Tom, with black hair and black eyes, was lying in a deep sleep in the enveloping device, soaked in some unknown slime.

Next to him, a monster is 'sitting upright' with a transparent soft membrane covering its body and a thick, pasty liquid circulating inside;

The monster had no hands, no feet, no head, and no organs similar to those of eyes, ears, mouth, nose, etc., as if it were a mass of snot wrapped in glue;

At this point, two catheters penetrated the soft membranes on its surface, transporting the mucus inside to the next device, where it was extracted and returned to the monster through the catheters after infiltrating Tom's body;

As a result, those slightly black particles made the mucus in the monster's body cloudy little by little, and the monster seemed to become a little sluggish.

After a long time, unable to recognize its emotions, it gathered its cloudy body fluids in one area, and the membranes on the surface of the body began to grow inward to envelop them, discarding them all in further separation;

The semi-solid nasal bubble fell down the soft membrane and rolled through the surrounding pipes to an unknown location.

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The blonde Alice is also being studied in a laboratory at the moment, but no matter how she isolates her cells, all she can get in the end is useless waste;

In desperation, the alien creatures chose to call for help, but even the more advanced machines specially transported from the wormhole could not bypass this phenomenon of unknown origin and actually complete this step, and all the tissues left the body will self-destruct without any room for rapid self-destruction;

The only feasible way seems to be to conduct a stealth study while maintaining the wholeness, but when the nanoworms burrow into it in an attempt to crack the analyzed gene strand, it directly triggers the self-detonation of the entire body from the inside out;

As a result, several mushroom clouds were generated from different directions in the barrier, and although they did not cause much overall damage, the research room suffered heavy losses, many squeamish equipment were destroyed, and many fragile researchers who faced the explosion died directly;

And the precious samples, which were only a few hundred in number and could not be cloned, were also lost in this continuous explosion

