Chapter 14: Forbidden Zone Play

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At the edge of the Siren Galaxy, a red dwarf star named Aifa was half dead and burning for the last time before extinction.

The star field is dim, and the restless stars are bursting like fire. However, this unstable environment is the only passage from the Siren Galaxy to the important border of the Alpha Galaxy, the first fortress of the empire.

The Sun-Swallow returns to the First Fortress's directional interstellar jump relocation point.

A beautiful anti-ambush battle took place before the star jump. The battle did not last long. The Wuhe people, who were originally gathered for profit, were defeated before the official action. The invisible barrier that they thought was hidden was broken, and the Wuhe people were in chaos.

It tore through the enemy's invisible Sun Devourer with great force, and only picked out the Deathwing's main battleship Hera in the first round of bursts to severely damage it. After destroying 60% of Hera's artillery fire, it opened its barrier and stopped in the center of the battlefield. The rest was naturally dealt with by the Empire's special operations forces who had been secretly ambushed nearby.

Kriszow appeared with the invisible mecha troops, and with powerful artillery fire, he cleanly and neatly drove away the 'Red Gull', whose attitude had always been ambiguous and neutral, and then focused on taking care of the remaining ants of the stubborn 'Deathwing'.

As for the leader of Arale, Leila Asai, she instructed her subordinates to attack the Sun Swallow at random, while eating a crepe and contacting Zovic's private communication number on the battlefield.

Chris just answered the call, "Hi, Chris." The leopard-eared boy with bells appeared on the two-dimensional screen, licking the biscuit crumbs on his fingers with a smile, his barbed tongue swishing happily, "Long time no see!"

"Zouwei Leila Asai" Chris adjusted the long-range mortar of the heavy mecha, aimed at the enemy ship that was trying to escape, and shouted the enemy's little-known full name with gritted teeth, "You are so brave! You dare to contact me!"

Bang! With full of rage, eight out of ten enemy ships that escaped within the range were destroyed.

"Hey! Don't be so angry~ You scared me." The boy spoke in a baby voice, so, probably I can call her 'she', right?

"I'm just too timid to call the boss directly," the leopard-eared boy said with a smile, "Isn't it just that I didn't tell you the first time I found out about the boss being transported to the UFO? It's not a big deal~"

“And there was no response?”

"Oh, I wanted to help, but the Sun Swallow and Dark Flame have already appeared, so there's no need for my destroyer team!"

"Hey, don't die!" Leila quickly stopped Chris from impatiently wanting to die, "But I also blocked Deathwing, the disfigured monster, from the meteorite zone!"

Chris didn't comment, but was thinking about something else. "If His Highness hadn't made other plans, you would have participated in the encirclement today. Huh! Don't brag to me that you are here to help me. You even took out your guarding Blast Beast Armor."

"Inferior genes expelled from the Zuowei family," Chris sneered, "Do you want to try the water of Yindu in the Central Galaxy?"

"Hey, Chris, I have more than 20 impoverished planets to support. This time, Yindu has given me a very generous reward and promise! Whoever gives me milk is my mother. If I don't make money, I will lose it."

The young man suddenly tilted his head, probably listening to the report from his subordinates, and then suddenly said: "Ah! We are going to drive out of the communication range. I'll leave some 'rewards' for you to shoot at will, don't be polite to me!"

"Say something nice to that gentleman later~" Chris heard this and looked at the remaining fifty or so old mechas with outdated equipment, trembling and waiting in line for her bombardment.

This situation! She was almost laughing at the scum alpha with beastial genes.

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Sun Swallow. Red blockade restricted area.

This was the scene Chris saw when he boarded the Sun Swallow after cleaning up the battlefield.

His Royal Highness Fitzgerald, commander-in-chief of the western front of the Imperial Army and first heir to the Imperial Crown, was wearing a formal military uniform covered with official medals of honor. He took off his military cap from behind his straight white uniform, and the spacious assembly hall was filled with corpses.

The corpse bags covered with white cloth were neatly arranged according to the military titles in front of them, with the front facing the imperial flag.

He stood alone among them. They were all his familiar guards, and he knew each of them well.

