After the unlucky straight man accidentally turned into a worm mother

Negative fifteenth floor, in the passage to the hatchery.

The young worm mother, who was going to work bitterly, paused slightly, shivering inexplicably.

Are you being nagged by someone again?

Su Lin thought casually, but didn't pay much attention to it.

The corridor leading to the minus fifteenth floor is intricate, with many forks in the middle, and a thick shadow at the end of each fork.Although it is said to be a work area, it is still in the lower cabin after all. The environment on the negative fifteenth floor is still bad, the lights are dim and flicker inexplicably from time to time.When Su Lin passed those forks, the hairs on his arms would always stand up involuntarily. Occasionally, he would feel as if he heard some strange neighing, and the ground would shake from time to time...

In contrast, at the beginning he complained about the poor working environment of No. 37 Research Institute, but now Su Lin feels that he should apologize to the former unit that has long since ceased to exist.

And at this moment, accompanied by a sudden tinnitus, some kind of whimpering sound suddenly sounded.

【Mother...Mother...】

【Great... Supreme... Her Majesty the Worm Mother...】

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Su Lin stopped suddenly, and he frowned and looked towards the other end of the corridor.

A silence.

Did I hear wrong just now?

Su Lin thought in amazement.

【Mother--】

In the next second, the joyful calls of the cubs sounded directly in his consciousness, and then Su Lin relaxed his body.

it's the kids...

Su Lin raised his head, and immediately saw the children's shining eyes in the complicated pipes on the ceiling.

【Mom, we will follow you. 】

【Mom, don't be afraid! 】

After changing the subtle restraint they had in the living area before, and finally being able to follow their mother at close range again, the children are very lively and cheerful at the moment.Su Lin even felt that if they weren't a group of horrifying bugs, but puppies, they would probably have wagged their tails desperately and came up to lick his face at this moment.

"I'm not afraid."

Su Lin muttered, looking away from the ceiling.

After confirming that the cubs were always by his side, Su Lin's heart immediately settled down.

Under the guidance of his personal optical brain, he arrived at his workplace very smoothly: the A-level hatchery.

The metal door slowly slid open.

The rectangular room was fairly spacious, and it was already full of lower-level Zerg that also served as breeders.

However, compared with the jumping thorns in the living area, the Zerg in the room are obviously different. They are smaller in size and softer in breath.

...and even more lifeless.

It's almost like a group of confinement ladies who have just finished taking care of their children all night and are also responsible for the employer's daily household hygiene.

Obviously, in theory, the work of feeding larvae is much easier than being a coolie in other areas (at most, you have to risk being eaten by larvae), but the nurses here look like they have been hollowed out soul.

When Su Lin entered, he didn't even get much attention. Most of the Zerg just nestled in the corner by themselves, looking in a daze.

Of course, not all the Zerg races looked so desperate, and there were also Zerg races with more energy who sensed Su Lin's arrival.

"Ah, newcomer again?"

"Tsk, this small body is too small, it can't last for a few days at all?"

"How much benefit has it given to the regulatory bug, and sent this weak chicken over again..."

"Shh, don't tell me, I heard it's a honey bug..."

"The newly hatched larvae are all vanguard army worms with an attack speed of A-level. Just this kind of honey worm is not enough for ten larvae to eat."

"Puchi, ten more, two or three will be enough to eat him until there is not even a scum left."

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A few strong low-level Zerg swayed their tentacles when Sulin passed by, and whispered unabashedly.

Su Lin lowered his head, completely ignoring the Zerg race.

These whispering Zergs should also be some novices, and Su Lin, who has rich experience in working for a black-hearted company, just needs to look at the bleak staff atmosphere in the hatchery to know that in a few days, these energetic Zergs with broken mouths, It will also become a walking dead like other predecessors.

He didn't waste time making any contact with them at all.

Su Lin followed the instructions blankly and got his work equipment from the robot: a set of protective clothing, and a set of feeding device that can be carried on his back.

The big bucket behind him was heavy on his back, and there was a unique sound when the viscous liquid sloshed. Several pipes extended from the inside of the bucket to the front of Surin, and the ports were feeding drills similar to pacifiers.

As for the protective suit, it looked very thick and sturdy, as if it could really provide good protection—of course, the premise was that the densely layered bite marks on the seemingly brand-new metal guard were ignored.

Su Lin couldn't help but raised his head and took a closer look at his surroundings. After seeing a little more clearly, his heart became more and more heavy.

It seemed that something was missing from every silent veteran nurse.

Some are missing their tentacles.

Some are missing four eyes (fortunately he still has sixteen left).

