The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2320 "Ant Colony" Plan (Part )
2321. “Ant Colony” Project (Part )
"Hey, Joseph, what are you thinking about?" an Imperial Army soldier walked over and asked another tall soldier.

The soldier named Joseph looked at the huge V-150 Planet Defender cannon in the night. Under the occasional flickering red light in the sky, the cannon now looked like a huge mountain, heavy, dark, steady, and suffocating.

"My hometown, Duka Planet, also has such a beautiful red sunset." Joseph said with emotion, "I think that maybe in a few days, when those officials surrender, we can go home."

"Haha, don't make a mistake. That's fire, not sunset glow." The imperial soldier said, "Haven't you seen enough of this kind of fire? There was a meteor shower all night yesterday. They are all fragments of destroyed space stations in outer space."

"Meteor showers are good. When they can't hold on here anymore, they will naturally surrender. I heard that the Principality of Dawn treats prisoners well. Maybe I can apply to return to my hometown." Joseph said.

"If we really become prisoners, we might as well settle down in the Principality of Dawn. They are recruiting immigrants on a large scale." said the soldier.

"I also want to go back to see my wife." Joseph took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his pocket, took one for himself, and threw the rest to the other soldiers.

The Milky Way actually has something similar to cigarettes, but they use a small amount of spices to make cigarettes. In contrast, since more than ten years ago, this kind of cigarette, a specialty of the Dawn planet, has been very popular among the lower-level soldiers and civilians.

A soldier took the cigarette, took out a flameless lighter, lit it, took a puff and said, "Have you ever thought about whether your family can still live a good life if you are not an imperial soldier? Duka Planet is close to the Outer Rim. You may be captured as soon as the tax collector brings people to your house to collect taxes."

Joseph became a little annoyed when he heard this. He muttered something and looked into the distance again.

Another soldier followed his gaze and saw flames rising from the sky, illuminating the night sky red. "The Ninth Industrial Zone, it looks like they won't survive the night. Once the industrial zone is destroyed, the capital zone will be open. What do you think, how about we knock out those engineers and tie them up? As long as they can't repair this cannon, we don't have to participate in the battle."

However, as if he was joking with them, as soon as the man finished speaking, the huge V-150 Planet Defender cannon slowly rotated, making a dull rumbling sound.

"This belly-pouring thing is damn unlucky." Joseph spat and said, "Let's go back to the base first, otherwise we won't be in time when we are called to assemble later."

The group of soldiers began to gather together again. After all, they still had some discipline after several years of military service. However, at this time, they found that one person was missing.

"Where is Cafu?" Joseph asked.

"He has been sitting there, maybe he fell asleep..." Another soldier turned around and saw a man sitting on a cargo box, with his back to them, leaning against the rock, motionless.

He walked over and called out, "Hey! Kafu, get up! The cannon is almost fixed, go back and gather!"

However, at this time, the soldier named Kafu began to tremble and twitch, his head was twisting from side to side, his neck bones were cracking, and he was breathing heavily. "Hey...what's wrong with you?" The soldier went over and patted Kafu on the shoulder.

However, when he slapped it, Cafu suddenly stood up, and his body began to twist abnormally, with muscles constantly wriggling. Not only that, as he continued to wriggle, his body began to gradually grow bigger! It was as if every muscle and every bone in his body was torn apart by his ancestors, and then reassembled to become bigger!
"You...ah...this this..." The imperial soldier was completely terrified.

At this time, Cafu slowly turned his head. At this moment, his body had become more than three meters tall, a giant! His muscles were knotted, and a lot of meat was piled up unnaturally, but it seemed as hard as steel. Moreover, his right hand was still growing, and a large amount of mutant substances were madly piling up, making his right hand even bigger than his body!

"Ah!!!!" The monster let out an extremely terrifying howl, then swung its right hand violently, and with a snap, the soldier was whipped out like a huge braid!

The enormous force instantly smashed the soldier into pieces, and countless blood spurted out like rain.

"He's turned into a monster! Quick! Kill it quickly!" Joseph reacted the fastest, shouting loudly, and immediately raised the blaster rifle in his hand and opened fire.

The blaster beam hit the monster, creating small holes, but they were quickly filled with new tissue. This light weapon had no effect at all!
Other soldiers also raised their guns and fired, but they were too close. The monster rushed over in a few strides, waving its huge right hand and sweeping it, and two or three more soldiers were blown away. Under such a huge force, being hit by this three or four meter long giant arm, there was no possibility of survival!

"Run! Go back to the base!" Joseph shouted while shooting, directing everyone to retreat towards the base.

But soon, they heard a lot of screams, gunshots, and explosions coming from the base! Then a terrifying monster rushed over from another direction.

The monster looked even more terrifying! It seemed to have mutated directly from its back, with a new head growing directly from its back, causing the entire upper body to be squeezed onto the chest! This looked extremely disgusting. And on that upper body, there was an engineer's clothes hanging, so it was very obvious who had transformed this monster.

As soon as it saw the team of soldiers here, the head growing on its back suddenly puffed up its cheeks and spurted out a large mouthful of green pus!
An imperial soldier was caught off guard and was sprayed all over. He immediately let out a shrill scream! In less than a minute, his body was corroded beyond recognition by the pus.

"Run! Run!" Joseph was so frightened that he retreated in panic while firing. At this moment, he could not care about other comrades, all he wanted was to leave here as soon as possible!

Looking towards the base, a raging fire had already broken out there. It was obvious that the inside of the base had also been attacked, and it was most likely this kind of monster!

Where did these monsters come from? If it was a virus, how did it spread? Joseph didn't know, and he didn't want to think about it. Now, he just wanted to escape from here as soon as possible.

However, he didn't run far. When he passed by the field hospital, a bag containing corpses suddenly jumped up, and then a terrifying mutant tentacle stretched out from the bag! This tentacle directly entangled Joseph, and the tentacle began to crack, growing a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, and then swallowed Joseph's head in one bite!
At this moment, the orbital defense base of the V-150 Planet Defender Cannon has been completely captured by more than a dozen monsters! Soldiers are running around everywhere, and they are unable to organize an effective defense.

The sudden mutation and sudden attack left them helpless!