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, landing 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? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha..."
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.
“自甘堕落！茍延殘喘活下來有意思嗎？！如果真有骨氣，在被抓住的時候你就該自殺去死！”
西澤本來都懶得理這瘋瘋癫癫的雌蟲，聽到最後那句話卻一怔，
軍雌視榮耀和尊嚴為一切，如果兩者都失去，便公認是赤裸裸的失敗者，為什麽還要沒有價值地活着？
雖說存在即合理，但雌奴确實是被鄙視的最底層，讓一個軍雌淪落為雄蟲的奴隸，是一種極大的折辱。
但……想起耶爾蹙着眉，不贊同地看着他的樣子，絮絮叨叨說着生命至上的時候，耐心地幫他上藥，看着他逐漸康複時眉眼笑意溫軟。
好像一切恥辱痛恨都不再鮮明，只剩下暖意流淌的平靜，允許所有的傷口緩慢愈合，而被削去的血肉再次瘋長。
他失神一瞬，最終哂笑一聲，隐隐夾雜着一絲釋然。
“我就不死，關你屁事。”
西澤不再和他廢話，直接把他壓着打到沒有餘地逼逼賴賴。
赫裏克是A＋級的雌蟲，而且經過長時間在宇宙中摸爬滾打，本身能力就很不錯，能和西澤打個有來有回。
而且也被打出了火氣，武器什麽的幹脆全部丢掉，開始拳拳到肉地互毆，動靜大到周圍幾米內都沒有蟲敢靠近，甚至連累得周圍的建築變得更加破爛。
……
熱。
好熱……
滾燙熱意席卷全身，最終湧向腦袋，好像在粗暴地開鑿着一片新世界，就連冰冷的雪地也無法冷卻半分。
不知過了多久，那股熱意才逐漸回落。
耶爾有些艱難地睜開眼，視線仍然一片模糊，只勉強看清了兩個纏鬥的身影，而且似乎正陷入僵局。
他恍惚掃過雌蟲背後的血污，被那深紅刺痛了眼，下意識抿起了唇，扯着生鏽的腦子思索片刻。
“……西澤！”
他摸索着将地上的搶撿起來，找準時機抛了過去，而兩個雌蟲幾乎同時改變了動作，迅速去抓那把槍。
那把槍在兩只手間輾轉幾個來回，被攥在手裏又扔開，然後接着再搶奪，幾輪下來終于被兩只手按在了正中間。
“……呃！”
赫裏克咬着牙，手臂青筋暴起，止不住顫抖，力量正在不斷流失，那槍口被一點點對準自己的太陽穴。
壓在身上的雌蟲仍然是多年前熟悉的樣子，眉眼淩厲，下手利落狠辣。
那些磋磨好像沒有給他留下多少傷痛的痕跡，只見剛烈而不見扭曲。
多年前西澤也是這樣，帶領着第一軍團平亂，他身形挺拔地站在主星艦上，一身軍裝利落整肅，從帽檐下投來遙遠而漠然的一眼。
一聲“全部清掃幹淨”，就輕而易舉搗毀了他苦心經營多年才起來的星盜團。
那時候他就發誓，有機會一定要狠狠折磨這個雌蟲，讓他在自己腳邊痛哭流涕，求着自己放過他。
所以在安托那個蠢貨找上門時，他鬼使神差就答應了……
誰能想到，居然真的成功了，他媽的居然真的把他掰倒了！
“喂……你還記得、我是誰嗎……！”
槍口離他越來越近了。
赫裏克将流進眼睛的汗水眨去，死死瞪着身上的雌蟲，強行開口道。
他不知道要說些什麽，只是突然心慌得厲害，仿佛不現在說，就再也沒機會了。
隐約聽到軍艦降落的動靜，餘光中那些星盜又開始對雄蟲蠢蠢欲動，西澤神色漠然，卻猛地加強了手臂的力道。
槍口徹底調轉方向，對準了這個星盜的太陽穴。
“希、爾……”
赫裏克咬緊牙關，一字一頓道，妄圖延緩雌蟲的注意力，但下一秒——
砰！
一聲沉悶的槍響，鮮血霎時飛濺。
雌蟲目眦欲裂，神色難以置信到有些扭曲。
巨大的沖擊力将他半邊臉都燒毀了，只剩下一個貫穿太陽穴的血洞，散發出焦糊的氣息。
确保他已經死亡，西澤将槍抽出，頭也不回地對着身後開了幾槍，那些圍住耶爾的星盜應聲倒地。
“這裏是星球守衛軍第一軍！斐山星盜團，你們已經被包圍了，立刻丢下武器……”
警告聲從逼近的軍艦上傳來，頓時将地面上所有星盜都震在原地，驚慌失措地到處亂竄，一時間戰場亂作一團。
西澤皺了皺眉，連臉上的血也來不及擦，起身就向趕往耶爾身邊。
