"How? Any news?"

"No, I have already searched here, and there is nothing."

"Have you used the life signal detector?"

"Used, but still nothing. We also took the team down to the bottom of the cave again, and we could only detect those egg clusters, but there was no shadow of Gran."

"...Hiss, that's strange, the whole planet has been flipped over, why are there no bugs?"

"Could he have run away? From here?"

"Impossible. From the time Xin Zhu said until now, the entire flight track is under our monitoring. Gran must not be able to run out."

"There is no news...forget it, let's report to the army commander first."

...

The Covenant troops who had been searching the planet Herdik for nearly three days returned without success. Toines, who had just heard the report from his subordinates, frowned and murmured, "It's strange, where is Gran hiding?"

"Have you searched all the places?" Engrie confirmed.

Wei: "I have searched and used all the detectors, but there is still nothing."

After a pause, he guessed, "Could it be dead? Died by the mouth of a strange beast?"

Englie shook his head, "Impossible, Gran—his real identity is a worm of the Gran family, and he can control alien beasts, so it is absolutely impossible for him to die under the jaws of alien beasts."

"Too much is other external factors."

Wei: "Climate, wind and sand, food, water..."

Each of the above-mentioned factors may be the fuse that caused the female to lose her life on planet Herdik, but the specific reason is not known.

Engley pondered, if it was really caused by some kind of accident, coupled with the year-round wind and sand on the planet Herdik, the body of a subfemale could easily be buried under the sand, even with a detector.It must be found.

He thought for a while and said, "Search again tomorrow. If there is no news, then let's do it first."

Toines and Wei: "Yes!"

Engley was in charge of the starship, and all major and minor matters could be resolved in a timely manner. Therefore, Campbell, who would be absent from work for a period of time in a year, was free.Although the duration is relatively intermittent, the reaction is extremely violent. When you are awake, your sanity is still there, and when you are not awake, you will be completely released.

For a whole few days, the curtains in the room were drawn into a dense blackness, because the nutrient in the drawer was drunk, Gu Ting had to change his clothes and go outside to get it.

It's just that after he came back from this trip, he found that a certain half-wormy boyfriend had taken out all the clothes that belonged to Gu Ting from the closet and piled them in the corner of the room because he longed for the breath and comfort of his partner., made a self-made nest, just enough to hide half of Campbell's belly.

"You..." Gu Ting hurried in to put the nutrient in place, and the mental tentacles behind him were ready to pull out the female worm hidden in the pile of clothes.

It was only when he was pulling the silver-haired female to sit on the bed that Gu Ting saw that she was still tightly clutching a small piece of black cloth in her hand.

Gu Ting: "Campbell, what are you holding in your hand?"

The female who was asked made a slight purr in her throat, like a big cat whose fur has been smoothed, dangerous and lazy.

Gu Ting stretched out his hand and took out the things that Campbell was holding in his hands. He shook them off and looked at them for a second longer, his cheeks became hot, "Why are you taking everything! Why, why are you still wet..."

The little male who has seen too much in the past few days at a young age once again sighed helplessly.

The bed sheets hung to dry in the bathroom have already been replaced several times. Fortunately, there are robots on the starship to deal with hygiene issues without complaint. Otherwise, with Gu Ting's thin-skinned personality, the whole bug would be burnt red..

After drying the damp cloth to the bathroom again, the male who was hooked by Campbell once again stepped onto the bed, ready to satisfy his wet big cat companion.

——Of course my wife wants to be pampered by me!

After the desire was relieved and satiated, Gu Ting embraced Campbell and fell asleep as usual, but soon he woke up in another dream that he was accustomed to.

The endless darkness covered the whole world, the worm mother sat on the ground leaning against the unconscious Yutan, there was only darkness in front of their eyes, so in the whole quiet space, only the soft voice of the worm mother chattered to YutanTelling something.

When Gu Ting came, the insect mother tilted her head and showed a pleasant smile, "You are here!"

"Hmm." Gu Ting nodded. He sat cross-legged across from the insect mother and Yutan, and asked a little puzzled, "What is the reason for entering here every time? I don't seem to be able to control it?"

If he could control it, Gu Ting would definitely come in often to accompany Chongmu and Yutan.

The worm mother herself has been trapped in this small world because of the problem of mental strength. It was not easy for Gu Ting to come to the planet Herdik to see You Tan again, but Yo Tan has no mind, the only one who canAll I do is provide a little warm comfort for the worm mother.

"Probably random?" The worm mother shook her head, and he didn't quite understand it himself, "I can't control it, it seems that every time I see you here every once in a while."

