The clearing of the battlefield was not finally completed until the evening. The deep blue night falls, setting off the white jade moon wheel hanging high in the night sky.

Ruoying returned to the 28th floor of the Supreme Command Building, in her office. In the dark and quiet room, only a small section of the floor window with the curtains on both sides not completely covered could let in a ray of moonlight.

Ruoying's office is connected to her bedroom, so she often sleeps here on weekdays and can resume work when she wakes up the next morning.

Ruoying staggered to the chair behind the desk. Although the large bed in the bedroom was only a few steps away, Ruoying couldn't get out of the bedroom and couldn't stop lying down on the office chair.

Ruoying's mental and physical abilities were on the verge of limit, and exhaustion restrained her whole body like a heavy chain. But the worst thing is that she can't fall asleep because the pain in her head is constantly tormenting her.

From the time when she cursed the power of the throne in her body, Ruoying's headache did not stop for a moment, and she was tortured alive for nearly ten hours from the beginning to the present. The blood marks buried in the heavenly court on her forehead could not be removed by any method, and the 14 blood lines that spread out of the blood marks grew longer and longer with time, and now they had climbed to the snow-white neck of Ruo Ying's swan.

Headache, dizziness, nausea, facial heat, intermittent blindness and deafness, nasal congestion, dry mouth, cough, sore throat, ...... The more organs the bloodline spreads to, the more symptoms of various diseases will appear in the affected organs, and the symptoms of the disease will accumulate as soon as they appear, and they will not disappear for a long time.

Ruoying has been tortured to the point of physical and mental exhaustion, and a large amount of cold sweat sticks together between the general's military uniform and skin. The high fever wiped out her ability to think calmly, and every breath she took through her nose seemed to be inhaled through a severe barrier, and her throat ached like a knife with every mouthful of saliva she swallowed.

Sleep is the only way to escape from illness, but Ruoying's biggest worry is whether she can wake up if she falls asleep like this.

Just then, a soft doorbell rang.

"My lord, it's me, Hicks."

Ruoying laboriously reached for the door switch on the table. Just as she was about to press down, a sudden surge of strength surged from the depths of her heart, flowing into her weak body.

Two seconds later, the office's smart mechanical door opened. Hicks walked in, and when he looked up, he saw Ruoying sitting in an office chair.

Looking at each other, Ruoying looked at Hicks indifferently. She looks like everything is fine.

"My lord, my subordinates are derelict in their duties, and I implore them to be dealt with by military law." General Hicks suddenly knelt down on one knee, his head bowed, and his chest was filled with emotion.

"Where have you failed in your duties?" Ruoying deliberately controlled her voice relatively normally, but the result was unsatisfactory, and she still exposed a trace of hoarseness.

General Hicks said solemnly: "My lord trusted his subordinates and asked them to drive 'Hai Dongqing' to complete the important task of exchanging hostages, but his subordinates failed. Then the corpse bird was sniped and broke its leg, Wu Qi fell into the plague legion, and his subordinates rushed to the rescue but failed to find Wu Qi. ”

Ruoying's body trembled. She said, "So, Wu Qi's whereabouts are unknown now?" ”

General Hicks lowered his head, he hated his defeat, and said: "Because the body was not found when the battlefield was cleared, it is very reluctant to say that the whereabouts are unknown." But in that chaotic environment, Wu Qi was still in a coma, and the probability of being alive was almost zero. ”

Hicks, as a general, can't deceive Ruoying, can't deceive himself. Wu Qi fell from a high altitude in a comatose state into the chaotic plague army, and at that time, the artillery fire was in the sky, the flames were burning the plains, and the thousands of plague seeds that were surrounded were finally charred into pieces. When the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, the soldiers did not find Wu Qi's body, it is very likely that Wu Qi had already been eaten by a certain plague species, or killed by stray bullets, cannonballs, flames and even poisonous smoke, and then burned into char with the corpse of the plague species.

Hicks's pain is not only because he has betrayed Ruoying's trust, but also because he himself admires Wu Qi, a formidable descendant. After the war, he found the soldiers of Investigation Team 7 and the pilot of the agile mecha team to understand, it can be said that without Wu Qi, it is almost impossible for Cleo, the Throne of Life, to be found. Wu Qi was definitely one of the heroes of the final victory in this war.

But such a young proud son of heaven died because of his own mistakes. The impact of this mistake on Hicks had reached the point where he could not sleep well, and he could not feel at ease without heavy responsibility.

"Hicks, do you know something?" Ruoying suppressed the tremor of her voice and said word by word.

"Your Excellency, you say."

"Wu Qi is my younger brother. I rebelled against the Supreme Court and abandoned everything in the past just to save the person, and that is him. He's my own brother! ”

Hicks' body froze. After he heard Ruoying's words, his brain went blank completely.

"Hicks, only you and Wu Qi's teammates know about this. In the battle for the survival of the five human survivor bases, I chose a hostage deal and a battle plan against the Plague Throne in order to save Wu Qi. If it weren't for Wu Qi who was captured, I wouldn't have made a move, the Throne of Life would still be dead, the Plague Throne and the Cursed Throne would still have disappeared without a trace, and I wouldn't have fallen into the trap set by the Cursed Throne by revealing my true body. ”

After Ruoying spit out the last word, she covered her mouth violently and coughed violently. Her cough woke up the sluggish Hicks, and at the end of the cough, Ruoying took her hand away, and her palms were covered with stinging blood.

"My lord, what's wrong with you!"

Hicks was so shocked that he stood up and ran to the front of the office in three steps and two steps, looking at Ruoying very closely.

Hicks was completely stunned at this time, and with a wave of his hand, he opened the curtains in the air, allowing the moonlight to shine on Ruoying. I saw that Ruoying's face was as pale as paper, a red blood mark appeared on her forehead, and twisted blood lines crawled everywhere from her face to her neck. And the palm of the hand that Ruoying had just used to cover her mouth was stained with coughed blood.

Hicks hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off Ruoying's palm. Ruoying's hand was extremely cold, and Hicks felt that something was wrong, and reached out and put it on Ruoying's forehead tremblingly, but Ruoying's forehead burned so much that he frightened him.

Hicks was completely panicked. Ruo Ying was a fourth-order pioneer, how could he suddenly be riddled with illness and weakened to such an extent? Could it be that this is the attack of the Cursed Throne?

Ruoying forced out a weak smile. She told Hicks the truth because her body couldn't support it, and the lesions below her throat were further aggravated, even if she could still hold on to it on the surface, but her heart was tortured to confide in her heart, "If you go on like this, you will really die".