I don’t know if it’s because the landmark is gradually approaching the north, but even the moon in the sky seems colder than usual. The pale moonlight shines through the porthole glass onto the ground, illuminating the imprisoned female insect in the cage.
Brand opened his eyes in the night, and his usually light blue eyes were now scarlet. He smelled a faint sweet fragrance in the air, so faint, yet so clear, like the rose candy he had eaten as a child, which aroused the deepest desire in his heart.
Brand's breathing became uncontrollable and rapid. The light-colored insect pattern on the back of his neck was burning like charcoal. He frowned and lowered his head, and couldn't help but let out a painful groan.
"Wow..."
There was a loud clattering sound in the darkness, like a wild animal struggling against an iron cage.
Brand tightly grasped the cold railing, and the thin blanket slipped off quietly due to his movement, revealing his scarred body. His skin was pale under the moonlight due to excessive blood loss, and his strong back was covered with crisscrossing whip wounds. The dark red color contrasted with his fair skin, like a bright blood vine blooming in the snow, with a strange beauty.
In order to force him to spread his wings, Carlos once used an iron hook to drill into his right shoulder, leaving a deep bloody hole on it, but at this moment the sharp pain became an excellent aphrodisiac, bringing another kind of secret stimulation.
The scent of pheromones becomes stronger and stronger.
A bony hand slowly stretched out of the iron cage. Under the moonlight, it was covered with a layer of faint blue. Its fingertips were slender and powerful, as perfect as a work of art carved by God.
The hand searched and groped in the air, and finally found the "target" and fell on the sleeping Asui.
"let me out!"
His instinct made him want to "devour", but the iron railings prevented this. Asui was a huge "man" and obviously could not pass through the narrow gap in the railings.
Asui: “?!!!”
He didn't have the patience to continue licking and became more and more irritated.
Brande seemed to have noticed something, and slowly looked up at Asui. At this moment, his scarlet eyes finally turned back to a normal blue color. His face was as cold as a snowy mountain. His long golden hair slowly fell from his shoulders, glistening like satin in the moonlight. There was a hint of bright red on the edge of his pale lips, which looked ghostly and weird.
Brand leaned against the railing in pain, growling hoarsely. He looked out of the cage vaguely, and saw a young man squatting outside with a blanket in his arms. His black hair was messy and looked a little frizzy, and his face was innocent and childish, completely different from the reddish-brown-haired pirate who had tortured him before.
Ah Sui squatted on the ground barefoot, feeling distressed when he heard this: "The key was taken away by Brother Cen Feng, can I let you out tomorrow?"
After saying this, Asui quickly crawled to the seat with the quilt in his arms and rummaged through his backpack. He took out a few compressed biscuits and a bottle of juice that he was reluctant to drink. He carefully handed it to Brande across the railing. He was a little worried that the other party would bite him again, so he simply put it at the door, then picked up the sword on the ground and poked it in little by little.
A dark light flashed in the female insect's scarlet eyes, and her teeth suddenly became very sharp. She bit Asui's fingertips, pierced the skin with a little force, and sucked a wisp of fishy and sweet blood.
Asui looked down at his finger and found a deep tooth mark on it. He subconsciously looked at Brand who was trapped in the cage, only to see that he suddenly grabbed the iron railing and shook it impatiently, as if he wanted to escape from inside.
Brand then grabbed the boy's wrist and pulled him into the cage with a little force. This was a very dangerous move, because you couldn't guarantee that your hand would not be eaten by the "beast" imprisoned in the cage.
At this moment, if Asui opened his eyes, he would be met with a pair of beast-like eyes, but he didn't, he slept soundly and soundly.
“Boom!”
Ah Sui frowned, suddenly awakened from his sleep by the pain. He opened his eyes in confusion and subconsciously looked at his hand, only to see the female insect in the cage lowering its head to suck the blood from his fingertips, causing his pupils to shrink suddenly.
The iron cage made a sharp muffled sound due to the impact.
Asui had raised injured animals in the mountains before, and those animals would struggle to escape every time they were kept in cages for a short period of time, and they would usually be fine after being fed some water and food. But this time, the one locked inside was a living person, and Asui didn't know how to comfort him for a moment.
Asui felt the itch on his face, but he didn't pay much attention to it. In his sleep, he thought it was just his junior fellow apprentice practicing martial arts in his sleep. He raised his hand to scratch his face, turned over and continued to sleep, facing the iron cage.
"Shh, stop shaking the cage. I'll give you a cookie, okay?"
Brand's fingertips were slightly cool as he stroked Asui's fair cheek. The touch was warm and soft, mixed with a sweet fragrance, just like a soft marshmallow.
Asui was so scared that he pulled his hand back from the cage. He hugged the quilt and crawled to the other side. He didn't expect that this beautiful woman actually liked to bite people.
Oh shit!
Brand lowered his head and took Asui's fingertips into his mouth, trying to get more pheromones. He licked them gently with his soft tongue. He could still vaguely feel the thin calluses on the boy's palms left by martial arts training, but this action was tantamount to scratching an itch.