There is also a half of the insect limb missing...

Su Lin: "..."

Just when Su Lin fell into deep distress about his future career, a rough grin came from his ear.

"It seems that you have discovered it, little beetle, your luck is not very good. The larvae hatched during this period are all army insects. This group of guys who can only eat like crazy is not something you can deal with. of it."

Su Lin turned his head in astonishment, and a huge and swollen Zerg was opening and closing its mouthparts regularly, approaching him.

In terms of body shape alone, this Zerg can indeed be regarded as an dominant individual among this group of breeders.

Probably because of this, the Zerg looked particularly arrogant and proud in front of Su Lin.

"Do you want me to help you? You just need to give me a few sips of honey. I have never tasted the taste of a high-quality honey bug like you. Hehehe..."

The Zerg rubbed its forelegs with a large number of black bristles, and its half-worm head almost came close to Surin when it was talking.

As a result, before Su Lin could speak, the fat Zerg's laughter stopped abruptly.

"His-"

He let out an uncontrollable cry of pain, staggered back a few steps, and finally fell directly on the ground, his bulging stomach shook several times in mid-air, and the whole worm couldn't get up smoothly.

His body was completely stiff.

It was just a little closer, and the powerful pheromone from the seemingly weak and harmless honey bug youth who could let him take advantage of it spread instantly like some kind of living thing.

Every sensory cell seems to be pierced into a steel needle with venom.

The pheromone from the other male was like a biochemical gas, almost paralyzing his nerves.

It's like accidentally entering the territory of other high-level Zerg, as if the owner of the pheromone will appear in the next second, and then completely tear himself to pieces.The Zerg case that was originally intended to intimidate and lure Su Lin lost its luster in an instant.

what happened……

Why is there such a terrible... aura...

The gigantic Zerg was trembling with fear and its carapace creaked. Su Lin didn't think he was a threat before, but now he suddenly saw his trembling appearance, and couldn't help but take a few steps back. Pulled away from each other.

"Are you OK?"

Su Lin asked hesitantly.

But the Zerg curled up, not even daring to lift its head.

"Yes, I'm sorry—"

he hissed.

Su Lin: "Huh?"

As the person who was injected with the pheromone solution, Su Lin didn't feel that Roxi's pheromone would have any offensive power.After all, the man's aura spread out, and it was actually quite gentle. It gave Su Lin the feeling that it was even a bit like the dense and thick salty milk cover on the milk tea.It was precisely because of this that Su Lin didn't realize that the other party's fear was due to his own smell.

...until he found that the other Zerg suddenly dispersed and retreated further when he retreated.

Su Lin fell into silence.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the slightly chaotic scene to end because of the arrival of the hatchery administrator.

Just like the regulatory bug, when the administrator appeared, it was accompanied by a sharp beep, and then a metal suspension platform slowly fell from midair.

The thin and tall senior Zerg manager, wearing an all-black Zerg uniform, sat lazily in the high chair on the metal platform.It was a male Zerg with a tired look and pale complexion.

His humanoid mimicry can also be regarded as handsome, but under the slender and drooping eyelids, there are dark and deep dark circles under the eyes, just like programmers who have not rested for many days in the human world.

It made him look extra tired and world-weary.

Almost at the moment of his appearance, the hatchery, which was still somewhat quiet, fell into dead silence.

Su Lin tensed his body subconsciously, because he could feel that even the Zerg who were in a trance before became tense because of the administrator's arrival.

I always feel that Zerg is not easy to deal with...

Almost at the same time that Su Lin thought so, the administrator raised his hand.

It seemed that something flew through the air and landed directly on the Zerg who was clamoring to "help" Surin a second ago.

"Whoosh-"

Then, Su Lin watched the worm helplessly, turning into a mass of worm mud that gradually melted.

"How many times has it been said that the children are still sleeping, and loud noises will disturb them."

The administrator frowned and muttered.

He was clearly looking at the insect swarm below, but his gaze seemed to be farther away.

"Those children are different from your rubbish. They are all the pillars of the Zerg Empire and the most loyal heirs of His Majesty the Zerg Mother... Sigh, I have emphasized so many times, why do you always die so fast? ? Make me want to keep repeating with these newcomers..."

During the rambling, the administrator raised his hand. From such a distance, Su Lin actually didn't see it too clearly, but he still felt that there seemed to be a complex group of tattoos on the administrator's wrist.

Is it a community logo?

Su Lin thought, and then his attention was quickly attracted by the slender tube suddenly hanging down in midair.

"Tick tock..."

