Published at 14th of January 2026 8:29 am

Chapter 2010: Gu Jiao (Godfather Special)

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The Imperial Marshal awoke feeling as though he was floating in a warm ocean. The first thing he did after opening his eyes was to call for the Annihilator.

Accompanied by the sound of a pneumatic hiss, the lid of the cryogenic pod above him slowly opened.

A gentle AI voice sounded: "The medical pod is at your service. You have been in cryogenic sleep for a total of one thousand two hundred and twenty-one days. Welcome to consciousness, beginning a full body examination now."

He lay motionless inside the cryogenic pod, allowing waves of red light to scan over him.

AI: "Examination complete, your vital signs are normal, overall evaluation: excellent. As expected of the Empire’s most powerful Marshal, well done!"

It was the self-set voice and program of the Annihilator, yet the Imperial Marshal understood it did not possess the consciousness of the Annihilator.

The Annihilator’s consciousness forever remained in the warship swallowed by a black hole.

The rumor was true, the Annihilator was initially a nanny robot that accompanied him through a lonely and bullied adolescence. After he transformed his own warship, he retained the nanny robot’s AI core.

Thus, the Annihilator came to be.

And it seemed that through successive modifications and program updates, the Annihilator had awakened its own consciousness.

"Baby, today is another day to obediently eat your meals!"

The AI voice in the medical pod sounded cutely childish.

This was also one of the programs set after the Annihilator awakened its consciousness.

...

The Annihilator was unimaginably large, and its medical pod was equally vast, requiring at least an hour to walk leisurely through every corner.

Of course, the Imperial Marshal had no such leisure.

While eating his dinner, he had the medical pod’s equipment link to this planet’s data.

This planet, called Earth, was in a stage of a Type I civilization, having yet to tap into the energy of the other planets in its own system. The energy level of life forms on Earth was extremely low, with a lifespan of merely around a hundred years, and after death, they barely had any chance to feed back into the habitable zone.

The K93 star system also had various life forms, also referred to as humans. The difference was, life forms in K93 had extremely long lifespans and high energy levels. After death, the life forms would disintegrate, the energy contained within would feed back into the entire star system.

After learning more information about Earth, he roughly compared the differences between himself and Earthlings. He approximated himself to be akin to an adolescent on Earth.

In the cryogenic pod, one does not grow, those years did not count. He was actually over thirty years old, but in the K93 system with extraordinarily long lifespans, anyone under thirty-five was considered a cub.

When he initially went to the Imperial Capital to enlist in the army, he had to lie about his age to enter.

He learned some more information about Earthlings, then began checking the medical pod’s reserves.

The AI systematically reported, and when it mentioned that the "cryogenic pod was functioning normally," he paused.

He had already come out, how was the cryogenic pod still running?

"Which cryogenic pod?" he asked.

AI responded: "Cryogenic Pod No. 2."

The Imperial Marshal opened Cryogenic Pod No. 2 and saw a small infant inside. Then he remembered that a few days before leaving the K93 star system, he had passed by a supply planet raided by space pirates and found a critically ill child there.

The infant was too weak and had been lying in the treatment pod the entire time.

When the Annihilator came into being, the treatment pod automatically entered sleep mode, becoming Cryogenic Pod No. 2.

AI: "Vital signs are weak, would you like to switch to the treatment pod to continue treatment?"

The Imperial Marshal looked at the sleeping infant. Perhaps this was his only companion from the K93 star system.

"Switch,"

he said.

...

The medical pod was situated atop a mountain range, concealed in another space, thus invisible to people here.

The Imperial Marshal stepped out of the medical pod, intending to stroll down the mountain.

Unexpectedly, the gravity here was different from the K93 star system, and he fell to the ground.

The Imperial Marshal had not been so disheveled for quite some time. Just as he was struggling against the gravity to get up, a quarrel broke out in the distance.

He had learned the local language and could understand what they were arguing about.

It was a young man and woman.

The woman, heavily pregnant, gripped the man’s arm and through gritted teeth said, "Today you must explain to me clearly! What’s going on between you and that woman!"

The man pulled his arm back coldly, impatiently saying, "Stop being unreasonable, will you?"

The woman, agitated, raised her phone: "I’m being unreasonable? Gu! I’ve caught you red-handed!"

The man glanced at the photo on the phone, frowning: "When did you take this secretly?"

The woman coldly replied: "Do I even need to take it secretly? You two were out in the open! Just short of moving into our home!"

The man retorted unkindly: "Stop making things up, she and I aren’t in that kind of relationship. Just colleagues, we only had a meal together. Stop being so paranoid! It’s late, I need to get back to the company! Get yourself a cab home!"

With that, he left the woman and walked towards the mountain’s summit.

Presumably, the parking lot was on the other side of the summit.

The woman, fuming, chased after him: "Gu! I’m pregnant, and you’re going to leave me here alone!"

Their tussle was outrageous, and when they brushed past the Imperial Marshal, the woman accidentally bumped into him.

Having yet to adapt to Earth’s gravity, the Imperial Marshal failed to dodge.

The woman’s ring scratched the back of his hand.

To others, fresh red blood was visible on the back of his hand, but he could distinctly see dark energy surging within.

This kind of energy, perhaps Earthlings couldn’t endure.

The woman had bumped into him and scratched him, yet she did not apologize.

He did not mind this; instead, he looked at the bloodstain on the woman’s ring and said fluently in the local language: "Give me the ring."

She shouldn’t be wearing it anymore. If her body were to be injured, that energy would seep into her body.

"Get lost! You bump into me and still want to rob me of my stuff! Where did this little hooligan come from—" the woman barked without thinking, about to say whence came this little hooligan, but choked up when faced with that excessively handsome teenage face.

The youth was tall and slender, dressed in a neat black uniform, exuding an aura of abstinence and rigor all over.

The woman was momentarily stunned.

At this moment, the man had walked far away.

The woman had no time to deal with this youth in a Military Camp uniform and hurriedly chased after him.

He watched the woman’s silhouette recede and said indifferently: "You best not get injured..."

He was a soldier, he didn’t harm civilians. So even though the woman was very impolite to him, he had no intention of hurting her.

Unfortunately, during her attempt to prevent the man from getting in the car, the woman got injured.

The bloodstain on the ring seeped into her body.

She herself did not feel any different.

Two months later, a chubby fair-skinned baby girl was born crying loudly.

Her crying was resonant, more beautiful than the average infant.

Her family gave her a melodious name—Gu Jiao.

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