"Those profit-hungry little merchants in the Alliance were the ones who caused the slugworm plague in the first place!" Lieutenant General Rorian muttered, spitting out a curse. "...Could this incident also be an Alliance conspiracy?"
Of course, he was only running his mouth. Even he didn't actually believe it. Still, for an Imperial noble, suspecting and cursing the Alliance was politically correct.
Ah, I kind of miss Stone AA and the little guys. Yu Lian thought. Last month, Liuli had told him their numbers had grown to over two thousand. She was already considering ordering two more gigantic aquariums from the Alliance. I miss them.
In any case, with the help of those space slugworms, they had established a preliminary biological neural network. The Red Star Design Bureau could now officially be said to have a central processor with computing power on par with the Future Lab's.
Professor Zhuang and Professor Jinov were eagerly working with Big White and the others to turn Yu Lian's ideas into reality, one step at a time...
But we couldn't insult our slugworm friends like that! They were a proper civilized species, completely different from biological weapons like puppet bugs.
Yu Lian felt he had to set the record straight on behalf of his slugworm friends. "As far as I know, quite a few spaceborne species can parasitize other organisms. Some can even infect their hosts and turn them into sources of disease."
The Alliance had even made a few famous horror movies about alien species on planet X, full of bizarre gore. They weren't exactly masterpieces fit for highbrow company, but they were still quite popular.
However, many pioneers who had taken part in planetary surveys and colonization knew that a lot of the scenes in those films weren't fiction at all. They