The immeasurable breadth of space and material abundance in the universe have created countless known and unknown types of ecology within and outside the vision of the Republic;

And these special connections, which can be called 'ecology', have at least succeeded in giving birth to an existing or new life form between galaxies, in which there are or are evolving species with complex intelligence.

Among them, for many races that are not outstanding in their individual abilities, the co-operation that occurs within the population may be the inevitable way out of the formation and development of civilization, and it can be said to be an effective shortcut, no matter how poor;

Otherwise, it will be difficult for them to stand out from their home star in the initial niche competition, let alone become planetary masters and step out of the surface of the star and enter the star system.

Depending on the type of ecology and life form, the internal cooperation methods of each intelligent species are also correspondingly different, including those who give up the pursuit of individual will and evolve into a 'true social species', and those who even give up their will and personality independence into 'aggregate species'.

However, the most common ones are flesh and blood species linked by reproductive parental relationships.

Such a bond that allows the offspring to be stably cared for may be a stable form of cooperation that is more susceptible to natural selection, and although each has its own characteristics depending on the culture and productivity of the population, the basic social unit built by blood is prevalent.

And somewhere in the starry sky, the surface civilization that is facing suffering at this moment, is such a cooperative society based on the parental family.

In this country, the kind of flesh-and-blood intelligent species that occupy an absolutely dominant ecological position have nothing special in terms of the basis of life and the social form;

In terms of physical fitness, this civilized race cannot walk in the wind and fists, and long-term inactivity will also cause disadvantages such as regression of strength and weakened endurance, and there is almost no potential at all in terms of physique;

And mentally, the lackluster memory is a definite sign of the ordinary

Even in the face of shallow, knowledge that will only allow them to step out of the surface level, individuals in civilization may not be able to master it for a lifetime, and the older the individual, the lower the mental agility, and the memory and creativity will also deteriorate.

If there are no accidents, this kind of civilization is likely to usher in a long bottleneck of development in a certain era, and it is not until it embarks on the road of individual ability development or works hard in the direction of intelligence that it is possible to break through the bottleneck and go further.

But it is clear that they don't seem to have that chance anymore, as a vicious group of aliens has patronized its home planet and crushed its near-nimble ability to resist

For such a race that is ordinary in terms of physical and mental health, the alien invaders are not even willing to go to the trouble of transporting them away and selling them as slaves, but after collecting the best and special samples in their species, they decided to wipe them all out in a large-scale way, and then directly sell this ecological star.

Because this kind of race is not favored by the slave market, if it is not labeled with gimmicks such as 'out of nature', 'exclusive source', 'rare goods' to attract curiosity hunters, it is simply some low-level goods that no one cares about;

Under this marketing approach, it is sufficient to rely on existing samples for supply.

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The primitive spaceship quietly rose from the far sky, and many dignitaries and super-wealthy businessmen belonging to the civilization were boarded inside, and they did not want to sit on this side and wait for death, they made a final struggle, trying to quietly escape from the blind spot of the alien spaceship.

However, the so-called blind spot does not actually exist, and the chemical rocket does not have a real possibility of escape, but the aliens only attack at the moment when hope is formed after giving them enough tension and successful reverie

So, when the high-energy particle beam circles from the far side of the planet, the high-ranking people who are full of joy turn into a brilliant firework;

And this scene became the first play to be staged here, and the high-ranking people won the bursts of laughter above the track with their own lives

In addition, other headhunting operations carried out by the aliens themselves are occasionally staged, targeting individuals and small groups who are still trying to escape the city;

It's still a similar drama, the old-fashioned plot of giving hope first and then breaking hope is staged one after another, but the details are played by these aliens with bad personalities.

They encroached on the city's signals, showing the movements and expressions of the fugitives in the face of the transition between success and failure, and the transition between hope and despair on the large and small screens in the streets and alleys, and then clearly broadcast all this to the residents struggling in the city;

At the same time, they were 'extra gracious' with some new follower slots to reward individuals who had done a good job for them in the chaos and had the good fortune to survive to the end.

