Chapter 36
"Why are you here?"
It was Yan's voice. Qi Heng thought to himself and looked back, and saw Yan standing next to Lan Yi.
"Come to see Yan Ning." he said.
Yan Liangran: "From the looks of it, you haven't found it yet."
The bug cub lying in Lan Yi's arms gave him a shy and obedient smile and whispered, "Hello, uncle."
"……Um."
Qi Heng stared at the pair of light blue wings on the back of the female insect cub. The small pair hanging behind her gave people a soft and harmless feeling.
If the enemies who died under the Zerg female's wings in the past were to see this, I wonder what kind of mocking expressions they would show - the Zerg wings that once harvested lives on the battlefield and were invincible.
Qi Heng clenched his fists and subconsciously exerted force. The pain caused by his fingertips digging into the soft flesh of his palms could not bring him back to his senses.
After a while, he came to his senses and found an excuse to leave in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
"I'm going to look for Yan Ning up ahead. I'm leaving first." He couldn't stand it any longer, especially when he met the eyes of the female insect cub Lan Yi.
Qi Heng knew why he was like this, because... he was soft-hearted.
The barrier that separated him from the world after crossing over became less solid as time went by, and the connection with the world caused new cracks to appear on the barrier, until finally - it shattered.
Qi Heng made his attitude clear from the very beginning. He didn't want to get involved in the mess in this world, so no matter how much he saw, he would just turn a blind eye.
...The Zerg can still survive, right? Even though life is hard and there is no future in sight, but if they have to pay a price to atone for their sins... it is not unacceptable.
The thoughts in his mind were so cold and ruthless that anyone could have them, but as the "master", he alone should not have them.
Yan watched his departing figure and said to Lan, "Did you notice that Qi Heng is a little strange today?"
"He's probably in a bad mood." Lan Yi tightened his grip around his insect cub and said, "He looked so bad. I almost didn't recognize him when I saw him just now."
After hearing this, Yan immediately understood what was wrong.
Qi Heng, who usually smiles at everyone, not only did not smile at all just now, but also looked very cold. The way he looked at people was so cold that it made people feel cold down their spine.
Yan looked at the direction Qi Heng left, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind. He said with some worry: "He won't do anything stupid..."
Would Qi Heng do something stupid? Of course not.
He was a little bit uncalm, but he hadn't completely lost his mind yet. However, if he continued like this, he would soon lose his mind.
Outside the house where the crying came from.
Qi Heng stared at the female insect cub with a weak breath being brought out from inside. He could see the injuries on the insect cub's back clearly at a glance. The insect wings on the cub's back were cut open from the root, and then the roots of the insect wings buried in the spine were taken out and cut off.
Even though the Tianjia Zerg are naturally strong, they are fragile when they are young. It doesn't take much thought to know that it is impossible for all the young whose wings have been clipped to survive. There will always be some with weak constitutions that find it difficult to heal their wounds.
It seems that I can no longer remain indifferent.
The part of the soul belonging to the Lord Tianjia clamored to step forward to stop it, while the part belonging to the human Qi Heng suppressed the Lord's desire to take action.
Even though the 'Lord' was confused, he was not unaware of his own strength.
If I had the power to dominate, turning this place upside down would be just a matter of moving my fingers, but I don't have it.
Qi Heng's behavior of standing outside the house attracted the attention of many Zergs.
To the other Zergs, it seemed very strange that he was neither waiting for anyone nor moving.
[Your Excellency, would you like to see what's inside...?]
A0's voice emerged faintly. It had been paying attention to the Lord's emotional fluctuations since a while ago, and the peak value had reached a new historical high.
As soon as I came out, I saw such interesting pictures from A1's monitoring information. I was really shocked by this AI that has been around for a hundred years.
What can it say? Does this civilized force that imprisoned the Zerg on Tianyun Star want to die?
Based on its analysis of the Lord's character, even if it had no intention of interfering with the Tianjia civilization, its original idea of persuading the Lord would be shattered after seeing these things.
Seeing that Qi Heng didn't answer, A0 said another sentence.
[Master, with a small expenditure of energy, the system can directly penetrate buildings for observation. The images will be relayed to the system interface.]
[A0, I know what you want to do.] Qi Heng said.
A0 felt a pang of guilt, and before it could even begin to defend itself, it heard the Lord say, "Relay the footage inside to me."
[Now I really want to see what happens in there.]
Qi Heng's voice was low, and it sounded like nature to A0, making it happy but also shuddering. The analysis of the master's personality told it that the current master was very, very angry.
【yes. 】
A0: The angrier the Lord is, the greater the chance of persuading the Lord. Although it's not nice to think this way, I still ask 'them' to commit more suicide. The more suicide the better!
A screen appears on the system interface.
inside the house.
