From troll tribes to elf empires

第372章 外星首领与人类往事

作者： 东阿狸
第372章 外星首领与人类往事
黑发黑瞳的汤姆，似是陷入了沉眠般正躺在全包裹式的仪器中，被某种未知的粘液所浸泡着。
而在他的隔壁，则有一名被透明软膜覆盖着身体，内里还有浓稠糊状液体在流转的怪物‘端坐’；

这怪物无手无足无头，亦没有任何近似于眼耳口鼻等器官，就好似是一团被黏胶所包裹着的鼻涕；

此时，有两道导管穿透了它体表的软膜，将内里的那些粘液输送至了隔壁仪器中，并在其渗透入汤姆体内后被抽离、通过导管回送至怪物体内；
于是，那些微带着点黑色的颗粒，便一点点使怪物体内的粘液变浑浊，而怪物看上去似乎也变的有些萎靡。
好半晌后，无法被辨认情绪的它将浑浊体液聚拢在了一处区域，而体表的薄膜也开始向内增生着将之包裹，并在进一步的分离中将它们全数丢弃；
半固态的鼻涕泡顺着软膜向下掉落，又从周边管道内滚向了不知名的他方.

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金发碧瞳的爱丽丝，此刻也正在某间实验室中被研究，但无论是用何种方法去分离她的细胞，最后所能得到的却也都是些无用废渣；

外星生物在无奈下选择了求援，但即便是从虫洞中专门运至的更先进机器，也未能绕过这成因未知的现象而真正完成这一步，所有离体的组织都会无有任何余地的急速自毁；

唯一可行的方法，似乎就是在保持整体性的同时进行潜入式研究，但当纳米虫钻入其中试图裂解分析基因链时，却直接引发了整个躯体从内至外的自爆；

于是，先后有数朵蘑菇云自壁垒中的不同方位生成，虽未造成太大的整体性损失但研究室却是损失惨重，很多娇气的器械被损毁、很多直面爆炸的脆弱研究员直接死掉；

而数目仅有百余的，并且还没办法被克隆的珍贵样品，也在这连翻的爆炸中被损失了好几个

所以在并无更好办法的情况下，这一个个失败的个例与无法绕过的现象本身，便被作为具体的‘结果’上传至了未名处。
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同样黑发黑瞳的杰瑞，被带到了一间密闭的金属房间中，并戴上了某种头盔式的设备；
而后，他便进入了一处近乎于真实的虚幻世界当中，且使得虚幻似是受到了某种感染般开始变形.

星空被生成，于中心处那如同河道般的密集星幕内外各方，还有着零星的似斗勺、似猎手般的虚拟连结被呈现；

其后时空流转，八星两带环日的图景被渐次生成，又于更广域处出现了汪有些虚幻的棒漩银河，周边还有些大大小小的、近似或相异的河系被呈现；
但连带着起始的银河在内，这些河系全都显得有些虚幻与不真实。
于是维度再转，视线回落至了八星两带环日系统中的第三颗星.

在日东升、月西落间世界的样貌逐渐被完善，广袤的大洋与大陆中慢慢有了各色风光在流转不休，一方名为盘古陆的地域在万物竞发中走上了生物演化的道路，并又用去了无数年的时间才诞生出智慧的雏形；
一个被称之为智人的物种，逐渐在恐龙的追逐与巨虫之环伺间诞生出文明，并于此后成为了世界霸主、获得了生态位中的无敌地位；
而后，智人走入了诸国并立的内斗时代，展开了持续上万年之久的战争与和平之螺旋，并对他们自身、对赖以生存的生态都造成恶劣的影响。
直到有一天，人类拥有了更强大的地质型兵器、在战争中轰碎了盘古大陆的中心地带，促使那里形成了一汪名为‘地中洋’的内海，并导致了连锁反应下的巨大气候灾难；

而面对着被自身所承受的自然报复，他们终于在痛定思痛中勉强学会了种族与利益间的妥协共存，并尝试着初步建立起统一的世界政府。
其后在三千年，于经过了接连不断的冲突与适应后，总算迎来了诸国不存、世界政府深入人心的时代；
于是，人类第一次在大方向的团结中踏上了寻求星空的开拓道路，并在往后的千年内将太阳系步步纳入了自身航程，让一切都显得十分美好且生机勃勃。
但也就在这时，某种毁天灭地的灾难却是突兀而至陌生而强大的星河舰队，在一个突兀的时间点中莫名出现在了恒星系外侧；
初时，它们只是似为虚幻般一闪而逝，世界政府也只通知说这是一种玄奇的错觉，并继续埋头发展起自己的文明只是行为举止明显比过去变的更为激进；

