Chapter 119 The Root of Another Sorrow
This discovery made Bai feel an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Sub-females and female insects are essentially female insects, but the congenital degeneration of sub-female wings makes them lose the ability to fly and strong physique, and their fertility is also weakened to a certain extent.
But fate is always fair. Although the sub-female lost the ability to fly and her strong physique, she did not suffer mental outburst like the female insect and eventually exploded and died.
The sub-female's spiritual sea is not broad, so the mental power fluctuations are small. Even if there are fluctuations, the sedative is enough to calm them down. Therefore, the sub-female has a clear brain that all female insects envy.
This also makes the sub-females occupy a relatively important position in all walks of life, which is something that female insects with healthy bodies can never achieve.
Because thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, the male insects who made the laws were afraid that long-term oppression would cause the powerful female insects to rebel, so they gradually eroded the positions of the female insects in various cutting-edge fields except the military.
Replace these positions with male insects and sub-females that are brainwashed little by little.
In fact, if the sub-females were not afraid that the females would discover their purpose too quickly, they would not have had a chance.
However, in this way, the female insects also lose the opportunity to work in important areas.
However, because the sub-female insects are not as good as the female insects in terms of physical health and fertility, they are suppressed by the male insects physically, mentally and spiritually, and become the male insects' accomplices.
Ultimately, all important technologies in the empire were controlled by male insects, making the situation even more difficult for the sub-females and female insects, who were originally in the same predicament, and were constrained in every way.
How ridiculous! They were originally the closest group and suffered the same fate, but they were divided internally. Although Bai had known about this situation for a long time and had experienced it too much, he still felt uncomfortable every time he encountered it.
Heartache, anger, disappointment, sadness and a hint of regret all surged into his heart, so complicated that his mouth was full of bitterness.
But who should be blamed for this situation? The male insects?
We should blame them, but the male insects weren’t like this in the beginning, were they?
After the male insects became weak, the female insects initially had the idea of keeping the male insects in captivity, and many high-ranking officials and the public secretly carried out the action.
This resulted in the death of male insects one after another within the empire over a three-year period. For a time, all the male insects in the empire were panicked, fearing that they would be the next to die.
Later, this incident was exposed, and it was discovered that if the male insect was depressed or did not want to have children, the female insect would not be able to become pregnant. In order to protect the male insects and reproduce offspring, the Male Insect Protection Act was enacted.
In fact, if it were not for these objective factors, the mere fact that male insects can soothe the female insects' mental power and that high-level male insects can suppress the female insects' mental power would not be enough to suppress the female insects from treating the male insects with courtesy.
Bai knew that the male insect would sooner or later become the prey of the female insect, and the dilemma faced by the male insect was probably even worse than that of the female insect.
Because these are things that the male insects have proven with their lives and blood.
This is the bad nature of their Zerg race, and the male Zergs also take advantage of this, abandoning those male Zergs with low mental strength and allowing such male Zergs to be bullied by female Zergs, thereby easing the conflict between males and females.
It was also because of this that President Bai, who initially followed Marshal Ai You and learned about this history, was confused.
He would wonder if the female insects had not done that back then, would they not be suffering so much now?
If the law gradually tilts towards male insects and even relative fairness cannot be guaranteed, will female insects not lose their due rights if they do not give in?
Have the male insects thought of this a long time ago and are so fearless? They and the female insects are obviously of the same species, so why do they insist on "killing" the female insects after the female insects have realized their mistakes and made concessions everywhere and have gained so many rights?
Ai You discovered Bai's change, and called Bai to her side. She listened to his confusion with gentleness and tolerance, and patiently comforted him. From that day on, Bai let down all his guard against Ai You.
Ai You: "History is history because it cannot be changed. So what we can do is look back at history without getting lost in it, and extract the essence from it, quoting the good and learning from the bad."
"History cannot be changed, but the present can be altered. Female insects made mistakes in the past, so the law to protect male insects was enacted. The subsequent gradual concessions made by female insects are all changes made by female insects."
Ai You looked at Bai, who still looked very young at the time, with a gentle smile in his eyes. "Now it's the male insects who are wrong. What we need to do is to make them change and learn from the lessons of history the previous two times. Never let one side enslave the other again. Otherwise, if it happens again, it may be the empire's demise and our race will be extinct."
"It's not easy to achieve these things. Those in power need to suppress their desires, deal with various pressures, and be smooth but tough. This may take several generations of efforts to achieve. There is a long way to go, Bai..." Ai You patted Bai's shoulder, stood up and left.
Bai still remembers the look that teacher Ai You gave him, the comforting tone he used, and the weight of the hand that rested on his shoulder.
From that day on, he began to have a different perspective on the issues between men and women.
