A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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Gao Tian: "Then what about my dad...?"

"Who knows what Gao Xing was thinking?" Colonel Chen Feng recalled with a touch of melancholy. "One day he suddenly said that an omega from his hometown was pregnant and he wanted to retire."

Gao Tian: "It's me?"

Colonel Chen Feng glanced at him and chuckled, "It's you."

Colonel Chen Feng saw Gao Tian off as he walked out, telling him about their past with Gao Xing as they walked.

"Your dad was a well-known fierce fighter in the First Army back in the day. He was ruthless, handsome, and of high rank. Unmarried, a 25-year-old general's adjutant, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he was the center of attention."

"He served as this man's adjutant for two years. When he was 27, he suddenly applied to retire. When asked why, he said he had met a woman back in his hometown, an omega, who was pregnant. He didn't want his child to be born without a father, so he wanted to go back to his hometown."

"We had never heard of him being an omega before, nor had we ever seen him on vacation back in his hometown. How could he suddenly be an omega and get pregnant? We all said he must have been scammed, and that he shouldn't raise someone else's child. But he just smiled confidently and told us that it was indeed his child, no way."

Colonel Chen Feng: "We've also said that there's no need for an omega to retire just because she's pregnant. We can bring the omega over here. Isn't life in the First Military Region better than living in the countryside? These non-military academy students have worked so hard to get to where they are today, enduring so much suffering. How can they ruin their future?"

Colonel Chen Feng: "He told us with a smile that the omega didn't want to leave their hometown. Now that they have a child, they can no longer brave the wind and fire on the battlefield. They want their family to live a safe and peaceful life. They still insist on retiring."

Colonel Chen Feng tapped the AI ​​again: "Back then, this guy absolutely refused to accept his retirement application and punished him by making him stand facing the wall outside the office every day. He would stand outside the office all day long, and even when his legs were about to break, he still insisted on retiring. This guy had no choice but to stop seeing him and transferred him to another position."

"I didn't expect your dad to be even more ruthless. After being transferred to another position, he simply left his retirement report in his dormitory, packed his things, and left."

"If we hadn't approved it, your dad would have been considered a deserter. What does it mean for a general-level adjutant to desert? He'd be court-martialed, and could be sentenced to death. In the end, this guy had no choice but to sign your dad's retirement report, and the retirement approval process went through his procedures. For the next twenty years, no one dared to promote an adjutant to him."

Colonel Chen Feng said, "Later, I was also transferred from the First Military Region to the 45th Military Region as an instructor. We hadn't seen each other for more than 20 years, and I never imagined that he had been dead for 18 years."

Colonel Chen Feng added, "You look exactly like your father when he was young. I could tell it was you the moment I saw you."

Gao Tian put his arm around his shoulder and said, "So you were only taking special care of me because of my dad."

He's not stupid. Whether it was preventing him from going to the 65-star meat grinder before, or putting him in the queue for a blind date, or the military region wanting to allocate him a house, none of these things were easy.

If it's because Colonel Chen Feng particularly cares for his soldiers—Colonel Chen Feng has plenty of soldiers under his command, so why haven't we seen him do this for others?

"It's also because you proved yourself capable." Colonel Chen Feng was genuinely a little melancholy.

Many years have passed since we parted ways, and I never imagined I would never see him again. I wonder if Gao Xing ever regretted his choice when he died as an ordinary soldier just three years after retiring.

Before seeing Gao Tian's information in Military Region 45, he never imagined that Gao Xing's child would be orphaned at an orphanage from a young age, nor did he expect that he could differentiate into an S-level high-rank A and return to the military region.

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After that, the big shot never contacted Gao Tian again. Just as he said, it was just a "disturbance" for him.

Gao Tian and his colleagues had a happy holiday, and their medal-awarding ceremony was a month later.

Amidst thunderous applause, he received the Army Star Medal from his superior with a broad smile, and was then given two bars and three stars on his shoulder. From now on, Gao Tian would have to be called Colonel Gao Tian.

A 21-year-old colonel is remarkable.

Thank you, Mother Insect, for your gift.

Finally, his rank is higher than Lu Jianan's.

Speaking of Lu Jianan, Gao Tian and the others had a wonderful holiday, but the research institute worked overtime non-stop for a month.

Occasionally, Gao Tian would go to feed Lu Jianan, and he would see that Lu Jianan's dark circles were so heavy that he looked like a panda. He had lost several pounds in a month, his beard was unkempt, and his face was sallow and emaciated, making him look very much like an African refugee from the past.

This is interstellar space where nutrient solutions and hibernation pods exist.

Gao Tian was startled and quickly dragged him to rest.

Lu Jianan struggled: "Let me go, I'm fine, I can continue the experiment."

Since they discovered the concept of the insect mother's spiritual power, Lu Jianan and his team have been trying to find out the specific dependence of the spiritual power on the insect mother's physical body based on the only remaining insect mother corpse.

If found, then that is the Zerg's weakness.

Gao Tian advised him, "Then you should at least spend some time each day lying in the hibernation pod. Zerg research isn't something you can see the answers to in just a few days; if you die suddenly, you'll never see it again."

Lu Jianan thought about it and agreed, finding that to be true.

He won't back out of his agreement; at least he'll seem like a normal person now.

A few days later, news suddenly came from the research institute:

The Zerg's weakness has been discovered.

Near the brainstem of the worm mother, there exists a unique proliferative structure. Researchers have named this distinctive proliferative brain nerve tissue the "worm mother's mental nucleus."

For a long time, humanity's understanding of the Queen Insects was limited to their superficial use as reproductive tools. However, with Gao Tian and his team's killing of the first Queen Insect and the subsequent discovery of the Queen Insect's mental core, humanity realized that the Queen Insects were far more than just simple breeding machines.

The report presented by the research institute in the military headquarters' main conference room was simultaneously played on the large screen of the military region.

"In fact, the queen is the undisputed core of the entire swarm, the brain of the swarm."

"This mysterious structure, known as the Queen's Spirit Core, is the very link that allows the Queen to establish close connections with all other Zerg. The spiritual energy veil activated by the Spirit Core acts like a net, transmitting the Queen's will and power to every individual Zerg within the hive."

"The Queen is connected to all the Zerg through powerful psychic waves. So when the Queen dies, the incredibly strong brainwaves emitted instantly fill the entire Zerg swarm's psychic network, burning the brainstem of the Zerg connected to her. In this way, every Zerg in the entire hive will inevitably meet a natural death."

As soon as this news came out, everyone in the military region knew that things were about to change.

The army was about to launch another all-out attack on the Zerg that had invaded and occupied Star 65.

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