数十年过去后，似极了此前观测波动的现象再次形成，虽没了那几乎能遮住整座恒星系的星河舰队，但却有三艘是实非虚的、足有母星大小的类星体要塞，真实无比的出现在了人类的视野当中、并径直朝着人类的母星迈进。
沿途，属于人类的星际飞船不堪一击，属于人类的行星与小行星基地也同样如此，全数都在莫名的力量中连建筑带人、甚至是星体本身都一齐被绞碎；
而后，这些物资便隔着数十万公里之遥，被吸入了球形舰那张开如深渊般的底部.

仅一天之内母星沦陷，残存的两百亿人类被囚禁于外星飞船中被研究、被改造；

仅仅十天之内，太阳系中所有的行星与小行星也消失无踪，整座恒星系内就仅只剩下中心太阳还在燃烧；

但外星飞船似乎还不满意，它们又抵近太阳彼此连接着形成一张巨毯，并在随后的数年间将大量恒星物质汲取的不知所踪；

直至因接到某种命令而离开时，孤零零的太阳都已变的黯淡了几成.

就这般，这方星域中不再有母星、不再有人类，甚至也不再有可以被称为‘太阳系’的恒星系统；
取而代之的，是一种由人衍生的自繁衍型生物炮灰，它们于此后跟着外星舰在未知星河中、不知年岁为何物的不断东征西讨.

及至某个时刻，那从未真正见到过的掌控者文明终于遇到了星空中的劲敌，并与之展开了一场蔓延几个河系的漫长战争；
作为诸多炮灰种族之一的人类衍生体，也在期间的某次边区治安战中遭遇了对方的强力炮灰种族，并陷入了近乎于全军覆没的窘境，仅有部分正执行河系级运输任务的后勤部队侥幸存活，而记忆主人杰瑞所在的这支分队便是其中之一。
但于此后他们并未等来繁衍生息的时代，新的任务只在十数个母星年后就紧随而至

于是，杰瑞便跟随着国字脸长官离开了百万光年外的大后方加入至战争，并在某次任务过程中被双方的攻击余波所席卷，在不知情的状况下莫名使全员陷入昏迷；
当再回神时，兴奋于自身侥幸未死的他们却发现，自己已与队伍所被分配到的地方治安舰一起，共同来到了这片完全陌生的星域。
也就在此时，他们看到了中控系统中所显示的‘未知’与‘失去链接’等信息，但并没有因之而生出任何的恐慌情绪，反倒是陷入了一种莫大的欢欣当中；
要知道，过去哪怕是相隔百多万光年、甚至更遥远的距离，他们的舰船、他们的设备、乃至是他们的身体，也全数都处在总宗主文明那直截了当的监视内，从未有过任何‘失联’的状况出现；
因此，当下这片陌生的星域对这一支人类而言倒更像是一种解脱.直至遇到‘漆黑中的强壮者’为止。
在过去，强势的总宗主、森严的文明等级秩序，以及自身相当于炮灰兵器的地位，都让他们习惯于遵守秩序与跟随强者，所以才在收到了疑似为‘地主’势力的要求时，没有多少犹豫的选择了遵从、并落得个被俘囚禁的下场。
不过，它们被俘并不等同于舰只被俘，这艘由宗主附属的附属所建造的治安舰，在外来侵入触及至人类知晓但无权限接触的层级时，就悍然在自爆中带走了所有核心资料与物质；
而外星势力的收获，也因此仅止于人类所录入的表层信息，以及些许由人类带入舰内的低端产品。
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在同一时间中，有许多目的手段不尽不同的观测发生在了多个地方，且观测对象无一例外的都是新近捕获到的‘人类’；

不同于基因研究方面的困难重重，抱着‘试试看’而展开的记忆引导与解析，却是相对而言进行的十分顺利.

