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Chapter 405: Chapter 405: Burn, Kill, Pillage Gang Chapter 405: Chapter 405: Burn, Kill, Pillage Gang A bug, I know it sounds bizarre, but near the Sniper Star Cannon’s energy coil, we really found a bug.

“It’s like a mechanical soldier clad in a carbon-based skin, terrifyingly resilient. The last cell on this thing lasted nearly thirty seconds under lethal ghost energy radiation before it completely lost activity; I’ve never seen carbon-based life naturally possess such physical qualities,” those were Taville’s exact words.

Do you still remember the basic principle of the Sniper Star Cannon?

This absurdly specified weapon’s main energy generator consists of two twin neutron stars approaching a critical point, a pair of good buddies in the universe frenetically releasing gamma-ray bursts. It’s frightening to even imagine the energy they emit in their impassioned dance, and that’s just one of the initial energy sources for the Sniper Star Cannon, not to mention it’s also equipped with a bunch of amplifying devices and a ghost energy well with an output powerful enough to ignite a constant star. With such a terrifying gadget, even with countless sturdy barriers, the slightest amount of energy leaking from its core would be enough to annihilate any carbon-based life, let alone the location of the Sniper Star Cannon’s installation: outer space!

But it was in such an environment that Taville actually found a carbon-based bug outside the energy coil of the Sniper Star Cannon!

When I first heard this news, my initial reaction was that Taville was joking. A bug that could physically roam through outer space and endure half a minute of ghost energy ray bursts, do you think such a bug would be called Long Aotian?

However, I quickly dismissed those doubts in my mind. If anyone is least likely to joke around, it has to be Taville. As the Imperial Chief Researcher, Taville’s rigor is almost headache-inducing, her seriousness in matters involving her own creations even more exaggerated than Scorpion Wei Jia.

Knowing the situation was strange, we had Taville send the bug she found to the research center at Shadow Base using super space-time equipment that very afternoon; even she temporarily set aside her current research to come over and report to us about this creature.

It looked like some bizarre lifeform that seemed to be a combination of a centipede and mantis magnified countless times. Its entire body was flattened, about two meters tall, and almost seven meters long. Its body was a deep purplish-brown covered in sharp barbs, with multiple rows of segmented multi-legged appendages characteristic of arthropods. The joints were also armed with sharp bone blades. What should have been the front half, presumably its head, had no necessary mouthparts but a pair of pincer-like limbs over two meters long, bristling with sharp serrations. Just the thought of the savage shape made me cringe on behalf of those pinched to death by it. Moreover, those weapon-like pincers were proven to contain at least eleven types of highly penetrating toxins capable of dissolving the cell walls of most carbon-based life.

All weaponized, its degree of armament was staggering, not to mention its combat power, just rolling around in a crowd would result in a field of sorrow!

“We found this thing while checking the third decay coil of the Sniper Star Cannon; at that time, it had already died, but the recording equipment near the coil showed the time it persisted there, thirty seconds. Just speaking of resistance to ghost energy, this achievement is almost equivalent to an elite-level Xyrin soldier. For a carbon-based life to withstand that degree of energy radiation for more than three seconds would already be miraculous,” Taville said with the intense desire to research an incomprehensible phenomenon, a hallmark of a scientist. I believe that if it weren’t for the need to let her superiors review it first, this resilient bug would have already become a lab slide sample by now.

“Speaking of resisting ghost energy radiation, I’m fine too, right?”

“Emperor, you have undergone targeted genetic enhancement, and your abilities determine that no harmful energy can cause you harm,” Taville said, pushing up her glasses, “But this creature, it has relied solely on its own physical strength to achieve the miracle of surviving that long outside the energy coil. I’ve never seen anything like it. Although carbon-based life’s DNA is miraculous, it inevitably contains a large number of flaws. Yet, this specimen’s genetic material is quite exceptional. It shows no signs of postnatal correction and virtually lacks any genetic imperfections. This creature… is too perfect…”

Listening to Taville’s admiration, all I could do was roll my eyes: scientists and ordinary people really do have vastly different aesthetic standards.

But I also knew that “perfect,” in her terms, referred to genetics. Regardless of how bizarre it looked, just the fact that it evolved enough to survive in outer space and even resist thirty seconds of abnormal ghost energy radiation was enough to astonish Taville.

“How did it slip into the Sniper Star Cannon?” That was my curious question. Now it seemed that the presence of this bug was indeed the reason for the “minor problems” with the Sniper Star Cannon that Taville had reported to me before, “Didn’t you check if the parts were clean when you installed it?”

“I’m terribly sorry, Your Majesty,” Taville immediately showed a remorseful expression, “but the final step in assembling the Sniper Star Cannon was to submerge it entirely into a pre-set space fold, a process that would cause a rather large space in the vicinity to collapse, and there’s a very small chance that matter from random coordinates within several light years could be transported near the point of collapse. I’m afraid it was in that instant that our scanning equipment missed this thing, after all… such low-level life is always set as no threat targets in our settings.”

