Chapter 36 Lifesaving Potion "Click..." ...

"Clatter..."

The box fell to the ground, but no insects noticed. Cromwell's sudden turn of events caught all the insects off guard.

Generally speaking, after a riot, there will only be a period of weakness for a few hours. Frequent riots only occur when things are very close to getting out of control. Cromwell was fine before, so how could it suddenly become so serious that his mental domain is about to get out of control?

The butler immediately dismissed the servants and advised Milton to leave. The servants he led were professional bodyguards who could forcibly restrain Cromwell and take him to the calming room to prevent further harm.

Milton immediately replied, "I won't leave; I can help too."

"I need to contact Prince Loxis immediately."

Milton had his bodyguard take Cromwell's personal terminal and hand it to him. The situation was urgent; he had to contact Prince Loxsis immediately, as he was the only insect who could resolve this crisis.

Almost instantly, Cromwell lost his mind and began attacking indiscriminately. The butler quickly directed the bodyguards to surround him and lock him back in the cooling-off room.

Milton then opened his personal terminal, found Loxis's name, and opened the chat. The most recent chat logs were mostly requests from his brother, and His Highness Loxis replied simply, looking very indifferent, not at all like a couple about to get engaged.

Especially in the last few days, it has been only my brother who has been sending greetings, and His Highness Roxis has not even replied.

Milton frowned, but he couldn't worry about that now. Even if Prince Loxis disliked his brother, he probably wouldn't just watch him die. Holding onto a sliver of hope, he sent the message.

"Your Highness Roxis, I am Milton, Cromwell's brother. My brother is in very dangerous condition. Could you please come here?"

"Your Highness Loxis..."

Several messages were sent, but there was no reply. Seeing that his brother's condition was becoming more and more urgent, Milton dialed the communication button, but the communication interface showed that the call was not answered and asked him to try again later.

What's going on? In this day and age, there's no way an insect could exist without carrying a personal computer. Messages might be invisible, but how could communications be missed? Prince Loxis… was he doing this on purpose?

Several minutes passed before the other end of the communication returned, and the gentle face of the blond male insect appeared on the other end of the line.

Cromwell?

Although the situation was extremely urgent, Milton, as the one seeking the insect, still maintained basic politeness. "Your Highness Roxis, I am Milton, and Cromwell is my brother."

Loxis gave a knowing look. "Oh, hello, what can I do for you?"

Milton immediately said, "Your Highness Locksis, although this request is very presumptuous, could you please come to the Duke's mansion now? My brother is in very bad condition."

Loxis frowned immediately. "What? Cromwell is in trouble? But I..."

"I happen to be away from the capital planet today," Roxys said helplessly. "I have diplomatic affairs scheduled for this week, and I'm afraid I won't be back for a while."

Milton immediately became anxious and emphasized again, "My brother is completely immune to high-level pheromones. Without you, he probably..."

Loxis looked somewhat troubled. "How about this, I'll have the butler bring the best doctor over to examine Cromwell..."

As he spoke, Loxis made a gesture of listening attentively, then said apologetically to Milton, "I'm very sorry, something has suddenly come up here. Please don't worry, I'll be back as soon as possible."

Then he hung up the call. Milton tried to call again, but couldn't get through. He refused to believe it and tried calling with his own personal computer, but all the calls were busy and he couldn't get through to any of them.

Milton couldn't believe it. Were those matters really that important? More important than his brother's life?

Or was it that Loxsis did it on purpose?

...

Loxis shut down his personal terminal. There were no insects around him, nor any reports. He had simply made up an excuse.

It was a dimly lit room. In front of him was a small clue board with many photos attached. Near the center was a photo of Cromwell, who was blond and blue-eyed, while right in the center was a black-haired, black-eyed male insect with the profile of the article.

Loxis slowly took out a marker and put a big X on Cromwell's photo, while sighing. It was best to eliminate an uncontrollable female insect.

He had already given Cromwell a chance, and since he was so disobedient, it was a pity, although he still admired Cromwell's individual abilities.

After Cromwell's death, Milton will be the only heir to the Duke's mansion. It would be only natural for him to change his marriage partner. How could a naive and simple little female insect who has just lost her brother possibly handle such a large piece of the pie?

Loxis smiled slightly.

I just didn't expect that thing to work so quickly. Luckily, he came out a step ahead of time, otherwise it would have been really difficult to handle.

...

After several rounds of fighting, the bodyguards finally managed to control Cromwell using a swarm of insects, and the medic also arrived at the scene at the same time.

