The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2323, New Generation BOW
"I don't care whether this thing is defective or not. I only care whether it can be used on the battlefield." Ling Liang said coldly, "When will the next batch of 'ant colonies' be ready?"

"You seem to think that this thing can be easily taken out." Alexia Ashford sneered, "Even if it is a defective product, it will take a certain amount of time to incubate before it can be produced. Only when the 'ant colony' evolves into a complete form can they give birth to offspring at the fastest speed."

"Operation Plan Zero cannot fail. 'Ant colony' is an important means for us to quickly capture a planet. We must do our best to continue production. The next step of the enemy's attack on multiple planets will soon require a larger number of 'ant colonies'." Ling Liang said.

"Hehehe...are you really so considerate as to consider the issues of the planet Fondo for Severance Tann? She treats you like a dog, but you consider her so much. You are really great." Alexia said sarcastically.

"The purpose of all my actions is only Operation Plan Zero. As long as it is beneficial to the implementation of the plan, I am willing to do anything." Ling Liang said seriously.

"Haha... whatever you want." Alexia waved her hand. "The next batch of 'ant colonies' will be completed within a week. There should be 200 million of them. I hope you can break through the planetary shield of Fangduo before then."

After saying that, she waved her hand, turned and left the bridge, and took the shuttle back to her own battleship.

A Rookery Hook-class battleship that is all black.

Alexia Ashford went straight to a huge laboratory in the center of the battleship. She opened the hatch and the scene inside the laboratory was almost another world!
On this side of the hatch is a laboratory full of technological atmosphere, with a variety of most advanced experimental equipment and instruments, a clean environment, and intelligent robots.

On the other side of the hatch, it was humid and hot, with piles of mutant substances everywhere, and a large number of ferns growing in the middle. These plants were obviously genetically modified, not only were they extremely huge, but their branches were also constantly wriggling.

On the ground, countless huge tentacles and cavities grew everywhere, wriggling rhythmically, as if pouring large amounts of nutrients into them.

Alexia took off her usual purple dress, revealing her delicate, white body that looked like it was just beginning to develop. Then, a pair of cicada wings grew out of thin air from her back, flapping rapidly and carrying her up into the air, flying towards the center.

This laboratory was converted from a huge hangar platform of the Rookery Hooker-class battleship. It was once used to park the C-9979 landing ship, with a length and width of 500 meters and a height of more than 200 meters. However, this huge hangar platform is now filled with countless mutant substances.

I went all the way to the bottom of the central hangar platform, and saw a huge flesh cocoon at least 50 meters high, with countless intestines and cavities connected to it. The flesh cocoon was constantly wriggling, and from time to time it discharged eggs about the size of a palm from the cloaca under its body.

Alexia walked over, picked up an egg and put it under the heat lamp to examine it. Inside the egg, which was wriggling like a living thing, several small black shadows could be vaguely seen taking shape.

She showed a disgusted expression, threw the eggs aside, flapped her wings and flew up to the top of the huge cocoon. At this time, her right hand suddenly turned into a sharp thorn, and then stabbed into the cocoon! Although it had no vocal organs, the cocoon trembled violently, and it was obvious that this process was very painful. After a long time, the cocoon seemed to be much weaker, and the whole thing became limp. A large amount of pus began to flow out of the cloaca under it, which seemed to be produced after the eggs that had not yet been laid were destroyed and dissolved.

Alexia pulled her right hand away at this time. She also looked a little tired, but her delicate and beautiful face showed a rare expression of relief. "Hehehe... With your strength, you can only dream of conquering Fangduo Planet. This honor can only be accomplished by me! That's right... it's me... The moment you land on Fangduo Planet, the whole planet will become mine... hehehe... right? 'Queen Ant'..."

“Hehehe…Hahahahahaha! Ahahahahahaha!!”

……

Ling Liang stood in front of the laboratory's isolation laboratory, looking solemnly at a squirming egg placed inside. This was sent by Alexia Ashford an hour ago. She claimed that this was an adjusted second-generation "ant colony" with a more powerful mutant form, and most importantly, there would be a certain degree of sociality between these mutants.

Yes, just as the name implies - an ant colony.

"Let's start." Ling Liang waved his hand.

The Umbrella researcher at the side immediately pressed the switch, and saw the palm-sized egg wriggling violently for a while, and then exploded with a snap. More than a dozen flesh balls rolled out from the inside of the egg, and these flesh balls quickly expanded, and they looked like insects as big as a little fingernail!

The insects immediately spread their wings and flew around the laboratory, locking onto the mice that had been prepared. The insects immediately flew towards the mice, moving very nimbly and quickly, and quickly stung the mice. The insects' bodies shrank almost immediately, and within a few seconds only an empty shell fell off.

The mouse also began to circle and scream anxiously. Then, after about five minutes, the mouse suddenly mutated violently! Its body began to grow larger and larger, its muscles continued to grow, and sharp barbs pierced out of its body. In less than a minute, the mouse mutated into a mutant creature the size of a hound!

More than a dozen mice were all parasitized and injected by those insects, and now they have all turned into terrible monsters! And although these monsters are all mutated from mice, they are obviously different.

Some mutants were larger, with a lot of hard chitin exoskeletons growing on their bodies, which made them look thick and rough. Some mutants had a lot of pustules on their bodies, which were full of yellow-green pus, and some mutants had long claws, more developed limbs, and explosive power.

The same mutation of mice, these mutant creatures actually have a subtle division into "arms" after the mutation is completed! !
"This is a manifestation of the spontaneous sociality of the new generation of 'ant colonies' - division of labor." said the Umbrella researcher. (End of this chapter)