Starting as the Zerg Overlord [Infrastructure]

Content Warning for new readers: QAQ Due to illness, updates were paused for several years, and many details have been forgotten. This novel may contain a small number of bugs.

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Chapter 319

Chapter 319

Qi Heng's daily life has always been very fixed and boring.

Get up early to clean up the kids, and then take care of yourself.

If breakfast is inconvenient, nutritional supplements can be used instead. However, the cubs who had eaten in the cafeteria yesterday moved left and right but refused to say what flavor of nutritional supplement they wanted to eat.

It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Qi Xi, who has eaten normal food, is very resistant to nutritional supplements, especially when the cafeteria is of very good quality.

What else could Qi Heng do? He could only satisfy the greedy cub and carry him to the cafeteria.

According to the training camp schedule, breakfast time comes after morning training, and they can still catch the end of breakfast time if they go there now.

Looking at Qi Xi in front of him, Qi Heng replied to Chu Xiu who had sent him a message asking about him, telling him not to worry about them as they could solve it themselves.

——I can’t make a big deal out of it and let Chu Xiu give it to me again.

Chu Xiu might not mind, but he did.

Fortunately, the female insects in the training camp usually don't drag on until the end. After all, they have to study cultural subjects on their own after breakfast. If they eat too late and too slowly, they will easily miss the class time.

At this time, we are probably already in the classroom.

This is good, I shouldn’t have encountered many female insects in the past.

Qi Heng took the cub to the cafeteria.

They didn't encounter any female insects along the way, probably because the class bell rang when they were halfway there.

Walked to the cafeteria smoothly.

I used some of my authority to ask the robotic arm responsible for collecting meals in the cafeteria to work slower, so at least they caught up with every last bit of leftovers.

Qi Heng took the stack of buns and carried Qi Xi to find a place to sit down.

"Meat bun, vegetable bun, tofu bun, or sweet red bean paste bun, which one do you want?"

Qi Xi looked at the buns in front of him and pointed at the one in the middle. "Vegetable and tofu bun."

"Take it."

"I'll go get the soy milk."

There are limited ingredients on Tianyun Star, and Qi Heng doesn’t really want to recall what the food of the previous Tianjia civilization was like.

Perhaps a long time ago, there were still studies on cooking methods for natural ingredients, but when the Tianjia civilization entered the interstellar age, simple and convenient nutritional supplements replaced the time-consuming and laborious kitchen cooking.

Unless you do it on purpose, even if you reach the position of a master, you still have to drink nutritional supplements honestly.

This is not surprising.

At that time, Qi Heng thought he was playing a game and what the game character ate was none of his business.

But after coming to this world, he couldn't tolerate this at all.

So he copied the food from his hometown that he remembered in his mind to this world. However, due to limited conditions and his own problems, he was unable to eat the copied food.

Whether it's steamed buns or soy milk, they are all what he can think of, and the ingredients used are substitutes that can be found.

In the interstellar age, civilizations communicated frequently and traded with each other. For example, if he wanted, he could easily find various alternative ingredients, such as some usable plant seeds.

But I don't want to spend the effort now, so when I ask Ji Lin and the others to purchase, they should only buy some grains that can be purchased in large quantities, are easy to buy, can be grown on Tianyun Star and improve the lives of the Tianjia Zerg.

"Okay."

Qi Xi took the bun and took a small bite. As he chewed, his eyes lit up.

It’s delicious.

It turned out to be a good idea to bring the male insect to the cafeteria to eat, otherwise he would have to drink nutritional supplements again.

The diet of the Tianjia Zerg is very diverse, and they basically eat everything.

In terms of taste, female insects and their young prefer meat and sweet foods, while male insects prefer fruits and vegetables. Qi Xi rarely has the picky eating habit of not eating vegetables.

Qi Heng came back with two bowls of soy milk and placed one bowl in front of Qi Xi.

Qi Xi sniffed it and easily identified that sugar had been added to the bowl of soy milk; the sweetness was distinct.

