Chapter 997: There Is No Free Lunch
"You wait here for me for a while. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info appeased the three of them, and he followed him to the balcony, jumped to the back of the eyeworm, and flew towards the core space. Although the two sides have now turned their hostility into friendship and are no longer friends and enemies, it is undeniable that Soya died under the cannon of the Angel Trumpet, and it can be said that there are no bones left, leaving such a severed hand, it is really sad.
He did not regret this development, but from a humanitarian standpoint, he felt that accompanying Cathy to bury her sister's remains was an act that would not only buy people's hearts, but also annihilate the slightest uneasiness in his heart, while at the same time keeping her in sight in case of possible changes.
The speed of the floating vehicle was not fast, and it was caught up by eyeworms less than 50KM away from the earth's core space, Tang Fang stood side by side with her, his eyes were level ahead, but he did not say anything. Many times, you don't have to say anything to comfort others, and chicken soup for the soul can never be compared to silent companionship.
He thought it would move the other party and be an opportunity to buy people's hearts, but what happened next didn't turn out as he imagined. Cathy didn't open the positive hexagonal prism, put her sister's regrets in it, and then set up a tombstone to engrave a story of her life, or a message from the living, and she took Soya's severed hand and flew into the depths of the mist.
Tang Fang's expression was slightly stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he suddenly saw the six fire dragons that had originally been submerged in the incubator to recuperate and disperse the thin smoke cloud and appear on the opposite side. Its two skulls have not yet grown completely, but have only evolved into a rudimentary shape, and countless newborn flesh buds writhing and tangled in wounds with a diameter of tens of meters, making people's scalps tingle.
Next, he saw the tube that had been retracted into the abdominal cavity sticking out from below, and the crust covered in scale armor squirmed, and the hose that was originally used to enter the back of the female Eitlans grew and elongated, but instead of splitting in two and becoming a Y-shaped structure, it stretched out in front of Cathy, and the worm-like mouthparts opened slightly, revealing sharp teeth.
Then she inserted the severed hand into it, not gentle, not dignified, like a wooden wedge into the dirt.
Tang Fang stretched out his hand, wanting to say something, but didn't say anything after all...... Perhaps for the Elantes, eating the remains of their loved ones as food is a kind of funeral.
It turned out that he was wrong, and he was very wrong. The worm mouthparts at the end of the hose bit into Zoya's severed arm, the sharp teeth pierced deep into the skin, and the originally coagulated blood gushed out again, mixing with a liquid secreted by the hose, like a suddenly inflated balloon, turning into a sac at the end of the hose, and then alienated by cold, the original light blue skin became tougher and more transparent, looking like a 3-meter-high cocoon.
"It'......" he blinked, puzzled. I guessed something, but I wasn't sure.
Cathy looked at the translucent cocoon that glowed blue at the core and said, "This can be faster." ”
"You...... You wouldn't be saying that she ...... She can be resurrected, right? "The blue glow at the core of the cocoon beats slowly, like the heart of a human body, shrinking and shrinking, making a popping sound.
She was still expressionless, but the light in her eyes was no longer cold, it was slightly lighter, like a pool of water, a little cold. "I'm alive, she's not dead." She explained.
Captain Tang finally knew why the incubator unlocked the brain worm. Just like the setting of the Interstellar 1 Brain Worm, as long as the Juggernaut is alive, they will not really die and have a chance to be resurrected. Back to the female Elantes, as long as the incubator is in the way, they can die and be reborn. Similar to the server-network device-client model of a computer network, the incubator is the server, the 6 dragons are the network devices, and Cathy and Soya are the clients. Even if the client is damaged, it is not a big deal, replace the device, load the updater, synchronize the data from the server, and the client can run again. In other words, the incubator, the 6 dragons, Soya and Cathy are originally one and the same, but there are some subtle differences in unity.