Later he discovered that many male insects were not hopeless, and not all female insects hated male insects from the bottom of their hearts. In many places, male insects were also oppressed.
Bai then understood that the problem was not gender, but the root of the problem - the indulgence of desire, the lack of checks and balances on power, and allowing pests to hold power.
But the more Bai knew, the sadder he felt.
Now, millions of insects are growing up under such deformed laws and the rule of pests. It is extremely difficult for them to stay straight.
The male insects that bully the female insects, the female insects that vent their resentment of being bullied on the lower-level male insects, and the many insects like Helunda who work hard for the research institute are all microcosms of the thousands and thousands of crooked insects.
Sighing secretly, Bai looked at Helunda pitifully, then looked at Silang standing in front of Helunda. Bai's determination became even stronger. He must change this deformed society and let the new generation of insects thrive in a normal environment.
No longer looking at Helunda whose face was distorted, Bai lowered his head and concentrated on sending a message to Nan Qi. At this moment, the closed door opened, and Nan Qi, who had changed his clothes, walked in with Sli following him.
He just strolled up to Helunda so leisurely, which made Helunda's face change suddenly and his eyes widened in an instant.
Because at this time Nan Qi was wearing a snow-white coat with the five words "Imperial Research Institute" embroidered on the chest of the coat. Above the five words was an exquisitely embroidered logo. When He Lunda saw this logo, his face suddenly changed and his eyes widened instantly.
The embroidery looked like a small deformed leaf, or a simple heart shape.
The tail is sharp and upward-curved, like a scorpion's tail, while the head is flat with thin lines standing out from the whole, making it look a bit messy.
The embroidery is bright red, with black messy lines that stand out from the whole. The whole thing looks like a pierced heart or a nailed scorpion.
Simple yet very recognizable.
Nan Qi seemed to know that he and Lunda would have such a reaction. He slowly pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the cautious, rigorous and ascetic temperament of a scientific researcher came over him.
And because he was looking at Helunda with his eyes lowered, his ascetic temperament was mixed with an indescribable pride and a hint of inexplicable gaze.
It was as if everything was the same in his eyes, unable to evoke any emotion in him, which was very different from Nan Qi's usual cheerful and reliable image.
Even Bai was in a trance for a moment.
He seemed to really see it, in a trance, in a science fiction movie, in that scientific research environment where all the insects were rushing in and out, there was a proud and emotionless scientist who was calm and composed, as if he couldn't pay attention to anything except what he cared about.
Bai suddenly felt a surge of fear. Although Nan Qi was right in front of him, he felt as if he were a million miles away from him, untouchable, invisible, and about to disappear at any moment.
But this fear only lasted for a moment. The next second, from an angle that he and Lunda couldn't see, Bai saw Nan Qi wink at him mischievously. The indifference in his eyes turned into a startled cheerfulness, and in an instant, the fear in Bai's heart was completely shattered and blown away, leaving no trace.
Retreating to the safe environment that Nan Qi created for him, Bai You was in the mood to guess what Nan Qi was planning to do with this outfit.
Nan Qi wanted to give Helunda an illusion - using Sli and Slang, a pair of insects that were truly produced by the research institute, to create the illusion for Helunda that "he was being held in the research institute."
He Lunda was a ghost planted by the research institute in various schools. Ghosts must be afraid of tigers. In this situation, He Lunda didn't dare to lie at all in the afternoon.
As for the white coat on Nan Qi, it should have been left by Pu Bo. However, Bai had some impression of the logo on the chest, but not much. He should have seen it on the researcher when they went to rescue Carter.
It was amazing that Nan Qi could remember such small details at such a critical moment, otherwise He Lunda would have almost discovered the flaw.
All I can say is that Nan Qi is very good at using all the resources around him to achieve his goals. This ability requires not only a meticulous mind, but also flexible and bold thinking, good acting skills, and a big heart, and he will not feel guilty or embarrassed because of role-playing.
Bai couldn't help but sigh that Nan Qi really brought him surprises. Every time he thought he knew Nan Qi well enough, Nan Qi would always give him a new surprise.
Bai felt that Nan Qi was like a book that he would never finish reading, but the underlying tone of this book always revealed gentleness and strength.
Nan Qi didn't know that his sudden inspiration made his image even more majestic in Bai's heart.
He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses to show off, coughed lightly, and saw with satisfaction that Helunda's pupils shrank, and his eyes no longer had the previous provocative look of Slang, but became a little evasive, and it was obvious that he was guilty.
It's interesting that one of the top ten employees who worked hard for the institute, forced himself to live in a shabby rental house, and was scolded for pretending to be working was guilty when he met his "superior".
It seems that Helunda may know much more than he can know with his identity. Some of them have been interrogated, Nan Qi thought.
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