Chapter 40 High Fever
After Xia Yi and Shang Jingrong ended their call, they thought about this issue carefully.
He guessed that the level of frenzy in Major General Webster's mental sea had reached level III or V. The compound eyes were so iconic that everyone could tell as soon as they appeared in the video.
He looked up the information and found that female insects whose frenzy level reached Level III needed to be forced to leave their posts for treatment and could no longer stay in the army.
Xia Yi sighed. The person he least wanted to implicate in the whole thing was the major general.
Euphemia said he and the Major General had an 80% genetic match, so perhaps he could help the Major General? But he had never sensed his own spiritual power...
He couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
The soothing effect of male insects' mental power on female insects is obvious to all, so there is a clear rule that female insects who find male insects can continue to serve even if they reach level III or even IV.
Compared to single females, married females are like ships that have found their anchors, maintaining stability despite the strongest waves. Even atavistic females can regain their original form with the soothing care of males, their fighting power only increasing.
Therefore, in the Zerg society, those who reach the top are almost all married females.
Xia Yi looked up methods for training mental strength on the Star Internet.
There are two common methods. One is to use Pernix, which works quickly but the effect is unstable.
Xia Yi thought, it's not just unstable, this is how the original body died.
The second is to conduct mental training.
Like female insects, male insects also train their mental strength in emergencies like combat. However, male insects rarely participate in battle these days, leading to their dwindling strength. However, holographic simulation equipment is also a good option.
Although it is slow, it is still useful.
In fact, there is a third type, but the poster was vague about it, and the comments below were full of laughter like hahahahaha, and some said that the bitter tea seeds flew away. Xia Yi didn't understand it, and just thought it was a Zerg joke, and didn't care.
"02, where can I buy holographic simulation equipment?" Xia Yi asked.
02 raised his chubby hand and pointed at the game cabin in the corner: "That's it, the main bug."
After studying it for a while, Xia Yi successfully entered the holographic battle simulation.
Holographic combat simulation has two modes: real insect confrontation and intelligent brain simulation, and can also create body data.
Xia Yi knew his own abilities and did not dare to be overconfident. He chose to scan, but changed his appearance to that of an ordinary person.
Holographic combat simulation can be connected to the Internet, and Shay doesn't want to cause trouble.
He has enough troubles already.
He lay down in the game cabin, closed his eyes, and clicked start.
Based on his data, the system automatically recommended several mini-games to him.
Hit the frog, scoop up gold and fly balloons.
Shay: ???
All other areas are grey and locked.
He carefully read the prompt and found that because his mental strength was too low, the system regarded him as a minor...
Okay.
He clicked on the frog-beating button honestly.
In this game, he is a ladybug with a round shell and seven dots on it. He needs to use his mental power to aim at the frogs jumping around in the river, then stick them to it, drag them over and eat them.
Shay suspected that the game's planner had malice towards frogs etched into his genes.
But this game is much more difficult than he thought.
After a lot of effort, Xia Yi was able to control the direction of the ladybug, but it was difficult to stick to the frog, let alone drag the frog over.
Not only does the frog jump around, it can also suddenly stick out its tongue and hit him.
In order to experience a sense of crisis and oppression in the game and achieve the purpose of training, Shay specifically adjusted the pain sensation to 100%, which meant that one side of Shay's ladybug wings was knocked off, and his health and San values were plummeting.
Finally, after being beaten by frogs again, Xia Yi used his mental power to stick to the frog that hit him the most.
Drag! Over! Come!
Revenge! Vengeance! Vengeance! Hatred!
After a tug of war, Shay ate the first frog!
The Q-version ladybug in the picture has a bulging belly after eating so much and is flapping its wings comfortably.
Shay finally found some tricks.
Just like when he was rehabilitating on Earth, the first thing he lost control of was his legs. For the most common movement of walking, he needed to mobilize the strength of his whole body, and the process of using his mental power was like the process of mobilizing his muscles that had lost control.
When Shay came out of the game cabin, he was covered in sweat.
But he was in a good mood.
