Chapter 57

Fei was taken aback.

At this moment, he suspected the child's motives, so he immediately became alert and aware of his surroundings, ready to kill him at any moment if anything happened.

But there were no bad signs around, which meant that the little guy had just secretly run away from the prisoner-of-war camp.

After a moment's hesitation between raising his gun and maintaining the status quo, he bowed and walked into the tent.

The temperature in the deep mountains drops very low at night, and a chill permeates the valley, but it is warm inside this small tent.

Fei took off his coat and removed the bandages from his arms, and the wet lake water dripped onto the tattered floral rug.

The charcoal in the yurt was burning, and the dim light illuminated the child's stiff and guilty expression. He hugged his knees, looking completely lost. He thought Fei had come to find him, so he blinked his eyelashes in a panic and fiddled with his cuffs.

But this was just an accident; no Zerg appeared within eight hours of his disappearance.

Fei didn't know what Toto was thinking, so he remained silent.

This was his second time in this place. The first time he came was, of course, to threaten Sorim and make him revolt. Fei had met Toto back then and was surprised that the little boy who looked like a refugee had grown so big.

He sat down as if it were his right, in a corner of the dark tent, and let out a relaxed breath, seemingly exhausted.

Toto smelled the scent of blood and gunpowder in the air, a smell that lingered around his father year-round and was very familiar to him.

This means that the female insect is injured.

The yurt was very clean. The child was holding a stone in his hand, and his face was covered in tears.

Fei believes that male insects are an intractable problem that the insect race cannot eliminate. He has never changed his mind since adulthood, and there is absolutely no need for him to change it.

He grew up in an extremely privileged environment, surrounded by peers far superior to ordinary Zerg, who received the best education and possessed the vision and temperament befitting elites.

Everything Fei possessed was not given to him by his family, but earned through his own efforts. Therefore, he was naturally proud and looked down on those who lacked ambition.

This world is so vast, the starry sky so expansive, to dwell on a trivial matter or be fixated on family ties—things that offer little benefit to one's life—is utterly foolish.

Moreover, Fei didn't understand what was so precious about Toto's family. Everything they had was built on pain and falsehood. His father was a persecuted Zerg member of the Alliance, and his father was a bloodthirsty bandit. Such a family was nothing more than a tragedy of history.

Fei did not ask him why he was there. He closed his eyes, listened to the sounds outside the tent, and rested quietly.

After a while, my bleeding arm was touched by something cool and rough.

Fei suddenly opened his eyes and gripped the object.

He heard a hiss, Fei's eyes flickered, and he released the child's fingers. The child stared at him in surprise.

Toto sensed Fei's hostility, quickly took a few steps back, sat down a little further away, and after watching for a moment, he suddenly turned his back to Fei and nestled in the haystack, as quiet as a plant tuber that cannot speak.

Fei glanced down at the strange, peeled fruit beside him. Toto must have brought him food, but he instinctively pointed a weapon at him. From a generally rational point of view, this was indeed a bad sign.

He could handle vicious bandits and robbers, but he didn't know how to deal with the current situation.

Besides, would a male insect do such a thing?

Or is it that serving high-ranking females is a compulsory course for low-ranking males on this slave island?