The next day, the tide turned dramatically on the StarNet.

A bombshell announcement suddenly broke, sweeping across the entire Zerg race and taking over the largest spot on the StarNet, successfully overshadowing Cheng Chu and Mikel and stealing the limelight.

Breaking news! The body of Paters, the biggest pirate leader, has been found at the entrance of the MK training base!

[Shocking! Patels' body dumped at MK training base, what's the truth?]

What was the cause of Paters' death?

[The great pirate Pattes is finally dead! What a relief!]

The truth of the matter is still under investigation, but that hasn't stopped netizens from cheering for it.

The images circulating on the StarNet were extremely gruesome. Pattes had a large, charred hole in his neck, and his head was almost completely separated from his body, with only a thin layer of skin connecting it. His face was swollen and bluish-black, and the wings on his back were bent and folded at an eerie angle.

The body appeared silently less than a kilometer from the entrance of the MK training base. The leader of the largest space pirate group, a major wanted criminal on the Empire's official wanted list, was dumped in such a gruesome state.

Cheng Chu saw the news two days later, on the evening of the same day.

Since that night in the study with Marshal Anaos, Mikel has explicitly forbidden Cheng Chu from looking at the StarNet in order to prevent male insects from seeing any inappropriate comments on the StarNet.

This time, Cheng Chu managed to sneak a peek at the personal terminal while Mikel was in the bathroom and hid under the covers to watch it.

Unexpectedly, he didn't find anyone criticizing Mikel; instead, he found mostly discussions about a female insect who had died a gruesome death.

Cheng Chu was so engrossed in reading the comments word by word that she didn't notice Mikel had already come out of the bathroom.

"My lord, aren't you feeling stuffy in bed?"

Mikel's voice suddenly rang out, and the blanket above his head was pulled off the next second.

Cheng Chu quickly shoved the screen in front of his chest, leaned forward, looked up at Mikel, and chuckled, "Haha... I'm not bored, honey, you're done washing."

Mikel, holding the blanket in his right hand, glanced down below his chest: "My lord, I see it. You don't need to hide it."

Cheng Chu propped herself up on the bed, somewhat embarrassed, and said, "I just... wanted to see..."

Mikel spread the blanket out on the bed, his tone calm, as if in casual conversation, "My lord, what did you see?"

Seeing that Mikel didn't seem angry, Cheng Chu was no longer uneasy. He tactfully moved to his sleeping spot and even helped Mikel tuck in the blanket.

"Honey, everyone on the StarNet is saying a female insect died. Who was that female insect? Why does everyone seem so happy about her death? Everyone seems to be cursing her, but not us."

"The lord must be referring to Paters; there's been a lot of news about him on the StarNet lately." Mikel got into bed, pulled the covers over himself, and leaned against the headboard.

Her long, golden hair flowed smoothly down her back, and she exuded a pleasant scent. Her pajamas were loose and comfortable, and her belly, which was a little over a month but less than two months along, was not yet noticeable.

Cheng Chu held up the screen and leaned closer to Mikel, pointing it out: "That's the name. What bad thing did he do?"

The internet is full of people saying he died a good death; he must have done too many bad things and was punished for it.

Some speculate that the pirate group had internal strife, and that Paters was stabbed in the back by his own brothers.

Mikel glanced at the screen, then at the male insect's gossipy expression. He chuckled, "Master, you're really curious, aren't you?"

"Hmm, tell me about it." Cheng Chu pulled him into her arms and said, "Wife, tell me quickly."

Halfway through the gossip, Cheng Chu felt so uncomfortable that he really wanted to know the whole story.

"Okay, okay~" Mikel found a comfortable position in the male insect's arms and said, "I'll talk, I'll talk."

He began to tell the male insect about Paters' incident: "Paters was the leader of the largest space pirate gang. The members of his gang were mostly female insects who were averse to males and harbored a great deal of malice towards them..."

They opposed the imperial system and loathed the existence of male insects. But no matter how much they disliked males, they could not deny that female insects could not do without the mental comfort of male insects.

Therefore, while Paters and his gang plundered resources from different places to sustain their own survival, they also kidnapped male insects from time to time, forcing the kidnapped male insects to comfort their mental seas.

As is well known, male insects that are forced to release their mental energy to appease female insects will experience a stress response and will not live long, and will easily die.

And so, the first batch of male insects that Pates captured soon died one after another. To the surprise of all the insects, the audacious Pates dared to commit another crime under the intense scrutiny of the military, kidnapping more than a dozen male insects.

Paters' move was a slap in the face to military forces around the world.

For several years, Paters and his pirate gang have repeatedly committed crimes across space. Their hideouts are never fixed; they constantly move between interstellar territories and possess extremely strong counter-surveillance awareness, making it very difficult for the military to track them down.

Cheng Chu twirled a strand of Mikel's blond hair between her fingers, asking in confusion, "If we can't find them, what about the rest of the way?"

Mikel continued, "Two years ago, the military dismantled that biggest space pirate group in one fell swoop..."

Mikel remembers that he and Aris both participated in that event.

He and Aris stumbled upon Pattes's hideout and immediately relayed the news back to the military.

However, Pattes was too cunning, hiding in a densely populated area. Even with the military's intervention, they were hampered by concerns for the innocent civilians in the surrounding area. They only managed to capture most of the female space pirates from the largest pirate group, allowing a small portion of the female space pirates and Pattes to escape.

For the next two years, Paters disappeared without a trace. However, the military never gave up on capturing him.

Until recently, around the time Cheng Chu had just transmigrated, the Empire had lost over a dozen male insects, leading the insects to suspect that Pattes had re-emerged.

At the time, Mikel and his team received a strict order to ensure the safety of the bound male insects at all costs.

As a result, although Mikel successfully rescued the bound male insect, he did not capture the group of space pirates, and therefore had no way of knowing whether they were Patesgan's.

No one expected that Paters would reappear two years later in such a way.

Hearing this, Cheng Chu paused, his hand moving slightly, a strand of blond hair slipping through his fingers. He remembered, "Was it the first time we met, the time you saved me?"

"Yes." Mikel nodded, smiling as he looked up at him. "My lord, you still remember?"

"Of course I remember." Cheng Chu recalled the past, her voice tinged with excitement: "You don't know, the first time I saw you, I felt like you were an angel!"

Mikel couldn't understand why the male insect would have such thoughts, and asked疑惑地问道:“Male Lord, why do you think I am an angel?”

"Um, because, because angels mean pure and beautiful, it means you are very good-looking, kind and virtuous." Cheng Chu racked his brains, trying to organize his words to make Mikel understand his meaning concisely and directly in the Zerg language, but he stumbled a bit as he spoke.

"At that time, I was dizzy and my whole body ached terribly. I thought I was going to die. But no, you suddenly descended from the sky to save me. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and a pair of big wings, just like the angel I had imagined..."

The more they talked, the further they strayed from the topic, and the brighter the light in Cheng Chu's eyes became.

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