至此时为止，鲁莽的基因研究已炸毁了基地中的多个研究室，所以在样本珍稀的情况下、它们转而开始在‘记忆’方面投注更多的心力，想要以此为平台间接的去了解更多相关真实。
而在经过了多方记忆的对照研究后，基地中的研究者们终于构建出了一副相对完整的‘人类史’脉络，并发现人类的‘总宗主’是一个将基因科技玩出花儿来的文明，但对虚幻的精神领域却因发展方向的不同而显得有些乏力。
其后，这些或失败、或成功的观测结论并在项目分支主管处汇聚为一，并在经过了分析整理后形成完整的报告转送至部门主管处；

再往后，这多少显得有些忐忑的部门主管，便拿着资料亲自前往面见分管科研的首领、并做出了相应的汇报

它坐上中继飞船离开壁垒基地，向着被包裹于中心处的小恒星方向航行，但只于中途中就登上了那位于恒星与壁垒间的球形类星体；

在这里，它接受着沿途明暗岗哨的重重检查，终于来到了顶头上司的常驻地.那是一片深蓝色的等离子球形海洋，其正悬浮于接近类星体中心的某处巨大空腔结构当中。
小心翼翼‘走’入的部门主管，将一个内里有闪光隐现的镂空金属球托举于空，并目视了其在某种力量的承载下飘入蓝海的过程。
光焰闪烁的等离子球在事实上是声势浩大的，但也正因这份浩大而在空腔中营造出了种虚假的寂静，或许这便是某种意义上的‘大音希声’吧

而当这份虚假的寂静又持续了片刻后，就有神秘的动荡自深蓝色的等离子海中传出，且于震动中在周边化成音波被响彻；
其音宏大、其势磅礴，并携带着似是肉眼可见的力量感，向着四方在不断震慑；

所言

“哈喽，好啊呦，爱么发音俺的由.”
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【这就是它们的主流语言么，还真是低效到了极致的落后啊，比之理事会创造的河系通用语都不遑多让。】
一团同样为深蓝色的球状体自等离子海分离，有瑰丽的色彩以每秒数万次的频率在其表面闪烁，并于只短短不到一瞬的时间内便将所携带的信息表述完毕；

但空间中并无任何回应传来，因为这里没有谁能看懂它的言语，而它也只是在自我表达罢了

随即，这球体的颜色开始渐渐变的黯淡，自身形态也于这个过程中迅速的发生着改变；
只片刻，便从初时那与背后海洋几乎相同的模样，先化为凝而不散的气体、又渐渐向内坍缩，最终呈现为了银白色的半流质金属态躯体。
而后，这金属态之躯就在空中悬浮着不断向前，其间还有类似于手脚头颅的结构在周遭快速生成，并让它化为了有如人类那般的外四肢型带头形态，且还再接再厉的于‘面部’形成了五官似的结构；
这浑身上下都有着金属光泽在闪烁的东西或者说生物，在落地后又似模似样的向前走了几步，同时还开合着那并无实质功能可言的、内里也没有腔道的‘嘴’，在喃喃中低语道.

“外四肢型直立生物么，这一类家伙还真容易在演化中获胜啊，居然又出现了一个未登记的案例.”
当这一句由兴而发的英语被说完后，它似是厌了般褪去了面部的五官轮廓，再次回归先前那副光滑的流质金属态模样，但已形成的外肢型躯体结构却并未发生改变。
也就保持着这般状态，它于离地几寸的空中飘浮着前行少许，最终来到了那正位于不远处的下属附近；
因为不想浪费时间去等待翻译器的转译，所以它激荡着体表的浅层金属态物质，用先前还被自己所看不起的通用语‘言’道，
“自己说说看吧，具体的情况到底如何，你负责的部门都完成了哪些工作。”
“是”
闻言，那类章鱼状的多足生物、也即是部门主管，挥舞着触手在室内气体中震荡出了通用语，并以此为媒介给予了回应.

它‘说’道，
“他们自称为人类，原本是初步掌握了电磁与聚变的内恒星系文明，但因未知势力的打断而中途夭折.”
首领于此时又插言问道，
“技术路线是什么，对我们集团有思路上的帮助吗？”
类章鱼怪继续挥舞着触手发音道，