In the past, he couldn't control his body, and his illness was not subject to his will, but now it's different, his mental power can be controlled!
Although he is still very weak now, at least this path is feasible!
When Enoch returned home, he heard Shay humming a song.
It was intermittent and was a tune he had never heard before.
He had been worried all day whether Xia Yi would be sad after seeing the comments online, but it seemed he was worrying too much.
This is better. He doesn't want the expression of that night to appear on the little male insect's face again.
He followed the sound and saw Shay coming out of the bathroom with his upper body naked, only a bath towel wrapped around his waist.
"Enoch! You're back!" Shay greeted him with his eyes squinted. It wasn't until 02 bumped into his bare calf that he realized something was wrong.
It is extremely rude to show up at someone else's house in a disheveled state.
"Pervert! Don't look at me, don't look at me!" 02 yelled at Major General Enoch, as if he was not the owner of this place at all.
"Sorry!" Enoch came back to his senses from his daze. He turned around abruptly and rushed down in two steps. The stairs were so high that Shay only heard two footsteps.
Only then did Shay realize that in Zerg society, he and Major General Enoch were of the opposite sex.
He hurried back to the house and moved most of his clothes to the military academy dormitory. He took the only two sets of clothes he had to 02 to wash.
Although it was quick-drying, it still took some time. He had thought that since Enoch would be back late, his clothes would be dry by then...
Now, he only has a bath towel, which is very embarrassing.
After a while, Shay heard a knock on the door.
"Shay, clothes."
Shay originally wanted to open the door wrapped in a bath towel. In his subconscious, everyone was a man, but according to his actual physical condition, he and Major General Enoch were of the opposite sex.
But he also felt that it was too awkward to open the door by dragging the quilt... He couldn't do it.
Fortunately, Major General Enoch is a considerate person.
"I left my clothes on the floor. They're new and I haven't worn them." He paused. "Sorry, I was careless."
"Don't catch a cold."
Xia Yi opened the door and saw a brand new set of pajamas on the ground. The gray-eyed female insect had disappeared long ago.
Major General Enoch did not appear in the restaurant until dinner time.
"Feel sorry."
"sorry."
They both said at the same time.
Shay smiled with his eyes curved.
The major general touched his nose, opened the refrigerator and took out some vegetables.
"There are reporters outside, so it's hard to go out. I'll just have to make do for now."
He lifted the seasoning bottle and looked at it for a moment, then poured a little into the pot. In an instant, a choking smell of smoke filled the kitchen.
02When the alarm sounds, the fire prevention system must be activated.
As soon as Shay saw Enoch's actions, he knew that he didn't know how to cook, so he quickly stopped him.
The gray-eyed female insect's expression froze.
In fact, Enoch really can't cook. Female insects prefer efficient ways of energy intake, such as nutritional supplements.
But male insects are much more delicate.
The Male Insect Protection Association has clear standards for the daily intake of vegetables, meat and fruits for male insects of different age groups.
Female insects who have received formal education have more or less some cooking skills, as this is a compulsory course in middle school.
But Enoch Webster had never been a good person since he was a child.
He looked down on the delicate male insects around him and was unwilling to learn these things just to please them.
So he didn't attend any home economics classes.
So much so that now I can't even tell the difference between the seasonings.
Major General Webster felt rarely frustrated. He found that his proficiency in mechas and combat could not make up for his lack of cooking skills.
"Let me do it." The young male insect stood up and rolled up his too-long pajamas sleeves.
"Major General, do you have any dietary restrictions?"
Xia Yi could cook simple meals in order to prove to his parents that he was still capable of taking care of himself in a wheelchair, so that they could go out to work with peace of mind.
It wasn't until one day when his condition worsened and he was unable to turn off the fire, almost burning the house, that he stopped.
Although he has never used the Zerg seasoning, it should be similar.
"No." The tall female insect silently watched the busy figures in the kitchen.
"I heard you humming a song today." he said suddenly.
Xia Yi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Yeah, it's a song from our hometown. I play it all the time on my phone... no, on my computer. Doesn't it sound good?"