Therefore, in the absence of a better way, the failure of the individual cases and the phenomenon itself that cannot be bypassed are uploaded to the unnamed place as a specific 'result'.

~~~~~~~~~~

Jerry, who also has black hair and black eyes, is taken to a sealed metal room and put on some kind of helmet-like equipment;

Then, he entered an almost real fantasy world, and the illusion began to deform as if it had been infected in some way.

The starry sky is generated, and in the center of the dense star curtain like a river, there are scattered virtual connections like buckets and hunters;

Later, time and space flowed, and the picture of the eight stars and two belts around the sun was gradually generated, and in a wider area, a somewhat illusory Milky Way appeared, and some large and small, similar or different river systems were presented.

But even with the beginning of the galaxy, these river systems all seem a little illusory and unreal.

Then the dimension turned again, and the line of sight fell back to the third star in the eight-star two-band circumsolar system.

The appearance of the world was gradually perfected between the sun rising in the east and the moon setting in the west, and various scenery slowly circulated in the vast oceans and continents, and a region called Pangea Land embarked on the road of biological evolution in the competition of all things, and it took countless years to give birth to the prototype of wisdom;

A species called Homo sapiens gradually gave birth to civilization between the pursuit of dinosaurs and the encirclement of giant insects, and later became the world's hegemon and gained invincible status in the ecological niche;

Then, Homo sapiens entered an era of infighting in which states stood side by side, unleashing a spiral of war and peace that lasted for tens of thousands of years, and had a terrible impact on themselves and the ecology on which they depended.

Until one day, humanity possessed more powerful geological weapons, and in the war, it shattered the center of Pangea, prompting the formation of an inland sea called the 'Earth Ocean', which led to a huge climate catastrophe under the chain reaction;

In the face of the natural retribution they endured, they finally reluctantly learned the compromise between race and interests, and tried to establish a unified world government.

Then, after 3,000 years, after a series of conflicts and adaptations, it finally ushered in an era when countries did not exist and the world government was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Thus, for the first time, mankind embarked on the pioneering path of seeking the starry sky in the unity of the general direction, and in the next thousand years, the solar system was gradually incorporated into its own voyage, making everything seem very beautiful and vibrant.

But at this moment, some kind of earth-shattering catastrophe was a sudden and strange and powerful galactic fleet, which inexplicably appeared in the outer side of the star system at an abrupt point in time;

At first, they only seemed to be an illusion, and the world government only informed them that it was a strange illusion, and continued to bury themselves in the development of their own civilization, but behaved in a way that was noticeably more radical than in the past;

Decades later, the phenomenon of fluctuations in previous observations has reappeared, and although there is no galactic fleet that can cover almost the entire star system, there are three quasar fortresses that are real and non-imaginary, the size of the parent star, which appear in the field of vision of mankind and go straight to the home star of mankind.

Along the way, the interstellar ships belonging to humans are vulnerable, and the same is true of the planets and asteroid bases belonging to humans, all of which have been crushed in an inexplicable force, even the buildings and people, and even the stars themselves;

Then, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, these materials were sucked into the bottom of the spherical ship, which was open like an abyss.

In just one day, the home planet fell, and the remaining 20 billion humans were imprisoned in alien spacecraft to be studied and transformed;

In just ten days, all the planets and asteroids in the solar system disappeared without a trace, and only the central sun was still burning in the entire star system;

But the alien spacecraft did not seem to be satisfied, and they approached the sun and connected to each other to form a huge carpet, and in the years that followed, they sucked up a large amount of stellar material without a trace;

By the time he left because of some order, the solitary sun had dimmed.

In this way, there are no more parent stars, no more human beings, and no longer even a star system that can be called a 'solar system';

In its place, it is a self-reproducing creature cannon fodder derived from humans, which has since followed the alien ships in an unknown galaxy and an unknown age.

At some point, the Masters Civilization, which had never really been seen, finally encountered a fierce enemy in the starry sky and began a long war with it that spread across several river systems;

As a human derivative of one of the many cannon fodder races, it also encountered the opponent's powerful cannon fodder race in a border security war during the period, and fell into a dilemma of almost total annihilation, only some of the logistics troops who were carrying out river-level transportation tasks survived, and the detachment of the memory master Jerry was one of them.

But they did not wait for the time of multiplication, and new missions followed only a dozen years after the home planet

As a result, Jerry followed the commander of the national character face to leave the rear area millions of light-years away to join the war, and was swept away by the aftermath of the attacks of both sides during a mission, and inexplicably caused everyone to fall into a coma without knowing it;

When they came back to their senses, they were excited that they were lucky not to die, but they found that they had arrived in this completely unfamiliar star field together with the local security ship to which the team had been assigned.

At this time, they saw the information such as 'unknown' and 'lost link' displayed in the central control system, but they did not have any panic because of this, but fell into a great joy;

You must know that in the past, even if they were more than a million light-years away, or even more distant distances, their ships, their equipment, and even their bodies were all under the direct surveillance of the Chief Sect Civilization, and there was never any 'lost contact' situation;

Therefore, this strange star field is more like a relief for this group of human beings. Until you meet the 'Strong One in the Dark'.

