Chapter 11: The night is long, longing for the dawn
Both parties were very satisfied with the meal, and Arnold agreed to help Nan Qi monitor the Brave Game store.
Although Carter was reluctant, he still stayed with Nan Qi. When Nan Qi started to participate in formal competitions, he served as Nan Qi's assistant.
On the way back, he muttered that Nan Qi was too confident. What if he was eliminated in the first round of the rematch? He still hired an assistant. He really had too much money and had no place to spend it.
Arnold stopped and turned to look at Carter, with a smile in his voice: "Carter, you actually like Nan Qi very much, right?"
"I didn't." Carter said stubbornly.
Arnold walked up to Carter, put his hands on Carter's shoulders, bent his knees slightly and looked at Carter at eye level:
"Carter, you've never been one to take advantage of others, but on your way home from get off work the day before yesterday, when everyone was around, you asked Nan Qi where he mined the high-grade black crystal. Do you really want to know where the black crystal is? Or are you trying to remind Nan Qi in this way?"
Carter looked away, not meeting Arnold's gaze. "He stayed at our house for seven days, and you were the one who took care of him. He left as soon as he was well, but he didn't repay us. Let me ask what's wrong."
When Arnold saw Carter like this, he knew that he had guessed correctly. He smiled and gently ruffled Carter's hair: "You, if you do this, Nan Qi will misunderstand you."
"It's just a misunderstanding, I don't care about him." Carter muttered.
Arnold didn't say anything else. Carter was kind and liked Nan Qi. He didn't have to worry about making Carter uncomfortable by leaving him with Nan Qi.
After ruffling Carter's hair again, Arnold put his arm around Carter's shoulders and said, "Let's go home."
"Well, let's go home. Brother, you can eat chocolate now."
"Eat. I will work harder to earn money and buy you delicious food in the future."
"Brother, you are so nice."
Under the starlight, the two brothers walked towards home happily, not noticing that in the shadow of the big tree behind them, Nan Qi was leaning against the thick trunk with a slight smile on his lips.
"I'm really lucky~"
That night, Nan Qi competed with three sparring partners in the game, which further confirmed his suspicion that Lunk might be a military insect member, and then he stopped training for the day.
After logging off, Nan Qi returned to his room, took a shower, and went to the official website to watch videos of various high-level duels and professional competitions.
There is a professional league for the Valorant game, which is well run and has many galaxies participating.
Of course, it is different from the current competitions where both amateurs and professionals can participate, but all they have to do is start with registration and preliminary rounds. The professional league is more formal, with dedicated clubs, and the players include both female and male insects, but there are not many male insects.
Those who can become professional players are all masters. Nan Qi learned a lot of fighting techniques and routines in this world from their videos, and his understanding of this world has also deepened.
After watching the game video for a while, it was already past one in the morning. Nan Qi patted his face, suppressed his excitement, and forced himself to sleep.
Probably tonight, the group list for the rematch will be released. All players will be divided into 10 groups, and they will also start the BO1 points-based elimination round within the group.
The top 10 in each group advance to the top 100 of the galaxy, and then the top 100 are divided into four groups again to start a new round of points elimination. However, this time it is no longer decided by one game, but by two out of three games.
In the end, the top two teams in each group will form the quarterfinals, and then draw lots to compete in pairs to determine the top four, and finally the champion, runner-up and third place.
The entire competition lasts three months, which is not a long time, but it also means that the first round of semi-finals will be very intense, after all, there are quite a few shortlisted players.
After the top 100 are decided, the competition will not be held at their homes, but on the central planet.
In this way, Nan Qi could, for the first time, walk out of Porter Star openly without being restricted by his identity and go to the most prosperous central star of the Zerg to see the world.
After turning all these around in his mind, Nan Qi finally felt sleepy and closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
At the same time, the light in the study of Bai Smellide's residence on the Central Star was still on.
Bai was watching the video playing on the desktop computer while writing and drawing on paper.
When he wrote the last stroke, the Star Brain beside him suddenly rang. It was Mellon.
As soon as the call was connected, Mellon said anxiously, "Bai, those guys are targeting you again! You should pay attention to your diet and other things recently. If they can't force you directly, they will definitely use tricks behind your back."
The guys Mellon was referring to were the Male Insect Protection Association, the highest-ranking members of the royal family, and his political enemies in both the military and political circles who wanted to control and frame him.
Because the Zerg's fertility rate has hit a new low in the past century, the Zerg's mandatory marriage age has been reduced from 65 to 45.
Bai is only 60 years old this year and is the youngest admiral in the history of the Zerg Empire.
He holds military power and is of civilian origin, so he has great influence among the civilians. All parties are keeping a close eye on Bai's marriage.
