Insect-fearing insect queen
Fortunately, Gabriel was not crazy enough to abandon the outstanding elite representatives of two high-ranking families. He closed the hatch only to isolate the radiation.
She rushed into the medical bay and gently placed the Worm Mother on the long-prepared cloud bed. The fabric was made of the finest golden spider silk, soft, light, breathable, and warm. However, even with such a comfortable bed and such restrained force, she still caught a faint groan of pain as Gabriel lowered the unconscious Worm Mother to her bed.
Lord! Gabriel's eight eyes were about to shed tears. Poor Her Majesty the Insect Queen! What kind of suffering must she have endured to be so fragile!
Emotionally, Gabriel wished she could live at Her Majesty's feet forever, spending the rest of her life carefully caring for this newborn, displaced, alien world, and suffering so much. But rationally, Gabriel knew it wouldn't work. She wasn't a professional, and the medical officer who was was still outside the ship.
They must leave the Chaos Star Region as soon as possible and return to the main ship of the Saint Hobel Palace, where there are complete facilities that can provide better care for Her Majesty the Insect Queen.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for leaving you temporarily." Gabriel knelt on one knee and quickly performed a chest-touching salute to the unconscious insect queen on the cloud bed. Then he ran to the operating table, and his six hands flew up and down. An alloy mechanical arm extended from the side of the small motorship and firmly grasped Ryan, who was lying on the ground with his stomach turning over.
Gabriel's voice came over the ship's external speakers: "Violet! Get in! A magnetic storm is expected in this area of the Chaos Star Region in four minutes!"
Upon hearing this, Vio no longer cared about applying the medicine evenly. He immediately injected the powerful healing agent in his hand into the largest wound on Ryan's body. He also gave him two injections of rage factor that could maximize his vitality, and then rushed into the cabin with the medical kit.
"Brother, this is all I can do. I hope you giant fork deep mountain stag beetles can survive long enough in the outer space environment." Vio dusted off his body and ran to the cloud bed of the insect mother.
The motorship took off, dragging a giant forked mountain stag beetle larger than itself, its entire flank sinking several dozen centimeters. Fortunately, everything in the Saint Joseph Palace was top-notch, and the motorship quickly regained its balance and headed towards the boundless universe.
Li'er felt like she had had a long dream.
In her dream, she returned to Siyi Zhai, the small room she usually lived in. The small courtyard and the small patio were the whole world she could see.
She lived in a large dormitory with her four sisters. Her sisters often praised her for being cute and kind, braided her hair, and gave her treats.
There's only one thing the sisters don't like about her, she attracts too many bugs.
Whenever she sat down under the patio porch, countless butterflies, dragonflies, ants... would swarm around her.
These were fine, but when she went to her sisters to present her treasures with longhorn beetles, beetles, mantises, big spiders, etc. in her hands, her sisters would often scream and ask her to throw them away.
The sisters said, "Li'er! How dare you take something like this?"
Things like this... what's wrong with that? They won't hurt her.
The sisters said, "How can a girl tease these bugs? We girls are naturally afraid of bugs!"
Ah...is that so?
She threw the bugs far away. Her sisters wiped her hands with handkerchiefs and said, "You're so dirty! Don't touch those bugs anymore! If I see you catching them again, I won't play with you anymore!"
Okay, sisters, Li'er will never catch bugs again.
So Li'er also learned it and followed her sisters, screaming in fear for the cicadas falling from the trees, the centipedes jumping out of the corners of the walls, and the spiders hanging from the eaves.
Insects are so scary. Li'er is most afraid of insects.
The old memories gradually faded like a yellowed old scroll. Li'er felt difficulty breathing. She seemed to be wrapped in something and was walking in the dark and narrow corridor.
Outside, there was a violent wind and terrible noises. The thing that imprisoned her blocked out the storm. Amidst the muffled noises, she seemed to faintly hear someone talking.
"Your Majesty..."
The voice seemed to come directly into her mind, but she couldn't hear it clearly.
"Your Majesty...is safe..."
The constant calls gradually brought her back to consciousness, and she could already feel the light outside her eyelids. She seemed to be lying on some soft fabric, and the burning pain in her back was not as intense.
