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If the fact that the Worm Queen announced the arrest of Alfonso without trial could be criticized in terms of procedure, then Alfonso's escape directly shattered the last glimmer of hope of all the Worms who were still trying to speak for him.
Those insects who had once been close friends with Alfonso and whose interests were deeply intertwined with him felt a chill run down their spines. Senti was Alfonso's apprentice, and perhaps his actions in leading the Court of Resolutions to force Alfonso to give up the position of Chief were not entirely honest; but this was no reason for Senti to be transformed into a senseless alien, unable to survive as an insect anymore.
The scene of Senti's transformed alien being tightly bound by the Tiger Guards and finally taken to the biological laboratory for testing of the primordial honey was broadcast unreservedly by Today's Throne. StarNet Group also acted swiftly, immediately posting the communication frequency records of Senti's intelligent brain on its official account. It was indeed coming from Alfonso's estate, from the communication number he registered.
The Tiger Guards broke into the Runely estate and discovered remnants of starship energy and biological agents in a massive pit in the back garden. Judging from the age of the soil, the starship had been buried there for at least a century. Even more terrifying, they also unearthed insect carcasses from the ground in the back garden. These carapaces remained, resembling molted pupae. However, the insects knew at a glance that these were the carapaces of adult insects that had long since passed their molting stage.
The Tiger Guards determined that these were the shells of intelligent insects left behind after being devoured. They discovered obvious holes in the abdomens of these insect shells caused by their mouthparts. There also appeared to be some residual digestive mucus inside the shells. With biological analysis, it would be easy to determine the source of these digestive fluids.
The Tiger Guards captured Alfonso's biological son, George Rune. He appeared to have been kneeling beside the pit for a long time, his expression dazed, his thoughts unclear. After intense interrogation, George admitted to the brutal act of scavenging stray Zerg for Alfonso's food. However, George seemed unclear about Alfonso's relationship with Chumi.
The overwhelming evidence was irrefutable. The news sent shockwaves throughout the land. It was unimaginable that this seemingly benign Chief of the Court of Resolution, often seen in the news, could have committed such atrocities, even worse than even primitive Zerg, such as cannibalism!
All Zerg close to Alfonso were isolated and interrogated, and the entire assassin bug race was ostracized by the other Zerg. Even more terrifying, in the following week, in addition to Senti's transformation into a mutant in the Garden Palace, several more Zerg degenerated into mutants within the higher families within the five star chains. The five star chains were no longer considered safe zones for the Zerg, and the higher families increased their vigilance. The First Legion and the Imperial Guard patrolled the five star chains day and night. Since their formation, they had never felt such a tense atmosphere.
Through follow-up investigations, it was found that the common point of these degraded Zergs was that they had all used primary honey and had communicated through unknown channels before degrading.
Alyssa immediately realized that Alfonso's important means of mutating the insects that sucked the primordial honey might be through images or sounds!
Alyssa immediately issued an executive order, requiring all Zerg users who had used the First Honey to avoid being alone and temporarily refrain from accepting unfamiliar calls. To ensure communication with the Zerg community, Throne Glass Company urgently created a contact section on Today's Throne, the most popular Zerg app. Users could add familiar Zerg users as friends and use the friend section to communicate.
During the current live broadcast of the Throne, Alyssa played the piano almost from morning till night. She didn't know how much of her musical purification would remain after the video went viral, but even if it could only help the insects that had used the primordial honey recover by 1%, it would be a good thing.
The consequence of this is that the Worm Queen's eyes have always been golden compound eyes, and her ten fingers are all scarred by plucking and pressing the strings. Occasionally, the worms can see golden blood in the nose of the Worm Queen during the live broadcast.
[Wuwuwu, Her Majesty Alyssa, please take a break. You've been playing for a long time. Your fingers can't take it anymore.]
[I really feel good now, my mind is especially clear. You have achieved this, please stop playing.]
