Chapter 20
"Is that Marshal Celtic?"
"The Marshal just arrived at the capital planet yesterday, right? It's rare to see the Marshal at auctions. Is it for the Beatles mech?"
"It shouldn't be. According to custom, on the first formal date, the female insect needs to give the male insect a valuable gift. The royal male insect princes all have blue eyes, and today's auction item, Eternal Fall, seems to be a blue gemstone."
"Doesn't that mean the marriage with the Second Prince is a done deal?"
Amidst the whispers around him, Dick, thanks to the excellent hearing of the S-class female soldier, heard them clearly. The news must have already spread; indeed, the marshal's public appearance was a statement in itself.
Dick shifted his gaze to the marshal beside him. In the private room, the marshal leaned back on the sofa, his hands, gloved with black military gloves, quickly tracing military matters, without giving a single glance to the auction on the stage.
Yes, for the marshal, the male insect was merely a means of prolonging his life, not an outlet for emotional attachment.
"The following item comes from planet Y795, a beautiful planet completely covered by oceans, also known as the Sea of Sinking because any living creature that falls on the surface will sink!"
"And our auction item is the core of the Sea of the Dead! A treasure collected from the bottom of the abyss at a depth of 10,000 meters! Legend has it that the moment it left the Sea of the Dead, a three-month-long underwater collapse occurred, and since then, the Sea of the Dead has been unable to sink any creature!"
"This is a precious object possessing mysterious power; any creature that catches its eye will be captivated by it..."
The auctioneer continued to tirelessly introduce the wonders and legends of this beautiful stone.
Dick thought to himself with a blank face that the collapse was most likely due to improper construction work, and that he was trying to avoid punishment from the Empire by blaming it on a mysterious force. He also thought that the disappearance of gravity was because the long-term collapse had disrupted the balance of the seabed.
This stone is probably just an ordinary, pretty stone. Female insects have no interest in these things; only male insects are drawn to these beautiful but useless objects.
After a long wait, the bidding process finally began.
The auction started at 20 million Star Coins, and soon insects were bidding.
"I'll offer thirty million!"
Forty million!
Forty-two million!
Dick, with a cold face, did not intend to compete with these insects at the beginning, and the bidding speed only began to slow down when it reached fifty million.
Dick looked around and held up the sign: "Sixty million!"
"Lieutenant General Dick has offered sixty million. Is there a higher offer?"
After a moment of silence, just as Dick was about to wrap up, he suddenly heard a hesitant voice: "Sixty-one million!"
"That troublesome fellow," Dick was about to raise the bid when he suddenly heard Yuan's calm voice behind him: "One hundred million."
The auction bug immediately shouted excitedly, "Marshal Celt has bid one hundred million! One hundred million! Is there a higher bid?"
The entire arena fell silent; no sound could be heard. Celtic's patience had run out, and he delivered the final blow.
The auction bell rang, and the auction came to a successful conclusion.
The auctioneer excitedly delivered the item to Marshal Celtic's private room, bowed to express his admiration for the marshal, and finally opened the exquisite wooden box himself, allowing the marshal to admire the expensive gem.
It's beautiful.
The only thought that comes to mind for any insect that sees it is this:
Its deep blue base tone is surprisingly clear and transparent, as if it contains the flow and secrets of the entire ocean. Yes, it lives up to its name; any insect would fall for it and be immortalized.
Celt immediately thought of a pair of eyes, a pair of clear, deep blue eyes. He closed his eyes slightly and reverently kissed the hideous insect-like monster inside the underground building.
It's strange, Hill's eyes are clearly emerald green, so why would he think of Hill first?
The marshal's large hand rested on the exquisite box, his cold, gray eyes revealing no emotion.
The auction bug continued its effusive praise: "This is absolutely the most beautiful gem in the empire in the last hundred years. I guarantee any male bug lord would love it—"
He exaggeratedly swore: "It's any male insect—"
As they left the auction house, it was already completely dark. Dick turned on his communicator and whispered, "Marshal, the Hessen family has invited you to a banquet the day after tomorrow. They hope to host a welcome dinner for you on behalf of the Second Army."
"As the head of the Hesen family, His Highness the First Prince will also participate."
Celtic stepped through the hatch, the wind whipping against the hem of his military uniform, yet failing to stir any emotion: "Refuse."
“Okay,” Dick replied.
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First warship.
[At the auction, the marshal spent a fortune to purchase eternal damnation, suspected to be a gift for the Second Prince]
The latest from StarNet.
"Why did Big Brother invite the Marshal too? Doesn't he already have a Queen and five female attendants?" Curled up in the blankets, Hill anxiously inquired about news from the capital planet. It had been five days since the Marshal had been away.