"Yeah." Enoch nodded, then felt himself being too cold, and added, "Sounds like it would make the worm happy."
"Yes, I'm very happy today, Enoch." Shay put the cut meat of an unknown animal into the pot and stir-fried it. "I just killed a frog!"
Enoch:?
Are there any frogs around here?
Then the little male insect continued, "I've been through some... not-so-good things in the past. I often feel useless and a burden to my family."
"I feel powerless about myself, and no matter how much I try, I can't change it." He didn't know why he said this to Major General Enoch; they had only met a few times. "But now, I feel that everything is moving in a good direction."
"Thank you, Enoch." The little male insect turned his head and smiled at the female insect.
That smile was so sweet that it wasn't until the food entered his mouth that Major General Webster woke up from his dazed state.
"Ah, isn't it a little salty?" Xia Yi tasted it and hissed twice from the heat, but he couldn't bear to spit it out, so he ate it whole. "Well, I'll put less salt next time."
next time?
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener's heart begins to beat violently.
The little male insect was eating at the dinner table when he noticed that the tall female insect opposite him suddenly covered his eyes with her hands.
He turned into a vertical pupil.
Uncontrollable emotions.
——
Enoch couldn't believe that he was such a young boy. Just because the male insect said "next time", his heart beat too fast and his pupils became vertical.
Some male insects are good at camouflage.
Just a few days ago, he believed that this was a scheming male insect.
We cannot let our guard down just because of a word from the male insect.
Major General Enoch reminded himself in his heart.
But Shay obviously misunderstood.
"Major General, I'm sorry to ask," Xia Yi said solemnly, "How far has your spiritual sea gone berserk?"
Shay saw the female insect's gray eyes, which seemed to have lost their human warmth and become even colder after turning into vertical pupils.
He saw the corners of the female insect's mouth pursed into a line.
Realizing his evasion, Shay softened her tone, "Have compound eyes ever appeared, Enoch?"
Those vertical pupils locked onto Xia Yi's face.
This reaction has already given Shay the answer.
"How do you know?" Enoch asked after a while, his voice hoarse.
"Because the video from the restaurant hasn't been released," Shay replied, "I suspect you were quite atavistic when you fought von Man Art that night."
"It is very likely that he has developed the highly iconic compound eyes."
Enoch was surprised by the little male insect's sharpness.
"Will it affect you?" Xia Yi asked worriedly, and the two tentacles on his head drooped down like their owner's mood.
Since the Art family has already released the video captured by the hover car's dashcam, there must be evidence of the appearance of Major General Enoch's compound eyes.
They kept the video secret so that Enoch wouldn't be caught dead.
If they were determined to pursue this matter, then Enoch's level of berserk would be hidden. The Art family would suffer losses, but Webster wouldn't escape unscathed either.
It's an F-class male insect, and it hasn't suffered any substantial damage yet. It's best to make a big deal out of a small matter.
After all, there is never a shortage of hot spots on the Star Network, but Internet addicts are always forgetful.
"You've been the best bug to me since I came here, and you're the one I least want to implicate." Shay looked at Enoch and said seriously.
What Shay meant by this sentence was that after he came to the Zerg world, he received a lot of help from Major General Enoch.
But in the eyes of Major General Enoch, this little male insect had suffered a lot of grievances in the past.
He was so indifferent to him and had scolded him mercilessly. The snow-white Song of Empire had been thrown into some trash can a long time ago, but the little male insect in front of him still naively believed that he was good to him.
"Don't worry about what's being said on Starnet," Major General Enoch replied. "The Art family is like a grasshopper after autumn. They won't be able to jump for long. They haven't released the video because the time hasn't come yet. Don't worry."
Shay shook his head. "Enoch, if there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. This whole thing started with me."
Who knew Enoch reached out and touched his hair.
"You're still a little brat." His words weren't very pleasant, but his movements were gentle, like an elder treating his most beloved child. "If you think too much, you won't grow tall."
Xia Yi felt a lump in his throat.