"I really regret this! Why did I use something like First Honey?! Couldn't I have just held on a little longer?! I thought there was a substitute for Her Majesty the Worm Queen's spiritual soothing effects. I was so wrong!"
[Wow, Her Majesty Alyssa is bleeding from the nose again. What should I do? She's too weak to overdraw her mental strength like this...]
Brothers and sisters, let's try to repay Her Majesty the Zerg Mother's spiritual energy! Pray to the Meteorite Stone, and try to communicate with Her Majesty the Zerg Mother! In the past, the powerful spiritual energy stored in the Meteorite Stone comforted us. We can also try to support the Meteorite Stone with our excess spiritual energy. It is the important medium for the Zerg Mother to connect with the entire interstellar Zerg, isn't it?
This proposal immediately resonated with the Zerg. They were deeply uneasy. Those who had used the First Honey worried they would be unable to resist its effects and degenerate into alien species, while those who hadn't experienced it feared the Zerg around them would suddenly transform into monsters. Miraculously, as they gathered in the Meteorite Square, to the sounds of Her Majesty Alyssa's piano, praying and connecting with the massive, dark, and lustrous meteorite, they felt a sense of exhaustion and relief, like the feeling of a marathon runner's exhaustion. The rush of endorphins, dopamine, norepinephrine... all the hormones that bring joy and relaxation to Zerg, all working together to make their worries seem less formidable.
Alyssa didn't dare stop, and couldn't. She had already incorporated the spiritual anchors of nearly every Zerg in the Saint Hobeluo Palace and the Lugong Star Court into her own spiritual world, strengthening her connection with the Zerg. Every time she pushed herself to her limits, she felt herself grow a little stronger.
Gabriel knelt at Alyssa's feet, tears in his eyes. "Your Highness, please be careful! You haven't yet transformed into a second chrysalis, and your body can't sustain this kind of exertion!"
Gabriel looked at Alyssa with heartache. She had coaxed and persuaded her, and tried all kinds of ways to build up her flesh, but in the past few days, it quickly lost weight. If it weren't for Alyssa's temperament that had changed so much, Gabriel would almost mistake her for the frail and skinny horse she was when she was first rescued.
"I don't want everyone to become aliens. This is a battle between me and Hatsumi."
"You're not fighting alone. Many insects are also working hard to resist the erosion of the primordial honey," Gabriel said. "Many people are praying in the Meteorite Square. If you overdraw your spiritual power, how can you illuminate the Meteorite Stone and respond to their expectations?"
Oh, and there are also meteorite stones.
Alyssa was like a drowning person who had found a piece of driftwood. Considering that they were still on the live broadcast, Alyssa pulled Gabriel into the spiritual world and asked anxiously, "Mammy, can I try to go to the underground palace and light up the meteorite stone now?"
Alyssa's eyes, burning with anxiety but ignited by a flicker of hope, were visibly thinner, causing Gabriel heartache. However, she had to tell the truth: "Your Highness, your spiritual power has indeed made significant progress recently, but you've also been depleting it. I estimate your chances of lighting the meteorite stone to be less than 20%."
"And if you fail to light up the meteorite stone during the live broadcast, amidst the anticipation of millions of people, their expectations will backfire and become a mountain you can't bear. So I ask you to rest well."
Alyssa's shoulders slumped. She knew Gabriel was right. It made her deeply distressed. She had been under a lot of pressure these days, but she knew this was not the time to be a delicate Zerg Queen in front of the public. She had to be strong, for she was the spiritual pillar of so many Zerg.
But she couldn't stop playing. The Zerg were now conducting a sweeping search for Alfonso. Chu Mi was a shadow hanging over the heads of all the Zerg. Before Alfonso was captured, the entire intelligent Zerg race felt like it was in a pressure cooker, and Alyssa was the release valve.
