After the last and only communication, the Zerg clung to the edge of the black hole, while the Omnics imprisoned themselves in a deep space prison, becoming the only two races in the universe that could not travel long distances.

Apart from capturing those unlucky creatures who strayed from their course, the Zerg had no further communication with the outside world. It seemed as if their time had always stopped at a certain point.

until--

A star comes across the light years.

In the cave prison, Xi Yujin's heart was pounding. When he asked to see the queen, he could feel that the blades within a hundred miles were pointed at him, like an underground sandworm opening its huge mouth to bite him in half. The murderous intent that was ready to go out almost solidified, but Xi Yujin remained calm, like a performer on a tightrope, not showing any fear to any audience.

In a frequency band that Xi Yujin could not hear, a large amount of noise gathered in the sky, and the calls for his mother became louder and louder.

Bai Ying, who was closest to Xi Yujin, narrowed his eyes, his pupils deformed strangely, trying to find a trace of guilt from Xi Yujin's micro-expressions. The Zerg were born with the ability to read body language, which made it easier for them to break through the enemy's weaknesses and kill them with one blow. But in the more than ten seconds of confrontation, the long ten seconds, he seemed to be facing an iron wall, and could not read the thoughts of this mountain ash at all.

Just when the tense atmosphere was about to explode, the queen's echo floated in the universe, adding a layer of sedative to the tense situation.

Xi Yujin saw Bai Ying's stunned expression and guessed that the queen must have agreed to talk.

Bai Ying really put down his weapon and stopped looking at Xi Yujin. As his blade was retracted, the Zerg weapons around him were also withdrawn like withered straw, and the cave-shaped prison returned to peace.

Xi Yujin breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't just installed a big one, he would have really wanted to sit on the ground and thank God.

He looked into the sky, nervously waiting for the arrival of the Zerg Supreme.

Then……

He fell into a very awkward waiting period.

The Zerg Queen has not appeared yet.

It takes a long time for it to break free from the black hole's gravity.

So it's still on the way.

Xi Yujin waited in the cave prison from dawn to dusk, and then to dawn, and he was already doubting his life. As a low-level laborer, La went into the interrogation court in the distance twice in an orderly manner. The patrol team leading the sandstorm bugs had circled the cave prison three times. Bai Ying was even kind enough to hand Xi Yujin a basket of autumn fruits. The Zerg Queen had not yet arrived.

If Xi Yujin asked Baiying when the Zerg Queen would arrive, Baiying's answer would always be the same:

"Mother is on the way."

The Queen is on her way, don't rush her!

Xi Yujin was afraid to relax at first, but now he was strolling around the prison with great interest, and then he found the remains of the Omnics and the Tide Leveler. Now he has started to entertain himself. He has been doing this for five days. The waiting period is too long and it has become torture. He is not even happy riding the roller coaster.

Xi Yujin was bored and asked for paper and pen, and decided to resume his old job in prison - writing books. Prison is the most suitable place for writing. Sitting here, he would be sorry for his infinite inspiration if he didn't write a story of prison escape.

Soon after, some high-level Zerg arrived. They all surrounded the cave-shaped prison and stared at the man who was disrespectful to his mother with unfriendly expressions.

Xi Yujin wrote calmly.

"What is he writing?" the senior Zerg asked Bai Ying.

Bai Ying looked worried: "It's dangerous stuff, don't ask about it."

Xi Yujin decided to continue using the pseudonym "Shanhui" to start a second season of "The Third-Rate Lover"

The first part of "The Third-Rate Lover" tells the story of the protagonist introducing a friend to his adopted son, Faxuedie. Faxuedie thought the protagonist was pushing it away, but it would rather cling to death than be separated from the protagonist. So it threatened to make their relationship public and let them rot together in the midst of public condemnation. Faxuedie gave the protagonist enough passionate love, and the protagonist was moved by it and decided to elope for the last time. The result of the elopement was left as a suspense at the end of the book.

In the second part, the protagonist and Faxuedie eloped to a small island. They left behind all their wealth and status, and lived together on this desolate island, loving each other for a while.

They had no money, the law butterfly was still taking exams, and the protagonist wanted to do some work to supplement the family income. So it received a job as a letter deliveryman.

