What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

The base hadn't changed much since they left. After returning, they rested for two days and then went back to their previous lives. Lu Yize didn't feel that much had changed either.

It wasn't until Chen Mingzhang appeared before Lu Yize with dark circles under his eyes, applying for leave for himself and his equally busy wife Zheng Mu, that Lu Yize's conscience, which had run away from home, finally returned to the place he had never wanted to return to in a hundred years.

After taking a stack of documents from the base, Lu Yize glanced at them and immediately began discussing the matter of finding a successor with Chen Mingzhang.

We can't let them work themselves to death here, can we? The base is built, and there's more and more work to do. It's time to train an heir and retire.

To be honest, Chen Mingzhang was extremely tempted. If he could really relieve himself of his burdens, he would follow Lu Yize's example and take Zheng Mu on a trip. Zheng Mu had just seen a planet on the StarNet that was full of mermaids and was curious to go and see it.

Oh, that was when she had just returned. She only had time to check the StarNet then. Later, she was so busy that she would go to sleep as soon as she got back and took a shower. She simply didn't have the energy for marital relations anymore.

Zhang Wenjing spent her days researching fertility formulas for them to drink, claiming they could increase the birth rate. Chen Mingzhang was too embarrassed to say anything; they simply didn't have time to do that kind of thing.

Lu Yize and Chen Mingzhang discussed the selection of a successor, choosing from among the talented members of the next generation. However, Lu Yize used his mental power to see Zheng Lin and the others still throwing water balloons at each other, and they looked as if they were dead. If the base were handed over to the current generation, it would be uncertain whether it would have a future.

Chen Mingzhang was still analyzing various possibilities, but the next moment, he saw Lu Yize's expression suddenly change and his mental energy concentrate, so he subconsciously went into a state of alert.

"What happened?" Chen Mingzhang asked, puzzled, when he saw that he hadn't moved for a long time.

Lu Yize resumed his usual laziness and lay back in the chair. "It's nothing, Zheng Lin just got knocked out while playing with water balloons."

Hearing this, Chen Mingzhang breathed a sigh of relief. The kid was tough and shouldn't be in any serious trouble. However, he was still his brother-in-law. To be on the safe side, Zheng Lin suspended the discussion on the successor. After all, the more they discussed this matter, the more heartbreaking it became. It felt like it would take at least ten or twenty years to reach a conclusion.

After Chen Mingzhang left, Lu Yize slowly opened his eyes, focusing his mental energy on the spiritual entity that had briefly occupied Zheng Lin's body.

Zheng Lin heard the wailing and crying around him, which hurt his ears and even made him feel somewhat disoriented. Was he dead? Had he arrived in the underworld? Was that why he could hear such loud crying?

Otherwise, where would such a powerful cry come from in the apocalypse? No, after eighteen years of the apocalypse, what life could there be left on Blue Star? At the moment he self-destructed his superhuman core to avoid becoming food for the Zerg Queen, there should have been no living beings left on Blue Star.

However, the sounds in his ears never stopped, and Zheng Lin gradually felt the pain in his body. He struggled to open his eyes, and when he saw the green alien plant that had turned into a human shape and was crying out snot bubbles, he subconsciously frowned.

High-level heterophytes?

"Waaaaah, Zheng Lin, you're finally awake! I thought I'd killed you, you scared me to death!" Chen Si cried, wiping her snot and tears with Zheng Lin's hospital gown.

Having transmigrated from the eighteenth year of the apocalypse, Zheng Lin was initially unable to grasp the current situation. However, having survived for so many years under the schemes of the Zerg in the apocalypse, he was no fool. He would not act rashly without understanding the situation.

Chang Jiamu was also terrified. The three of them were having a good time when Zheng Lin suddenly collapsed. Like Chen Si, he initially thought Zheng Lin was faking it, but when he didn't move at all, they were so frightened that they carried him to the infirmary.

Sheng Xue examined Zheng Lin's physical condition and found that apart from a few minor mental fluctuations, he was as strong as an ox and in excellent health.

"It's nothing. He just absorbed too much of Gloria's spirit when he was on the main planet and didn't digest it all. He just needs to continue digesting it now."

However, Sheng Xue found it a bit strange. Normally, when digesting spiritual energy, the spirit would fall asleep along with it and only wake up after the spiritual energy was completely digested. But Zheng Lin's... maybe it's the difference between humans and cows.