It is milky white, a bit like the fish soup cooked by the damsel, but not quite the same.

He put the bun down, stirred it with the spoon in the bowl, scooped a spoonful and put it in his mouth.

"It's sweet." Qi Xi said affirmatively and took another sip, obviously liking the taste.

“This is delicious.”

"Then drink more." Qi Heng picked up the bowl and took a sip.

Who understands?

There's a sense of redemption.

Qi Heng's brows relaxed and his mood improved.

In fact, he was very happy that he didn't have to drink nutritional supplements - who would want to drink bland nutritional supplements when he could eat?

The Tianjia Zerg cubs can instinctively distinguish the good and bad emotions of their parents, and can also sense the mental power of their male father. They have always learned to "read people's faces" and "observe their words and expressions" at a young age.

For example, now, Qi Xi can feel that his father is in a good mood.

"Male father, can I go find the female father later?"

Qi Heng chewed the food in his mouth slowly and swallowed it, then uttered two words in the cub's expectant gaze.

"no."

"Why?"

"He's busy, don't mess with him."

Qi Xi took a bite of the bun angrily and said, "Then I'll wait until my mother-in-law is done with her work, and then go find him."

Qi Heng knew that he was very naughty and it was difficult to get him to stay quiet.

Not getting his answer, Qi Xi rolled her eyes and said, "Can I still go out and play? I want to go play with Brother Feng Qi and the others."

Qi Heng heard this name from Qi Xi yesterday and knew that it was a female insect he met in the training camp. They had not known each other for long, but Qi Xi had always been very friendly and sweet-spoken.

He kept calling her "Brother Feng Qi" so that those who didn't know would think that she and Chu Xiu had another child.

The thought flashed through my mind.

Qi Heng put down his chopsticks and said, "The temperature in the dungeon is high now, and the training ground is not a fun place. Wouldn't it be better to stay with Xiong father?"

"No, it's even more boring to follow Xiongfu."

Qi Xi took the last bite and clapped his hands.

This scene made his eyes twitch.

Qi Heng, who had always carried a handkerchief with him since he had a child, took it out of his pocket and said, "Hold out your hand."

"oh."

Qi Xi obediently stretched out his hand: "So, Father Xiong, can I go?"

Qi Heng held Qi Xi's paw, wiped his fingers clean one by one with a handkerchief, and then folded the handkerchief.

"It's really boring. I can send you back early."

"At least there are other kids to play with you at school." I had asked for almost a week's leave for Qi Xi, so it was a good idea to use it early.

"don't want."

Qi Xi grabbed his hand and shook his head violently, "I want to stay with you. I don't want to go back."

Feeling the force of the hand holding his, like a drowning person grabbing a piece of driftwood, Qi Heng sighed.

"It's up to you, but it's you who doesn't want to go back. No matter how boring it gets from now on, just bear with it."

He flicked Qi Xi's forehead with his finger, "Did you hear that?"

"Don't make a fuss about leaving then."

"No."

As long as I stay with the male and female fathers, it doesn’t matter if I’m bored. I will definitely find a place to have fun.

I'm not afraid of being bored, I'm just afraid of not seeing them again.

Qi Xi loosened her grip on his hand, then stretched out her other hand and hugged him instead.

"Father Xiong, can I call Youyou out to accompany me?" Qi Xi rubbed his face against his, acting like a kitten and acting coquettishly, trying to impress his cold and ruthless father.

Qi Heng smiled.

"no."

"This is a training camp. Ghosts can't follow you around like electronic pets." That would make the other female insects look awkward.

The kid already looks like someone with connections, so there's no need for him to add luster to his second-generation identity.

Qi Xi's expression was visibly disappointed.

"You can ask him to accompany you online."

"Well...it's better than nothing." Qi Xi muttered.

After eating, Qi Heng planned to go back to the dormitory.

He handed over all matters concerning the training camp to Chu Xiu and had no intention of interfering. This trip was mainly for Chu Xiu.

