Zerg: Seduction! A brutal and insane female Zerg dotes on me.

Yalta knew that the male insect would never betray her, but hearing his affirmative answer still touched her, and she had to face the matter again, since the slaughter was a fact.

Old King Worm kept quiet about the consequences to keep him around, but now that he's in Knox's hands, it won't be so easy for him to get away with it...

Yan Kai's gaze remained fixed on the female insect, and as he watched her expression soften before turning serious again, his heart skipped a beat.

The male insect in front of him had repeatedly schemed against and manipulated him, so even with their relationship through Alya, he could no longer trust him.

Yan Kai pondered for a moment, tightened his grip on their clasped hands, and made his stance and attitude clear: "Yalta, you are the hero of all the female insects in Longkoda, there is no doubt about that. I will not be afraid of this matter or have any other thoughts about you. They did something wrong, and this is the consequence they deserve."

Knox rolled his eyes inwardly upon hearing this; he could keep it to himself, but he just didn't want to talk about it.

"The Zerg have long lifespans. You might be able to hold out for a year or two, but what about ten, thirty, a hundred, or even two hundred years? Are you sure you can protect them? Besides, if they really die, what will they care about you?"

Yan Kai raised an eyebrow, sensing a hint of resentment in his words. Looking over in confusion, he noticed Knox constantly twirling the ring on his ring finger, and then thought of Alya, who was already thousands of miles away…

So, this guy couldn't find anyone to vent to, so he turned to his nephew?

"Knox, I am not you. Don't use your standards to judge me."

He wasn't one to make promises lightly; he had only ever made promises to Yalta in his life, so he hadn't left himself any way out.

Knox was so angry he gritted his teeth. He had thought that since they were both male insects, he could at least empathize with them, but this insect was even more crazy than his partner!

Made!

Thinking of my own stubborn worm, it would be a lie to say I'm not angry or resentful!

She went to great lengths, flattering and fawning over him to pave the way, only to end up losing both her money and her wealth!

What's even more infuriating is that his decades-long relationship with Alta couldn't compare to the two of them in front of him after just a few months!

Knox felt increasingly heartbroken and pointed at them, yelling, "Naive! He's going crazy and you're going crazy too? Does the whole galaxy revolve around you?"

Yalta, fearing that the other party might hurt Yan Kai, stepped aside to block him and warned in a low voice, "Knox, don't yell at my male insect."

These words only made Knox sour with envy.

Hands on hips, chest puffed out, but not as tall as the other person, and chin held high, he didn't exude much power, more like he was being unreasonable: "So what if I yell?"

Are you taking advantage of him being all alone now?

Yalta pulled Yan Kai back a few steps with obvious disgust, looking at the male insect with a complicated expression: "Nox, even if you are the insect king now, if you cross my bottom line, I will still make you pay."

Knox scoffed dismissively.

At this moment, he hated his identity and the female insect who abandoned him!

Tukari Palace is an exquisite and magnificent cage, with countless eyes watching his every move.

Alya was his life, and Knox didn't even dare to show too much affection, for fear that his rivals would notice something and put the female insect in danger.

But in the stillness of the night, guarding this empty palace, he always felt like a joke...

"Whoever wants to be the Insect King can have it!"

Yan Kai glanced at the closed door out of the corner of his eye and whispered a reminder: "Knox, watch your words."

Priscilla is an old-fashioned nobleman who loves etiquette and rules. This reckless and crazy behavior is unlike anything Knox would do. It seems that Arya's departure has really affected him a lot...

"So what if he heard me? That damned bug is gone...gone...he doesn't care at all, what use is this position to me..."

Yalta frowned. He had his reasons for disliking male insects. These insects not only loved to lament the passing of time, but they also loved to spout a lot of useless nonsense.

"Knox, don't waste your time here."

Knox pressed the tip of his tongue against his palate and glared at him: "What's the rush?"

He walked to the wine cabinet, opened it, and ran his fingers over the dazzling array of glass bottles, making a crisp clinking sound. Finally, he chose the strongest red wine, waved it at them, and asked, "Want some?"

Yan Kai had a phobia of this thing and shook his head in refusal.

Yalta, on the other hand, didn't even bother drinking with him.

Knox pursed his lips, deciding to drink it himself without even bothering to grab a glass. He chugged the bottle, the bright red liquid soaking his collar and messing up his meticulously styled hair, leaving a few strands hanging on his forehead. He looked utterly dejected.

