Chapter 40 is over, and Isaiah has stopped laughing...
Ai Ying's brow twitched as she listened to Isaiah's expression, which was both matter-of-fact and utterly bewildered and innocent.
This insect is really—
That's so unreasonable.
She suddenly remembered the 'glorious deeds' she had heard about Isaiah.
Recalling his actions of plundering the treasures of every race he had ever passed through, she took a deep breath:
no.
If this continues, the Zerg will surely become the common enemy of interstellar space.
Although the Zerg are powerful, they cannot resist the combined power of all other interstellar species.
Other species were able to tolerate the Zerg's actions because they believed that the Zerg would soon perish without a new leader.
They would rather pay a manageable price to prevent the Zerg from launching a counterattack before they die.
But now, after she arrived in the Zerg area.
The Zerg cannot become extinct as other species would have predicted.
If they knew that the Zerg's oppression of them would never end, they would very likely unite to fight against the Zerg.
This is very disadvantageous for the Zerg.
Besides, she doesn't like killing.
After their previous actions, the Zerg have already intimidated other species sufficiently.
The best approach now is friendly diplomacy.
Ai Ying glanced at Fedlock, who was standing to the side, his dark purple pupils reflecting both loyalty and confusion, and slowly looked away.
Just then, Saville thoughtfully handed over a glass of energy drink to soothe his mood.
Seeing that everything about Savile was unappealing except for her actions, she could only look at Isaiah.
Isaiah is the insect that interacts most with other species.
Sending him to communicate with the Feathered Beast Clan is the best option right now.
Thinking of this, Ai Ying directly and forcefully commanded him:
"Go to the Feathered Beast Clan to buy Feather Iron."
"This is an order."
The instant Isaiah heard the king's command, he placed one hand on the worm's core and respectfully knelt on one knee:
"yes."
Ai Ying watched him obediently retreat, and as if she had thought of something, she spoke up somewhat abruptly:
Isaiah.
"What do you plan to use to buy the feather iron from the Feathered Beast Clan?"
She saw Isaiah's retreating steps and visibly froze for a moment.
Her brow twitched again:
Surely there isn't just one low-grade gem?
Although her idea was outrageous.
But when she recalled Isaiah's reputation, she felt he was really capable of doing such a thing.
Isaiah stood at the entrance to the nest, slowly retracting his right foot, which had taken a step back, and stood upright and serious.
He dared not refuse to answer the king's question, so he cautiously raised his head, observed the king's expression, and then answered softly:
“One…star coin.”
Ai Ying thought she had made sufficient preparations.
Unexpectedly, her preparations were still insufficient.
Upon hearing Isaiah's reply, she couldn't contain the shock in her eyes, and her voice rose considerably:
"One star coin?"
He planned to use one star coin to 'buy' a large amount of feather iron from the Feathered Beast Clan?
How is this any different from what she just said about robbing?
When Isaiah heard the king's voice, his amber eyes were filled with the most fervent loyalty and reverence for her.
His voice was passionate and earnest:
"This is no ordinary star coin."
"This is a noble star coin that belongs to you!"
"It represents your authority, your tolerance, and your supreme status!"
"This is a priceless star coin!"
It's a star coin that's more than enough to buy the entire Feathered Beast Clan, and they'd be grateful for it!
Ai Ying listened to his long-winded speech without expression, and then succinctly summarized:
"So, you're going to use one star coin to buy Feather Iron."
At that moment, she deeply realized the power of the Zerg.
If the Zerg weren't strong enough, with their diplomatic tactics, they would have been driven to their deaths by other races long ago.
She rubbed her throbbing temples and gave a more specific command:
"Buy Yutetsu at a price no more than 20% lower than the market price."
"Do you understand?"
Isaiah, listening to the king's command, desperately suppressed the urge within the worm's core to "bring" everything to the king. He covered the core with one hand and bowed to receive the order:
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After seeing Isaiah leave, Ai Ying turned to look at the two remaining lord insects in the insect hive.
Saville, with his deep blue eyes, noticed the king's movement and promptly accepted the energy liquid that he had just handed to the king.
Fiedlock was a step too slow, carefully retracting his outstretched hand, and could only look at the king obediently with his dark purple eyes.
Ai Ying blinked thoughtfully as she watched the two insects' movements.
In her memory, Fedlock had a very bad attitude towards other species, especially humans.
The technology and knowledge of the human empire are exactly what the Zerg need now.
The Zerg will inevitably have to deal with humans in the future.
While she had the chance, she tried her best to improve Fedlock's view of humanity.
Otherwise, if all the Zerg had the same idea as Isaiah, the Zerg might really become the enemy of the stars after a while.
Thinking of this, she placed one hand on the armrest beside her and casually rewrote her relationship with Charlotte on Planet Carlo:
"I remember that shortly after I was born, there was a period of time when we couldn't even fill our stomachs."
