Chapter 241 - 152: The Dragon Race’s Glorious Past, The Two Women Meet, Part 2
Chapter 241: Chapter 152: The Dragon Race’s Glorious Past, The Two Women Meet, Part 2
"I don’t want their sanity to shatter after a few battles, turning them into psychotics. A group of madmen would only cause even more harm."
"With your Realm Ability, you should understand this aspect better than any human scholar..."
Ling Yi nodded and reminded him,
"But doing so would also cut off their shortcut to obtaining the Zerg consciousness when they break through to Tier Three. That would allow the Mother Empress’s Samurai Hunter Zergs to gain the upper hand..."
"Having a Mental Realm plays a critical role in determining life or death during Tier Three combat. You should have experienced this yourself."
"In High Tier combat, even a momentary lapse of a tenth of a second is absolutely fatal!"
Lin Feng frowned slightly. Mastering the Mental Realm was certainly crucial, but if the price was an irremovable hidden danger...
Then he would rather refuse.
Lin Feng viewed the Tier Two Corps under his command as his personal army, and he couldn’t accept such a risk, especially for them.
After careful consideration, Lin Feng gave a firm reply:
"Forget it."
"I imagine these kinds of mass-produced, genetically-engineered hybrids must have many other risks, right? Just from what we know, there’s the risk of mental breakdown, loss of sanity, and systemic overload leading to physical decay..."
"Besides, we still have time. By the time the Samurai Hunter Zergs actually reach Tier Three, I’ll have long since become a Tier Three Powerhouse and grasped the Mental Realm. At that point, I’ll have nothing to fear."
On second thought, Ling Yi realized that was true.
The most pressing issue now was getting Lin Feng to advance to Tier Three as soon as possible. Everything else was a concern for the coming years or even decades.
Seeing Lin Feng take out his phone to contact his subordinates, Ling Yi added one more thing:
"If you care so much about humans..."
"Then what about the materials required for the experiment?"
"Besides the consumable Biomass, human flesh is also an indispensable material."
Lin Feng lowered his phone.
"Don’t worry. Humans are different from the Zerg Race. We retain our individual free will, but not all of us choose to be good people."
"Everyone is an individual and must be held responsible for their actions. Within Jin City, there are already plenty of criminals sentenced to death."
The corners of Ling Yi’s mouth curved up slightly. She understood this point all too well.
The survivor proving grounds established in Jia City Center had long ago made Ling Yi intimately aware of the human species’ flexible moral compass.
The Zerg Race also had defective units like this—disobedient and unruly. They were accidental mutations that occurred during incubation, but the defect rate was generally controlled to below 5%. Any higher, and it would reduce operational efficiency, thereby threatening the stability and order of the entire race.
That was why the Mother Empress needed to frequently use her Spiritual Realm to screen and optimize the Swarm’s organizational structure.
’Humans could probably use that, too.’
...
Before long, a Battleship appeared in the distance, gliding over the vast, barren land as if it were level ground.
Because Lin Feng had given her prior instructions over the phone, Chen Yanyan arrived alone.
It was only seven-thirty in the morning, not yet time for the fleet to depart for battle.
The Land Patrol Battleship slowly came to a halt in front of Lin Feng and Ling Yi.
Through the cockpit’s glass, Chen Yanyan had already spotted the woman who had appeared beside Lin Feng from a distance, as well as the forty-nine Zerg Eggs planted in the ground nearby.
As the Battleship’s rear cargo bay opened, Lin Feng had Ling Yi command the underground Red-Armored Beetles to move the Tier Two Zerg Eggs. At the same time, he began explaining the situation to Chen Yanyan.
He couldn’t hide Ling Yi’s origins from Chen Yanyan. In the future, when Lin Feng was away on missions, he would need Chen Yanyan to keep an eye on Ling Yi and monitor the entire camp to prevent any trouble.
However, Lin Feng omitted any mention of the Mental Realm, the Realm, and the matter of "that existence."
He simply explained that he had awakened the sealed memories of a Zerg Race Mother Empress, and that this Mother Empress from Jia City had now formed an alliance with him. She had sent her avatar, Ling Yi, to help humanity fight against the other Mother Empresses.
Chen Yanyan was stunned speechless. It took her a long time to process the earth-shattering news Lin Feng had just dropped on her.
She had originally assumed the beautiful woman beside Lin Feng was just a survivor he’d taken a fancy to and rescued. She never imagined the woman’s origins were so profound.
She wasn’t a Human Awakener, but a Zerg similar to a parasitic broodmother. More than that, she was the avatar of a High-tier Mother Empress—a commander of the Zerg Race that had invaded Blue Star!
On the return trip, Chen Yanyan kept glancing over, sizing up the Mother Empress Avatar sitting beside Lin Feng.
While listening to Lin Feng’s explanation, Chen Yanyan had been lost in disbelief and hadn’t gotten a good look at the female avatar named Ling Yi.
But when she did look, she was stunned.
The Zerg-made human body before her, synthesized through biotechnology, possessed a face and figure of perfect, golden-ratio proportions. Every inch of her skin was flawless, as smooth and pale as the finest white jade.
Her beauty was almost inhuman.
She was more like a goddess from mythology, or an angel.
But an angel’s face often hides a devil’s heart.
Since Ling Yi was a Zerg Race Mother Empress’s Avatar, Chen Yanyan wasn’t worried that she could bewitch or seduce Lin Feng. It was impossible to let one’s guard down when facing a creature like her.
Besides, Lin Feng was no longer the naive young man he once was. These days, a living Tier Three Life Form was a far greater temptation to him than even the most beautiful woman.
Compared to the female avatar, Ling Yi, Lin Feng would undoubtedly be more interested in facing her Mother Empress’s true form.
After Lin Feng’s introduction, Ling Yi also knew that the human woman before her was Lin Feng’s close companion, as well as the pilot and Commander of the Battleship.
She was the second-in-command in the operation to intercept the Hai City Mother Empress!