Chapter 41
Yael's mind went blank.
He subconsciously reached out to touch the female insect's back and felt something wet and warm.
Blood gushed out from under his shirt, flowing through his fingers and palms like a spring that could not be stopped.
"...Xizawa?! Xizhe..."
He whispered in a hoarse, panicked voice, trying to press on the wound but unable to stop the blood from gushing out.
"It's OK."
Xi Ze's Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed the fishy sweetness against the root of his tongue. He reached out and pulled the male insect's hand back, pressing it against his chest and hiding it in his own shadow.
The long-lost smell of gunpowder and blood seemed to have awakened something, and the worm pattern suddenly became hot and seemed to be spreading and growing.
He could feel cracks opening up on both sides of his shoulder blades, as if something was trying to come out of them.
The male insect in his arms seemed to be in discomfort. Even in the dim light, one could see that his face was too pale.
Are you scared?
Xi Ze did not think deeply, but half closed his eyes, his mind was tense to the extreme, feeling the chaotic changes happening in his body.
"call......"
The female insect with a haughty look blew at the muzzle of the laser gun, grabbed a safety rope with her left hand, and quickly slid down from the invisible airship, landed neatly in the middle of the street, and then burst into a curse -
“I knew it!!!”
"I knew it was you, the only one who could make those money-hungry Xie family bastards stop smuggling gunpowder and choose to cut off their own tails to survive!"
He was killing the planet halfway but ended up running out of equipment. How many years had it been since he felt this kind of frustration?!
Anto, a soft persimmon that would burst at the slightest pinch, didn't have the courage to do that. The corrupt and cowardly royal family of the empire also didn't have the awareness to directly grasp the lifeblood of the star thief.
As expected, there is only this evil ghost crawling out of hell in front of me.
Herrick was furious, but soon calmed down. After breathing heavily for a while, he smiled strangely.
"But what's the use? In order to hide your tracks, the troops you have assembled can only hide in an uncontrolled garbage planet. It will be too late to rescue in time--"
"That'll be enough time for me to peel off your skin and make a beautiful carpet."
The star thieves around burst into laughter and watched their leader leisurely walk forward and approach the female insect half-kneeling on the ground in front of him.
"Fuck! This bitch just cut off one of my arms, Boss! Help me get revenge!"
A star pirate with a face full of cold sweat shouted bravely, and then he saw their boss waved his hand in a good mood and twirled the gun in his hand casually.
With a "click", the gun barrel, still smoking, was pressed against the hair of the female insect in front of him.
"Speak, huh? I didn't pierce your throat just now, did I?"
His tone gradually turned colder, and his fierce eyes suddenly moved, but he was caught off guard when he saw that the half-covered clothes in the female insect's arms were shaken off a bit -
A pair of eyes were revealed.
As deep as an unfathomable black hole, ignited by anger, it appears extremely bright, like two will-o'-the-wisps.
With just one glance, Herrick was unable to move, his mind went blank, and even his breathing disappeared.
The rage that seemed to be real ignited him, and the repression from deep within his genes and blood was instantly awakened, screaming fear and submission hysterically.
“Pah.”
The gun slipped from his stiff fingers and hit the ground with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.
And while he was still, Caesar suddenly moved.
There were subtle crackling sounds, and the cloth on his back formed irregular shapes, like a butterfly trying to break out of a cocoon. It rose and fell rapidly for a while, and then "swish" broke through the clothes and came out -
A huge shadow grew out in blood, and in an instant it stretched out into a pair of bone wings several meters long!
"!!!"
Herrick, who was standing behind him and had not yet recovered, was obviously the first victim.
He was blown away by the bone wings almost instantly. If he had not immediately activated the protective shield, he would have been cut in half by the waist.
"Boss! Boss, are you okay?!"
The pirates didn't know why the situation changed suddenly, and they rushed forward in horror, trying to help Herrick up from the ground.
At this moment, a ray of moonlight broke through the clouds and illuminated the dark front.
A thief took a glimpse and his eyes widened in shock. "What... is that..."
The female insect gently placed the insect in her arms on the ground and stood up.
The bone wings behind him were made up of countless fine bones. They expanded and contracted slowly like breathing, emitting a restrained, dark, metallic luster.
