A Core Ship From The Start
Chapter 1404 - 950: An Unexpected Encounter

Chapter 1404: Chapter 950: An Unexpected Encounter

For Duanmu Huai, this scene was all too familiar.

Accompanied by the clanging of metal pipes and footsteps, one monster after another, with Alien-like heads and four arms, leaped down from all directions. They opened their large mouths filled with sharp teeth and let out a blasphemous roar and curse—they were the Genetic Thieves, one of the Alien creatures most deserving of extermination in this world.

The Genetic Thieves were one of the notorious units of the Tyran Insect Race, the most troublesome and annoying infiltration units for players, simply because... these things really could infiltrate everywhere.

Moreover, they were extremely adept at camouflage and could even spend hundreds of years gradually dispersing into human crowds.

The existence of Genetic Thieves was very peculiar. First, they appeared in the form of insects, which was the original form of the primitive race. Then, under the cover of night, these insects would penetrate human cities, capture human females, and perform the "Kiss of Death" on them—well, the reason was simple, because the Genetic Thieves’ tongues are ovipositors.

That is to say, in the literal sense, "kissing and getting pregnant."

The offspring produced by pregnant human females were the first generation of Genetic Thieves, and while most of them still had the form of insects, they had gradually acquired a human-like appearance.

Then, the first generation would capture human females and perform the "Kiss of Death" again, to produce the second generation, the third generation—by the fourth generation, the descendants of the Genetic Thieves were almost indistinguishable from humans, with only their pale skin and bald heads, along with the occasional sharp teeth, barely revealing their true form.

After that, things would become very terrifying.

The fourth-generation Genetic Thieves could easily infiltrate any human department and then fully incite a rebellion. In addition to a large number of Genetic Thieves who mimicked humans perfectly, they could also evolve into various lord and elite units. Even well-trained Asttart Squads would likely face total annihilation upon encountering them.

After all, it is truly difficult to distinguish whether the one seeking help is an Alien or a human.

Of course, if we were to speak of it—the Genetic Thieves are the kind that everyone wants to beat up, even the Cults of the Evil God would not spare them.

The reason is simple; Genetic Thieves are part of the Tyron Swarms. Perhaps after a long history of reproduction, they have forgotten their origins, but the psychic network of the Swarm is still with them. Thus, the first thing all Genetic Thieves do after awakening is to try to contact the Swarm, summoning the Tyran Insect Swarm to their world. In the hearts of Genetic Thieves, that is their ultimate destiny.

Well, and then they get eaten by the Swarm that has descended.

For this reason, the Genetic Thieves’ Cult worships the Terra Insect Swarm, not the Chaos Evil God. The Chaos Evil God cannot gain the Strength it wants from the Genetic Thieves—the purpose of the Tyran Swarms’ existence is to devour everything, sparing nothing. For the Chaos Evil God, it can only gain enough Soul nutrients when life exists. If you eat everything, then wouldn’t we starve to death?

Thus, the Tyran Insect Swarm and the Chaos Evil God are natural enemies.

Of course, in the hands of players, since it’s impossible to determine whether there is one or one million Genetic Thieves on a planet, the best approach is to issue an Extinction order.

After all, how can you be sure that any refugees running out are not Genetic Thieves? What if they escape to another planet and start spreading the Kiss of Death everywhere?

In Duanmu Huai’s view, if there were Genetic Thieves aboard this Spaceship Wreck, then the reason for the Warship’s destruction was quite clear. Obviously, it is possible that the lower decks had already been infiltrated and replaced by Genetic Thieves—a Moon Class warship is typically staffed with about one hundred thousand crew members, most of whom are from the lower decks. The captain and high-ranking officers usually wouldn’t pay attention to the laborers below, so once the entire lower deck crew is replaced with Genetic Thieves, a rebellion could easily overturn the ship.

Seeing the misfortune of this Warship, it’s likely that during its transit through Subspace, a rebellion of Genetic Thieves occurred, attacking the ship’s commanders and high-ranking officers, and then—then they got screwed.

The Tyran Insect Swarm is powerful in the real world, but they don’t enter Subspace.

Therefore, these Genetic Thieves essentially won the fight but found they couldn’t contact their parents, and could only sadly drift along with this derelict ship in Subspace.

After all, not even the Evil God wants anything to do with the Genetic Thieves.

The reason Duanmu Huai was certain was that these Genetic Thieves had already developed atavistic traits, meaning these hybrids had nowhere to find humans and could only interbreed with other hybrids, and thus produced pureblood Genetic Thieves...

Forget it, no matter how you put it, just exterminate them!

Duanmu Huai raised the War Hammer, thunder twined and exploded on it, then he smashed it down with force. In the moment Duanmu Huai’s War Hammer struck, lightning scattered in all directions, turning into countless light serpents that illuminated the entire factory. Those thunderbolts, like venomous snakes, bit into the Genetic Thieves coming from all directions. Anything grazed or touched by the lightning instantly turned into a pile of charred remains.