Fried heart
Wei Shao would have to be crazy to let him go.
But what reason could he have to stop it?
He doesn't know.
Wei Shao could only act like an elder brother and asked in a half-concerned and half-questioning tone: "What are you doing there?"
"Go and see," said Philo calmly, "and see if I dislike them."
It's a very simple truth. If you don't hate those male insects, it means that Philo can live without him.
Wei Shao felt a tightness in his chest, and his arms that were blocking the door gradually stiffened: "Do we have to go?" Is it necessary?
Philo did not answer him again, but just lowered his eyes and looked at him blocking his arms, the meaning was self-evident.
Wei Shao felt like he was about to be pissed off. If it were a year ago, if Fei Luo had said in front of him that he wanted to go to a male insect recruitment agency to "whore", he would have had a sullen face and taught the damn kid a lesson.
But now he couldn't say anything because of some unspoken reason.
Wei Shao didn't look at Fei Luo with a cold face, and let go of the door, but he insisted: "You must come back at night."
Philo didn't respond and just left.
“…”
Wei Shao watched his back disappear behind the corridor door, his joints cracking.
He calmed down and comforted himself: The system said that Philo's true emotional line will only appear in the future, not in the present on the abandoned planet. Philo is just going to take a look, and nothing can really happen.
Wei Shao calmed down a little.
This peace of mind shattered as he watched the sky gradually darken and Philo still hadn't returned home.
After waiting for another fifteen minutes, it was completely dark. Wei Shao finally couldn't hold back any longer. He picked up his wallet and slammed the door.
The terminal on the abandoned star could not connect to the star network, so Wei Shao naturally could not directly query the coordinates of the male insect recruitment center. Fortunately, there was a ready-made guide insect in the team.
Luke walked side by side with Wei Shao, glancing at his gloomy face from time to time, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes: "Didn't he tell you before he left?"
Wei Shao was filled with anger, and his tone was inevitably a little dry: "I said it."
Luke's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said thoughtfully: "He told you, but you let him go, and now you are so angry..."
Wei Shao was so focused on Filo's current situation that he no longer cared about what he was mumbling. After a rough listening, he found that it was roughly correct, so he said "hmm" to show his confirmation.
Luke smiled and sighed, looking ahead and said, "Okay, we're almost there, let's speed up."
Wei Shao couldn't get what he wanted.
The male insect recruitment center sounded like a small place, but when Wei Shao arrived he realized that it was actually larger than the entire dormitory area.
If the dormitory area where Philo and his friends lived was compared to an ordinary residential area, this place was a super luxurious villa area. The living facilities were so exquisite that Wei Shao doubted whether he was living on a poor abandoned planet.
This is a utopia and Eden built specifically for male insects in the base. It is also the secondary core of the base. It controls the best male insects in the northern hemisphere of the abandoned star. The cost of staying here for one night is the income of a medium-level female mercenary for nearly three months.
It was a busy time for the recruitment office, and every window in the hall was lined with bugs. A bug came out from the management office next door, and walked straight over to them after seeing them.
He must have known Luke. He greeted Luke first, then turned his gaze to Wei Shao and asked Luke tentatively: "Who is this...?"
Luke said succinctly, "Deputy Director, I brought him here to find a bug."
"No problem." The deputy manager thought he wanted to take Wei Shao to cut in line, so he waved his hand and raised his hand to the assistant behind him.
The assistant immediately called up the ordering system and asked Wei Shao softly, "Which hero are you looking for?"
Wei Shao pursed his lips slightly: "No, I'm looking for Fei Luo."
The assistant paused.
The deputy manager paused, then hissed softly, looked at Wei Shao, and confirmed again: "Looking for Captain Fei Luo?"
Philo's team is well-known in the second base, so naturally there are few bugs who don't know Philo.
In addition, most mercenaries would choose to save money for more than ten years before recruiting male insects when they are close to the age of violent period. Therefore, Philo stood out among the female insects in their thirties and fifties today.
And now another bug comes looking for Philo.
The deputy manager then realized that the handsome guy who came to look for bugs seemed to have a bad expression on his face, and looked a bit like...he was here to catch someone cheating?
The deputy manager's alarm bells suddenly rang.
Male Zerg resources are expensive in the base. After all, there are only a few senior mercenaries who can have their own male Zergs like Luke. Most of them are at the bottom of the society who are just trying to make a living. They can only come into contact with a male Zerg once a month or even several months. This has led to a phenomenon - the proportion of female-male love is astonishing.
This person is probably here to cause trouble.
The smile on the deputy manager's face gradually faded, and he carefully said, "Soldier, I'm sorry, our order information cannot be disclosed to the public. Perhaps you can go home and wait for a while?"
Wei Shao tightened his jaw: "No."
He suppressed his emotions and said, "I am his household insect, so it doesn't count as breaking your rules. Please help me contact him and tell him that I have something to say to him."
The deputy manager became more certain of his guess - although the abandoned star could not build a star network base station like the outside world, there would be communication signal stations in several bases, and all mercenary teams would be registered and equipped with communicators. If the person inside was willing, why would Wei Shao let him make the contact? It can only be that conflicts have arisen between the two.
