World Four
If Arisa could hear Wilson's inner voice as she could in Wilson's spiritual sea, then he might be able to answer Wilson's confusion.
But now he could only see the unhappiness in Wilson's eyes, and Wilson didn't say it out loud...so Arisa decided to pretend that she didn't see anything.
"I've already agreed to his request." Arisa didn't comment on Wilson's statement that 'we are the same Zerg'. "I will see him and you as two different Zerg."
Wilson knew that Arisa's words meant she was rejecting him. He took a deep breath and wisely changed the subject: "Do you have anything you want to ask me now?"
"It's the same as before. Can I ask anything except that question?" Arisa said this with a smile in her navy blue eyes, and it was obvious that she was deliberately looking for trouble.
"...You can ask me anything." Wilson said this, then he glanced at the male insect and added quickly, "Including things outside the military academy."
Arisa snorted, her smile faded this time. "I don't have that many questions now. I just want to know, do you really want to see those low-level female insects riot?"
"I don't want to, but I... I have no choice." Wilson replied.
"--What do you mean?" Arisa frowned at the hidden meaning of this sentence.
Wilson looked towards the gate, spread his bony wings, and covered the male insect and himself inside.
In addition to being able to cut enemy soldiers in half on the battlefield, bone wings can also provide sound insulation. However, male insects have never been interested in the bone wings of female insects and rarely know about this.
Arisa stared at the black, even glossy, bony wings above his head without saying a word. He was filled with longing for the bony wings and armor that female insects were born with, something that most male insects feared.
In his eyes, this is a symbol of power.
Looking at the bone wings that gradually closed and completely covered their bodies, Arisa suddenly remembered the angry words she uttered when she was kidnapped by Wilson: "Break his bone wings and break every inch of his bones."
Arisa found it inexplicably funny.
They were finally past the stage where they felt uncomfortable just talking to each other and could at least sit down and have a good talk - although he was still angry that Wilson had kidnapped him without saying hello.
But at least I'm not as angry as I was at the beginning.
"I made a deal with the pirates. They'll help me fend off the Federation and Empire's pursuit, and ultimately lead us to a galaxy devoid of Zerg," Wilson said. "In exchange, I'll find them important resources from six galaxies before then."
"Are you crazy?" Arisa was completely stunned when she heard the words 'six galaxies'. "The number of stars in a galaxy could be tens of millions, or even hundreds of billions. How long will it take you to find them?"
"It's an important resource," Wilson said softly, "but not all the resources."
At least compared to earning enough merits on the battlefield but only being one of the enemy's female Zerg, the pirates can help him and Arisa break free from the shackles of the Zerg's rules that have been in place for tens of thousands of years.
Arisa didn't understand why Wilson would do this. If it was just driven by instinct, then the power of instinct was too strong, strong enough to allow Wilson to do this.
"That was the original agreement, but Gayel..." Wilson frowned as he remembered something. "He published his work on some... informal platforms, attracting many low-level female insects who believe that only living in that society can bring them happiness."
"The pirates conducted a background check on me and discovered that this Zerg alien, who always talked about 'fairness,' was actually my classmate. So they told me that if I could bring him into our camp, we could reduce the resources from the six star systems we had originally agreed upon to one," Wilson continued. "I refused, but they still found him through other means."
That's just how pirates work, Arisa thought. They have no scruples, and they don't care what the Zerg they're working with think. They won't stop until they achieve their goals.
If they hadn't gone too far, given the Zerg's nature of loving battles and advocating strength, they would never have made the pirates the focus of their attention.
As for the resources of those six galaxies...
Arisa suddenly remembered what Wilson had said to her: "There are only five left now." Was this what he meant?
If I remember correctly, Wilson was only there for a few days. Are the important resources in the galaxy so easy to obtain?
"I don't know what kind of deal they finally reached with Gayel." Wilson had no idea what Arisa was thinking. He looked at Arisa. Due to the biological characteristics of the Zerg, the female Zerg's golden pupils seemed to glow in the darkness. "Gayel told me that the pirates said they could make his book useful, so he came."
In fact, there was a strong sense of dependence in that sentence, "Because you are here", but Wilson didn't intend to tell Arisa.