At that moment, Luke Tren of the Second Legion sent a military report: within the Second Legion's star field, a warehouse suspected to be Alfonso Rulni's storage of primordial honey had been discovered! Furthermore, evidence had been discovered that the human attack on the Zerg mobile ship, which resulted in the deaths of six Zerg, was a conspiracy orchestrated by Alfonso!
Luke said in a government video call with Her Majesty the Insect Mother: "...while patrolling our jurisdictional star region, we discovered an uninhabited planet exhibiting abnormal energy reactions. After landing and searching, we discovered that it appears to be a warehouse storing primordial honey."
Luke sent me the video he'd taken at the time. It was clearly captured by a camera strapped to a soldier's chest. From a first-person perspective, he could see him using a small explosive to blast open a door lock. Then, armed and wary, he walked into a dimly lit, vast warehouse filled with densely packed plastic barrels. He opened one and found it was filled to the brim with a thick, red liquid.
"My people immediately searched the warehouse and found a lost intelligent computer inside. We restored the data on the intelligent computer and found a communication recording. After voiceprint analysis, we confirmed that it belonged to Alfonso."
Luke played the audio, and the voice said, "Her Majesty the Insect Queen is indeed humanoid... Take more action... Maintain a long-term war with humanity... We haven't caught them in the act, but the traces they left behind are enough proof."
Luke's face was filled with indignation. "We actually discovered quite a few suspicious points at the time of the attack. One of my brigade commanders, Caspar Knox, submitted a detailed report to me. He said the timing of our maneuver ship's appearance was strange, and we hadn't informed him of the situation. Furthermore, the only survivor's death looked like a poisoning. After the survivor delivered his last words, the wreckage of the original maneuver ship exploded. He strongly suspected they were trying to destroy the evidence."
"I submitted this report and my suspicions to the Court of Resolution, hoping they would make the final decision. Unexpectedly, they immediately concluded it was a human attack, completely disregarding our suspicious reports. I assumed this was the stance of the Palace of San Joseph, so I led my troops forward. Now I think Alfonso must have suppressed the suspicious reports. He simply wanted to provoke a war with humans. After all, everyone knows that prolonged warfare puts insects in a state of tension and stress, making them more in need of soothing and, consequently, more in need..."
Luke didn't say the last two words "first honey", but all the insects understood his implication.
Oh my god, Alfonso is the most evil Zerg in history! How could there be such a devil who doesn't want the peace of his own kind and is even willing to eat his own kind?
Alyssa frowned and asked what she was most concerned about: “Did you catch Alfonso?”
Luke looked a little ashamed. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty Alyssa, I didn't catch him. But I've already launched a search within the star region under my jurisdiction. If we find Alfonso's whereabouts, we will not let him escape."
Alyssa was disappointed that they hadn't caught Alfonso, the culprit, and the pressure on the Zerg remained unrelieved. But at least there was one good thing: their relationship with humans wouldn't have to become so strained.
Thinking of this, Alyssa nodded and praised Luke: “You did a good job, Luke Teren.”
Luke hung up the phone with a smirk on his face.
In fact, it is quite good to have such a human-shaped insect queen. She has a simple and kind mind and always thinks the best of other insects, so it is easy to fool them.
Luke called his confidant and said, "Blow up the warehouse where the 'primary honey' is stored."
The confidant took the order and left.
Luke settled into his comfortable office chair, legs propped up on the table. He felt more relaxed than ever before; he had finally gotten rid of this time bomb.
He had fabricated the warehouse; it wasn't a warehouse for storing virgin honey at all. Only a few barrels contained genuine virgin honey; the remaining barrels contained ordinary honey tinted with red pigment. He couldn't leave it for the investigation team, so after a video call with the Worm Mother, the warehouse had fulfilled its purpose. The warehouse's explosion was also easy to explain: the cunning Alfonso witnessed his report to the Worm Mother during the live broadcast and detonated the bomb buried in the warehouse.
"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, Master Alfonso, you're already such a madman, so it doesn't really matter if you get blamed a little more, right?"
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