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Chapter 430 Selection of Symbiote Molding Personnel

Despite Du Mu's boastful words, he knew in his heart that the Dark Legion was not yet qualified to challenge Thanos head-on.

His Dark Legion has only just left the starting village and is far inferior to Thanos's Dark Order, which spans the entire star system. Going there to seek out his forces would be suicidal; he should focus on surviving and developing first.

In the days that followed, the entire legion began to operate at high speed, like a precision machine.

The lunar base was set up as a transit hub, with large space portals open around the clock. Sokovia's engineering and transport forces passed through the portals one after another to Apokolips, delivering building materials and industrial equipment to set up production lines on the planet's surface as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Sokovia's military forces also began to deploy to Apokolips.

The team was led by Sokovia's captain, Baki.

He was wearing a new combat suit made of vibranium alloy, and even his alloy arm had been replaced with vibranium material. It was equipped with various weapon systems and auxiliary functions. It could be said that the cost of just this arm was enough to buy countless fighter jets. In short, money talks.

Because he hadn't been brainwashed for a long time, Bucky's memory lock was starting to loosen, and fragmented images began to pop into his mind uncontrollably, along with a blond figure that he couldn't erase no matter what he did.

According to Du Mu, the figure was his childhood sweetheart and first love, Stevie Rogers.

Bucky tried hard to imagine a voluptuous blonde beauty, but for some reason, the figure always turned into a blond muscular man with a full chest and a perky butt in the end.

That's terrifying!

Du Mu once said that this was a traumatic experience for him, as he imagined his first love as his best friend.

Even more terrifying, he has begun to recall fragmented memories of growing up and sleeping together with the other person.

According to Du Mu's description of the memory recovery process, the next steps should be to shower together, exchange saliva, remove equipment together, and do...

This absolutely must not happen!

To stop himself from having wild thoughts, Bucky immediately applied to be transferred to the space front to expand Sokovia's territory, away from Earth, a place filled with dangerous memories, and to get rid of those memories through high-intensity combat.

Accompanying them were several Space Marines, as well as an entire squadron of Extremis warriors and super soldiers.

After this period of development, the number of Space Marines has increased by a few more, but due to a shortage of personnel, the third phase of the enhancement plan has been stuck without substantial progress.

But it's not a big problem; the universe has no shortage of talent.

Once the Dark Legion officially enters the Star Sea, the enhancement plan will naturally experience an explosive growth.

Meanwhile, Talos also led his people to migrate to Apokolips.

A large number of Skrulls settled on Apokolips with their families, while only a small number remained on Earth, scattered around the world as spies, maintaining a global intelligence network for Sokovia.

As for whether these knock-off aliens would cause any trouble after leaving Earth, Du Mu wasn't worried at all.

Once his military forces were deployed on Apokolips, the planet was officially incorporated into Sokovia's territory, becoming his domain and enjoying the full benefits of being the ruler of a nation.

So Du Mu simply assigned all the Skrulls to Sokovia, and now these Skrulls are legal citizens of Sokovia.

With a monarch providing a base of 20 points of goodwill, and their entire race settling down on Apokolips, unless they all collectively went crazy and decided to play a racial match-3 game, no one would be so foolish as to cause trouble.

Of course, Du Mu would not waste such a large human resource as the Skrulls.

He ordered Talos to recruit a group of powerful super Skrulls and incorporate them into the Dark Legion as a formal combat force.

These Super Skrulls can each use one or more superpowers, and their combat power far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers, making them excellent elite units.

As for the remaining Skrulls, they were assigned to various construction departments to contribute to the construction of the Apokolips base.

Thanks to the hard work of the Skrulls, the construction of the Apokolips base was progressing at an astonishing speed, with buildings springing up one after another.

However, the scale that Du Mu wanted was a little over a billion, roughly the size of several Earth countries combined, so these aliens would probably have to work themselves to the bone for quite some time.

By this point, Du Mu's Dark Legion had begun to take shape.

The entire legion is mainly divided into three parts: the Sokovian army, the raiders, and the Skrulls.

Although it is far inferior to top cosmic powers such as the Dark Order and the Asgardian army, it is still capable of dealing with other cosmic forces.

The only thing that Du Mu was not entirely satisfied with was that he didn't have many high-end combat forces under his command.

Bucky, Yondu, and Nebula could be considered strong, but their fighting abilities were still far from those of true powerhouses.

Then look at Thanos, his Black Order are all incredibly powerful.

Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, Black Dwarf – any one of them is a boss-level being who can stand alone.

Du Mu still has two trump cards, Wanda and Pietro, with their chaos magic and speed abilities, making him no less powerful than the Black Order.

But their personalities are what they are, and they are not suitable for fighting all over the place like Bucky and his crew. Moreover, someone needs to be stationed in Sokovia, and no one can guarantee that something unexpected might suddenly happen on Earth.

Du Mu thought for a moment, then threw out a pure iron Poké Ball to summon Max, allowing him to slightly compensate for the lack of high-end combat power.

Max's support for him is no longer significant.

He's not good enough for high-level games, and he's useless for low-level games. Keeping him around is a waste. It's better to let Max contribute to your conquest.

But this is still quite different from what Du Mu imagined.

In his mind, he needed to be surrounded by at least a group of BOSS-level lackeys to show off his status as the mighty Lord Doom.

Just as he was pondering where to recruit a BOSS, Talos, who had already been promoted to Du Mu's number one lackey, immediately stepped forward.

He said with a fawning expression, "Chief, if you need help, I have a suitable candidate here."

Du Mu raised an eyebrow, showing some interest: "Oh? Who is it?"

Talos turned around and waved behind him, and a figure quickly stepped forward.

He introduced her, saying, "She is my daughter, named Jia Ya."

[NPC: Jia Ya]

【Favourability: 60】

[Review: Green-skinned Daenerys Targaryen, unsmiling like a flower, smiling like a Muggle]

Talos said proudly, "This child has extremely high talent. She is a genius that is only seen once in a century among us Skrulls. Like Gravi, she can fuse multiple special genes, and her compatibility is no worse than Gravi's."

Jia Ya stood to the side, her eyes filled with reverence as she looked at Du Mu: "Chief, I am Jia Ya, and I am very happy to serve you."

Having a planet of their own as a new home has been a long-cherished dream of all Skrulls for many years.

The Skuru people deeply admired and respected Dumu, who had single-handedly helped them realize this wish, and Jiaya was no exception.

Moreover, she learned more about the truth from her own father and realized that Du Mu was not one of their Skrulls, which made her feel even more grateful.

Du Mu asked curiously, "Jia Ya, how many genes have you fused with?"

Jia Ya immediately replied, "There are only four types at present: Abomination, Extremis Virus Warrior, Groot, and Luke Cage."

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"good."

Du Mu nodded slightly, a look of approval on his face.

The typical Skrull's limit is the fusion of three special genes, and even those are relatively common types.

When it comes to special genes like the Hulk's, which are full of gamma energy, the body will have a severe rejection reaction.

Jia Ya is able to fuse four special genes, all of which are decent gene templates, which truly shows her outstanding talent.

However, he still can't compare to Graves back then.

That guy had fused with at least ten different genes, and even mixed in Captain Marvel's genes, forcing Du Mu to use his trump card to take him down.

However, Graves's fusion was forced and risked collapse at any time, while Jiaya took a more cautious approach, fusion gradually. The two were completely different in nature.

Du Mu looked at Jia Ya and immediately made a decision: "From now on, you are one of the Four Dark Kings of the Dark Legion, and all Skrulls will be under your command. Don't let me down."

Upon hearing this, Jia Ya's face lit up with joy, and she grinned, saying, "Thank you, Chief! I will definitely not let you down!"

Du Mu looked at her face, which completely crumbled when she smiled, and his lips twitched.

Such a nice-looking model face, but why does it exude a silly vibe when it smiles?

He coughed lightly and said seriously, "Laugh less in the future. We are a serious organization."

"Yes, leader."

Jia Ya instantly stopped giggling and reverted to her indifferent expression.

Du Mu then added Bucky, Yondu, Nebula, and Max together as the Dark Four to make up the numbers.

Then some people ask, why are there five Dark Lords?

It's very simple. Max is the Dark One, while the other four are the Four Heavenly Kings. Together, they are the Dark Four Heavenly Kings.

However, this position is not fixed. It adopts a merit-based system, where whoever has the ability will take the position, and whether they can keep it depends on their own abilities.

After arranging the deployment on Apokolips, Du Mu didn't linger and teleported directly to the Hive Research Institute in Sokovia.

The Sokovia research institute is not built on the surface, but deep underground. The entire facility has a complex structure and a huge area. The laboratories of various sizes are nested like a honeycomb, hence the name "Honeycomb".

