Chapter 640 Creating a new race
The… source of life for alien invaders?
"This substance is called by them——%&*@."
The monster made a very strange and harsh sound.
"...What?"
Xu Xin and the other three were a little confused for a moment.
"%&*@, this is what they call this substance." The monster said, "I don't know how to say this substance in human language."
"Uh... can you repeat it again?" Xu Ying looked confused.
"%&*@."
"What the hell..." She gave up, "Forget it, can you describe what this thing is? Is it also a liquid?"
"No." The monster shook his head, "It's not a liquid, it's a... solid. A red crystal."
……crystal?
"Just ingesting a crystal of this size can provide an individual with a day's supply."
The monster raised its arm, which was longer than its legs, stretched out its hand with only four fingers, and pinched it with two fingers as black as ink.
About...the size of a fingernail.
"This... this is the first time I've heard of this," Xu Ying felt very curious, "Is this your source of energy? Don't you need to eat?"
"Eat? Do you mean to eat other living things like you earth creatures do? No..."
The monster slowly shook his head: "They only need to ingest that kind of material. This is actually the material that makes up the surface of the mother planet. This layer of material gave birth to their race. It is impossible for them to eat the food on the earth like you do." The water contained in the corpse of a dead creature is poisonous to them. Although they will not die, they will feel uncomfortable.”
What materials make up the planet's surface? !
Xu Xin clicked his tongue in surprise.
Good guys, their race is eating the planet to reproduce.
"Ah...it turns out you don't eat, no wonder..."
Xu Ying recalled her own experience and couldn't help complaining: "No wonder the food provided to us in the first few years when we were captured was so unpalatable. It was dry and woody, as if we were chewing dry wood. I thought They deliberately abused us..."
"...I don't know about that. I wasn't born yet at that time." The monster's neck twisted, and the "muscles" on its body seemed to move.
"Uh... sure."
"What about you?" Shi Wanyun asked, "Aren't you eating too? I remember, the first time I saw you, you seemed... holding a cup and drinking something."
"Because I am understanding and experiencing the diet of humans on Earth." The monster cracked his mouth and said. At the same time, a slender tongue in the air stretched out and then retracted. "I also have the organ of tasting taste for humans on Earth, the tongue."< br>
Um...the alien invaders don't even have tongues.
Xu Xin was a little ashamed.
It seems that his imagination is still a little poor.
But it is true that from the mouths of the monsters, it can be learned that the alien invaders eat the "stones" on their home planet to survive, so they do not need a sense of taste at all.
However, since this guy can drink something...
Xu Ying tilted her head and looked at the monster in front of her, "Aren't you afraid of water?"
"...I'm not afraid physically, but before, I would feel a little scared mentally. This is related to the environment in which I grew up." The monster said, "But that was before. In this time and space, I no longer know how to be afraid. I’m scared of a substance that doesn’t harm me.”
"Then do you need that red crystal as the source of life?" Shi Wanyun asked.
"It can be the source of my life, or it can't be." The monster knew everything, "I can also maintain my life by eating like humans."
That's it...
"Okay, so we already know that they need this kind of material to survive, then what?" Xu Xin asked, "There is no such material on the earth, right? So where do they get it from? From the 'mother star' ”
"That's right, supplied by the home star."
……
The alien invaders' home planet is very large, and even today's Earth is much smaller than that planet.
On it, there are countless lives that make a living by eating "surface crystals".
Because there is no food chain, the creatures on the "mother planet" have no so-called natural enemies. Therefore, at the beginning of the birth of life, life on that planet was extremely prosperous.
After the creatures spread all over the world, even if there was no relationship in the food chain, hostile relationships also appeared.
"Territorial consciousness" is a consciousness engraved on the genes of the planet's creatures, similar to the food chain of the earth's creatures.
Because of "territorial disputes", it is natural that lives will inevitably fight against each other.
After a long period of reproduction, a family of alien invaders emerged from among them, successfully evolved superior IQ, and became intelligent life.
Having suppressed other life forms, they have no natural enemies and are "food" everywhere. As a result, their numbers have skyrocketed crazily in the past ten thousand years.
All over the world.
Their technology also began to show exponential growth.
But the good times didn't last long.
Since the birth of this planet, it has nurtured countless lives. The source of life on the surface, the reserves of crystals, are very scarce compared to ancient times.
And this planet has reached the end of its life, and its crust is basically inactive.
This material, which was born due to the movement of the earth's crust, has become a non-renewable resource.