Because of Bai's outstanding military achievements, interstellar law cannot force him to marry, and there are no male insects on the main brain side that are more than 90% genetically compatible with him. The various forces cannot force him openly, but they have often used covert means.
Over the past few years, Bai has been repeatedly targeted. They have fought back fiercely on numerous occasions, but the interests behind this have driven them to take down Bai at all costs.
Last month, Bai was ambushed in the military headquarters and a strong aphrodisiac was poured into the water.
If it weren't for □□'s powerful divine power and the fact that he wasn't blinded by the drug, Bai would not only be facing forced marriage, but would also be charged with the crime of forcing a male insect.
Once this crime was brought out, even if Bai was an admiral or a hero of the empire, she could only marry the male insect he "forced" to be her female servant.
In the empire, except for the female monarch, any female servant or insect servant will be branded with the shameful "stigma" and can be bought, sold, abused and beaten by their male lord. Even if Bai is an admiral of the empire, he cannot escape such laws.
In that case, Bai would move among the male insects and become a tool for them to give birth to high-level insect cubs.
It's sad and ridiculous.
He was clearly a hero of the empire and had clearly protected the empire's insect people, but in the end, he was plotted against by these high-ranking insects who were wary of him. Sometimes, Melon really wanted to kill all these bad insects.
But what would it matter if they were all killed? Without the comfort of the males, the females wouldn't survive long. The reproductive instinct etched into their genes prevented them from truly making such a choice, and—
Moreover, if they start a war, they may not be able to kill all the male insects.
The empire's finances, agriculture, technology, weapons development, etc. are all controlled by the male insects. In addition, there are female insects who have been domesticated in their minds for thousands of years.
I have to say that although these male insects are not physically strong, they are quite smart.
They started planning when the male insects first showed signs of weakness. After some older female insects reacted and resisted but failed, they are now in a situation where they are unable to resist.
Unless they can one day take control of these and awaken those female insects whose minds are controlled, it will be possible to reverse the current situation. Otherwise, those female insects will become the first sharpest knife to stab them.
Moreover, even if the problem of these female insects is solved, the star beasts outside the galaxy are waiting for their internal chaos so that they can take advantage of the opportunity.
By then, they will just be jumping from one fire pit to another.
It’s not that many female insects don’t understand, but compared to having their entire family be held captive by star beasts, and eventually being humiliated and killed by them, they feel that staying alive is the most important thing.
Even if the Zerg started an internal war and the Star Beasts took the opportunity to sneak in, it was only a possibility, but they felt they could not afford the price of that possibility.
Ultimately, they are not strong enough.
Bai was so patient and secretly planned just to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity that could truly resolve the female insect's current situation.
Even if they still died in the end like their predecessors who rebelled before, at least they provided valuable experience for the female insects that came later.
But the night is so long, when will they be able to wait for the dawn to come?
After calming himself down, Mellon continued, "We've received reliable intelligence that their methods this time will be even more ruthless, intending to destroy you directly. Pu Bo will come to see you tomorrow. He'll bring you some antidotes or something like that. Remember to carry them with you."
Bai nodded: "I understand."
"That's fine," Mellon was about to hang up when he suddenly remembered something and asked, "I heard Lily say you didn't take your medicine today? Did you find something wrong with it, or—"
"The medicine is fine." Bai lowered his eyes, looked at his hands, and said calmly, "My spiritual sea is relatively calm today, so there is no need to use medicine."
"Well, just control it yourself," Mellon sighed. "If you use it too much, you'll become addicted. I really can't believe this dependence is a side effect of the drug. It must be those guys who did it."
"Mellon." Bai Dandan called out.
Mellon said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I won't say it anymore. Don't worry, I won't get used to it and say it out loud. I'm already grown up."
Bai then gave up and let Melon rest.
Before hanging up, Bai said softly, "If you're still lazy about sparring tonight, come with me to the training ground."
"What!?" Melon was shocked, wishing he could jump out of the screen and merge with his own holographic image. Then he shook Bai's shoulders frantically and yelled at him, "Don't slander me!"
Unfortunately, he couldn't get out, nor did he dare to shake his white shoulders and yell wildly. He could only explain bitterly, "It's not that Peggy and I are lazy, it's just that the male insect is too cunning. He's too agile, and he seems to be observing and imitating us."
Bai: "Not too stupid."
Mellon: “…”
"My request is that you don't hold back your strength and try your best to force him to use his abilities." Bai's voice was neither too loud nor too low.
"Okay, I get it. You can't kill bugs in the game anyway. You should get some rest early. You haven't fully recovered yet."
"Well, you should rest too."
After the two insects said good night to each other, Bai took the initiative to hang up the call.
He didn't need to rest, but instead clicked on the video of the battle between Melon and the male insect and started watching it.
Soon, there was no sound in the study except the sounds of fists and feet coming from the desktop computer.
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