Golden compound eyes
"Her Majesty Alyssa!" Gabriel and Sevier wanted to go over and help the poor insect queen up, but a thicker front leg forcefully blocked their steps as they ran towards Alyssa.
"Ryan Warlock!" Gabriel yelled, "Put down His Majesty!"
However, Ryan turned a deaf ear to it. He seemed to have not yet regained his consciousness and was acting only on instinct.
“Mammy, I, I’m fine!” Alyssa struggled to push aside her wet hair that covered her face. “He won’t hurt me!”
Just now, when she fell into the water and her emotions fluctuated violently, she seemed to have come into contact with Ryan's spiritual world.
Ryan raised his front paws, his black compound eyes like convex mirrors protruding from his shell. Although Alyssa couldn't find the focus of the Zerg's compound eyes, she could clearly feel that Ryan was looking at her.
She struggled to stand up, crawling along Ryan's front paws like a kitten, and finally reached the huge wound next to Ryan's eye.
Alyssa raised her hand, and Vio, who was standing by the pool below, couldn't help but remind her, "Your Highness! Please note that only your mental power should touch the wound to avoid being corroded by the contaminants in the wound!"
A small, tender snail tentacle emerged from the tip of Alyssa's raised right index finger. It swayed like a drunkard staggering, swaying for a while before finally resting on the gray flesh exposed by Ryan's wound.
As soon as she connected, Alyssa felt a strong wind blowing towards her. She subconsciously closed her eyes and realized that the wind was from Ryan's spiritual world.
Ryan's mental world was a hemisphere. The dark blue night sky sat like a hemispherical pot lid, resting on the solid earth. In the center of the land stood a number of bare, seemingly lifeless trees. A closer look revealed numerous rips in the sky. Strong winds and thunderstorms, part of the rifts in space and time, rushed through them relentlessly, ripping the trees' foliage everywhere.
Alyssa's frail body couldn't withstand the strong wind, and she was blown uncontrollably towards the edge of the sky. She thought she would crash into the sky, but she was like a cloud of mist, easily passing through it.
The moment she passed through the sky, Alyssa was ejected from Ryan's spiritual world. The last time she looked into Ryan's spiritual world, she saw her spiritual tentacles resting on a crack in the sky.
"Her Majesty Alyssa!" The three Zergs waiting below shouted anxiously as they saw Alyssa's body collapse. It was difficult for them to break through the defenses set up by their strongest fighter, Ryan, especially since Ryan was still in his original form.
Fortunately, Alyssa quickly waved her hand, indicating she was still conscious. Gabriel breathed a sigh of relief, but Sewell and Vio's expressions only grew uglier. Male insects could more acutely sense the scent of blood, mingled with the pheromones of the insect mother, spreading through the air.
Alyssa lowered her head and secretly wiped away the dripping blood with her sleeve, then turned her back and shouted to the people below: “I’m fine! I already know what to do!”
The hole in the sky corresponds to the wound on Ryan's body. If she repairs the wound and the sky, the strong wind in Ryan's spiritual world will no longer blow!
Alyssa held her breath and stretched her mental strength again and again until it became a thin line.
The Four Arts Studio once invited a female embroiderer to teach them needlework and embroidery. When she first started teaching them, she had a stern face. Later, upon learning that they had never left the Four Arts Studio as far as they could remember, the embroiderer remained silent for a moment, then smiled self-deprecatingly, "We're all miserable people. Why should I be so high and mighty in front of you?"
Then the elder sister treated them very well. She was well-informed and would tell them a lot about the latest happenings in the world. One story that particularly impressed Alyssa was that the doctors at Xinglin Hall could sew on human bodies.
At the time, the other sisters didn't believe it, saying that sewing on a human body would be excruciatingly painful. The embroiderer sister said, "Do you know what kind of patients need sewing? They have punctured intestines! If you don't sew them up, their intestines will spill out onto the floor. With such a large wound, how can they even feel the pain of a needle?"
She can also do needlework.
She is now in Zareen, so he shouldn't feel any pain, right?
Alyssa stretched her mental power into a thin thread, controlled the thread end to harden, and then twisted the needle and thread condensed from her mental power and stabbed it towards the obvious tear in Ryan's head.
The moment the needle of spiritual power pierced the soft flesh beneath Ryan's carapace, the massive, mountainous beetle trembled violently. Miraculously, almost every piece of its chitinous carapace rose up, but the foreleg carrying the mother insect remained steady.
Alyssa didn't notice Ryan's reaction. She had entered a state of ecstasy. If a bug could have seen her face, they would have seen her eyes, a brilliant gold, split into countless tiny facets. Each facet reflected Ryan's insect form from every angle.
——This is a pair of perfect, golden Zerg compound eyes that can hunt with mental power in all directions without blind spots.
Alyssa's fingertips guided a thin line of spiritual power across Ryan's tender flesh. Alyssa's vision was split into two worlds: reality and Ryan's spiritual world. The tightening of the line closed Ryan's gaping wounds and repaired the shattered sky.
