StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Upon hearing this, Saenster suddenly realized that his precious insect queen hadn't had a chance to eat since she was born.

The thought of this caused visible panic on the man's face.

He did something wrong again.

"It was my mistake." Saenster's disappointment was palpable; he wished he could offer Shen Qingqing everything edible on the entire planet.

"Your Majesty is still young, please wait a moment, I will go find something you can eat right away."

Before Shen Qingqing could hear what the man said, a gentle breeze swept by, and the man who had just been alive and saying he wanted to apologize disappeared in the next second.

Wasn't he still injured? How come he's suddenly full of energy again?

The newly born Zerg Queen waited alone in a small cave for her personal guard to return.

Logically speaking, a race as brave and warlike as the Zerg should have a queen with some special abilities, but Shen Qingqing had nothing but injuries all over her body, and even her clothes were borrowed.

She tried calling out to the non-existent system in her mind, and tried sending messages to her beloved home on Earth using brainwaves, but it was clear that the home she once loved was no longer there in this world.

Before long, it started to drizzle outside. Shen Qingqing supported herself on her arms and slowly moved to the cave entrance.

She reached out and caught the raindrops dripping from the bluish-gray stone wall. The rainwater quickly gathered in her fair palm, and the cool touch stimulated her spirit.

Water means life exists, and she can maintain basic life activities by drinking water until she receives assistance.

The verdant planet is almost entirely covered with tall trees and lush ferns. The air, which was originally somewhat stuffy, gradually cooled down as the rain fell, and even became a bit cold.

It was a tropical rainforest climate. Shen Qingqing swept her hair behind her back and lowered her head to drink water.

According to Earth time, she has been born for almost three hours, during which time she has hardly had any water.

Previously, the egg fluid inside the eggshell provided her with nutrients for survival, but after hatching, she has to rely entirely on herself.

While other transmigrators are born with cheat codes and systems, she's different. Upon transmigrating, she immediately faces a choice between life and death, and incidentally activates the ultimate survival mode—how to survive in a tropical rainforest.

Unfortunately, drinking water without eating was far from enough to fill her stomach, so Shen Qingqing found a relatively smooth rock at the edge of the cave entrance and lay down.

By now, she has accepted the fact that she has traveled through time and is trying to resist the arrangement of fate, but unfortunately, she cannot resist the fact that she is hungry.

Having injured her ears while inside the eggshell, resulting in temporary deafness, Shen Qingqing, who was lying on the rock waiting for Saenster to return, did not hear the faint footsteps approaching her little by little.

……

"Mother Insect..." The voice stopped abruptly, and the wild fruit in her hand and the still-alive Gugu Beast she had just caught fell to the ground. The startled Gugu Beast cried out and ran away from her feet.

No, no, it's nowhere!

Saenster frantically searched every possible hiding place, but could not find any trace of the Queen.

He'd only been gone for a dozen minutes, how could this be...?

He remembered that he had scouted the area before he arrived and found that there were no creatures that could threaten the insect queen's life before choosing this place as his base. But the insect queen had vanished without a trace.

Once he calmed down, Saenster put down the large tree that had been knocked down by a single punch.

The Insect Queen's leg was injured, so she couldn't walk, let alone run. Since Saint Zeguang Star had no mining value, almost no race would venture there. The only one who could have kidnapped the Insect Queen was an outsider.

Saenster's expression hardened, and the long sword in his arms shot out, holding it horizontally in front of him.

Anyone who steals his insect mother shall die!

……

"Hmm, where is this?" Shen Qingqing was so blinded by the bright light that she had to shield her eyes with her arm. It took her a while to adjust to her surroundings.

The silver-white, high-tech space is almost devoid of decorative items other than essential tables and chairs. Even the tablecloths on the tables are white, suggesting that its owner is an efficient person.

Forcing herself to sit up, Shen Qingqing realized that she had just been lying on the bed.

The bed seemed a bit too big from her perspective, and the thin blanket folded into a neat square at the head of the bed further indicated the identity of the homeowner.

It was the military, Shen Qingqing thought. So she should be on a spaceship right now, but…

She looked down at her clothes, wondering if Saenster knew that she had been knocked unconscious and taken away.

She closed her eyes and established their mental link in her mind, and was surprised to find that she could still contact Saenster, so she quickly told him about her situation.

Saenster, who was sprinting through the rainforest, immediately changed direction and accelerated upon receiving the message. The longer he delayed, the more dangerous his insect queen would become.

Just as Shen Qingqing closed her eyes to communicate with Saenster, a flash of white light suddenly appeared in her mind, forcing her to disconnect.

"What's going on..." Shen Qingqing swayed as she opened her eyes and found a stranger in the room.

The newcomer was too tall, about the same size as Saenster, and had his back to her. Apart from the white military uniform and belt, she could not get any more information about him.

Michelle, assuming Shen Qingqing was awake, turned around and looked coldly at her on the bed, speaking in an unfriendly tone:

"Why would the Queen Insect appear in such a small place as Saint Zeguang Star? Is the Ninth Spiral Galaxy not satisfactory to you?"

Shen Qingqing said she couldn't hear what he was saying. The moment she saw the white hair and golden eyes, she fell into a strange mental daze, as if her consciousness had been forcibly taken away and she was out of control.

When Michelle saw Shen Qingqing's slightly dazed look, she became even more contemptuous, her face showing undisguised disgust.

