Chapter 489: Scammed All the Space Pirates?
He refused decisively, his resistant expression leaving both the Insect King and Eli puzzled.
Tan Chi sighed helplessly, then hugged Letekar, who was quietly eating pudding beside him, and buried his face in the little female insect's neck and rubbed against it.
Then he said in a muffled voice, "Being the Insect King is exhausting! I won't do it! I just want to be a freeloader! It would be so nice to cuddle my sweet and soft female queen every day, eating and drinking!"
Insect King Eli: "..."
Eli: "..."
The father and son were speechless for a moment as they watched the little guy instantly switch to a lazy, laid-back mode.
Seeing this, Tan Chi coughed lightly again, "At most... I'll occasionally offer you some immature suggestions. As for the specific implementation, please don't ask me. I just want to be a royal parasite!"
The Insect King looked at Tan Chi with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, "You don't want even a little bit of supreme power?"
Which insect doesn't crave supreme power?
That's the insect king!
Tan Chi lifted his head from Letekar's neck and said righteously, "What's so good about power? Being busy from dawn till dusk every day, endless documents to approve, endless meetings to attend, and endless nobles to deal with... Just thinking about it gives me a headache!"
Eli couldn't help but chuckle as he looked at Tan Chi's disgusted expression.
The Insect King sighed helplessly and rubbed his temples.
Well, since this little ancestor has no interest in this and is determined to be the empire's number one idle parasite.
Those of them, destined for a life of toil, can only work even harder.
For him, and for the empire, a sufficiently strong and prosperous empire was built so that he could continue to be a parasite without worry.
...
Since the Imperial army's successful raid on the Blood Skull Star Pirates, news of star pirates robbing merchant ships has appeared on the StarNet within a week.
However, these news items did not attract much attention from the insects.
Because almost all the merchant ships that were robbed belonged to the Thomas family.
Their family recently became famous throughout the nobility because the male and female insects held a brothel at the royal palace.
Therefore, the StarNet bugs didn't care at all about their family's merchant ships being frequently robbed by space pirates.
[GuaLeChaCha: I seriously suspect the Thomas family is out of news to release. It's always the same story: merchant ships being robbed. How many times has this happened?]
[StarCraft's Number One Noob: Exactly! They keep rehashing the same news over and over again, don't they get tired of it?]
[User 09646546: The Thomas family already has a bad reputation in aristocratic circles, and they still don't know how to restrain themselves. Are they trying to gain sympathy by being robbed? If you ask me, they deserve it!]
[Can't stand even a sip of this gossip: Exactly, serves them right!]
...
When Thomas's family patriarch saw this news, he was so angry that he almost had a stroke on the spot.
Because their merchant ships were genuinely robbed!
And it wasn't even the same group of space pirates who robbed them!
He angrily smashed things in the room before roaring at the insects in the house, "What on earth is going on? Who is targeting our Thomas family? How did they manage to contact so many space pirates?!"
The insects looked at each other, clearly knowing something but not daring to speak.
"What are you all keeping silent about? If you don't speak up, the Thomas family will be completely ruined!"
Their family had only managed to get a little money by selling Simon into a marriage alliance, and now, with several merchant ships stolen, they've suffered even greater losses!
One of the insects, unable to withstand the situation any longer, slowly spoke up: "We didn't offend other insects, but the royal family. Other merchant ships have patrol ships from the royal family, but our Thomas family doesn't..."
The targeting was so obvious, yet their protests were completely ineffective.
After all, no matter how much they argued, they had no grounds to believe that their insect clan members wanted to drug the insect king's male lord.
Although they have now married Simon off, the deed is done, and the Thomas family has no choice but to take the blame, even if they don't want to.
Thomas's patriarch gritted his teeth, "Is that all? I'm asking you, why do so many space pirates only rob our family?!"
In the past, even when space pirates robbed, they would never seize a family's merchant ship.
Unless they really did something that offended all space pirates!
"I heard... that before Simon got married, he contacted the Blood Skull Pirates' insects to kidnap His Highness the Second Prince..."
The insect was trembling as it said those words.
Before he could finish speaking, the patriarch immediately asked, "Are you talking about the Blood Skull Pirates that were wiped out by the Royal Army?"
The insect nodded. "That's right. Since that incident, although the Blood Skull Pirate Gang was disbanded, it seems they've scammed almost all the other pirates..."
"They scammed all the space pirates? They wouldn't blame the Thomas family for that, would they?!"
The house insect suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the insect's next sentence immediately drained him of all his strength.
They suspected that the Blood Skull Pirates and Simon had conspired together, while the Blood Skull Pirates' insects claimed that Simon had tricked them, and then... they concluded that Simon was responsible for everything, so...
Even if the insect didn't say anything more, they understood what it meant.
The Thomas family is finished!
Forget about going into business in the future; I doubt they'll ever be able to recover, no matter what they do.
"That damned Simon!" The patriarch clenched his fist. "Since he has brought the family to such a state of ruin, then let him pay for the family's demise!"
"Yes, Master..."
...
With the downfall of the Thomas family, the royal family successfully regained power over the Second Legion and also took control of the Third Legion.
With the backing of the bank, the royal family's rule became exceptionally smooth...
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The little boy Tan Chi has grown into a handsome and tall young man.
His features were more defined, and the insect was even more handsome. However, in the past five years, he never gave up on researching a way to return to his original world.
He even consulted countless ancient insectoid texts and frequently used his mental powers to communicate with the insect god.
But he tried countless times and still made no progress.
Fortunately, the spacetime he is currently in is now completely stable.
With his covert support and Eli's overt management, the royal family reached unprecedented heights in terms of power, wealth, and status.
It can be said that no force can shake the royal family in the slightest.
His S-class male insect identity had long been made public, and over the years many nobles had tried to give him other "playmates," but without exception, he had rejected them all.
As for what benefits these nobles who wanted to stuff insects into his body also gained.
Either the family falls into ruin, or someone accidentally gets into an accident and ends up with a bruised and swollen face.
Tan Chi knew that this was all done by the little female insects he had raised.
Sure enough, his wife loved him the most and couldn't stand seeing him disturbed by other insects...
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