Chapter 50
The supplies brought back to the Empire this time included various poultry and livestock, thousands of grain seeds such as wheat and corn, and hundreds of mineral resources such as coal and granite.
Humans perfectly demonstrated the vastness of the Earth. Assuming that the space ring brought by Reese was fully loaded, most of the rooms in the entire starship were also filled.
"All are ready." Enzo counted the number of items three times in total, "Mr. He Qin, Major General Reese, have a safe trip."
"Thank you for letting us take the little guy away." He Qin put the rope in his hand around the neck of the little leopard. The little guy was fierce and roared at every human and insect tribe passing by him. He wrapped the rope around his hand twice.
"No, no, this is what I should do." The leopard stared at him intently. He had a feeling that his throat was about to be torn apart by the beast. Enzo waved his hand and took two steps back.
After a few pleasantries, it was almost time to leave. He Qin opened his mobile phone several times to confirm the time. Reis also stood outside the cabin door and looked into the distance several times. Both of them seemed to be waiting for someone.
"Major General, the cockpit is ready and can leave at any time." The soldiers in the cockpit had been waiting for a while, but the major general still did not give the order to leave, so they had to send someone to inform the major general.
"Wait a little longer."
Before he finished speaking, a camouflaged military vehicle appeared on the only road leading to the airport.
"Buzz..."
Jeeps lined up neatly and drove towards the starship, their speed comparable to that of sports cars, and the fleet stopped outside the airport after a beautiful drift.
Tall men in camouflage uniforms walked into the airport with rhythmic steps.
"Xiao Qin, we are here to see you off this time." Zhuo Yan was the representative of the men.
The last time He Qin left the earth, due to the confidentiality principle required by the higher insect race, no one knew the time of his departure and could not come to see him off.
This time, the men turned down all their tasks and set aside the whole day just to gather all the brothers in the team to say goodbye to their little brother.
"Please keep the gifts I brought for you. You must take them with you when you go on a mission. They can save lives when necessary." In addition to different small gifts for each person, He Qin also gave each of the brothers a 'Zerg Protective Shield'.
This protective shield is exclusive to the Zerg military, and it can only be purchased through Reese's relationship.
If you can't fight side by side with them, then try your best to protect their lives. The brothers who have the high-tech Zerg are probably the safest frontline troops on the earth.
"When you go back, find out the gender of the eggs and send me a message. Also, if Qi Lun really did it, tell me."
"You can't disobey the female insect rules just because Xiao Qin has a good personality. You must take good care of the little insect and your male master. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand, female father." Reese nodded his head obediently, listening to the female father's teachings.
Even when he was in the military, he would have time to go back to the hated Qi family, just to visit the female father who gave birth to him and raised him. This time of leaving, it might be a long time before they can see each other. This is really Reese's first experience.
Reese didn't know what to say at this time. He could only quietly pull the female insect's sleeves to express his reluctance to his female father.
"Reese, Xiao Qin, my children, you have to go." Ivan also followed the man's car to see the children. Compared with the excited humans on Earth, he still kept his sanity. He
had to leave sooner or later, and there was no point in delaying any longer.
"We will see each other again, mother father, brothers."
"Take good care of yourself, Xiao Qin."
After saying goodbye one by one, He Qin and Reese walked into the starship side by side. The door closed and the starship quickly disappeared from people's sight.
After leaving the Earth's atmosphere, there was no risk of burning up due to excessive speed. The speed of the starship increased rapidly. At this speed, it would take about three days to return to the central galaxy.
The pitch-black space seemed like a giant beast that could eat people. He Qin stood in front of the glass of the starship and could feel with his mental power that they were traveling between stars and planets. There were also several times when artificial satellite fragments, dust and other space debris flew around the starship.
The male insect's room could not be entered or exited at will without the order of the major general. In the past few days, the male insect's room was not cleaned in time. There was a layer of dust in the room and the air was also very turbid.
Reis's current situation was special and he could not absorb these harmful substances too much, so he handed all the cleaning work to the cleaning robot.
Reis took out a set of brand new feather blankets from the space ring and laid them out, "Master, do you want to rest for a while?" Knowing that he was leaving the earth, the master had never slept well.
Unlike the last time he brought the male insect back to the empire, this time, he could sleep in the same bed with the male master, and sleep with the male master in his arms openly.
"Are you tired, Reese?"
"Yeah, a little."
He Qin looked at his female lord. The female insect was wearing the radiation protection suit he bought in the Earth Mall. The whole insect had lost its sharpness and was coated with a layer of soft light.
The eggs may have been overnourished. The eggs of nearly four months old are the size of ordinary eggs of five or six months old. Reese's waist is still slender, but his belly is much bigger, and he can no longer wear the slim military uniform.
It seems that after returning, he must go to the Department of Pregnancy and Ecology immediately and ask Dr. Buya for advice.
"Come, come and lie down." He Qin leaned against the head of the bed and patted his thigh.
