Chapter 397 - 206: Significance and Value of the Mother Empress’s Corpse (Part 2)

Chapter 397: Chapter 206: Significance and Value of the Mother Empress’s Corpse (Part 2)

Be it her inner thirst for research or the temptation of supreme prestige, Ling Shuyan was desperate to obtain this one-of-a-kind Mother Empress’s Corpse.

Even scraping off a few cells would allow their research into the evolutionary secrets of the Zerg Race to advance by leaps and bounds.

Yet, by the time she dropped her work, led her research team in a mad dash out of the institute, and arrived travel-worn in the Jin City District...

...she was informed by Han Yuxin that the Mother Empress’s Corpse was currently off-limits. They could only stand and observe from a road several hundred meters away.

The security level for the Mother Empress’s Corpse was the highest possible!

Without Lin Feng’s express permission, no one dared to approach and touch it, not even the upper echelons of the Jin City Base.

But ever since the decisive battle in Wu City, the communication towers had been mostly shut down. Ling Shuyan had no way of contacting Lin Feng, who was two hundred kilometers away.

With no other options, she and her subordinates could only wait right where they were, craning their necks and observing the behemoth through binoculars.

After a period of detailed observation...

They were certain that Lin Feng had first attacked it with a Nuclear Bomb, severely wounding the Mother Empress, before personally entering the fray to finish the life-or-death battle.

Most of the injuries this Mother Empress had sustained were concentrated on the rear half of its body. Thanks to its formidable Life Force and regenerative abilities, the surface Damage had almost completely healed.

Its outer epidermis was a newly-formed dark red, unlike the yellowish hue it would normally have, which was typically encased in a main body of red-and-black Outer Armor covering fleshy tumors.

Moreover, its trademark heavy tail, the Biological Nest, had likely been discarded as a burden during its struggle to escape, much like a lizard dropping its tail.

That was why it looked top-heavy, like some kind of giant-headed worm.

A Zerg research scholar beside Ling Shuyan looked at the Mother Empress’s Corpse with an extremely excited glint in his eye and began to explain effusively:

"This creature is somewhat like a redfly, a type of ancient arthropod similar to a trilobite. The underlying structure of its abdomen is extremely primitive, which means the evolutionary history of the Zerg Race must be measured in units of at least a hundred million years..."

"The newer evolutionary structures are on the upper body. Besides that enormous head, its long torso is covered in fleshy tumors and spiracles that synthesize and release massive amounts of pheromones to control lower-ranking Zerg nearby."

"So, for the Mother Empress to control a Swarm numbering in the tens of thousands, the Spiritual Energy from its brain alone would be far from enough. It’s achieved through precise spiritual manipulation combined with the hive-mind control of pheromones, similar to bee or ant colonies..."

The expert’s unusual excitement was, in fact, shared by every member of the team. Their passionate discussion began the moment they arrived at the square at noon and continued all the way until dusk...

After a hastily eaten dinner, the covetous urgency in everyone’s eyes was unbearable. They hoped Director Ling could contact Lin Feng as soon as possible to discuss a research collaboration regarding the Mother Empress’s Corpse.

And thus, gain authorization to get up close to the corpse.

However, ever since the Thirteenth Division, formerly stationed in Wu City, had arrived in Jin City, Lin Feng had been swamped with various tasks. Meanwhile, his phone had been left behind in his bedroom on the Dreadnought Battleship during his Upgrade to a Tier Three Awakening.

Furthermore, Han Yuxin, concerned about the matter of Lin Feng’s progeny and a successor for the base, was reluctant for Ling Shuyan to have more contact with him and kept stonewalling the issue.

As a result, Ling Shuyan and her team were left stranded in a dilapidated, abandoned guesthouse near the train station.

The situation dragged on until dawn the next day...

Unable to wait any longer, the researchers decided to force their way closer to the corpse, taking advantage of the brief gap during the changing of the guard.

But no matter how fast they were, they were no match for the elite Warriors on patrol.

These were all Tier One Late Stage Perfection Awakeners, over a hundred of them. Moreover, the area in front of the train station was a wide-open, flat plaza with no cover whatsoever...

Even a Tier Two Awakener would struggle to approach the corpse undetected.

Consequently, the group hadn’t taken more than a few steps before they were stopped cold by the guards on duty. The Warriors in the back rank even raised their guns as a warning.

Ling Shuyan quickly introduced herself and her team, trying to defuse the tense atmosphere.

But these Warriors, fresh from the front lines, didn’t care what bigwigs they were. Except for the supreme commander of the Thirteenth Division, no one was allowed to approach the corpse without permission.

With that, they moved to detain everyone on the spot.

They would be taken to Li Ran, the vice-commander of the War Corps, for interrogation and sentencing.

Fortunately, at that moment of tense stalemate, Lin Feng himself walked out onto the plaza.

Upon seeing Lin Feng, the elite Warriors snapped to attention and saluted. Ling Shuyan, who was being restrained, breathed a momentary sigh of relief. Shaking off the Warriors’ grip, she looked toward Lin Feng.

"I’ve finally managed to find you!"

Ling Shuyan adjusted her glasses and strode forward.

Lin Feng looked up at the mountain-like corpse of the Mother Empress. Its inflated hydrogen gas sac had already deflated and contracted, retracting back into its abdomen.

What amazed him was that even after its Life Energy had been absorbed, the organs and tissue cells within the Zerg Race Mother Empress’s corpse remained remarkably active.

Unlike the integrated systems of ordinary life forms, in a Tier Three Life Form like the Mother Empress, even when the brain—the central nervous system—was completely dead, its other organs could continue to function normally for a time.

If their Energy supply ran low, they would sustain themselves by consuming nearby somatic cells.

As for the common bacteria and viruses that cause rot and decay, they were utterly insignificant before Tier Three Life Form Cells—no different from food.