But as soon as the measurement results came out, all the insects saw the doctor slowly shake his head.

"All the indicators are extremely high. To be honest, the situation was too sudden."

At this moment, Cromwell, who was being suppressed by several insects, was breathing heavily. Blood began to spill from the corners of his mouth, ears, and eyes. His strength was rapidly depleting. After the extreme frenzy came extreme weakness. He now seemed to have no strength to lift a finger, and he couldn't even open his eyes.

Milton pressed on, unwilling to give up, "Is there really no other way?"

The doctor said cautiously, "The pheromone drug has completely lost its effectiveness, and the instrument's manipulation is even less likely to work. If we can't find a high-quality male insect today to deeply soothe the young master, I'm afraid..."

The insects present all understood what he meant by his unfinished words, except for Milton. Milton didn't want to understand; he simply couldn't believe that his brother, who was fine yesterday, had become like this today.

Loxis clearly wouldn't come, and the other high-ranking males wouldn't rashly get involved in this mess. In other words, there seemed to be no other way for Cromwell to get through this on his own.

The butler stood silently to one side, unable to utter a single word.

“Brother…” Milton staggered over and hugged his brother helplessly. He could feel his brother’s body growing weaker and his breathing becoming shallower.

After losing his male and female fathers in succession, is he about to lose his older brother as well?

No……

No! There must be a way, there must be a way! Think, think!

He turned his head, frantically searching for anything that could save his brother, but unfortunately there was nothing in the calming room. The doorway had also been cleaned by the servant insects, except for a small package that had just fallen to the ground, inside which a crystal-clear potion emitted a faint glow.

Milton's gaze froze, staring blankly at the potion—a pheromone potion.

Suddenly, as if grasping at a lifeline, the scene in the comments section flashed into his mind—almost all the comments were full of praise and thanks, there wasn't a single negative review, and those 100 bottles sold out in less than a second.

Besides being a shill, there's another possibility: the medicine might be real, so... could what those insects said be true?

Maybe...maybe?

A hoarse voice suddenly broke the silence of the room, "Please give me the medicine from the package."

It was Milton, Milton told the butler. The potion box was right at the butler's feet.

Milton's gaze was more resolute than ever before.

The butler paused, then followed his gaze to the box at his feet. "Young Master..." This was a pheromone potion that Milton had bought on the dark web for 500 star coins a bottle, and it hadn't undergone any safety testing yet.

Milton forced a smile at him. "Give it a try. There's no other way, is there?"

"……Um."

The butler did not stop him. Instead, he bent down, took out the potion from the box, and placed it in Milton's hand. At times like these, it was crucial to avoid any regrets. Besides, at Milton's age, he might also want to believe in a miracle.

He had always followed the old patriarch, who was also the young master's father, and then followed his instructions to do things for the eldest young master.

In other words, he had watched the eldest son grow up since he was a child, and now that the family had finally improved through his efforts, how could he bear to see him leave so young, just like his father and mother?

Milton gripped the medicine bottle.

Please, it has to work...

Please...

Milton's gaze was firm as he carefully supported his brother's head, trying to feed him the medicine, but his brother had completely lost consciousness and did not respond to his movements or swallow the medicine.

At this moment, the doctor silently walked over, helped him adjust his posture, and finally succeeded in feeding Cromwell the medicine. The clear liquid disappeared little by little in his mouth.

Time passed slowly, but the miracle did not happen amidst the expectant gazes of all the insects.

No reaction... no change...

Milton stared blankly, then dejectedly released his grip, and the vial rolled to the ground with a crisp sound in the silent room.

He lowered his head, hugged his brother tightly, and tears fell drop by drop. His soft sobs were clearly audible in this place where you could hear a pin drop.

He really is the most useless worm in the world.

"..."

"...I've rarely seen you cry so sadly since you grew up."

Milton sobbed as he retorted, "...because I'm a big worm now, and I don't want to always be treated like a child."

...

...?

Milton was crying when he suddenly realized that the conversation was a bit strange.

Who is talking to him? His brother's spirit? Is he hallucinating?

Milton belatedly realized that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

He looked down and saw Cromwell, who was so weak that he could barely open his eyes, looking at him with a familiar expression.

He cried so hard that his tears and snot were all mixed together, making him look terrible.

Milton was stunned.

"...Gah?" Because he had been crying, he couldn't stop and suddenly made a strange sound.

The tense atmosphere was broken by this unexpected sound, and there were even suppressed laughs coming from some corner, which made Milton blush bright red.

...

Today is the day of the move, an auspicious day specially chosen by Murphy.

