Giving birth... giving birth to a baby??
Yin Mingzheng looked at the boy who was obviously male, lying on top of him, and felt confusion from the depths of his heart for the first time.
As soon as Shi Qing finished speaking, he eagerly tried to pull Yin Mingzheng's coat, but Yin Mingzheng struggled like a fish, saying, "No! Wait, I'm a man!"
"I am too," Shi Qing replied confidently, busy burying his head in his task. He spoke matter-of-factly.
Indeed, Shi Qing was very busy. In order to remove layer after layer of clothing, he loosened his grip on Yin Mingzheng's hands. The exclusive soft and fair hands of the young man landed on the coat, attempting to remove it.
However, because he no longer held Yin Mingzheng's hands, the man who had regained control of his hands struggled even harder. The 28-year-old veteran, who was still a virgin, was completely distracted by Shi Qing's movements. He forgot about his previous thoughts of "infiltrating the enemy," "eliciting information discreetly," and "understanding the situation." At the moment, he had only one pitiful thought in his mind: to protect his coat and his chastity.
The two of them were like playing some sort of offensive and defensive game, with Shi Qing attacking and Yin Mingzheng defending.
Shi Qing had strength but lacked finesse, while Yin Mingzheng, despite having ample combat experience, couldn't match his strength. As a result, they found themselves in a deadlock where neither could succeed.
While Yin Mingzheng frantically protected his coat, he glanced at the young man above him. The young man had round almond-shaped eyes, a small upturned nose, and his lips turned slightly red from being involuntarily pursed due to his "busy" activity.
As if sensing Yin Mingzheng's gaze, the young man even took a moment to lift his eyes and flashed a sweet smile at him.
He looked like a completely harmless and innocent young man.
—If only he hadn't buried his head again to continue his improper work after that smile.
One had to admit that this unfamiliar young man's appearance was indeed very harmless. Even though the current situation was unclear, Yin Mingzheng was on an alien spacecraft, and the person above him seemed to hold a high status among the aliens and didn't look entirely human, Yin Mingzheng couldn't muster any anger when he looked at his sweet smile and his smiling eyes.
Of course, even if he wanted to resist or escape, he didn't have the strength for it. At most, he could barely maintain not getting his coat stripped off.
When one lacked physical strength, all they could do was talk.
With this in mind, while Yin Mingzheng struggled to block Shi Qing's hands, he spoke up, "Is there some kind of misunderstanding? I don't know you, and I'm definitely not your partner."
"Why does my partner have to know me?" The young man finally stopped his movements, and a look of confusion appeared in his round eyes. He even seemed a little aggrieved. "Why don't you undress yourself?"
"I, why... no, you go first."
Shi Qing seemed like he could communicate well, which relieved Yin Mingzheng. Communication was a good start.
However, it turned out he had relaxed too soon.
The seemingly tender young man sitting on top of him held him down firmly, and with an unhappy tone, he said, "I'm not getting up."
"You're my partner, why don't you want to have a baby with me?"
Yin Mingzheng thought for a moment and, because of the weight pressing down on him, couldn't move. He tried to adjust his mood and have a proper conversation with the young man who looked about eighteen.
"Sir, it's like this. First, I'm not your partner, and second, both you and I are men, one hundred percent men, and two men can't have a baby."
"I know." Shi Qing smiled sweetly at him again and leaned down to press his ear against Yin Mingzheng's chest, listening to the rapid heartbeat inside.
"Human males can't have babies when they mate, but our species can."
Yin Mingzheng's heart, already beating intensely, seemed to speed up even more.
Even though Yin Mingzheng had never been interested in same-sex relationships before the apocalypse, he recalled some top-rated movies from before. It seemed that in those movies, the aliens reproduced by laying eggs inside human bodies, and when the time was right, the little aliens would tear through the human's abdomen and emerge amidst the human's cries...
The thought of this gruesome scene happening to him made Yin Mingzheng turn pale.
Shi Qing sensed his intense emotions and smiled satisfactorily. His slender fingers landed on the zipper of Yin Mingzheng's coat, drawing circles on it.
"As long as we are together, I will enter the mature stage, and our planet's Mother Tree will receive the signal of my maturity and start reproducing. After I die in two hundred years, the babies with our genes will be born."
