Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 536 - 176 Experience_3

The entire spaceship down to here had almost completely become a part of the Insect Queen.

Except for the engine fitted with the Superspace Navigation System.

But that engine was also eventually discarded by the Insect Queen about half a month later.

When Chen Ming saw the grey-green with black impurities exhaust flames, unique to the Insect Race biological spaceship, spewing from the biomass engine nozzle in his memory.

He knew that the insects would definitely be a huge trouble for humanity.

At the same time, for him, it was a treasure waiting to be exploited.

However, there’s one thing on the spaceship that the Insect Race couldn’t evolve, the Spaceship Shield.

In the Insect Queen’s memory, indeed, she had captured a pirate ship after it that had a spaceship shield module that didn’t fit very well.

But when she tried to evolve a spaceship shield, she found she could only evolve a chaotic mass of proliferating flesh, unable to form biological tissues as effective as the spaceship shield module.

Therefore, she chose to give up, relocating her heart into the position of the shield, and once again resided within the heart.

Additionally, after the failure to evolve the shield, the Insect Queen continued to thicken and strengthen the Insect Race shell outside of the biological spaceship.

Thus, the biomass spaceship truly appeared in the universe.

This was the development process of this Thorn Insect Race’s Insect Queen in space.

After that, the Insect Queen continued to slowly roam in the Superspace.

She chose to proceed in the relatively safer direction recognized from the star map found on the original spaceship computer, existing outside the territories of Dusk and the Mechanical Race.

Upon passing each Star System, the Insect Queen would leave Superspace for a period, searching internally within the star system for valuable planets, while collecting some supplies.

Insect Race can consume anything, and the rigid digestion pouch of the biomass spaceship allowed it to digest many peculiar things, so acquiring supplies was not troublesome for the Insect Queen.

However, her route did not include the few valuable star systems that Chen Ming had discovered before, so along the way, she could only search for supplies.

Until she arrived in the star system where Chen Ming was currently located.

In this star system, the Insect Queen finally found a valuable planet, one that harbored cities of the Mechanical Race.

However, at this time, the Insect Queen unexpectedly discovered another Thorn Insect Race colony in orbit around this planet.

Inside an asteroid resembling the one the Insect Queen had previously inhabited, there was a dormant Thorn Insect Race nest.

Then, the Insect Queen attacked this colony.

Relying on the destroyer-grade weapons evolved from her biomass spaceship, the small acidic spray sacs, she gained a range advantage.

Although Chen Ming initially thought it was ineffective.

But after obtaining the memory of the Insect Queen and learning more details about this biological weapon.

Understanding that these small acidic spray sacs, utilizing the tightly knotted muscles beneath the Insect Race shells for precise lethality, had an effective range of up to four kilometers.

This was higher than the weapon range of typical civilian ships used to fend off small asteroids and pirate ships, and even stronger than civilian weapons.

Chen Ming then realized that the Insect Race’s biological weapons weren’t as bad as he thought.

As long as the environment was suitable, they could always perform well.

However, the nature of the Insect Race inherently favored melee combat, using Insect Race "fighters" was still unchanged.

Thus, the small-scale conflict that broke out between the two colonies quickly ended, first under the acidic firepower suppression, then the Insect Race "fighters" breaking into the nest.

On the spaceship... no, by now it’s already the biological spaceship of the Insect Queen, after devouring the other Insect Queen.

A strange reaction occurred between the genes of the two Insect Queens.

It produced an effect similar to genetic catalysis.

Causing the Insect Queen to evolve again.

This evolution was particularly unique.

The biomass spaceship first attached to the asteroid and started incessantly consuming.

The Insect Queen consumed the nutrients from the dead insects, ate metallic minerals, devoured a type of gelatinous food converted by specialized nutrition worms of the Insect Race, known as Insect Glue.

After almost consuming the entire asteroid, a large mass of proliferative substances exuded between the biomass spaceship’s shell, completely enveloping the biological spaceship like a cocoon.

During this process, the cocoon continued to grow in size.

Until half a month later, the biomass spaceship broke out from the cocoon, its original frigate size expanded to the level of a destroyer.

This evolution was thoroughly completed.

After this.

The Insect Queen laid a special egg, leaving a part of the Insect Race within the asteroid she occupied.

She then departed from the star system, continuing deeper into space.

And not long after, the egg left here hatched, inheriting the majority of the Insect Queen’s memories.

Upon hatching, it became the new Insect Queen remaining on this asteroid.

By consuming the cocoon left behind by her mother and some residual nutrients, she again evolved a destroyer-grade biomass spaceship, descending onto the planet below.

She aims to propagate, she wants to make this planet part of her.

Even though the Mechanical Race reacted quickly when this newborn Insect Queen just landed, making combat preparations immediately and dispatching many Mechanical Race units for investigation.

But the speed of the Insect Queen escaping the pursuit was faster than the Mechanical Race’s hunt, even after the Mechanical Race lost the trail of the Insect Queen, resulting in them entering dormancy once again.