Ringo spent the next week with the eggs, constantly evaluating them while Emma helped him continuously inject genetic medicine into them.
Each one designed to nurture these little guys into deadly weapons, alone they could cause genetic collapse, but with Ringo's evolutionary energy showing the way, the embryonic Shadow Stalker Vipers were transforming into something completely different.
Emma was wearing a radiation-proof suit while Ringo stood calmly there. The room they were in was constantly emitting extremely lethal levels of radiation, the heat was tremendous, but Ringo didn't care, continuing to increase the radiation level while nurturing the 12 eggs.
If everything went according to his plan, those 12 eggs would account for a large portion of Hell's profits, in the future.
Ringo's changes to the eggs varied, first, he improved its eating capacity, then improved the quality of the energy produced. He focused on their combat power. Their carapaces were formed from a chitinous material, their structure was based on graphene, carbon atoms assembled in a two-dimensional hexagonal structure. Their claws had venom glands, their serrated mouths had an internal structure with a second hidden mouth that could be retracted or extended to bite further, the articulated tails had a sharp tip that could also inject venom and their blood had an extremely low pH with intense corrosive properties.
Yes, he created the damn Xenomorph from the movie Alien, taking into account the propagation, the way they reproduce in the series gave him some ideas, but it was while thinking about the chimeric ants in HxH that he remembered phagogenesis.
The queen eats and assimilates the genetic material to produce stronger offspring, far superior to the alien's way of reproducing, all the vitality of the targets and their genetic material would be used to create new Shadow Stalker Vipers through phagogenesis.
Of course, with the genetic material Ringo possessed, he couldn't make it perfect right away, but some of the target's compatible positive characteristics would be assimilated during the process, making each new Shadow Stalker Viper a little stronger.
Perhaps one day, through evolution, they might actually compare to the chimeric ants from Hunter x Hunter.
Thus, he began to transform the 12 eggs into queens, but he did not create the king variant, instead, the queen could accumulate some of the genes she ate for herself and, through a process of metamorphosis, like that of a caterpillar into a butterfly, she could continue evolving.
Worker bees and queens.
Ringo talked a lot about it with Emma, who was extremely fascinated by the project.
They used all the genetic material available and even bought some through Black Spider, Ringo briefly went to space to retrieve it.
At the end of the one-week period, the eggs had quadrupled in size and no longer emitted radiation, instead, they absorbed it avidly.
The final step was to put in the genetic lock, there would be no king born of the queen, because from the beginning Ringo was the king.
He positioned his own gene as the pinnacle of the species, to them, he would be no different from them, but his hierarchy would be above the queen.
Ringo spent a good part of the week programming the genes in relation to this, he didn't want this restriction to be unlocked through continued evolution, so he even put in a "backdoor", if there is no king, the target's genes degrade rapidly.
Finally, the first egg cracked open, Emma's eyes widened completely and her hands trembled with excitement.
Ringo could feel great amounts of joy coming from the woman, it was the time he had felt the most joy coming from her.
-It's beautiful...- Emma exclaimed ecstatically as the perfect figure of an Alien emerged from the egg, roaring softly.
The Shadow Stalker Viper looked more like a queen even at such a young age. Ringo pondered this, and since it was essentially a new being, he decided to change its name.
Based on Aliens, he named the new species Xenomorphs.
As soon as Emma tried to approach, the queen let out a fierce cry and leaped toward her, not because she wanted affection, but because her DNA was programmed to hunt from beginning to end, even in her childlike form, she was ready to kill.
Ringo didn't budge, Emma was already a Super Grade D, almost reaching Grade C, while the puppy was barely considered Grade F. Besides, she was wearing a state-of-the-art protective suit, even a Grade D Super wouldn't be able to break it in a short time.
Even if Emma stayed still without protection, the little queen wouldn't be able to break through her skin.
Emma didn't mind either, catching the little one in mid-air, she manipulated it while the puppy bit and scratched like crazy, to no avail.
-Very aggressive.- She commented, without really caring about it, it was just an observation.
-That's the goal.- Ringo shrugged with a weak smile, then spoke softly. -Stop.
The moment the xenomorph queen heard his voice, it stopped trying to bite, instead looking at Ringo. When he said "Stop", her head turned in his direction. Ringo had replaced her eyes with a series of senses, such as psychic and thermal. Even without eyes, she wasn't blind.
