. So stop flaunting your ignorance and hurry up.”

After saying this, the teenager sneered and didn’t wait to turn off the talk channel before complaining to the marshal beside him, “Where did you find this idiot?”

The marshal said an extremely awkward apology.

Carnai hadn’t used an old antique like a wireless communicator and didn’t realize that in addition to displaying the time, this thing could actually listen in on him. His face turned red and he immediately grabbed~ the virus chip that was thrown into mid-air and hurriedly ran towards the mainframe, cursing the yellow-haired kid surnamed Zhou countless times in his heart.

Since the public channel was being used, all the soldiers could hear those words just now, and quite a few of them let out snickers that spread out through the communicator, causing Carnai to almost become annoyed. He fumbled up and down the mainframe, finally finding the plug~in hole for the identifier, and was about to implant the chip when Orr grabbed~his wrist.

“You’re wrong.” Auer’s brows were deeply furrowed and his tone was cold. His pupils were originally light brown, but now they suddenly turned black, with a circle of silvery-white swirling irises floating vaguely in the center, resembling deep, bottomless cold pools, making it impossible to look directly at them.

“You’re wrong, give me the chip.” He reiterated once more, breaking Carnai’s five fingers and snatching the chip away, returning to his feet, jumping into his mech and running out the door.

It was only after half a minute that Kanai came back to his senses from his trance, realizing that his wrist was bruised and purple, and the bones of his fingers were in excruciating pain, so he hurriedly supported his arm to board the mecha and shouted, “Orr is crazy, hurry up and chase after him!” His physical quality was comparable to Orr, and should have been an even match, but just now, he felt that he was not facing a person, but an interstellar beast, and that vast and boundless pressure swept over his soul like a landslide, causing him to feel fear from the bottom of his bones.

“What happened?” The old marshal’s anxious voice came over the comm.

“Orr grabbed the chip! Damn it, I suspect he’s a robot, an undercover agent sent among us by the Queen!” Other than that, Carnai couldn’t really find a better explanation.

Zhou Yunsheng pressed the communicator to the outline of his ear, carefully discerning the movement on the other end. “You’re wrong”, the sentence was only three words, it couldn’t have been any shorter, but it made his heart quake more than just listening to it. The cold tone and cocky attitude brought him a familiarity he had never felt before. He could even visualize that person’s expression and movements through those three words.

“Follow Orr, but do not stop him!” There was no one in the world who knew the Queen better than her lover, and since he had said that Carnai was wrong, his judgment must be correct.

“Are you crazy too? If the chip is implanted in the wrong computer, not only will we not be able to destroy the Empress, we will also completely enrage her. She’ll create a constant army of robots and exterminate every living thing in the Asa Interstellar. Maybe we won’t be able to wait for the next opportunity, and we’ll all be wiped out.” The old marshal hissed in exasperation.

“I believe Orr.” Unmoved, Zhou Yunsheng raised the wireless communicator to his mouth and asked, “Honey, is that you?” Because he was so nervous, his voice was muffled.

A low, sex~muddy laugh came from the other end, as if he was about to say something, but was interrupted by Carnai’s roar, “Orr, my god! Look what you’ve done! You actually inserted the chip into a dying SY03 computer! It’s over, all our efforts are in vain!”

“What’s going on?” The old marshal’s hand shook as he held the communicator.

The other end didn’t speak, intense clashing sounds came one after another, it seemed that Orr and Carnai were fighting, but after only two minutes, a loud thump was heard, and Carnai’s agonizing moan~ came with it.

“Marshal, it’s bad, General Orr broke General Carnai’s mech, and General Carnai is seriously injured!” A soldier anxiously reported the situation.

“Honey, are you hurt?” Zhou Yunsheng shouted into the communicator, and when he saw that there was no movement on the other side, he frantically slapped the shell of the machine, as if he had a deep hatred with it.

What time is it, and you’re worried about whether Orr’s hurt or not? Crazy, these two are crazy! the old marshal thought darkly with grief.

“Reporting to the Marshal, General Orr has passed out as well! But he’s uninjured, and we’re checking his body to try to confirm whether he’s a robot or not. Well, the examination is complete, General Orr is human.” The soldier gave a nonsensical explanation.

“Retreat retreat retreat, hurry up and retreat, make sure you bring that asshole Orr back, I’ll have him court-martialed!” The old marshal was so angry that he almost lost his mind.

Hearing that his lover had fainted, Zhou Yunsheng lost his own strength and instantly sat down on the ground. Just then, the yellow light on the communicator began to flash, the army only had ten minutes left to evacuate. The two soldiers fished out Carnai and Orr respectively, hurriedly boarded their mechs, turned on their jets, and left as fast as they could. They looked down from a high altitude at the dense, stationary army of robots on the ground, realizing that after ten minutes, they would launch an even more disastrous war against the human race under the orders of the furious Queen. They hardly dared to think of that dark, desperate future.