His tone was a bit naive, and he seemed eager. "Your genes are strong, so our babies will be very powerful."
Yin Mingzheng: "…"
He quickly sorted out the meaning of this humanoid alien's words. There was a tree on their planet called the Mother Tree, and it would only start reproducing after receiving the signal of this young man's maturity. And after he died, the next generation with their genes would be born.
Such an absurd setup would have made Yin Mingzheng question its logic if it had been in a movie before the apocalypse. But unfortunately, it was happening in reality now. Yin Mingzheng didn't think Shi Qing was lying to him.
After all, given the current situation, Yin Mingzheng was like a little grasshopper held in Shi Qing's hand. There was no need for Shi Qing to deceive him. Moreover, since the arrival of the invaders known as the Bug Clan on Blue Star, the people of Blue Star had come to understand that in this vast world, anything was possible.
Compared to having their heads severed and then mated by the queen bug, being cannon fodder in the low-ranking Bug Clan when not fighting and becoming food when not in combat, having aliens reproduce through space didn't seem all that unusual.
Fortunately, he had encountered a reasonable one, and they could negotiate given the current situation.
Just as Yin Mingzheng was thinking this, the seemingly gentle young man lying on his chest suddenly became restless. He eagerly reached for the zipper of Yin Mingzheng's coat.
Yin Mingzheng hurriedly blocked him and said, "Wait a moment."
"What's wrong now?" The young man's face showed displeasure, and he pressed the hand that was blocking him to the headboard. "If you keep this up, I'll tie you up. It won't affect us from doing it even if you're tied up."
Yin Mingzheng looked at his serious expression and had no doubt that he would actually do it. He quickly tried to calm the situation. "You said I'm your partner, but we don't know each other. We Blue Star people don't engage with strangers."
"I know you. Your name is Yin Mingzheng."
Perhaps feeling that Yin Mingzheng had a valid point, the young man's unhappy expression disappeared. He held Yin Mingzheng's hand and pressed it against his cheek, rubbing it like a kitten against the calloused palm of the man's hand, his eyes sparkling.
"I know you know me, but what I mean is, I don't know you."
The awkward feeling of being so close to someone, especially someone of the same sex, made Yin Mingzheng feel a bit uncomfortable. He cleared his throat and tried to stabilize the situation by speaking slowly. "You say we're partners, but I don't even know your name, your age, which planet you're from, how many family members you have, and why you want me to be your partner. Knowledge on Blue Star is not one-sided."
The young man didn't get angry but sighed, "Blue Star people are really troublesome."
"Okay, my name is Shi Qing, I'm from the Mechanical race, my planet is in the 312th star system, I have no family, and the reason I want you to be my partner is that after I was born, the first planet I found was Blue Star, and you are the most powerful on Blue Star, so of course, I chose you to be my partner."
As Yin Mingzheng digested this information, he continued to ask patiently, "You have no family? Then who manages this spaceship? Is it your superior?"
Suddenly, the system chimed in with a warning, "Host, he's using a ruse, don't fall for it! He wants to gather information about you to make it easier to escape!!"
"And host, you shouldn't disclose so much information, especially about species reproduction. He has a hundred percent aversion to you!!"
Shi Qing: "I knew it, didn't you hear that I was just making things up?"
The system was shocked, "Making things up??"
"Well, since I'm the only one of my kind in this species, and the others are all machines, I can say whatever I want. If I don't, how can I find a reason to take advantage of the situation, I mean, reduce the aversion, right?"
The self-proclaimed clever system and the others couldn't believe it: …Humans have so many tricks up their sleeves.
Yin Mingzheng was unaware of the mental conversation between Shi Qing and the system. He only saw Shi Qing's smiling eyes and listened as he calmly provided information. Shi Qing held Yin Mingzheng's left hand and the right hand, which had been released not long ago, and crossed their wrists together, then pressed them back to the headboard.
"Now that we know each other, let's do it!"
Note: The story is intriguing and seems to involve an alien species with unique reproduction methods and a human character caught up in a complex situation. If you have any specific questions or would like me to translate a particular part differently, please let me know!
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