Before the Light Chasers could gather much information about the Fire Chasers, the expedition they sent to the Dawn Star homeship, which had been invaded by mysterious plants, encountered a major incident.

"Let's go! This way! ”

A captain beckoned the group to follow in the direction he was pointing, but stopped as he entered a pass, breaking off with the soldiers.

I saw that the whole team was gone, and everyone was running on the ground, afraid of being caught up by the "monster" behind them.

And what is chasing them is a surging "plant frenzy".

The translucent plant was stimulated by something, and as soon as it was in its quiet state, the fibrous plant seemed to have muscles under its epidermis, wriggling to move its branches forward.

Their goal is clear, and it is directed at the entire expedition team.

"Damn it! How come these things suddenly go crazy without any warning? ”

One of the soldiers cursed angrily as he poured tongues of fire on the incoming plants with a flamethrower in his hand.

Burning works well at first, and charred plant debris also acts well as a good deterrent.

But ever since the plants began to secrete slime as if they had adapted, flamethrowers weren't so effective, and only the instinct for fear of fire made them slow down in the face of flames.

After the expedition had gone some distance, the soldiers ignited the combustibles that had been prepared to form a wall of fire, barely fighting for another time.

After reaching the next corner, the expedition reached a special place, where the tall tower, covered with vegetation like a world tree, was located.

But now that the expedition team is no longer able to enter this area, according to the requirements, their first goal at this time is to get out of here and return to safety.

One of the accompanying scientists couldn't help but scold angrily: "Why doesn't the repellent medicine work? I could smell the pungent smell through the purification equipment of the suit, why didn't the plants react at all? ”

His questions were not answered, and the people at this time had only one thought, and that was to flee from here.

But at this moment, there was a sudden vibration in the earth.

The surface of the Homeship is a thick layer of alloy, with only the thinnest layer on the top for aesthetic pavement.

Rao was like this, and everyone seemed to hear the harsh sound of the alloy being squeezed.

In the next moment, a large number of translucent plants rose from the ground, and even the alloy could not resist the power of their growth.

"How...... That's too powerful, isn't it? Can a creature do this? ”

This was shocked, but then followed by a sense of despair that permeated the group, and if they were able to sneak up from underground, they would never be able to escape the plants unless they boarded the departing ship.

However, at this moment, a solar engineer who was unremarkable in the crowd walked out, holding several unopened potions in his hands, which were the kind of potions that could attract plants.

Originally, this potion was carried for the "bait plan" that might be needed, but it seems to have played its role as it should.

"I'm going to attract these plants, you guys go!"

"You ......"

As soon as the leader of the squad wanted to speak, he saw that the potions had been opened by the solar engineer, and his face changed, beckoning everyone to hurry away.

This potion is very adherent, and if they get a little contaminated with it, it is really impossible to escape from these plants.

The solar engineer also sprinkled all the potions on himself, and then rushed into the tower.

Seeing this, the captain of the soldiers had no choice but to take advantage of the fact that the plants were attracted to the attention of the plants, and continued to escape with the team.

Before leaving, he glanced back at the Solar Engineer who had rushed to the gate of the tower and was about to be swallowed up by the plant frenzy, only to see the face under the protective mask, with a strange smile, as if there was a hint of sublimity.

The next moment his vision was blocked by plants, and he was confused with the entire expedition team.

It wasn't until after another life-and-death escape that the team returned to the camp without danger and escaped from the "homeland ship" through the spaceship that they had been waiting for earlier.

After that, they settled down and sat down on the ground, except for one scientist who looked at the instrument he was carrying with him with an incredulous expression.

"We ...... There are traces of that inducer, and those plants probably rioted because of this, but when did this leak? ”

This inducer is significantly more attractive than the "herbicide" used to drive away, and even a little bit can make those plants ignore the "herbicide" aversion.

This is great when used as bait, but once it gets on you, it's terrible.

None of them were aware of the fact that they were busy running for their lives before, but now that they are out of danger, they can only blame it on some "accident".

However, the captain of the soldier inexplicably thought of the "sacrificed" solar engineer.

He always felt that he saw some kind of "divinity" in the Sun Engineer at that moment, and this was too idealistic for him, so he could only eliminate this feeling in his heart by reporting to work.

At this time, the "Dawnsong" homeland ship in the most central area also received the news of the failure of the expedition.

However, those high-level officials were not so concerned about this matter at this time, because the news brought by the "guardian" shocked them even more.

The "theory of evolution" is not something difficult to understand, and when this theory was passed on by Li Wenyuan, they found that their "evolution" was abnormal.

It is true that life originated in a primitive "organic ocean", and some of the organic matter in it is likely to be their ancestors, but it is absolutely impossible to directly use these primitive organic matter to give birth to complex life in the first place.

According to human habits, the "light-chasing" race should be a kind of life evolved from moth-like insects, but in the "light-chasing" species, there are many mammals with functions and organs, and it is even difficult to define their species according to the biological meaning.

Not only that, but there is almost no trace of "evolution" in the species that "chase the light", and among the fossils they have found, they even looked like this tens of millions of years ago, the only difference is the increase in brain size.

This is also the basis for their "God-given origin theory", which believes that their primitive ancestors were a complex life formed by random combinations of organic soups.

The question of "chicken or egg" does not exist in their civilization at all, because it must be "soup first".

They saw it as a miracle of life, but now it seems that the truth is not what they imagined.

In the end, it was Li Wenyuan who collected the genetic records left in their data, simulated them hundreds of millions of times in his virtual world, and came to a conclusion:

"What? Our Origins...... Is it the 'Fire Chaser'? ”

The leader of the "Chasing the Light" is still a little incredible, and it is really difficult for him to accept that they are "created" beings, which can even have a huge impact on their outlook on life.

After analyzing the huge amount of genetic data and making countless permutations and combinations by himself, Li Wenyuan discovered the relationship between the creatures of the entire "cradle" galaxy and the "fire chaser".

And just as he expected, the method of creating the planet Gaia by the "Fire Chaser" is very unusual.

In his opinion, it is very likely that the "fire chasers" "manually" created all life on the planet, from small single-celled organisms to large mammals, and all life in the "cradle" galaxy was created by them.

"Creating life" is not a simple matter, and even in the galaxy, it is almost impossible to create a life that has never existed, and the self-collapse of genes will kill those lives.

However, the Fire Chasers did, and they seemed to be a huge gene pool that recorded the creation of a series of species, even if not an entire galaxy of different life.

There has been no evolution here, and all life is basically perfect at the beginning of its birth.

But in their bodies, the genetic association with the "fire chaser" still exists even after tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years.

These genes are not normally abnormal, but they can be of great use if necessary.

"'Chasing the Light' didn't have 'dimensional erosion' because of the genes of the 'Fire Chaser', is it because the amount is not enough, or is it because they have adapted to this universe?"

Li Wenyuan thought about it, and finally thought of a possibility.

"...... 'Fire Chasers' can't be unaware of the anomalies that are happening in them, but are they really helpless to do anything but wait for their own decay?"

He couldn't see the "cradle" galaxy, but his gaze seemed to have crossed a distance of five million light-years to get there.

“…… Or is the possibility of 'resurrection' already planted by them......"

When the leader of the "Chasing Light" learned of this astonishing fact, the people of the entire "Chasing the Light" civilization collectively felt a throbbing from the depths of their blood.

Ancient hallucinations appeared and disappeared in front of their eyes, and in a trance, the shadow of the "World Tree" became more and more solidified, making everyone feel like they were about to sprout in their bodies.

At this moment, it seems that they have also become plants, about to transform into a new kind of life.

(End of chapter)