Chapter 10

Qi Heng pressed his eyebrows. It was nothing that the degree of fusion increased, but he didn't know whether this dream would continue like this.

Everything in the dream belonged to the master's past. It was hard to tell whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but it would be helpful for him to know more about the Zerg. Thinking of this, Qi Heng stopped asking A1's meaning.

He glanced around the room and didn't see Yan Ning.

Next to Yan Ning's bed was a stone basin filled with perilla juice, and the insect eggs were soaking in it.

Qi Heng stood up, stretched his muscles, and walked out.

Since Yan Ning was not there, he didn't want to go too far, lest Yan Ning come back and find him gone.

The system provides the time, and he knows it is 7:10 in the morning.

Standing at the door, he could see a Zerg passing by on the road outside the house from time to time. They all held a short spear made of stone in their hands. The short spear was about the length of an adult's forearm, and the tip was polished into a blunt semi-arc.

Most of the Zerg passing by looked like this. It was obvious that they were organized, but no one knew where they were going.

Qi Heng paid attention to all the Zergs passing by, but just like yesterday, all of these Zergs had short hair, and there was not a single female Zerg with long hair... This was too strange. If there were no female Zergs, how did the Zerg reproduce?

Even if the female insects don't often come out of the house, you shouldn't see even a shadow of them.

Qi Heng's brain, which was smarter than most people's, was working very fast. He had sensed something was wrong since yesterday. He had always ignored it, but now he could no longer ignore it.

When Yan Ning came back, she saw him standing at the door in a daze.

"Brother Qi, you're up. Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Yan Ning's voice brought Qi Heng back from his wandering thoughts.

He looked at Yan Ning, calmed down, and nodded calmly.

"I couldn't sleep, so I got up." He changed the subject and asked, "Is there a place here where I can wash my face?"

Yan Ning put down the water she had brought back and said, "We're all going to the river. I'll take you there later. Let's use the water at home today..."

"Thanks."

Ever since he met Yan Ning, he has been taken care of by Yan Ning, which makes Qi Heng feel a little ashamed.

"It's okay." Yan Ning smiled and brought out a basin of water for him: "Just wash at the door."

"I'll go get something to eat." After saying that, Yan Ning went into the house.

Qi Heng squatted down and scooped up a handful of water. The water in his palm looked relatively clean... Actually, even if it was not clean, there was nothing he could do. In such a simple situation, it was good enough to have water to wash his face.

After washing his face and eating a bowl of blue cassava porridge, he sat on a wooden stool and chatted with Yan Ning.

"This morning I saw a lot of Zergs heading in one direction. What were they going to do?"

Qi Heng thought carefully about every question he asked, and tried not to ask questions that would reveal his lack of common sense. He could appear curious about some things, but he could not be ignorant of things that were well known.

Yan Ning was using a small bowl to pour grass juice from another basin onto the eggs. Since she learned that this was better for the insect eggs, she has never stopped doing this.

Qi Heng felt a little emotional. Even among the male insects in the game, few could take such careful care of the insect eggs.

——Although he knew that the world before him was real and not a game, he was more familiar with games, and sometimes he subconsciously linked what he saw and heard with the content of the game.

Hearing his words at this time, without thinking too much, I said, "They are going to work in the mine."

"A mine? Have you ever been there?"

"I can't go before the time comes." Yan Ning shook her head and said, "But my brother has been there before."

"My brother said that the ore we dug can be exchanged for food and some medicine."

"We have to wait until a certain time to go? What time?" Qi Heng raised his eyebrows. He probably knew what was going on.

Yan Ning bit her lip and said, "If the baby is dead, I can go today."

Qi Heng had questions in his mind and didn't quite understand what Yan Ning said.

"The district chief has stipulated that an adult female insect must lay an egg before you can go. If the egg can hatch into a cub, you must wait until the cub has hatched for thirty full moonsets before you can go."

Yan Ning acted as if it was a matter of course, completely unaware of the impact her words had on Qi Heng in front of her.

Qi Heng was silent for a moment, connecting the doubts he had discovered earlier in his mind.

"You must breed an insect egg before you can go, so..." His eyes looked back and forth between Yan Ning and the insect egg. His face was calm and composed, but his heart was in turmoil as if he had experienced an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Yan Ning didn't hear what he hadn't finished saying, and said happily, "Yes."

Yes, the right size.

Qi Heng's whole body stiffened, a storm in his mind. Knowing that Yan Ning = man = female insect that can give birth, he took a deep breath.

The Zerg aren't divided into male and female races?!

Wait, it seems that the system doesn’t clearly state the difference in physical characteristics between female and male insects. The only thing used to distinguish them is the length of their hair.

I was the one who had a preconceived notion when playing the game that female insects = women and male insects = men. Who would have thought that even though they are divided into male and female, they all look male - it would be strange if I could tell the difference from the pixel image in the game.

Qi Heng was hit hard by this sudden truth. His head was still confused and dazed... He really wanted to go back to the beginning of the game and slap himself for randomly choosing the direction of evolution and gender.

