Zerg: I ​​was picked up by the cold and beautiful Major General at the start of the game.

Garrett the Red-haired Bug stepped out of the room, the feigned anger on his face vanishing instantly.

He walked straight to his lounge, pushed open the door, and found a female insect already sitting inside.

The two insects' eyes met briefly in mid-air.

The female insect in the room broke the silence first: "Did the male agree?"

Garrett slammed the door shut behind him, a smug look on his face:

"Of course, with my second-in-command personally handling things, what can't be resolved?" He said, walking over and sitting down opposite him. "But what about you? What are you doing here?"

"Your door was open, so I came in to wait for you," the female insect replied casually.

"Nonsense!" Garrett didn't believe it at all.

"Are you really that comfortable letting your older brother be alone with him?" The female insect on the other end changed the subject.

"What can he do?" Garrett said dismissively, then suddenly narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the other man.

"Wait... what's wrong with you today? You were the one who came up with this idea in the first place, and now look what's happened. I'm running around like crazy while you're sitting here leisurely, asking about everything but not caring about anything."

Garrett grew increasingly angry as he spoke, and his pent-up frustrations poured out:

"Then tell me, what can we do now? Big Brother's mental energy is about to collapse! Besides taking a gamble and trying to find a higher-level male insect, is there any other way?"

Garrett glared fiercely at the insect opposite him; he had disliked the guy for a long time.

Ever since the eldest brother got into trouble, this guy has pushed all the responsibility onto him and washed his hands of it.

He always has a long face, like everyone owes him a dollar.

Despite Garrett's rage, the female insect on the other side remained calm and composed.

This appearance only added fuel to the fire.

Garrett was so angry that he grabbed the water glass on the table and gulped down a large mouthful.

The female insect opposite him watched his movements silently, her gaze lingering for a moment on the rim of the cup he had just touched.

—He just used that cup.

He silently took out another cup, poured himself some water, and took a small sip.

"I used to think that the eldest brother would always be at the forefront, showing us how to walk the path."

He stared at the water glass, his voice low, "But now... I suddenly realize, the boss..."

"Don't know how to get there?" Red-haired Worm sneered.

"If you don't know, just follow me. The second brother is still here. What right do you, the third brother, have to think such nonsense?" Garrett's tone was as arrogant as ever, but his eyes were unusually sharp.

The insect opposite him stared at him silently without saying a word.

"What, you think I'm unreliable?" Garrett raised an eyebrow. "Then why don't you just bring me back on track?"

"I'll pave the way forward, and if things get out of hand, you pull me back. It's that simple," said the red-haired worm.

He tilted his head back and drank the water in his glass in one gulp, then continued:

"Besides, has anyone actually walked the path to the world we want?"

"Nobody has experience. You clever worms who like to take roundabout ways might not be as fast as me taking the straight path."

"Moreover," he added, his tone becoming more assertive, "hereafter."

"There's still a good chance the boss will wake up. This male insect is A-grade, and there are only a handful of A-grades in the entire empire. Why give up now? If you have nothing better to do, go train."

"...However," he suddenly remembered something, leaned closer, and asked in a low voice,

"How did you manage to kidnap a high-level male insect from the capital planet without leaving a trace?"

The insect opposite him glanced at him and said, "This was prepared for you by the boss."

"For me?" Garrett was stunned.

"Yes, the boss was afraid that you would use your mental sea recklessly and kill yourself, and he was also afraid that he might be held up by something and not have time to catch up, so he told me."

He paused, his voice low: "I never imagined it would end up being used on himself."

Garrett was speechless for a moment, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

The boss has been incredibly good to them, even planning out their future.

He chugdled another glass of water, trying to mask his turbulent emotions, then slumped into the sofa and waved his hand dismissively, saying:

"Alright, alright, I'm tired of playing the role of you scheming bastards. Let me rest for a bit."

The insect opposite remained silent, quietly drinking water sip by sip.

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Hawke stood in front of the holographic star map, which was covered with countless shimmering points of light and crisscrossing flight paths.

"Report!" a female technical officer reported loudly, "The third round of wide-area scanning is complete, covering the K-7 to M-12 sector area. No signals matching the target ship's energy characteristics were detected."

"Continue." Hawke's voice was hoarse, carrying a barely suppressed anxiety.

"Expand the scanning range and focus on investigating all recent unreported transition signal sources. No minute spatial fluctuation should be overlooked!"

"yes!"

Another subordinate then reported:

"Sir, we have reviewed the records of all ships that have been active in the outer perimeter of the capital star in the past three months, and those with prior offenses or unclear backgrounds."

"The number is huge. We have initially identified seventeen targets that require further verification and are conducting in-depth signal comparisons and flight path tracing on each of them."

Hawke: "Speed ​​up!"

"yes!"

"Hawk," Akto's voice came through the communication channel, with the hum of another ship's engines in the background.

"I have arrived at the supply transit station on the outer edge of the 'Reef' star system. This place is a mixed bag, a frequent haunt of intelligence brokers and smugglers. I am trying to contact the local intelligence network to see if there are any rumors of unfamiliar advanced male insects being transferred."

"Okay, thank you, Acto," Hawke said.

"Of course," Akto said dismissively, "finding Your Excellency is the priority."

"Um."

Hawke then turned to his subordinates.

"We can't just rely on screening records; we need to initiate active detection, sending neutrino probes into all suspicious airspace to look for hidden gravitational field anomalies or stealth force field perturbations!"

"Understood! The active detection array has begun charging."

He took a deep breath and gave the order to the entire command center:

"Listen up, all of you! Use every means you can think of, mobilize every available resource! Every second we buy, the greater the chance of Lord Lin Luo's safety!"

"Yes, sir!" the female soldiers responded in unison, the atmosphere becoming extremely tense.

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Ayland Residence - Living Room

Theodore kept refreshing the screen, scratching his head in frustration. His usually languid and carefree face was now filled with anxiety: "Why isn't there any news at all! Voske, what about you?"

Vosk had just finished a communication, his brow furrowed: "We've activated all available commercial channels and intelligence networks, and issued bounties, but so far... we haven't found any valuable leads."

He walked over to Theodore and handed him a glass of warm juice, his voice steady but unable to hide his worry, "My lord, please don't be too anxious. The military and the patrol teams are searching with all their might."

"How can I not be anxious!" Theodore took the cup but didn't drink it. "That guy Lin Luo seems easy to talk to, but he's very stubborn at heart. If you cross his bottom line, he'll go head-to-head with you..." He didn't dare to continue.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he stood up abruptly: "No, we can't just wait around!" He quickly opened his StarNet account and started operating it at lightning speed.

"My lord, what is this?"

"Post a missing insect notice!" Theodore said without looking up. "Every insect on the StarNet knows I'm his friend, and I'm a B-grade male insect. I refuse to believe that with so many insects on the StarNet, there wouldn't be a single clue!"

Theodore's missing insect notice was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up towering waves.