Alright, Taville, congratulations, you’ve managed to knock me out with a bunch of technical jargon.

Circling around this strange and bizarre creature, we each fell into our own thoughts, and Sandora curiously approached, poking at one of the giant bug’s pincers.

Hey, girl, you can’t eat that!

Thank goodness, Sandora’s recipe hadn’t extended to something so terrifying; she was just curiously observing the other for a moment, then suddenly raised her head, “Taville, does this thing have a nervous system?”

“Of course, my emperor, its nervous system is very well-developed and efficient.”

“Well, something more complex–does it have something capable of thinking?”

Taville hesitated, then pointed at the insect’s abdomen, “We found its nerve entanglement point here, where a large number of neurons are entangled with each other, but we don’t understand the intelligence mechanisms of carbon-based life very well, so we’re not sure if that is its thinking organ.”

“I see,” Sandora stepped back, curling her finger against her chin, “Indeed, it’s just as I thought.”

“Sandora, what did you find?”

I asked curiously, seeing her looking thoughtful.

“Ah Jun, didn’t you notice the unreasonableness of this thing’s form?”

I shrugged, “To me, there isn’t anything reasonable about this guy.”

With a sigh, Sandora wore a defeated expression, “Alright, what I mean is, although this thing has strong Life Force and seems to have strong combat abilities, its physical body is invulnerable, but as a living creature, its body structure is too distorted…”

“Having a nervous system with such a massive size, yet lacking the ability to think, its body is full of offensive bone blades, but it doesn’t even have organs for eating–I don’t believe such a formidable creature survives through photosynthesis–I suspect it is merely a disposable weapon created by some Race for the sake of battle, hence it only needs to be good at fighting; survivability being trash is not a problem.”

Qianqian had been watching the giant insect placed on the experiment table with great interest. The concept of being afraid of insects was foreign to the innately talented girl’s mind. While Sandora was impressing on me how important an organ like a “mouth” was for a qualified living being, Qianqian suddenly stepped forward and pressed her hand onto the shell of the specimen.

“Time Sand, recurring in cycles… Ah!”

“Hey!” I yanked Qianqian back; her curiosity was just too great!

However, Qianqian’s ability had taken effect at that moment–the huge insect’s outer shell rapidly covered with a dim halo, its dark purple-brown body gradually changed into purple, and it became glossier. The shriveled up limbs, deformed by a massive dose of Ghost Energy Radiation, swelled up, returning to their original shapes. Along with this series of changes, the insect’s body started trembling violently, emanating a deep sound of friction from within.

“Alert!” Vega, acting as a guard on the side, immediately drew his double swords and instantly transformed into the Armored Scorpion form. Lucky for me the Pandora Sisters weren’t here, otherwise the two little ones would already be calling down artillery barrages.

In just a few seconds, Qianqian used time reversal to resurrect the giant insect, which then wobbled to its feet and turned towards us.

“Krara–” A clash of exoskeleton echoed, and the recently revived creature, without any hesitation, leapt towards us, its huge pincers flaring with a Highly Poisonous green glow that left no doubt about the creature’s lethality.

A silvery-white gleam flashed, and the soaring insect froze eerily in mid-air, then landed slowly in batches of thirty thousand across an area of tens of meters.

A group of Imperial Leaders stood shielded by energy shields guarding against the blood rain that filled the sky, watching an imprudent Scorpion Commander in an inhumane spectacle.

“Very sorry, Commander.”

Vega sheathed his long knife cleanly and bowed his head in apology to us.

You idiot, next time could you not do something so disgusting!!

“Sandora, what’s the matter?”

I had noticed since the moment that insect was resurrected, Sandora had a very solemn expression. I couldn’t help but ask with concern.

Golden halos flowed in Sandora’s eyes which took a long time to return to their deep blue, “A very dangerous Species, their will filled with pure desire for destruction. The only purpose of its existence is to fight, to destroy enemies, to forge benefits for its entire Race, and for the evolution of the entire Race, they attack all life they can find without reason or choice, and what’s worse, it probably has already sent out a distress signal to its kin… We must exterminate this species!”

It was without doubt that Sandora had just intercepted this creature’s desire for destruction.

“If the warriors of their Species are all of this level, then it would be a rather easy war,” Vega gave a simple assessment of the enemy he had just killed, “Utterly useless except for their Life Force.”

We barely discussed before deciding on the war against this strange species.

Obviously, we all disliked insects–even Qianqian, who could take caterpillars as pets, was no exception.

Does that mean my leisurely holiday is ruined again? Just managed to deal with the Star Ring Fragment, and the next one is space aliens?

Lilina, having heard from somewhere the news about the Imperial Army about to declare war on a certain Species, found us that very night at the command center in Shadow City, handing us a green seed.

“This is the seed of the ‘Sin of Life,’ the seventh branch of the World Tree,” Lilina said, handing over the item with a very serious expression, not at all like her usual cunning and sarcastic self, “The Lady Goddess cannot participate in this operation.”

