Major General Alpha (9): The more these people say Zhou Qinghao is bad, the more it proves that Zhou Qinghao is a good person!

Gu Juntian spent the night in the medical pod, and by the next day, he was full of energy again.

When he climbed out of the pod, he found that Zhou Qinghao’s once-empty room was now filled with things—it lacked nothing.

That’s how it should be! Before, Zhou Qinghao’s room had been so bare it looked desolate.

These items had been arranged by the people around Gu Juntian, and he was very satisfied with their work, rewarding them with a generous red envelope.

After that, he went to find Zhou Qinghao. “Qinghao, want to spar?”

Zhou Qinghao: “…” Yesterday, Gu Juntian had challenged him to a fight, then went to train, pushing himself until he had to enter the medical pod.

Zhou Qinghao had checked the pod’s records—at that time, Gu Juntian’s internal organs had been damaged!

And now he still wanted to fight?

Why was he so desperate to get stronger?

Was it because he wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible?

But no matter what, Zhou Qinghao couldn’t bring himself to refuse Gu Juntian.

As Gu Juntian’s subordinate, he had no reason to refuse anyway.

So, they fought again.

This time, Gu Juntian still lost.

But he was happy about it—in the fight, he could feel himself improving rapidly.

It was really great that there was a Zhou Qinghao in this world!

Although during the battle, he had to restrain certain thoughts, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Forget it, he would endure it!

It wasn’t like he could beat Zhou Qinghao anyway!

And even if he could, could he really force Zhou Qinghao?

Zhou Qinghao had never forced him!

After the fight, Gu Juntian took a cold shower, then headed straight to the training room.

He wanted Zhou Qinghao to train with him, but Zhou Qinghao had a lot of work—there were Zergs roaming nearby that required his orders to clear out, and sometimes he even had to fight personally.

So Gu Juntian could only train alone.

Thinking about it carefully, it made sense that they couldn’t both do extreme training at the same time—if they both ended up in the medical pod and high-level Zergs suddenly attacked, what would they do?

For now, it was better if only he trained hard.

With that in mind, Gu Juntian handed the five A-level Alphas to Zhou Qinghao so they could share some of his workload.

Of course, his explanation to the five Alphas was that he wanted to give them some experience.

In any case, the five A-level Alphas left with Zhou Qinghao in high spirits.

After training, Gu Juntian pushed himself to return to Zhou Qinghao’s suite, so exhausted he didn’t even have the strength to get into the medical pod on his own.

Fortunately, he could have the robots carry him into it.

It was while the robots were moving him that his communication terminal rang.

A glance told him it was the adviser most trusted and relied upon by the original Gu Juntian, who, according to his guess, was likely connected to the Second Prince.

What did this person want from him?

He wanted to answer, but he was too drained, so he didn’t.

After soaking in the pod for a while, he felt a bit better and was just about to call back when the person called again.

This time, Gu Juntian answered.

His body was immersed in the pod’s nutrient solution, but his face was above the surface as he accepted the video call.

“Lieutenant General, you’ve been at Zhou Qinghao’s station for two days now. When are you coming back?” the adviser asked.

“I can’t return for the time being,” Gu Juntian said.

“Lieutenant General, you’re in a medical pod?” The adviser finally noticed his condition. “Are you alright?”

“It’s nothing serious,” Gu Juntian replied.

“You’re injured at Zhou Qinghao’s station? Lieutenant General, did Zhou Qinghao do something to you? Taking your credit was one thing, but now he’s even hurt you…” The adviser’s tone was full of indignation.

This person really was relentless in trying to sow discord between him and Zhou Qinghao.

The fact that Zhou Qinghao had been helping the original Gu Juntian command battles was known to Gu Juntian’s trusted aides, including this man.

Zhou Qinghao could hide his involvement from his own people by being cautious, but he couldn’t hide it from the original owner’s side.

After all, the original owner’s abilities were known to his subordinates, and there was no way he’d be commanding battles alone.

However, very few knew about the original owner and Zhou Qinghao’s years-long relationship—only two of the original owner’s childhood friends.

Even his so-called “true love” didn’t fully know.

The original owner had told his true love that Zhou Qinghao liked him but couldn’t have him, and would even harm those he liked or who liked him. Since Zhou Qinghao was strong, he needed to keep him under control, so he hoped his true love could endure a little for his sake…

Either way, since the true love was aligned with the Second Prince, that faction definitely knew about Zhou Qinghao’s feelings.

Not wanting anything to happen between him and Zhou Qinghao, they worked hard to ruin their relationship.

Before, Gu Juntian had used “Zhou Qinghao is acting strangely, I need to calm him down” as an excuse to brush off his so-called true love. Now…

If this person wanted to think Zhou Qinghao had done something to him, he might as well let them believe it.

He raised the terminal so the other person could see the medical pod’s readouts and the injuries on his upper body. “I don’t know what’s gotten into Zhou Qinghao—he insisted on sparring with me… You know all my past battle merits came from him…”

Gu Juntian didn’t want to speak badly of Zhou Qinghao, so he kept it vague.

But that was enough for the adviser to imagine the worst—that Zhou Qinghao had leverage over Gu Juntian and was threatening him. “Lieutenant General, you’ve suffered!”

The injuries on his upper body and the pod’s readings clearly showed he was in bad shape.

Zhou Qinghao had actually beaten him like this?

It seemed their actions had driven Zhou Qinghao to turn ruthless.

