Meng Chao nodded.
He came from Agricultural University, which was known as Monster University.
Agricultural University's most important research mission was to modify biochemical beasts. They had to implant control chips and nerve current stimulation devices in the monsters' brains and central nervous systems. They also had to implant crystal bombs in the monsters' vitals so that they could tame the monsters and make these fierce creatures serve human civilization.
Many of Agricultural University's technologies came from the ancient civilization.
Monsters had always been the ancient civilization's tools of production and low-grade soldiers. This made sense.
"In truth, instead of thinking of the mother as a gene factory that creates monsters on a large scale, it would be better to think of this place as a huge lab or even a university," Wu Haibo continued.
"The ancient people extract the gene essence of thousands of monsters here and repeatedly cut and paste them together in an attempt to fuse the characteristics of different monsters together to create the most efficient and powerful tools of production and fighting.
"Every time a brand new type of monster is created, they are released into Hidden Fog and made to kill each other. Only the fittest survive to see whether their survival abilities and fighting strength are strong.
"The failed products that are unfortunately eliminated are recycled through the green tide and turned into food and fertilizer. Not a single bit of energy is wasted.
"The victors of the survival races go through deeper modifications and unlock their reproductive abilities. They are then released into the vast Monster Mountain Range or even the Other World so that they can reproduce on their own and get rid of all obstacles for the ancient civilization.
"Of course, there are plenty of times when the monsters are released and absorb the essence of the sun and moon while they fight fiercely. Then, their genes go through mutations and they awaken to new abilities.
"At that time, the ancient people would take the evolved and mutated monsters back into their mother's bodies and modify them a second time. It's the same as sending the monsters to universities for advanced studies to strengthen their foundations and strengthen their abilities. Then, the monsters would become the leaders of their species."
"I understand now!"
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he came to a realization. "For example, there's usually a really powerful wolf king among the Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves. It has a talent that allows it to spit terrifying bloody fog. This wolf king might not have evolved naturally, but is a product of the mother's modifications."
During the practical test of his national college examination, he was motivated by Principal Sun and fought fiercely against a Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf King for three hundred rounds. In the end, he awakened to supernatural abilities and killed the wolf by a hair's breadth.
Before the Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf King died, the brain waves that surged out affected Meng Chao's mind deeply, and he read some of the wolf king's memories.
In his daze, he saw himself lying in a facility that looked like an incubation pool from the perspective of the alpha wolf.
At that time, Meng Chao thought that it was just a nightmare.
Now that he thought about it, the Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf King should have entered its "mother's" body to "train".
"That's right. To the 'mother' or the 'ancient people', there's no need for them to produce and control every monster. It's a waste of resources, and it's too inefficient."
Wu Haibo said. "As long as we control most of the Apocalyptic Beasts and the monster leaders, we can make all the monsters submit to the will of the ancient civilization."
"I see …"
Meng Chao heaved a long sigh.
When he said this, he finally obtained the answer to most of the secrets regarding the monster civilization.
But he still could not understand it. 'If the ancient civilization is really the creator and ruler of the monsters, and we Earthlings are, to a certain extent, the descendants of the' ancient people ', why would the monsters attack us indiscriminately when we just transmigrated to the Other World?'
Shouldn't you be kowtowing and obediently submitting to us?
Could it be that it's just as the Wisdom Tree said. When the mother woke up, it absorbed a lot of the negative emotions and dark wisdom from humans, which was why the monsters became so fierce and ruthless?
"I can't explain this with just a few words. You'll understand later. This way."
There was a group of engineers in full motorized armor ahead of them. They were carefully cutting a huge pillar in an attempt to dig out the monster embryo embedded in the pillar along with the cocoon.
Meng Chao saw that when the cocoon was separated from the pillar, there were dozens of semi-transparent tubes connected to it.
They looked like the intestines of an animal, but they also looked like nerve bundles that had been magnified several times.
The pillar absorbed a lot of spirit energy from underground, and some of it was sent into the cocoon through the tubes. The intestines, or rather, the nerve bundles, pulsed and flickered. It was really strange.
A depression with a diameter of more than two meters appeared on the pillar that had the cocoon removed. A layer of sticky liquid seeped out of it, and it looked like a human wound was quickly forming a scab.
This terrifying scene finally made Meng Chao believe in Wu Haibo's judgment. The entire monster nest, or rather, Ancient Ruins No. 2, had once been a huge ancient creature, and it was a living creature!
"Is it still alive?"
Meng Chao could not help but ask softly, "After we destroyed the monster brain, is the entire Ruins No. 2 still alive? Could it be …"
Would it suddenly wake up and digest all the humans who had rashly entered its body?
