Zhou Yun Sheng immediately sensed Orr's mood change. When choosing a vessel for his lover, he'd investigated Orr Assai's life, and learned that his emotional life was very simple, he had no intimate contact with any boys or girls. But now, it seemed that he'd overlooked the most important point, no lover didn't mean no infatuation, from his reaction just now, Orr 100% had a crush on that man.
Zhou Yun Sheng wiped his expression clean and looked at the man with dark eyes. He recognized him, no, it should be said that most people in Asaph Galaxy would recognize him. His name was Nan Qing, he was an actor/singer superstar, fans from every corner of Asaph Galaxy referred to him as the "Perfect Lover." As the world's top hacker, Zhou Yun Sheng could find out the details of any one's life in seconds, in regards to the world's current most popular idol, he'd previously investigated Nan Qing's background out of curiosity.
He was of half Chinese descent, his real name was Phoebe Celayan, from the military industry tycoons, the Celayan family. With a strong background and blessed-by-nature looks, his rise to popularity was very swift, and for the sake of his family's reputation, he behaved very cautiously, and had an almost spotless past. To the outside world, he was a very gentle and elegant person, a true high-quality idol.
The Celayan family and the Assai family had close ties, so Nan Qing and Orr were close childhood friends. When the nature of this friendship changed, perhaps only Orr could say.
Zhou Yun Sheng once again felt an urge to kill. His lover was in Orr's body, and Orr was secretly in love with Nan Qing, he couldn't help but feel betrayed. What the fuck is this!? He cursed in his heart.
Nan Qing obviously didn't expect the world to still have some people more outstanding than him. Everything else aside, the boy in front of him had a golden pair of eyes, decorated with a bright sun ring, which would be able to attract all. With only a quick touch from this pair of eyes, he felt even his soul shake.
Nan Qing smiled gently, but his heart was already filling with loathing. Such a person shouldn't be in the same room with him, it would take away from his brilliance.
Zhou Yun Sheng naturally saw through his supposedly perfect façade, but he still reminded, "If you don't want the Queen to track you down, please turn off the mobile data and WLAN on your phone." If this man was ambushed by the Queen's army near the hospital, the base would be exposed, and many people would get caught up.
Nan Qing was not a fool, he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly opened the phone's settings, but even after looking for a long time, he couldn't find the mobile data and WLAN options.
"Phoebe, I'll do it." Orr beckoned, his expression was serious, but his ears were slightly red.
Jeram quickly pulled Nan Qing into the ward and handed the phone to his older brother like it was a cobra, then he smiled and asked, "Brother, are you feeling okay? Is something wrong? The Marshal prohibited anyone from visiting you before, I was so scared, I thought you had an accident." He was very curious about why the Marshal protected Orr so strictly, although the Assai family was an influential military and political family, they had no close friendship with the Imperial Marshal.
"The Marshal banned anyone from visiting me?" Orr also found that strange, but he didn't think too much about it. He took Nan Qing's phone and fiddled with it seriously, after a moment, he proudly handed it over and smiled, "Done. From now on it can only be used to make and receive calls, don't touch the other keys. By the way, why are you using a cell phone and not your personal terminal? What happened to the outside world during my coma? You guys mentioned the Queen, what's going on with the Queen?"
"You're so awesome Orr, you even know how to use this antique. Oh, a lot of things happened recently, it's awful!" Nan Qing naturally sat on the bed and clung to Orr's arm, rapidly recounting all the recent misfortunes. After mixing in the big dye vat of the entertainment industry for so many years, how could he not notice that Orr was in love with him? The serious, reticent Orr was simply not his type, but he very much enjoyed the feeling of being able to manipulate him. Such a powerful man was at his beck and call, he found that very amusing.
Zhou Yun Sheng was very conscious of the interaction between the two, his fingers twitched neurotically. He was now undergoing a fierce struggle with the murderous feelings in his heart.
Phoebe seemed to perceive the danger and suggested, "Orr, let's change to a single ward. With your status, you should have a private room, you don't have to squeeze in with others."
"…Okay." Orr took a few minutes to answer, still immersed in the shock of the world's approaching end.
Zhou Yun Sheng clenched his fists, his knuckles issuing a crisp cracking sound, saying in his heart: You want a private room? If I hadn't put you in a double room, you would've been killed hundreds of fucking times already. These two are hypocritical and murderous, treacherous creatures, keeping them by your side is like raising two vipers, sooner or later, they'll kill you. How the fuck did you manage to become a General when you can't even see through these obvious people?
He suddenly remembered, he once heard a soldier say that General Orr was a very charismatic person, although he looked cold on the surface, he had a very soft heart, and placed absolute trust in the people he cared about. This allowed him to obtain the loyalty of the soldiers' under his command, but it also attracted a group of schemers and pretenders.
If he could read people's hearts, this honest temperament would help him climb to a higher place, but if he lacked the ability to read people, this temperament could only give him a momentary boost, eventually, he would suddenly fall because of unknown reasons. Turns out, the so-called Empire's Future Star was such a dangerously, stupidly honest person. Zhou Yun Sheng had to admit that he felt very disappointed, but feeling so was useless, his lover's energy was already in the other man's brain, he had no choice but to accept reality.
The most important problem now was to stop Orr from dying an unnatural death, followed by observing his condition to find a way to awaken his lover, because of this, it would be more convenient living together. Regardless of which private room Orr switched to, Zhou Yun Sheng had ways to immediately change it into a double room, so he wasn't worried as he calmly watched the three people pack up.
Just then, the Old Marshal strode in.
