Sister Gabriel
Summoned by the Insect Mother, Seville straightened his short silver hair that he had been taking care of since he got up, put on a dress jacket that was ironed straight and fit, which could outline his waistline to the maximum, and instructed the robot to wax his half-length boots that made his legs look longer. Finally, he sprayed them with pheromone astringent, and then walked into the Insect Mother's bedroom with satisfaction and joy.
"Your Majesty!" Sewell knelt on one knee, touched his chest and raised his head, revealing a bright smile that he had practiced countless times in front of the mirror, which was in line with human aesthetics and showed just eight upper teeth.
It must be said that the Butterfly Clan's mimicry is closer to human aesthetics than other Zerg Clan. The Butterfly Clan might not be so popular with the Zerg Clan, who value force, but they are definitely very popular with Her Majesty the Zerg Queen.
Sure enough, Li'er blushed when she saw Seville, whose teeth even reflected the light.
She was audacious enough to ask to meet a stranger. But she didn't know who else to ask to better understand her situation. She tried asking the flying pineapple, but the service robot's interaction was rather clumsy; it required proactive questions before responding, and Li'er was so overwhelmed she didn't know where to start.
"Sir, you, you get up first."
Seville readily stood up. His posture was the truest expression of the fine tailoring of his suit. Seville accepted the fact that the Worm Mother kept addressing him as "Young Master." Li'er was still speaking Jianghuai Mandarin, communicating through Seville's interpreter. Western names were too difficult for Li'er to pronounce.
Li'er turned her eyes away, not daring to look directly at Seville, the showy peacock. "Sir, I want to know, you said I was the Insect Mother. What rank is the Insect Mother?"
Then she got an answer from Seville that left her almost breathless.
He is the highest official of the Zerg!
Then isn't she, isn't she equivalent to the emperor of the Zerg!
"So what do I, the Worm Mother, need to do?"
There's a lot to do. In the three years since the loss of the Zerg Mother, the Zerg have been in turmoil. But Sewell's exposure to political wrestling was superficial; he only grasped the basics. These areas of knowledge must be gradually guided by Lord Gabriel, the former leader of the core group around the Zerg Mother. The Thorn family is the walking encyclopedia of the Zerg Mother.
In fact, Lord Gabriel had urged and even forced him to introduce her to Her Majesty the Insect Queen countless times.
Sewell rubbed his nose. He secretly wished the Zerg Queen would rely on him alone, but he knew that was definitely not a good idea. A playboy from a low-class family couldn't hold up the authority of a Zerg leader.
Therefore, he said, "Your Majesty, regarding the duties, powers, and obligations of the Worm Mother, you have a dedicated personal chamberlain who can answer your questions in detail."
It was the housekeeper again. Li'er had heard it twice since she woke up today. Both the robot and Sewell suggested she go to the housekeeper.
Hearing that the internal affairs officer was still a personal servant, Li Er subconsciously asked a question: "Is she a female official?"
Seville was stunned. "Uh, yes, Master Gabriel is a female. Only females of the Thorne family can become the internal affairs officers of the Worm Queen."
"You can ask her anything about the Worm Mother?"
"Yes, the Thorne family has served Her Majesty the Worm Mother for generations. Lord Gabriel also served the previous Her Majesty the Worm Mother, your mother."
Mother.
This concept suddenly penetrated Li'er's heart, which had been as silent as stagnant water for many years.
She is not an orphan, she has a mother!
Li'er's eyes lit up with a light she had never seen before: "Where is my mother?"
"Uh, Your Majesty." Sewell couldn't bear to disappoint the Worm Mother, whose eyes were filled with anticipation. But facts were facts, so he said, "The Worm Mother's lineage is a single-line inheritance system. Each Worm Mother will only lay one egg in her lifetime, which is the next Worm Mother. After giving birth to a successor, the Worm Mother will die."
Like magic, a mist quickly formed in the insect mother's large eyes: "So, I have a mother, but... my mother is dead..."
Ahh ...
Sewell's mind felt like it was filled with the din of a hundred cicadas, their antennae, unable to be contained by a clip, standing upright from his carefully styled short silver hair. He opened his mouth in vain, but in his earpiece he heard Lord Gabriel's furious curses, threatening his death.
My Lord, he was just stating a fact that everyone knew!
Li'er is saddened by the cruel legacy of the Insect Mother.
As a worm mother, mother and child can never see each other.
Why is the insect queen such a lonely insect?
"Your Excellency... Your Excellency, uh, the previous Zerg Mother is indeed dead. But you may have misunderstood the Zerg's heritage... Her body died, but her spirit condensed into an egg, which is you, the next Zerg Mother... For us Zerg, the Zerg Mother is a spiritual symbol of immortality... If you wish to know about your mother, the previous Zerg Mother, you can consult your Chief Internal Affairs Officer. She served your mother for sixty star years and is arguably the Zerg who knows her best."