The butterfly god who delivers the letter is mysterious and tells the protagonist that the letter is very important and needs to be delivered properly.

Of course the protagonist agreed and kept the letter close to him along the way. But something unexpected happened. A bully took a fancy to the protagonist, and the protagonist coldly rebuked him for being wishful thinking. The bully was extremely angry and wanted to take revenge on the protagonist, so he followed him.

The Bully Butterfly saw that the protagonist sent a letter to a mysterious family. After careful investigation, the Bully found that this family was fake, and their true identity was the Dragonfly Revolutionary Party!

The evil Butterfly immediately reported to the church, the Dragonfly Revolutionary Party narrowly escaped, but the protagonist was thrown into prison.

The protagonist is about to be sent to the most dangerous prison in the world. He begs the jailer to send a letter to the Law Butterfly on the small village island, asking the Law Butterfly to fly away and forget about him. However, the bully suddenly appears and shouts:

"No! I can't send any letter! Your poor lover will only die in the waiting day after day, thinking that you betrayed his love and resenting you! No matter how strong the love is, once you separate, it will become the most deadly poison! I want you to live as enemies for the rest of your lives. This is my revenge!"

The protagonist's heart was broken, but he couldn't bend down and beg the bully. He could only grit his teeth and be taken to the most evil prison in the world - Lotus Prison!

…

Xi Yujin wrote in the language of the servants' original race, and the surrounding high-level Zerg could read it. They did not cross the prison cordon, but their eyesight was excellent, and they could see the words on Xi Yujin's desk without paying attention.

Advanced Zerg have local battlefield command, which requires quick thinking and analytical skills. They may know nothing about literature, but they can read the subtext of the text by instinct, and any comparison with synaesthesia is not worth mentioning.

——So what happens next?

——What happened to the protagonist after he went to prison? Can he successfully meet another butterfly that is important to him?

——Why can't the protagonist just punch the evil butterfly and break its wings? Is this a difficult thing to do?

——How come this disrespectful servant writes books so slowly?

More and more eyes were focused on Xi Yujin. He didn't seem to be waiting for the queen now, but was writing a book live.

The prison gave him so much inspiration that Xi Yujin only rested for a short while before continuing to write as many of the onlookers wished.

The protagonist went to prison and went through a series of inner changes.

It is cynical about everything, and wants to spit at the criminal next door, and wants to go back to the past and kick the wings of the bully. Even if it may not succeed, it has resisted.

It cursed everything around it, but it didn't think it was enough. It began to curse the heavens, cursing that the omniscient God would one day become a despicable person. After cursing, its pessimism was infinitely magnified. It lay motionless in the cell all day long, not even wanting to drink water. It realized that it really had to spend the rest of its life in this narrow cell. Freedom, precious freedom, it was actually gone forever!

The high-level Zerg looked slightly cold when they read this sentence.

They spoke to each other at a frequency that Xi Yujin could not hear.

“Is this a thought criminal?”

"When will he be executed? This is the mother's poison."

"free……"

Bai Ying did not use the Zerg common frequency, but spoke in the voice that Xi Yujin had heard: "You have never experienced hard times in prison, so why are you making this up?"

Xi Yujin said without raising his head, "So I am just a novelist, not a real criminal. Longing for freedom is not my crime." Then he thought of something else and added in a slightly higher voice, "But eloping is."

Bai Ying paused for three seconds before realizing that Shan Hui was talking about Gano. Was he being shown off by them again? What a terrible love relationship!

He was upset and threatened sinisterly: "If you write anything about freedom again, even if it means I have to violate the prison ban, I will rush in and twist your hands off."

Xi Yujin: "Don't worry, I don't like to preach. Welcome to follow me."

Bai Ying didn't know what to say. He wanted to see what else this thought criminal could write. Unconsciously, he began to look forward to the next chapter of Xi Yujin.

In the Lotus Prison, the protagonist Die lay there with a dead heart.

