StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 187 Crowning You

Cecilia's voice kept echoing in her mind, and Shen Qingqing put on the crown as if possessed.

That small diamond crown, like a star in the night, shone with a brilliance that seemed out of place in this desolate land.

Ryan straightened up his hunched body and stared blankly at the crown on Shen Qingqing's head.

Didn't he hide this crown?

She found it so easily?

Shen Qingqing picked up the crown as if she were being controlled, and then put it on her head, while Ryan watched the process but did not stop her.

It seems that the crown was meant to be on her head.

After regaining his senses, Ryan suddenly remembered that the crown was a diamond he had personally selected and a design he had personally created, originally intended as a gift for the newborn insect queen.

but……

But he did not see her.

The legendary insect mother was not seen.

Her face can only be seen in those constantly replayed videos.

Oh, and the wolf pack too!

Ryan's eyes gradually cleared, as if he remembered that their insect queen had set out to fight because of the wolf clan's invasion.

That's why I never had the chance to receive the gifts he sent.

"No, this isn't yours...it belongs to the Queen Insect..."

Ryan clutched his head in pain, saying, "This is the crown of the Queen Insect, please put it down... don't touch it..."

When Shen Qingqing touched the crown, Cecilia controlled her body and put the crown on her head. Now, hearing Ryan's murmur, she couldn't help but turn around.

"Are you alright? You look like you're in a lot of pain, what happened to you...!!"

Shen Qingqing and Ryan suddenly looked up and met each other's faces. His eyes, filled with the marks of hardship, sorrow, lamentation, and pain, stared blankly at her.

It's as if it's lamenting its unfortunate fate.

Finally, he opened his mouth slightly and uttered the words he had kept hidden in his heart.

"This is the crown that belongs exclusively to the Queen Insect; no one is allowed to touch it!"

A short sentence touched her heartstrings.

The Zerg would actually protect the crown at such a critical moment, just for... her...?

She wasn't sure if Ryan was talking to her, but she still helped him up by the arm. "You should get up, get up... the ground is cold, you can't kneel there..."

Surprisingly, despite Ryan's frail appearance, she couldn't lift him up no matter how hard she tried, and ended up exhausting herself in the process.

"You... cough cough, get up..."

Ryan just knelt on the ground, repeating the same few sentences over and over.

"This is the crown of the Queen Insect..."

"This is the mother insect; you can't touch it."

"The one I personally selected can only be the Queen Insect."

"It's... a gift for Qingqing..."

Shen Qingqing was stunned.

He asked if the crown was a gift for himself.

A crown that belongs only to him, untouched by anyone.

Ryan protected this small, dazzling crown amidst the flames of war until her arrival.

Shen Qingqing squatted down and cupped his face in her hands.

It doesn't quite resemble the spirited young face in the file.

His face, weathered by time, appeared even more sorrowful and gaunt, and his grey-blue eyes revealed a deep, compassionate sorrow.

"Thank you for the gift, Bishop, and thank you for protecting the Zerg... It's time to wake up after all this time."

The moment the fragrance of roses wafted through the air, the illusion shattered, revealing Saenster trapped on the other side of the church.

Their eyes met, and then Saenster saw Bishop Ryan, who was nestled in Shen Qingqing's arms with his eyes closed.

"...Qingqing?"

Sarnster, not knowing what he had seen, called out to her uncertainly.

Shen Qingqing looked at Ryan in her arms, who was sleeping like a baby, and said softly, "Keep your voice down, he's asleep."

Not far away, Saenster pursed his lips, his dark eyes revealing no emotion.

……

After hearing that they had brought the bishop back, Andorra also made a rare appearance in the infirmary.

"Where did you find Bishop Ryan?" Andor had never imagined they could find a bishop.

He had gone out in his spare time, but there was nothing there except the dilapidated, empty church where the bishop lived.

“After I went in, I saw a table, and then he suddenly appeared in front of me,” Shen Qingqing said. “And when I saw him, he didn’t look well. He was always talking to himself and saying some strange things.”

"What did he say?" Andor asked as he examined him.

"He only mentioned the crown, and said nothing else."

Only then did they turn their attention to the small crown on Shen Qingqing's head.

The crown wasn't large; it was much smaller than the one Andorra had previously provided for her.

“I had heard that the bishop had been searching for rare diamonds before the Zerg rebellion, wanting to forge a crown for the unborn Zerg queen. Now his wish has come true,” Andor said, looking at the crown on her head.

Sarnster, who had been unhappy ever since Shen Qingqing and Ryan appeared together, was now even more unhappy.

His gloomy expression only improved after he saw his strategist, Ge Yuan.

Ge Yuan will probably continue to help him pursue Qingqing, right?

However, after Ge Yuan sat down, she didn't even glance at him.

He thought he would receive the true teachings and continue to pursue his partner, but at the crucial moment, his strategist not only failed to help him, but also blamed him for being useless with his eyes!

Sarnster had no choice but to swallow his anger.

Between feeling helpless and angry, I chose to feel helpless.

Ge Yuan had met Ryan a few times before, and almost didn't recognize him when they met today.

"Why does Bishop Ryan look so... weathered?"

After considering her words for a while, Ge Yuan finally chose a more tactful way of putting it.

"The last time I saw him, he looked like a pretty boy. What happened to make him mature?"

“I’d like to know too,” Andor said with a smirk. “My initial assessment is that his current state is related to his rather unique mental power. Bishop Ryan’s mental power can create an environment to confuse his opponents.”

He continued, "I went up there a few days ago and saw the church still standing on the ground. The church was not damaged. It must have been Bishop Ryan who used his spiritual power to protect it from being discovered by the wolves."

"So it's because of overuse of mental energy?" Shen Qingqing asked.

“Not bad.” Andor thought for a moment and felt that a bishop’s ability shouldn’t be that strong.

"To wipe the entire church out of the enemy's sight is a mentally taxing task, and he must have put in a lot of effort, since a bishop's mental power is not offensive."

The bishop, who possessed no offensive capabilities, protected the site where the Zerg were first born and where each Zerg Queen was crowned amidst the smoke of battle.

It has made an indispensable contribution to the Zerg.

Just then, a system notification sounded in Shen Qingqing's mind.

[Ding-dong~ Congratulations, host! You have completed the final mission 'Crowning'. The system has sent you a gift pack. Please check it!]