Chapter 344: The Steady and Shy Zerg Queen (77)
Chapter 344: The Steady and Shy Zerg Queen (77)
Iloan did not see Admiral Isar, but met Adjutant Carrington, Admiral Isar's confidant, in the corridor.
When the other party saw Iloan, he nodded and said hello, "Admiral Isar is having a meeting in the Imperial Palace. You can come over this afternoon."
Isar would convey many things through Carrington, so Iloan was not unfamiliar with him. In fact, as the admiral's most promising successor, he was quite familiar with Carrington.
Yi Luoan suddenly remembered that this bug had also entered the imperial palace many times, "No, I can find you."
Oh?
Carrington was a little flattered. Every time, Iloan went directly to Admiral Isar, and he just served as a message transit station at most. So what did Iloan say?
Come to find yourself?
Carrington responded.
Three minutes later, he brought Iloan to his office, poured him a cup of tea, and asked with some surprise, "What's wrong? Is there any question about the training, or is there a problem with the facilities somewhere?"
Iroan, who had broken through himself many times in training and destroyed many training facilities, coughed lightly, "No, it's not these."
Under Carrington's gaze, he said directly, "Admiral Isar has extensive experience and has met His Majesty the Insect King many times, so I wanted to ask him some questions. Now I suddenly thought of asking you the same question."
Seniority is roughly equal to age, and combined with what Iroan said...
Carrington nodded.
I see. He is as old as Isar.
Drink some tea and calm down, "Tell me about it."
Iroan didn't notice Carrington's subtle mood, and tapped the coffee table with his fingertips. "Is His Majesty the Insect King really sick?"
"..."
Carrington's first reaction was to stretch his neck to see if there were any bugs outside the door. After thinking about it and feeling uneasy, he strode over and closed the door directly, and then drew the curtains. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and asked cautiously, "What do you mean, kid?"
"How could it be false that the Insect King is ill? I will pretend that I didn't hear you. Be careful what you say and do when you go out there!"
How could His Majesty the Insect King discuss this casually? If other insects heard this, they would probably accuse Iroan of disrespecting the Insect King!
Iroan said, "It is precisely because of you that I ask this question."
The trust between the words made Carrington stunned. He didn't know whether to scold Iloan for not being vigilant or thank him for his trust. He took out a cigarette and started smoking.
"That's not your concern."
Iluan's expression changed. Could there really be some hidden secret?
"You'll know sooner or later."
"..."
Carrington had no way of refutation. The S-class Iroan undoubtedly had great potential. If nothing unexpected happened, he would be the successor to Admiral Isar after his retirement. In the long run, the vacant position of marshal of the empire was not impossible to consider.
But what puzzled him was that Iloan didn't seem like the kind of person who would care about these things. Wasn't this guy only interested in fighting?
Carrington was helpless because of the obvious attitude of wanting to get to the bottom of the matter. His excellent battlefield quality of "never giving up until the goal is achieved" gave him a headache at this moment.
If he had known earlier, he should have followed Admiral Isar to the Imperial Palace.
"It's okay to know, but you can't say a word to anyone else, otherwise you won't be able to bear the consequences."
Carrington relaxed. Seeing Iroan nod obediently, he twitched his lips and said, "The Insect King is indeed sick. But it is a mental illness."
Iroan's eyes moved.
"According to your promotion speed, you will probably take over Admiral Isar's position soon. You will know when you meet His Majesty the Insect Emperor, so it is not impossible to tell you in advance."
Carrington's face straightened, "The Insect King's mental power has failed, and he no longer has the ability to appease the female insects, that is to say."
He spoke every word.
"—He can't leave any offspring."
Like thunderclaps from a clear sky, Iroan, who suddenly learned the news, subconsciously said, "Then Marshal Caesar—"
Carrington pulled the corner of his mouth and chewed the bitter cigarette. "On the day when His Majesty the Insect Emperor announced that he was ill, Marshal Caesar lost contact and the news was blocked. We speculated that the Marshal might--"
Even though he didn't say the rest of the words, Iloan knew that the hand on his knee had clenched into a fist at some point and he had lost the sense of pain.
Marshal Caesar was once the dream of all female Zergs. As the first S-class female Zerg to appear in a thousand years, his bloody battles and invincible attitude against alien beasts enabled him to sit on the position of marshal in just three years.
It is written into the Zerg history and textbooks, and serves as a role model in countless military academies.
But such an existence was seriously injured in a large-scale invasion of alien beasts, and guarded the planet of Kendoya at the risk of degrading his mental power.
Unexpectedly, with a transfer order, Marshal Caesar disappeared from the public eye.
The Zerg King Carlo said to the public that Marshal Caesar was seriously injured. In order to thank and remember his contribution to the entire Zerg race, he decided to marry Caesar as his queen, and from then on stay away from the war and recuperate.
Regardless of the protests of the female soldiers, all the ruling officials unanimously agreed, and even some female insects who could not see the situation clearly were grateful to the Insect King for his actions.
But all the insects with brains knew that this was just a means for the Insect King to control Caesar in order to seize Caesar's power as the marshal!
Now that Marshal Caesar is gone, his army will naturally be divided!
Perhaps it was after this incident that the Insect King realized the power of the Marshal. After Caesar, no insect has ever sat on the position of Marshal again until now.
Decades have passed, memories have faded, and no one knows whether Marshal Caesar's injuries have healed or how he is doing.
As time goes by, few insects mention Caesar now. Only when they see the information in the textbooks will they suddenly realize something and sigh that Marshal Caesar is so powerful and envy him for becoming the female monarch of the Insect King.
When Iloan was a child, he had targeted this marshal, but when he heard that Caesar had become the female monarch of the Insect King, he never mentioned this matter to any insect again.
I can’t tell whether it’s reluctance or something else.
A voice in his heart told him.
'It shouldn't be like this.'
The Insect King's light words, the Caesar family's tacit approval, the consent of the ruling officials... no insect asked Caesar's opinion.
Seeing that Iloan was not in good condition, Carrington sighed, feeling sorry in his heart, "Everything is just speculation, maybe things are not that bad."
"This is the news known to the internal bugs, but Admiral Isar has different ideas."
Iloan suppressed his thoughts, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was calm as ever. He saw Carrington hesitating.
"During a report, the Admiral accidentally sensed a trace of weak mental power, which is inconsistent with the loss of mental power reported by the test."
Iroan hit the nail on the head, "Who is doing the test for the Insect King?"
Carrington said a name with a strange look on his face.
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