Chapter 269: 136 The Queen Mother Worm Opens Her Mouth! _2

Lyu’s words had just fallen when the argument over there reached Yang Ming’s ears.

The somewhat older voice belonged to Professor Pat, whose standard Federation look could be seen in photographs: a broad forehead, a high nose bridge, and deep-set eyes.

Years of research work had left the old man somewhat balding, but not as much as Dr. Nardo, who was still in his middle age.

Professor Pat kept speaking, expressing his dissatisfaction with Hera’s reappearance:

“This isn’t just any experimental project, Nardo, I know you dote on your daughter and don’t know how to educate children, but here, in this laboratory that relates to our national destiny, I cannot let you and your daughter mess around.”

Nardo argued, “Professor, you can look at it, Hera’s research is definitely meaningful!”

“I’m not interested in how they’re achieving communication right now, even if you know, can you stop it? Is there really a way to interfere? We’ve proven it long ago!”

Professor Pat’s voice became increasingly loud:

“Nardo, you have to be clear about what we’re doing here! We’re artificially controlling natural disasters, we want to use dirty insects to achieve even dirtier political purposes!

“Your daughter didn’t need to be dragged into this, we’ve already given her freedom!

“Freedom! Do you understand how precious this thing is! Do you know how many people have been eliminated because of what happened eight years ago!

“Just because of her laughable, lily-like values!”

“Professor!” Nardo said emotionally, “You can’t blame her for this! We all bear responsibility for that incident!”

Hera suddenly spoke: “Father, the professor is right.”

Pat and Nardo fell silent at the same time.

Hera said calmly:

“At present, our country and the Sherman Empire are on the brink of war.

“In the past few thousand years, any nation that could threaten the Sherman Empire’s hegemony ultimately fell under the cannons of the Sherman’s Invincible Fleet.

“Balance does not exist among galaxies,” was the principle the Sherman military adhered to; they wanted their citizens to be the superior human race in the Milky Way, this was their internal propaganda slogan.

“There is bound to be a war between us and them.

“I now realize the problem from back then, please allow me to rejoin your experiment. The Insect Race we cultivate can replace our warriors to die for us; this is not something shameful.

“National interest is above all else.”

Nardo asked tremulously, “Hera?”

“I have lost most of my emotions due to the memory erasure surgery,” Hera said calmly, “so now I only have reason and can maintain calm thinking.”

Professor Pat asked, “What do you think is the significance of your research?”

“If we can thoroughly understand the means of communication among individual Insect Races, we might be able to directly give them orders.”

Hera seemed prepared and responded quickly:

“You should already realize that the Insect Race is built around the queen’s brain, constructing a network connecting the entire race, with high-rank Insect Races even possessing the ability of cross-domain communication.

“Communication and engines are the foundation of everything.

“The importance of my work falls just below that of the queen’s unlimited reproduction and queen individual cloning for you.

“Interesting.”

Professor Pat’s voice became extremely low:

“Do you know what you’re saying, right? The path forward is only evil, with no redemption, you will eventually remain nameless, and after death, there will be no honor to speak of.”

Hera said, “Yes, Professor, I need this opportunity. This is my complete paper, although it is long, I suggest you read it carefully.”

…

Still in the circling taxi.

Yang Ming thought carefully.

Yang Ming couldn’t quite distinguish what Hera’s true intent was.

Was she going back for research? Or was she really trying to stop this evil plan?

According to Yang Ming’s judgment, Hera should have intentionally mentioned the rhetoric of “national interest.”

Indeed, she was trying to boost the credibility of this [intelligence].

Lyu reminded, “Boss, with this recording, paired with these photos and the structural map we calculated of the underground base, it has already caused a sensation.”

Yang Ming asked, “Are these pieces of intelligence enough?”

“The set intended for Sherman is pretty much sufficient, and if we could learn more about the Insect Race, it would certainly be valuable.”

Lyu reported quickly:

“We can only deliver this intelligence to some ministers and elders; it is tough to directly deliver it to the influential dukes and the Emperor of the Sherman Empire.

“If we could find the planet where the New Federation hides insect eggs in the Sherman Empire, and directly discover the insect eggs within the Sherman Empire, things would be much simpler.

“If Sherman and the New Federation went to full-scale war, for Wind and Dark Star, it would be an excellent opportunity period.”

Yang Ming shook his head with a smile.

Truly, with ambitions too great, the snake tries to swallow the elephant.

Trying to get that top-secret insect egg distribution map through Hera was nothing short of delusional.

Professor Pat and the others would certainly monitor Hera closely.

Even more so, such a map might not exist, as Professor Pat and the others were only responsible for cultivating the insect eggs, and other matters could be passed off to the intelligence troops of the Central Intelligence Agency to handle.

More photos kept being transmitted.

Hera was taken into a resting room, where she was required to change clothes and also asked to wash herself under the supervision of a female researcher, undergo multiple disinfections, and change into the clothes provided by the institute.

Without Dr. Nardo by her side, Hera could not continue to be “assertive.”

The female researcher reminded, “Your contact lenses should be discarded immediately, as per the regulations here, and we will equip you with new ones as soon as possible.”