Chapter 229

Chapter 229

Bai Qi turned to look at those eggs, and Old Qi, standing next to him, felt fear creeping into his heart.

In fact, ever since they failed to capture Bai Xiaoyu the last time, Bai Qi had already subjected him to one round of torture. Now, unable to control himself, Bai Qi's facial scales and insect patterns began to emerge bit by bit. Whenever this happened, Bai Qi would become extremely cruel, mercilessly attacking those around him, especially his former mentor.

The last time, Bai Qi nearly killed him. Even with the best medicine and treatment, he had to lie in bed for several days. Now, he regretted getting involved with Bai Qi. Back on Imperial Star, there were so many royal youths. He should never have chosen Bai Qi as a collaborator.

However, at that time, he also considered that his grandson and Bai Qi could form a good relationship. The marriage between the two families would strengthen their alliance. More importantly, many of the experiments he wanted to conduct could only be fully supported by the Huang Family, who had no moral limits whatsoever when it came to experiments. After collaborating, he found that the Huang Family was even more ruthless than he was.

Now, the Huang Family's lack of ethical boundaries had become a death sentence for him.

Bai Qi was already in a rage, and seeing Old Qi trying to avoid his gaze, he remembered how much effort he had put into recruiting this useless man, even humbling himself. Yet, not even a single egg had been successfully incubated. This made him even angrier.

Immediately, he walked over and delivered a brutal, dragon-style beating to Old Qi. He didn't stop until Old Qi was on the verge of death, and only then did his mutated yellow vertical pupils slowly return to normal.

After kicking Old Qi away, Bai Qi calmed himself and said, "If Bai Xiaoyu can't incubate those thirty eggs and you don't make any progress, you'll be of no use to me."

With that, he left. Old Qi, coughing up blood, suppressed his resentment and fury, and began using a robot medical device to treat his wounds, also taking medication.

Once his injuries were mostly healed, Old Qi went to the inner lab. He looked at the various severed limbs of the Bug clan's top leaders in their containers. The reason why these eggs kept producing offspring was related to these severed limbs.

With a dark expression, he realized that since Bai Qi had been unfair to him, he couldn't remain loyal. He knew too much, and Bai Qi was only keeping him around because he was still useful. Once the hundred or so top leaders were born, his fate would be sealed.

Staring at the transparent containers holding the severed limbs, Old Qi suddenly smiled in a sinister manner. However, these top leaders' remains were extremely powerful, and it would be difficult to destroy them completely without Bai Qi finding out.

He would need to think carefully.

He also didn't believe that Bai Xiaoyu could successfully incubate those eggs. Bai Qi gathering all the top leaders was still far off. He had plenty of time to scheme. In any case, he absolutely couldn't allow Bai Qi to gather all the top leaders.

Not only did he not want Bai Qi to gather the top leaders, but he also hoped that both Bai Qi and the Huang Family would fall, as that was his only chance of survival.

After leaving, Bai Qi returned to his residence and held his head in his hands. Ever since the fusion of the two chips in his brain, every time he lost control, he would experience severe headaches. The more painful it was, the more uncontrollable he became. Recently, these episodes were becoming more frequent, making Bai Qi somewhat wary. However, after using his mental energy to probe and having Old Qi confirm it, he was told that these were aftereffects of the fusion and that they wouldn't happen once he adapted.

Bai Qi didn't fully trust Old Qi's words, but he also vaguely understood that his body was undergoing a gradual transformation and integration. Once a certain balance was achieved, everything would stabilize.

So for now, he wasn't too concerned about it. What he was more concerned about were the top leader eggs that hadn't been incubated yet. The fusion of dragon and Bug clan leader genes, which had taken the Huang Family hundreds or even thousands of years of effort, was extremely important to him.

Thus, he kept an eye on Bai Xiaoyu's movements every day, lurking in Bai Xiaoyu's unopened live stream to gather recent intelligence. Of course, he was also aware of Bai Xiaoyu establishing a black mineral energy box production base on F73 planet. A portion of the credit points Bai Xiaoyu earned from auctioning the energy boxes also went to the Huang Family.

These credit points were nothing to the Huang Family. What he was interested in was the origin of the black mineral. Many speculated that Bai Xiaoyu obtained so much black mineral because F73 planet had traded with neighboring stars and stored a large amount of black mineral, or that F73 had mined black mineral.

