Chapter 820: “Cleaner”
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Through the mother’s perspective, Meng Chao saw that between the undulating folds like raging waves, there were countless creatures that looked like algae and mollusks. They were slowly wriggling and desperately struggling.
They looked like marine creatures that had just landed on land when everything on Earth sprouted. Their forms were quite primitive.
However, among the large number of primitive, crude, and inefficient organs, some very delicate, complex, and fierce organs would suddenly appear.
For example, on a soft body without a spine, rows of densely packed tusks grew out…
Or it was like a Nautilus had grown strong and powerful tentacles, crawling on the ground like a hermit crab…
Or it was like a creeping carpet that was covered with scarlet eyes, emitting intense light.
These creatures were deformed children that nature could never have evolved.
Meng Chao speculated that they were the descendants of the monsters that were lucky enough to survive in the ancient era’s great war.
The death penalty could be avoided, but the punishment could not be escaped. Although the ancient beasts were not completely dead, they were heavily contaminated by the super radiation. Their “evolutionary roadmap” was completely disrupted. After tens of thousands of years of stumbling and reevolving, they were able to grow into their current appearance. That was already considered a miracle of life.
Meng Chao sensed the mother’s joy.
It was pure joy for the miracle of life.
For the clumsy, ugly, but extremely precious little lives, the mother did not hesitate to consume the spirit energy that it had acc.u.mulated for hundreds of years. It stimulated its tentacles to grow faster and spread toward the place where the deformed creatures were gathered.
“Come. Jump into my arms!”
Meng Chao sensed that the mother was releasing intense pheromones toward the deformed creatures through its tentacles that crawled out of the ground like tender buds. It was telling them that… “I can help you restore our evolution roadmap and rea.s.semble your chaotic gene chains. That way, you can return to your former appearance and turn into a beast horde that covers the sky and the Earth.
“Then, with the proudest posture, we can once again traverse the earth, roar in the sky, break through all the shackles that have sealed us, and devour the radiance of billions of stars!”
Pheromones swept across the earth like a storm formed by lightning.
All the deformed creatures shivered at the same time.
Although tens of millions of years had pa.s.sed, and they had also become completely unrecognizable freaks…
Hidden in the deepest part of the fragmented gene chain, the glory that once dominated the earth broke through the sky and faced the stars. While it was still extremely weak, the never-extinguishing flame stimulated their nerve endings.
The deformed creatures turned toward the mother’s stretched-out tender shoots.
They shook their bodies, waved their tentacles, blinked their eyes, and knocked their fangs.
It was as if they were worshipping it.
A new neural network was being formed.
After tens of millions of years, the mother had once again found the neural ports of these deformed creatures, connected with their eyes, ears, and various sensory organs, and gained more “vocal tracts” and “perspectives.”
The mother was getting ready to go all out right then.
Meanwhile, the deformed creatures from all directions were like pilgrims, staggering and gathering in the mother’s location.
Suddenly, an unexpected change occurred.
A cl.u.s.ter of glittering diamond-shaped crystals fell from the sky!
They were like the Ancients’ military buildings from the ancient war. These “Crystal Hedgehogs” had sharp edges and were covered in spikes.
However, they were larger, more dazzling, and… colder than the Ancients’ military buildings.
The Ancients’ military buildings had been crystal clear and translucent. One could vaguely see the crisscrossing pa.s.sages inside, where many Ancients had controlled their weapons.
However, this cl.u.s.ter of diamond-shaped crystals constantly emitted flames that were more dazzling than sunlight. It was enough to burn the retinas of carbon-based creatures and the surface of their skin.
Strangely, the rhombus-shaped crystal did not give off a burning sensation. Instead, it gave off a bone-chilling, lifeless smell.
There was not even a single Ancient in it.
The rhombus-shaped crystal was like a fully automatic killing machine that was specially used to perform “cleaning” missions.
Through pre-programmed procedures, it carried out a fully automatic search to hunt and destroy.
They had been hunting deformed creatures on this barren land for thousands of years.
As soon as the diamond-shaped crystal appeared in the air, the deformed creatures were filled with instinctive fear.
The electric currents of the terrified creatures converged into a cold tide, causing the mother to shiver.
Without waiting for the mother to give the order, the deformed creatures fled in all directions.
However, they were all products of wrong evolution. They did not have much speed or defense.
No matter how they flailed their tentacles, wiggled their joints, or flapped their short and clumsy wings, they could only escape a few hundred meters away.
The rhombus-shaped crystal spun quickly and gave off a sharp whistle, like the sinister smile of a grim reaper.
From the depths of the crystal, beams of light that could be bent and twisted at will shot out like whips made of flames.
Each strike of the whips of light could literally drain the life of a deformed creature.