He really hoped that this beautiful woman could calm down. There were many pirates sleeping outside, and it would be bad if he woke them up.
In order to increase his credibility, Asui even raised his hand and swore an oath: "Really, if I lie to you, I'm a puppy!"
However, Brande was completely unable to understand what Asui meant by this. He slid down slowly with his back against the railing, his fingertips tightly covering the cracked wound on his right shoulder. He was sweating profusely and looked extremely painful.
As Brand gradually shed his insectoid state and regained his sanity, some fragmented fragments of memory quickly flashed through his mind.
"Major General, we have found traces of space pirates ahead. Should we capture them?"
The adjutant stood in front of the control panel and zoomed in on the tracking screen. He saw red dots flashing among the snow-capped mountains. When he flew closer, he found that it was a female insect wearing a black pirate uniform who was fleeing. The other party obviously knew that the army was arresting him. He looked back at the sky and saw a blurry profile on the screen.
[Ding! The target's facial information has been extracted and is being identified...]
[Successful identification]
[Tracking target name: Sanya
Gender: Female.
Identity information: In 2760, he served as the major general of the Third Army and was awarded first-class military merit 12 times. In 2763, he was sentenced to death by the Empire for killing a male insect. He escaped without reason on the eve of the execution and later joined the star pirate organization Clete Union and became the second leader.
Wanted Level: S]
A major general in a white military uniform was originally using a telescope to observe the movements in the distance. When he heard the information automatically broadcast by the recognition system, he paused and subconsciously looked at the tracking screen in front of him.
The adjutant asked again: "Major General Brand, should we arrest him now?"
Brand came to his senses and said unexpectedly: "No, you go and clear out the main force, and I will be responsible for capturing this pirate."
After he finished speaking, he put down the telescope, changed into his combat equipment, walked straight to the back and opened the cabin door. The biting cold wind from outside instantly came in, causing the corners of his clothes to flutter.
There are many tribes of different sizes in Salilanfa, and the southern tribes are recognized as the most gentle and beautiful of all races. They are not good at fighting, but their speed and sensitivity are unmatched, so they are responsible for intelligence detection in most cases.
Brand stood in front of the hatch and spread out his translucent wings. The wings were shining and colorful, beautiful but sharp. He braved the cold wind and jumped down the valley, searching for Sanya in the snow. Finally, he found her, accelerated to fly ahead, and folded his wings in mid-air and landed gracefully.
The black military boots landed silently, and Brand directly blocked Sanya's way. His light blue eyes stared at him coldly, and his expression seemed a little solemn:
"Sonya—" Opposite Brand stood a female insect with gray hair and silver eyes. Her hair was braided and tied up in a high ponytail. She was wearing a pirate uniform unique to the Clete Alliance. She was covered in blood and it was obvious that she was used to living on the edge of a knife.
"Brand, I knew you would catch up."
Judging from the tone, it seems familiar.
Sanya was holding a bloody object in his hand and threw it directly to Brand's feet. Brand took a closer look and found that it was a head. He was a little surprised: "You killed Clet?!"
Sanya held a thin blade between his fingers, and when he turned it over, it was dazzling. "Aren't you responsible for clearing out the star pirates? I'll use Clete's head in exchange, and you'll just pretend you've never seen me, how about that?"
But Brande pulled out his gun and pointed it at him: "No way!"
Sanya glanced at him and said with a hint of sneer in his voice, "No way? If you hadn't opened the prison door a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to escape from prison so easily."
Brand silently clenched the gun in his hand. He looked at his former comrade-in-arms who had become what he is now. He couldn't tell whether he felt heartache or resentment. He said in a deep voice, "Sangya, I let you go a year ago so that you could live well, not to let you become a despicable space pirate!"
Sanya narrowed his eyes coldly upon hearing that. He suddenly pulled out his gun and fired wildly at the ground, directly blowing up Clet's bloody head. He stared at Brande, and asked with gloomy eyes and resentment: "Live well?! Brande, tell me, how can a female insect whose wings have been plucked by a male insect live well?! I can't go to the battlefield anymore, and I can't fly anymore. Why should I endure this?! Just because I was born in the south? Just because I am a fallen noble, do I deserve to be bullied by them?!"
Sanya's hoarse questioning made Brand fall into silence. His face changed slightly, his wrist trembled, and he almost couldn't hold the gun.
The precious wings of the southern female insects had long been a collection of frantic aristocrats. Sanya and Brand were once comrades-in-arms, but the Sanya family had fallen into decline and he had no protection behind him, making him a shining target. Once, when he was on a mission, he accidentally offended a powerful male insect in the imperial capital, and was secretly sent to the hospital by the other party to forcibly remove his wings. Afterwards, he directly killed the male insect, and at the same time he was imprisoned and sentenced to death.
At that time, Brand couldn't bear it, so he secretly used his connections to let Sanya go. Unexpectedly, when they met again a year later, they were on opposite sides.
Perhaps Sanya noticed Brande's hesitation, so he walked up to him and warned him coldly, "Brande, don't hold on to your useless compassion. If you don't find a way to break free from your fate, one day you will end up like me. Those "noble" butchers won't care about your identity as the young master of the southern region!"
