EROS [Zerg]

"You're lying to me!! You're deceiving me!!"

Bai Lin suddenly realized something and shouted at the linked list, "You deliberately didn't want me as your sister, right?! You deliberately let me go out to play, otherwise how could I have escaped the base so easily?!"

"You just want to be the only one to receive your father's favor! If your father knew the truth, he would never forgive you!"

The surrounding research insects couldn't understand what the Blue Star Thief was saying, but Eros could.

"Lowling, I will never forgive you! I will never forgive you even in death!"

"Bai Lin, if hating me will lessen your pain in death, then continue to hate me." The voice remained calm, with a hint of pleasure in it.

Eros, standing outside, overheard everything Bai Lin said to her younger sister and was deeply shocked.

The insects weren't worried that the device in Bai Lin's hand would leak the insect race's secrets. They had already checked Bai Lin when she entered the military headquarters to make sure she wasn't carrying any dangerous or contraband. They had also checked the communicator in her hand, which was just an ordinary communicator.

In the Zerg race, a communicator of this caliber would probably only be found on the streets a few hundred years ago.

If Bai Lin's status among the Blue Star Thieves is truly high, Eros finds it hard to understand why she would still use such a rudimentary communication tool.

Is the civilian technology stolen by Blue Star really that bad?

Eros suddenly realized his own limited knowledge and quietly stood aside to watch the research insect drag the girl out of the iron cage and tie her to the dissection table.

Bai Lin screamed in terror, her voice changing from questioning to pleading for mercy and calling for help from her sister on the other side of the linked list, but there was no response whatsoever.

Zerg dissections never involve anesthetics. Anesthetics, painkillers, and pheromone-like soothing agents are all restricted drugs, and their use is not even permitted in ordinary medical settings, let alone in this kind of research involving the dissection of other races.

The cold, mechanical blade fell, and the hissing sound became even more terrifying.

Unlike the research insects who couldn't understand the girl's words, Eros could clearly hear the fear in her voice. Although he repeatedly told himself that the person in front of him was an enemy of the insectoid race, this fear still affected Eros's mood.

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The roar abruptly stopped, and Eros heard gasps of breath coming from the surrounding area.

He turned his gaze to Bai Lin, whose abdomen had been dissected. The girl lay blankly on the cold dissection table, and in the very center of the organ composed of white bubbles, a red fleshy ball was still throbbing weakly.

The eyes of the surrounding research insects gleamed, and then they quickened the speed of their claws, rapidly disintegrating the human body before them like microorganisms.

"This specimen is very different from the several blue star thieves we have dissected before. Our initial guess is that it is a female of their species."

"The other samples have been collected from the biochemistry lab..."

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The research insects in the dissection room were already busy, with only Eros standing in the corner, trying to make himself seem less in the way.

Suddenly he felt a tightness on his leg. Looking down, he saw that the alien cub had somehow escaped and was clinging tightly to Eros's leg, trembling all over.

"I don't buy fake medicine; all the medicines I sell are genuine."

The mechanical voice came through the headphones.

The alien cub, with its round eyes wide open, clung to Eros's leg as if it were grasping at a last straw.

"If I can't go back, everyone in my family will die."

"..." Eros tried to remove the alien cub from his leg, but found it was not an easy task.

"I'll give you back the exchange coin you gave me, can you let me go home?" The alien cub looked at Eros pitifully, holding the exchange coin that Eros had casually given him.

Eros used some force to pull the alien cub off his lap, a dark glint flashing in his purple eyes: "Wouldn't it be better to wipe out the whole nest of you insect-eating aliens?"

“…No, no!” The translator in the cub’s ear wasn’t working very well, and it took it a while to understand Eros’s words. It then hugged the beautiful female insect in front of it tightly.

The female insect in front of him was clearly dangerous, but compared to the several female insects that had just dissected the human girl with scalpels, Eros seemed incredibly innocent and harmless.

Comparing the two, the cub still felt that Eros was safer.

But Eros wasn't having any of it. He picked up the alien and asked the busy research bug beside him, "What should we do with this alien hatchling?"

The research insect, stopped by Eros, glanced down at the pitiful offspring in Eros's hand and said speechlessly, "Alien offspring are too common here. We have a very complete set of alien genes, so there's no need to waste time studying them."

"You can go out and kill it or throw it away anywhere."

"..." Eros couldn't believe his ears. He picked up the seemingly obedient cub and held it up in front of the research insect: "This is an Xenomorph, an Xenomorph that eats insects! Handling it so casually, what if it escapes?"

“Here, this alien cub will be captured and eaten by the Bahotoo aliens in just a few days after it runs away.”

"???" Eros, holding the alien cub in his paw, wondered when aliens became so harmless?

Finally, Blo answered his question, "In a non-wartime situation between the two races, even the military will not indiscriminately slaughter aliens, star beasts, and other races within its territory, except for the Blue Star Pirates, who are star pirates and must be captured if we see them."

"So what should we do with this cub?" Eros held the cub up to his face.

"Killing him or sending him back is fine."

"If you want, you can take it home and keep it as a pet."

Upon hearing this, Eros looked at the cub clinging to his arm with a sour expression, who was fawning over him and wouldn't let go.

The alien cub clung to Eros's arm, trying its best to make cute expressions and movements, showing a strong will to survive.

“I’ll send it back in a few days.” Eros carried the mutant cub, put it back in the cage, and then carried it back to his dormitory at the military headquarters.

He'll send the little guy back to Macallan next time he has a holiday.

Eros was still wary of the alien cub in the cage. One cage couldn't contain it, so he added a simple electric fence around the outside of the cage.

Moby first felt threatened when it was by an adult female insect.

In the past, Moby and his siblings would turn and run away whenever they saw these female insects in military uniforms. Moby's dream was to save enough money for the whole family's boat tickets and take them on a smuggling black ship to live on other planets without these female insects.