"First of all, the boundless Void Universe, just like the one we saw on Hope, unimaginably large."

"And in this boundless universe, there is a huge twisted mass of flesh, unimaginably large, based on my visual guess alone, at least the size of several earths, and this huge twisted mass of flesh is constantly spreading strange light around, some like lasers, but not completely ......"

"It's such a huge twisted mass of flesh, as those rays of light continue to spread, its mass of flesh begins to wither and shatter, and many of the skeleton structures and internal organs within it are also detached, yes, it gives me the feeling that it is going to die, it is going to die of old age......"

"But the process is slow, so slow that it will take 10,000 years, 100,000 years, and gradually, when it will die, it will come to a planet with life...... By the way, its flight is the kind of curvature flight, exceeding the speed of light, and it took countless thousands of years for it to find a living planet, and then, it completely disintegrated and shattered outside this planet, and a large amount of flesh and blood turned into cosmic dust, but the core of the thing was thrown into this planet by it. ”

"Then the process is also very long, I don't know millions, tens of millions, or even billions of years later, there will be civilization on this planet, it is a kind of aquatic science and technology civilization that looks like a jellyfish, they have developed science like us, and they have also produced pollution, the most important thing is that because they are aquatic creatures, this kind of pollution makes them even more unbearable, so when they develop to the late third revolution, they begin to build colonies on the colonies of various colonies in this galaxy, in order to reduce the pollution of their home stars, And then ......"

"They reached the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and, because of the pollution, had to develop interstellar technology until their first trial manned spacecraft flew past the outermost part of their galaxy...... Neutron star fragments are coming. ”

Yao Yuan stood up violently when he heard this, and he asked in shock, "Neutron Star Fragments?" Are you sure it's a neutron star fragment? Why does this civilization also have neutron star fragments? Could it have been attacked at the same time as the Earth? ”

Zhang Heng shook his head and said, "No, in my dream, this civilization is at least tens of thousands of years ago...... Don't ask me why I know, it's a dream, I just feel it, let's listen to me first, this dream continues, because of the appearance of neutron star fragments, the civilization has no way to do anything, and in the end it can only build a large-scale spaceship at the level of technology at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but at this moment...... That billion-billion-year-old egg was rotten, and it was a dense mass of bacteria that piled up like pieces of meat, uh, something like what we humans call Tai Sui. ”

"At first, it was very fragile, and it was only able to absorb some of the surrounding plant and animal corpses, but with each kind of corpse, it could extract useful parts from the genes in it and record them, and gradually, it hatched monsters composed of these plant and animal genes, and these monsters brought more animal corpses to the pile of meat, and gradually, it became more and more, and it became stronger and stronger......"

"But as its number increased, this civilization was finally discovered, and when they tried to destroy it, they could not find any way to eliminate it, so they had to use hydrogen bomb nuclear weapons to blow up and sink that area......"

"But it's not that simple, although this bacterium is very fragile when it leaves the main body, but this piece of flesh has already sunk its body into the ground, following the underground river to the sea...... Intelligent life is a kind of aquatic jellyfish, and then, as the first intelligent life was devoured, more and more intelligent life was devoured, and this piece of meat learned their technology, first a monster that could spew bullets from its body, and then a monster that created an electromagnetic shield, and even it had learned the means of hydrogen fusion, and obtained almost endless energy in the sea, and began to create a large number of these countless monsters, which are the monsters we encountered on the ground......"

"It wasn't until a few years later, after this piece of flesh had swallowed the entire planet, that it left the galaxy and began to search for living planets throughout the universe, devouring it, leaving ...... In this way, it found the galaxy we are currently in. ”

After Zhang Heng finished speaking in one breath, he finally stopped and took a breath, but Yao Yuan at this moment had already fallen into contemplation, by the way, and Ming Zhijie, who was sitting next to him, also fell into contemplation.

"I want to make sure that when this monster is born from an egg, it doesn't have any technology, right? And the monster that is produced is just the genes in the corpses of those animals and plants that it devours, right? Yao Yuan asked after thinking for a moment.

