Chimera Ants were insects designated as a Class-1 quarantine species.
These creatures reproduced through a process called feeding mating, in which they consumed other organisms and passed those organisms' traits on to the next generation.
During feeding mating, the Chimera Ant Queen responsible for reproduction deliberately selected species with stronger genes.
Once she found a species that satisfied her, she would keep consuming it until she had eaten it into extinction.
That made feeding mating a truly terrifying form of reproduction.
However, since a normal Chimera Ant Queen was only ten centimeters long, the species' danger remained manageable and posed no threat to the existing ecosystem, let alone humanity.
Yes.
Under normal circumstances.
A queen only ten centimeters long was indeed nothing to worry about.
But—
What if the queen was over two meters long?
"She could eat humans too, couldn't she?"
Deep in a dense forest in NGL, Pokkle bit down hard on his thumb, his eyes trembling slightly and a fine sheen of sweat forming on his forehead.
Beside him, Ponzu, Geretta, Urtado, and the other team members—more than a dozen in all—reacted much as he did, unable to hide their fear.
As a biological survey team on the rise, they had worked extremely hard lately, leaving a favorable impression on various commissioning organizations with their outstanding abilities and efficient completion of assignments.
Much of their success stemmed from Pokkle's planning, coordination, and consolidation of intelligence.
Thus, after receiving a valuable sighting report, Pokkle had eagerly led his teammates into the NGL Autonomous Region.
It was worth noting that intelligence related to biological surveys circulated freely, generally being shared among commissioning organizations before being passed on to teams specializing in biological research.
Consequently, Pokkle's team was not the only biological survey team to enter the NGL Autonomous Region.