Since F73 planet, due to its orbit around the meteorite zone, had limited interaction with the outside world, there were records of black mineral being mined in the past. Later, to preserve the planet's energy reserves, the site was sealed. So, when Bai Xiaoyu took over F73, people assumed he quickly resumed mining the black mineral. But Bai Qi knew that the black mineral site had not only been sealed but secretly excavated by the Huang Family.

So, the black mineral Bai Xiaoyu obtained now was definitely not from the original reserves of F73. Even if there were some, there wouldn't be this much. Clearly, as he suspected, this black mineral was transported back by the cubs through the wormholes!

This indicated that despite not being pure Bugs, these cubs had acquired Bug abilities.

He was instantly excited. This was exactly the kind of Bug army he wanted.

However, he didn't plan to make this public. As long as the top leader cubs were incubated, he could easily take over F73. From there, they could expand into the Bug clans' star field.

Even if Bai Xiaoyu had established an energy box production base, he could disregard it for now. The credit points he took were insignificant. Once the base was built, he could control the cubs to take over the entire planet, and then he could move in at any time.

Bai Xiaoyu, meanwhile, had no idea about the events between Bai Qi and Old Qi, nor did he know that Bai Qi was secretly plotting against F73 and the cubs. He was busy sending this batch of cubs away and preparing for the next batch of eggs in the coming days.

Before the next batch of eggs arrived, the small vortices of these thirty eggs had already begun to grow explosively.

Bai Xiaoyu examined the small vortices of these eggs and was prepared for the internal vortices to start devouring each other at any moment.

On the other side, representatives from over a dozen legions were dispatched to the large transport ship at Dawn to retrieve the energy boxes and medications.

The generals were initially fondling the energy boxes, immediately recalling Bai Xiaoyu’s promise to provide them with one or two thousand medications. Their thoughts then turned to the many severely wounded warriors, and they shifted their gaze to the dozen or so boxes behind them. It didn’t seem to match what Bai Xiaoyu had described.

They instructed the warriors to open all the crates, and everyone was left speechless.

Inside the boxes, rows of medications were visible, clearly more than one or two thousand. There were obviously several thousand bottles.

The military doctors, who had heard about this and rushed over, were the most thrilled to see these crystal-clear medications, which were at least 2S-grade.

This wasn’t the first time they’d seen these medications. They had previously borrowed supplies from the Twenty-ninth Legion and received a few hundred bottles, and the Sixteenth Legion had also sent over some, which helped a group of critically wounded warriors on the brink of death recover.

However, both legions needed the medications even more, so it was never enough.

Now, with several thousand more bottles, even though it was still insufficient, it was several times more than what had been promised, enough to benefit several thousand warriors. The military doctors, with excited expressions, immediately looked at their superior, full of anticipation.

The general, of course, wouldn’t refuse. After all, they had asked Bai Xiaoyu for the medications for these warriors. With a wave of his hand, he ordered the medical team to take all the medications.

Thus, the typically quiet and somber intensive care unit of the legion was filled with laughter and joy this time.

Almost every legion witnessed a similar scene, where they were shocked by the incredible effectiveness of Bai Xiaoyu’s medications. At the same time, they silently hoped that the medications from the royal family and suppliers could match this quality.

If that were the case, they would have no worries about medications on the battlefield. Bai Xiaoyu’s medications could restore them within seconds, whether they were injured or had exhausted their physical or mental energy. In the critical and dangerous battles where every second counted, these medications were like an extra life for them.

However, due to the limited quantity, almost all of the medications were given to the critically wounded warriors in the intensive care unit.

Tong Guan, watching the warriors who were able to stand again, was filled with joy and surprise.

Upon examination, they were not only recovering well, but after using the marrow-washing medication, their old injuries were slowly healing. They were expected to return to the battlefield soon.

While Tong Guan was happy, he also noticed the warriors still lying on other beds. The medications were excellent, but there were too few of them.

The legion members had long heard of the Fire Seed medications and had used them before, but only a small number benefited. After this, it spread even more within the legion, and the warriors naturally yearned for them.

The generals from the dozen or so legions also sighed. With such terrifying effectiveness, which legion wouldn’t want these medications? Especially since Bai Xiaoyu had more than just medications—he also had energy boxes.

For the legions, this combination was particularly dangerous. If Bai Xiaoyu used these two things to tempt them, honestly, they might not hold out for long.

After all, when it came to the lives of the warriors under their command, who wouldn’t want them to have extra lives?

When the generals learned that Bai Xiaoyu also collected herbs, they quickly sent over various herbs collected by the legions during their missions.

A few days later, Bai Xiaoyu received a shipment of herbs sent back by members of Dawn. The quality of these herbs was excellent, and they came from various star regions covered by the dozen or so legions, with a wide variety.