He doesn't like to cry.
Because if he loves to cry, his tears will never stop flowing.
His, his parents’, his sister’s.
He needed someone to endure the pain of illness, he needed to put on a smile and appear calm, so he became braver and stronger than anyone else.
But what nearly made him lose his composure wasn't the fact that he was strangled and nearly violated, nor was it the misunderstanding of the entire network, nor was it the grievance that couldn't be clarified, but the gentleness of a female insect whom he had only met a few times.
That night, Shay developed a high fever.
When 02 detected the abnormal temperature of the male insect, he rushed to Enoch's room and woke him up.
Enoch picked up the male insect with flushed cheeks, only to find that his whole body was incredibly hot.
"Contact Dr. Xue!"
02 responded and Enoch wrapped the coat around the male insect. The male insect opened his eyes drowsily, but soon fell to the side and couldn't even sit up.
"Cold..." he called out unconsciously.
"It will be fine soon." Enoch held him in the hovercraft and kept comforting him.
"Um……"
Although Xia Yi had a fever, he was still very obedient. After entering the hospital, he did whatever the doctor asked him to do.
Enoch has a male insect cousin. Not to mention getting an injection, even taking a few pills requires a bunch of insects to coax and trick him into taking them.
But after having two tubes of blood drawn from Xia Yi, he just frowned and didn't even say that he felt any pain.
Doctor Xue looked at the numbers on the instrument with a serious expression.
"What did he do today?" Doctor Xue asked. "He overused his mental energy."
"Look at this number." He pointed to the peaks and troughs of a line graph. "There's a large amount of Pernie residue in his system. It's already a lethal dose."
Doctor Xue looked at the female insect with a livid face and continued, "And he hasn't even entered the cocoon stage yet, which means he's been malnourished for a long time. Normal male insects should enter the cocoon stage at the age of sixteen."
"His pre-marital guardian insects can be convicted of abusing male larvae."
"What should we do now?" asked the gray-eyed female insect, her voice sounding like it was squeezed out from between her teeth.
"It depends on whether he can make it." Dr. Xue answered without any emotion.
A black insect armor appeared around Enoch's neck. Dr. Xue raised his hand and took two steps back.
"Calm down, Enoch." He shook his head. "A female insect in love is the most terrifying creature."
"Don't make fun of him."
"Xia Yi's condition is indeed serious. Delaying the entry into the cocooning period means that it will be more difficult to break out of the cocoon. His strength has not increased, but the thickness of the cocoon has become thicker." Xue Huanchao said seriously that there is a certain mortality rate for male insects in the cocooning period.
"If he doesn't make it tonight, we'll have to help thin out his cocoon from the outside." He paused, "But you know the consequences of that. An egg can only survive if it's broken from the inside. If we apply external force, there's a high chance it will severely damage his mental strength."
"He will never have the chance to advance in his life. In the worst case scenario, he will lose all his spiritual power. A male insect that completely loses its spiritual power will be unable to pacify the female insect. As you age, you will die from the frenzy of your spiritual sea."
"Even so, are you willing to bear the consequences?"
"yes."
Xue Huanchao smiled helplessly, his expression somewhat compassionate. "I seriously suspect that the female insect's genes are imprinted with the mark of a moth predecessor. Even you are not immune to this."
They always fall in love and die.
It's like a moth dying in an open flame.
Enoch smiled.
"I didn't expect it to be like this." He sighed, "It happened too fast."
"I thought I would resent this fate, but the truth is, as long as he lay there, my heart was already frying in the frying pan."
"Alright, save your sweet words for your little male insect." Xue Huanchao took off his glasses. "Don't be so pessimistic. There's another method you can try. Luckily, your genes are a good match. I have a feeling it will work."
——
"First, give your little male insect a sense of security."
In the specially designed single ward, the four walls are made of extremely hard reinforced glass.
But now the blinds were drawn, and the entire ward was pitch black, with only a low-wattage, warm yellow light.
The humidity and temperature in the house are strictly controlled to be within the range that is most conducive to the male insects to form cocoons.
