Chapter 117: Forced to Move Forward

Dozens of photos were piled together and thrown in front of Colin.

There were too many of them, some scattered around the bed, some fell to the ground. In the photo, the female insect with its eyes gouged out was facing the camera, two bloody holes deep enough to reveal the bone, and it stabbed into Colin's eyes without a care.

"Colin, look at them. Do they look familiar?" Morris' eyes lit up. "There are female soldiers from your legion here. They followed you to the battlefield, and this is what happened when they came back."

Colin was a little stunned. He picked up the photos in front of him and flipped through them one by one. He was slow at first, but as he flipped through the photos, his breathing became faster and faster, and he made a lot of noises as he flipped through them.

The faces of the female insects in each photo were different. After they died, all the useful organs in their bodies were taken away, and those parts that were similar to Ryan, such as eyes, ears, nose bridge, fingers... were all dug out or chopped up directly.

Colin's eyes stopped at one of the photos. The female insect in the photo had her ears cut off, gray hair and silver eyes, her lips were pale, and her face was obviously pale.

This was a young female soldier who had followed him back from the battlefield, and Colin remembered him.

This child was always at the forefront of the battlefield. In the last war, he was seriously injured and forced to retreat from the front line.

Colin later found out that his family was in debt. The only way for a military female to get bonuses in the military was through military merit. He joined the army for three years and spent two years clearing out alien beasts on the deserted planet.

Colin felt sorry for the child. He paid off his debts and often took him out for training.

Because Colin had been in contact with him too often for a period of time, Sean also knew him.

Sean also knew him...

Colin felt a chill deep in his bones. He stared at the photo in his hand, bloodshot eyes that stung his pupils.

The military heroine he nurtured was ultimately ruined by him.

"...Morris, I don't know why I am like this." Colin closed his eyes, frowned, and his face showed some unspeakable pain and unwillingness. "After my father died, I kept running... I ran for a long time and was exhausted. Sean gave me a bowl of water at that time."

Morris leaned back in his chair and looked at him.

Colin's lips trembled. After a long while, he finally found a sentence from his almost blank mind: "...In return for saving my life, I will repay you with my body."

Morris: "..."

"Really? Then why did you run away when Sean wanted to strangle you?" Morris pulled the corner of his lips apart, his eyes turned cold, and he continued, "You should have let him kill you."

Colin sat on the bed. His pure blue eyes flickered, and the complicated past flashed before his eyes, stimulating his mind and causing a sharp pain.

"...Morris, why did you choose Adrian?" Colin raised his head, stared at Morris, and laughed. "Aren't you the same as me?"

After Morris's right eye was injured, the Insect King planned to marry him off to a higher-ranking male insect. The male insect selection was still uncertain at the time, and it was Morris who took the initiative to ask Edrien to be his male master.

For Colin to let a male who was still pursuing other females become his master, Maurice was hopeless in Colin's opinion.

"It's different. I know what I'm doing, but do you know what you're doing?" Morris approached Colin, picking up the photos one by one, and lowered his voice. "Edrian is different from Sean."

Colin sneered as if he had heard something funny, and said nothing.

Adrian and Sean are similar but different. But in Colin's opinion, Adrian is not entirely pure.

"I know what you're going to say." Morris glanced at Colin, who casually arranged the photos and put them aside. He continued, "He does have problems. He has a bad temper, is calculating, and is a troublemaker. It takes a lot of effort to raise him."

"But I'm not that good." Morris lowered his eyes. "When I first fell in love with him, I knew he was like this, and I liked him like this. But what is Sean like? Do you really know?"

Colin unconsciously clenched the photo in his hand: "I..."

There were footsteps coming up the stairs outside the door. The volume was not loud, but the female soldier had sharp hearing. Colin and Morris looked at each other and kept silent.

A few seconds later, the door of the room was pushed open without warning.

Adrian stood at the door, his white hair sticking to his ears, his green eyes were narrow, his pupils darting into the room like a hawk, his expression unchanged, looking inexplicably gloomy as he stared at the two female insects inside.

"How long are you going to stay in there? If you have anything to say, come out!" Adrian frowned, and his eyes passed over Colin, becoming even more unhappy. "Hurry up."

Morris stood up, and just as he walked to the door, he was pulled out of the room by Adrian.

"Do you know what time it is? It's almost twelve o'clock! Do you still remember me?" Adrian locked the door and put all the keys in his pocket.

Morris glanced at the empty table below and understood the situation: "Sorry, Lord, I thought you would let the little robot cook for you."

Adrian's eyes widened. "Ah? I bought this robot to let you slack off? You are really becoming more and more lawless."

Morris: "..."

"Master, I'm preparing lunch for you now, what would you like to eat?"

The anger on Adrian's face had not subsided. He was unhappy for a while and named a few dishes.

"Okay." Morris kissed his cheek. "Give me ten minutes."

After he finished speaking, he disappeared into the kitchen. Adrian stopped at the staircase, turned his head to look upstairs, and then looked away again.

Colin was still in the same room as before.

After Morris left, Colin picked up the photos again and flipped through them, memorizing the appearance of the dozens of female insects and the various circumstances in which they died.

He seemed to feel the pain spreading from the photo. The brown scar around his neck ached slightly, reminding him of what happened to him not long ago.

[Colin…]

Colin heard the faint sound of mosquitoes and flies beside him. He leaned against the wall like a statue, not even turning his eyes to the side.

The pink ball's body shrunk by more than half its size, and the numbers on its data card kept decreasing, now reaching single digits.

[Colin, I'm sorry. I couldn't be with you. Sean...]

"You're trying to say, he loves me, right?" Colin suddenly stopped flipping through the photos. He tilted his head back, revealing the ugly scar on his neck.

[I……]

The pink ball floated in the air. It was imprisoned in a cage during this period of time, and it began to doubt certain things during the continuous crashes.

Colin doesn't love it, so he can imprison it so recklessly. Similarly... Sean doesn't love Colin, so he can do whatever he wants to Colin, even wanting to kill him to eliminate the trouble forever.

"Xiao Ai, you don't understand anything." Colin lowered his head, and his love value dropped a little bit again, to the extremely low number three.

Colin closed his eyes, his face was calm, and his tone was filled with impatience: "Get lost."