IHNMSL Chapter 65

Chapter 65: Chapter 65 – Past Events (Related to Hevia)

“Your brother doesn’t want you anymore?”

“What a loser, crying like this over a Male Bug?” Hevia said indifferently.

If you like him, you should just go and snatch him, what’s the use of hiding in a corner crying your eyes out? The Male Bug can’t even see it.

Hevia doesn’t often stay in the dormitory arranged by the school. His presence in the school is very weak, like an invisible bug, and his relationship with his family elders is not very close.

He was the Female Bug chosen to be the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the Supreme Mind Brain, and he was sent to the Hive for closed cultivation at a very young age after leaving his parents.

His female and male parents have high expectations for him. His identity carries too much mystery. Most classmates only think of him as a well-connected individual with a powerful background.

Hevia had already systematically completed the school’s courses. The private tutoring he received was dozens or hundreds of times stricter than the courses at the Central Military Academy, which is also why the professors were so indulgent towards him.

The Hive said that he was too maverick and lacked the emotions that normal bugs should have. Perhaps this was related to his growth experience. He was a Female Bug cultivated by the Mind Brain through meticulous calculations and a cruel training model.

Clearly a real, flesh-and-blood creature, yet the Hive couldn’t feel his soul.

If a bug like this were to control the operating authority of the Supreme Mind Brain, would the future of the Bug Clan really be able to embark on the right path?

The Hive expressed doubt.

The Bug Clan Federation has its own independently operating code of conduct. Most of the time, the Hive does not directly interfere with the Federation’s decisions. The Supreme Mind Brain is only an auxiliary machine, and the real decision-makers are still the bugs behind it.

The old era has come to an end, and the major King Bugs that led to infighting within the Bug Clan have disappeared into the starry sea. The remaining scarce Pure-Bloods have been protected by the Hive as the Bug Clan’s fire.

Hevia was a child favored by Him. Rational and powerful enough, he would have the ability to create the future of the Bug Clan and lead the Bug Clan to prosperity.

The mistakes of history were corrected, and one day the Bug Clan would regain its position as the interstellar overlord.

Hevia is very smart. The manipulator of the Mind Brain needs to be rational enough. He was trained to abandon useless emotions. Even without acquired training, Hevia showed great talent in this regard.

It is better to say that he was born to be this kind of bug, which is why he was chosen by the Hive.

Extreme rationality corresponds to extreme indifference. He showed an excessive lack of empathy for his own kind in training. Even though the feedback results of his various simulated decisions far exceeded those of his competitors, the Hive began to reflect that excessive rationality might not be a good thing, fearing that one day he would raise a butcher’s knife against his own kind.

After adulthood, his family began to examine his value. He would be entrusted with important tasks by the Hive. If Hevia was excellent enough to pass the Hive’s examination, every step he took in the future would represent the will of the Supreme Mind Brain.

Before that, Hevia’s male parent wanted to find a Male Bug to match his child, who was indifferent to everything. Hevia had accepted many dates arranged by his family.

A second-generation scion born into a noble family is the label on Hevia’s body. Most bugs don’t understand the value of this Female Bug.

Hevia knew that the Hive had been observing his behavior. Training from a young age had made him accustomed to hiding his true thoughts.

The Hive clearly cultivated him according to the procedure of cultivating monsters, but it was afraid that he would lack emotion and harm his fellow clansmen.

It wanted to test whether he had the ability to love bugs and would not evolve into an antisocial bug personality, but it did not want him to truly possess emotions.

So awkwardly and contradictorily, it tested Hevia.

An emotional brain cannot effectively control the Mind Brain and take over the Bug Clan. Emotional bias will make his decisions lose fairness and favor beloved individuals.

The family’s approach was just to extract greater benefits from him, which was understandable. Hevia knew what his male parent was doing out of consideration.

He did not stop Hevia from accepting dates. On the contrary, the Hive was very much looking forward to seeing how the cultivated child would perform.

“My child, what kind of Male Bug will you like?”

No Male Bug could truly touch Hevia’s heart. He didn’t have that innate, deformed desire for Male Bugs that Female Bugs have. There was no problem with his glands.

Even if the strongest aphrodisiac was injected into his body, he had no desire to touch Male Bugs. He was so rational that he didn’t look like a Bug Clan member at all, but rather like a monster in the skin of another race.

