"…"
Meng Chao immediately felt strange.
In addition to the wrinkles and protrusions that resembled the inner walls of biological organs, they also saw a large number of structures that looked like pipes and even gears.
It was hard to imagine that this was a natural creation.
"Imagine that there is such an ancient creature. Its cells have the characteristics of plants and animals at the same time. It can produce chlorophyll and absorb energy from sunlight. It can also grow roots that look like earthworms and octopus tentacles. It can drill and extend into the depths of the earth, insert itself into the rock layers where the crystal veins are the most abundant, and continuously absorb the spirit energy inside the planet."
Wu Haibo narrowed his eyes and said vividly, "Perhaps, its body is just a small seed, a plant that is as tender as a weed. However, as long as it is' planted 'in a place where spirit energy is abundant, it can take root and germinate, continuously growing and expanding underground — just like a towering tree that has been turned 180 degrees upside down and is growing downward.
"We have extracted some active substances that have not been destroyed from the depths of Ruins No. 2 and tested them in the culture medium. We have found that its efficiency of mass-energy conversion is extremely high, and its cell division is extremely fast.
"It is really hard to imagine how astonishing its growth speed was before it was destroyed by the space-based weapons.
"From the initial seed to a towering tree that is dozens of meters tall, no, dozens of meters deep, and then to a behemoth that is hundreds of meters tall, it may only take a few years or even a few months.
"Before long, it will be able to devour the underground space within a radius of ten miles. Its roots can even penetrate the crystal veins hundreds of kilometers away and absorb the power of the entire Monster Mountain Range.
"And in its body, there are a large number of 'vesicles' and 'pipes.'
"Each vesicle is a 'production workshop' or a 'command room' with different purposes, just like the different cabins on an aircraft carrier.
"In the 'production workshop,' the mother can use the spirit energy that its roots absorb from all directions to modulate and hatch thousands of monsters, including the Apocalyptic Beasts that are constantly evolving and becoming stronger and stronger.
"In the 'command room,' the mother can grow carbon-based computing units that are similar to human brains but hundreds of times larger and more complex than human brains.
"Countless computing units form a super-large-scale computing matrix that is enough to perform the most precise gene cutting and pasting. It can also command hundreds of different monsters to form a well-coordinated and fearless beast horde.
"Obviously, such a mother couldn't have evolved naturally.
"It is a creation of the ancient civilization.
"The ancient civilizations cultivated the 'mother' just like how human beings built aircraft carriers. Of course, compared to the pure combat purpose of aircraft carriers, the functions of the 'mother' were much more advanced and complicated. It integrated resource collection, environmental modification, scientific research, production, construction, and battle command. A series of functions were simply like an all-encompassing, omnipotent colonization base."
Everyone listened attentively.
The passageway came to an end.
The area in front of them suddenly opened up. It was actually an underground cavern that stretched as far as the eye could see.
It was majestic, grand, and deep. It was like the temple of the Apocalyptic Beasts that was over a hundred meters tall.
The curved walls around him were still full of wrinkles and protrusions, emitting a magnificent and deep light.
There were also countless neatly arranged holes that looked like pores, which were making hissing sounds.
Meng Chao moved closer and extended his hand to sense the air flowing out of the hole. He found that it was spirit energy of incredibly high purity.
No wonder the concentration of spirit energy in such a large space was so high. As soon as one walked in, all the cells in their bodies were eager to give it a try.
"These holes are connected to the roots of the mother. They are connected to all the crystal veins within a hundred miles. The mother absorbs spirit energy in this way, which is why it can give birth to and command the surging beast horde," Wu Haibo explained.
Meng Chao nodded.
He had made a new discovery.
In addition to the wrinkles, protrusions, and pores, the curved walls were also inlaid with countless … spirit tattoos that were wrapped around them. They looked like cocoons or beast eggs.
The cocoons and beast eggs were of different sizes. The smallest one was more than a meter in diameter, and the largest one was dozens of meters tall. It seemed to have wrapped a living adult Tyrannosaurus rex inside.
In addition to the curved walls, there were also countless towering pillars in the giant beast's palace. Each of them had a diameter of more than ten meters or even more than thirty to fifty meters.
These giant pillars were also filled with holes that were constantly spewing out spirit energy. They were also filled with strange cocoons and beast eggs.
There were also some giant pillars that were connected by crisscrossing branches. Naturally, the ends of the branches were also filled with heavy cocoons and beast eggs.
As far as Meng Chao's eyes could see, there were more than a hundred such giant pillars.
According to the hundreds of cocoons and beast eggs that were inlaid and hung on each of the giant pillars, the total number of monsters that were bred here would exceed ten thousand.
