"King, King, what's wrong?" Elfa looked at the dazed Lin Hao before him, the gentleness in his blue eyes instantly replaced by terror. His entire body turned cold, and the memories he had finally managed to forget flashed through his mind again.
That day, fire filled the sky, illuminating the planet. Countless ants attacked them, but due to their underestimation, their King died before their very eyes.
That day, the light in her eyes diminished, her breath grew weaker, just like now, the same vacant look, the same soullessness, the same turning a deaf ear to his calls.
No.
This time, he would never give up again, could never let go again, would never let him disappear before his eyes again.
The days without him had been truly terrifying.
Elfa snapped back from his memories and quickly picked up the dazed Lin Hao from the ground, holding him in his arms. Feeling his body heat, his pale fingers slowly turned Lin Hao's face so they could meet each other's gaze.
Lin Hao, who had snapped out of his daze, was forced to look up and meet Elfa's gaze. He looked into his deep blue eyes and at his furrowed brow. Elfa must have sensed his feelings. Lin Hao instinctively raised his hand to smooth his brow and said softly, "What's wrong?"
Elfa looked at the King in his arms. The sense of loss and irritability in his heart was slowly soothed by the black-haired youth before him. He gently stroked his silky black hair, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing."
Fortunately, the King was still here, still comforting them gently as before, not leaving them again, not leaving my side.
The King's body was really so soft, so warm.
And there was a milky fragrance. The King was indeed the cutest.
Beside them, the insectoids quietly observed this misunderstanding and chose to remain silent. It was a joke. Who would dare to offend the commander of the Air Force? If he got impatient, it would be better to obediently admire the King's supreme beauty.
Far away, in the warp, Xil, or rather, the entire race, felt Elfa's volatility, yet no one dared to speak. This was because the commander's mental strength had been unstable for the past few years, and no one wanted to be the first to stick their neck out.
Xil, who was in hibernation on the Thunder Battleship, woke up again. Or rather, he hadn't slept at all. As high-level insectoids, their mental strengths were somewhat shared.
Xil walked to the window and looked at the brilliant galaxy without any emotion, even a hint of disgust.
Why would he exhibit such mental energy?
Just like before, unreasonable and overbearing.
"What's wrong with you, or rather, what's wrong with the King?" Xil hesitantly uttered the last few words, because he would rather something happen to himself than for the King to have any trouble.
"Nothing, I was just overthinking," Elfa replied truthfully after a while. He knew his mental energy could affect the clan, so he answered patiently.
"Understood." Xil's heart calmed down upon hearing this. She did not go to the conference room and continued to look out the window. In at most half a month, I will see you. Do you wish to see me?
The restless insects of the entire clan calmed down because of Elfa's words.
Lin Hao, who was still in Elfa's arms at this time, was thinking, Can you put me down? This posture is quite embarrassing. Back then, he was the one who carried others with one arm. Then Lin Hao looked down at his own arm, and the dissatisfaction in his heart was suppressed by this reality.
Alas, in this world, one is not in control of oneself.
Lin Hao looked up at Elfa and said, "Put me down."
Elfa, upon hearing this, did not put Lin Hao down. Instead, he lowered his head and said gently, "It's getting late, you should eat, my King."
If you have the ability, don't block the sun with your body and then say something like that.
He had only just come out and didn't want to go back in so soon.
But when he saw Elfa's determined gaze, he instantly felt that he was a bit hungry.
"Let's go inside."
Elfa carried Lin Hao back into the cave. The more he looked, the more he felt that this place was unsuitable for the King. It was so cold and damp that newborn cubs could easily freeze.
It seemed he needed to find a warm planet.
Elfa gently placed Lin Hao back into the egg, afraid of him getting bumped.
Lin Hao looked at the egg. For some reason, he was really hungry. He slowly broke off a piece and put it in his mouth. His mental energy was instantly soothed, his whole body felt warm, and every cell relaxed. He let his mind go blank and slowly recalled the methods of checking mental energy from the past.
In a short while, he returned to the place that had once made him proud—the sea of consciousness. The vast white mist proved that he was a malleable mental energy user, capable of learning anything quickly, yet not excelling at anything compared to those with singular mental strengths. Therefore, he had made a decision back then: to abandon mental cultivation and switch to physical cultivation.
He walked through the sea of consciousness, stopping here and there, when suddenly he saw other colors mixed in the white sea of consciousness.
Reborn, my sea of consciousness has even become more beautiful. At least it's not just white anymore.
Lin Hao didn't think in any other direction. After a glance, he felt it was much the same as before and exited. As soon as Lin Hao withdrew, the originally white sea of consciousness instantly turned dark and quickly put on a white disguise, pretending to be very well-behaved. However, Lin Hao did not see any of this.
After eating his fill, Lin Hao sat bored in the egg, looking up at the insectoids who used to be terrifying, but now seemed so cute. He couldn't help but think, were the things they did in the past truly right?
It seemed that after humans entered the new era, they fully embraced their essential nature, carving up territories everywhere. Those indigenous people of the past seemed...
Only this powerful insectoid race remained.
Their education seemed to be standardized from birth, along with defeating the insectoids. Because the textbooks said they were cruel, destructive, and posed a threat to human lives, they were taught to draw their swords whenever they saw insectoids, but never to sit down and discuss things calmly.
The more Lin Hao thought about it, the more the beliefs he had held for decades began to waver.
Don't think about it, don't think about it. Lin Hao desperately slapped his head, trying to pull himself out of this train of thought, but his ideas became clearer and clearer.
Could it really be as he thought?
Lin Hao quickly looked up and said to Elfa, "Elfa, do you guys eat humans?"
Elfa, hearing the King's call, quickly walked to Lin Hao's side and squatted down, meeting those gentle black eyes. He said, "No, we don't. Why would we eat those ants? However, if my King wishes to eat, I can go catch a few."
After saying the last few words, Elfa's eyes were firm. Although humans were not on the insectoid menu, if the King liked it, catching a few would be no trouble.
"Xil, capture a few humans." Knowing this, Elfa contacted Xil at a leisurely pace.
"What's wrong?" Upon hearing the word "humans," Xil's brow furrowed. Disgust instantly appeared on his beautiful face. He sincerely did not want any interaction with humans.
"The King wants to eat."
"Alright. How many?" Upon hearing the King's request, Xil's attitude changed instantly without hesitation, and he agreed.
"Two or three will be enough," Elfa said. After a moment, he added, "Make sure they're clean."
"Mmm."
Lin Hao, upon hearing this answer, returned to his egg and fell back into his thoughts, not hearing Elfa's subsequent words.