I've died 47 times in this game, so I've decided to sell it.

Watching all the newly recruited iron cavalry fall asleep and drift off to sleep.

Everyone's consciousness was forcibly pulled into the same unified illusion.

The golden and white palace is majestic and sacred, towering over all lands.

On the throne at the highest point of the hall sat a person quietly.

Her black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, her dark eyes were piercing, her face was stunningly beautiful, and her temperament was aloof and superior to all others.

That was the supreme one, the one who commanded countless iron cavalry—Empress Titania.

Qi Ye stared at that face, and the more she looked, the more familiar it seemed.

"Holy crap...this face is just a female version of me!"

Those were his features, only perfectly softened and transformed into a feminine appearance.

She possessed a noble, aloof, and dignified aura, and was breathtakingly beautiful.

I stayed in Bengbu for the night.

"No way?! The illusion projection directly changed my gender based on my face?!"

"So the empress they've worshipped for generations, the female version of Titania, looks exactly like a gender-swapped version of me?!"

He couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs-up to the illusory image of the queen high above him in the illusion, and he wanted to laugh a little.

"I must say, it's actually quite pretty."

"If I were sitting on the throne myself, I wouldn't be able to feel this sense of oppression."

The next second, the conversation between the researchers outside made Qi Ye understand why she had to do this.

"Teacher, why must the unified projection be an image of a female queen? Can't we use the original's appearance?"

"No."

"The swarm system and the collective consciousness of the iron cavalry are fundamentally based on the female dominance logic of the mother insect."

"If the consciousness of the [Male Dominator] is projected synchronously onto tens of thousands of iron cavalry, it may cause cognitive dislocation throughout the entire mental network."

"For the sake of the Republic, we cannot take this risk."

"To ensure the stability of the plan, the original's true gender must be concealed."

"Unified projection of the perfect female empress illusion."

"Let all the Iron Knights, from the very beginning, know that they are loyal to the Supreme Empress, the Eternal Empress of Grammer."

"They don't need to know the truth."

"There is no need to know that your genes come from a male experimental subject."

"All you need is loyalty, fighting, and dying for the Republic."

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After listening, a crucial question popped into Qi Ye's mind.

"Where are my own people? Why are they so quiet? Were they given tranquilizers?"

On the other side of the laboratory monitoring station, the conversation between two researchers drifted into his ears through the mental network.

"How stable is the mother's consciousness?"

"The personality remains intact, and self-awareness, emotions, and logic are all present."

The Zerg gene only provides fragments for swarm communication and reproduction; it does not erase his mind.

"Remember not to let him have complete autonomy; the other person has the ability to think independently."

The risks would be immeasurable once our full plan is revealed.

"Don't worry, Titania itself is a man-made war machine created by the ruling council of the Grammer Republic."

Another researcher's voice came through.

"After it was fully developed, its main body was kept in the cultivation chamber of this underground secret laboratory."

Qi Ye listened quietly.

"Moreover, his body was fixed inside the life support pod the whole time, so he couldn't escape on his own."

"Secondly, the entire set of base station equipment for the Mind Network is in the hands of us humans."

The council can monitor all his mental signals throughout the process and restrict what he transmits.

"Finally, there's the information blockade. Although he can see the fighting on the front lines and the real situation outside."

But all of these were secretly screened by the parliament before being sent to his senses.

"The glorious Grammer Empire that those iron cavalry saw in their dreams."

It's a lie fabricated by Parliament along with us.

Initially, he could only issue combat commands within the area defined by the instruments.

After listening for a while, Qi Ye sighed.

"So there was another layer."

He never expected that he would be locked down from the very beginning.

Not only can the body not move, but even the things that the mind transmits are controlled.

"So even if I can sense all the cavalry and issue commands through the network, I'm not completely free."

The conversation in front of the monitoring console continued.

"Fortunately, he is unaware of the parliament's final proposal so far."

"Once the insect plague recedes, the Iron Cavalry will have no further value."

At that time, the mother body, along with all the iron cavalry, will be wiped out.

Qi Ye shook his head. Unless he had lost his memory, how could he not have noticed?

The memories didn't stop; they continued to scroll forward.

