StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Therefore, as long as one's will is strong enough, one can believe that one is still alive.

Cecilia scoffed at Gatana's underhanded tactics, saying, "Only he would resort to such despicable acts."

What is your relationship with him?

After talking for so long, Shen Qingqing was tired.

Although she doesn't feel hungry in her dreams, talking constantly still makes her mentally exhausted.

“Don’t ask so many questions, kid,” Cecilia said. “I’ll tell you when you come back alive from the front and get crowned.”

Even if I told you the truth about what happened back then, do you think any insect would believe me?

Using her mental powers, Cecilia can change her clothes at any time according to her own wishes.

This time, she wore a white blazer paired with a midi skirt, a look that was both dashing and elegant.

Her pink twin ponytails were tied high, and she held a scepter in her hand, a golden scepter inlaid with rubies that shimmered with a bright light.

"If you say that the previous insect queen appeared to you in a dream, not many insects will believe it, so you should obediently go to the front line and think about how to appease them."

Cecilia's face remained deathly pale, and every time I spoke with her, it didn't feel like I was talking to her face-to-face.

Thinking about going to the front lines, Shen Qingqing asked, "Can't you use your mental power to connect with my eyes and observe what's happening outside? I always feel like you don't know anything."

If Cecilia could show her face right now, Shen Qingqing would definitely see an expression on her face that looked like she was looking at an idiot.

"If I could see, why would I be asking you? It's because I was assassinated back then, which severely damaged my vitality and weakened my mental strength. Otherwise, why would I have been sleeping for so many years?"

“By the way,” Cecilia walked over to her, measured the height difference between them, and said in a slightly disdainful tone, “You’re too short.”

Shen Qingqing was speechless, and had no desire to continue the conversation.

She's not actually short, she just looks a bit petite next to her.

"I've had the catalyst injected, and I estimate it will take effect soon and release pheromones."

Hearing Shen Qingqing say that, Cecilia stopped admiring herself and asked, "When was the injection?"

"Around this afternoon."

After hearing this, Cecilia did not express her opinion, but only said, "Injecting a catalyst before your body is fully developed is tantamount to suicide. Besides, with your physical condition, you probably won't live for a hundred years."

Shen Qingqing thought she had reached the same conclusion as Ge Yuan.

Ge Yuan also said that her health was not very good, but so what if she couldn't live to be a hundred years old?

The average human lifespan is less than 100 years, but the sheer number of reported cases has led the public to mistakenly believe that longevity is a common occurrence.

She never dared to dream of living for hundreds of years like the Zerg.

"That's fine, I'll be very satisfied if I can live to be a hundred years old."

Shen Qingqing said indifferently, "Anyway, the Zerg have long enough lifespans to select the next Zerg Queen through other means. There are also many test subjects available for transfer in Gatana's mobile laboratory, so you don't need to worry about having no successor."

“It’s different. They can never replace the Queen, and even changing their glands won’t appease all the Zerg.”

Cecilia looked at her and said, “Under normal circumstances, the Queen Insect can live for more than four hundred years, but there are also exceptionally long-lived ones that can live for about six hundred years, but those are special cases.”

"Pacifying the Zerg is an extremely mentally taxing task, and mental energy is related to the lifespan of the Zerg. Only the Zerg Queen can hold enough mental energy, and only the Zerg Queen has enough mental energy and pheromones to thoroughly pacify all the Zerg."

"By consuming their life force to reproduce, how much mental energy do you think they have to appease, and how many high-quality pheromones do you think they can use?"

In nature, females are almost always dominant because the group needs to reproduce, and physiological instincts drive them to complete the important task of reproduction that is etched in their genes.

So basically, females are larger than males in the animal kingdom.

Shen Qingqing looked at the female in front of her, craned her neck to look at her for a while, before accepting the fact that she was a dwarf.

Judging by her appearance, she is taller than Saenster.

“Therefore, only the Queen can continuously appease the race by burning her life force,” Shen Qingqing said, turning her gaze elsewhere. “Actually, the hundred years you gave me is already the maximum my body can withstand.”

“That’s right. With your small frame and the side effects of the catalyst, if you overuse pheromones on the front lines, you’d probably be out of commission for fifty years.” Cecilia didn’t mince words and told her the truth directly.

"Most importantly, the Zerg no longer have the Holy Cocoon."

Of the three sacred cocoons she left behind, one shattered on the spot after Bin Laden's death, while the other two were lost in interstellar space.

Of these two, Shen Qingqing was born, which means that the remaining one must be an empty cocoon!

Only one Zerg Queen can be born from the Zerg Holy Cocoon. Once the first Zerg Queen is born, the remaining two Holy Cocoons will be affected by the Zerg Queen's pheromones and die immediately.

Even if they could have been born at some point, being a step too late meant a change in their fate.

In her dream, Shen Qingqing asked all sorts of questions, and Cecilia would answer them all.

Until the first rays of sunlight fell on the earth the next morning.

Ge Yuan dragged me to wash up and then have breakfast...

As Ge Yuan busied herself, she said, "Oh dear, this is such a hassle. I never expected something like this to happen..."

"What happened?" Shen Qingqing asked, chewing on her food.

"Qingqing, you went to bed early last night, didn't you know?" Ge Yuan whispered mysteriously in her ear, "My favorite clothes have gone up in price again!!"

"..."

"Why aren't you saying anything? Isn't this a very serious matter?!"

“…No,” Shen Qingqing continued eating, “I’m not really interested in this either.”

"Let me tell you something you're interested in. I heard that the food expenses for the Zerg soldiers on the front lines account for 60% of the planet's total annual income! Keep in mind that research expenses only account for less than 20%..."

When Gatana arrived, he happened to run into Ge Yuan, who was explaining to Shen Qingqing what Ponzi scheme financing was.

Even when she arrived in the Zerg territory, she was forced to learn knowledge. Shen Qingqing closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

"I'm asleep, I can't hear you."

"Don't sleep, get up and study!"

He pondered for a moment outside the door, and only knocked and entered after it had quieted down inside.

"Isn't this our busybody Gatana? What, did he bring some good news?"

Yesterday's unpleasantness still left Ge Yuan indignant, so she took this opportunity to vent her frustrations.

"There is good news." Gatana received the message from the front lines early in the morning and processed it overnight before coming here.

"Qingqing, you're all packed and ready to go. Once we get there, it will be time for you to prove yourself."

Gatana smiled and then said to Goyu, who was carrying large and small bags, "You don't need to go; there are other tasks assigned to you."

"Why can't I go?! Gatana, don't push your luck!"