“How do you feel today? This is already the nineteenth Lord you’ve been set up with this month? What exactly do you want to be satisfied with, Hevia? So many gentle and lovely Male Bugs, doesn’t your heart have the slightest ripple?”

The male parent slammed the table in a fit of rage and questioned him.

The well-known Male Bugs in Central Star had been invited all over the place. For the sake of Hevia’s family, and more deeply for the sake of the Hive, many Lords in their marriageable period were willing to meet with Hevia.

Marriage between nobles is more about family background and bloodline. Feelings can be cultivated later.

“Nothing much,” Hevia said indifferently.

Acting requires emotional expenditure. For Hevia, it’s not difficult to play the role of a gentlemanly Female Bug in front of Male Bugs, but deeper interactions are impossible. This is something Hevia lacks innately. Facing one strange Male Bug face after another, Hevia really finds it hard to smile.

Love, desire, jealousy, exclusivity—these ordinary, innate emotions, the deformed pheromone dependence—Hevia can’t feel any of them.

Hevia was a little tired of it.

“Have I disappointed you?”

He did not answer Hevia’s question, but comforted him, perhaps he just had not yet foreseen that Male Bug who could change him.

A Female Bug who has dated so many Male Bugs and is still not satisfied. Hevia has aroused public anger. What qualifications does he have to be picky about those Lords?

Hevia’s family is good, but it is far from reaching the point where he can be arrogant. After all, the family backgrounds of the Male Bug Lords are also excellent.

The media on the Star Network caught wind of it, distorted the facts, and portrayed him as an unforgivable scumbag Female Bug. Some photos taken at an angle became evidence of him two-timing.

Jealousy is such a terrible thing, not suffering from scarcity but suffering from inequality.

Public outrage was stirred up.

Those agitated Female Bugs scolded and attacked him not because the misleading photos were highly authentic, nor because they believed that he was having dirty relationships with multiple Male Bugs at the same time, but simply because they wanted to vent.

Hevia didn’t care about these rumors, nor did he think about clarifying them. He always had a calm detachment, as if the bug being slandered and given a bad name was not himself.

Hevia doesn’t love Male Bugs. Observing these frantic Female Bug counterparts is more interesting than any research topic he has ever participated in. He wants to dissect the emotions of these Female Bugs. It’s a bit of a pity that he can’t taste the flavor of jealousy like these bugs.

After reaching maturity, Female Bugs have to rely on Male Bug pheromones every month for comfort. He doesn’t have this trouble. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t find a Male Bug for the rest of his life.

Some things can only be understood after truly owning a Male Bug. After several failed dates, Hevia’s male parent took pity on him for leaving home at a young age and proposed to match him with a Male Bug from the gene bank to teach him emotions.

Hevia’s reaction was indifferent. Since it’s all the same no matter who he chooses, then…

Hevia pointed to the top-ranked Pure-Blood Male Bugs in the gene bank on the optical brain.

Hevia said without warmth, “Since we’re going to choose, why not choose a Lord with the highest-ranked gene sequence to match me? You don’t lack that capability, do you?”

“Then let’s take this little cutie… looks like he’s about to come of age. But unfortunately, I have a weak emotional perception by nature, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to satisfy the needs of a delicate little Lord. If he wants Female Consorts, I would be happy to marry a few more concubines for him.”

“Hevia! What is this attitude of yours?”

“Can a Pure-Blood Lord be matched just because you want to? When they get stubborn, they won’t even listen to the Hive’s orders.”

“Are you not inciting those outside Female Bugs enough? Don’t forget that your image among the public has already hit rock bottom. These will become obstacles to your future participation in politics. Perhaps the Hive needs to re-examine whether you have enough ability to control the Supreme Mind Brain.”

Hevia was clearly provoking him. His father rarely became angry.

“Then I won’t bother you to worry about it. It’s just a joke.”

Hevia brushed off the non-existent dust on his body. He didn’t necessarily have to get a Pure-Blood Male Bug. He just thought it would be interesting to anger his father.

Watching him perform the late paternal love is really a bit uncomfortable. A male parent angry like this is more in line with the inherent image from childhood.

Even if he got full marks on all the assessments, he was still in the so-called “assessment period.”

The Hive calls him a disguised genius, but he still lacks the most crucial thing: his emotions lack a “soul,” even though he has always made himself look like a normal bug.

