Chapter 5 Chapter 5 An orc riding a warhorse is not necessarily a prince...
Gal still slept in the same bed with Angus.
It’s not that there are no other rest rooms on the battleship, but under the constraints of the slave contract, Angus cannot leave Gal more than 20 meters away.
The orcs who never succumbed to fate also tried, but each time they fainted at the same corner of the passage due to trembling hearts and weak limbs.
Then he was moved back to Gal's rest room by the artificial intelligence Amo.
Finally, after fainting for the tenth time, the beastman accepted the fact that he could not stay too far away from the male insect, and lay down exhausted in a corner of the big round bed.
By the time Angus woke up, the penetrating wounds in his chest and abdomen had fully healed.
The skin was tight and smooth, and the almost fatal wound did not leave any scars.
Orcs are known for their strong recovery abilities, but not to this extent.
Angus touched the knife wound that still existed on the left side of his waist, and then touched his belly which was now as smooth as a swaddled baby.
Could it be because of the contract imprinted by the male insect on his body?
The silver-haired male insect on the other side of the big bed hugged the quilt, rubbing his cheeks against the quilt until they were red. "Well, Lao Liu, why didn't the alarm bell ring? Don't you have classes this morning?"
The male insect kept repeating something about morning classes, the alarm clock, and a name.
A male insect or a student of the insect capital planet?
There was another commotion last night, and Angus couldn't stand the sticky feeling on his body. He turned over and got out of bed, and walked skillfully into the bathroom in the cabin.
The sleeping male insect seemed to be sensitive to the beastman's departure and suddenly opened his eyes.
Oh, by the way, he is no longer on Earth in the 21st century, and he is no longer an ordinary human Gal.
He is now a male insect, Gal, who was expelled by his "fellow countrymen" to the deserted planet D81.
There was a sound of running water in the bathroom. Gal opened the bathroom door and saw a wet man with a bath towel around his waist and bare shoulders walking behind the door.
Gal crashed directly into the blond man's arms, and the man's stone-hard chest muscles hit his head, making him dizzy.
Angus subconsciously held the skinny male insect's waist.
The males of the higher insect race are truly an existence that goes against the laws of the universe. Their bodies are so frail that their waists are even thinner than those of their female orcs. Despite their weak appearance, their biological gender is still male?
"Be careful." Angus released his arms around the silver-haired male's waist only after the male insect stood firmly.
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There was nothing new on the battleship, but there was enough nutrition to keep Gal and Angus fed for more than a hundred years.
Angus has been fighting with the enemy on the battlefield for many years. Saving time on meals can save the lives of many comrades. He is used to the days when he can only fill his stomach with nutritional supplements.
In Angus's opinion, the soldiers fighting on the front line were lucky to have nutritional supplements to eat, and going without food for several days and nights during the war was the least trouble the soldiers could encounter.
Gal, a Chinese who is used to eating delicacies from all over the world, felt that the nutritional supplement in the bag tasted as bad as medicine.
I drank it reluctantly. My stomach was full and my body had strength, but my mouth still felt dry, as if I hadn't eaten anything.
Gal sat on a soft stool and rubbed his stomach, trying to adapt to the days of drinking "medicine" to survive.
"Amo, show Angus and me the information about the D81 deserted planet."
This planet, forgotten by the higher Zerg, has been left unattended for many years, but it still belongs to the higher Zerg after all. The responsible Zerg officials have already packaged up the existing data of D81 and stored it in the main system of the Reda.
Fortunately, the data that Amo lost during the last space earthquake did not include the data of D81.
"Your Highness, there is not much information about D81. It is all here." Amo projected all the information about D81 onto the white wall.
Most of the planet D81 is water, and the land is divided into four continents: east, west, south and north. Each continent has a different climate.
The northern mainland is surrounded by ice and snow, with an average temperature of around minus 50 to 60 degrees Celsius, making it difficult to adapt to living outside a temperature-controlled room.
The southern continent is extremely hot, with rain only coming every few years. As the ground temperature is over 60 degrees Celsius, very few lives can survive, and it is not suitable for settlement.
The situation in eastern mainland China is complex. There are rainforests, deserts, and sulfuric acid lands where even the soil contains acidic substances. The good thing is that, precisely because the environmental conditions are relatively complex, some places are still suitable for living.
Western Continent is a continent under volcanoes. There is a volcano every few kilometers. Most of these volcanoes are active volcanoes, a small number are dormant volcanoes, and even fewer are extinct volcanoes. In short, the air is full of the smell of sulfur.
Of these four continents, the most suitable for development and survival is the Eastern Continent, which is where Gal and his friends are now.
"Have these continental plates always been like this?" Gal looked at the boundaries of the four continents and felt that they looked familiar.
"Your Highness, this is all the data Amo has stored."
No matter how smart Amo is, it is just a machine made by intelligent creatures and can only speak the rules set by the system.
Gal thought he must be overthinking it, and after looking carefully, he had no impression of those patterns at all.
"Is the detection robot on the battleship operational?"
It is not a good idea to stay in this limited space for a lifetime, and the plan to develop the barren planet cannot be delayed any longer.
"Your Highness, all the detection robots are ready. The development area I calculated for you is the one marked in red." The map is centered on the location where the battleship landed and extends one hundred kilometers in all directions.
Except for the rocks that Gal brought back Angus yesterday, all other unexplored areas in this area are dangerous.