There are countless vicious bone spurs growing on the edges of the bone wings, which are so sharp that they can easily pierce through the defensive armor.
There was even fresh blood on it, dripping onto the snow.
"Get out of here, you idiots!"
Herrick's face turned livid. He kicked a star thief away and stood up while holding onto the ground.
When he saw the scene in front of him, the expression on his face seemed to freeze for a moment, and then gradually a bloody laugh appeared on his face.
"That's right... that's how you are! That's how interesting it is!"
“…”
Xi Ze tilted his head slightly, and a line of bright golden eyes appeared under his messy hair.
…
The next battle was almost the only battle between top-level warriors that most pirates had the honor of witnessing in all these years.
Open and close, very satisfying.
No living creature dared to approach within a few dozen meters of the battlefield, for fear of being affected and killed.
The cold mental power formed a storm, and during the confrontation, it made a sound that could make insects shudder. Together with the flapping bone wings, it stirred up gusts of cold wind, and broken ice chips flew everywhere.
“…”
The newly formed bone wings were still a little uncomfortable, and Herrick pounced on them like a mad dog.
Xi Ze was hit several times on the shoulder, and a vertical mark appeared between his eyebrows.
But the moment he was completely thrown into the battlefield, the battle memory engraved in his bones gradually recovered. Caesar raised his forearm to block Herick's attack, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
He stopped defending and broke one of the female insect's ribs with one kick, causing it to fly back several meters before finally coming to a stop.
"continue."
Caesar chuckled, a hint of enthusiasm flashing across his brows, and watched Herrick show his claws like a beast and rush up at an extremely fast speed.
Bang bang bang bang bang-! ! !
While the battle was going on here, the star pirates who had been left out began to stir again and moved towards Yael who was lying on the ground.
"…What's that thing over there? Let's go and have a look secretly. It would be best if we could catch it and threaten this female insect…"
But before most of them could get close, Xize noticed it and flapped his bony wings to fly away. Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and there was another round of wailing.
"Who is that person in that dress? Is he worthy of your being so cautious?"
However, Herich narrowed his eyes, flapped the bony wings on his back, quickly closed the distance between them, and began to fight and entangle with the female insect.
Xize remained silent, but his attacks became increasingly brutal, not giving his opponent any time to breathe.
Herrick was forced into a hurry by the intensive attack, but he still sneered intermittently.
"So precious? I'm more curious, is it related to your ability to recover so quickly?"
Although Anto was a fool, he would not hide such an important matter. He was probably right when he said that the female insect escaped a week ago.
But now it seems that the more likely possibility is that the female insect used some method to deceive the idiot and escaped from the serious injury state in the shortest time possible.
Could it be something in his arms?
The horror he felt just now still left Herrick with a lingering fear, but it was not enough to scare him into running away with his tail between his legs. He could only roughly guess what kind of high-tech device it was that was disturbing his mind.
Even if we take a step back, if he is really that powerful, why hasn't he used it to get out of this predicament? It shouldn't be a cause for concern in the short term.
While Xi Ze was being entangled, a more sensitive person approached Yael again, and took advantage of the female insect's inattention to lift up the clothes.
The star thief was stunned for a moment.
That's a male.
Moreover, he was a handsome and noble male insect who should have been raised in the royal family and cared for with great care. He should not have appeared on a dirty and bloody battlefield, lying in the cold snow.
"A male insect! It's a male insect! Oh my god..."
His companion beside him came to his senses and shouted excitedly, but before he could reach out his hand, a flying knife pierced his neck.
“…”
There seemed to be some sounds coming from my ears, but they were all vague and unclear.
Yael frowned in extreme pain. The burst of mental power just now could only last for a moment before he was forced into a coma by the surging pain.
But he still remembered the current situation, remembered that the female insect was injured, the repressed emotions continued to ferment, and the chaotic mental power continued to riot, constantly squeezing and expanding in his mind.
"...Xize..."
He muttered hoarsely, and grabbed a handful of snow with trembling fingers, his palms were freezing cold.
As if hearing the whisper, a strong breeze blew by, and the annoying flies around me finally disappeared completely.
Despite being injured, Xi Ze flapped his bone wings and escaped from the fight with Herich, and harvested the star pirates around the male insect.
The female insect that was lingering behind him caught up with him again. He turned around to defend himself, pressing Herrick away for a distance to avoid accidentally hurting the unconscious male insect.
