Chapter 396 - 206: The Significance and Value of the Mother Empress’s Corpse

Chapter 396: Chapter 206: The Significance and Value of the Mother Empress’s Corpse

A Mother Empress’s corpse this massive definitely couldn’t be hidden away. And Lin Feng never intended to be secretive about it; he wanted it displayed for all to see.

He wanted everyone to know that the corpse of a Zerg Race Mother Empress was here—that the abandoned army left to defend Jin City had, under his leadership, defeated the invincible Zerg Race!

After more than a day, word of the event had spread through Jin City Base by word of mouth until it was known by all.

Some citizens, unable to contain their curiosity, even walked several kilometers from their residential area to the train station plaza after a long day of intense labor, just to gaze up at the mysterious form of the High-tier Mother Empress.

As the news spread rapidly, it naturally reached the biology research institute on the other side of the river.

When Ling Shuyan first heard the news, she was stunned silent for a moment...

Her first reaction was: ’Absolutely impossible!’

She knew Lin Feng had acquired three nuclear warheads from her, and that Nuclear Bombs were indeed capable of killing a Mother Empress.

Because other major powers had already made such attempts.

Of the world’s three great powers, besides the Federation, there was the United States, isolated overseas, and the Luosi Empire, which dominated the northwestern part of the Main Continent.

The Luosi Empire, the most aggressive of the three, had launched several megaton-yield Hydrogen Bombs at the end of March, attacking a small neighboring country that had been completely overrun.

There were instances of entire Swarms being annihilated.

And the Rolle Kingdom of Princess Betty was part of this Western Alliance, which was composed of more than a dozen small countries in the Northwest.

A megaton-yield Hydrogen Bomb could instantly wipe out half a city district, and the Luosi Empire had used more than one.

Even a Zerg Race Mother Empress couldn’t withstand such a brutal method of relentless, reckless bombing.

’Beneath a nuclear explosion, all life is equal...’

Ling Shuyan had never doubted that Lin Feng, who commanded hundreds of Tier Two Awakeners and possessed three Nuclear Bombs, could kill a High-tier Mother Empress.

But killing a Mother Empress with a Nuclear Bomb was a completely different concept from killing one by hand.

The devastatingly high temperatures of a nuclear explosion would instantly melt any carbon-based life.

Even if a Zerg Race Mother Empress possessed a sturdy layer of defensive Armor, it would be instantly incinerated into charcoal by a Hydrogen Bomb, then reduced to dust.

Therefore, Ling Shuyan found it easier to believe that Lin Feng had used the three miniature nuclear warheads to eliminate the Zerg Race Mother Empress from a distance. She could not accept the alternative: that he had brought back its intact corpse.

The former was merely the result of weapons like Nuclear Bombs. Given the right opportunity, even the Federation could easily accomplish it.

The latter, however, meant that Lin Feng had used other means—and most likely had personally taken to the field—to accomplish the impossible feat of slaying a Zerg Race Mother Empress!

This not only meant that Lin Feng possessed the strength to single-handedly kill a High-tier Zerg, but also that with this incredible, grand victory...

he had successfully stepped into Tier Three!

He had advanced to become a Tier Three Awakener!

Becoming the world’s one and only Tier Three human!

Even if he had used a Nuclear Bomb to heavily wound the Zerg Race Mother Empress first, he would still have to personally finish it off to obtain the Life Energy needed for a Tier-Jumping Tier Three Awakening.

And in the Federation Research Institute, during joint conferences with numerous weapons experts, Zerg Race researchers, and military officials...

the conclusion drawn regarding any decapitation strike plan against a Mother Empress was:

Even if a Mother Empress was on its last breath, it could still easily kill a large number of Tier Two Late Stage Perfection Awakeners in the blink of an eye through powerful Spiritual Attacks.

Furthermore, judging by the Outer Armor Defense Power of the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs and Tank Flame Beetles, besides Nuclear Bombs and bunker-buster missiles, ordinary heavy weaponry couldn’t even break through a Mother Empress’s protective outer shell, let alone an Awakener trying to kill it alone.

Therefore, attempting to personally kill a Mother Empress to advance to Tier Three was, at present, considered incredibly difficult.

Unless they mobilized a large number of rare Superpower Users, or the Federation Research Institute’s Superman Plan managed to cultivate a batch of multi-talented Tier Two Late Stage Awakeners to hunt it as a team...

only then would there be a sliver of hope of defeating a Mother Empress.

But now, more than two months after the apocalypse began, the vast majority of Awakeners had only reached Tier One. Only a few ruthless individuals had managed to advance to Tier Two.

Worldwide, there were only a few dozen who had reached the Superman-like level of Tier Two Late Stage.

It was fundamentally impossible to kill a High-tier Mother Empress with manpower alone.

Even against a Tier Three Early Stage Mother Empress, humanity currently lacked the power to fight it.

Yet the news now indicated that Lin Feng had used his own power to kill the Zerg Race Mother Empress!

This was something Ling Shuyan simply could not accept.

’Science is about logic...’

The more she knew about the terrifying nature of a High-tier Mother Empress—especially after Lin Feng told her about the existence of the mysterious Realm Power from Genetic Radiation—the more Ling Shuyan believed that High-tier Life Forms were fundamentally different from ordinary carbon-based life.

In other words, Tier Three Life Forms were gradually transcending the definition of natural life.

’They are the endpoint of a species’ evolution on a planet,’

’yet also the starting point of an individual’s evolution!’

For a biological researcher, obtaining the corpse of a Tier Three Life Form for research and experimentation would be the greatest blessing Ling Shuyan could ever dream of!

By studying the body structure and highly developed tissue samples from a Tier Three Life Form, one could reverse-engineer the process of cellular evolution. This, in turn, would allow them to perfect various ongoing research projects.

Such as the Gene Augmentation Project and the Artificial Superman Plan currently being advanced by the Federation Research Institute.

If Ling Shuyan could complete this research and be credited as the creator and author of these achievements, she would undoubtedly go down in post-apocalyptic history as the foremost pioneer in evolutionary research.