At the same time, scientists have tried their best to research synthesis, but have not developed any substitutes.
The over-expanded number of alien creatures is consuming this material at an almost crazy rate.
This is a big problem.
If according to the number of alien creatures and the speed of damage increase at that time, the remaining amount of this source of life on the planet, even if all the resources in strange and weird locations around the world are exhausted, calculated according to the time unit on earth, even They can't last five hundred years!
Five hundred years seems to be a long time, at least we can still live comfortably in the current generation, but on a planet where technology has developed enough to make the top ruler almost immortal, for the ruler of that planet...
Can you only live another five hundred years?
This is too scary!
Higher intelligent creatures are always prepared for danger in times of peace.
When the news spread, panic began to spread throughout all territories on the planet.
The masters of these territories originally wanted to take more resources into their own hands, but as soon as this news came out, they became even more crazy.
As a result, the world war that swept the world began.
Territory wars with high-tech weapons are much more cruel than imagined.
In that war, countless species were exterminated, and the number of alien invader races was once reduced to 2% of its peak.
A very cruel war that paralyzed everything in that world.
Fortunately, they have a technological foundation, and it took about a hundred years of Earth time to return to the peak technological level.
Due to the reduction in the number of alien creatures that have experienced world wars, their consumption of the "source of life" has been greatly slowed down, giving them more time.
So, all the territories came to an agreement.
Gather global power and focus on space.
They are going to outer space to find resources and the source of life they need for life.
This is the beginning when alien creatures began to colonize and explore space.
At that time, it was already nearly 20,000 years ago based on Earth time units.
That's right, alien invaders began to explore space 20,000 years ago, before humans on earth formed civilization, or during the period of primitive humans.
Also 20,000 years ago, the alien invaders experienced a period of ultra-rapid technological development and fell into a technological bottleneck.
In the past 20,000 years, due to the lack of resources and the upper limit of knowledge and understanding, their technology has made almost no progress.
They can only aimlessly explore the endless universe to find the illusory future of their race, which has reached its end.
Thousands of years ago, they found the earth. They found this blue planet in the Milky Way that they both love and fear.
At first, they were just afraid of the intelligence of humans on Earth.
At the same time, scientists are crazy about studying the human brain, because if they have such a huge potential brain, the technological development of their race may be able to restart again after 20,000 years!
But later, they discovered the most ecstatic substance on the planet.
……
"...Earth's...white crystal?" Xu Xin said softly.
"Yes." The monster nodded, "Crystal on the earth."
"...could it be said that the white crystals on the earth are related to your red crystals?" Xu Ying also asked.
"Yes." The monster nodded.
"This is the first time in the past 20,000 years that their species has discovered a substance related to the 'source of life'."
The weight of this sentence is too heavy!
After twenty thousand years of searching, we finally found the hope for the eternal survival of our race.
The three of them, Xu Xin, could completely feel their ecstasy and excitement at that moment.
But the victims are humans, so there is no need to talk about this matter.
"...Huh? Wait a minute, this incident should have happened not long after the invasion of the earth, right?" Xu Ying suddenly felt that something was wrong, "If there is your source of life on the earth, then why did it happen during the three days when I was enslaved? Will there not be more alien creatures immigrating to the earth in a hundred years? ”
"There are two reasons."
The monster answers Xu Ying's question.
"The first point is that the planet itself is not suitable for them to survive. This land is covered with a terrifying substance that can dissolve them - water. At the same time, the air also contains water molecules. It rains at every turn in most areas. Most of the areas here are difficult for them to survive. The earth is equivalent to a very harsh environment for them. ”
Well...that's right.
If they don't want to come into contact with water, sea water is okay as long as they don't get close, but if the air is humid, there really is nowhere to hide.
However, what is water to them...
"The second point is the crystal."
The monster continued.
"The white crystals on the earth only have certain similarities with the red crystals all over the planet on the material level, and cannot be used directly. However, they can transform this crystal, and under certain conditions, they can It turns into red crystal, but this condition does not exist on earth.”
"Oh..." Xu Ying understood immediately, "In other words, you need to transport the white crystal mined from the earth to your home planet?"
"That's right." The monster nodded its disproportionally proportioned head and continued, "After experiencing the initial ecstasy, they discovered that the mining efficiency of white crystals is very low, and the conversion efficiency is not high. With their current technology, , probably only...500:1 or so."
500:1?
"Can five hundred tons of fluorite crystal be converted into one ton of scarlet crystal?"
