Chapter 264: Female Disguised as Male x Despairing Straight Female (19): His Same-Sex Lover Seems to Be a Male Zerg. Not Just "Seems"—Every...

【His same-sex lover seemed to be a Male Zerg.

Not just "seemed." Every piece of evidence proved that he was a Male Zerg.

Lucas still needed some time to process the news.

If they weren't currently in the military, he would have gotten a room, pulled down Felix's trousers, and personally verified it.

But pulling down a Male Zerg Lord's trousers... was that really okay? Was that appropriate?

It seemed he couldn't treat a Male Zerg the same way he treated his same-sex lover.

But Lucas couldn't make the adjustment.

Felix's brightly smiling face surfaced in his mind. He genuinely couldn't imagine treating Felix any differently.

Felix was Felix... No matter how his identity changed, he was still the same.

Lucas's mind was a complete mess.

Felix wanted to stay with him a little longer, but he had duties to attend to and still needed to organize training, so he could only say goodbye to Lucas for the time being.

Between his two recent leaves, he'd been away for a full six days. If he didn't put the military females under his command through some proper training soon, they were going to turn the place upside down.

"Then I'll get going. See you at lunchtime. I'll come find you. First Restaurant?"

Before leaving, Felix confirmed their plans, asking whether they were still eating at their usual place.

"Mm..." Lucas nodded distractedly, his thoughts still in chaos.

It wasn't until Felix had left that Lucas remembered what Felix was going to do.

Felix was a Colonel in the military and commanded a border-defense unit—one Lucas himself had assigned to him.

Of course Lucas trusted Felix's abilities. He had personally tested them before, and that wouldn't change simply because Felix's sex was different.

Still, the fact that Felix was a Male Zerg inevitably bothered him. Lucas remained restless all morning and eventually couldn't resist going over to inspect the training.

At the Unit 707 training grounds, Felix had prepared a generous package of enhanced training for the military females, including simulated extreme-space-environment training and pheromone-resistance training.

While the other military females were being trained so brutally that they were crying for their male fathers and female fathers, until eventually they didn't even have the strength left to speak, Felix still had enough energy to go around kicking them one by one while firing off merciless mockery at full force.

The Female Zergs of Unit 707 were practically sobbing inside.

They had no idea where today's rumor had come from, claiming that Colonel Felix was a Male Zerg.

While the Colonel had been away, they'd even gathered together and laughed themselves silly over it.

It was true that their Colonel had an extraordinarily beautiful face, beautiful enough to attract even Female Zergs. Although nobody said it aloud, quite a few Zergs in the military had secretly questioned their own sexual orientation because of Colonel Felix.

But anyone who had ever experienced just how vicious the Colonel could be during training could never possibly mistake him for a Male Zerg.

It wasn't as though the Zergs in his unit had never fantasized while looking at that face. With the Colonel gone these past few days, they'd missed him, but they'd also gotten a little too comfortable. They'd even dared to joke about the rumor that their Colonel was a Male Zerg.

And by sheer coincidence, the Colonel heard them the moment he returned to his unit.

The result went without saying.

Their gorgeous Colonel smiled brilliantly and sadistically as he tortured them so thoroughly that they wished they could travel back in time and strangle whichever Zerg had started the rumor.

How could a Colonel like this possibly be a Male Zerg?

Whose Male Zerg acted like this?!

How blind would someone have to be to mistake Colonel Felix for a Male Zerg?!

The military females were wailing inwardly when they suddenly noticed that the Colonel's attitude had completely changed.

He stopped kicking them.

He stopped mocking them.

Instead, he gently and meticulously explained the key points of their training, asked whether they were tired, and behaved so kindly that he might as well have been a kindergarten teacher.

Had the Colonel eaten the wrong mushroom?

They looked up.

Ah, no.

Major General Lucas had arrived.

Felix pushed down the heads of the military females who were looking around wildly. The smile remained on his face, but through gritted teeth, he warned them in a low voice:

"You'd better make me look good!"

The military females immediately understood.

Whatever happened among themselves didn't matter. To outsiders, they were one collective. Especially in front of Major General Lucas, this concerned the honor of every military female in their unit, so they had to show their absolute best.

Besides, their Colonel was always secretly competing with Major General Lucas.

Fine, calling it "secretly" was generous. Their rivalry was practically blatant...

Every Zerg in Silver Fortress knew that Felix particularly enjoyed provoking the Major General, including but not limited to stealing food straight from the Major General's plate and forcibly occupying the Major General's private hot spring.

Sometimes even they thought their Colonel was far too arrogant and was practically begging to have a sack thrown over his head and get beaten.

But since they belonged to the same unit, they were one body. When it was time to perform, they had to perform.