Any deformed creature that was entangled by the whips of light would age and wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a few seconds, they turned into dried bones, empty sh.e.l.ls, and pale white foam.
The rhombus-shaped crystal seemed to transform the life force of the deformed creatures into pure energy.
Its whips of light grew longer, while its rotating speed and screeching sound grew higher. The light from its main body also became more and more dazzling.
From the initial seven or eight whips of light that were less than dozens of meters long, they continued to split and extend until there were more than a hundred whips of light. The hunting range covered thousands of meters, and it only took dozens of minutes.
Within the vision of the main body, all the deformed creatures were transformed into the purest energy by the rhombus-shaped crystal.
The mother had clearly sensed the threat of death.
It was like billions of light b.a.l.l.s blossoming above its head during the primordial war.
As soon as the diamond-shaped crystal appeared, the mother had cut off its neural connection with all the deformed creatures.
It had also retracted its tentacles that protruded out of the ground like buds silently.
It was consuming spirit energy crazily, stimulating its tentacles to secrete a large amount of mucus.
The mucus quickly hardened and turned into a form that was favorable for digging.
Then, all the tentacles waved at the same time, trying to flee deeper underground to avoid the hunting of the diamond-shaped crystal.
However, the moment the diamond-shaped crystal descended, it discovered that all the deformed creatures had formed a “concentric circle” and worshiped the center of the circle.
From this, it was possible to determine that something was lurking underground at the center of the circle.
Swallowing so many deformed creatures in one go was just to acc.u.mulate war resources and launch a three-foot-deep strangulation war.
The hundreds of light whips of the diamond-shaped crystal were retracted into their bodies.
After a short period of charging up, seven to eight more whips, which were three to five times thicker and twenty to thirty times longer, pierced out like lightning and pierced deep into the earth.
The Whip of light was like a living creature, cutting through the ground like a hot knife through b.u.t.ter.
Soon, it discovered signs of the existence of the mother and chased after it relentlessly.
The mother dashed left and right, desperately searching for every crevice in the ground. Like a mollusk that was p.i.s.sing its pants, it squeezed into the crevice without caring about anything else.
Fortunately, the mother now only had the soft tissues and tentacles that were wrapped around the micro brain. It possessed astonishing mobility and stealth.
The immobile body, including the giant brain, was still in a state of dead and deep dormancy. It was not within the hunting range of the diamond-shaped crystal.
Even so, the micro brain had almost been caught up by the whip of light several times.
It had no choice but to “cut off its tail to survive” time and time again, abandoning a large number of limbs and tentacles that had grown after decades of hard work.
The thrilling chase and the perilous escape were as exciting and dangerous as the ancient war in which the beast horde was surging.
The two parties had been entangled for an unknown period of time, and they were almost running out of their last drop of spirit energy.
In the end, the micro brain abandoned 99% of the active tissues.
It was another desperate attempt to crawl into an underground magma at the risk of its own life.
The surface of the magma was completely carbonized to resist the invasion of the high temperature. Only then did it barely preserve the brain tissues at the core.
The blow to the mother this time was no less than the s.p.a.ce-based orbital weapons during the primeval war.
The environment on the ground was so terrible that the creatures were primitive and deformed. The terrifying diamond-shaped crystals were sweeping the planet nonstop.
The last micro brain was only left with the last 1% of the active tissue.
For the time being, he could not even gather enough spirit energy to repair the micro brain.
The mother could only choose to hibernate again.
He hoped that the cruel years that were unfriendly to carbon-based intelligent creatures would pa.s.s as soon as possible.
Meng Chao was also descending again. He was thinking quietly in the frozen darkness.
“What exactly is the rhombus-shaped crystal that is chasing after the mother? Is it a war machine left behind by the Ancients?”
Meng Chao muttered to himself, “Because the environment of this planet is too harsh, it is not suitable for the Ancients to develop their civilization for millions of years or even longer. Therefore, the ancients temporarily left this place, but left behind these war machines to act as ‘scavengers’ and wipe out all the descendants of the monsters and every cell of the mother?”
This seemed to be a reasonable explanation.
Yet, why was it that today, a long time later, not only were the monster’s genes not eradicated, but they also seemed to have fused into the bodies of many intelligent races from the Other World?
Before the Ancients returned to this planet, the rhombus-shaped crystal that was the “scavenger” had disappeared again.
What kind of story was going on here? Or was he mistaken? The rhombus-shaped crystal was not left behind by the Ancients but had a different origin?
No matter what, Meng Chao did not like this kind of fully-automatic war machine that was shining with cold light and full of death, trying to “clean up” everything.
For some reason, his hatred for the diamond-shaped crystal was even greater than that of baring his fangs and brandishing his claws. His face was ferocious as he tried to devour the earth and the starry sky.. However, it was filled with extremely vigorous vitality, presenting billions of possibilities of evolution.