Snow Swallow Starfield · Snow Swallow Base

This is a large base located in the second star system of the Snow Swallow Starfield. It was also the main base built by Qin Xiaotian when he served as Prince Yan.

All the relevant Zerg technologies were developed here.

At this moment, Marshal Qin Longcheng had arrived at the First Research Institute of the Snow Swallow Base.

He walked through the dark corridor and came to a huge floor-to-ceiling window.

Inside the floor-to-ceiling windows is an interior cabin resembling a shipyard.

Qin Longcheng looked at the scene inside the floor-to-ceiling window. Although he had seen it several times, he still felt uncomfortable.

Inside was a T4-level Zerg mothership, which appeared to be half-dead.

On the walls of the cabin, several huge mechanical arms were performing some kind of modification surgery on this T4 insect hive mothership.

Although he didn't know the exact principle behind it, Qin Longcheng knew that any Zerg mothership that left from here was basically like an obedient hunting dog.

Suddenly, the Zerg mothership, which was already half-dead, began to twitch, and green liquid oozed from some parts of it.

Qin Longcheng frowned.

"I'm sorry to have let Marshal Qin see this scene."

"What...what's going on? Why didn't you arrange for...the Marshal to wait for me in the reception room?" The doctor in the black cloak walked over, speaking apologetically, while also scolding the attendant beside him.

Qin Longcheng said, "Don't blame them. I just wanted to see how the doctor's research is going."

The Black Cloaked Doctor looked at the Zerg mothership inside the glass window: "This is a T4 Zerg mothership... its integrity has reached 60%, so dealing with it... will be quite troublesome."

Fortunately, our technology has been upgraded, and the success rate can reach 70%.

"That must be very painful," Qin Longcheng blurted out for no apparent reason.

"Pain? It's quite unusual to hear that from the Marshal, considering that at this very moment, an estimated tens of billions of people have been plunged into hell because of your order." The Black-Cloaked Doctor's tone was very calm.

If a normal person were to speak like this, their tone would likely carry a hint of teasing.

Qin Longcheng didn't speak, but a closer look would reveal that the whites of his eyes were bloodshot.

"How is my Zerg spore virus... Marshal, are you satisfied?"

"Did you bring the data I asked you to record earlier? I want to see the specific data from a planet so I can improve and modify it in the future," said the doctor in the black cloak.

Qin Longcheng took out a data hard drive and handed it to the black-cloaked doctor, but he did not directly answer the doctor's question.

Dr. Black Cloak ignored Marshal Qin Longcheng and directly opened the data hard drive to check the data for various distances.

"Very good... After water and food resources are dropped onto a planet, they can infect 80% of the population within 24 hours."

It can infect 95% of people within 48 hours.

Furthermore, the mutated Zerg possess the ability to evolve within a short period of time, which is hundreds of times stronger than the evolutionary ability of the normal interstellar Zerg.

Unfortunately... their lifespan is very short. According to our previous experiments, the shortest lifespan is only three hundred hours, and the longest is no more than five hundred hours.

For this reason, the strongest mutant Zerg at present has only reached the near-T4 level.

However, their advantage lies in their greater lethality and stronger mobility in the cosmic environment. Even T1-level mutant insectoids have the ability to enter outer space.

Another drawback is that these mutated insectoids are uncontrollable... This needs to be addressed in the future, otherwise, their inability to distinguish friend from foe will be very difficult to manage.

When the doctor in the black cloak started talking about his research findings, he spoke faster.

"If the transmission method could be... airborne, the transmission effect would be even better."

If its mutation rate is further increased, it might actually break through the limit and give birth to a true T4-level... mutant Zerg, or a T5 mutant Zerg.

Then we need to solve the problems of lifespan and being out of control.

Wouldn't that create... a completely new species?

Looking at the doctor in front of him, Qin Longcheng sensed a hint of longing in his calm tone.

"This thing won't have a second chance to be used," Qin Longcheng said through gritted teeth.

After saying that, Qin Longcheng turned and left.

The black-cloaked doctor watched Qin Longcheng's departing figure: "Pandora's box has been opened... and once it's opened, it can't be closed again."

This is your own choice...

"Hundreds of billions of lives... I never... imagined you would actually do such a thing."

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Qin Longcheng returned to his flagship, where he sat in the captain's chair with a gloomy expression. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The adjutant beside him looked at the marshal timidly. Ever since that order was issued, he had noticed that the marshal's aura had changed.

In the past, marshals at most had an attitude of keeping strangers at bay.

But the current marshal gives people the feeling of... staring into an abyss.

"What are you standing there for?" Qin Longcheng asked the adjutant with a cold gaze.

The adjutant shuddered and immediately said, "It's about the nineteen star systems we deployed... deployed."

The deployment is progressing very smoothly, with 95% of the deployment already completed in ten star systems.

The remaining nine star systems can also complete the deployment within the remaining five hours.

According to our data analysts' calculations.

In each galaxy, we can generate at least one hundred million mutated Zerg units.

The vast majority of them are T1 level, the number of T2 mutant Zerg is estimated to be only one million, and the number of T3 mutant Zerg is less than five thousand.

The number of near-T4 mutant Zerg is estimated to be around ten.

"What about the Dragon Legion?" Qin Longcheng asked.

The adjutant opened the interstellar sandbox and marked three locations on it.

"We have discovered three Dragon Legions, located in the Snowfall Galaxy, the Snowfall Galaxy, and the Twin-Tailed Swallow Galaxy; deployment has been completed in all three galaxies."

According to our latest information, all three legions of the JF-17 have entered combat mode in these three star systems and are engaged in fierce battles with the mutated Zerg.

However, due to the indiscriminate fighting style of the mutated insectoid race, it is difficult for our dispatched interstellar reconnaissance ships to obtain detailed combat intelligence.

Even our interstellar reconnaissance ships have been destroyed by mutated insectoids.

Qin Longcheng closed his eyes: "Keep a close eye on the situation of these three Xiaolong Legions. If necessary, we can deploy bait to further slow down their attack."

If there's nothing else, don't bother yourself.

"yes."

Qin Longcheng wanted to lie down and sleep for a while, but just as he was drifting off to sleep, he saw thousands of cities transformed into hellish scenes under his command.

Those inhuman, ghostly people cried out and lunged at him.

It startled him awake; his forehead was covered in sweat.

Nineteen galaxies... more than a trillion lives...

He was in a daze.