"Okay, so how are you doing recently?"

Gu Ting looked at Yutan with stiff eyes and a cold face. This handsome primitive male was still the same as he had seen last time. He was like a marble statue standing quietly in a certain position. He would accept otherThe astonishing eyes of outsiders will never make any slightest response.

The worm mother nodded, "It's not bad, it used to be pure loneliness, but now I have Yutan to accompany me."

Gu Ting was taken aback.

At this moment, the worm mother's smile is very bright, even in the dark, that kind of brilliance is visible to the naked eye, and even the previously pale complexion seems to be dyed with a layer of shining, fresh light, like walking aloneA chaser who walks alone in the darkness and suddenly sees a glimmer of light.

The worm mother continued: "I think Yutan can feel me - every time I talk to him, although Yutan has no way to respond, but I find that his fingertips will vibrate slightly, he must be able to hear mesound."

The Yutan mentioned is still dull like a puppet, but at the same time, his hand held in the arms of the worm mother is just like what the worm mother said. When the word "Yutan" is mentioned in the words, that rootThe little finger will tremble slightly up and down, as if echoing the insect mother in another way.

"Everything will be fine." This is Gu Ting's blessing and also his hope.

He said: "We accidentally fell into another underground cave before. It should not be far from the bone nest, and it is all around that place of quicksand."

Gu Ting planned to tell the worm mother that happened to be at this moment, what happened recently, not only another cave under the quicksand, but also the group of eggs that had been hidden underground for an unknown number of years.

"Where I fell, there are many, many egg clusters. The translucent egg membranes and black round nuclei are very large in number. They are all clustered together in clusters, and they can communicate with me through spiritual power. TheySaid that they are also primitive species, and Arnold also felt that those eggs had a familiar feeling."

Gu Ting sighed, "But apart from the sense of familiarity, I don't know anything else, and the eggs themselves can't tell what kind of insect they are."

"Egg group?" The worm mother bit her lip, her orange eyes flashed through memories of the past, "What kind of underground cave is it?"

"There are many intertwined passages, and there are many broken stones, and they are very dark." Gu Ting frowned and thought for a while, but he really didn't know how to describe it, "It's a bit like a maze."

Insect mother: "When primitive insects build underground insect nests, they tend to have multiple intersecting passages. Some of those passages lead to the nest of the insect mother, some lead to holes for storing eggs, and some are the gates connecting to the outside world....Each passage has its own responsibilities, and of course there will be passages at the end that are used to accumulate discarded egg clusters."

He continued: "If this underground cave also belonged to a certain worm mother, then the whole structure can make sense, but those egg groups..."

The worm mother hesitated, "It shouldn't be like that."

The Zerg itself is relatively difficult to reproduce. Even a bug mother with such a heavy responsibility cannot give birth to the huge number of eggs described by Gu Ting at one time.A full egg cluster scenario, unless...

"Then what are they? Or some kind of unknown primitive insect?"

The worm mother tilted her head and thought for a while, "Maybe it is several worm mothers going back?"

Seeing the doubts on Gu Ting's face, the worm mother explained: "I once heard from the group of worms who imprisoned me that apart from the gifted worm mothers, there was also a special period on planet Herdik - in a certain period of timeHere, a large number of insectoid mothers with extremely poor talents were born, they are not even human, but the most primitive, unevolved insect state."

As he said, the worm mother raised his slightly bloated flesh-red worm belly under his waist, "Here, it looks like this, but compared to me who can talk and have a half-human shape, the group of worm-shaped worm mothers are moreA complete flesh-red worm, of course there are other worm forms, but most of them are worm mothers like my lower body."

"Then..." Gu Ting's face was a little strange, as if he was hesitant to say something that he didn't know how to express.

The worm mother shrugged. He didn't care about the other zerg races of the primitive species, so when he talked about it, he also said in a mocking tone, "For those worms, it doesn't make any difference whether they are half-human or full-worm, anyway, the primitiveMale insects can change between insect form and human form at will, so whatever form the insect mother is in, they will match that form, just to relieve desire and reproduce."

"But the worm mothers of that period, as I said just now-they were the wave of extremely poor talent. In the words of other worms, 'that batch of worm mothers are inferior products abandoned by the gods', 'they were sent by the gods.Garbage for the Zerg'..."

