Chapter 494: Hungry. Want to eat people

That's natural. After accepting this transformation, she herself, aside from her soul and thoughts, everything else belongs to Zhang Jie.

But it's nothing; Zhang Jie is right—she had already died once before, and in this world everything she knew is gone: comrades, drivers, superiors, even the plans she carried out are no longer the same.

So... now her connection with Zhang Jie and the others is the deepest.

"Good."

"Okay, get ready."

Zhang Jie nodded, turning the deep space giant beast's cub into a warship—that part isn't hard; the difficulty lies in how to integrate Qiong in the form of ship life into it.

Once done, Zhang Jie will gain another great general under his command.

As for why not give it to Xiao Jiu, it's because Zhang Jie has a better option.

What Qiong gets is merely the deep space giant beast's cub; once successful and after gaining experience, Zhang Jie will go hunt adult or even elderly deep space giant beasts to build a warship body for Xiao Jiu.

With this, Qiong can grow like a normal organism and completely free herself from the fixed combat power problem of ship life.

Traditional ship life, if not modified or upgraded, has its combat power permanently fixed.

With this, none of that is a problem anymore.

"Qiong has begun an unprecedented overhaul, and meanwhile, you've made progress in investigating the previous attack—various evidence documents trace the clues to the Iron Law Star Alliance, especially the seats of councilors and above."

"Was it done by a human female? That option can be completely ruled out; it shouldn't even be under consideration, but at least Zhang Jie has figured out one thing."

"The higher-ups of the Iron Law Star Alliance, aside from the human female, are all hostile toward you—especially the Star Sea Leader at the top—this puts you on high alert."

"And your travel plan with Xiao Jiu and the human female has also concluded satisfactorily, if we ignore the fact that you died once..."

"'We still have plenty of time ahead,' the human female said, she was the first to propose ending it and returning to handle duties; being able to take such a long vacation is already the most time she could spare."

"When you thought you could finally settle into a stable research project, Yuan brought you another incredibly shocking piece of news."

"Zhelegu, this insect disaster that had taken human form, a scholar serving the Gene Star Alliance, a top-tier scholar in the galaxy, died yesterday."

"Unlike Yuan's various incarnations, it lacks this technology—so why exactly was he killed?"

"Because he learned things he shouldn't have—Yuan suspects it's the 'Extraterrestrial Entity' project that Zhang Jie once mentioned."

"The only variable in between was that she struck a deal with them under certain conditions, having them investigate this project."

"Zhelegu's death came from being arrested directly by the Gene Star Alliance; that same day they swiftly tried him, piled on various charges, arrested, tried, and executed him all in one day."

"He didn't even have time to react; the Gene Star Alliance didn't care about the fallout, went ahead on its own, and simply wiped it out."

"Such thunderous methods—utterly terrifying; at the start, Zhelegu even thought it was just a simple interrogation."

"The Gene Star Alliance... this alliance has already been listed by you as an extremely dangerous existence; and the Iron Law Star Alliance—could it one day turn on you in the same way?"

"But with the human female present, he should be temporarily safe; of course, over these many days there hasn't been a lack of good news either."

"Qiong's upgrade was a complete success!"

"How does it feel?"

"Strength... has become very strong...."

The old granny loli grew up, becoming an old granny onee-san; the warship's changes synchronously reflect in her humanoid form—just from this, Zhang Jie has already succeeded.

"Also.... I'm hungry... so hungry."

"Hmm, anything else?"

"Also.... I want to eat people...."

Zhang Jie silently moved a bit farther away from Qiong....

"It should be the giant beast's instinct at work—Nightmare, go mess with her mind a bit."

"Got it!"

A shroud of shadow enveloped her; Qiong only felt as if there were a pair of hands in her mind, constantly plucking, until they found a string and snapped it with a twang.

The urge to eat people didn't fade; the string that Nightmare plucked.... seemed to be the rational string that kept her from eating people....

"!!!!"

"Oi!!!!"

Qiong let out a roar and lunged to bite Zhang Jie, but in the next instant Xiao Jiu pressed her to the ground.

Zhang Jie almost lost a chunk of flesh—luckily the security measures were strong.

"How did you manage this?!"

"Cough, don't rush, you got it wrong...."

As Nightmare continued the manipulation, Qiong's struggles grew larger; Xiao Jiu and the other two ship lives were sweating profusely holding her down, like pressing a year-old pig—harder than pressing a year-old pig.

In the end, under Nightmare's manipulation, the side effects of the giant beast's instinct were perfectly suppressed, and this great experiment was declared a success!

However, Zhang Jie doesn't intend to publicize it; this is now a trump card, a trump card against other forces!

After Qiong returned to normal, she began testing her abilities; as a warship built from the base of a giant beast's corpse, her attack power has greatly increased—she can, like a deep space giant beast, devour planets and various warships to grow.

Possessing combat power at the level of a heavenly disaster, it will surely play its role at critical moments.

So the next target is to hunt adult deep space giant beasts!

Meanwhile, the gene serum personally given by Yuan also came into use, as Zhang Jie continually raises his life level—that is, his gene lock.

As for the Gene Star Alliance, their individual combat strength for humans isn't that deep; they mainly rely on warship warfare, lacking that kind of flesh‑body star‑bursting ultimate behemoth.

Well, aside from ship life.....

"Your plan is progressing in an orderly manner....."

"But within the Star Sea, besides humans, there are heavenly disasters stirring restlessly....."

"Heavenly disasters keep growing stronger; the balance scale called 'equilibrium' within the Star Sea keeps tilting....."

"Finally!!!!"

"Starting from the most tranquil Spiritual Energy Star Alliance, humanity's all‑out battlefield against heavenly disasters has been fully ignited!!!!"

"And this time, Yuan finally believes you can touch that forbidden object—the Entropy Disaster!"