Qi Yu wasn’t stupid. Hearing this, he knew that what caused Mo Yan’s sudden change was within this house. Otherwise, Mo Yan wouldn’t be so eager to leave. However, he didn’t believe that everything here posed a threat to someone as powerful as Mo Yan. Moreover, Mo Yan’s current appearance didn’t seem like he was threatened; rather, it seemed like he was being stirred by something, leading to compulsory action…
Qi Yu’s pupils contracted, immediately realizing the situation. He stepped back quickly from Mo Yan, instructing Roly-Poly, “Roly-Poly, spray pheromone suppressant on the first floor, open all the vents, support the General to the balcony, and after doing this, bring me a pheromone suppressant.”
Foolish of him. After being a human for over twenty years, he momentarily forgot that he was now a zerg. As a zerg at home, there was no need to suppress pheromones, and he couldn’t even smell pheromones himself. Even if Roly-Poly, as a mechanical intelligence, detected his pheromone scent, it didn’t matter. For a moment, he also forgot that he was no longer human. This was a mess.
Qi Yu felt some regret. He quickly ascended to the second floor, which served as his resting area. The pheromone scent here was denser than downstairs. Walking to a corner, Qi Yu manually opened the ventilation on the second floor.
The second floor was connected to the first floor, making it semi-open. Qi Yu casually sprayed the pheromone suppressant on the second floor and then turned back to his room.
“What a troublesome matter. I wonder what Mo Yan will think.”
Throwing himself onto the bed, Qi Yu rubbed his temples with one hand and pulled the nearby blanket over his face with the other.
Today, he had thoroughly embarrassed himself, from the initial pajamas to the pheromones later on. Releasing pheromones in front of a zerg was no different from animals mating face to face. Poor Mo Yan was still there listening to him blabbering about marriage agreements.
A faint blush spread across his face under the covers. At this moment, Qi Yu just wanted to find a hole to hide in.
This was too embarrassing for a zerg.
Thinking about how he had lost face so much, Qi Yu felt a bit embarrassed. Similarly, regarding the current situation, he was also at a loss.
Just as Qi Yu was thinking about what had just happened, his face growing redder the more he thought about it, suddenly an electronic sound rang out.
“Master, your pheromone suppressant has arrived.”
“Okay.”
He responded absentmindedly, still unmoving.
Roly-Poly was a diligent steward. It reported the progress to Qi Yu, “Ventilation on the first floor has been activated, pheromone suppressant has been sprayed. Based on the detection of your queen Mo Yan’s emotions by the mechanical zerg, it is expected that within ten minutes, your queen will completely shake off the influence of your pheromones.”
Qi Yu lifted the blanket from his face, blushing, and slowly got up. He glanced at the suppressant in Roly-Poly’s hand, reached out to take it, and asked as he took it, “Roly-Poly, how long can the pheromone suppressant last?”
He didn’t want to make a fool of himself again.
“The duration of the pheromone suppressant is based on the male zerg’s rank. Your current rank is C, so the effective duration of one suppressant is estimated to be about half a month. The higher the rank, the more suppressant is needed.”
Can it last for half a month? Looking at the time, it didn’t seem short. Qi Yu tore open the packaging, frowned, and injected the suppressant into his body with a syringe.
Then he picked up a cotton swab and pressed it on the injection site.
At this moment, Roly-Poly spoke again, its voice showing emotional confusion.
“However, judging from your ability to arouse the emotions of General Mo Yan, your rank should be higher than C.”
Qi Yu’s hand holding the cotton swab paused. “What did you say?”
Roly-Poly was a knowledgeable steward. It directly cited regulations, “According to the matching regulations, a C-rank male zerg cannot arouse the emotions of an S-rank female zerg. The Empire has had cases where an F-rank male zerg fell in love with a C-rank female zerg, or an E-rank male zerg liked a B-rank female zerg, but they were unable to arouse the emotions of the female zergs.”
“The main brain matches hundreds of thousands of zergs every year, but there has never been such a large matching discrepancy like yours. Roly-Poly can only guess that there has been a change in your rank. What specific change it is, you need to check for yourself. If you need, I can now make a reservation for your mental rank test.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Qi Yu’s Adam’s apple rolled slightly, and he asked with some difficulty, “Roly-Poly, what is the reason for the change in pheromones?”
Roly-Poly opened its mouth, “Mental strength.”