Therefore, he had nothing else to do and did not plan to wander around the training camp, so as to avoid being seen by other female insects and wondering who he was.

Qi Xi is different.

Qi Xi, who had shown up early, ran away without thinking when he learned that he was going back to the dormitory.

Qi Heng didn't stop him.

With a ghost watching over you, you won't get lost even if you run around.

So the father and son left the cafeteria and walked away separately, one on the left and one on the right.

Qi Heng went to the dormitory, while Qi Xi found out that the female insects went to the teaching building after class.

Of course, under Qi Heng's instructions, Qi Xi was very obedient and did not enter the teaching building.

Several teaching buildings were filled with female insects. If he ran in, he would attract attention even if he was just in the corridor.

Since he couldn’t go to the ordinary classroom, Qi Xi turned left and right according to the map provided by Ghost and went to the training building.

In the training building, he came into contact with new things.

"It's so high, so big, I want it so much." Qi Xi, who was standing under the mecha and looking up at it, made a sound of love.

Time goes back two minutes.

Under the ghost's secret operation, Qi Xi sneaked into an indoor training ground in the training building as if he was in an empty space.

The training ground was empty, with only a mecha several meters high parked there.

The silver and black paint job, and its height so high that you can't see the top at a glance, immediately caught the eye of a certain bug cub who is extremely passionate about mecha animation.

"Can I touch it?"

Qi Xi spoke in the empty training room.

【Touch, touch whatever you want.】

The ghost who had already cut off the alarm system and locked onto this training room was extremely generous. There were no female insects using the training room anyway, so what was wrong with opening the eyes of the cubs?

He had no idea that he had spoiled his child too much.

Just because he was accompanying the cub for a walk and heard the cub say that he was bored, and he remembered that the cub would definitely like the real mecha after watching the cartoons recently, he took the cub to see the mecha A0. After hearing the cub's exclamation, he temporarily forgot about any consequences.

Qi Xi reached out and touched the mecha's instep and ankle.

The mecha was too tall. Standing in front of it, he looked like a little man in Lilliput, unable to even hold onto one of the mecha's legs.

Although he couldn't do anything else, Qi Xi still happily walked around the mecha several times.

"Why won't it move?"

[It can't be moved because this mecha is still in a dormant state. You need to enter the activation key to obtain the corresponding permissions to control it.]

Mechas are generally divided into manual and automatic driving. High-level mechas have an additional mental power link and are controlled by mental power.

Qi Xi seemed to understand this common sense, as it was in the cartoons, but after all, they were dealing with cubs aged 3-12, so the explanations were definitely not that detailed.

"Can I control it, too?"

A0 feels like it has shot itself in the foot, even though it is an AI and doesn't have feet.

[My dear, this is really not okay.]

Are you kidding? If a five-year-old kid were really allowed to climb into the cockpit and drive a mecha, the Lord would definitely lock himself in a small dark room when he found out - and never let him out.

"Let's just take a look. As for driving a mecha, wait until you grow up and try it out, okay?"

[You are still young, you can’t play with such dangerous things.]

"Okay." Qi Xi felt a little regretful, but still obeyed obediently.

The cub seems a little unhappy.

A0: [Although I can't drive a mecha, I have a training video of students driving a mecha here. Do you want to see it?]

"--look!"

[Okay, sweetie, it's okay, sweetie. Wait a minute, I'll show you right away.]

The mecha operation training room is located on the underground first floor of the training building. For the convenience of teaching, there is an extra-large projection screen. Watching the mecha training video on this screen is like being there in person.

However, although it is a mecha training room, it is mostly just for students who come here to study, train and practice to get a feel for the physical mecha, and it is not used for combat.

Therefore, although the mechas are as cool as those in the cartoons, they do not have the explosive look of mechas firing weapons randomly in battle.

So, under the condition that A0 asked for confidentiality.

Qi Heng, who had been busy all morning, had no idea that the kid who came back to find him for lunch at noon had spent the entire morning in the training building watching mecha movies.

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