Chapter 578: Garland Hunter
To the common man, the meaningless strange cries that came out of the mouth of old Belen had a special meaning in Leo's ears, because they were a kind of language to him, a real language, although the notes made by the human mouthpiece were somewhat strange and mispronounced.
This strange sound is actually the unique language of a cosmic advanced civilization race, and all the cosmic races who know this cosmic civilization and have heard this sound have a consensus, that is, this kind of sound represents death and cruelty.
Cosmic civilizations are diverse, and each cosmic civilization has its own customs of its own race, but when they become a more advanced cosmic civilization, the content of these customs that is not conducive to their integration into the entire cosmic civilization circle will be actively eliminated by them, and finally some cultural content will be retained.
But there are exceptions to everything, and there are some cosmic civilizations that will not have any compromise, they still retain their most primitive customs, and even for the sake of these customs, they do not hesitate to start a war with the surrounding cosmic civilizations, of course, they may deliberately use customs as bait to provoke wars.
Among these cosmic civilization races that retain primitive customs, the Garlands are definitely the most dangerous high-civilization races, and even the Supreme Council believes that this race is extremely dangerous and needs to limit the population, so it invented a virus specifically for the Garlands, which reduces their fertility and offspring survival to the lowest point, and can barely maintain the level of racial reproduction.
The reason why the Supreme Council and the various cosmic civilizations are so hostile to the Garland civilization is because this civilization is an extremely rare marauder civilization.
As the name suggests, the core of the predator civilization is plunder, this civilization itself does not have any ability to actively evolve, but their predatory nature can seize the knowledge, culture, science and technology of other civilizations through plunder, they are like cancer cells of the cosmic civilization, by cannibalizing and digesting all the nutrients of the target civilization, strengthen themselves, and finally completely swallow the target civilization.
The Garland civilization originally knew about an extremely primitive civilization on Garland Star, just like other advanced civilizations, the civilizations around the star field where the Garland civilization was located also sent observer spaceships to secretly observe the growth of this civilization.
But one day, a cosmic storm from the distant starry sky swept through the star field where the Garland civilization was located, and several observer spaceships of other civilizations that had no time to dodge at that time were swept up, and finally damaged, crashing into Garland Star.
After obtaining these observer spaceships, the relatively primitive civilization on Garland quickly absorbed and digested the technology, culture and knowledge contained in these spaceships through its own plundering nature and ability, and finally evolved from a primitive civilization to a cosmic civilization that can conduct space navigation in less than a thousand years.
After that, the Garlands continued to plunder the surrounding civilizations, absorbing the technology and culture of these civilizations, and finally evolved to the level of advanced cosmic civilization in a short period of time.
The surrounding cosmic civilizations also sensed the danger of the Garland civilization, so they united to declare war on the Garland civilization, but now the Garland civilization has matured, and they have not only survived the most intense war period with their powerful combat talents, but also in the war, their civilization, technology and themselves are constantly evolving, and even some physiological evolutions are specifically for this war.
For example, as the war expanded, the casualties of the Garlands naturally inevitably increased, so when they evolved, they strengthened in both reproduction and growth.
By the middle of the war, the Garland had increased their reproductive capacity by more than fifty times compared to the early stage of the war, and their growth time had been shortened to one year, that is, it only took one year for a Garland to complete the initial adult growth from birth. While doing so would reduce the lifespan of each Garlander, it would allow their population to survive the war and grow.
In the end, the Garlands won the war and swallowed up several civilizations in the surrounding universe, and the level of civilization evolution continued to increase, which, combined with their own ability to reproduce, made them one of the most powerful civilizations in the galaxy.
After thousands of years, they did not continue to expand, but quietly digested the fruits of this war, but this does not mean that they are all good, they began to create a hunting ritual that sustains a lifetime of growth according to their customs, and the object of their hunting is all intelligent creatures, as for the highest hunting achievement, it is naturally the hunting of omega-level higher lifeforms.
At the beginning, the Garland civilization did not attract the attention of the Supreme Council, after all, the star field where the Garland civilization is located belongs to the edge of the cosmic civilization, but as the Garland hunting party began to spread in the universe and hunted intelligent life everywhere, the subordinate organizations of the Supreme Council began to notice this cosmic civilization that mainly plundered and killed.
When a hunting party of the Garlands succeeded in killing an evolving omega-level higher lifeform, information about the Garlands was officially placed on the agenda of the Supreme Council.
This discussion of the issue of the Garland can be said to be the shortest in the entire Supreme Council, from the initial discussion to the final decision in less than a year, the reason for this is that the Garland people do not have a single ally in the universe, and his unscrupulous hunting of intelligent creatures has allowed him to erect countless enemies.
Eventually, the Garlands were restricted in their fertility, growth cycle, and civilization, which was equivalent to keeping them in a prison with a small star field.
However, even so, the Garlands have not changed their hunting and plundering customs, either sending hunting teams to join the cosmic pirate organization, or simply sending hunting teams to roam the civilizations of various galaxies to hunt.
Although the Earth Federation is far away from the Garlanders, almost half of the universe, there are still Garland hunting teams that have reached the Star Range of the Earth Federation and caused great damage to the Earth Federation.
When Leo was still a cyborg, he and other troops had surrounded and suppressed the Garland hunting team, but at that time, the main force was the psykers of the Federation, and they were only responsible for peripheral interception and other work, but even so, their losses were very huge, and only three of his cyborg battle team survived in the end, and the others, including the six cyborg battle teams that worked together, all died at the hands of a Garland hunter.
