World Four
"What are you laughing at?" Gayel stared at Arisa, who was laughing for no apparent reason. He seemed to have suddenly thought of something and sighed, "Forget it, don't tell me."
He knew better than anyone how bad his personality was, so he knew that even if he knew Arisa was the key to escaping the pirates, he would likely be completely offended by her saying, "I'm laughing at you." It would be better for Arisa not to say that at all.
"Then let's talk about these books," Arisa said nothing. He pushed away the book that Gayel threw back, picked up another one, and flipped through it casually. "I remember that books on this subject seemed to be unpublishable. How did you...?"
Gayel pointed at the door behind them with a look of despair. Even though he didn't like to use his brain, he realized that something seemed to be wrong, but he was too ashamed to admit it.
Arisa smiled. Given Gayare's personality, where everything he wanted was written all over his face, what Fide or the other pirates had said to Gayare was probably—
"You must be eager to achieve something, to prove yourself to those Zerg who look down on you, right?" Arisa said word by word, "Join us, and I will give you everything you desire."
"You..." Gayel was confused and bewildered, "How do you know all this?!"
Arisa didn't say anything. This kind of rhetoric couldn't even fool the bug kid. She didn't know how Gayel was fooled at that time.
Even if he didn't care about tearing off the emblem of the Federation, it didn't mean that he could accept such a fool leading the Federation and the Empire to destruction.
Arisa stood up, climbed onto the bed, and pulled the quilt directly over her head.
Gayel didn't know why Arisa made such a gesture that clearly showed she didn't want to continue talking to him, but he still subconsciously asked, "I wanted to ask when I first came in, why do you still have a bed here?"
"Wilson brought it back for me earlier." Arisa said as she threw back the quilt. "Why, do you want to sleep too?"
"I don't want to die so soon." Gayel just glanced at Arisa and immediately shrank back down again, "I'll just sleep on the ground."
Now, whenever he saw Arisa, he would think of the scene where Arisa used that bone wing to tear open Wilson's wound. That scene was really comparable to the horror movies he had seen in his previous life.
"Oh." Arisa pulled the quilt back again. He had no intention of letting Gayel sleep with him. "I'm going to sleep now. Is there anything else you want to tell me?"
"...If they still let me out later," Gayel's voice came from the foot of the bed, "Can I wake you up?"
"Okay." Arisa held the bone wing in her hand, feeling Wilson on the other side.
The sides of the small spacecraft opened directly like a female insect spreading its bony wings, and a high ladder led directly to the ground, and Wilson jumped down from the open hatch.
He looked ahead and saw only dust all over the sky. He had no idea how hard the alien bodies on this planet had to be to be able to withstand the dust.
The pirates did not follow down, but the spaceship had no intention of flying away. Instead, it hovered in the sky, casting a huge shadow.
Wilson felt the male insect's mental power stroking his spiritual sea inch by inch, making him unable to control his urge to tremble. It also successfully made him, who had never experienced this before, stagger and almost fall to the ground.
The female insects on the spaceship who saw this scene exchanged glances with each other.
They had all been comforted, but because they did not trust the captured male insects, they only provided shallow comfort. Therefore, they naturally did not know that deep comfort could eliminate the female insects' irritability and suppressed negative emotions caused by fighting.
When the female insect has not yet deeply integrated with the male insect, the reaction caused by establishing a spiritual connection will be more intense than after accepting a deep integration.
To sum it up in one sentence: It is because the spiritual capacity has not been properly expanded through deep integration that the spiritual power generated by the connection can only be forced to overflow.
"His bone wings are almost healed, right?" the female insect asked, unaware of what was happening. "What's going on? Should we go down and take a look?"
"I'm not interested!" the female insect next to him shouted, "Close the hatch! This time we're only responsible for picking him up and waiting for the Federation to track us down. We never said we'd also be responsible for comforting the bug with a broken bone wing and eating this sand!"
"Stop showing off!" the female insect sitting near the hatch shouted as she closed it. "How dare you call him a bug boy to his face?!"
"I dare not! But if you continue to talk nonsense, I will kick you out immediately!"
The sound of the hatch closing was quite obvious in this environment. Wilson turned his head to look at the spaceship and turned around.
"Gayel is beside me now, so I can't talk." Arisa's spiritual power found a corner in the female insect's spiritual sea and sat down. "Have you reached your destination yet?"
"We have just arrived at the first planet." Wilson walked deeper, "Feder said he planned to let the Federation and the Empire track down the pirates' spacecraft and let them report to those low-level female insects."
"Then, after the Federation and the Empire each declared their ability to capture the pirates, they'd wander around, completely disillusioning the low-level female insects with the Federation and the Empire." Arisa knew what these pirates were thinking.
"Yes." Wilson heard the impatience in the male insect's words. After hesitating for a moment, he finally spoke, "...Is something wrong?"
"...What?" Arisa asked unconsciously.
"What's wrong with you?" Wilson asked. "Did Gayel make you angry?"