Bright paused for a moment, then couldn't help but speak up: "Hill, wake up! Aside from you, no male insects are eyeing the Marshal. They're only afraid that the Marshal might go berserk and tear them to shreds, okay?"
The Second Prince has already refused the marriage by using his own genetic problems as an excuse. Isn't that enough to make you realize the truth?
"I feel that His Highness Nathaniel invited the Marshal just to sabotage the marriage alliance, since the First Prince has never been fond of you and the Second Prince."
Hill was about to retort that the Marshal was clearly a good person and would never lay a hand on the male insects when she heard this, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
Hill's female father, now the Insect Emperor, is a fierce female warrior who has five offspring in her lifetime, including three male and two female offspring.
In the Empire, female and male insects are arranged separately, so Hill is also known as the Third Prince.
Nathaniel, the eldest brother, was the first offspring of the female father, so she doted on him. However, due to her busy work schedule and arguments with the male father, the female father neglected to discipline him, which gradually fostered his overly irritable and crazy personality.
About twenty years ago, after a long and complicated relationship, the female and male fathers reconciled and, in the final stage of their reproductive period, jointly gave birth to two offspring, namely Prince Sirius and Little Hill.
Because Little Hill was born at the end of the Insect Emperor's reproductive period, his health was very poor, and he had been recuperating in the Holy City.
Nathaniel was always proud to be the only male of the royal family, and he originally thought that several female brothers would be born at the end of the matriarch's reproductive period. The birth of Sirius and Hill enraged him.
About five years ago, Hill went to Nuka to recuperate due to health reasons, and Sirius also went on vacation. Coincidentally, Nathaniel was hunting a Pegasus and forcibly conscripted most of the nearby guards.
As a result, the Star Beasts took the opportunity to attack. If the Marshal hadn't arrived in time, Hill and Sirius would have been killed and nearly eaten by the Star Beasts.
After this incident, the father severely reprimanded the eldest brother, who then grew to hate Hill and Sirius even more.
"The two female princes' brilliance has been completely overshadowed by the marshal. Even a discerning insect can see that the marshal's marriage represents the military. The second prince's repeated refusals don't seem like he wants to compete, but the eldest prince won't care about such things."
“Actually, I feel that the Marshal is more interested in competing for it…” Bright said worriedly.
The marshal was ambitious, and even though he knew that the Second Prince rejected him and did not like him, he still insisted on pushing forward with the marriage. This was probably not just because of the Second Prince's status as an S-class male insect.
The prince has a bunch of female insects, so many that the positions for female servants are almost overflowing. He likes to abuse female insects, and he is arrogant and conceited, with a terrible reputation.
Little Hill hasn't even completed a second advancement, and doesn't even have the formal marriage qualification in the Zerg, leaving only the Second Prince.
If this is the marshal's wish—
“Hill, you…”
beep beep—
The personal computer started beeping.
Hill lowered his eyes, unwilling to listen any longer, and quickly hung up the communication: "It's almost time to communicate with the Marshal, we can't have the line busy!"
Bright: "......."
I've wasted my breath talking.
Hill buried himself under the covers, preparing to meet the Marshal. How can a long-distance relationship strengthen its bond?
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At 10 p.m., after finishing work, Celtic turned on his personal computer and sent a video invitation.
Then the call was disconnected.
This was the first time the young male had hung up on his invitation, and Celtic couldn't help but frown.
Is the male insect angry?
So they sent a second and third attempt, which were all rejected. After that, they directly opened the military's encrypted communication channel and began monitoring the starship.
Under the cold white light, the little male insect was curled up in a small nest made of the marshal's clothes, surrounded by dark blue fabric, tightly curled up into a ball.
Her emerald-like eyes were tightly closed, a section of her fair waist was faintly visible in the dark fabric, her wrists were wrapped with circles of blue-black scraps of cloth, and she was biting a piece between her moist lips and teeth, her saliva already soaking the black-blue military uniform fragments.
"Um... Marshal..."
The marshal immediately recognized it as a piece of military uniform that he had casually torn up during their second time in bed. He never expected that the little male had secretly hidden it.
The piece the little male insect was holding in his mouth was the spot where he wore his medals on his chest, and it was also the spot on his chest. The piece tightly wrapped around his waist was his military uniform jacket.
The marshal's throat bobbed slightly. He didn't bother to remind the whimpering little male insect, but instead unbuttoned his uniform, turned on the holographic projection, and aimed it at the handsome face of the virtual projection.
However, it wasn't until much later that he realized that the spot the little male insect was holding in its mouth was not only the area on his chest, but also the location of his heart.
Author's Note:
Hill: Every move was meticulously planned [pity]. Seducing the marshal was something she did effortlessly [pity].
The marshal is a real beast; he thinks of attacking anyone who's unhappy. [eating melon emoji]
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