Her nose twitched slightly when she caught Ringo's scent. She let out a soft growl as she jumped from Emma's arms and crouched down in front of Ringo, letting out childish little squeals as if asking for attention.
Ringo smiled and picked her up, running his hand over the chitinous shell without paying any attention to the mucus from her recent birth.
-You'll give birth to a terrifying army for me...- he joked lightly, bringing the puppy up to his eye level. -And lots of money!
The xenomorph had two types of nutrition: radioactive food was responsible for normal nutrition and the production of magic crystals, while genetic material was used for reproduction, although it could also serve as nutrition, radiation was still the best source of nutrients for them.
Emma rolled her eyes at Ringo's hypocritical behavior, but she was also excited about the creation, the Xenomorph's DNA was based on space creatures, plants and even viruses and bacteria.
This thing was the most advanced creature she had ever encountered, except for Ringo.
Ringo explained the entire thought process behind its creation, initially, she feared such a creature, believing that if it were released into Aquamarine, extinction was inevitable. Even she, who had helped create it, knew she could do nothing once they began to multiply on a large scale.
The DNA of these things can change faster than the flu virus. She could create a genetic weapon today only to have it be useless against them tomorrow.
Sure, it's not impossible. The queens are the focal points, but also the weak points. Unlike the offspring with different genetics, the queens need to undergo long metamorphoses to evolve.
It's much easier to change the genome of an offspring than of an already developed living organism. If a sample of the queen's gene can be acquired, it's quite possible to kill her.
The problem is that there are 12 of them, each one eats different things. In other words, they would need samples from all 12 queens and hope they don't undergo any metamorphosis before creating a virus that could kill them.
Even after that, they still need to get rid of the "worker bees".
Besides, this young queen is currently only comparable to a Grade F, the growth rate of xenomorphs is absurd, in a year she would be stronger than Emma is now, perhaps even faster.
So, the fear was real.
But her biologist side was tingling wildly, she loved being a part of creating such a unique creature, a predator that could destroy worlds given enough time.
She looked at Ringo, who had done this, with even deeper interest, but she quickly hid it behind her usual lunatic mask.
Ringo wasn't concerned about Emma at the moment, he was thinking about how to deal with the Xenomorphs.
He could buy some radioactive planets for their breeding, he had already searched and this type of inhospitable and radioactive planet was quite cheap.
A habitable planet with moderate resources starts at around billions of Enas. On the other hand, Ringo is eyeing, a harmful, inhospitable planet with no useful resources that is much cheaper. This type of inhospitable and radioactive planet was quite cheap. Radiation has been considered an inferior form of energy for a long time, only civilizations that have just entered the space age still use it. The labour doesn't justify the cost due to the useful materials being too sparse, so radioactive planets are mostly useless.
After doing some research using Black Spider, Ringo found a suitable target: Garton Star System, 8th Star Zone.
A dwarf planet, extreme danger level, source of the danger? Concentrated radiation.
Price? 10 million Enas. The value only reached that because the radiation, although at a low level, is still considered a resource. If it weren't for that, the dwarf planet would be discarded as junk. In terms of size, it should be 1/3 the size of Aquamarine.
Ringo smiled excitedly, even if he spends 10 million on this, when the Xenomorphs start to thrive, the return will be thousands of times greater.
Furthermore, he was already thinking about how to terraform the planet.
Just think, a useless planet full of radiation, but the Xenomorphs will absorb all the radiation over time, eventually the radiation levels will become acceptable.
With Emma's help, they can transform the barren planet into a green one. The very planet Ringo chose, currently called EG-1025485, has water, but the water is completely contaminated.
This means they only need enough time to transform a planet worth 10 million Enas into a planet that can be sold for billions.
Of course, once the powerful forces realize his success, they will want to seize his business, so before showing his cards, he must have enough strength to hold them in his hands.
It's not that terraforming a planet is impossible, the problem is that the cost of doing so doesn't justify it. Instead of spending billions making the planet habitable, it's better to simply buy a ready habitable planet for that price.
In any case, the biggest problem with this process to terraform with xenomorphs is finding living organisms for the Xenomorphs to eat, but considering the large number of pirates in the galaxy, as well as terrorists like the Dark Star Organisation... Ringo chuckled slightly, his path to riches was becoming increasingly clear.