CH 79.1

Just as Yi Chengze felt guilty and unsure of how to explain, Pei Zhaozhou suddenly stood up, his eyes slightly puzzled and politely asked, “Hello, do you know me?”

Of course, Yi Chengze knew Pei Zhaozhou, but Pei Zhaozhou didn’t. Besides, before he fell into a coma, he was a prominent figure. How could he encounter an escaped fugitive who made a living by running an underground clinic?

However, it was evident that Pei Zhaozhou was sincerely and genuinely confused as he asked, with a hint of apology in his eyes, seemingly sorry for not recognizing Yi Chengze.

Suddenly, a ridiculous and unimaginable guess emerged in Yi Chengze’s mind. He cautiously probed, “Do you remember your own name?”

Pei Zhaozhou frowned and stated his name.

Yi Chengze breathed a sigh of relief, but something was amiss. It meant he had to inform Pei Zhaozhou about Little Soybean’s runaway!

Despite Little Soybean’s capabilities, there were numerous dangers in the outside world. Who knew what unforeseen incidents could occur? Yi Chengze admitted that although he had been harsh on Little Soybean in daily life, they had developed some level of attachment through their time together.

Yi Chengze intended to honestly disclose Little Soybean’s departure, but to his surprise, Pei Zhaozhou reacted oddly.

Yi Chengze confessed guiltily, “I’m really sorry, but your child has run away from home. I was just about to look for her when you woke up.”

Pei Zhaozhou, who had just awakened, looked at Yi Chengze talking with his mouth and mentioning his child. He felt puzzled, wondering when he had a child.

Pei Zhaozhou instinctively pondered for a moment, but it seemed that the aftermath of the explosion triggered a protective mechanism in his brain, covering his memories in a dense fog. He could vaguely see some scenes, but the clear appearances of those people remained tricky.

Hence, when Pei Zhaozhou had just woken up, he didn’t recognize Yi Chengze, but he wasn’t overly surprised.

“Do I have a child?” When Pei Zhaozhou asked this question, a few images flashed through his mind—a hospital, holding a prenatal examination report, caressing a slightly bulging belly, as if speaking to the baby inside, with another man standing beside him…

A man who seemed important to him.

Pei Zhaozhou covered his rapidly beating heart, a hint of confusion crossing his amber-golden eyes.

He couldn’t recall the man’s appearance, but he remembered that he seemed to have a pair of particularly clear and bright sea-blue eyes.

Pei Zhaozhou furrowed his brows, desperately trying to recall the man’s face, but it was a blank canvas, as if all the faces in his memory were white sheets of paper, gradually leaving him empty and anxious.

Yi Chengze exclaimed in surprise, “Of course, you do! I even performed the surgery on you. I never expected an Alpha like you could get pregnant.”

Pei Zhaozhou now understood Yi Chengze’s meaning to some extent. The child he carried had already been born, and now she had run away from home.

Yi Chengze noticed Pei Zhaozhou’s unease and asked, “Don’t you remember being pregnant?”

Pei Zhaozhou furrowed his brow slightly and said, “I recall being pregnant, but my memories are somewhat distorted. I can only vaguely remember that something happened, but I can’t recall the appearance of the person involved.”

Yi Chengze sensed something strange and suspected that Pei Zhaozhou had awakened physically, but his brain had suffered significant trauma, resulting in amnesia.

After conducting a brain CT scan, they discovered that most of the hippocampus responsible for storing memories was in a sleep state, but Pei Zhaozhou’s recovery was progressing well. It was merely a temporary case of amnesia. Once his hippocampus fully recovered, his memories would return.

However, the biggest problem at the moment was still the inability to find Little Soybean!!!

Yi Chengze wore a grim expression as he handed the handwritten letter left by Little Soybean to Pei Zhaozhou and said with a dull tone, “This is a letter your child left behind. She said she was going to the capital city to find her other father. I went to the interstellar public station and asked the staff, but there was no sign of a three-year-old girl taking a ride. I have no idea where she could be hiding.”

Pei Zhaozhou took the letter and gazed at the crooked handwriting, as if he could envision a small hand struggling to hold the pen, earnestly writing the letter.

Within the words, he sensed his child, Little Soybean’s, deep concern for his unresponsive state. Little Soybean mustered up the courage to seek another father’s help in waking him up.

