Chapter 272: 137 Insect Race Swarm Explosion! (Added Chapter) _2

“Ly, how much have you collected?”

“Boss, the sensor on that hairpin is quite basic, so the data collected isn’t much yet.”

“Keep collecting.”

“Understood, boss… but don’t push yourself too hard.”

Ly said worriedly, then fell silent.

Yang Ming tried to steady his breathing, focusing on the projection screen ahead, observing the path Hera was dragged through.

Hiss–

A sound like a snake spitting its tongue appeared from nowhere.

Yang Ming’s vision blurred, and he saw the starry background again. In the distance, he saw a gigantic serpent, but upon closer look, it was an ugly and massive bug.

The Insect Queen!

Its upper body vaguely resembled a human figure, with its head full of overlapping barbed fangs, and a bloated tail, marking the birthplace of the Insect Swarm.

Second Rank Mother Worm!

A Mother Worm on the verge of evolution!

The Mother Worm kept struggling.

It trembled, shuddered, feeling an instinctual fear.

Yang Ming’s agitated mood turned cold in an instant.

When his desire to kill reached a peak, it was followed by unparalleled rationality and calmness.

In the backdrop of the starry sky, he stared at the Mother Worm, as strands of peculiar information appeared in his perception. He didn’t know where it came from, and it wasn’t human language, yet he could understand it.

Yang Ming seemed to have connected to the Insect Swarm’s communication network;

He even saw fragmented memories of the Mother Worm.

It was discovered by some humans while still in its egg, excavated from underground on this very planet, Ram Star, then isolated and researched onsite.

The research on it lasted a long time, with the research team changing six to seven generations.

These experiments gradually made breakthrough progress. The researchers might not have understood the principles, but they were adept at deriving phenomena from observable occurrences.

Before it even evolved to high-rank, it was capable of producing queen eggs.

Each queen egg symbolized a swarm, and was, in fact, the Insect Queen’s true “genetic legacy.”

These queen eggs were taken from it and sent to faraway Star Domains.

Yang Ming, sensing something, suddenly looked up.

In the starry sky above, hundreds of dim stars suddenly flickered brightly.

It seemed to portend something.

Before Yang Ming could think further, Ly’s voice rang out suddenly:

“Boss! I’ve collected critical data, Hera has been confined in a strong magnetic isolation chamber, and transmission was cut off.”

Yang Ming shook his head fiercely, looked down, and saw the projection screen before him had stopped updating.

“Let’s go.”

The taxi immediately turned around and quickly darted into a side road, racing towards the distant ring road.

Having distanced themselves considerably, Yang Ming felt impelled to turn around and look at the cordoned-off fields.

“Ly, start the report.”

“Alright, boss… but there’s a piece of news I need to tell you first.”

“Tell me.”

“The riot is still ongoing,” Ly said softly, “During the earlier riot, the Feinan detected a strong biological signal, marked as the Mother Worm. Now, the Mother Worm’s mental activity is unprecedentedly active, if it isn’t planning a great escape, it might be about to evolve to the Third Rank itself.”

Yang Ming said, “Find a corner first and get me out.”

“Understood, boss, the defensive satellites over Ram Star are gathering above this base, so we have plenty of gaps to exploit.”

Ly couldn’t help saying a few more words:

“We underestimated Hera’s value.

“This isn’t about her research ability, as the Milky Way doesn’t lack geniuses.

“Ly means that she could communicate with the Insect Queen.”

“You are mistaken, Ly,”

Yang Ming said,

“The real anomaly isn’t derived from Hera.

“If Hera’s theory is valid, and the Space Worm Clan communicates across regions through microorganisms residing within them, then these microorganisms must belong to the high-dimensional life category.

“This bizarre thing should be able to reside within humans, and although the probability might be small, it’s still possible.

“The anomaly is that Mother Worm, being trapped here for at least several decades, if not a century, with research teams changing seven to eight times, the number of hidden threats the New Federation placed for Sherman exceed our imagination.

“Humans studying the Mother Worm and the Mother Worm observing humans, it’s hard to say if a dependent relationship formed here, and the fact that it can directly seek help from Professor Pat and others is an indication of its understanding of human behavior logic.

“Putting aside so-called interstellar political struggles, this Mother Worm managed to secretly expand its swarm to a considerable domain even before evolving to the high-rank.”

“Damn! These Federation guys are truly up to no good!”

Ly suddenly said, “Boss, based on the biological energy detector’s response, it seems to have already begun rapidly evolving; the biological energy response within the base has abruptly skyrocketed… The sheer magnitude is a bit abnormal.”

Yang Ming inexplicably thought of a word.

“Explosion of troops.”

“What? Boss?”

“The Mother Worm has the ability to instantly catalyze all insect eggs to hatch. The hatched larvae will be small and have a limited survival time, but they can appear in large numbers in a short period. Moreover, some larvae might directly break out as high-rank insects.”

Yang Ming’s mouth twitched slightly.

If, just if,

The last time he appeared in this region, the Mother Worm was preparing to explode troops and escape.

Then during this time, it has already completed the egg’s internal differentiation…

“Boss, the current area is transmissible; the other party’s satellite monitoring network has a significant gap.”

“Transmit.”

A beam of intense light flashed, and Yang Ming’s figure suddenly vanished.

Almost as soon as Yang Ming left the surface,

a burst of fire erupted from the center of the fenced area, the ground trembled violently, and a mushroom cloud rose slowly.