Outcast Omega Pampered by the Alpha General novel Chapter 205

Chapter 205 The Cases They Could Not Save

“This is a nightmare. Right now, the only confirmed way to remove the parasites is by having Omegas

operate

the removal device. But Omegas are only five percent of our population. At this rate, we will run those sweet little healers into the ground.”

Dr. R took another drink.

She did not wait for Orion to respond. With the dark circles under her eyes, she headed downstairs to continue her research.

She could not stop.

Her country needed her.

Before the shortage of Omega healers became the first major crisis, another problem reached the table.

It was serious enough that Orion convened another meeting of the Empire’s senior leadership and forced everyone to face it.

“Those who are deeply parasitized and declared impossible to extract are still a small portion of the overall infected population,” Prince Harold Mulholland said, leaning back in his chair. “We can save some. But saving every single one of them is… difficult.”

Dr. Thorne had separated the infection into three stages.

Early-stage parasitization.

Deep parasitization.

Full parasitization.

In the early stage, the insectoid was dormant. It was still at the beginning of incubation, feeding and growing while hibernating near the host’s navel.

When an insectoid in that state sensed healing-type psychic power from an Omega, it would awaken on its own, allowing the device to lock on and draw it out through the navel.

Full parasitization was different.

At that point, the host was no longer truly human.

Other than the brain, the greedy insectoid had hollowed out the organs.

Such cases could be taken outside and shot.

Of course, both host and insectoid had to be destroyed.

During the screening, there had already been incidents where insectoids about to hatch sensed danger and broke out on-site to attack people.

If the planets had not locked down districts in advance, if Alpha special forces had not been stationed at the screening sites and patrolling nearby, the casualties would have been far worse.

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Chapter 205 The Cases They Could Not Save

Those two categories were ugly, but they had solutions.

The deep cases were the impossible ones.

The biological removal device could not deal with them.

“The difference is simple,” Dr. Thorne said, shaking his head, his face heavy. “Early-stage and deep-stage hosts are both still alive as normal humans. The insectoid in an early-stage host is asleep. The one in a deep-stage host is awake.”

He paused.

“These things have absorbed human energy, human genes, even fragments of human thought. They are learning.”

By Dr. Thorne’s judgment, the awakened insectoids were like the ones nearing hatching.

They had realized humanity was coming for them.

Those about to hatch chose early emergence and suicidal attacks.

Those still inside the body chose evasion.

They wandered through the host’s body and could resist the lure of an Omega’s healing-type psychic power to a degree.

They might show themselves.

They would not approach the navel.

They would not stay anywhere long enough for the device to lock on.

People had proposed forcing the insectoids into a limb, amputating that limb, and later using a medical pod to regenerate it.

But these smarter insectoids refused to leave the chest and abdominal cavities.

Push them too hard, and they detonated inside the host.

They died.

The host died with them.

Surgery had the same problem.

Cut open the chest or abdomen to search for the insectoid, and it would blow up the patient. If it could, it would take the surgeons too.

“Then are we saying the deep-stage victims have no path left?”

A woman’s voice came through the remote channel.

It was smooth, mature, and dangerous.

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Chapter 205 The Cases They Could Not Save

The conference room fell silent.

“Has anyone here remembered who most of these deep-stage Betas are?” Harper Sloane asked.

“They are soldiers. They bled for the Empire. They were wounded protecting its people.”

On the other end of the call, Harper smiled, but there was no warmth in it.

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