Zhang Heng nodded affirmatively: "That's right, that's it, at the beginning, it was a blank paper with only instinct, as it devoured more, the more types of monsters it could create, and the more intelligent lifeforms it devoured, especially after devouring civilization, the more scientific and technological means it could use." ”

Yao Yuan frowned and said: "But it's very strange, if according to what you say, its mother, that is, the withered and dead monster, it should belong to the third-level civilization and have curvature flight, then why didn't it get these high-tech?" ”

Zhang Heng said in a very positive tone: "Because its mother body has evolved wrong!" ”

"Evolution is wrong?" Yao Yuan and Ming Zhijie asked curiously at the same time.

"Yes, evolution is wrong!"

Zhang Heng explained: "The information I felt from the original mother body is that this kind of monster also has a lifespan limit, but with the higher the level of civilization it devours, the more powerful genes it devours, then the stronger the monster it produces, but if you want to reach a higher level of civilization, this is also rare in alien civilizations, because of the problem of development direction, many civilizations are developing in the wrong direction, which is likely to cause this civilization to stop for a long time, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years of science and technology, There is even the possibility of self-destruction, so the advanced civilization devoured by the mother body is not necessarily the right development, and the reason why it dies is because it is not strong enough, although the level of technology is high, it is likely to have evolved by mistake......"

"Ugh." Zhang Heng thought for a while and said: "To use a simple sentence in the online game, the skill tree is wrong, but most civilizations do not have the opportunity to reset the skill points, so if you want the next generation to evolve correctly, it must be a blank to start developing, and there is also the factor of natural selection in it, this monster is actually not a lot in the universe, only the strongest of them can live longer, and even reach the legendary immortality, to the effect that this is what it means." ”

Yao Yuan shook his head and didn't say anything about the existence of this monster, he just said: "Okay, let's summarize, first of all, this monster relies on devouring genes to develop a large number of monsters in order to protect its main body, right?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Heng nodded in affirmation.

"Secondly, it relies on devouring civilization to obtain its technological level, such as the hydrogen polymerization reactor we observed, which is the technological product of that jellyfish civilization, is that so?" Yao Yuan said again.

"Well, it's a little different, this monster has a subjective mind, that is, like a bee ant, it's actually very smart, it knows how to combine technology with genetically generated monsters, for example, as far as I can see in my dreams, it has created things like cannon monsters, bomber monsters, space fighter monsters, high-explosive monsters, and Gauss rifle monsters......"

Yao Yuan nodded again and said, "Well, that is to say, as it devours more genes and the stronger the civilization it devours, the more types of monsters it can create...... Also, it's the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, right? Will it develop technology on its own? ”

Zhang Heng shook his head and said: "It didn't create its own surname thinking, uh, it's not right, it can combine technology with monsters, this can be regarded as creation, but it can't develop technology, all technology is devoured and absorbed from other civilizations, so far, it is still the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, there is no doubt about this, just in terms of science and technology, we have the advantage." ”

"Really? Technology dominates ......" Yao Yuan suddenly asked again: "So what is it afraid of?" Is there anything in your dreams that this race is afraid of? ”

"Uh, no." Zhang Heng just thought about it for a moment, and immediately said: "It doesn't seem to be afraid of anything, what planetary viruses, all planetary microorganisms, all planetary plants, animals, it is not afraid, because it will adjust its genes according to the creatures it encounters, maybe it will be hurt and devoured at first, but then it will begin to evolve, pick the part of the absorbed genes that can resist to change its own gene fragments, and then it can swallow and absorb everything......"

After Yao Yuan heard this, he suddenly remembered the monster corpses that he had taken with him when the monster army retreated...... Since there is only one general consciousness, and those individual monsters cannot exist consciously, why do they take the corpses with them? Could it be that he wants to evolve a stronger monster after he goes back?

And when it comes to evolution, he seems to have forgotten something important...... At this moment, Yao Yuan's liaison suddenly rang, Yao Yuan was stunned, and immediately opened the liaison and said, "I'm Yao Yuan, there is still a while before eight hours, what's the matter?" ”

“…… Captain, please come to the biological lab......"

"That monster's cells have devoured alien plants! A metamorphosed individual cell has evolved! ”

(To be continued)