Elijah glanced at Cheng Chu, pursed his lips, and suddenly said, "General, I have another discovery, concerning that mute male insect..."

Mikel frowned slightly, looked up at Elijah and said, "Just say what you want to say. Why are you beating around the bush?"

Cheng Chu seemed curious about who the mute male insect Elijah was talking about was, and he looked up at him from the screen.

Under the intense gazes of the two men, Elijah forced himself to step forward and said, "Yes, yes, General, please give me the screen first."

Mikel did as he was told and handed over the screen. Elijah took the screen and quickly began to operate it.

"General, please take a look at this video." Elijah quickly found a video and handed the screen over again. He explained, "This video was leaked from a local dark web site; I saw it by chance."

The video still shows the same small building that exploded, but it's different from the video Marshal Anas showed Mikel before.

In the video provided by Marshal Anaos, the main focus is on the exploded building, and the white-haired female insect trying to rush in from the corner was captured unintentionally.

In this video, it's clear that the person who filmed it initially intended to film the white-haired female insect.

The contents were almost identical to what Mikel had seen before: the white-haired female insect was frantically trying to rush into the small building engulfed in flames, while the other three female insects desperately held him back.

At the end of the video, the screen started shaking intermittently, and a suppressed laugh could be faintly heard.

It's hard to say whether the person filming this video lacked skill or if the circumstances simply didn't allow it. The filming angle was very tricky; while clearly capturing the faces of the three female insects blocking the way, it failed to capture the white-haired female insect's face at all.

Mikel felt a strange sense of disappointment. The white-haired female insect in the video was clearly not wearing a mask, yet her face wasn't shown. After a moment's thought, he asked, "What does this have to do with the male insect?"

Cheng Chu also asked, "Yes, there are no male insects inside. They all have insect patterns on their necks, so they should be female insects."

The Zerg are divided into females and males. Without the markings on the neck of a female, it is impossible to distinguish them by appearance alone.

Therefore, when Cheng Chu first looks at an insect, he subconsciously checks its neck for insect markings to determine its gender.

"Wait a minute." Mikel suddenly raised his hand and said, looking thoughtfully at the male insect sitting next to him, then looking down and dragging the paused video progress on the screen forward a bit.

Cheng Chu was stunned by Mikel's gaze and asked, "Queen, what's wrong?"

Elijah, however, assumed that Mikel had also noticed the suspicious detail, and he exclaimed excitedly, "General, did you notice it too?"

Not content with just words, Elijah leaned closer, zooming in on the video by tracing its progress bar. He gestured for Mikel and Cheng Chu to look, explaining, "Look here. Before the building exploded, that mute male insect was standing by the second-floor window."

Mikel and Cheng Chu followed Elijah's zoomed-in gaze and indeed saw a figure standing upright by the second-floor window. In the light from the explosion, they could vaguely make out that his expression seemed to be smiling, a carefree smile that seemed extremely eerie in the midst of the explosion.

In addition, in the firelight, his smooth neck also revealed that he was indeed a male insect.

Elijah became more and more excited as he spoke, pointing to the screen and explaining his doubts: "Then, General, look here, right at the moment of the second explosion in the small building, that male insect suddenly disappeared."

"According to inertia, he should have been pushed out by the force of the explosion, but from the video, the male insect was neither blown out nor shattered, but simply disappeared. This is really strange."

As Mikel listened to Elijah's speculation, he repeatedly played the part about the male insect's disappearance.

Cheng Chu got very close, and after watching it several times with Mikel, he finally saw clearly the male insect that could still laugh during the explosion; its hair seemed to be black, just like his.

When Cheng Chu realized what he had seen, his mind was suddenly jolted.

He looked up at Elijah and asked hesitantly, "Was he also black-haired and black-eyed?"

Upon hearing Cheng Chu's question, Elijah did not answer it immediately, but instead looked at Mikel.

Cheng Chu followed his gaze and looked at Mikel. He snatched the screen from Mikel's hand and brought it close to his eyes to confirm it again. Then he asked the same question again: "Female Lord, tell me quickly, does he also have black hair and black eyes like me?"

This sudden discovery made Cheng Chu extremely excited. Could the truth be as he thought?

Sensing the male insect's excitement, Mikel didn't hide anything from him. He nodded under the male insect's expectant gaze and said, "Master, he does indeed have black hair and black eyes, just like you."

Upon receiving an affirmative answer, Cheng Chu almost lost his composure and eagerly asked, "What's his name?"

The male insect's undisguised reaction was enough for Mikel to be certain that the male insect in his house must have a secret relationship with the mute male insect.

"I don't know." Mikel didn't show it. He patted the male insect's back reassuringly and said, "Master, no insect knows his origins. He can't speak, and no insect knows his name."

"Huh? Then he..." Cheng Chu suddenly felt a little lost, wanting to ask something but not knowing what to ask?

Black hair and black eyes, just like him.

His origins are unknown, just like his.

He couldn't speak; at first, he also couldn't speak the Zerg language.

So, there's really no need to ask anything; everything is out in the open. It turns out he wasn't the only human who traversed the Zerg.

However, it seems he discovered it a little too late...

Undeterred, Cheng Chu watched the replay again, dragging the progress bar. The smiling male insect disappeared once more after the explosion...

Noticing that the male insect's mood was off, Mikel took the light screen from his hand and returned it to Elijah.

He touched the male insect's cheek and asked worriedly, "Master, what's wrong?"

Cheng Chu slowly shook his head, lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "I...I'm fine."

The male insect was unwilling to speak, and Mikel didn't press him further, simply putting his arm around his shoulder and embracing him silently. Neither of them spoke, and Elijah didn't know what to say either; the scene fell into a strange, quiet silence.

After a while, Cheng Chu lifted his head from Mikel's shoulder and hesitantly asked Elijah, "What happened to that male insect after that?"

Elijah retracted his personal terminal and replied matter-of-factly, "Your Excellency Cheng Chu, yes. This video shows the last place that male insect appeared, in the early morning of the day the General and I set off from the capital together."

From the day Mikel set off until now, Cheng Chu felt it was a long time, but in reality, only six days had passed.

Cheng Chu thought that, therefore, he and that person who was very likely also a time traveler missed each other.

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