Chapter 109 Appetite
But contrary to Sean's guess, Carlos didn't care about the news. Instead, he asked about Harvey who was far away in the Federation.
Harvey was sent to acquire Star Company, the company behind "Godless World", but the progress was not smooth. The capital injection of Star Company was very complicated, and the largest shareholder was unwilling to come forward. So Harvey negotiated for a long time, but in the end he only got 12% of the shares.
Sean didn't know why Carlos suddenly wanted to invest in this game company. Although "Godless World" was really popular on Star Network, it was not worth spending such a huge price to acquire it.
"Did he investigate thoroughly?"
"He sent a transmission half an hour ago."
Carlos looked at him with his emerald green eyes. Sean lowered his head quickly, a chill running down his spine.
Sean called back and Harvey on the other end answered quickly.
"...The technical department said that Garden Town has no bugs. Huo Xiu is equipped with the latest insect-engineered intelligent computer and has the ability to develop independently. Moreover, his control does not belong to Star Company, but directly to Euphemia."
Euphemia is the Zerg's largest intelligent brain. Its researchers are unknown, as is its location. There are even rumors that it is the product of a higher-level civilization - because with the Zerg's current level of technology, it is impossible to replicate such a large, precise, and intelligent system.
Of course, more Zerg believe this is due to the technological gap that occurred after the Cataclysm. After all, the Zerg civilization was lost in the long river of time for a long time.
"There is no bug, but there is one virtual male insect missing?" Carlos sneered.
Sean held his breath at his sneer and pretended to be dead.
"The technical department can only assist in locating 'him'. 'He' appeared in Bannock City seven days ago." Harvey was unable to escape the direct questioning.
"Now... uh, the current location appears in the confinement room." Harvey's usually calm voice was now full of disbelief, but the bug from the technical department in front of him did say so.
Carlos finally spoke up.
"Solitary confinement?"
"His file shows that he had a conflict with a player at 11:20 pm on the 19th, and then resisted arrest, and was sentenced to five days of confinement—"
"……Oh."
Carlos' sudden chuckle left Sean puzzled - a few minutes ago, the leader was in a low mood, but now he seemed... a little happy?
It’s more fun than tearing a star beast apart with bare hands.
"He can freely appear in the player area?"
"Yes. The guy from the technical department said that he couldn't identify his NPC's attributes after entering the game area. It might be related to Euphemia." Harvey replied.
Carlos lowered his eyes. He could have gone out seven days ago. This ancient male insect hid really well.
No, not really.
Carlos suddenly remembered that he appeared in Huo Xiu's cabin that day, and Huo Xiu was changing clothes.
But the male insect was the most vigilant, so how come he hadn't buttoned his shirt when he came in?
——He did it on purpose.
It was to divert his attention - and I actually fell for it.
If you think about it, the land in the vegetable garden was dry that day.
But he didn't think much about it at the time.
Calculating the time, that was exactly the first time Huo Xiu left Garden Town.
Carlos laughed again.
He wondered what other 'surprises' this male insect would bring him.
"Give me the exact location."
"Okay." Although Harvey was surprised, his first reaction was to obey. After he said a few words to the bug in the technical department, the bug started to operate on the light screen with a dusty face.
A few minutes later, Carlos lay back down in the gaming cabin.
Sean looked at Harvey on the other end of the video with a bitter face.
"What's going on? Is this 'Godless Realm' so fun? This is the first time I've seen the leader put aside 'revenge'."
Carlos never shows mercy to betrayers, even if it is a weak insect, he will crush it personally.
What's more, Judd's sudden betrayal caused them to lose a batch of valuable goods.
And he even wore those fighting gloves——
"Who is Huo Xiu? I just heard you mention the insect-engineered intelligent brain..."
Harvey looked at him. "An NPC in the romance section of Godless World."
“???”
Sean's eyes suddenly widened.
"Love section?!"
——
The iron door of the solitary confinement room was opened.
A beam of light shone into the dim confinement room, casting a glaring mark on the smooth and cold floor.
The chief guard came in and said, "You can go out now."
Huo Xiu looked up and saw that the countdown on the confinement room still had dozens of hours.
"Someone is here to bail you out. You must not violate public security regulations in the future!" The captain of guards explained. For the past two days, Huo Xiu stayed in the confinement room without making any noise or trouble, and he also read the management regulations of various areas obediently. The captain of guards was very satisfied with this.
Now Huo Xiu was really surprised.
He didn't know that there was such a thing as bail in this game, and he had no idea who would come to bail him out - Kang Mang didn't even know his name.
"Hi, my fiancé—"
There was a sound of footsteps outside the door. His footsteps were extremely brisk, not to mention the rising and winding tone.
Sure enough, the next moment, a female insect with emerald green eyes walked in.
He was wearing an exceptionally clean white suit and holding a bouquet of fresh lilies in his arms.
"I'm here to pick you up from prison."
“…”
"Are you surprised?" Kaka came closer to him and put the lilies into his arms with a smile, "You were away these few days, I thought you were cheating on me."
"Fortunately it's just jail, poor thing."
