After Carol was certain that the Zerg in the office was truly dead, he ran into the office despite the soldiers' dissuasion. He completely immersed himself in crazily searching through Inez's and the Zerg's body.

As soon as Ye Zhizhou turned around, he saw this kind of scene on the monitoring screen. His stomach suddenly felt even more uncomfortable and he hurriedly rushed over to Carol, pulling Clay with him.

"It's within the brain." He held his nausea back as he stepped into the office. He coalesced his spiritual power into a knife and hovered it over to Inez's corpse. Then, he cut into the brain and dug out an eyeball-sized red piece of flesh. "The optical computer should be inside it, but don't touch it!"

He transformed the small knife into a net to hold the ball of flesh. He shook his head towards the eager-looking Carol. "I can't give it to you at the moment. We need to wait for the military department to check if this optical computer is harmless or not."

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Carol's fervor slightly cooled off. He carefully looked at the ball of flesh, clenched his fists, and then turned his eyes away. "After it's been confirmed... Please let my grandaunt properly pass away." He couldn't just think of it as a cold, polished optical computer and cloned brain... This was the only thing he could find of his grandaunt.

"Don't worry." Ye Zhizhou placed the ball of flesh into the quarantine box that Big Beard brought over, and then made a bitter expression towards the spiritual power net that he made. Although spiritual power didn't actually get dirty, it was just... he couldn't ignore his heart's concerns. He was disgusted by it. He didn't want it. He really didn't want to let go of this net and let the spiritual power return to his spiritual sea... He felt like the spiritual power had the smell of a corpse on it.

"Come on, let's go." Clay took a few steps forward and grabbed the small net before leading Ye Zhizhou out. "The military department has begun to distribute the antidotes on a large scale. Let's go see the results. After today, we can't conceal the news of the Zerg parasitism. We need to find a way to stabilize the situation and to also prevent the people who know the truth from panicking too much."

Ye Zhizhou nodded. He hesitant glanced at Clay's hand and asked in a quiet voice, "You're not disgusted with it?"

Clay lowered his head and played with the small net in his hands. He smiled. "I'm not disgusted by it. I like your aura."

Ye Zhizhou suddenly felt a little shy. He hurriedly materialized some spiritual power and wrapped the net. Then, he condensed the net into a fat butterfly and looked away as he said, "If you like it, take it with you. It's good for your spiritual power. This one is richer in spiritual power compared to the butterfly last time. It can stay with you for longer."

The newly formed butterfly stupidly flapped it's fat wings, obediently flying up and landing on Clay's shoulder. It affectionately rubbed against Clay.

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Spiritual power can directly reflect a person's emotions, even more so for materialized spiritual power. Ye Zhizhou blushed again and wanted to control the butterfly to be a bit more well-behaved, but he was pulled by Clay. "What do you want to eat for lunch?"

This topic change wasn't subtle at all, and right now, he didn't want to eat anything. Ye Zhizhou silently looked at Clay; Clay remained unmoved and looked back at him with a straight face. A few seconds later, Ye Zhizhou backed down first and made a compromise. He took his eyes off the stupid-looking butterfly, followed Clay's lead in changing the topic and replied, "Let's eat porridge, it's good for the stomach."

Clay couldn't resist lifting his hand and pinching his face. Ye Zhizhou looked at him with eyes similar to a dead fish.

The butterfly parked on Clay's shoulder suddenly flapped its wings and gave Clay a soft slap on his neck; it seemed to be angry. Clay couldn't hold back from chuckling again. Ye Zhizhou became even angrier and directly ignored him.

They returned to the military department and Clay still had matters to handle, so he had to leave. Ye Zhizhou stayed in the office alone. After mentally preparing himself, he opened the new plot information and read through it carefully.

This time, the protagonist was someone named Randy Jeckles, an omega pretending to be a beta and a Federation police officer. While on vacation, this police officer happened to meet Egbert and found out the identity of this head of the intersellar pirates. They then recklessly decided to tail Egbert and arrest them alone. Egbert, this slick person, naturally saw through Randy's disguise and tailing. As Egbert was bored, they became interested in Randy. They locked onto this little police officer and deliberately approached them to flirt; Randy was startled at first but then became ecstatic. In that way, the two people who both had ulterior motives happily talked, they even agreed to travel together after finding each other's destination was the same.