"Male, insect?"
Herich looked at Caesar's ugly expression in surprise, and said word by word, "You actually protect a male insect?"
The next second, his shoulder was pierced, he groaned, and cold sweat broke out immediately, but his eyes were fixed on Caesar's neck, where a thick bandage was wrapped.
And there seems to be something hidden inside——
Thinking of a possible guess, Herrick's pupils shrank a little with excitement.
"You, have become the female slave of this male insect?"
"You? A female slave? Hahahahahahahahahahaha..."
He seemed to have seen such a huge joke that he didn't even care about being attacked and laughed so hard that he could hardly breathe.
"Oh my god! The famous—actually became a lowly female slave! Am I seeing things?!"
But as he laughed, he gradually became angry and roared almost hysterically.
"You've fallen into depravity! What's the point of trying to survive?! If you really have the guts to do it, you should have committed suicide when you were caught!"
Xi Ze was too lazy to pay attention to this crazy female insect, but he was shocked when he heard the last sentence.
Military women regard honor and dignity as everything. If they lose both, they are recognized as blatant losers. Why should they continue to live a worthless life?
Although existence is reasonable, female slaves are indeed the most despised group of people. It is a great humiliation for a female soldier to be reduced to a slave of a male insect.
But... thinking of Yael frowning and looking at him with disapproval, muttering about how life is the most important thing, patiently applying medicine to him, and smiling gently as he watched him gradually recover.
It was as if all the shame and hatred were no longer vivid, leaving only a flowing warmth and tranquility, allowing all the wounds to heal slowly and the flesh that had been cut off to grow wildly again.
He was distracted for a moment, and finally chuckled, with a hint of relief in his expression.
"I won't die, it's none of your business."
Xi Ze didn't waste any more time talking to him and just beat him until he had no more words to say.
Herrick is an A+ grade female insect, and after a long period of experience in the universe, she has quite good abilities and can fight with Caesar.
They were also so angry that they simply threw away their weapons and started to fight each other with fists. The noise was so loud that no insects dared to approach within a few meters. The surrounding buildings were even made more dilapidated.
…
hot.
It’s so hot…
A boiling heat swept through my body and finally rushed to my head, as if it was violently carving out a new world. Even the icy snow could not cool it down in the slightest.
I don't know how long it took before the enthusiasm gradually subsided.
Yael opened his eyes with some difficulty, but his vision was still blurry. He could only barely make out two struggling figures, and they seemed to be in a stalemate.
He scanned the blood stains on the back of the female insect in a trance, and the deep red color stung his eyes. He pursed his lips subconsciously and thought for a moment with his rusty brain.
"...Caesar!"
He groped around to pick up the gun on the ground, and threw it over at the right moment. The two female insects changed their movements almost at the same time and quickly grabbed the gun.
The gun rolled back and forth between the two hands several times, was grasped in the hand and thrown away, and then snatched again. After several rounds, it was finally pressed in the middle by both hands.
"……Well!"
Herrick gritted his teeth, veins popped in his arms, and he couldn't stop shaking. His strength was constantly draining away, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed closer and closer to his temple.
The female insect pressing on his body still looked familiar from many years ago, with fierce eyes and swift and ruthless actions.
Those tortures did not seem to leave him with many traces of pain, only strength but no distortion.
Xi Ze was like this many years ago, leading the First Legion to quell the rebellion. He stood tall on the main starship, wearing a neat and tidy military uniform, and cast a distant and indifferent glance from under the brim of his hat.
With just one sentence of "Clear all", he easily destroyed the pirate gang that he had painstakingly built up over many years.
At that time he swore that if he had the chance he would torture this female insect severely and make her cry at his feet and beg him to let her go.
So when that idiot Anto came to him, he somehow agreed...
Who could have thought that it would actually work, and he actually knocked him down!
"Hey... do you still remember who I am...!"
The muzzle of the gun was getting closer and closer to him.
Herick blinked away the sweat that flowed into his eyes, stared at the female insect on his body, and forced himself to speak.
He didn't know what to say, but he suddenly felt extremely nervous, as if if he didn't say it now, he would never have another chance.
Faintly he could hear the sound of a warship landing, and in the remaining light he saw the pirates starting to make moves on the male insect. Caesar looked indifferent, but suddenly increased the strength of his arms.