The revolt had proven useless, and the reward that hung in front of them was the straw that plunged every city beneath the tracks into unprecedented chaos.

Either for the chance to survive or for a chance to survive, or simply to be swept into madness by chaos, the figures in the city began to regard every compatriot in sight as an enemy, and used various means to carry out bloody slaughter under the leisurely gaze of the evil one.

Most of them had lost their self-control, and the fear that had sublimated to the extreme had swallowed up almost all of their sanity, and the population of tens of billions of people had shrunk by half in just three planets in a single day, and it was still accelerating with the spread of madness.

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The connection of the sea of thoughts is very magical, although it is extremely far away from the material world, the most extreme emotions are mediated by the aliens in orbit, and the fluctuations are transmitted to the thought aggregate of the forces in which they are located;

Then, through some of the individuals whose essence was replaced by the elven lurkers, it was indirectly spread into the giant egg of the Republic's mind;

So, the wandering warlocks captured it and traced it up, sending their thoughts to its source with the blessing of the inscription array.

"Qualified intensity signal captured, and the explorer's thought frequency is being adjusted to prepare for the connection"

"Fail, readjust. The signal source disappears, and the target is changed"

“.”

“.”

"The 203rd time the qualified signal was captured, and the explorer was prepared in frequency adjustment .5210, connected!"

"This is Alisa, I have preliminarily built a one-way link and am copying the consultation, please analyze the specific content in the background immediately"

In the dense layers of inscriptions on the outside, there are also a dozen or so semi-independent balls in the center, and each ball within the ball is wrapped in a cutting-edge warlock.

In fact, these balls within the ball are not small, after all, the warlocks inside them are already very large, and the structure that can completely encapsulate them can only be larger;

The warlock inside is completely fused into one, maintaining a special form that merges with each other inside and out, and his own vital signs have not been weakened by this.

In fact, the body of these balls within the ball is the body of the molecular-level spellcaster, and they carry the core inscription structure and integrate into the body of the warlocks, so that they can adjust the details of the array in time and improve efficiency according to the real-time situation with the fastest speed and the sharpest reaction.

At this time, when the individual signal at the source is copied by the aggregate that is imported into it, it is immediately transferred back to the Realm of the Void and is cracked in real time in the acceleration;

Then, looking at the content displayed in the signal that had been converted into audio-visual signals, the project team members were a little undecided.

"That's the way it is, so what the hell do we do? Is it to take it back directly after the results are verified, or do something more? ”

"Those guys are too twisted, why don't you just stop without teaching them a lesson?"

"Will it go against the general policy? After all, we haven't stood on the bright side of the light ourselves."

"Just be careful, if you do a good job of disguise, who knows whose handiwork?"

"But the center is there"

"The center already knows, the archon said it's up to us to make our own choices, and if we decide to take action, take care of the aftermath."

"Okay, Alyssa, can you rest? That imprint is a convergence of your thoughts, right? The rest is up to you. ”

"No problem, I'm ready on my side"

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The unknown alien boy was stumbling and dodging in pursuit, covered in blood and mud, and he was still holding a small figure tightly in his arms;

He had been on the run for three days

On the first day, the family barely survived by hiding in the house and relying on food reserves, but the generally dilapidated houses in the slums did not allow them to take refuge for long, and they were soon swept away by the frenzied Zero-Yuan Party;

That night, both parents died trying to get rid of the children, and the stronger brother left him and his sister and chose to run alone, not knowing whether he was dead or surviving somewhere

When he escaped, he took a kitchen knife in his hand, although he was only a half-old child, but he barely had some self-protection ability, so he fought for life under the careful hiding and desperate resistance, although he was full of embarrassment, he also managed to survive with his sister to this day.

