Chapter 185
After Shen Yinyin returned to her room, she changed her clothes and took a shower.
When she came out of the bathroom with wet hair, the worry between her brows did not subside much.
Past experience told her that Emily was different from Daisy. The other party was too insidious, cunning, and cruel enough.
In fact, she was not 100% sure that she could save Dalton from the other party...
Duke Lebert took the towel from the girl and gently wiped her hair. He consoled her, "Don't worry too much. I gave Emily's family half a mining star. There is still room for maneuver in this matter."
When Shen Yinyin heard that Duke Leibert was actually going to send such an incredible thing to Emily's family, her eyes widened with anger.
"why?"
"The Emily family is notoriously cunning and difficult to deal with! Aren't you just giving them money for nothing?!"
Duke Lebert paused for a moment, and looked at the girl with a deep and forbearing look in his eyes: "I just can't let Dalton get into trouble."
"Because you said...you liked him, didn't you?"
"I don't want to see you sad because of him. It's just half a mining star. Compared with you, that half a mining star is nothing..."
The words were almost like a confession, humble yet passionate.
As soon as Duke Leibert finished speaking, the girl hugged him and kissed his cheek gently.
"Lebert, thank you..."
Love is something that, once you have felt it or seen it once, you will know it deeply.
At least at this moment, Duke Leibert could feel that his young wife, perhaps, liked him a little bit as much as she liked Dalton...
Shen Yinyin has made her decision.
Tomorrow morning she will go to the palace to meet the queen and follow all the advice Will gave her!
But before that, there was another very important person she needed to meet.
When Shen Yinyin arrived at the laboratory, the well-behaved and taciturn boy who had always followed her was still sleeping.
She didn't know whether the environment of the empire was not suitable for the evolving Zerg, or whether the Zerg needed to hibernate for such a long time.
However, if he continues to sleep like this, maybe it would be a good thing for him to be sent away quietly?
However, such an underage Zerg boy went through so much hardship to travel to the capital of the empire just to help himself fulfill his wish.
Such a passionate and sincere boy, whose heart and eyes are full of himself, will become a stranger from now on...
Thinking of this, Shen Yinyin still felt a little reluctant.
Shen Yinyin was just about to get up and leave when her fingertips gently traced the other person's delicate eyebrows and eyes.
A slightly cold hand held her tightly.
Just like the night in the attic, Locke was awakened by the scent of a young girl. He opened his eyes and saw her.
She was so embarrassed and desperate then, but now she is so gentle and outstanding...
"Don't go, don't leave me..."
Locke sat up and hugged Shen Yinyin.
Although he was a prince of the Zerg, his gentle and loving parents died when he was still young.
At that time, my brother, who was just a teenager, had to shoulder the burden of the entire Zerg clan.
His brother was too busy and had a strict temper. He was always disciplining and restricting him. No one dared to play with him, so he was always alone.
After waking up with amnesia in the imperial capital, he was alone and the only person he remembered was Shen Yinyin who woke him up.
So he followed her, secretly watching her, longing to be close to her...
Shen Yinyin, who was hugged tightly, did not push Locke away. She had a complicated expression. After a long silence, she said gently: "Locke, it's time for you to leave."
"The Zerg and the Empire have officially gone to war. This war is different from the previous ones. It is dangerous for you to continue staying here."
Hearing this, Locke's expression froze.
He loosened his hand, and his once handsome features, due to adulthood, had acquired the vaguely sharp outline of a man.
Under his dark blue hair, his red eyes were filled with helplessness and panic, like a poor little abandoned animal.
"Did I do something wrong? I can hide like before, in the dark, so please don't chase me away, okay?"
The almost humble plea made Shen Yinyin feel heavy.
She shook her head and comforted him gently: "Locke, you didn't do anything wrong. What was wrong was...our identities..."
"Why are you hiding in such a dangerous place just because of me? Locke, you have a family, right?"
"Locke, your family is waiting for you..."
Locke didn't dare to reveal his true identity. He was just an ordinary Zerg and had no way to get close to her.
If his identity as the Zerg Highness was exposed, he didn't dare to think about how she would view him...
And if he stayed any longer, would his brother send someone again?
Is she going to be implicated by him again like last time?
Locke lowered his long, fine eyelashes and was silent for a long time.
When he raised his head again, his eyes were firm: "If this is what you want, I promise you..."
Just when Shen Yinyin had arranged everything and watched the starship leave, she thought Locke was finally safe.
In the second half of the night, the capital of the empire was in an uproar because of the appearance of Zerg and the malicious attack on females.
When Shen Yinyin heard the words Zerg and Emily, her heart trembled and she rushed to Emily Manor as soon as possible.
