Harvest

Suspecting the existence of observers from the other side of a wormhole near the Bodi People's Mother Planet, the Swarm's expansion in outer space was not entirely unrestrained. Although gas giants are essentially giant chargers, perfect for the Space Octopus to "lie dead," they had to temporarily hide underground until they were sure there was no danger.

But the Overseer were released. Thanks to the experience of the Epoch Clan, the Swarm was already adept at finding the observer. Tens of thousands of Overseer formed a dense network around the Mother Planet Bodi in space, and the Gravitational Wave Radar was activated at full power. No object with mass could escape their detection.

But the result was beyond Rowan's expectations. Apart from a hundred or so artificial satellites launched by the Bodi People and some space debris, the Overseer found nothing else in the orbit of Mother Planet.

Could the area be too small or too large? Or perhaps the enemy possesses infiltration units similar to Swarm Intellect, lurking among the Bodi People?

In response to these speculations, more Overseer hatched and began to expand their search area. The search network gradually covered the entire gas giant and all its moons, and many more Overseer began to venture into other regions and planets of the star system.

Another group of Overseer began to approach and enter the atmosphere of Mother Planet, where they were responsible for checking for anomalies in the upper atmosphere and near-orbital regions of Mother Planet.

Meanwhile, the Bodi Intellect, while searching for information, also began to pay attention to the people around them and current events, hoping to find some clues.

Amidst this tense yet well-organized operation, after the Swarm entered Bodi Planet, the wormhole opened for the second time, spitting out another monster before closing, just like before.

Similarly, the monster was surrounded and attacked, causing limited damage before being killed, then dragged away and buried...

The Swarm has located the monsters' burial site, a vast, arid desert area where the monsters were transported via various means of transport.

Here, there are dozens of large laboratories and military camps, where they are responsible for researching monsters while guarding this "graveyard".

Due to the limitations of the Intellect conversion, it is difficult for the Swarm to infiltrate such a place where staff check in every day in a short period of time. But coincidentally, a group of autistic academic high-achievers who had previously been converted by the Swarm received a job offer from one of the laboratories when his advisor stayed at the university for further studies after graduating a few days ago.

Thus, this Intellect being entered as a deputy and trainee, and obtained some firsthand information. Unexpectedly, the Bodi People's research objective was very simple; they only wanted to find a way to neutralize the toxins in the monsters' bodies.

After all, for them, the threat of monster invasions every now and then has been reduced to a manageable level. In comparison, these buried monster corpses are a much more serious hidden danger.

This information was of little use to the Swarm, but it did achieve its purpose. Beneath the monster's burial site, the Swarm dug a tunnel, and some insects burrowed into the monster's body, obtaining more samples and figuring out its anatomy.

To Rowan's surprise, the monster he had initially thought was unremarkable actually brought him some pleasant surprises.

While the toxins contained within the monster were an insurmountable problem for the Bodi People, they posed no challenge for Rowan. Rowan was an expert in poisons, particularly neurotoxins and corrosive toxins.

However, the monster's venom sacs and the way its toxins are generated and combined still provided Rowan with some new ideas. Once Rowan has absorbed all of these, the Swarm will undoubtedly receive a significant boost in its use of poison.

But this was just the appetizer of the surprises. The bigger surprise was that these monsters possessed a unique organ system that Rowan's abilities required time to analyze.

So far, only Controlled Fusion and gravity control have made Rowan's ability take time to analyze, but now a third one has emerged.

Could the other side of the wormhole truly be an advanced civilization, capable of imbuing monsters of this caliber with such formidable power? But why didn't we see it in the previous battle? They didn't even unleash a single Atomic Breath, let alone control gravity.

Regardless, Rowan only needs to wait a short while, and he will find out what secrets these monsters are hiding.

Time passed day by day, and the analysis progressed exceptionally slowly. Initially, the analysis of the Atomic Furnace capable of Controlled Fusion took only a few months, while the analysis of the gene fragments capable of utilizing gravitational abilities took more than a year. Now, nearly two years have passed.

During this time, the wormhole opened again. This was the third monster the Swarm encountered after arriving at Bodi Planet. Apart from the monster being slightly stronger and two more Mecha Warrior ganging up on it, it was no different from the previous ones.

Ultimately, the monster followed in the footsteps of its predecessors; its corpse was dragged to the desert and buried, and the laboratory had fresh material once again...

At this point, the Overseer Swarm had almost expanded to cover the entire star system. Although the Overseer density was still incomparable to that of other Swarm territories, it had begun to form a surveillance network.

Unfortunately, nothing unusual was found, either within the star system or on the Bodi Planet. There were no monitors, and no fluctuations in quantum communication were detected.

The Swarm has now begun to expand beyond the star system, but the chances of finding anomalies there will be even lower, as no monitoring instruments can observe them so closely from that distance.

However, the Intellect discovered a slight anomaly in their research on the history of the Bodi People, or rather, the Origin of the Bodi Planet. But the data was too incomplete, and no concrete conclusions were reached. They needed to further expand Intellect ranks and infiltrate the Bodi People's upper echelons in order to obtain those hidden, rare documents.

Finally, after two years and two months, the unknown gene fragments obtained from the monster were finally analyzed. Rowan couldn't wait to monetize them. Of course, for safety reasons and to prevent exposure, the experimental site was set up on Planet 11 of the star system, far away from Bodi Planet.

At this moment, Planet 11 was rotating to the other side of the star, separated from Bodi Planet by hundreds of billions of kilometers, with a giant star in between. Even if some disturbance occurred, the Bodi Planet would block the Bodi side from detecting anything unusual. Of course, this mainly referred to the surveillance camera that had not yet been found. The Bodi People themselves were not enough to make Rowan wary.

A bug-like replica of the monster was created, and before we understand and master its genes, its configuration should be as close to the original as possible to reduce the probability of errors.

With everything ready, Rowan gave the order with great anticipation.