And then there the injury, the estrus, and Audrey breaking in... Oh wait, it was Egbert's old rival, Dan Gotte who broke in... Then, the two criminal bosses fell in love with the protagonist, but the protagonist wouldn't agree to it even if they were beaten to death. They believed that as a born Federation person, they would die as a Federation ghost; both mind and body should be dedicated to the Federation! Egbert and Dan were furious and unexpectedly teamed up to attack the Federation at the same time that the Zergs also happened to attack the Federation. Thus, under the attack of the Zergs and two pirate bosses, the Federation was quickly destroyed.

Ye Zhizou: "...."

The protagonist was deeply grieved by the collapse of the Federation and thus hated Egbert and Dan. They stealthily escaped to the Empire to seek refuge and revenge. Egbert and Dan were both alarmed and extremely angry and started to have ideas about attacking the Empire. It was also coincidentally at the same time that the second wave of Zergs appeared...

Coincidence your sister!

He angrily turned off the plot information while cursing wildly in his heart. So, what exactly was going on with this protagonist? Why didn't they die? How could they have directly jumped from the Federation to the Empire? How could they play the game of 'the pirate boss fell in love with me' with Egbert? It couldn't be that these Zergs knew the Shadow Possession technique... Wait, the Shadow Possession techinique?!

"Get out of the way! A brat under the age of 20 actually fooled the entire military department to run around in circles! The eldest highness' mind has become muddled! Your guys' brains have also become muddled! Required to take medicine. Take what medicine?! My body is perfectly fine!"

"Grandpa, calm down. Pansy isn't a bad guy."

"Chigita, stop pulling me. Anuot, pull your brother away!"

"Brenda, what are you doing?! This is the military department, not the military academy where you can do as you please!"

"Bell, you royal family dog!" To live to your old age and yet still listen to a brat's words, are you not ashamed?!"

The spiritual power that had poured out due to Ye Zhizhou's emotional turmoil over the plot allowed him to clearly hear the conversation outside in the corridor. He frowned, got up, and opened the door to walk out. He saw that the twins, who were supposed to be at school, were pulling at an angry old man and trying to persuade him. Standing opposite of them was an equally angry Professor Bell.

"What's going on?" Ye Zhizhou went up to say hello to the twins and stood next to Bell, looking at Brenda. "Master, are you misunderstanding something about me?"

"Misunderstanding?" Brenda brushed off the twins' hands, threw the pills onto the ground, and angrily glared at Ye Zhizhou as he said, "You're the one who fooled the eldest highness into making everyone take this unknown pill? I think that you're a Zerg spy! Say it! What's your purpose in getting close to and misleading the eldest highness?"

"Brenda, that's enough!" Bell angrily rebuked him, "Do you want to maintain the appearance of a worthy teacher at all? Pansy is also a student from your mecha manufacturing department. How could you say such excessive things about him?!"

"I'm being excessive?" Brenda stepped forward and said even louder, "Am I excessive or are you guys too stupid? You told me that there were Zerg parasites; okay, I believe it! But look at the guy who discovered the Zerg parasites. He's not even 20 years old. He's just a freshman military academy student. He had problems with both of his roommates. In less than two months, my two grandchildren, the second prince, Dale, and the eldest highness all began to unconditionally trust him and listen to him! Not only that, but look at his qualifications. When he first entered the academy to test his aptitude, he couldn't even maintain an A-rank spiritual power. Now, it's already become SSS-rank! Don't you think it's suspicious?!"

The twins heard Brenda's words and stopped their actions of trying to hold him back. After carefully thinking about what Brenda said, they both looked at Ye Zhizhou and said, "If you look at it like that, you're really awesome Pansy."

"Awesome my ass!" Brenda couldn't help swearing. He turned to push his two grandsons aside and continued to rage, "And the publicized information about the Zerg parasitism characteristics—aptitude skyrocketing and only beta or omega genders could be parasitized. You guys look at him! He meets all the requirements!"

