After seeing these Cursed Children with his own eyes, Fangzheng finally understood why Ren Sheng Zhaoxia said that these Cursed Children were more willing to be with the Zerg than with other Zerg.
Most of the Cursed Children that Fangzheng had undergone genetic modification did not have an infection rate of more than 50%, so their structure was relatively easy to adjust. But after that, a large portion of the Cursed Children received by the Tendo Temple were those whose infection rate was about to exceed 50%. These Cursed Children had to be given the highest priority to be treated.
Of course, with the biotechnology of the Zerg, a mere Enterovirus was nothing in their eyes. Even if the infection rate exceeded 50%, as long as the Cursed Children were still rational, they could still be saved. But this way, there would be a problem. Because the genes of the Cursed Children had been eroded too high, their human genes were damaged, and this required the Zerg to inject genes to repair them. Although there was no essential difference between this process and what Xia Shi and Chui received before, there was a clear difference in the quantity.
This also caused their appearance to be more abnormal, and many Zerg characteristics appeared on them.
"F- Lord Fangzheng …!"
Seeing Fangzheng's appearance, the Cursed Children were obviously a little nervous. Fangzheng even saw a few girls secretly hiding, only poking their heads out to look at him anxiously from a distance. Of course, Fangzheng could understand their attitude. Generally speaking, if the Cursed Children grew up naturally, even if they lived past the age of 10, the infection rate would not exceed 50%. Generally speaking, there were only two possibilities for these children to have such a high infection rate.
One was that they had experienced a particularly fierce battle before and relied too much on their own strength, which led to the expansion of the Enterovirus infection.
The other was that they had suffered a very serious injury, causing the Enterovirus to need a larger scale to repair their bodies, which increased their infection rate.
The latter type was obviously the majority of the people. This also meant that these children with a high rate of corruption had once been subjected to inhumane abuse.
Because of this, they were more vigilant towards others than other children.
"Hello."
Looking at the children in front of him, Fangzheng smiled and nodded at them. The bodies of these children had changed dramatically compared to the other cursed children. For example, he saw an eight-year-old girl whose lower body was not a human's, but a hydralisk's. There were also a few girls whose wings seemed to have mutated, causing their wings to resemble flying dragons instead of their original form.
How should I put it … .it feels like a Zerg personification ….
No wonder they felt more at ease with the insectoids.
For these cursed children who had been abused by humans and had their bodies altered, it wasn't strange for them to feel that the Zergs gave them a greater sense of security than the humans.
"Master."
At this time, Milune also arrived in front of Fangzheng.
"What are your orders?"
"Let me introduce you."
Fangzheng also knew that the Zergs did not like any unnecessary formalities, so he called Iona and Musashi over.
"They are the flagships of my newly established fleet, Iona and Musashi. In the future, they will command the fleet and cooperate with the insect swarm."
"I see."
Milune nodded and then looked at Iona and Musashi. The latter was curiously looking at the various Zerg troops around them. For the mechanized Sea Mist, the pure biological civilization of the Zerg was really a completely different and fresh experience.
"By the way, Milune, how are the children doing here?"
After leaving the mental models to deal with the Zergs, Fangzheng looked at Milune again and asked the question that he was worried about. After all, in his memory, the Zergs did not know how to take care of people, let alone be good psychologists. If Milune treated these children as consumables like worker bees, he would have a headache.
"These parasites?"
Hearing Fangzheng's question, Milune glanced at the cursed children not far away.
"Their individual strength is very weak, they lack combat experience, and they have no value in going to the battlefield. However, their whims have a certain impact on the maintenance and improvement of the Zerg genes, so we are still in the observation stage. "
Milune's words were very straightforward. For the Zergs, there were only two kinds of existences: "useful" and "useless". In her opinion, the cursed children were currently the former, but they might be classified as the latter at some point. But since Fangzheng valued these cursed children so much, Milune naturally would not choose to get rid of them — but getting rid of them from the Zerg ranks was another matter.
After all, for the Zergs, useless waste must be eliminated.
"Fang, Sir Fangzheng …"
Just as Fangzheng and Milune finished their conversation and were about to leave, the girl with the lower body of a Hydralisk was standing not far away. Her face was flushed red as though she was a little uneasy and nervous. She looked up at Fangzheng before turning her head away. Fangzheng traced her gaze and saw that behind her, many of the insect-form cursed children were secretly hiding there. Some of them were even giving her a hand gesture to cheer her on. Looking at her companions' actions, the Hydralisk girl hesitated for a moment, then braced herself and walked up to Fangzheng.
"That, that, Sir Fangzheng! My, my name is Kona. That … that … I'm here to thank you on behalf of me and my sister. Thank you for saving us! "
As she spoke, the girl lowered her head and solemnly bowed to Fangzheng. On the contrary, Fangzheng smiled and waved his hand in embarrassment.
"Don't say that, I just did some small things, but … are you used to it now?"
"We weren't used to it at first, but gradually, everyone got used to it …"
"Is that so?"
Hearing the girl's answer, Fangzheng nodded and reached out to touch the girl's head.
"I can understand what you're thinking, but I want to tell you that you don't need to think too much about it. Instead, I should apologize to you. If I could do a better job here …"
"That's not true!"
However, before Fangzheng could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by the girl desperately shaking her head. The girl clenched her hands and stared at Fangzheng with wide eyes.
"Many of us have actually given up on living on, and so have I. Sir Fangzheng, you may not know this, but when I learned that the Tendo Temple was taking in the cursed children, I was filled with regret and sadness. Because at that time, my corruption rate had already reached 49% … To be honest, I was very unwilling at that time. If my corruption rate had been lower, or if I had learned about the Tendo Temple earlier, there might still have been hope. But when I had already given up hope and was ready to accept my fate of becoming one of those terrible monsters, hope suddenly appeared in front of me. And at that time, I didn't even have the strength to grab it …. "
The girl's expression became a little gloomy. Despair is not terrible. What is terrible is that you have given up hope, but you are surprised to find that hope is within your reach, but you no longer have the strength to grasp it. There is nothing more cruel than this.
"Even so … I survived …"
The girl stretched out her hand and pressed it on her chest.
"For me, this is a second life. No matter what I become, I will cherish it …"
"Is that so …"
Hearing the girl's answer, Fangzheng breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that these children were not devastated by the fact that their bodies had become deformed. At least, for now, this was enough.
But …
"You don't have to worry too much about this."
As he spoke, Fangzheng patted the girl's little head again.
"Let me tell you in advance. There will be more people here in the future, and there may be races similar to your current form, so you don't need to belittle yourselves. Besides … I think your current form is very cute."
"Really, really?"
"Of course."
Facing the girl's excited question, Fangzheng smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
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