“…”
"You actually sneaked into the game area without telling me." Kaka laughed, "I'm so sad, little farmer."
"By the way, you've made a huge sacrifice to distract me."
He blinked his bright green eyes, and his long eyelashes, the same color as his hair, drooped down in grievance.
Huo Xiu pursed his lips.
In order to divert Kaka's attention that time, he had to use some extraordinary means.
Now that he was being pointed out so bluntly by this female insect, even he felt a moment of embarrassment.
——After all, this was the first time that the cold-blooded City Lord Huo had sold out his “beauty”, whether before or after he lost his memory.
——
Kaka grabbed Huo Xiu's hand, and it was already six o'clock in the afternoon when they came out.
The setting sun cast a beautiful pink and purple sunset glow over the city of Bannock.
The originally ferocious alien-shaped building also becomes gentle because of this color.
"How do you know I'm in the confinement room?" Huo Xiu finally asked.
Kaka raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes and eyebrows full of smiles: "I thought you were going to hold it in until tomorrow, little farmer."
"You're my fiancé. Of course they'll notify me if he goes to jail."
"Do you have other female insects?" Kaka asked deliberately.
"..." Huo Xiu frowned, "Speak properly."
"Aren't you surprised that I showed up in Bannock City?"
Huo Xiu said it bluntly. Since he had already been discovered, there was no need to disguise himself.
After all, Kaka is not an easy bug to fool.
Kaka shrugged but didn't respond.
Instead, he spoke of an incident from long ago: "It is said that twelve years ago, there was an intelligent AI called 'Stars' on a mech. After his master insect died, he lay dormant for two years. Finally, he found an opportunity to invade the enemy insect mech and avenge his master insect."
"'He' was judged to have evolved 'emotions'. This caused a shock in society. Most insects believed that AI evolving self-awareness was a terrifying thing. As a result, research on insect artificial intelligence was put on hold."
"But you are equipped with the latest Zerg-engineered intelligent computer, connected to the Zerg's largest database."
"You have the ability to develop yourself," Kaka continued, speaking rapidly. "That means you might also develop self-awareness."
"...Why are you telling me this?" Huo Xiu was a little confused.
"This world is so boring, fiancé."
His emerald green eyes shone with astonishing brightness, as if something had been ignited deep within.
“Wouldn’t it be exciting if you were truly self-aware?”
He moved closer as he spoke, their breaths meeting each other.
Huo Xiu withdrew his gaze.
He once again realized that Kaka in front of him thought differently from normal people.
He only fears that the world will be in chaos.
"But do you want to go back to the garden first?" Kaka did not force Huo Xiu, but changed the subject.
"I fed the black eye and the pirate, but your food—"
——
In the lily garden, Dark Eyes was lying on the grass with his four legs curled up.
He was still chewing a piece of juicy cabbage in his mouth.
The pirate lay down beside it and slept.
Seeing Huo Xiu coming back, the pirate's ears fluttered twice, and then he leaned over in surprise.
Dark Circle quickened his chewing speed and quickly swallowed the cabbage - although he hadn't chewed enough, it didn't matter, he could regurgitate it.
"Ah, it looks like Black Eye Circle is really starving." Kaka shouted exaggeratedly from behind, "Who told its master insect to run away from home?"
Huo Xiu looked at the fence which was not damaged at all.
It was obvious that Black Eye Circle did not take the cabbage on his own initiative. It couldn't have jumped over the fence, taken a bite of the cabbage, and then closed the fence gate, right?
If dark circles had the ability to open and close doors, they would definitely cause more harm than just this cabbage.
"Oh, could it open the door?" Kaka added, not looking guilty at all.
"Kaka." Huo Xiu said in a low voice.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, so I thought you'd run off with some other bug." Kaka pouted in grievance, pretending to be weak as he leaned closer. "I just took you out, and you turned around and went on a tryst with another bug, for several days straight! And you didn't even come home at night!"
"...What a heartless man."
Kaka didn't say a word about the fact that he was hanging around outside, ready to catch Huo Xiu and his "adulterer" in one fell swoop.
Not to mention that he sent Harvey to Star Company to investigate the matter of "Godless World".
"Oh, by the way, I've prepared a gift for you. It will be delivered tomorrow." Kaka suddenly spoke, and then added, "I just don't know if you are willing to accept it?"
Huo Xiu patted the pirate who had been messing around his legs, then looked up.
His dark eyes stared at Kaka for a moment before he looked away.
"What is it?"
"Garden Town has launched a personal bug terminal love companion system. In other words, I can project you into my personal bug terminal."
Kaka raised the corner of his mouth: "I don't need to go online to see you, but you can 'come' to reality."
"Although I think you would be willing, I'd better ask you, otherwise the little farmer will be angry."
Huo Xiu knew Kaka was referring to the costume change incident, and this was supposed to be an apology, albeit a rather subtle one.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, but we need to reach intimacy level 30. Let me see, we already have 17." Kaka was a little surprised. "Is it because of the heroine saving the beauty?"
He remembered that he was 12 before.
Huo Xiu pushed him away a little, and he felt a little embarrassed.
