Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 559 Martian Genes

The old king stopped short of saying more, and Zhou Yi didn't ask any further questions.

Although the Second War of Resistance Against the Celestials ended with the surrender of the resistance fighters, it is now clear that the main force of that generation of resistance did not give up.

The Black Emperor established the Heavenly Kingdom, stabilized the order on the ground, maintained the living space for ordinary intelligent life, secured the basic foundation on the land, and attempted to find a way out from the consciousness side.

The Old King explored outer space, mined resources on Mars, and investigated the secrets of the Celestials as an agent.

The Lord of War spends most of his time on the Forbidden Continent, seemingly far removed from conflict, but he directly intervenes when the Black Emperor is in danger, maintains close ties with the former king, and pays close attention to the younger generation.

Whether it's the continuous manufacturing of weapons, the cultivation of weapon maidens, or the year-round research on Golden Elephant Valley, it doesn't seem like a true retirement.

They simply stopped taking any action on the surface.

They each sought a way to break the deadlock in their own way.

The old king said, "The most important thing for survival is to learn to live in harmony with the environment."

"If you are weak, then adapt to the environment and survive first."

"If you have the ability to change the status quo, you can try to modify the environment to serve your own better survival."

"These two phases always alternate."

"The most important thing I learned from the sowers is never to underestimate any kind of life."

The other person said, "There is a creature called the Killer Rat on the Forbidden Continent. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Actually, it also exists on Mars."

Zhou Yi was a little surprised: "Killer rats also roam Mars?"

"That's right. It's just that they've all gone out from the base."

The old king said, "The killer rats placed on the forbidden continent are a subspecies with weak survival ability. The truly powerful killer rats are active on Mars."

It sent me a video.

Zhou Yi clicked on the enhanced controller.

The image on the screen was slightly blurry, showing a tornado-like gray-brown dust storm on the ground, its surface flashing with electricity.

Not far away, an unidentified moving object was rushing towards the dust storm.

The thing looked like a large, white, four-legged creature.

It crashed headlong into the dust storm, its body instantly disintegrating into fragments that were then shredded and sucked away by the dust storm.

After the dust storm passed.

Two minutes later.

The large four-legged creature slowly re-emerged on the ground.

It chased after the departing dust storm, launching another attack and challenge against it.

In the video, this creature relentlessly chases and attacks the dust storm. No matter how many times it is killed, it always recovers and continues to launch another tenacious attack.

Whether the opponent is a small dust storm or a large dust storm, the white monster will always fiercely charge towards the natural disaster.

Although they have never won.

Zhou Yi looked on, somewhat puzzled: "This is the Martian Killer Mouse?"

"Correct."

The old king said, "The footage you just saw was taken by the base's Teppei using a purely mechanical film camera. Only by completely eliminating the use of electrical and electronic components can we avoid being damaged by the dust storm and make a complete record."

"The killer rats here are more ferocious than the subspecies on the Forbidden Continent."

"The difference is that the Martian Killer Rats are dumber than those from the Forbidden Continent. Electric Cats are more advanced the smarter they are, but the Killer Rats grow faster the less they think."

"The killer rats you just saw were all light cores, with an average strength higher than the electric cats here."

"They always challenge dust storms, which, although just a natural phenomenon, represent the strongest in the world to them."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but interrupt: "Wait a minute, you're saying that the killer rats here abandon all thought and just follow their instincts to attack everywhere?"

"good."

"Do their challenges to dust storms actually help them increase their intensity?"

"Correct."

The old king continued, "Killer rats are always eager to kill dust storms; they seem to think of them as powerful creatures, and the attack excites them."

"On the other hand, dust storms also contain some of the substances and energy they need."

What Zhou Yi was particularly concerned about was: "They are immortal."

"Killer rats are also living beings, and all living beings will eventually die."

The Old King said, "They are not immortal, but have a special physiological structure. The Martian Killer Rats are salt-based solid life forms composed of light nuclei. After being crushed, they can reassemble the salt, essentially creating another new Killer Rats."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized: "The solid life form you discovered is the killer rat."

"They are known solid-state life forms, but it is unclear whether there are other types."

"However, one thing we are certain of is that golden elephants exist in the Martian core, as recorded in the Salt Library. They are organisms adapted to extremely high temperatures."

Zhou Yi pondered to himself.

Golden elephants were originally creatures that lived in the core of a planet.

Put it this way.

Is it possible that there are golden elephants in the Earth's core?

We'll have to investigate further.

"Let's talk about the killer rats first." The Old King steered the conversation back on track, becoming very talkative and eager to share when the topic turned to Mars.

"In their juvenile stage, they are classified as B or A and live in cold, liquid salt lakes underground."

“In their early years, Martian killer mice are not much different from Earth killer mice, both possessing certain biological characteristics. However, although they look similar to gerbils, they are not actually flesh-and-blood creatures, but are composed of silicate minerals, sulfates, and a portion of helium-3. These substances can be found in Martian soil, and they can be considered a special kind of inorganic organism.”

"As they grow, due to environmental differences, the Martian killer rats grow up in a high-energy, high-salt environment and grow rapidly, soon entering the photonucleus."