Pei Zhaozhou felt a warm connection coursing through his veins, as a father’s worry and anxiety engulfed his heart upon realizing his young child had run away from home.

“Do you have any pictures of Little Soybean?” Pei Zhaozhou tightly pursed his lips and immediately asked Yi Chengze.

Yi Chengze took out some photos of Little Soybean for Pei Zhaozhou to see. However, to be honest, most of them were intentionally captured as embarrassing moments—photos of Little Soybean with a resentful face, pictures of her falling down, or the ones where she lost her front teeth.

There wasn’t a single decent photo; all were Yi Chengze’s mischievous shots, making fun of Little Soybean. Seeing Pei Zhaozhou’s serious gaze, Yi Chengze grew increasingly guilty.

But as Pei Zhaozhou looked at the girl in the photos, he often found her glaring, seemingly angry at the person taking the picture. Her shallow, sea-blue eyes appeared clean and clear, and her slightly pouting face resembled a tender steamed bun. The delicate and adorable features melted his heart. She was a lively three-year-old girl.

Suddenly, a wave of regret and heartache washed over Pei Zhaozhou. He hadn’t been there to accompany his child through this period, and now she had run away because she was worried about him.

Yi Chengze thought that after Pei Zhaozhou had seen the photos, he intended to go out and look for Little Soybean together.

However, to his surprise, after Pei Zhaozhou finished looking at the photos, he immediately accessed their home’s StarNet device. With a rapid flurry of finger movements, a series of code flashed across the StarNet screen, resulting in a blue screen.

“Ding! You have successfully logged into the security monitoring system of Planet XX.”

Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes turned cold and stern. He uploaded Little Soybean’s photo to the facial recognition system of the security monitoring system, searching for matching surveillance video data.

Yi Chengze was left dumbfounded, realizing that Planet XX was the very planet they currently resided on. Being a medical student, he was clueless about the extent of a tech-savvy person’s abilities. How could one invade even the government’s security monitoring system with such intense manipulation?!!

“General Pei, are you sure you have amnesia?” Yi Chengze widened his eyes in shock and asked.

“I just have some fuzzy memories, but my accumulated skills from studying haven’t regressed. The security monitoring system on Planet XX still uses outdated programs, relatively simple to crack,” Pei Zhaozhou calmly explained, seemingly considering the matter unworthy of mention. After all, he had personally developed the cutting-edge artificial intelligence of his mech’s intelligence brain, surpassing the capabilities of such outdated planet security monitoring systems.

Yi Chengze couldn’t help but feel amazed by the powers of a true master.

Soon, the security system matched a video of a little girl, and the person in the footage was none other than Little Soybean. She was wandering near the interstellar station, but then seemed to notice something and stopped in her tracks.

A male Beta happened to park his hovercar in front of Little Soybean. They exchanged words, and the Beta obediently opened the car door for her, seemingly following her command.

Later, the scene showed the hovercar flying off the planet.

It turned out that when Yi Chengze couldn’t find Little Soybean at the interstellar public station, it was because she hadn’t left through the station at all. Instead, she had boarded a private hovercar belonging to someone else.

Pei Zhaozhou furrowed his brow in confusion and asked, “Does Little Soybean know this man? Why would he allow her to board the car and obediently comply?”

Yi Chengze forced a dry laugh and said, “That’s probably because your child is quite special…”

Through Yi Chengze’s words, Pei Zhaozhou finally understood just how extraordinary his child was. Not only could she manipulate people’s thoughts, commanding the male to drive the hovercar and take her away, but she also possessed the unique ability of mind-reading.

It seemed that Little Soybean used her mind-reading to find a suitable target and waited for the male to arrive, then mentally commanded him to drive the hovercar away.

Pei Zhaozhou knew that he himself didn’t possess such abilities, so it was likely that Little Soybean inherited them from her other father.

He recalled the man with the sea-blue eyes from his hazy memories. Who was he? And where did he go?

When Pei Zhaozhou traced the location of the male’s hovercar, he discovered that Little Soybean was nowhere to be found. It seemed she had taken another mode of transportation to the imperial capital.

In order to find Little Soybean as quickly as possible, Pei Zhaozhou and Yi Chengze decided to board the fastest spaceship to the capital city.

Since Pei Zhaozhou’s identity information was registered as deceased, Yi Chengze arranged a fake identity for him, disguising him as an ordinary-looking Alpha.

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