Angus, who was unable to get more than twenty meters away from Gal, also put on protective clothing. He got a warhorse-shaped mechanical weapon from somewhere.
On this desolate planet, there were no orc soldiers chasing him, no civilians spitting at him, and no officials trying to force a confession out of him.
Here, he had to live with a male of a different species. Although there were some unpleasant things between them, the male insect still respected him for the time being.
"Come up."
Angus moved a little behind his horse, wearing a white armor-like protective suit, like a handsome medieval knight, and gracefully extended his right hand to Gal.
Gal also knew that on this planet full of unknowns, following Angus was the safest choice.
He placed his hand in the man's palm, which was wider than his. The world was spinning, and Gal was inexplicably riding in front of the warhorse.
Gal's body was too thin, and the tall orc seemed to have him completely enveloped in his arms.
Fear of the unknown and the knowledge of survival made Gal not bother about the posture between him and the man. At least the support behind him could give him enough sense of security.
Five detection robots were dispatched this time.
These small, crustacean-like robots are able to change their shells and disguise themselves according to the environment to complete their tasks of detecting the environment and collecting data.
The landing location of the Reda was very close to the rocks. After the five small robots passed through the rocks and entered a forest filled with various huge green trees, their outer shells turned green and they dispersed about five meters in front of Gal.
This is what alien planets are like.
There are plants here too, but each of them is several times larger than a human being. Not far away, a towering tree reaches into the sky, and its trunk is covered with umbrella-shaped plants that are almost as big as a human head.
Deformity. This was the first word that popped into Gal's mind.
"Amo, are all the plants on this planet this size?" Gal asked the robot that had transformed into combat mode and was following him.
"There are also large plants on the capital planet, but the plants on this barren planet appear to have been caused by radiation. We have to wait for the previous data to be transmitted back to the system and for a detailed analysis to be completed before we can get the results."
There was a detection robot ahead to lead the way for them. Under the command of Angus, the warhorses walked steadily in the wild grass that was half a person's height.
Maybe it was because Gal missed home too much, but in his eyes, this forest reminded him of the mountains in his hometown where he had traveled before.
But the strange desert stone forest behind him and the strange plants in the forest told Gal that this was definitely not his hometown.
The detection robot collected samples of each plant, and except for a few plants that spewed out some unknown liquid, the danger of alien creatures attacking them that Gal had expected did not occur.
"Are we going back now?" Feeling that they were heading in the direction they came from, Gal looked back at the forest full of vitality reluctantly.
"The planned detection work has been completed. The sun is expected to set in half an hour. The danger of the deserted planet at night is almost doubled. The Reda is the safest place."
Gal raised his head and saw a dazzling ball of light in the sky still staying right above the forest. It was clearly the sun at its peak.
Seeing the male insect's puzzled expression, Angus explained, "There are hundreds of solar systems in the universe, and countless planets orbiting the sun. Each planet has different comprehensive conditions, and the time of day and night is also different."
"I used to live on a planet where the night lasted only four to five hours, and most of the day was daytime. The working hours were long, and the rest time was short."
"Then how long can you sleep a day? Is it enough for you to rest?" Gal turned around and saw the blond orc's muscles bulging out of his armor.
Angus tightened his arms, fearing that the male insect twisting in front of him might accidentally fall.
For an orc, falling from a height of more than two meters would only mean rolling a few times and getting some skin broken.
If it was a male insect that fell, it would probably lose its arms, legs, waist, or even its neck.
"Orcs have strong physiques and fast metabolism. Most male orcs only need two to three weeks of sleep. Female orcs need longer sleep, but only four or five weeks at most."
It's really true that comparison makes one feel depressed. Angus only gets so little sleep a day, yet he can still grow so tall and strong.
Look at him again...it's simply unbearable to look at him.
"Angus, can you teach me how to exercise?" It's better to find a teacher than to exercise on your own.
The beastman glanced at the male insect's thin body and commented, "It's time to exercise."
"Well, let's start tomorrow, shall we? Do you want to help me come up with a training plan? Don't worry about my ability to bear it, just decide according to your ideas."
"The training method of orcs may not be suitable for higher-level insects. I need to analyze your physical data and then formulate a training plan."
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The blond beastman and the silver-haired male insect rode on the same mechanical warhorse, chatting with each other in tacit understanding, like old friends who had known each other for a long time.
Soon, the two returned to the edge of the forest.
Gal looked at the rocks beneath the yellow sand in front of him and couldn't imagine that this desolate desert and the dense jungle were actually neighbors separated by a line.
Under Angus's control, the mechanical warhorse marched towards the center of the desert. Gal suddenly widened his eyes and straightened his body.
He saw it, he seemed to see three or five humanoid creatures behind the dense forest, seemingly watching their every move.
"What's wrong?" Angus felt the male insect's limbs suddenly stiffen.
"Nothing, I'm hungry. I'd better go back and eat something." Gal shook his head as if nothing had happened.
Perhaps it was a sequelae of the fact that his human soul and the body of a higher-level insect race had not yet been perfectly integrated.
The forest was behind him, not to mention Angus was standing behind him. Even if he had eyes in the back of his head, he couldn't see what was going on in the forest.
Have a good sleep when you get back.
Gal comforted himself in this way, but his head turned towards the forest for some unknown reason.
Not sure if it was because of his eyesight or the wind, but Gal saw the leaves of a plant half a man's height shaking.