“已经没办法复现了，它们现在只会操作现成的工具，原先的技术则被强制性遗忘了。”
“唔看来是比较强势的掌控者，知道是何方势力所为么，查出它们原先所属的星域了么？”
“不知道，控制了它们的那个文明并未出现在记忆中，因为‘人类’从始至终都没有和它们有过正面接触，最初所遇到的那个舰队也只是附属势力的分支而已；”
“所展现的星图也是未知的，它们自称为‘银河系’、旁边还有‘仙女系’，说是属于什么‘拉尼亚凯亚本超星系团’，在黄道面上还有一些被称为‘船帆座’、‘猎户座’等等的星系结构，但全都和我们已知的星图对不上号”
“另外，相应的战争痕迹也从未出现在我们的观测视野中，就连理事会那边的开放资料里也没有出现对应的痕迹。”
“初步有三点猜测”
“第一，可能是发生在可观测宇宙外的事件；”
“第二，可能是猜想中的‘平行宇宙’；”
“当然这两项也只是种大胆的联想而已，我们更倾向于第三种猜测持久的战争可能就发生在已知宇宙内，但因距离太远而形成了信息传递的失时，导致我们无法完成有效的观测。”
至此，首领身上的光华骤然间流转万千，并立刻再次出声询问道，
“那它们到底是怎么过来的，难道真有天然虫洞存在？还是说在那遥远的星空中，存在有掌握了时空奥秘的文明？”
“不知道记忆中并没有体现出它们的穿梭方式，事实上我们甚至都不清楚其间又经过了多长时间。””
‘轰！’
闻言，首领背后的等离子海似是微型恒星般猛然暴涨，在章鱼怪的剧烈蠕动中向这边延展出炙白的烈焰火舌，并于毫秒间掠过了首领的躯体，近乎0距离的贴在了前者的体表使之在炙烤中沸腾蒸发不止；
好在只是‘近乎于0距离’而已，也好在首领对温度的收束能力足够高朝，这才让它勉强留下了一条性命

但即便如此，章鱼怪也依旧有小半躯体呈现出了碳化般的模样，并顶着皲裂的表皮与内里还在沸腾的水分，在缩水60%后才奄奄一息的趴倒在地。
“愚蠢的水生种！我们养活你到底是为了什么？！你究竟又能做到些什么？！”
章鱼怪其实有些冤枉，因为首领先前的问题本就超出了它的能力范围，但此时却也只能在一言不发中将自己尽可能的摊开，以表示绝对恭顺与彻底臣服。
其后，场面又稍稍静默了片刻.

或许是察觉到了自己的过分与属下的弱小，首领终于将炙白火舌收回至近千米直径的等离子海内，使空间中被传递的压迫感得以被消解，并继续用通用语问询道，
“第一次接触时，我听说它们展现出了无障碍沟通的能力？”
“是是的”
“搞明白是怎么做到的么？和那群身体里长石头的怪物有没有关系？”
“它们说它们说那是舰船自带的功能，好像是通过一种奇怪的生物组织才达成的。”
“嗯？！东西呢？”
“首领.监察部.”
在不经意间点出了负责部门后，章鱼怪才继续表述道，

“说已经自毁了.连同人类的座舰一起.”
话罢它明显又将自己摊的更展了几分，而体外那正疯狂涌动的表肤似乎也象征着某种恐慌情绪，生怕因这和自己压根没关系的失误而受到牵连。
好在首领并没有因此再次发火，它只是用光谱语‘自言自语’了一句类似于废物的表达后，便就直接越过了这个疑问

“说说看人类本身吧，它们还有没有利用价值？”
终于，章鱼怪体表的蠕动缓和了些许，并有些虚弱的挥舞着触手道，

“技术方面不会有任何价值，但它们是有着独立文化内秉属性的未登记原生种族，而且是文明生命中情感十分复杂的那一类，还有着不错的智慧与感受力；”
“我认为能被开发成不错的商品，那些追求猎奇与刺激的顾客应该愿意花钱，但更具体的执行与规划还需要产业部门做出部署，我.”
“好了，只说你自己懂的。”
“明白，我觉得它们有成为集团战兵的潜力，即便是卖给别家势力也会有个好价钱。”
“因为基因改造么？”
“是的，它们所接受的改造十分完善、就像是天生的一样，如果没经过反复的记忆读取确认，我都有些不敢相信这是后天形成的。”
“具体参数如何？种族特性是什么？”
“应该能算是混基生物兵器，而且细胞就像是原始胚胎那样功能齐全，能无障碍填补躯体内所有的缺失部位；”
“它们还完全脱离了对原生环境的依赖，具备有万分之一于临界恒星内核的抗压性、能适应80-3万通用度的环境，我们抓到的这批在过往还不是战斗员，它们只是在后勤部门供职的文员而已，所以应该还有潜力没被开发出来.”
“嗯？战斗员又如何？”
“从记忆表现来看，接受了一样基因改造的炮灰大首领、也即是它们中最优秀的战士，曾表现出了更强大的无设备环境适性.只是具体参数未知。”
“好养活么？改造技术能被破解么？”
“额它们的确可以不吃不喝，但如果想要变的更强大就须有相应的物资供应、给予一定的成长时间，不然也就只是现在表现出的这个水平而已；”
“至于技术.我做不到”
“嗯？！”
象征着怒意的光华再次流转，首领背后的烈阳海又有了暴涨的趋势，而章鱼怪则连忙挥舞起全数的触手、用它所能达到的最快速度接连表述道，