"Yes." The monster nodded, "But even so, the Earth is still the first planet that they have explored in outer space to have the raw materials that make them the source of life. According to their current proven reserves, all of them can be mined, at least It can also allow their race to continue for tens of thousands of years.”
Tens of thousands of years...
It sounds like a lot, but for the continuation of a species, it's short.
The ancestor of humankind, Homo sapiens, is 250,000 years old since its birth. If we go back to the ancient apes, it will be even longer.
In the billions of years of evolution of life on earth, ten thousand years is just a blink.
Not to mention that these alien invaders have been exploring space for 20,000 years.
"Although tens of thousands of years is not a long time, it can at least alleviate the increasingly tight resources of the home planet and stabilize their mentality. Moreover, this is only the proven reserve, and there are still many unexplored areas. For example... ”
The monster looked at Xu Ying: "For example, the underwater underground world area where humans on earth currently live."
"Ah!" Xu Ying covered her mouth, and then her eyes when looking at the monster changed slightly, "Is it really you? Only you found out."
"Yes, it's just me, because I'm the only one who doesn't have any fear of the ocean. I'm the only one who can survive in a humid area close to the ocean for a long time." The monster admitted.
"Hmph, when you finish saying what you want to say, I still have many things to ask you." Xu Ying thought of her experience in the underground world, and her voice suddenly became slightly cold.
"I know everything." The monster said, "In short, this is their main purpose of colonizing this planet. For them living on their home planet, this place is just a... mine with a harsh environment and an experimental site. . So of course they will not continue to increase the number of colonists."
That's it...
"The red crystal they are using now was sent from the mother star. It is a crystal about the size of the space of this tree house."
The monster stretched out its twisted hand and pointed downward, and said the purpose of its trip: "I know the current location of the crystal. I am looking for your cooperation because I want to use your power to... destroy it. That crystal.”
Xu Xin and the others' eyes flashed with surprise.
But none of the three people spoke. Instead, they looked at the monster, wanting to hear what it had to say.
"Because of the strategic importance of the Earth, that crystal was condensed by almost exhausting the spare resources of the mother planet. It can allow these people to survive here for at least several thousand years. This is why they only need to absorb a little. Sufficient for a day’s needs.”
"At the same time, a huge amount of resources have been spent between the earth and the mother star to establish a one-way channel for the transportation of materials from the earth to the mother star, but there has not been a channel to transport resources from the mother star to the earth, or from the mother star to the earth. It’s very difficult and we still need to cross the sea of stars.”
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
He knew what the alien invaders were trying to say.
He said: "You want to say that as long as we destroy the red crystal...the alien invaders will lose their source of life and have to...leave the earth."
"Yes. That's what I mean." The monster nodded.
The scene fell silent for a while.
This amount of information is a bit difficult to digest.
Even a little unreal.
Xu Xin was holding back a lot of questions to ask, but before that...
"This... is too important. Let's talk about it last. I want to determine now why... you want to come to us and drive away the intruders." He asked, "Why? I didn't If you guessed wrong, you must have always been one of them in this time and space, otherwise..."
Xu Xin looked at Shi Wanyun: "Otherwise you wouldn't have sent her to find an opportunity to kill me. So, why did you drive them away?"
"...I am not one of them, I just cooperate with them to realize my experiment."
The monster slowly explained.
"Now that my experiment has been discovered by them and they have destroyed my experiment, there is no need for me to cooperate with them."
"Your experiment?" Xu Xin squinted slightly, feeling something was wrong, "What experiment?"
"An experiment to create a new biological race." The monster's eyes opened a lot unconsciously, "I want to create a race... that can accept me."
……What?
"The race that can accept you is..." Xu Xin vaguely guessed something, but he couldn't believe it.
"A race that is half earthly humans and half home planet humans." The monster said unabashedly.
While saying this, all the eyes on it opened, and it could be seen that it was a little excited.
"You are actually doing this kind of experiment!" Xu Ying stood up suddenly, in disbelief and a little angry, "You are actually continuing this experiment! You..."
"Ah!" Shi Wanyun suddenly screamed, interrupting Xu Ying's words.
She looked at the monster in surprise, her lips opened and closed slightly, and finally she said: "What I saw in your World Tree, the house on No. 5, the capsules all over the wall..."
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Both Xu Xin and Xu Ying's pupils shrank sharply.
Both of them had seen that scene in Shi Wanyun's memory. The capsules hanging on the wall are all half-human and half-monster beings!
(End of chapter)