Chapter 26

Thinking back to Su Lin's poor constitution and frail frame, Carlos didn't know why his heart suddenly clenched.

Damn it. Su Lin had looked so frightened he was on the verge of tears, yet Carlos had confidently promised him that there would be no problem with the bloodline review and that Su Lin would soon be back at his side.

He had broken his promise.

By now, Su Lin should have learned that he had become another colony's slave. That frail young man was probably terrified now, too. At the thought, Carlos felt a tightness in his chest that made him terribly uncomfortable.

"The Blood Wing Tribe has no shortage of servant Zerg, and a single member of Dew Nest couldn't possibly reproduce enough to form a complete colony." Steadying himself, Carlos forced down his anger and said to Medises, "I, Carlos Pale Calamity, am willing to give you three kilograms of benzoin spice in exchange for ownership of Su Lin-"

"I refuse."

Medises didn't even wait for Carlos to finish.

What he said next made Carlos's pheromones grow even harsher and colder.

"You don't need to concern yourself with Dew Nest's reproduction, Carlos. Besides, what right do you have to talk about 'taking responsibility'? If my information is correct, that one's mental assessment readings have recently reached the brink of collapse, haven't they? That means the selection of a new lord will soon begin."

Medises tapped his fingertips on the table.

"...In such dangerous circumstances, as your elder, I can only kindly advise you not to waste time seeking amusement. Finding a way to survive is what you should be doing."

"You-"

"And let me remind you once more: the Dew Tail Community has been Blood Wing's slave Zerg for hundreds of years."

Medises rose leisurely, and just before he turned to leave the conference room, he tilted his head and glanced at Carlos, whose face had suddenly gone pale.

"Su Lin is mine."

The silver-haired Zerg spoke each word distinctly.

"Click-click-"

Cold limbs stepped across the floor of the warship's corridor, making unsettling sounds.

Carlos walked step by step toward his command room, his expression rather frightening. Well, he looked downright terrifying now.

"He is mine."

There was nothing Carlos could fault in Medises's whispered words, yet he found that his mental power, which had always been stable, was showing signs of instability because of them. The instability was so severe that he couldn't maintain his mimicry and had taken on a half-human, half-Zerg form.

Carlos hadn't been in such a sorry state for a long time, not in nearly ten years.

And all of this was because...

Though he was reluctant to admit it, Carlos had indeed smelled a very fresh, sweet scent on Medises. Once smelled, it was a scent that could never be mistaken: sweet and suggestive of something luscious and juicy, a scent that belonged to Su Lin alone.

What enraged Carlos most was that Su Lin's scent had already mingled with Medises's distinctive male pheromones.

The scent he had left on Su Lin had long since been completely erased by Medises's forceful, greedy scent.

Carlos didn't even dare imagine what Su Lin had gone through during the bloodline review for Medises to parade around carrying such a cloyingly sweet larval scent.

Yet the Blood Wing Colony did indeed own Dew Nest.

No, wait. But it was Medises who claimed Su Lin was from Dew Nest. If he really had such a despicable intention, perhaps...

"Wow, Lord Carlos, you look like you're in pretty bad shape right now."

A man stood leaning against the wall at a bend in the corridor, arms folded across his chest. He turned to Carlos and spoke with a smile.

But there was no trace of a smile in his eyes.

"Hill."

Carlos stopped in his tracks.

Hill raised an eyebrow and stared straight at Carlos.

"I heard you backed down?"

"Su Lin is from Dew Nest, and Dew Nest has always been Blood Wing's servant Zerg..."

"Why didn't you get that little thing back? Have you become that useless?"

Hill's tone was unusually cutting.

Carlos took a deep breath. "I'll find a way. It might take a little time, but if we handle it properly, we can still get Su Lin back."

Hill gave a derisive laugh.

"Then you'd better hurry."

He said.

"Do you know why Blood Wing had so many servant Zerg, but Dew Nest was the only one that went extinct in the end?

"Hill, I still have work to do. As for Su Lin-"

"Because those Blood Wings are severely addicted to the honey Dew Nest produces. Those lunatics have defective genes and can't resist that damned honey at all." Hill went on talking.

"I really wonder how long that inferior Zerg, whose wings have only just grown in, can survive under a madman like Medises. I suppose all we can do is hope he doesn't get sucked dry too soon."

Hill chuckled coldly and gave Carlos a meaningful glance before leaving abruptly.

He could sense that the emotions Carlos revealed after hearing those words were growing increasingly out of control.

In fact, Hill felt that his own mental power was becoming very unstable too.

It was really strange.

Hill thought.

He was just an inferior Zerg Hill had met by chance.

He had merely wasted one of Hill's high-grade healing pods.

He shouldn't have felt anything about that little thing's departure. But the reality was that Hill felt extremely annoyed.