“首领，对方的改造技术真的比我们高出了太多，集团总部的支援力量都没起到任何作用；”
“虽不知用了什么样的手段，但人类的细胞根本就无法从躯体中被分离，也没办法进行深入的基因链解析工作；”
“前者会导致细胞自毁，后者会诱发躯体自爆我们已经因此而损失了好几座实验室，真的是进行不下去了啊。”
(本章完)Chapter 372 Alien Leaders and Human Past

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 372 Alien Leaders and Human Past

Tom, with black hair and black eyes, seemed to be in a deep sleep, lying in the fully wrapped instrument, soaked in some unknown mucus.

Next door to him, there was a monster 'sitting' whose body was covered by a transparent soft membrane with thick paste liquid flowing inside;

This monster has no arms, legs, or head, nor any organs similar to eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. It is just like a ball of snot wrapped in glue;

At this time, two conduits penetrated the soft membrane on its body surface, transporting the mucus inside to the next door instrument. After it penetrated into Tom's body, it was extracted and sent back to the monster's body through the conduits;

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

After a long while, unable to recognize its emotions, it gathered the turbid body fluids in one area, and the membrane on the body surface began to grow inward to wrap them up, and discarded them all during further separation;

The semi-solid snot bubbles fell down along the soft membrane and rolled to an unknown place from the surrounding pipes.

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Alice, who has blonde hair and blue eyes, is also being studied in a certain laboratory at the moment, but no matter what method is used to separate her cells, all that can be obtained in the end is useless waste;

The alien creatures had no choice but to ask for help, but even the more advanced machines specially transported from the wormhole could not bypass this phenomenon of unknown cause and truly complete this step. All detached tissues would have no trace of anything.

The rapid self-destruction of margin;

The only feasible method seems to be to conduct submersible research while maintaining integrity. However, when the nanoworms penetrated into it and tried to crack and analyze the gene chain, it directly caused the entire body to self-destruct from the inside out;

As a result, several mushroom clouds were generated from different directions in the barrier. Although it did not cause much overall damage, the laboratory suffered heavy losses. Many delicate instruments were damaged, and many fragile researchers who faced the explosion died directly;

As for the precious samples, which numbered only a hundred or so and could not be cloned, several were lost in this series of explosions.

Therefore, in the absence of a better way, the individual cases of failure and the unavoidable phenomenon itself were uploaded to the unknown place as specific 'results'.

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Jerry, who also had black hair and black eyes, was taken to a closed metal room and put on some kind of helmet-like device;

Then, he entered an illusory world that was close to reality, and the illusion began to deform as if it had been infected by some kind of infection.

The starry sky is generated, and on all sides of the dense river-like star screen in the center, there are also sporadic virtual connections like bucket spoons and hunters;

Afterwards, time and space flowed, and the picture of eight stars and two belts surrounding the sun was gradually formed, and a somewhat illusory barred spiral Milky Way appeared in a wider area. There were also some large and small, similar or different river systems around it.

;

But including the original Milky Way, these river systems all seem a bit 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.

As the sun rises in the east and the moon sets in the west, the appearance of the world is gradually perfected. Various scenery slowly circulates in the vast oceans and continents. A region called Pangea has embarked on a journey of biological evolution in the competition of all things.

road, and it took countless years to give birth to the prototype of wisdom;

A species called Homo sapiens gradually gave birth to civilization while being chased by dinosaurs and surrounded by giant insects, and then became the world's overlord, gaining an invincible position in its ecological niche;

Then, Homo sapiens entered an era of internal strife among various countries, launching a spiral of war and peace that lasted for tens of thousands of years, which had a negative impact on themselves and the ecology they depended on for survival.

