Xi Yujin opened his eyes, confirmed that he was still alive, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He sat up slowly, and his hair glowed with a soft light, acting as a makeshift light bulb, illuminating the airy space.
Then he found himself lying on a large bed of two hundred square meters.
He was not mistaken. It was a 200-square-meter bed. The mattress beneath him was so soft that it felt like sinking into a cloud. The blanket on him was not cloth, but a layer of strange plastic. It felt hard when knocked, but soft when not moving. The whole space was like a yurt, with the support conical roof. The walls were engraved with complex patterns. The walls became thinner as they went up, revealing a little light.
Where is he?
Xi Yujin lifted the quilt, stood up, and saw a raised square box on the wall with four egg-like buttons on it. He poked it with his hand and it had the soft and sticky texture of mochi.
The texture is a bit weird...
Xi Yujin felt a dark pattern next to it, and several little people were demonstrating how to use the button. He looked at it for a long time and judged that there should be no trap on this button, so he pressed the first button.
The whole room shook.
A ray of sunlight shone in from the crack above my head, and then the crack grew larger and larger, making the room brighter. The brown walls spread outward, incredibly soft, as if a flower was blooming.
Until the wall of petals fully unfolded like a daisy, Xi Yujin stood on the soft flower bed, his eyes wide open in shock.
The blue sky was as crystal clear as a gemstone, and in the distance there were mountains all around, and a vast forest carefully arched over the open space. In addition to his unfolded flower house, there were also small houses in the shape of flower buds, clustered around it. The fresh air with the fragrance of the earth filled his nostrils.
——He became a flower fairy!
Xi Yujin hadn't seen such green land for a long time and was fascinated by the sight.
He returned to the box and pressed the second button.
A three-meter-wide brown leaf extended from the flower stem. Xi Yujin looked at the ground a hundred meters above him and hesitantly stood on the brown leaf.
The brown leaf spiraled around the flower stem three times and reached the edge of another brown leaf. When the ember stood firmly on the second leaf, it started again. This cycle continued until the ember was steadily returned to the ground.
"I just came down like this?"
Xi Yujin looked up at the huge greenhouse, then rubbed his feet on the mud, feeling extremely surprised.
The light intensity on the ground was obviously insufficient, but there were still many strange plants, short and fat mushrooms with bright red spots on top, fist-sized purple bell flowers swaying slightly, and light blue hollow ring flowers with circles of fangs growing inside.
Xi Yujin accidentally touched a yellow flower next to him. The unprepossessing little flower expanded rapidly and swallowed his hand in one bite.
He quickly stepped on the stone pier next to him for leverage and finally managed to pull his hand out.
"Where have I been..."
Xi Yujin thought about it.
“Buzz——”
Two winged humanoids descended from the sky. They were both wearing masks, and most of their heads were sunken in a silver-white egg, which felt like a live egg that had been carefully shelled. Only the lower half of their faces were exposed, and they were wearing exoskeletons. Two pairs of sharp and thin wings flapped quickly, helping them to hover in the air. Xi Yujin noticed that the wings were not insect wings, but devices that came with the exoskeleton.
The humanoid creature hovered in front of Xi Yujin and communicated with him in different languages.
He randomly picked an alien language he had learned.
"Hello, A-level servant, do you need a meal?" the other party asked.
Is it time to eat now?
Xi Yujin had many questions to ask, but since he was on the other side's territory and he was really hungry, he might as well eat something. He nodded.
Soon, the two humanoids used the dwarf mushrooms as a table and the long leaves as plates, and spread a layer of sweet fruits on them.
"Please enjoy your meal."
Xi Yujin took a bite and the sweet and sour jam went straight to his heart.
He thought of a good way to test whether there were Zerg here, so he said: "My diet is ore."
The humanoid flew away, and after a while, returned with a pile of colorful ore that had been cut into a round shape.
Only the Zerg have such rich food reserves and can take out ore for their "guests" to eat anytime and anywhere.
Xi Yujin chewed the ore with a crunching sound.
He wanted to ask something, but the two Zerg warriors didn't seem to want to pay attention to him. After he finished eating, they took the plate and flew away without leaving any explanation.
After Xi Yujin had eaten and drunk his fill, he sat cross-legged on the grass in a daze, still unable to recover from the ordeal.
Suddenly, the small yellow flowers swelled one after another, causing several exclamations.
"I really hate these insect plants..." A creature that looked very much like a human walked out of the forest.
Xi Yujin was very surprised. Apart from Ganuo, he had never seen such a human-like creature, with a head, two hands, two legs, and facial features in the correct order and number, and even hair!
The other party was equally surprised: "You look too much like a Zerg!"
Xi Yujin: “What?”