"You're making fallacious arguments! Trying to use what Pansy discovered to question him, aren't you ashamed?!" Brenda's voice was loud, but Bell's voice was even louder. "Pansy was the first one to take the pills when they were made! And the problem with his roommate, if Pansy hadn't discovered his roommate's abnormality, the entire Empire would've suffered a calamity! The situation isn't good right now, but you still have the mind to be suspicious of a student. Do you still have a brain?!"

"It's because of my brain that I'm suspicious!" Brenda took another step forward, and due to his highly emotional state, his spiritual power began to wildly pour out. It gradually spread throughout the corridor. "If everyone was as naive as you guys, who knows how many times the Empire would've been destroyed already?! And you, Pansy Chezeldan, don't think you can confuse Eldest Highness forever! Sooner or later, I... Ah!"

Ye Zhizhou materialized nets from his condensed spiritual power and wrapped it around several people individually. Then, when Brenda turned his head to talk to him, he quickly threw several pills into his mouth and pulled Professor Bell back. He said in a deep voice, "Gather up your spiritual power, he has the intent to attack!"

Chigita was shocked and hurried forward to help support the Brenda that had collapsed on the ground. He looked at Ye Zhizhou both frightened and angry. "Pansy, what did you feed my grandfather?!"

"A variety of antidote pills." When Brenda got closer as he spoke and released his spiritual power to encompass the corridor during his emotional state, Ye Zhizhou suddenly recalled a detail. In the original plot information, Brenda was the one who helped the protagonist refine the mecha's design, but his perfect mecha design had a problem. It was a very basic mistake that caused a large number of mechas to stop working. A mecha master couldn't make this kind of common-knowledge mistake. The explanation in the original plot information said it was due to Master Brenda being devastated by his grandsons' death, so he absent-mindedly made the basic mistake in the design. Now that Ye Zhizhou thought about it, the Brenda in the original plot was very suspicious, and in the end, he took the blame before committing suicide.

Why did the Empire hand over such an important task of improving the mecha designs to a mentally unstable mecha master? Although there weren't many mecha masters, they weren't that rare that Brenda was the only option. Furthermore, why wasn't the mecha design checked by other mecha masters after it was completed? There were too many questions. In this short amount of time, he could only think of one possibility—Brenda had done it on purpose and then erased any opportunity for other mecha masters to discover problems in the design.

After Brenda fell to the ground, his spiritual power that was encompassing the corridor suddenly violently surged and started to indiscriminately attack people. Anuot quickly sent out his spiritual power to surround Chigita. After a gnawing sound that made one's teeth ache, a small black insect-looking thing drilled out of Brenda's scalp while holding a ball of flesh.

"What is this?!" Chigita was frightened to the point of being unable to speak.

Bell was also startled. "What's going on?! Brenda is an alpha, how could he be parasitized?"

"He's not parasitized." Ye Zhizhou quickly materialized his spiritual power into a cage to trap the small black insect. He shook his head with a solemn expression. "He was probably implanted with an optical computer. This black insect isn't a Zerg. It doesn't have the aura of a living creature."

Bell heard his words and closely inspected the insect. Sure enough, Bell found traces of metal on its joints.

The spiritual power in the corridor suddenly stopped after violently surging once more. Brenda, who had collapsed on the ground, opened his eyes and extended his hand to Chigita with difficulty. "Chigita... Help me..."

Chigita rushed over to hold his hand. He wanted to help and try to stop the bleeding but was afraid of hurting him. He was so anxious that the rims of his eyes became red. "Granda, hold on. The medical team will be here soon. Just hold on."

With a calm expression, Anuot knelt next to Brenda and took out a first-aid kit from his space ring.

Ye Zhizhou scattered the spiritual power nets surrounding the several people, looking up at the corridor's camera, and slightly frowned. There was such a huge commotion here so why hasn't anyone come at all? Unless in the monitoring room... He quickly lowered his head to send Clay a message.

