SGT CH171

◎Is he going to be forcefully claimed by the hunter? Mu Si was a little nervous.◎

When he was carried back to the safe house by the Female Zerg and placed on the bed, Mu Si was still dazed.

The Female Zerg stood in front of him, his tall figure blocking most of the light, exuding an extreme sense of oppression.

Was he going to be forcefully claimed?

Mu Si was a little nervous.

He knew that the Dark Star Region had “simple and honest customs.” The way high-grade Female and Male Zergs harmonized was mostly by the high-grade Female Zerg carrying or bringing the Male Zerg back from somewhere, and then enjoying him.

But he had never experienced this kind of thing before.

He didn’t know what he should do next.

Would it be better to be a little cooperative?

Or should he put up a token resistance?

A Male Zerg relying purely on strength absolutely could not resist a high-grade Female Zerg. The Male Zergs in the Dark Star Region were generally more cooperative, at most tormenting the Female Zerg a bit during the process, which to a high-grade Female Zerg was just a harmless way to add to the fun.

Mu Si had very complicated feelings about this mode of interaction, but it was indeed the way of survival in the Dark Star Region.

Looking at the tall, sturdy, extremely intimidating, and extremely attractive Female Zerg in front of him.

Mu Si thought to himself that he should perhaps do as the locals do and cooperate a little.

Then he would quietly bite the Female Zerg’s shoulder to vent his anger and express his unyielding spirit.

Mu Si was just looking forward to the subsequent development when he saw the Female Zerg lean down, stuff a few bags of nutrient solution into his arms, and then turn around and step away.

Ah?

Mu Si looked at the few bags of unknown nutrient solution in his arms, then looked up at the Female Zerg who had already walked to the other side of the room to take off his equipment, his face full of confusion.

So, he wasn’t going to subject him to that kind of… Dark Star Region style forced possession?

That made sense too. The hunter gege who took him in was such an upright and kind Female Zerg, how could he do such a thing.

Mu Si felt that this matched X’s image in his heart, and that this was the only way it made sense.

Yet, inexplicably, he felt a little regretful.

While thinking, Mu Si picked up a bag of nutrient solution. Not seeing an opening, he casually held it in his mouth and bit it open with his sharp side teeth.

He took a sip.

And then…

Gag.

It was only through his excellent upbringing that Mu Si didn’t spit it out on the spot.

Using immense willpower, he swallowed the stuff in his mouth.

He lunged to the table, guzzled a large mouthful of water, and tried hard to wash away the taste.

X heard the commotion and quickly came to the table to check on the Male Zerg’s condition.

“Are you alright? What happened? Did I just… scare you?”

Mu Si looked up at him with tears in his eyes.

It was too disgusting.

He had never eaten such terrible and disgusting food in his life. It was simply a mental attack aimed straight at his soul.

Even with his S-grade mental power, he couldn’t resist it.

Was the hunter doing this on purpose?

Exactly what kind of grudge or resentment warranted using this method to assassinate him?

Meeting the Male Zerg’s watery eyes, X became even more worried and flustered.

His gaze moved down and noticed the bitten open nutrient solution in the Male Zerg’s hand. X quickly asked, “Is there something wrong with the nutrient solution?”

“Wu…” Mu Si couldn’t speak a complete sentence. As soon as he opened his mouth, he would recall that sticky, disgusting taste.

X could only take the nutrient solution from the Male Zerg’s hand and taste it himself.

“Hey?”

Mu Si jumped in fright, wanting to stop him but it was a step too late.

The look he directed at X was full of horror.

There was no need to be this cruel to yourself, right?

X didn’t taste anything wrong.

The nutrient solution was normal, hadn’t spoiled, and there were no additionally added harmful substances.

X took another sip to confirm, but still found nothing.

He looked down in confusion, meeting the Male Zerg’s terrified, shocked, yet somewhat admiring gaze.

“?”

Mu Si learned from X that this was the nutrient solution of the Dark Star Region, and a relatively high-end kind at that. The Female Zerg had no intention of messing with him on purpose.

This was too terrifying.

It would have been better if he was messing with him on purpose.

In the end, Mu Si didn’t touch those nutrient solutions again, staying far away from them.

X couldn’t bear to waste it, so he drank the opened bag of nutrient solution and put the rest away.

Looking at the listless Male Zerg lying on the bed.

X only felt powerless.

He finally understood just how delicate and hard to raise a true high-grade Male Zerg from the Empire really was.

Even the best nutrient solution in the Dark Star Region couldn’t win his favor.

Instead, it made him recoil in terror.

Such a Male Zerg was simply not from the same world as him.

It was just an accidental encounter, a fallen noble high-grade Male Zerg forced to spend four months with a bottom-tier Female Zerg of no status.

He was the one who had briefly imprisoned the Male Zerg by his side.

Four months… ah, no, there was already less than three months left.

When the time came, everything would end.

The Male Zerg would return to the prosperous world that belonged to him, continuing to live a life surrounded by stars like the moon.

And he would carry the Zerg egg in his belly and continue living in the Dark Star Region.

They would never cross paths again.