The muzzle of the gun was turned completely around and aimed at the star bandit's temple.
"Xi, Er..."
Herrick gritted his teeth and spoke word by word, trying to delay the female insect's attention, but the next second -
Bang!
There was a dull gunshot and blood splattered everywhere.
The female insect's eyes were bloodshot, and her expression was distorted with disbelief.
The huge impact force burned half of his face, leaving only a bloody hole through his temple, emitting a burnt smell.
After making sure he was dead, Caesar pulled out his gun and fired several shots behind him without looking back. The pirates surrounding Yael fell to the ground.
"This is the First Army of the Planetary Defense Force! Feishan Star Pirates, you have been surrounded, drop your weapons immediately..."
The warning sounded from the approaching warship, which immediately shocked all the pirates on the ground. They ran around in panic, and the battlefield was in chaos for a while.
Cize frowned, without even wiping the blood off his face, he stood up and rushed to Yer's side.
But at this moment, something unexpected happened——
The starship, which had activated its stealth function in mid-air, shook for a moment, revealing its huge shape, and almost madly turned on its particle cannon to scan the battlefield.
Bang bang bang bang bang! ! !
The particle cannon did not distinguish between friend and foe. The star pirates who were caught in the attack let out wails, and the battlefield suddenly turned into a sea of blood.
The leading female soldier didn't realize that there was a starship hidden in the air. Her face changed drastically and she shouted, "Stop that starship!"
But it seemed a little late. Their starship had already half-landed in order to send out the vanguard and needed to recharge its energy before it could quickly take off. That time was enough for the particle cannon to sweep the battlefield.
“Damn it!”
The Admiral is still down there!
The female soldier stood up suddenly. "The second team will immediately drive the mechas to approach the starship and destroy their attack devices. The third team will go down and set up a protective barrier to protect the civilians!"
"yes!"
…
On the ground, Yael finally managed to get through a burst of severe pain, but the next wave of pain came crashing down on him.
He could hardly open his eyes, cold sweat broke out on his back, and his vision became increasingly blurred.
Boom——
A beam of burning particle fire passed by him, blasting a ruin into pieces, and the flying sand and rocks almost hit him.
"...Get out of there!"
The violent tinnitus mixed with the sound of the female insect awakened Yael a little.
Perhaps because of worry and anxiety, Xize failed to avoid the heavy laser cannons behind him, and a large area of his back was scratched. He staggered and let out a suppressed groan of pain from his throat.
“……!”
Yael's Adam's apple rolled and his thin lips were pressed into a downward line, looking extremely unhappy.
Those small storms of mental power that were about to disperse seemed to sense the bad mood of his and began to spontaneously gather together, becoming so dense that they almost condensed into a solid body.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes.
Not a ray of light could penetrate those dark eyes, and there was a faint flash of extreme scarlet.
Those chaotic and disordered mental powers condensed into dense ice crystals in an instant, unfolding an invisible yet extremely solid barrier in mid-air.
Bang bang bang bang bang——
Those particle lasers seemed to have hit an indestructible wall and were bounced in all directions. Some were even rebounded and broke the barrels of the guns that were shooting.
The commander who was directing the team to start the rescue operation was stunned, and it took him a while to find his voice again.
"What's going on?!"
He looked around the battlefield, but apart from seeing his own general, there didn't seem to be anything special...
Wait, who is that?
The admiral seemed to be rushing in one direction, but was blocked by something and could not move forward. Not far away from him was a thin insect that seemed to be looking over here.
In a trance, he seemed to see the insect raise its right hand, its fingers tightening to form a grasping motion.
"Let's go!!"
Seeing that the attack was ineffective, the deputy captain regained his senses instantly and quickly turned around to escape the encirclement.
He turned on the starship's power to the maximum and shouted to his deputy, "Activate the jump point!"
He stared at the space in front of him as it gradually twisted and spun into a small black hole. If he just waited a few dozen seconds, no, just a few seconds, the starship would be able to successfully leave.
“Hurry up… hurry up!!”
But just one second before entering the transition point, the entire starship suddenly stopped!
"Beep, beep, beep—Warning! Warning! An unknown force is invading! Warning..."
The control panel in front of me suddenly became garbled and the red light flashed wildly.