The red wine was far too strong for the male insect. After just a few sips, Knox felt his steps falter, his face flushed red, and his vision blurred. He stumbled and fell onto the sofa. The glaring light pierced his eyes, and he turned his head to the side and closed his eyes. It seemed as if moisture was seeping out. The male insect paused for a moment, then slowly raised his hand to shield his eyes and quieted down.

Yalta, seeing Knox acting strangely, began to regret his earlier decision; he shouldn't have come along.

"Did you find out something?"

"You know more than I do."

"Is someone planning to attack Yan Kai?"

Knox chuckled and lowered his head: "You should be asking who doesn't want an S-class male insect."

"What do you mean?"

The male insect ignored him and, suppressing his anger, finished the rest of the wine.

Yalta, who had a short temper, saw him dawdling and urged him impolitely: "Knox, who are you putting on a show for if Alya isn't here?"

"Tch—" Knox grabbed the back of the sofa and sat up again, casually tossing away the wine bottle in his hand, looking somewhat exasperated: "By the God of Insects, I swear that if I had even a little bit of fighting power, I would not hesitate to rush up and tear your mouth apart."

Yalta: "That's a real shame. You'll only ever dream about it in your lifetime."

Knox paused, then suddenly chuckled foolishly, "You're just like Arya in that respect, always leaving the other insects speechless..."

When the mention of the insect he had been longing for softened his expression for a moment, but then the thought of being ruthlessly abandoned reignited his anger. He pounded the sofa a few times in a fit of rage, cursing, "Damn it!"

"Knox, don't go crazy..."

"go Ape?"

"I'm going to post it!"

The male insect suddenly sprang up from the sofa, glaring with its scarlet eyes: "Do you also think that I'm doing all this for the throne?"

Yalta didn't want to meddle in their business: "What you think is none of our concern."

"Unrelated? You are the king of Longkoda, the nephew of Alya. Everything I have done is for you!"

"Knox, what exactly are you trying to say?"

"I don't understand why Arya left. What heinous thing did I do to deserve this punishment!"

He couldn't understand why the female insect could be so cruel, giving up so easily.

Not only did she return the engagement ring, but she also withdrew all assets related to her, wanting to completely sever ties with him...

Knox gritted his teeth, his body trembling slightly from the effort.

After sleeping with him for so many years, you want to break up with him just because it's not right? No way!

Yalta didn't know much about Alya. The female insect had been traveling outside since he was old enough to understand things, but after all, they were from the same insect family and had the same genes in their bones.

Alya always looks smiling and easy to get along with, but he's actually not easy to approach. The fact that he was willing to carry two eggs proves that he's not entirely heartless towards Knox.

In the past, Yalta would have been too lazy to say a word, but now that he also has male insects he cares about, he can understand Arya's feelings to some extent.

"What he hates most is deception."

Moreover, it's the male insect that she cares about.

If one day Yan Kai also uses the slogan of "for his own good" to do something deceptive, he may not be able to forgive him.

Knox opened his mouth, then slumped weakly, his body hunched over: "Yes...yes...he did say that, but it's not that simple..."

Yalta dismissed it: "How difficult is it? Since you're together, you shouldn't be hiding anything from each other."

Knox's throat tightened, and he slumped back onto the sofa, the anger on his face fading, replaced by a faint sense of nostalgia: "Actually, before I met Alya, like most male insects, I had countless lovers, and I thought female insects were just little toys to be used in my spare time. I never thought I would lose my mind for a female insect..."

They met when they were teenagers, and Knox had never seen a female insect like Arya before.

Disregarding etiquette and rules, flamboyant and arrogant, so proud and confident that she is almost oblivious to everything else...

Knox was completely captivated at first sight, and secretly resolved that one day those silver-gray eyes would only hold his image.

For so many years he thought he had succeeded, until the female insect left and he realized that she had always left him a way out...

"Alya possesses an absolute talent for business and a keen understanding of market trends, but he is definitely not a qualified politician, and neither are you, Yalta. You are indeed strong, brave, and persistent enough, but that alone is not enough."

Since we've decided to take this path, we must set aside our pride and arrogance. Those diplomatic relations we once scorned, those cutthroat dealings among the nobility—these are all necessary steps. Otherwise, how much can we accomplish with just a few of us?"

Knox let out a deep breath, spread his legs, and leaned back on the sofa without any regard for appearances, his brow furrowed with exhaustion. Since Alya left, he had barely been able to get a full night's sleep.

Yalta stood silently to one side, unable to refute. He admitted that this was his weakness, and he could never be as adept at navigating social situations as Elke.