"Why didn't you stay on Wangxing? What are you doing here? The Insect Queen is a really strange thing."

At the same time, he released his grip on the insect mother's neck, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and carefully wiped his hand that had just touched her neck, seemingly very disgusted by any contact with her.

The mind control disappeared at this moment. Having experienced being choked, Shen Qingqing hurriedly covered her vulnerable neck with her hands, fearing that the man might kill her if he was unhappy.

Although this man was very handsome, like a holy angel untouched by the world, this angel wanted his life!

So even his elegant hand-wiping seemed horrifying to her.

Michelle carelessly tossed the used handkerchief into the trash can, a gesture that startled Shen Qingqing.

Does this man have OCD?

The relatively simple-minded Shen Qingqing automatically attributed his actions to his germaphobia, without considering her own identity at all.

Seeing that Shen Qingqing did not express her opinion, Michelle was also surprised. Although she did not show it on her face, there was a hint of inquiry in her eyes.

Each generation of insect queens was arrogant and domineering, as if they wanted to be the center of the universe and that all living beings in the universe should revolve around them. They would make a big fuss if they were unhappy at the slightest thing, which was very annoying.

He disliked noise and hated the babbling of the insect queen even more.

He couldn't understand why the Zerg were so obsessed with the Zerg Queen.

He leaned closer to smell it while Shen Qingqing was unconscious, and the scent wasn't as captivating as they had described; it was at most a little fragrant.

Michelle, who considers herself a neutral party, has no intention of interfering in the affairs of the Mother Insect Guard and the rebels.

The Zerg are now divided into two factions.

One side is the conservative faction that firmly supports the supreme status of the insect queen, while the other side is the innovator faction that advocates using machinery to replace pheromones.

He didn't want to get involved in any of the conflicts. In the two hundred years without the Queen of Insects, they had already experienced countless wars, both large and small.

The territories that originally belonged to the Zerg were swallowed up by other races. If this continues, the Zerg will disintegrate on its own before any foreign invasion.

After considering the arduous task of reclaiming lost territory, Michelle decided to ignore the useless insect queen for the time being, leaving behind the words "the food is on the table" before quickly turning and leaving.

Shen Qingqing, who had been ignored from beginning to end, was completely bewildered until she heard Michelle's voice in her mind, and then she realized that Michelle was inviting her to eat.

After hearing this, she immediately replied "thank you" and took the tableware handed to her by the robot, then ate her meal by the bedside.

The crisp "thank you" kept echoing in my mind until the sound gradually faded away.

Sitting in the control room, Michelle never imagined that his nearly two-hundred-year-old self-control, devoid of emotion and desire, would crumble the moment he smelled the Queen Insect, or even just the smell itself would...

A burning sensation came from her earlobe, and Michelle gripped her pants tightly to barely suppress her urge to see the insect queen.

It seems the book's claims are true; the Queen of Insects does indeed have a fatal attraction for the Zerg.

After thinking about it, he put down the hand that was sending the message. He just felt that the Queen of Insects' message should not be released like this, and it was definitely not for any other reason.

He, Michel, is forever loyal to the Zerg.

……

After failing to make contact for the fifth time, Shen Qingqing lay paralyzed on the bed, wondering helplessly why her mental link with Saenster stopped working after that white-haired man came in. Was it because his level was higher?

Shen Qingqing's guess was actually correct, but it wasn't entirely due to the same level. The distance was a bigger factor, plus someone was deliberately interfering behind the scenes, which caused the failure.

Michelle, who had sensed Shen Qingqing's intentions, kept an eye on the monitor in the control room.

Since bringing her back, things haven't been very peaceful in the fleet. He desperately hopes that the queen insect can tone down her pheromones and stop interfering with the fleet's normal operations.

In the blink of an eye, Michelle appeared at the doorway, her long, slender fingers pressing on the specially designed keypad, hesitating to make a move.

In fact, he could have opened the door with just a voice command, but for some reason, he ordered that the opening method of all doors except the password doors be forcibly changed.

The door cannot be opened except by pupil scanning or password input.

Even the ship's cargo hold is the same.

Their arrival on Saint Zeguang Star was purely accidental. They were originally going to transport goods to other star systems, but due to unforeseen circumstances, they were stranded here and accidentally "picked up" the Insect Queen. It was all fate.

They forcibly took away what they claimed were bugs they had found, always believing that taking things by force was not unacceptable.

Special measures are needed during special times.

Absolutely feasible!

He entered the password, stretched out his long legs, and walked into the room quite naturally.

At this point, Shen Qingqing was almost ready to accept that she had been kidnapped. She was still considering whether to tell Saenster that it was unlikely she could return to Wangxing with him after contacting him when she caught a glimpse of the white-haired man from before entering again.

"you……"

After thinking about it, I realized that since I was now on someone else's turf, it was best to keep my head down and act like a worm.

What was originally on the tip of his tongue, "Who are you? Where is this?", took many detours before finally turning into, "Excuse me, where is this place?"

Asking questions politely might make her seem more sensible.

So, under her expectant gaze, the man pulled out a chair and sat down, propping his chin up with one hand and staring at her with a half-smile.

After a while, a clear, cold voice suddenly echoed in my mind.

"My name is Michelle, and this is the cargo hold of the Zerg Second Fleet."

"Welcome to the Zerg, my precious Zerg Queen."