Chapter 575 - 267: The Mother Empress’s Oppression, Dark Destiny, The Purge (Part 2)

Chapter 575: Chapter 267: The Mother Empress’s Oppression, Dark Destiny, The Purge (Part 2)

Sensing the intensity of the Spiritual Energy it was releasing, Lin Feng felt it was nearly as strong as Ling Yi’s Realm Power.

However, its control and the purity of its Energy were no match for a pure-blooded High-tier Mother Empress.

But it was more than enough to control the neutered Tier Two Zerg Race.

Moreover, when everyone was hunting a Mother Empress, it could provide additional Spiritual Shield protection. It was a decent substitute for Ling Yi, capable of taking her place in decapitation strikes.

This point was especially important.

When the Mother Empress unit plays a crucial role in a direct confrontation with a Zerg Mother Empress...

...these Mother Empresses would understand that every time one of them died at the hands of humans, it wouldn’t just signify the birth of a Tier Three Awakener. It would also mean that humanity could now control a weakened version of a Mother Empress’s body.

One that possessed the highest level and authority to challenge the Mother Empress’s dominant position within the Zerg Race.

This was far more deadly than a Tier Three Awakener.

In the past, when Ling Yi participated in decapitation strikes to help Lin Feng as a Mother Empress Avatar, she had to be secretive, taking on human form to hide herself and avoid exposure.

But now, Jiang Yun’er’s appearance brought this matter out into the open, giving humanity the foundation to directly confront the Mother Empresses and the entire Zerg Race.

At that time, a special forces team composed of Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor Mechas could effortlessly enter the deepest Hive, easily kill the Mother Empress with their numerical superiority, and reclaim territory occupied by the Swarm, along with the entire Zerg Race under its command.

Furthermore, as a mass-produced, general-purpose model, Ling Yi could pre-program the Biological Nest used for incubation. Afterward, they would only need to cut a Mother Empress into pieces and feed them in to endlessly produce Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor Mechas.

This would be humanity’s ultimate method for fighting the Zerg Race.

Understand the bugs, become the bugs, defeat the bugs.

That was why, after creating the Prototype Machine, Ling Yi had lamented that she had opened Pandora’s box, unleashing cutting-edge biotechnology that didn’t belong to humanity and was ten thousand years ahead of them.

Now, as the group ventured deeper into the Underground Hive, Jiang Yun’er, piloting the No. 2 Machine, the Mother Empress, activated its King Zerg Control Attribute and directly seized command of the Tier Two Zerg Race inside the Wormhole from the other Mother Empresses.

As long as the distance was short enough, even though Jiang Yun’er herself only had a Spiritual Attribute Value of just over one thousand, her control was stronger than that of a Mother Empress spread across the Brain Domains of tens of thousands of Tier Two Zergs.

What’s more, with the boost from the Mother Empress unit, her Spiritual Attribute reached a staggering 3.5k, comparable to a Tier Three Early-Stage Perfection Mother Empress. She could now firmly control several hundred Tier Two Zergs within a one-kilometer radius.

Many of the charging Tier Two Middle-Late Stage Tiger Spine Zergs had intended to use their massive bodies to block the thirty- to forty-meter-diameter Wormhole with their lives.

But under the control of the three erect, glowing Beak Limbs on the back of the Mother Empress unit...

...these Tiger Spine Zergs slammed on the brakes mid-charge. After standing stunned for a moment, the confusion in their eyes gradually turned into profound resolve.

The twelve Middle-Late Stage Tiger Spine Zergs ignored the muzzles of the Electromagnetic Cannons raised by Shen Jie and the others, as well as their brandished Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Swords, and slowly turned their own massive jaws...

...aiming them at their own kind, who were charging relentlessly from the depths of the Wormhole.

The curtain rose in the Wormhole on a prelude to internecine slaughter.

Behind the Mother Empress unit, Shen Jie and his group witnessed this bizarre scene and gradually came to their senses. They now understood why Lin Feng, piloting the Prototype Machine, had raised a clenched fist, signaling them to hold their fire and not jump the gun.

It turned out he had wanted to test the true combat capabilities of this new, seemingly fragile No. 2 Machine.

And the bizarre scene unfolding before their eyes was proof enough that the new Mecha’s threat to the Zerg Race was in no way inferior to the Prototype Machine with its maxed-out Combat Power.

However, Shen Jie, standing behind Lin Feng, frowned as he watched the slender, sword-wielding Mecha.

As a Tier Three Powerhouse who had fought Mother Empresses up close multiple times and had even personally killed a High-tier Mother Empress, and who had partially mastered the Slaughter Realm, he could clearly feel that the Spiritual Energy Waves emanating from the new Mecha were remarkably similar to a Mother Empress’s Realm Power.

It wasn’t until they continued deeper and the Prototype Machine turned back that Lin Feng explained the origin of the new No. 2 Machine to Shen Jie and the others, at which point they all nodded in understanding.

But in Shen Jie’s eyes, ’If it can control the Tier Two Zerg Race, then it can naturally also control Genetic Warriors who have fused with Spine Zerg bloodlines.’

’Even though I’ve already promoted to Tier Three and command Slaughter Power that can rival a Mother Empress’s Mental Realm, that sense of suppression coming from a genetic level still makes my skin crawl.’

’It’s like facing the very shackles that bind me.’

During his Tier Jump Promotion, Shen Jie had not only learned about the birth and evolution of Ceres, but he had also gained a detailed understanding of the Spine Zergs’ past...

...such as the fate of the Spine Zerg ancestors, who died at the hands of the Zerg God.

The Mother Empress clan, which the Zerg God represented, had thereafter completely mastered the Spine Zerg Race’s Genetic Library, absorbing and exploiting it.

Instead of considering the Spine Zerg Race a part of the greater Zerg Race, it was more accurate to say that aside from the Mother Empress lineage, all other Zerg had become mere weapons, tools, and even a slave race to be arbitrarily modified, manipulated, and toyed with.

As a human being with an independent personality and a strong sense of self, Shen Jie obviously could not accept such a reality.

And as his Evolution Level increased, this feeling of being completely bound in chains and shackles was only growing stronger.