Reese obediently placed his head on the male insect's strong thigh. He was not sleepy at all, but it was not bad to lie like this.
"Reese, why do female insects have wings, but male insects don't?"
Reese couldn't answer the male insect's question for a while. He had never thought about this question, and no male insect had asked it for hundreds of years.
However, he had accidentally seen it in a book in the library. "I saw a picture in a book. It showed that the number of male insects and female insects was equal millions of years ago, and the male insects in the picture had wings."
"Can that book still be found?" He Qin asked. Did male insects also have such a powerful weapon?
"It should be possible. I'll ask Gaka to find it for you when we get back." Reese knew that his male master had always been interested in wings. He would satisfy his male master no matter what he wanted, let alone a book.
Reese felt the male insect's thighs moving. He looked up in confusion. The male insect's back rubbed against the wooden headboard, as if
he wanted to say something but hesitated. "Male master, do you want to say something?" According to his understanding, the male insect must have had something that he couldn't solve.
He Qin stopped rubbing his back, "Uh, Reese, that..."
He hesitated for a long time before he started to explain, "Actually, the night before yesterday, I found that there seemed to be something wrong with the shoulder blade."
Hearing this, Reese remembered that the male insect, who liked to be topless, had been wearing a shirt in the room these two days, and even took the initiative to wear pajamas when sleeping at night.
He thought that the male insect finally listened to the advice, but it turned out that it was to cover up the abnormality on his back?
"Take off your shirt quickly, let me see." Reese said, and he unbuttoned the male insect's outer shirt.
The skin on He Qin's back was still smooth, but the difference was that there were red lines on both sides of his shoulder blades. When he leaned in closer to take a closer look, he saw some cracks under the red lines on his shoulder blades.
"Do you feel anything?" he asked the male insect softly.
Reese ran his hand along the lines, and the lines turned out to be protruding. He was afraid that if he used more force, he would hurt the male insect, so he took his hand back.
He Qin shook it, and the red lines became more vivid. "Nothing special, just itchy."
"It looks like the bone sutures when the wings of the young are growing."
Female young insects do not have wings when they break out of their shells. The 3-5 years old of female young insects is their wing growth period.
The female insect's shoulder blades began to grow rapidly, and in order to allow the wings to flexibly retract, a gap in the skin would be stretched.
At this stage, the female insect's back is particularly sensitive, and the fabric of the clothes cannot be too rough, otherwise it will feel itchy all the time .
Just like the male lord now?
"Male lord, you seem to have grown wings."
"What? Am I not a male insect?"
No, even if everything is wrong, the combination of female insects and female insects cannot have offspring.
"Maybe, atavism?" Reis guessed.
In order to facilitate comparison, Reis also released his wings. The huge wings completely covered the big bed. He carefully retracted the bone spurs on the wings and pointed the base of the wings towards the male insect.
The wings wrapped in metal shone under the light.
In He Qin's opinion, Reese's wings are so cool that he dreams of having the same wings as a major general.
He noticed that there were also lines on the skin at the base of Reese's wings, but the lines were silver and had no protrusions.
"It really looks like it." He Qin muttered to himself, "Do I really have wings? That would be great." Thinking of this, He Qin jumped out of bed in excitement.
Reese is not as carefree as the male insect. Over the years, the male insect has never reverted to its ancestral state. He is more concerned about why the male insect has such a change.
Is it because the male master has used his mental power many times? Or is it because of the blue potion?
In the room, the older female insect was worried, while the younger male insect was in high spirits.
It was indeed an extreme contrast!
"Boom." "Boom."
The interior of the starship shook, the lights in the room went out instantly, and the lamp hanging on the ceiling swayed, looking like it would fall to the ground in the next second.
"What's going on?" Reese didn't even have time to retract his wings, and immediately used the cloud to reach the cockpit.
"Major General, it seems that there is a problem in the starship's combustion room. I have sent someone to check it out." The female insect opposite was questioned by the major general, and her words were full of fear.
Reese called another female insect and said, "Let the patrol team be alert. Send a team to check the fuel room, and the others to guard the door where the trading materials are placed. Be careful that no one with bad intentions sneaks into the starship."
Reese could vaguely feel that things were not that simple.
"Yes, Major General."
Reese used his extraordinary night vision to touch the emergency power switch, "Master, I'm going to the command room to check the situation. Will you come with me?" It was too dangerous to leave the Master alone here.
At this time, a big hole was broken in the wall of the fuel room. Two people jumped from the spaceship into the starship and tiptoed out of the fuel room before the insect soldiers arrived.
The two seemed to know the detailed information of the starship, and destroyed the hidden monitoring equipment in advance along the way.
In the darkness, a green arrow flashed on the wall, and then disappeared. The two followed the direction of the arrow, pressed their bodies, and quickly ran towards the room in the center of the starship.
The author has something to say: Reese: "Stranded on Earth, transformed on the battlefield, and unconsciously matured his mental power, and now he has grown wings?"
Reese: "The hero is really special."