If he also had those feelings for Gayel, he would have thought that what Gayel said was very good. But the problem was that he had no such feelings for Gayel at all and had never made any hints.
Gayel always felt that he was a different kind of male insect from most male insects.
As a female insect, Wilson felt that Gayel's understanding of this was completely wrong.
Compared to the male insects who like female insects to step on the ground, the male insects who think that if they give the other party a little sweetness, the other party will definitely be grateful are obviously much more disgusting than the former.
The malice of the former is at least tangible and visible, while the malice of the latter is sticky and cannot be shaken off once it is attached.
"Later, I learned from the pirates that they planned to start a fire in the Federation and the Empire. They wanted to let those low-level female Zergs, who had never seen a high-level male Zerg, use your abduction on the battlefield to start a riot. After all, in the eyes of the pirates, nothing makes them happier than disrupting a peaceful situation."
"That's all there is to it," Wilson concluded.
"So..." Arisa wanted to say something, but then he remembered something and asked Wilson another question, "Wait... So all this is just because of the book written by Gayel?"
He had also read that kind of book, and even left a lot of comments saying 'I suggest the author understand the basic structure of the Zerg before writing', but that kind of book shouldn't have such a strong power, right?
"The mission of low-level female Zerg is to serve as consumables of the Zerg race, fighting for their entire lives, and dying in a mental turmoil, clinging to the hope that they might one day be comforted by a male. So, even though they know the book's descriptions are merely illusions and have no relevance to their lives, they still rely on it to numb their minds," Wilson explained to Arisa. "They're already in a state of extreme instability. Just a spark would cause an explosion."
Strictly speaking, this incident has nothing to do with Gayel's book.
Because even without Gayel's book, these low-level female insects would riot one day because of some trivial matter. It was just a matter of time.
Arisa covered her eyes. "You said before that they could use this as an excuse because they have every right to protest."
Just because females make up 70% of Zerg society doesn't mean their lives are any easier.
Intermediate-level females were slightly better off, as they were more likely to encounter at least one male in their lifetime, though they were likely to be able to only look at him and not eat him. High-level females, on the other hand, were simply closer to males than the first two.
"Yes." Speaking of this, Wilson inevitably thought of the male insect's words, 'Don't make me regret ever wanting to take you as my queen.' He tried to pull himself out of that state and answered Arisa's question, "I did say that."
"I think they have the right to protest," Arisa said, looking up, "but they shouldn't die after protesting."
Just like his first reaction when he heard Wilson talk about it before: soldiers should die on the battlefield in the end.
Even if they left here and went to a deserted planet with few Zerg, it would be much better than dying after protesting. Thinking of this, Arisa couldn't help but frowned: So this is the pirates' plan?
After the protest, these low-level female insects either fought against the Empire or the Federation, chose to join the pirates, or died in a mental riot.
But if he presumptuously made choices for these female Zerg who might protest and die for a better life, wouldn't that make him the very Zerg he originally hated? He had clearly told Wilson in his mind that he hated his self-righteous behavior.
"...Are you talking about that sentence you said, 'and then died from a mental riot'?" Wilson looked at Arisa. He had just come out of his previous state, but now, because of Arisa's words, he blurted out something uncontrollably. "So, what exactly did you mean by the second half of that sentence?"
What exactly does 'once' mean?
"Hmm?" Arisa glanced at Wilson, shaking off her thoughts of 'is there any way for me to know what these female insects are thinking?' "What did you just say?"
"I say... what do you mean you once thought of me as a queen?" Wilson knew that arguing with Arissati at this moment would make him look like an idiot, but he couldn't help it. "Am I no longer one now?"
After merging his memories with those of himself in his spiritual sea, he also realized what truly angered Arisa.
He had originally hoped to become Arisa's queen because the resilience and vitality in her were enough to attract him. He chose to conceal these things because, as Arisa mentioned in her mental sea, he felt that compared to letting Arisa know about his bold idea of 'wanting to monopolize Arisa', he could better accept Arisa's unpleasant feelings towards him because she didn't know anything.
But the truth is just as Arisa mentioned, Arisa chose to find the answer herself because of his concealment, and because it seemed that he was doing it for Arisa's own good, she couldn't get angry at him.
