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A man and a woman were standing at the edge of the hall.

The female insect is tall and strong, with an imposing manner, just like a successful and high-level female insect.

The male insect is also fair-skinned, beautiful, with an elegant body, almond eyes and red lips. From a distance, they look like a perfect match.

Suddenly, the beautiful male insect flew up and kicked the female insect opposite.

Fanlan quickly reached out and pulled him back, struggling to drag the male insect back, who was still trying to struggle with his legs stretched out and cursing, and persuaded him, "Brother Hao, forget it."

"Alan, let go! I'm going to kick his dick to pieces! How dare you tease me?!"

"His last name is Li. Isn't your transfer application still stuck?"

"..." Shuhao hesitated, his face turned black and blue. After a moment, he put down his foot angrily, grabbed Fanlan's wrist and walked away. Before leaving, he did not forget to make an extremely uncivilized gesture to the dazed female insect.

Fanlan took Shuhao to the empty, insect-free terrace.

Shuhao leaned over the railing, gulped down a bottle of wine he had just casually grabbed, and vented in frustration: "What kind of world is this? These female insects only have sex in their minds, right? Disgusting! I am really fed up with it. Female insects are disgusting, society is disgusting, the army is disgusting, and me too. When I think about how I used to look at women in this way... I feel disgusted too!"

Fanlan patted his back wordlessly to help him calm down.

Shuhao looked up at him for a long time, and finally raised his hand to take a sip of wine, and sighed to the sky: "Alas - you don't understand, you don't understand, Alan! It's so hard for me."

Fanlan replaced the strong liquor in his hand with another bottle of sparkling wine that was less burning in the throat, and asked, "Do you still want to go?"

Means wanting to return to the army.

"Go! Why not? Isn't it just continuing to apply? I don't believe it. Anyway, I have nothing to do. I won't starve to death even if I eat white rice all day. If they don't agree, I will annoy them to death."

Fanlan thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to consider the Second Army?"

"Is this your female insect's territory? If I don't go, he won't like me."

"How come I didn't know you two had a connection?"

"Because I persuaded you to join the army, and asked you to accompany me to try to adapt the mental power to the mecha, he still holds a grudge against me."

"So you haven't been looking for me lately?"

"...Well, I think your childhood friend's consideration is reasonable. Your safety is more important. Safety is more important."

"How many."

"...This number." Shuhao rubbed his fingers embarrassedly.

"What else?"

"...Two rows of customized equipment. Okay, I admit it. It's not that my brother doesn't want to play with you, it's just that he gave you too much!"

Fanlan smiled slightly.

Shuhao shuddered and silently wrapped his coat tightly.

"Forget it, Alan. I know you mean well, but it's the same everywhere."

Of course, if Fanlan asked, it would not be a problem to push Shuhao over to either Lester or Kirkland, but in the end it would just make Shuhao go through the process he had already gone through again. He had worked hard to accumulate enough qualifications in the original team. If it were a female insect, applying to be transferred to a unit like the Cruise Combat Squadron would be a piece of cake and would be approved without even a look. But because of his identity as a male insect, all kinds of reasons and excuses followed. Even if he was fully qualified based on the information alone, when the higher-ups wanted to block you, they would always find a way to stop you.

After all, what would a male insect do if he encountered danger on the front line? What if he got injured? What if he died? Even though he was a military insect and was fulfilling the military discipline agreement, once something went wrong, who knew what would happen at home or in the male association?

Do you really want to go? Sure, then find a general in the team and marry him. As a family member accompanying the army, you can go wherever you want. Your safety is guaranteed. Your female insects will worry about it. It is best to collect more at a time. The general will be the female king and the team members will be the female servants. Perfect.

The above speech was a summary of a certain commander’s original words. Shuhao slammed the table on the spot and splashed tea in the face of the person opposite him.

Then he was so angry that he went back home temporarily.

However, when he returned to the Shu family, he was under overwhelming pressure to get married. With his age, appearance, and being in a neither high nor low social class, he was the best resource for marriage. Until now, he still hadn't found a female ruler or female servant. The Shu family could be said to be anxious about it, so Shuhao didn't like to stay at home. He didn't have many other friends, so Fanlan's place became the place he visited most often after he came back, and the house he lives in now is also a property under Fanlan's name.

He looked at Fanlan, who was gazing at the night sky and drinking sparkling wine slowly, and recalled the scene when he first met her.

He didn't like this guy at first sight.

Of course, it's a common problem among men. Which man would like this kind of same-sex guy who has a handsome face, looks very high-class, and is surrounded by a group of crazy girls at first sight?

So he couldn't help but mutter something in Earth dialect: "What a pretentious guy."

Unexpectedly, Fanlan suddenly raised her eyes and looked at him.

Shuhao glared back without any guilt. It was impossible for him to understand what he said anyway, so why should he feel guilty?

The blond male insect who was being glared at smiled at him. No matter how picky one was, one could not detect any sarcasm or falsehood in that smile. So Shuhao felt a little embarrassed again. He looked away sheepishly and became speechless.

This was some kind of celebration banquet held by a certain insect family that Shuhao didn't even know. Of course, he was assigned by the Shu family to come. After all, the Shu family expected him to participate in more social occasions. If he didn't show up more, how could he attract female insects from other families? How could he receive so many marriage proposals from high-level female insects?