"Hmm..." Arisa wanted to deny it, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was indeed Gayaru's fault, so she said, "I guess so."
Wilson began to think about how to get rid of Gayel without alerting the pirates.
"Don't call me 'you' anymore." "They are now connected, how could Arisa not know what Wilson is thinking? "Also, don't think about killing Gayel, I don't want to hear his name now."
Calling Arisa "you" was more of a habit for Wilson, a fallback for not being able to always call her "Master." Wilson didn't want to be deprived of that right, but he also didn't want to directly contradict Arisa, so he chose to remain silent. As for the second half of Arisa's sentence, he didn't really want to think about the other male insect at this moment.
Arisa just felt that Wilson like this looked a little familiar, as if the Wilson in the spiritual sea was the same.
"By the way, what are they asking you to find this time?" Arisa looked at the dust swirling before her eyes and subconsciously closed her eyes.
"Black crystal rock, this is a kind of mineral that only appears in extreme environments." Wilson spread his bone wings and blocked them in front of him. The wounds that were previously worn away have healed and become his weapons again - as if the wounds had never appeared. "Feid suggested that I start looking for it on other planets, but I think planets with this environment are more likely to have this kind of mineral."
"Of course he would suggest you start looking somewhere else." Arisa slowly grasped the bone wing and closed her eyes. "It's not him who's looking for it, and it's not him who might be surrounded and intercepted by the Federation and the Empire."
His breathing gradually became smoother, as if he was falling asleep.
Even a warlike race like the Zerg will teach their students how to fall asleep as quickly as possible during their time in military school.
Gayel, who was beside the bed, secretly lifted a corner of the quilt, and when he saw Arisa close her eyes, he decisively covered her with the quilt again: "You fell asleep so quickly."
The female insect standing outside the room glanced at the screen, then looked away after seeing Arisa's sleeping face.
He yawned and felt a little sleepy.
The terminal screen on the arm showed that the communication request just sent was ignored by the other side.
Meanwhile, Fide, who had ignored the call, stared at the dusty surface of the planet and tapped the table. "You just said... the Federation's signal has appeared around this planet?"
"Hmm!" The pirates who had just been bickering with each other now didn't dare to say a word. "Boss, didn't you ask us to bring the signal detection equipment? It shows that they are almost here."
"Oh." Fed retracted his gaze and stared at the screen in front of him. He knew the Federation was coming earlier than they did. After all, the instruments on his spacecraft were much better than theirs. "Not bad."
"So should we tell him?" asked the pirate.
"No need," Feyed looked at the signal from the Imperial spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the west and cleared his throat. "You guys go west and avoid them."
"Huh?" The pirate was stunned. "So you're just ignoring Wilson?"
"Don't worry about it," said Fide. "The male insect is still on our starship. He will crawl back even if he has to."
"So, shall we go back now?" the pirate asked quietly, "The resources here..."
"If there is any, Wilson will bring it back." Fed said with a smile, "Your safety is more important than his. Return as soon as possible."
"Yes!" The pirate turned off the communication and immediately adjusted the direction of the spacecraft.
"The boss is so nice!" a female insect said with emotion.
“Who says it’s not?”
…
Wilson felt a weight on his shoulder. He didn't turn his head, but he could clearly hear Arisa's voice coming from his shoulder.
"I just scanned it with my mental power, and the terminal you're carrying has monitoring settings," Arisa's voice said. "Just talk to me in your head. Don't let the other Zerg hear you. Understand?"
Wilson didn't answer, and no further thoughts came.
Arisa turned her head and saw that the female insect's ears were red.
He lowered his head to look at his current body. For convenience, he used the state he was in as a worm. He did not really teleport to Wilson's shoulder. All this was just an illusion caused by the combination of their minds.
Arisa wanted to ask Wilson why he reacted so strongly, but when he thought about how the female insect might choose to cooperate with the pirates just because she wanted to monopolize his attention, he couldn't bring himself to ask the question.
...How strange. He stared at Wilson's profile and thought to himself. Are they, the Zerg, such an easily influenced race?
After a long time, Wilson's inner voice came again: "...Because I love you."
Arisa looked at Wilson: Love? A vague concept that the Zerg had brought to the world but didn't even understand?
"I don't know how to describe the feelings in my heart. Our race has never had such a concept, nor does it allow such a concept to appear." Wilson answered him in his heart, "I just feel that if something really affects me, I hope it is the love mentioned in that book."
Arisa didn't say anything, he just turned his head.
-You have to love him.
Arisa wasn't sure whether her feelings for Wilson could be considered love. After all, even Gayel, who introduced this concept to the Zerg, didn't quite understand the term.
- Don't hit your partner.
Arisa was very sure that he had attacked Wilson. Not only did he use the bone wings that Wilson had torn off to tear open the opponent's wounds, he also attacked the opponent's spiritual sea.
- You should be tolerant of your partner and try to be loyal to only this partner.
Arisa closed her eyes, still not quite understanding why Wilson said the three words "I love you" to her.
