Chapter 117 Deep Sea Invasion
Looking at this huge wave planet orbiting the black hole, Li Wenyuan always felt that this might be the most important place in this galaxy.
At first, he thought that the "gift" mentioned by the "professor" referred to the unowned material decompressor, but now he feels that it is difficult to say.
Is the planet named "Fishbowl" implying something?
Li Wenyuan felt that he might be thinking too much. After all, this place seems to be a place where human beings conduct a sociological experiment.
They may just want to watch a good show of "sitting on the sky", and they have never thought about it that much.
"...Maybe I'm too sensitive..." He forced himself to bury this matter in his heart, and then continued to check the history of this amphibious civilization here.
Although the "upward" exploration is prohibited, the exploration in other directions is still in full swing.
This scientific theocratic civilization may not be good in other aspects, but the technology related to the "deep sea" is very top-notch.
With the help of the magical "dimension manufacturing machine", although their population is only a few hundred thousand, they do not need to engage in too much basic labor, and more than 95% of the population are experts in various fields.
Exploring through sophisticated deep-sea navigation equipment, they discovered that there are actually many uninhabited "homelands" in the outside world—that is actually "deep-sea observation stations" located elsewhere on the planet.
But the shocking discovery brought this civilization into a long "exploitation era". It took them nearly a thousand years to "colonize" all the "deep-sea observation stations".
Such behavior successfully expanded their population, and finally reached two million. For a deep-sea civilization, this is undoubtedly a feat.
It's just that they didn't explore "upward". Under the guidance of strong theocracy, their exploration focus was placed on the deeper deep sea.
And this also became the beginning of their catastrophe, and the current era is called the "Catastrophe Era" by them.
But I heard Gray Wind's voice suddenly, and there was even a lot of excitement in the voice:
"Look at that thing! This is the monster I imagined in my dream!"
Following the guidance of Gray Wind, Li Wenyuan saw what she meant by "that thing".
It was a terrifying creature shaped like a giant octopus, it had hundreds of powerful arms and legs.
The suction cups of the arms and legs shrunk one by one, and you can see the densely packed teeth hidden in it, which makes people feel scalp numb.
Its size occupies about one-tenth of this giant deep-sea observatory. Considering this kind of building that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people in normal life, it can be said to be quite a large body.
But for interstellar civilization, this thing is still too small.
Those space creatures that often wander around all have the size of a large battleship, which is why the interstellar civilization does not pay much attention to the ocean.
After all, no matter how big the things in the ocean grow, they are not as huge as these space creatures wandering in the universe, and their deterrent power is much smaller in terms of size.
And the strength is not very good, not to mention the interstellar civilization, the natives who are still in the atomic age can directly destroy the creature in front of them with a nuclear bomb.
However, for Gray Wind who has been in space since birth, this "deep-sea monster" is still very interesting.
But the giant octopus in front of me is a bit special, and it seems to have a lot of wisdom.
Li Wenyuan is convinced that the "distress signal" detected before was sent by this giant octopus.
Because it is waving a huge arm at this time, swinging a transmitter that does not match its body shape very leisurely, and will send a "distress signal" to the outside world every once in a while.
Looks...like a lanternfish fishing.
He explored the interior of the intact observation station, and found that this giant octopus would carefully avoid every building and even every flower and plant here.
It can flexibly control every inch of the body's muscles, even if it is currently clinging to a large building inside a deep-sea observation station, it has not caused any damage here.
But the species of amphibious civilization that was supposed to live here has disappeared. Judging from the constantly wriggling sharp teeth in the arm-foot suckers of this giant octopus, the residents here may be in danger.
"...Psionic octopuses are here?" Having dealt with Void Realm countless times, he has confirmed that it is the fluctuation of psionic energy.
Moreover, this kind of psychic energy fluctuation is not low even in the interstellar world. Only some psychic masters can reach this level. "The appellation.
"...It's unbelievable, what did this amphibious civilization do?" Li Wenyuan began to check the files sealed as "top secret" by the natives here, and then saw such an incident:
【The "Evolution Accelerator" Disappearance Case】
【Recording time: 328 years of pioneering era】
【Content: Since the Pope re-established the "Kingdom of God", the machine left by the mighty power of this "God" was used as a symbol, dismantled and transported to the new Kingdom of God. However, one of the submarines loaded with the main structure disappeared during the process, and it is speculated that it was drawn into "hell" by an undercurrent]
According to the narration of this case, a submarine carrying the main structure of the "evolution accelerator" sank deeper into the deep sea, and it has completely lost the possibility of finding it.
But Li Wenyuan knows the nature of the "evolution accelerator". The most important thing about it is not the machine itself, but a special substance that accelerates mutation.
This substance will greatly increase the reproductive desire and metabolism of organisms, and at the same time cause a large number of mutations in the genes of offspring.
Almost every kind of creature will be infected and mutated by this substance, and a sufficiently good species will be produced through quantity, and finally a creature that has reached the peak of both physical body and intelligence will emerge in countless rounds of accelerated cruel elimination. It is this creature that becomes the basis of "civilization".
The amphibious civilization here may have extinct countless of their close relatives during the evolution process, but they don't know it.
But just like the technology corresponding to this machine, this is a kind of "cruel evolution" that has been artificially accelerated, which sounds like refining Gu.
Although this kind of machine will stop working after the emergence of "civilization", the substances it stores will certainly not be exhausted just like that.
After civilization is destroyed, it will accelerate this process in a new round of "natural selection".
The giant octopus in front of me is probably the creature that was "improved" by the missing "evolution accelerator".
Under the water pressure of the deep sea, these substances in the "evolution accelerator" may have leaked, which may have caused unexpected pollution to the deep sea.
And this kind of octopus is likely to be the new "overlord" of the deep sea.
According to the records of this amphibious civilization on the "Catastrophic Era", he felt that it was almost the same as his idea.
【"Catastrophe"】
【Recording time: Year 0 of the cataclysmic era】
【Content: A large number of scientists who explored downward began to disappear, and a large number of security forces began to search for the root of all this... Finally, we discovered these "enemies". They are extremely huge in size, and they also possess all kinds of strange powers. They come from the outside world and aim to destroy us...]
"...Has this amphibious civilization been destroyed? No, this 'spiritual octopus' seems to be using 'bait' to lure this amphibious civilization to continue sending people over..."
And drones located in other locations in the deep sea also sent news one after another, confirming his thoughts.
This amphibious civilization has not yet been destroyed, but it is not far away.
At this time, they only had one "homeland" left, and they were struggling to float in the sea. The reason why they said it was difficult was because several huge tentacles that could not see the bottom at a glance wrapped around the observation station and were dragging deeper into the deep sea.
If it weren't for the fact that human beings are very strong, they would have been dragged down by it.
But judging by the size of those tentacles, the size of this mysterious creature has grown to a terrifying level. Even the observation station, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, looks like a toy under its tentacles.
Originally, Li Wenyuan didn't have much feeling about this, but he thought of the image that this "fish tank" might represent, and always wondered if this meant that "unforeseen threats will destroy the fish tank world".
He felt that he might have grasped something faintly, but he still couldn't touch the fog that was right in front of him.
"...Have humans noticed something?"
He actually already had some bad guesses, but if this is the case, then everything in this universe may not be easy to say.
The day is not moving, so reduce the workload for two days and organize your thoughts. Please forgive me, everyone! I will be back in Riwan in two days! More compensation will be added!
(end of this chapter)