Until one day, humans had more powerful geological weapons, which destroyed the center of Pangea in the war, causing an inland sea called the "Mediterranean Ocean" to form there, and led to a huge chain reaction.

climate catastrophe;

Faced with the natural revenge they suffered, they finally reluctantly learned the compromise and coexistence between races and interests through painful experience, and tried to initially establish a unified world government.

Three thousand years later, after a series of conflicts and adaptations, we finally ushered in an era when all nations ceased to exist and the world government took root in the hearts of the people;

Thus, for the first time, human beings embarked on a pioneering path to seek the stars in the general direction of unity, and in the following thousand years, they gradually included the solar system in their own voyages, making everything appear beautiful and full of vitality.

But at this moment, some kind of devastating disaster suddenly came. A strange and powerful Galaxy Fleet appeared inexplicably outside the star system at an unexpected point in time;

At first, they just seemed to be an illusion and passed away, and the world government only informed that it was a mysterious illusion, and continued to develop its own civilization, but its behavior became obviously more radical than in the past;

Decades later, a phenomenon very similar to the previously observed fluctuations was formed again. Although there was no longer the galactic fleet that could almost cover the entire star system, there were three ships that were real and not imaginary, and were as large as the parent star.

The astral fortress has truly appeared in the field of vision of mankind, and is heading straight towards the mother planet of mankind.

Along the way, the starships belonging to humans are vulnerable, as are the planets and asteroid bases belonging to humans. All of them are crushed by the inexplicable force, including the buildings, people, and even the stars themselves;

Then, these materials were sucked into the abyss-like bottom of the spherical ship across hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

The mother planet fell in just one day, 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 left burning in the entire star system;

But the alien spacecraft seemed not to be satisfied. They approached the sun and connected with each other to form a giant blanket, and in the following years, they absorbed a large amount of stellar material and disappeared without a trace;

By the time he left due to receiving some kind of order, the lonely sun had dimmed by several percent.

Just like that, there is no longer a mother star, no human beings, or even a star system that can be called a 'solar system' in this star field;

Instead, there was a kind of self-reproducing biological cannon fodder derived from humans. They followed the alien ships in the unknown galaxy and continued to conquer the world for unknown ages.

At a certain moment, the controller civilization that had never really been seen finally encountered a powerful enemy in the stars, and started a long war with it that spread across several river systems;

As one of the many cannon fodder races, human derivatives also encountered the opponent's powerful cannon fodder race in a border security war during the period, and fell into a dilemma where the entire army was almost annihilated. Only some of them were performing river-level transportation missions.

Logistics troops managed to survive, and the team where the memory owner Jerry belongs is one of them.

But after that, they did not wait for the era of reproduction and reproduction. The new mission followed only a dozen years after the home star.

Therefore, Jerry followed the Chinese-faced commander to the rear area millions of light-years away to join the war. During a certain mission, he was swept away by the aftermath of an attack from both sides, unknowingly inexplicably trapping everyone in the war.

coma;

When they came back to their senses, they were excited that they were lucky enough to survive, but they found that they had arrived in this completely unfamiliar star field together with the local security ship the team was assigned to.

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

You must know that in the past, even if they were separated by more than a million light-years or even farther away, their ships, their equipment, and even their bodies were all under the direct surveillance of the total suzerain civilization.

There has been any 'lost contact' situation;

Therefore, this strange star field is more like a relief for this group of humans. Until they meet the 'strong man in the dark'.

In the past, the powerful chief patriarch, the strict civilized 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 requests from suspected 'landlord' forces, they

He chose to comply without much hesitation and ended up being captured and imprisoned.

However, their capture is not the same as the capture of the ship. This security ship, which was built by a subsidiary of the sect master, brazenly took away everything in the self-destruction when the foreign invasion reached a level that humans knew about but had no authority to contact.

Core data and materials;

The harvest of the alien forces is therefore limited to the superficial information entered by humans and some low-end products brought into the ship by humans.

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At the same time, many observations with different purposes and means occurred in multiple places, and the objects of observation were all newly captured 'human beings';

Different from the difficulties in genetic research, the memory guidance and analysis carried out with the idea of ​​"trying it out" went relatively smoothly.

Up to this point, reckless genetic research had blown up many research laboratories in the base, so when the samples were rare, they began to put more effort into 'memory', hoping to use this as a platform to indirectly

to learn more about the facts.

After a comparative study of various memories, the researchers in the base finally constructed a relatively complete "human history" context, and discovered that the "general master" of mankind was a man who had played with genetic technology.

civilization, but the illusory spiritual realm seems a bit weak due to different development directions.

