Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

Jiang Xu merely chuckled twice, without answering his question.

"Please take good care of them, father and son." This was Jiang Xu's only wish.

He knew that his transparency was different from that of the original Jiang Xu, and also different from the appearance of Jiang Mian when he was sent out of the Zerg.

Now it seems the worst has happened.

A scenario that he and Jiang Mian had anticipated but which was ruled out.

He is about to disappear.

"Yes, I will." Jiang Xu replied subconsciously. The transparent figures in front of him instantly scattered like stars in the night until they gradually disappeared.

He froze for a moment, then suddenly stood up, staring in shock at the few remaining specks of light.

It seemed as if the other person had been waiting to see him one last time.

The situation happened quickly, and his last memory was of the smile on the other person's lips.

The darkness before Jiang Xu's eyes suddenly changed; the black mist gradually disappeared, receding rapidly like a torrent.

He looked at the ground beneath his feet, which, like the surface of clear water, reflected a strange world.

Square, box-like things were running slowly along the road, while insects with black hair were walking busily along the roadside.

Black? Hair?

He stared at the world in astonishment, but before he could observe it closely, the world beneath his feet rapidly receded, and the city he had just seen vanished.

The scenery around him began to change gradually until it came to a standstill.

Jiang Xu, the original owner of the body, found himself in a black forest. He glanced around and found that the visible range was much farther than the black fog he had encountered before.

Looking around, he noticed that the trees were much, much taller than he had expected.

He frowned slightly and walked toward the direction of the faint lights. After a few steps, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

If the tree's height is acceptable, then there's a bench placed by the roadside for resting, and that bench is half his height.

This height is a bit unreasonable.

Jiang Xu realized something and suddenly looked down at his hands. His knuckles were chubby and lacked the skeletal structure of an adult, clearly the hands of a cub.

"??" He shrunk?

No wonder. He looked up and saw that it wasn't that the trees had grown taller, but that he had become shorter.

Where exactly is this place?

With a sense of doubt, Jiang Xu looked at the source of the light and quickly walked over.

The road ahead grew increasingly desolate, and the paved path beneath our feet had long since turned into mud.

"drop--"

A loud noise echoed through the valley. Jiang Xu paused for a moment, then quickened his pace.

"bump--"

He tripped over something he didn't recognize and fell heavily to the ground, his head hitting a nearby tree hard.

The dripping sound gradually faded away, and he sat there for a while before he managed to stand up again.

"What is that?" He looked down at the spot where he had just tripped, his pupils suddenly contracting.

It was the body of a tiny insect, and the light shining from the valley allowed him to clearly see the insect's facial features.

Jiang Xu frowned slightly, walked towards the insect cub, and gently patted its cheek: "Feed it."

Then, when his hand touched the other person, an icy chill crept up his palm and into his heart.

He reached out and slowly placed his hand under the insect's nose.

There was no breath left.

His eyes turned cold, and he stared at the insect cub for a long while before standing up again.

This little insect has been gone for a long time.

Just as he was wondering where he was, his body began to turn transparent and began to pour onto the insect cub like liquid.

In his astonishment, he suddenly sat up.

Jiang Xu was breathing heavily. He looked around, but there was no forest left. He was still in that pitch-black world.

There was nothing there.

He instinctively searched for Jiang Xu's figure, but there was nothing there. He was the only one left in this space.

Jiang Xu calmed down for a while, then wondered if he had fallen asleep.

What was that dream about?

Who is that little bug?

What about the human Jiang Xu?

Was the disappearance he witnessed earlier real, or was it just a dream, like what happened before?

His head is a bit big now.

Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information, Jiang Xu was completely lost.

Immediately afterwards, he felt his body sink again, and another darkness appeared before his eyes.

However, Jiang Xu looked up at his surroundings: a warm yellow bedside lamp, a quiet room, and tools scattered all over the floor.

And—the naked female insect kneeling before him.

He was startled and quickly turned around.

He remembered where he was—Green Grass Street, the room of the female insect.

How did he end up here?

"?" Jiang Xu was shocked to find that he could not move his body at all.

This body seems to have developed its own consciousness.

He seemed trapped inside this body.

Watching the kicked female insect kneel back down, his cold voice rang out: "Playing dumb, tell me, where is this place?"

Jiang Xu frowned slightly; he had no memory of this scene at all.

He soon realized that this memory did not belong to him, but to Jiang Xu, the human.

Could it be—

All of those were before?

Why reenact this scene with him?

The scene before him was still changing until he woke up the next day to find a naked female insect in his arms.

An inexplicable emotion spread through my heart.

It seems to belong to him, yet it doesn't.

"Knock—knock—knock—Young Master, are you awake?"

A knock on the door sounded in Jiang Xu's ear, followed by a sudden feeling of heaviness, and he sat up abruptly in bed.

His temples were damp with a thin layer of sweat, and he was breathing heavily, his breath coming in short gasps.

"What... what's wrong?" Jiang Xu's mind flashed back to the scene of falling asleep last night. Everything seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

He pressed his palm against his forehead, trying to shake off the discomfort in his heart.

"Knock-knock-knock-Young Master, are you up?" Another knock came at the door, and the butler's voice came from outside.

Jiang Xu sat on the bed for a few seconds, calming his discomfort, before turning to the door and asking, "What is it?"

"The old master requests your presence in the study."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Jiang Xu propped himself up on the edge of the bed and sat there for a while before getting up, changing his clothes, washing up, and going out to the study on the first floor.

"You're here?" Jiang Mian asked without looking up from behind his desk, still engrossed in his documents.

Jiang Xu suppressed his discomfort and walked to the desk: "Did Grandfather want to see me about something?"

"Hmm." Jiang Mian put down the documents in his hand, opened the drawer next to him, took out the butterfly jade pendant and threw it on the table: "Here, take this."

"???" Jiang Xu asked subconsciously, "Aren't you being a little too hasty, old man, to let me inherit the Jiang Group so soon?"

"Huh?" Jiang Mian suddenly looked up at Jiang Xu: "Xiao Xu?"

Jiang Xu was startled by his own words. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes before he reminded his grandfather, "Grandfather, I am Jiang Xu."

But what exactly is the Jiang Group?

Why would he say that word?