Luo called out several times but received no response from Gu Yuan. Feeling a little wronged, he simply stopped calling and instead stared at Gu Yuan with teary eyes, on the verge of crying.
“General… how about you go in and check on him first?”
The doctor from the medical team looked at Gu Yuan’s expression and spoke cautiously.
A newly born male was at his most fragile. Even a slight stimulation from external pheromones could harm them, so male hatchlings usually needed to be nurtured within a female parent’s pheromones for a full month before they could gradually leave the incubation chamber.
But this male was different from the others. Not only had he hatched already in an adult form, he was also a lone insect picked up by the general from who knows where, he didn’t even have a female parent.
The male inside the chamber seemed to understand that the insects in white coats were speaking up for him. He raised his hand and tapped lightly on the glass again, as if silently urging them.
Calm down, Gu Yuan. This is a precious male. No matter how unreasonable he is, you can’t get angry.
Gu Yuan took a deep breath and said, “Alright.”
If he had to suddenly become a mother, then so be it. In any case, he wasn’t the one at a disadvantage.
“Thank you for your understanding. I’ll prepare a sterile suit for you right away.”
The doctor let out a sigh of relief. Although he felt a bit regretful that he wouldn’t be the first to make contact with the young male, he still dutifully began disinfecting Gu Yuan and helping him change.
In the current Empire, male insects were still rare. However, after long evolution, female insects were no longer the primitive beings who would go into heat at the mere sight of a male, especially not these rigorously trained military females.
It was only a matter of providing close contact to soothe the male. It wouldn’t cause trained soldiers to develop conflicts over something like this. Otherwise, the insect race wouldn’t even need an army, one male would be enough to throw them into total disarray.
The viewers in the livestream clearly thought the same. Not only were they not particularly jealous of Gu Yuan, many were even joking about when the general had secretly gained an illegitimate child.
Knock! knock!
Changing into the sterile suit was a somewhat complicated process. Luo waited eagerly inside the incubation chamber for quite a while, only to see his fragrant mama step forward a few steps before stopping again, standing there motionless, holding some white object and doing who knew what.
The few remnants of memory left in Luo’s mind told him that he should once have been someone who commanded responses with a single call, someone admired by all. A situation like this, where he tried to please someone and was ignored, should not exist at all.
Ignored twice in a row, the little male grew angry. He raised his hand and struck the obstructing barrier in front of him with force.
Crack!
Crash!
The explosion proof glass, claimed to have A grade protection, shattered like brittle sugar under Luo’s light punch.
“General, watch out!”
His adjutant’s panicked voice rang out.
Gu Yuan, who had been in the middle of putting on his sterile suit, was startled by the sudden commotion behind him. Every muscle in his body tensed instantly. Like a nimble leopard, he leapt to the side, turned and raised his arm to block.
Naturally, that defensive move met nothing.
Gu Yuan stared in surprise at the male rushing toward him. He hastily withdrew his strength, allowing the unsteady hatchling, who had just climbed out, to throw himself forward and wrap his arms around his waist.
“General, be careful not to hurt the male!”
Only then did the adjutant finish the rest of his sentence.
Gu Yuan: …
Under normal circumstances, he would have punched that idiot who spoke only half a sentence straight in the face but right now, he didn’t dare move at all.
Because the newly hatched, soft little male was kneeling on the ground, wrapping his pale hands around his waist, lifting his head to reveal a beautiful face partially hidden beneath overly long black hair, stubbornly staring at him as he called:
“Mama!”
At that moment, not only did the livestream explode but even the military females stationed in the incubation room were thrown into chaos.
“Did the male just shatter the explosion proof glass with a single punch?”
“Quick, check if the male is injured!”
“I feel dizzy, someone hold me up. Is the glass too fragile or…”
“Holy, he shattered the glass with one punch. Could he really be an S class male?!”
The livestream comments voiced what a certain military female didn’t dare to say aloud.
Luo didn’t care at all about the commotion around him. Right now, he had finally managed to hold onto his fragrant mama, happily breathing in the faint traces of pheromones lingering on his clothes.
So fragrant. He liked it so much.
Just as Luo was about to bury his face and inhale deeply, he suddenly felt his feet lift off the ground.
