The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2324 Ling Liang’s Thoughts

Ling Liang was not interested in this so-called division of labor. She said coldly, "I don't need so many fancy functions. According to the original plan, the 'ant colony' can produce a large number of mutant creatures through parasitic mutation to disrupt the defense deployment of the target planet. This is enough. No matter how these things are divided, can they be comparable to an armored assault team of Scorpio tanks?"

"General Ling, these BOWs, unless they are Inchori Avengers specially used for frontal combat, will definitely not be able to fight against armored forces. However, the biggest feature of BOWs is that they are cheap and flexible. Compared with tanks, they do not require special production lines, nor do they require processing of raw materials, nor do they require sophisticated electronic components. They only need some viruses and high-energy nutrients to produce powerful combat units..." The Umbrella researcher quickly explained.

"Then how do you make this thing less 'cheap'?" Ling Liang asked, "This new generation of 'ant colonies' has a much larger size! How do you ensure concealment? How do you ensure quantity? How do you ensure cost?"

"Well... Miss Alexia thinks... the battle on the planet Fangduo will be more difficult, so she hopes that these BOWs can play a greater role..." The researcher was a little frightened by Ling Liang's momentum and explained with his head down.

"No need!" Ling Liang said sternly: "Go back and tell Alexia not to use her idle curiosity in the battle! Now our national goal is Operation Zero, and there can be no mistakes! If there are any omissions in this plan because of her extraneous behavior, then I will personally tear down her nest!"

“Yes… yes… yes…” The researcher didn’t dare to retort and answered with a nod.

Ling Liang waved her hand and turned to leave the laboratory. She felt that coming here this time was a complete waste of time. Now the battle on the Kira planet needed to be concluded urgently, and the strategy for the Fangduo planet was also on the agenda. For her, every minute was precious.

She could tolerate Severance Tann's rude orders and even humiliation towards her, but she absolutely could not tolerate Alexia Ashford's behavior of using the battlefield as a laboratory!
Especially after studying zero-modal probability with Ji Wenren, Ling Liang had a deep aversion to such random variables.

Moreover, Ling Liang had an instinctive aversion to those Umbrella executives who often conducted human experiments and treated themselves as non-human beings. Yes, they were Alexia Ashford and Shirley Birkin.

The "Ant Colony" project is an important part of Operation Zero.

When Operation Zero was being formulated, the goal was to defeat the Galactic Empire within a year, so every day's actions had to be very precise. Therefore, how to quickly defeat the Galactic Empire's fleet and occupy those planets became a key consideration.

Now, because the Principality of Dawn has a greater technological advantage, coupled with the mobility advantage of the Stargate, it can firmly hold overwhelming combat power against the Galactic Empire on the local battlefield. Therefore, it is relatively easy to destroy the Imperial Fleet.

The difficult part is how to occupy a planet controlled by the Empire.

First of all, although orbital bombardment can speed up the occupation, after a large-scale orbital bombardment, the planet is basically useless. Even if it is occupied, it cannot play its original role. Moreover, if the orbital bombardment is endless, the public opinion of the Principality of Dawn will collapse both at home and abroad. No one wants to live under the hands of a murderous devil, and no one wants to have any diplomatic exchanges with a murderous devil. In order to ensure the implementation of Operation Zero, in order to prevent the Galactic Empire from using the vast star region as depth, delaying the attack of the Principality of Dawn's fleet, and causing difficulties in the supply line, then a quick victory naturally becomes an impossible option.

Therefore, there must be a means to quickly and completely occupy those planets.

For example, if they could occupy the planet Kira with limited damage, the planet would immediately become the forward supply base for the fleet of the Principality of Dawn. And relying on the planet Kira, the Principality of Dawn could immediately push its front line to the depths of the middle and inner rings!
Therefore, after much consideration and discussion, the "Ant Colony" project came into being.

The basis of this project is the T-Veronica virus developed by Alexia Ashford. This virus is a new virus based on the combination of the Progenitor virus and the T virus, and its virus variant has a very unique feature, that is, because it incorporates the genes of plants and ants, it will show sociality and clustering that other biological weapons do not have.

At the same time, the infectiousness of T-Veronica virus is lower than that of T virus and G virus, which makes T-Veronica virus an excellent virus vector.

After a lot of experiments, Alexia came up with her solution - using the T-Veronica virus to produce mosquito-like carriers that carry high concentrations of the virus and release them to the target planet. These mosquitoes will then choose the parasite to bite and then inject the high concentration of the virus into the parasite's body.

Targets injected with high concentrations of the virus will quickly mutate violently and become terrifying monsters. These monsters will immediately cause a large number of killings, and ordinary light weapons cannot cause any harm to them. At the same time, these monsters are very mutated, so they will not become carriers of the virus. In other words, whether these monsters kill others or are killed by others, they will not cause the spread of the virus.

Once the problem of virus spread is solved, this BOW will become a very mature weapon.

For example, this time, about 80 mosquitoes were released on the planet Kira. These mosquitoes were installed in unique containers and sent to the planet with the modified giant whale-class passenger spacecraft. Even if the spacecraft was shot down, these containers would protect the mosquitoes from falling to the ground and then begin to spread.

These mosquitoes have a strong sense of territory, so they will not gather together. When there are a certain number of mosquitoes in one place, other mosquitoes will choose to bypass this place and go to other places to look for parasites.

Therefore, on the planet Kira, there was a situation where T-Veronica virus mutants appeared everywhere. There were not many of these mutants, but they were definitely not something that a small force could eliminate.

There are about 40 mosquitoes that have successfully found hosts on the planet Kira, which means that 40 monsters are wreaking havoc in every corner of the planet!
There is no doubt that the defenders of the Kira planet will be exhausted! And the regular army troops landing head-on can easily destroy the frontal defense of the planet!
This is the 'Ant Colony' plan! (End of this chapter)