StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 167 I Want to See the Insect Queen

After she left, Andor carefully tore off the transparent wrapper around the candy, moving very slowly, as if afraid that disturbing it would cause the candy to fly away.

She had already gone back to sleep, and before leaving, she reminded him to go to sleep early too.

When the purple hard candy was taken out, it melted a little and stretched into strands on the candy wrapper.

When it was taken out, the color wasn't as vibrant as it was inside the wrapper; instead, there was some pigment buildup, making it look like a low-quality candy produced in a small workshop.

But at this moment, that inferior candy made from saccharin lies in Andorra's hand, enjoying an admiration that is not commensurate with its value.

The pale purple candy was gently placed in the mouth, and after a while, the grape flavor emerged from the candy, gradually filling the entire oral cavity.

Andorra closed his eyes and quietly savored this sweetness.

He has never eaten candy since he can remember.

Once they become modified insects, they no longer need to obtain energy through food intake.

The sweetness was gone, but the boy who used to love candy was still not satisfied. He kept smelling and licking the candy wrapper until there was no taste left.

They were reluctant to part with even the sugar strands stuck to the candy wrapper, savoring them for a long time before finally taking them out of their mouths with a sense of longing.

So sugar really is sweet.

……

Sleep well.

They woke up again in the car.

As usual, Andorra, being the only one of the four insects who has passed his driving test and is proficient in driving skills, remains steadfast in his post.

"Are we sleeping until the second day?" Shen Qingqing asked groggily, her eyes still heavy with sleep.

She felt the intense sunlight outside, which made her unable to sleep.

Sunlight shone on her profile, and her slightly trembling eyelashes seemed to be coated with a layer of holy light, shimmering with a captivating whiteness under the sun.

“It’s been three days already, and you’ve slept for a whole day plus eleven hours,” Andorra reminded him.

"No wonder, I thought... we would be able to recover our energy after such a short sleep."

As Shen Qingqing spoke, she tried to shrink to the side, her mind still a bit foggy from just waking up.

Lia in the back seat was still fast asleep, clutching a huge pillow she'd somehow acquired.

She thought she had seen that cushion at the gift counter in front of the gas station.

If Leah were still awake, she would probably say that with so much oil added, this pillow was a free gift.

"Do we need to stop for a while? We'll be at the next city soon."

The journey wasn't as difficult as it started, but it was usually not very interesting.

After two or three long and boring days, they arrived at a river.

“Cross the river, and the capital will be far on the other side,” Andor told them. This river was the mother river of the Zerg.

"When they are young, the Zerg will spread their wings over the river. When they are exhausted, they will fall into the water and complete the spreading and retraction of their wings."

"Of course, there's no need to worry about safety. The Zerg have dedicated personnel to observe the river surface. If any larvae are found to be in distress, they will immediately go down to rescue them. Every batch of larvae undergoing wing-spreading training is registered."

As they spoke, they walked to the riverbank.

"But why is it so quiet here?" Shen Qingqing squatted on the shore.

The shimmering water surface sparkles with golden light, and ripples spread outwards.

“We’ve been traveling for so long, and we haven’t even seen many insectoids, let alone insectoids,” Shen Qingqing said, drawing circles on the ground with a small stick. “Could it be that they disappeared after they degenerated into insectoids?”

"No, they were just dissected for experimental research."

Shen Qingqing looked up abruptly, and there stood the male insect with long gray hair right in front of her!

"Gatana?! You're still alive?"

"It seems that my being alive has displeased the Insect Queen."

Dressed in a white tailcoat, Gatana bowed slightly. "Gatana has been missing you terribly."

"What did you do to Andor, Leah, and Little Vi?"

Shen Qingqing didn't waste any words with him and went straight to the point, asking, "Did you use a trick to deceive me?"

“Heh, how could Gatana dare?” Gatana laughed hypocritically, his long gray hair falling to his chest, revealing gray eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses. “I only tampered with the car a little when you got off, and you took the bait.”

As he clapped his hands, the wolf soldiers escorted the unconscious Andor and his men over.

"Gatana, you traitor, let me go right now! Do you know who I am? I am... umm..."

Before Lia could even provoke them, she was covered in the mouth and taken away by the wolf soldiers.

Gatana took in the panic in her eyes and approached her intimately, lifting a strand of hair from the side of her face. "The Queen Insect is still so adorable."

"It always makes the insects want to bully it."

"What do you want to do?" Gatana betrayed the Zerg, and Shen Qingqing didn't think that he would suddenly become kind and let the wolves go, since he appeared with them.

"What for? Of course, it's to have a good talk with the Insect Queen."

Gatana stood before her, humbly gesturing for her to speak. "I think we need to talk alone."

“You know that the Zerg are not what they used to be…” Gatana calmly sipped his tea and poured her a cup as well.

"Get to the point. Don't beat around the bush."

Shen Qingqing wasn't buying his act and made her stance clear: "I would never stoop to your level either."

"No, I don't have the guts to ask the esteemed Queen Insect to work with me."

Inside the spaceship, Gatana had the jammer activated. "The old Wolf King is currently busy finding a successor for himself and has no time to deal with the Zerg, so I volunteered to come here. My target, of course, is the Zerg Queen."

He even laughed out loud as he spoke.

"But I want to talk to the insect mother."

"I'm right here," Shen Qingqing rolled her eyes at him.

"No, it's not you, it's Cecilia."

Upon hearing this, even Cecilia, who had been residing in Shen Qingqing's body, was taken aback.

To avoid being tricked into revealing information, Shen Qingqing forced herself to remain calm. "Cecilia is already dead. You're just dreaming. Let's change our request."

Gatana, however, refused to listen and insisted on seeing Cecilia.

“I can’t guarantee I won’t do anything to your friends if I don’t see her.”

How could a treacherous and cunning ruler not know that Cecilia is still alive?

"I can provide you with the most perfect body, as long as you can show up."

When he said this, Gatana showed no blasphemous expression on his face, and even his eyes were deliberately lowered to show his obedience and humility.

"I have mastered a way to use pheromones to replicate your body. If you wish, I can even make you leave her body."

It must be said that the conditions set forth by Gatana were very tempting.

Cecilia's greatest desire is to return to her own body.

As if worried that she wouldn't believe him, Gatana got up and walked to the wall of the spaceship.

As the button was pressed, the entire wall gradually faded away, revealing the scene inside.

A tall, fair-skinned female body was soaking in a light blue nutrient solution.

The face of that body was extremely similar to Ge Yuan's.