Nolan woke up in a cultivation pod, his belly swollen with pregnancy.
Several high-ranking male insects knelt on the ground, licking his gestational sac greedily with their mouthparts.
This was his third pregnancy, and he was already in the late stages.
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Half a year ago, Nolan had been the youngest border inspector in the Human Federation.
To complete a mission, he went undercover in the Zerg military. But during his escape, an accident caused him to merge with a queen's genes he'd gone to great lengths to steal.
He didn't die.
To his horror, he discovered that he'd grown wings and an insect core.
He had become the only female Zerg in hundreds of years, the supreme Queen Mother.
And now, his children couldn't wait to crawl out of his belly.
Nolan fled the Imperial Star with his body on the verge of giving birth and fought his way back to human space.
But there was no place for him there anymore.
His former colleagues pointed their weapons at him. The Federation deemed him contaminated by the Zerg and even planned to execute him as an alien species.
Just before Nolan was captured, an overwhelming swarm of Zerg tore through the starry sky.
The high-ranking male Zerg came after him with the young they had abandoned, and forcibly took Nolan back.
The little hatchlings stumbled toward him, while the male Zerg clutched his ankles and pressed close to him.
"Mom..."
"Don't try to run away again."
"Don't leave us."
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