coobybook Chapter 480 Xiao 5 goes home 31
Chapter 480 Xiao 5 goes home 31
A month after the press conference, the Interstellar Military Tribunal held a public trial of the Zhou family case.
The courtroom was solemn and dignified, with the gallery filled with victims' families and people who were paying close attention to the case. StarNet broadcast the entire trial process live, and the number of online viewers reached a record high.
At the trial, the prosecutor presented evidence one by one, from the financial transactions between the Zhou family and the pirates, encrypted communication records, to photos of the wreckage of the test base, and the victims' tearful testimonies, each of which was irrefutable.
The core members of the Zhou family involved in the case were pale, and their sophistry seemed pale and powerless in the face of conclusive evidence.
The Zhou family's scientific research director, who was responsible for carrying out the Zerg experiment, collapsed in court and pleaded guilty in the face of the victims' accusations and the irrefutable evidence of the test data.
He explained how, under Zhou Mingyuan's instructions, innocent civilians were used as test subjects for gene fusion experiments.
Those officials and businessmen who had covered up the crimes of the Zhou family also confessed to their illegal acts under the chain of evidence.
After seven days of trial, the court announced the verdict.
The twelve core members of the Zhou family involved in the case were convicted of multiple crimes, including endangering interstellar security, crimes against humanity, and illegal human experiments, and were sentenced to life imprisonment.
All political rights and property were deprived, and all Zhou family businesses were confiscated to compensate the victims and for interstellar public welfare projects.
Those officials and businessmen who provided assistance to the Zhou family were sentenced to more than ten years in prison and their relevant professional qualifications were revoked according to the degree of their involvement in the case.
Zhou Mingyuan, who was on the run, was found hiding on the third day after the trial.
On the day of the incident, Zhou Mingyuan tried to save the Zhou family. After all, he was unwilling to see such a huge family destroyed.
But when he video-called Lu Chen and saw his indifferent attitude and irrefutable evidence, he knew the situation was over and immediately took Aying and escaped through the secret passage.
In fact, the Zhou family’s core members are not just twelve, Aying is also a core member.
Zhou Mingyuan has always had a confidant who works as his personal assistant.
The girl was ordinary-looking, and everyone thought she was Zhou Mingyuan's lover and assistant. But in fact, she was not, she was the child of Zhou Mingyuan and the Zerg Queen.
She is also a candidate for the next Zerg Queen.
He and Aying drove a specially modified stealth spaceship, avoiding the interstellar fleet's layers of search and rushing towards the Zerg territory.
When Zhou Mingyuan went to inspect the mining planet, he had a brief romance with the young Zerg Queen Luya.
Luya, who had always lived in human society, was originally unaware of her own identity until she became pregnant with Zhou Mingyuan and gave birth to a child, only then did she show Zerg characteristics.
It turns out that Luya is an early ambitious person and the product of genetic experiments. At that stage, the Zerg did not have the ability to transform into human form.
After giving birth to Aying, Luya could no longer live in the human world because she had more and more Zerg characteristics. So she left the child at the door of Zhou Mingyuan's house and went to the Zerg territory alone.
With her unique temperament and abilities, Luya ascended the throne of the Zerg Queen a few years later, and then she reconnected with Zhou Mingyuan.
At that time, Luya had already firmly sat on the throne of the Zerg Queen and appeared before him in her true form for the first time.
The pale purple skin was shimmering, and translucent bone wings stretched out behind him, but the ambition in his eyes could not be concealed.
She calmly told him that Aying was their daughter, who inherited the royal blood of the Zerg and was a natural candidate for queen.
It was not until that moment that Zhou Mingyuan fully understood Luya's true identity and the Zerg blood flowing in Aying.
But he did not feel the slightest fear, instead he felt a surge of intense excitement.
The souls of ambitious people are always attracted to each other, just like when Luya discovered her Zerg characteristics, she did not cry to him for help like a little white flower.
Instead, she broke into the Zerg territory alone and sat on the throne of queen by stepping on the corpses of her competitors.
After learning the truth, he did not choose to inform the Interstellar Alliance to take credit. Instead, he immediately mobilized the Zhou family's resources to secretly build a larger laboratory on an abandoned mining planet on the edge of the interstellar space.
"Ordinary humans are too fragile. Only by integrating the genes of the Zerg can we become truly powerful."
He once wrote these words in his laboratory journal.
Over the years, he brought Aying and used the Zerg gene samples provided by Luya and the scientific research strength of the Zhou family to conduct more in-depth gene fusion experiments.
He wants to create a group of mutants with human intelligence, Zerg power and self-healing ability, a super army that only obeys his orders.
He transferred all these people to an abandoned tunnel deep in the mining planet, and all the equipment was modified to shield genetic signals.
The new humans after transformation are not so demanding in terms of living conditions.
The source of the experimental subjects was also extremely secretive; they were all interstellar wanderers that he "acquired" through black market channels.
Zhou Mingyuan's lips curled into a cold smile. Although he was somewhat upset by the Zhou family's collapse, he was not panicked.
The Interstellar Alliance confiscated his visible industries and cracked his public database, but knew nothing about his mutant forces hidden in the dark.
That is his real trump card.
Zhou Mingyuan entrusted all these matters to Aying personally, and no one else knew about it.
Passing through the energy barrier of the Zerg territory, the huge Zerg mothership gradually became clear in sight.
Luya's image appeared above the spaceship's control console, her bone wings gently flapping behind her: "Mingyuan, welcome to my kingdom."
Zhou Mingyuan stood up and straightened his clothes, his eyes showing madness and ambition without any concealment: "Luya, it's time for our plan to enter the next stage.
Those mutants... are ready."
Aying sat aside, his fingertips unconsciously sliding across the faintly visible scales on his arms, his eyes flashing with anticipation.
In the distant territory of the Interstellar Alliance, Wei Lan was staring at the files of the Zhou family case, always feeling that he had missed some key clues.
He didn't know that an interstellar war that combined human ambitions was about to begin.
With the return of Admiral Wei Lan, Si Rong and Muchen also went to the main star.
There are more professionals here who can work together to study the symptoms of people with genetic mutations.
Sirong and Muchen were also exposed to more technological fields that they had never been exposed to before.
Admiral Azure gave the two of them great authority. They could participate in whatever they wanted to learn, as long as it did not involve leadership decisions.
All laboratories and databases of the military research center are open to them.
Sirong focuses on studying the symptoms of people with genetic mutations. She hopes to find a way to alleviate the pain of Xiao Shitou and others.
Muchen developed a strong interest in the gene fusion technology of mutants, and he tried to find a loophole to crack this mutation from the technical principles.
Wei Lan likes chatting with Muchen very much.
In his opinion, most people in the interstellar society are accustomed to linear thinking and tend to be direct and efficient in doing things. Like him, he is brave and courageous in battle, but is somewhat powerless when faced with complex political schemes and calculations.
Muchen is thoughtful and can always come up with novel ideas from different angles, which often brings new inspiration to Wei Lan.