"I don't need to tell you how stubborn Alya is; as his nephew, you should know all too well. I've known him for over twenty years. In order to be together, I dismissed all my female servants and never touched another female insect again. I proposed to him no less than a hundred times, but he just wouldn't agree, even though we already have two insect offspring..."

Knox stopped, took out a pocket watch from his pocket, inside which was a family photo they had recently taken.

My fingertips brushed against the female insect's face, and my vision became slightly blurred.

Who says the Zerg don't have true feelings?

He dared to swear to the Insect God that he would only ever have one Arya in his life.

Knox gave a laugh that looked more like a grimace: "Of course, I'm shameless too, I'm willing to wait no matter how he refuses me."

He wants to leave the snowfields of the far north, a place isolated from the world for thousands of years, and I support him.

If I don't have enough connections, I'll do everything I can to fight for them.

Do I care about this position?

I don't care!

The only person I care about is Arya.

But his ambitions were too great.

We initially agreed to proceed step by step, starting with the far north sea. However, since your father passed away, he has become radical, wanting to completely open up external channels and connect the far north with the Zerg continent. This is no small matter, nor is it a problem that can be solved overnight.

The Zerg race comprises millions of tribes, large and small. There are countless obstacles right at your doorstep, not to mention his frenzied market monopolization and repeated suppression of the south in recent years as he's focused on fundraising. Sometimes, being too aggressive only breeds jealousy among the Zerg.

"The war in Longkoda was quelled so easily. The list you gave Kolo was incomplete. The real mastermind behind the Xiong Party, besides your old enemies, is another hidden mastermind. They have been infiltrating the royal family little by little for the past ten years, providing various stimulant drugs to the noble males. And all the firearms for this internal strife were also provided by them."

Yalta raised his head, his face cold and stern, and said, word by word, "The South—a land of plenty."

He knew that the South was involved, but the undercover agents were too deeply embedded, and there was still no concrete news.

Knox crossed his legs: "Yes, but you still haven't found out who the mole is, have you?"

"you know?"

"That's why I said you're still too green."

Yalta frowned, the image of the Frostfire Rose on the road suddenly flashing through his mind, and looked at him with a cold gaze: "You've reached an agreement with the South."

“I admit that I only used Yan Kai from beginning to end, but I want to say that the purpose of doing so was also to protect him.”

Yalta knew that many things were involved, and now he was even less willing to involve the male insect: "Pushing him into the limelight is called protection?"

"Yan Kai is an S-class male insect, a precious resource on the insectoid continent. Envoys from various tribes are openly and secretly trying to find out about him, all hoping to bring him to their tribes. Don't you have any idea what they're up to?"

Yalta became furious when the topic came up: "Isn't this the good thing you did?"

"Longkoda has informants everywhere; news of his arrival had already spread far and wide on the very first day he appeared!"

Yalta narrowed his eyes, his lowered voice carrying a dangerous undertone: "This is my male insect."

"That depends on whether you have the life to hold on!"

"I'd like to see who can snatch Yan Kai away from me."

Knox cursed inwardly, "If they join forces, the far north will be razed to the ground. Why would they need to rob us?"

Yalta gripped the male insect's hand tightly, met Knox's gaze, and said firmly, "If the race is wiped out, he will die with me."

If you can't protect it, destroy it.

Yan Kai raised an eyebrow, thinking that this approach was indeed very 'Yalta', and he liked it.

Knox, hearing the similar words of the uncle and nephew, stood up agitated, furious at the female insect's stubbornness.

"Yalta! Leader of Yalta! If you want to secure this position, use your brains and make full use of all your connections. Why insist on taking the most difficult path? It's you female insects who will suffer the consequences of starting a war!"

Male Zerg are not porcelain dolls that you can only protect behind your backs. This is the Zerg continent, a place where male Zerg are treasured! Sometimes a single word or attitude from a male Zerg is more useful than a hundred victories for you. Use them when the time is right!

I've said before that I'm not your enemy. Even if you don't consider me a friend, I will always be your ally!

Although Prisket is rotten to the core, he is still the only and universally acknowledged king of Morbis. As long as Yan Kai holds this title, anyone who wants to touch him will have to think twice before offending me.

Alya always felt that I was too calculating and too scheming, but that's the rule of the game. Unless you quit halfway, you'll have to endure this torment for the rest of your life...

"Look at those frost-covered roses scattered all over the ground by the door; they are a celebration from the south, and a sincere expression of hope for a marriage alliance with the Priestessard royal family..."

Knox stopped, looked at Yan Kai and Yalta, and gave a smile that was more like a grimace: "Then I traded twenty for a permit to mine the southern ley lines..."

While using Yan Kai, wasn't he also using himself...?