After half a minute, Kane finally woke from his trance and found a purple ring around his wrist, his finger joints were also throbbing. He quickly pulled himself into his mech using his other arm and shouted, "Orr's gone mad, chase after him!" His physical level and Orr's were the same, they should be evenly matched, but just now, he'd felt like he wasn't confronting a person, but an interstellar behemoth, the boundless power of this creature swept away his soul, engulfing it like a landslide, making him feel fearful to his bones.
"What happened!?" The Old Marshal's anxious voice came out from the communicator.
"Orr stole the chip! Fuck, I think he's a robot, the Queen sent a mole to infiltrate us!" Except for this, Kane couldn't think of a better explanation.
Zhou Yun Sheng had the com placed directly in his ear, he could carefully distinguish what happened on the other end. "You're wrong", just two words, so brief, but his heart trembled when he heard them. That cold tone and arrogant attitude brought him an unprecedented sense of familiarity. He could even picture the man's expression when he said them.
"Follow Orr, but don't stop him!" No one in the world knew the Queen as thoroughly as his lover, if he said that Kane was wrong, then his judgment must be correct.
"Have you gone mad too? If the chip gets implanted into the wrong computer, we'll not only be unable to eliminate the Queen, but we'll completely enrage her, she'll continue to build up her robot army and every creature in Asaph Galaxy will be destroyed. We'll never get another chance, we'll be annihilated!" The Old Marshal shouted, alarmed.
"I believe in Orr." Zhou Yun Sheng was unmoved, he lifted the wireless communication device to his mouth and asked, "My love, is that you?" Because he was too nervous, his voice cracked a little.
There was a burst of low, sensual laughter. The other side seemed to want to say something, but he was interrupted by Kane's roar, "Orr, my God! What the fuck are you doing?! You actually put the chip into a broken down SY03 computer!! We're done for, all our efforts were wasted!"
"What's going on?" The communication device was clenched in the Old Marshal's trembling hand.
But the other end had no response, only the intense sounds of collision coming in one after another, it seemed that Orr and Kane were fighting. But after only two minutes, there was a loud bang, and Kane's painful groan was heard.
"Marshal, this isn't good, General Orr punched through General Kane's mech, Kane's been seriously injured!" A soldier anxiously reported the situation.
"My love, are you hurt?" Zhou Yun Sheng called out towards the communication device. Hearing no response, he angrily slapped the outer shell of the machine, like he held some deep seated hatred for it.
Look at what time it is, and you're still worried about Orr being injured? Mad, these two are mad! The Old Marshal grieved.
"Reporting in Marshal, Orr fainted, but he's uninjured, we're checking his body to confirm whether or not he's an android….Good, the check's complete, General Orr is human." The soldier didn't spout any nonsense talk.
"Retreat, retreat, hurry up and retreat, be sure to bring that bastard Orr back! I want him tried in military court!" The Old Marshal raged, almost irrational.
When Zhou Yun Sheng heard that his lover had fainted, he also lost his strength to stand up, and sat paralyzed on the ground. At this time, the yellow light on the communicator began to flicker, the army had only ten minutes left to evacuate. Two soldiers picked up Kane and Orr and quickly boarded their mechs, they flicked on their jet packs, hurriedly retreating. They stared down at the ground as they flew over the motionless robot army, knowing that in less than ten minutes, humanity would be launched into an even more tragic war under the Queen's furious orders. They didn't dare think about that dark, desperate future.
Ten minutes was not enough time for the whole army to safely withdraw from the robotic army's encirclement, seeing the flashing yellow light stop and turn red, the soldiers clenched their teeth, bracing themselves for a fight. But then a miracle happened, the robot army still stood in place, there was no sign of them waking up.
The soldiers weaved between them, on edge, not daring to stop and look over the situation. But there were a few that found the situation suspicious, and raised the butt of their guns to smack the nearest robot, there was a muffled bang, but nothing happened.
"They seem to be paralyzed! Is the mission complete or not?" Someone questioned.
"Don't dawdle, we'll think about that after we evacuate!" The leader of the soldiers urgently shouted.
