Chapter 30
“Beep beep beep beep…”
The computer started to sound a series of message notifications.
Yael, who was sitting next to him, turned a deaf ear to the conversation and only opened the phone after he finished what he was doing.
Sure enough, hundreds of email reminders filled the homepage, and even after swiping up with my finger several times, I still couldn't reach the bottom.
He clicked in to see the details——
[If you don’t want to get your throat pierced while walking on the street, hand over that female slave right away, or don’t blame us for being rude! ]
[Do you think that female insect is a good person? Go somewhere else and show your ridiculous sympathy! ]
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[Don’t think that we won’t dare to touch you just because male insects have special protection. Wait and see, idiot. Don’t cry and beg us to let you go in the end...! ]
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[Poor bug and rotten thing, they are a perfect match, bah! ]
Yael lowered his eyes, indifferently ignoring the insulting words, took screenshots of all the emails, and put them into a file named "Intimidation and Blackmail" in the background.
Although I repeatedly told myself to stay calm, my fingertips couldn't help but tremble when I saw those videos and pictures.
I opened the window a little, and the cold wind from outside blew in my face, ruffling my hair.
Yael took a deep breath of the cool air and forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart.
He started receiving these emails two days ago when he and Cecilia were watching a movie.
After replying with a "?", I started to receive an explosive email bombardment, the main idea of which was to hand over Nishizawa.
Although he kept making harsh remarks, Yael could sense the panic and anxiety between the lines.
Very strange.
The exchange probably wouldn't care about a female slave that should have been "dealt with". Although the workers were determined to kill Cecil, they didn't pursue her relentlessly after she was driven away.
This is enough to prove that Caesar is not that important in their eyes.
Then why did he suddenly receive such a threatening email more than half a month after he brought Caesar back?
Yael stared at the scene outside the window in a daze, and then his eyes gradually darkened.
The only explanation that made sense was that those guys didn't know that Xi Ze's existence was special, and thought that killing him or being robbed were no big deal, so they just covered up this embarrassing incident.
It is very likely that the people above the exchange or the insects with more prominent identities began to ask for information about Xize's current situation, which made them realize the seriousness of the matter and wanted to get the female insect back to the exchange before the matter was exposed.
As for those disgusting videos and pictures...
He had already caught a glimpse of some of the methods used to torture female insects during the live broadcast, but considering the level of perversion in this society, those were probably just child's play.
The contents that were sorted out separately and packaged and sent to him must be disgusting and bloody beyond the bottom line.
It bombarded him for two days, and he didn't open any of the dozens of gigabytes of videos and pictures.
The rotten flesh that should have been left behind and had been cut out with great pain long ago deserved to be thrown into the stinking ditch, slowly and completely disappearing with the passage of time.
Instead of being turned over and exposed, being used as a tool of intimidation and threat, with the extremely malicious intention of blocking the new path that the female insect has already embarked on.
He wanted to close the page directly, but a video cover image passed by his sight and made Yael's eyelashes tremble.
…
The picture shook for a while, and finally focused on the female insect's drooping head.
The hand grabbed his hair and used a very rough method to force his face upward.
The female insect's face was covered in blood, and one of its eyes was so bloody that it was almost impossible to open.
At that time, his eyes were not blind, but they were still confused.
The golden eyes were like shattered pieces of glass, clear and empty, staring at somewhere in the void, as silent as a corpse.
"Hey! Wake up... Why don't you react at all? Did you hit him on the head?"
"No way, I didn't. You were the one who hit me the hardest just now... Stop pretending! Get up!"
The abuser lifted him up by his hair, and the video zoomed out a little, capturing half of his body.
Yael turned his head suddenly and closed his eyes tightly. When he opened them again, his eyes were slightly red.
It's all in the past, already... in the past.
Now Cesar is alive and well in his house. He will soon regain his sight and stand up again...
So calm down, it's all over.
He took a deep breath for a while, prepared himself mentally, and decided to finish watching the video.
Based on the female insect's injuries and condition, it can be roughly judged that this video was taken within a month between the second and third times he saw the female insect.
After being splashed with a basin of ice water, a new round of beating began in the video.
It was not even an execution, but a wanton and malicious violence, a chaotic mess, vicious and blind.