Ten minutes was not enough for the army to safely withdraw from the encirclement of the robot army, and as they watched the yellow light stop flashing red, the soldiers gritted their teeth and prepared to fight for their lives. But a miracle happened, the robot army still stood still, without a single movement.

The soldiers fearfully maneuvered through them, not daring to stop for a moment, and a few, sensing something was amiss, raised the butts of their rifles and slammed them into the robots around them, and after the muffled clang, nothing changed.

“They don’t seem to be able to move! Is it the mission accomplished?” Someone raised a question.

“Cut the crap and leave first!” The leading soldier urged loudly.

With doubts in their hearts, several troops safely withdrew one after another. Aside from the fierce attack at the very beginning when they stepped into the Empress’s territory, after that, the army barely caused any casualties. However, the situation within the base was the complete opposite of the army, as the Empress devoured many souls in one breath in order to escape from the cyber magnetic field created by Zhou Yunsheng, which indirectly led to the deaths of a large number of comatose people.

Zhou Yunsheng had expected this situation, but in order to save more people, he had no other way. While the marshal and the generals were still sitting in the conference hall waiting for the robot army to awaken, Zhou Yunsheng was holding his laptop, half lying beside Orr, and quickly logging into the Star Network to check out the Queen’s control background.

He didn’t meet any obstacles and easily entered by breaking through only a few layers of firewalls, and smoothly took over all the permissions of the StarNet. Undoubtedly, this meant that the Empress had disappeared, she had transferred to an inconspicuous computer the moment she was confined, if her lover didn’t wake up in time and stop it, the virus chip implanted in her mainframe wouldn’t have any effect, instead it would have been quickly disassembled and cracked by the recognizers, which would ultimately lead to the failure of the mission. From then on, the Asa Interstellar would be plunged into an endless war.

He didn’t fear war, but he hated having his peaceful life disturbed, especially after being reunited with his beloved so easily. Thinking about the sweet life ahead, he hung his head and kissed the corner of his lover’s forehead with all the pleasure he could muster.

“What are you doing?” Nan Qing stood in the doorway with an angry expression of catching an adulterer in flagrante delicto, and Jerram tugged at his wrist in a low, persuasive voice.

“What’s it to you if I kiss my lover?” Zhou Yunsheng raised his jaw, his tone arrogant.

“When did brother Yasai become your lover? If it weren’t for your reckless command, he wouldn’t have injured my brother, much less implanted the chip in the wrong computer. The marshal is going to court-martial him, and it’s all your fault! You’re the one who should go to jail!” Nan Qing fought as if he wanted to pounce on the teenager and tear him apart. Kaneselayan was none other than his own brother, now badly injured and unconscious. He had originally come over to question him, but when he saw the teenager’s ambiguous behavior he forgot everything.

Jerram pretended to be unable to pull and was about to let go when he saw the marshal and several generals hurry in.

“Mr. Zhou, the robot army seems to be paralyzed. Do you have a way to check on the Queen?” The marshal was filled with anxiety while harboring even more hidden hope.

“The Empress has disappeared, and now I’ve taken over all her permissions.” Zhou Yunsheng flipped the computer and showed the empress’s control background to several people, speaking stone-cold words with a cloudy expression.

The marshal covered his chest, looking like he was going to have a heart~attack at any moment, and seemed to want to laugh, tugging at the corners of his mouth but suddenly wanting to cry, his expression twisted.

“Really? The Queen has really disappeared? You’re not mistaken?” He pursued the question relentlessly.

Several big generals came over and stared at the computer screen, squeezing Jerram and Nan Qing, who were still pulling and tugging, right out of the hospital room. The two didn’t dare to be reckless in front of these bigwigs, and left in disgrace.

“If you guys don’t believe me, you can wait until tomorrow morning.” Zhou Yunsheng turned the computer back around and continued to write the program, noticing that several generals were looking at him with horrified gazes, he snorted, “Don’t worry, I’m not an empress and I don’t have anti~human~type tendencies. If you guys don’t trust me you can find a few more experts and have them split the control backend into several boards, creating an intelligent administrator for each board to govern each other.”

“How many more intelligent administrators will have to be created? Isn’t one Queen enough?” The Marshal cried out in horror.

Zhou Yunsheng laughed aloud and patiently explained, “The reason why the Empress possesses intelligence and feelings is because Dr. Wilson has set a self-improvement function for her. In other words, she can constantly allow herself to evolve, thus infinitely approaching her creator. You guys can avoid this situation by changing the automatic upgrade function to manual upgrade mode. Of course, you must make sure that the people with StarNet upgrade privileges are pacifists, or else tragedy could still happen. You must realize that human nature is the most complex and sinister thing in the world, and is more difficult to control than machine intelligence.”

The old marshal nodded his head to show that he understood, his ecstatic mood converted into apprehension and fear by the teenager’s three or two words.