The slender yet powerful tentacle coiled its way up along Luo’s arm, winding higher and higher until it reached his fingertips, where it flicked out like the tongue of a snake.
Instinct told Luo that as long as he gave the command, this thin strand of flesh would pierce forward with a force no one could resist, drilling straight into the prey’s brainstem and punching clean through their skull.
After all, he wasn’t an insect and his tentacles were not the fragile, powerless mental filaments of a male insect, weren’t they?
With that thought in mind, Luo was just about to move his fingers and issue the command.
Yet at that very moment, a warm, steady hand suddenly reached out from behind and wrapped around his.
“Luo, don’t hurt him, alright?”
The voice was one Luo knew well, deep, gentle, familiar but this time it carried an undeniable firmness that allowed no refusal.
It was Gu Yuan.
After being brushed aside by Luo earlier, he had stood there in a brief daze but recalling how Luo, fresh out of his shell, had effortlessly shattered bulletproof glass, Gu Yuan quickly got to his feet and stepped in to stop him.
Luo pouted, aggrieved. “He’s not good.”
He bullied insects. Luo didn’t like him.
In Luo’s understanding, anything that made him feel “displeased” was something that could simply be destroyed outright. Why shouldn’t he be allowed to act?
Gu Yuan bent down and, as if picking up a small kitten, lifted the sulking young male from behind and set him gently onto the sofa. Then, with patient calm, he explained:
“He’s not good but he’s only carrying out orders. You can dislike him but you can’t just attack and kill someone like that, understand?”
Especially not under the watch of so many viewers in a live broadcast.
Gu Yuan silently swallowed the latter half of his words.
Bai Langdi was only an asubmale. Under normal circumstances, being injured in a conflict with a male might not amount to much but after so many years of gender equality movements, if Luo were to harm Bai Langdi in front of hundreds of millions of female viewers in a live broadcast, there would be no way to explain it away without consequences.
Luo didn’t fully understand but after thinking it over, he decided that since Gu Yuan was very “delicious,” it wasn’t impossible to listen to him for once. So he simply released the tentacle.
Bang!
Bai Langdi, who had been unconscious, dropped straight to the ground. The impact jolted him awake and he looked up at Luo and Gu Yuan in sheer terror, wishing he could sprout wings and flee the planet on the spot.
Gu Yuan stepped forward and looked down at the asubmale sprawled on the floor.
“About the livestream, shall we move to the study and discuss it properly?”
Seeing that Bai Langdi immediately wanted to shake his head in refusal, Gu Yuan gave a faint smile.
“I’m not talking to you.”
“Have the person in your earpiece come out and talk to me.”
Bai Langdi froze all over, clearly not expecting that Gu Yuan had already noticed the miniature earpiece he was wearing.
He reached up and touched the stud at his ear, listening intently to whatever was being said on the other end. After murmuring a few quiet “Yes” responses, he forced himself to stand and said:
“Understood, General.”
Gu Yuan did not immediately take Bai Langdi to the study. Instead, he turned back toward Luo, who was still sitting on the sofa, looking somewhat confused.
“Do you want me to take you back to the bedroom first?”
Luo shook his head and pointed toward the livestream projection in the living room.
“I want that.”
Gu Yuan only assumed that Luo still wanted to watch the fireworks.
Leaving the livestream running for a while for Luo to play with wasn’t a big deal anyway.
With that in mind, he nodded in agreement, though he still couldn’t help but feel a trace of concern. He gave careful instructions, “Then stay on the sofa and don’t run around. I’ll definitely be back within thirty minutes, alright?”
Luo nodded repeatedly. The tentacles that had once been filled with aggression now brushed affectionately across Gu Yuan’s lips, then leaned in to press a soft kiss against his cheek, before coiling snugly around his already flushed neck in a gesture of reassurance.
His possession, of course he would protect it well, lest some strange and grotesque creature bully it again.
Realizing that he was being “protected” by Luo, Gu Yuan couldn’t help but laugh helplessly. Still, he made no move to remove the tentacle. Just like that, with it draped around his neck, he led Bai Langdi toward the study.