Then Li'er realized that her back seemed to be naked!
The changes that happened in Jinxiu Pavilion before she fell into a coma flooded into her mind. Li'er screamed and sat up holding the quilt.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty! You are awake!"
Two tall figures immediately approached. Li Er opened her beautiful sapphire eyes, and before she had time to take in the surroundings, she saw clearly the two in front of her -
Gabriel Thorne, a lanky figure standing 230 centimeters tall, dressed in a well-tailored black suit, with pale skin and a neatly slicked-back black hairstyle, was her. Her eight red eyes, symmetrically spaced across her pale face, stared eagerly at the newly awakened Li'er. Other than her eyes, her facial features were devoid of other features. Her three right hands were pressed against her left chest, forming a respectful bow.
Standing 200 centimeters tall, wearing a pale green coat, his inverted triangle face adorned with a pair of silver compound eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. His pink hair cascaded down his shoulders. On his left was a normal human mimic hand, and on his right was a massive, turquoise, sickle-shaped, catching leg. At this moment, as a sign of respect for the Worm Queen, his catching leg was strictly restrained. This was Vio Wright.
Li'er looked at them, opened her mouth, rolled her eyes, and fainted again.
After the previous Worm Queen died prematurely in an accident and the important successor Worm Queen's egg was lost, Gabriel Thorne had nightmares almost every day. However, her most terrible nightmare could not be worse than this one.
The newborn Insect Queen is afraid of her!
She and Vio crouched outside the medical bay, listening to the soft sobs from within, which continued uncontrollably but dared not let out loud. Their anxiety threatened to pierce the alloy floor of the mobile ship. They were certain that Her Majesty the Worm Queen was afraid of them. The moment they appeared, Her Majesty the Worm Queen would curl up, tremble uncontrollably, and suppress her sobs, sounding like some kind of baby mammal whimpering for milk.
Of course, even more obvious evidence was the pheromone of the Zerg Mother that permeated the entire medical bay. That pheromone had changed its tone, no longer the refreshing floral fragrance, but a strange aroma with a bitter undertone. It honestly conveyed Her Majesty the Zerg Mother's current state of mind—fear.
Gabriel futilely tried to cover his eyes. They had suppressed their aggression to the utmost, adopting respectful gestures and friendly expressions. To ensure Her Majesty the Insect Queen didn't understand, they wore interpreters loaded with human voice packs in various languages from the ancient Blue Star sent by interstellar humans.
They spoke softly and patiently explained the whole story, but Her Majesty the Insect Queen just curled herself up in the soft fabric of the cloud bed and cried.
"I can't keep going like this." Vio wiped his face. As a male, he was more sensitive to the pheromones of the Mother Worm than the female Gabriel. The Mother Worm's fear pheromones and Gabriel's anxiety pheromones combined in this small maneuverable cabin. He struggled to maintain his sanity, bearing it all head-on. His mouthparts were practically rubbing sparks in his mouth.
Fortunately, Ryan was not in the cabin, otherwise, after taking two shots of berserker pheromones, he would be stimulated by the overlapping pheromones and degenerate into a madman more terrifying than an interstellar beast on the spot.
"Lord Gabriel, we must calm Her Majesty. She's in very poor condition. We just saw during the external examination that the wing sac on Her Majesty's back is severely deformed. If we allow her to continue emitting pheromones without restraint, her wing sac may suffer irreversible damage."
"I know! I know!" Gabriel roared. Hearing the sudden rise in the volume of Her Majesty's cries, Gabriel quickly switched back to a low whisper. "What if—I mean what if! What if Her Majesty's wing sacs were damaged?"
Vio swallowed hard, swallowing the saliva produced by the repeated friction of his mouthparts. "Then she might...may not be able to reach sexual maturity and give birth to the next insect queen."
As soon as he finished speaking, Vio felt that Gabriel's anxiety information in the cabin had doubled.
"Violet." Gabriel's eight eyes closed, then opened again, flickering with a faint red light. "I demand you swear on your family's honor that what I'm about to tell you must remain a secret to yourself, a secret you will guard for the rest of your life! Never speak of it to a single intelligent being until you are reduced to stardust and return to the embrace of the Primordial Worm Mother!"