In the past, the strong chief suzerain, the strict civilization hierarchical order, and their status as cannon fodder weapons all made them accustomed to obeying the order and following the strong, so when they received a request from the suspected 'landlord' force, they did not hesitate to choose to obey and end up being captured and imprisoned.

However, their capture is not the same as the capture of a ship, as the security ship built by the Suzerain's annex brazenly took all the core materials and materials with it in a self-explosion when the alien invasion reached a level known to humans but had no access to;

As a result, the harvest of the alien forces is limited to the superficial information entered by humans, as well as some low-end products brought into the ship by humans.

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At the same time, many observations were made in multiple places with different ends and means, and the objects of observation were all newly captured 'humans' without exception;

Unlike the difficulties in genetic research, the memory guidance and analysis carried out with the intention of 'trying it out' went relatively smoothly.

By this time, reckless genetic research had blown up many of the labs in the base, so in the face of the rarity of the samples, they began to put more effort into 'memory', hoping to use it as a platform to learn more about the relevant truth.

After a comparative study of multiple memories, the researchers in the base finally constructed a relatively complete context of 'human history', and found that the 'chief suzerain' of mankind is a civilization that plays with genetic technology, but it is a little weak in the illusory spiritual realm due to the different development directions.

Subsequently, these failed or successful observations are gathered into one at the project branch supervisor, and after analysis and collation, a complete report is forwarded to the department head.

Later, the head of the department, who seemed to be a little apprehensive, took the information and went to meet the head in charge of scientific research in person and made a corresponding report

It left the Barrier base on a relay spacecraft and headed for the small star wrapped in the center, but only landed on the spherical quasar between the star and the Barrier;

Here, it was inspected by light and dark sentries along the way, and finally arrived at the permanent residence of the top boss. It was a deep blue spherical ocean of plasma, suspended in a large cavity near the center of the quasar.

The head of the department, who cautiously 'walked' in, held up a hollow metal ball with a glimmer of glitter inside into the air, and watched it float into the blue ocean under the bearing of some force.

The flickering ball of plasma is in fact a huge sound, but it is precisely because of this immensity that a false silence is created in the cavity, perhaps this is a kind of 'big sound'

And when this false silence lasted for a few more moments, a mysterious turmoil emanated from the deep blue sea of plasma, and in the vibration, it turned into sound waves around it;

Its voice is grand, its momentum is majestic, and it carries a sense of power that seems to be visible to the naked eye, constantly shocking in all directions;

Said

"Hello, okay, yes, I love to pronounce me."

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[Is this their mainstream language, it is really inefficient to the extreme, and it is not much worse than the lingua franca of the river system created by the Council.] 】

A ball of spheroids, also dark blue, separated from the plasma sea, with magnificent colors flickering on its surface at a frequency of tens of thousands of times per second, and expressing the information it carried in less than a split second;

But there was no response from the space, as no one here could read its words, and it was merely expressing itself

Immediately, the color of the sphere began to gradually dim, and its own form changed rapidly in the process.

In just a few moments, it went from being almost identical to the ocean behind it, first turning into a condensed gas, then gradually collapsing inward, and finally taking on a silvery-white semi-liquid metal body.

Then, the metallic body was suspended in the air and kept moving forward, and in the meantime, structures similar to hands, feet, and skulls were rapidly generated around it, and it was transformed into an outer limb-like leader like a human, and it continued to form a structure like facial features on the 'face';

The thing or creature with a metallic sheen all over its body shimmered, and after hitting the ground, it took a few steps forward, and at the same time opened and closed the 'mouth' that had no real function at all, and there was no cavity inside, and whispered in a whisper.

"Outer limb type erect creatures, this kind of guy is really easy to win in evolution, and there is another unregistered case."

When this sentence was finished, it seemed to be tired of fading the contours of its facial features, and returned to its previous smooth liquid metal appearance, but the outer limb-like body structure that had been formed did not change.

In this state, it floated a few inches above the ground for a few moments, and finally came to the vicinity of its subordinate who was not far away;

Because it didn't want to waste time waiting for the translator to translate, it stirred up the shallow metallic substance on the surface of the body, and said in the lingua franca that it had previously looked down upon.

"Let's talk about it yourself, what the situation is and what work has been done by the department you are responsible for."

"Yes"

Hearing this, the octopus-like multi-legged creature, that is, the department head, waved its tentacles to vibrate the lingua franca in the room gas, and responded with this as a medium.

It 'said' the Word,

"They call themselves human beings, and they were originally the inner star civilization that initially mastered electromagnetism and fusion, but they died halfway through the interruption of an unknown force."

The leader interjected at this point and asked,

"What is the technical route, and does it help our group in terms of ideas?"

The octopus-like monster continued to wave its tentacles and said,

"There's no way to reproduce them, they only work with off-the-shelf tools now, and the original technology has been forcibly forgotten."

"Well, it seems that they are relatively strong controllers, do you know who the forces are doing, and have you found out the star field to which they originally belonged?"

"I don't know, the civilization that controlled them does not appear in memory, because the 'humans' have never had direct contact with them from the beginning to the end, and the fleet that they encountered at the beginning is only a branch of the subordinate forces;"

