I'm transported to the Zerg world, and my female Zerg wife loves me so much.

As night fell, the wind picked up in the Mutant Forest, and the temperature dropped a few degrees.

Elijah, along with several female soldiers, stood guard outside the door, constantly monitoring the activity inside and around the cabin. The remaining aircraft retreated to the perimeter of the cabin, forming an encirclement, and were also ready to be deployed at any time.

The room was completely silent. Since things had come to this point, Aris fell silent, and Cheng Chu assumed that he had given up.

Mikel stood up, took off his coat and handed it to Cheng Chu, instructing, "Master, wrap the baby up, we're going home."

"Okay." Cheng Chu took the coat and carefully wrapped the insect egg.

Looking at Aris, who sat opposite him with his head down and silent, seemingly lost in thought, Mikel asked him, "What are your plans now? Will you come back with us, or stay outside?"

Mikel no longer wanted to ask about Aris's faked death and departure.

Combining the suffering and torment Aris endured in the palace during his childhood, his previous aversion to male insects, and his rejection of the royal family and imperial policies, it is sufficient to draw this conclusion.

Aris loathed the royal family, loathed the Zerg's system of male dominance and female subservience, and loathed that female Zerg, despite their own strength, would submit to those disgusting, lazy male Zerg for a little bit of spiritual power.

While he was fighting for the Zerg on the front lines with his life, he was still secretly harmed by those selfish and vicious male Zerg.

To be fair, Mikel knows Aris quite well and has guessed most of his thoughts pretty accurately.

It's absolutely rotten!

Everything is rotten!

As Aris fell on the battlefield, fragments of memories flashed through his mind. There was his long-lost female father from his childhood, his nominal male insect brothers who had bullied him, and his biological male father—the Insect Emperor's cold, aloof face…and later, Mikel, Marshal Anaos, Elijah, and others…

He suddenly felt that the world was absurd and unfair...

So, after surviving another near-death experience and waking up, he never considered going back. Later, he even ended up with the group of space pirates by chance, which is how he met the mute man who had been kidnapped by the space pirates.

Aris looked up and met Mikel's gaze, and after a long while, he said, "You guys go back."

This means I'm not going back with them.

Mikel was not at all surprised by Aris's answer.

Although he and Marshal Anaos could figure out a way to resolve his past issues, Aris's personality—seemingly carefree, nonchalant, and sometimes even sarcastic—was actually a way of masking his sensitive nature. He was not suited to be bound by the rules and regulations of the legion.

"Mm." Mikel nodded, bent down and took the tightly wrapped insect egg from Cheng Chu's arms, saying, "Master, let me hold it."

Cheng Chu: "Okay."

Mikel straightened up and said to Aris again, "If you need help, just come to me directly. Don't cause any more of this."

Aris forced a smile, neither speaking nor refuting, but simply watching Mikel's actions with a smile, and inadvertently glanced a few more times at the silver ring on Mikel's left hand when he took the insect egg.

As they reached the door, Mikel suddenly turned around and said, "Should I arrange a physical exam for you sometime? There's something in your belly..."

Mikel kept looking at Aris's abdomen as he spoke, and perhaps because Aris's abdominal pain was similar to his own previous experiences, this thought kept popping into his mind.

"No need, I know my own body." Aris said nonchalantly.

Mikel frowned slightly: "But—"

"Thank you, Mikel." Aris interrupted Mikel, his right hand resting on his lower abdomen, his golden eyes looking at Mikel calmly.

He didn't say it explicitly, but his actions and eyes seemed to say it all.

Thanks to years of tacit understanding, Mikel instantly understood Aris's meaning.

Aris wasn't ignorant; he knew everything, which was why he was so determined to find that human.

Only Cheng Chu was still completely confused, waiting for Mikel to go home together.

"Contact me anytime if you need anything," Mikel said.

"Yes, I will." Aris didn't stand on ceremony with Mikel.

Seeing that they had finally finished talking, Cheng Chu opened the door of the wooden house.

It was a dark and windy night outside. The wind rustled the branches and leaves of the mutated plants, and every now and then a cry from some unknown animal could be heard.

Elijah, who was outside, heard the commotion and quickly came over.

"General, Your Excellency Cheng Chu."

Mikel instructed, "Elijah, prepare to return."

"Yes, General."

Cheng Chu was about to step out with Mikel when Aris's voice rang out behind him again.

"Wait, you left something behind."

Cheng Chu and Mikel both turned around at the same time. Mikel asked, "What?"

"This." Aris opened his palm, revealing a simple silver metal ring. "Do you still want it? If not, I'll throw it away."

Cheng Chu suddenly raised her left hand, and sure enough, the ring on her ring finger was gone. Hearing Aris say she was going to throw it away, she immediately panicked.

"That's mine, give it back!"

Cheng Chu quickly walked up to Aris and reached out to take it back.

Unexpectedly, Aris withdrew his hand, and Cheng Chu's grasping hand missed its target. Before he could even utter an angry curse, Aris suddenly leaned close to his ear and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "So, the method to travel to Earth is through an explosion?"

Cheng Chu froze, her eyes widening in shock as she stared at him sideways: "You..."

It was Cheng Chu's reaction that made Aris even more certain that his guess was correct.

Explosions are the way to travel through time.

Cheng Chu knew he had traveled back to Earth just by watching the video of the explosion, and Aris had a vague suspicion of this as well. That's why he decided to test Cheng Chu.

"Shh!" Aris gestured for Cheng Chu to be quiet, using his body as a shield. He also whispered a threat: "If you dare tell Mikel, I'll steal your bug eggs again for a few more days and use them as footballs."

The ring was still in the other person's possession, so Cheng Chu could only suffer in silence.

Mikel stood in the doorway, watching Cheng Chu and Aris's strange behavior, and frowned: "Aris, don't do anything reckless."

"Who messed around?" Aris raised an eyebrow at Mikel by the door, his expression slightly displeased. He then shamelessly said to Cheng Chu, "Here you go, don't lose it again. Next time, there might not be a kind soul like me to find it and return it to you."

Cheng Chu retrieved the ring and quickly ran back to Mikel. Looking at Aris's smug, arrogant, and infuriating face, he finally managed to utter, "You... shameless bastard!"

What do you mean "found"? He clearly took it off while he was unconscious!