“Dad, didn’t you say His Majesty was calling you to a meeting?”

Having just cleared the Zerg from the border battlefield, Hu Mingli saw his father, who almost never came to the front lines, appear at the base.

“Not going.” Hu Xinyao’s face darkened as soon as he heard the word “His Majesty,” and he glared at Hu Mingli, asking in return, “Weren’t you going to Qilan Star? Why haven’t you gone yet?”

Realizing his father wanted to change the subject, Hu Mingli asked when he was sure no one else was around, “Do you know something?”

“Adult matters…”

“I’m already a Major General.”

Seeing that Hu Xinyao was really trying to brush him off like a child, Hu Mingli couldn’t take it anymore. “Was His Majesty deliberately behind this incident? And, was it His Majesty who told the Zerg about that wormhole?”

“Who told you that!” Hu Xinyao, hearing Hu Mingli’s voice growing louder and the content becoming more outrageous, immediately stood up, glaring at him, unable to sit still. However, he breathed a sigh of relief when he realized no one was around. “How could His Majesty be in league with the Zerg? Who’s been filling your head with nonsense?!”

“Whether it’s nonsense or not, we’ll know once we catch the Zerg Queen,” Hu Mingli said. He himself could hardly believe it when he heard the story from Feng Li, that half-Zerg, half-Mermaid hybrid.

It was simply preposterous, a fantastical tale!

…

“Senior, do we still have to guard this wormhole?”

They had already received news from Qilan Star that the crisis there had been successfully resolved, and they had blocked several waves of Zerg reinforcements here.

Moreover, judging from the timing of the Zerg waves they had blocked before, there shouldn’t be any more Zerg coming out.

“Of course, we have to guard it.” The person didn’t hesitate at all. “This wormhole here is a hidden danger. The Sixth Legion hasn’t sent anyone to take over yet. We’d better keep guarding it for a while.”

After Cai Xing finished speaking, she looked at Wang Wenfei and asked, “Did they reply that someone is coming?”

“They replied, saying they’ll send someone over shortly.” Wang Wenfei’s words finally relaxed Cai Xing’s brow, and she asked softly, “Has the casualty count been calculated?”

“Five people sacrificed, thirty-two seriously injured in the medical bay, and over a hundred injured.” Wang Wenfei’s eyes darkened as she recited the numbers.

The word “death” was something that could never be adapted to, no matter how many times one experienced it.

“I understand…”

Cai Xing took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, reaching out to pat Wang Wenfei’s head. “It’s already very few… the Empire is proud of them.”

“I understand.” Wang Wenfei’s eyes welled up, and she looked up at the wormhole they were guarding, a different light flashing in her eyes as she asked, “Should we send a reconnaissance plane to investigate the other side of the wormhole?”

“Why did you suddenly think of that?”

Cai Xing looked at Wang Wenfei in surprise.

“If the Sixth Legion hasn’t discovered this wormhole in so many years, I don’t think it’s just a coincidence.” Wang Wenfei didn’t know why she had suddenly thought so much just now.

“That’s not within our jurisdiction.” Cai Xing stopped Wang Wenfei’s wandering thoughts, meeting her senior’s complicated gaze and seeing the other person slowly shake her head, hesitant to speak.

“We…”

“Besides coming to support Qilan Star, everything else is something we shouldn’t interfere with.”

It wasn’t that Cai Xing was cold, but that was the reality.

Just like Wang Wenfei’s suspicion, if such a wormhole hadn’t been discovered under the Sixth Legion’s nose for so long, why would the Zerg have waited until today to launch an attack through it?

It couldn’t be ruled out that the Zerg on the other side of the wormhole had only just discovered it as well.

However, for both sides to have not discovered it or to have only just discovered it, where did so many coincidences come from in the universe?

Of course, there weren’t that many coincidences in the universe.

Qilan Star was gradually returning to order.

The residents of Qilan Star, who had been hiding in the deepest part of the underground defense works, gradually came up to participate in the post-disaster reconstruction work.

