Chapter 1205: The Big-Headed Monster Baby
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After Ice Storm’s reminder, Meng Chao remembered that Dragon City actually had a similar existence.
Back when Dragon City traveled from Earth to the Other World and struggled through the chaos of the first few years, the survival instincts of a civilization had prompted the citizens to despair in the face of floods, earthquakes, viruses, lack of supplies, and the invasion of zombies. Nevertheless, they still gathered themselves, persevered, and nurtured a brand new hope.
However, when the new generation of Earthlings, who had been completely nurtured in the Other World, went through ten months of pregnancy and were born, the odds of congenital anomalies and stillbirths were ten times higher than they had been during the Earth era.
Among the many congenital anomalies, the most common one was a huge head that came with an elongated skull. It was quite similar to the Big-headed Monster Baby, an urban legend from Earth.
Experts and scholars speculated that it was very likely the Other World’s soil contained trace elements that were extremely rare on Earth.
In addition, the spirit energy of heaven and earth was constantly moistening the human body’s internal organs and limbs.
The gene chain that induced human embryos was evolving and mutating at a hundred times the speed.
That was why it could mutate into such a pitiful and terrifying appearance.
In a sense, these large-headed monster babies were nature’s “experimental subjects.”
It was nature that pressed the acceleration switch and kept testing what exactly they needed to become in order for the Earthlings who had originally lived in a “psionic-free environment” to adapt to the new life in the Other World’s “high-psionic environment.”
One could imagine that even if most of the experimental subjects did not die before they were squeezed out of the birth ca.n.a.l, they would usually die quickly within three to five days after birth.
It would be due to asphyxiation, muscle weakness, malnutrition, and other reasons.
However, the few big-headed monster babies who were lucky enough not to die would often awaken 10% of their unique and unrivaled strength while they lacked 90% of self-care and survival abilities.
Strictly speaking, Battle G.o.d Lei Zongchao was not the earliest superhuman in Dragon City.
These big-headed monster babies were.
Meng Chao had once studied the experiment notes.
He knew that some big-headed monster babies had been born not long ago, and their bodies could inexplicably burn with raging flames.
Their entire bodies would be covered in flames, and even the surrounding floors and walls would be set on fire. However, their delicate and fragile skin would be unharmed, and they could even smile purely and innocently in the body of a raging flame demon.
There were also some big-headed monster babies who could manipulate metal as they wished.
Their arms and legs were clearly thinner than an adult’s fingers, and their bones were as fragile as gla.s.s.
However, they could bend steel beams that were buried deep in broken walls and play with buildings, which were dozens of meters tall, like building blocks.
Some big-headed monster babies were also born with the ability to create and release electricity.
In some survivor camps that lacked water and electricity, the existence of these big-headed monster babies were the reason that household appliances of the Earth era were kept open. They barely maintained the operation of civilization.
Of course, there were also other big-headed monster babies who had the same ability as the Ancient Dream Saintess to control brain waves and sense telepathically.
Meng Chao closed his eyes.
Dozens of the Blood Alliance’s research reports appeared before his eyes.
After the Blood Alliance rose to power, occupied the ancient ruins, and controlled most of Dragon City’s resources, the insane upper echelons of the alliance forced innocent citizens to explore the ancient ruins.
Aside from that, they captured all the deformed babies born in the Other World, especially the big-headed monster babies, back to their nests. They tried to discover the secrets of human evolution and mutation, awakening extraordinary powers from them.
At that time, Battle G.o.d Lei Zongchao had also been the Blood Alliance’s cannon fodder and experimental subject.
He had interacted with some deformed babies during those inhumane experiments.
Following the Blood Alliance’s destruction, he saved many deformed babies and also received a lot of relevant research records as well as experiment materials. After the Survival Committee was established and Dragon City restored order, he handed them over to the relevant departments of the ancient ruins research center.
Meng Chao could be considered a partial true disciple of Battle G.o.d Lei Zongchao.
He had also been a gold medal tester in the ancient ruins research center for more than half a year.
Naturally, he had many opportunities to come into contact with the relevant research reports.
According to the personal experience of the Blood Alliance’s researchers, it was said that when the Big-headed Monster Babies with telepathic abilities stared at them deeply, they would have a very strange feeling. “Their brains were all scooped away by the eyes of the experimental subjects.”
Also, the researchers would carry out extremely painful experiments on the Big-headed Monster Babies during the day. Once it was late at night and the researchers had fallen asleep, they would turn into the big-headed monster babies in their nightmares. They would be tied tightly to a metal operating table, enduring the pain of thousands of cuts and suffering a fate worse than death.
It was definitely not an ordinary nightmare.
The researches would wake up screaming in a cold sweat, and their nerve endings would still be twitching crazily.
The pain was like a burning brand, engraved in their flesh and blood.
