World Four
Fed is an uneducated female insect who grew up on a remote planet.
The main inhabitants of this planet are not the Zerg, but a short alien race with green skin and red eyes.
These alien races harbor extremely strong malice towards that small portion of Zerg.
When taking their children past fixed garbage dumps, they would point at the dirty Fed and say that it was these Zerg that invaded their planet and that these guys were the scum of the universe.
Fedd had little education and no idea of his race's place in the universe. But even from the expressions on the faces of the aliens, he could tell it wasn't a good word. He didn't care, though. He was more concerned with finding something to eat from the garbage heap than the insults that had no effect on him.
He had to fill his stomach to relieve the desire for the unknown in his heart...even though he didn't know what he was longing for in his heart.
It definitely couldn't be the blood of these aliens... Fidd slowly raised his head. The red eye on the hovering small aircraft stared at him. Similar red eyes stared at every Zerg like him. These aliens taught their children that the Zerg are their enemy, yet at the same time, out of fear, they didn't even dare let their children get too close to the Zerg. They even created this ridiculous thing for this reason.
And that damn desire...
Fed bent down and began to dig through the garbage. The waste belonging to the machine was crushed by him and thrown behind him because it was not food, making a huge noise.
...What exactly is it that he desires deep in his heart?
This question was finally answered when I saw the male insect with red hair and green eyes.
Fed, who originally wanted to kill the guy who came down from the aircraft, suddenly changed his mind when he saw the other person's face clearly.
He was starving, having been hungry for ten days. He had originally planned to kill a random alien and eat its flesh today. Even if he was beaten to death by the thing above his head, it would be better than such a disgusting death by starvation. But now he suddenly changed his mind.
Because the desire in his heart was filled for the first time.
His instinct told him that the other person was the final answer to the problem that had been bothering him for a long time.
So go now, walk over there, tear apart with your teeth that creature who looks like he's your own kind, but he's not, chew his flesh raw, and drink his blood as payment for being so late.
"A high-level female Zerg..." But Fed saw the slender guy take out a laser gun, cursing under his breath while pointing the gun at him. The laser there was rapidly gathering. "Damn it! I thought there were no Zerg in this shabby place."
On a hunch, Fed rushed over and knocked the guy down.
He crushed the thing, but the price was that his right arm was shattered and turned into a bloody mist, and the air was filled with the smell of rust.
But that little bit of pain was nothing compared to the feeling of wanting to be satisfied. The female insect turned her head and stared at the other insect again. He was so excited, and being so close to the word death made him almost collapse with excitement.
He opened his mouth: "You..."
——He changed his mind again.
Fed and the other party made love for a while, not next to the garbage dump, but in his own house.
He learned from that guy how female Zergs were treated in the Zerg race, and why no Zerg had come to rescue him, so he gave up the idea of returning to the Zerg planet. But what followed was the desire to be with him forever.
The other person is putting clothes on himself.
'Where are you going next? ' Fed asked, but before the other party could answer, he changed the subject, 'You are new to this place, right? I can teach you how to survive here.'
He actually didn't know how to survive. In this place where all Zerg people had to be monitored, if the Zerg wanted to get food, they could only choose to be exploited by these alien races or dig in the garbage dump themselves.
Feide had tried the former. When he was young, he had done something for five days while listening to the insults of foreigners, and in the end he got a half-remaining low-quality nutrient solution.
After struggling for a while between the choice of 'killing this alien who kept saying that he was really ungrateful' and 'just digging in the garbage dump', Fidd, who always felt that these aliens deserved to die more than himself, chose the latter.
So even he didn't know how he could have the nerve to say such a lie as "I can teach you how to survive here."
But because the other party hadn't replied, Fide wanted to continue with the hypocritical and obvious lie: "I can still -"
"Well, it's just the attraction of males to females," the man who claimed to be a male said as he put on his pants. "I know you don't really want me to stay."
The male insect turned around and gave Fide a sweet smile, but what came out of his mouth was not honey, but bullets shot at him: "If you don't want to have a disgusting insect cub, remember to take a shower."
It had been a long time since he had felt as unhappy as he did at that time.
Fed looked at the information on his terminal sent by the pirates who had been in the Federation and the Empire for a long time, and he felt furious.
Now I recall it again because of these things.
According to his initial expectations: the Federation and the Empire would be furious because of the riot of these low-level female insects, and then try their best to suppress this large-scale riot, because the backlash would make this group of female insects even more angry.
But now, the empire that has always been hostile to the other side has actually taken the initiative to ask the Federation for cooperation?
—Something is out of control.
A voice in his head told Fed this, and what he hated most was things that were out of his control.
He turned on the panel on the starship and saw that there was no Zerg in Wilson's room.
He stood up.
“What the hell are you guys doing!?”
This was the second Zerg to ask them this question, but the first sub-female who asked this question looked excited and curious, while this Zerg was so frightened that even her voice was trembling.
Wilson glanced at the other person, and when he realized it was Gayel, he looked away - he still remembered what Arisa had said to him.