Emily, who was still in shock, had her arms covered in blood. If her manor hadn't been filled with elite guards, she would have really died at the hands of that Zerg today!
The moment she saw Shen Yinyin, Emily cursed: "Shen Yinyin! You bitch! I already knew that you colluded with the Zerg last time. It was you who ordered the Zerg to kill me, right?!"
When Shen Yinyin pushed the crowd away, she saw Locke, who was supposed to leave, lying on the ground with serious injuries.
A large number of armed soldiers, led by the captain of the guard, looked at Locke as if they were facing a great enemy, with countless black muzzles of guns and cannons pointed at him.
His face was pale, with a glaring trace of blood at the corner of his lips, and black insect shell fragments were scattered around him.
Shen Yinyin knew that Locke wanted to help him kill the person she hated the most before leaving.
Just like before, he was always willing to sacrifice everything for her. His love was so sincere and passionate that she had no way to repay him.
Emily's slander continued, and as the captain of the guard listened, he recalled his terrible first meeting with the girl.
He believed she was innocent.
So he pulled out his gun with a fierce look and pointed it at Locke, wanting to kill him directly and end it all as soon as possible.
Seeing the captain of the guard about to pull the trigger, Shen Yinyin's heart skipped a beat and she grabbed the other's hand with her cold palm in fear.
"do not want!"
Seeing the captain frowning, Shen Yinyin took a deep breath, suppressed her inner panic and said, "He wanted to kill me last time. I mean, let me do it myself, okay?"
The captain of the guard hesitated for a moment, but still handed the gun to Shen Yinyin.
Locke was exceptionally calm when he saw Shen Yinyin holding the gun and pointing it at his heart.
At this moment, when Roy, who was far away on the Insect Star, saw this scene, his face looked horrible.
He didn't expect that the person his brother liked would actually kill him with his own hands!
Roy immediately issued an order, asking his Zerg subordinates to speed up their actions, but the Zerg subordinates had just entered the capital area, and it was probably too late.
Just at this moment, urgent battle reports came from the front line. When Roy saw the tragic casualties of the Zerg, his red eyes became even colder and angrier.
Greedy, cruel and disgusting empire!
He will definitely end this endless war with the destruction of the empire!
"Has the operation to bomb the Eighth Star Legion's medical bay been deployed?"
"Reporting to His Royal Highness, the deployment has been completed!"
Roy's eyes were gloomy: "Don't leave any inhibitors or potions behind. I want all those disgusting orcs to lose control and die painfully on the battlefield!"
At the same time, due to Shen Yinyin's delay, the Zerg subordinates finally showed up.
At this time, Shen Yinyin put the gun against Locke's chest.
In the chaos, she lowered her head, her long black hair covering her face, her red lips silently opening and closing: Hijack me...
A bitter smile flashed across Locke's lips, and everything returned to the way it was before he left last time.
The moment his wrist was suddenly grabbed and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at Shen Yinyin's forehead, the captain of the guard tensed up and his eyes were fierce.
Although Duke Leibert and Louis looked serious, they knew clearly that Locke would never hurt Shen Yinyin.
"They are in the same group! Hurry up and do it!"
Emily rushed forward, grabbed the gun, and wanted to kill Shen Yinyin and the Zerg together, but was pushed away by the captain of the guard and fell to the ground.
"Someone! Hold her down!"
The captain of the guard showed no mercy and even had someone cover Emily's mouth.
With Shen Yinyin's protection, Locke quickly escaped from the encirclement safely.
On the rooftop of a towering building, as the cold night wind blew through her skirt and long hair, Shen Yinyin recalled the scene when Locke left last time.
Seeing that Locke was about to board the starship safely, Shen Yinyin looked at Locke, curled the corners of her lips, and said gently: "By the way, it's not that I forgot your name, it's just that the wind was too strong that day, so I didn't hear it..."
"Locke, it's nice to meet you and thank you for everything you have done for me."
"When you go back, you must live a good life, forget me, and don't come to the empire again."
"The next time we meet, if it's somewhere else, we'll be strangers, if it's on a battlefield, we'll be enemies..."
Don't do anything for me anymore...
Hearing this, Locke's hand holding the gun trembled.
His heart felt like it was smashed to pieces, and the pain was so severe that he almost suffocated.
His throat choked, and the light in his red eyes disappeared completely.
At the moment when the Zerg subordinate was about to start the starship, he spread his huge insect wings to cover her figure, and then gently kissed her lips in the darkness.
After the darkness faded, Shen Yinyin stood alone on the platform.
She touched the wet corners of her lips, where the boy left her with cold, bitter tears...