Suddenly, it heard a voice coming from the bottom. It was the most innocent criminal in the prison, Beetle. It was framed and imprisoned because it had no money to bribe. The jailer gave it a special sentence. When Beetle could push a stone to the top of the mountain, he would be released from prison. But the slope of the top of the mountain was very shaky, and there was a spring tied to the stone that connected to the bottom of the mountain. Beetle could never push the stone to the top of the mountain. In other words, Beetle would stay here for the rest of his life.

But the Beetle was not pessimistic. Instead, it treated every criminal calmly and held a reading club in the dark prison. It was reading at this moment.

"Love is the treasure of the universe. Loveliness can be divided into small love and great love. When we only care about small love, we will have many low-level pleasures due to the entanglement of personal destiny. When we care about great love, we will realize that we are insignificant, and the heavy responsibility on our shoulders urgently requires us to fight for our lives, so our personal future will naturally not be important..."

Is it so painful because it has no great love? The protagonist also hates the beetle, but he is immediately exhausted. It is actually what he hates the most.

The protagonist butterfly simply vented his emotions in prison. He moved a high platform to the prison grounds, stood on it alone, and cursed this weird society with his first words.

"This is a society ruled by class! Where we are born has determined our future life. If you are born in the weeds, no matter how hard you work, you will never have enough to eat; if you are born on the top of the nectar, you will have a life of luxury."

Unexpectedly, it won the applause of many criminals.

The protagonist continued his speech, starting with the noble butterfly, then scolding the bully who covered the sky with one wing, and then scolding the cold-blooded accomplice who watched, until he was driven off the stage by the jailer who heard the news. But he had already become famous. The beetle saw all of this.

One day, the prison door suddenly opened. It turned out that the Dragonfly Revolutionary Party overthrew the Butterfly Church, a new emperor came to power, new measures were promulgated, and a general amnesty was to be granted!

The protagonist was taken to the warden's room. He recognized the creature in the room, that was the one he had sent the letter to!

"Your delivery of letters has helped us a lot. We heard from our spies that you have been giving speeches in prison, which has made our actions so smooth. You are a butterfly who loves the lower-level creatures, and we must thank you!" It turns out that the beetle is also a member of the dragonfly party.

When the protagonist thought that his beloved Faxie had come to hate him, he said with a broken heart: "I have no love, and my future has been ruined."

"You are a butterfly with great love. You should not be bound by the past. But we also know that if you don't let go of the past, the scars will always hurt. We have a good idea. Although you are a swallowtail butterfly, you don't have wings. This is very suitable for disguising yourself as a new identity... You can pretend to be a creature on our side and impose sanctions on the creatures that have hurt you in the past. We will offer you the most precious treasures."

The Beetle said:

"Go for revenge, in the name of the Duke of Dragonfly!"

…

Xi Yujin contentedly named the second part of "Thirty-rate Lover" "The Duke of Dragonfly".

The revenge factor is almost ingrained in the Zerg's DNA.

After reading this plot, Bai Ying really wanted to rush into the prison and shake Xi Yujin to make him finish the revenge plot. But Xi Yujin seemed to be going to rest again. It was already dark, and the Zerg Queen still hadn't arrived. The prison was as calm as before the storm.

“I actually finished reading it without realizing it…”

Bai Ying felt guilty and wanted to erase the plot from his mind. However, the more he wanted to forget the plot, the deeper his impression of it became. Bai Ying wanted to know what the next plot would be. Did the protagonist succeed in revenge? What would be the future of the protagonist and Faxuedie?

After a while, Bai Ying gave up struggling. He had been at the edge of the cave prison because Xi Yujin was a servant and it was part of his job. Before Xi Yujin was officially imprisoned, he had to keep an eye on this thought prisoner, but he didn't expect to drag himself into the water.

He did not speak to Xi Yujin. Any words he said could be heard by the high-level Zerg around him, and he did not want to be beaten up by a group of people. He wrote a note and nailed it to the edge of the cave-shaped prison.

"If you want to beg the Queen for mercy, you can say--"

Xi Yujin looked on curiously. Could it be that this Zerg had grasped the Queen’s weakness?

"You are willing to lay 1,000 eggs with that Ganuo."

Xi Yujin:?

Bai Ying sighed inaudibly. Although doing so would require transforming Ganuo and opening up advanced permissions to allow his body to adapt to conception; although doing so would mean that Xi Yujin would never be able to leave the Zerg territory and could no longer write... but at least he would be alive.

