IHNMSL Chapter 19

Chapter 19 Orphanage

Chapter 19 Orphanage

The courses at the military academy are quite rigorous, and it’s inevitable to bump into things when mixed in with a group of Female Bugs, especially when they don’t realize Yao is a Male Bug.

However, compared to the hot-tempered and reckless Female Bugs in other departments of the school, the Female Bugs in the art department are already rare and gentle.

“Can you even lift your future Female Consort looking so weak?”

The suspicious Female Bug stared at Yao for a full ten minutes. When she saw that this delicate new classmate was so exaggerated that he couldn’t even move a five-hundred-kilogram grand piano, she couldn’t hold back. Was he acting?

“I’ll help you.” The Female Bug rolled up her sleeves and easily put the piano back in place.

The Interstellar League is in full swing, a hot topic of concern for all military academy students, and a carnival feast for the Bug Clan whose veins flow with the blood of war.

During breaks, students gather in groups of twos and threes to discuss popular contestants in the competition. Due to the long competition cycle and complex matching rules, the ultimate champion has great uncertainty.

Especially in the second half of the competition, the competition is particularly fierce, and the rankings of the players may be reshuffled at any time.

Yao heard the surrounding students talking the most about a certain mysterious player in the increasingly arrogant upper half.

Since the prize money for each game has been increasing geometrically, enthusiastic bugs have calculated that the amount he has won in the last few hundred games is enough to buy a skyscraper in Central Star, where land is at a premium.

The wealthy Klink family has been the most important sponsor of the Interstellar League since hundreds of years ago, and the Duke attends the finals every year to present awards to the champion.

However, this year, according to the practice, the award should be presented by Yao, who has come of age.

To be honest, Yao is also full of curiosity about this mysterious player, not because he feels sorry for his Male parent’s sponsorship fee, but because he is curious about the player’s true strength.

Others can’t wait to exchange all their wealth for points, but he does the opposite, always converting points into prize money, and every game is a quick battle, and the identity of the great master who comes and goes like the wind seems to be a very busy person.

Some say he is a first-class mercenary master of a mysterious organization, some say he is a closed disciple cultivated by a big boss in the military, and some say he is an unrecognized illegitimate son of a pure-blood wealthy family.

Of course, there are even more outrageous rumors that he is just an ordinary person no different from thousands of Female Bugs, who wants to earn money to buy a house and is busy flirting with a beautiful Male Bug.

Regardless of whether the rumors are true or false, sharp-eyed viewers have already noticed that this player has a wedding ring symbolizing unswerving fidelity on his ring finger during the competition.

Since wearing this ring, the Female Bug has started using only one hand to compete, making it difficult for the audience not to notice.

As everyone knows, virtual battles will not actually damage personal belongings, and he could obviously take off the ring before the battle, making it difficult not to suspect that a certain player is deliberately flaunting the fact that he has a partner.

Every league’s popular players can gain a lot of little fans. Not to mention other places, you can see a lot of discussions in Yao’s class.

After class, the little Male Bug took out his sketchbook and sat cross-legged by the window to draw, quietly waiting for the Female Bug to pick him up. The sunlight refracted through the crystal glass onto his focused rose-pink eyes.

What Chen Xing saw when he came was this scene. The little Male Bug turned his head and also found the Female Bug, and immediately closed the sketchbook with a snap and ran over to hug him in surprise.

“Aren’t you afraid of being discovered by your family?”

Chen Xing was surprised that the little Male Bug, who used to only dare to kiss him secretly in a place where no one was around, dared to hug him in public.

Yao wanted to shake his head and say he wasn’t afraid, but when he thought of his Female parent’s possible reaction, he honestly clenched the Female Bug’s hand and nodded, “Afraid… but Chen Xing is about to become my Female Consort, I will work hard to protect you.”

Yao secretly cheered himself up in his heart. Even if his Male parent and Female parent are angry, he wants to be with the Female Bug openly.

Protect? Chen Xing was amused by the little Male Bug’s serious look, and couldn’t help but wonder how weak he was in Yao’s heart. Who protects whom is not certain.

“Well, I understand Yao Yao’s intentions.”

Actually, Chen Xing doesn’t care whether he gets a certificate or not, as long as he can get Yao’s approval, that’s enough.

The introverted and shy little Male Bug said he liked him and promised to marry him as his Female Consort, his whole heart was about to melt.

Daina watched Yao hug the Female Bug again from afar, with a bit of helplessness on her face. Her adoptive parent’s words were still echoing in her ears, and she really didn’t know how to face Yao.

“Why is brother here?” Yao asked cautiously while looking at Daina, while holding on to Chen Xing and refusing to let go.

The little Male Bug introduced with blushing cheeks: “Brother, this is my boyfriend…”

“Hello, brother.” Chen Xing smiled and reached out to shake hands.

Who is your brother?

“Hello.” Daina gave a fake smile. The smoke of gunpowder between the two bugs who had met more than once had long been thick, but they both tacitly didn’t want Yao to see it.

Yao looked at his brother on the left and Chen Xing on the right, smiling and pulling their hands together: “Brother, don’t bully Chen Xing! Have you met before?”

Chen Xing: …

Not only had they met, the Female Bug who was protected by Yao like a cub didn’t dare to mention that he had mistaken Daina for a rival in love and beat him up while Yao was asleep.