Su Lin looked blankly at a few drops of very viscous, pitch-like dark brown liquid slowly falling from the tube.

He didn't react, but the moment the liquid appeared, the other low-level Zerg suddenly became extremely excited.

Su Lin was a little frightened. You know, this was the first time he met the Zerg in the Zerg world, and they showed such fanatical joy.

"What are you still doing, hurry up and get the honey! You have to rub the insectoid mother honey on yourself."

A Zerg seems to have noticed Su Lin's stupefied, and he said to Su Lin with a trace of forbearable desire.

Mimic mother... Honey...?

Only after the explanation of his kind "colleagues" did Su Lin know that when feeding extremely aggressive larvae, the hatchery would provide a few drops of very, very precious honeydew before operation.

This kind of honeydew, known as insectoid mother honey, can stimulate the potential of those larvae to the greatest extent, turning them into stronger and higher-level existences.

At the same time, it can also stabilize their spirits so that they will not kill each other and devour other individuals when they are young.

This kind of honey also has some additional benefits, for example, it can suppress the larvae's aggressive instinct to the feeder, but the downside is that if you are not careful, some larvae will eat the feeder with a strong honey fragrance directly because of their greed .

Of course, besides this, this kind of honey has other functions for the Zerg...

"Don't try to lick the nectar."

The administrator leaned forward slightly, looking at the rare honey juice flowing out of the pipe very distressedly, his voice began to tremble.

"Those who drink insect honey without authorization will be regarded as major offenders and executed—"

Hearing the administrator's tone, under the protection of the protective clothing, Su Lin was full of confusion.

Who would want to steal something like this?

Even with the air filter of the protective suit, the insect honey coming out of the pipe still has a sickly sweet taste.

It was as if he had strayed into an inferior underground candy processing factory. The sweet smell was so strong that it smelt so bad that Su Lin's brain began to ache.

As a result, as soon as he turned his head, he found that something seemed wrong around him.

Even though they were dying not long ago, the half-dead low-level Zergs all spread their insect limbs and bathed under the pipes. They continued to smear the strong-smelling liquid on the surface of the protective clothing as much as possible, and at the same time , almost every Zerg lifted the helmet of the protective suit, tilted his head slightly, and greedily sniffed the honey fragrance spreading in the air.

Some Zerg simply didn't even bother to maintain the humanoid mimicry, and directly exposed a bug's head, opened the tentacles on the head, and kept swaying in mid-air, so as to absorb more fragrance.

Just looking at their extremely intoxicated appearance, Su Lin really suspected that some Zerg among them could not control their nature, and directly licked the insectoid honey on the protective clothing.

Su Lin felt as if he really didn't understand the taste of Zerg.

Just weird.

He felt like he was sitting on pins and needles among a group of Zerg who seemed to be eating something, and finally waited until the work bell rang, and he couldn't wait to carry the bucket to feed the bugs.

But at the moment when he stepped out of the metal door, Su Lin suddenly turned his head as if feeling something.

The administrator with dark circles was still sitting on the high platform.

However, Su Lin felt that at that moment, the other party's eyes, which were always out of focus, seemed to fall directly on him.

"Crack-"

The metal door closed slowly, isolating the room behind Su Lin.

Su Lin frowned, and then turned back to concentrate on today's work.

Strictly speaking, feeding Zerg larvae is really not as hard as hard work.

The entire hatchery is an incomparably wide and huge oval square.

Layer upon layer of cultivation nests are inlaid on the wall one by one like that, and inside are newly hatched larvae.And each breeder will be responsible for feeding the hatchlings in an area.

As for the steps, it is actually not complicated.

It is nothing more than lifting the cover of the airtight cultivation nest, and then stretching out a hand to pull out the larvae that are about the length of a forearm, fat and fat like an enlarged version of a silkworm baby, from the thick nutrient slurry.

Then point the feeding drill with electrodes on the mouthparts of those "silkworm babies". Under the stimulation of the electric shock, the larvae will suddenly open their mouthparts, revealing fine and lovely ring-shaped sharp teeth.

All the breeder has to do is to accurately insert the feeding drill into their mouths before the other party bites them.

Large streams of nutrient solution will be poured into their bodies immediately, and within a few tens of seconds, the bodies of the larvae will expand to about half a meter to one meter.

Breeders need to be quick to stuff them back into the cells of the breeding nest and put the lid on them before they're fed enough to react.Don't worry, these lids have a self-closing effect. As long as the hands are quick enough, those vicious larvae with strong aggressive instincts will not break through the nest and rush out to bite people.

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In the very beginning, Su Lin was actually a bit embarrassed.

