EROS [Zerg]

"Is the female insect you're talking about named Eros?" Locke chuckled softly. "I heard my female lord mention him a long time ago."

“Perhaps I have some news you don’t know.” Brandt found a seat and sat down. “Eros’s mental energy resonates with that of your female son, Lieutenant General Evanson.”

Locke did not show any surprise on his face after hearing this.

"You seem unsurprised?"

"There's nothing surprising about it. If Kuwait can invent an Evanson, he can certainly invent an Eros."

“However, it seems that the number of experimental samples in the Kuwait laboratory has not decreased.” Locke’s face suddenly lit up with an interested smile: “That’s the most interesting part.”

"Experimental subject?"

"What dangerous game is he playing now?" Brandt frowned and rubbed his forehead. "You're his master, can't you do something about it?"

"Who cares?" Locke chuckled softly, raising a claw covered in a black glove. He removed the glove, revealing a scale-covered claw to the two insects.

“It takes more effort to manage him than to manage the insect king.”

"Insect transformation?" Brandt's eyes narrowed. "Male insects do have an insect transformation state...you've actually started to transform into an insect?!"

"Insect God! What kind of horrific experiments are you conducting now?!"

Brandt almost scratched his face. He still remembered when he was the chief military mechanic at the Imperial Academy of Science and Technology, Kove, who was then the Minister of Biochemistry, proposed to cooperate with him on an experiment, saying that he wanted to further combine mech operation with the mental power of female insects.

At the time, Brandt didn't know much about Kowe, only that Kowe was the mother of Lieutenant General Evanson. He readily agreed.

At first, Brandt thought everything was normal, and out of his fondness for Lieutenant General Evanson, he did his best to meet all of Coway's requests.

Kowe is a female insect with extremely high requirements for experiments, and only Brandt can produce results that satisfy him.

Therefore, Kowe ruthlessly used every means to squeeze out the best value of this excellent engineer, and in his eyes, all the insects were only useful to him once.

After utilizing all the technical guidance he could get from Brandt, Kowe smiled and invited Brandt to see his final "masterpiece":

"This will be a groundbreaking invention in the military industry!"

Brandt humbly echoed, the tall, white mech before him a testament to his hard work, but he was more curious about what technology Admiral Kowe had incorporated into it: "I am honored, and I look forward to seeing..."

As the cockpit slowly opened, Brandt's vision came into view of a mesh structure submerged in a liquid.

"General Kuwait, what is this?"

Brandt felt that the mesh structure inside the mech's cockpit looked very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

But because he was too far away, he couldn't see clearly, but a strange sense of unease crept into his heart.

Kowe curved his lips into a slight smile, but there was no pride in his eyes. Instead, there was a sense of weariness from his interest in learning: "This is the entire neural network of a female insect."

"Over the next seven years, we will integrate this neural network into a micron-sized chip, which is the micron-sized form of that 'blackboard.' Then, we will implant the neural chip into the body of the piloting Zerg. The neural chip can directly interface with the mech. In this way, the Zerg will not need to practice operating skills to pilot the mech. With just a thought, they can control the mech to perform various high-difficulty actions, which will greatly improve the combat efficiency of our army."

"Did you dissect a female insect?!" Brandt's eyes were fixed on the crystal surrounded by nerves on the mech—it was clearly an insect core!

The faint glow of electricity emanating from the worm's nucleus proved that nerve impulses still existed within the dissected nerves, and the presence of nerve impulses meant that pain could be felt!

“Don’t worry, Brandt,” Kove reassured him with a single sentence: “It’s all legal.”

"The female insects used in this experiment were all donated by the male Esderlunt. We have promised to give 3% of the wealth created by such experiments as a reward to His Excellency the male." Kowe's lips curled into a sneer.

"Enough!" Brandt couldn't take it anymore. "Kooway, are you a female insect?!"

"You lied to me! You made me your accomplice! You made me an executioner who persecutes female insects!"

"How could Lieutenant General Evanson, who so cherishes the lives of female insects, have a female father like you?!"

Kove looked at Brandt, who was about to go berserk, with amusement, and laughed twice, making no attempt to hide the mockery in his eyes: "Is there any necessary connection between me being his female father and his valuing of female insects' lives?"

Brandt's face flushed with anger; he had been foolish!

"Immediately halt this experiment that has no insect-like characteristics!"

"It's a pity, Brandt, it seems you can't share in the joy of this successful experiment with everyone else."

"This experiment has been reported, and the Empire will soon put this achievement into production..."

Brandt, blinded by rage, immediately drew his sidearm and aimed it directly at Kowe: "Stop immediately! No military mechanic in the Ministry of Military Machinery would use such unethical research results, stained with the blood of our own people!"

"The significance of such scientific research results is terrible. Even if they are applied to military operations, the disadvantages will definitely outweigh the advantages."

"The low threshold for mecha piloting has led to various problems. Mechas are high-end military weapons that should be regulated, and only female soldiers who have undergone rigorous military training are qualified to pilot them."

"If any female insect can pilot a mecha with just a chip, their demand for mecha will increase. Increased demand will create loopholes for capital to exploit. Capital will find ways to legitimize this, which will cause chaos and bring disaster!"

Kove stared at Brandt: "You are excellent, but this kind of worry will only stop you from making progress in your scientific research."

"There are limits to everything!" Brandt glared at Kowe and pulled the trigger of his sidearm.

With a loud "bang," Kowe turned to look at the mech's cockpit and saw a white crater in the crystal shield housing the neural network.

Then, several more gunshots rang out, and more and more bullet holes appeared on the crystal shield.

"Lord Brandt!" The other research insects tried to stop him, but were stopped by Kove raising his claws:

"Let him destroy it if he wants. If this one is broken, we can make a second or a third. Anyway, the empire has no shortage of female slaves."

Brandt was taken aback upon hearing this, but he quickly fired another shot at the crystal shield. With the sound of the gunshot, the battered crystal shield shattered, and the last bullet shattered the insect core, ending the agonizing suffering of the insectoid being: "If you leave him alive, you won't stop."

Once a disaster is created, it will never end.

Despite Brandt's reluctance to accept it, the technology that Kove mentioned was fully applied to the production of the military's seventh-generation mechs three years later.

It has now evolved into its eleventh generation and has become a standard feature of military mechs.

This made Brandt feel disgusted, as if he had eaten insect droppings, whenever he was repairing or designing these kinds of mechs.