A massive congregation of moss virus had accumulated within the city. It wasn't evolving into the diverse flora-fauna hybrid life forms found on Sol Star, but instead simply growing stronger in its original viral form.
Now, the entire city was thoroughly covered by the moss virus. According to remote asurent data from military satellites, the thinnest layer of the virus was already three ters thick, and the thickest part was a staggering seventeen ters!
Moreover, in the city center, the moss virus had centered around the tallest building, forming a giant sphere hundreds of ters in diater, nurturing so unknown entity within.
Chairman White was preparing to organize a reconnaissance team, jointly ford by the military and the Rights Association. With military firepower support, they were to ascertain exactly what this "poison nest" was breeding.
Relatively speaking, this operation was more feasible, and there were no stringent mission requirents; it only said "try your best."
Chen Gu had agreed to it.
They were about to board a military spacecraft bound for Planet Jorges III. The team mbers from both the military and the Rights Association were ready—all professionals, with ranks mainly concentrated at the Third and Fourth Energy Levels.
However, among these people, the special agents from the Rights Association carried their Star State's usual air of arrogance. The military warriors also upheld the Star State army's typical style, their faces cold and unapproachable.
The supplies were loaded onto the spacecraft, and everything was ready. The captain had already ordered the launch. Suddenly, a military vehicle raced over and screeched to a halt in front of the ship. Chairman White, drenched in sweat, dashed out and waved his arms frantically at the porthole, shouting, "Captain Chen, co quickly! There's been a huge incident!"
A sense of ominous foreboding rose in Chen Gu's heart. He disembarked with his team. Too impatient to go to an office, Chairman White imdiately opened data from military satellites on his personal device right there on the tarmac, exclaiming, "Those things have evolved into this!"
It was an image just captured by a military satellite. In the mountainous area where the "SOS" was located, a huge rhizo had suddenly burst through the soil and rapidly grown into a massive stem. At the top, instead of flowers, an open cluster of spores had sprouted, each as large as a fighter jet by volu.
Charles and a few others were puzzled. This bizarre moss virus could evolve in various ways in its later stages, so the appearance of such an entity wasn't entirely shocking. But it hardly seed like sothing that would scare the mighty Chairman of the Rights Association to the point of tears.
But when Chen Gu saw those spores, his complexion changed dramatically. "Why haven't you dispatched a Close Range Attack Ship? What on earth are you waiting for?"
White gritted his teeth, thought for a mont, and finally said, "We had no choice."
He went on to explain, "You still rember that SOS signal, don't you?" He opened the image again, showing the signal arranged with red fabric and weighed down by so rocks.
"The arrangent of these rocks is not ordinary; it represents the family emblem of an ancient clan from our Star State."
Chairman White outlined it on the image: a kind of superimposition of an X and Z.
"It belongs to the Hondarei family, a family deeply entrenched in the dia industry of the Star State. And according to our subsequent investigation, the person who arranged this distress signal is very likely Gascolin Hondarei—the only biological son of Joseph Hondarei, the current patriarch of the Hondarei family!"
Chairman White looked utterly helpless. "Now you understand, right? We had to confirm first whether Gascolin Hondarei is still alive.
"If we dispatched the Close Range Attack Ship to utterly destroy a colonial star without confirmation, the dia would slap a terrible accusation of 'murdering civilians' right onto us!
"Believe , Joseph Hondarei is no conscientious dia figure, and yet he wields such trendous power!
"If such a thing were to happen, it could lead to the impeachnt of the current Star State governnt!
"This is no small matter!"
Chen Gu understood. Indeed, he had been puzzled. Why would the Star State, on account of an SOS signal whose authenticity couldn't even be confird, repeatedly send elite teams to their deaths three tis? Why would they even spare no expense to bring a super-lifeform from the Confederation as reinforcents, all to clarify if there were any 'survivors'?
In his heart, Chen Gu knew the Star State's nature well. They spoke grandly of democracy and fairness, but their history of war cris was too extensive to record.
Chen Gu, with a stern face, asked, "So what now? Are you going to send more people to their deaths?"
White, with a gloomy expression, replied, "I have no choice. I'm not in charge of this—in fact, not even the highest leader of our Rights Association, the Chief Speaker, His Excellency, is in charge. The Great Commander of the Star State has explicitly ordered: he wants proof of life! He doesn't want to offend a bigwig like Joseph Hondarei."
Veins bulged on Chen Gu's forehead from frustration. "The Star State's Great Commander, so devoid of responsibility? Your voters certainly chose a 'great' leader wisely!"
Chairman White smiled bitterly. "What's the use of talking about this now? You should know that during the election for the Great Commander, Joseph Hondarei gave substantial support."
Chen Gu looked again at the giant spores. "This thing... exactly how capable is it? Have you made an assessnt?"
"As soon as this thing appeared, we mobilized a large number of military satellites to scan it, and our experts quickly made an assessnt. I'm sorry, Captain Chen, it's bad news: once this thing matures, it has the ability to drift into space!"
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