The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2383, Bloody Battle of Fangduo (V)

The black core spaceship started the reverse thrust engine and slowly descended. This huge spherical spaceship with a diameter of 1029 meters landed steadily on the ground. However, it did not open the hatch from the bottom of the spaceship like the ordinary Rookery Hook-class battleship, and then release a large number of robots.

But this core spaceship was completely cracked!

This was obviously a modified core spaceship. The entire hull was divided into four petals, completely exposing the structure inside. And in the middle of the core spaceship, it was a terrifying and disgusting insect nest! !

This nest was like a hill, even hundreds of meters high. The surface was covered with a layer of barbed, terrifying and hideous cuticle. In the cracks of the cuticle, countless mutant substances kept wriggling.

After the core spaceship unfolded, the nest immediately stretched out its body impatiently, stretching out countless tentacles ranging from three or four meters to more than twenty meters, and hundreds of meters long, and then directly stabbed into the surrounding ground! The tentacles kept wriggling, and the ground began to bulge. Obviously, these tentacles were extending rapidly underground.

At the same time, the 10 behemoth-class battlecruisers that cooperated with the landing were not idle. They immediately released dozens of transport planes, dropped the marines on board, took off ghost fighters for cover, and then rushed to a nearby energy plant.

While the fierce battle was going on in the direction of the energy plant, Alexia Ashford also stood up from the bridge of the core spacecraft. As she stood up, a flame passed through her body, burning all her clothes, revealing the white and beautiful body of the 14-year-old girl.

Then, the mutated tissue appeared on her body like armor, as if countless leaves and vines gradually covered the surface of her body, and even her blonde hair turned into leaves that looked more hideous, but with a strange beauty.

The beautiful 14-year-old genius girl disappeared, and the one standing here was the queen of Veronica!

Three pairs of cicada wings emitting colorful light grew out from her back, vibrating rapidly, and she flew towards the top of the nest that was like a small hill.

As if to welcome the return of the princess, a gap appeared on the top of the nest, and layers of tissues like petals protruded from it, which looked quite beautiful.

Alexia Ashford stood on the petals, and the petals wrapped her up one by one. She laughed out loud, "Hahahaha! Ahhahahahahahaha! This is the ultimate form of the Veronica virus! This entire planet will become my world! Hahahaha!!"

In that wild laughter, the petals completely wrapped Alexia and sank into the nest. As the huge mouth of the nest gradually closed, it seemed as if nothing had happened.

However, immediately afterwards, the entire huge nest suddenly shrank, and the huge body of hundreds of meters began to twitch violently. The mutated substances began to emit blood-red light, as if breathing, expanding and contracting, which was extremely weird.

At this time, the behemoth-class battlecruisers in the sky were firing at the ground. The defenders of Fangduo Planet and the armed engineering robots who came from all directions had no chance to approach the power station and were completely blown to pieces. The ground troops also rushed in quickly, killing all the staff, destroying all the engineering robots, and completely occupying the power station.

"Calling the mothership Suzuran! This is the 4th Marine Brigade. We have occupied the power station! It has been cleared!" The Marine Corps commander opened the communication and called the battleship in the sky.

[Received! We have forwarded the message to... uh, Ms. Alexia. Please continue to stand by until you get the latest instructions! ] The battleship in the sky replied immediately.

However, at this moment, the entire power station suddenly seemed to have an earthquake! The ground shook violently, and the Marines hurriedly looked for shelter on the spot and crouched down to protect their bodies.

But the earthquake did not last long. I only saw that the ground near the core of the power station was suddenly pushed open by an extremely powerful force, and even the ground hardened by the metal structure could not resist it.

I only saw huge tentacles extending from the ground, and then these tentacles began to split into more and more slender tentacles, and then they coiled towards the core of the power station.

Not only that, the power station workers who were killed in the previous battle, and even the destroyed engineering robots, these debris were very flexibly grabbed by those tentacles and then absorbed by the tentacles.

"This... what is this..." This terrible scene shocked the Marines.

When the huge nest appeared from the core spacecraft just now, they were already terrified, and now they saw these tentacles absorbing energy and "eating" the corpses, even the robot debris! This situation has simply broken the bottom line that they can accept as intelligent creatures! !

At this time, a tentacle crawled towards them, standing upright like a venomous snake, and then opened an eye directly from the hand!

The eye was spinning around, even bigger than the wheel of the Warthog. It stared at the commander and suddenly spoke in a woman's voice, "Gather your troops, coordinate with the warships, and attack the next energy center. Soon, my descendants will come to help you."

"Ah...ah...yes, yes!" The commander was at a loss, and finally stood at attention and saluted after a while of confusion. Then he led his soldiers to flee from the power station, which had begun to become extremely terrifying and weird.

At the same time, at Alexia's nest, countless tiny holes opened up from the nest, and then countless mosquitoes flew out of it. There were tens of millions of these mosquitoes, and even formed a black cloud in the sky!

This black cloud circled twice over the nest, and then flew away in all directions. The black cloud gradually became thinner, the area became larger and larger, and finally disappeared completely in the sky.

These mosquitoes are omnipresent and fly towards nearby factories and residential areas. Even though the entire planet has long been under martial law, all factories have been closed, and all staff have hidden underground, there are still some fish that slip through the net.

The workers bitten by mosquitoes soon developed fever and dizziness, and then they fell to the ground and struggled violently, and then they soon mutated and turned into terrible monsters!

The mutated monsters created chaos everywhere, destroyed factories, slaughtered workers, and destroyed robots.