Luo watched him leave the entire time. Only after Gu Yuan disappeared from sight did he shift his gaze back to the livestream.
After the sudden turn of events just now, the number of viewers in the stream had already skyrocketed to six billion.
Among a species whose total population barely exceeded ten billion, such a number was terrifying. Almost every insect in the entire star system who didn’t have urgent matters at hand had temporarily put aside their work and flooded into Luo’s livestream.
“Ahhh, what did I just see!! Luo is way too handsome!! How can there be such a handsome male, sob sob sob sob…. ”
“Luoluo, we didn’t mean to side with the Male Protection Association! Those old dogs didn’t tell us it was illegal filming, ahh!! Don’t hate us, we’ll send you fireworks QAQ!”
“Yes, yes, yes! The ones talking badly about General Gu Yuan weren’t us either! Must be the Male Protection Association’s paid trolls!! All of us military females deeply admire General Gu Yuan!”
“Submales admire him too! Bai Langdi is expelled from the submale ranks!”
“Luoluo, Luo baby, hehe… I want to see who dares to dig up your address and stalk my baby! He just hatched!! I’ll beat up every sasaeng fan I see!”
The moment the viewers saw Luo turn his head back, the barrage of comments exploded across the screen.
Amid the overwhelming flood of scrolling text, Luo successfully caught the information related to “Gu Yuan.”
He spoke slowly, as if carefully feeling out unfamiliar pronunciation:
“Yu… Yuan… is a general?”
“Luo baby spoke! I’m dead!!”
“Yes! Gu Yuan is a general and he’s also the commander in chief of our Empire’s First Legion, he’s amazing!”
“That’s right and it was the general who picked Luo up! He’s been responsible for watching over and incubating Luo all this time!”
“Come to think of it, Luo baby only just hatched… what, five or six hours ago? And he can already talk? Do S+ males even have learning ability this terrifying?!”
“Right, Luo just hatched, does that mean he doesn’t understand anything about our species yet?”
Luo looked at the last comment that floated past and answered seriously, “I don’t understand.”
That was precisely why he had asked Gu Yuan to leave the livestream on.
Everything about this species was unfamiliar to him. The small tablet could only provide limited knowledge, he wanted to learn more about this race.
Seeing that Luo was willing to respond, the enthusiasm in the livestream surged to an unprecedented height.
“I’ll explain things to Luo baby! The first mentor of the little male’s life must be me!”
“Luoluo, our insect race is mainly divided into males, military females and submales. You are the first S grade male in our history and you may even break through to S+ in the future. You’re extremely precious, that’s why everyone rushed in to watch you…”
“Although the gender equality movement has been around for many years, the general trend is still male superiority over females. I personally hope Luoluo won’t become one of those disgusting scum males but the overall trend is like this QAQ. Every male can marry many females…”
Someone directly sent a top tier gift, a diamond ring, turning their comment into a colorful message with a long trailing effect as it floated across the livestream, explaining the most basic knowledge of their species to Luo.
Luo’s eyes widened in astonishment.
There were actually rules even more outrageous than what he had seen in the videos?
Were they truly not being controlled by some mutated ancient god? And yet they accepted such a twisted worldview so naturally?
The insects in the livestream had no idea what Luo was thinking, still enthusiastically continuing their explanations.
Perhaps because Luo didn’t look like a juvenile at all, the direction of the “education” in the livestream gradually veered off course, quickly drifting into topics that were restricted in nature.
Luo had no concept of such topics and simply absorbed everything as basic knowledge of the insect race without question.
Thus, when Gu Yuan swiftly concluded negotiations with the representatives of the Male Protection Association and hurried back to the living room to check on Luo, the first thing he heard was Luo speaking haltingly:
“If I want to… be with Yuanyuan, what should I do?”
“…Like this? Then can I have eggs with Yuanyuan?”
Gu Yuan: ?!?!
Just what on earth had these insects been saying in the livestream?!
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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