And so, even the Female Zergs who had thought they couldn't continue gritted their teeth and held on, displaying their very best.

Felix also displayed his very best.

After all, ever since his first day here, when he'd been soft-spoken and exceptionally friendly only to have some troublesome military female provoke him over his appearance, he'd never shown such a good temper again.

Lucas watched from a distance through the panoramic walls without entering to disturb them.

Only when the midday break arrived and Felix announced the end of training did Felix walk out first, at which point Lucas went forward to meet him.

Instead, Felix took a step backward and stopped him from coming closer.

"Wait. I smell. I need to wash first."

He had just finished a pheromone-resistance training session. Felix himself didn't feel much of anything, but he didn't want to bring the scent of other Male Zergs anywhere near Lucas.

Lucas could also smell traces of the Male Zerg pheromones used for training. They held no attraction for him, but he tactfully stopped where he was.

He knew Felix wouldn't squeeze into the communal showers with the military females.

He hadn't done so before, and now that his identity as a Male Zerg had been exposed, he was even less likely to do so—and shouldn't, either.

So Lucas suggested, "How about the hot spring at the mountaintop?"

"Sure," Felix agreed.

Originally, they'd agreed to eat together at the First Restaurant, with Felix coming to find Lucas.

Instead, Lucas had come looking for him first, and they'd even changed their destination at the last minute to Lucas's private hot-spring pool.

Given the choice between the two, Felix certainly preferred the Major General's hot spring.

Eating together was nice too, but how could eating in the middle of a crowd of Zergs compare to privately soaking in a hot spring with the Major General?

After the two of them left, the group of military females who emerged afterward stared at one another, dumbfounded.

€€€€Did we hear that right? The Major General actually invited the Colonel to soak in the hot spring? Are they really that close in private?

"So what do we do? Shower or eat?" one military female asked.

"Why shower? That's high-ranking Male Zerg pheromone on you. Sure, it's artificially synthesized pheromone made for training, but can you really bear to wash it off?"

During training, the pheromones were a torturous mixture of pain and pleasure.

After training, however, they could be pure pleasure.

But some military females disagreed.

"The Colonel went to wash it off. If we keep it on ourselves, doesn't that mean we couldn't resist the temptation of the pheromones? That would mean our training still isn't good enough."

The other military females thought that made sense too.

"Besides... having training pheromones on you is actually kind of a turnoff."

One Zerg spoke quietly.

Everyone immediately sympathized.

Pheromones were normally a good thing, but after undergoing pheromone-resistance training so many times, smelling that scent immediately reminded them of the suffering involved, killing their enthusiasm on the spot.

Especially right after enduring a painful training session, they simply didn't have the energy to enjoy it.

And so, the group of military females agreed to go shower together.

On the way, they heard yet another rumor claiming Colonel Felix was a Male Zerg. The military females, still furious after the abuse they'd just endured, nearly started a fight with the Zergs spreading it.

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The mountaintop hot spring.

Felix first took a quick shower in the wooden cabin on the mountaintop before entering the hot-spring pool for a proper soak.

This time, Major General Lucas was the one standing on the shore.

Thinking about it, it was rather amusing. Every time they'd come to the hot spring, the situation had been different.

The first time, Felix had remained on shore, wrapping himself up tightly.

The second time, they'd entered the water together.

And now came the third time...

How the tables had turned.

Felix looked at the Major General standing on the shore and asked with a smile:

"Why aren't you coming in to bathe with me? Haven't we already done the most intimate thing possible?"

Of course this was different.

Lucas thought to himself that a Female Zerg and a Male Zerg couldn't possibly be treated the same way.

Right now, he wasn't even sure whether he should be looking at Felix's body.

Yet he wanted to look.

Even when he turned his gaze away, he couldn't stop himself from watching Felix out of the corner of his eye.

In truth, even now, he still couldn't completely convince himself of Felix's sex.

Perhaps he should personally confirm it.

Wasn't that exactly what he'd wanted to do earlier?

With that thought, Lucas stopped restraining himself and openly turned his gaze toward Felix.

Finally, under Felix's watchful eyes, he removed his military uniform and stepped into the water.

He needed to personally confirm Felix's sex.

Lucas repeated that to himself as he heard his heartbeat thundering inside his chest.

He saw Felix's smile blurred by the rising steam. Felix's pheromones had clearly been washed away, and there wasn't even a trace of them around anymore, yet Lucas could almost smell that wonderful, mellow fragrance again, like fine wine brewed from flowers and fruit.

He hadn't even tasted it, yet the scent alone seemed enough to make him drunk.

Lucas took hold of Felix, determined to get to the bottom of this personally.

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