Chris closed his eyes for a moment. This was the tragic scene of the Zerg battlefield in the west, where they were attacked by alien species. Fifty-six crew members were killed instantly, severely injuring Fitzgerald, the Zerg Queen, who was returning from her nest. His remains were plundered by the dark forces of the Siren Galaxy and finally fell into the forbidden planet. One day he was the most noble bloodline, and the next day he was a prisoner in the white cage.

And what about Yindu, the binary star system that never sets, located in the richest part of the beautiful fifth spiral arm of the empire's central galaxy?

The central computer ruthlessly calculated the area of ​​​​the country that could be abandoned after the defense line was tightened.

He is back, and what about them?

"Your Highness..." Chris spoke in a dry voice.

There are also the soldiers who died on the western front... and the innocent civilians who were affected...

Fitzgerald said, "Buried with royal honors."

"Yes!" Chris answered.

"Salute!"

After a brief ceremony, some of the guards who followed Chris onto the ship gathered the bodies on the ground, while the others followed forward.

"Let's go, Chris," Fitzgerald said, turning around. "Let's go and see the price paid for these sacrifices."

"Yes!" Chris said solemnly, "Your Highness."

"Have you brought everything?"

"Your Highness, everything is ready." Chris bowed his head and answered respectfully, waving his hand. A team of guards in isolation suits escorted four scientific researchers in the core safety belt, and another team carrying black objects and related equipment followed closely.

Fitzgerald nodded to the researchers without saying anything else. He stepped forward, drew out his particle lightsaber, and killed with an expressionless face from the crew living area all the way to the door of the public medical module. The Sun-Swallow's main computer 'Xingyue', which received the order, emitted an emotionless electronic voice as the progress was turned on.

"Received the order, activate level 3 alert."

"Received the order, activate level 2 alert."

"Received the order, activate level 1 alert."

Chris followed closely with the guards and special biochemical soldiers without saying a word, working in perfect harmony to clean up the scene that had become an alien nest.

The doors of the cabins designated as restricted areas opened one by one, and the killing began.

The scene of the piercing slaughter of aliens was filled with a heavy silence.

Finally, we reached the core of the restricted area. The public medical cabin. Shaking off the slime on his hands, Fitzgerald manually lifted the lockdown authority.

A hellish scene unfolded before my eyes.

Alisa, the deputy executive director of the Medical Department, is also a beta. Compared to Bixby, who was only a figurehead in the Medical Department to cover up her military achievements in the dark department, she is a real medical graduate from a military academy and joined the army as a medic.

However, now Alyssa used her body as a nest, and her belly was bulging like a drum. Her eyes were wide open, covered with a layer of white shadow, and her numb expression showed that she was not human. A row of energy maintainers were inserted slowly in the cervical vertebrae of her back, like the thorns of a horned dragon, and the spines of an alien. The fluorescent solution was slowly injected, maintaining the physiological function of symbiosis with the alien species, and also blurring her mind, so that she would not go crazy.

Hearing the noise, Alyssa's white eyes blinked slowly, and she turned with difficulty to look at the group of soldiers who suddenly appeared.

Fitzgerald stared at him with a grim look on his face.

"Your Highness...you...are here..."

Chris took a step back, alert for any unusual phenomena that might occur around him. Kotlo came forward with a medic in a silver-white uniform and performed the separation operation in an orderly manner. However, this inevitably awakened her mind.

"ah--"

Low-frequency howling beyond the range of human hearing resounded wildly, and the broken metal equipment in the medical room also clanged in response to the vibration.

Chris and everyone else raised their hands and opened their isolation earmuffs. Except for Fitzgerald. He closed his eyes slightly, and used his mental power to bind and resist. He could only defend, not attack... It was like holding an iron ball with bare hands, or like carbon ice walking on boiling oil.

A trickle of blood seeped out of the ear and dripped onto the snow-white military uniform.

Criszo glanced at it worriedly.

She understood that this specimen had to be kept alive until it reached the First Fortress and was sent into the core reactor of the defenses. It could not be killed or restrained, not even with the slightest attack.