Following the request of his adoptive parent Chris, Daina, who came to see Yao, worriedly touched the little Male Bug’s head, “Is there anything Yao Yao is not adapting to at school?”

“No.” Yao shook his head, “The teachers and students at school are very friendly.”

“Be careful when you go out.”

When Yao is mixed with this Female Bug, he always likes to get rid of his bodyguards. Although Daina knows that his younger brother does not want to be monitored, it inevitably makes Daina worry.

“I know! I have Chen Xing to protect me, brother, he is very powerful!”

The little Male Bug is too straightforward, he likes what he likes, and his eyes are bent into small crescents when he praises the person he likes, sweet and cute, and his expression is extremely proud.

He is completely a silly and sweet person in love, and I’m afraid he will still be counting money for others when he is sold one day, Daina frowned.

The tighter the Duke protects, the more Yao resists. His younger brother’s rebellious period came a little suddenly, and he doesn’t know how long his freshness towards this Female Bug can last.

He can temporarily deal with his adoptive parent’s side for Yao…

Forget it, the little Male Bug living in the ivory tower only needs to be happy every day.

In Daina’s opinion, even if he is forced to match, it is just one more object of a marriage agreement, which will not have any impact on Yao’s life.

At this time, Daina had not realized the seriousness of the problem, and had no idea that the boyfriend in Yao’s mouth was going for marriage.

With the golden giant Bug Nest as the center, Central Star is strictly divided into several districts from top to bottom, and the underground, ground and sky are completely different scenery.

The orphanage where Chen Xing was born is located in a corner of the lowermost, hot and humid underground passage branch.

Yao had never seen such a place. Unlike the ground buildings armed with high-tech electronic equipment, this place is full of highly polluted and even radioactive electronic waste.

The transportation pipes built with crooked and twisted scrap steel bars rumbled, and one after another huge airships dumped tens of thousands of wastes into the deep pit.

Limited space and resources lead to more intense competition for survival among the underground Bug Clan. Young and strong Female Bugs will form small groups to rob the valuable items in the recyclables together.

In the black corners where the Empire cannot supervise, illegal drugs are rampant, and long-term disorder has spawned many displaced orphans.

“Are you afraid?” From the moment he entered the underground passage, the Female Bug’s eyes never left the little Male Bug, and he had been carefully protecting him.

Yao shook his head, everything here was a scene he had never seen before.

Most of the bugs here are black households without legal status. Either they are hidden fugitives, or they are gambling bugs who have enemies outside and are poor, and have to hide in the dark underground world like rats in a sewer.

Since Aikman, one of the four great judges, rescued a group of illegally trafficked Male Bugs in the underground area more than a decade ago, this place has undergone a large-scale rectification.

The orphanage where Chen Xing was born has long been closed, leaving only a dilapidated wooden sign, and the dark door was pushed open by the Female Bug with a creak.

Along the way, he met a lot of ferocious bugs. Yao hid behind Chen Xing and curiously looked at the domineering old man who was talking to the Female Bug like a gangster boss. From his unrestrained appearance, he could vaguely see a bit of his youthful demeanor.

“Grandpa, this is my future Male Consort.” Chen Xing looked at the cowardly Yao with a smile and introduced him to the director of the orphanage who raised him.

The confused Yao reacted half a beat later. Chen Xing brought him to meet the parents, and hurriedly grabbed the Female Bug’s arm and greeted the grandpa.

“Hello, grandpa.”

“This child…” The old Female Bug had a burnt-out cigarette in his hand, calmly flicked the ash, and his complex eyes swept over Yao, “Does he know your identity?”

Is there any identity that Chen Xing has that he doesn’t know? The little Male Bug opened his watery eyes and looked at the old Female Bug in confusion: “Grandpa, I really want to be with Chen Xing!”

“I brought Yao Yao here just to see you. As for other things, don’t worry about it, old man.” Chen Xing seemed unwilling to mention this, and quickly found a topic to divert the attention of the worried little Male Bug.

Although the orphanage has been closed, many of the past facilities are still there.

Swings, small trampolines, seesaws, everything is still the same, but the children who were taken in have grown up.

Chen Xing took Yao around inside.

This place is run by donations from caring people. There is a special record wall in the yard to record. It is densely engraved with names that cannot be seen clearly. The last donation was more than ten years ago.

“The orphanage is closed, so where should those children in need in the underground area go now?” Yao didn’t quite understand. From the moment he entered the underground area, he hadn’t seen a single child.

“Don’t worry, there are other orphanages, and the government will help them.”

Chen Xing smiled and took the little Male Bug’s hand.

In fact, there will no longer be larvae here.

The Bug Clan is a highly socialized and raised race. There are no mandatory fertility quotas. The population size has always been controlled by the will of the mother nest. Since the imbalance in the ratio of males to females, most newborns are matched through the sperm and egg bank and are conceived in vitro by new technologies.

If it is natural reproduction, the large number of newborns in the underground area back then was actually a very terrible thing, and Chen Xing didn’t want Yao to know too many bad things.

Looking at the backs of the departing young couple, the old Female Bug stood up, with loneliness and loss on his face: “Xiao Xing, Xiao Xing, you have always been the smartest and most opinionated of these children, I didn’t expect you to be so foolish one day.”

“The upper-class bugs in the sky area, what future do they have with bugs like us who are rotten in the mud? Why don’t you understand?”

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