The deputy commander was holding his breath, almost collapsing, and yelled, "What is going on?!"
"I don't know! I suddenly lost control!"
All the pirates were sweating profusely, trying their best to repair and advance, but the starship did not move at all, and even showed signs of collapse.
What they couldn't see was that in mid-air, an invisible hand tightly grasped the starship's tail and forcefully held it there.
The mental power that was originally as soft as spring water turned sharp and hard in anger. The all-pervasive mental power penetrated into it, destroying the central intelligence brain of the starship like a rotten wood.
then--
Click.
Click, click, click…
Countless cracks exploded from the extremely hard surface of the starship.
What started as a tiny crack spread out into a spider-web of cracks, and the area that was squeezed by the force suddenly exploded.
Click-click-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!!!
As the invisible hand slowly tightened, the huge starship actually began to twist and deform a little bit.
As if being sucked into a black hole, it is slowly turning into a pile of scrap copper and iron.
"So...what's going on?"
The commander stared at the scene in the sky in disbelief and muttered in extreme shock.
His mind went blank and he almost forgot where he was, until the sounds of the battlefield began to buzz in his ears again, and he suddenly came back to his senses.
"Teams 2 and 3! Take down that starship immediately!"
And at this moment.
The members of the Pirates' Gang stared at the screen in front of them with dejected faces. In the flashing red light, they saw a progress bar that was getting very close to the end.
“Beep, beep, beep, beep…!!”
"Powertrain damage level - 97, 98 percent..."
In their desperate sight, the progress bar finally reached the end, making a harsh beeping sound—
"Power is 100% destroyed! Please activate the escape system as soon as possible!"
In the blink of an eye, the unstable transition point slowly dissipated.
Defeat is inevitable.
The deputy regiment commander looked at the troops that had surrounded him, his face instantly turned pale, and he slumped down on a chair.
"How could this happen..."
He simply did not understand why the entire situation was reversed in just a few hours, with the leader being killed for no reason at the hands of a female insect and even the entire pirate group being captured alive.
“…”
A trace of warm liquid slid down from his eye sockets, and his vision was blurred by a faint blood color.
Yael finally came back to his senses and stopped staring at the starship.
He reached out and touched his face, then realized that he had overused his mental strength. Tears and blood flowed from his right eye in pain.
"Hero Lord?!"
The female insect's voice rang out from a distance, and she shouted, "Stop releasing your spiritual power!"
Yael blinked and tried to disperse the strange and powerful mental power.
And at the moment it dissipated, a fishy and sweet taste surged in his throat, and the severe pain in his mind was relieved.
"Ahem... Ahem!"
He hunched over and coughed, his thin back trembling, and he managed to hold on to the wall without collapsing.
"Are you okay?"
Xi Ze flapped his bone wings and quickly landed in front of the male insect. He reached out and held the male insect in his arms, supporting him to prevent him from slipping and falling.
When the severe pain subsided, Yael raised his eyes in a daze.
Then his pupils shrank, and he reacted violently by shaking off the female insect's supporting hand, stumbling back a few steps.
Xi Ze's movements paused.
If he saw it correctly, his face was reflected in the male insect's dark eyes, and in them was naked disgust and fear.
The air suddenly became quiet and time seemed to stand still.
"…What's wrong?"
He opened his mouth and spoke in a hoarse and extremely soft voice, almost cautiously.
Yael panted silently, his vision going dark, but the female insect's figure was extremely clear.
The gorgeous and bizarre patterns of the female insect were reflected in his retina. A circle of tiny scales grew around the golden eyes, and the hand that had just supported him was a claw as sharp as steel.
The outstretched bony wings on the back of the female insect were enormous even when they were folded up, and they glowed with a dark luster. The bone spurs on them were extremely gnarled, and they even flowed with fresh blood.
A strong sense of foreignness and disharmony came over him, and Yael almost suffocated.
After a moment of stalemate, Xize took another step closer and whispered, "My Lord..."
"Don't come over here!"
Yael blurted out the words subconsciously, with a tone of resistance and disgust.
The author has something to say:
Herrick: Hey...! (Trying to delay time by talking about the past)
Nishizawa: Bang. (Cold jpg.)
The villains often die because they talk too much, and the protagonists often die because they don't talk enough (chin on hand)
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