EROS [Zerg]

"Long." Sephis cupped Long's face in his hands. "You just finished urging me, and now you're praising other female insects. Are you trying to make me jealous?"

"Sefir, don't think like that. Although I'll be happy if you're jealous of me, don't treat me like an irresponsible male insect. It's normal for male insects to like beautiful female insects, and isn't that what the government advocates?" The male insect called Long condemned Sefir's doubts about him.

"Alright." Sephis said helplessly, but Long, the male insect, was still arguing his point.

"This is Eros, a new field intern. It's his first time in the Sixth System, and we brought him out to have some fun."

Long looked at the female insect named Eros, who didn't come forward when called by name, but instead kept her distance, and felt immediately dissatisfied.

"Are all the females in their First Galaxy this arrogant?"

“He’s new here and doesn’t know anything yet, that’s why he’s so reserved,” Sephis explained for Eros.

Long nodded, looking at Eros's face, and suddenly felt a little strange, "Why do I feel like I've seen him somewhere before?"

The boy's eyes darted around, then he suddenly remembered and looked at the other man in surprise: "Aren't you that lieutenant general?!"

"Aren't you already dead?!"

Eros was a little embarrassed and shook his head: "No."

Upon hearing the male's voice, the female insects present laughed in unison: "Long male, he is Eros, not Lieutenant General Evanson."

The female insects were not surprised by Long Xiongzi's reaction. After all, they were even more surprised than him when they first met Eros, and they were all wondering if Lieutenant General Evanson's previous death was a lie.

But after spending a few days together, they discovered that Eros and Evanson were completely different insects, and they all gave up their unrealistic fantasies.

"Oh, I knew it. It's too weird for someone to come back to life." Long felt like she had made a fool of herself. She touched her head and waved her hand, then hid behind Sephis and whispered, "Don't stand outside. Abaisong has been waiting inside for a long time."

Eros entered the tavern with a group of female insects. In the hall, Eros could see several low-ranking male insects sitting together, their fingertips lit with cheap tobacco, and the smell of cheap alcohol filled their nostrils.

After walking through the lobby and up the stairs, he could clearly feel that the surrounding environment was much quieter, and the pungent smell downstairs had disappeared without a trace.

Not long after they walked, the group of female insects saw a snow-white female insect sitting in a wheelchair looking at them from the doorway of the largest private room in the corridor.

"Abai Song!" The female insects were overjoyed to see Abai Song sitting in a wheelchair and quickly surrounded him.

"How long has it been since we last saw each other!"

Eros looked at the female insect sitting in the wheelchair. Her silvery-white hair hung down from her head to her waist, and her eyelashes, pupils and the rest of her skin were as white as fresh snow.

“Abaisong, this is Eros, the new field intern.”

“This is Abai Song, our comrade-in-arms, and also the female ruler of Long.”

Sephis introduced Eros and Abbasong to each other. Abbasong, unlike the other female insects who seemed surprised to see Eros, smiled and extended his insect claw towards Eros.

“Hello Eros, I’ve heard Enel mention you before.”

When Eros heard Abaisong mention Ener, his voice betrayed his surprise: "You know Commander Ener?"

“We were schoolmates and comrades-in-arms before.” Abaisong looked at Eros with a gentle gaze, as if looking at a tiny insect:

“Enel told me about you, and we all hope you like it and stay here in the Sixth Star System.”

"Stay here?" Eros asked, somewhat puzzled. He had never considered staying in the star system where he was doing his internship.

"Every year, before the end of their internship, the field trainees will have an assessment. Candidates from the eight star systems will compete against each other, and the top eight candidates can choose to enter the military headquarters of the eight star systems and be enlisted in the army."

"Join the army?" Eros was somewhat surprised. "Are there distinctions between being enlisted and not enlisted?"

Several female insects around nodded and said, "Of course, female insects within the official ranks get promoted faster and receive better treatment."

"Generally, one can only be recruited through military merit. It takes decades of military service for a civilian female insect to achieve this. If you can seize this opportunity, you absolutely cannot miss it."

Sephis stood behind Abaisong:

"Abai Song was recruited by ranking third in the assessment of the eight star systems. Even now, even though he was injured and retired from the front line, he is still a member of the military."

In just a few words, Sephiroth made Eros understand the opportunity he was in.

Eros gripped the insect claws and nodded solemnly: "I know what to do."

"Haha, then we're rooting for you!" The other female insects looked at Eros with bright smiles, appearing very sincere.

Eros was infected by this sincere and enthusiastic emotion, and his body relaxed. He was then pushed and shoved into the private room by a group of female insects.

The private room was a small bar with dim and dazzling overhead lights. A scantily clad, blue-haired female insect sat unrestrainedly on the bar counter, slowly wiping a transparent crystal glass with her long legs crossed.

The door was pushed open, and Sang Shuang's gaze shifted from the glass to the female insects that walked in from outside.

"Sang Shuang! How's business lately?!"

The female insects greeted the female insects as soon as they entered.

The female insect, nicknamed Sang Shuang, let out a cold laugh after hearing her friends' greetings: "You won't starve."

As she spoke, Sang Shuang's gaze fell on Eros, who was surrounded by his friends. He wiped the square, transparent wine glass in his paw and asked with some interest, "Who is he?"

"I am Eros, a new field intern." From the way the female insect beside him addressed Sang Shuang, Eros could already guess that Sang Shuang was the owner of this bar.

Sang Shuang remained seated on the bar. "Sefis, you guys really know how to corrupt the new little female insects."

As he spoke, he casually pulled out a bottle of wine from the bar behind him, tapped it lightly on the edge of the table, and with a "bang," the bottle cap popped off.

The amber-colored liquid was poured into the glass, where it collided with the glass wall in Sang Shuang's hands, splashing out golden light.

"Try it." Sang Shuang held the wine up to Eros's eyes.

Eros looked at the exceptionally sexy female insect before him; her long, slender, and alluring claws seemed to make the amber liquid in front of her even more delicious.

Eros took the glass with both hands and, under the watchful eyes of Sang Shuang and the surrounding female insects, took a large sip with great embarrassment.

That sip of alcohol was incredibly reckless.

The spicy and stimulating taste made Eros's exoskeleton almost stand up, like a mammal with its fur standing on end.

This strange taste contained a richness that Eros couldn't quite grasp, and it took a lot of effort for him to resist spitting out the liquid in his mouth.

A burning sensation rose up his throat, and Eros's vision began to blur. His eyes, filled with tears, made him realize his current wretched state.

"Give."