You are home
The third request Her Majesty the Worm Queen made of him was a life-or-death proposition. The scales on Seville's back exploded, irritated by the sudden surge of Lord Gabriel's pheromones. He tried to ignore the murderous aura emanating from outside the medical bay, keeping his smile steady. "Your Majesty, where do you wish to go?"
"I want to go home... I want to go back to the Four Arts Studio... I, I don't know how I ended up here... Sir, if you don't know the way back to the Four Arts Studio, you can just take me back to the Splendid Pavilion..."
"But, Your Majesty, this is your home."
"What is this place?"
"This is the gravitational field of planet T631 in the Orlando Galaxy. Your dedicated starship, the Pompeii, is docked here. The entire Orlando Galaxy is your territory."
Li'er became even more panicked. This was a place whose name she couldn't even understand. It must be very far away from Yangzhou.
"Your Majesty, please stop crying. The skin under your eyes is red..." Sewell felt that although the red eyes of the Insect Mother made the Insect Mother very protective, the wrinkled skin on her face was too unsightly. Your Majesty's face should be as smooth, delicate and flawless as the plate of egg custard pudding just now.
Li'er instinctively raised her hand to touch her eyelids, feeling a sting. If these villains cared about her minor injuries, why would they kidnap her? They were so powerful, they could escape Yangzhou in a flash, so why would they bother with a skinny horse like her, waiting to be sold?
She was finally able to spare a little time from the endless sorrow and fear and try to figure out her current situation.
She looked at Seville, a tall foreigner with short silver hair and lavender eyes, dressed in a costume she had never seen before. She noticed that Seville had been kneeling on one knee while speaking to her. Although she wasn't well-educated, she knew that a man's knees were as precious as gold. "Sir, please stand up first... Why do you keep calling me Your Majesty?"
Sewell remained kneeling on one knee and solemnly performed a kneeling and chest-touching salute to Li'er: "Because you are the most honorable master of the Orlando Galaxy, the 217th Zerg Queen of our Zerg race."
Li'er felt a chill on her back.
Something spread from her spine, crawling across her back, her arms, and the back of her head.
The two monsters had said these words to her before, but she didn't believe a word of it.
But this was the third "person" who said this to her.
Her heartbeat seemed a little abnormal in the left side of her chest, her mind was blank, and there was a dull tinnitus in her ears. She heard her question, like when she was a child, she loved to talk with her head in a wooden bucket of water. The sound at that time was just like this muffled -
"Master... are you, are you mistaken... I am not a bug... I am a human..."
Seville's response echoed the sisters' teasing, "Your Majesty, there is no mistake. The Zerg Queen pheromones on your body, your natural appeal to the Zerg, will ensure that every Zerg will recognize you."
"Li'er! You're amazing! You can even talk with your head underwater! You can actually hold your breath for so long—"
"Your natural attraction to the Zerg..."
"Li'er! Why are you attracting so many bugs? Ah—throw it away, throw it away—"
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!?"
Li'er took a deep breath and came back to her senses when Seville kept calling her.
Seville was almost scared to death. Just now, the insect queen suddenly entered a defensive stress state similar to the insect's suspended animation. The pheromone emission and breathing stopped abruptly. Fortunately, this time was very short, otherwise Lord Gabriel, who had been secretly observing outside the cabin, would definitely rush in.
This news had such a huge impact on the Worm Mother that Seville realized that it was really a very difficult task to make the Worm Mother fully accept her identity and responsibilities.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. It may be difficult for you to digest this information right away, but I assure you, you are the Lord of all our insects. Not a single one of them will harm you." Sewell glanced around and handed the exquisite silver dinner knife to Li'er, guiding her to place the blade against her heart tube. "All the honor and life of our insect race are yours. You may take it."
Seville dared to guarantee that the insect mother could not even leave a scratch on his chitinous skin with this small knife used mainly for spreading butter.
Li Er dropped the knife as if she had been burned: "Slave, why would I want your life? I don't want it!"
"Your Majesty," Sewell had sensed something was amiss since the moment he began talking to the Insect Queen. "Why do you keep calling yourself a slave? Based on my understanding of human culture, this doesn't seem like a respectful title for oneself."
Even a Zerg-like person with a keen interest in human culture wouldn't have ventured as far as Ancient Blue Star. Humans now controlled a star field comparable to Zerg control, with tens of thousands of habitable planets within it. Ancient Blue Star was a very distant past, even for today's interstellar humans.
Li'er... Li'er couldn't think so much. If she didn't call herself a slave, how could she say it?
When she reached the age of separation, the mothers at the Four Arts House would use a ruler to gradually correct her and her sisters' gazes, gestures, and speech patterns... The mothers often said:
"As a lowly woman, you must understand the rules and know your limits. Not to mention that the masters prefer the weak and graceful, even the mistresses of the house will not tolerate those who are ignorant and don't know their own weight."
"Do you know how many ways the master can punish a slave like you, whose bond is held by the master or mistress, if you rebel?"
Li'er was scared to death.
What made her different from the other sisters was that even if their parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law sold them into the pawnbrokerage, they still had some family and blood in the world. Even if they were sent away by the master family or died, they still had a place to stay and someone to help bury their bones. But she was an orphan picked up by the pawnbrokers on the street. If she left Siyi Zhai and the master family didn't take her in, she didn't know where to go.
So she could only lower her posture and be the most submissive and harmless one.
She can always be obedient as long as Siyizhai doesn't drive her away.
She could also use her most charming attitude to find a place to stay, even if she didn't like the Governor at all.
Now, this young man with silver hair and purple eyes told her that she and her sisters were not the same kind of people at all, she was a "bug".
Her world seemed to be turned upside down, and she was left with only fear, confusion, and a loss of what to do.
Seville pressed the microphone, because seeing that the conversation seemed to be going well and Lord Gabriel kept urging him to quickly introduce to her that there was an internal affairs officer waiting outside.
Lord Gabriel is still too impatient, Sewell thought.
The Zerg possess a pheromone-based sensory system that honestly conveys their emotions. Therefore, all Zerg communication is straightforward and simple, crude yet efficient. However, Sewell knew that none of this applied to a Zerg Queen experiencing sensory issues. This conversation required patience, careful guidance, and gradual help in clarifying reality.
"Your Majesty, I have a suggestion. If you feel that all this is unreal and you don't know how to deal with it, you can start by making a small change."
He looked at Seville with his blank golden eyes. He smiled and said, "You can start by calling yourself 'I'."
"Slave...I..."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Seville's voice seemed to penetrate Li'er's muffled eardrums.
"You are home, Your Majesty."
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