The little loli in front of her was only knee-high, with chubby cheeks and big eyes—very cute.
Unfortunately, Su Ling wasn’t a lolicon.
Right now, she sensed the blood boiling inside her and felt a strange novelty.
This thing in front of her actually gave her a very familiar feeling.
This feeling…
The image of that green-haired figure surfaced in Su Ling’s mind.
Right, it was very similar to the feeling she’d had when she encountered K423 in the Lower City earlier.
But wasn’t K423 a Zerg? And Bai Wei had taken her away.
For a moment, a guess formed in Su Ling’s heart.
“Are you… a Zerg?”
With ten years of lost memories, Bai Wei had only briefly explained the basics of the Zerg to her. She’d said she would tell Su Ling the rest when she was older.
But she never expected that before she could grow up, the Hive Mind would steal a march on her.
Sigh.
“Mm-hmm, Your Majesty the Empress, I am G502, a Zerg Imperial Guard! My talent is [Selflessness]. Before, in the Lower City, I tanked a witch’s space-based weapon, and my physical body was incinerated. I was fortunate enough to survive through this clone…”
G502 seemed to have been holding it in for a long time, blurting everything out in one go.
How could she not be excited?
She’d been pretending to be an ordinary sugar cube for so long, and now Her Majesty the Empress had actually seen that she was alive. She didn’t have to pretend anymore.
“Stop, stop, stop! Don’t say so much, I can’t remember it all.”
Su Ling cut her off, rubbing her forehead.
Why was this one so noisy?
G502 immediately fell silent, looking at Su Ling with big, watery eyes, full of expectation.
“Let me sort this out… First of all, you’re calling me ‘Your Majesty the Empress’? That can’t be right. I know I’m a Zerg… half-breed, a princess, but the Empress… that’s not…”
Wasn’t that Su Yao?
Even though Su Yao seemed to have lost her memory, just like she had before.
She even had a period of memories as a witch.
“Your Majesty the Empress, you are the Empress only if you have a Hive. The previous Empress lost her Hive, and thus lost her memory and wisdom, which is why she became what she is now.”
G502 explained.
“The Hive?”
Su Ling’s brows knitted tightly.
She was already stressed out by the Hive.
“Mm. The Hive is everything to us Tyranids. It should be inside your body right now.”
That matched up.
The Hive was inside her body, and the Hive Mind was probably with the original owner right now.
It should be in the Second Universe at this moment.
But… why couldn’t she sense the existence of the Hive?
Was it because she was too weak now? Or was the Hive Mind hiding? Or was there another reason?
“Wait, you said you tanked a space-based weapon earlier? Does that mean you’re the one from before…”
Su Ling recalled the massive Zerg from the Lower City.
G502 immediately got excited.
“Yes, yes, yes! Your Majesty the Empress, that was me!”
Hearing this, Su Ling glanced at G502.
A tiny little loli… the contrast was too stark!
For a moment, various images flashed through her mind.
The Zerg shattered by Ji Lingyuan in front of the bus, K423, Miao Miao, the Zerg slain at the academy not long ago…
Gradually, a guess formed in her heart.
“Then before…”
With mixed feelings, Su Ling asked G502 about those earlier Zerg incidents.
G502 took a deep breath and then told everything she knew.
“The first one was K424. She probably went to her death willingly to protect you.”
K424!
Su Ling’s pupils contracted sharply.
She still remembered that when she was trapped by the Hive Mind before, it was K424 who reached out to save her!
Moreover, K423 seemed to constantly be fixated on K424.
Just thinking about how K423 kept muttering K424’s name made her heart feel heavy.
She never expected K424 to already be dead.
“You already know about K423. The one at the academy recently… was A996.”
G502’s expression was complicated.
She explained that A996 was from the False Emperor Faction and that she was the one who gave the witches A996’s coordinates.
Hearing this, Su Ling couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”
Weren’t they of the same race?