Feeling the two insect cores trembling with heartache, she twitched her fingertips, turned her head, sighed, and continued:
"At that time, there was a human who only had two bottles of nutrient solution."
"When she saw me, she gave me one of the two remaining bottles of nutrient solution."
She wanted to use this experience of being helped by humans to slightly change the Zerg's aversion to humans.
Can--
Hearing this, Fedorock felt both heartache and fury:
"What?!"
Savile reacted in the same way, his deep blue pupils trembling uncontrollably.
"She actually dared to secretly keep a bottle of nutrient solution?!"
As Ai Ying listened to Savile's angry words, which he had always been friendly to humans, she slowly closed her eyes.
All right.
Not like Isaiah.
Fidelock, Savile, and even all the Zerg all share similar ideas.
They felt that everything in the interstellar space belonged to her.
No matter how other species help her or treat her well, in their insect brains, it's all taken for granted.
wrong.
They would only think that those species weren't doing enough.
She felt a throbbing pain between her eyebrows again.
never mind.
Ai Ying thought with a touch of helplessness:
Their 'robber logic', which has persisted for hundreds of years, cannot be completely changed in a short time.
With her here keeping an eye on things, nothing serious will happen.
Thinking of this, she wearily waved her hand, signaling them to leave.
After Fedlock and Savile left the hive, she slowly exhaled.
Ai Ying looked at the insects standing in the storm outside the insect nest, her gaze gradually hardening.
The most important thing now is to build nests for these insects.
Let them have a place to rest.
The insects on Noah's planet have lived here since shortly after their birth.
Moreover, the pursuit of power is an instinct of the Zerg.
They need to be tempered by the storms on Noah's Ark.
Therefore, she couldn't presumptuously suggest that they move to a better planet without any crises.
She is a Gu master and knows that every type of Gu insect has its own living habits.
Making changes rashly will only cause them pain.
What she needs to do is design the most suitable nest for these insects on Noah's Planet.
Ai Ying lowered her head, confidently looking at the paper insect nest folded in her hand:
She is the Gu Master in modern times who understands the preferences of Gu worms the most.
She will definitely be able to build the most suitable nest for these insects!
The materials for building the nest should be delivered to Noah Star in a few days.
She used these few days to observe the living habits of the insects on Noah's Planet.
*
Before the king arrived, all the insects on Noah's planet had only one thought.
That is to offer the best wind crystal to the king.
After the king's arrival, their thoughts became more detailed:
They must offer the finest wind crystals to the most beautiful, powerful, and gentle king in the world!
As for what they like themselves.
Of course, it's the king!
Only the King!
These insects walk in the storm, among others, seeking to offer the king the finest wind crystals.
His long gray hair was already half white, and the energy of the insect core was also in jeopardy.
After meeting the king on Carlo Star, he never even considered healing his injuries.
He knew he had done something wrong.
Recalling that day when Wang thought he was going to hurt her, Amos's gray hair trembled and clung tightly to his body, not daring to peek out even a little.
The king disliked him.
Wang did not want to see him.
Amos walked with difficulty, each step consuming his already dwindling energy.
But he continued toward an even more powerful storm.
He wanted to find a more perfect piece of wind crystal for the king before he died.
Even though he knew that the king would never look at him or know what he had done.
But as long as he could do something for the king, he felt at ease.
Mond watched as the higher insects passed by him, and shook his antennae in confusion.
After Wang healed all his injuries, the insect brain was finally able to think with difficulty:
Hiss—
"What's wrong with this higher insect?"
Keo, standing beside him, glanced at Amos, his vertical pupils shrinking in disgust:
"That bug, King, I hate it!"
When Amos heard his voice, his body trembled violently, and his gray hair lost all its luster.
Upon hearing Ceau's reply, Mondl's vertical pupils were filled with disgust.
He suppressed his fear of the level difference between himself and Aemos, gripping the insect pincers tightly, and said:
"Bad bug!"
An insect that the king hates must be a very bad insect!
The other insects who overheard the conversation quickly distanced themselves from Amos.
They are well-behaved.
They wouldn't go near that nasty bug that the king loathed!
Just then, a familiar aura wafted from afar.
All the insects stood frozen in place, no longer caring about anything else, and their pincer movements ceased:
It is the aura of a king.
The king... has arrived!
They all knew that the king was extremely noble, and for them, who were lowly insects, it was already a miracle if they could see the king even once in their lives.
They never expected that the king would reappear.
They appeared among this group of useless, lowly insects.
All the insects stared intently at the figure emerging from the storm, their vertical pupils gleaming with a light they had never seen before.
Only Amos lowered his head in self-consciousness and panic.
But he couldn't suppress his desire to see the king, and he cautiously raised his head, looking humbly at the figure in front of him.