"Haha, unlucky tourist, are you surprised? You have come to a galaxy that you can never leave - a rich land, the Zerg Star!" The other party opened his arms, expecting Xi Yujin to be shocked, "Become the queen's food like me!"
Xi Yujin: “Oh.”
"My name is Shayou. How could you be so cold? This is the territory of the Zerg! The terrible Zerg that kills people without blinking an eye and starts wars!" Shayou's movements were exaggerated.
"They just brought me breakfast." Xi Yujin said, "They also said I was... an A-level servant?"
Just hearing the name, you know this is not a good thing. Xi Yujin estimated that he was not a flower fairy, but a first-class meal for the Zerg Queen. But he would always get what he wanted if he took one step at a time.
"You look so much like a Zerg, you will indeed be A-level." Shayou muttered a few words.
Xi Yujin blinked and said innocently, "But I'm still confused. My spaceship had an accident and I woke up here."
This sentence really aroused Shayou's desire to talk. He said, "We are all so unlucky. I also had an accidental wormhole deviation, and the whole ship crashed here. We all became prisoners of the Zerg... When I thought I had become a laborer for the Zerg, they sent me an inexhaustible supply of food. You know, the Zerg in a narrow sense are divided into three genders."
The Zerg Queen gave birth to Zerg Warriors, they have the same genes but different chromosome numbers. The Zerg Queen is 160 times the size of the Zerg Warriors, and her body is so huge that it can block out the sky and the sun.
As haploid warriors, there is no way for them to reproduce unless special means are used.
The warriors would capture the queen's reproductive food from the outside world, collectively referred to as "servants".
The queen has requirements for fertility food, the more Zerg-like the better, and levels are assessed based on appearance.
"Actually, I am a soft-bodied creature with eight tentacles."
Shayou said.
"After I came here, I was classified as a D-class servant. The Zerg would perform terrible operations on creatures that did not look like the Zerg... They cut out my brain, dug up my nerves, and put me back into this Zerg body... Every time I started to age, they would replace my body until my mental strength was completely depleted."
Shayou smoothed her flowing short hair.
"I have lived for eight hundred years... We, the Zerg that have been transformed again, are servants, the third gender of the Zerg."
Xi Yujin was stunned: "Eight hundred years?"
Shayou laughed again and put her arm around his shoulder. "Now that we have finished the bad news, it's time to tell you the good news. First of all, you look so much like a Zerg, they probably won't perform surgery on you. Secondly, the queen hasn't eaten since the end of the war. Finally, the life of the servitor in the Zerg is pretty comfortable, except that you can't leave."
"—enjoy your eternal life in captivity."
Shayou pointed to the huge flower house, then looked around the forest: "Here, here, and here are all your territory. Class A, your house is much bigger than ours. How about we hold our next party at your place? Our lives are so boring. It's rare to have new people come in..."
Shayou kept talking in Xi Yujin's ear. He felt a little dizzy and whispered, "I just want to find someone..."
But it is better to be cautious when arriving in a new place. Xi Yujin accepted Shayou's invitation to attend the newcomer party of the servant. He followed Shayou through the forest. Shayou ran very fast and was very strong. Fortunately, he could fly and was not dragged away.
He sorted out the information he got from Shayou. The Zerg Queen was Ganuo's mother. His current status was Ganuo's mother's A-level rations. His safety was temporarily guaranteed. But the degree of his freedom was still unknown.
As he relaxed a little, he also became curious about the Zerg society. This was information that even a local Zerg like Gano didn't know.
Shayou stepped on the yellow flower again, and Xi Yujin helped pull it out.
Shayou clung to the vines and flew through the woods, while Xi Yujin refused to imitate the monkey and used gravity to move forward quickly.
Shayou walked across the small spring in the forest. Xi Yujin squatted down and felt the gurgling water with his hands. He felt a little incredible and a little nostalgic.
"I brought a new guy here! He's an A-level guy!"
Shayou brought Xi Yujin to the upstream of a river.
Lotus leaves with a diameter of two meters were floating on the river, and human-shaped creatures were lying on them, with their eyes closed, resting, lazily and without any movement.
"You can try it too, A-level, this is our new entertainment."
Shayou was lying on a lotus leaf bed and picked a big one for Xi Yujin.
Xi Yujin was full of questions: "What are you doing?"
One person tilted his head and said, "Entertainment."
What does sleeping on a lotus leaf have to do with entertainment?
The man sneered and said, "This is the most time-consuming form of entertainment recently. It took us three months just to ask the soldiers to cultivate lotus leaves that can bear weight. Come and lie down, and cherish this first opportunity to feel the freshness of life."
Shayou nodded in agreement.
