I Am The Swarm

Chapter 244: The Cocoon

“Perhaps it’s because we’ve reached their core!” Dr. Balt suggested.

The room fell silent as everyone mulled over the possibility. It seemed highly likely.

“Send in more personnel. We’ll take this underground nest today!” ordered General Masai, the expedition fleet’s supreme commander.

Following the general’s directive, Lieutenant Colonel Cross, the officer in charge of the battlefield’s regional base, deployed nearly all her forces, leaving only a skeleton crew to maintain base operations.

Lieutenant Colonel Cross was an exceptionally young female Riken, a top graduate of the military academy’s command program, and the youngest captain in the expedition fleet. Ordinarily, such a position would be out of reach for someone with her limited experience. However, her twin sister worked in a classified re

While these animals couldn’t be used without special processing, Winter briefly wondered how they might taste. Catching himself, he banished the thought and refocused.

He inspected several other silk-wrapped cocoons, cutting them open one by one. Each contained a similar grassland animal, all common species.

“This must be their storage room—a place where they keep their food,” Winter deduced as his team gathered around.