But when another day and night passed, endless hunger and exhaustion began to invade every inch of his nerves, and behind him were a few red-eyed middle-aged compatriots closely following, not even a little rest

Judging by the clothes they never had to change, these prime men were just ordinary citizens, at least before the nightmare began;

It may be that there was a sudden change on the way to work, and he was wearing obvious work clothes and did not have a weapon in his hand, so the cold light in the young man's hand when he encountered it earlier attracted their attention, and he began to chase and kill regardless of the confusion of reason

At this moment, the young man clutched the mouthparts of his blood relatives like a hose in his arms, squatted in the shadow of the corner and stared directly at the strange prime of life not far away, and sincerely hoped that they would be able to walk away as soon as possible.

The unity in the chaos did not last long, and the disappearance of the soft persimmon left the three madmen at first in a daze, and then began to kill each other for unknown reasons;

The long tongue rushes out of the mouthparts, releasing digestive juices when it bursts into the openings such as the eyes and ears to carry out alternative attacks, and constantly stabbing at the opponent's heart core with the nails that have already degenerated at the tips of the hands and feet, but they are not accurate and quite ineffective.

Time passed little by little during the fight, and two middle-aged people were beaten one after another until they couldn't get up again, but they didn't know whether they were completely dead or left a breath;

The victor was also badly wounded, with a lame leg, an eye dissolved, and half of his mouthpiece torn off, and now he was limping and drooping his long tongue and looking around blankly, and only fell into pain after half an hour in pain.

In the shadows of the corner, the young man finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then looked down at his sister and prepared to retreat quietly with her.

Fearing that the sound would attract the other party, his hand had been holding his sister's mouthparts tightly until he had awakened to let go of it in a moment of safety;

But the awakening seemed to come too late, and the figure in his arms was no longer breathing at the moment.

Despair erupted, and hatred swept first over his hand, and then at the surviving pursuer not far away;

In the end, he looked up at the small silver dot looming in the far sky, which was an alien spaceship.

Although there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, this civilization has not left behind the popularization of basic education for the people, even the teenagers living in the slums have received a relatively complete education;

So, although he wanted to tear the young man to pieces, and did intend to do so, in fact the boy could understand who was to blame for all this;

It can be understood, but the boy does not have the ability to retaliate, not to mention the small him, even the entire civilization has not been able to resist the opponent's force, and only 7 landing soldiers have destroyed all the ability to resist.

At this moment, extreme anger, extreme hatred, and extreme powerlessness were mixed in his heart, he silently put the corpse of his parent next to him, and then walked to the seriously injured prime man with a knife

The transition from dazed to crazy occurred in only a split second, and the eyeless and crippled prime man with a crippled leg ran to scuffle with him, and even though he was already crippled, he still had a strength advantage, and with a single push, the already tired and hungry teenager fell to the ground.

Holding the knife in his arms, the boy struggled with the relatively strong strength of the other party, and for some reason his brain was obviously much more awake than the other party, so he spit out the digestive juice into his intact eye while he was unprepared, so that the prime of life subconsciously covered his face in the pain caused by acid corrosion.

At this moment, he squeezed all the strength of his body to stab the sharp knife in his arms, and hit him in the chest with a stabbing blow that could be the last glory of his life, causing him to fall to the side and roll in a scream, and his own vitality, which was already like a broken candle in hunger and exhaustion, also fell into a state of imminent extinction after stabbing with all his might;

After that, although he looked at the sky with eyes full of hatred, he no longer had much will to survive.

But at this moment, just as he was about to close his eyes and wait to die, suddenly a cry of ignorance rang out from the corner before him, and the familiar voice obviously came from his sister

The longing that did not rise in hatred was conceived in hope, and the boy wanted to continue to live with his only remaining relatives, no matter what the price was to be paid.

As a result, an unnamed consciousness is connected to consciousness from an invisible place, and a voice with infinite hope echoes in my mind

"Young man, do you believe in light?"

(End of chapter)