: You don’t need to do anything and you don’t need to say anything.
"Are you blind, Gayel?" Arisa glanced at Gayel, but he didn't stop what he was doing. "Don't the pirates want to provide you with a medical cabin?"
He was using a violently torn-off bone wing to reopen Wilson's healing wound. The latter didn't groan or roar in pain. Only the sweat that occasionally fell from his forehead proved that he was not really insensitive.
"I...what are you doing to him!" Gayel's brows were almost twisted into a ball. Seeing that Arisa had no intention of stopping, he looked at Wilson who had remained silent. "Wilson, you're not resisting at all!"
He received only a casual glance from Wilson.
"He did something wrong, so he should be punished." Arisa tossed the bone wing, which could almost be used as a weapon, twice in her hand. "But you, Gayaru, don't you have anything else to do?"
"Or do you really like other male female insects?"
In order to avoid the pirates, they even chose the end of a corridor where few Zerg passed by. The only difference between this place and other places was that through the transparent portholes, they could clearly see the most common red dwarf stars in the Milky Way and those bluish reflection nebulae.
"What are you talking about?" Gayel stuttered, perhaps because something had touched his nerve. "...I just couldn't bear to watch it."
What does it mean to be a female insect that really likes other male insects? He simply couldn't stand it!
Arisa patted Wilson's face gently, turned around and sat on his lap. He looked at Gayel and said, "Well, are you happy living among the Zerg? Alien."
While Gayel kept cursing the other party's inhumane behavior of ignoring the injuries, he couldn't help but glance at Wilson's half-broken bone wing.
The small cleaning machine was constantly busy behind the female insect. No sooner had it cleaned up one area of blood than new blood began to flow. If the cleaning machine had its own consciousness, it would probably have started cursing by now.
By the time Gayare realized what Arisa meant by the question, the part he was staring at had changed from the female insect's broken bone wings to Arisa who was about to touch his face.
Why are they both male insects...but the other one looks so good?
Remembering what the other person had just said, Gayaru suddenly stepped back, also increasing the distance between himself and Arisa: "What are you talking about!?"
"I'm asking if you're happy living among the Zerg, an alien race?" Arisa thought Gayel was frightened by the scene just now, so she was particularly patient. "What's your race, human?"
Gayaru didn't answer, but his trembling body gave the answer - as if sensing some unsettling atmosphere in the air, Gayaru averted his eyes from Arisa's face.
Wilson rubbed his fingers: What a pity.
"Your society should be very stable, right?" Arisa sat back on Wilson's lap. "Otherwise, you wouldn't have been so frightened just now."
When he said this, he had no awareness that even a normal male insect might be frightened by this scene. Fortunately, Gayel's impression of male insects was limited to arrogance and domineering, and he didn't know much about the timid nature of most male insects... or he didn't care.
"I..." Gayel tried to struggle, but looking at Arisa like this, he knew that his struggle was useless. "At least I am a male insect now!"
He thought Arisa would say something about what he had said, but she said nothing. Her dark blue eyes once again focused on the nearby transparent porthole, as if she had just heard something quite ordinary.
Gayel couldn't accept being ignored even more than being cursed.
He knew that his concealment was a complete joke here. Not only was his worldview completely different and incompatible with that of the Zerg society, but the word "human" that he always liked to blurt out when speaking was a good proof of this.
But that doesn't mean he can tolerate feeling ignored.
"Aren't you going to ask me where I'm from?" He would rather endure the fear of seeing the scene just now and ask Arisa than be ignored by her, "Are you really not curious at all?"
"If I'm curious, will you tell me?" Arisa said this without even looking at Gayaru.
Gayaru was choking. "Will he tell Arisa?" Of course not. But he felt that if he said that, he would only get an unsurprised "Oh" or a "Why are you asking me that question?" from Arisa.
And out of some inexplicable competitive spirit, Gayel said an answer that made Arisa turn her head: "I can tell."
Arisa had never seen many aliens.
On the one hand, the Zerg's morbid desire to protect male Zerg makes it difficult for him, as a male Zerg, to travel to distant planets where alien races exist. On the other hand, in a sense, the Zerg are actually a very arrogant and self-centered race.
Rather than collaborating with other alien races, the Zerg preferred to directly seize their knowledge and resources for their own research. Therefore, even in the interstellar marketplace, where they advocated peaceful coexistence with aliens, Arisa was always terrified of the aliens she met, not even daring to raise her head.
So even though he was deliberately guiding Gaya to tell him these things, Arisa was still interested in this strange race because of what he said.
"You just said that on the planet where you humans live... there aren't male and female insects, only men and women." Arisa looked at Gayel. "So what are men like, and what are women like?"
"Men are people like you and Wilson." Gayel pointed at Arisa and Wilson.
Arisa subconsciously turned to look at Wilson.
The tall female insect stared at him in silence, their eyes of different colors showing the same incomprehension.
But Arisa expressed her confusion, "Seriously? We're the same gender on Earth?"
Male and female insects?!
"Then can men reproduce?" Arisa continued, "Do you humans also lay eggs?"
