Thousands of insects of various shapes and sizes were burrowed into the bodies of miniature bio-warriors and controlled to leave the planet's surface, struggling to fly away into the distance. Ten thousand kilometers away from the planet, the Stealth Killer were preparing to capture these individuals that had left the swarm. They would be sent to the bio-ship for dissection and research.
" Academician Xiao, I think the miniature biological warriors have achieved good results. Why not use smaller individuals directly? It would save a lot of resources, and they would be easier to cultivate. One Deep Blue could cultivate billions of them."
"General, look closely. The bio-warriors are targeting insects below level ten. Insects at this level aren't very intelligent, which allows the bio-warriors to exploit their weaknesses, or rather, cheat. Insects above level ten are rarely attacked by the bio-warriors. Even if they are attacked, given their intelligence, they would never allow a strange thing to enter their mouths. If the bio-warriors manage to get in, they'll likely be crushed by the extremely fast attack speed of the level ten or higher insects. This current advantage is only temporary; it won't last long."
"Let's wait and see."
A giant worm resembling a centipede was transported to the bio-ship by the Stealth Killer. The bio-ship had already set up a dissection table, or rather a dissection trench, because the giant worm was over 30 meters long, 5 to 6 meters wide, and 1.5 meters high. If it were placed on the table, the personnel would not be able to operate it. Therefore, a trench large enough to accommodate the giant worm was built.
The giant centipede worm appeared to be between the ninth and tenth tiers. It was on the verge of death from the torment of the biological warriors inside its body. However, it seemed to sense the terrifying event that was about to happen and began to struggle frantically with all its remaining strength. The alloy ropes binding it were stretched so tight that they creaked and groaned, as if they might break at any moment. However, this worry was unnecessary. The alloy ropes mixed with Chong Element were not something a tenth-tier worm could break.
Academician Xiao led several academicians from the School of Biology, who changed into white, fully sealed protective suits. Each of them held a knife more than half a meter long, made of special materials. Ordinary knives simply couldn't cut through the insect's biological armor. The academicians didn't look like scientists who performed dissections at all; they looked more like butchers slaughtering pigs and sheep. There was no way around it; the insects were too big, and normal scalpels were like children's toys.
Academician Xiao pried open the insect's thick legs and crawled onto its abdomen. He plunged a knife into it, then pulled back while continuing to pull. In just a few seconds, a gash over ten meters long appeared, and the internal organs immediately bulged out like an inflated balloon. Academician Xiao skillfully severed the insect's energy conversion organs with another cut. The insect trembled in pain, its dozens of legs shaking, but having lost its energy, it no longer had the strength to struggle.
The energy conversion organs of the insects Zhigao efficient than ordinary technological products. Through these organs, they can convert matter into energy. While lower-level insects may only be able to decompose matter into atomic states, higher-level insects can directly annihilate matter into energy. With the help of these organs, the Insect Race can perform warp drive like human warships. This is one of the reasons why the Insect Race can fight to a standstill with all the civilizations in the Milky Way.
Despite having only one set of organs, the inside of the worm was still extremely disgusting. Its mucous membranes were covered in slime, and if you wiped it, your hands would be covered in it. Dark green juice had already flowed down a deep groove. The few ruthless creatures didn't care about any of this and continued to work on the worm. Two of them were already completely busy inside the worm's body. If the worm's internal organs were edible, they probably wouldn't hesitate to take a few bites.
This is how the most cutting-edge biology in the fleet works now. Their research is related to the future of the fleet. Dealing with all kinds of living organisms is commonplace for them. Without this kind of mental fortitude, they can only do some auxiliary research on science ships. This is why, after so many years, there are more than 50 academicians in space physics, but still less than ten academicians in the branch of biology.
The insect wasn't completely dead. Dozens of sharp legs, as thick as buckets, thrashed back and forth like rowing boats. Its head and tail tried to curl up like a lobster being cooked, all demonstrating its extreme pain. This was no longer the insect's strength controlling its body; it was purely a nerve contraction reaction. Hu Yu watched for a while before making an excuse to leave. It was best to avoid such bloody scenes; he couldn't understand them anyway.
More than three months have passed in the blink of an eye. The bio-warriors have fully grown up, with the largest exceeding 20 meters in size. Their growth rate is like inflating a balloon. The war on the planet has now completely changed, and the bio-warriors and the Insect Race have begun to clash head-on.
Just as Academician Xiao had predicted, the bio-warriors were clearly at a disadvantage. Most of the insectoids in the swarm were over 20 meters long, especially the 300-meter-long Insect King, which was conservatively estimated to be at the sixteenth tier, equivalent to the strength of a small fleet of Small Star Sector Civilization. With its considerable intelligence, it had clearly noticed the bio-warriors as an anomaly and began to relentlessly hunt them down.
In the past few months, the number of bio-warriors has exceeded 50 million, and more than 3 billion insects below the tenth rank have been killed. A bio-warrior with a body size of 20 meters is roughly equivalent to a tenth-rank insect in strength, and it is almost powerless against the hunting of the sixteenth-rank Insect King. The Insect King does not even eat bio-warriors, killing one and immediately replacing it with another. Under the leadership of the Insect King, other Insect Race have also begun to attack bio-warriors, and the number of bio-warriors is rapidly decreasing.
" Academician Xiao, the situation of the bio-warriors is not optimistic. Should we send Stealth Killer to kill the Insect King? Without the Insect King's leadership, the other Insect Race wouldn't be so united."
"No need. This generation of bio-warriors has been tested and we have obtained the data we needed. Over the past few months, we have studied thousands of insects at various stages and have found the weaknesses of these lower-level insects. Now we have new ideas in many areas, and we will redesign the second generation of bio-warriors."
"Then let them perish on their own?"
"This is the only way. Even if these bio-warriors manage to win, they will only be destroyed. General, don't think of them as living beings; they are merely machines and tools. To achieve our goals, sacrificing them is inevitable. I know you are kind-hearted. If you feel bad about it, we can stop the research on bio-warriors."
"Not at all. I just think it's a bit wasteful. Research on bio-warriors not only can't stop, but it should be carried out with all our might. This kind of thing is much simpler and faster than building warships."
"We will. After this test, I believe this thing is mainly used to deal with the Insect Race. It can only be used as an auxiliary weapon against warships of technological civilizations, unless we have enough of them. Moreover, I've discovered that we will also encounter a bottleneck in the future. We can't have as many as we initially thought. Like the Insect Race, bio-warriors need sufficient energy to have strong attack power. At a certain level, the energy required by a single bio-warrior may not even be enough for one Deep Blue."
"In that case, I'll send Stealth Killer to wipe out these swarms immediately, and capture some more for future research. After we've finished things here, we'll catch up with the Deep Blue."
One light-year away, a small fleet of 5,000 warships is heading towards Hu Yu at high speed. These warships are over 3,000 meters long and are traveling at a thousand times the speed of light.