Li'er didn't understand the talk of body and spirit, immortality and inheritance. But now that things had come to this, she knew it was time to meet this internal affairs officer.
Being able to accompany her mother for sixty years, she understood that she must have been the most trusted maid or wet nurse.
Maybe she should call her Mammy?
Finally drawing the Insect Mother's attention to Lord Gabriel, Sewell breathed a sigh of relief. "Your Majesty, you've actually seen her before. Um... she's the tall, thin monster with eight red eyes you saw when you woke up."
Li'er's expression changed immediately.
"Your Majesty! Please don't be afraid! Uh, that's, that's her mimicry. Her species is the black widow spider, and the arachnids have more hands in their mimicry. But please believe that she will absolutely not hurt you."
Li'er didn't expect that the monster with a flat chest, thin body and tall figure was actually a female. She was much taller than Master Seville.
Well, Li'er said to herself, this is a world full of bugs. If bugs don't have human features, then why should they have female features?
Bugs won't hurt her, she just needs to get used to it. Just like the young man in front of her, he had strange, wiggling tentacles on his head, making him look less human.
She mustered up her courage and said, "Then I want to meet her, is that okay?"
sure.
Gabriel, who heard everything through the headset, had been waiting for a long time.
When Gabriel appeared in the audience room of the Worm Mother's bedroom, Li'er and Sevier were silent.
She wears a gold hollow mask, but the spider can't cover her eyes completely without losing her balance, so the mask she wears has eight eye holes. This design makes her red eyes look like rubies embedded in the gold mask, full of mysterious nobility.
She had her arms bound tightly around her waist and wore a long, oversized black robe to conceal her distorted figure. The bound arms made bending down difficult, but she still managed to kneel respectfully on one knee, performing a standard audience ceremony.
"Your Majesty, Gabriel Thorne, Chief Internal Affairs Officer of Saint Hobel Palace, greets you."
"Mammy," in Li'er's impression, Gabriel was an elder who had been with her mother for a long time, and it was inappropriate for an elder to bow to her solemnly like this, so the name that she had only been thinking about in her mind came out of her mouth, so that Gabriel did not realize for a moment that the name "Mammy" was calling herself.
"Mammy, please get up first..."
"Uh, Your Majesty, what did you call her?" Sewell reacted first.
Li'er was a little at a loss: "What should I call her? I thought... I thought the one who could accompany mother for so long was a wet nurse..."
The intelligent computer on Gabriel's ear had loaded all the common sense terms she could find from the ancient blue planet last night, and was now translating for her: "Wet nurse: A woman employed by wealthy families on ancient blue planet to breastfeed infants in their employer's home. They primarily feed infants for new mothers who are unable or unwilling to breastfeed themselves, and may also take on some childcare responsibilities. To the employer's family, a wet nurse is a 'half servant, half relative'."
Half servant, half relative.
Oh my God, there is actually such an appropriate name in the cultural system of mammals to describe her feelings for Her Majesty the Insect Queen!
Gabriel's eyes danced with fiery flames. She interrupted Sevier's words to correct the Worm Mother and said, "Your Majesty! You can call me Mammy!"
Sewell noticed that after the Worm Mother lost her fear of the Chief Internal Affairs Officer's appearance, his status plummeted. She had completely forgotten him, preoccupied with chatting with Gabriel. Furthermore, Lord Gabriel's voice, as he spoke to Her Majesty the Worm Mother, seemed to be coated in honey, becoming sweet, completely devoid of the venomous spider he had once used to threaten his execution.
"Mammy, my mother, what kind of person... what kind of insect is she?"
Mentioning the previous Worm Mother, Gabriel dropped her affectionate voice and spoke solemnly, "Your mother, Her Majesty Aimiyah Kairos, was a great, glorious Worm Mother, full of wisdom and rationality. She possessed unparalleled mental strength, keen political acumen, and a brilliant mind. Under her rule, the military faction and the established aristocratic families were able to achieve a delicate balance, and upstarts like the Knox family were able to join the ranks of the noble families. It can be said that Her Majesty Aimiyah Kairos was a ruler of revival."
Li'er was happy that her mother was such a powerful insect queen, but she was also inevitably depressed.
This leader of the revival, who was respected and loved by the Zerg, risked his life to give birth to her.
But she knew nothing, understood nothing. She had no idea what spiritual power or political acumen were. She was also afraid of insects.
Gabriel consoled Li'er, saying, "Your Majesty, these are temporary. Your blood comes from Kairos, and every Kairos is an excellent insect mother."
"Kailos..."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Gabriel said, "According to tradition, your name should be Alyssa Kairos."
"Alyssa Kairos... Alyssa Kairos..." Li'er murmured her own name. As the pronunciation passed through her lips and tongue, she suddenly felt as if a cluster of sparks were ignited deep in her body, and something was about to emerge.
At the same time, the two Zergs present felt for the first time the slight mental fluctuation of the new Zerg Queen.
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