World Four
A mid-level male insect, after being forcibly restrained by the neck by a mechanical lock while using his mental power, still had enough time to enter the spiritual sea of a high-level female insect. Even Arisa didn't know whether she was taking a gamble or what.
He was now standing in the dark and bottomless spiritual sea, but he didn't know which direction to go.
He had never entered the spiritual sea of any female insect before. To comfort her, he did not need to enter the spiritual sea of the female insect. He only needed to use his own spiritual power to comb the other party.
Arisa tentatively released her spiritual power.
The next second, as if responding to the call of his spiritual power, a faint light lit up not far away, guiding him forward.
He heard a voice.
"Do we have to do this?" This was clearly the voice of a young insect, tender and clear. "Do we have to fight?"
Arisa strode forward, and the light that had been guiding him was extinguished like a flame at this moment, and the darkness in front of his eyes gradually turned into a concrete picture - several female insect cubs gathered together, each holding an unremarkable "weapon" in their hands.
For Arisa, who had seen female insects and fought on the battlefield, the things in their hands were just toys at best.
But for these Zerg cubs, what they see may be different from what Arisa sees.
"We must duel, because only the female insect that achieves the ultimate victory is qualified to become... my brother's female monarch." The leading female insect even straightened her back when she said this.
Arisa, who was standing nearby, commented in her mind: What a boring game.
He had played this game when he was a cub, sitting at the innermost part of the circle formed by the female insects, waiting boredly for them to duel and then for the winner to come to his side.
When he was young, he didn't think there was anything wrong with sitting there waiting for the winner to come towards him. He even felt happy when the winner came towards him, thinking that it meant he had got the best female insect.
Now that he thought about it, it was as if he had secretly accepted that he was their 'trophy'.
Although she thought it was boring in her heart, Arisa still watched their 'game' to the end because she knew one of the female insect cubs.
Wilson's fighting ability when he was still a cub should not be underestimated. He knocked all the other female insects to the ground.
But after knocking the female insects to the ground, he did not walk towards the male insect cubs who were staring at him with interest, but turned around and said: "I won, so I won't play with you anymore."
Arisa sighed.
If Wilson had chosen to give up at the beginning, these female insect cubs would at most think he was a coward. But now that he has become the 'first', he has stepped on the 'prize' in the eyes of these cubs, so he is bound to be bullied by these female insect cubs.
Things developed just as Arisa had expected. The expressions of the female and male insect cubs suddenly became quite ugly.
Even as a child, Wilson experienced the injustice of male insect rights over female insects because a male insect claimed to have been injured. Even though he had no visible injuries, Wilson was imprisoned for ten days by his male and female fathers at the request of the Male Insect Protection Association.
Arisa glanced at the little female insect locked in the darkness, and continued to move forward following the faint light - the scenes happening in the spiritual sea were all things that the insects in this spiritual sea had already experienced.
Therefore, even if he squatted down to comfort the female insect now, it would only cover up Wilson's tragic memories, so that when Wilson thought of these things, he would have the illusion that a male insect stood up to comfort him at that time.
But does being covered up mean that those things never happened?
The most important thing is that Arisa has things to do now, and he is not interested in doing anything to comfort the bug cub.
He continued walking forward, not noticing that the female insect behind him had raised her head as he took a step.
Young Wilson watched the male insect in a federal uniform walk straight past him and then stride into the darkness.
…
This time the scene is different from the previous small-scale fights. It is a battlefield, and the equipment on the opposing Zerg is from the Empire.
There is a story circulating among the Zerg.
At the beginning of the universe, the Creator of all things felt that those alien races who only knew how to harvest resources on their own planets were too boring, so he created the Zerg with a predatory nature.
The Creator was bored for too long, so he added terrifying destructive power to the Zerg race.
In order to ensure the fairness of this "game", the Creator assigned tasks to male and female insects respectively.
He gave the female insects excessive combat power, but put a lock on their spiritual sea, and then gave the key to the lock to the male insects with low combat power.
Initially, the powerful female insects looked down on the far inferior male insects, treating them like objects and depriving them of the right to cultivate their spiritual power. But soon, these self-righteous female insects paid the price—due to prolonged battles, their spiritual seas, long deprived of the comfort of male insects, began to gradually collapse.
At this time, a male insect stood up and comforted the female insects who were about to die due to the collapse of their spiritual sea. These originally noble female insects therefore regarded him as their male master.
It was this male insect who created the Federation.
His brother, unable to tolerate his gentle attitude towards the female insects who once trampled on the male insects, left the Federation and later founded the empire.
As time went by, the systems of the Federation and the Empire gradually overlapped, but the hostility between the Empire and the Federation always existed.
Whether it was plundering alien resources or improving their own technology, the Zerg of the two countries never stopped competing with each other. And because of this, the Zerg, with its strong technology and combat capabilities, became a completely terrifying existence for other alien races.
Arisa tugged at her high collar and, in the process, tore off the Federation badge.
He felt nothing about ripping off the dark emblem.
For him, this is more like a symbol of his identity - after his unfortunate death, the Zerg will use this symbol to know that he is from the Federation, that's all.
Does he like his own species? It seems that he does not like it, because he hates this social model in which male insects are destined to become reproductive machines.
But does he hate his own race?
Arisa stopped thinking. This time, he did not go to find Wilson at this stage first. Instead, he walked past the female insects whose bodies were torn into pieces and the huge blood-stained bone wings.
He walked past the corpses of countless female insect warriors, and finally found only the corpse of a male insect.