Through the camera, Xue Huanchao could see a tall figure supporting himself above the male insect.
Enoch Webster belongs to the order Scorpionida, subphylum Chelicerata. His species does not have the bony wings common among insects, but only a long and thin tail.
He hides it very deeply and won't show it easily.
At this moment, the slender tail was gently sweeping across the male insect's chest and slowly wrapped around his waist.
"Enoch, you have to take off his clothes." Xue Huanchao's voice was a little frivolous, "And yours. Remember, no male insect wears clothes when it is spinning a cocoon."
"Have you two not had sex yet? You're too embarrassed to take off your Lord's clothes?"
The sound was transmitted into the room through the speakers, and Enoch looked up at the camera.
Xue Huanchao raised his eyebrows, and his eyes looked as if he wanted to kill himself.
The female insect's lips opened and closed gently on the screen.
What is he talking about?
Xue Huanchao carefully identified Major General Enoch's lip movements and found that he was saying "get lost".
In order to avoid being hunted in the future, Xue Huanchao shrugged and turned off the camera.
"mean."
When Enoch saw the red light of the camera dim, he gently stripped off the male insect's pajamas.
This clothes is still his.
Enoch sighed softly. Everything was fine in the afternoon, so why did it become like this in the evening?
When the two of them were facing each other, Enoch looked away and stopped looking at the male insect's body.
But the tail hook is the most honest place. It never cares about the owner's reason, but only cares about the owner's heart.
It lightly swept across the place that was forbidden to pass in Enoch's mind, and was grabbed by the exasperated major general and pulled upwards, then wrapped around his waist in a wronged manner.
Shay regained consciousness for a brief moment as the cool tail hook looped around his waist.
"Enoch?" he called.
"Yeah." The gray-eyed female insect nodded gently, and the warm yellow light shone into his eyes, like the first clear day after a snowy day.
"Is the sun going to come out?" Xia Yi gently touched his eyes.
Enoch was stunned for a moment, then realized that Shay was not fully awake yet, so he allowed himself to kiss Shay's eyelids, which were hot from the high fever.
"Soon," Enoch replied. "Go to sleep, Shay."
"I'll wake you up when the sun comes out."
Enoch's tail hook was very cool, and it felt very comfortable against Shay's hot body.
"Enoch, you're so cool and comfortable." He arched his waist and pressed against the female insect's body. "Can I hold you?"
"Of course." The female insect replied.
Shay got the consent and pressed his burning cheek against Enoch's armoured shoulder. Finally, he fell into a deep sleep, unable to resist the invasion of darkness.
Countless thin silk threads emerged from Shay's back, wrapping the two people who were hugging each other tightly.
"It's cocooned."
A few hours later, Xue Huanchao turned on the camera and saw a huge white cocoon on the small bed.
Now it's up to them.
The second plan that Xue Huanchao proposed just now was to let Major General Enoch enter Xia Yi's cocoon.
The cocoon is a place that binds the male insect, but at the same time, it also protects him, so it is difficult for the male insect to wake up.
In a sealed, narrow space, only the presence of a trusted female insect can awaken the male insect's spiritual power, thereby helping the male insect to break out of the cocoon.
The implementation of this plan is very difficult. Male insects are at their most vulnerable when they are spinning cocoons. They will involuntarily reject foreign bodies because any slight abnormality inside the cocoon may cause them to fail to break out of the cocoon and eventually die.
Therefore, this plan can only succeed if Shay trusts Enoch enough.
Fortunately, they formed cocoons.
Xue Huanchao breathed a sigh of relief, but still didn't dare to move away from the screen.
It has just begun.
The period for a male insect to break out of its cocoon ranges from eight hours to two days. If it is less than eight hours, the male insect in the cocoon cannot complete the metamorphosis. If it exceeds this time limit, the male insect is likely to die from exhaustion.
Before the plan was implemented, he and Enoch agreed that the time limit was 30 hours. If the cocoon had not been broken from the inside by then, he would help them break the cocoon from the outside.
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