“Pheromones, as a unique scent of zergs, are also a manifestation of mental strength. Powerful mental strength can make zergs fall for it. Strong pheromones can also attract zergs’ favor. The stronger the mental strength, the stronger the pheromones. For zergs with extremely high mental strength compatibility, the mate’s pheromones become their most deadly poison, and they can never get rid of it in their lifetime.”
Qi Yu no longer had any illusions in his heart.
The factor changing pheromones was mental strength. If his pheromones could make even an S-rank like Mo Yan unable to resist, then the result was obvious.
Mo Yan’s match was probably his mental strength.
This equation wasn’t difficult to deduce, but Qi Yu didn’t even consider it at first because he didn’t assess his rank or understand the origin of pheromones. Therefore, he naturally assumed that Mo Yan’s match was with the original host’s mental strength, but he didn’t expect that the jester was actually himself.
Mo Yan was matched with him, so only in front of him would such abnormal changes occur. Thinking about how Mo Yan endured his harassment for nearly twenty minutes, Qi Yu immediately had an urge to live on another planet.
What a disgraceful zerg!
“Master, what’s wrong with you?”
Seeing the embarrassed expression on Qi Yu’s face, Roly-Poly couldn’t help but approach, only to be pushed away by the embarrassed Qi Yu, who extended an arm.
“You go out.” There were no outsiders, and Qi Yu was quite capricious. “I don’t want to see you for now.”
Roly-Poly rolled around in dissatisfaction, seeing that its master was unmoved. Finally, it reluctantly rolled toward the door, but as it left, it cleverly didn’t close the door tightly.
Qi Yu didn’t notice Roly-Poly’s subtle action. At this moment, he couldn’t care about anything else. His whole face sagged, and the cold, gray pupils were filled with tears he couldn’t shed.
“What should I do?”
He collapsed onto the soft chair with fuzzy fur, looking up at the ceiling. Scenes from earlier flashed through his mind, each blunt rejection feeling like a slap to his face. Qi Yu, with over twenty years of experience, swore he had never seen anyone say they didn’t like something while still flirting with another zerg. It was worse than being a zerg scum.
Qi Yu couldn’t help but put himself in Mo Yan’s shoes. Faced with a zerg related to himself but meeting for the first time, he could remain calm. Facing the proposed agreement seemed to pose no problem either. But if the other party said they didn’t like him while still flirting, inducing changes in his body…
Qi Yu clenched his fist with one hand and covered his face with the other. If he encountered such a situation, he would give that zerg a comprehensive package on hospitalization, guaranteed to teach them how to be a zerg again.
Now, if Mo Yan were in his shoes, he would definitely want to beat him up.
Reaching this conclusion, Qi Yu felt utterly hopeless.
Although he also thought he deserved a beating, as a pampered young master since childhood, Qi Yu had never been hit. Moreover, when he crossed over, he hadn’t graduated yet. Even though he had extremely high talent, he had few opportunities for combat and had never been injured. No zerg knew he was afraid of pain, terrified to death.
But now…
“No, I have to remedy this.”
Images of domestic violence flashed through his mind, making Qi Yu shudder. He sat up straight like a carp, thinking that he knew little about the zerg world. He directly opened the terminal, typed in the search bar, and after some thought, he wrote ‘how to make a female zerg stop being angry,’ and clicked search.
Then he saw the most incredible result.
Starnet Answer:
Q: What should I do if a female zerg is angry?
A: It depends on who the angry party is.
Q: Lord.
A: Just beat them up.
Qi Yu’s hand trembled as he looked at this answer in disbelief. Wasn’t it said that male zergs were supreme in this world? Was it normal for a male zerg to be beaten by a female zerg???
Are there such violent zergs??
Qi Yu couldn’t believe it, but after thinking about it, it seemed there was nothing wrong with it.
Okay, he sighed. If female zergs were as easygoing as Mo Yan, it didn’t seem like a big deal to be beaten when angered. After all, Mo Yan hadn’t laid a hand on him yet, which was already very tolerant.
Still unwilling to give up, Qi Yu continued to scroll down, receiving all sorts of strange answers.
Q: What to do if a female zerg is angry?
A: Have a fight with him.
— From a female zerg.
Q: What to do if the female queen is angry?
A: Mostly out of jealousy, just roll around in bed with him a few times.
— From an anonymous male zerg.
Q: This sub-female accidentally angered a stranger sub-female, what should I do?
A: If you can beat him, then do it. If you can’t, then go seduce his male zerg. Maybe you’ll flip the situation.