Zerg eggs took six months to fully develop before being born from the body.

But the spaceship would set sail in the fourth month.

This meant that for the final two months, there would be no Male Zerg pheromone nourishment.

Whether the Zerg egg could be born safely remained an unknown.

Even if it was born smoothly and broke out of its shell successfully, it would probably be a small cub with congenital deficiencies.

There were many cubs like this in the Dark Star Region.

X came to the side of the bed.

The noble Male Zerg was curled up holding the quilt, obviously in low spirits.

Before this, he had tried using other foods and things to please the Male Zerg, but the effect wasn’t great.

Even Female Zergs in the Dark Star Region knew that when a Male Zerg lacked interest, it was difficult to obtain pheromone soothing.

X also couldn’t bring himself to ask the Male Zerg for his pheromones in this situation.

He could only lie down quietly on the outside of the bed, trying to absorb the pheromones dissipating from around the Male Zerg’s body.

Even though those pheromones were very weak, like scratching an itch from outside a boot, making it even harder for him to endure.

Suddenly, his embrace warmed up.

The Male Zerg beside him let go of the quilt and rolled into his arms, hugging him and rubbing against him.

He probably felt that hugging him was more comfortable than the worn-out quilt.

X raised his hand and tentatively stroked the Male Zerg’s smooth, long hair, carrying a hint of comforting intent.

Then, the Male Zerg bit onto his chest.

X’s breathing gradually became hurried.

In the end, he still received the Male Zerg’s pheromone nourishment.

“You, actually don’t have to do this.”

X said somewhat arduously to the Male Zerg burying his head against his chest, “If you are not in the mood, you don’t have to do this.”

He actually didn’t want to force the Male Zerg to do things he wasn’t willing to do.

Although he had said he would let the Male Zerg exchange pheromones for food and shelter.

But even if the Male Zerg didn’t give him pheromones, he would still take care of him.

Even though the Male Zerg had never even told him his name.

“Wu?” Mu Si looked up blankly.

He had already eaten such a bitter thing, wasn’t he allowed to eat something sweet?

He just had to eat.

Mu Si continued to bite down.

Once again, he heard the Female Zerg’s muffled groan.

In the end, all of those nutrient solutions went into X’s stomach.

As compensation, X made other foods for the Male Zerg using various tricks.

It was just that his cooking skills weren’t very good, and seasonings were limited, so what he made was barely edible and found it hard to please the Male Zerg.

Mu Si also didn’t focus on his appetite. Compared to food, he preferred eating the Female Zerg now.

A soft, bouncy, super chewy Female Zerg.

Mu Si completely forgot what the Female Zerg fed him today or yesterday, only remembering the large pecs shoved in his face at night.

Such days passed for three months.

It was finally time for the spaceship leaving the Dark Star Region to set sail.

X had prepared a lot of food for the Male Zerg many days in advance, letting the Male Zerg store them in his spatial bracelet.

There were also various kinds of weapons.

Although their lethality couldn’t compare to the thermal weapons the Male Zerg brought with him, sometimes, they might be able to pull off a surprise attack.

In addition to this, he also made the Male Zerg a set of clothes that fit the Dark Star Region style.

All black, with a hood.

It could hide the Male Zerg’s outstanding appearance as much as possible.

Molding him towards the direction of an ordinary sub-adult Female Zerg or a sub-Female.

Although… the effect wasn’t great.

The Male Zerg’s outstanding temperament was too obvious.

Just standing there made bugs feel he was out of the ordinary.

It was even more eye-catching when he walked.

Every movement showed an extremely well-educated appearance, completely different from the savagely growing bugs of the Dark Star Region.

Regarding this point, X had no solution.

He even tried letting the Male Zerg change his walking posture.

In the end, not only did it not have a hiding effect, but it also attracted even more attention from bugs.

The other party was like a natural luminous body, no matter how much he was covered or hidden, his light and heat could not be blocked.

They could only take it one step at a time.

After preparing many things in bits and pieces, the final moment to send the Male Zerg away arrived.

X wore a loose, thick black coat.

His pregnant belly was already very obvious, and he could no longer wear the tight clothes from before that were more convenient for moving around.

It was difficult to conceive offspring between Males and Females with too big of a grade difference.

Pregnant Females in the Dark Star Region were rare, and pregnant high-grade Female Zergs were one in ten thousand.

If he went out without hiding it, it would be easy to make bugs suspect that he had contacted a high-grade Male Zerg, or that there was a high-grade Male Zerg beside him.

That way, all the previous disguises for the Male Zerg would be meaningless.

Fortunately, there were plenty of Female Zergs dressed like him in the Dark Star Region.

Covered by the coat, no one dared to be sure if what was hidden under his clothes was a pregnant belly or a powerful weapon.

The answer was both.

X brought his weapons along as well.

He turned his head to look at the Male Zerg.

He saw that the Male Zerg had also changed clothes, wearing the hood, only exposing a pointed chin, obediently following behind him, looking especially cute.

“Let’s go.”

X led the Male Zerg and walked outside.

At first, Mu Si thought they would have to rely on their legs to walk out of the forest and head to the town and spaceport far away.

