The "Ant Swarm" project could be said to have filled the final gap in Operation Zero. Using these B.O.W.s with controllable spread for sabotage was far less conspicuous and caused far fewer casualties than Orbital Bombardment. Take Kira planet this time, for example: a total of 800,000 "Ant Swarm" larvae were deployed, around 400,000 of which found hosts, while most of the rest died en route.
Then, even counting those 400,000 hosts and the slaughter caused after their mutation, the total would not exceed 56 million, and the casualties would be widely scattered. Compared with Orbital Bombardment, where one strike could erase a city and another could erase an entire continent, it was far less likely to draw attention in every respect.
More importantly, its usefulness in landing on a planet was no weaker than indiscriminate Orbital Bombardment. Often, a dozen or so monsters could paralyze an entire military base.
Thus, the most crucial part of the project lay in keeping the spread controllable. After carrying out their slaughter, those mutated monsters would not spread the virus further. Once the battle was over, Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group merely had to send specialized personnel to recover them.
However, there were risks in both the recovery process and in ensuring that the virus would not spread or mutate—after all, according to the original plan, the war was not supposed to break out for at least another year or two, leaving ample time for improvements.
Moreover, from Alexia's perspective, the "Ant Swarm" could do far more. This biological weapon could even permanently alter a planet's environment! Using it merely to create chaos was a complete waste of its potential!
That was why she had never stopped pursuing the continued evolution and improvement of the "Ant Swarm."
This was also why, back on Chalseden Planet,