"Go ahead and shoot me if you want. Anyway, I don't have wings now, so I can't beat you. But there is no way I will go back to that cage again!"
After Sanya finished speaking, he put away his gun, turned around and left, walking into the snow without looking back. And Brand did not chase him. He stood there for a long time, until his eyelashes were covered with a layer of frost, and finally slowly lowered his hand holding the gun.
A terrible fate.
Brandt thought so.
It is obvious that the southern female insects are the most gentle faction among all races. They are kind by nature and do not like war. But since when did this become the original sin of being plundered by the outside world
Brand lowered his eyes to look at the head smashed by Sanya at his feet, and ignored it. He frowned and spread his wings behind him, preparing to turn back and join the troops, but suddenly a group of dense black shadows appeared in the sky in the distance. It turned out that a large number of female insects were flying towards this side, wearing the uniforms of the Clet Alliance. They were actually the space pirates who escaped the encirclement! !
A burst of dense gunfire rang out, echoing in the mountains.
The Clet Alliance is the most powerful group among all the star pirate organizations. It is very difficult to eradicate them, otherwise they would not have been roaming around all year round. This encirclement and suppression operation was carried out in the Boliman Snow Mountain. The snow restricted the vision, and the army suffered from unfamiliar terrain and was defeated. Brand was ambushed because he was alone and was captured by the second leader of the star pirates, Carlos, as a prisoner.
Brand was imprisoned in the cage for ten days and was tortured severely. During this time, he vaguely heard the pirates below talking about how the leader, Clet, was assassinated, the second leader, Sanya, escaped and disappeared, and the other leaders fought each other to compete for the top position, but ended up being defeated by a male insect with good kung fu.
In order to please the big leader, the newly appointed second leader Carlos wanted to pluck Brand's wings and offer them to him. However, no matter how he tortured Brand, he refused to transform into a worm, so he had no choice but to give up.
On the eleventh day, Carlos suddenly stopped whipping Brand and said something to him in an ambiguous tone: "If you are smart, you should serve our leader well. After all, he is also a male insect, and you are the one who is taking advantage."
Brandt didn't understand what Carlos meant at that time. He just felt a sharp pain in his arm. He was injected with a muscle softening injection, and then he was put into an iron cage and lost consciousness.
He felt like he had had a long and painful dream from which he could not escape no matter what. Later, he smelled the sweet scent of candy and finally woke up from the nightmare.
It was the early morning of the next day. A red sun cut through the dark sky, and the originally dim interior of the starship became a little brighter.
Brand opened his eyes dazedly, only to find himself in an iron cage. Looking through the bars, he saw a black-haired young man in a white shirt sitting cross-legged on the ground opposite him, holding a long sword in his arms. He looked a little cold and silent.
Brand paused slightly when he saw this, as if he had guessed something. When he was imprisoned before, he had heard the pirates below talking about how the Clet Alliance had replaced the leader of a young male insect. He didn't expect it to be true.
But this was not good news for Brand, because in addition to plundering the wings of the female insects, the male insects would also forcibly occupy their bodies. Compared with the former and the latter, Brand could not tell which one was more humiliating.
He lay in the cage with his eyes closed and expressionless, not even bothering to open them, looking like a corpse that was still warm. The sunlight shone through the porthole onto his naked upper body, making the crisscrossing scars more eye-catching, exuding a rotten and gray smell from inside to outside.
what to do
Asui was sitting on the ground, and unconsciously hugged the sword in his arms when he saw this. He had raised injured birds and chickens, injured puppies and rabbits before, but he had never raised a living person.
This beautiful girl kept shaking the iron cage yesterday trying to get out. Asui didn't dare to sleep the whole night. Now that she has finally calmed down, he feels a little scared.
At this time, the pirates outside came to deliver breakfast to Asui. The chef held a tray and introduced the fast food inside to Asui one by one, because their leader was like a bumpkin from the countryside, he didn't know these things at all, and last time he almost ate the heating pack as candy.
Chef: "Big Chief, this is high calcium milk."
Ah Sui nodded expressionlessly. He was always very cool in front of these pirates: "Yeah."
Chef: “This is a strawberry-flavored bun.”
Asui continued to nod expressionlessly.
Chef: "This is egg custard and Lulu beast soup. This small one is a lollipop, it has milk flavor. You can eat it after tearing open the package."
Asui nodded expressionlessly: "I understand."
The fat chef smiled with satisfaction, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Then I'll take my leave. If you don't have enough, I'll make more."
After he finished speaking, he simply placed the dishes and chopsticks in place, turned around and exited the starship. The hatch slowly closed and the air became quiet again.
Brand remained indifferent from beginning to end.
He heard the male insect talking to the chef behind him, his voice was cold and indifferent, and he refused to say a word. Carlos, the second leader of the Star Pirates, was extremely vicious, and the method used by this big leader to torture the female insects might be even more severe than his.
A hint of sarcasm and self-mockery appeared in Brand's eyes.
This time, Sanya actually guessed it right, and he followed in his old footsteps.
(End of this chapter)