"I thought you would be more interested in knowing how to solve the problem of these low-level female insects." Arisa looked at Wilson, a little surprised, but not seeming too surprised - after all, he was forced to know Wilson's true nature in the sea of spirituality.
"Like I said, I have selfish motives." Wilson sighed, and the second half of the sentence was inexplicably difficult to say. "I just thought that they could at least vent their anger before the mental riot, and..."
The female insect's voice was unusually low. If they hadn't been so close, Arisa might not have been able to hear what he said. "And I didn't expect... that after knowing all this, you still weren't angry with me."
He didn't really want these low-level female insects to die after venting their anger. He just didn't expect that after knowing the whole thing, Arisa would choose to sit down and analyze it with him.
In his worst case scenario, Arisa might choose to crash into him and die because she couldn't bear the humiliation. Although Wilson knew that Arisa was different from those male insects and would never give up so easily.
"Who said I'm not angry anymore?" Arisa asked immediately, "Didn't I say I'm going to settle accounts with you?"
"How do we settle the score?" Wilson wasn't afraid, but rather a little excited. This was evident from the second half of his question. "After we settle the score, can you let me be your queen again?"
"How do we settle the score..." Arisa didn't answer the question. He just turned his head and looked at the bone wings covering himself and Wilson. "...Female insects have strong endurance and recovery abilities, right?"
Wilson also thought of something. He moved the huge bone wings away from above their heads, but did not retract them: "Yes."
As a male insect who didn't know much about the female insect's body structure, Arisa was now asking Wilson with great curiosity: "Can it be restored to its original shape in a short time after being broken?"
"It's a little difficult," Wilson replied in a formal manner, as if he had no idea what their conversation meant for him. "If we don't treat it in the treatment chamber and wait for it to recover on its own, it might not be recovered in a short time."
"That's good." Arisa smiled. "This is exactly the effect I want."
…
"It's probably because of the low-level female Zerg riot," the burly female Zerg was reporting recent events to her boss, "so the Federation didn't send any more Zergs to pursue us."
"Excellent." Feder snapped his fingers with a smile. "What about the Empire?"
"There are also a certain number of low-level female insects rioting in the Empire," the female insect reporting scratched her face, "but—"
"But what?" Feder said with a smile, "It's no big deal, just say it."
"For some reason, after learning that the Federation's low-level female insects had also launched a riot, they sent a request for cooperation to the Federation," the female insect whispered. "This goes against our original plan."
Feder said nothing.
The Federation and the Empire had clashed tens of thousands of times over the past tens of thousands of years, and it had always been a relationship where whenever one side encountered trouble, the other would rush over to retaliate. He had assumed the Empire would also retaliate this time, but he hadn't expected the Empire to offer cooperation to the Federation.
……Why?
Is there any new change in this?
But no matter what the new changes are, he will continue to push forward this plan - after all, they haven't seen the blood of their own kind for a long time.
After a silence that suffocated the Zerg, Fed finally spoke again: "Where's Wilson? It's time for him to go to other galaxies."
Wilson wouldn't think that just because he luckily brought back one of the agreed-upon resources the first time, it would be easy to get the resources after that, right?
"...Uh." The female insect reporting seemed to suddenly remember something, her face wrinkled, "Um..."
"Speak!" Fed slammed the table, and the table in front of him immediately shattered into pieces.
"He said he needs to rest now!" The female insect shuddered and spoke quickly, "Because his bony wings were broken by that male insect!"
Fed stared at the female insect in front of him and laughed in anger: "Don't we have a medical cabin on our starship?!"
The female insect felt that the pain of meeting the boss's gaze in this state was no less than being pinned to the ground by the pressure of twenty high-level female insects, so she chose to close her eyes: "Well, I also asked him why he didn't use the medical cabin..."
“…He answered…”
"My Lord forbids me from using the medical bay for treatment."
"He wanted me to remember the pain so I wouldn't make the same mistake again." Wilson forced a smile at the pirate who asked him the question. But to the pirates, who were already accustomed to his expressionless face, his smile was as powerful as some extremely lethal weapon. "If you also had a master, you would understand how I feel right now, right?"
——Not to mention that his broken bone wings are still dripping with blood.
'How could I disobey his orders?'
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