“Your Majesty the Empress, I had no choice. I didn’t dare take the risk. I’m too weak now, unable to protect you, and she was from the False Emperor Faction. I simply didn’t dare gamble.”
G502 let out a bitter laugh.
Su Ling fell silent.
That so-called False Emperor…
She recalled the dream from before.
Su Bai.
According to G502, Su Bai was Su Yao’s younger sister.
Then… doesn’t that make her my aunt?
For a moment, Su Ling didn’t know what to say.
When it came down to it, it was just a family of love and hate.
Su Ling lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, feeling a sense of unreality.
On one side, she had just been involved in a massive incident—killing Se Lin—and now she was being hunted.
Even if the wanted poster wasn’t for her.
On the other side, she turned out to be the Zerg Empress. Her aunt was in the Fourth Universe and had sent people to kill her.
G502 talked for a long, long time.
Su Ling also learned about the Ez Gathering Order, the Four Calamities, the Imperial Guard, the Royalists, the False Emperor Faction, the Tyranids, the Miusong Zerg…
As Su Ling listened, she felt a bit dazed.
A sense of fragmentation rose in her heart.
G502’s throat went dry. She looked at Su Ling lying on the bed. From her current angle, all she could see were Su Ling’s tempting legs in white stockings.
She quickly averted her gaze.
The Empress must not be looked upon directly.
Su Ling sat up.
“How do you tell the Royalists from the False Emperor Faction?”
The Ez Gathering Order was probably out of the question for now.
She had already passed through [The Confusion], but three calamities still remained.
Moreover, the Hive Mind seemed to want to replace her. She had no idea what other tricks it had in store.
She didn’t mention the original owner to G502.
At this moment, G502’s desire to kill Su Ling had reached its peak.
“Aside from those who openly acknowledge their allegiance, the rest are just guesswork.”
G502 shook her head.
A996 had publicly declared herself as the False Emperor Faction, but in reality, all she wanted was to find Su Yao.
In the end, she died without ever seeing Su Yao.
Hearing this, Su Ling lay back down.
“Well, that’s completely hopeless. Looks like I’ll just have to keep a low profile.”
She had originally wanted to find the Royalists, go to the Second Universe with them, find the original owner, and kill her.
After all, as long as the original owner was alive, she couldn’t sleep peacefully.
But since G502 said it was just guesswork, she had no way forward.
“Mm, Your Majesty the Empress. We just need to develop in the shadows. When the opportunity comes, we’ll definitely fight back to the Fourth Universe and drag that False Empress down from her throne.”
G502 was full of fighting spirit.
Who the hell taught this one? ‘Develop in the shadows’?
Su Ling looked speechlessly at this little loli, who was clenching her tiny fists with a look of longing.
She probably learned it from Suzuki.
“How strong are you now?”
“Just the second shell. That’s about the level of a newly ascended Transcendent Witch.”
Perfect.
Su Ling sat up, her eyes gleaming.
“Perfect. One week from now, you’re coming with me to the Second Universe. I need to go kill someone.”
“Mm-mm! I will definitely protect Your Majesty the Empress!”
G502 was ecstatic.
Being requisitioned by Her Majesty the Empress, sacrificing herself for Her Majesty—for the Imperial Guard, it was the ultimate glory.
Su Ling now had the E’zi Magic Cube and G502 as an ally. Everything was ready.
However, she turned her gaze toward the balcony.
Dalian, who had been pretending to sleep, felt her heart tighten when she heard the movement stop.
When she secretly opened her eyes, she found Su Ling staring at her with a wicked grin. It scared her so much that she activated her Spinosaurus form.
“Meow!”
“Your Majesty the Empress, her name is Dalian. She was the boss of Shao Nian You. Before, K424 went to her door to kill her to help you, but this one was so stubborn that she bought a Source-Devouring Beast, which saved her miserable life.”