"Sure enough, it's an 'alien'......" Tang Fang sighed, thinking to himself what a wonderful thing evolution is. At the beginning, following the footsteps of the Ipsisaurus Maiden Liana to visit Serepas, the images recorded by the pendant obtained from the Ashtolando Basilica, coupled with the architectural functions and layout rules of the Lost Lands, gave him the perception that the social structure of the Ipsilons is roughly the same as that of humans, and then preconceived that the Epsilons, the hostile race of the Ipsilons, are also similar to the social environment, but now it seems that the two sides are different and very different, which stems from different evolutionary processes.
Aliens are always aliens, Cathy and Soya show a human side only because the male Elants do not fulfill their responsibilities as guides, and their perception of the world is more through human memories and experiences, so they know that they are not human, but they tend to be human in their way of thinking.
This cognitive structure is both unified and antagonistic, and it is rare that they do not have a split personality...... THIS MADE HIM INVOLUNTARILY THINK OF A SENTENCE, "PEOPLE AND DEMONS ARE BORN BY MOTHERS, THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT PEOPLE ARE BORN BY PEOPLE, AND DEMONS ARE BORN BY DEMONS, WHEN THE DEMON HAS A BENEVOLENT HEART, IT IS NO LONGER A DEMON, IT IS A HUMAN YAO." ”
Tang Fang watched as the six fire dragons retracted the giant cocoon, slowly sank into the mist, and re-entered the internal chamber of the incubator, and asked casually, "How long will it take for her to break out of the cocoon?" ”
"It will take about three months, it could be longer......
She didn't explain the specific reason, but Captain Tang, who was as smart as she was, could naturally think that for the incubator whose biological functions were now greatly suppressed, it was hard to guarantee that it would not delay the time it took to reconstruct Zoya's body.
On his way out of the Earth's core and toward the tower, he asked another question in his mind, what role those fish monsters played in this biological system. Cathy's answer was "food".
He was shocked and puzzled by this answer until Cathy gave a more detailed answer.
Yes, the fish monster is the food of the incubator, it produces them, it devours them, it directs them, it raises them.
Just like Abbather obtained tissue samples from the bodies of six fire dragons, analyzed DNA to discover the structure of phagosomes, and then concluded that the incubator could absorb energy substances in a relatively mild way as nutrients for the growth and development of the body.
In the early years of the two sisters, the male Elantes would only return to the wandering planet for a long time, so they used the characteristics of the relics to store extremely rich energy substances in the core space of the earth.
As they became more and more interested in hunting to relieve the loneliness that gradually developed after devouring humans, inspired by the phenomenon of hunters raising eagle dogs to assist in hunting, the two decided to find some helpers for themselves, so the remaining energy was converted into biomass by the incubator, and by combining the DNA fragments of an epic creature that resembled marine fish, many small fish monsters were born, and by injecting different amounts of essence substances and DNA fragments to create long-nosed fish monsters, sharp-toothed fish monsters, cross-bone fish monsters and other species, However, since the main genes are derived from fish-like epic creatures, these fish-monsters look very similar.
The incubator, in turn, breeds them on the one hand and devours them on the other. Just like plants release carbon dioxide by respiring at night, and releasing oxygen by photosynthesis during the day. When there is a lack of energy and materials in the earth's nuclear space, the incubator will devour a large number of fish monsters and convert them into the needs of its own life activities; After a long period of accumulation, the number of fish monsters increased, and gradually became a large race, and later combined with the genes of other powerful creatures to breed 6 fire dragons as a means of transportation------ for Cathy and Sawya, it is equivalent to an armed shuttle used by humans for short-distance flights.
After listening to this story, he really didn't know what words to use to describe the shock and complexity in his heart. If Freya is his mobile power bank and electric batons, then the fish monster cluster is the incubator's portable bento, which can not only be used to satisfy hunger, but also to smash people.
Then he thought of one more thing, a mature fish monster could contribute 300 crystals and 200 gas to him, and there were more complete bodies like the crossbone fish monster. Doesn't it mean that the incubator can continuously produce fish monsters for itself that can be converted into system resources? As long as there are energy substances, the incubator can convert them into system gas resources, although it is not as convenient as directly refining zero element ore, but it is also an excellent way to collect resources.