Ai Ying easily noticed his gaze.
Not only because his gaze was noticeably different from the other insects, but also because he was the most severely injured among them.
Looking at his long, gray hair, she suddenly remembered that scene on Planet Carlo.
At the time, she thought that this higher insect would definitely realize that she was not the insect mother.
So, with a death wish, she cut her arm, hoping to use her own blood to save Charlotte and the inferior insects on Planet Carlo.
When she became stronger and looked back on what happened, she suddenly realized that the insect had never intended to harm her.
She was too weak, so weak that his very existence posed an insurmountable danger to her.
Ai Ying sensed the gradually depleting energy of the insect core, her gaze filled with a complex emotion:
Although he did not hurt her.
But the harm he did to the lower insects on Carlo Star that day was real.
Fortunately, her blood saved the insects.
At least not a single insect died because of him.
Amos... does not deserve to die.
At this moment, the surrounding lower insects, after their initial surprise and excitement, all noticed the king's gaze.
Looking at the advanced Zerg who wouldn't live much longer, they all remembered what Keo had just said:
This insect did something bad!
This insect disgusts the king!
Their surviving memories tell them that the king would kill anything that made her unhappy.
They didn't feel there was anything wrong with it, nor did they feel any fear.
Things that make Wang unhappy should not exist in the first place.
Even if the king were to kill them right now for getting close to that wicked insect, they wouldn't complain in the slightest.
Mondl looked at Amos and tilted his insect brain:
The king will surely dismember him and make him die a painful death.
If the king is still angry, then he will take out his own insect core to appease the king.
Keo watched Amos, his pincers opening and closing, as he devised what he considered the most terrifying punishment:
The king will definitely take out his insect core and then throw it far away, so that his insect core will never see the king again.
Fiedlock stared at Amos, his dark purple eyes filled with murderous intent.
He also overheard what Keo was saying to the other insects.
Those beings that the king despises should not exist in the world at all.
The energy within his body was stirring restlessly; at the king's command, his energy would devour the insect before him completely.
Savile's deep blue eyes also held a chilling killing intent.
In the eyes of all the insects, Amos's only fate was death.
The only difference is how they die.
Amos thought so too.
But he felt no fear; he only felt that it was wonderful to see the king again before he died.
He originally thought that he had been rejected by the king and could only die in a corner of Noah's planet with endless regret.
Unexpectedly, he would see the king again, and die at the king's hands.
So happy.
After recalling what happened on Planet Carlo, Ai Ying suddenly had a brilliant idea that could both punish Aimos and intimidate the other insects.
No matter how gentle a Gu Master is with Gu worms, the most fundamental deterrent must still be present.
Thinking of this, she looked at Amos with a calm yet authoritative gaze:
"That day on Carlo Star, you severely injured dozens of insects, almost causing them to lose their lives."
"Do you know you were wrong?"
Amos's silver-gray pupils had faded to a pale white.
He gazed intently and devoutly at the king not far away, as if he wanted to remember the king's appearance before he died.
He placed one hand over the insect core, his voice hoarse from the aftermath of his severe injury:
"Amos is guilty."
The insect that hurt Wang Zaiyi.
He should be torn to pieces, his blood used to warn future insects not to do anything that would displease the king.
Upon hearing Amos's reply, Ai Ying nodded indifferently:
"Then I'll punish you by making you follow behind those injured insects and become their servant."
"Until they forgive you."
Ai Ying knew that the Zerg hierarchy was very strict, and a higher-level Zerg had the right to completely suppress and control a lower-level Zerg.
This time, she reversed the insects' perception, turning Amos, a higher insect, into a servant of a lower insect.
This must be a great deterrent to the insects here.
She watched as all the insects stared wide-eyed, their vertical pupils filled with disbelief. Although she felt a pang of sympathy, she quickly hardened her heart.
She knew that whether it was a Gu Master or a King, there had to be one.
She wanted them to know that there would be serious consequences for making mistakes.
This will make it easier for her to manage these insects in the future.
Contrary to her expectations, all the insects were shocked, not because her punishment was too severe, but because—
Mondstadt's tentacles twitched in confusion:
Is this the king's punishment for that insect?
The king did not drain all the insect's blood, did not extract its core, and did not even kill it.
He originally thought that anyone who got close to Amos would be implicated and lose their insect life.
Because the king was angry, he should have killed all the insects.
Only swathes of insect blood and piles of insect cores can cleanse the king's wrath.
This is a 'truth' that the Zerg have held for thousands of years without ever changing.
The other insects shared the same idea.
They had already prepared themselves for being implicated by Amos.
But……
The king did not kill them.
Wang didn't kill the insect that angered her.
Why?
Why is the king so different from what they remember?
Why was the king so tolerant?
Why would the king do this...?
What?