Vio swallowed again. He raised his claws and said solemnly, "I swear."
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"Simulation and mimicry!!!???" Vio's voice suddenly rose, and Gabriel stabbed him in the mouth with his poisonous claw.
"Keep your voice down!" Gabriel listened carefully, noticing that Her Majesty the Zerg Queen's breathing, which had been held steady by Vio's sudden shouting, had finally calmed down. Then he continued, "This matter must be kept absolutely secret!"
Vio ripped Gabriel's poisonous claws away. The Internal Affairs Officer had shown mercy, not injecting much poison. Vio rubbed the wound twice, and the Zerg's superior self-healing ability healed the wound. His trachea in his abdomen swelled rapidly as he silently digested the information contained in this bombshell Gabriel had dropped.
Lord, behold! Her Majesty the Zerg Queen, has been finalized with this mimicry? Their Zerg race's most honored Zerg Queen, will from now on assume a fully human form?!
This form is not even as high as his chest!
Of course, even from Vio's perspective, this form was beautiful. But the Zerg were a race that revered strength and adhered to the laws of the jungle. If Her Majesty the Zerg Queen continued in this mimicry, she would inevitably be looked down upon by the military Zerg, whose brains were no match for her fists.
Of course, a Zerg Mother didn't need to personally fight on the battlefield. Weak mimicry wasn't a big problem. As long as she had strong mental strength and could play the role of a Zerg Mother soothing the Zerg, these high-ranking families would firmly support her. Having inherited thousands and tens of thousands of years of family history, they understood the importance of Her Majesty the Zerg Mother to the entire Zerg race even better than these newly emerged military Zerg factions.
But this Zerg Queen didn't seem to have strong mental strength. She had been crying non-stop since she regained consciousness. Vio almost suspected she was formed from the spring water of Saint Joseph's Palace. He and Gabriel were already relatively weak mimics among the Zerg, yet the Zerg Queen was so frightened. Facing the roughnecks of the Military Zerg who could silence the cries of the larvae, the Zerg Queen's fear pheromones would surely detonate the entire Saint Joseph's Palace!
To make matters worse, her wing sacs were underdeveloped!
A worm queen who mimics humans, is delicate, fragile, and afraid of insects, may not even be able to give birth to offspring.
Vio's baby face had turned completely green, and his silver compound eyes had lost their luster. His anxiety pheromones perfectly countered Gabriel's in the cabin. "So what should we do now?"
"Listen, Vio, the three of us—you, me, and that big guy outside the cabin—will be Her Majesty the Worm Queen's support from now on." Gabriel's six hands tightly grasped Vio's humanoid mimicry hands, his eight red eyes staring into Vio's compound eyes. "Her Majesty's predicament is temporary. We will definitely help Her Majesty and solve these problems one by one. Her wing sacs will be healed, she will successfully develop again, and she will possess powerful mental strength. All of this is inseparable from our assistance."
"No problem, but how do we do it? His Majesty is simply not listening to us right now."
"She will listen. We will find someone she can accept and slowly teach her the common sense of the Zerg."
Vio's compound eyes widened. "It seems she can only accept humans! Are you going to find humans to teach her about the Zerg?"
How could this be possible?! The Zerg and Humans have long been at war over resources, and this time, to rescue the Zerg Queen, the Zerg Queen has suffered a heavy loss, only to reach a brief cooperation. But the two races' opposition is undeniable. How could a human be placed next to the Zerg Queen, the supreme leader of the Zerg?
Not to mention the common knowledge of the Zerg, especially about the Zerg Queen, many of which are secrets that cannot be told to humans!
"No, it can't be a human," Gabriel said. "Sevier Knox. You know him, right? The good-for-nothing youngest son of the Knox family whose mimicry is closest to human form, the one who's obsessed with studying humans and is laughed at by all the insects."
Gabriel's red eyes seemed to be burning with blazing fire. "I will immediately draft a conscription order, summoning him to the starship of the Saint Hobel Palace. Before His Majesty's first public appearance, he will help His Majesty adapt to life among the Zerg."
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