Subsequently, these observation conclusions of failure or success are gathered together at the project branch director, and after analysis and sorting, a complete report is formed and forwarded to the department director;

Later, the department head, who seemed a little nervous, took the information and went to personally meet with the leader in charge of scientific research, and made a corresponding report.

It got on the relay spacecraft and left the base of the barrier, sailing towards the small star wrapped in the center, but it only boarded the spherical quasar halfway between the star and the barrier;

Here, it underwent numerous inspections by light and dark sentries along the way, and finally arrived at the permanent residence of its immediate boss. It was a spherical ocean of dark blue plasma, suspended in a huge cavity structure near the center of the quasar.

The department manager who walked in cautiously held up a hollow metal ball with a flash of light inside, and watched it float into the blue sea under the weight of some kind of force.

The flashing plasma ball is actually very powerful, but it is precisely because of this vastness that it creates a false silence in the cavity. Perhaps this is the 'big sound' in a certain sense.

And when this false silence lasted for a while, mysterious turbulence came from the deep blue plasma sea, and the vibrations turned into sound waves in the surrounding area and were resounded;

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

said

"Hello, okay, how do you pronounce me?"

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[Is this their mainstream language? It is really inefficient and extremely backward. It is not far behind the common language of the river system created by the Council.]

A ball of similarly dark blue separated from the plasma sea. Magnificent colors flashed on its surface at a frequency of tens of thousands of times per second, and the information it carried was expressed in less than a blink of an eye.

;

But there was no response from the space, because no one here could understand its words, and it was just expressing itself.

Immediately, the color of the sphere began to gradually dim, and its shape also rapidly changed in the process;

In just a moment, it first turned into a condensed gas that was almost the same as the ocean behind it, and then gradually collapsed inward, finally appearing as a silver-white semi-liquid metallic body.

Then, the metallic body was suspended in the air and kept moving forward. During this period, structures similar to hands, feet, and heads were rapidly generated around it, and it transformed into a human-like outer limb-shaped head form, and it continued to do so.

On the 'face', a structure similar to facial features is formed;

This thing or creature, with metallic luster all over its body, seemed to take a few steps forward after landing. At the same time, it opened and closed the device that had no real function at all and had no words inside.

's mouth, whispered in a murmur.

"An upright creature with external limbs? It's really easy for this type of creature to win in evolution. There's actually another unregistered case."

After this sentence of excited English was finished, the outline of the facial features faded away as if it was tired of it, and returned to the smooth liquid metal appearance before, but the external limb-shaped body structure that had been formed did not

No changes have occurred.

Maintaining this state, it floated in the air a few inches above the ground and moved forward a little, finally arriving near the 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 material on the body surface and spoke in the common language that it had previously looked down upon,

"Tell me about it yourself. What is the specific situation and what work has been completed by the department you are responsible for."

"yes"

Upon hearing this, the octopus-like multi-legged creature, that is, the department head, waved its tentacles to vibrate the common language in the indoor gas, and responded using this medium.

It 'said',

"They call themselves humans. They were originally an inner star system civilization that initially mastered electromagnetism and fusion, but they died midway due to interruption by unknown forces."

The leader interjected at this time and asked,

"What is the technical route? Will it help our group in terms of ideas?"

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

"There is no way to reproduce it. They can only operate off-the-shelf tools now, and the original technology has been forcibly forgotten."

"It seems to be a relatively powerful controller. Do you know which force is responsible for this? Have you found out the star field they originally belonged to?"

"I don't know, the civilization that controlled them has not appeared in the memory, because 'humanity' has never had direct contact with them from beginning to end, and the fleet they first encountered was just a branch of the affiliated force;"

"The star maps shown are also unknown. They call themselves the 'Milky Way', and there is also the 'Andromeda' system next to it. It is said that it belongs to the 'Laniakea Supercluster'. There are also some called

They are the galactic structures of Vela, Orion, etc., but none of them match the star maps we know.”

"In addition, the corresponding traces of war have never appeared in our observation field, and there are no corresponding traces even in the open data of the Council."

"There are three preliminary guesses"

"First, it may be an event that occurs outside the observable universe;"

"Second, it may be the conjectured 'parallel universe';"

"Of course, these two are just bold associations. We are more inclined to the third guess that the long-lasting war may occur in the known universe, but because the distance is too far, there is a time loss in information transmission, which makes it impossible for us to

Complete effective observations.”

