With Mikel's ideas, Elijah worked quickly and found out what happened at the Nagamachi Star Zoo six years ago before he left work.

He sent the information and surveillance video he found to Mikel's computer, and then gave a clear and complete report on the cause and effect of the accident.

It turned out that Adi's father and his brother found a lone baby blood-eating beast below the fence. They threw stones at the baby blood-eating beast, which lay in the grass and whimpered as it was hit.

Seeing that the fence was still quite a distance from the Blood Eater's lair, they ignored the warning signs prohibiting them from climbing over the fence, crossed it themselves, entered the enclosure, and captured the young Blood Eater cub.

The baby blood-eating beast was grabbed by the scruff of its neck and lifted up by Adi's male brother, being tossed around. Hearing the baby's cries of agony, they didn't let it go; instead, they laughed even more unrestrainedly.

Overjoyed, they were completely unaware that a large group of Blood-Eating Beasts had already moved silently upon hearing the noise. By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late. They hurriedly abandoned the baby Blood-Eating Beasts and frantically tried to climb onto the fence.

They shouted for help, but there were no tourists or insects around.

Adi's father lifted up his younger brother, the male insect, in an attempt to send him away, but a blood-eating beast opened its mouth and bit his right leg.

"Crack!" The sound of bones breaking was accompanied by Adi's father's scream. He loosened his grip, and the younger male insect fell into the pile of blood-devouring beasts behind him. Instantly, the blood-devouring beasts swarmed over and tore the younger male insect to pieces.

Just then, Mikel happened to pass by and saw what was happening. He quickly reacted and pulled Adi's father out of the way.

The working insects from the Star Beast Garden arrived quickly, and Adi's father and Adi also returned.

Adi's male father was howling in pain as his right leg was bitten off. Some insect workers on site gave him a simple bandage to stop the bleeding. Adi's female father nearly fainted when she saw the pool of her male son's blood inside the enclosure.

The scene was too chaotic, and Mikel felt he couldn't be of much help, so he prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, in full view of everyone, Adi's father pointed at Mikel and said that Mikel pushed them down and that Mikel killed his son.

And just like that, Mikel, who was merely passing by, was identified as the murderer by the victim on the spot.

Mikel was imprisoned for twelve days before Marshal Anaos pulled strings and gathered evidence to secure his release. Although all the evidence ultimately proved Mikel innocent, Adi's father unreasonably insisted that Mikel hadn't appeared sooner to save his son, and Mikel was extorted for a large sum of star coins to settle the matter.

At this point, Elijah felt indignant on behalf of the general, as the female insect always seemed to suffer.

Mikel scrolled through the data on his personal terminal, skimming through it, his fingertip lingering on a death report. He looked up at Elijah and asked, "How exactly did Adi's father-in-law die?"

His explanation back then was that he was so heartbroken by the loss of his insect offspring that he couldn't accept it and committed suicide after a mental breakdown two weeks later.

"He didn't commit suicide. His cause of death was multiple sharp-force injuries to his brain..." Elijah paused here, as if reluctant to continue, "Adi's father overheard the drunken male master saying that Adi's father had deliberately abandoned his male son to the Blood Eater to save his own life and divert its attention."

A male father trespassed into a dangerous place with his young insect cubs, and in the end, to save his own life, he heartlessly abandoned his own offspring to be eaten by a blood-devouring beast. Even the blood-devouring beast knows to protect its young; this male father, Adi, is utterly unfit to be a father.

Adi's father probably knew this was disgraceful; if it got out, he would be condemned by the StarNet and his reputation ruined. Mikel's appearance was too coincidental; he wasn't sure if he had seen it. So he tried to implicate Mikel, attempting to drag him down with him.

Mikel fell silent; it turned out he hadn't been wrong back then.

"When Adi's female father learned the truth about the male son's death, Adi's male father, enraged and drunk, accidentally killed Adi's female father. Afterwards, he quickly sent the body for cremation, and he dared not reveal the cause of Adi's female father's death. He said to the outside world that he committed suicide due to excessive grief."

Adi was only fourteen years old at the time, and everything he knew was told to him by his male father. In just half a month, he lost his most beloved female father and his closest male brother. He only had his male father left, so he believed everything his male father said without a doubt.

Elijah had previously cursed Adi as an ingrate, but now that he knew the truth, he felt a mix of emotions.

"General, should we tell Adi the truth about what happened back then?"

Tomorrow is Adi's execution day. Should we tell him this cruel truth?

At this point, it would be cruel to speak or not to speak.

Mikel's fingertips unconsciously traced the light screen, his eyes calm and unwavering. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "Hmm, speak. He should know the truth."

……

When Mikel returned home after a long day of work, the light rain that had been falling all day had stopped.

Today was unusual; Mikel didn't see any male insects at the door immediately, which puzzled him.

"Male Lord. Male Lord?" Mikel called out to the male insect from both the first and second floors, but received no response.

Unable to find a solution, Mikel opened his computer to check the male insect's current location.

In the garden after the rain, the petals of the artificial flowers are covered with glistening water droplets, the color of which depends on the color of the petals supporting them.

The seeds planted earlier have already sprouted. This time, they are easy to distinguish: five dark red saplings are Kali fruit, and eight light green ones are Green Water Pearl saplings. Cheng Chu squatted on the ground, holding a small shovel in his hand, and filled the saplings with soil.

When we planted the seedlings, we dug the holes too shallow. Now that the seedlings have grown a little taller, they tend to lean and sway when it rains or the wind blows.

Cheng Chu lifted the sapling with one hand and used the other to shovel some soil around its base, then patted the soil down.

He was busy with his own things, and casually said to 0123, who was standing to the side and couldn't help, "0123, go back and do your own thing, don't follow me."

He finished it quickly by himself without the help of the robot, and 0123 didn't need to follow him around all the time.

0123 shook its metal head twice and refused, "Your Majesty, no. 0123 must stay with you at all times to ensure your safety."

"I won't wander around." Cheng Chu was annoyed and said unhappily, "I'm safe, I don't need protection."

No matter how Cheng Chu tried to drive it away, 0123 refused to leave. It hovered in the air at a distance that kept the male insect within its line of sight.

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