The defense system of Fangduo Planet is based on industrial zones. The defense commanders of these industrial zones immediately organized K-X security robots as the main force, and cooperated with countless engineering robots to encircle and suppress these mutated monsters.

At the same time, comprehensive disinfection and epidemic prevention measures were strengthened in all areas where biochemical alarms appeared, and a large number of mosquitoes were also cleared and killed at this time.

If such an "ant colony" was placed on other planets, it would definitely cause chaos to the entire planet, but on a thoroughly industrialized fortress planet like Fangduo Planet, the results that could be achieved were minimal.

However, Alexia did just harass them.

She was the T-Veronica virus formed by mixing the DNA of plants and insects, especially a very rare ancient queen ant, with the ancestral virus. And one of the most important characteristics of the mutant organisms of this virus is that they can form a basic social structure like an ant colony.

Therefore, the use of the Veronica virus is completely different from that of the T virus. The T virus, including even the variant G virus, uses the characteristics of the virus itself to create biological weapons, but these biological weapons are just weapons, as the name implies.

But what the Veronica virus creates is an army, a society, and a race! !

From the huge nest, deformed monsters began to emerge one by one. These monsters are basically human-shaped, about 2 to 3 meters tall, but they look completely different, and they are all extremely twisted.

These monsters are all very thoroughly mutated, with aggressive claws or tentacles on their bodies, and their muscle tissue is extremely developed, as if they are full of terrifying power like iron blocks. Some monsters also carry pus bags filled with green liquid on their backs, which can spray these toxic liquids at a distance.

Some monsters also have some robot parts, such as mechanical legs and mechanical arms, but these structures mainly play a supporting role. The real driving force of these mechanical parts is still the mutant structures.

You can even see some monsters holding blaster rifles! These monsters holding blaster rifles are basically mutated corpses with relatively intact heads. Because some information is still retained in the brain, they instinctively use firearms.

Some mutated monsters are still wearing the white polymer alloy armor of the Imperial Stormtroopers. Some tentacles and mutant substances stick out from the gaps and cracks in these armors, which is even more terrifying.

In just a few hours, the number of these monsters has reached tens of thousands! Then, under the command of Alexia's supreme will, they move towards the nearby strategic goals.

This is not over yet. Some larger cracks have cracked above the nest, and then some flying monsters crawled out of the cracks, making a terrible scream, and then flapped their wings and flew away.

Most of these flying monsters look like terrible insects, and their wings are also insect cicada wings. But their bodies are covered with barbed cuticles and extremely sharp claws, which can even tear metal!

The nearest processing plant to the nest was immediately attacked. These mutant creatures rushed forward fearlessly. They were stronger than the engineering robots in both strength and speed! Moreover, even if they were shot by blaster rifles, it was difficult to kill them. The parts that were shot and blown apart soon began to mutate for the second time, growing some new strange organs, and then continued to roar back to the battle.

The local Imperial stormtroopers who were defending saw these terrible mutant monsters, and their morale collapsed almost immediately. Especially when they saw these monsters collecting corpses, this fear reached its peak! Many soldiers turned around and ran, not daring to fight these monsters head-on.

The only ones who could still stay on the battlefield were the clone soldiers and robots.

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The outer orbit of Fangduo Planet, the Second Task Force of the Kingdom of Dawn.

Now under the command of Severance Tann, the Second Task Force has completely blocked Fangduo Planet and cut off all external contacts of the planet.

The current Fangduo planet not only cannot get any resources and supplies from the outside world, but also cannot get any reinforcements. The Second Combined Fleet has enough troops to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of this blockade.

At this time, because the northern border has just experienced the defeat of the Malarian Alliance Campaign, the only main mobile fleet of the Galactic Empire is in the hands of Darth Vader, and Darth Vader obviously will not fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn at its peak at this time.

Therefore, Fangduo Planet can no longer count on any form of reinforcements.

Fangduo Planet is a completely industrialized planet. In other words, there is almost no agricultural production here. It is not impossible to say that there is no agricultural production at all. There are still some automated hydroponic farms here, but it is impossible to feed the 5 billion people on the planet.

In the previous operations, Severance Tann had sent a formation of ghost fighters and banshee fighters to bomb these hydroponic farms. Hydroponic farms are not like other industrial facilities. Most of them are still built on the ground, so they are easily destroyed.

Therefore, Fangduo Planet is now experiencing famine.

Severance-Tann set up checkpoints in various places she occupied to accept all residents who were willing to surrender. Under the threat of hunger, there were also many people who surrendered.

Under such circumstances, it was just as Severance-Tann said that it would take about a year to ensure the capture of many planets.

In fact, the problem she was most worried about was not whether it could be captured, but to shorten this time as much as possible.

Because one year was enough for the Galactic Empire to raise a new main fleet. The Kingdom of Dawn could only produce a quarter to a fifth of the warships of the Galactic Empire in the same period of time.

In fact, in just over 20 years, it was a miracle that the production capacity of both sides could be brought close to this extent. You must know that when the Clone Wars just started, the gap in industrial production capacity between the two sides was measured in thousands or hundreds of times!

But the war will not reward you for the miracles you create. The production capacity and technology of both sides are still the decisive factors in determining victory or defeat.

"General, Ms. Alexia has built her own nest near the Odal Mountains on the planet Fondo..." The adjutant came over and said to Severance-Tan, his expression still a little scared, "Excuse me, General... this nest is really... is..."

"Disgusting, isn't it?" Severance-Tan sneered and completed what he didn't dare to say. (End of this chapter)