Apart from the cursing and booing of other insects, the only sound in the video was the female insect's panting, which was intermittent, full of pain, hard and heavy, and she was trying her best to breathe in between suffocation and coughing.
Sometimes the camera is pointed at the female insect's face, trying to force out an expression of humiliation or shame.
But he didn't really look at the camera. He just lowered his eyelashes and breathed in silence, with only a slight twist of pain occasionally flashing across his face.
Sometimes when the camera turns outward, you can see the densely packed torture instruments hanging on the wall next to you.
Some of them were even dripping with fresh blood, and a dark light was flowing through the sharp spikes, which made people shudder just by looking at them.
His fingertips dug deeply into his palms, and all he could see was unbearable filth, but Yael was lost in thought uncontrollably.
Those guys just tortured him as if he were a piece of meat without any feeling or emotion.
But the fact is that when facing those forbearing golden eyes, the memories of being with Xize surged up, bringing with it a soft and heavy warmth, enough to completely cover all the images in the video.
He remembered the first time the female insect lost control and nearly died, but she stepped forward to catch him as he fell. He remembered the female insect's hatred and struggle, as well as her final compromise.
He always seems to be enduring and compromising.
He remembered the kiss that was imprinted on the back of his hand, the quilt that had been moved to his side and was already warm, and the way he had called him "Master" in a low voice, with his light golden eyes that were a little moist, suppressed and eager.
He remembered how the female insect was overly cautious when facing him, how she was so careful, how she wore clothes on her back, how she put her hand on his forehead to measure his temperature, how she trembled the moment her fingertips touched his face...
There were too many. Every scene and every frame seemed to be filled with some kind of hidden but deep and intense emotion, which filled his heart and chest only to be realized later, making him tremble with fear.
The video progress bar is nearing the end, and the torture that never gave the inmates a break finally stopped, but only because the instruments of torture had been broken and the torturers were becoming breathless.
"Hey, if you're willing to lick my hand and call me master, I'll let you go today, how about that?"
The insect that had just wielded the stick most ferociously squatted down, stretched out a hand in front of the female insect, and twisted its fingers like teasing a dog.
As soon as these words came out, the female insects next to him burst into laughter.
"Andes! You are so talented!... Go ahead and yell, I'll give you food if you yell. Haven't you eaten for three days? You bitch can really endure...!"
He saw a spark condensing in the female insect's dim eyes.
It was like a soul that had left its body and finally returned to its place. Amidst the pain and blood, a sharp light suddenly burst out, like the leader of the alpha wolf that finally found the right moment to strike back.
“Ah!! My finger – it’s broken!! Aa ...
A piece of bloody rotten meat fell to the ground, and the strong guy whose finger was bitten off let out a deafening wail, as if what was bitten off was not a finger, but his entire life.
Yael heard a very light sneer from the female insect amid the chaotic background noise.
With a hint of satisfaction, contempt and sarcasm, it vaguely reveals the sharp arrogance that has never been extinguished.
Even though it was me who was lying on the ground, it seemed as if I was looking down at this farce of these poor insects from beginning to end.
"coward."
But Yael in front of the screen closed his eyes, loosened his pale, tightly pursed lips, and murmured almost silently.
...Don't be like that.
He hoped that the female insect would give in and let him suffer less. At least the trash behind the scenes would be happy to see him surrender rather than resist.
This is not impossible. There were many conflicts and frictions during the period when he first picked up the female insects, but none of them were unsolvable.
Most of the time, the female insect would silently compromise and submit, allowing him to invade her territory inch by inch, exploring and running wild on it.
The more resistance there is, the more severe the torture will be.
The video was recorded more than half a month after he picked up the female worm. He couldn't imagine how the female worm could have survived this period in such a miserable state.
At least he was heartbroken to the point of feeling his heart was about to be torn apart. He clenched his palms with his fingertips so hard that he was shaking, and waves of suffocation overwhelmed his mouth and nose.
The guy who was ridiculed and hurt started to curse with a distorted expression, and started to beat more chaotically than before, with more and more recklessness in his attacks, and the video was a mess.
"Stop it, you idiots."
An extremely cold and hard command suddenly sounded.
