Chapter 4

It wasn't particularly late yet, and the hospital was brightly lit.

The female worm had already been carried in for surgery, and Yael, who got off the car next, was taken by the sub-female nurse to pay the bill. Various miscellaneous fees and bills filled his pocket.

Yael looked at the bill and then at the balance and sighed.

It's really expensive to pick up a female insect. If he keeps going on like this, the money he has left in his brain will really run out.

"If you think it's expensive, you shouldn't have hit me so hard... He's already in the operating room, and it's hard to say whether he can save his life..."

The female insect who was taking orders for him at the window suddenly whispered something. The light from the suspended screen reflected in his eyes, and his eye sockets actually turned slightly red.

The sub-female next to him pushed him under the table, suggesting that he should stop talking nonsense, as he would suffer the consequences if the male insect held a grudge against him. The female insect bit her lower lip and closed her mouth.

Yael looked up at him and put the list in his pocket.

"I picked it up on the street. I don't even know what it's called."

After he finished speaking, he followed the nurse away without even looking at the female insect's expression.

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The female worm had been pushed into the operating room. The red light came on. Yael pinched his brows and sat down on a chair next to him.

Not long after, a doctor came running over and whispered nervously, "Sir, you can go to the dedicated reception room and wait. We are ready..."

"Thank you, but no thanks."

Yael stared at the closed door and said softly, "Let me sit here for a while."

From passing by the black market to encountering the female insect, and then to now, only a few tens of minutes have passed. The surging blood has subsided, and the inexplicable impulse has also dissipated, and reason has once again taken over.

The momentary impulse did not seem to be enough to support the action just now, but there was no deeper motive or purpose.

Whether he saw the ad or was disgusted by the live broadcast, he had no intention of buying the female insect.

On the one hand, there is psychological resistance and the inability to accept the insect trade.

On the other hand, he came here through time, and the principle behind this is unclear. But he was able to come here suddenly, and he might be sent back at any time, so he is not suitable to establish a close relationship with anyone.

……never mind.

Yael crossed his fingers and placed them between his brows and took a deep breath.

Let the female worm recover from her injuries in the hospital, and then ask her to find a job and support herself.

There's no need to take it home or establish any unnecessary relationships with him; just think of it as an act of bravery on his part.

…

Five hours later, the female was transferred to the general ward.

Yael followed and saw the naked female insect lying on the hospital bed.

The soft and supple lines on the female insect's body are like undulating mountains, gentle and warm in its calmness. The criss-crossing wounds have stopped bleeding, revealing the bright red flesh and white bones inside, which looks extremely hideous.

"Why don't you cover him with a blanket?"

Yael frowned, thinking of the female insect's shameful expression when she was humiliated during the live broadcast, and pulled the curtain beside the bed to block any possible view from the outside world.

There was a female doctor in the ward with brown hair, brown eyes and frameless glasses. She was checking the data on the instrument and looked at him apologetically when she heard what he said.

"Just for the convenience of observation... Sorry, sir, I didn't consider that you are tired of this female slave's body."

Yael paused, feeling a little puzzled. "Don't make unnecessary associations. He is not my female slave."

"Really?"

The doctor asked in confusion, "But your information has been recorded on his necklace. She is indeed your female slave."

Yael looked even more confused. "I picked him up on the road and didn't record any..." information.

Wait, a necklace?!

A strange premonition came over him, and Yael almost gasped.

He did touch the collar on the female insect's neck, but gave up when he didn't find an opening. How could it automatically identify and enter information? !

He woke up his computer and started searching for the words necklace and female slave on Baidu.

"After the male insect has rubbed the collar for a week, it is considered confirmed. The female slave whose information is recorded in the collar will belong to and be loyal to the male master for life... The male insect is responsible for providing the female slave with basic living conditions and will not abandon or abuse her..."

He finished reading the whole thing at a glance, and finally understood one thing -

The female insect he rescued had been tied to him by accident, and the deadline for her bond was a very ridiculous "lifetime".

Like some kind of agreement that needs to be signed when adopting stray cats and dogs.

Yael has mixed feelings.

This was completely contrary to his previous idea of ​​letting the female insect go.

The doctor standing nearby looked up at him and said, "It's okay if you don't want to worry about it. You have done your best to send him to the hospital. You can leave the rest to us."

"Handle?" Yael heard something unusual and frowned slightly, "What do you mean?"

