EROS [Zerg]

"You can't kill us!" Bai Lin watched as she and Lin Ying were about to be dragged away and captured by other races in the universe, their fate already clear.

Bai Lin didn't want to die; she was certain Eros could understand her: "My sister, Admiral Lorraine, is the chief commander of the Human Third Fleet! If you kill me, my sister Lorraine will absolutely not let you get away with it!"

Bai Lin was only a ten-year-old girl. In a world where the average human lifespan exceeds two hundred years, her young age and precious gender granted her greater protection. So, like a calf unafraid of a tiger, she defiantly shouted at Eros:

"I know you can hear me. I have a locator on me. If I die, the human army will raze you all to the ground!"

"Eros, what is she saying?"

Bai Lin's voice was too noisy, and Bro looked at Eros, his brows furrowing.

Eros relayed the human girl's meaning in a language that the Zerg could understand.

"How arrogant."

"Gurgle gurgle!"

"Gurgle gurgle!"

Bro and the female insects around him were furious at the human girl's arrogance. "Take them back and put them on the dissection table. Let's see if she can still be so stubborn."

Subsequently, the two Blue Star Thieves were fitted with suppression rings by the armed female soldiers, locked in iron cages, and escorted to Eros's aircraft, along with the alien cub.

The cub was clearly terrified and huddled in the cage, too scared to move.

The human girl continued to struggle, but the man locked next to her was already advising her not to waste her energy.

The Zerg's iron cage is a high-layered iron structure that even their sharp wings cannot cut through, so the human body, being mortal, cannot budge it in the slightest.

"What do we do now? Are we really going to die like this?" Bai Lin lamented. "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have come out to play."

Lin Ying sat in the iron cage, pulled a short cigar from her collar, and put it in her mouth as if no one else was around. She asked Bai Lin, "You said that insect can understand what you're saying?"

Bai Lin hurriedly told Lin Ying about the words that had just appeared in her mind.

Upon hearing Bai Lin's words, Lin Ying's dark eyes peered through the iron bars of the cage at the female insect sitting on a nearby chair, her expression unfriendly as she guarded them.

The female insect's eyes were a beautiful violet color. Lin Ying knew that this was a very rare color among the insect race, just like that little guy Luo Lan. It was a regressive life form created by Luo Lin combining the genes of the ancient mother insect with the genes of the insect.

Thousands of years ago, humans obtained the genetic code of an ancient mother insect and were amazed to discover that this gene was extremely inclusive and could fuse with the genes of various carbon-based organisms.

Humans once tried to implant this genetic code into the human genome, but unfortunately, because this genetic code is extremely unstable, after creating wave after wave of monsters, humans reaped the consequences and created a huge catastrophe.

The population has shrunk dramatically from tens of billions to tens of millions.

Ultimately, the fusion experiment was forced to stop, and Earth became less habitable due to the catastrophe of genetic mutation.

Humanity was forced to leave its home on Earth and venture into the universe to find new places to settle and survive.

But fate no longer favored humanity. They arrived in this cosmic realm where a powerful and civilized overlord—the Zerg—had arrived.

The Zerg are creatures that revere honor and battle. They love to expand outwards, and because of their existence, humanity's power cannot grow in this universe.

So we must kill them!

Only by killing these insects can the human race continue to thrive and survive in this universe!

Lin Ying took a deep drag on the unlit tobacco. This was his prized possession, a type of tobacco that could only be produced on Earth and was now extinct. Even though it had expired for over a hundred years, it could still fetch an extremely high price.

I would never take it out to taste unless it was a life-threatening emergency.

"Hey, the little girl says you can understand us. If you can, I have something to tell you. Of course, if you can't, you're going to lose another male..."

"..." Eros sat on a chair some distance from the cage, though he knew perfectly well that the two Blue Star Thieves were trying to trick him into revealing information.

For Eros, having one more or one less male insect makes no difference.

Since it hasn't happened before, please don't let it happen again now.

Eros decided to pretend he hadn't heard that.

"Oh, and those hundreds of female insect captives we captured, do you know how we treated them? Well, since you don't understand, I'll explain it to you in person..." Seeing that the female insects didn't react, Lin Ying tentatively told Eros how they "forced mating" the captives, how they "utilized waste," and how they treated those "hybrids"...

Seeing that Eros didn't react, Lin Ying felt that the female insect probably really couldn't understand what he was saying. He was a little discouraged, and his words were tinged with a sense of defiance. He wished he could tell all the miserable situations of his kind in front of these insects who couldn't understand their language.

"Bang!"

The cage made a loud noise.

Lin Ying's body was almost turned inside the cage. His head hit the bars of the iron cage and bled a lot. He controlled his body and kept his balance while looking up at the outside of the cage.

The female insect, which hadn't reacted much just moments before, was now standing in front of his iron cage.

Eros's expression was uncontrollably ferocious as he kicked the iron cage in front of him, making it clang loudly.

"You bunch of scum!" Eros glared at the space pirates locked in the cage with hatred.

Bai Lin and the alien cub were so frightened that they turned pale and couldn't utter a single word.

The female insect's meaning resurfaced in the minds of the two humans; they were certain that this female insect could understand their language.

"Don't you insects also slaughter other races without batting an eye? Now that the butcher's knife is on your own body, you feel the pain?" The man in the cage wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and mocked.

"Eros, what are you doing?"

Eros was furious and kicked the cage holding Lin Ying a few times, shaking the humans inside until they were dizzy and disoriented, before he could finally vent his anger.

“These space pirates are disgusting!” Eros told Bro the whole story he had just heard.

"Since he dares to say that, he must be unafraid of death."

Bro's eyes were fixed on the man locked in the cage. Suddenly, his cold eyes narrowed, and a chilling smile appeared on his lips.