One is the team leader, and the other is a team member with little presence. It is needless to say which one is more important, but the deputy director is smart and does not intend to offend either of them. He just smiled and nodded, then walked to the corner and dialed the communicator of a certain room using the system.
The dial signal only rang once before the deputy manager cut off the call. He stood there pretending to wait for a minute before returning to Wei Shao and said regretfully, "Sorry, we can't contact Captain Philo."
Wei Shao clenched his fists little by little.
Luke glanced at his face and asked tentatively: "How about we go back first?"
Wei Shao glanced at the watch on his wrist, and many things and scenes flashed through his mind, including Philo begging him not to leave, his near-death experience, his confession of love... None of the scenes fit the plot trajectory.
If the plot went astray again at this point—Filo was mad at him and was marked by a strange male insect here…
The noisy sounds around him suddenly faded away, and a great panic spread from his mind to his whole body.
He once asked the system what the consequences would be if a female insect was marked. The system gave a vague introduction. At that time, he was very unhappy with this unfair relationship. However, he gave up when the system told him that Philo's future partner was not bad and would not use this as an excuse to bully Philo.
But at this moment, Wei Shao was not sure of anything.
His knuckles clicked twice from exerting too much force, and then he moved closer to Luke and pulled out the other gun from Luke's waist.
The deputy manager's face turned completely cold, and the security guard at the entrance of the hall immediately stood alert and raised his gun.
Wei Shao held the gun in one hand and took out his wallet with the other. He took out the base savings card from it with one hand, handed it to the deputy manager, and said in a deep voice: "I will pay three times the money to order the male insect selected by Captain Philo. Is that okay?"
Having said that, looking at his expression, he seemed ready to start shooting and cause trouble if the deputy manager disagreed.
The deputy manager was no pushover either. He sneered and wanted to wave his hand to ask the guards to drag Wei Shao out. However, the assistant behind him suddenly stepped forward and whispered something in his ear.
The deputy manager tilted his head slightly, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled as the assistant's lips moved, and his eyes quickly swept across the savings card in Wei Shao's hand.
After a while, he pressed his palm towards the guards outside the door. After the guards put down their guns, he slowly said to Wei Shao: "Soldier, I want to remind you that if Captain Philo complains to the recruitment office after I let you in, according to regulations, you will be severely punished."
Wei Shao nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
The deputy manager winked at his assistant.
The assistant immediately understood what Wei Shao meant and said, "Put down the gun. I'll take you there."
Wei Shao returned the gun to Luke, turned around and left with his assistant.
In the empty hall, a group of female insects, who hadn't had enough of the excitement, were chirping.
Suddenly, a bug twitched its nose and asked curiously, "Is this the smell of pheromones?"
The deputy manager was about to say something to divert their attention, but he subconsciously shrugged his nose when he heard this.
Of course, this is just a habitual action. In fact, the male insect's pheromone is closely related to the female insect's blood. It is an instinctive perception rather than a sense of smell.
Because of this, female insects rarely make the mistake of smelling pheromones and confusing them for something else.
The deputy manager moved his eyes hesitantly.
——There is indeed a little smell of pheromones left in the air, very faint, but the concentration is surprisingly high.
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Wei Shao was brought to the reception area by his assistant and stopped in front of a suite door.
The assistant gestured "please" to him and left silently.
Wei Shao closed his eyes, threw away the messy thoughts in his mind, raised his cold and stiff hands and knocked heavily on the door seven times.
While waiting, he stared at the intricately carved patterns on the door, and for no reason he was reminded of the insect patterns on Philo's neck when he transformed into an insect.
It is also so complex and mysterious.
“Ka——”
The sound of the door lock turning fell into his ears. Before the insect inside could move, Wei Shao had already pushed the door open. The male insect who opened the door was almost knocked over by him. He staggered several steps before being stabilized by the assistant who rushed over.
The assistant took a quick look at the male insect, and seeing that he was not injured, he opened his eyes and pretended not to see anything.
Although they raised these male insects in large quantities, they never treated them as toys. No matter how precious the male insects were, they were nothing more than sex slaves in the hands of their superiors. Not to mention the male insects with inferior pheromones, which are not even accepted by recruitment agencies and can only be invaded and trampled by vagrants and the poor in the wild.
——Naturally, he would not offend the senior mercenaries in the base because of something like dodder.
Wei Shao grabbed the male insect's wrist and asked sternly, "Where's Fei Luo?!"
The male insect's wrist was in pain from being grabbed by him, and he dared not say anything more. He only said fearfully: "In the room..."
The frail and sickly appearance of the male insect made Wei Shao feel a little relieved - as long as Philo didn't take the initiative, nothing would happen even if the king of heaven came.
He immediately rushed into the room with the nearest open door.
The male insect said carefully behind him, "It's the one behind you."
Wei Shao's attempt was empty-handed. Without even stopping, he walked straight to another closed door and turned the doorknob.
It’s not locked.
This was his first reaction when he twisted it. Wei Shao found it hard to accept that Fei Luo had locked the door for him at home during this period, but opened the door to a strange male insect without any precautions.
But when he saw the scene in the room clearly, all these sour and bitter thoughts were completely shattered into pieces in an instant, leaving only fear and anger.
Philo curled up on the bed, motionless, his cheeks and neck were red, and his breathing was heavy.
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