Then there was the clanging sound of military boots hitting the ground, and the machine recording the video was suddenly knocked to the ground, bringing the female insect's face into the picture at close range.
The female insect struggled to raise her head, but was crushed to the ground by a black military boot with spikes on the bottom.
The video stops abruptly.
But perhaps the real torture has just begun.
Yael stared at the screen, his mind blank.
After a long silence, he stood up and washed his hands.
The blood that was squeezed out of his palm was washed away by the water, and the red color gradually faded. The icy water in the cold winter was bone-chilling, causing his hands to tremble uncontrollably.
從浴室回到房間，他後知後覺房間裏悶到快要喘不過氣。
便将兩扇窗戶推開到極致，外面凜冽的寒冷一股腦吹進來，将臉吹得有些冷僵。
沒頭蒼蠅一樣盲目又緊迫地做完這些事，耶爾終于又回到那張桌子前。
光腦的屏幕上仍然是播放完畢後的樣子，一個淺色的小三角停留在雌蟲的側臉上，像是無法消去的恥辱烙印。
壓抑到極致的平靜毫無征兆地轉變為暴怒——
“噼裏啪啦——砰！”
耶爾猛地揚手，将桌子上的東西全掃了下去！
一陣噼裏啪啦中，沉重的書桌被掀起兩邊桌角，又重重地砸在地上，發出沉悶的聲響。
他能聽到堅硬齒關咬緊的咯吱聲響，刺耳的嗡鳴貫穿腦海，和鼓噪的心跳重合，逐漸漫過頭頂。
耶爾任由滾燙怒意沸騰，又在達到頂峰時空前冷靜下來。
——他改變主意了。
按部就班地收集證據，用法律手段制裁那些家夥根本沒有用。
耶爾眸光森冷，玻璃般剔透的眼珠倏忽一轉，看向躺在一片狼藉中的光腦。
“喂……喂？阿德萊德嗎？”
“是，什麽事？”
“幫我個忙。”
光腦中傳來的聲音溫潤平靜，沒有一絲波瀾，但共事了這麽久，阿德萊德還是能分辨出來其中的細微差別。
他在生氣，而且是非常生氣，為什麽？
“幫我解決這件事，每天上線的時間增加一個小時。”
上線時間，就是耶爾規定的“交流學習”時間，非常吝啬，每天只有三個小時，阿德萊德吐槽這個不合理的規定很久了。
聽到這個條件，什麽原因什麽法律道德全被他扔到了腦後去，幹脆利落答應下來——
“說，怎麽幫？”
一陣繁瑣的步驟過後，阿德萊德根據耶爾提供的郵件賬號，沿着路徑一路摸到了那幾個光腦中，并以極快的速度攻破了防禦，全然侵占進去。
透過光腦上的微型攝像頭，可以看見持有者是幾個混不吝的雌蟲，看着兇神惡煞的，身上還穿着統一的工作馬甲，胸前的工作牌上好像還有幾個蠅頭小字。
阿德萊德眯了眯眼，将上面的字念出來，“……交易所？”
他的頁面和耶爾的光腦共享，現在看到的畫面已經同步進入耶爾的眼中。
鏡頭中的雌蟲表情扭曲，追問站在最前面的刀疤臉雌蟲。
“安第斯，現在怎麽辦？打死我都不敢相信居然是那位要看這些視頻……”
“庫存還有多少？”
安第斯咬着一根煙，神情陰沉又狠戾，“能拖多久拖多久，那雌奴又跑不了，找個機會搶回來就是了。”
這就是視頻裏被咬斷了手指那個，身份對上了。
耶爾垂眸，仔細思忖了一會。
“我轉五千星幣給你，你轉到他的光腦裏，修改日期為12月22號，混入之前的賬目中，名義備注36號，別被發現。”
阿德萊德微揚眉梢，也不問為什麽，在面板上操縱了一會，然後利落地按照他說的将錢轉了過去，“好了。”
“然後呢？”
“他們給我轟炸過恐吓郵件，你別看內容，把那些初始郵件全部删掉。”
耶爾沉默了一會，又道，“可以在他們的芯片中植入病毒，阻止他們通過任何方式聯系我嗎？或者我這邊安裝點什麽也行，把我和他們的聯系徹底斷開。”
“可以在你這裏安裝屏蔽器，除了你指定的蟲之外，其他蟲無法給你發送任何信息。”
耶爾幹脆利落地點了頭，“可以。”
一陣敲擊的聲音傳來，然後是長長的嘀一聲，阿德萊德的聲音響起。
“郵件已經删了，屏蔽器也裝好了，然後呢——”
“然後——”
耶爾的聲音和他的詢問重合在一起。
阿德萊德停下話音，聽見耳邊的聲音平靜到近乎冷酷。
“炸掉他們的光腦。”
阿德萊德眸光一怔，卻立刻哼笑一聲，指尖幹脆利落地敲下一個鍵。
“遵命。”
“嘀——！！！”
指尖反彈起來的瞬間，光腦立刻進入自毀程序，鮮紅的進度條一秒便加載完畢。
“安第斯，你的光腦怎麽了？一直在閃紅……”
“砰——！！！”
“砰砰砰砰砰——！！！”
“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊——”
