The original idea of this design was actually to create a sensor tower building with high strategic value enough to attract enemy units to attack. However, the design process somehow began to drift away, perhaps in part because they had not yet found enough means to attract astral spirits and humans to force them to attack. Ariel Hansen herself was not actually enthusiastic about the project, and although she became the director of the project, she was not too involved in the research and development of the project, and her main attention and enthusiasm was focused on the research of the alien virus.

"So, her colony was discovered by the swarm because of something, so it attracted the swarm?"

"Of course." Renaud nodded, "You didn't participate in Meinhoff's operation, that's for us to solve ourselves." After we rescued the refugees in Agrea, we transferred them to Meinhof. It was also a transit point for refugees from all over the Empire, but the camp in Meinhof had an outbreak before that, and it was the swarm virus that still exists on Haven. ”

"In the refugee camp in Meinhof, we found a rare insect creature...... You may have heard of infestation. Although there is no definitive evidence, it is believed that they spread the virus to the refugee camps in Meinhof. ”

"Wait, you're trying to ...... Was this swarm virus researched by that female doctor? ”

"Of course not." Renaud glanced at him suspiciously, "This swarm virus must have been brought by alien insects, I saw it during the battle of the brood." ”

They didn't know the true purpose of the swarm's invasion of Agrea, but it was better to say that no one but Queen Blade knew about it, and all they could do was guesswork. The doctor herself speculated that the swarm was for the virus project she was working on, as she did produce some results. But her question is: Why did the biters know about this? This project was originally carried out in secret, maybe Monsk didn't know about it, how could the Queen of Blades know?

“…… Did she experiment with a living Alien unit? If she had used it, the Queen of Blades might have known about it, and she might have watched the entire experiment. The corners of Yang Yi's mouth twitched slightly, "The Queen of Blades can accurately control every insect unit under the mind of the main nest, but most of the time she doesn't have that mind." The Empire has been in trouble with this ......"

Renault didn't ask about it, and he said he'd ask Hansen about it later. But in any case, Agrea's fate is a foregone conclusion. When the swarm invaded Agrea, Hansen was forced to abandon his lab in Agrea and flee with Renault and the refugees. At this time, Hansen subconsciously thought that her contract with Sirius had ended, after all, the entire experimental base had been attacked by alien insects, many scientific researchers had died in the invasion, and it was almost impossible to restart the project.

But just a few days after they settled in Meinhof, Hansen received an encrypted communication from an unknown source, asking if she wanted to continue working together. In the communication, the other party said that they had reassembled a group of personnel and supplies to send to Meinhof to fund her research, and said that they were very satisfied with her breakthrough in the virus project and the sensor tower project, and encouraged her to continue her research.

On the one hand, she was encouraged by her dedication to her project, but on the other hand, she also sensed that something was wrong. But at the time she couldn't tell what was wrong. Because she promised to follow the Rangers for a while, she told them that they could let their men settle down in Meinhof to continue their research, and she commanded them remotely through the ship's communications, and when the matter with the Rangers was settled, she would return to Meinhof or the colony where she finally decided to settle down to continue the research work herself. The other side quickly replied in the affirmative.

Because of this, these two research projects began to deviate more and more from the original research direction. The only way Ariel was informed of the progress of the experiment was through her deputy in Meinhof, who updated her daily project details, but her deputy was solely responsible for the specific work. She herself was in the Hebelian lab with Stetelman studying the specimens of the insects and astral spirits sent by Renault - including, of course, the artifact fragment in the center of the lab.

Once, her father, Bernard Hansen, sent her a newsletter informing her that there might be something wrong with her research project and that she wanted to take a break from it and suspend it for a while, but she refused. The reason for this was that the project had made great progress at the time, and she and her research team had succeeded in identifying several strains that could be lethal to the jumping insect unit, and she did not want to give up this hard-won achievement.

However, in the end, it was the invasion of the swarm that forced her to give up again. A highly contagious swarm virus suddenly appears in Meinhof's refugee camp, and Bernard has to turn to the Rangers again for help through Ariel. By the time Renault arrived with Hyperion, almost half of Mainhof had been infected. The Rangers had to rush to the surface to rescue the survivors and get them out of this hell on earth. In this way, the progress of the two projects was put on hold again.

On the migrant ship bound for Haven, Bernard and Ariel get into an argument. Bernard demanded that his daughter stop the experiment immediately, saying that her experiment was the culprit that caused it all to happen. But Ariel never wanted to give up her experimental project, and when she was evacuated, the data rescued by the research team showed that the experimental project was about to succeed, and giving up at such a critical moment might make her regret it for the rest of her life, and she didn't want to give up this hard-won opportunity.

"'You're gambling with the lives of all of Agrea!' These were the last words her father left before leaving in anger. ”

“…… Doesn't she love the people of Agrea very much? Yang Yi didn't understand her behavior at all, "why did she ......"

"Heh, she wants to save her mother through this project." Renault sneered, his voice full of disdain.

“…… Talis Kogan? ”

"Hmm. Dr. Kogan was kidnapped by the Imperial Security Service a year ago to work on a secret Imperial project. A1 interjected, "A project to study the physiology of the Alien Spirits and the Alien Spirits in the hope of figuring out how to deal with the Alien Spirits and the Alien Insects. Miss Hansen should not have known about this, she probably only knew that her mother was missing. And the general opinion within the empire...... You also know that if someone goes missing, people don't think they've been kidnapped by some bad guy at first, but they've been taken away by the Imperial Security Service. If Miss Hansen thought so, then she probably thought she could use the project at hand as a bargaining chip to exchange her mother with the Imperial Government. ”

"Uh...... What's the name of that classified project? ”

"Project Blackstone, Commander."