"No, it's not eggs." Gayel replied. Although he initially just wanted to confront Arisa, it had been too long since he had mentioned his own planet with other people... Zerg. "On our planet, only women can give birth."
"Woman?" Arisa blinked, but he quickly remembered, "Oh yes, you did mention this gender just now."
"They're different from men. Their bodies are more...slender." Gayel tried hard to find the vocabulary to explain. Then he looked at Gayel, "In short! Just like the male insects of your species!"
"...The slimmer one is the one responsible for reproduction?" Arisa sighed. "What a crazy and backward race."
"What gives you the right to say that!" Gayel never thought that such words could be said about his own race, especially by a tyrannical race.
——Are you kidding me?!
"Is there something wrong with that?" Arisa looked at Gayel. "Or do the women of your race have the same powerful fighting power as female insects, capable of knocking out several men with a single punch?"
Wilson resisted the urge to say, "If all Gayel like this are male, then the women on Earth must not be as strong as the female insects."
"Where we are..." Gayel was vague, his voice trailing off at the end of the sentence, "Women are valued for being fair, young, and thin."
Arisa turned to look at Wilson and raised her hand. "Wilson, go tell him how big a bug egg is."
Wilson was in a dilemma: he had never laid an egg, so how could he know how big it was?
He could only make a rough shape based on his memory of eating eggshells to supplement his nutrition. Fortunately, Arisa had no impression of insect eggs.
"Even Zerg warriors can't say they can completely endure the pain of laying eggs," Arisa said. "Even warriors of our race suffer so much, let alone the slender women of your race."
"Under circumstances like this, the parent who gives birth is still so concerned about being white, young, and thin." Arisa frowned. "Isn't this crazy and backward?"
"You... I..." Gajeel was stuck for a moment, but he quickly found the answer, "But that's a distorted aesthetic! We don't advocate that anymore!"
"--Oh." Arisa nodded, then continued, "But the one with the stronger body hasn't evolved yet and is responsible for reproduction. This is the backwardness of your race."
Gayel no longer wanted to talk to Arisa; he just felt tired.
——How could he feel happy just because he mentioned the Earth to the other person? The other person is a fucking alien.
"So, strictly speaking, the books you wrote aren't about the Zerg, but about what happens when you humans become Zerg?" But Arisa had no intention of letting him go. "Seeing how you always speak up for female Zerg, women on your planet must be treated very well, right?"
"At least it's much better than being a female Zerg. You won't be scolded and beaten in public at every turn." Gayel finally regained his ground. "You Zerg are the crazy and backward race! This kind of deformed oppression will be overturned in our place!! And this unequal view of love is unacceptable!"
"What is an equal view of love?" Arisa asked.
"That means you have to love him, you can't hit your partner, you have to be tolerant of your partner, and try to be loyal to only this partner." Gayel gestured.
Putting aside the deeper meaning of 'trying hard' to be loyal to only one partner, Arisa gestured to Wilson behind her, "And then, because there were no male insects to help relieve her, she went into a mental rage and died?"
"Well..." Gayel was choked, but quickly added, "In short, your love is unequal!"
Wilson's ears twitched and he held Arisa's hand.
"Let's go, Wilson." Arisa stood up, and the tall female insect stood up with him. "It's been nice talking to you, Gayel."
When he said the second half of the sentence, the hatch next to this position opened at the same time, revealing Fed with a rare gloomy expression.
Because the female insect had extremely strong hearing, he heard the second half of Arisa's sentence even through the door, but he only heard the second half of Arisa's sentence.
What did they talk about before this?
Didn't Gayaer, that idiot, dislike Arisa before?!
"What..." Gayel blushed before he could react. "Do you think I'll feel that just because you said that—"
"Wilson." For the first time, Fide interrupted Gayel rudely. He ignored Gayel's suddenly ugly expression and looked at Wilson. "How long do you plan to rest?"
Wilson glanced at Arisa first, and only after Arisa nodded did he answer Fed's question: "It won't be long."
Watching their interaction, Feide felt a pang of annoyance: Why did he need the male insect's permission to talk to him?
Wilson then turned his gaze back to Arisa, "Do you want to walk back today, Lord?"
"Let's not go back yet." Arisa seemed to be completely unaware of Fed's cold gaze. "I'm in a good mood today. Let's just stroll around this starship." He said it as if the pirate's starship was his own home.
"You don't mind, do you? Fide?" Arisa gave Fide a sweet smile. "I am a prisoner now, a prisoner in chains."
Fed subconsciously looked at the mechanical lock on his neck, and then looked at Wilson: This guy also had the same lock on his neck.
...What's the point of a female insect wearing this thing?
This damn Wilson, an idiot with such terrifying fighting power but all he thinks about is pleasing the male insects!
"Of course I don't mind." The smile on Fed's face was a little stiff. "Wilson, you will keep an eye on him, right?"
Wilson didn't answer, because he didn't even look at Fide, he just followed Arisa's steps and stepped into the door that Fide opened when he came.
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