"The star maps shown are also unknown, they call themselves 'Milky Way', and there are 'Fairy Systems' next to them, saying that they belong to the 'Lania Keaben Supercluster', and there are some galaxies called 'Sail', 'Orion' and so on the ecliptic plane, but none of them match the star maps we know."

"In addition, the corresponding traces of war have never appeared in our field of observation, not even in the open materials on the council's side."

"There are three preliminary guesses"

"First, it could be an event that occurred outside the observable universe;"

"Second, it may be a conjectural 'parallel universe';"

"Of course, these two items are just bold associations, and we are more inclined to the third guess that a protracted war may take place in the known universe, but the distance is too far to cause the information to be transmitted out of time, so that we cannot complete effective observations."

At this point, the brilliance on the leader's body suddenly flowed through thousands of people, and he immediately asked again,

"So how did they get here, do they really have natural wormholes? Or is there a civilization in that distant starry sky that has mastered the mysteries of time and space? ”

"I don't know how they traveled in our memory, and in fact we don't even know how long it took to travel in between." ”

'Boom! ’

Hearing this, the sea of plasma behind the leader suddenly swelled like a miniature star, and in the violent wriggling of the octopus monster, it extended a white flame tongue to this side, and swept over the leader's body in milliseconds, sticking to the surface of the former's body at almost 0 distance, causing it to boil and evaporate in the scorching;

Fortunately, it was only 'close to 0 distance', and fortunately, the leader's ability to restrain the temperature was high enough, which allowed it to barely save a life

But even so, the octopus monster still has a small half of its body that is carbonized, and with a cracked skin and boiling water inside, it shrank by 60% before falling to the ground with a dying heart.

"Stupid aquatic species! What the hell are we feeding you for?! What can you do?! ”

The octopus monster is actually a little wronged, because the problem of leading the front is beyond its ability, but at this time, it can only spread itself out as much as possible without saying a word, in order to show absolute deference and complete surrender.

After that, there was a moment of silence.

Perhaps sensing his own excesses and the weakness of his subordinates, the leader finally withdrew the scorching white flame tongue into the plasma sea with a diameter of nearly a kilometer, so that the sense of oppression transmitted in the space was dissipated, and continued to inquire in the lingua franca,

"When I first came into contact with them, I heard that they showed the ability to communicate without barriers?"

"Yes, yes"

"Do you know how? Does it have anything to do with those monsters with stones in their bodies? ”

"They say they say it's a ship's own function, as if it's done through a strange biological organization."

"Huh?! What about things? ”

"Chief. Ministry of Supervision."

After inadvertently pointing out the department in charge, the octopus monster continued,

"Said it had self-destructed. Together with the human ship."

With that, it obviously spread itself a little more, and the frantically surging skin outside the body also seemed to symbolize some kind of panic, for fear that it would be implicated by this mistake that had nothing to do with it.

Fortunately, the leader didn't get angry again because of this, and he just 'talked to himself' in spectral terms and just crossed this question directly

"Let's talk about the human beings themselves, are they still useful?"

Finally, the squirming on the surface of the octopus monster eased a little, and waved the tentacles a little weakly,

"There will be no value in terms of technology, but they are unregistered native races with the inherent attributes of their own culture, and they are the kind of people with very complex emotions in civilized life, and they have good intelligence and sensibility;"

"I think that it can be developed into a good product, and those customers who pursue curiosity and excitement should be willing to spend money, but more specific implementation and planning still need to be deployed by the industrial department, I."

"Okay, just say you know."

"I understand, I think they have the potential to become group soldiers, even if they are sold to other forces, they will have a good price."

"Is it because of genetic modification?"

"Yes, they've been transformed so well that they seem to be innate, and I can't believe it's made without repeated memory readings."

"What are the specific parameters? What are the ethnic characteristics? ”

"It should be a mixed-based biological weapon, and the cells are as functional as primitive embryos, and can fill in all the missing parts of the body without barriers;"

"They are also completely free from the dependence on the native environment, with 1/10,000 of the pressure resistance of the critical star core, and can adapt to the environment of 80-30,000 versatility, the batch we caught is not a combatant in the past, they are just clerks working in the logistics department, so there should be potential that has not been explored."

"Huh? And what about combatants? ”

"Judging from the memory performance, the cannon fodder boss, who has undergone the same genetic modification, is the best of them, has shown greater adaptability to the deviceless environment. It's just that the specific parameters are unknown. ”

"Is it easy to feed? Can retrofit technology be cracked? ”

"It's true that they can go without eating or drinking, but if they want to become stronger, they must have corresponding supplies and a certain amount of time to grow, otherwise they will only be at this level of performance now;"

"As for the technology. I can't do it."

"Huh?!"

The brilliance that symbolized anger flowed again, and the sea of the sun behind the leader had a tendency to skyrocket, and the octopus monster hurriedly waved all its tentacles, saying one after another as fast as it could,

"Chief, the other party's transformation technology is really much higher than ours, and the support force of the group headquarters has not played any role;"

"I don't know what kind of means were used, but human cells cannot be separated from the body at all, and there is no way to carry out in-depth gene chain analysis."

"The former will cause cells to self-destruct, and the latter will induce the body to self-destruct, and we have already lost several laboratories because of this, and it really can't go on."

(End of chapter)