His Highness is suffering from the mental attack after the worm core is activated. Fortunately, Fitzgerald, the first heir to the imperial throne, has a strong mental power. His strength is measured at the 4S level, which is the top existence of human beings at present. Otherwise, as in the incident related to the worm core a hundred years ago, more than a fleet of double S ability users were killed by the mental power explosion.

Chris Zoe couldn't help but hold his breath, silently urging the separation operation to be performed as soon as possible. Finally, an egg was taken out of Alyssa's abdomen.

The white eggs were whipped wildly by tentacles, and there was a gray hard substance in the transparent flesh.

That is the insect core of the former queen of the insect clan!

This is the goal we have achieved at all costs!

Sir Cotello, a member of the Imperial Military Special Research Institute, checked the psychoanalyzer and couldn't help shaking his hands as he exclaimed in a low voice: "Genetic data analysis shows that although the larvae are not fully differentiated, the concept of differentiating into a queen-level worm is 76.3%."

"Analysis of the strength of its mental power shows that it has reached the level of a worm mother before it even takes shape."

"No matter what, in such an urgent and crude situation..." He looked at Alyssa who was about to take her last breath, "Alyssa is indeed a genius in the field of gene fusion!"

However, Alyssa may not be able to be saved. Her genes have been completely contaminated, her body has collapsed, and during the separation operation, her spirit body was attacked so strongly that it was on the verge of collapse.

"Your Highness, we pledge our loyalty with blood and iron! We swear by honor!" The voice was as hoarse as gravel, almost howling.

I swear by my unspeakable love for you...

"Alissa did not betray the Seventeenth Army." Blood mixed with tears rolled down her face in large drops, winding along her face that was bulging with blue veins.

"I just hate being used by someone who has been lurking around me for thirty years..."

I just hate that I listened to the lies and would rather give up my omega status than not want to stand by your side...

"Alyssa...I have failed your highness's expectations." After taking a last look at the resolute man, Alyssa's whole body was twitching and she was speechless.

“I…” Alyssa’s lips moved, her voice becoming increasingly low and inaudible, “I am guilty!”

She was dead. Chris pursed his lips and put his right fist against his shoulder to express his final farewell.

"I believe you didn't mean to betray me," Fitzgerald lowered his eyes and closed her eyes with his hands. "Your final actions lived up to your oath as a soldier,"

He said in a deep and clear voice,

"The Empire remembers your glory."

Although he had expected it, Chris, who had known Alyssa for a long time, could not help but turn his head away after seeing the current situation. If she was not dead, she would be the sinner of the Empire, the cause of His Highness' fall to the UFO, and the direct cause of death of the fifty-six corpses of colleagues in the assembly hall.

But she died, using her body to fuse with the alien species and forcefully hatch the insect core. Fortunately, she did not fail completely.

After the matter was over, Chris introduced, "This is Sir Kurt Loburn, an honorary fellow of the Imperial Academy of Defense Studies."

Chris's voice was hoarse. "It's Alyssa's..."

"Alyssa is my student. I know all her projects and operating habits." This alpha scientist, who has always been rebellious from young to old, now has gray hair. At this moment, he suppressed his sadness and pointed to the assistants he brought with him, whispering, "These three are the top practitioners in the gene fusion group and the surgical group."

"Sir Bourne," Fitzgerald said without further ado, "The larvae of the worm queen must remain active before returning to the First Fortress. Please make sure that nothing goes wrong."

Kotloborn knew the importance of this and answered solemnly, "Yes, Your Highness, I guarantee it with my life."

"The larvae of a queen worm."

“The best simulator.”

The First Fortress's secret core weapon for resisting the Zerg, the shock wave simulator, controls the absolute hatching of a new generation of Zerg Queens and predicts the genetic sequence of the next generation of Zerg Soldiers. It is a secret weapon to drive the Zerg away from the defense line.

It is an absolute weapon that has defended the human interstellar empire for nearly a thousand years.

Chris thought silently.

It was Alyssa, the delusional idiot, the crazy genius, who sacrificed her body to atone for her sins and to redeem her wrong existence.

It is an existence that the next heir to the empire would rather sacrifice his own life to obtain.

It was His Highness who went against his own wishes and would rather abandon the innocent than make the slightest mistake.

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