After all, whether it is Luoxi or some unlucky guy who died before, they have emphasized to him many times that this batch of larvae are very fierce and terrifying. If he is not careful, he, a weak and helpless straight man, will become a larva A new flavor of worm feed.

As a result, when he actually started feeding the hatchlings, he found that they were not as difficult to handle as he had imagined.

Of course, when they first took out those fat and soft worms with bright patterns on their bodies, Su Lin was still a little ugly.However, he immediately thought of his six cheap sons...

Speaking of which, the bug sons back then were even uglier.

Under the influence of a certain subtle mood, Su Lin found that after looking at it for a long time, these soft, round and large worms didn't seem to be too ugly to look at directly.

Of course, there is another reason why they think the other party is cute, that is, these larvae are quite well-behaved.

Surin has never been attacked by larvae from the beginning to the end. Even when they were taken out of the breeding nest at the very beginning, these larvae would struggle a few times due to inadaptation, and occasionally a few would hiss and make threatening calls .

But as long as Su Lin put them in his hands and patted them, they would immediately quiet down.

Even Surin didn't need to press the electric shock device on the feeding drill, they would automatically open their mouthparts to gulp up the nutrient solution. During this process, the circle of dark eyes around the mouthparts would also become Pure and cozy.

...isn't this cute?

Su Lin muttered in his heart.

During the feeding process, Su Lin's mood also unknowingly became calm.

【my child……】

He didn't realize that he had tenderly called these newborn larvae "children" in his thoughts, and he didn't even notice that in front of the densely packed cultivation nest, countless larvae were sticking behind the nest cover, focused and longing stared at him.

The larvae should have been hiding deep in the nest, but at this moment, they couldn't wait to come to the outside world.

Because, there are...

*

When the accident happened, Su Lin happened to be holding a larva in his arms.

This larva is very large, and it is obviously an exceptionally well-developed individual, which can be seen from its fully grown mouthparts.

When opening the mouthpiece, many of the circles of fine deciduous teeth have evolved into chewing teeth.

When the feeding drill was put in, Surin could even hear the sharp sound of metal being bitten by teeth.

When it was pulled out again, the drill bit made of metal was already somewhat deformed, and there were circles of tooth marks all over it.And when Sulin wanted to put the larva back into the nest, it seemed to be playing tricks, and its long body was simply wrapped around Sulin's arm.

"Squeak-"

Its beady eyes trembled, staring at Su Lin all the time, and even let out an unexplained thin cry from its mouth.

It took Su Lin a long time to put the larva back, and the delay was only a little longer, when suddenly there was a heavy crash in the adjacent breeding nest.

That is other larvae are constantly hitting the nest cover.

Su Lin, who originally thought this job was quite easy, vaguely felt that something was wrong. Could it be that he wasted time and made other larvae start to get anxious?

He frantically pushed the disobedient worm on his arm even harder.

"Crack-"

Then, he heard a crisp sound of metal breaking.

The protective suit gloves that should have been strong suddenly broke, and the small half of his arm was directly exposed to the fat larva's mouth.

Su Lin was stunned, and lowered his head, what he saw was no longer the thick gloves of the protective clothing, but his own extremely thin and white arms surrounded by the larvae.

The seams of his gloves had already been broken in the action just now, and the gloves with metal guards that could resist the larvae's bite fell directly into the larvae cultivation nest.

However, that larva... was still wrapped around Surin's arm.

"squeak--"

The next second, the worm suddenly stood up its upper body.

hiss--

The originally calm and docile larva raised its head and grinned at Su Lin.

*

The hatchery management center on the fifteenth floor below.

"Ah, it's too bad, my lord, there is one missing piece of protective clothing that was originally going to be sent to the destruction site, it should have been mixed into the batch of protective clothing that is currently in service—"

The young Zerg logistics officer tapped on the optical brain, the tentacles kept shaking because of panic.

The administrator, whose whole body seemed to have no bones, stretched limply on the metal chair, let out a long yawn.

He stared straight at the flustered Zerg logistics, and after a while, he said in a daze, "It's okay."

"Ah? However, such protective clothing may disintegrate if it is moved a little bit. If it is issued, it may cause additional casualties to the trainers. The operation department has issued several warnings to us. The current consumption of lower-level Zerg is too large. We are not allowed to continue to waste like this..."

Facing his lazy boss, the logistics officer said with a headache.

But the administrator still looked like he hadn't woken up: "But..." He even looked a little puzzled.

"Isn't there only one piece? This kind of consumption is normal, right? Besides, if the nurse died, wouldn't we be able to find out where the fault protective suit is?"