No matter how hard they scratched, or how much painkilling medicine they injected, they could not get rid of it.
Moreover, it was not just one, but all the researchers would have the same nightmare of turning into a big-headed monster baby!
After that happened countless times, the researchers, who had fallen into madness and were on the verge of collapse, finally discovered that the Big-headed Monster Babies not only had telepathic abilities, but they could even weave their own feelings into a dream. Then, they could project it into someone else’s brain.
When one of the researchers could not take it anymore and had a mental breakdown in his nightmare, he died from the pain.
No matter how brutal and stupid the higher-ups of the Blood Alliance were, they could not find enough cruel and foolish researchers to continue their experiments on the big-headed monster babies.
Despite that, the research continued in all kinds of strange and unconventional ways.
The higher-ups of the Blood Alliance believed that the big-headed monster baby represented the direction of human evolution—at least, the direction of human evolution after humans crossed over to the Other World.
In a research report that almost resembled a dream, the higher-ups of the Blood Alliance made an optimistic prediction with the unique imagination of an evil villain.
If a big-headed baby’s ability was developed to the extreme, perhaps humans would be able to completely abandon the Earth era and move on from their apish “squeaking” and screams, which used airflow to vibrate the small muscles in the throat and a specific audio frequency to transmit information. It was such an ancient, inefficient, c.u.mbersome, and highly error-p.r.o.ne method of information exchange.
Instead, they could directly transmit thoughts, ideas, feelings, and desires into the minds of others through telepathy.
It was just like the runes that the people of Dragon City had discovered in the depths of the ancient ruins.
It seemed to be a mixture of Chinese characters and cuneiform characters that had been clearly engraved on a plane. Upon careful study, one would be able to find dozens of overlapping layers and nested information. It was like a three-dimensional labyrinth… No, it was a three-dimensional library with astonishing reserves.
“Profound meaning” could not be more appropriate to describe the ancient runes.
It was obvious that such ancient runes could not be transmitted by the “airflow vibrating small muscles” method.
Only by telepathic sensing and direct brain wave transmission could one instantly exchange such an enormous amount of information in the rune database.
Of course, such an ability was destined to be monopolized by very few people.
The original plan of the Blood Alliance’s leader had been to find a way to drain all of the big-headed monster baby’s extraordinary powers and condense them into his own body.
Then, he could appear before all the citizens of Dragon City or in their dreams as he pleased, displaying unprecedented power and becoming a G.o.d-like existence in the world.
At that time, it would be impossible for anyone to resist the Blood Alliance’s rule.
Those who dared to resist would have a taste of being trapped in a nightmare forever, unable to extricate themselves.
Unfortunately, the rise of the nine major gangs and Battle G.o.d Lei Zongchao’s counterattack shattered the ambition of the Blood Alliance’s leader.
It also made his evil plan to “drain the big-headed monster baby’s telepathic ability and turn into a G.o.d in the world” perish in the dust of history together with the dozens of other evil plans excavated from the depths of the ancient ruins.
After the Blood Alliance was destroyed, all the Big-headed monster babies were rescued and returned to their parents’ arms.
It was a pity that the first generation of Earthlings born in the Other World had too many genetic defects buried deep in their cells. They had been tortured by the Blood Alliance for too long, and their extraordinary strength had been overdrawn. They were in a desperate situation where their multiple organs were failing.
At that time, the spirit energy training and life science research in Dragon City had just begun.
All kinds of resources were also extremely scarce.
The of medicine and life-threatening situations was an extremely cruel reality that everyone had to face.
Most of the big-headed monster babies did not live past ten years old.
The one with the longest life span did not live past p.u.b.erty either.
The children who were born later seemed to gradually accept the influence of the Other World’s environment, and the rate of deformities dropped significantly.
By the time Meng Chao was born, the rate of deformities of the new generation of babies in Dragon City had already dropped to three to five times that of the Earth era.
Considering that the Monster War was in full swing, many pregnant women had to carry rocket launchers on their shoulders and launch rockets that contained tiny amounts of crystals, risking serious pollution and radiation to blow up the monsters’ heads. Then, they would personally use daggers to cut open the monsters’ bellies, take out their b.l.o.o.d.y hearts, and casually roast them on the bonfire before wolfing them down to nourish their bodies.
The deformity rate could not be more normal.
Even if there were occasional deformities, they were usually at the level of a cleft lip and palate. There were very few big-headed monster babies.
The new generation of Dragon City’s people became increasingly normal.
However, their extraordinary strength was also gradually hidden in their bloodlines.
They had to go through years of cultivation and the pouring of genetic medicine before they could be stable, controllable, and safely activated.
They were unlike a monster baby, who would be born with a congenital defect.. He could burn his life at the cost of exceeding the limits of carbon-based life, as well as explode at will, but possess incredible ability.