Xi Yujin tore off the note and wrote "never" on the back.

Whether begging for mercy or asking Gano to lay eggs, it is impossible to happen!

He will travel freely in the universe with Ganuo...

Xi Yujin inevitably worried about Ganuo. Zerg would not harm their own kind, and the lower the level, the less harm they would do. If a high-level Zerg bullied a low-level Zerg, it would be a serious crime. Because low-level Zerg were very fragile, their work was very important. Therefore, Ganuo had been rampant, but he had not been severely punished. Only then did Xi Yujin feel relieved to separate from Ganuo.

Xi Yujin sat cross-legged on the track of the cave-shaped prison, looking up at the starry night sky, and said to himself: "You Zerg, don't you want to go to the universe?"

He guessed that the advanced Zerg had a way to eavesdrop on him, but now no Zerg responded and everything was silent.

Suddenly, the stars fell toward the skyline.

With the sound of a flying knife scraping through the air, many double Zerg wings spread out one after another, then pointed downwards and folded back together.

Bai Ying stood like a pine tree, with his hands clasped in front of his chest, like a devout prayer. In fact, he was indeed a prayer, silently confessing to his mother, almost overwhelmed by the surging guilt in his heart.

Then Xi Yujin saw the moving stars.

The whole sky seemed to have become a canvas, and at this moment a hand was pinching the canvas, causing the whole sky to have folds like a dimension upgrade. Then large pieces of cloth fell to the sky, and the sound of warm water waves was like countless small beads falling on a jade plate. It seemed to be raining in the sky, becoming hazy, and then countless dragonflies shone like gold. In an instant, they rushed from the starry sky to Xi Yujin.

This colloidal creature without a solid shape... is it the Zerg Queen?

Xi Yujin's heart was clenched in a trance.

He didn't know that the Zerg Queen had many forms. The flying form was exactly like this. The Zerg Queen secreted a sticky liquid, and used excellent chemical reactions to synthesize bubbles inside, wrapping all the bodies, and then flew in the universe. The colloidal properties made this layer of mucus extend very long in the universe, like a shining flag. In the war, the dying Zerg only needed to look at the flag to gain more courage. Because the Zerg Queen also has another nickname, the Immortal Battle Flag.

The colloid that hung down from the sky was like an insurmountable wall blocking the cave-shaped prison. Xi Yujin couldn't even see the sky. The golden dragonflies inside the colloid fell one by one, like a magnificent meteor shower. The glimmer of the small diamonds was just like a firefly in front of the sun.

When the golden dragonfly faded halfway, the Zerg Queen's magnificent and hard body, like a mountain, finally appeared. It was brown, not pure black, and there was always a hint of luster on it. The first thing you see is its tail, a strange peach heart, with the tip just stuck in the ground. This is the Queen's most amazing synthetic factory. It eats the body, selects the genes it likes, and then passes them on to the next generation. It is simply the most outstanding genetic engineer in the universe.

Then there was its thin body, with sections of tubes and hairs on it. Above that were glands with fangs and claws. It looked like a starfish that had been cut open, spitting out sticky mucus. There were hook-like front feet on both sides. It was probably standing far away, but Xi Yujin could still see that two weapons were placed on both sides of the cave-shaped prison, which might knock him away if he was not satisfied.

The strangest thing is its head, which looks like two big bunches of roses sewn on it.

As it slowly lowered its head, Xi Yujin heard the sound of quicksand - it turned out that there were densely packed eyeballs in the gaps between the flowers. They fell down with gravity, like quicksand, but just didn't overflow from the petals. The pupils of each eyeball were different in shape, and they moved autonomously, with one third of them staring in Xi Yujin's direction.

This is the youngest queen of the Zerg, Eubit.

Xi Yujin swallowed his saliva.

Bai Ying's head was almost down to her chest, and the glowing embers of the mat stood out at this moment. No Zerg dared to look at their mother so disrespectfully.

Youbit looked at Xi Yujin and chuckled, the sound seemed to ring right behind Xi Yujin's ear. It didn't seem to have much hostility, or it didn't care at all.

