Bart's expression became excited as soon as he saw the video cover.
His eyes widened, and he couldn't help but loosen the pheromone-suppressing ring around his neck with his fingers.
"The number of people is not right, haha, three female insects and one male insect sir. Could it be that the author has unlocked a new pose again?"
Bart's head is full of nonsense right now.
Although no real insects appeared in the short video, only two-dimensional paper figures.
However, influenced by games, he also quite likes anime characters.
Bart quietly turned around, distancing himself from his teammates, and switched to solo viewing mode.
At the beginning of the video, there was no sound; only a silver-white steel base appeared.
The walls were rusty and covered with signs of re-welding.
The metal plates were rusted to varying degrees and also had some oil stains.
Several crooked mechs and unfinished aircraft shells lay scattered on the ground.
The video's comments section was filled with mocking remarks.
—Which base is this? Can't they even afford S76 steel?
The welding technique was also unprofessional; the rusted metal plates should have been discarded long ago.
—Damaged mechs, broken aircraft, why not draw our Third Protection Legion's base?
Like the comments on the screen, Bart thought the same way, his eyes filled with criticism.
Suddenly, a voice came from the video.
"Sir, could you teach me that song?"
"OK."
"Then I want to learn too."
"I want one too."
The camera pans forward, passing countless pieces of metal debris, until four main characters, identical to those on the video's cover, appear on the screen.
The male insect sat on a low, worn-out sofa.
The three female insects sat cross-legged on the dirty carpet, at your height.
The male insect hummed a little tune, his clear, melodious voice ringing out:
"I wish I could become the angel you love in a fairy tale."
The three female insects followed suit and sang a line, but they were all tone-deaf. As they sang, they burst into laughter, laughing so hard they almost fell over.
But the male insect on the sofa nodded encouragingly:
"Well sung, keep going."
Self-deprecation is a way to defuse awkwardness. With your encouragement, they gradually stopped being embarrassed and started to get serious.
"I've forgotten how long it's been since I last heard it..."
A deep, gruff voice rang out, accompanied by a change in the visuals.
The monster invasion that Han Ling personally experienced was transformed into an animation, realistically depicting the event.
To protect the male insect's safety, the three female insects, despite clearly seeing the Whisperer in the level seven beast tide, still chose to go out and fight their way out.
Knowing there was no chance of survival, they did not flee, but returned to the base, intending to risk their lives to protect you as you left.
Upon seeing the open fifth storage room, they asked no questions.
Upon seeing the strange beast following them, they, who had no ability to fly, jumped down without hesitation.
The moment they fell into the horde of strange beasts, their bodies were covered in metallic threads, which then melted into a pool of liquid.
Then, the butterfly's sharp wings emerged from its cocoon.
"I want to become the angel you love in the fairy tale..."
When the song ended, Bart was crying like a fool.
He heard silence fall around him again.
"Sir, did I sing well?"
"It sounds nice."
"Sir, do I sing better than him?"
"Bullshit, I'm the best singer!"
The video ended amidst the playful noises.
Han Ling wished this was just a song, that they would still live in the base, and perhaps fifty years later, they would leave, transforming into butterflies without any regrets.
Bart seemed to sense this emotion as well, and he burst into tears, his eyes blurred with uncontrollable sobs.
Although he tried to hold back his tears, his rough voice, like that of a slaughtered pig, still caught the attention of Avery behind him.
Avery quickly put away his personal terminal, walked over curiously, and patted Bart on the shoulder.
"Captain, why are you crying? Is it because I ignored you earlier?"
Bart grinned widely, crying and cursing at the same time:
"You shit! Did you hear what I just said?"
Ive looked troubled: "Captain, you have to understand me. I'm watching the plot, I don't have time to answer your questions."
Bart handed his personal computer to Avery:
"See for yourself, don't ask me, I don't want to talk to you at all right now!"
Then Bart hid further away and continued to cry.
This time, the crying carried a touch of personal emotion.
He didn't even receive any comfort from the male insect. His 4 million credits went down the drain. Compared to those three caterpillars, he was in a completely different predicament.
Behind him.
While secretly chuckling at the captain, Avery curiously clicked on the video.
Four minutes later.
The two burly men hugged each other and sobbed.
Bart shouted:
"I'm so miserable! No one likes me; they hate me the moment we meet!"
Upon hearing this, Avery cried even louder:
"I'm even worse off. I've never seen a male insect in all my life!"
On the day the video was released, many tough female insects shed their first tears of life.
Many female insects watched the video over and over again.
He was venting emotions that had been building up for decades.
The video quickly went viral on StarNet.
This sparked widespread discussion on StarNet.
— Waaaaaah, I just got my first UR card in the game "Charge! Top Male Insect Lord" and happily quit the game when I saw this new video. Waaaaah, it's a real blow to my head, it made me cry!
—I finally got a holiday and was just about to go out, but I ended up watching this video repeatedly all afternoon and crying all afternoon. My eyes are swollen to the size of walnuts. Why didn't anyone tell me that crying makes your eyes swell? I don't want to go out anymore.
—Waaaaah, I've learned this song, and I sing it better than those three caterpillars, but no male caterpillar is there to encourage me!
Because the main subject of the video was a caterpillar, it quickly attracted the attention of this group.
Because caterpillars are destined to die, most of them leave school after only six years of education.
Their lives are short, and in such a short time, most caterpillars are destined to achieve nothing.
They don't want to waste their short lives working, because even if they exhaust their lives, the credits they accumulate won't be enough to apply for a date with a male insect.
Most caterpillars choose to live on borrowed money, waiting to die and turn into a pile of nutrients.
The debt can be settled by the newly formed Butterfly Clan, which will also help them vent their anger.
A small number of caterpillars, wanting the butterfly race to pay a higher price, have turned to crime, just like Mingzhe and his group.
After watching this video, many caterpillars wrote their own stories in the comments section.
—In interstellar space, there will always be villains, and we, destined to die, are born evil. I am a caterpillar, just like the three in the video. Let me explain the questions raised in the video comments.
The base was dilapidated because those steel plates were actually salvaged from discarded materials from various legions.
The unprofessional assembly of aircraft and mechs is because we haven't learned enough.
The base is dilapidated and dirty because our lives are short, and we don't want to waste time cleaning, unless we're obsessive-compulsive.
I know that many caterpillars, like me, have turned to crime in order to take revenge on the butterfly clan.
But I still want to say that I will not take on pest control jobs again from now on.
Thank you to the author for letting me know that even the death of a caterpillar can cause people to feel sorry for it, and for showing respect for death and for life.
I hope that before I die, I can accumulate enough credits to exchange for a date with the male insect.
I also want to find someone to protect me.
In this way, my death might be more meaningful.
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