Chapter 111 Wind
By the time Carlos' fingers left Huo Xiu's head, the people on the lower deck had already disappeared.
There wasn't even a trace of blood left.
Carlos looked at Huo Xiu with his sparkling green eyes. Due to his personal preference, he gave the black cat a pair of emerald eyes.
Similar to his, but more profound.
It's like a forest.
"Want to ask something, kitty?"
"...Be careful with your address." Huo Xiu reminded. He could still ignore the little farmer, but the little kitten was really going too far.
"What's with that alien?"
Huo Xiu finally spoke. He originally thought that the exposed wings and insect armor in the game were derived from the racial settings in the game, but he didn't expect that it was the same in reality.
"A bug that betrayed me." Carlos said softly.
"He has wings and hard armor." Huo Xiu added.
"Oh. This is what you're asking about. He's a beetle, so naturally he has wings and armor." Carlos took the opportunity to stroke Huo Xiu's tail.
Then the tail hit his arm.
"...Do you have them all? The characteristics of dominant insect species?" Huo Xiu asked, remembering what the swallowtail butterfly had said to him.
He subconsciously felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Why did he assume all the 'bugs' were like him, completely humanoid?
Why would he think having wings and other features would be weird.
"Only females have it," Kaka explained, "and males can't revert to their ancestral form."
Huo Xiu still felt something was wrong, and he frowned.
Then I heard Kaka burst out laughing.
"Little farmer, do you know how funny it is when a cat frowns?"
“…”
"Ah~ You don't care about me at all." Kaka sighed regretfully, with obvious pretense in his tone.
It had been a long time since anyone dared to mention the fact that he was "cursed" to his face.
As a result, the little farmer heard it as soon as he arrived.
He didn't want Huo Xiu to mention this matter on his own initiative, but when he didn't ask at all, Kaka also felt a subtle anger in his heart.
But this anger has nothing to do with murderous intent.
He just wanted to say it in a sarcastic way.
Unexpectedly, the kitten looked up at him, then stepped on his shoulder and fell to the ground from behind him.
"You won't die so soon."
Huo Xiu said.
"The life of evil is usually very long."
Carlos stood up and looked at the black cat's tail twitching.
Just now...did that fluffy tail pat his face gently?
——
"Um... Harvey, did you see what the leader was holding in his arms just now?"
Sean whispered to Harvey who had returned to the team.
"Hey, I heard you brought something special back with you. What is that?"
"It's the cat in his arms." Harvey answered, his face never showing much expression.
"?! Didn't they say it was related to "Godless World"? "
"Yes," Harvey explained, "that's the latest physical product released by Godless."
"So the cat's body is the leader's virtual love interest???"
"You could say that."
Sean, who had been single for thirty years, was a bit shocked.
"Fuck, I never thought the leader would play a game like this, and be so...dedicated to it."
"According to the data provided by Star Corporation, the leader's current level is not even in the top 10%." Harvey pushed his plain glasses, "There are already insects that have held weddings with virtual male insects in real life, and even went to the Insect Population Administration to remove their names from the list." This means that he cannot send a date request to any male insect.
"This is too much! They are just data—"
"Don't say this in front of the players of Godless World. It could easily lead to a fight."
"Also, you'd better behave properly in front of Lord Huo Xiu," Harvey reminded him. "The insect-like intelligence he carries is sufficient to record, analyze, and file a complaint."
"If you take an IQ test with him, your score won't necessarily be higher than his."
"..." Sean pouted. Why would he want to compete with a machine in intelligence? "You mean 'he' could become the leader's lord? That's ridiculous!"
Harvey remained calm. "Mr. Huo Xiu has the potential for self-development. The chances of him developing self-awareness are very high."
"Even ordinary virtual male insects can attract a group of female insects to fall in love, let alone the unique and specific Lord Huo Xiu, who is indistinguishable from a real insect?"
"But... that's the leader... do you think he would fall in love with a male insect?"
"We can't rule out this possibility," Harvey said, then raised his hand to stop Sean from speaking, his expression cold. "Anyway, I've already warned you."
"You're on your own."
Sean sighed.
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Huo Xiu lay in front of a light screen and pressed the page-turning button with the tip of his fingernail.
He is watching a general knowledge educational video - "Zerg Encyclopedia".
Obviously, the most intelligent creatures in this world are a race called Zerg.
They are divided into females, sub-females and males, but males are very rare, and the unbalanced sex ratio leads to their reproduction difficulties.
"Carlos, what's your dominant bug species?"
The little black cat jumped onto the control panel. They were now inside the narrow mecha.