As a player, Du Mu has a flaw that most players have.

That means they want to pick up anything they see, regardless of whether they actually need it or not.

Having traversed so many places and crossed countless servers, he had collected an uncountable amount of things, a wide variety of items, to the point that he couldn't even remember exactly how many he had collected.

Each time, he kept the useful items and packed up the rest that he didn't need, giving them to the Hydra research team.

As Du Mu walked down the technologically advanced corridor, he could see Hydra's research team analyzing and experimenting with all sorts of items through the observation windows on both sides.

Examples include the Extremis virus, the Super Soldier Serum, Fear Gas, Super Steroids, and Plant Toxins...

However, these things are just routine items in the hive, and are relatively safe and controllable.

The truly dangerous things are kept in deeper areas.

The area is heavily isolated, and if any signs of loss of control appear, the entire area can be completely sealed off within seconds. The physical isolation, combined with the emergency response system, will nip the risk in the bud deep underground, ensuring it never affects the upper levels.

Of course, even the most dangerous experimental subjects are limited in number.

After all, this is his own territory, and Du Mu naturally wouldn't follow the example of Atlantis and deploy nuclear weapons on his own land.

He walked through the main corridor, deeper into the hive, and finally through a heavy alloy door into a laboratory.

Inside the laboratory, Baron Strucker and several researchers were in front of a cylindrical culture vessel. Inside the vessel, a pool of viscous black liquid was slowly writhing, changing shape from time to time like a living thing.

This thing is none other than the Venom Symbiote that Du Mu brought back from the wasteland universe.

Du Mu walked over to the culture tank, glanced at it, and asked, "How's the research going?"

Upon seeing him enter, Strucker reported truthfully: "It's not going very well. This symbiote has possessed too many hosts, and its body is filled with a large number of chaotic memory fragments, causing its mental state to be extremely unstable. Without exception, all experimental hosts are affected after contact, falling into extreme madness and completely losing their rationality."

Du Mu was not surprised to hear this.

The relationship between a symbiote and its host is never a one-way parasitic one, but a two-way permeation. The host's personality will affect the symbiote, and the symbiote will pass on this influence to the next host.

The original host of Venom in the wasteland universe has been dead for countless years. Over the years, it has passed through countless hosts, stitching together all sorts of messy memories. It would be strange if it didn't go crazy.

However, Du Mu believed that the root cause probably lay in the source.

If he remembers correctly, Venom's first host in the comics was that idiot Wade, whose mental structure was like a septic tank; anyone who got involved with him would lose sanity.

Maybe Venom's fear of noise is a side effect of being tormented by Wade's trash talk.

Du Mu waved his hand: "In that case, let's start the stallion plan."

Anyone who has read the comics knows that Venom's true strength has never been its fighting ability, but rather its absurd ability to reproduce.

Venom can reproduce asexually to create entirely new symbiotes, and these offspring are often stronger and more irritable than the mother, frequently resulting in classic scenes of sons chasing after their fathers.

That's the idea behind the stallion program.

Since the venom itself can no longer be used normally, let's try another approach.

They used venom as a breeding medium to mass-produce symbiote offspring, creating a massive army of symbiotes.

One researcher spoke up, reminding us, "There's a problem we need to consider beforehand: the personality of the symbiote's offspring will be directly influenced by the mother. If the first host's personality is negative, the offspring that split off will also become extreme and violent, making them difficult for us to control."

"Therefore, the first host must be chosen with a positive personality, using a stable personality template to neutralize the negative imprints on the mother."

The researcher paused for a moment: "But the problem is, we don't have anyone like that here."

You know your own situation best.

Hydra, as the largest evil organization on Earth, has all sorts of people under its command, but it lacks good people. Finding an honest person is probably harder than finding an alien.

If symbiotes used their molds, they could probably mass-produce a whole brood of super antisocial symbiotes.

Du Mu glanced at the researcher and smiled slightly: "Not bad, not bad. You actually thought of that. You are indeed a talent. You can report to the personnel department tomorrow."

"what?"

The researcher immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

The Human Resources Department is the most important department in the institute; everyone in it is a talented individual responsible for the research work.

Strucker shook his head upon seeing this.

These researchers are just bookworms. They say we don't have anyone like that here, but they're dragging Du Mu into it too.

Ignoring the researchers being dragged away, Du Mu chuckled and said, "However, I already have two good candidates in mind for the symbiote molding process. You can just hand over the symbiotes you breed to me."