Zheng Lin listened to Sheng Xue's words and a hint of shock flashed in his eyes. Gloria was the name of the Zerg Queen. What did they mean by "spiritual body"?

Chen Si crept up to Chang Jiamu and muttered loudly, "Don't you think Zheng Lin seems to have lost his mind?"

Chang Jiamu nodded subconsciously, then quickly stopped, "Don't speak so loudly."

Zheng Lin, who heard everything, didn't want to argue with the two children.

However, the next moment, Zheng Lin, who considered himself a calm and collected adult, froze on the spot when he saw the person who entered the room. His eyes turned red uncontrollably and his nose tingled.

This was Mingzhang, the brother who, in his memory, had died more than ten years ago along with his sister, and who had always taken care of and protected him.

Chen Mingzhang didn't think it was that serious at first, but he didn't expect that Zheng Lin, whose skin was harder than stone, would suddenly have tears in his eyes when he entered the door. He could tell that the child was really sad, so he immediately frowned and took it to heart, telling Chen Si and Chang Jiamu to go back first, and that he would take care of things here.

Chen Si and Chang Jiamu also noticed that Zheng Lin was acting strangely, so they didn't stay any longer.

Chen Mingzhang examined Zheng Lin's wound and asked Sheng Xue a few questions. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Zheng Lin was alright. However, he guessed that Zheng Lin was uncomfortable digesting his spiritual energy, which was why he was like this.

"Are you still feeling unwell?" Chen Mingzhang asked Zheng Lin, sitting beside the hospital bed.

Zheng Lin was unable to react for a moment, staring blankly at the face in front of him that was almost unfamiliar and unrecognizable.

When the apocalypse came, he was not afraid because his sister and Mingzhang always stayed with him and protected him. At that time, Zheng Lin did not have the desire to become stronger. He always thought that the apocalypse would pass one day and they could live together again.

But the apocalypse was far more cruel than he had imagined. His sister and Mingzhang were both dead, betrayed by the Zerg's mobs planted in the Eastern Ancient Base. They would not allow anyone who threatened the Zerg's rule to exist.

If someone has talent, then stifle it.

Zheng Lin shouldn't have survived either, but his sister risked her life to prolong his life, and his brother Mingzhang gouged out his own eyes and exhausted his supernatural abilities to give him a chance to live. He couldn't even hear their last words to him.

He forgot what they looked like, only remembered their bloody deaths, and how their bodies were used by the Zerg to create insignificant puppets under the Zerg Queen.

Driven by a desire for revenge, he desperately tried to enhance his superpowers, but was forever stuck at the sixth rank. Then, he gradually glimpsed the truth of this world: they were just a group of trapped beasts in the arena, trying to survive a little longer.

Finally, he racked his brains to absorb all the crystal cores and superpower cores he could. Every time he looked down at his own hands, Zheng Lin could recall how many people he had killed and how many zombies he had killed. Their desperate desire to survive was just a tool for others to laugh at.

He secretly obtained the method to break through to the sixth rank, but he desperately pretended that he was only at the sixth rank. It wasn't until he killed the first insect that he realized that he was not facing oppression from a single race, but rather that their land had long become a piece of fat meat in the eyes of others.

They were weak and devoured each other until they had no power to resist. Their home planet was already in ruins, their energy core was stolen, and they were left with nothing but bones!

Even in the end, all he could do was infiltrate the Zerg's homeworld and self-destruct, taking the Zerg with him. He killed their enemies, but not all of them.

The high and mighty empress remained unharmed, but unwilling to accept it, she grabbed the two familiar puppets closest to her, determined to never let them be controlled again, even if it meant death!

Hurried footsteps came from outside the door, and the ward door was hurriedly opened. Zheng Mu rushed over without finishing her work, while Zheng Lin burst into tears the moment he saw his sister.

These were no longer two manipulated puppets, no longer puppets that only obeyed the Zerg Queen's orders to take his life, but living, breathing people—his older brother and sister.

Seeing him cry like that touched Zheng Mu's heartstrings, and she felt inexplicably sad and heartbroken. She didn't understand what had happened, but she just suddenly felt a little sorry for him.

She reached out and hugged her younger brother, soothing him by stroking his back as she had always done since he was a child, "It's okay, it's okay, your sister is here."

For over a decade, Zheng Lin had lost count of how many decades he hadn't heard those words before. But now, he finally understood: those were the very words they had said when they risked their lives to save him.