Sewing is a delicate job, and Alyssa's fingertips inevitably come into contact with the residual contaminants that have condensed around the wound. Like sliding tofu into a pan of hot oil, a fine sizzling sound echoes, and a hard crust immediately forms on the surface of Alyssa's fingertips.
——It is a layer of Zerg chitinous epidermis that corrodes the surface layer of human skin and immediately repairs itself.
The stench of blood grew stronger, even Gabriel could smell it, but she dared not move. A vast, unprecedented spiritual power spread throughout the treatment chamber, and the three Zerg present had already knelt on the ground. The Zerg Mother's spiritual power, like a gel, bound them tightly. They could do nothing but kneel in submission and awe before the Zerg Mother.
The wound on the head was repaired, and Alyssa patted Ryan: "Send me to the next wound."
Ryan raised his upper jaw, and Vio, who understood what Ryan meant, looked up: "Your Majesty Alyssa! Let's stop here today! You...you shouldn't use your mental power too much! We can rest for a day..."
"I can't rest." Alyssa turned her head, revealing her golden compound eyes. "The tree... the tree is dying..."
Golden compound eyes!
Gabriel's entire body was trembling. Golden compound eyes! According to historical records, only the original insect mother had eyes like these!
The words of Her Majesty Aimiah echoed in Gabriel's ears once again: "This child is the hope of the Zerg..."
Sewell noticed something was amiss with Her Majesty Alyssa. Her golden compound eyes were unfocused, seemingly meeting their gaze, but the Worm Queen's gaze was actually focused further away. A thin line of golden-red blood trickled from Her Majesty Alyssa's nose, but she seemed oblivious, simply mumbling, "Hurry up... The tree's dying..."
"Your Highness, Alyssa! Please stop!" Ryan's intention to stop her was clearly less intense. Seville leaped over Ryan's forelimbs, his massive wings instantly unfurling as he effortlessly soared above Her Highness. Seville, disregarding etiquette, reached out and lifted Alyssa, only then realizing how light the Worm Queen was.
"The tree is dying... Send me to the next wound..."
"Your Highness, please stop!" Vio yelled, "I promise you, I will cure Ryan!"
The insect queen, who appeared and disappeared between the wings of the phantom butterfly, tilted her head slightly: "You... don't listen to me?"
“……!”
Gabriel and Vio knelt down again in the direction of the Worm Queen.
At once, many complicated thoughts raced through Sewell's mind. He shouted to the two insects below, "Lord Gabriel! Lord Vio! Please trust Her Majesty Alyssa and let her do what she wants!"
Sevier carried Alyssa to the wound on Ryan's back. When he saw that Alyssa's hand was corroded in order to use mental power to sew the wound, Sevier yelled at Vio to come up and help.
Vio came tumbling over, medical kit in hand, and helped Alyssa smooth out the shattered flesh around her wound. He then had Sewell pour a powerful healing agent over her hand. As the powerful agent touched Alyssa's wound, tiny bubbles rose in layers, each burst of foam flakes off the chitinous surface. Even a doctor who had performed countless amputations and laparotomies like Vio's was grimacing, yet Alyssa seemed oblivious.
No, perhaps she was not unconscious. The blood from her nose flowed more violently, and her entire chin, neck, and front were covered with golden red blood.
At this moment, Alyssa possessed a beauty that made even insects tremble. The air was filled with the insect mother's pheromones and the sweet smell of blood.
Vio said to Seville, "No, Her Majesty Alyssa's gonads are not fully developed. She can't release pheromones so recklessly! Quickly give her some male insect soothing pheromones!"
"Me?" Seville couldn't believe it. It was a crime for a male insect to release inducing or soothing pheromones to a queen insect without permission, because a queen insect that had been soothed would be more inclined to choose the familiar male insect pheromones when choosing a husband in the future.
"What are you hesitating about? If you don't take it, I will!"
Seville didn't waste any more words and transformed back into his original form. An eight-meter-long phantasmagorical butterfly crept over the Worm Queen and Vio, its large wings flapping. Soothing pheromones, along with scale powder, splattered down. Alyssa's uncontrolled pheromones gradually quieted down. Her nosebleed seemed to have stopped.
Vio suppressed the discomfort of being forced to feel another male's pheromones up close. He was horrified by Her Majesty Alyssa's technique.
Zerg don't use sutures to heal wounds. Their chitinous outer shell is either welded or stapled; the soft flesh within is a potent healing and regenerative agent. Adult Zerg possess an astonishing ability to heal themselves. In short, Zerg medical philosophy is: if all this doesn't heal, then die.
Is this even possible? Huh? Using mental power to repair the line?
After three weeks of patching, Alyssa finally saw with her dual vision that there were no more holes in the sky, and there was no wind in Ryan's spiritual world.
There are still a few leaves hanging on the tree that is rooted in the thick soil of the spiritual world.
"The tree... is alive." Her Majesty the Insect Queen smiled a dazzling smile and fainted.
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