Chapter 11

To an ordinary Zerg, this male was a little more than lustful. But to a human who had previously only seen the Zerg in textbooks, the sight was truly shocking.

Su Lin took a deep breath.

Die.

Or get fucked.

It was a difficult choice.

The unlucky young human lowered his eyes, tormented.

When he had been hiding in the treatment pod, he would never have let himself be pinned beneath someone, human or Zerg. But judging by the situation now, if he really confronted the Zerg before him head-on, he might actually lose his life.

Actually... what if... if there's really no other way... then...

But just as Su Lin was about to make his choice, he felt Hill's gaze on him once again.

Su Lin looked up instinctively and met the high-ranking Zerg officer's eyes again.

The nasty Zerg had insisted it had nothing to do with him, yet he had stayed by the door, watching as Black Thorn pressured Su Lin from every direction.

Su Lin: ...

Something stirred in his heart.

The next second, Su Lin closed his eyes and hurled an angry curse at the Black Thorn leader.

"Get lost-"

Then he lunged straight at the Black Thorn Zerg's incomparably sharp limb tip.

A weak Zerg like him would probably die instantly if he were pierced by a Black Thorn Zerg's venomous spike.

But that terrible scene never came to pass. Su Lin had only just made a show of lunging, and had not even begun to fall, when he felt an arm tighten around his waist and found himself pulled against someone's broad, hard chest.

Hill sent the Black Thorn soldiers flying as he swooped over, easily rescuing the helpless larva who had been driven into a corner.

Of course, although he had saved him, his attitude was far from kind.

"Do you have a death wish?!"

Hill's face was livid as he roared at Su Lin.

"Captain Hill, he ran into me himself. I didn't do it on purpose-"

The leader of the Black Thorn soldiers staggered to his feet some distance away. The spikes on both his forelimbs had broken, and he was trembling with pain as he hurriedly spoke up.

He would have been better off keeping quiet. The moment he opened his mouth, he walked straight into the eye of the storm.

Hill himself did not know why he had become so irritable. Of course, he did not care either, and vented his anger on the readily available punching bags behind him.

The Black Thorn Zerg, who had nearly robbed Su Lin of his life-and his chastity-were almost torn to pieces by this high-level calamity.

After they fled in panic, covering their heads, Su Lin saw that Hill's eyes had turned slightly red. When Zerg in mimicry became overly agitated, they would inadvertently reveal aspects of their true forms. That was what was happening to Hill now.

His was clearly a handsome human face, but it had the eyes of a Zerg, and the sight made Su Lin tremble a little.

"A larva like you would be corroded into a puddle of pus the instant you so much as touched a Black Thorn. Are you that fond of dying this way?"

Though Hill had already vented his anger on the Black Thorn soldiers, his face was still ferocious when he looked at Su Lin.

Su Lin only bit his lip and said nothing for a long time.

The only sound left in the medical room was the buzzing of Hill's wings beating rapidly behind him.

After quite a while, Hill finally heard the frail larva before him murmur miserably:

"Isn't this what you wanted to see?"

Su Lin kept his head lowered, trying not to let Hill see his face.

"When the fuck did I ever want you dead?!"

Hill was furious.

"Being taken away by those people... those males, and played with as a sex toy is the same as dying to me."

Su Lin answered quickly.

The despair and heaviness in the young man's voice were so deep that Hill was momentarily at a loss for words. But the next moment, Hill raised his voice with a sneer and replied:

"You think being taken away is the same as dying? A lesser Zerg like you doesn't want to offer himself up, yet you're deluding yourself that someone will protect you? Aren't you dreaming a little too big? Hah, don't tell me your previous tribe drove you out because you're too stupid..."

As Hill spoke, he flippantly tilted Su Lin's chin up.

He truly hated seeing the larva hanging his head so listlessly.

But when he saw Su Lin's face, the rest of his words caught in his throat.

The pale, frail larva's face was wet all over. It was impossible to tell whether it was cold sweat from fright or treatment fluid that had not been wiped away.

Or perhaps...

It was tears.

"I know I'm weak, but that's not something I can control. The only things I can control are my own will and body." Meeting Hill's astonished gaze, Su Lin's eyes were utterly lifeless. "If I really let myself become someone else's toy, then I truly won't have anything left."

"I don't want that."

Su Lin said.

Hill: ...

Hill still had a string of vicious, cutting taunts ready, but now they were all stuck in his throat. He could not get a single word out.

Several seconds passed before Hill managed to find his voice.

"Over... over something this little, you cried?"

He asked.

Su Lin turned his face away, his whole body tense.

"I didn't." Though the corners of his eyes were already wet, the young man still gave him that clumsy, stiff reply.

"But your face is wet."

Hill stared at Su Lin's face, only realizing he had spoken aloud after the words were already out.

"It's because I'm in pain."

Su Lin answered word by word, his neck stiff.

"Carlos said it too, didn't he? I'm injured."