A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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The beauty bee is a very beautiful bee species.

Pure gold, a pure gold color even more golden than gold itself.

The Beauty Bees truly live up to their name; their females all have slender waists, small faces, and large eyes, with brilliant golden hair that looks like molten gold. Throughout the history of the Zerg, they have consistently ranked among the top three races most favored by male Zerg.

However, later, the Beauty Bee Clan became too arrogant and imprisoned male insects. Many other races saw the benefits and followed suit, leading to a large-scale death of male insects due to depression, which almost caused the insect empire to be cut off.

The royal family at the time swiftly purged all of this.

The entire race of bees was disgraced. Even after the bee clan executed all the involved branches and offered generous terms to the male bees, the male bees were no longer willing to have a romantic relationship with the bees.

The beauty bee clan can now only attract the attention of some low-level males who are under pressure, and their reproduction and continuation are in grave danger.

A wealthy family, desperate for male insects and driven to desperation, doesn't mind stepping on the black ground.

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The cryogenic scanning was activated, and moisture condensed into frost flowers on the portholes and the ground. Dozens of fluctuating data were displayed on the circular screen in the main cabin of the Orion.

Pirate leader Orion rubbed his fingers, which resembled the claws of an insectoid creature, as he watched the figure huddled in the iron cage at the bottom of the monitor screen.

A beautiful, pitiful creature. A thin, young male insect, with pale blue veins faintly visible beneath its pale skin, its black eyes moistened with tears, and its black hair plastered messily to its forehead.

"Gravity communication docking is ready." The pirate's second-in-command's voice came through the speaker, mixed with electrical static. "The Beauty Bee family's communication frequency is starting to fluctuate."

Orion pressed the communication connection button on the armrest, and another holographic screen suddenly rose up in the center of the cabin.

The holographic projection weaves a honeycomb-like light net in the air, with the communication wave in the middle fluctuating regularly, rippling out light rings, ready to connect.

The call will enter a one-minute countdown. If the other party does not answer within the countdown, the call will be automatically disconnected.

This is a top-secret gravity communication docking system with 300 layers of encryption; every second of the connection consumes tens of millions of dollars.

The bee clan is still rich.

The countdown ticked away second by second, but the other end didn't answer, as if it was hesitating.

Orion wasn't in a hurry at all.

There are over a million races among the Zerg, and many of them have become extinct due to their inability to reproduce.

Top-tier male insects aren't some dispensable item; if the Beauty Bee Clan doesn't want them, he has no trouble selling insects.

With the countdown down to the last three seconds, the communicator finally connected. A muffled, distorted voice came from the other end: "Cargo status."

"Completeness 98.7%." Orion, in his white moth form, smiled and unfolded a half-meter-long photonic screen. His claws lightly traced the screen's surface to verify the fingerprint. The screen immediately displayed a dense scanning grid, and the male insect's body data flowed across the light screen. "Only a section of the small intestine (appendix) is missing. Perhaps it underwent some kind of surgery. Should we activate vital sign monitoring?"

The beauty bee's response was concise: "Activate."

"Yes, as you command~" Orion responded in an exaggerated aria, then his claws swept across again, and a complete three-dimensional image of the male insect's body appeared on the holographic screen.

Young males have well-developed bones and muscles, are tall, well-proportioned, and strong, and must have a high genetic grade.

The hexagonal projection of the honeycomb suddenly undulates into sharp hexagonal prisms, a characteristic of the beautiful bee family when excited.

Orion knew that the other party was analyzing the data stream. Behind those fluctuating numbers was a mad race that had been stripped of all dignity, lost all reason, and whose only thought was reproduction.

"Oh, right, I forgot to add more."

Orion clapped his hands again, enlarging the projection of the male insect's body on the screen, gesturing for the insect opposite to look at the back of the male's neck: "Look at this. How amazing! A male insect with fully developed glands that are even visible to the naked eye, with so much pheromones that they're constantly overflowing..."

Before he could finish speaking, the beeping became urgent: "Offer a price."

"Permanent access and inspection-free access to the stargates in the Cygnus sector, plus activation codes for sixty of the largest standard mining ships," Orion laughed.

An octet of voices echoed from the light screen: "Do you think we're buying up a space station?"

Orion raised his hand and opened the male insect's genetic testing report:

"RH-negative blood has a pheromone concentration ten times that of top-tier males, indicating a high level of fertility. Your clones, soaking in nutrient solutions, don't even reach one-thousandth of this level."

The light screen suddenly went dark.

Orion knew that the other party was reviewing the genetic report that had been sent thirty seconds earlier. The data that was highlighted and was frighteningly high was enough to drive any old money family with reproductive anxiety crazy.

"Twenty-year pass, twenty mining ship activation codes." The synthesized voice trembled strangely. "No exemption from inspection. If the princelings of the Legion faction find out we're giving you free passage, we're finished."

"Oh, please wait a moment." Orion suddenly smiled and said, "I have another communication coming in."

After saying that, he cut off the communication with the Beauty Bee Clan without any hesitation.

"Idiot," he said.

What a stupid, clueless wretch. This male wasp's data was uploaded to the dark web, and the bidding families would be furious, while this mentally unstable wasp was still haggling with him.

"Boss, shall we contact the next company?" the deputy asked.

"No rush." ​​Orion stood up, transforming back into his half-insect alien form, and strolled leisurely towards the outside of the command room. "Rushing won't make a sale; let's leave them to their own devices for a while."

"The boss is right after all."

"Let me go show our guests our golden doll in person!" Orion whistled.

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Orion verified his fingerprints several times before finally opening the bottom compartment, which was encased in layers of steel doors.

The sealed-off chamber was empty, containing only a few boxes of energy blocks and an iron cage, inside which was a beautiful but pitiful little male insect.

Orion's knuckles tapped against the surface of the iron cage bars, the hard exoskeleton with its carapace striking the metal with a crisp clang, startling Lu Jianan, who was curled up in the corner.

The face raised beneath the black hair was bloodless, the moist eyes filled with panic, and the red light of the electronic scanner pulsed rhythmically between the cages, like a venomous snake measuring the pulse of its prey.

Orion glanced at the communications and asked his deputy how many communications there were.

The deputy checked and said, "Twelve."

It's true that you have to let things cool down before doing business.

In just a short while since I came down, I have already received encrypted communication requests from more than a dozen families.

"Boss, most of the key families on the list have called. Which one should we answer?"

"Then bring in the footage of the bee family," Orion said.

The projection in front of the deputy immediately displayed twelve family crests, and he clicked on the one with the golden hexagonal honeycomb shape.

Orion sighed.

Sigh, what can you do? The Cygnus may be stupid, but they're incredibly rich. Their home planet, the Cygnus Sector, is also in a good location, allowing them to move freely in and out of most of the Zerg Empire's star systems.