Chapter 6

Before today, Hill had never dreamed that he would one day find another male Zerg's wings beautiful.

Those small wings were so thin and transparent, shimmering with a pearly luster in the light, yet so cute that Hill felt a strange urge to take them into his mouth.

Of course, he ultimately did no such thing. He merely reached out and gently stroked the young larva's newly grown wings.

The soft sensation against Hill's fingertips left him immensely satisfied, but for Su Lin, it felt awful-he finally understood why bumping his wings hurt more than bumping that bit of flesh between his legs.

Because these damned wings were even more sensitive than that spot?!!!!!!

The nasty Zerg had only touched him once, but Su Lin felt as if an electric current had run through a thin wire, sending a tingle from his scalp all the way to his heels.

Su Lin was dumbstruck.

He had only just managed to come to terms with being half human and half insect when he was told that he had actually grown... insect wings?!

Wait, weren't insect mothers supposed to be unable to grow wings?

Su Lin's expression kept changing. Turmoil raged within him, and his sanity teetered on the brink.

But in Hill's eyes, his expression clearly meant something else entirely.

"Stay with me, and I can promise you that I can provide you with enough treatment pods."

He spoke, utterly unaware of how coaxing his tone sounded.

And then I'd just turn straight into a giant bug like that?!

In response to Hill's invitation, Su Lin could only keep screaming frantically in his heart.

No. Way. In. Hell!

Becoming a bug was out of the question.

Not in this lifetime.

Without a moment's hesitation, Su Lin shook his head firmly at Hill.

"No, never!"

As he refused, Su Lin even forgot to play pitiful.

The gentle smile on Hill's face gradually vanished at Su Lin's tone of utter disgust.

The larva before him found him utterly repulsive.

Hill thought.

"You really don't know what's good for you, do you?"

The Zerg officer looked at Su Lin coldly and spoke.

Su Lin began to tremble again, but this time, Hill felt that he would not soften in the slightest.

"Rejecting me? Why-is it because of Carlos?"

The sight of Su Lin and Carlos together earlier surfaced in Hill's mind, and he suddenly realized that perhaps Su Lin had rejected him for no other reason than that he had been completely bewitched by that hypocritical bug.

"Let me think. You think he's more... more upright? Safer?"

Hill rubbed his mouthparts together, choosing his words as he whispered darkly.

"Hill-"

"You should call me 'my lord,'" Hill corrected him. "An inferior specimen like you has no right to address me by name."

As he spoke, Hill drew closer and closer to Su Lin.

And then...

"What are you doing?"

A cold voice rang out.

Su Lin abruptly turned his head, and then saw the familiar voice.

Carlos stood in the doorway of the spherical room, his pitch-black pupils reflecting the two figures who were almost pressed together.

Chapter 6

Carlos looked terrible.

So terrible that it was a little frightening.

The sharp killing intent bursting from the dark, powerful young Zerg was enough for even Su Lin, a newly turned hybrid Zerg who was completely unfamiliar with the trade, to sense something.

Su Lin involuntarily stiffened all over, not daring to move, while Hill, the other central figure in the room, reacted in precisely the opposite way.

"Carlos, has no one ever told you how offensive your behavior is?"

Far more perceptive than Su Lin, he saw at a glance why Carlos was furious: the pretentious, hypocritical Zerg before him clearly thought Hill had gone against Su Lin's wishes, snatched him from the medical room, and tried to force himself on the poor larva in this room.

How ridiculous.

Hill mocked Carlos's pitiful possessiveness mercilessly in his heart.

The guy was acting as if he and Su Lin really had some special relationship... At the thought, Hill not only declined to clarify the situation, but instead chuckled and leaned down in an even more suggestive manner, blocking Su Lin from view.

"I don't mind someone watching from the side, but this little thing would probably be very shy."

Hill turned his head to meet Carlos's gaze, then said so deliberately.

Before Hill had finished speaking, Carlos's eyes had already transformed into the pitch-black compound eyes unique to the Zerg.

He abruptly raised his hand, his fingertips already transformed into the lethal, sharp claws of a Zerg's original form.

Everything happened quickly, at least as far as Su Lin was concerned. He had only heard Hill say a few things he didn't understand, and the next second, the tall Zerg pinning him down was sent flying.

Carlos moved so fast he was practically a blur. Every attack was precise, sharp, and deadly.

And unfortunately, Hill was no slouch in a fight either.

He had indeed been at a disadvantage during that first exchange, but being struck like that by Carlos, whom he found utterly revolting, right in front of Su Lin, swiftly provoked a frenzy of rage in the already short-tempered high-level male Zerg.

His form abruptly changed, and a hybrid monster nearly three meters tall appeared before Su Lin, looking like a cross between a mantis and a spider magnified tens of thousands of times, and certain arthropod nightmares that appeared only in human dreams.

Hill and Carlos collided, their long, sharp, chainsaw-like forelimbs looking ready to slice off each other's heads at any moment.