Countless real-time battlefield images began to pop up on the screen.

One after another, SAM mechs rushed to the front lines, and the iron cavalry charged and fought amidst the smoke and fire.

They yearn for the Empress and fight bloody battles for the empire of their dreams.

Every injury, every sacrifice, all the pain.

All of this would travel through the mental network and be transmitted back to him in the incubation chamber.

Qi Ye silently watched the casualty data flashing on the screen.

The researcher's voice came through again:

"The mother body is receiving the perceptions of all the iron cavalry."

With so many death signals constantly bombarding him, sooner or later he would realize something was wrong.

"Then we should strengthen information filtering."

Cut out the excessively gruesome scenes and keep only the tactical data.

As long as he doesn't see too many corpses, he should be able to hold out for a while longer.

"Okay. I'll go adjust the base station parameters right away."

As Qi Ye listened to them busily working, she already had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

"You couldn't control the original empress, so now that I, who know the plot, am the mother, what control do you have left?"

He closed his eyes and slowly made plans in his mind.

"If I were sitting in this jar, the first thing I would do would be pretend to be the sixth person."

I watched whatever they told me to watch, and I gave them whatever instructions they told me to give.

To minimize their wariness of me.

"The second thing is to find blind spots. Information filtering can never be 100% perfect; there will always be some that slip through the net."

"The third thing is to find usable iron cavalry among the iron cavalry. You don't need many, just one or two will be enough."

There is a chance if even one soldier realizes a discrepancy between the Empress in their mind and the commands in reality.

He opened his eyes and looked at the silver-haired warriors fighting on the screen.

"Just wait patiently, wait for them to make their own mistakes, and wait for the parliament to split."

When the insect plague was almost over, they started to figure out how to deal with me.

"If I exerted more force then, I could flip the whole table over."

He muttered to himself:

"I just don't know what I did afterward. There's no sequel in these memories."

Just as I was thinking this, the whole screen jolted.

When Qi Ye opened her eyes, she had already returned to reality.

Upon closer inspection, the light patterns on the base of the array had dimmed considerably, and several main veins appeared to have been burned out.

At this moment, Fu Xuan was kneeling on the ground, his hands supporting the edge of the array platform, his pink hair was soaked and stuck to his face, and his forehead was covered in sweat.

On March 7th, I squatted to her left, holding a handkerchief in my hand, wanting to wipe her sweat but not daring to move.

Xing and Qingque stood on her right and left, respectively, holding large fans to cool her down.

Seeing this, Qi Ye had no choice but to put the rest of his memories aside for the time being.

He rushed over and squatted down: "Fu Xuan, what's wrong?"

Fu Xuan looked up at him, took several breaths, and then spoke.

"You're asking me what happened? I want to ask you, what exactly did you do in the formation?"

"Since I left you and started re-analyzing the system, the computational power consumption of the Qiong Guan Zhen suddenly increased more than fourfold."

"I thought I could hold on, but the rate at which computing power is being consumed keeps increasing."

Later on, I didn't even have the energy to observe you anymore; all my computing power was devoted to the simulations.

She suddenly blamed herself:

"It's because I haven't mastered the skills."

"The Qiong Guan Formation cannot withstand this density of memory replays."

Seeing her like this, Qi Ye reached out and patted her shoulder.

"Alright, how can you blame yourself for this?"

My own memories were so outrageous that they almost burst your system.

If anyone's to blame, it's myself.

"You certainly know how to shirk responsibility," Fu Xuan said sullenly.

"What else can we do?" Qi Ye stood up and looked around at the dilapidated state of the array base. "But can this array still be repaired?"

Qingque leaned closer and whispered:

"My Lord, I just checked and the main roads in the southeast and northwest corners are burned. It will take about three to five days to repair them."

"Three to five days." Qi Ye calculated, "Then wouldn't I have to wait several days before I can go in again?"

"You still want to go in?" Fu Xuan looked up and glared at him. "You almost blew up my Qiong Guan Formation."

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Qi Ye shrugged, looking completely innocent:

"I didn't mean to. Those memories just kept coming back to me, and I couldn't stop them."

Fu Xuan was too lazy to argue with him, so he closed his eyes and continued to catch his breath.