"It's an exaggerated statement, but for worm-shaped worm mothers with limited intelligence, these words are enough to affect their thinking. At that time, a large number of worm-shaped worm mothers were found by various worm species, and the worms thought it was a battle of gods.The feast bestowed, but they didn’t want the result to disappoint them—the eggs born by the insectoid mother were either deformed or dead. After dealing with waves of dead eggs, the original deformed eggs were left behind..”

"However, amidst the long-term scolding of the worm mothers, the worm mothers' brains, which are already difficult to think independently, began to reject the deformed eggs they gave birth to, and those eggs naturally could not be hatched."

"Later, when a humanoid worm mother was born on Planet Herdik one day, the other males who smelled the scent immediately rushed to the new worm mother, and the original worm-shaped worm mothers were discarded."

That is probably the real darkness. Since it came to the planet Herdik, it has been in the palm of the primitive male, controlled, imprisoned, and scolded. Many times, even the worm-like insect mother can't understand the brutality.What exactly do the male insects want? The only thing they can do is to spread out their soft belly to accept the ravages from the outside world, and then curl up and hide in a dark corner after being covered in bruises.

It is not their fault that they are born inferior, that they can only give birth to deformed eggs and dead eggs, and that they cannot reproduce, but they have to bear all the consequences.The primitive males can let go freely and leave without looking back, but the worm-shaped females can only survive in the damp and dark caves.

The worm mother sighed, her hand tightly held Yutan's fingertips, the heat from her partner's body dispelled his fear of some of the zerg history, "Those primitive male worms made the original caves, deformed eggsAnd the worm mothers are completely abandoned, and the worm-shaped worm mothers have no ability to prey at all, they are unable to move, so they can only lie in the depths of the cave, eroded by hunger a little bit, and even if they ask for help, they will not get any response."

Gu Ting murmured: "That must be very desperate..."

Under the hopeless darkness, he could not act rashly, but could only endure the hunger in his stomach, waiting for the day of liberation.

"Yes, even if the worm-shaped insect mothers can't think too much, they should also understand that they are abandoned."

The worm mother shook her head. In his memory, each generation of worm mothers was trapped in underground caves at the cost of freedom, but at least they could live until the end of their lives, but the worm-shaped worm mother was a complete tragedy——

At the beginning of their birth, they were despised by the gods, and later became "waste products" that other males couldn't wait to leave behind. Their lives were pitifully embarrassing.

Gu Ting: "Then... do you know what those deformed eggs look like?"

The worm mother shook her head, "They didn't mention this, but they said there were a lot—there were so many deformed eggs and dead eggs, so many that some males dug new caves to place egg clusters."

"Is there a possibility that the newly discovered egg clusters are those deformed eggs? Can they maintain their vitality for such a long time?" Gu Ting asked.

"Of course." The worm mother said with emotion, "This is the difference between the original worms and the current zerg. The living conditions of the primitive worms are extremely poor, so no matter whether they are worms or eggs, they have extremely strong vitality, as long as they are not extremely bad.If there is a certain death environment, then the egg groups can cling to each other and wait until the day when they have a chance to hatch by virtue of dormancy."

Zerg mother: "However, in the history of planet Herdik, this kind of situation was rare. After all, the Zerg itself focused on reproduction, so how could it be possible to store a batch of eggs so that it had to fall into a dormant state? Unless it is thatThe eggs themselves were problematic, the worms that hatched them didn't want them to come out, and that's what led to the dormancy."

Most primitive worms value desire and reproduction, and there is almost no warmth between them, so the things that the worm mother says are naturally something that worms can do.The worm mother said: "If it is said that they are deformed eggs, I think it is still possible."

"Then Arnold said he has a sense of familiarity with them?" Gu Ting thought for a while, "Is there some kind of kinship relationship?"

Arnold was able to capture the crystal as the "newborn" of the Jacques species in the universe, because they were related; but later Arnold also felt a sense of familiarity in those egg groups, perhaps there is also a blood relationship?

"That's not the case. If it's really a kinship, Arnold can perceive it clearly. The same family of Jacques will always be connected with each other."

Gu Ting gradually had a guess in his heart, "If this is the case, I tend to think that those egg clusters are deformed eggs left by the insectoid mother. They said that I can help hatch them, but they don't know what will come out after the deformed eggs are hatched...."

The worm mother was also a little silent, "Have you decided to help them?"

"Well, my feeling tells me that I should do this." Gu Ting smiled helplessly, "Actually, since I came to the Zerg, I seem to rely on my intuition every time I make a decision, and even often it is because of my intuition., so that I can avoid some unnecessary dangers."

"That's a manifestation of spiritual power."