Atia originally wanted to help tidy up the house first, but was pushed back to her room by Murphy, who said she shouldn't compete with 001 for work.

Standing in the room, Atia felt somewhat dazed. Unconsciously, he had spent quite a bit of time in this room and had added many things to it, although they were all provided by Murphy.

He collected them one by one, including paintings, lamps, cotton dolls, weather bottles, and teru teru bozu that came from who-knows-where. There were countless odds and ends. Sometimes when Murphy was walking down the street, he would think of buying something and bringing it back to his place. As a result, the collection kept growing. But undeniably, the room gained a lot more warmth and life.

Opening the bedside table, Atia saw a vial of pheromone potion, which Palmer and the others had specially brought for him. Although it was no longer effective, he still put it in his luggage.

Before leaving, he looked back at the room one last time. When he was brought into this house, he never imagined that his fate would change so drastically.

Meeting Murphy probably used up all his luck.

When Atia came downstairs carrying his suitcase, Murphy was already waiting for him in front of the hovercar at the door.

Murphy maintained his pose with his arms crossed, leaning against the car door to show off his long legs.

The hovercar at home is no longer the dilapidated basic version. Of course, he didn't buy the flashy version that was a waste of money. Instead, he simply replaced it with a cozy family version, the interior of which is perfect for some passionate activities.

Of course, that's what the salesperson said; he didn't think that way, and he certainly didn't place an order just because he heard the sales pitch.

As Murphy cleared the yellow dust from his mind, he saw Attiya come downstairs. He walked over in a few steps, took the suitcase from Attiya's hand, and then intertwined his fingers with Attiya's. The action was so natural that Attiya didn't even have time to react before the suitcase disappeared.

Murphy took his hand and shook it. "Let's go. I heard that 001 has already made all the arrangements and is just waiting for us."

001 was sent there along with the other luggage, and he was responsible for taking care of the new home.

“I…” Atia wanted to say, “I can do it myself.”

Before Atiya could react, Murphy had already pulled him and his luggage into the car in a few quick steps, then closed the door. Atiya was so fast that he had a strange feeling that he was being packed up and sent away like luggage.

It's not an illusion.

After packing up his wife, Murphy squeezed into the car. The beautiful woman with long silver hair wasn't wearing her figure-hugging military uniform today, but rather soft and comfortable casual clothes, making her look particularly gentle and easy to bully.

Murphy, being impulsive, touched the antennae of the gentle, beautiful insect, instantly eliciting a slight tremor from the adorable insect, which then forced itself to remain serious.

“My Lord…” Atia gripped the hem of Mephiel’s clothes tightly. The sensation from the tentacles made him almost unable to sit still, but a certain mischievous hand just wouldn’t stop.

But even so, he did not dodge.

Who understands? How come his wife is so cute?

Mophiel snuggled up to Attia with particular fondness. Attia had become quite accustomed to his closeness and would even automatically move closer to Mophiel without Attia noticing.

...

Welcome home!

001 was already waiting at the door. As soon as it saw the two insects, it greeted them loudly as usual, and the unfamiliar house instantly felt like home.

This time, there was no stun gun blunder. 001, being the eldest son, thoughtfully extended his mechanical arm to pick up the luggage and lead the way for them.

Going up the stairs, we reached the best spot on the second floor. 001 said, "Atia, we've arrived at the room."

This room didn't look like a secondary bedroom. Atia hesitated for a moment without moving. Suddenly, a pair of hands were placed on his shoulders, and he was half-pushed into the room.

Murphy poked his head out from behind him. "Why aren't you coming into the room? Don't you like it?"

Atiya hesitated and shook his head. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Murphy also push his luggage into the room.

Murphy clapped his hands. "I did a little tidying up of our room before we came, but there are still many things that haven't been designed yet. These will have to be left to my dear Queen."

The silver-haired beauty tilted her head, her loose strands of hair swaying slightly with her movement, as if expressing her confusion.

"Our...room?"

In Zerg society, there is a polygynous system where one male has multiple females. No male Zerg will live in the same room as a female. Even if they stay together for a few days to appease each other, they will eventually return to their own rooms.

If...Morpheus had a female servant, it would probably be very inconvenient for them to live together...

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Author's Note: Thank you AAA for the gift! Wow! (Sending love like a puppy!) [Heart eyes][Starry eyes][Go for it!]

Thank you to "Sunny Sky" and "Dragon Picking Rain" for the nutrient solution! [Sprinkling flowers][Sprinkling flowers][Go for it!] Thank you also to all the other babies for your comments and support! [Go for it!]