...How dare he say the three words 'I love you' to himself?
To a Zerg who hasn't even figured out his own emotions?
…
The races living on this planet look different from the Zerg.
Their upper bodies were thin, but their lower bodies were strong and sturdy. They even had long, hairless tails dragging behind them, which kept slapping the ground, making a clattering sound and splashing countless dust.
They all had smiles on their faces, even when they were facing Wilson, who was obviously not of their race and had terrifying bony wings.
"Have some of this! This is a specialty of our planet!" An alien crowded in front of Wilson and raised the beautiful golden crystal in his hand. "Wow! You are really strong. What race are you?"
For a moment, Wilson wanted to see if he had also changed his form like Arisa, otherwise how would these aliens dare to talk to him?
"I come from a distant planet." Although he thought so, Wilson still glanced at the crystal in his hand and asked in the fluent universal language of the universe, "What use is this crystal to me?"
"Uh..." The other man was stunned by the question. He looked left and right, and found that his companions had all looked away. He could only scratch his hair awkwardly. "Can it be used as a decoration? Don't you think it looks very similar to your eye color?"
How could he know that this terrifying-looking evil star would actually respond to his words and ask such a strange question?
Wilson thought about it and took the golden crystal.
The tall female insect looked the crystal stone up and down, but still couldn't understand why such a useless thing was recommended to her: "I never look at my own eyes."
Besides, why would he buy a crystal that was similar to his own eye color?
The alien who spoke to him was already thinking about how to deal with the troubles that this visitor from another planet might cause in the future.
But unexpectedly, this tall visitor from another planet suddenly turned his head.
——Because Arisa, who was sitting on his shoulder, reached out her hand and lifted Wilson's face so that he was facing her.
Arisa, in his worm form, looked carefully at Wilson, then at the crystal that looked particularly small in the female insect's hand, and then he concluded: "Not really."
Wilson's pupils are golden, and this crystal has some impurities.
"No thanks." Wilson shoved the crystal stone to the alien. Facing Arisa's cub state, his originally deep voice became unclear. "I'll look for something else... Thank you."
Wilson had never liked bug babies, finding them annoying. But he really liked Arisa's cub form, especially the moment she looked at him just now.
He was the only one who could see Arisa like this, and he was the only one who could talk to Arisa like this, and he didn't hate this feeling.
"Oh...oh." The alien who was left behind held the crystal stone, blinked, and looked a little confused.
- Why did he feel that the other person's tone of voice suddenly became gentle?
Wilson was not in the habit of investigating the situation before destroying a planet.
He preferred to clear a rough area and then look for the resources that Fed had listed on the planet. If not, he would leave immediately, and if so, he would make another plan.
Fid always loved to flatter him, and he seemed to have no idea how bad his pirate group's reputation was in the universe. Fortunately, Wilson was never a fool who believed everything he said, at least Wilson never believed Fid's words, "You can definitely treat us as partners."
He has now passed the area where many foreigners are hawking their wares.
The further you go in, the more magnificent the buildings become, and the more advanced the architecture becomes.
Compared to the stalls we just passed by that looked like they would be blown away by the dust in the next second, the buildings we saw after going deeper looked much more solid.
But the aliens stationed nearby were no longer thin in the upper body, and were fully armed.
"Do you have this kind of ore on your planet..." Wilson held up the terminal that Fed had given him earlier and asked the aliens who had already pointed their weapons at him, "Do you have this kind of ore?"
After seeing the pictures displayed on the screen, the expressions of those fully-equipped aliens began to become alert.
"Don't understand the universal language?" Wilson raised the terminal and this time directly projected the ore he was looking for.
"Enough!" The leading alien roared at Wilson in his half-fluent universal language. To intimidate him, he fired his laser gun directly at Wilson's terminal. "We don't know where you're from, or how you learned all this... but this is the end of it!"
"We'll send you to an interstellar prison!"
The tall female insect stared at the wreckage of the terminal on the ground for a while, then raised her head and slowly smiled at the aliens who surrounded her: "Thank you."
"Even begging for mercy—" The leading alien reacted. He was stunned for a moment, and the frequency of his tail slapping the ground slowed down a lot. "…What did you just say?"
……Thanks?
Could it be that this guy was frightened by their weapons?
"My Lord, we can have a good chat now." Wilson said with a smile.
"Try to delay this for as long as possible," Arisa, who was sitting on his shoulder, reminded him. After a while, as if suddenly remembering something, Arisa asked again, "...By the way, haven't I seen you in your complete insect form yet?"
It would have been possible, if Wilson had not taken him away from the battlefield.
But then again, if he had not been taken away from the battlefield by Wilson, he might have lived his whole life in a cage slightly larger than the previous one, thinking that he had broken free.
"--Yes." As the female insect's low voice fell, the huge bone wings behind him cast a shadow over the terrified aliens. "So I will definitely delay this for a while."
"So that you can enjoy the show to the fullest."
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