The insect clutched its core in bewilderment, not understanding why the pulsation there had suddenly become chaotic and disordered.
Amos stood there, stunned, letting the wind blades in the storm lash against his body.
He didn't understand what Wang meant at all.
The mistakes he made were enough to kill him dozens of times over.
But the king...did not kill him.
They didn't even cut off his limbs, just threw him into the storm to let his insect blood cleanse the king's wrath.
He gazed silently at the King, his worm core and brain completely consumed by the King's image, uttering a silent, devout, and eternal call:
king--
Ai Ying didn't look at Amos again.
She felt that the punishment he had received was sufficient.
Next comes the warning to the other insects.
She turned around, looking at the insects in the storm, her Gu-infused spiritual power spreading throughout the entire Noah Star:
"I despise insects that attack their own kind."
"All insects on Noah's Planet are forbidden from fighting and killing each other."
"This is an order."
Before, nothing was more irresistible to insects than the king's command.
But now we have it.
The words 'the king's disgust' were like a mountain weighing a ton, pressing down on the core of every insect.
Such a gentle, so tolerant, such a good king—
If you start to hate them...
The moment any insect thinks of this possibility, its nucleus throbs with pain as if it might stop pulsating at any moment.
They cannot lose such a king!
They cannot be disliked by the king!
They cannot do things the king dislikes!
They will never, ever kill each other!!!
Even the most aggressive insect carefully retracted its pincers, displaying a friendly and sympathetic demeanor.
Including Lord Fidelock.
He suppressed the murderous intent in his eyes.
It was because she had received the king's tenderness and favor.
Therefore, he knew even more that he absolutely could not make a mistake and absolutely could not make the king dislike him.
He couldn't even imagine losing Wang Wenrou and her favoritism.
He'll go crazy.
*
Return to the insect hive.
Ai Ying looked out the window at all the insects struggling to move forward in the storm, lowered her eyes slightly, and concealed all the emotions in them.
She had not yet healed Amos's injuries.
In such a storm, his body could not possibly withstand it for long.
It wasn't just him; many other insects also had varying degrees of damage to their brains.
When Ai Ying looked up again, she had a leaf she had taken out of the folded space between her fingers and placed it to her lips.
The Gu technique's 'healing' was accompanied by a soothing melody, gently caressing the entire planet Noah.
All the insects felt as if they had returned to their eggs when they heard this sound.
The warmth gradually healed their long-standing pain and anxiety.
A breeze called tranquility blew away all the chaos.
They stood frozen in place, staring blankly in the direction of the insect nest:
He is the king—
It is their...king.
*
On the Feathered Beast Star.
Upon hearing the news from his subordinates, the Beast King panicked so much that a feather fell off one of the golden wings on his back.
Didn't this killer just visit the Thousand Plant Clan and the Human Empire a few days ago?!
Why are they here with the Feathered Beast Clan again?!
Was the Thousand Plant Elixir offered by the Thousand Plant Clan not precious enough, or the fireworks set off by Molin Star not magnificent enough?
Or perhaps the hospitality from the joint military academy wasn't satisfactory to him?
The Beast King recalled Isaiah's past act of nearly blowing up the entire Feathered Beast Star when he was unhappy, and two more feathers fell from his wings.
He crouched down, sighed, and picked up the fallen feathers from the ground.
In another hour, who knows how many feathers will be left on his body.
Let's keep as many as we can.
The more the Beast King thought about it, the more grief and indignation welled up inside him.
Those humans said decades ago that the Zerg wouldn't live much longer.
But decades have passed, and not only are they still alive and well, they also have time to come to their planet every year to plunder treasures.
If this continues, his personal wealth will be completely depleted!
Even his feathers are falling out so much that he almost needs feather growth serum!
If it's just a financial loss, then so be it.
The Beast King's gaze turned serious as he recalled Isaiah's power, which allowed him to contend with most of the high-ranking Winged Beast Clan with a mere wave of his hand.
Even if Isaiah dies tomorrow, he and his people must appease this god of death today.
In short, over the past two hundred years, they have almost remembered all of Isaiah's taboos.
As long as you offer him a little more treasure, you can always satisfy him.
The Beast King took a deep breath and forced a friendly smile, but his heart was bleeding with pain.
This time, who knows how much blood will have to be shed to satisfy this god of death.
Just as the beasts were decorating the palace to match Isaiah's long-held aesthetic, a hurricane blew in through the palace gates.
The decorative items in the palace were all swaying wildly in the wind.
The next second, a figure walked in, exuding a chilling aura.
Seeing this, the Beast King's face turned deathly pale:
It’s over!
Isaiah has stopped laughing!
They've come with ill intentions!
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Author's Note: Isaiah: Open the door, I've brought you star coins (cold face JPG)
Today's red envelopes are given out in sequence!
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