Although he was in a cyborg state at the time, he didn't have any fear, but he could feel powerless, watching the Garland hunter easily slaughter several of the most elite cyborg battle squads, and their death could only drag the Garland hunter for a few minutes.
This memory has always been imprinted in his mind, even if he has now become a real human for unknown reasons, this memory has not disappeared, so when old Belen made some kind of unique sound, it was like entering an activation code, this memory immediately surfaced from the depths of his consciousness, which is why he thought that there must be a Garland hunter on the ship of the Death Fish.
The memory imprint left by Leo because of that massacre was too deep, so after he recovered, he took the initiative to collect a lot of information about the Garland hunters, so as not to encounter the Garland hunting team in the future, and there would be no countermeasures like last time.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that when he was a federal cyborg, he didn't meet the Garland hunting party, but now he has become a human and has come to a mysterious and huge world, but he has met this civilized race that makes him feel uneasy.
After confirming that the ghost ship of the Death Fish was very likely to contain a Garland hunter, Leo also understood why his spirit net sensed that there was a life form on the ship, but he could not find its correct position, because defensive spirit web and psionic energy are also one of the most basic innate abilities of Garland hunters.
For some unknown reasons, the Garland people rarely have psionic people, and even if they have psionic powers, the psionic energy they grasp is very weak, but this does not mean that the Garlanders are not strong. Because the Garlandians have three opportunities to predatory cell evolution in their lifetime, as long as the Galáns capture the cell body strong enough, they can use their innate ability to plunder the superior genes of the cell body, and then have unimaginably powerful power.
There was once a Garland hunter who used the life cells of space worms, star whales, and omega-level advanced life forms in turn, saying that he had evolved to an incredible point, even without psionic power, his strength was not much worse than that of omega-level advanced lifeforms, and even in terms of physical strength, it far exceeded that of most omega-level advanced lifeforms.
Leo didn't know what the situation of the Garlands on the Deathfish was, but he was sure that the other party must have evolved at least once, otherwise, it would be impossible for this Garland to survive until now, because the Supreme Council has limited the life span of the Garlands to less than forty years through various methods, and even if it is frozen, it will not be able to organize the loss of lifespan, and only after completing a fairly powerful physical evolution can it be possible to complete the repair of the body.
At this time, the Ice Queen had entered a relatively uniform state, and according to Leo's inference, the speed of this ship was about the same as that of the speedboats that traveled on the sea in the old Earth era.
However, Leo didn't need a practical spirit net, and through the naked eye alone, he could see that the Death Fish was not only not thrown away, but was closer to the Ice Queen, and the dense fog that had left the entire hull appeared clearly in Leo's eyes, and it followed as if it was being dragged by the Ice Queen.
Obviously, the old captain in the captain's room had also discovered this, and knew that he couldn't get rid of the ghost ship, so he stopped the wizarding circle inside the hull to slow down the ship.
When the speed of the ship was restored to normal, the old captain returned to the lookout, and while instructing the sailors on board to prepare for battle, he came to Leo and said, "It seems that you still have to trouble your Excellency to make a trip." ”
"Where's the stuff?" asked Leo.
The old captain didn't say anything about paying first and doing things later, and directly took out a box and handed it over.
It can be seen that this box was found temporarily, and it is not difficult to guess what this box was used for before.
Leo didn't open the box and check the contents, he believed that the old captain wouldn't and wouldn't dare to do anything to fool people, so he just said things in front of the old captain and put them in the storage space.
The old captain couldn't help but have a puzzled look on his face when he saw the box suddenly disappear from Leo's hand, but he quickly returned to normal and asked Leo if he had anything to prepare.
Leo shook his head, told him to stop the boat, lower the lifeboat next to the boat, and sent two men to paddle him to the Deathfish.
The old captain immediately did as he was told, and because he thought that Leo needed to bring someone on board, he chose two strong sailors to follow Leo.
After the boat stopped, Leo boarded the arranged lifeboat, and after the two sailors paddled the oars in their hands, the dinghy sped over the surface of the sea, and approached the ghost boat, which had also stopped and moved slowly with the waves.
"You stay here and wait for me. Upon reaching the ghost ship, Leo stood up, looked at the hull of the ship overgrown with marine creatures, turned to the two sailors who had taken up their arms and were about to board with Leo, and gave a command, and then saw that he controlled the psionic energy to fly up from the dinghy, and soon flew over the side of the ship and landed on the deck.
After all, this ship has been sailing at sea for many years, although there is an energy here to protect the hull, but this protective power can only protect the ship from falling apart, and cannot prevent the ship's wood from decaying, it is no exaggeration to say that if Leo did not use the painting of psionic energy clinging to his feet and letting the weight of his body be weakened in the form of emission, perhaps his feet would have trampled on the deck the moment he landed.
After Leo fell, he immediately observed the surrounding situation, but this time he did not use the spirit network, but adjusted his body to a perfect control state, and the perception of various organs was also adjusted to the limit.
The reason why he didn't use psionic energy, but relied on his own organ senses, was entirely due to the Garland's resistance to psionic energy.
The Garlandians have a strong resistance to psionic energy, and they use their talent to create some methods specifically used to deal with certain psionic skills, such as avoiding the perception of the psychic network, such as creating psionic forbidden areas, etc., so now for Leo, the organ perception in the body is more reliable than psionic energy.
As it turned out, it turned out to be true, and just as he had adjusted his senses to the limit through perfect control, he immediately sensed an extremely faint air flow in the cabin under his feet, and there was a sour smell in the air flow that was different from the rotting of the ship.
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