Abyss Solo
Chapter 247 - Chapter 247 128 What Are They Afraid Of_2

Chapter 247: 128 What Are They Afraid Of_2 Chapter 247: 128 What Are They Afraid Of_2 Sure, here is the translated text as requested:

But evidently, the insects here were under tight human control.

These adjectives needed to include a “temporary.”

Damn it.

The Sherman Empire used the genes of the Ancient Gods for human experiments, creating such an uncontrollable monster as Valkyrie.

–All right, if things had proceeded “normally,” the Valkyrie would have been trapped in that research ship by Kigrov, with no opportunity for further learning and evolution.

Now, with the Valkyrie constantly running and evolving in the stars, Yang Ming deserved much credit.

The New Federation conducted extensive nurturing experiments under the agricultural planet, producing a heap of insect eggs and attempted to slip these things into the Sherman Empire’s territory.

No wonder!

Yang Ming suddenly realized.

No wonder, within the plot background of the “Abyss” game, during the ten to twenty Galaxy Years before the game launched, the Sherman Empire repeatedly suffered from bouts of insect plagues, causing a significant decline in national power.

Various circles suspected that the evil Empire was conducting Insect Race domestication experiments.

Unexpectedly, the Sherman Empire had been tricked by the New Federation.

The source of these insect plagues lay with the New Federation, which also spread rumors saying, “This is a divine gift to the Sherman’s hegemony.”

The hypocritical Federation, in a way, was more detestable than the evil Empire.

The problem was, the New Federation now intended to use Insect Race against the Luofeng.

This was indeed possible, and very simple to implement.

A dilapidated transport ship, with a dozen crew members who could be wiped out afterward, could deliver a shipload of insect eggs and queen larvae to an uninhabited planet near one of the Administrative Stars of the Luofeng Empire.

A few years later, the Luofeng Empire would face a catastrophe.

Yang Ming really wanted to curse.

But now, there was an even more pressing issue that troubled him.

Were the Ancient God Life Forms and the Insect Race natural enemies?

‘How about using the Insect Race against Valkyrie?’

Yang Ming, a major who never forgot his original intention, instinctively pondered the feasibility of this.

…

At the same time.

“Professor, the riot in the experimental swarm has temporarily subsided!”

Professor Pat hurriedly walked through the spacious passageway of the underground base.

The base was chaotic everywhere, with gruesome green blood on the walls.

Ahead in the corner lay the headless and half-bodied corpse of an insect, leaving only the torso. It looked like a more delicate “crab,” with a hard shell on its body, and sharp blade-like limbs shining with a metallic sheen.

Such corpses could be seen in various locations ahead.

The air was heavy with a pungent stench.

Up ahead, two staff members in bio-suits brought Professor Pat a breathing purification device, but he pushed them aside.

He rushed through the corridor, reaching the edge of a vast mountain space, and leaned on the railing to look down.

There were insect corpses everywhere.

Most of the insects had their heads and their nervous systems–their hind limbs–blown off.

All of these insect corpses faced the same direction.

At the bottom of this nearly-kilometer-wide mountain space, a hundred-meter-diameter metal tank hovered over a boiling lava lake.

At this moment, the tank was filled with an overabundance of hypnotic gas, and the giant Mother Worm seemed hidden in the thick fog, tilting backward.

Its appearance was completely different from the surrounding insect corpses. The back half of its body was swollen, the middle part delicate, with a vaguely humanoid outline for the upper body, and its head was covered by mouthparts stacked dozens of layers deep.

Its bloated abdomen was flickering with a weak glow.

Professor Pat breathed a sigh of relief, gazing at the chaotic scene below, and whispered, “Did the Mother Worm suddenly awaken just now?”

“Yes, Professor, very unexpectedly and suddenly, it hasn’t awoken for twelve consecutive years,” a middle-aged man who had rushed over said hurriedly, “It’s close to the boundary of evolution, we suspect this is the reason.”

“Were there any issues with the Mother Worm eggs we cultivated?”

“Some of those Mother Worm eggs showed varying degrees of rapid development.”

The middle-aged man hesitated, then said,

“And, I must explain to you in detail.

“We have always kept the number of hatched swarms controlled at about four hundred, stored in different test fields.

“Just now, about half a minute before the Mother Worm suddenly awoke, these insects lost control simultaneously, recklessly rushing here. The Mother Worm awakened at their call.

“According to my feeling… it’s just a feeling, but I’ve been here over ten years, Professor, my intuition tells me this riot wasn’t like previous ones, wasn’t an attack launched at us, wasn’t to regain the Mother Worm’s freedom.

“They didn’t attack us but rushed towards the Mother Worm as if they were protecting it.

“Moreover, twelve Basic Insects evolved wings within minutes…They wanted to move the Mother Worm away, and three drones opted for self-sacrifice, attempting to let the Mother Worm evolve quickly.

“They were startled, it felt like a very deadly fright.”

Professor Pat frowned at this technical backbone, and softly asked, “What frightened them?”

“Based on the data we have now, ordinary swarms rarely produce emotions.”

The middle-aged man spoke softly,

“They are cold and indifferent, their nervous systems only take orders from the Mother Worm, we can always find extraordinary computational levels in the Mother Worm, but ordinary insects, especially Basic Insects, their radiation waves are minimal, only passively receiving.

“But just now, these ordinary insects generated massive radiation feedback, it was their fear that awakened the Mother Worm.