G502 actually sold out Hajimi without a second thought.
G502 hid behind Su Ling’s thigh, making faces at Hajimi.
Hearing that she was the boss of Shao Nian You, Su Ling’s little face immediately darkened.
“Well, well. You’ve been hiding pretty deep, haven’t you~”
“Boo-hoo-hoo, I didn’t mean to, meow~”
Dalian knew she couldn’t hide it anymore, so she hugged Su Ling’s calf and tried to act cute.
“Didn’t you try to sell me as an oiran before?”
“Meow-ow! I was wrong, meow!”
Dalian let out a miserable shriek.
Su Ling, however, kept her cold expression, a smirk curling at the corner of her mouth.
“Heh heh…”
Late at night.
Su Yao and Suzuki returned home one after the other.
When they saw the scene inside the house, they both froze.
Hajimi was lying limp on the balcony, eyes rolled back, looking thoroughly wrecked.
“What’s wrong with Hajimi?”
Su Yao went over to check.
The little thing’s body twitched, but nothing was seriously wrong.
“Nothing. Maybe she smoked too much catnip.”
Su Ling was in a great mood.
When she found out that Hajimi was actually the boss of Shao Nian You, she admitted she had felt like killing her.
But Dalian—true to being a boss capable of running Shao Nian You—directly offered to buy her life with the assets she’d left behind at the Witch Academy.
Those assets were originally what she’d accumulated during her days at the Witch Academy, meant for her retirement.
Now it seemed she had to use them to buy her own life.
After hearing this, Su Ling thought for a moment and then let Dalian off.
After all, they’d been together for a while; she’d grown attached to her.
And from what she’d heard, those assets were worth a ton of money. If it were true, she’d hit the jackpot.
“So? Did that so-called moneymaking idea of yours work?”
Su Ling looked at the visibly excited Suzuki and asked.
“Of course! Haha, junior, I’m rich this time!”
“Earlier, a client came to me and said she’d found a treasure. If she could get her hands on it, she’d never have to worry for the rest of her life!”
Suzuki was extremely excited, shaking Su Yao as she spoke.
Su Ling pulled her away dissatisfied.
What are you doing, what are you doing?
“What treasure? Pirate treasure? Or a siren’s treasure?”
Su Ling couldn’t help but laugh.
“Of course not. It’s the treasure left behind by a senior who was a capitalist.” Suzuki looked mysterious.
“Ever heard of the Star Chamber of Commerce?”
“Of course.”
Who didn’t know that?
The Star Chamber of Commerce was the largest capital alliance in the Academy. Although it had only risen in recent years, it had grown at an astonishing rate, quickly catching up to the Witch’s Hut and the Student Council in scale.
And the room she had booked with Yan Lin last night was at the Star Hotel, which was under the Star Chamber of Commerce.
“You definitely don’t know the predecessor of the Star Chamber of Commerce. It was called the Starfiber Group.” When she heard the name Starfiber Group, Su Ling froze.
On the balcony, the formerly comatose Dalian also immediately sat up.
Suzuki continued.
“Starfiber Group went bankrupt later. But one of its founding senior sisters saved a portion of the shares and assets.”
“But no one expected that the Star Chamber of Commerce still recognizes those shares! Every year, they deposit dividends into the account that senior left behind.”
Suzuki was about to lose her mind.
“Do you know how much the annual share dividends are? Ten billion Moni! Oh my god!”
“And the most important thing is, I heard that senior died not long ago, and she had no relatives. That means her account is currently unclaimed.”
“According to school rules, such unclaimed accounts are opened up for a period. As long as you know the senior’s name, student ID, and password, you can temporarily claim the account for a while, and then it gets completely deactivated.”
“My client’s older sister was in the same year as that senior and knows some of her information. If we just get the password… oh my god! We’re rich, we’re rich!”
Suzuki was practically dancing.
“Oh, and the senior’s name was Dalian.”