“Is the face you’re wearing now the real you, Hevia?”

The mask he made was broken by the Hive with a single poke, and it always looked out of place, ridiculous and laughable.

His heart has never had a true sense of belonging to the Bug Clan. He is a heretic who cannot think from the perspective of his fellow clansmen.

Hevia is an excellent observer. By observing the various bugs around him, Hevia’s disguise skills have become more superb, and no one can detect his abnormality.

Except—the Hive.

“Not enough, Hevia…” As always, shaking his head, the Hive said that he could only hand over the authority to him when he could truly understand emotions.

“Chris, so you love your adopted brother?”

Although Hevia himself has weak emotions, he is unusually sensitive to observing the emotions of other bugs. The fun of missing emotions can be compensated in other bugs.

For example, his roommate is the observation sample he chose. Chris says he wants to repay his adopted brother, but isn’t it just because he likes that Male Bug?

Hevia even noticed that suppressed emotion earlier than Chris himself.

“I love my elder brother?” Chris was stunned.

He and Amy have never had a real adoption relationship. They just got used to depending on each other since they were young. That Male Bug just happened to need a servant who was easy to use. If it wasn’t him, there would be other bugs.

Hevia’s words hit Chris like a heavy punch, causing his ears to buzz. How could he love that vain Male Bug?

If he doesn’t love him, how can he be jealous? A hypocritical Female Bug, Hevia wondered.

Chris’s sample is too ordinary. Even if his academic performance in school is very excellent and very eye-catching, this is not what Hevia wants.

Hevia wants to understand true love. Chris’s twisted and unacknowledged emotion is doomed to be fruitless. Hevia is in trouble. His hand falls on the observation diary and he cannot write for a long time.

Fortunately, Hevia’s observation samples are not limited to Female Bugs. Sometimes he also observes Male Bugs. He likes to go to places where he can have fun.

Wherever the emotional atmosphere is strong, he likes to go there…

Most of the Female Bugs in high-end clubs are pragmatists. They need Male Bug pheromones to soothe their estrus, but the gap in class means that they will not invest too much emotion in those low-level Male Bugs.

However, there are still a small number of Female Bugs who like the drama of rescuing someone from a brothel, taking these miserable Male Bugs away and secretly raising them in private residences.

Hevia knows that this behavior of his is called eating melons and being a fun-loving bug on the Star Network, but he is just a Female Bug who is happy to learn.

Like completing a difficult scientific research task, Hevia firmly believes that he will be able to complete the Hive’s final assessment.

Hevia’s meeting with Amy was a coincidence, but it was not a coincidence, because of Chris, the sultry sample, his log has a lot of Amy-related records.

Hevia didn’t expect to see Amy in a club like this, the Male Bug that Chris dreams about and is willing to risk his life for.

Oh, it would be a big mistake to expect a bug like Hevia to have the idea of ​​rescuing someone from a brothel. Even if a Male Bug fell in front of him, he wouldn’t even blink.

This smart Male Bug seemed to have noticed his gaze and took the initiative to approach Hevia.

“Hello! My name is Amy.” The sticky tone is a common technique for hooking up with Female Bugs.

Hevia knew that Amy was not trying to seduce him, but simply to get rid of another Female Bug who was clinging to him.

The club does not allow the use of coercive measures against Male Bugs, but it is a mixed bag, and there will always be some unruly people when there are many guests.

His genetic disease has reached the point where it cannot be suppressed, and the savings in his hand are not enough to cover the medical expenses for this month. Although the club will come forward to drive away this rash guest for him, the manager will definitely deduct part of his salary.

He aimed at this noble Female Bug who had been peeking at him to get out of the predicament.

Hevia is a high-quality customer of the club, generous and never using his hands or feet to force the Male Bugs here. Most of the time, he just orders a bottle of wine and asks a Male Bug to pour wine and chat with him quietly, and the distance is kept very safe.

“I’m Hevia, nice to meet you, Amy…”

Hevia is not interested in the reason why Amy appeared here, but he knows that there is a Female Bug who will definitely care, his observation target Chris…

Excessive beauty is easy to cause trouble. Who can protect this weak Male Bug in times of trouble? Why would he rather work in this kind of place than ask Chris for help? Is this true love?

Hevia wrote in his notebook: Chris’s shattered feelings, will his tears and jealousy be given to the Male Bug in front of him?