I'm transported to the Zerg world, and my female Zerg wife loves me so much.

Mikel straightened up and stared intently at the male insect, while Cheng Chu, clutching his pillow, looked up with a puzzled expression.

"Wife?" The male insect's voice was hoarse, with a nasal tone from just waking up.

Mikel reached out and pinched the male insect's cheek, speaking softly as he earnestly apologized, "My lord, I'm sorry, I have to go to the military headquarters now."

Then he explained to the male insect, "I can't have breakfast with you today, but 0123 will prepare it for you. The aircraft that will take you to the base will be here soon; you can leave at your usual time. Elijah has arrived, and I have to go."

Mikel spoke quickly, and in just a few sentences, he had arranged everything for the male insect. Cheng Chu, still somewhat dazed, hadn't quite processed what was happening when he watched Mikel's figure disappear out the door, completely bewildered.

"Hey, honey..." Aren't you going to eat breakfast?

Cheng Chu reached out, belatedly trying to call out to him, but Mikel had already walked away, and Cheng Chu never finished speaking.

Watching Mikel's figure disappear from sight, Cheng Chu suddenly remembered the pregnant woman's leave consent form that he had signed on the study table last night. Mikel was in such a hurry, he wondered if he had remembered to bring it.

With her hair all messy, Cheng Chu got out of bed in a daze, shuffled to the study, and when she saw the paper forms on the desk, she instinctively turned around and chased after them.

When Cheng Chu came down to the hall, Mikel had already gone out. 0123 had just finished listening to Mikel's instructions and turned around to go back to the kitchen to inspect today's breakfast.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Cheng Chu coming down. 0123's mechanical voice greeted him: "Your Excellency, good day."

"Hmm." Cheng Chu gave a perfunctory reply and hurriedly tried to run towards the gate.

Just then, the sound of a spacecraft starting up came from outside. Cheng Chu ran to the door and only saw the silver-white spacecraft, which quickly sped away.

Holding the leave application form he'd missed, Cheng Chu stood at the door watching the aircraft disappear into the distance, muttering to himself, "Why was I in such a rush today? I forgot everything. Honestly."

Forget it, he can just deliver it to Mikel after he comes out of the Saint Vine Cultivation Base later. It shouldn't delay things.

As Cheng Chu walked back to his bedroom, he texted Mikel to tell him about the leave application.

But even after Cheng Chu returned to her bedroom, washed up, ate the somewhat strange-tasting food at the dining table, and slowly left, Mikel still hadn't replied with any message.

…………

Mikel was washing up in the bathroom when he received the urgent message from the Marshal. Therefore, Cheng Chu did not hear Mikel's increasingly serious expression as he answered the call.

Inside the aircraft, Elijah sat in the pilot's seat, his eyes fixed straight ahead. The scenery outside the porthole rushed past, leaving only blurry, indistinct afterimages.

Mikel sat upright in the back, expressionless, his left hand slowly turning the plain ring on the ring finger of his right hand.

The conversation with Marshal Anaos just now kept replaying in his mind.

"Mikel, news of Aris has arrived on planet AF9." Marshal Anaos's tone was devoid of any joy, clearly indicating that this was not good news.

Mikel's tone was hesitant yet hopeful: "Marshal, there's news about Aris... what does it mean?"

Wasn't Aris already sacrificed two years ago? The violent explosion obliterated his remains, leaving only wreckage for the warship he piloted.

Could it be?

Is Aris still alive?

Mikel looked at the female insect in the mirror and a glimmer of hope welled up in his heart. But before he could confirm the situation, the little flame of hope that had just appeared was extinguished by Marshal Anaos.

Marshal Anaos seemed to see the hope in Mikel's eyes. He sighed heavily, looked directly into Mikel's eyes, and had to remind him, "Mikel, don't have too high hopes."

Marshal Anaos also hoped this was news that Aris was still alive, but unfortunately it wasn't, and the possibility was slim.

Mikel immediately understood the meaning behind Marshal Anaos's words, and he quickly composed himself. He asked, "Marshal, what exactly happened? What news has AF9 received about Aris?"

Marshal Anaos said, "Mikel, a female soldier brought back a blue crystal armband representing the royal family from planet AF9 during a mission. After repeated confirmation in the palace, the blue crystal armband belongs to Aris."

The Blue Crystal Armband is a symbol of royal Zerg identity, crafted from the most indestructible and rarest blue crystal in the world. Blue crystal is born alongside the Sacred Vine, and with the recent decline of the Vine, it has become non-renewable. Every royal Zerg offspring is born with its own Blue Crystal Armband.

The royal insects will not easily discard their blue crystal armbands after birth, unless they die.

Two years ago, Aris died in an explosion; his body was gone, and no one remembered his blue crystal armband.

Given the hardness of the blue crystal arm ring, it shouldn't have been shattered.

However, planet AF9 is too far from the battlefield where Aris sacrificed himself, so how did the Blue Crystal Armlet appear there?

Mikel is more inclined to believe that Aris didn't die back then, but instead went to planet AF9 for some other reason and then accidentally lost it.

It was too early; only a few early-arriving female soldiers were at the military headquarters.

Mikel led Elijah to Marshal Anaos's office at a brisk pace.

In the Marshal's office at the military headquarters.

A blue crystal armband lay quietly on the desk. Marshal Anaos gestured for Mikel to sit down before slowly saying, "It was discovered by a newly promoted general under that old man Ralf. Asvida took a long leave of absence, and the investigation into Paters' case was handed over to him."

This newly promoted general had some private grudges against Asvida. He took over the mission that Asvida had not completed, so naturally he wanted to outdo him.

He forcefully overturned Asvida's investigative approach from the outset, starting with Paters. That's why he began investigating Paters' whereabouts. Little did he expect to discover the royal blue crystal armlet in the slums of planet AF9.

Mikel picked up the blue crystal armband on the table and examined its details carefully, while Anaos continued to speak in his ear.

"When they were investigating Paters' previous whereabouts, they found out that Paters had spent two months in a slum on planet AF9 about a year ago. The female military officer sent to investigate accidentally found this blue crystal armband in a dilapidated corner."

Paters last appeared at that event, and his next appearance was at the MK training base.

The blue crystal armlet was half-buried in the dirty, polluted soil, trampled countless times by passing insects. If it hadn't been for a sudden downpour that day, washing away most of the soil, the female soldier might not have even noticed it.