EROS [Zerg]

Eros walked into the lounge with a stack of documents in his hand.

Upon entering the cabin, I saw Lan, who was already awake:

"you're awake."

"It's you."

Lan recognized the female insect as soon as he saw those purple eyes. His eyebrows, which had relaxed from his daze, asked, "How did you get here?"

"Thanks to you."

Eros approached Lan and handed him the report.

"What is this?" Lan put his legs on the edge of the bed and held the report in confusion. The contents and professional terms on it made him frown.

"Congratulations, you can continue to live."

Seeing that Lan couldn't understand, Eros explained it to him simply.

"I know what I've been through, you don't need to remind me." Lan still didn't like Eros, and now Eros's condescending tone annoyed him even more.

“Alright.” Eros shrugged. “Now think carefully about what you saw at those Blue Star Pirates’ places, and the origin of that male insect cub. When we get to the military headquarters, General Rand will personally interrogate us.”

"Interrogate us?" Lan frowned. "What does this have to do with you?"

"It was originally none of my business, but who would have thought that I would be hit by your spaceship while crossing the asteroid belt?"

Eros didn't say what he did, but Lan was so smart that she quickly realized that her rescue was very likely related to Eros.

"You saved me?"

Hearing Lan's humble tone, Eros was secretly pleased: "How do you plan to repay me?"

"What do you want?" Lan looked at Eros in front of her, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

The prostitute he once looked down on now has a legitimate status that allows her to join the army, and has now become his savior.

“I’m not kidding you anymore.” Eros saw through Lan’s thoughts. He never intended to ask for anything in return. “It was the military’s rescue team that saved you. I just sent a distress call.”

"Tsk." Lan frowned and turned her head to the side:

"Eros, aren't you feeling quite smug?"

"Smug?" Eros looked at the look of disgust on Lan's face, his expression indifferent:

"I have many things I'm proud of. Which one are you referring to?"

Lan lowered her head, her expression contemptuous, and said, "You were once a lowly prostitute who could only crawl on her knees and beg for mercy in the mud, but now you can stand here in a crisp military uniform, making fun of me... Isn't that being too smug?"

Upon hearing this, Eros closed his eyes, stretched out his two claws in front of Lan, took a deep breath, and opened his eyes: "I, a disabled female insect, was able to go from the Comet Class to the Star Class on my own, to become a qualified military mechanic with my two claws, to support myself, to become a battlefield intern, to be able to pilot mechs, repair and pilot warships and spaceships, and even if I lose my insect wings, I can still use mechanical wings to take flight again."

“I will use them for many, many more things.” Eros spread his paws out in front of Lan, his face dejected. “I am proud of the value they bring me, but you only remember that they once grabbed the male insect’s leg.”

Lan gripped the edge of the steel bed with her claws and shouted angrily, "Eros, do you think that all the female insects who knew about that incident back then are still in the underground auction house, and that just because you came out, no insects will know about the disgusting things you did, so you can feel at ease thinking that you are a good insect?"

"I stopped caring a long time ago."

"Eros, you must remember that you are nothing but a rotten, vile worm." Lan looked at Eros's expressionless face and felt even more disgusted with him.

When Lan first met Eros, the thin female insect was dragged before his former male lord like an animal, her hands and feet bound.

They dragged them in looking pitiful, then threw them out looking filthy.

At first, Lan felt sympathy for the female insect, but as a female slave, he had no way to save Eros.

Just because it looks like Evanson, it was used as an outlet for the male insects' frustration after being humiliated by Evanson.

Not only the male insects, but also the female insects who had been suppressed by Evanson would spend a lot of money to buy a night with a female prostitute who looked like Evanson in the underground auction.

Lan's former male lord was a frequent visitor to Eros. Although the male insect could never get close to the dazzling "Imperial Rose," he still often coveted the female insect's upright and graceful figure on the Star Network.

Lan often saw Eros being tortured in various ways in the dimly lit rooms of the underground auction house, following the male insects.

The female insect, surrounded and huddled in the corner, looked pitiful. Her violet eyes were constantly overflowing with tears, like cracked glass.

Lan pitied Eros like this, and liked Eros like this. Even when he was forcibly violated by the male insect, Eros did not give up. He would fight back, and even if he was beaten, he would keep fighting until he was paralyzed by the drug.

Lan liked Eros like this. She didn't think he was dirty. On the contrary, she thought Eros was like a piece of inorganic glass. No matter how dirty he got, he would be pure and flawless after being wiped clean.

However, this fondness crumbled when Eros took the initiative to drape his arm over the arms of various male insects.

Watching Eros awkwardly fawn over the male insects, watching the female insects softly echo the vulgar jokes made by the male insects, and sometimes even going so far as to perform some humiliating actions and speak ill of him in order to win the favor of the male insects and those female insects who had a grudge against Evanson Eastland.

At that moment, Lan felt extremely disgusted; Eros became the most disgusting female insect in the entire underground auction house in his mind.

What disgusted Lan even more was that Eros could crawl out of that hell and stand openly in front of her.

Eros turned slightly and stopped by the door: "Everything looks rotten when you're standing in a garbage dump."

"Falling into the trash can doesn't mean I can't climb out, it doesn't mean I have to stay in there forever." Eros slightly opened his eyes, his gaze towards Lan devoid of emotion.

“You guys who want to trap me physically and mentally, I’ll smash your faces to pieces with these claws.”

After speaking, Eros opened the hatch and walked out of the lounge. There was still half a star hour to go before reaching the headquarters of the Sixth Star System.

Eros stood at the window of the spaceship's corridor, looking out at the dark universe. His thoughts drifted back to that dark basement from a few years ago.

What was I thinking at that time?

Eros couldn't remember.

Eros's memory has always been excellent; he can remember anything he sees, but now he can't recall what he was thinking when he was curled up in that dark corner.

"What are you looking at?"

The young male with black hair and purple eyes hid in the corner of the corridor, tilting his head to look at Eros.

Luo Lan was incredibly bored; the only person on this spaceship who could understand him was the blonde, purple-eyed female insect in front of him.

So, in order to please Eros, Roland slipped a piece of candy that Roland's mother had given her into Eros's paw.