Xi Yujin stood on the shore in a daze for a long time, pulled the lotus leaf to his feet, and lay down on it with half belief and half doubt.
Looking up at the sky from a different perspective, the sunlight is gentle but not dazzling, the water makes a comfortable white noise in the ears, and the cool air comes out from the lotus leaves. The lotus leaf boat will also sway along the water, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, like a rocking crib.
Xi Yujin had to admit that it was indeed very comfortable.
After a long time, the group of lotus leaves drifted away to who knows where.
Xi Yujin couldn't help but sit up cross-legged and asked, "Are we just lying here? Is this day over?" He thought there would be a group of people chatting and reminiscing about the past and getting information over the wine. Who knew that when they came here, the servants wouldn't say a word?
Human-like faces turned in his direction and laughed kindly.
"He's really new here."
"You'll be driven crazy by boredom later."
"Poor A-Class."
The servants did not ask Xi Yujin's name, but only used A-level as his code name. He guessed that A-level should be quite rare.
One of the servants looked at him with a pain in the neck and said, "You look a lot like that S-rank."
Xi Yujin looked at the servant.
"Two years ago, the Zerg captured a sleeping S-class. It is said that he is the most Zerg-like servant. But when I look closely, I feel that you two are not alike." The person who spoke closed his eyes, crossed his arms and continued to enjoy the lotus leaf journey. "He has black hair, and you have silver-white hair that glows? You look more like ore."
Xi Yujin complained expressionlessly: "I am a diamond, not an ordinary ore."
The people around me laughed exaggeratedly. They would cover their faces and laugh at the slightest joke, and the laughter was even a little scary.
Xi Yujin was unable to gather any information, so he had to take the initiative:
"Is there really no other form of entertainment here? Not even novels?"
As soon as the words fell, these lazy servants finally responded.
"A-level, you reminded me of something bad. Those guys from Yaqun are using novels to provoke us again!" A servant waved his fist at the air.
"I really want to cross the cliff and beat them up." Another servant also said, his tone was a little excited but not angry.
It turns out that the Zerg servants have two settlements, one is the forest flower house where Xi Yujin lives, and the other is the cliff fruit house on the other side of the planet. The servants are so bored that they simply split into two factions and quarrel over nothing.
Xi Yujin didn't care about these and just asked, "Where will the novel be published?" He wanted to find a field he was familiar with as soon as possible.
"By the way, you don't have an egg brain yet." Shayou walked ashore, picked a shuttle from the wind chime flower, blew it hard, and the crisp cuckoo sound echoed in the woods.
Zerg warriors wearing exoskeletons descended from the sky. Shayou said, "Give the new A-class an egg brain."
After a while, Xi Yujin held a soft egg-shaped device. It was exactly the same as the white egg-shaped device on the head of the Zerg warrior. When Xi Yujin touched it for the first time, it was warm and soft, as if it was sucking his hand in. He felt goosebumps for no reason, and even asked with some stammering: "Why is it called Egg Brain..."
He remembered that the glimmering particles in the starship were actually ashes, so this egg brain...
"It is modified from eggs, and only the brain part is specialized. Use it to cover your brain, and we can connect to the Zerg network." Shayou looked surprised, "What other processor can compare to a biological brain?"
Xi Yujin remained silent, still adjusting his mindset.
He knew that the Zerg's technological direction was biotechnology, but this was beyond his common sense.
He couldn't contain his surprise and asked a stupid question: "Is this alive?"
"Of course." Shayou lay back on the lotus leaf bed. "Our greenhouse, our egg brain, our Zerg warriors. All moving things in the Zerg star are produced by the queen. That's why we like to stay in the natural environment."
Xi Yujin held the egg brain in his hands, feeling the pulsation on it. If he looked closely, he could see flocs floating inside. He took a deep breath and said as calmly as possible, "I understand... The Zerg use the egg brain to surf the Internet and write novels on it."
"The Zerg have no literature." A servant corrected him loudly, "All its writings are only used by a small group of people. They include 20,000 servants and about 10,000 high-level Zerg. It is said that some translators will also translate for the queen."
Mentioning the novel, the group of servants became lively again, discussing the abominable behavior of the servants in the Yaqun Fruit House. They, the Forest Flower House, were going to fight back fiercely.
“We want to write novels too!”
Although it was a familiar area for Xi Yujin, he had no intention of participating in it. Because he was still holding the somewhat warm egg-shaped device, and was still immersed in the shock brought by the strange social outlook of the Zerg, he had ten thousand puzzles in his heart. The Zerg environment here was safe, but it was terrifying to think about it carefully.
But no matter what, Xi Yujin's life as a "flower fairy" among the Zerg began.
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