The worm mother gently caressed the side face of the young male worm, and pressed her cool palm against Gu Ting's cheek. After several years, every time the two blood-related worms came into contact, it would always cause a slight, source of pain.Because of the trembling feeling of the soul, "When the spiritual power reaches a certain level, they can even predict, but the gods don't like the things they arranged to be predicted, so 'perception' replaced 'prophecy' later."

The mother of insects brushed away the broken hair on Gu Ting's forehead, and pointed at the center of the other's eyebrows with her slender fingers, "Using the perception well will bring you a lot of convenience."

Gu Ting: "Then..."

"Wait," the worm mother sighed silently. He held the young male worm's face, and slowly placed a warm kiss on his forehead, "I feel it, you should leave."

Almost at the moment when the worm mother's words fell, the black space was like a jigsaw puzzle that was broken into pieces in an instant, falling apart in an instant. In the few seconds that Gu Ting blinked, the dream faded away, and the worm mother's murmur in his ear was also replaced by the breath of his partner beside him.sound instead.

Gu Ting opened his eyes, and saw the chocolate beans that would always stick there every time he woke up, he blew a malicious breath, and the next moment, he was buried in by the hand from the back of his head.

"Hmm..." He was suffocated by the stuffy heat, as if he had buried his head in the still warm berry pie, it was sweet and greasy, with a faint sweet smell of female worms in estrus, he mumbled: "Lizhaipu Fangswow and build a waist (I will bite you if you don't let go)!"

The hand pressing on the back of the head immediately loosened, accompanied by Campbell's complaint-like words: "The swelling won't go away after biting..."

Gu Ting got up from the bed, casually took a dark blue dress from the end of the bed, and was about to put it on, when Campbell snatched it away.

Gu Ting: "Huh? What's wrong?"

"I hugged this one to make a nest before."

"Just pile it up." Gu Ting wanted to take it out of the silver-haired female's hand indifferently, but didn't want to be avoided by the other party.

Campbell: "This one doesn't work, you can wear another one..." He tried to change the subject, "I want to see you wearing that white one."

"Tsk, alright, alright." Gu Ting didn't think too much, seeing that his partner had given advice, he stretched out his tentacles of mental power and brought over the white clothes that were carried on the sofa.

While he was putting on his clothes with his head down, Campbell rolled up the dark blue clothes in his hands, as if he used the outer material to cover a part of the dark wetness, until the traces of dampness were completely covered and formed into a ballA ball's clothes were finally let go by the silver-haired female - he couldn't let Little Gem wear his wet clothes...

In the estrus period of the past few days, today is the first time that Campbell got out of bed in a real sense. His round belly was replaced by slender, muscular calves. When he stepped on the ground, there was a kind of tensionSour.

Gu Ting said while washing, "I saw the insect mother again in my dream."

"What did you say?" Campbell also squeezed into the bathroom. Fortunately, the houses on the starship are relatively spacious, and the front of the sink is enough for the two of them to use together.

"It's about those bug eggs. I'll go find them later to confirm the problem." When he went out to get the nutritional supplements, Gu Ting asked Engrie about his current situation, and he said: "Xin ZhuHe was locked up, but Gran hasn't been found yet, Engley means to look for it again, if there is still no news, forget it."

"Okay." Campbell nodded, the cool water washed away the heat floating on his face, and after he dried off the water drops, he stood in front of the mirror and suddenly lifted the corner of his clothes.

Gu Ting: "What's wrong?"

"Let's see if there will be any changes." Campbell, who has always been cold-faced, couldn't help being curious as he experienced the stage where his body might develop a gestational sac for the first time.

In the bright mirror, a row of chocolate-colored abdominal muscles can be clearly seen, with bumps and a thin layer of sweat.

Gu Ting also reached out and touched it, "Is it still the same as before? It doesn't seem to have changed at all?"

The silver-haired female shook her head, "I'll have an inspection at Joey's when I get back."

What he didn't tell Little Gem was that when the opponent's hand came up and kneaded gently in a circle, there was a secret soreness coming from the lower abdomen, which would not be obvious enough to affect the movement, but this feeling was something that Campbell didn't have before..

After packing up, Gu Ting went to find the group of eggs in the crystal house with a bunch of questions he wanted to ask, while Campbell met Englie to see if there was any work to be done.

The two worms exchanged a wet kiss before parting. Campbell licked and kissed the lips of the young male worm, and whispered: "Baby, see you at night."

"Yeah." Gu Ting leaned forward and rubbed Campbell's nose with the tip of his nose, "If you can't help but call me at any time through the communicator."

"it is good."