— From a certain sub-female
Qi Yu: “…” What kind of bizarre advice is this? His current situation can’t be resolved like this at all.
After some thought, Qi Yu changed his approach, ‘How to cheer up a female zerg.’
This time, Starnet’s response was more serious.
A: Female zergs have always liked delicate things, especially male zergs. If you want to cheer him up, find him a male zerg.
Qi Yu: “???”
No, this option was absolutely not viable.
This could be considered after a few months or years of marriage if they had agreed to marry. After all, they had no feelings between them, so after a long time, even if he found Mo Yan a male zerg, it wouldn’t matter. But saying this now would probably lead to an even worse beating. Showing disdain for each other before marriage would only exacerbate the other party’s violent tendencies.
Qi Yu tried several more search terms, sliding his fingers on the terminal, but the answers he got were all similar. He was so frustrated that he threw the terminal away.
What should he do?
Qi Yu, who threw away the terminal, relaxed his body and let himself collapse on the soft chair.
Should he get beaten up or…
“Such a bother!”
Qi Yu decisively got up and let himself fall onto the bed. He had never encountered such a troublesome situation before, so much so that his entire face wrinkled with frustration.
Rolling around on the bed for a couple of turns, Qi Yu buried his face in the pillow intermittently muttering to himself.
“I need to apologize.”
“I must apologize.”
“How should I say it?”
“Sorry, General, it wasn’t intentional.”
“No, that won’t do.”
“I didn’t notice for a moment…”
“No, that won’t work either.”
“How should I say it…”
“…I’ve never apologized before, what’s the most sincere way? It’s so hard!”
Qi Yu rolled over, turning to the other side. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a tall figure standing at the door.
Qi Yu: “…”
His body stiffened, and a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in his heart. He turned his head stiffly, mechanically looking over, only to see that the zerg at the door was also looking at him.
Seeing this zerg, Qi Yu instinctively wanted to turn and flee. Then, with a loud bang—
Qi Yu’s vision went black, and he couldn’t feel the pain in his body anymore. At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind: it’s better to live on another planet.
He’s done for!!!
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[T/n:] Next update will be on Tuesday, March 26th.
Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️
Thanks for the chapter!
(Btw, AI generated art can’t be copyrighted. Just so you’re aware!)
I am a bit confused as their website states, “The images you create with DALL-E 3 are yours to use and you don’t need our permission to reprint, sell or merchandise them.” Doesn’t it mean I own it?
OpenAI retains ownership of the original image. They’re just letting you use it, and there aren’t any protections if someone copies the images. Anyone can use those images.
Actually I think it depends on which country you’re in. UK for instance, DOES protect computer-generated art – and also does not allow AI to legally learn from copywritten content (which is a major issue with some AI.) The US only applies copyright to human-created content. Other countries’ laws will vary. I’m not that familiar with law, I’m just aware that it’s a controversial subject at the moment and you may not be able to protect ownership – though I doubt anyone on CG would be inclined to steal them!
Thanks for the chapter! And I love the AI art, great thinking!
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Fyi, according to US law at least, if it’s ai generated, nobody can claim ownership of it or copyright it.
Ah, I really don’t know, thank you. When I checked, it showed “The images you create with DALL-E 3 are yours to use and you don’t need our permission to reprint, sell or merchandise them.”
And when does US law apply to me?
…this is a written story, the pictures feel a little disruptive to me, so would it be possible to put them into the linked notes or what they are called?
Also, based on the summary, I thought Mo Yan would take a lot longer to find put that Qi Yu’s mental strength is so high. …and thinking out loud is, in most cases, less than ideal imo.
Thanks for the chapter~
Hmm, I’ll just remove the pictures. Too much hassle.
Qi Yu is big shot not only for his mental power. Read the revised synopsis, there’s bits and pieces of information I missed in the previous. I don’t want to spoil anything.
Thinking out loud… we all do that, in our bedrooms. Haha. Who knew Mo Yan will appear there. 🙂
You can also put the pictures at the end of the chapter, as little additions?
And thank you for revising the synopsis, it now feels more fitting for the first four chapters.
…also, what is Mo Yan doing upstairs, did Roly-poly mess with them??
Thank you for the chappie!
Hahaha he’s so cute
will you remove the ai images from the previous chapters as well? i also found them disruptive and honestly kind of uncanny
Haha. Is that so? I will remove them. 🙂