Chapter 1: Crossing

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"Zhexue, run quickly, don't look back..."

  "Don't look back, don't let them catch you..."

  The hurried instructions were still ringing in his ears, and heavy breathing and messy footsteps sounded in the narrow and dark secret passage, mixed with echoes coming from all directions, like the howling of lonely souls in hell, again and again, almost like a heavy hammer, hitting Qi Zhexue's heart hard, making him shiver involuntarily.

  There was no one around except for an underage injured male insect running panickily in this secret passage that seemed to have no end in sight, as if he was trying to escape from the shadow of a huge hand behind him that seemed to be opening to drag him into hell, but if you looked closely at his eyes, you could see a hint of confusion, as if he didn't know where he was going.

  Qi Zhexue didn't understand why, when he was about to take the bus home after school and looked out the car window, the usually bustling and peaceful streets were no longer peaceful as before, but instead were filled with troops ready to go and a tense atmosphere.

  What caught his eyes was the scene of those female insects roughly pinning down the male insects on the street without any explanation. Qi Zhexue was immediately terrified, fearing that he would be hurt as well, and hurried back home, but accidentally found his female father and male father being taken away by a group of female soldiers in a corner where no one cared.

  His female father was the general of the Fourth Army, and his male father was the director of the Quartermaster Department. Who on earth could have taken them away?!

  Qi Zhexue was furious and was about to run out to stop them, but his brother Qi Zheshuang suddenly appeared from behind him, hugged him and took him away from the scene.

  Without waiting to explain the whole thing to Qi Zhexue, Qi Zheshuang picked up Qi Zhexue and left. He moved very quickly, with a cold expression and tightly pursed lips. This look as if he was facing a formidable enemy made Qi Zhexue, who had always been brought up in pampering, dare not breathe.

  The two of them came to a slightly rough and perfunctory secret room passage. Qi Zheshuang originally wanted to take Qi Zhexue away with him, but the mental power he spread out had already warned Qi Zheshuang of the enemy's approach.

  Qi Zheshuang's gentle features suddenly changed. He didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly handed a capsule-like object to Qi Zhexue. Then he suddenly pushed him into the dark tunnel, closed the tunnel door with a "clang", and used his body to block the sight of the female soldiers who were rushing towards him like a tide, leaving Qi Zhexue with only a glimmer of chance to survive.

  These upheavals had occurred only half an hour before.

  Before Qi Zhexue could extricate himself from the identity of the most favored young master of the Kasser family, he was forced to face the fact that he was already a fugitive.

  He was sweating profusely as he ran in the secret passage. His legs, which were light at the beginning, gradually became sore and weak, as if they were filled with lead. He could not lift them at all and could only keep swinging his legs mechanically and heavily.

  While running, Qi Zhexue slowly calmed down and thought about everything that happened today.

  A few years ago, he had heard about the gradual rise of an equal rights uprising on the Insect Star, but every time he went to ask the male and female fathers, they would smile, touch his head, and tell him that everything would be fine.

Qi Zhexue believed it, and even in the following years, he had long been accustomed to the calm under the surging undercurrent. However, it was not until he saw the existence of the group of rebels on the street this year that he truly realized a problem:

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