EROS [Zerg]

"What?! You don't want it anymore?! What did you say you don't want it anymore?!"

“That’s a live bug! Hey! Hey!” Jessica stared wide-eyed at the screen on the terminal. She had just contacted Ryanley’s male father. The male bug was very gentle when it first heard Jessica’s voice, but after Jessica said Ryanley’s name, the male bug’s voice became distant, and it even said things like “Do whatever you want with it.”

Jessica was furious. She glared fiercely at Ryanley, who was cowering in the hospital corridor, but couldn't find a single word to say.

He held the information about female insects he had obtained from the male insect protection association in his claws. After looking at it several times, he finally realized that the female insect in front of him was an illiterate woman who had not even received basic compulsory education.

Jessica's male and female fathers protected her very well, and before meeting Ryanley, there was never any injustice in Jessica's world.

Jessica once struggled to understand why some female insects harbored such deep hostility towards male insects, especially given the egalitarian rhetoric from some rebel groups on the StarNet.

But now, looking at the thin and small Ryanley in front of her, Jessica's inner confusion was resolved.

"Your father doesn't want to compensate me for emotional distress, so the Male Insect Protection Association is going to compensate me with you. You don't have any objections, do you?"

Ryan looked around frantically. He had never left the house, but he had seen how his male father treated the female insects in the house who were forced to mate by the male insect protection association.

Ryanley was a little scared, but he knew that female insects had no right to refuse male insects, so it was better to submit than to resist.

Ryanley nodded.

Jessica didn't think much of it. Seeing the female insect nod, she assumed it was voluntary, so she took Ryanley home.

After seeing their male offspring bring home a female insect, Jessica's male and female parents discussed it all night and decided to let Jessica take Ryanley out to start her own business.

Jessica stood at the door with her luggage, looking completely bewildered. The male and female fathers said that insects with families shouldn't live with them anymore.

Jessica suspected that the two insects had been planning to do this for a long time.

He turned to look at Ryanley, who was following behind him with a terrified and dejected expression, and sighed inwardly.

Jessica took Ryanley to one of her properties, thinking it would be nice to have a bug help her clean and look at the house, but she didn't expect that Ryanley couldn't even use the most basic mechanical tools.

Considering how poor the female insect's survival ability was, Jessica simply packed Ryanley up and sent him to school to complete his compulsory education.

Perhaps it was the novelty of starting school for the first time, or perhaps it was the feeling of finally grasping at a straw, but Ryanley performed exceptionally well at school.

Moreover, Jessica would pick him up every time school was out for holidays. Due to Ryanley's deliberate manipulation, the female insects in the school all thought that Ryanley was very popular with the male insects and had male insects backing him up. They all admired him and even formed a small group with him as the leader.

Jessica was completely unaware of all this. He just felt that Ryanley was progressing very quickly and was a very intelligent female insect. Ryanley could even help him with some basic tasks.

The two insects lived together for ten years. During those ten years, they developed their own businesses, established a toy company, and naturally fell in love and slept together... but they did not get married.

Every time Jessica proposed marriage, Ryanley would refuse.

Jessica found it strange. Isn't marrying a male insect the dream of all female insects? Why was Ryanley unwilling?

Jessica didn't know when it started, but she felt like she couldn't understand Ryanley anymore. It was a strange feeling, as if he would disappear from her life tomorrow.

Jessica once thought Ryanley would never leave her, but a few years later the two worms had a disagreement over the company's business issues.

Laneley was pursuing maximum profit and wanted to sell the company to a nobleman to secure more orders.

Jessica, however, believes that her creativity will be restricted after the company is acquired, and that their current company will become a soulless processing plant, so she is unwilling to sell the company.

Although she disagreed with Ryanley, Jessica still believed he would side with her, since she still owned the company. However, Jessica never expected that Ryanley would conspire with the nobles to betray her and bankrupt her company.

By the time he came to his senses, his company had already been acquired by that nobleman.

Ryanley received the kickback from the nobleman, started his own company, and registered his marriage with a minor nobleman male insect.

After that, Ryanley multiplied his business many times over in the next few years, becoming a completely unfamiliar insect to Jessica.

"Eros, who is he?"

Camus overheard Eros and Ryanley's conversation in the room and sensed that the female insect was speaking in an unfriendly tone. So, he puffed out his cheeks and walked between the two insects, ready to play the hero and help Eros drive away this annoying female insect.

But before he could even speak, Eros lifted him off the ground and hoisted him onto his shoulder.

"When the big bug is talking, the little bug shouldn't interrupt, or I'll tell Commander En'er."

"Eros, you're not allowed to tell your mother on me!" As soon as Kama heard that Eros was going to tell on him, he immediately pouted and covered Eros's mouth with his paw.

Eros glanced at Ryanley with disdain, then, while carrying Camus, kicked Ryanley out of the house.

Perhaps it was a case of like repels like, but after hearing about Ryanley's past from Jessica, Eros didn't have a good impression of him. It wasn't that he thought Ryanley was of low character, but rather that Eros felt a vague sense of crisis.

Eros thought that perhaps Ryanley was the same kind of worm as himself.

But he hated insects like himself the most. Being with such insects made it easy for them to see through his thoughts, and Eros hated that feeling the most.

However, Eros was certain that Ryanley would come looking for him again.

Ryanley is a female insect who values ​​interests above all else. From his past with Jessica, Eros can guess that in this female insect's heart, interests always come before feelings.

Because interests represent security, and security allows him to survive.

Ryanley's capital has penetrated four-fifths of the various industries in the Fourth Star System, but it has been unable to enter the military industry.

The Zerg are still expanding outwards, making their military industry highly profitable. Ryanley has also set his sights on this lucrative market and wants a piece of the pie.

However, the military industry has extremely high barriers to entry, and the high-end military industry is directly controlled by the imperial court.

Ryanley spent a lot of time and money trying to cultivate relationships in order to get a share of the profits, but with little success.

Eros guessed that Ryanley had come to him about this matter; military mechanics were rare talents and a stepping stone for advancement.

Moreover, he deliberately mentioned Commander Enel's name in front of Ryanley just now in order to reveal to him that he had military connections.

Although Eros felt somewhat sorry for Commander Enl, he still did it.

The reason he went to such lengths was not because he had any designs on Ryanley, but because he wanted to use Ryanley's reaction to confirm his suspicions about Commander Enel.

Eros recalled what he had overheard in the examination room of the Fourth Star Legion last time, and he was very skeptical. Did Commander Enl, an ordinary major, really have that much power?

Or is Commander Ener really just an ordinary female major?

Eros is a newcomer who knows nothing, but Ryanley is different. He is a seasoned businessman who has been working in the Fourth Star System for a long time and has an exceptionally well-connected network of information.

If Ryanley can't find the information, Eros won't be able to find it in a short time either.

Thinking this, the female insect took a deep breath, hugged the little male in her arms, walked to the window, and gently exhaled.