EROS [Zerg]

Eros felt a throbbing pain in his fist. Male insects don't have such a hard exoskeleton; this is the female's.

A muffled groan came from beside him. Eros looked up and saw that it was Alai!

"Alex?!" Eros panicked and rushed to help Alex, who had stumbled after being punched to the ground.

"How are you? Are you hurt?"

Alex placed a paw on Eros's shoulder and shook his head: "I'm fine."

Eros looked at Alex's pale face and wasn't sure how much of his conversation with Bami had been overheard.

Eros helped Alex up: "Why did you come out? I'll take you back."

“Okay.” Alex nodded.

Eros hadn't held back his punch, and Alex hadn't received any military-style physical training. He could clearly hear the sound of his exoskeleton cracking in the area where he was hit.

Alex could barely stand with Eros's help, but he had no time to worry about his injuries.

His face was deathly pale; all he wanted was for Eros to take him away from there.

Compared to the pain of discovering he had been deceived by the male insect, a more painful and desperate sense of suffocation enveloped him. Alai's body and mind became extremely tormented, as if an invisible black hand was gripping all the organs under his exoskeleton, constantly ravaging and squeezing, trying to drown him in this endless darkness.

Alai leaned painfully against the cold hospital wall, his gaze falling on Bami Xiongzi's face. He found himself unable to utter a single word, his eyes red and filled with tears.

“Alai…” Eros felt both heartache and anger when he saw Alai’s trembling body.

Seeing the female insect's red eyes, the male insect, who had previously shown little interest in her, suddenly became interested. He stepped forward and asked, "Alex, why are you out here?"

Alex stared blankly as Bami walked up to him nonchalantly, as if the despicable thing he had just confessed to wasn't something he had done.

“You heard what I just said to your friend. The Kritata family can still forgive and forget and make you a female servant.” Bami’s smile was very gentle, exactly the same warm smile that Alai had first seen and fallen for.

"After all this trouble, you've gone from wanting to marry a B-grade male insect to wanting to marry an A-grade male insect. It's not a bad deal."

Alex was stunned. His usually sharp mind seemed to have been glued shut after hearing the male insect's words, and his eyes went blank for a moment.

Eros had never seen Alai so disheveled. Holding his paw, he trembled with anger: "Your Excellency shouldn't be so overconfident...!"

"Eros!" Alai immediately stopped Eros, worried that he might say something that would anger the male insect and get him into trouble again, which would not be worth it.

"Eros, my stomach hurts. Take me to the doctor." Alex was on edge; the dull pain in his abdomen gave him a bad feeling.

After hearing Alex's words, Eros didn't want to argue with the male insect anymore. He bent down, picked up Alex, and wanted to take him to see a doctor.

But as soon as he picked up the female insect, a fishy smell rushed into Eros's nostrils.

He looked down and didn't see any marks on Alex's clothes that shouldn't be there.

Suddenly, Eros realized something, his expression changed drastically, and without caring about anything else, he picked up Alex and ran towards the nearest treatment room, shouting for a doctor as he ran.

Because Eros made so much noise, doctors and nurses soon came out of the duty room.

"What's wrong with him?" Dr. Magellan had just finished an operation and returned to the ward when he saw Eros running frantically outside the duty room, carrying a pregnant female insect.

"Blood...he's bleeding!"

Eros was certain that the stench he had just smelled was the smell of blood.

Although Dr. Magellan's expression was somewhat pale and numb as he looked at the female insect in Eros's arms, she was still conscious.

He didn't see any blood on the female insect, and the female insect's body has an extremely strong ability to heal wounds, so bleeding is usually not a fatal injury.

Seeing the fear on Eros's face, Dr. Magellan asked his assistant to help him take them to the treatment room for a check-up.

"Female insects have a strong healing ability. Even if they are pregnant, bleeding usually won't be life-threatening. Which of those female soldiers in the army doesn't go to the battlefield while carrying eggs? You don't need to be too afraid..." The assistant next to him wanted to comfort the pale-faced Eros. He was obviously a little female insect who had never experienced such bloodshed and violence, and was so frightened by the sight of blood.

Eros stood to the side, nodding helplessly. It wasn't that he hadn't seen blood before, but for some reason, he had just felt a sense of panic, as if something terrible had happened.

It was as if some terrible, unknown thing had happened to me before: the heavy stench of blood, the coldness of my body, the resentment...

"Quickly, get the operating room ready!"

Dr. Magellan's urgent shout startled both Eros's assistant, who was trying to calm him down, and Eros himself.

Eros turned his head and his gaze fell on a pool of dark red blood clots.

To ensure stability, Arretta's mechanical prostheses are worn starting from the waist.

So when Alai was bleeding from her lower body, it wasn't visible from the outside, but in reality, the blood was all trapped in her reproductive cavity and the metal belt that held her waist in place.

Eros pleaded for a quick cure for Alex, only to be told: "His reproductive cavity is blocked by blood clots, which could cause adhesions. For the safety of the eggs inside, we must remove his reproductive cavity."

"Isn't there a gentler way?" Eros didn't know anything about medicine, but he had heard that many female insects would die from a mental breakdown when their reproductive cavities were removed.

“This is necessary for the safety of the eggs.” Dr. Magellan looked coldly at Eros and urged, “Go find the male of this female insect. We are currently giving the female an IV, but if we want to perform surgery, we need the male’s signature.”

"Can't we just get rid of the egg? Save my friend's life first," Eros asked. In his mind, the egg inside Alex was just an egg, not yet hatched, and naturally not as important as the living Alex.

"Are you insane?!" Dr. Magellan slammed the medical record in his hand onto the table beside him and roared at Eros, "He has two worm eggs in his stomach, one of which is a male worm egg. Even if he dies, we must ensure that male worm egg is safe."

"You're going to remove the egg? If anything happens to that male egg, your friend, you, and we will all be judged by the Male Insect Protection Association. No one will escape!" Dr. Magellan rolled his eyes at Eros, looking at him as if he were a clueless little bug. "For the sake of your friend, go find his male parent right now to sign the papers. He's still bleeding from his reproductive cavity. If we don't operate quickly, no one can guarantee what will happen."

“…He’s not married, he has no master, I’ll sign this document!” Eros couldn’t expect the male insect, who was using the alias Bami, to play any role at this time. He took a deep breath: “I’ll take full responsibility.”