This was all because Carlos suddenly had the urge to take him to drive a mecha.
His exact words were "take a ride".
——Although the cockpit of the mecha was fully enclosed, Huo Xiu didn't know where the "wind" came from.
"Little farmer, we are in the most beautiful Dew Nebula. Can't you come and see this beautiful scenery first?"
The little black cat looked out the window with its emerald green eyes, but unfortunately it could only see three shades of gray, green and blue.
He looked away, then back at Carlos, who was sitting in the driver's seat: "Are you trying to change the subject?"
"Ha, you found out." Carlos laughed and reached out to touch the middle of his ear.
The space in the cockpit was too small. Even though Huo Xiu moved extremely quickly and his sharp nails popped out from his flesh pads, he only left shallow scratches on the control panel. He was then quickly held tightly in Carlos' arms.
"I choose projection." Huo Xiu quickly expressed his dissatisfaction, and at the same time his two pointed ears stuck to the back of his head.
But the next moment, the perverted Carlos bit the tip of his ear.
"?"
Huo Xiu hopes that he can inherit the properties of thunder and lightning in the game so that he can send this pervert to heaven.
"Projection." Huo Xiu emphasized.
"Okay, okay." Carlos agreed very reluctantly, "Then let me rub the pad."
The little black cat's white whiskers trembled in anger, and then it stepped hard on Carlos' palm with its paw pads.
Kaka operated the bug terminal, and the next moment, Huo Xiu turned his gaze to the side and stood back at the control panel.
He became very small, only about ten centimeters tall - even lower than the shoulder height of his little black cat.
“…”
After Huo Xiu turned into a projection, he felt that his brain suddenly became very clear.
The embarrassing things he did when he was a cat - such as his whiskers trembling with anger, such as selling his fur, such as sometimes feeling a little itchy and subconsciously turning back to lick it - in short, all these memories came back to his mind.
Seeing that the small projection had stood there for at least a minute without moving, Kaka burst out laughing.
"Sorry, sorry, this physical kitten has a very small processor, so it can't handle large amounts of data."
"This has absolutely nothing to do with you, little farmer! Except that you two are so cute."
Kaka continued his aria.
Huo Xiu pursed his lips and didn't want to pay attention to this guy.
In fact, the blue-purple lightning around him had gathered into the size of a football.
"Okay, my dear fiancé." Kaka formally invited Huo Xiu, "Do you want to experience the feeling of driving a mecha?"
"I know, your setting is an ancient male insect, you have probably never seen this thing before."
The platinum-haired female insect laughed: "But you can touch the wind."
"Do you want to try it?"
Huo Xiu felt his heart beat in his chest - although he probably didn't have this thing.
Carlos took out a chip from the insect terminal and then inserted it into the card slot of the mecha.
"I just made this little thing yesterday. I hope you...have fun."
After the card slot was connected, Huo Xiu on the desktop disappeared again.
Instead, the mecha's eyes lit up.
"It seems the access was successful." Kaka said with a smile.
Huo Xiu's perspective changed again.
What he saw was no longer the inside of the mecha, but the boundless universe.
The endless magnificence of the Mi Lu Nebula finally appeared in his eyes.
The high temperature radiation from nearby stars excites the gas molecules and dust grains in the nebula, giving them their vibrant colors.
Like a burning flame, red, orange, yellow and green are intertwined.
Carlos still has control of the mecha, so the mecha moves very fast.
Huo Xiu felt the 'wind'.
Gas and dust flow as he moves.
He also saw the 'wind' because of this.
His heart started beating again, and at that moment, Huo Xiu believed that he was alive.
"Little farmer, it seems you really like it." Kaka's voice came from inside, with a hint of smile and unseen tenderness, "The intimacy level has jumped up by 10."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome." Kaka replied, "Now it's your turn to control the mecha."
He said as he took back control of himself.
The mecha that was moving at high speed suddenly stopped and floated in space because there was no gravity.
The airflow brought by the meteorites whizzing around caused the mecha to start spinning.
"Keep balance." Kaka's voice came.
His tone was light, even with a hint of mischievous excitement.
However, Huo Xiu's calmness made him feel a little bored. He shrugged and began to teach the operation process.
Huo Xiu quickly grasped the key points, he seemed to have very strong motor nerves.
But this is normal, he is AI after all.
"Wow, fiancé, you're really talented," Carlos praised. "If a female insect knew that mecha could be learned in an hour, she would probably cry."
"How long did it take you?"
"Oh, don't count me out, I'm a - genius."
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