EROS [Zerg]

Hearing the familiar voice, Luo Lan blinked her tear-filled eyes and loudly rebuked Eros, who was standing outside the door:

"fraud!!"

"I'm not a liar." Eros slowly walked to the bedside, holding a cushion. "Here I am, aren't I?"

"You big liar!" Luo Lan angrily raised a pillow about the same size as him and was about to throw it.

"Don't throw it." Just as the pillow was about to hit him, Eros suddenly became stern and said, "If it hits me, I'm leaving. Once I'm gone, no bug will be able to understand what you're saying, and no bug will talk to you anymore."

This sudden threat worked; upon hearing Eros's words, Roland stopped what he was doing.

The male insect's eyes kept overflowing with tears, as if it had suffered a great injustice.

Seeing Eros reach out and slowly approach him, the little male lost his earlier bravado. He stretched out his arms and buried his face in Eros's chest, crying and pounding on the female insect's shoulder: "Luo Lan is so hungry, waaaah... I have no strength left... waaaah..."

Eros held the male insect cub and gently coaxed it, then gestured to the doctor to bring over the cub's food.

A doctor in a white protective gown handed over a vial of milky-yellow liquid and, seeing Eros's puzzled expression, explained, "This is a nutrient solution for cubs."

Eros looked at the little boy, who was about the same weight as Kam, and was somewhat surprised. Kam was now a little cake, soft-hearted, and would put anything he liked into his mouth.

"Ptooey, this tastes awful." Luo Lan took the nutrient solution from Eros's claws, took a sip, and before she could even swallow, she couldn't help but stick out her tongue.

"I want candy! I want a little bread roll!"

Luo Lan grabbed Eros's shoulders and cried out.

Eros turned to the doctor helplessly: "Doctor, is there any food that tastes better? Xiongzi said he wants to eat sweets."

Upon hearing Eros's words, the doctor pushed up his glasses and said sternly, "According to his physical examination results, this unnamed male insect cub can only be fed with nutrient solution or the milk of a lactating female insect."

"This is the military headquarters. Where are we going to find a nursing female insect?" Eros was speechless. This insect cub was so big and still hadn't been weaned.

As soon as Eros finished asking the question, the doctors around him suddenly fell silent. Finally, a younger female insect spoke up: "It seems that Admiral Rand has not yet finished her lactation period."

Would Admiral Rand be willing to do that?

"He has no choice but to do it for the sake of the male insect offspring. Anyway, his insect offspring are not in the sixth star system, and it would be a waste not to feed them milk."

"He's just a general. If he dares to refuse and let the S+ level male insect cub go hungry, His Majesty the Insect Emperor will definitely punish him, and he might even be demoted!"

"..."

"..."

Eros, holding Roland, listened in disbelief to the doctors' heated discussion. Finally, he decided to report to his superiors and have General Rand feed the male insect cub until it was taken back to the First Star System.

Luo Lan couldn't understand anything. He found it amusing to see Eros's surprised expression, so he rubbed his cheeks and made a surprised face in return.

The doctors were very efficient. Before long, footsteps could be heard outside the ward, followed by a knock on the door.

When the door opened, standing outside was General Rand, dressed in military uniform with a gloomy expression.

Eros's body tensed abruptly, and Luo Lan in his arms was also startled by the expression on the female soldier's face. She shrank her face to Eros's neck and said, "So scary, I'm scared."

Eros's soft hair brushed against Luo Lan's face, and the little boy peeked out from the gap.

The black-haired, red-eyed female insect, with a body like a cold, hard stone statue, walked up to the military doctors with a gloomy expression: "What should I do?"

"General, please come this way." The doctor opened the door behind him and let Rand follow him inside: "For the sake of Xiongzi's health, we need to examine you."

Rand's eyes were full of impatience. He nodded in agreement and followed the doctor into the room.

Eros held Roland in his arms, and they stared at each other.

"What is that big monster trying to do?" Luo Lan asked Eros quietly, pointing to the closed door.

"..." Eros looked down at Luo Lan: "He went to find you something to eat."

"Really?" Luo Lan looked at Eros with sparkling eyes: "I want to eat strawberry cookies and chocolate cakes, is that okay?"

"No, you can only drink... milk here."

Upon hearing Eros's words, Roland's eyebrows furrowed instantly, and she covered her mouth tightly with both hands: "I don't like milk!"

Eros didn't know what milk was, but he figured it must be something like that: "Cookies and cakes are made with milk, so if you can eat those things, why can't you drink milk?"

"No, Mom says I'm allergic to milk." Luo Lan shook her head vigorously. "My cookies and cakes don't contain milk."

Eros didn't understand what Luo Lan was saying. He was just thinking that the difference between the reorganization and the Blue Star Thief was huge, so naturally there wouldn't be the "milk" that Luo Lan mentioned.

Eros didn't have much patience for Roland until the closed door opened and a doctor in a white protective suit came out, holding a syringe in his hand, urging Eros: "Hurry up and feed the male, don't just stand there."

Eros took the syringe and noticed that it was still warm, which sent a chill down his spine.

When Eros brought the syringe with the suction device attached to Luo Lan's lips, Luo Lan turned her head away in disgust: "I won't drink it!"

"If you don't drink, they will starve to death, and you'll never find your mother." Seeing that Luo Lan was not cooperating, Eros turned around and, from an angle where the doctors behind him couldn't see, coldly threatened her in a language that the other female insects couldn't understand.

Luo Lan shook her head.

Eros's eyes narrowed dangerously. He remembered that Roland had always denied being an insect, claiming to be a "human," so...

“If you don’t obey, they will find out you’re not a bug. If they find out you’re not a bug, you’ll be strangled.”

Luo Lan shut her mouth, her face showing a tearful expression, and opened her mouth with a wronged look to bite the "baby bottle nipple" that Eros was offering.

"Waaah...you bad guy...uh?!" Luo Lan opened her mouth and clicked her tongue: "It's not milk...it doesn't taste bad."

"If it doesn't taste bad, don't waste it." Eros grabbed a handful of hair from Roland's head.

Eros wasn't worried about being criticized by the other doctors, because he was the only one here who could talk to the little male insect.

Unable to express his own thoughts, Roland could only rely on Eros as his translator, so he trusted only this monster who could communicate with him.

The Empire's high regard for Rolan, this S+ rank male insectoid, has, in a sense, given Eros the privilege of "using the emperor to command the princes."

But Eros's mind was not on this matter.

The baby insect in his arms was still eating in a daze, but Eros's gaze fell on the half-closed door.

Not long after, the door was opened, and Rand still had the same sour face as when he came in. He looked at the doctors outside with displeasure. When his gaze swept over Eros, his eyes paused, his lips trembled, and his brows furrowed even more. In the end, he left the ward alone without saying a word.