"When the female insect wakes up during the day, we can drive her out to fend for herself. Since you don't want her, the hospital is not a charity, so we will not take in a seriously injured female slave."

The doctor smiled nonchalantly and put the pen into the pocket of his white coat. "That's how it's done."

"Besides, whether from the hospital's perspective or my perspective, I do not recommend that you take him back."

The doctor smiled slightly, looked at the unconscious female insect on the bed, and said in a deep voice, "Because, he is already useless."

"This female insect's eyes are severely inflamed and infected, and her right eye is almost blind. The bone wings on her back have been uprooted and the roots are completely necrotic. The wounds are extensive. Both legs were shot through by bullets containing stellar dark matter and then completely broken. The left leg is less seriously injured than the right leg, but it is also difficult for her to stand up again. These are the main injuries, and there are other large and small wounds..."

The tragedy and suffering seemed to have weight, weighing heavily on the listeners' hearts. Yael pursed his thin lips and stared at the female insect's eyes as she endured the pain.

When it came to the latter part, even the doctor, who was used to seeing all kinds of scenes, looked distressed and sighed.

"The worst thing is, I noticed during the surgery that he seemed to have been illegally subjected to insect experiments... He has lost most of his self-healing abilities."

The natural physical advantage of female insects is their terrifying self-healing ability, which allows them to survive for a long time on the battlefield and endure all kinds of torture from male insects.

"He should have died just now, but he was picked up by you and survived for a few more moments. But more... the hospital can't do anything."

This is already a death notice for the female insect.

There was deathly silence in the ward. Outside, the wind and snow were getting stronger, banging against the glass, and the coldness seeped in through every pore.

The sound of his finger joints being pinched brought Yael back to his senses. "Is there nothing I can do?"

Although I didn't want to care so much at first, but he was saved with great difficulty, and no one would be willing to let him die like this.

Moreover, the female insect was accidentally marked by him and became his "property" and responsibility.

The doctor hesitated for a moment, glanced at Yael, and suddenly said, "There is a way. I can't say it can cure him, but at least it can make him live longer... But I need your cooperation."

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In addition to the huge gender differences, there are two other important reasons for the formation of the Zerg social structure.

First, female worms go into estrus regularly every year. Without the comfort of male worm pheromones, their bodies will gradually deteriorate. This process is irreversible, and enduring it is useless.

Secondly, the female insect's mental power will become disordered soon after reaching adulthood, and the situation will become more serious as time goes by. Without the guidance of the male insect's mental power, it will turn into a violent state and die in extreme pain.

Although there are synthetic pheromones and psychotropic substitutes, the soothing effect of male insects is still the strongest and purest, and there is no substitute.

"We just detected that this female insect is already in the late stage of mental turmoil."

The doctor's suggestion was, "You can give him some mental counseling to delay the collapse of his mental picture."

"A bit unfamiliar? It doesn't matter. Mental energy channeling is an innate ability of every male insect. You don't have to worry about it. The situation of this female slave will not be any worse."

"Okay..." Yael looked at the female insect on the bed and his expression became serious, "I'll try my best."

He sat sideways on the hospital bed, closed his eyes, and went over everything about mental power in his mind.

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[Your level is D, and your mental activity is not ideal. ]

The worker bug in charge of testing looked disappointed and shook his head at the various bugs waiting outside.

Although male insects are valuable, the upper class has no shortage of mediocre D-class male insects.

After that, the number of Zerg lingering around his bed decreased by more than half, and no noble family showed any intention of interfering with him anymore.

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[When spiritual power is relatively scarce, counseling should avoid large-scale expansion, learn to feel with the heart, and find the "eye" of the spiritual picture. ]

The D-class male insect's mental power could not support complex guidance. The instructor who taught him how to use mental power only gave him a general method and did not let him practice it.

[It's very simple, just like brushing off the dust on the blade, and a beautiful stream of light bursts out... You will understand it in an instant. 】

…

What he didn't tell any bugs was that he had no mental images in his head, meaning there was no place to store mental energy.

But when he calmed down and tried to concentrate his mental strength, they would appear out of thin air as if summoned, and would obediently and enthusiastically allow him to drive them.

Invisible waves resounded, like ripples caused by a stone falling into water, and thousands of threads of mental power entangled around the fingertips.

Yael closed his eyes, reached out and touched the female insect's forehead, trying to probe into her mental picture——

He opened his eyes amid the whistling sound of the wind.