Bai Xiaoyu had his people organize and calculate the value of these herbs, noting them down to deduct from the credit points for the next batch of medications.

Afterward, he went to the breeding facility and started a live stream. By this time, the region had already sent over the eggs, and so had the two legions.

Seventy eggs from the region, sixteen from the two legions, and thirty previously collected, totaling 116 eggs.

This time, he had already inspected each egg. Except for the thirty eggs, which lacked highly active dark substances, both the region’s and the two legions’ eggs showed signs of new dark substances.

There were seven such eggs out of the seventy from the region, a ratio significantly higher than before. Two eggs from the two legions also showed this phenomenon.

Bai Xiaoyu frowned. The eggs carrying the dark substances with Bug genes were indeed increasing rapidly, alarmingly fast. Even the cubs from the legions were not spared.

Just as Bai Xiaoyu was worried about the birthrate of the human-bug cubs doubling again, Bai Qi, who had been watching the live stream, had his eyes fixed on those thirty eggs the moment Bai Xiaoyu started broadcasting.

The cracks on these eggs had been sealed with blood vessels, and each egg displayed intricate blood vessel patterns on its surface. The patterns flickered, and although the eggshells appeared dull, the activity of the blood vessels indicated a good recovery.

Not only was he staring at these eggs, but he also occasionally glanced at the transparent display screen next to the incubation device. His gaze quickly fell on one of the eggs on the screen, and the data of this egg shocked him. It had clearly begun incubation and had passed the first checkpoint, which was also the most significant vortex checkpoint in incubating these eggs. They always struggled at this stage, but now this egg showed remarkable progress. The blood patterns on the eggshell were the brightest, and the flowing liquid inside was the fastest, with the absorption rate of the potion skyrocketing.

There was no mistake; eggs in this state had obviously passed the small vortex dominance stage!

At this moment, other viewers who knew that these eggs were rescued by the Sixteenth Legion also noticed the blood patterns on them and became worried. They asked Bai Xiaoyu many questions about these eggs.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaoyu told the viewers not to worry, as he had a way to restore all these eggs.

As the viewers in the stream breathed a sigh of relief, Bai Qi suddenly burst into laughter.

His Zerg Overlord had passed the most dangerous period, and in less than three months, the Zerg Overlord would be born. Given Bai Xiaoyu's confident demeanor, it seemed likely that all the eggs could be successfully incubated. Now, he was about to have thirty more Zerg Overlords. Bai Qi couldn't be more excited.

Although he didn't know how Bai Xiaoyu managed to do it, at this moment, he had to admit that Bai Xiaoyu was far better than Old Qi, who was useless. In his lab, so many people couldn't do anything about these eggs, but Bai Xiaoyu had solved the problem within a week after receiving the broken eggs.

Now he just needed to remain calm and wait for these eggs to hatch.

At this moment, Old Qi also witnessed this scene, and his expression shifted slightly. He truly hadn't expected Bai Xiaoyu to actually achieve this, and at the same time, a warning bell rang in his heart.

He suddenly took out a syringe filled with light blue liquid and quietly injected a small amount into the newly incubated egg.

This liquid was derived from the melted remains of the Zerg Prince who had previously escaped with Bai Qi. The prince had a strong level suppression on the Zerg Overlord and a subtle devouring effect. Injecting this liquid into the egg would either render it a 'silent egg' or prevent any small vortex from suppressing the prince's influence, leading to its eventual consumption. By injecting just a tiny amount into a newborn egg, the egg would essentially be ruined.

The Zerg Prince was an existence that couldn't be incubated even with its genes. They had once tried to fuse genes to incubate, but the genes were devoured, and they failed to incubate any Zerg Prince eggs.

He couldn't tamper with every newly incubated egg without risking discovery, so he only altered a few. Next, he needed to find an opportunity to inject this liquid into those limbs. The Little Prince, though still low-level at the time, would, given enough time, affect the limbs of the Zerg Overlords.

Soon, Bai Qi received the news that a small portion of the newly incubated eggs had become silent eggs.

Bai Qi was thrilled and didn't give it much thought. There had always been a few in each batch, and now it just seemed like there were more, but it didn't significantly impact the overall outcome. In the past, since these were eggs with Zerg Overlord and dragon clan genes, he would have cared more and asked what had happened. However, this time, he didn't have them disposed of but instead placed them into another transparent container, where there were already many silent eggs.

The silent eggs were placed in the container and quickly settled at the bottom, motionless.