Free Web NovelChapter 239: Chapter 151: Mental Realm Speculation, Ling Yi Joins, Tier Four
"And if you choose the latter, as a reward, I will personally help you condense your Mental Realm and lure a Mother Empress to its death."
Lin Feng didn’t answer, which was a silent agreement. He changed the subject, asking:
"Why help me? Is it because you’ve become one of the weakest Mother Empresses and need to work with me?"
Ling Yi nodded and admitted candidly:
"Yes. Thanks to you, my rank plummeted from just over one hundred to below five hundred. If I don’t redouble my efforts, I’ll have no chance of winning the final victory and being promoted to a Tier Four Zerg King."
"Besides, right now, you’re the only person who can cooperate with me and who has a chance to save the entire Zerg Race and free us from our fate of enslavement."
"Strengthening the human resistance will slow down the progress of this global Mother Empress battle royale, which benefits both of us."
"So? What do you say?"
Lin Feng took a deep breath. The situation had changed so drastically that he found it hard to process.
’Bringing back a strange woman... Never mind what my soldiers would think, it would be difficult enough just to explain it to Chen Yanyan.’
’Especially since she’s a clone of a Zerg Race Mother Empress.’
’If this ever got out, I’d be branded a traitor.’
’The crucial part is that our partnership can’t be openly announced or explained. At best, it would attract a siege from countless Mother Empresses. At worst, it would bring a Tier Four dimensional strike from outer space.’
’But there are also many advantages to bringing Ling Yi along.’
’For instance, I could solve the problem of condensing my Mental Realm much faster.’
’Also, for the upcoming fight against the Hai City Mother Empress’s siege, leveraging Ling Yi’s knowledge as a Mother Empress would give me a complete grasp of their battle plans.’
’And her knowledge of biotechnology could make up for the disadvantage my Tier Two Corps has against the Samurai Hunter Zergs.’
’Letting Ling Yi stay by my side...’
It came with both risks and benefits.
He weighed the pros and cons, but before Lin Feng could make a decision...
...Ling Yi had already directed the Giant Red Beetle beneath her, leading the Swarm out of the city at a rapid pace.
Lin Feng watched her back...
He sighed softly, shook his head, and followed.
「Outside Jia City」
Ling Yi was already directing the Red-Armored Beetles to carry the remaining forty-nine Zerg Eggs toward Wu City. Lin Feng took the opportunity to sit on one of them.
But the Might of the Tiger Zerg he unintentionally emanated terrified the Red-Armored Beetle, causing its six legs to buckle and give way.
"Hey, make it get up and follow," Lin Feng called out.
Ling Yi turned back and said with a laugh:
"You’re too heavy! That Heavy Sword and your suit of Spine Armor weigh almost a ton."
"A single Red-Armored Beetle’s maximum carrying capacity is only about a ton. Any heavier, and their crawling speed slows down significantly..."
Lin Feng’s brow furrowed. He placed the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword on the back of another Red-Armored Beetle, then voiced a question that had been buried in his mind for a long time:
"Black Spine Zergs and Cyan-winged Zergs have Tier One, Tier Two, and even Tier Three forms. Why don’t Red-Armored Beetles?"
"A Tier One Red-Armored Beetle should be stronger and able to transport more supplies..."
"Good logistics are crucial for a race’s expansion."
Ling Yi shook her head and began to explain slowly:
"It’s a long story. But since we have some time on our way to Wu City, I might as well tell you about it..."
"The Red-Armored Beetles are the native race of the last Star System we conquered. We collectively call them the Red Race. They lived in a binary star system with two stars of different sizes."
"Their planet was vast, several times the size of Blue Star. The Red Race had red skin and dwelled in underground rock cities. Planets like theirs, giant and rich in heavy elements, are actually quite rare in the Cosmos, which makes them very valuable."
"They can provide us with enormous amounts of resources."
"The Red Race’s technology had already achieved intrasystem travel, and their Physique Attributes were also extremely powerful. Several Cosmic Life Forms were born on their planet..."
"The most powerful among them was a Peak Tier Five existence named the Red King. It took us hundreds... thousands of Blue Star years to conquer all their planets and finally wipe out all traces of the Red Race."
"Afterward, we used their genes to synthesize the Red-Armored Beetles."
"Just like the Samurai Hunter Zergs synthesized from you humans, the Red-Armored Beetles are just another one of our enslaved subjects."
"Their status is nothing compared to the Spine Zergs from our own Origin Star System."
"The primary reason we keep their Tier One and Tier Two genetic locks in place is that their genes, while excellent, contain the Red King’s legacy, similar to our own royal lineage. If they were ever to awaken their past memories, or evolve to Tier Three and grasp the Red King’s Mental Realm from the Spirit World, the Red King who escaped would sense it. He would then return for revenge and ruin the Zerg Race’s expedition."
Lin Feng was stunned. ’Logically, if the Zerg Race had surrendered to that terrifying entity and allowed their entire race to be turned into biological weapons, then there should still be many Tier Five, or even Tier Six, Great Powers among the Cosmic Life Forms who surrendered within the race...’
’How could they have let a Tier Five enemy escape?’
Ling Yi turned back, sensing Lin Feng’s confusion. Her tone grew heavy as she replied seriously:
"Do not underestimate any Cosmic Life Form. They are the singular existence of their respective races. They embody more than half of their entire race’s Genetic Library, and have condensed the most perfect genetic sequence, as well as a prototypical Divine Realm..."
"If a Cosmic Life Form is determined to flee, it would take at least three beings of the same tier, all wielding Divine-Level weapons, to completely erase it!"
"And even that isn’t enough. You would also have to purge the entire region of Cosmic Space it contaminated to prevent its scattered genes from evolving into a new clone after centuries or millennia."
"That’s why our use of the Red Race’s genes is strictly kept below Tier One."
"However..."
"You humans don’t have so many restrictions!"
"I know you’re conducting similar bio-modification research, a project called the Genetic Warrior program..."
"You’d better perfect it quickly. Otherwise, once a Tier Three Late-stage Mother Empress is born, she’ll be able to birth a large number of Tier Two Late-Stage Samurai Hunter Zergs, which in turn will give rise to Tier Three Hunting King Zergs."
"After that comes the appearance of the Tier Four Hunting King, who will ultimately monopolize the promotion path for that entire lineage!"
"Unfortunately, you humans are just too weak."
"In your planet’s history, there have been powerful races that gave birth to Cosmic Life, but they’ve all been washed away by the long river of time, leaving only ruins behind..."
Hearing Ling Yi’s warnings and reflections, Lin Feng was profoundly shaken.
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to him, and he hurriedly asked:
"The historical Cosmic Race you mentioned... are you talking about the saurian Dinosaurs from sixty-five million years ago?"
"According to our scientists’ findings, their descendants are modern-day birds..."
"According to you, the descendants of a race that once produced a Tier Four Cosmic Life should possess a genetic legacy from their ancestors, giving them a direct path to Tier Four..."
"Then..."
"Could we use genetic technology to catalyze a chicken or an eagle, make it undergo atavistic evolution into a member of the Dragon Race, become a Tier Three Life Form, and then kill it..."
"That way, we could bypass the Zerg Race’s monitoring system and allow humans to successfully advance to Tier Three!"
The moment he finished speaking, Ling Yi’s eyes went wide, an expression of utter disbelief spreading across her face.
Under Lin Feng’s expectant gaze...