Unlike the female insects whose bodies were torn apart directly, this male insect died from a piercing through the chest, but he did not suffer any other injuries. His hand was now clasped with the hand of the female insect next to him - the reason why he said "the hand of the female insect next to him" was because Arisa only saw the half arm covered with black insect armor.
Arisa did not find the other half of the body with the half arm.
He stared at the clasped hands for a moment before turning away.
Although the Zerg's social model makes it difficult for male Zerg to go to the battlefield, he does not hate his own race.
…
"What did you say?!" A familiar voice came from behind Arisa. Arisa turned around and saw Wilson with his upper body naked.
The opponent's upper body was now completely covered in pitch-black insect armor. If he hadn't just suddenly made that sound, Arisa wouldn't have matched this fierce-looking female insect with four pupils on her face with the calm and quiet Wilson in his memory.
Arisa is now in Wilson's spiritual sea, so she cannot feel the spiritual pressure released by the other party, but just by looking at the frequency of the trembling of the female insect kneeling in front of Wilson, she can know to what extent the other party's spiritual pressure has been released.
Taking advantage of the fact that no Zerg could see her, Arisa walked directly to Wilson's side - Wilson didn't look at him.
"I... I thought everything would be fine. I didn't expect him to be captured." The low-level female insect kneeling on the ground stammered, her face full of regret. "He said he just wanted to prove himself, he said he was ready... I felt so sorry for him, so I decided to help him hide his identity."
It was obvious that the male insect had ended up like this because he had not received any systematic training, but the first reaction of the female insect in front of him, who had at least attended a military academy, was not to be angry that the other party treated going to the battlefield as a joke, but to blame herself for not having high hopes for the other party.
"A deformed society." Arisa said softly.
"It's all my fault for not noticing... It's all my fault... That's why I let the noble male insect fall into such terrible danger."
It was only then that Arisa suddenly realized that the scene before her was the story that Willson had told her.
The Sea of Mind is the embodiment of the Zerg's memories, and memories never lie - what Wilson said is true.
This incident actually happened.
He previously doubted the authenticity of this story because it was Wilson who carried him and jumped onto the pirate starship, and even pointed out that there was "no official record" of this incident.
But if male Zergs were involved in this matter, it is understandable that there is no official record - given the Zerg race's morbid desire to protect male Zergs, even if the guy going to the battlefield is a stupid low-level male Zerg, the Male Zerg Protection Association, which has always focused on the interests of male Zergs, will find a way to protect him.
Just like that guy Gayel.
Arisa didn't finish reading the story this time. He just stood there with his eyes closed.
The male insect's powerful mental strength allows him to sense the outlines and physical conditions of these female insects even with his eyes closed. Among these female insects, one is even pregnant.
…but they died.
As Wilson had recounted earlier, these female Zerg warriors sacrificed themselves for a foolish male Zerg.
He felt nauseous just by looking at the outlines of these female insects being torn into pieces. What was Wilson thinking when he witnessed this with his own eyes?
Compared to him, who hated his male identity and power because of his physical condition and the captive lifestyle, Wilson probably hated not his female identity but everything he had to go through as a female, right?
The male's birthright is based on the female's flesh and blood.
Arisa finally opened her eyes when Wilson's tall figure approached her - she saw Wilson carrying the low-level male insect with the gesture of carrying trash. In the middle of the process, Wilson even grabbed a handful of dirt from the battlefield and stuffed it into the other's mouth because he felt that the other's screams were disturbing his ears.
"Enough!" Wilson opened his mouth and showed his sharp teeth to the low-level male insect. "If you keep yelling, I'll throw you directly to these guys from the Empire!"
The imperial female insects that were chasing them stopped in their tracks when they heard this.
The low-level male insect obviously knew what would happen to him, a male insect from the Federation, if he fell into the hands of these female imperial soldiers. He simply covered his mouth with both hands.
Wilson sneered.
Arisa, who heard Wilson's sneer up close, said: ...It's a bit strange. Wilson, who has always been obedient to me, actually has this side to him.
He looked up and met Wilson's eyes, who was already close to him.
Wilson's expression was different from when he was listening to the low-level female insects speaking. At this moment, his four golden eyes fixed Arisa.
At the moment when she looked at Arisa, the female insect subconsciously removed the terrifying black insect armor on her face, then opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something to him: "You..."
Unsure if the figures in his memories would encounter him, Arisa turned aside, but the gaze didn't vanish. Wilson, fleeing with the encumbered low-level male insect, stared at him intently from beginning to end, until Wilson finally jumped onto the starship with the Federation emblem, and the gaze finally faded.
Arisa sat down directly on the battlefield.
Of course he could attack Wilson's spiritual sea, just like he had done before... but after reading these memories, Arisa suddenly couldn't bring himself to do it.
——Let’s give Wilson a chance to defend himself.
He wanted to hear what the other party was planning to do, and then he would consider whether to forgive Wilson for kidnapping him without saying hello on the battlefield, or to break the other party's bone wings before forgiving him.
But just as Arisa made up her mind and turned around to leave Wilson's spiritual sea, the smoke-filled battlefield suddenly turned into the interior of the military academy in front of her eyes.
The familiar blond male insect was walking quickly towards Arisa.
Arisa hadn't recovered from the sudden change of scene yet and bumped into the other person.
The two male insects hissed at the same time.
"--Damn it." Eisman covered his forehead with his hands, looking annoyed. "Arisa, don't you look ahead when you walk?"
Arisa covered his forehead which was hurt by the collision. Unlike Eisman who vented his anger directly, he was thinking in his heart: Damn it, Wilson should just die!
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