A strong arm wrapped around his waist and only then did Luo belatedly realize that he had been picked up by mama.
Now, he could finally meet the other’s gaze at eye level. The mama holding him wore a cold expression, carefully lifting his hand to examine it, then brushing aside his hair to check his body before turning to speak to the insect in white nearby.
Luo tilted his head. He couldn’t understand what was being said and didn’t know what was happening, so he chose to continue following his instincts and seek out the pheromones.
This time, his gaze fell on mama’s gland.
A female insect’s gland was located on the neck, the most delicate patch of skin on their body. Even a weak male could easily bite through it and inject pheromones.
And no matter how powerful a female insect was, once their gland was bitten by a male, they would become like prey caught by the scruff of the neck, instantly going limp, losing all desire to resist.
Bite… no resistance…
Fragments of memory suddenly flashed through Luo’s mind. The abrupt return of these memories made his head ache.
If he bites down, the pain will go away.
That thought surfaced in his mind.
Luo sniffed softly, then opened his mouth and bit down on that beautiful, slender neck.
“I’ve just checked. The insect markings on the male have already faded. They should have disappeared after his second differentiation was completed.”
“Mm. There are no wounds. If there’s no blood from him on the glass fragments either, then this male is very likely S class or above. Immediately call the Male Protection, mm…”
Gu Yuan, who had been speaking, suddenly faltered mid sentence, his voice catching as he let out a restrained, muffled groan.
The hands holding the male began to tremble. Instinctively, he wanted to pull the male off himself yet he was afraid that even the slightest force might hurt the fragile hatchling. All he could do was hover his hand awkwardly over the male’s back, his entire body taut as he didn’t dare make another sound.
“General?”
The doctor, who had been recording, noticed the sudden pause and looked up from the glowing screen, casting a puzzled glance over.
The usually cold and composed general now had reddened ears. A faint sheen of sweat had formed on his forehead and even his legs were trembling uncontrollably.
“I… I’m fine.”
Gu Yuan forced himself to speak through the overwhelming numbness spreading deep within his body, his voice trembling.
“The male is biting my gland.”
He tried to explain his situation as calmly and quickly as possible but the increasing tremor in his legs had already exposed the truth of his condition.
The doctor was startled and hurriedly dragged a chair over from the control room. “General, please sit down first. I’ll clear all the females from the area immediately and call the Imperial Male Protection Association. Before they arrive, please try to soothe the male’s emotions and, if possible, obtain a blood sample. Do you have any further instructions?”
“No.”
Gu Yuan barely managed to finish speaking before his legs gave way and he sank weakly into the chair.
Perhaps sensing the change when Gu Yuan sat down, the small male buried against his shoulder no longer feared falling. With a delighted little sound, he bit down even deeper.
Mm… this is too intense…
This was the first time in Gu Yuan’s twenty two years that a male had forcibly bitten his gland and injected pheromones. His entire body trembled violently and it took nearly all his strength to keep himself from completely losing composure, curling up around the male and letting out uncontrolled sounds.
The heat surging through his body came in waves, each stronger than the last, already reaching an abnormal level.
Just how high ranked is this male…
Gu Yuan thought hazily, his consciousness blurring.
He was already an A class female yet simply having his gland bitten was enough to push him to the brink of losing control. This had to be at least S+ level…
To prevent the pheromones released during marking from triggering a reaction in other females, the doctor quickly cleared the room of all female insects, then firmly sealed the incubation chamber doors, standing guard outside while waiting for the specialists from the Male Protection Association to arrive.
This male was very likely an extremely rare S class or above, far beyond the scope of what the military could handle. The Association had to take over. Otherwise, they could easily be charged with “illegal concealment of a male” and face the Empire’s legal consequences.
Inside the room, Luo was wrapped in the warm, gentle pheromones of the female and the pain in his head eased considerably.
He was delighted, unconsciously releasing his own pheromones in response.
But as soon as he let out even a trace of them, the female holding him began trembling even more violently. Those fierce looking eyes instantly grew wet, as though tears might fall at any second.
Luo lifted his head and looked into those damp eyes. Something in his chest stirred, an inexplicable itch.