Two minutes later, Clay rushed over, followed the medical team members. "What happened?" He first checked whether Ye Zhizhou was injured before looking at the trapped insect on the ground. With a grave expression, he asked, "A new type of parasite?"

"No." Ye Zhizhou gave a brief account of the situation and then said, "Master Brenda has the habit of traveling outside of the Empire for periodic study trips. We don't know on which trip did he gain the Zerg's attention."

"It's all my fault." Chigita suddenly spoke up and buried his face in his hands. "If I hadn't been negligent, I wouldn't have let Grandpa..."

Anuot wrapped his arm around Chigita's shoulder and silently comforted him.

Dale arrived a bit later, followed by Big Beard with a strip of gauze on his forehead.

"Fuck! There were actually traitors in my territory, and they even dared to attack me. Don't let me meet him again!" Big Beard cursed as he walked; he was so angry. "Those bastards! Wasting all those years of military resources!"

"They're not traitors, it's a new type of optical computer." Clay briefly explained and then looked at Dale. "How's the situation?"

"There were several disturbances in a few areas of the military department as well." Dale quickly said with a grave expression, "The most critical situation is the parasitization of the officers' family members, followed by the military academy. The Federation's situation is slightly better than ours, but it's still much worse than we expected."

Ye Zhizhou's communicator suddenly rang. The special ringtone stunned him for a bit before he quickly connected the call. He adjusted his mood and smiled at the call screen that popped up. "Brother, why did you suddenly call me? How has your body been... Who are you?!"

"Pansy Chezeldan?" A tall red-haired and red-eyed man sat on a gorgeous high-back chair, maliciously smiling. "It was you who hurt our noble Lord Zerg? Pansy, your brother is here as my guest. If you want him back, you can exchange the two useless Empire princes for him."

The call screen disappeared with a click.

The smile on Ye Zhizhou's face disappeared. A red-haired and red-eyed man... Dan Gotte. He lowered his head, tightly gripped the communicator, and gritted his teeth in rage. "He actually dared to lay his hands on an innocent omega..." The original owner's feelings and memories wildly surged in his head. He was unable to control himself as the rim of his eyes became red. Aldo's sickly appearance as he lay in bed flashed through his mind. He was so angry that his spiritual power became uncontrollable and restless.

"Xiao Zhou." Clay pressed down on his hands and pulled Ye Zhizhou into his embrace. "Don't worry, I'll save your brother."

Ye Zhizhou tightly pulled at Clay's shirt and took a deep breath to press down the original owner's emotions and memories. His eyes held a trace of killing intent for a moment. Those dirty insects and those despicable people who colluded with them—all of them deserved to die!

A few hours later, the original owner's hometown sent over the news that Aldo was indeed missing. His parents were found seriously injured and unconscious in Aldo's room.

Ye Zhizhou anxiously paced around the office. "Dan Gotte should still be near my house. For my parents, I have medicine that can save them. Let me go back. I promise that I won't be in any danger!"

Ned stood guard at the door and remained unmoved. "Imperial Consort, your identity has been exposed. The Zergs have placed all their hatred on you for making their plan fail. It's not suitable for you to go out for the time being. The rescue plan for your brother is being carried out. Your parents have also been properly taken care of and have survived the dangerous period. Please don't be impatient."

The original owner's memories were completely out of control. Ye Zhizhou clutched at his hair and then suddenly thought of Dan Gotte's sworn enemy, Egbert. He quickly returned to the sofa, sat down, and closed his eyes to open the system. Using Tongtian as his cover, he used his spiritual power to enter the network and frantically searched through it.

15 minutes later, he withdrew his spiritual power from the network with a pale face. He entered a number into his communicator and sent a message.

The office room's door was suddenly pushed open. Clay strode in with a dark expression, grabbed Ye Zhizhou's shoulder, and asked him with a heavy tone, "Just now, the monitoring room detected a fluctuation of spiritual power in the network. What have you done to yourself?!"

When the communicator rang out, he smiled at Clay and accepted the call. "Obviously, it was to find allies so I could send Dan Gotte a big present."