EROS [Zerg]

Luo Lan tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. Although Uncle Lin Ying said he was dangerous, a bug, and a bad guy, the bug had just been protecting him.

Luo Lan got dressed, put on his shoes, and pushed open the door. He wanted to go find the female insect from earlier.

Perhaps it was all a misunderstanding, and that might have been a good insect.

The bloodstains on the corridor floor had been wiped clean, but Luo Lan could still smell the scent of the female insect. He followed the scent and was eventually stopped in front of a large alloy door.

"Little Luo Lan, it's so late, why aren't you sleeping? What are you doing here?" Lü Liang stood in front of Luo Lan, smiling as he looked at her, who was standing with her legs crossed in front of the metal door.

"Uncle Lü, I want to go in." Luo Lan stretched out her arms to Lü Liang, asking to be picked up.

“This isn’t a place for children.” Lü Liang picked up Luo Lan, but didn’t intend to take him inside.

Luo Lan shook her head and pointed to the metal door, then told Lü Liang what had just happened: "He's definitely not the bad bug. Can you let him out?"

"Let him out?" Lü Liang rubbed Luo Lan's head. "What are you talking about, kid? If you let him out, your mother will punish me."

“Then we won’t tell Mom.” Luo Lan held up a finger and pressed it to her chubby lips: “Shh…we’ll do it quietly.”

Seeing Luo Lan's coquettish manner, Lü Liang helped him onto his shoulder and half-jokingly asked, "You really want to go in?"

"Uh-huh."

"There are all big bad guys in there. Don't go in and start crying."

"You'll protect me, or my mom will spank you!" Luo Lan nodded, then whispered with a grin in Lü Liang's ear.

"You ungrateful brat!" Lü Liang gently patted Luo Lan's head, then took out the key from his pocket, opened the door, and led him inside.

As soon as Luo Lan stepped through the alloy gate, he could hear the clanging of metal objects and was drawn in by various strange, mottled smells.

"What does it taste like?" Luo Lan looked up at Lü Liang; he really loved this smell.

"Smell?" Lü Liang shook his head: "There's no smell here. I clean it very thoroughly every day."

"Some of them taste very, very sweet. Did you hide some candy here?" Luo Lan reached out her little hand to rummage through Lü Liang's pocket.

"You're accusing me wrongly." Lü Liang didn't stop her, letting the little hand rummage through his empty pockets.

"No candy? That's strange. Then why does it smell so good?" Luo Lan sniffed the air and pointed down the corridor.

"The fragrance is coming from inside."

Lü Liang adjusted his glasses with one hand and put Luo Lan down on the ground: "If you want to know, go and see for yourself. You've gotten too fat and heavy, I'm not going to carry you."

"Hmph!" Luo Lan pouted and pulled Lü Liang in his white protective suit, leading him inside.

Lü Liang opened the last door for him, and the first thing Luo Lan saw when the door opened was the blue-haired female insect from before.

A sturdy metal fence separated them from the female insect. The female insect's enormous exoskeleton was imprisoned on the wall, and her neck, hands, and feet were tied to the wall with electrically charged suppression rings. Her white body was covered in bloody wounds, much like the Helena Morpho butterfly specimen from ancient Earth that Luo Lan had seen in her mother's room.

Luo Lan looked at Lü Liang and said, "He's so pitiful. Can you let him go? He just protected me."

"Pitiful? What in this universe could be more pitiful than homeless humans?" Lü Liang sneered and patted Luo Lan's head: "He just killed Bai Sheng. He's very dangerous. Don't let him fool you."

When Luo Lan heard that the female insect had killed someone, her little face froze. She ran to the metal railing, stuck her head out, and shouted, "Hey, why did you kill Bai Sheng?"

The female insect, pinned to the wall, heard this small question. Although she couldn't understand it, she could tell from the voice that the little insect in front of her was being brainwashed by the blue star in white clothes.

No, absolutely not.

Male Zerg should return to the Zerg and be protected by them.

We cannot allow these blue stars to corrupt their Zerg males, absolutely not.

Thinking of this, Lan tried to mobilize his mental energy again, but as soon as he started to mobilize his mental energy, a powerful electric current ran through his body, making him suffer excruciating pain!

"Ahhh! Ahhh!!" he screamed, his body trembling violently, his face contorted with pain and terror.

"Do you still want to keep watching here?" Lü Liang looked down at Luo Lan, who only grew up to his knees.

Looking at the female insect pinned to the wall in pain, Luo Lan inexplicably felt a pang of heartache.

"He's so scary, no, I can't watch anymore..."

Luo Lan just wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. He was terrified and quickly crawled back into Lü Liang's arms to hide.

The adult man pinched Luo Lan's little nose and mocked, "Coward."

Luo Lan shrank into the adult's arms, too preoccupied to argue.

Lü Liang picked up Luo Lan and led him to the base's corridor: "Good boy, you should go back to sleep now."

"Go back quickly."

After seeing Luo Lan off, he glanced back at the cage where the female insects were imprisoned, chuckled softly, and walked back.

Lan was being tortured to the point of near death by the powerful electric current. This torture device was even more severe than the inhibition ring that male insects used to train female insects. His mind was beginning to wander, and his memory seemed to be going back to half a month ago when his male master sold him to a female slave club.

Originally, Lan was not particularly moved by this, as buying and selling female slaves was a normal thing among male insects. However, to his surprise, he and the female slaves who were traded with him were not locked up in the so-called underground auction house for the next transaction. Instead, they were packaged as goods and transported on a dilapidated interstellar cargo ship, and sold to Blue Star thieves as smuggled items.

The female insects sent here are divided into small boxes of only one square meter each, and are given very little food each day.

Then she would be dragged out and mate with the males among these space pirates until she became pregnant with insect offspring. Once the insect offspring had grown to a certain size inside her, the female insect would be taken away and never return.

Although these blue star thieves look very similar to the males, they lack the pheromones that induce the females to actively open their reproductive cavities, making the mating process extremely painful and bloody for the females.

Lan despised these Blue Star Thieves. In the Zerg's perception, the genes of Blue Star Thieves were all inferior and low-grade. Therefore, 600 years ago, those female Zerg who became "fake male Zerg" rulers and servants were all scrapped by the Empire.

If the female insect's body is contaminated, even the empire will be impossible to return to.

If this is how things are going to end, Lan Ning would rather die now than let these inferior genes benefit from it.