As a (self-proclaimed) straight man, he felt that the Zerg was an unbearable burden. The most ridiculous thing was that he was the one who developed and evolved this race.

Qi Heng realized it belatedly and finally remembered what he had forgotten all along.

He remembered a fancy move he made before quitting the game, and his breathing stopped involuntarily, and even the hairs on his body stood up.

If the game is real, it means that everything the master has done is real. Then what about the fact that he manipulated the game character to sleep with the subordinate NPC before leaving... Qi Heng's face turned green, and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig out a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment with his toes.

God knows he really just thought it was interesting at the time, so he agreed to the invitation of the 'NPC' in the game and had a fleeting romance. After all, for players, even if there is something going on between them and the NPC, they will have nothing to do with each other outside the game.

Who knows that one day the game will come true and he will come into it.

Although it was a bit immoral, Qi Heng was actually mostly relieved at this moment, except for feeling guilty. Fortunately, more than 10,000 years had passed since then, and no one knew about his messy black history.

As long as you don't reveal that you are the master, you can still start a new life.

...and, fortunately, I only slept with one at that time.

Qi Heng thought somewhat embarrassedly.

There are so many female insects who love the Overlord and want to develop an unusual relationship with him that they can line up from the temple gate to outside the planet. There are also many female insects who boldly propose to the Overlord during his gaming career.

He used to think he was charming, but now he just feels like he has survived a disaster.

Fortunately, fortunately he was not interested in this when he was playing games, otherwise he would probably want to die now.

"Brother Qi?"

Yan Ning noticed that he had been silent for a long time, so she spoke hesitantly, but she called out several times without getting a response.

"Brother Qi, are you listening?"

Qi Heng's soul, which had flown far into the sky, returned as Yan Ning raised her voice. He wiped his face, exhaled, and said, "I'm fine."

He's fine, just a little irritated. He'll be fine after a while.

After a while, Qi Heng asked, "Can I go to this mining you mentioned?"

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The mining area is located west of District 49.

Unlike the area where District 49 is located, only scattered dilapidated and weathered buildings can be seen on the ground here.

Qi Heng was following a female insect with a short spear in his hand.

He looked up at the area. Is this the mining area? But looking at the ruins of these buildings, it is clear that they are still in the city.

This area is a mining area, and Zerg can be seen everywhere.

Now he knew that those with short, no, medium-long hair were all female insects - it was said that it was because they were easier to take care of them that way.

And maybe it was because the fusion was not completed, but in the eyes of these Zerg, he was also considered a female Zerg. This made Qi Heng feel relieved. It had to be said that it was more convenient to act as a female Zerg.

"Follow me closely later." The female insect in front of him turned around and said to him.

Qi Heng nodded silently.

The female insect's name was Yun Jiu. She knew Yan Ning's brother, and because of this relationship, she agreed to Yan Ning's request to bring her along.

Yesterday, after he learned from Yan Ning that most of the female insects in District 49 were working in this mining area, he came up with the idea of ​​coming here to investigate and solve his own food problem at the same time.

I can't always rely on Yan Ning for support.

Of course, the most important thing is that if you want to understand the surrounding environment, you must have an entry point. He has a hunch that the mine where the chief of District 49 arranged most of the female insects is a good point.

On the way here, he got a lot of information about this vein from Yun Jiu, such as that this vein has many entrances and the mining has been going on since his grandfather's generation.

When Qi Heng followed Yun Jiu to the entrance of the mine to line up, he knew that his decision to come to the mine was the right one.

At the entrance of the mine ahead, a figure was constantly conducting 'security checks' on the female insects going down into the mine.

Yun Jiu, who was standing in front of him, whispered to him, "Show your ID card to Lord Dujiao for scanning later."

"Don't worry, it's just to confirm your ID card. It's used to count your points when you come out..."

"good."

Qi Heng responded, but his eyes did not move away from the alien at the entrance of the mine.

With his eyesight, he could easily see what the person at the mine entrance looked like. He was about 1.6 meters tall, with a small triangular horn on his forehead. He looked so ordinary that he would not be noticed if he was thrown into a crowd.

With just one glance, Qi Heng confirmed that the other party was a foreigner.

Not only is it a foreign race, but it is also a foreign race that he is familiar with.

Aliens in the game refer to races that cannot completely transform their appearance into that of humans no matter how they change their appearance. They dislike races that can transform their appearance into that of pure humans.

Information about alien races emerged in my mind.

The fog that had originally obscured his view of the truth had dissipated a lot at this moment, allowing Qi Heng to glimpse a little of the truth through the one-horned alien in front of him.

The author has something to say:

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Qi Heng's journey to become the savior of the other world has just begun. All the necessary infrastructure and plots will be there, so don't be impatient~~~ Currently, he is in the transition period of just crossing through the self-preservation and exploring the environment~~

[No matter how Qi Heng tries to evade it, the fate that belongs to him, the fate that dominates him, will push him onto the path he should take. This is an irresistible destiny!]

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