"Earth killer rats are able to obtain limited trace elements from the outside world in an energy-scarce environment. They kill their prey and eat their internal organs to absorb the trace elements they need."

"Over the years, the size difference between the two has become increasingly significant. Of course, their scientific names are not killer rats, but rather have a more complex expression, as do electric cats and golden elephants. However, let's stick to the conventional names, as it's more convenient that way."

His words reminded Zhou Yi of the lunar people on the moon.

Those Lunarians who spin like stone tops are similar to the Killer Rats; both are inorganic organisms and rely on specific minerals and helium-3 as their physiological basis.

The rock nucleus family also belongs to this category.

It appears that there are still a large number of inorganic organisms in the universe.

Zhou Yi immediately shared this information with the former king.

"No wonder."

The Old King said, "According to observations from the Sky Survey Telescope, killer rats frequently appear in the areas where your company's lunar miners are active... I was wondering about this before, but now I understand."

Zhou Yi's heart tightened upon hearing this: "Will nothing happen?"

"It's alright. If something were going to happen, it would have happened already."

"..."

The old king spoke frankly as always: "They must have some kind of mutual sensing, but the killer rats are of a higher rank, so they can sense them earlier and from a greater distance, making it difficult for the Lunarians, a group of outsiders, to detect their existence."

"Such careful observation is rare for killer rats. Martian killer rats are creatures that follow their instincts; their lives are all about fighting and challenges, and they have extremely poor thinking abilities."

"When they suddenly encounter a similar creature, they probably don't know how to judge it, as thinking is not their forte. They can't determine whether the newcomer is a cub or some other kind of creature."

"But for them, this is already considered a friendly gesture."

"I think we should observe this further."

The old king suggested, "Killer Rats have no brains or thoughts, but the Lunarians might be able to gradually make contact with them and take the lead in communicating with them."

Zhou Yi immediately stated: "The safety of our company's miners is the most important thing, provided that safety is ensured."

"Don't worry about that."

The old king's side stated, "Killer rats are creatures driven by instinct. If they're going to charge at something, they'll keep charging. If they don't attack at the beginning, they won't attack later. Their judgment is simple and brutal: it's either an enemy or an ally."

Zhou Yi asked curiously, "Why wasn't the Mars base attacked by the killer rats?"

"Because this is the territory of the Electric Cats, different species have their own territories. When our Iron Guard goes out to scout outside the base, we will occasionally encounter them. In the very beginning, the Killer Rats would also kill Iron Guards, tearing them apart or even eating them."

"But now we have a solution. If we encounter them, we give them some light seeds and then stand still. They will then eat the light seeds."

"Because to them, the weak are not worth attacking. Giving away the Seed of Light is, in their understanding, like handing over a part of your body."

The Old King said, "This is similar to the Earth Killer Rats; when given Light Seeds, they temporarily cease their attacks."

After hearing these words...

Zhou Yi sorted out his thoughts: "A lot of information on Mars was recorded in salt by the Seeders, and the Killer Rat's status seems unusual."

"clever."

The old king remarked, "The Killer Rats are a group with both extreme strengths and weaknesses."

"The advantages are that they have a strong ability to survive on Mars, grow quickly, have the widest range of activity, can go both on the ground and underground, and have the ability to continuously reorganize and repair themselves."

"The downside is also their extreme aggression. Their instinctive impact on dust storms causes them to constantly disintegrate and recombine, preventing them from developing intelligence and making them highly beast-like."

"The calculation of the Star Pivot Matrix was done intentionally by the Sower."

"The killer rat's greatest role is to preserve the world's salt, carrying it around to cover the earth's surface and using salt to record the world's ecological evolution."

"In short, the killer rat is the transporter and vehicle of salt."

"Salt is to killer rats what genes are to humans."

"Salt is the gene of the entire Mars, used to record the history and ecological changes of the entire planet. When the seeders return someday in the future, they will be able to read and learn about everything that happened here."

"It is also because of this design that the killer rats must be stupid and unable to think for themselves, to prevent them from discovering the meaning of their own existence and thus affecting the entire plan."

"On the contrary, the intelligent electric cats were locked in the dust storm and had little room to move around. This shows that the sowers restrain and are wary of groups with high intelligence and strong initiative."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

This is a strategy of strengthening the rats and suppressing the cats; the entire ecosystem has been meticulously designed.

The old king said, "So you are gradually liberating these Martian electric cats, which is of great significance to our future Martian strategy. They may be the real key to understanding the entire Martian world."

Zhou Yi, however, had a bit of a headache.

The Martian electric cats are intelligent and cautious, making them difficult to trust unless a solution can completely resolve the dust storm problem and allow them to roam freely.

This again involves the electric spirits at the top of the dust storm, which can absorb large amounts of energy and matter from the dust storm, and can be said to be a natural bridge for adjusting and connecting the dust storm.

But Mars Electric Soul also faces attacks and plundering from flying sticks.

Therefore, if you can't master the flying rod, you can't solve the Mars electric cat part, and you'll need to spend a lot of time doing painstaking work.

After listening to Zhou Yi's account, the old king remained silent for a while: "The Flying Star Rods, I haven't been able to observe this group before... I'll also try to think of a way."

Zhou Yi agreed.

(End of this chapter)