At this point, the leader's brilliance suddenly changed, and he immediately asked again,

"Then how did they get here? Is there really a natural wormhole? Or is there a civilization in the distant starry sky that has mastered the secrets of time and space?"

"I don't know that the way they traveled is not reflected in the memory. In fact, we don't even know how much time has passed."

'boom!'

Hearing this, the plasma sea behind the leader suddenly surged like a miniature star. As the octopus monster squirmed violently, white tongues of flames stretched out towards this side, and passed over the leader's body in milliseconds, touching him at almost zero distance.

On the surface of the former's body, it boils and evaporates in the heat;

Fortunately, it was only 'nearly 0 distance', and fortunately the leader's ability to restrain the temperature was high enough, so he barely managed to survive.

But even so, a small half of the octopus monster's body still showed a carbonized appearance, and with the cracked skin and boiling water inside, it shrank by 60% before falling to the ground dying.

"Stupid aquatic species! Why do we feed you?! What on earth can you do?!"

The octopus monster was actually a little unjust, because the leader's previous question was beyond its ability, but at this time, it could only spread itself as wide as possible without saying a word to show absolute respect and complete surrender.

After that, the scene was silent for a while.

Perhaps aware of his own excess and the weakness of his subordinates, the leader finally retracted the white tongue of flames into the plasma sea nearly a kilometer in diameter, so that the sense of oppression transmitted in the space could be eliminated, and continued to ask in common language,

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

"Yes, it is"

"Do you understand how it was done? Is it related to those monsters with stones in their bodies?"

"They said they said it was a built-in function of the ship, and it seemed to be achieved through a strange biological organization."

"Huh?! Where's the stuff?"

"Chief. Supervision Department."

After inadvertently naming the responsible department, the octopus monster continued to explain,

"Said it has self-destructed. Together with the human ships."

After saying that, it obviously spread itself out a little more, and the crazily surging skin outside the body seemed to symbolize some kind of panic, fearing that it would be implicated for this mistake that had nothing to do with it.

Fortunately, the leader did not get angry again because of this. He just 'muttered' to himself in Spectral Language an expression that was similar to trash, and then directly passed this question.

"Let's talk about humans themselves. Do they still have any use value?"

Finally, the squirming on the octopus monster's body surface eased a little, and he waved his tentacles weakly and said,

"There will be no value in terms of technology, but they are unregistered native races with independent cultural attributes, and they are the type of people with very complex emotions in civilized life, and they also have good wisdom and sensibility;"

"I think it can be developed into a good product, and customers who are looking for novelty and excitement should be willing to spend money, but more specific execution and planning still require deployment by the industrial department, I think."

"Okay, just tell me what you know."

"Understood. I think they have the potential to become group fighters. Even if they are sold to other forces, they will get a good price."

"Is it because of genetic modification?"

"Yes, the transformation they have received is so complete, it is as if they were born. If it had not been confirmed by repeated memory readings, I would not be able to believe that it was acquired."

"What are the specific parameters? What are the racial characteristics?"

"It should be regarded as a hybrid biological weapon, and the cells are as fully functional as primitive embryos, able to fill in all missing parts of the body without any problems;"

"They are also completely free from dependence on their native environment. They have one ten thousandth of the pressure resistance of a critical star core and can adapt to an environment with a general strength of 800,000 to 30,000. The batch we captured were not combatants in the past.

, they are just clerks working in the logistics department, so there should be potential that has not been tapped."

"Hmm? What about combatants?"

"Judging from memory performance, the cannon fodder leader who received the same genetic modification, that is, the best warrior among them, once showed stronger adaptability to equipment-free environments. However, the specific parameters are unknown."

"Is it easy to make a living? Can the transformation technology be cracked?"

"Well, they can indeed go without food or drink, but if they want to become stronger, they must have corresponding material supplies and give them a certain amount of time to grow. Otherwise, they will only be at the level they are showing now;"

"As for technology, I can't do it"

"Um?!"

The brilliance symbolizing anger circulated again, and the sea of ​​​​fiery sun behind the leader began to surge. The octopus monster quickly waved all its tentacles and expressed one after another at the fastest speed it could achieve,

"Chief, the other party's transformation technology is really much higher than ours, and the support force from the group headquarters has no effect;"

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

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

(End of chapter)