Within the viscous biomass pool,
A savage beast even larger than the Genestealer Patriarch stretched its body, its four sharp claws slicing through the sticky currents.
The surrounding biomass was gradually forming its body and chitinous shell, making the beast ever larger and stronger.
Beside the beast floated numerous smaller embryonic sacs.
Inside those sacs were many smaller bugs.
Some were smaller than humans, with claws or living firearms.
Some were slender and elongated, with razor-sharp blades and powerful legs, skilled at leaping.
Some had wings, venom glands, and biological rifles in their hands.
Others carried biological cannons on their shoulders and had three long legs.
These bugs, soaking in the biomass pool and gradually being born,
Looked just like... just like...
Monger shuddered.
They looked just like the soulless swarms the angels had shown him, the ones that descended during the Doom of Asford.
"Leman Russ, you fucking won't believe what I just saw."
Monger said in a trembling voice. Through the vibrations of the little bug by his ear, his voice reached Zhou Yun.
Hearing Monger's description of the scene before him, Zhou Yun on the other end of the communication fell silent for several rare seconds.
Monger could not help thinking, as expected, even Leman Russ had not anticipated this.
Then—
"So it really was like this." Zhou Yun's sigh sounded in Monger's ear.
Monger's expression twisted abruptly.
"You guessed it might be like this from the start?"
Monger gritted his teeth and demanded,
"Why didn't you tell me? You knew my plan wouldn't work!"
The Genestealer Patriarch had never intended to inject these people with corruptive genes.
It had merely lured people here, broken them down into biomass slurry, and used it to create and feed the bugs in the pool!
Without even making physical contact