但這時，意外陡生——
半空中開啓了隐形功能的星艦一陣抖動，顯露出了巨大的身形，幾乎瘋狂地開啓了粒子炮掃射戰場。
砰砰砰砰砰！！！
粒子炮不分敵我，被掃中的星盜發出一片哀嚎，戰場頓時淪為一片血海。
領頭的軍雌沒意識到居然有一艘星艦隐藏在半空，當下臉色劇變，立刻厲聲喝道，“攔下那艘星艦！”
但似乎還是晚了一點，他們的星艦為了派出先頭部隊已經半着陸，需要再次蓄能才能迅速升空，那點時間已經夠粒子炮清掃一遍戰場了。
“該死！”
上将還在下面呢！
那軍雌猛地站起身，“第二小隊立刻駕駛機甲接近星艦，破壞它們的攻擊裝置，第三小隊下去，架起防護屏障保護民衆！”
“是！”
……
地面上，耶爾好不容易熬過一陣劇痛，下一波疼痛就又翻湧而上。
他幾乎睜不開眼，背上的冷汗一陣陣地發，視野愈發模糊不清。
轟——
一道灼熱的粒子炮劃過他旁邊，将一個廢墟轟炸得一片狼藉，飛濺的沙石幾乎打到他身上。
“……快離開那裏！”
劇烈的耳鳴中夾雜着雌蟲的聲音，将耶爾的意識喚醒了幾分。
可能因為擔憂和急切，西澤一時沒避開身後重重的激光炮，背上被擦傷了大片，踉跄了一下，喉間發出隐忍的痛哼。
“……！”
耶爾喉結滾動，薄唇抿成一條向下的線，看起來極不愉快。
那些本來快要散開的精神力小風暴，似乎感知到他心情的惡劣，又開始自發彙聚在一起，濃郁到幾乎凝成實體。
倏地，他睜開眼。
那漆黑眸底透不入一絲光線，隐隐閃過一抹極致的猩紅。
那些混亂無序的精神力一念瞬發，凝結成緊密的冰晶狀，在半空中展開一層無形卻堅固無比的屏障。
砰砰砰砰砰——
那些粒子激光好似撞到堅不可摧的牆，被生生彈向四周，甚至有被反彈回去，将射擊的炮管都崩斷了。
正指揮小隊開啓救援的指揮員都呆住了，愣了一會才找回自己的聲音。
“這……什麽情況？！”
他低頭在戰場搜尋了一番，除了見到自家上将，好像也沒什麽特別……
等等，那是誰？
上将似乎正在往一個方向趕，但被什麽擋住無法前進，而他不遠處，是一個身形清瘦的蟲，似乎正擡眼看向這邊。
他恍惚間，似乎看見那只蟲擡起右手，手指收緊形成一個抓握的動作——
“我們走！！”
見襲擊失效，副團長瞬間恢複理智，迅速掉頭想要逃離包圍。
他将星艦的動力開啓到最大，同時向旁邊的副手吼道，“開啓遷躍點！”
他死死看着面前的空間逐漸扭曲，旋轉成一個小黑洞，只要再等幾十秒，不，幾秒，星艦就能成功離開了。
“快啊……快啊！！”
但就在即将進入遷躍點的前一秒，整艘星艦猛地頓住！
“哔哔哔——警告！警告！未知力量入侵！警告……”
面前的操縱板瞬間亂碼，瘋狂閃爍紅燈。
副團吊着一口氣不上不下，幾乎快崩潰了，怒吼道，“這是怎麽回事？！”
“不知道！突然就不受控制了！”
所有星盜都滿頭大汗，想盡辦法搶修和推進，但星艦就是紋絲不動，甚至還有隐隐崩潰的跡象。
他們看不到的是，半空中，一只無形的手死死攥住了星艦的尾巴，将它強行滞留在了那裏。
原本柔軟似春水的精神力，在憤怒中變得尖銳冷硬，無孔不入的精神力刺入其中，摧枯拉朽般搗毀了星艦的中心智腦。
然後——
咔。
咔、咔、咔……
無數的裂紋從堅硬無比的星艦表面炸開。
從只有一條細微的裂縫，蔓延成一片蛛網般的裂痕，受到強力擠壓的地方猛地爆炸。
咔咔咔——砰砰砰砰砰砰！！！！
随着那只無形的大手緩慢收緊，那艘巨大的星艦居然開始一點點扭曲、變形。
像是被卷入黑洞中一般，正在緩慢成為一堆破銅爛鐵。
“那到底是……怎麽回事？”
指揮員難以置信地望着空中的一幕，驚駭至極地喃喃道。
他腦子一片空白，幾乎要忘記了身在何處，一直到嗡鳴的耳廓再次響起戰場的聲音，才陡然回過神來。
“第二第三小隊！立刻将那艘星艦攔下來！”
而此刻。
星盜團的成員面如死灰地盯着面前的屏幕，只見不斷閃爍的紅光中，一個進度條已經無比接近末尾。
“嘀嘀嘀嘀嘀嘀……！！”
“動力系統損壞程度——百分之九十七、百分之九十八……”
在他們絕望的視線中，進度條終于走到了末尾，發出刺耳的嘀嘀聲——
"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)