I took the seed brought by Lilina with curiosity. These green granules were quite strange, as if they were intangible, wrapped in layers of halos, feeling in my hand like a ball of warm light yet oddly heavy. According to the Mysticism knowledge that Alaya had crammed into me, these things were the legendary conceptualized existences: each one enough to exhaust the life’s work of the most learned Alchemist and still might not be able to replicate even half.

“What does this mean? The little thing has to retake an exam?”

Lilina, who had just held a solemn and serious expression, reverted to her original form in the next second, ranting and raving, “Disrespecting the Lady Goddess in front of a Priest! You’re too rude!”

Me: “…”

“The Species you’re going to attack are the indigenous inhabitants of this world,” Lilina said huffily, “That is, the children of the Lady Goddess. Although they are indeed a dangerous species, as the Management God of the world, the Lady Goddess can’t massacring her children by hand until they violate the ultimate doctrine. Giving you these seeds is the only loophole she can exploit, and it even had to be transferred through my hands. Besides, as the Chief Priestess of the Life Goddess, I will also serve as the Supervisor of this racial war, accompanying you. But don’t worry, I am just here to help fight–The Lady Goddess said it’s fine as long as she knows nothing about it.”

Me: “…”

Dingdang already took it for granted to exploit his own loopholes? The Divine Realm had better send someone to fetch this duty-shirking fellow back!

Upon seeing the docked “Imperial Admiral” in the Super Space-Time Dock, Lilina almost broke her neck looking up, “Wow… boss! This thing is truly spectacular! Is it a wall?”

Indeed, standing before a hundreds-of-kilometers-long Giant Battleship, it really did look like a wall: you could only see a single armor plate as far as your eyes could see, and I dare say that although Lilina called it spectacular, she didn’t even know what shape the thing actually was.

After such a long time of accumulation, the number of our troops had actually reached a finger-pointing level, according to Pandora’s words, it was enough to wage wars simultaneously against twenty planets with Constant Star System level 3 civilizations and win easily. This huge fleet, using spatial technology, overlapped within the other’s space folds, and even so, they were enough to densely cover the entire Earth-Moon system with Xyrin’s lethal weapons. This operation could be said to be the first time our violent gang launched a war against an alien race since its establishment, and everyone including myself was excited, resulting in Pandora and Visca, these two little ones, having their spring.

In order not to cause panic among Earthlings, Taville found a relatively stable Asteroid Belt outside the Solar System and set up a temporary Teleportation Gate. It took almost three days for the entire Imperial Fleet to complete the transfer, and then, following Sandora’s suggestion, we left twenty experienced Xyrin Hosts and three rapid expansion bases here, taking the opportunity of the Asteroids Belt’s cover to expand our military buildup.

To eliminate a bunch of insects with such a grand fanfare, Lilina named our operation: The Historical Expedition of the Greatest Burn, Kill, Pillage Gang.

She designated herself as Number Two of the Horror Demon King…

I think the girl was simply too excited, just like Qianqian who had self-proclaimed as Number One of the Horror Demon King, both overwrought with excitement.

“The Imperial Fleet assembly is complete. The command chain from the First to Seventh Legion has passed the self-check. Please report the situation, all Fleet Commanders.”

The mechanical synthetic female voice echoed throughout every flagship of the massive fleet and on the bridge of the “Imperial Admiral” we were on, stirring the hearts of all Imperial Leaders.

“First Legion reporting! The fleet is all normal! All warships are ready for Super Space-Time Jump at any time!”

“Second Legion reporting! The fleet is all normal…”

“Third Legion reporting! The reader won’t let me pad the word count!”

I nodded, “All forces, advance!”

Beside me, Qianqian and Lilina, the pair that had finally found their shared delight as Horror Demon King number one and two, immediately joined in the excitement, “Hooray! Charge! Our slogan is to snatch food, money, and territory!”

Their battle cries were inadvertently broadcast throughout the entire army via the still-open Imperial Fleet command link… You two are killing me here!

Accompanied by a momentary daze of the Super Space-Time Jump, the scene before us underwent a drastic change.

A foreign Sky Zone, with fleets of Asteroids floating outside the warships, not the dull Meteorite group from the outer Solar System, but masses of small asteroids emitting a sort of orange-red glow. Looking at these, I had an inexplicable feeling of familiarity.

Daring to set the coordinates for the Super Space-Time Jump directly into an asteroid field, probably only the Xyrin People had the guts to do such a thing, right?

Watching the Meteorites clinking against the Flagship’s Shield, I forced myself to believe that Taville had not chosen the wrong coordinates, but in the next second, our honest female Scientist sent a transmission from the rear, “I’m terribly sorry, Your Majesty, I just reverse-engineered the spatial coordinates recorded in the Sniper Star Cannon, thinking the fleet would emerge outside some planet’s atmosphere. I never expected that insect to reside within an Asteroid Belt.”

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