Hearts full of doubts, the troops gradually evacuated. Except for the vicious attack they underwent when they first entered the Queen's territory, the army didn't suffer any more casualties. However, the situation within the base was exactly the opposite of the army, in order to escape the magnetic field made by Zhou Yun Sheng, the Queen furiously swallowed many souls, which indirectly led to a large number of coma deaths. This situation was long expected, but in order to save humanity, they had no other choice.
The Marshal and the crowd of high ranking officers were sitting in the conference hall, waiting for the robot army to wake up. Zhou Yun Sheng was holding his laptop, half reclining on the unconscious Orr laying in his hospital bed, quickly logging into the Star Network to look over the Queen's control region.
He didn't meet much obstacles, only running into a few layers of easy to break firewalls, and successfully managed to take control over all of the Star Network's permissions. There was no doubt, this meant that the Queen had disappeared, she was imprisoned in the humble computer she'd transferred to in that split second. If his lover hadn't woken up and stopped them, the virus implanted into her main processor wouldn't have had any effect, instead, it would've been quickly cracked by her consciousness, and ultimately, the mission would've been a failure. After that, Asaph Galaxy would've been caught up in a boundless war.
He wasn't afraid of a war, but he hated having his quiet life disturbed, especially after reuniting with his lover. Imagining their sweet future life, he dipped his head, and gave his lover a delighted kiss on his forehead.
"What are you doing?" Nan Qing stood in the doorway with an indignant expression of catching a scene of adultery. Jeram grabbed his wrist and softy mollified him.
"I'm kissing my lover, is that any of your business?" Zhou Yun Sheng raised his jaw, his tone arrogant.
"When did Orr become your lover? If it wasn't for your reckless order, he wouldn't have injured my brother, and put the chip into the wrong computer. Now, the Marshal's going to try him in military court, this is your fault! You should be the one in jail!" Nan Qing struggled against Jeram's hold, he seemed to want to rush over and tear the boy to shreds. Kane Celayan was his older brother, and he was now seriously injured and unconscious. He'd rushed over to demand answers, but forgot everything after seeing the boy's ambiguous actions.
Jeram pretended to be earnestly holding him back, and was about to let go when the Marshal and the Admirals rushed in.
"Mr. Zhou, the robot army seems to be paralyzed. Do you have a way to check out what's going on with the Queen?" The Marshal asked anxiously, his heart carrying a secret hope.
"The Queen's already gone, I now have all of her authority." Zhou Yun Sheng flipped his computer around, showing them the Queen's control back-end, delivering them earth-shattering news with a breezy tone and a bored expression.
The Marshal clutched his chest, like he'd have a heart attack at any moment, he looked as if he wanted to smile, but when he pulled up the corners of his mouth, he suddenly burst into tears, his expression distorted.
"Really? The Queen's really gone? You didn't make a mistake?" He asked, not daring to believe.
The Admirals crowded together, eyes glued to the computer screen. Jeram, still holding onto Nan Qing, discreetly left the ward. They didn't dare act presumptuous in front of these big wigs, so they ran away with their tails between their legs.
"If you don't believe me, just wait until tomorrow morning." Zhou Yun Sheng turned his computer back around and continued writing his program. Noticing the officers staring at him with alarmed eyes, he smirked, "Don't worry, I'm not the Queen, and I have no hatred for humanity. But if you're suspicious of me, you can send me some experts, and we'll split the control backend into a few sections, and set up an AI administrator for each block, so there's mutual control."
"You want to create AI administrators? Was one Queen not enough!?" The Marshal shouted, horrified.
Zhou Yun Sheng chuckled and patiently explained, "The reason why the Queen possessed wisdom and emotions is because Dr. Wilson gave her an advanced self-improvement function. Meaning, she could continually evolve by herself, to become infinitely closer to her creator. You can avoid this situation by changing the automatic upgrade function to a manual upgrade function. And of course, you have to make sure the person overseeing the Star Network's upgrades is a pacifist, or this tragedy will most likely repeat itself. You should know, human nature is the most complex and dangerous thing in the world, it's more difficult to predict than AI."
The Old Marshal nodded in understanding, his ecstatic mood overcome by dismay at the boy's words.