Their Lieutenant general was just saving face by calling it “sparring”—in reality, Zhou Qinghao must have humiliated him in some way.

And just now, the adviser had noticed that Gu Juntian was staying in a room meant for guards!

Zhou Qinghao had actually made him live in such a small guard’s quarters!

The adviser grew excited—not out of sympathy, but out of glee.

If Zhou Qinghao treated Gu Juntian like this, the pleasure-loving Gu Juntian would surely hate him!

That would make it much easier for them to ruin Gu Juntian completely.

Their original plan had been a chain of schemes.

First, they would send four high-level Zergs against Zhou Qinghao, causing his defeat and death.

After his death, Gu Juntian would place all blame on him, and the public—angered by the heavy casualties among Zhou Qinghao’s men—would turn against him.

Then they would release evidence online showing that Gu Juntian had stolen Zhou Qinghao’s merits and that Zhou Qinghao’s men had died because he refused to send reinforcements.

Zhou Qinghao would be robbed of his achievements in life, smeared after death, and public hatred toward Gu Juntian would reach its peak.

Then they would lure Gu Juntian to a desolate planet, arrange for him to face a high-level Zerg, and stream it live.

They wanted the empire’s people to see that, despite being an S-level alpha, Gu Juntian was not worthy of the title and couldn’t even beat one Zerg.

And they would have that Zerg kill him!

Once dead, Gu Juntian could no longer compete with the Second Prince for the throne.

More importantly, they could pin all of this on the First Legion’s marshal, claiming everything Gu Juntian had done was because the marshal allowed it.

That way, the marshal would lose his position.

They had waited so long before making a move, not just to deal with Gu Juntian, but also to strike at the First Legion’s marshal.

Back when the late empress died, the marshal had been so enraged he nearly killed the emperor, only sparing him after the emperor promised—and signed a document—that he would one day pass the throne to Gu Juntian.

For the emperor, this was a deep humiliation.

The Second Prince was still young, and their loyalty was arguably more to the current emperor in his prime than to the prince.

That emperor had even managed to bribe Gu Juntian’s childhood friends…

Now that Zhou Qinghao hadn’t died and had even changed in temperament, their original scheme wouldn’t work, but they had a new plan.

They would provoke Gu Juntian into killing Zhou Qinghao and broadcast the entire process live!

At the same time, they would expose Gu Juntian’s theft of military merits and accuse him of colluding with the Zerg queen—

Even claiming he had helped the queen kill Zhou Qinghao!

At that point, Gu Juntian would become humanity’s greatest traitor, and the marshal of the First Legion would certainly lose his command.

The adviser began trying to stir up Gu Juntian’s anger toward Zhou Qinghao.

Gu Juntian humored him for a bit before claiming he felt unwell and ending the call.

Then he checked the messages from his blocked “true love,” who was also “worried” about Zhou Qinghao restraining him.

In their eyes, Zhou Qinghao was truly terrible!

But the more they said he was bad, the more it proved to Gu Juntian that he was good!

After brushing them off, Gu Juntian continued with his training.

At Zhou Qinghao’s station, he spent a week fighting and training, exhausting himself every day.

A week later, while still not at Zhou Qinghao’s level, he was already comparable to other S-level powerhouses.

With more training, he could become a super S-level powerhouse like Zhou Qinghao.

It was then that he learned from his adviser about an event.

On a certain desolate planet, several high-level Zergs had been sighted.

“Lieutenant General, you could send Zhou Qinghao to clear that planet. Once he leaves, you can escape his clutches!” the adviser, who “checked in” on him daily, suggested.

Gu Juntian: “…” In the original storyline, the original owner had been lured to this planet by his so-called true love and had encountered high-level Zergs.

Zhou Qinghao had died there saving him.

When he first transmigrated, Gu Juntian had planned to avoid this planet. But now… why avoid it?

He and Zhou Qinghao could just kill the Zergs there—it would be a great achievement!

Though judging from the adviser’s reaction, there were more high-level Zergs than in the original story, enough to threaten Zhou Qinghao’s life.

Even with his help, it might not be completely safe—it would be better to find a few more helpers in case they couldn’t handle them.

So he asked, “There really are high-level Zergs on that planet? How many? Zhou Qinghao is strong—if there’s only one or two, he’ll finish quickly. That would just hand him the credit…”

The adviser said, “According to my information, there are at least four!”

“That’s perfect! I’ll think of a way to get Zhou Qinghao to that planet!” Gu Juntian said happily, then added, “But Zhou Qinghao’s about to be promoted to Lieutenant general—he probably won’t go out for the next half month… At the very least, it’ll be half a month before he heads out. I don’t know if those Zergs will still be there by then.”

“They haven’t moved in a long time—they probably won’t leave. Lieutenant General, I’ll keep an eye on them for you.”

“Then I’ll trouble you with that!” Gu Juntian replied.

Half a month of hellish training should be enough to raise his strength to nearly Zhou Qinghao’s level.

That was also plenty of time to gather enough helpers.

Thinking this, Gu Juntian ended the call and contacted his grandfather. “Grandfather, my men say they’ve found high-level Zergs on a desolate planet—at least four. That’s a huge achievement waiting to be claimed…”

His grandfather had once sent him five A-level Alphas to help him win over the First Legion’s officers.

But why stop with the younger generation?

He could invite the elders of these five, and give them the chance to earn merit!

With himself, Zhou Qinghao, and five S-level powerhouses, they might even be able to kill the Zerg queen. A few high-level Zergs were nothing to fear!