IHNMSL Chapter 40
by VolareChris intentionally avoided Will. He couldn’t reciprocate the Male Bug’s intense emotional needs. Achieving a level breakthrough only represented genetic compatibility. He and Will had never achieved synchronization of their minds.
Perhaps it was cold to say so, but they were just a pair of strangers forcibly bound together by matching chains.
He didn’t understand Will’s pursuits, and Will didn’t understand his world.
Undeniably, this Male Bug had indeed brought him countless benefits, not just the improvement in his level. The privileges he possessed surpassed those of all other Bugs. With his identity, he could easily board a direct train to the pinnacle of power.
If the previous Duke hadn’t had an accident, Will would probably have been well cared for his entire life, untouched by factional infighting and forced matching.
No matter how high their compatibility was, his beloved male and female parents would have borne the pressure and allowed Will to choose a Bug he liked.
The Male Bug’s tears made Chris feel suffocated and irritable. His only request to Will was not to interfere in his affairs, but even this simple request Will couldn’t fulfill.
If he were to die on the battlefield against the alien race, that would be fate. For a Bug like him, every path to success was paved with corpses, and he had long been prepared for it.
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Daina could only obtain limited information about his male parent from Jile.
He actively sought medicine for Jile, partly to thank Jile for taking care of his male parent back then, and partly to investigate the truth behind his male parent’s suicide.
Aikman was a very professional lover. He kept Hevia’s information to himself, and even his friend Jile knew very little.
Jile kept advising Daina to let go of his hatred. From his point of view, although Hevia later became tired of Aikman as a lover and was a little heartless towards her child, as a conscientious benefactor, she never stopped providing Aikman with financial and medical support.
If it weren’t for Hevia, Aikman’s life would have entered its countdown long ago.
Talking about love with nobles like them was a luxury. Compared to other Bugs, Aikman was already lucky enough.
“I understand.”
Facing Jile’s advice, Daina had little emotion.
Hevia’s strength was not something he could shake right now. Compared to avenging his cold-blooded female parent, there was something even more exhausting him now.
His adoptive father was very dissatisfied with his repeated defiance, and he was obsessively trying to get himself and Yao to achieve a level breakthrough together.
But the researchers were frightened by the last incident. Neither of the Bugs involved were cooperating, and even with Chris vouching for them, they didn’t have the courage to try again.
They wanted to get experimental data, but they didn’t want to risk the life of the Young Male Bug. Executing them ten thousand times wouldn’t be enough to atone for their sins.
The young prince’s female and male parents were not pushovers. If the research institute, wielding their authority like a chicken feather, really caused trouble, the Bug Clan might fall into civil strife.
It was a pity that Daina and the young prince had such a high Spiritual Affinity. They were supposed to be a match made in heaven. No Bug was more compatible than them.
During that cocooning, Daina was clearly about to drop in level, but the young prince just used his spiritual power to pull him back, and as a result, not only did he not drop, but he also helped him break through to A-grade. The effect was immediate.
Lockley couldn’t help but sigh. Chris’s insistence was not without reason. He could see that Daina had a lot of potential. Perhaps the Bug Clan really could produce another SSS-grade battlefield weapon.
Judging from his performance in the Interstellar League, he inherited Chris’s hard work and could challenge across multiple levels. If there hadn’t been so many changes in this year’s competition and a dark horse had emerged, he might have been the champion Bug.
“Don’t force Yao anymore, Father,” Daina begged Chris on his knees. “If this happens again, I will end my life.”
“Do you want me to dig out my glands and become a useless Bug?”
“You are simply…hopeless!”
This was Aikman’s child, his most beloved child, Chris repeatedly emphasized to himself, so he could suppress the killing intent in his heart.
“Okay…Yao treats you like a brother, then you be his good brother for the rest of your life!”
“You watch him marry other Female Bugs, do you think your dedication is great, who can you move besides yourself?”
“You are a cowardly and incompetent waste. I can’t control you, and don’t call me father anymore!”
Daina was stubborn as a rock: “Thank you, General.”
If he told him not to call him father, he really wouldn’t call him father. Chris, who had raised this ungrateful wretch for so long, was so angry that he vomited blood.
Daina knelt with his back straight and standard, letting Chris deal with him. He could accept any punishment.
Chris was completely helpless. This was the good son he had raised, ruthless to others, and even more ruthless to himself.
Aikman’s last wish was that Daina could grow up healthy, but Chris always wanted to train Daina to be more outstanding, and even more outstanding.
He had put so much effort into it, so why was the Female Bug he had cultivated still as stupid, as timid, and as willing to give up the Male Bug he liked as he was back then?
He was furious. He gave Daina the identity and status of a noble, and gave him the best resources to cultivate. In what way was Daina inferior to that Female Bug who suddenly appeared? He asked him to fight for it, to snatch it, and to use all means to get Yao.
If that design had been successful, with their compatibility, not only could he have risen to a higher level, but he would even have had more than a 90% chance of conceiving a Bug egg.
He could take advantage of being a victim to get closer to Yao, and he knew best how simple the little Male Bug Will had raised was.
For the sake of his child, Yao would only be more guilty and sympathetic to Daina, and continue to comfort him.
Sooner or later, Daina would understand, so what if he was unscrupulous, so what if he forced it, as long as he could get the Bug he liked, any price was worth it.
Chris vaguely recalled his past with Aikman. In all his adolescent dreams, there was Aikman’s figure.
At that time, Aikman’s genetic disease had not yet broken out, and he always liked to pretend to be a Female Bug and take him everywhere to play wildly.
They hid from the surveillance and climbed the Imperial State Building to watch the sunrise together, strolled hand in hand through the floating islands where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, and secretly took photos under the nobles’ technologically advanced and stylish super starships.
Aikman’s eyes were filled with envy and longing for the future: “When will I have the opportunity to live the life of such a rich Bug?”
“Little Chris, you have to work hard, study hard to earn a big house for your brother, your brother will rely on you for his retirement in the future.”
Chris put on a straight face and was very unhappy, so angry that he didn’t want to pay attention to Aikman. Since Aikman only liked rich Bugs, then why did he still use the Male Bug allowance to support him, a burden who couldn’t create value?
He should take advantage of his youth and beauty to hook up with a rich Bug and make him devoted to him!
Although Aikman’s level was not high, he was confident in Aikman’s appearance, and maybe he could get lucky and hook up with a noble and achieve a class leap.
Chris didn’t know why he was sulking with Aikman. It was a consensus that Male Bugs liked to pursue comfort. They were creatures that needed to be pampered, and only when the gardener took good care of them could the flowers bloom brightly.
Later, he won the Interstellar League championship with his efforts, and he wanted to say that he was already able to earn a big house for Aikman’s dream, and he could support Aikman for the rest of his life.
But…
Aikman said he didn’t need it.
He was so heartless to him…
So heartless that Chris couldn’t wait to kill him.
His self-esteem was trampled underfoot by the Male Bug, and humiliated to the point of worthlessness. Chris thought he would never look back in his life.
He severed all contact with Aikman.
His moon shattered…