It seemed to be in a good mood and asked, "Are you the new servant? What did you do wrong to have to stand on the cave-shaped prison?"

Xi Yujin raised his head and said, "My crime is a thought criminal."

Ubito: “Hahahaha——”

Xi Yujin continued, "I know that the Omnic Mother Box had a deal with the Zerg Queen."

Ubito's laughter stopped abruptly.

The nearby Zerg were all shocked when they heard this, but on the surface they still bowed their heads and prayed. Zerg and Omnics have always been mortal enemies, so how could there be a deal?

"Do you want me to continue?" Xi Yujin stared at the queen's huge body and asked calmly.

After a while, Youbit said in a long voice: "Go on--"

Xi Yujin said: "In order to ease her mental confusion, the Zerg Queen chose to make a deal with the Omnic Mother Box. She handed over the core technology of the Egg Brain, and the Omnics handed over the mechanical simulation technology, causing the entire Zerg's thinking to stagnate. As long as it stops at that moment, the mental confusion will not get worse. So for so long, the only meaning of the Zerg is to become an exquisite toy in the Queen's viewing room."

The nearby Zerg could hardly suppress the urge to draw their swords.

Every word Xi Yujin said hit their sore spots.

"But..." Xi Yujin hesitated, "I have another question, why..."

This might not be a good time to ask questions, but he felt that if he didn't ask, no other creature would be able to give him the answer.

"Why don't Zerg warriors have mental confusion?"

He had been here for a long time, and found that no matter the low-level Zerg produced in batches or the high-level Zerg that were blessed by nature, they were not troubled by mental confusion. Therefore, there was no need to develop literature. Even the servants who loved reading had lost their previous hobbies because of the change of bodies.

Eubit slowly raised his head and said slowly: "Because I love my children equally, that's all."

Xi Yujin was stunned. It was hard to imagine that such an arrogant and psychopathic person like the Zerg Queen could be linked to love, and such a pure and selfless love at that.

The Zerg Queen took on the mental chaos of all her children.

Its pain is already beyond imagination. If the weight of its thoughts exceeds it by even a little bit, it will collapse completely. It can only fall into a black hole to get relief.

Baiying felt very guilty.

All the high-level Zerg present who understood what was said felt very guilty.

The Zerg have accumulated too much mental confusion. Once the flood breaks out, the entire race will collapse. The queen's strong body and empty brain are the dam that resists the flood.

If they pursue freedom again...

The Queen's suffering will intensify.

If they follow the laws of natural evolution and let ideas flow again after the war...

That would just destroy the Queen's brain.

The article itself is not the poison to the mother. The child's free thoughts are the poison to the mother.

Youbit laughed at Xi Yujin's title of "thought criminal" because it had never created such a crime.

At the deadlock, the high-level Zerg chose to remain silent, living on a small planet, pretending that they had never yearned for the scenery outside the universe. The lower-level Zerg, on the other hand, had their thoughts imprisoned in a cage. The Zerg was closed layer by layer, enveloping all the souls yearning for freedom. Until one day, an accident occurred, a scout looked outside and decided to go out on his own...

Xi Yujin gradually understood: "So what is the Nest Building Conference?"

Eubit's voice rose again: "My masterpiece!"

It is the promoter of Zerg Xiaoba’s literature!

Ubit: "Being a mother is always worrying. We are heading into a black hole. It's very comfortable. If we're not careful, we won't be able to come back. If we all die one day, I hope our children will have a different future... Unfortunately, I don't know where I went wrong in the matchmaking. Why didn't even a single couple become a couple?"

It turns out that the Zerg Queen did not completely adopt the methods of the Omnics... In this cold, chaotic and ruthless universe, there is still something unexpectedly warm.

Different queens are exploring the possibilities of the Zerg.

Is there a possibility that both mother and child can survive?

However, the attempts of different queens all failed, and they gradually fell into eternal sleep in the black hole. Only the youngest Eubit was left, still tossing and turning the body with great interest.

Bai Ying almost fell to his knees, his body shaking. Guilt overwhelmed him, and all the children present.

Youbitt remembered the business and asked, "So are you here to declare war on me?"

Xi Yujin said calmly: "No, I'm here for treatment."