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

"Okay, then, honey, you should go to bed early too."

"Hmm," Mikel replied with a smile from the other side.

Cheng Chu reluctantly said goodnight to Mikel, the video call was disconnected, and Mikel's figure disappeared completely from the screen.

Cheng Chu was still staring at the screen, grinning foolishly: "Hehehe... my wife is coming back tomorrow."

But as he was laughing, he suddenly thought about the time it would take to travel back to the Emperor from Planet AF9, and he couldn't laugh anymore.

"Sigh...it'll be so long..." Cheng Chu leaned back and fell onto the soft, empty bed. He stared silently at the ceiling, let out a long sigh, and finally closed his eyes.

Soon, a strong wave of drowsiness washed over Cheng Chu, and he lifted his heavy eyelids. He stretched out his long arm, scooped up Mikel's pillow, hugged it, turned over, and fell asleep on his side.

The smart system in the room flashed a green indicator light, detecting that the male insect on the bed had entered a sleep state, and then automatically turned off all the lights and drew the blackout curtains.

Cheng Chu slept soundly without any dreams, and woke up rather late the next day. It was already past the time he usually left for the Saintly Vine cultivation base when he came down from his bedroom upstairs.

0123 stepped forward and greeted him: "Your Excellency, good day."

Having just woken up, Cheng Chu walked towards the dining room with a blank expression and softly replied, "Mm."

0123 followed behind, asking with concern, "Your Majesty, you woke up an hour and twenty-six minutes later than yesterday. Are you feeling unwell?"

Cheng Chu stopped at the dining table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. He glanced at 0123 and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "No."

0123 said, "Okay."

Based on the test data, the male insect's physical condition was indeed within the healthy range. 0123 didn't ask any further questions.

It placed the prepared nutrient solution on the table in front of Cheng Chu and said, "Your Excellency, please have breakfast."

Because she didn't want to eat food with strange tastes processed by intelligent machines, Cheng Chu told 0123 yesterday in advance that she only needed to prepare nutritional liquid for breakfast today.

Nutrient solutions are both filling and convenient; they are indeed a good thing.

Cheng Chu, with the nutrient solution in his mouth, turned on his personal computer and opened his chat page with Mikel, wanting to see if there were any new messages from Mikel.

For some reason, the chat page was completely empty. Not only were there no new messages, but all previous messages were gone too.

Cheng Chu looked completely bewildered: "??"

What happened?

He turned to look at 0123 beside him and asked curiously, "0123, is my personal computer malfunctioning? Why is everything gone?"

0123 stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, please wait a moment while I check."

As he spoke, 0123's robotic arm took Cheng Chu's optical computer and started scanning to examine him.

In less than a minute, 0123 concluded: "Your Majesty, your personal computer is not malfunctioning; the signal source has been cut off. This is causing messages to fail to load and preventing the reception of external messages."

Although 0123 is just a smart home robot butler, it also knows that something is wrong.

Given the Zerg's current technology, the possibility of the signal source being cut off from the quantum computer is extremely low. Not to mention, this is the Nine Star Villa complex, which gathers the Zerg's top S-class males, making it even less likely that the signal source could be cut off.

Even if the connection was cut off for some unavoidable reason, the higher-ups would send someone to notify them. However, the reality is that it's almost noon now, and I still haven't received a notification.

Something big must have happened outside.

"Huh?" Upon hearing the reason, Cheng Chu looked anxious and asked, "Then... won't Mikel be worried if he can't find me?"

Cheng Chu wasn't originally a member of the Zerg, and he assumed this situation was similar to water, power, or internet outages on Earth, so he didn't think much of it. His first thought was of Mikel, afraid of missing any news from him.

Because the machines in the villa are separate systems, they can all function normally except for being unable to contact the outside world or receive external messages.

Therefore, 0123 did not initially discover the problem of the signal source being cut off in the villa complex.

After failing to contact the outside world and send messages to Mikel, 0123 quickly put the villa on high alert.

"Bip-Bip-"

The alarm in the villa suddenly went off, startling Cheng Chu.

He looked around sharply, following the direction of the alarm.

"0123, what happened?"

0123 first reassured the male insect, saying, "Your Excellency, it's alright, don't worry. 0123 has simply activated the security mode for this villa. From now on, only generals will be allowed to enter; no other insects will be able to come in."

Of course, "entering" here refers to entering peacefully. If someone wants to force their way in, it will inevitably require the use of force.

At that time, in order to ensure the safety of the male insect, 0123 will also activate its weapon defense.

"Your Majesty, the general can't reach you. He knows something's wrong and will come back for you." 0123's mechanical voice became serious, then continued, "Your Majesty, we don't know what the situation is outside yet. I'm sorry, you can't go out today."

The highest command in the 0123 system is to protect Cheng Chu's life at all costs, and to take precautions when danger is detected.

Therefore, without receiving further instructions from the general, 0123 directly rejected Cheng Chu's travel arrangements for today.

And until Admiral Mikel returned, 0123 would stay by Cheng Chu's side at all times until the alarm was lifted.

0123's tone was more serious and earnest than ever before, as if it were a completely different system. This made Cheng Chu feel a little nervous, but thinking that the progress on Shengxingteng was almost complete, he asked again, "0123, what do you think happened outside? Is it that serious?"

It's so bad that they're not even letting people go out.

0123 turned its mechanical head twice and said, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, 0123 doesn't know exactly what happened. But according to the programming, for your safety, you cannot go out."

Cheng Chu looked worriedly toward the door, his heart sinking. He asked 0123 somewhat blankly, as if he were asking Mikel, who was far away.

"Will Mikel be in danger outside?"

0123 said, "Your Excellency, don't worry about the General. He is the most capable general; he will be fine."

Cheng Chu didn't respond to 0123; his dark eyes were fixed on the doorway, eagerly anticipating the next moment when the blonde, blue-eyed female insect would push open the door and walk in.

Despite the fact that all the insects and society here were telling Cheng Chu that the female insects were strong and had super self-healing abilities, and that even if they were injured, it was nothing serious and their wounds would heal quickly without treatment.

However, Cheng Chu always believed that no matter how powerful Mikel was, he was still just a mortal. If he got injured, he would always feel pain.

Therefore, Cheng Chu was always worried that he would encounter danger, get hurt, or bleed.

Cheng Chu didn't want him to get hurt in the slightest, or to feel any pain.