Chapter 271: The "Degenerate" Star Eater
“…… What is that? Can the current alien civilization do such an outrageous thing? If you extrapolate from the distance and the reference, it seems to be about the same size as us, right? ”
Seeing with their own eyes the video file that recorded "Aliens solve the doomsday strike", some people couldn't help but ask such questions, and this is also what everyone present is thinking at this time.
If they saw it on the Internet, they would just laugh it off, after all, who could believe that "Superman" really existed.
However, the news of Seeker 2 shattered their previous perceptions, and they could not even understand how such a small object in the image could be so easily navigated through space.
Science fiction, or "magic", which only exists in their film and television works, appeared in front of their eyes.
While they were still complacent that it was a feat for Seeker-1 to fly 21 billion kilometers away for more than 40 years, extraterrestrial civilizations had developed to the point of "holding the sun and the moon and picking the stars".
Now that the other party has stopped the "Doomsday Strike", will they be noticed?
The staff members who were constantly tapping the characters on the instrument froze in mid-air at the same time, and almost all of them realized that "an alien civilization is coming".
Assuming that the other party came with bad intentions, where will they go from here?
Soon, the crackling sound that had disappeared due to the stagnation of movement began again, but the expressions on everyone's faces here were hidden shadows.
The sudden "Doomsday Strike" has confirmed that the outside world is not very friendly, and their future will probably be "dark".
Unlike these pessimistic states, Grey Wind at this time has not yet realized that what he has done in space has been "witnessed" by these natives, and has dealt them a considerable blow.
The astonishing nanostorm intercepted the high-speed "Star Eater" mutants, and many of these "Star Eater" mutants "crashed headlong" under the action of inertia.
This also allows Grey Wind to discover the difference between this "Star Eater" variant and the "Star Eater" in the Milky Way, the most obvious is the difference in size.
This "Star Eater" variant is made up of a large number of miniature "Star Eaters", unlike the Milky Way, which is a whole life form.
Strictly speaking, this should be called the "star-eater swarm", and those floaters-sized "star-eater" variants are most appropriately called bugs.
They themselves can move by absorbing cosmic radiation, and glow in the process just like regular "star eaters".
Absorbing and transforming stellar matter is also part of their instincts, but in general, this "star-eater swarm" is actually a weakened version of the "star eater" for a number of reasons.
“…… I've done a rough analysis of the genetic structure of these 'Star Eater' variants, and guess what I found? There is no trace of genetic modification in their genes, and they look more like they were artificially bred! ”
Gray Wind reported her new discovery to Li Wenyuan with some interest.
In the galaxy, "breeding" is already an inefficient method, and the interstellar civilizations that have mastered the genetic secrets are directly genetically modified, targeted implanted and edited to the genes. Breeding can only occur in interstellar civilizations that are not mature, or simply indigenous.
However, the "Star Eater" mutant that appears here now appears to be a creature that has "degenerated" after countless generations.
Not only has the size become smaller, but even the corresponding abilities have become weaker.
According to Grey Wind's estimates, the energy released by the mutated "Star Eaters" from the transformed stellar matter is not enough for them to escape the stellar gravity at a rate that allows them to escape the gravitational pull of the star.
At the same time, their efficiency at transforming stars has become very low, and once a "star eater" could devour a star in forty or fifty years, but now it is more than ten times more efficient.
As it stands, this is a kind of "gone and no return" creatures, which obviously did not evolve for survival, but more like a civilization artificially cultivated for a certain purpose.
As for what this purpose is, it is self-evident.
And Li Wenyuan, who was arranging "belongings" somewhere, also received news from Gray Wind.
“…… I know. Since this mutant star eater is not capable of reaching that kind of speed at all, there must be something that provides them with their initial velocity, and combined with this breeding method and flight direction, it can basically be determined that the 'Indigenous Civilization Beta' did it. ”
"It's interesting, it's a transgalactic strike? And as soon as you come up, you are running to destroy the other party? There are no hyperspace shipping lanes here, so that's how they use this inefficient but useful method to 'war'? ”
He also has a certain interest in this, after all, this situation is rare in the galaxy, and almost all scientists of indigenous civilizations can discover the existence of hyperspace in the pre-space age, or even the atomic age.
Instead of waiting for a "slow" light-speed strike that takes decades to prepare and more time to arrive, it is better to directly hit people's doorsteps in a few months, and few people have considered the question of "what is the speed of light".
However, the situation here is different, in addition to being interested in the interstellar social environment and the development process of civilization here, Li Wenyuan also wants to know where the "hyperspace" here has gone.
It is impossible to know the reason from the few remaining traces of hyperspace, and he thinks that the civilizations of this galaxy may also know something, except for the possible human remains.
And civilizations that have reached the atomic age already have some knowledge of the universe, and even indigenous civilizations may find clues.
So Li Wenyuan continued to say to Gray Wind: "If you are interested, you can go to that indigenous civilization Alpha to play, and by the way, help me look through the top secret information of their countries." ”
After receiving a positive answer, he himself prepared to go to another place after settling his belongings, that is, the "Indigenous Civilization Beta" that sent out this "Star Eater" strike.
In terms of means, the technological level of this indigenous civilization beta should be higher, and it can even achieve cross-galaxy strikes.
The unusual acceleration in the trajectory of the Star Eater mutant also made him interested in this civilization, which he thought would be able to teach him something.
At this time, Grey Wind has also come to the "Alpha of the Indigenous Civilization".
She flies directly in the sky here in human form, and the nanobots invisible to the naked eye are also integrated into the interior of the civilization here, using the convenient network to download a large number of history here.
At the same time, she also noticed that there seemed to be a large-scale panic among the indigenous creatures here, some people were holding large-scale protests, but more people were grabbing goods, and there were riots from time to time, and the scene of the end of the world was coming.
"Isn't ...... the 'Star Eater' variant solved? Why is there still a riot? Curious, Grey Wind quietly fell into the crowd.
(End of chapter)