They couldn’t help with the battle, but of course, they had to contribute to rebuilding their homes.

And the garrison troops of the Sixth Legion were naturally not idle at the moment.

In addition to helping the Qilan Star citizens rebuild, there were still many things to deal with.

Among them, regarding the investigation into the Zerg’s sudden attack, Hu Mingli immediately contacted Qilan Star after “chatting” with his father.

Mingmei and the others, who had made the greatest contribution in this wave, also participated in the meeting.

Mainly because of her mother, according to Mingmei’s personality, she might be walking around everywhere at this time, looking at the wounded, looking at her colleagues, and seeing what this war had brought about.

And now, although she knew more, Mingmei felt more and more the complexity of people’s hearts.

On the border of the Canglan Star System, not far from Qilan Star, there was a wormhole that had never been discovered before.

If the Fifth Legion hadn’t discovered that wormhole while coming to support and guarded several waves of Zerg there, the situation in today’s battle on Qilan Star would have been even worse.

“So, do you want us to investigate this matter?”

Actually, after this matter was over, they didn’t want to continue to get involved if nothing happened.

However, Mei Shi’s fierce fighting made the Sixth Legion want to directly recruit her.

Even if she was a married, high-age beauty.

As a result, after the battle ended, the two of them, along with Julian, who had a special status, attended this meeting together.

Hearing the final question about the wormhole, Mingmei frowned.

When Hu Mingli raised this matter in front of her parents during a remote meeting with them, Mingmei understood that Hu Mingli probably still wanted to ask for her parents’ help.

“There’s no need to investigate that wormhole, we know about that wormhole.”

Mei Shi was truly not afraid to startle people with her words. Everyone present was stunned!

“When did that happen?”

Waldo looked shocked. Where did these miraculous people come from?!

Even Mingmei received a surprised look from Waldo.

Mingmei: …

“We’ve always known about that wormhole, we just didn’t know you didn’t.”

Mei Shi interrupted Hu Mingli and directly mentioned the matter about the wormhole.

“My husband and I like to travel and are often away from home. We discovered it by chance.”

“The war was important before. I didn’t think of this matter at the time, but now that I think about it carefully, the wormhole you’re talking about is the one my husband and I know about.”

Mei Shi and Ming Yi had traveled all over the universe over the years.

Whether it was human territory or the territories of the Merfolk, Beastmen, or any place in the universe that could be visited, she and Ming Yi wanted to go, and they had gone to quite a few.

They had even used this wormhole more than once.

However, they never knew that this wormhole was undiscovered.

“The other end of this wormhole isn’t connected to the Zerg either.”

Mei Shi mentioned this matter again, “The other end of this wormhole is the border of the Beastmen territory. That place is quite chaotic, and even the Beastmen themselves don’t go there often.”

“Then what were you doing there?”

The people present were even more speechless looking at Mei Shi and Ming Yi.

Why did it sound like there was something wrong with this couple?

“I accidentally discovered it when I was traveling with my husband. We borrowed a path from there to come back. We didn’t know that you had never discovered this wormhole.”

Mei Shi didn’t care about their surprised gazes and calmly told everything.

As she was talking, Ming Yi suddenly reached out and placed his hands on hers, signaling her not to continue.

Then it was Ming Yi’s turn to speak. Mingmei’s heart skipped a beat when she saw her father was about to speak.

It probably wasn’t a good thing when it was her father’s turn to speak.

Ming Yi slowly raised his head, looked at Hu Mingli on the other end of the light screen, and asked seriously, “Are you sure that no one on your side has ever discovered this wormhole?”

“What do you mean by that?” Hu Mingli heard the hidden meaning in Ming Yi’s words.

“A Shi and I have passed through this wormhole more than once or twice. And it’s not like there was no one there every time. We sometimes encountered people when we came out of this wormhole, or rather, reconnaissance patrol starships… Aren’t those from your Sixth Legion?”