After seeing these cursed children with his own eyes, Fang Zheng finally understood why Mibu Asaka said that these cursed children would rather be with the Zerg than with other of their kind.
Most of the cursed children who had undergone gene adjustment before had a erosion rate of less than 50%, so the structure was relatively easy to adjust. But after that, among the cursed children received by Tiandao Palace, a large part of them had a erosion rate of more than 50% - and these cursed children must be given the highest priority for treatment.
Of course, with the Zerg's biotechnology, they don't take the protovirus seriously at all. Even if it exceeds 50%, as long as the cursed children are still rational, they can still save them. But this will cause a problem. Because the genes of the cursed children are corroded too much, their human genes are damaged, and these need to be repaired by the Zerg's genes. Although this process is not fundamentally different from what Xia Shi and Cui had received before, there is a clear difference in quantity.
This also caused their external appearance to become more abnormal, and even showed many Zerg characteristics.
“Fang, Master Fang Zheng…!”
Seeing Fang Zheng's appearance, these cursed children were obviously a little nervous. Fang Zheng even saw a few girls hiding secretly, only sticking their heads out to look at him anxiously from a distance. Of course, Fang Zheng could understand their attitudes. You know, generally speaking, if the cursed children grow up naturally, even if they live to be over ten years old, the erosion rate will not exceed 50%. Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for these children's erosion rate to be so high.
One possibility is that they had experienced particularly intense battles before and relied too much on their own strength, which led to the spread of the enterovirus infection.
Another possibility is that they have suffered severe injuries, which has caused the enterovirus to need a larger scale to repair the body, thereby increasing their erosion rate.
The latter is obviously the majority, which means that these children with high erosion rates have all suffered inhumane abuse.
Because of this, they are more wary of others than other children.
"Hello."
Looking at the children in front of him, Fang Zheng smiled and nodded at them. The body shapes of these children had changed greatly compared to the other cursed children. For example, he saw an eight-year-old girl whose lower body was not human limbs, but a hydralisk-like shape. There were also a few girls whose wings might have had problems due to mutation, causing their wings to look more like flying dragons than their original shape.
How should I put it... it feels a bit like the anthropomorphism of the Zerg...
No wonder they feel more comfortable with the Zerg.
For these cursed children who have been abused by humans and have had most of their bodies changed, it is not surprising that they feel that the Zerg give them a greater sense of security than humans.
"Owner."
At this time, Miluen also came to Fang Zheng.
"What do you want?"
"Let me introduce you."
Fang Zheng also knew that the Zerg didn't like any red tape, so he called Iona and Musashi over directly.
"They are the flagships of my newest fleet, Iona and Musashi. In the future, they will command the fleet and work with the Zerg."
"I see."
Milune nodded, then looked at Iona and Musashi, the latter of whom were curiously looking at the various Zerg troops around them - for the mechanized Sea Mist, the Zerg, a pure biological civilization, was really completely different and new.
"By the way, Mylune, how are those kids doing here?"
After letting those mental models deal with the Zerg, Fang Zheng looked at Miluen again and asked about the question he was worried about. After all, in his memory, the Zerg didn't know how to take care of people, let alone be good psychologists. If Miluen treated these children as consumables like worker bees, he would have a headache.
"These parasites?"
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Miluen glanced at the cursed children not far away.
"Their individual strength is very weak, they lack combat experience, and they are not worth going to the battlefield. However, their creative ideas have a certain impact on the maintenance and improvement of Zerg genes. We are still in the observation stage."
Miluen spoke very directly. For the Zerg, there were only two values of existence: "useful" and "useless". In her opinion, the Cursed Children were barely the former, but they might be classified as the latter someday. However, since Fang Zheng valued these Cursed Children so much, Miluen would naturally not choose to deal with them - but clearing them out of the Zerg queue was another matter.
After all, for the Zerg, useless waste must be eliminated.
"Fang, Master Fang Zheng..."
Just when Fang Zheng finished talking to Miluen and was about to leave, he saw the girl with a hydralisk on her lower body standing not far away. Her face was red, and she seemed a little embarrassed and nervous. She looked up at Fang Zheng, then turned her head away. Fang Zheng followed her line of sight and saw that many cursed children who had transformed into alien insects were hiding quietly in the back, and some even gave her a cheering gesture. Looking at her companion's actions, the hydralisk girl hesitated for a moment, but still came to Fang Zheng.
"Um, um, Master Fang Zheng! My name is Kona, um... um... I'm here to thank you on behalf of me and my sister. Thank you for saving us!"
As she spoke, the girl bowed her head and saluted solemnly to Fang Zheng. On the contrary, Fang Zheng smiled a little embarrassedly and waved his hand.
"Don't say that. I just did some minor work, but...are you used to the way you are now?"
"At first, we were not used to it, but gradually, everyone got used to it..."
"Really?"
Hearing the girl's answer, Fang Zheng nodded and reached out to touch the little girl's head.
"I can understand your thoughts, but I want to tell you that you don't need to think too much. Instead, I should apologize to you. If I could do better here..."
"There is no such thing!"
However, before Fang Zheng could finish his words, he was interrupted by the girl shaking her head desperately. The girl clenched her hands and stared at Fang Zheng with wide eyes.
"Many of us have actually given up on living, and I am no exception... Lord Fang Zheng, you may not know that when I learned that the Heavenly Dao Palace was taking in the cursed children, I felt more regret and sadness, because at that time, my erosion rate had reached 49%... To be honest, I was very unwilling at that time. If my erosion rate was lower, or if I had learned about the Heavenly Dao Palace earlier, then there might still be hope. However, when I had clearly given up hope and was ready to accept my fate of becoming one of those terrible monsters, hope suddenly appeared before my eyes, and at that time, I didn't even have the strength to grasp it..."
At this point, the girl's expression seemed a little gloomy. Despair is not terrible, what is terrible is that you have clearly given up hope, but you are surprised to find that hope is within your reach, but you no longer have the strength to grasp it - there is nothing more cruel than this.
"Even so... I survived..."
The girl reached out her hand and pressed it to her chest.
"For me, this is my second life. No matter what I become, I will cherish it..."
"Really..."
Fang Zheng was relieved to hear the girl's answer. It seemed that these children were not affected by their deformed bodies. At least, for now, this was enough.
but……
"You shouldn't take this kind of thing too seriously."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng patted her little head again.
"I'll explain in advance that there will be a lot of people here in the future, and some of them may be of a similar species to you, so you don't need to be so self-deprecating. Besides... I think you're cute in your current form."
"Really?"
"certainly."
Facing the girl's excited inquiry, Fang Zheng smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"After all, monster girls are also a kind of cuteness."
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