But Shuhao really hated this kind of occasions, so he just huddled in the corner with a sullen look on his face. He never had a good look towards the female insects who came to chat with him. When they asked him if he was still studying, he would say he was not studying and had no education. When they asked him what he wanted to do in the future, he would say he wanted to join the army and fire cannons.

The female insect who was talking to her twitched her lips, and finally felt that this was a male insect who, although good-looking, might have a mental illness, and she moistened him without any reluctance.

Shuhao heard a chuckle.

He turned around and found that Fanlan had approached him at some point. It seemed that he had witnessed the scene just now. He was a little angry and embarrassed: "What are you laughing at? It's funny that male insects join the army, right? You know-"

"no."

"…What do you know, huh?"

"I mean, not funny, I considered joining the military when I was a kid."

"!!!" Shuhao suddenly grabbed the hand of this male insect who was so damn beautiful that he was almost glowing with holy light, and said excitedly: "Really? You understand too, right? Yes, why can't male insects join the army! We are males! Iron-blooded! Males! It's completely prejudiced to say that male insects are not suitable for joining the army!"

“Yes, it is prejudice.”

Shuhao's face instantly lit up. This was the first time he met a bug that could understand him after falling into this strange world. For a moment, he wanted to hug Fanlan and pour out all his feelings - in fact, he did so. In the next half an hour, he dragged Fanlan to talk about a bunch of things he had been holding back for too long, such as how male bugs must make achievements, how female bugs are all muscled and brainless, and how male bugs have no bad physical fitness at all...

Yes, if the male insects were really weak and gasping for breath, Shuhao would accept his fate. The key point is that in his opinion, male insects are completely normal in physique, and even stronger than human males in terms of muscle strength and physical quality. As for comparing with female insects? Well, female insects are interstellar Schwarzenegger in his eyes, so they don't count. This makes it impossible for Shuhao to put himself in the role of a delicate and needy person, not to mention the mental power that sounds like a golden finger. So he is definitely not a vase male insect. What is he? He is the protagonist of the counterattack!

Shuhao's mouth was dry from talking so much that he realized that he was not familiar with Fanlan at all. He finally came back to his senses from the excitement of meeting a confidant and touched his nose embarrassedly. Fanlan just considerately handed him a glass of juice without showing any sign of being disturbed.

They became good friends after that.

The only friend Shuhao recognized in this different world.

He found that Fanlan looked bright and cheerful, like a banished fairy who deserved to drink dew, but actually he was not the kind of "rich family kid" who put on airs. He could complain to Fanlan about this society, his own experiences, and the unreasonableness of female insects. Sometimes he felt relieved after venting, and realized how angry and annoying his words and deeds were. But Fanlan never showed any impatience. He just listened to him quietly, agreed with some of his words, and just smiled when he disagreed. Finally, he took Shuhao, who had just vented, to eat something, such as barbecue, beer, or skewers and soda. Shuhao had to say that this broken planet still had its merits. At least their soda was really delicious, far better than that on Earth.

Later, he finally joined the army, despite the pressure from his family and the explicit gazes of a group of female insects in the army who were either coveting him or looking at him as a mascot.

To say that he has a noble and extraordinary will as a soldier, it is not the case. Joining the army and driving a mecha is, firstly, a heroic dream that most men have fantasized about in their childhood as men on Earth. Now that there are realistic conditions for contact, it is hard not to want to try. Another point is that Shuhao cannot succumb to the expectations of his family and marry a bunch of female insects. It would be better to kill him directly, so he must be independent. The army is relatively the most independent and difficult to interfere with group field, and the Zerg army is the most barrier-free channel for all insects to rise - for female insects.

The military has never had an explicit rule prohibiting male insects from joining the army, but very few male insects would choose to join the army. Even if there are any, they would serve in civilian positions or as image representatives. And most of them would hold positions in the military because their family members are female soldiers.

But Shuhao didn't believe it. He firmly believed that with his own abilities, he could always break the stereotype and carve out a heroic path as a passionate male insect.

He was then assigned to the position of quartermaster for three years.

After recalling the fucked-up past, Shuhao let out a long sigh.

"Alan, do you think I am..."

After venting all the anger in his heart, a deep feeling of powerlessness suddenly came over him, making it hard for Shuhao to breathe.

It seemed like he should give up, but he was unwilling to do so.

Fanlan knew what Shuhao wanted to say.

In his opinion, Shuhao's obsession with achieving military merit and establishing a successful career has become an obsession. When he holds on to a goal for too long and pours too much burning expectations into it, it seems difficult for him to realize that he could have let go.

Fanlan wanted to tell Shuhao that the universe is vast and he actually has many ways to go.

But then he thought, isn’t it meaningful enough to be able to pursue a dream so persistently?

But his friend looked sad.

He saw Shuhao drink up the wine in his hand, and then took back the bottle of strong liquor that was half-drunk and replaced and drank it hard. The male insect drank very quickly and coughed twice because of choking. Fanlan reached out to wipe the wine that spilled from his mouth, held up his delicate and handsome face, and said softly:

"It's okay, Ahao, you are free, you are free...you must be free..."

Shuhao looked at Fanlan, met those eyes that seemed full of worry and pity, and suddenly felt a pang of pain in his eyes. He buried his head in Fanlan's arms and cried bitterly.

Fanlan hugged him, patting his thin but not weak back, letting the male insect's tears wet his clothes. He looked up at the starry sky at night, without saying anything, just slowly humming a soothing tune in the blowing night breeze.

As Shuhao gradually calmed down, he did not realize that the melody that made him feel friendly and peaceful might have been so familiar.