Cathy didn't understand his enthusiasm for hunting fish monsters, but still told him that as long as he could provide the energy materials needed for the incubator's daily life activities, the fish monsters in the core space would be at his disposal, but he didn't want to think about mass-producing fish monsters.
The consumption of energy and matter is very large, and it takes a lot of time for the incubator to secrete biomass, just like humans planting trees and cutting down trees, there is a ladder-like growth cycle, and the reason why there are so many fish monsters in the core space is the biological manifestation of the energy accumulated by the incubator for thousands of years, and in the absence of energy, it is impossible to form a cluster scale in the short term.
And most importantly, the incubator that is now dragged down by the lesions in the body has greatly decreased its physiological indicators, and its function is far less than before, and it is absolutely impossible to realize his whimsical and eccentric thoughts. What he needs most now is not to think about it, but to worry about what to do with the energy substances needed by the incubator to maintain life activities and inhibit the spread of lesions. Being his subordinate is not done in vain, and the "salary" is also paid.
Of course, this does not mean that the incubator has completely lost the ability to breed fish monsters, and under the condition of sufficient energy and matter, it can carry out long-term, small-scale production tasks in its current state.
For this result, Tang Fang was very depressed and unhappy. I thought I had a great benefit, but I didn't want to end up with a big stomach and a big burden. The key is that he didn't dare to clean up all the Type II phagosome polymers in the incubator, giving up his strategic advantage over Cathy and Soya.
In fact, for Captain Tang, who is carrying an interstellar system, it is not too difficult to make energy substances, but what the incubator can quickly absorb is relatively mild and stable energy substances, such as organic biomass, zero element, zero element isotope, electrical energy, etc.
It is obviously unwise to exchange Alien Worm units for fish monsters, they do not have zero elements in their bodies, and the biomass contained in 50 puppies may not be able to give birth to a mature fish monster. Needless to say, zero-prime and zero-prime isotopes, he fed them to the incubator when his brain was broken. AS FOR ELECTRICITY, HOW BIG A FUSION REACTOR NEEDS TO BE BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE A LARGE MAN WITH A BODY LENGTH OF MORE THAN 100 KM?
Although I decided to let go of the fish monster cluster, I don't have to worry about these in a short time, but I have to think of a way to cure the root cause, right?
Where to find a mild, stable energy substance that also satisfies the appetite of a behemoth...... Well? This thing looks like it's far away, but it's actually close at hand. He thought of an object------ the civilization and cultivation foundation of the Star Spirit, the Kaedarin Crystal.
However, for the size of the incubator, it must be a huge Kaedalin crystal to maintain long-term consumption, at least more than ten times larger than the crystal of the mothership core, or more than 10 mothership cores to output energy together.
There is no doubt that this is a very difficult thing for him, but the difficulty now does not mean that it will be difficult in the future, whether it is the crystal tower of the El Star Spirit or the Void crystal tower of Nerazim, they must be energy donors to help the incubator carry out life activities------ provided that they can be concretized, not just functional buildings in the base.
Sister Logic won't explain the structure of the system and the hidden elements to him, and Emma doesn't have access to the relevant information, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own ideas. Through the scene that appeared when the core level of the system was raised, the system expanded the data of the Void Relic campaign, and gave him the opportunity to experience the new expansion, he guessed that the moment when the white path that was bound by many rings was completely opened may be the moment when the system building was materialized. In other words, the most likely scenario is that the core of the system will be upgraded to the top level, and the architectural visualization function can be activated.
T Power Stone ...... Or is it a T power stone......
Tang Lin and the three of them watched Tang Fang and Cathy go and return, and returned to the console on the 8th floor, because they saw that the two of them were not in a high mood, thinking that they were touching the scene and feeling sorry for the deceased, so they didn't speak, waiting for them to rely on their own strength to get out of the pessimism, cheer up, and seriously consider what to do next.
After the female Aitlan landed, she walked straight to the console, and the four palms injected weak currents into the crystal lattice of different colors, and the image of the water screen changed several times, and finally adjusted to the gravitational force field structure diagram of the tunnel section.
As the mistress of this ruin, their ability to control the gravitational core is naturally far from being comparable to Tang Lin and Walton. (To be continued.) )