Or would it rise up from underground and raze Dragon City to the ground?
Or would it explode with one hundred times the production rate and create brand new monster hordes that are one hundred times larger?
"That depends on how you define 'alive'," Wu Haibo said.
Wu Haibo said, "As I said just now, 99% of the active tissues in the 'parent' withered in the primordial war billions of years ago. Only 1% of the active tissues were left. After a long period of hibernation and recovery, it only woke up half a century ago.
"It's like a towering tree that was struck by lightning and burned to a crisp in a fire. Only some of the tissues at the core are left, and there's still a tiny bit of life force left in it. After many years of breathing, a small sprout grows out of it. Is that considered alive?
"It's also like a person who suffered a fatal blow and had their brains completely removed. They can only rely on the most advanced medical equipment to maintain their heartbeat and breathing, but they end up in a vegetative state forever. Do you think that's considered alive?"
"Meng Chao, I understand your worry. You're worried that we won't be able to get rid of evil and the monster civilization will rise again, right?"
Shao Zhengyang said by the side. "Indeed. We're facing an ancient civilization that far exceeds the limits of Earthlings' imagination. It's too naive to think that we can inherit all of their legacies without taking any risks.
"When humans first learned how to use fire, I believe that there were quite a number of people who died under the flames.
"If we develop the ancient ruins without any precautions and without any control, imitate the ancient civilization's monster modification technology in a clumsy manner, and even try to restore more of the monster nest's liveliness to create an Apocalyptic Beast army for Dragon City to use, we might end up getting burned at any moment. I know this very well, and all the Deity Realm superhumans know this very well.
"But …
"Trust me, there's a reason why we have to do this.
"Soon, when you see more secrets from the ancient civilization, you will agree with our viewpoint. For the sake of survival, Dragon City will have to risk everything and take a gamble!"
Meng Chao was a little stunned.
In truth, there was no need for Shao Zhengyang to say it. He already agreed to risk everything and take a gamble.
To a certain extent, he was the craziest gambler in all of Dragon City.
After all, dying in the explosion of ten thousand supernovae was still death. Dying in the backlash from the monster civilization was also death.
No matter what, they were going to die, so it was better to take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
But why did Wu Haibo, Shao Zhengyang, and the others … become so extreme?
Meng Chao remembered that the higher ups of Dragon City in his previous life were rather conservative.
Even though they said that they were going to sweep through the Other World with a steel army, they never came up with a practical, effective, and practical plan to conquer the Other World and carried it out firmly.
Instead, they took things one step at a time, and in the end, they were led into a ditch.
It was true that they only won a pyrrhic victory in the Monster War, and Dragon City's foundation was greatly damaged. It did not have the strength to become a chess player and give orders.
But on the other hand, most of Dragon City's power, fighting strength, and resources were in the hands of the nine great mega corporations. Once the mega corporations grew deformed, their departments became overstaffed, and they could not communicate well with each other. There was a lot of internal strife, and the assessment system became more rigid and even malfunctioning. They blindly pursued immediate benefits and their own benefits, but they ignored long-term benefits, social benefits, and the progress of the entire civilization. This was an important reason behind Dragon City's defeat.
But now, Meng Chao saw two different things in Wu Haibo and Shao Zhengyang's eyes.
A great sense of danger, and a great drive to improve.
This was what Dragon City lost in his previous life after they won against the monster civilization after much difficulty.
Just what was it that caused the veteran researchers in the ruins research center and the strongest fighter in the Red Dragon Army to go through such drastic changes?
Meng Chao could not help but be curious.
They bypassed the construction team that was harvesting the monster embryos and continued heading deeper into the monster nest.
The further they went, the thicker the spirit energy that gushed out of the walls and pillars became. Gradually, it formed a colorful fog.
Under the nourishment of the fog, the pillars became denser, and the materials became more crystalline. The cocoons and monster eggs embedded in the pillars also became larger. The monsters sleeping quietly inside were still embryos, but they already had monstrous appearances. They exuded a fierce aura that seemed to have gained physical form.
In the end, the pillars had a diameter of dozens of meters and were hundreds of meters tall. They looked as if they were carved from a single crystal, and there was only one unique cocoon or monster egg embedded inside. The spirit tattoos on the semi-transparent shell were incredibly profound and complicated. It was as if countless complicated circuit diagrams were stacked on top of each other and wrapped around the monster embryo.
More than one hundred different types of spirit energy flowed slowly through the spirit tattoos and created spirit energy magnetic fields filled with mysterious power to nourish the monster in the womb.
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