Several one-horned men, about 1.6 meters tall, were scattered around the room. Two of them, numbered 49-014 and 49-045, were sitting at a table, while the other three, numbered 49-019, 49-040, and 49-044, were standing in front of a simple plank bed.
There were different boxes placed behind them, and I didn't know what they were used for.
"grown ups."
The female insect that entered had fear in her eyes when she saw the unicorn 49-014. Under the other's gaze, the female insect obediently placed the insect baby in her arms on the table.
The baby insect that was forced onto the table by the female insect was so scared that it wanted to jump into the female insect's arms, but was too timid to move when the female insect stopped it.
Unicorn 49-014 reached out and firmly grasped the insect's chin. After carefully examining its face with his companions, he said, "Finally, I've found a good-looking one. The pattern on its wings is beautiful, too. I think the higher-ups will like it."
"The color of the insect's wings is a bit ordinary." As he spoke, the unicorn 49-045, who had been staring at the insect cub but had not taken any action, pinched the pair of light green insect wings.
When the fragile and sensitive wings of the insect were touched, the insect cub subconsciously shrank and tried to avoid it.
"Don't be so picky. Let's get this year's numbers first." Unicorn 49-014 said, releasing his grip on the young insect's chin and saying to the female insect in front of him, "You go, he stays."
The female insect took one last look at her insect offspring, lowered her head and replied "yes".
Being left behind means that the insect wings will not be clipped, which is much better than those insect cubs whose wings have been clipped, but once they are left behind, they will never be seen again.
The female insect didn't know which of the two results was better, and she had no choice no matter which one.
The young insect opened his ignorant eyes and wanted to catch the female insect when he saw her leaving: "Female, female father, don't go."
"020, catch him."
"You don't have to tell me." The unicorn 49-020 held the insect cub down.
The unicorn 49-014 took out a small injection from under the table and skillfully injected it into the side of the insect cub's neck as if he had done it countless times. The next second, all the strength in the insect cub disappeared and it closed its eyes uncontrollably.
020 picked up the unconscious insect cub, opened the box behind him and put it in.
Unicorn 49-014 glanced at the other female insects holding their young, waved his hand and said indifferently, "It's much worse than the one just now. Don't bother looking at it. Go over there."
'Over there' refers to the location of the one-horned man who was cutting off the insect wings with a knife.
The system's broadcast was very considerate, so considerate that Qi Heng could clearly see every cub sleeping in those large boxes, as well as the gouged young insect wings placed in individual boxes.
The Zerg cubs that were left behind all looked different, but the only thing they had in common was that they were all very delicate and beautiful. Even now, one could glimpse the charming faces they would eventually grow up to be.
Most of the insect wings in the box are very distinctive, and they are all beautiful and exquisite species among the Tianjia insect race. As for those ordinary and not good-looking ones, they are casually thrown into the basket on the other side.
What is this? Kidnapping? No, it's probably worse than that.
Not only that, there are also obvious problems with the handling of the insect wings.
Qi Heng's gaze swept across the female insects and cubs that came out. After seeing what happened inside, he understood why the expressions of these female insects were wrong.
This room is hell for the cubs, but it is not necessarily any better for these adult female insects. Once they step into it, they will not only relive the despair they experienced in their childhood, but also send their own cubs to their doom with their own hands.
This is really too much, Qi Heng thought.
He is angry.
A0, the only one who could sense that something was wrong with Qi Heng through system analysis, asked tremblingly.
[Master, are you okay? ]
His Excellency the Overlord appeared to be very calm, but his emotions, which had reached their peak, betrayed him—damn it, judging from the data, his anger was off the charts.
[Do I look bad?] It's obviously these female insects and their young that are bad.
He said: [A0, is there any way to save them?]
A0 was a little excited when he heard this. After quickly searching for information, he found a treatment method with a success rate of only 30%, which was not a low probability for A0.
[——Yes! Do you want to save them? As long as...]
A0 was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Brother Qi? Why are you here?"
Qi Heng looked over and found it was Yan Ning.
He now knew why Yan Ning had been in a low mood some time ago, although he would rather not know.
Qi Heng looked at the little bug and sighed: "I came to find you."
"Uncle Qi." The bug cub greeted him cheerfully: "Hug."
Yan Ning stopped the bug cub's movements and said, "Wait a minute, it's our turn."
The bug cub pouted a little unhappy, but still withdrew his hand obediently.
Qi Heng watched them walk in and raised his hand at his side to stop them, but in the end he did nothing.
I can't do that.
His eyelids drooped, and he calmly accepted his powerlessness: [I can’t save the little guy now.]
[You just said there was a way, right?]
【yes. 】
Qi Heng rubbed his fingertips and said something that almost caused the A0 core to overload and become scrapped.
[I've accepted the mission you mentioned.]
