I Am the Only Fertile Woman in the Game-Chapter 145 - Embrace

Zong Fang stood alone, his heartbeat growing louder in the silence.

These hands, accustomed to killing, now trembled, not from fear, but from anticipation and unease.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions, then slowly turned around, facing Qiao Suisui but not daring to meet her eyes. His figure was shrouded in spattered blood and the lingering light of the setting sun.

There she was, right before him, like a gentle light piercing the fog in Zong Fang’s heart. But with every step he took, his trepidation seemed to grow heavier.

He feared, afraid that her arrival was just a fleeting joy, afraid she no longer wished to see him, afraid that all the beauty of the past had become nothing more than a memory.

When he couldn’t see her, he longed for every second to be with her.

But now that she was right in front of him, Zong Fang didn’t dare to come closer.

Suddenly, a tender call pierced through the silence: “Zong Fang.”

Her voice, like a warm breeze in spring, melted the frost in Zong Fang’s heart. He looked up in a daze, seeing her smile warm and determined.

She asked, “What did I write in the first sentence of the letter I gave you?”

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Zong Fang was stunned, his voice tinged with confusion, “What letter? You wrote me a letter?”

By now, Qiao Suisui was already smiling, but she asked him again about something only the two of them knew: “When does the tree in space bloom?”

“Whenever you like, I’ll make it bloom right now.”

No sooner had he spoken than Qiao Suisui quickly ran toward him.

This time it was no mistake.

He was the obsessive fool who loved her.

Her smile was as brilliant as the stars, radiant and warm. She embraced him tightly, and the next second, his arms wrapped even tighter around her, as if to fill all the voids of the years past.

They clung to each other tightly under the canopy of twilight, with the ruins and hardships around them seeming to drift far away.

“I’m late,” Zong Fang’s voice was hoarse and forceful.

Qiao Suisui leaned against his solid chest, her eyes red but wearing a relieved smile, “As long as you came, it’s not too late.”

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Years ago.

Zong Fang, who had just managed to transform from Beast Form to human shape, hid under the spacious conference room’s round table to avoid a disliked class and accidentally overheard a conversation among the adults.

“…If that’s the case, then we should at least use the most powerful Beastmen for the experiments to justify the amount of Star Coins I’ve allocated.”

“Has the outcome been assessed?”

“Rest assured, once this drug is successfully developed, the Beastmen’s spiritual power will reach its peak, and the injected ones will lose consciousness. Then, you will have a top-tier legion with no thoughts of its own, attacking wherever you point.”

“Zong Yan, you name this project,” said the current head of the Federation.

They sat around the lavish round table, puffing on cigars and laughing as if they were discussing not life, but a chess game.

Underneath the table, Zong Fang heard his father’s voice rise, “Let’s call it the Furnace Plan.”

The Furnace not only represented the extreme physical and spiritual manipulation of Beastmen, but it also symbolized the thorough destruction and remolding of their souls and wills.

And those one-in-a-million elites selected were from the beginning destined to be cultivated into experimental subjects.

The Furnace Plan proceeded inconspicuously and achieved tremendous results upon execution. All the injected Beastmen increased in spiritual power, and even though the effects lasted only 20 minutes, it was already a milestone success. The only side effect was that these Beastmen injected with the drug would fall into Frenzy without cause. At the time, only 9.8% of all interstellar Beastmen fell into Frenzy due to genetic defects.

The reason given by the experimenters was that the drug was still in the developmental stage and not yet stable.

Meanwhile, news broke in Dudleyne of local villagers experiencing strange symptoms, suspected to be due to unknown chemicals in the water supply.

Seeing that the underground lab’s activities might be exposed and in the midst of election turnover, Zong Yan proposed to the Headquarters Party to silence the matter and to experiment on the elite troops directly without waiting for the drug to be fully tested.

So he set a trap, sending all members of the elite troops to Dudleyne, and ordered the bombing of local villages, killing all those who were aware and unaware in one fell swoop, eradicating the potential threat forever.

But they forgot that they had personally trained a tough and excellent unit; a small portion of them escaped, while the majority were taken to underground labs for live experiments.

When the Headquarters Party learned of the escape, they feared the secret would be leaked.

At that moment, the Emperor of the then insignificant Auslan Empire, Gorba III, extended an olive branch to the Headquarters Party, suggesting that the disaster in Dudleyne be blamed on these escapees. Thus, the Headquarters Party conspired together to stage the “Battle of Two Wings.” Following the Battle of Two Wings, the Auslan Empire rose swiftly with the support of the Federation.

Zong Yan ordered the dispersal of inducers on the battlefield, which were not deployed by the Rebel Army but were instead released by agents of the Federation in disguise. They believed the Furnace Plan could alter all Beastmen’s genetics to form the strongest military legion on the planet Lingkong City. So, they needed a large number of “test subjects.” This way, they could accomplish two goals with one action, eliminating the Rebel Army in the chaos and selecting the true powerhouses through brutal natural selection. These inducers were not the officially declared substances that caused the Beastmen to Frenzy, but rather the drugs developed in the Furnace Plan.

As a result, there was a large-scale phenomenon of Beastmen falling into self-destructive Frenzy.

Zong Fang, knowing the truth, guarded this secret for many years. At first, he dared not sleep deeply for fear of revealing everything in his dreams and becoming the next target for elimination. Later, he systematically became more rebellious and extreme, often contradicting his father and showing an extreme zeal for scientific research. He was always looking for an opportunity to break with his father.

Zong Fang didn’t consider himself a savior, nor did he have any interest in being one. He chose not to reveal everything to the world, but he deeply despised everything his family, his father, and the entire Federation had done.

Year after year, he acted the part of an uncontrollable, paranoid madman. And in playing this role, he seemed to have truly become that person—because only in that character could he escape his family, his father’s shadow, and this ugly world.

His disgust for this world never ceased, until he fell in love with Qiao Suisui, and then he began to worry.