“啊啊啊我的手！光腦……啊啊啊斷了手斷了！！快叫救護車快去！！”
“痛！好痛！！光腦怎麽會突然爆炸，我的手啊啊啊——！！”
爆炸的巨響接二連三響起，高級光腦的防禦力大到足以将整條手臂炸斷。
場面一時血肉橫飛，慘烈的哀嚎聲夾雜着怒吼，在耳邊三百六十度環繞響起。
甜美如天籁。
耶爾微眯起眼，感覺淤堵在胸口的沉悶終于通了一點。
同樣欣賞着這一幕的阿德萊德神色有些恍然，猜到了一點什麽。
“光腦被炸掉之後，他們肯定會買新的光腦把數據導進去，僞造的交易記錄也會一并混進去，且不會再留有入侵的痕跡。”
“明面上的交易記錄，發送假視頻糊弄上司，要是事情敗露，這可是嚴重失職啊。”
他點到辄止，而後勾起唇角稱贊道，“你可真是狡詐。”
“今天的事，謝了。”
耶爾沒接他的話，只簡短道，也收到同樣滿意的回複。
“客氣，今晚記得多留一個小時。”
關閉和阿德萊德的通訊，耶爾摩挲了下光腦表面，播出一個語音通訊。
“你好，請問是城市機器統一管控中心嗎？”
他第一次動用雄蟲的特權，三言兩語将他在那個雪夜撿到西澤的監控畫面，還有城市機器追逐那幾個雌蟲的記錄一鍵替換掉，并要求删去了存檔。
接着他動作不停，繼續播出通訊——
“休伊斯醫生，你有醫院監控的權限嗎？”
“伊萊恩院長，方便幫我個忙嗎？”
耶爾走到窗邊，将窗戶關上，得到肯定答複後神情微松，輕笑道，“是的……好，多謝。”
一直等做完這些事，他的神情才淡下來，将郵件中的發來的視頻也一并清除掉，确保光腦裏面幹幹淨淨，不會留有什麽痕跡。
他靜了一會，又将地上的東西都撿起來擺回桌子上，确保不會被015發現什麽端倪。
最後，耶爾撤掉了鋪開的精神力屏障，拉開門走出房間。
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客廳裏面空空蕩蕩，顯得有些空曠和孤寂。
“好，看到裏面那根紅色的線了嗎？一端連接着……把它拔下來，插到旁邊的端口去……”
雌蟲的聲音從小陽臺外傳來，似乎還夾雜着015的聲音，耶爾腳步微頓，向着外面走去。
陽臺上，015的肚子大敞着，露出裏面複雜的線路和咬合轉動的精密齒輪，一顆小小的機械心髒正有節奏地跳動。
而地上全都是它拆下來的零件，場面看起來有些驚悚。
“哦哦，好的，我找找看。”
聽到雌蟲的指示，它連忙低頭去找對應的線路，伸手在裏面掏來掏去。
天氣很好，如水的陽光滿滿傾洩而入，在小陽臺的地面上打下一片潋滟的光影，清風将簾子撩得鼓起。
西澤就坐在輪椅上，呆在小陽臺最左邊的地方。
金色的光模糊了雌蟲的身體輪廓，細碎光斑在頭發和睫羽間躍動。
他半阖着眼眸，像是在全身心地沉浸在陽光中，只偶爾發出一道簡潔的指令。
聽到他過來的動靜，西澤轉過頭，輕笑着叫道，“雄主。”
剛才的畫面倏地在眼前閃過，耶爾呼吸一滞。
但回過神，雌蟲的臉上幹幹淨淨，并沒有一絲血污。
他身上不忍卒看的累累傷痕已經痊愈大半，被妥帖地掩蓋在體面的衣服裏面。
視頻裏的畫面确實已經留在了過去。
“好了，然後呢？”
015的聲音插進他們之中，将西澤的注意力吸引了過去。
始終萦繞在心頭的恐慌感終于散去些許。
耶爾有些脫力地靠在陽臺門上，看着西澤繼續指導015重組自己的零件。
他确實是一個軍雌。
健康強壯、幹淨體面，這才是他本來該有的樣子。
和視頻中的衣不蔽體，被随意折磨和侮辱、碾入泥裏的樣子完全不同。
錯軌的列車磕磕絆絆地駛過一段泥濘的路後，終于在某一個時刻回到正軌，然後逐漸露出原來耀眼的輝光。
本就該這樣。
耶爾深呼吸了一下，沉窒的心情終于松快起來，逐漸打起精神來。
“在做什麽？”
他問道，盡管已經猜到了，但還是象征性地問了一下。
“幫015簡化一些程序，這個版本的智能管家就是因為很多程序太累贅了，才會被淘汰，适度的改裝能讓它運行得更輕松一些。”
西澤對于機械和改裝的熟悉度非一般的高，畢竟是常年和機甲以及先進武器打交道的軍雌。
“我把大部分關于機械的證書都考下來了，而且都是最高的等級。”
Xi Ze coughed, as if he was a little embarrassed for boasting. "So don't worry about 015 being damaged. A proper modification can extend its life by at least twenty years."
Yael stared at the harmonious scene in front of him in a trance. After a while, he raised the corners of his lips slightly and said with a smile, "It's amazing."
Sensing that something was wrong with the male insect's mood, Caesar turned his head slightly.
But there was only a large block of warm yellow color in the field of vision, and the figure of the male insect was like a vague gray shadow, appearing inexplicably depressed and lonely.