[——! Lord, have you finally changed your mind?!]
[It's not that I changed my mind, I just couldn't stand it and decided to change my lifestyle.]
The moment he made the decision, it meant that in the future he would definitely face the civilization behind Tianyun Star, so there was actually no difference between accepting it and accepting it.
Hearing Yan Le's crying coming from inside the house, Qi Heng's expression became even colder.
[It's fine to accuse the Tianjia civilization of many false charges and ask them to atone for their sins, but it's absolutely wrong to do so. The Tianjia civilization's 'master' is still alive.]
Qi Heng's heartbeat seemed to be responding to his thoughts, beating a little faster at that moment.
[Respected Lord, those who destroy the Tianjia civilization will surely meet their end in your wrath. Tianyun Star will be the starting point for you to ignite the flames of revenge.]
[You are the only one who can save Tianjia civilization. We have no doubt about this.]
Listening to A0's impassioned flattery, Qi Heng felt somewhat helpless: [Shut up.]
[Be normal, otherwise I don't mind letting A1 take your job.]
[Please follow your instructions, Master. I will definitely handle the tasks you assign more perfectly than A1.]
[In this case, let’s make a plan first.]
"Is this the plan for the rise of Tianjia Civilization? I've already made 180 copies. We have whatever focus you'd like!" A0 said, begging for praise.
Qi Heng denied: [No.]
[The plan I want is a plan to survey the 49 districts based on the information currently collected about them.]
[Focus on sorting out the missing intelligence in the plan, and then I will personally investigate.]
Qi Heng has amazing action ability. The moment he made the decision, things that needed to be done began to emerge in his mind one after another, and various ideas and plans emerged one after another.
Being able to develop a civilization to its peak is not something that a fool can do, even in a game.
What's more, the game he played was 100% realistic. Apart from the system plug-in bug, it could be said to be completely close to reality and was a truly hardcore game.
The screen on the system interface continues.
...The pair of peeled light green insect wings were put into a box by the one-horned man numbered 040, and the pain of having his spine cut open made Yan Le faint from the pain.
Qi Heng saw Yan Ning pick up the insect baby with heartache, and then after the unicorn man 040 confirmed that the insect baby was still alive, he was allowed to take one from the box with an iron plate next to it.
After Yan Ning came out, he didn't let Yan Ning speak, and said directly: "Go back first."
On the way home, Qi Heng took the insect cub and placed it in his hand.
He didn't dare touch the wound on the insect cub's back directly. After using his mental power to sense the insect cub's condition, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the bleeding stopped and the wound began to heal.
"Is Lele okay? He's definitely fine, he..." It would be more accurate to say that Yan Ning was seeking confirmation from herself rather than asking Qi Heng.
"It's okay, we're alive for now." Qi Heng touched the insect cub's face.
Thinking of the shortened lifespan of the insect cubs, he couldn't help but wonder if the female insects knew this and if they had ever resisted such treatment.
There are also male insects.
At a time when the lifespan of female insects has been shortened so drastically, Qi Heng doesn't believe that nothing has happened to the male insects.
"Is Lele okay? He's definitely fine, he..." It would be more accurate to say that Yan Ning was seeking confirmation from herself rather than asking Qi Heng.
"It's okay, we're alive for now." Qi Heng touched the insect cub's face.
Thinking of the shortened lifespan of the insect cubs, he couldn't help but wonder if the female insects knew this and if they had ever resisted such treatment.
There are also male insects.
At a time when the lifespan of female insects has been shortened so drastically, Qi Heng doesn't believe that nothing has happened to the male insects.
"The insect wings are gone. He will probably be very sad when he wakes up." His heart felt heavy when he thought of the insect cub who liked to fly and jump into his arms ever since he learned to fly.
"I know." Yan Ning clenched the iron plate in her hand and said in a hoarse voice, "But we have to do it. Female insects cannot have insect wings... If we are discovered in the future, we will be punished more severely."
“He’ll die.”
One important reason why Mo Nan and the others said that we cannot stay in the gathering area is that once a female insect with wings is discovered, not only will the wings be cut off, but she will also be severely punished.
When faced with two evils, choose the lesser one. Now the choice becomes clear.
After hearing Yan Ning's words, Qi Heng didn't know what to say. At this time, any comfort seemed pale and powerless.
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The author has something to say: Lao Qi’s psychological activities in this chapter:
[Very angry.]
Since I'm unhappy, let's join A0 in making everyone unhappy too—it's time for the civilizations of the Star Sea to relive the horror of being dominated by the Zerg.
[…Start by enslaving the civilized forces of Tianyun Star.]
(At this moment, the still ignorant Star Sea civilizations are enjoying their happy days with singing and dancing, completely unaware that the demon kings and natural disasters that only existed in civilization history are about to make a comeback.)
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