Jeram, Orr, and Nan Qing immediately stood straight up and saluted one of the leaders of the Empire.
The Old Marshal waved at the three in passing and rushed to the bedside, bending over to ask, "Mr. Zhou, how was your rest?" His respectful and cautious attitude made Nan Qing and the others raise their eyebrows in surprise. They'd thought that the boy was only an insignificant nobody, but from the looks of it, their guesses were exactly the opposite of the truth.
"I'm hungry, let me eat first, we'll speak after." Zhou Yun Sheng rubbed his shriveled belly.
The Old Marshal was already long prepared, he promptly had an orderly push in the dining cart and pile the food up on the table.
Zhou Yun Sheng picked up a spoon and a bowl of congee, then thought, whatever the case, his husband was stored in Orr's body, he still had the responsibility to feed and take care of him, so he beckoned, "General Orr, come eat with me "
Orr was about to refuse when the Old Marshal laughed, "Come here Orr, Mr. Zhou is your biggest fan, he must have been looking forward to dinning with you. During your coma, he also asked me to take good care of you. You have to express your gratitude now that you're awake."
Orr quickly glanced at Nan Qing, his expression awkward, then he looked back at the boy, expressing his sincere thanks.
"You're welcome, come sit. You two also please sit." Zhou Yun Sheng patted the empty space at his side.
The group sat around the table to eat, during this time, Orr was silent, and Jeram was incessantly chatting with the Old Marshal, asking whether there were ways to fight back the Queen. Because their mobilizing a hacker was the Empire's highest-level military secret, the Old Marshal couldn't answer truthfully, only saying that they were still thinking of ways. Nan Qing was worthy of being an interstellar superstar, he had first level communication skills, so even though the Old Marshal was feeling extremely anxious, he still managed to make him chuckle a few times. Zhou Yun Sheng, who ignored everyone, including Orr, just buried himself in his bowl, his indifference completely unlike the behavior of a biggest fan. He was the biggest fan of his husband (Old Gong), he didn't have any relationship with Orr Assai.
Orr had also been worried about the boy clinging to him, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
The Old Marshal ate two bowls and put down his fork, anxiously staring at the boy.
"I'm done eating, let's go." Zhou Yun Sheng had no appetite, he put down his bowl and headed towards the studio. When the four Admirals and the Imperial Marshal were gathered, Zhou Yun Sheng took out a computer chip and handed it over, "Implant this virus containing chip into the Queen's terminal system, and she will completely collapse, the robot army she controls will also be paralyzed."
"It's that simple? Then shouldn't we implant it right away?" The Old Marshal gripped the table, fragmenting it, it was obvious that he was very excited.
Zhou Yun Sheng stressed "Listen well, this is the terminal system, not the Star Network system you can just log onto, meaning, your army has to first attack the Queen's nest, find her main processor, and insert this chip into her consciousness. Sure, it'll hurt her if we logged onto the Star Network and launched the virus there, but before the virus can break through the layers of defenses, the Queen will have enough time to analyze the code and restrain the virus. This virus I spent four months creating will be completely analyzed by her in less than four minutes, we need to insert it directly into the terminal in order for it to quickly take effect."
The Old Marshal recovered his calm and nodded, "I understand, just like the difference between injecting poisons directly into a person's body and sprinkling it on their skin."
"This is true." Zhou Yun Sheng pushed the chip to the center of the table, the light blue, flickering fluorescent bulb above really made it seem like some kind of highly toxic material.
One Admiral couldn't help but express his worry, "The Queen's engine room is surrounded by countless robot guards, it won't be easy to infiltrate. We need time to formulate a war plan, you know our situation, the mechs are currently unusable, our soldiers can only use their fleshly bodies to fight the robot army, when that time comes, the amount of casualties will be tragic!"
"I can master the Queen's source code, so I can naturally interfere with her computing. I'll remotely cut off her communication with the robot army, but I can only do it for half an hour, you have to make the most out of it. Speaking of which, since you know enough to start using the ancient cell phones, why not let the soldiers use the ancient manually controlled mecha?"
"Because the Empire only preserved a few hundred of these manual mechs, it's not enough to cover the whole army. We can't take them out until it's a critical moment."
"This is a critical moment. Pick out a group of your strongest soldiers and train them to operate the manual mecha as soon as possible, when that time comes, they'll act as the vanguard army. Give the chip to the strongest person in the vanguard and let him be responsible for implanting it. Remember, it must absolutely be inserted into the consciousness' main processor, it can't be any other processor. If the Queen gets enough time to crack the virus, it'll take me a few months, or maybe even a few years, to create another virus. Do you think humanity can afford to waste that much time?"
The men shook their heads, their expressions solemn.
Zhou Yun Sheng said with finality, "Good, you can go draw up a combat plan, and send me two MYS099 computers, remember, it has to be 099, other model numbers won't do. I also have to add a new condition to my contract, when you eliminate the Queen, you can't damage her database." He didn't want the different worlds created by the Queen to collapse when she disappeared. Perhaps it was meaningless, false illusions for others, but they were more precious to him than the real world. The creatures in the virtual world didn't know that they were just a bunch of data, they still struggled to live, so they also had the right to exist.
The Old Marshal also didn't want to destroy the Queen's database, which stored the wisdom of all the races in the universe, any loss of information might cause science and technology to regress. He submissively nodded, after the meeting was adjourned, a few subordinates couldn't help but think, why did this green-horn boy feel more in charge than their own Imperial Marshal? From beginning to end, he let him lead him along by the nose.