It’s not because of what Kaka said, “the heroine saves the beauty.”
He thought it was because in this virtual game world, a living being acknowledged his existence.
He had been hiding the fact that he had awakened his self-awareness, but Kaka didn't care at all, let alone panic - he was even very happy.
"By the way, the authorities have also introduced many ways to increase intimacy. After all, the requirement of 30 is not low. Do you want to try it?"
"Yeah." Huo Xiu nodded, "What is it?"
"Let me see..." Kaka clicked on the official email, "The first is daily gifts. From the 23rd to the 30th, if you give a gift to the male insect that he likes, you will gain double intimacy."
"The second one is very simple. Interact with the male insect. You can touch his face, touch his hands, touch his abdominal muscles, touch his penis—"
The platinum-haired female insect stretched out her hand as she spoke, but Huo Xiu grabbed her wrist.
"Keep making it up." Huo Xiu exposed him mercilessly.
"cut--"
"I'm talking about helping you take care of the chickens." Kaka argued as he withdrew his hand. "Little farmer, my equipment will arrive tomorrow. Don't you want to go out and take a look?"
"Give it a try! The email says that touching a specific part of the male insect will trigger a plot!"
Of course Huo Xiu wanted to go out and take a look.
He pursed his lips and finally opened his hands.
The ancient male insect with broad shoulders and long legs opened its arms towards Kaka.
His expression was still serious and full of abstinence, but Kaka found it very sexy.
The ancient male insect's clothing was wrapped quite tightly. It was neither the wolf-tail suit nor see-through.
It's strange, he clearly didn't reveal anything.
Kaka felt his mouth was dry.
"No touching."
Huo Xiu warned Kaka, he turned his head and missed Kaka's eyes that were instantly filled with aggression.
Kaka's hand gently fell on Huo Xiu's face.
His fingers were a little cold, and they brushed across Huo Xiu's eyelashes, causing them to tremble uncomfortably.
"You have very long eyelashes, little farmer."
Huo Xiu frowned.
The cold touch lingered on his jaw and then continued downwards.
The prominent Adam's apple rolled up and down for a moment because of the sudden itch.
Kaka's hand stayed on Huo Xiu's arm. This time he did not make trouble, but left quickly.
The next moment, Huo Xiu felt something cold inserted between his fingers.
"Hehe." Kaka smiled and slowly approached, "Little farmer, are you disappointed? I only held your hand."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, the game has a new heart rate display bar."
"Your heartbeat... quickened."
Huo Xiu pursed his lips, his dark eyes subconsciously looking to the upper right corner.
"Haha, I fooled you this time."
“…”
But no matter what, the intimacy between the two did jump up two points.
Later, Kaka gave Huo Xiu another fish, which was so lively that it even splashed water on their faces.
"Do you want to raise this fish?" Kaka asked, squatting next to Huo Xiu.
He had just opened his mouth when he saw the ancient Zerg pick up the blade of the knife.
With a "bang" sound.
The back of the knife hits the fish head.
The fish's tail, which was swinging around, immediately became limp and motionless.
"No." Huo Xiu replied.
Kaka took a step back.
He could see that Huo Xiu was not going to keep the child anymore.
"Don't you like it?" Kaka lowered his voice.
“Without a pond, it’s difficult to reproduce.”
Huo Xiu answered as he started scraping the scales off the fish with a knife.
Then with a "puff", the knife pierced the fish's belly. He cut it down neatly and then picked out the internal organs.
The mess made Kaka move further away silently.
"The radishes should be ripe." Huo Xiu suddenly said.
"ah?"
"Stay for dinner." Huo Xiu said, lowering his head to continue processing the fish. "Thank you."
Although these things can only increase the character's satiety, players should also be able to get a taste experience.
After all, Kang Mang ate a lot that day.
"You can actually cook?" Kaka's eyes widened in surprise, then he smiled, his eyes curved, looking completely sweet. "Thank you, fiancé."
Kaka followed Huo Xiu to the cabin.
There was a small kitchen in the cabin, but it was just for decoration. He had no idea that Huo Xiu would cook by himself.
When the oil in the pan was heated, Huo Xiu put the whole fish that had been cut into pieces into the pan.
With a sizzling sound, the moisture on the surface of the fish skin is quickly evaporated, the Maillard reaction occurs, and a flavorful brown and crispy skin appears on the fish.
Huo Xiu fried the fish on both sides until golden and crispy, then he poured boiling water into the pot, and the clear water quickly turned into a rich white soup.
Kaka leaned against the door frame and watched Huo Xiu quickly cut a whole radish into shreds of uniform thickness and length.
He had changed into a more comfortable home suit when he killed the fish. Now his sleeves were rolled up to his forearms, revealing his wrists with distinct veins and smooth muscle lines.
The first time Kaka saw Huo Xiu, he felt that the "setting" of this male insect was very strange.
She was cold and distant, and there was an inexplicable danger that attracted him to her.
But he is completely different at this moment.
Between the fragrance and the heat, Huo Xiu looked as if... very warm.
Makes him very hungry.
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