Chapter 49

"S-senior, what brought you here-"

Su Lin stared blankly at Medises in the bathroom doorway.

"Your wristband detected that your heart rate was too high."

Medises answered.

Because of what had happened with Ariel, he had stepped up his surveillance of Su Lin. The instant Su Lin's physiological readings went outside the normal range, Medises had rushed to his side.

Even the Security Committee's senior inspector, however, had not expected to encounter a scene like this.

Amid the damp steam, the young man who was gradually transforming into a Zerg looked at him in alarm, his eyes filled with nothing but pure hope and reliance. All over his slender, frail body, drops of liquid dripped and flowed...

The Dew Nest's first honey.

"My wristband even monitors my heart rate...? Never mind, that's not important right now. Senior, you came just in time. Please, save meee!"

All of Su Lin's attention was fixed on the wings behind him, which were seeping honey. He looked mournfully at what was now his only lifeline and cried out.

It would have been a lie to say Su Lin had no idea why he was secreting honey.

When he had learned that he had become one with a Zerg Queen, Su Lin had worried about this. After all, the Zerg Queen's ability to secrete Zerg Honey and use it to incubate high-level Zerg was something humans would consider well worth studying in detail.

Strictly speaking, though, Su Lin had not been too worried at the time.

The Zerg Queen remains fused with him had belonged to a completely undeveloped larva.

And as everyone knew, a Zerg Queen would only begin producing honey after building a Zerg nest and choosing a Zerg King to her liking.

After all, only once she had obtained enough reproductive cells to lay large numbers of eggs would she need to shed her wings and turn the now-useless wing sacs into honey glands to incubate her offspring.

In fact, the same principle more or less applied to humans: women in the human world would surely only waste energy producing milk to feed their offspring after becoming pregnant

and giving birth.

The same was true of a Zerg Queen.

So the chance of him producing honey really was very small.

As small as the chance of him, a straight man, getting pregnant, having a baby and breastfeeding it.

That was how Su Lin had comforted himself at the time.

Yet the most unlikely thing had happened to him. In just a few days, the Zerg Queen's honey glands had begun to transform before his wings had even fallen off, and could already secrete honey outside his body.

That was why Su Lin was so panicked.

In particular, he had gone through that incident in the library not long ago. The way Ariel had casually asked Medises for him as though asking for an object had made Su Lin realize in a way he would never forget that, in the Zerg world, someone as weak as him was at the very bottom of the food chain, there for anyone to toy with. If the creature fused with him were merely an ordinary, low-ranking Dew Nest, his senior might still protect him for the sake of their old friendship.

But what if he were discovered to be a young Zerg Queen who had even matured x prematurely?

Even if he was only a half-human, half-Zerg hybrid, would these Zerg really allow him to leave the empire and return to the human world?

Would his senior stand against the entire Zerg for someone like him?

Su Lin was not that naive.

But secreting honey was not like needing to pee; he could not hold it in. Those damned fluids were completely beyond Su Lin's control, making them impossible to hide.

So for now, his only option was to see if he could get away with using the fact that Dew Nests could also secrete honey as a cover.

While he was at it, he could also ask his senior whether, as a high-level Zerg, he could resolve this major physical problem.

Having instantly worked out the crux of the matter, Su Lin cast aside all shame at being discovered secreting honey by another male. He even turned around eagerly in front of Medises so that the other man could get a clearer look at his soaking wet back.

And... the wing sacs that were constantly secreting honey.

Well, he should probably call them honey glands now.

"These two things on my back-I mean, my wings-have suddenly started leaking honey for no reason. Do you think there's any hope for me?"

Su Lin asked Medises anxiously.

"This condition? You mean... secreting honey?"

The tall, silver-haired Zerg seemed to fall silent for a moment before asking in an unusually husky voice.

"Y-yeah..."

Su Lin swallowed and answered in a fluster.

Wait, Dew Nests really do secrete honey just like Zerg Queens, right...?

As the unlucky human panicked, Medises silently walked into the bathroom, one step at a time.

The Zerg were an exceptionally pragmatic race. Even though Medises Blood Wing was a senior inspector of the Security Committee, his quarters aboard the Security Committee's ship could hardly compare with those of a human official of the same rank. His quarters could not be called luxurious, and likewise, the bathroom could hardly be called spacious.

With an adult human male standing 183 centimeters tall and a high-level Zerg now crammed into it, the bathroom was inevitably a little cramped.

Because of this, when Medises examined Su Lin's wings, Su Lin almost felt as though his whole body was about to be pressed into Medises's arms. It made Su Lin feel a little awkward, but he soon realized why Medises had to do it-the man reached out and lightly ran the tip of his index finger along the base of Su Lin's wings, now swollen and hot, and Su Lin nearly fell over on the spot.

Fortunately, Medises caught him around the waist and held him steady.

"Ah, senior, please don't touch! It tickles too much, wahhh-"

The moment Medises touched Su Liang, he started yowling.

"You're fusing."

A few seconds later, Medises gave his answer in a perfectly calm voice.