As a result, the moment he stepped out of the underground safe house, he was hugged by the Female Zerg.

Huge black twin wings suddenly unfurled from the Female Zerg’s back.

Those bone wings flapped fiercely, and the Female Zerg took him up into the air, sweeping towards the distance.

The sudden sense of weightlessness made Mu Si subconsciously tightly hug the Female Zerg in front of him.

The Female Zerg looked down at him, used one hand to protect his head, pressed him into his chest, and said in a low voice by his ear, “Don’t be afraid.”

Mu Si wasn’t actually afraid.

He had just never been carried flying by a Female Zerg before.

Nor had he seen other Female Zergs fly.

His Female Father was a land-walking species.

The bone wings looked like strips of long whips or tentacles; compared to “wings,” they looked more like “bones.”

A special exoskeleton.

And he had also seen this kind of bone wings on X.

So he subconsciously thought the other party was the same as his Female Father, having no wings and unable to fly.

Who would have thought that the other party could still hide another kind of wings in his body.

Combining two types of bone wings in one body, an extremely rare mutated Female Zerg.

Such a mutated species was too rare; even textbooks only vaguely mentioned it without clear records.

Yet right in front of him, there was a living example.

Mu Si couldn’t resist moving his hand and touching the root of the Female Zerg’s wings.

The Female Zerg’s flapping wings abruptly stiffened, weightlessness arrived, and Mu Si felt them rapidly falling down.

Mu Si flusteredly circulated his mental power and opened a spatial wormhole, wanting to transfer the Female Zerg.

Right before coming into contact with the spatial wormhole, the Female Zerg fiercely flapped his wings and flew up with him again, sweeping out a few kilometers in an instant, rapidly distancing himself from the opening wormhole.

Mu Si: “?”

You can still fly?

X was feeling alarmed and uncertain.

After sensing the aura of the wormhole in the distance disappear, he brought the Male Zerg down to land on a small hillside.

The timing of that wormhole’s appearance was too coincidental.

He originally thought it was an attack, but he didn’t feel any danger, and his combat intuition was not triggered.

Moreover, the energy aura of that wormhole felt inexplicably familiar, very much like…

X looked down at the Male Zerg in his arms.

Mu Si was also supporting the Female Zerg, worriedly checking on his condition.

“Are you alright? Were you scared? I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have poked your wings while you were flying.”

Before drifting into the Dark Star Region, he was still an underage bug.

He only knew that a Female Zerg’s wings were powerful weapons, and he didn’t know the root of the wings would be so fragile and sensitive.

“I’m fine… It was me who failed to adjust in time.”

X knew the Male Zerg’s every move like the back of his hand, and he had also noticed the other party wanting to touch his wings, but he didn’t try to stop him.

He knew the roots of the wings would be relatively fragile, but he didn’t think the Male Zerg would cause him any harm.

And it truly wasn’t harm.

X had never imagined that the Male Zerg’s touch would bring him such intense stimulation.

It made him feel so good his mind went blank and he fell from the sky, almost hurting the Male Zerg.

It was the sudden appearance of spatial fluctuations that woke him up, making him urgently carry the Male Zerg away.

Thinking about it now, the position where that spatial wormhole appeared actually seemed like it was trying to save them.

“Your Excellency, the wormhole just now…”

“I opened it, but I still don’t really know how to use it. If we really fell in, I wouldn’t know where we’d be teleported to either, but… it should still be on this planet.”

Having learned his lesson from directly linking from the Imperial Capital Star to the Dark Star Region last time, Mu Si paid attention this time to control his mental energy and perform rough spatial positioning.

However, he could still only position it within the current star system.

Trying to position it further away would highly likely result in a deviation.

This was also the reason why he couldn’t use a spatial wormhole to return directly to the Empire.

X had never heard of such an ability.

High-grade Male Zergs were indeed completely outside his realm of knowledge.

No wonder no bug in the Dark Star Region had ever been able to privately own a high-grade Male Zerg.

Fortunately, he had never entertained such wishful thinking either.

“Your Excellency, I will send you onto the spaceship, and after that…” X paused and asked, “Do you have bugs to receive you over at the Empire’s border? Can you contact your family bugs?”

“Of course I can!”

His terminal had already been fixed. As long as he entered the coverage area of the Empire’s star network, he could directly contact his Male Father and Female Father.

Even if his terminal was broken, as long as he returned to the Empire, he could rely on his status to mobilize resources, ensuring his safety, and he would be able to contact the royal family very quickly.

Just after saying this, looking at the slightly gloomy Female Zerg in front of him, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Mu Si’s mind, and he immediately changed his tune.

“Wait, I… I’m actually not too sure either. I just finished my physiological awakening, and my appearance has changed too much, the Empire’s database hasn’t recorded my new data yet, so I might… end up homeless on the streets.”

Mu Si, relying on the fact that X didn’t understand anything about the Empire, made up a bunch of nonsense, and then laid against X’s chest, faking a cry.

While pretending to be pitiful and fake crying, he raised his eyes to observe X’s expression.

Sure enough, he saw a hint of wavering on X’s face.