Fortunately, most of the cocoons and beast eggs had exhausted their last drop of life force in the erosion of tens of thousands of years and turned into gray, black, and lifeless fossils.
No matter how much spirit energy was poured into them, the monster corpses that had long dried up or even turned into powder in the broken cocoons could not be revived.
However, there were also a small number of cocoons and beast eggs that were like crystal clear pearls and diamonds, exuding exuberant life force.
Although their bodies were often smaller than the surrounding fossils, looking through the translucent cocoons, one could really see clusters of embryos sleeping quietly inside, developing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There were also many crystal clear cocoons and beast eggs that had been broken. Sticky liquid flowed out, but the monster embryos inside had disappeared without a trace.
"The fossil-like cocoons and beast eggs were all bred in the ancient era billions of years ago. As the entire mother was hit by the orbit of the space-based weapon, the mother lost 99% of its activity and fell into a long hibernation. They lost the nourishment of spirit energy, so naturally, they were strangled in their infancy."
Thunder God Shao Zhengyang, who had led the charge into the monster's lair and fought head-on with the monster mastermind, introduced, "However, about half a century ago, the 1% of the mother's active tissue that was not completely dead finally woke up from its long hibernation and began a new round of expansion, gathering, breeding, expanding again, gathering again, and breeding again.
"These colorful, crystal clear monster embryos that are emitting dense spirit energy and strong killing intent are the products of the past half a century.
"I have to say that our Dragon City civilization is really too lucky.
"Fortunately, the mother billions of years ago had been hit by the orbit of the space-based weapon, destroying 99% of its active tissue and vitality.
"If we were facing the mother at its peak, the scale of the beast horde that it had bred would be a hundred times larger than it is now, and its control over the beast horde would be a hundred times more precise than it is now. It would not be a force that we could resist at all. The other party would devour all the resources in Monster Mountain Range like a locust crossing the border. Then, it would expand crazily to the entire Other World.
"Fortunately, the mother hasn't been awake for long and hasn't been able to repair the entire body, which is the lair. Ever since the northern front offensive, Dragon City has been firmly occupying the strategic initiative and hasn't left any opportunities for the enemy to take advantage of. Therefore, the mother hasn't been able to obtain enough resources to restore the activity of more parts of the entire lair and nurture more powerful Apocalyptic Beasts.
"The Battle of Raging Waves, the murderous pet incident in Blessed Paradise, the Noble Descent Hotel raid, the Battle of the Lair, the battle at the periphery of Dragon City, and the spread of the Blood Flower spores and the super zombie virus one after another … The reason why the monster civilization spared no effort to create chaos inside Dragon City was nothing more than to stall for time so that the mother could complete its self-repair.
"Fortunately, every attack of the enemy was beautifully disrupted by us.
"The consequence of the enemy's failure to succeed was that the monsters in their infancy had all become underdeveloped half-baked creatures. Many of the monsters could not even break through the cocoons and eggshells. Even if they managed to break through, they could not breathe or stand upright, let alone increase the intensity of the battle.
"Therefore, we did not encounter too many obstacles and killed our way to the monster mastermind. Meng Chao, speaking of which, you contributed to this again. It seems that the military will have to award you another big medal. Hahahaha!"
Shao Zhengyang laughed heartily.
Meng Chao, on the other hand, secretly shook off a cold sweat in his heart.
Fortunately, he had returned from the apocalypse and had the support of the memory fragments of his previous life. He was able to predict the conspiracy of the Nine Great Supernatural Entities.
Otherwise, Dragon City's pyrrhic victory would have been an inevitable outcome.
In fact, if it were not for Battle God Lei Zongchao and countless Deity Realm experts in his previous life who had sacrificed their precious lives one after another, even this pyrrhic victory would have been a dream come true!
"Are all monsters born in the mother's body?"
Meng Chao thought for a moment and asked, "Why do I remember that many monsters have reproductive organs? In the wilderness, there have also been a large number of examples of monsters getting pregnant and giving birth?"
He wanted to ensure that the monster civilization would not revive.
"Of course, not all monsters are produced in the mother in such a way. Only a very small number of monsters can enjoy such treatment."
Wu Haibo explained, "The biologists of the ancient ruins research center speculated that the original monsters should have been the native species of the Other World, just like the green algae, nautilus, trilobites, and dinosaurs on Earth.
"When the Ancients used the transmigration engine to come to the Other World, perhaps it was because they did not have many people, or perhaps they had to carry out other important missions, or perhaps they were impatient to personally carry out the long and complicated colonization work, or perhaps they felt that the primitive creatures in front of them had a certain amount of evolutionary potential, so they created the mother and used the mother to modulate the native species on this planet, help them gather resources, modify the ecosystem, and serve as a servant army, turning this place into a new home suitable for the ancient civilization to reproduce."
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