He leaned closer and tentatively licked the glistening moisture beneath the other’s eyes. The bitter saltiness made him wrinkle his nose and stick out his tongue. Then he turned and bit down harder on the female’s gland and, as expected, heard a soft, tearful whimper.
Luo narrowed his eyes.
It sounded nice. He liked it.
The female’s pheromones felt like warm sunlight, gentle and comforting. Luo wanted more.
A feeling called “greed” spread through him yet aside from biting the gland, he had no other way to obtain it. Growing anxious, he released even more of his own pheromones, forcing the rigid military female to bend further.
Just as Luo had barely taken in enough pheromones and was about to withdraw his teeth, another fragment of memory suddenly returned.
Perhaps because of the pheromones, this time he didn’t feel any pain. Instead, it was as though he were immersed in a pool of warm water, entirely at ease.
Countless fleeting images flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern, until everything finally settled upon a dim layer of clouds. At the far edge of the clouds, the sun was rising, slowly illuminating the world and at the boundary between light and shadow, Luo saw a black, viscous mass composed of writhing tentacles.
This enormous black entity seemed to have only just been born. Floating in midair, it excitedly waved its tentacles. After stumbling a few times while trying to move, it simply stopped and used its tentacles to tear open a gap in its own body.
Then, from that opening, a massive eye grew, curiously observing its surroundings, examining the world.
“Ahhhh!”
Gu Yuan, who had been suppressing his sounds, finally cried out.
At some point, the male had released countless mental tentacles. Like a silkworm spinning thread, they layered themselves around him, wrapping him tightly. Even the most sensitive parts of his body were not spared from their touch.
If these had been ordinary mental tentacles, Gu Yuan might have endured it but the hatchling’s tentacles seemed newly formed as well. Each one was covered in dense suction cups, like a hungry child suckling, clinging to every inch of his skin.
As the tentacles began to probe deeper, Gu Yuan’s already fragile composure finally collapsed completely.
Gasping and trembling, he raised a hand, trying to push away the male clinging to his shoulder.
“S… stop… stop…”
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ChaptersChapter 1 · It’s Hatching!Chapter 2 · Mealtime!Chapter 3 · Angry!Chapter 4 · F.. Found Out!Chapter 5 · SpeakingChapter 6 · RiceChapter 7 · Live BroadcastChapter 8 · XiongbaohuiChapter 9 · Bullet CommentsChapter 10 · I’m sleepyChapter 11 · WrongedChapter 12 · Going to SchoolChapter 13 · ChoiceChapter 14 · Knock KnockChapter 15 · NoisyChapter 16 · AccidentChapter 17 · WingsChapter 18 · CrowChapter 19 · General is blushingChapter 20 · RiotChapter 21 · The Insect EmperorChapter 22 · Good BoyChapter 23 · UnconsciousChapter 24 · DisappearanceChapter 25 · Tail HookChapter 26 · ReturningChapter 27 · DepartureChapter 28 · ReunionChapter 29 · Played with by tentaclesChapter 30 · Moist, Damp EyesChapter 31 Part 1 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 31 Part 2 · Gu Yuan, do you like me?Chapter 32 · Don’t cry, sweetieChapter 33 · Reproductive tentaclesChapter 34 · Even if you kill me, I won’t grow backChapter 35 · Lord Evil GodChapter 36 · Why not refuse?Chapter 37 · He can cry; he’s not a monster.Chapter 38 · Some alternative ways of boiling waterChapter 39 · Why aren’t you kissing me?Chapter 40 · Here, my command is the highest orderChapter 41 · The Evil God’s Disguise Makes its Grand DebutChapter 42 · Be the breeding ground for my eggs.Chapter 43 · Carrying EggsChapter 44 · MasterChapter 45 · CryingChapter 46 · InterrogationChapter 47 · LikeChapter 48 · The TruthChapter 49 · ConfessionChapter 50 · Identity ExposedChapter 51 · BackgroundChapter 52 · SuspicionChapter 53 · The Feeling of HungerChapter 54 · SleepingChapter 55 · The NameChapter 56 · Memories (1)Chapter 57 · Memories (2)Chapter 58 · Memories (3)Chapter 59 · Gu YuanChapter 60 · A Falling KissChapter 61 · MonsterChapter 62 · RabitChapter 63 · Bathroom