With Zhao Chen's permission,
the Hive Princess naturally made bold use of this never-before-seen hive-race unit type.
And why were the T5 Bio-Infection Bugs inside the T6 Taotie-class Hive Mothership's 'body'?
Because the T5 Bio-Infection Bugs were bred by the T6 Taotie-class Hive Mothership, a hive-race unit type all its own.
Now the T5 Bio-Infection Bugs, one after another, like launched interstellar missiles, went into the attack along with the rest of the Owl Dragon hive-race.
But most of them first threw themselves on the carcasses of the Order hive-race who had just fallen.
The fighting before had left no few Order hive-race carcasses, and these carcasses had been left where they lay.
The Owl Dragon hive-race had not at once torn into and devoured them.
Now the reason for leaving these Order hive-race carcasses showed itself.
A T5 Bio-Infection Bug latched on to the carcass of a T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership riddled with wounds.
This T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership had been wounded very badly and was utterly lifeless.
But the moment the T5 Bio-Infection Bug fastened on.
Some sort of lively golden mycelium appeared on the surface of the T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership's body, and the golden threads began to seep into its body.
About a minute passed.
And the T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership, of all things, began to stir.
It slowly stretched out its body, then turned about and charged toward the two hive-race forces battling not far off.
This T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership seemed more frenzied than before; spitting plasma-cannon fire, it closed the distance with the enemy hive fleet.
When it had come almost to close quarters, the T5 Leviathan-Sovereign-class Hive Mothership's hideous great maw bit straight in.
At the same time, 'bio-Hive Motherships' of this kind grew more and more numerous.
Every one of them, without exception, bore the golden mycelium.
And the Order hive-race that fought them, even when they destroyed these bio-Hive Motherships, would find the golden mycelium appearing on their own bodies too.
Then, with time, the golden threads would multiply, until at last that Order Hive Mothership was infected as well.
The whole battlefield took on an 'uncanny' air.
"This… this fight…" Captain Tao Beibei, at his side, watched the scene dumbstruck.
The whole battlefield was very strange.
Hive-race fighting hive-race had been strange enough.
Now there were these strange bio-Hive Motherships besides.
Before, though the Owl Dragon hive-race's individual fighting power was higher, the Order hive-race's numbers were still what they were.
The two sides had been in a war of attrition.
That is: I kill ten of your soldiers and lose seven of my own.
But with these bio-Hive Motherships joining in,
it was another matter altogether!
For the Order hive-race would find that after destroying these strange bio-Hive Motherships, its own Hive Motherships would, at some moment, be infected into new bio-Hive Motherships.
It was like a swarm of 'viruses'.
Don't fight.
You'll be infected.
Fight.
You'll be infected all the same.
Either way, no good.
And the Order hive-race had no great intelligence; it still charged on with the sea-of-bugs tactic.
This made the strength of the two sides on the battlefield behave abnormally.
The Owl Dragon hive-race's strength, of all things, held steady, neither falling nor rising,
while the Order hive-race's strength was dropping at great speed.
"Isn't this just the undead creatures' ability from before? The very thing this Order cooked up. You could call it their own medicine," Zhao Chen said with a cold smile.
Whether or not it was because of his own special blood, the Order hive-race[1] the Hive Princess commanded had gained a wholly new power of evolution.
They could evolve more new kinds of Hive Motherships and hive-race unit types.
But these bio-infected Hive Motherships had one weakness.
The time they could exist was limited.
The stronger an individual had been in life, the longer it would last.
So this ability could only win an advantage on the battlefield.
It could not truly raise a vast army.
That was where it differed from the undead creatures' ability.
But at least, ability of this degree was already quite something.
"Wow… this… it's simply invincible," Captain Tao Beibei said in admiration.
As a starship captain, and someone with the makings of a commander,
she naturally understood very well the latent value of this ability.
Think of it: your opponents growing more numerous the more you fight, what does that mean?
The very thought was terrifying.
……
Before long, all of the Owl Dragon legion fleet groups Zhao Chen had summoned had arrived.
Several video windows appeared before Zhao Chen one after another.
Chu Xuan's Owl Dragon Second Fleet Group.
Xue Xiaoxiao's Owl Dragon Fourth Fleet Group.
The Emperor's Guard Fleet, which Zhao Chen commanded in person.
And the two ace fleet groups that had come along.
Chitong's Blizzard ace fleet group, and Baixue's Hell-Angel ace fleet group.
Charlotte had wanted to come in person with her Reverse Scale ace fleet group and take charge of this offensive herself.
But Zhao Chen had forcibly held her back.
The reason was simple.
Charlotte's due date had arrived.
She would give birth at the end of June.
Only about a week was left.
And no one knew how long the great decisive battle against the two Hive Nests would last.
Besides, things out there carried a certain risk.
So Zhao Chen had specially taken charge of this decisive battle himself, with several marshals assisting.
In truth it was mainly the marshals who settled things, and Zhao Chen merely 'oversaw the battle'.
Before Zhao Chen's firm stand, Charlotte could only give it up, and hold the rear with her Reverse Scale ace fleet group, keeping the northern hive line steady.
The reproachful look Charlotte had given him then.
Zhao Chen still remembered.
That great white cat had even shaken her fist at him and threatened him again and again: once she had 'unloaded the cargo', she would teach him a good lesson.
From the look of it, she likely meant to fight three hundred rounds with Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen could not help laughing at it.
But to return to the matter at hand,
Zhao Chen looked at the five fleet group commanders[2] before him, and at the Panda-Girl, deputy commander of his own Emperor's Guard Fleet.
Two more were attending the meeting besides.
The Hive Princess[3] of the Owl Dragon hive-race fleet, and the commander of the Angel City Fortress, the mermaid Haina.
Their standings differed.
But in this war each of them carried real weight.
"Ahem. At this moment the Hive Princess is leading the Owl Dragon hive-race fleet in hard fighting at the front. Through the Owl Dragon hive-race fleet's valiant fighting, the Angel Line is wholly back under control. And the enemy's attack has been checked once and for all!"