The sky above my head was starless and moonless, an impenetrable blackness.

He was in a desolate and vast snowfield, and all he could see was violent winds and heavy snow, which was desolate and sad.

The mental picture can reflect the strength of the subject's mental power. The wider the area, the stronger the mental power.

It was completely deserted here, but it was enough to show that the female insect's mental strength had once been terrifyingly strong.

"But...why snow?"

Yael struggled forward in the knee-deep snow, like a small fish swimming upstream against the current of a flooded river, and was almost drowned by the wind and snow.

"Because I almost died in the snow, my fear was reflected in my mental picture, so I created a snowy wasteland?"

He took a deep breath of the cool air and his mind became clear.

No, that's not the case.

At the moment of spiritual power merging, he did feel fear, but that was only a small part of it. The raging anger, the faint sadness, the silent and hidden hatred...all kinds of emotions were so intense that they drowned him like waves.

Female insects with such a broad spiritual vision are by no means weak, at least they will not tend to self-destruct because of fear. The occurrence of violence seems to have other reasons.

This also means that it will be very difficult to find the "eye" of the picture.

“Bang!”

A piece of metal was kicked away.

Yael realized he had walked into a wasteland.

Steel bars, wooden boards, glass... are scattered in the snow, and it seems that there used to be a house here.

He walked back and forth, searching for a long time, but the moment he looked up, his eyes were attracted by an unusual color.

A faded red cloth strip was hung on a steel bar, with a round piece of metal tied to the end, swaying in the wind.

With the weak light from the sky, Yael managed to see the wheat ears and wings above.

It turned out to be a rusty medal.

Yael stared at the medal for a long time, and suddenly realized that the bloody and humiliated pride came from a warrior who had fought hard on the battlefield and then ended up in this miserable situation.

He could feel that the "eye" of the spiritual picture was in this medal.

But like the main body, the "eye" is blind. It represents the past glory and memory, and represents everything that has been completely destroyed.

It will be buried in the ruins along with the past.

Whether you remove it, repair it or destroy it, it will not have any effect on the main body. The collapse and damage are irreversible and the female insect is doomed to die.

No, maybe there is another way...

[Finding the "eye" of the picture is a way to awaken the subject from the outside. Another way is to let the lost subject develop self-awareness and a desire to survive, and work hard to wake up on his own.]

The cold words on the book seemed to have sounds, echoing in my ears.

Yael looked toward the wasteland in the distance. In the distance he could see the undulating outlines of mountains, blending gently with the dark night.

It took him a long time to climb that mountain.

There was a raging snowstorm on the top of the mountain, but the view was wider and one could easily take in the entire plain, including the ruins and the red ribbon swaying above them.

With a thought, Yer transformed and condensed his mental power into the desired shape. Soon, several thick wooden boards and some simple tools appeared on the snow.

He picked up a long wooden board and inserted it into the snow, then put them together like building blocks. After some hammering, a small wooden house took shape in his hands.

The hut was only slightly taller than him and was built very crudely due to limited conditions, but it stood firmly on the ground and was not afraid of the destruction of the wind and blizzard.

The core of the spiritual power that condenses the body is already aching slightly. The longer it stays in the mental picture, the more uncomfortable and even harmful it will feel.

Yael seemed unaware, his slender fingers kept moving, quickly cutting and splicing something, and it took him a while to finish, then he bent down -

A lamp was hung on the window of the cabin.

The mental power flowing in the body condensed into a ball of light and was shot into the round belly of the lantern.

The slight warmth melted the coldness of the wind and snow, and the warm, light yellow halo rolled up and down like a newborn hedgehog.

He had made the decision on behalf of the female insect before, but whether she could wake up in the end still depended on the female insect herself.

"Try to find the direction and wake up..."

Yael squeezed out the last bit of his mental strength and injected it into the lamp, ensuring that it would stay bright for a long time before he finally relaxed and stopped resisting the strong rejection of the mental image.

The body formed by his spiritual power gradually dissipated, he closed his eyes, and fell into complete darkness.

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I don't know how much time passed.

The raging snowstorm on the snowfield finally subsided, and the lamp that was knocking against the window frame stopped shaking.

The warm ball of light was touched carefully by a finger through the glass.

The dark night collapsed inch by inch.

The sky suddenly brightened.

The author has something to say:

Yeah Yeah: The headlight bulb is installed√

ps: The doctor is actually quite nice, but he seems a bit cold and heartlessbr>