He grabbed the wheel of the wheelchair with his palms, rolled forward a few times to get closer to the male insect, and whispered, "What's wrong? What happened?"
"It's OK."
Yael didn't want to talk about it any more, his eyelashes drooped slightly, "Nothing happened, don't worry."
"Really..."
Noticing the male insect's concealment and perfunctoriness, Caesar pursed his lips, but couldn't ask any further questions, and tightened his hands on his knees.
Yael raised his eyes again, looked at the female insect in front of him and smiled, "Can I hold it for a while?"
Without waiting for Caesar's answer, he bent down, opened his arms, and held the female insect in his arms.
The warm body filled every corner of his arms, as if he was completely buried in the belly of a plush snow leopard, soft and warm. Yael sighed with some contentment.
"My Lord, what's wrong...?"
Xi Ze's voice was very soft, and his fingertips twitched for a moment, then hesitantly touched the male insect's thin back and patted it lightly. After hesitating for a long time, he restrainedly tightened his arms and hugged him back.
"Nothing serious, just some dirt, but I've cleaned it up."
A gentle voice came from the side of my ear, with a soft, long tail like a coquettish tone.
"I'm a little tired... so I'll hold you for a minute."
"……good."
The air gradually calmed down, the afternoon glow gradually faded, and lightly dyed the rolling clouds.
The fine snow drifted down from the sky, reflecting some golden light, like falling twinkling stars.
The embracing shadows originally reflected their own clear outlines, but they were gradually melted and overlapped by the offset sunlight, becoming indistinguishable from each other.
After a while, 015 suddenly poked his head out and blinked his eyes.
"Have you finished hugging? Which line should you connect next?"
The author has something to say:
Good, good, today Yeye’s boyfriend power is upupup!
The general is still the same battle-wounded male mother as always (6 saliva)
015 is still a silly little cutie
The core of redemption and healing will never fall!!
Ramblings: Yeye never said he was a good person, the author likes to take revenge on the spot (not a good person +1)